Chapter 112 Salt and Pepper Grain Worm
Jinglai quietly took out a large bowl of rice and started to eat. She couldn't help but think about what Jingshu said: "San Gu's food is not good these days. I also prepared a portion of the rice that my mother prepared for my mother. My mother also prepared a portion for you." If you can’t finish it, take it with you, otherwise it will be wasted.”
The corners of Jinglai's eyes were a little moist. Jingshu was a shrewd child. She said this specifically to take care of her face, which meant that she had too much self-esteem to lose face.
Otherwise, my sister-in-law would be given four dishes every day, and in order to take care of her and prevent her from being too conspicuous, the rice would be mixed together every time so that no one could tell what she was eating.
This is obviously a meal specially prepared for her. She remembers this true love. At the critical moment, your blood relatives still care about you!
"Jinglai, your family has prepared another meal for you? You are so lucky. You go out to work and take care of the meal and you bring another one yourself. It's not like I save half a meal every day and have to take it home. I give you all my work points for a month." The children bought food."
Jinglai was already hiding in a corner, but she didn't expect to be discovered by a few people around her.
"Why does it smell so good to me? Why do I still smell the ribs? Let me see!" Someone with a sharp nose came over.
"No, it looks like moldy brown rice." Jing Lai took the bowl over generously, and in the dim light he could only see a dark lump of rice.
"It smells so good, I can even smell potatoes."
"You may be hallucinating, smelling shit smells good."
Jinglai quietly swallowed a piece of meat with the bones removed, and finished the stewed potatoes with pork ribs mixed with sesame seeds and placed under the rice. "Eat quickly. After eating, I have to go up and clean up the grain worms."
That is to say, those who work in the canteen can still eat an occasional meal of white rice. Now that the government is taking food seriously, ordinary people can only exchange their 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 took the whole family in the car and went to Aijia Supermarket to get some water.
The 5 tons of water Jingshu's family had last time they exchanged for watering vegetables and feeding poultry, but now only 3 tons of water for various domestic purposes are left. Under the extremely high temperature, Jingshu's villa has to keep making ice and putting it in the yard to cool down. .
Otherwise, having a cover would be really suffocating, and the fish in the fish ponds can’t stand such high temperatures, so they have to take the water distributed by the government no matter how small it is.
When I came to the supermarket again, there was already a dense S-shaped queue around me. Everyone was waiting with chapped mouths but excitedly to enter the canteen. They all knew that the Dragon Boat Festival was coming, and having a buffet for three days in a row was exciting. Countless people.
There was also a long queue at the water supply side. Fortunately, there were ten more water outlets. After everyone received their supplies, they hurried to queue up at a place to eat.
There is a high barbed wire fence in the middle, and under the dim light you can still see the bustle of people in the cafeteria.
The government also spent a lot of money this time and used all the seasonings collected. The whole canteen was filled with various fragrances.
From a distance, Jingshu could see two rows of pots of food neatly placed on the table. Behind each pot stood a man holding a spoon and shouting:
"Try my Kung Pao Grain Bug! It's delicious and delicious."
"You deserve to have stir-fried grain worms. You can eat as much as you want."
"Cantonese special fried grain worms, come here, let me try it for you, I can give you another spoonful after one spoonful, eat more!"
The lady in the cafeteria not only corrected the problem of shaking her hands to shake off most of the food after one spoonful, but she also vigorously added it to your bowl.
Everyone who came excitedly thought that the worst thing to do was to eat mushrooms, but they were dumbfounded when they saw the maggots cooked in various ways. Some of the maggots in the pot were still moving, clearly not yet cooked.
The maggots in some pots were chopped into meat paste, which looked disgusting. Most of the maggots were still dirty and raw, so they must have not been processed.
"This seems different from what I imagined."
"The buffet we agreed on, is this what you're going to eat for us? Is this food edible? Could it be taken out of a latrine?"
"You're going to disgust me to death!"
But there are also people who have been hungry for several days and don’t care about the smell. They pick out a few flavors that look good and eat them.
At this time, the cafeteria broadcast started: "You can get as much as you want. Each person has a time limit of 30 minutes. If you report a waster, you will get 2 virtual coins. The waster will deduct 5 virtual coins. If the virtual coins are minus 10 or more, you will undergo labor reform!" "
"To celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, Aijia Supermarket will open a grain bug buffet for three consecutive days. Each person only needs 0.5 virtual coins. And the 10 citizens who eat the most will be selected every day and each person will be rewarded with 10 virtual coins."
"At the same time, Aijia Supermarket has newly added a grain insect recycling counter. Each kilogram of grain insects can be recycled with 0.5 virtual coins. There is no limit to recycling every day. Citizens can catch more grain insects and exchange them for virtual coins. In hot weather, you can exchange them for water and white rice."
People at this time are no longer like they were in the first two months of the apocalypse, when they couldn't drink muddy water and were tired of eating white rice.
After a month or two of starvation, even though they couldn't accept eating maggots, after hesitating for a few minutes, most people still chose to eat them.
what else can we do?
I'm hungry and thirsty. If I choose 2 points of white rice, I can't drink water. If I choose to drink an extra bottle of water, I can't eat. Now 0.5 points are precious. All the clothes and bedding at home have been changed. There is nothing in the house of the deceased. Otherwise, if you don’t eat, you will starve to death, so you might as well eat.
To survive.
Some of the chefs saw that no one came to eat their food, so they made up their minds and grabbed the maggots in the pot and stuffed them into their mouths, "Everyone, come and see my food, it's delicious!" Anyway, no one ate it, so she had to finish it.
The chefs enthusiastically promoted and delivered it to the customers, and most people gradually accepted to eat this kind of food, but the time was up before they were full.
The bald man looked at the bustling scene and the long queue outside, and shouted on the loudspeaker: "This batch is up, change to the next batch!"
"This pepper and salt tastes really good!"
I don't know if it's the high quality of the raw materials or the fragrance of the seasoning, or the clever cooking method, but a dish of pepper and salt grain worms has established a good reputation in Aijia Supermarket.
There was a long queue here at Jinglai's place. When others hadn't finished one pot, the seven or eight pots she made had been eaten up, and those who had eaten said they wanted to eat more!
"There's no more today, come back tomorrow!" Jinglai wiped the sweat off her face and said with satisfaction.
The bald man patted Jinglai: "You did a good job. I will promote you to be the leader of a group today. Keep it up!"
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Jingshu saw this familiar scene, as if she saw herself in her previous life from the expressions of hesitation, fear and acceptance of those people. In this life, she has unknowingly changed her fate. She no longer has to eat maggots. It's great.
"Hurry up and get the water and go back to make zongzi." Jingnai sighed and shook her head, "We also survived the famine that year. We ate whatever we could eat."
Thanks to Jiuluzi, good night and reward