Hard times have room

Chapter 439

When she finally got home, Pauline was almost paralyzed from exhaustion. She forced herself into the yard and saw the locked main room. Sure enough, she came back late, and her parents had already gone to work.

Seeing that it was drying in the middle of the yard, crowded and crowded, and there was a piece of mushrooms about the size of two tables, Pauline walked directly to the place, unloaded her backpack, dumped the mushrooms in this place, and followed her Mom and Dad picked it up before and it became a piece of sun.

All the stuff in her back basket was emptied, and she also chose a lot of mushrooms from the space. They were all relatively large old mushrooms, and they had some weight in the sun. As for those tender ones, she put most of them in the space. These fresh and tender ones , the taste is still very good, it is delicious to eat, so it is a pity.

When she got to the kitchen, Pauline touched the pot that was still a little warm, and knew that her parents had already eaten it.

On the kitchen chopping board, she also left a bowl of vegetable soup with a little residual temperature, plus five grasshoppers. Paulin directly took it up and took a sip. Well, if it's a little later, it should be cool.

After breakfast, Paulin rested for a while, then went to the back of the house and looked at the bamboo rats. Although she didn't know whether her parents fed or not, she still threw a handful of bamboo leaves into it. If you have something for breakfast, if you feed it, it will be regarded as an extra meal.

By the way, Pauline suddenly thought that the insects outside are so rampant now, when she comes back next time, the bamboo leaves will not be eaten up by those insects, right?

Thinking of this, Pauline can't sit still. As an important tool for her to improve her family's food in the future, she has to serve food and drink well, so that they will grow up obediently. Well, the most important thing is to grow up. Meat.

The first three bamboo rats in the family have grown a lot since when she caught them. After all, this nest is actually not that big, only about the size of a table and a half. Raising chickens, a lot of chickens, so I made them wider.

Now three meals a day, people feed these little guys regularly, even if they want to exercise, they have limited conditions, limited exercise, and a lot of food. After this, it's no wonder that these bamboo rats don't gain weight.

When she thought of it, she did it. Bao Lin couldn't wait any longer. She closed the door of her house and went to the small bamboo forest next to her house. She scoured the bamboo in the forest for more than two hours. No matter how small the mosquito's legs are, she doesn't dislike it at all.

The two large bags of bamboo leaves were packed in plastic woven bags that she received under the bed at an unknown time in her previous life, so that the whole house would not be covered with bamboo leaves.

Since there are more and more things in the space now, Pauline has to classify them again. Generally speaking, put the edible ones on one side and the non-eatable ones, but put the practical ones on one side, and the valuable ones on the other side. There are a lot of things. , are stacked, if the contents inside can be moved with her mind, it may be really difficult for her to move it herself.

After returning home, Pauline was not busy cooking lunch, but took advantage of the good sun to attack the grasshopper she caught yesterday.

These grasshoppers had all the contents of their stomachs removed last night. For a grasshopper, there is only a shell and a little bit of meat left.

Paulin had never dealt with this thing before, she was completely fumbling, thought about it, washed it, and put it in the pot. After the grasshopper put it in the pot, add water and a tablespoon of coarse salt, and set the firewood directly. Blanch the grasshoppers.

When it's cooked, just take it out and put it in the basin. After thinking about it at last, I took two dustpans and put it on it and put it outside to dry.

Wait until tomorrow afternoon, it should be almost dry, you can taste the taste then, you can also try to fry it in the pot, and the taste should be better when it is crispy.

Of course, frying or something is just an idea she has now, and it's still a matter of nowhere. Let's talk about it when the grasshopper comes out tomorrow!

Tomorrow, when the grasshopper is dry, you can try it. Take a bowl and test the water first. If it works, fry some to change the taste.

After she brought the dustpan to the yard, next to the mushrooms, and put it away, Paulin went back to the kitchen to cook. There were not many sweet potatoes at home, but Paulin still put two in and mixed them together.

After eating these two, there are only three large sweet potatoes left in the house, one of which weighs about a pound. I have been thinking about saving it before. It is a pity to eat such large sweet potatoes, so these three large sweet potatoes are kept together. to the end.

When I first started eating, I started eating from the small ones, and left them at the end. Basically, they were not small.

For lunch, Pauline made sweet potato wild vegetable porridge and a mushroom soup. Now that mushrooms are in season, don't eat fresh mushrooms, save them to dry and eat them later?
No one in the village would do this now!
Now basically every household is filled with porridge and wild vegetables. The food is too expensive, and no one can afford it, so wild vegetables and mushrooms are enough to satisfy their hunger.

At this time last year, there were still a lot of sweet potatoes in the wells of every household to wrap their stomachs, so many people chose to dry the mushrooms and sell them to the purchasing station for money.

At that time, the prices were still normal. Five or six cents per pound of dried mushrooms. After a mushroom season, they were rich in resources. Each family could get at least one or two yuan, which was a very good income. Money, firewood money, basically that's all.

But now the prices are not normal. It seems that except for salt, all the edible things that Paulin can touch have increased in price to varying degrees, although the prices of state units, such as supply and marketing cooperatives, vegetable markets, etc. Too exaggerated, but that thing, can they afford it?If nothing else, just that vote is a big stumbling block.

In addition, the supply in those places is very limited, obviously in short supply!
This has also caused the villagers to basically stop going to the purchasing station to sell things. The price is too cheap. Now the dried mushrooms are [-] or [-] cents. Depending on the quality, not even a cent is available, and half a catty of coarse grains can’t be bought. From now on, this is it, who would go to the supply and marketing cooperative to sell things so inconceivably.

The disaster, the sluggish harvest, and the limited supply did not affect the black market at all. Instead, the business in that place became more and more prosperous.

Now there is a shortage of food, and there is no other place, but there is a black market. Where does it come from?

The more what is lacking and what is urgently needed, the more expensive the black market is, and the more expensive it is. Most of them are now more than ten or twenty times what they were before. Before, they were stable and declining, and they did not continue to ride up the rocket. In those few months, the weather was good and there were many wild vegetables in the wild. Many people could not afford food, so they dug wild vegetables every day to satisfy their hunger. Although people were yellow-faced and thin-skinned, they could survive.

Now that there are insects in the field together, the price is a bit unstoppable. Even the black market is trying to control the sale of grain, stockpiling grain, and planning to make a big profit later, when the situation is worse, Anyway, there is no need to worry about selling something like food. Now it is hard currency, and nothing really comes from this.

(End of this chapter)