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Chapter 26 Grain Bricks
Zhao Chuanliang was thinking about the food issue there.

Too many questions.

How to give?
How to set the price?
Everyone is very clear about the price of food outside now.

It is too expensive and the village cannot afford it.

If it is cheap, a fool will doubt it.

Moreover, if he doesn't get more food for his family, his family members are worried, and he is worried about getting too much food.

Thinking of this, he left the yard, came to the straw pile next to the yard wall, and quietly entered the space.

After entering, he took out all kinds of grain from the warehouse.

Everyone knows the prices of various grains.

Then make an unrecognizable one!
Thinking of this, he made some colored things out.

Red beans, mung beans, black beans, sorghum, soybeans, a little of each, a little of wheat, and the rest is corn.

With his thoughts, everything turned to dust.

When mixed together, a kind of brown-black flour appeared in front of the eyes.

Looking at the brown-black flour, Zhao Chuanliang thought, can't these be recognized?

But he thought about it for a while, put the things in the casserole, and shook them a few times, which made him frown again.

The contents inside were of different weights, and they were layered again after being shaken.

Probably something can still be seen.

After thinking for a while, his eyes lit up.

As his thoughts moved, some of the powder in the casserole separated and was gradually compressed into a brick the size of a brick.

If you didn't look carefully, you would think it was an adobe brick!
So you can't see what it is, can you?
Weighed it, it looked like about 4 catties, which was quite heavy.

Feeling okay, he made another one.

When the two bricks were put together and touched, there was a bang bang bang sound, but they were still very hard.

If this brick goes down, it is estimated that the head will bloom.

After finishing it, he went straight out of the space and walked towards the house.

When he came back, the meal was still not ready, and the second child looked at him holding the brick and was puzzled for a while.

"Third, what are you doing with bricks?"

Zhao Chuanliang took the thing and handed it to him with a smile: "Look, this is a good thing, can you see what it's called?"

After receiving the item, Zhao Chuanjun took it in his hand and looked it over.

Put them together again and touch them.

"Isn't it just two clay bricks? What's so strange? It's just that the colors are a little different."

Zhao Chuanliang smiled.

Because of the material used, the color of the adobe bricks must be different, unless they are all dug from one place.

Then he looked at Zhao Tiegen: "Father, take a look, can you see something famous?"

Zhao Tiegen also took it in doubt and took a look.

For a while, I didn't see any tricks, I just muttered, "This brick is quite neat."

But thinking of his son's special explanation, he still studied it carefully.

There must be some tricks.

Hearing this, Zhao Chuanliang felt that he should not be so upright next time, otherwise it would be abnormal.

"what!"

While thinking, Zhao Tiegen was surprised when he put the brick on his nose and smelled it.

"It smells like grain!"

Then he raised his head and looked at him.

Zhao Chuanliang nodded, "Take a bite!"

Hearing his words, Zhao Tiegen took a bite with his teeth.

However, he was pressed too tightly, so he didn't move for a while.

After thinking about it, I went to the kitchen and took a kitchen knife, and tapped it hard with the back of the knife, and then knocked out something the size of a thumb.

Put it in your mouth and chew for a while.

Finally, he said in surprise: "It's really food! Where did it come from?"

"The ones sold in the city cost 5 cents a piece."

This price is almost the same as the fixed price in the city.

The pure corn flour in the city used to be 9 cents, but now it is 1 cent, and this is about four catties, which is only 2 or 3 cents.

Many of the grains in it are good things, and there is also a small amount of soybeans that supplement protein.

More nutritious than pure corn.

Put it in a pot and boil it until it becomes a pile of mush, and no one can tell the difference.

Although it is mixed together, the taste of corn can still be smelled a little.

"Okay, let's eat."

While speaking, mother's voice came from the kitchen.

Everyone else went to get food, Zhao Tiegen and Zhao Chuanliang didn't move, they were still studying the food brick.

Zhao Tiegen hesitated for a moment and asked, "Is this really edible? What is it made of?"

"It's made of grain. I went to the black market in the city, and I happened to meet an acquaintance. He said that he had sold this for a long time, and he could keep his fill."

Zhao Chuanliang babbled and looked at him quietly.

Hearing his words, Zhao Tiegen hesitated for a moment.

Seriously asked: "Is this a big quantity? Can I buy a lot?"

"I think there are quite a few! There should be quite a lot."

Zhao Tiegen thought for a while, and took a piece of grain to the kitchen.

Yang Huaihua, who just came in, watched him go out, feeling strange for a while: "What are you doing? You have eaten!"

"You eat first!"

After finishing speaking, he went to the kitchen. He didn't wash the pot where the soybeans were cooked, but just added some water and put the bricks in it.

Went to cook under the stove.

He didn't come back until he was done.

"Cooking there first, let's take a look later! Eat first."

After speaking, he sat on the table.

The steamed buns made of pure corn fine noodles are soft and rotten just after steaming, but the taste will be better if they are fermented.

With a bowl of soybean soup, everyone happily ate it.

Except for the wolf meat and corn rice that I ate last time, this time I ate the happiest.

And everyone was full.

In the middle, Zhao Tiegen went to the kitchen from time to time, used a spatula to break up the outside of the grain bricks, and continued to cook the hard things inside.

After more than an hour, it was already dark.

In the curiosity of everyone, a brick was boiled into a pile of batter.

Zhao Tiegen has anxiously dug a little with a spoon and put it into his mouth.

Then he said with bright eyes: "It's really food, and there is no sand at all. It must be food. Liangzi, where is it? Take us to buy some. Save this piece and it will be enough for us to eat for a day. There is 200 yuan, so we don't have to worry about it this winter."

The important thing is that it is cheap!
Dime a catty.

Although it is much more expensive than the price of harvested grain, more than ten cents per catty is considered the price of cabbage during this period.

No, cabbage in the city is also very expensive now.

Zhao Chuanliang shook his head, 200 yuan is only 800 catties, 100 catties per person, what's the use!

500 is about the same.

After all, everyone in the family is half-sized, so if you eat twice as much, you will be half full.

Then he smiled and said: "It's okay, you don't have to worry about this. I will go to the city tomorrow and ask him to save some for me."

Zhao Tiegen nodded lightly: "Okay, you can get more, your grandfather and your aunt also get some, they don't have enough food."

"Okay, I see, this is for sure!"

Dad is just a younger sister who married into the production team next door, not far from here, just next door to grandpa Zhuangzi.

(End of this chapter)