Siheyuan: Struggle Begins in the 1950s

Chapter 254: The Growing Famine

With the joining of Liu Lan and Ma Hua, and given the current situation, Wang Jianjun can earn nearly tens of thousands of yuan every month.

Liu Lan, Ma Hua and Li Kuiyong are now Wang Jianjun's loyal team.

In order to ensure the safety of his people, Wang Jianjun made a custom silicone headgear for each of them.

He also told them that if they encountered public security officers, they would rather give up the goods than let them escape.

At the same time, he also asked Wu Jing to empty the assets of the old and young as quickly as possible.

Wu Jing was originally going to the south at the beginning of this year.

But now that he can make money following Wang Jianjun, he is no longer reluctant to leave.

There is absolutely no intention of running away.

Wang Jianjun was also reluctant to let this guy leave.

Without him, I would not have been able to acquire so many antiques.

Especially in this day and age, the old people have developed spoiled appetites and simply cannot afford to eat those unpalatable coarse grains.

In order to satisfy his appetite, he even sold some of his most valuable treasures to Wang Jianjun.

Since Wu Jing had helped him so much, Wang Jianjun would naturally not treat him unfairly.

So before the wind starts to blow, Wang Jianjun will remind him to leave Sijiu City.

Thanks to Wang Jianjun's support, not a single victim in Sijiu City starved to death.

Wang Jianjun would go to those shelters to distribute food from time to time.

The subdistrict office has never investigated who left these things.

The two sides have always maintained a tacit understanding.

As long as the food is running out, the street office will ask people to leave the shelter and a pile of food will be left in the room the next day.

At first, some clerks suspected that some mysterious force was helping.

However, this statement was directly rejected by the street director, who strictly prohibited his subordinates from discussing this matter.

You have to know that in this era, promoting feudal superstition will be punished.

But everyone kept this mysterious person in mind.

It’s not that Wang Jianjun didn’t think about going to other cities to help, but he was powerless.

It was already very difficult for him to take care of the city.

He could only ask Shen Maiqiu to try to contact the senior officials in the inland area in Hong Kong to see if there was any way to sell the grain back to the inland area.

But for some reasons, the inland side has not expressed the willingness to purchase food.

Wang Jianjun had no choice but to give up.

Time passed quickly, and the first year of the three-year disaster finally passed.

The Chinese people were expecting good things to happen in the new year.

But things only took a turn for the worse.

First of all, the famine did not ease but became more severe.

Severe drought has occurred in many inland provinces.

The land dried up and cracked, and all crops failed.

As a result, more and more people saw no way out and simply chose to join the ranks of those fleeing famine.

As a result, more and more disaster victims poured into the city.

Another major event is that the Russian side has completely broken with China.

The main reason is that China is developing faster and faster and is no longer willing to listen to the command of the Russian bear.

Seeing that the younger brother was becoming more and more powerful and began to have his own ideas, the Russian bear simply broke off relations and withdrew most of the experts.

And asked China to pay back the money it has provided for support over the years.

China was also tough and decided to tighten its belt and repay the debt.

But China is now extremely poor.

The other party refused to accept China's money, and also looked down upon using industrial products to pay off the debt.

In the end, they had no choice but to decide to use the lowest-value agricultural products to repay the debt.

This has made the already difficult situation even worse for the Chinese people.

Moreover, the Mao Zedong people have very high requirements for the quality of agricultural products.

As for fruits and vegetables, they only need to be good. Those with even the slightest flaw are not acceptable.

Because of this matter, the street office publicized it several times.

The general meaning is to let residents support the country in tightening its belt and paying off debts.

Of course, another meaning of this is that the monthly food supply target will be reduced again.

Upon hearing the news, everyone in the courtyard was shocked.

If the already tight food supply is further reduced, people will really starve to death.

Haven’t you noticed that Jia Zhang from the Jia family has lost a lot of weight during this period?

The people in the street office are helpless. All they can do is to publicize and educate people on how to find alternative food.

Most of them are wild vegetables and other plants.

But now it’s hard to find wild vegetables in the suburbs.

As for the game in the mountains farther away, forget about it.

Those who could be caught had already been caught.

Those who cannot be caught are just given as snacks.

During this period, the number of wild animals has dropped sharply.

Most of them were eaten by extremely hungry people.

In order to deal with famine, people will do anything possible.

I heard that a factory cafeteria has invented a method of double-steaming rice.

Add water twice when steaming rice.

When adding water for the second time, add as much water as possible to the rice so that the amount of rice becomes twice as much when steamed.

Of course the rice is still the same rice, but the amount of water is doubled.

This won't fill you up, but it will at least make your stomach feel fuller.

There is no so-called double-steamed rice at the steel rolling mill.

But steamed bread and other things have also been modified.

Cornmeal is mixed into the white flour, cornmeal is mixed into the corncobs and strings of wild vegetables such as elm seeds.

When Wang Jianjun ate this thing in the cafeteria, he threw it directly into the space to feed the pigs.

It's not that he was wasting food, it's just that this thing is hard to swallow.

The taste is bad and the flavor is hard to describe.

However, the co-workers around me ate with gusto.

If you can have a meal in the cafeteria, you can also save another meal at home.

Just when Wang Jianjun was preparing to find a place to cook his own food.

His immediate superior, Director Wu, called him over.

"Xiao Wang, I have something to tell you."

Wang Jianjun had a bad feeling when he saw Director Wu’s embarrassed expression.

"What's the matter, Director Wu?"

"It's like this, Xiao Wang. The higher-ups asked us to send a few people from the logistics department to help transport supplies to the Russian bears next month."

Wang Jianjun stared at himself with eyes wide open in disbelief and asked:

"Director Wu, don't tell me that I am one of them, right?"

"Hehe, you guessed it right."

Wang Jianjun was speechless.

You called me specifically, how could I be missing?

"But Director, this is too sudden. I don't want to go to the Russian bear."

Wang Jianjun really doesn't want to go to the Russian bear.

It's only February now, and the snow hasn't melted yet in Beijing. It's much colder over there in Russia than in Beijing.

And the most important thing is that he has just obtained the approval for land reclamation in Hong Kong.

It's a busy time now. Wouldn't it be a waste of time to let him go to the Russian bear?

"But Xiao Wang, the list of candidates has already been decided."

Wang Jianjun looked at Director Wu speechlessly and asked: