A doctor who travels through two eras

The camera returns to the daytime, to the passage next to the Chinese medicine hospital warehouse.

It was still relatively cold in Beijing in March, and because people were not well fed, everyone did not have enough calories, so pedestrians were all huddled up in their cotton-padded jackets and walking in a hurry.

Liu Shengli, the director of the Digital Hospital, was leading his men to the train station to receive a batch of supplies. When they were passing by the warehouse of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, they suddenly saw Director Shen screaming in excitement.

Liu Shengli asked doubtfully:

"Hey, Lao Ma, look at that guy over there, is he Shen Guoming from the Chinese Medicine Hospital?"

Ma Weiping, deputy director of the Digital Hospital, pushed up the brim of his hat and took a closer look:
"Hey, it's really this old guy. Why did he come to the train station? Let's go and take a look."

Active-duty soldiers are very vigilant. Liu Shengli suddenly grabbed Ma Weiping and said softly:

"Don't go over there, let's retreat first."

Ma Weiping asked curiously as he walked:

"Lao Liu, Lao Shen is also an old comrade of ours. Why didn't you say hello? Why are you running away? Did you owe him money when you were in the army?"

"Bullshit, how could I owe him money? Didn't you see how excited Shen Guoming was just now? Use your brain to think about what could make him so excited?"

Facing Liu Shengli's guidance, Ma Weiping also became thoughtful:
"If the hospital had made some major achievements or had made some major breakthroughs in medicine, he should have been sitting in the dean's office and was excited. But he was so excited in front of the warehouse at the train station. Obviously, this warehouse contained something that he valued most..."

"food!"

Liu Shengli and Ma Weiping suddenly guessed it in unison.

"You know what? It could really be food. I heard that starting next month, the food department will no longer sell food to major units, and employees of major units will be asked to solve their own dining problems at work. The canteen of the Chinese Medicine Hospital should also be out of food, right?"

"Yes, I've heard about this, too. So Shen Guoming should be frowning now. How could he be excited? Look at his expression just now. He was about to jump for joy. This old guy must have gotten some food."

When Liu Shengli said this, he looked at Ma Weiping, and they both said in unison again:

"Fuck him!"

Liu Shengli also became excited at this time:
"I'm not leaving today. I'm keeping an eye on the Chinese Medicine Hospital warehouse. If there really is food, they definitely won't dare to store it at the train station. They will definitely find a way to transport it away. There are too many people and spies during the day, so they won't dare to do that. The best opportunity to transport it is at night when it's dark."

Ma Weiping also rubbed his hands: "Hehe, if we don't have food, it's our bad luck. If we have food, it's Shen Guoming's bad luck!"

The two chatted and laughed as they walked towards their own company's exclusive warehouse.

On the other side, Dean Shen had no idea that he had been targeted by someone. The world is so strange. Dean Shen was afraid that others would leak the secret, but in the end he himself became the breakthrough point for the leak.

As the largest freight station in the city, Fengtai Railway Station has built a large number of warehouse areas, which are rented by major units in the capital to facilitate the storage and transportation of materials.

The digital hospital’s warehouse is right next to the Chinese medicine hospital.

When Liu Shengli and Ma Weiping led their men to their own warehouse, several young men in military uniforms quickly guarded the surroundings, appearing very cautious.

There were also several other soldiers in uniform waiting in the warehouse early. When Liu Shengli and Ma Weiping walked into the warehouse, they stood up and saluted.

"Hello, Chief!"

Liu Shengli returned the greeting and then asked anxiously, "How is it? How much food did the superiors allocate to us this time?"

"Report, this time we received a total of 20 tons of food, including sweet potatoes, corns, potatoes, sorghum rice, millet flour, and the superiors also specially allocated 1 ton of soybeans for our hospital."

Because of hunger, malnutrition diseases such as edema are particularly common.

In the absence of high-quality animal protein, soybeans became the only food for the human body to obtain protein. For a time, soybeans became a scarce nutritional product and a strategic material that could not be found on the market.

Patients with edema can buy a small amount of soybean supplement with a doctor's prescription.

However, ordinary people have no way to make tofu from soybeans, so they stir-fry them and eat them. As a result, very little plant protein is absorbed, and it just serves the purpose of filling the stomach.

Liu Shengli frowned when he heard this: "Only 20 tons, and coarse grains? How can this be enough? Just to fill the gaps between our teeth?"

The Digital Hospital is different from the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine does not have an inpatient department, and the food supply only needs to take into account the employees.

As a special hospital, the digital hospital provides both traditional Chinese and Western medicine (mainly Western medicine), and has an inpatient department with quite a few inpatients.

The key point is that most of the inpatients here are in military uniforms, so the hospital needs to do its best to guarantee the inpatients' three meals a day. It would rather the staff have nothing to eat than let the patients go hungry.

The consequence is that digital hospitals are like a money-eating beast, requiring a large amount of food. However, digital hospitals are better than traditional Chinese medicine hospitals. Traditional Chinese medicine hospitals are privately run and have to solve their own food problems. If the hospital cannot find a way, the employees can find a solution themselves.

