Chapter 23 Chapter 21: Terrible Hunger

If you ask people, which one is the most painful feeling?This question is quite difficult to answer, pain is pain, how to compare?I have never warmed my feet all winter because of the cold. The cold is naturally terrible, but I have also sunburned in the hot sun so that my skin shines like soy sauce, and it will slide down when it rains. Isn’t the scorching heat terrible?However, among the many sufferings, hunger is the most terrible. Those who have been hungry should know how terrible it is. People who live in a normal environment know hunger as eating three or five hours late, and their stomach growling with hunger.This kind of hunger is not considered hungry, because I know very well in my heart that whenever I want to eat, I can fill my stomach full, and there is no sense of fear in my mind.

However, if you know that you will be hungry today, you will still be hungry tomorrow, and you don’t know how long the hunger will last. If you start to panic psychologically, coupled with the real sense of hunger physically, it will be extremely frustrating. Terrible, I often dream of eating in my sleep, and after waking up, I am endlessly hungry, almost never full, it is like falling into a bottomless abyss, I don’t know When will it stick to the ground. The hunger I experienced came after the national grain distribution system was implemented in 1955.The food panic during this period was really childish compared to the later period of three red flags and large chain steel.At that time, there was only a shortage of food. In the later period, there was no food at all, so tens of millions of people starved to death (official announcement).

Is there less food distribution?City dwellers find it strange, according to the weight, each person per month, fifty-five catties.Fifty-five catties of grain, half and half in thickness, can be eaten for half a year according to the current food intake, but in the situation of no non-staple food at all, it is hard to be enough. It will be used up in twenty days, at most twenty-two or three days, and, still Those who used restraint, those twenty days were also spent in a state of half-starvation. What about the remaining ten days?I had to figure it out myself. Pumpkins don’t need food stamps. I cooked a large bowl and felt full at the time. There was a lot of cuckoo.

Therefore, when catching mice, regardless of voles and house mice, if they catch them, they will eat meat, which can satisfy their hunger. If they are well nourished, they will start catching mice to eat, not for their meat, but for their liver. Malnutrition, there is a strange disease called Night blindness is fine during the day and there is no abnormality, but at night, the vision is reduced to close to blindness, which is extremely inconvenient.Animal liver is rich in vitamin A, which has direct curative effects. If you eat it in the afternoon, you can see it in the evening. The wild dogs have already been eaten up, and even the wild cats are caught and eaten. A Wenzhou native also taught in detail how to cook cat meat with black tea first, but it doesn’t matter if it is cooked and sprinkled with salt.

There are a lot of crops in the fields, but I dare not steal them to eat. I am really hungry and have to steal them, and I dare not raise fire. Someone taught: Soybeans are eaten raw, as long as you can bear the beany smell, they are nutritious. Alright, so I trained myself to chew and eat raw soybeans, and I once swallowed immature cotton bolls with astringent and strange taste. Living in such a state of hunger, one day, something happened that still remains in my memory.That day, I was walking in the fields, looking for something to eat, when suddenly a strange smell wafted over.The alluring fragrance is simply unmatched.At that time, for a while, I couldn't remember what kind of fragrance it was, it was so touching, but I just walked past it naturally, following the fragrance.

After walking a considerable distance, about 300 meters, the human sense of smell is so sensitive in such a critical period, it is a bit unbelievable. The more you walk forward, the stronger the scent becomes, but you still don't see anything. You can tell the attractiveness of the scent. It's the smell of meat. After smelling it, your mouth is full of saliva, and it's still pouring out .Swallowed several times, still full of mouthfuls. Finally, I saw the source of the fragrance. In a ditch about one meter deep, there was a man who set up a stove with stones and placed an earthen basin with a fire under it. Rolling, the meat is in the soup, and the smell is the smell of boiled pork!

At that time, my eyes were fixed on the pot of pork, and I couldn't take it away. The last time I ate pork in my memory was probably a thousand years ago. The pitiful greedy look at that time must have been extremely frightening. It was really lucky, the one who was cooking the meat was a villager who had stolen a piglet and was about to cook it for a big meal, when suddenly a stranger in a cadre uniform came and frightened him half to death. Filled a bowl of fat meat, climbed up the ditch, and invited me to eat a bowl. At that time, I couldn't even say a word of politeness, so I took it immediately and devoured it hungrily. When the long-lost aroma of animal fat filled my mouth and quickly spread to my whole body, I was so grateful that I shed tears. There is no feeling more satisfying than that feeling!

It's just eight pieces of pork with fat and lean, but the taste can be said to be unforgettable in a lifetime, that kind of fragrant, smooth and plump feeling, since then, I have never tried it again. After that time, although it took a long time to eat pork again, the taste was not as good as the first time. Thanks to my nose, I was able to smell the tempting fragrance half a kilometer away!