I am planting a field in the last days

Chapter 111 Salt and Pepper Grain Insects

Jing Lai quietly took out a big bowl of rice and started to eat. She couldn't help but think about what Jing Shu said: "Third Aunt's food is not good these days, and the rice prepared by my grandma for my mother is also prepared for you. Take it with you if you can’t finish it, or it will be wasted.”

The corners of Jing Lai's eyes were a little wet. Jing Shu is a shrewd child. What she said specially to take care of her face meant that she was too proud to wipe away her face.

Otherwise, I would give my sister-in-law four dishes every day, and in order to take care of her and prevent her from being too conspicuous, I mixed the rice together every time so that people could not see what she was eating.

This is clearly a meal specially prepared for her. She will remember this true feeling. At the critical moment, it is the blood relatives who care about you!

"Jinglai, your family has prepared meals for you again? You are so happy. You come out to work and take care of the meals and bring another one yourself. It's not like I save half a meal every day and take it home. I give you a month's work points. The children bought food and ate."

Jinglai had already hid in a corner, but unexpectedly, she was discovered by a few people around her.

"Why do I smell so good? Why do I smell ribs? Let me see!" A person with a sharp nose came over.

"No, it looks like moldy brown rice." Jing Lai generously took the bowl over, and in the dim light, only a black lump of rice could be seen.

"It smells so good, I can even smell potatoes."

"You may be hallucinating. It smells like shit."

Jing Lai quietly swallowed a piece of meat with the bones removed, and ate up the stewed potatoes with pork ribs mixed with sesame seeds under the rice, "Eat quickly, after eating, I have to go up and finish the grain worms."

That is to say, those who work in the cafeteria can still eat a meal of white rice occasionally. Now that the government pays close attention to food, ordinary people can only exchange work points for some cheap relief meals.

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In the afternoon, when Jing's father drove to pick up Jing's mother from get off work, he pulled the whole family in the car and went to the Aijia Supermarket to get some water.

The last time Jingshu’s family returned 5 tons of water to water vegetables and feed poultry, but now there are only 3 tons of various domestic water left. In the super high temperature, Jingshu’s villa has to keep making ice and putting it in the yard to cool down .

Otherwise, having a cover would really suffocate people to death, and the fish in the fish pond could not stand the high temperature, so no matter how little water the government provided, they still had to pay.

When I came to the supermarket again, there was already a densely packed S-shaped queue around. Everyone’s mouth was dry but they were excitedly waiting to enter the canteen. They all knew that to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, they would open a buffet for three days in a row to keep their fill. This was exciting. There are countless people.

There was also a long queue on the water side. Fortunately, ten water outlets were added. After receiving the water, everyone rushed to the place to eat and lined up.

There is a tall barbed wire fence in the middle, and the noise of people in the cafeteria can still be seen under the dim light.

The government spent a lot of money this time, using all the seasonings it collected, and the whole cafeteria exudes various fragrances.

Jing Shu could see two rows of pots of food neatly placed on the table from a distance, and behind each pot stood a man holding a spoon and yelling:

"Try my Kung Pao grain worm! It's delicious and delicious."

"Stir-fried grain worms are worth having, you can eat as much as you want."

"Cantonese special deep-fried grain worms, come and try it for you, how can I add another spoonful for you, eat more!"

The aunt in the canteen not only changed the problem of shaking off most of the spoonful with shaking hands, but also poured it into your bowl vigorously.

Everyone who came excitedly thought that the worst would be to eat mushrooms, but they were dumbfounded when they saw all kinds of cooking maggots on the spot. Some of the maggots in the pot were still moving, which was obviously not cooked yet.

Some of the maggots in the pan had been chopped into a meat sauce which looked disgusting, most of the maggots were still dirty in their original color and must have been untreated.

"This seems to be different from what I imagined."

"The buffet that was agreed, is Nima going to give us this kind of food? Is this thing edible? Could it be taken out of the latrine?"

"To disgust me to death!"

But there are also people who have been hungry for several days, and they don't care about the smell, they pick a few flavors that look good and start eating.

At this time, the cafeteria broadcast started: "Eat as much as you want, each person has a time limit of 30 minutes, if any waste is found, you can get 2 virtual coins for reporting, and 5 virtual coins will be deducted for those who waste, and labor reform will be carried out if the virtual coins are negative 10 or more! "

"To celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, Loving Home Supermarket has opened a buffet of grain worms for three consecutive days, and each person only needs 0.5 virtual coins. And every day, 10 citizens who eat the most will be selected, and each person will be rewarded with 10 virtual coins."

"At the same time, Aijia Supermarket has newly added a special counter for recycling grain insects. Every kilogram of grain insects can be recycled with 0.5 virtual currency, and there is no limit to recycling every day. Citizens can catch more grain insects to exchange for virtual currency. In hot weather, they can exchange for water and white rice."

People at this time are not like the first two months of the end of the world, when muddy water cannot be drunk, and white rice is too tired to eat.

After a month or two of starvation, eating maggots was unacceptable, but after a few minutes of hesitation, most people still chose to eat them.

what else can we do?

Hungry and thirsty, if you choose white rice with 2 points, you can’t drink water, if you choose to drink an extra bottle of water, you can’t eat, now 0.5 points are very precious, all the clothes and bedding at home are changed, and there is nothing in the house of the dead If you change it, you will starve to death if you don’t eat, so let’s eat.

To survive.

Seeing that no one came to eat their food, some aunts in charge of the spoon became cruel, grabbed the maggots in the pot and stuffed them into their mouths, "Everyone come and see what I eat, it's delicious!" Anyway If no one eats, she has to finish it.

The aunt in charge of the spoon is enthusiastically selling and delivering food, and most people have gradually accepted eating this kind of food, but the time has come before they are full.

The bald man saw the bustling scene and the long line outside, so he yelled on the loudspeaker: "The time for this batch is up, change the batch!"

“This salt and pepper tastes really delicious!”

I don't know if it's the quality of the raw materials, the fragrance of the condiments, or the clever cooking techniques, but a dish of salt and pepper worms has won a good reputation in Aijia Supermarket.

There is a long queue here for Jinglai. Before others have finished the whole pot, the seven or eight pots she made have already been eaten. Those who have eaten said they still want to eat!
"It's gone today, come back tomorrow!" Jing Lai said contentedly after wiping off her sweat.

The bald man patted Jing and said, "You've done a good job, I'll promote you to be a team leader today, come on!"

……

Jing Shu saw this familiar scene, as if she saw herself in her previous life from those people's expressions of hesitation, panic, and gritted teeth to accept, and the self in this life has changed her destiny without knowing it, and she no longer has to eat maggots. very nice.

"Hurry up and get the water and go back to make zongzi." Grandma Jing shook her head with a sigh, "We also came through the famine in the same way. We can eat whatever we can."

　Thank you Jiuluzi, good night and give a reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)