Pursued by the Heavenly Dao, first level up in the courtyard.

Around six o'clock in the morning, Zhang Cuihua called out, "Huai Ru, hurry up, or all the wild vegetables will be picked clean!"

With the grain ration reduced by 10%, even families with urban household registrations didn't have enough food, let alone the Jia family, which only had one urban household registration.

In order to help the Jia family, Yi Zhonghai could only save a few yuan each month.

Even if you have money these days, you might not be able to buy food.

The black market in Beicheng has been destroyed time and time again by the Comprehensive Management Bureau. Some people who didn't believe in evil were tempted by money, and as a result, the black market was wiped out by the Comprehensive Management Bureau in less than three days.

Qi Bing's current mental power has a detection radius of one hundred kilometers.

He used his mental powers to survey an area of ​​over 30,000 square kilometers, while the area of ​​the northern city was only over 10,000 square kilometers.

Occasionally, by using mental power to survey the surroundings, the black market has nowhere to hide.

With the black market virtually nonexistent and the pigeon market transformed into a vegetable market, even if the Jia family still had money, it would be difficult to buy enough grain.

After the food ration was reduced, many ordinary people in Beicheng would go out to dig for wild vegetables, fish, and hunt whenever they had free time.

Qin Huairu came out of the house carrying a bamboo basket, her face full of worry: "Mom, there are hardly any wild vegetables left in the place we went to yesterday. Will we be able to find any today?"

Bamboo baskets are woven from bamboo strips and are called bamboo baskets in some places.

Bamboo baskets have many advantages: they are lightweight, can hold a lot, are inexpensive, and are sturdy.

Zhang Cuihua said, "Today we are with Yang Ruihua and the others."

The two walked from the middle courtyard to the front courtyard and saw Yang Ruihua, Chen Rong and others.

Qin Huairu greeted them: "Second Aunt, Third Aunt."

Yang Ruihua smiled and said, "We've been waiting for the two of you. Let's go."

Zhang Cuihua asked, "Second Aunt, Third Aunt, have you already decided where to dig?"

Yang Ruihua sighed: "The places nearby where we could dig for wild vegetables have already been dug up. We plan to walk along the riverbank and see if there are any edible wild vegetables, and we'll dig up as many as we can."

The group left the courtyard and headed straight for the Yongding River.

I saw many people catching rats along the way.

The campaign to eliminate the four pests has been changed to eliminating the three pests: rats, flies, and mosquitoes.

The Yongding River, which is part of this courtyard world, is right next to the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill and not far from the courtyards.

In my past life, the Yongding River wasn't close to Nanluoguxiang. This world, however, is a film and television world primarily based on traditional courtyard houses and TV dramas.

Yang Ruihua walked at the front, and after arriving at the riverbank, she began to look for wild vegetables.

"These dandelions may be small, but they're edible. Let's dig them up first and accumulate them little by little."

Chen Rong quickly moved closer and said enviously, "Third Aunt, you're so lucky! You managed to find this."

Qin Huairu and Zhang Cuihua quickly stepped forward and each found several dandelions.

As Zhang Cuihua dug, she muttered, "Before the commune was established, there was no need to dig up these things. The crops in the fields grew well, and we could eat white flour steamed buns whenever we wanted. Unlike now, we have to fight over even wild vegetables."

Yang Ruihua picked up the conversation and sighed, "That's right. The drought came too suddenly. There was no harvest at all. Our family's food reserves have long been empty. If we can't find any wild vegetables, I really don't know how we're going to survive."

The four of them dug for a while longer, but the wild vegetables by the river became fewer and fewer.

There are so many people digging for wild vegetables that many spend most of the day without finding even a pound of wild vegetables.

Chen Rong stood up and looked into the distance: "There's a barren slope ahead. When I passed by last time, I saw a lot of lamb's quarters there. Let's go over there and take a look. Maybe we can dig some up."

Yang Ruihua's eyes lit up, and he quickly said, "Let's hurry over there and dig up as much as we can before the sun gets too strong."

Upon arriving at the barren slope, we indeed found a considerable amount of lamb's quarters, lush and green, and not small at all.

Chen Rong said happily, "You didn't see that wrong? There are so many wild vegetables here. Let's hurry up and dig them up, and try to dig up as many as possible."

North City, office building.

At this moment, Qi Bing was chatting with several elders.

