The God of Cooking Educated Youth in the 70s

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Chapter 5 Mushrooms

Xue Miao finally dug out the food situation from the original owner's memory. The climate here is hot and rice can be harvested twice a year. Some communes with good technology can even harvest three times a year. In addition, the policy is biased, which basically guarantees that the educated youth and workers have enough rice to eat. This alone can kill most places in the country in seconds. Not to mention the poor areas, even Shanghai can't have fine grains every meal. The male educated youth named Wang Quangang at the table opposite Xue Miao put a big mouthful of rice into his mouth with a chopstick, closed his eyes and chewed slowly, and the satisfaction and gratitude on his face were not fake.

But even if they could eat enough staple food, everyone was very skinny. The reason was simple: there was no meat or oil. This was not surprising. Nowadays, there is no place without meat. But the worst thing here was the heavy miasma. Chicken plague and swine plague always occurred, and meat was even more scarce.

Xue Miao saw Liu Fangfang, who slept in the bed across the hall from her, counting the grains one by one and taking out a spoonful of soy sauce beans from the canned food bottle sent from home. One spoonful of soy sauce beans was a bowl of rice. Why was there no vegetable to go with the rice? Even if she didn't have the original owner's memory, she knew about this area in her previous life. This place was different from other places. There was too much rain in the rainy season, and the shallow roots of the vegetables grown at home did not grow well. The only edible things were a small amount of wild vegetables on the mountain.

As for mushrooms, isn't July the peak season now? The bad thing is that there are too many mushrooms. The province accounts for two-thirds of the mushrooms in the country. There are too many species and it is easy to be dazzled. Apart from the brightly colored ones, not all mushrooms that look simple are not poisonous. In previous years, there were people who were poisoned to death by eating poisonous mushrooms. Therefore, inexperienced people are very cautious when eating. Besides, there is no time to pick mushrooms and wild vegetables. The cooks are busy and have a long face when serving rice. They don't even smile.

Asking the cook for some boiling water, Xue Miao soaked the rice and swallowed it whole. After eating, she secretly observed the other people in the same company. This time, she really found some clues. They were all educated youth, but their economic levels were obviously different from their clothes. Some people had a lot of patches on their clothes, while some people wore brand new imitation military uniforms. Some people had a miniature pottery jar on their table, and from time to time they would use chopsticks to pick up something from it to mix with their rice. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be fried chicken mushrooms.

Pushing Zhang Bo next to her with her arm, Xue Miao asked, "Li Xia and Lin Zhengrong seem to be quite rich?" Zhang Bo was very surprised, "You seem to be a little different after being bitten by a snake. You didn't like to hear about our affairs before, but why are you asking about them today?"

"Just ask if you remember, tell me!" It's only been a month since I came here, and I don't know anyone here. Xue Miao doesn't need to avoid some small changes, not to mention that the original owner herself is not that kind of gentle person.

"It's normal for them to have money. There are a group of educated youth from Yanjing who came to our camp two years earlier than me. Most of them came from the government departments. I heard that when they came, each of them brought two large boxes of clothes and luggage. The group sent two cars to transport them. They have no shortage of money. Not counting their own wages, their families often send money and things to supplement them. The oil chicken mushroom is sold by the supply and marketing cooperative to generate income. It costs one yuan per bottle without a ticket. It is more expensive than pork. They can eat five bottles a month."