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Chapter 18 Dividing Sweet Potatoes

More than 3000 kilograms of sweet potatoes were placed in the drying field, forming two hills. The eyes of those who looked at them were red.

Although this stuff is not a serious food, if you eat too much, you will easily get gassy and your stomach will bloate, but this stuff will fill you up, and it will be sweet and delicious if you put some in the porridge.

You must know that in this era, sweetness is irreplaceable. Sugar is a strategic commodity, expensive and difficult to buy.

You also need sugar coupons when buying them. Basically, each household only gets two taels of sugar a year. Most of them only buy them during the Chinese New Year and use them for cooking.

For this reason, natural sweetness is particularly valuable.

The captain led the rest of the people to search in the mountain for a long time, but found no trace of sweet potatoes, as if there was a large one there.

Because it was a deep mountain over there, so everyone went back at night.

When the captain came back, he found that all the adults in the village were gathered around the drying field, with no intention of going home.

They all looked eagerly at the sweet potatoes on the drying field, as if they wanted to eat the sweet potatoes.

The captain looked at them and then looked at the sky. Usually everyone was asleep at this time, and even if they were not asleep, they would be lying on the bed early.

"Okay, let's leave two people down to watch. The rest of us should go back and rest quickly, otherwise we won't have the energy to divide the sweet potatoes tomorrow."

As soon as the captain said these words, everyone came back to their senses instantly.

Yes, it is indeed very late at this time. If we continue chatting, we will not have enough energy tomorrow if we don’t sleep well. If we read the wrong portion of food, we will suffer a big loss.

Thinking of this, everyone reluctantly left the grain drying field and returned home to prepare for bed.

One of the captain's sons and Aunt Gu's son stayed behind, and the two of them guarded the grain drying field at night.

After Gu Qianshan finished his work, he returned home and found that there were lights in the yard. It turned out that Gu Xue was burning some garbage in the yard, and the small flames illuminated the entire yard.

These garbage are old vines and some useless scraps from the previous clearing of the fields. They can be used as firewood, or they can be carried directly and burned.

Gu Xue has some obsessive-compulsive disorder and can't stand messy things, so just burn them all, which just saves one night of candles.

"Grandpa is back. The food is hot in the kitchen. Hurry up and eat some."

Gu Xue felt relieved when she saw Gu Qianshan back. It seemed that all the sweet potatoes on the mountain should have been recovered, which would at least solve the food crisis during this period.

Gu Qianshan finished his meal in threes and fives and returned to the room early. Not long after, he could hear the sound of him snoring.

He was really tired today. He was climbing up and down the mountain with a group of young men. He had to pay attention to his steps along the way. If it weren't for the excitement that affected him, Gu Qianshan felt like he wouldn't be able to hold on.

Gu Qianshan slept particularly soundly at night, but other people in the village did not fall asleep so easily. They were all thinking about the sweet potatoes outside.

There was a burning sensation in my heart, and I couldn't suppress that feeling. How could I fall asleep? Having said that, the next morning, the team leader went out early and rode his bicycle to the door of the secretary's office.

When Captain Gu saw the secretary at work, he hurried up and asked about the relief food with a smile.

The secretary was so annoyed that he felt bad. Before, he cried every day because there was no food. Now that the food has been distributed to every household, it is really annoying to come and ask.

"Isn't the food distributed to you? Anyway, there is only so much, and I don't have any more. I remember that the situation in your village is not bad?" The secretary looked at Captain Gu and said seriously, but his eyes The irritability in him revealed his mood.

Captain Gu was not annoyed, and still had a smile on his face: "If we divide these two, each household will not have much. A lot of people will come here to cry for poverty. There is nothing we can do."

"You can't do anything, but I can do something? Now we have lost a life, and the superiors are scolding me every day, and they don't give me food. If I had something, I wouldn't be scolded every day."

Captain Gu pretended to be embarrassed, and then said: "Secretary, you also know that we have a big mountain. If we are really short of food, the people in our village will go to the back mountain to get some wild vegetables to eat. That's when the time comes." I’m afraid of being reported, do you think it’s okay?”

The secretary didn't even think about it: "If you want to go, just go. We have been digging for food on those things on the mountain for generations. No one has ever said anything. It's just that some things can't be moved, and we still can't move them, such as protecting animals. What."

Captain Gu was overjoyed when he got the affirmative answer, but his face still showed sadness. He felt that the greatest acting skills in his life were all performed here.

More than 3000 kilograms of sweet potatoes are actually distributed to each household in less than a few dozen kilograms.

There is also 500 kilograms left for seed. In this way, each person will get less than 10 kilograms. It seems like a lot, but in fact it will not last long.

So he had no choice but to make this decision.

"Okay, if nothing happens, you can go back first. Pay more attention to the village and come to me if you have anything." After saying that, he waved his hand irritably and sent the captain out directly.

After the captain was sent out for a long distance, he changed his sad expression and returned to the village on his bicycle.

He was so happy in his heart that he had now made the matter clear. As for whether it was three thousand kilograms of wild sweet potatoes or a few wild vegetables, sometimes there was no need to say it so clearly.

When passing by Gu Qianshan's yard, I saw Gu Xue watering the flowers. Except for these few flowers, the rest of the place was bare. It seemed that Gu Xue should tidy up.

The captain got off the bicycle in a good mood and came to Gu Xue: "Axue, a brain like yours is better for reading. I didn't think of going to the secretary to report it before. The other grandsons will know by then. , we don’t know if we can keep the food.”

Captain Gu looked at Gu Xue with pity on his face: "It's a pity that we can't take the college entrance examination now. Otherwise, people like us, A Xue, who are so smart, will definitely be admitted to a good university. When there are places in the Workers', Peasants and Soldiers' University in the future, I will definitely do it." I’ll fight for it for you.”

Before Gu Xue could reply, Captain Gu started chattering a lot.

It seemed that there was a tendency to continue talking, so Gu Xue quickly changed the subject: "Captain, everyone in our village is waiting at the grain drying field, should we go over there?"

Captain Gu slapped his head: "Really, I was so happy just now that I forgot about it. We have to distribute the food quickly. If others really find out, it would be bad to tell the secretary."

(End of this chapter)