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"Sister-in-law is back." Gu Xi also saw her.

"Hey." Yang Jie replied awkwardly, "I went to the mountain to pick some wild vegetables. Isn't today the weekend? You can't go to the cafeteria to eat, right?"

"I can't, winter vacation, summer vacation, Saturday and Sunday, I can't go as long as I rest." Gu Xi said.

"Then what are you having for dinner?" Yang Jie subconsciously wanted to eat with Gu Xi, but she didn't say anything.

"Make something to eat." Gu Xi said.

Yang Jie said, "I'll just cook sweet potato porridge, the sweet potato you gave me."

"You can put some rice in the sweet potato porridge, it will be delicious." Gu Xi said.

"Really?" Yang Jie thought, who would be willing to put such a delicate food with sweet potatoes together.

Gu Xi only mentioned it.

"Mom eat...Dad eat..." Xiao Chengwei called Yang Jie.

Yang Jie was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "You little fool, your name is uncle."

"Dad eat."

"Your father heard it, and he will definitely beat you to death." Yang Jie couldn't laugh or cry when the child called her.

Gu Xi cooked sweet potato and rice porridge for dinner, which was cooked very slowly in a sand pot over low heat.There is only one stove that can be used at home, and the other iron pot has been put away by Gu Xi.So when he was cooking, Yang Jie couldn't cook.But he cooked it in advance. After cooking, he covered the air outlet and gave up the stove to Yang Jie.

Yang Jie also cooked sweet potato porridge. As soon as she walked into the kitchen, she could smell the aroma of sweet potato porridge. Is sweet potato porridge so fragrant?

When Yang Jie's sweet potato porridge was ready, Gu Xi asked Li Chengtu to have dinner together.Yang Jie came in to get the porridge, and when she saw the sweet potato porridge with rice in their bowls and her own porridge with only sweet potatoes, she suddenly lost her appetite.

But from the next day, Yang Jie's sweet potato porridge also added rice.This is the rice they brought back from the army. It has been stored for more than half a year, and rice worms have grown.

It's just that on the second day, Gu Xi stopped eating rice and sweet potato porridge, he ate noodles instead, and gave Chengtu a boiled egg, and then ate it with pickled stinky winter melon.

On the night of September 9th, Li Aizhong came back. After get off work, he walked seven or eight kilometers.The iron and steel plant had one day off every month, and Li Aizhong chose the 29th, which happened to coincide with the National Day of the 30th, and had two consecutive days off.After returning to Lijia Village, he found out about the situation in Lijia Village.

"Aizhong, what should we do? Now we only have 3 catties of sweet potatoes, and 10 catties of rice brought back from the army. Even if we have money, we can't afford to eat. The radishes just planted will not be harvested until the end of December. What will my son and I eat after the sweet potatoes are finished? My son has a bowl of custard in the morning and eats sweet potato and rice porridge with me at noon. This is not an option.” Seeing Li Aizhong’s return, Yang Jie seemed to have found her backbone, and she wanted to cry up.

Li Aizhong said: "I will think of a way."

The next day

He knew about Li Aizhong's return yesterday, so he was not surprised to see Li Aizhong in the morning.

"Brother." Gu Xi called out.

"En." Li Aizhong said, "Your sister-in-law and nephew are at home thanks to your care."

Gu Xi smiled and said nothing.

"I brought an iron pot back yesterday, so we don't have to worry about running out of pots in the future." Li Aizhong said again, then went back to the room and took out the iron pot.

Seeing the iron pot that Li Aizhong brought, Gu Xi was a little embarrassed.The iron pot that Da Zhizhi brought from the army compound is still with him, but he doesn't want too many people to know, so he keeps hiding it.Seeing Li Aizhong's actions now, he seems a little petty.

"That's great, it will be convenient to cook in the future." Gu Xi said.

"I heard from your sister-in-law yesterday that you won't be able to eat in the cafeteria when you don't have classes, so what are your plans?" Li Aizhong asked.

It's not surprising that Li Aizhong asked like this.There is no food at home, and he does not go to work, so what will he eat when he is not in class?

"Let's have a look again." Gu Xi said.

Just as Li Aizhong was about to say something, Xiao Chengwei behind him walked towards Gu Xi: "Dad, eat...Dad, eat..."

"..." Li Aizhong didn't know what to say.

Gu Xi couldn't help laughing: "What else do you know besides eating?"

"Eat." Li Chengwei said.

"Okay, okay, I'll eat for you, you wait, uncle goes to cook." Gu Xi took out an egg and a basket from his room.

Gu Xi cooked cabbage and egg white porridge in the morning, and the porridge boiled for an hour.

When Li Chengtu woke up, the kitchen was filled with the smell of porridge.

"Father, what are you cooking? It smells so good?" Li Chengtu asked.

Even Li Aizhong, who was raising her baby in the yard, could smell it, it was really sweet.

"Cabbage porridge." Gu Xi said, "Prepare a bowl, it's ready to eat."

"Hey."

Gu Xi first filled two bowls and put them into the basket: "Take it to your great-grandfather and great-grandmother." He put half a catty of rice to make porridge, even a handful of rice can make two bowls, let alone half a catty.

