love letter to summer

The red sun is gradually sinking to the west, the rain is getting lighter, and the wind passes through the rain curtain.

The cats also gradually dispersed.

Ye Ji and Xia Tang packed their things.

Xia Tang picked up the unfinished bag of cat food and carefully rolled up the mouth of the bag.

"Then." Xia Tang said suddenly.

Ye Ji looked back at him.

Xia Tang didn't look up, and continued to roll the bag.

"Then I really want to help them, not simply give a sum of money to solve their urgent needs, but to really help them solve the problem from the root."

He held the bag in his hand and looked up at Ye Ji: "I think traditional charities rely too much on donations, and this method is too ineffective. I want to use other methods."

Ye Ji: "For example?"

Xia Tang: "New planting techniques can be developed. A professor from our school went to Dingxi City, Gansu Province two years ago, where he selected some suitable sites as demonstration farms, and then used the drought-resistant tea oil and Soybean seeds were given to the villagers there, and they were planted in the demonstration farm. I heard that the effect was good. He is now preparing to contact more villagers and teach them to grow drought-resistant tea oil and soybeans. The professor needs a lot of help now, and he has He found some students in the Department of Food Technology and Agriculture, and last month he came to our department to find people, because the local sanitation and medical conditions are also very poor, and he wanted to find some people to do this work by the way.”

"And he hopes that we can stay there for a longer time. If it is too short, we can't do much."

Ye Ji: "How long?"

"Not less than half a year."

Ye Ji: "..."

Even with her little toe, she knew that Xia Tang's parents would not agree.

I have worked hard for 20 years to raise my child, and I have always loved and loved her like a treasure, but in a blink of an eye, the child went to the Northwest to eat sandstorms, which no one would agree to.

Xia Tang: "I didn't just want to do this on a whim, I thought about it for a long time."

I can tell.

Even the data can be recited casually, and the pile of books at home is really not in vain.

But it is precisely because of this that the problem will be more difficult.If Xia Tang was only in a hothead for a while, he would naturally give up this great plan of "supporting the construction of the Northwest" after he calmed down, or he would return crying when he really went to the loess high slope to eat yellow sand for the first half of the year. If he doesn't dare to "play a hero" like this again, the conflict between him and his parents will be resolved.

However, after so many years of deliberation and deliberation, Xia Tang finally made such a decision...

Ye Ji had a bad premonition in his heart.

Xia Tang was silent for a while, and said: "Actually, the quarrel is not just because of this matter." Before Ye Ji answered, he continued, "I want to spend all my time doing these things after graduation."

really.

Ye Ji sighed deeply in his heart.

"I don't have to go to Gansu. This kind of hunger problem can actually be seen everywhere. My real idea is to adapt to local conditions - to use different methods for different regions. For example, for some extremely backward regions in Africa, the famine is very serious. And the land is very barren, so the first problem we have to solve is no longer farming, but food and clothing for the local people. In view of this situation, in addition to looking for charities to help deliver food, we also have to find ways to 'make the best of everything' Use'——eat every part of the food. For example, some people are now studying 'eating egg shells'. You know, the human body not only needs carbohydrates, protein, and fat, but also trace elements, such as calcium and egg shells. It has calcium in it."

That's a really good idea.

The calcium in eggshells is mainly calcium carbonate. Although it is difficult to dissolve in water, it should be absorbed by the human body after soaking in an acidic solvent to form calcium acetate.Anyway, most people don’t eat eggshells. If you collect these eggshells that would otherwise be discarded, wash them, sterilize them, and then grind them into powder and send them to Africa and other regions, and then add a little vinegar, it’s like giving away A large jug of milk, if it is inconvenient to transport vinegar, local residents can directly mix eggshell powder with other foods for consumption.Moreover, eggshells are light in weight and small in size, and they are not easy to deteriorate, so they are more convenient to transport than milk.

Ye Ji really wanted to like it.

Xia Tang said: "In fact, hunger is not a problem only in poor areas." He pointed to the ground, "In this city, such a highly prosperous city, some people have too much food to eat, but there are also people who are hungry. You know the double burden of malnutrition?"

Ye Ji shook his head.

Xia Tang: "It means that there are both 'overweight and obesity' and 'undernutrition' in the same group. The double burden is a very troublesome problem because it cannot be solved by a single policy. For example, if a region or country has an obesity problem , so the government wants to tax high-fat and high-calorie foods, so as to reduce citizens' purchase of unhealthy foods, but although this can help control obesity, it will have a negative impact on undernourished people."

This is true.

But this kind of problem can never be solved by individual strength.

Ye Ji opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, Xia Tang immediately raised his hand and made a "stop" gesture, saying, "I know what you want to say, just wait for me to finish."

Xia Tang: "I'm not that arrogant. I think I have the ability to solve this problem. I just want to do what I can to help some people."

Ye Ji: "Do you have a method?"

"Food resources are redistributed." Xia Tang's eyes sparkled, "This city can discard thousands of tons of food waste every day."

Ye Ji knew the term "kitchen waste", it was mentioned in the movie "The Poor Man's War Series".

To put it simply, it is food waste, including food that is discarded when processing ingredients before cooking, mostly inedible parts, such as the skin of sweet potatoes.At the same time, it also includes the leftovers after cooking and eating, that is, leftovers.

Xia Tang: "In addition to kitchen waste, many supermarkets and market vendors will throw away leftover food sold every day, and many of these foods can still be eaten."

"You see, how uneven the distribution of food is. Some people have nothing to eat, and some people have too much food. So I thought, maybe we can cooperate with supermarkets, street vendors, and we go to them every day to recycle and sell. The leftover but still edible food will be distributed in the community. At the same time, food donations from citizens can also be accepted - citizens bring the food to be donated to the community center, and then those in need can come directly to collect it. There is no need to go through transportation and packaging, which can reduce a lot of costs."

This idea is also very good, but Ye Ji felt something was wrong when he listened. Xia Tang talked about Gansu for a while, Africa for a while, and then returned to the city. How could he deal with so many regions at the same time? The question is, what exactly is he trying to do?

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