Hard times have room

Chapter 3 Sweet Potato Wild Vegetable Porridge

After Baolin heard Wen Jun's shout, she quickly brought the cooked sweet potato wild vegetable porridge and the porridge with pickled bamboo shoots to the big table in the main room, set the bowls and chopsticks, and the meal was ready to go.

"Grandma, you guys are back." Pauline said as she greeted her, and thoughtfully poured a cool white jar full of tea.

"Well, are you ready for dinner?" Mrs. Wang responded slowly, her tone unhurried, as she drank Paulin's cold white cabbage.

Mrs. Wang is of medium stature. Years of hard work make her look a little thin, but her eyes are big and energetic. Although her eye sockets are a little sunken due to her thinness now, and the bridge of her nose is high, it is not difficult to see from the outline of her face that she was beautiful when she was young. Girl.

Her grandmother is a neat person. Although she is nearly 60 years old, her hair is still meticulously combed all the year round, and her eyes are still so bright.

After drinking, Mrs. Wang conveniently put the remaining half of the cold and white tea jar in Mr. Wang's hand, then walked to the main seat of the big table and sat down.

Her father also followed her milk very naturally, took the jar from which her milk had been drinking, and drank it clean in one breath.

"It's done, milk, sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge." As soon as Paulin finished speaking, she saw her father and her mother cross the threshold of the main house side by side, walking towards her with a smile.

Su Hongying took a big step over Wang Jiandang, walked towards Paulin, and said with concern, "Paulin, are you tired today?"

Looking around, he said in a low voice, "Mom was assigned to plant sweet potatoes at the Camellia oleifera tree today. When I got back, I picked some tea bubbles and washed them for you to eat after dinner."

Pauline nodded in agreement with a smile, she liked the feeling of being cared about by someone all the time.

Back then, when Baolin's mother Su Hongying was pregnant with Baolin, she had just escaped from the famine and became pregnant before she was able to take care of her body. At that time, her pregnancy was not very good. In addition, the family conditions were not good at that time, and it was difficult to eat a full meal. Not to mention eating well.

In addition, the eldest aunt was also pregnant at the time, and Wen Hui, who was one year old, needed supplementary nutrition. One child and two pregnant women were not too much pressure on the Wang family at that time. The last two pregnant women were not well raised, and the birth was very difficult. She lost her body, so her aunt and her mother, Su Hongying, have not had sex again for so many years.

A few years ago, I went to the county hospital to see it, and said that it was because of fleeing the famine that year, and the fundamental injury was injured.Her mother, Su Hongying, went to Shanghe Village alone. One can imagine the difficulties and obstacles along the way, and how much her mother had to suffer to reach Shanghe Village alive.

Wang Jiandang also leaned over, looking at his slim eldest daughter, pulling her daughter-in-law to care and admonish his daughter-in-law, his eyes couldn't help but become more tender.

Bao Lin looks like her mother Su Hongying, with a delicate and fair oval face, beautiful and agile almond eyes, and slender and slightly raised eyebrows. From this, you can vaguely see how amazing Bao Lin will be when she grows up.

Baolin's height followed her father Wang's founding party, tall and well-proportioned, and a pair of enviable long legs.

Of course, Pauline's grandparents are pretty decent-looking, but it doesn't make sense that her father would look bad.

Wang Jiandang looks like his father. The three brothers of the Wang family all look like grandpa, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, tall and big, which is very in line with the mainstream aesthetics of this era.

Seeing her father coming over, Pauline even smiled and raised her eyebrows. She liked this feeling very much.

At this time, the uncle and aunt Wenhui Wencan and the third uncle and third aunt Wenjun Baozhu also entered the main room.

Smelling the aroma of food wafting in the air, everyone couldn't help swallowing.

The three meals a day are all thin, which is very hungry, not to mention that the spring plowing is now, the labor intensity is high, and whoever is not halfway to work will have an empty stomach.

The family usually eats porridge to be [-]% full. Now it is busy in spring and spring planting. Sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge can be [-]% full. During the autumn harvest, it is the most bitter and tiring. , Occasionally there will be meat dishes such as smoked bacon and fish during the New Year, to make up for it.

Now that I can smell the sweet fragrance of sweet potatoes, I can't help it, and I can't help but step up a bit, and they hurried to the big table, looking at the pot of porridge in the middle with a strong desire in their eyes.

Mrs. Wang picked up the wooden spoon in the porridge bowl, stirred it inside, tapped the edge of the bowl with the wooden spoon, and said, "Okay, look at each of you, look like each of you, pick up your bowls, one Come here."

After speaking, Mrs. Wang picked up the rough pottery bowl she had placed next to the porridge bowl with a few gaps on it, and filled a full bowl for herself and the old man first.

Who is the one that the Wang family can't offend the most? It must be Mrs. Wang. She is the one who is in charge of the Wang family and is in charge of the family meal. , then you can make it as hard as you can that day.

In this spring, if you can drink a bowl of thick sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge to eat [-]% full, it is already a very good meal for the Shanghe Village brigade. It is also thanks to her wise leadership. If you can afford it, plus the whole family runs forward together, can this family still have food to eat when other people's homes are in a spring famine.

In accordance with the family’s consistent principle of getting more for more work, grandpa, grandma, the family’s strong uncle, her father and third uncles filled the bowl with porridge, the aunt and mother and third aunt filled half of the bowl of porridge, Wen Can, Wenhui and Bao Lin is filled with a small bowl of porridge. Wen Hui is 12 years old, and Wen Can and Bao Lin are 11 years old. The two brothers Wen Hui and Wen Can have already worked during the school holidays to earn work points. Although there are not many, Bao Lin They were busy with meals and other matters at home. The last small bowl of porridge belonged to Wen Jun and Baozhu, the youngest still squatting at home, and they shared it.

Paulin was carrying a small bowl of sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge that she had been allocated. It was delicious and sweet. Occasionally, there were one or two sour bamboo shoots. It was crunchy. ?

In the 21st century, no matter how difficult the family is, it is normal to eat meat once or twice a month, not to mention that later, if one person is full, the whole family will not be hungry.

But now, in the 50s, the productivity gap between the two is so great that Pauline now eats a sweet potato and feels good.

After eating, it was the big room's turn to clean up the dishes today, and the big aunt was busy in the kitchen stove by herself.

There are not many bowls and chopsticks in the Wang family, and the wooden spoons and bowls made at home will only be used two or three times, otherwise the tableware and chopsticks at home will be useless, so the Wang family has one room every day, and takes turns washing dishes and boiling water at night.

Before going to bed at night, Pauline chewed the tea bubble her mother specially picked for her. It was a bit astringent, but sweet.

(End of this chapter)