Chapter 244

Shuiqing has always adhered to the idea of “a wise hare has three burrows,” and hoards things like a hamster.

In addition to buying storage boxes in the mall to store valuable items, there are also many storage rooms in the house.

Inside the main bedroom of the main house are scattered valuable items such as silver coins, fabrics, and jewelry;

Next to the kitchen, above the small house, hangs smoked meat, cured sausages, salted fish and other meats. On the wooden shelves on the wall are dried vegetables and fruits such as wood ear mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, and dried vegetables. On the ground are baskets of eggs and jars of pickled vegetables.

Fresh meat is eaten within one or two days in hot weather and within three to five days in cold weather, depending on how long it can be stored.

There are a large number of potatoes in the courtyard near the front warehouse.

Three rooms on the west side of the main house, the outermost one stores various coarse grains such as soybeans, red beans, green beans, black beans, millet, and sorghum, while the other two are used to store rice and flour.

Only Shuiqing and Fan Jin have the keys to these three rooms, and only they can freely enter and exit. If the kitchen runs out of rice or flour on regular days, one of them goes to get it.

Whenever Fan Jin “buys food” and comes back, both of them are responsible for unloading and placing it inside.

Of course, all of this is done in order to be able to add food from the mall at any time. Nothing else matters, only food is the most important. After all, when you’re hungry, the first thing you think about is being able to eat a full meal.

Now only Shuiqing and Fan Jin know how much coarse grain, rice, and flour are left in the warehouse.

After they opened the warehouse, Fan Jin closed the warehouse door and bolted it.

The room immediately became darker, but it didn’t affect their inspection.

While Shuiqing looked, he said, “One person eats one jin of grain a day. That’s more than 300 jin a year. Hong Daniu’s family is the smallest, with three people, and they should be given 1,500 jin a year.

Three hundred jin of rice, two hundred jin of flour, five hundred jin of sorghum flour, two hundred jin of potatoes, two hundred jin of millet, and one hundred jin of soybeans. Other families should follow this proportion, right?”

They opened their own vegetable garden, and she saw that it was very large. Anyway, there was nothing missing here, just as long as people were diligent. In half a month, they estimated that they would have vegetables to eat, and a few months later, they could not finish eating vegetables.

Part of the vegetable garden is used to grow potatoes, which will be harvested at the end of the year and eaten next year. The year after that, they will continue to plant for two seasons. With rice and flour, they can eat for one or two years.

Red beans and green beans need sugar to taste good. They don’t want to sprout beans as vegetables, and soybeans are the most worthwhile. They can be fried and ground into soybean flour as dry food or ground into pulp to make soy products.

There were originally two stone mill turntables in the house, one large and one small. A few days ago, the large one was moved to their side. There were more people there than at their own place, so the large one was often not used.

In this way, when they grind flour or pulp in the future, they don’t need to carry the grain to this courtyard, grind it, and then carry it back, saving time and effort.

Fan Jin agreed without any objection: “Okay.”

Most people who don’t have any income can eat it. They always feel that they can’t eat enough at the beginning, and it’s right for Shuiqing to give them more food in the first year.

Shuiqing began to buy food from the mall.

Fan Jin is responsible for sorting out the food neatly, categorizing it house by house. He only opens the warehouse door when all the food is bought, and then he moves it into the courtyard bag by bag.

The quantities for the four households are different, but the smallest has more than a thousand catties. Later, they will have to use their own trolley to pull them back.

Next to each pile of food, there is smoked meat, five sections of cured sausage, a large jar of vegetable oil, and a large jar of rendered lard.

There is not much meat, but there is a lot of oil, because they found that except for five women who do not understand water, men know water and are good at fishing and fishing.

There are many mountains and waters in Shanshui Village. The Shuiqing family does not know water, let alone catching fish. They have to rely on Li Huyu for fresh fish before, but now they don’t lack fish. It is all relying on those more than ten men.

Fish is a meat dish, very nutritious, but frying fish requires oil, so they sent a lot of oil.

When Fan Jin notified the four households to come and collect the grain, they were all delighted. They thanked Fan Jin repeatedly and followed him to the main house courtyard with the trolley.

Li Dani watched the head of the house go to transport grain with joy and instructed Erni: “During this period of time, eating rice and flour with the wife, don’t be picky, and quickly adapt to eating black flour in the future, do you understand?”

They were two sisters married to two brothers, which avoided the conflicts between sisters-in-law.

Li Erni obediently nodded, “Sister, don’t worry! I understand.”

“Just being able to eat rice and flour for those days is already good enough. Thinking about eating in the future? Just being able to eat enough black flour is good enough!”

When the head of the household returned and mentioned it, people from Baijiazhuang are now even saving and eating black flour. With plenty of wild vegetables and grasses, they barely manage to fill their stomachs with a pot of stew, whereas the refugees outside haven’t even had that!

How could she not be content?

Other families were preparing to eat black flour as well.

Following the Dongjia household for finer grains was fine for them, but they had always been destined to eat black flour.

After their own fire was lit, eating black flour every day was already quite satisfactory.

The men who followed Fan Jin to the main house courtyard to pull grain were also thinking this way.

During these days of delivery, they had been eating fried noodles made from white flour, which was really delicious!

But in Baijiazhuang, they were eating a porridge of wild vegetables and grasses, thin and watery without oil and salt. At that time, they would have been content just to eat enough black flour.

They also thought about how the Dong family had potatoes. Potatoes were better than black flour. If the Dong family could give them potatoes, that would be even better!

Jinniu Yinniu said that their family had dried potato slices in the summer, and after soaking them in water and stewing them with a spoonful of lard when serving, they tasted exceptionally good.

They didn’t dare think about lard, but they had tasted stewed potatoes at the main house. If they could eat stewed potatoes…

When they saw the piles of grain in the courtyard and heard the introduction from the main house, the men were stunned in place.

“There’s rice and flour? And hundreds of catties of it! If we save it to eat, we can eat for two or three years!”

“No, we haven’t even eaten hundreds of catties of rice and flour in our whole lives!”

“There’s vegetable oil and lard too? And such large jars of it! Madam said there were more people in their house, so they might have to save it, but there’s just one gourd of oil at their place, while there are two large jars here.”

“Madam also said frying fish requires oil, and there’s less meat, so we can only rely on lard.”

“But there’s also a big piece of smoked meat and lots of sausages next to the grain! Where’s the shortage of meat?”

“Lard is even better. In the past, only the head of the village had it, but now we can have it too, and there’s even a large jar of it!”

The four men looked at each other, thinking: Are we deserving of this?

With so much good food, wouldn’t it be a loss for them to eat it?