"Hey." Li Chengtu carried the basket to deliver the meal.

Li Aizhong was outside, listening to them talking, his eyes flickered, and he fell into deep thought.

"Brother, sister-in-law, come in and have dinner together." Gu Xi's call brought him back to his senses.

"Hey, here we come." Li Aizhong was not polite either.

Fine rice, cabbage, eggs, and bacon are better than what he eats in the steel factory. In fact, the food in the steel factory is not bad. After all, they have to work, and the factory can't treat them too badly, otherwise they won't have the energy to work.

Yang Jie didn't speak, just ate with her head down.

When Li Chengtu came back, he was carrying 5 catties of wheat coarse grains.

Grandpa Li has a lot of food at home.I'm afraid it still has the most food in the whole village. Every year, he can't eat all the food that Li Daniu and Li Erniu filial piety.In previous years, he would change the dishes. Last year, he started to eat in the big canteen, so he didn't change it anymore. He had to think about Grandma Li.

Seeing Li Chengtu carrying food in, Yang Jie's eyes flickered.

Gu Xi didn't notice that after breakfast, Li Aizhong went out and came back with a bag of food, but he didn't know what was in it, and took it into his room.

Gu Xi was rather curious that Li Aizhong could still borrow food at this time.But he didn't think much about it, because he was going out to buy food.This time, Da Zhizhi sent money, meat coupons, and food coupons again, and they lasted for 8 consecutive months.

Gu Xi first went to buy 120 catties of rice and 120 catties of flour, and then bought 64 catties of pork ribs, which aroused the waiter's curiosity.

On the way home, things have been hidden in the system locker.

By mid-November, the canteen in Lijia Village could no longer hold on and was disbanded.And the wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain are no longer visible.However, Gu Xi's first batch of cucumbers was about to be harvested.

In fact, as early as a few days ago, he discovered that Yang Jie was picking his cucumbers. He didn't know how many Yang Jie picked, but there were more than a dozen of them.

But Gu Xi didn't say anything.

The first batch of small cucumbers had a bumper harvest of 175. Gu Xi took 10 from Uncle Li's house, gave 5 to Grandpa Li, and asked Li Chengtu to send 10 to Shuangdan Brothers' house.

"Patriotic, what kind of vegetable is this? Is it delicious?" When he was harvesting, Yang Jie came to ask.

Gu Xidao: "Little cucumber, the seeds brought from Shanghai, if sister-in-law wants to eat it, pick it by herself."

"Hey." Yang Jie was really rude. After Gu Xi said it, she felt at ease.

When the second batch of small cucumbers was harvested, the number was significantly smaller, only 132.Gu Xi knew that it was Yang Jie who picked it. In this day and age, everyone has to save food, and it is also because of this, so Gu Xi kept turning a blind eye.

In the third batch, the quantity was less, and Yang Jie also knew that this was the last batch, so the quantity picked was more than before.When Gu Xi had a good harvest, only 96 followed.Compared with before, there are 200 less cucumbers this time.

小黄瓜丰收了之后，顾希去了趟部队的家属大院，给范团长他们送了：10根小黄瓜、20个白菜卷馒头、10个猕猴桃、5斤板栗、2个西瓜、5斤茄子、10斤土豆、一颗5斤重的大白菜、2斤排骨。

He was afraid that if he gave too much, it would break.

At this time, Lijia Village has not yet reached the point of famine.In late July last year, everyone started to eat in the big canteen. During the Chinese New Year, the work points before July were distributed with food, so after the big canteen was disbanded, everyone went home to eat their own food, but every family knew that food had to be saved now. eat.

By December, many villagers couldn't hold on one after another.But what surprised Gu Xi was that when Li Aizhong came back every month, he would always bring a bag of food with him, and he didn't know where he got the food.

"Brother Li." On this day, He Kai came to look for Gu Xi.

Gu Xi is preparing to go to the county hospital for an internship. After the exam this semester, he will go to the hospital for an internship for half a year, and then he will go to medical school in September next year.If he went to study, the primary school principal would definitely find another one, and Gu Xi planned to choose one between He Kai and Xia Xiaowen.

"What's the matter? You're frowning."

"Brother Li, I have something here, and I want to ask your opinion." He Kai said.

"You said."

"Now that the canteen in the village is gone, will our food supply be distributed on a monthly basis?" He Kai asked, "The little food that was stored before has been eaten up. If there is no food to distribute, we will have nothing to eat."

Gu Xi wanted to say according to the month, but there was no food in the village, and all the food had been handed in, and the remaining food had been eaten up before the canteen was disbanded.

"You have to ask the village chief about this." Gu Xi said, "After dinner, come with me, I have something to ask the village chief."

"Ok."

After dinner, Gu Xi and He Kai went to the village chief's house.

Village head Li was sitting in the yard smoking a pipe.Seeing Gu Xi and He Kai coming, he said weakly, "You guys are here."

Gu Xidao: "I'm here for school matters."

"Well, let's talk."

"First of all, it's me. I'm over this semester, and I'm going to do an internship in a hospital in the county at the beginning of the year. At that time, I can't come to the school again. You have to choose a new one according to the principal." Gu Xi said.