"Xiao Qi, are invasive species really that harmful?"

"Elders, there is a type of fish overseas called the pleco. This fish has very little meat; its body is mostly bones. It feeds exclusively on the eggs of various fish. Throwing a few plecos into the rivers..."

"These species are not only worthless, but they also damage the ecology of our Xia Kingdom. They must not be allowed to enter the Xia Kingdom."

In Qi Bing's mind, he not only had to guard against poisonous and harmful plants and animals, but also against people with ulterior motives.

Based on his memories from his previous life, Qi Bing suggested enacting corresponding Xia laws to prohibit certain species from entering the Xia Kingdom.

In the present Xia Kingdom, there are no bird-billed eels, plecos, golden apple snails, red imported fire ants... or AIDS.

In their past lives, some people kept all sorts of pets, some that flew in the sky, some that ran on the ground, and some that swam in the water. A few pet owners liked to keep some unique animals.

Some people initially love certain pets, but after keeping them for a while, they abandon them.

Alligator snapping turtles can eat meat, but can red imported fire ants and bird-billed eels be eaten?

Half an hour later, Qi Bing changed the topic to the infectious virus.

Ancient plagues caused numerous casualties, and modern viruses can also cause massive casualties.

Qi Bing's idea was simple: to expose the virus, isolate it, and treat it.

If there were equipment available to quickly detect various viruses, he would certainly have suggested increasing the testing process.

It wasn't that Qi Bing was radical, but rather that he didn't want the people of Da Xia to live in an environment fraught with risk.

In some matters, if you give in one step, you will give in a second step, and then an immeasurable number of steps.

......

Yang Ruihua, Chen Rong, Zhang Cuihua, Qin Huairu, and others, who had a good harvest, returned to the courtyard house chatting and laughing.

After cleaning the wild vegetables we dug up, we blanched them and ate them as a cold dish, or we mixed them with cornmeal and steamed them.

Wild vegetables that can't be eaten can be blanched, dried, and stored for later consumption.

The next morning, the group went out to dig for wild vegetables again, but when they arrived at the place they had been searching for the day before, it was completely barren.

There are too many people digging for wild vegetables in the city; the wild vegetables that are here today may not be here tomorrow.

"Isn't that a Qi soldier? What is he doing?"

Yang Ruihua, with her sharp eyes, spotted the Qi soldiers in the distance and was filled with doubt.

At this moment, the Qi soldiers were fishing for crayfish by the river.

A few years ago, he threw a lot of crayfish into the river.

He originally came to the river to fish, but when he saw crayfish clinging to the water plants, he immediately thought of spicy crayfish.

Using a titanium alloy fishing rod, hook some chicken entrails on it, throw it near the aquatic plants, wait a few minutes, and then pull it up. You'll catch at least one or two crayfish, sometimes seven or eight, and sometimes none at all.

"Qi soldier, what are you doing?"

"Catching crayfish."

"Is this shrimp edible?"

"If I can't eat it, why would I fish for it?"

"Qi Bing, you caught so many crayfish, can you share some with us?"

"If you want to eat, catch your own. This little bit of crayfish isn't even enough for my wife and me."

Yang Ruihua and Chen Rong asked Qi Bing for advice on how to catch crayfish, and Qi Bing didn't hide anything and gave them a few simple pointers.

Chicken offal may be cheap, but it's still meat. Who would be willing to use chicken offal to catch crayfish?

Ignoring Chen Rong and the others, Qi Bing continued fishing for crayfish.

He plans to catch more crayfish so he can take his wife to her parents' house for dinner that night.

The father-in-law and mother-in-law, the wife's brother and sister-in-law, plus two nephews, including him and his wife, make a total of eight people. Each person needs five catties of crayfish, so they need forty catties of crayfish.

Five pounds of crayfish may seem like a lot to one person, but the edible parts of crayfish are mainly the tail meat. The meat in the claws is so little that it can be ignored.

Around 4 p.m., Qi Bing drove to the entrance of the Fifth Middle School.

A little after five o'clock, his father-in-law and mother-in-law came out of the school, and he put the motorcycle into the bed of the pickup truck.

After waiting a few more minutes, his wife Liu Xiaoqian came out.

Driving to the Liu family's house, Qi Bing personally cooked, turning dozens of kilograms of pre-processed crayfish into garlic crayfish and spicy crayfish.