Because of the special nature of the digital hospital, food is allocated by higher authorities, which is the biggest benefit under normal circumstances.

But if the skin is gone, where will the hair be attached? Now the food supply in the whole country is in trouble, and the whole army is also not immune to it. Therefore, the food allocated by the superiors is getting less and less every year.

Ma Weiping checked the quality of the grain and came back shaking his head:

"Old Liu, that won't work. This batch of food is all coarse grains. Coarse grains can't satisfy hunger. I'm afraid they won't last for a few days."

Liu Shengli also had a headache, but his military principles remained:
"Forget it, let's move all the food to the inpatient canteen and give priority to the patients. As for the staff, they will have to work hard. Let's close the staff canteen..."

Ma Weiping thought for a moment and suggested:
"How about we try food substitutes like chlorella, wheat straw buns, artificial meat, and leaf protein?"

The production process of Chlorella is quite complicated. First, mix the algae seeds with urine, put it in a water tank or pool and expose it to the sun. After it is exposed to a certain degree, the algae is filtered out of the urine and disinfected, and then it can be eaten.

There are many ways to eat this thing. Some are to make dumplings with coarse grains, some are to make it directly into porridge, and some even use it as bun filling.

In some places, Chlorella is used to try to make cakes, bread, candies, dishes, algae porridge, algae sauce and other foods, which taste naturally fragrant and delicious.

Some places use chlorella powder to feed babies, and the effect is comparable to that of milk powder.

Ahem, that’s what it said in the newspaper.

It is easy to understand what wheat straw steamed bun means. It refers to starch made from wheat straw, rapeseed straw, rice husks, bean stalks, bean shells, corn roots, corn stalks, corn husks, corn cobs, and sorghum stalks.

Guangqi Hechi once conducted an experiment where it was found that one hundred kilograms of wheat straw could be made into sixty to seventy kilograms of wet starch. This starch, mixed with some flour and rice flour, could be made into steamed buns, flower rolls, pancakes and noodles with the same quality as those made from flour.

As for how 100 kilograms of wheat straw can produce 60 to 70 kilograms of wet starch? I don't understand? Anyway, that's what the newspaper wrote.

Among various crops, corn plays a particularly prominent role in making substitute foods. Not only is the corn husk removed from the corn kernels a superior substitute food, but the corn leaves, stalks, roots, and even the outer husk of the corn cob and the core can also be used to make substitute foods.

(Lin Musen and Lin Sanqi, father and son, were ignorant and thought that corn cobs would be struck by lightning if they were ground into food, but they did not expect that even corn stalks and leaves could be used.)
In addition, the south is better than the north or the Central Plains. You can eat the stems and leaves of sweet potatoes, the tubers of cassava, and the roots of taro as substitutes.

For example, sweet potato leaves can be picked, washed and dried, and then used as a vegetable or mixed with rice; the tips and petioles of the potato leaves can be blanched in boiling water, marinated with salt for a day, and then made into dried vegetables.

People in the south grow cassava, a "low-labor, low-cost" product, and use its tubers and leaves to make food. They believe that cassava contains a lot of starch and sugar and tastes sweet.

It can be eaten alone or mixed with rice, and can also be used to make delicious steamed buns, dumplings, snacks, jelly, etc.

Anyway, just to get a bite to eat, all kinds of tricks were used.

This is also the reason why Dean Shen attaches great importance to Lin Sanqi. When such a skilled grain producer appears in a famine year, he will be treated like a treasure no matter which unit he is in.

When Liu Shengli heard that the hospital was asked to make substitute food, he also sighed:

"Lao Ma, you are also a doctor. You don't really believe what the newspaper says about these food substitutes being nutritious and delicious, do you? These food substitutes may cause more trouble. The simplest one is that you can't even defecate and you may die of suffocation. Do you believe it?"

At this time, a young man in military uniform came over, saluted and said:

"Commander, we have been guarding the warehouse and haven't even had breakfast or lunch. Can we get some sweet potatoes to fill our stomachs?"

Liu Shengli refused without thinking:

"No, these sweet potatoes are for the patients. If we eat one more, the patients will have one less. Maybe it was this one less that caused the patient to almost die. Every grain of food is precious now. I know everyone's difficulties, but please overcome them."

The young soldiers in uniform had no complaints. They saluted and then retreated. Then several young men looked at the tons of food in front of them and swallowed their saliva.

In fact, Liu Shengli's heart was bleeding when he refused. Thinking of this, he became determined to cheat others.

"You guys, hurry up and find some ladders. I'm going to be a bandit today. Pay close attention to every move of the warehouse of the Chinese Medicine Hospital across the street."

The warehouse was built with its windows at the top, about two or three stories above the ground, and one had to climb a ladder to see outside.

The Chinese medicine hospital didn't know that its warehouse was being targeted, so that night, 10 large trucks drove over and prepared to transport the food away overnight.

Liu Shengli waited for a long time and finally saw the Chinese medicine hospital take action, so he was excited all of a sudden:

"Everyone, pay attention. The target has appeared. Shen Guoming, the damn landlord, really has hidden so much food. Everyone, get ready. Grab his mother's food!!!" (End of this chapter)