Siheyuan: There are seven fairies in my house, I am so busy

It seems that the information about food production reduction has spread, and it is indeed true. No one is a fool.

It is almost time for summer harvest, and the reduction in grain production has been confirmed. If a family does not have relatives in the countryside, the information would have spread long ago.

However, many people have not yet realized how serious the situation is. Most of them think that if they can endure these few months, things will get better when the autumn crops come in.

Many people with urban household registration did not realize that difficult times were coming. They all thought that their family members had food rations on their food allowances, so no matter what, even though life was hard, they would always have something to eat.

Most people would not have thought that everyone’s food rations would be reduced at that time. The difficult period was still ahead and would last for a long time, lasting for three years.

Due to the large number of people, Zhang Jialiang only caught a small fish weighing about 100 grams today, which was much less than usual. This made Zhang Jialiang very dissatisfied.

Although he didn't rely on these, it was too little. But when he saw the people around him looking at him with envy when they saw his gains, he felt relieved.

He also caught a small fish, while most of the people around him had no catch.

It was almost time, so Zhang Jialiang packed up and rode his bike home.

Along the way, he was still thinking that he would have to be more careful when taking things home in the future. With the arrival of difficult times, Zhang Jialiang could no longer bring prey home as often as before.

It will not be so easy to find excuses for hunting in the future. As the disaster becomes more serious, the mountains and plains outside the city will be filled with people, and everyone is looking for something to eat. The number of animals will decrease due to drought and large-scale hunting.

Each village also guards its own territories very strictly, and it is impossible for outsiders to enter the village to hunt.

The prey on the mountain are the private property of the villagers. If outsiders want to hunt, they will be stealing the food of the villagers, and the villagers will not agree to that.

So next time I want to bring something home I have to be more careful and not let others find out. It’s okay once in a while, but if it happens as often as before, there’s no reason for it to happen.

Another thing is that they can no longer stew meat at home. If other families don’t have enough food to eat or even can’t get any food at all, stewing rabbit or pheasant at their home will be too eye-catching, and the aroma of the stewed meat will make everyone in the compound greedy.

If you continue to eat all the food yourself, you will offend everyone and it will be difficult to explain. You may be reported by others, or even gather a crowd to rob the big family, which is very dangerous.

We must find a way to allow our family to continue to eat some meat without attracting the attention of others in the compound.

It is feasible to cook the prey in your own space, wait until it has cooled down and no longer emits a strong smell, and then take it home.

It’s just that I’m not very skilled in cooking and stewing meat, and the stewed meat is not very tasty, far worse than that of my fifth sister.

If all else fails, find a remote, secluded place, take your fifth sister with you to prepare the food, and then bring it back home after the smell has dissipated.

This is a good idea. It can ensure that the meat is delicious and won’t be discovered by people in the compound. Besides, Fifth Sister should have plenty of time by then.

During difficult times, not many people would hire chefs to cook for them, so Master Zhou wouldn’t have many opportunities to take odd jobs outside.

This way, the fifth sister has plenty of time, and she can go out with him every once in a while to stew a big pot of meat, and then secretly bring it home to eat for a few days.

No matter what, it is Zhang Jialiang's unshirkable responsibility to ensure the nutrition of his family and make sure they have enough food and clothing at all times.

When I returned to the courtyard, I happened to meet Sha Zhu coming back.

"Liangzi, you're back."

"I'm back. I just happened to have something to tell you. Let's talk over here."

Before entering the compound, at the gate, Zhang Jialiang called Sha Zhu aside. There were some things he didn't want to say in the compound.

"what's up?"

"It's like this, the weather has been dry recently and many prey have disappeared.

Now outsiders are not allowed to enter the village. There are militiamen standing guard in every village, and outsiders are not allowed to hunt in the mountains.

So I don’t have much to gain now, and you won’t be able to get much prey from me in the future, so you have to be mentally prepared.”

What Zhang Jialiang said was all true. In the future, the quantity of his prey supplied through various sales channels would have to be reduced accordingly, otherwise it would arouse unnecessary suspicion from others.

The same is true for Sha Zhu here. Last year, I promised Sha Zhu that I would provide him with some prey every month. Now the number must be reduced.

"I know about the situation you're talking about, but I didn't expect the impact to be so serious. Is there no other way?

The price can be higher.”

"What can I do? This is the situation I least want to see.

I also want to hunt more prey, but there is really no way. It’s not a matter of price. We both go by the market price, and I am not at a disadvantage. Now there is really nothing.”

"Well, okay, actually it's not just you, the channels I get meat from other places have also told me recently that meat is hard to get now, and the price has gone up a lot.

It seems that it will be difficult to eat meat in the future, but no matter how difficult it is, I want my wife to eat meat. She is pregnant with my son now.

You can buy as much as you can get here. Don’t worry, the price will not let you lose money.”

"Okay, I'll do my best."

After explaining things to Sha Zhu, the two men entered the compound. What Zhang Jialiang had said to Sha Zhu today were all planned by him long ago.

Not only did Sha Zhu have to reduce the quantity of all his original shipping channels, but now he has developed multiple shipping channels, so this operation will not affect his sales of prey.

These newly added channels were specially selected and developed by Zhang Jialiang. For example, at the factory where his eldest sister worked, Zhang Jialiang got to know a section chief named Liu from the logistics department of the cannery through an introduction.

This Section Chief Liu was the same as Section Chief Ma from the garment factory. When Section Chief Liu learned that Zhang Jialiang could provide prey for a long time, he naturally welcomed it. The two men quickly became familiar with each other.

There was also a deputy director of a grain station, a director of a supply and marketing cooperative, and so on. Because Zhang Jialiang had the prey he harvested from hunting, which was meat, and in that era, meat was hard currency, and it was always easy to get away with it by building relationships with people, so these channels were quickly established, and Zhang Jialiang himself became very popular.

Although some of these people do not represent any unit, they have received a lot from Zhang Jialiang. After all, they also have to use connections, and the prey in Zhang Jialiang's hands are good things to give as gifts or to use to build relationships.

These people are also powerful figures with certain rights in their hands. Each of them has his own network of relationships, which will be beneficial to Zhang Jialiang in the future. This is what he values ​​most.