Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 20 Eating rules during special periods

It’s really hard to judge some of the feelings of this era. Relatives are particularly united and do things together. Whoever is bullied may really start a team fight between families because of a small fight between the younger people. Of course, there are also some selfish people, even during the war there were traitors. But they are in the minority after all.

Although these days are reasonable, in rural areas, many fights are about trivial matters. It is difficult for upright officials to distinguish right from wrong. If they fight together, those with a small family will be at a disadvantage.

One person can share ten kilograms of stick noodles and twenty kilograms of sweet potatoes. Naturally, everyone has nothing to say to Luo Wen, who is the eldest brother. It was originally the eldest brother’s own thing, but the eldest brother also had to take care of his elderly mother, so half of it was divided up now. Especially the eldest brother-in-law and the younger brother-in-law, their status is not as close as the two uncles.

This married daughter is just water thrown out, although in reality it is not so ruthless. But the real situation is that daughters are not as good as sons. If capable parents want to save their children, they should first focus on their sons.

Luo Wen’s actions showed that they did not just marry their girls and treat them as outsiders. If they dared to treat them badly, they would have to think carefully.

The population of the Luo family, including some of Luo Cheng’s relatives who live further away, is not very large in Longyang Town. But it’s okay, but now that there is a person like Luo Cheng, if there is a dispute with the Luo family, even the most popular surname in the town or village (there are many people) will have to consider it.

The cloth bags brought by the few people were not big enough. They were enough to hold stick noodles. Each person could hold a few sweet potatoes. Twenty kilograms was actually not much. There was no family that did not have four or five people here today.

The children are gathered together, including grandchildren and even great-grandchildren. The happiest person today is actually Luo Cheng’s grandma. I ate steamed buns last night and a few vegetarian buns this morning. At least my body’s physical strength has recovered a lot. I seem to be walking with more energy, but this is also a physical recovery. If you really want to change your body and bones, you have to eat some nutritious food and slowly recuperate.

A large bowl of sweet potato porridge was served while the men were chatting, but it was not time to start eating. There is more than one pot of sweet potato porridge, and the rest is in another pot in the kitchen. You have to wait until the second pot is cooked before you can eat it. Otherwise, with so many people, you can’t just eat one or two bowls and then put down your bowls and chopsticks to chat while waiting for the second pot.

There was a bowl of hot sweet potato porridge on the table, with fine-grain rice in it. Luo Cheng said that millet was nutritious, so grandma drank it well, then added millet and mixed it with the rice.

I usually drink it very thinly at home, so thin that I can see the bottom of the bowl. Don’t look at cooking in a big pot today. You need to know that millet and rice. If you cook porridge, one pound can cook a pot of thicker porridge. Although today I plan to cook it in three pots, the amount of sweet potatoes can be No less.

Seeing that they couldn’t eat right away, a few chatty old men took out their stools and sat on the corridor to chat. This also saw Luo Cheng hanging out with his cousins, while their younger sons stayed aside to play with bugs, while the older ones helped with the work.

No one found this scene to be inappropriate. Now let’s try replacing Luo Cheng with a cousin. I guarantee that I will want to beat him up when I first see him. It’s outrageous. They are busy, and you are a man hanging around among girls. What does it look like?

The porridge cooks relatively quickly, and it is the second pot. The rice and millet are all cooked at the beginning. In about ten minutes, the aunt came out and called for dinner.

For this meal, put the food in the pot first, because the pot still needs to be empty to cook the third pot. After it is served, it is not eaten immediately, otherwise it would not be called porridge. Even if it is dry rice, you can swallow it in a few mouthfuls.

There are rules when it comes to eating. If you eat one more bowl, others will eat one less bite on average. The first bowl was given to everyone. There were not enough bowls and chopsticks at home, so they were asked to bring bowls. The size of the bowls in these days was also relatively uniform, so no one brought a bigger bowl or a smaller bowl.

There are younger children at home, like my sister-in-law and aunt-in-law, both of whom are around ten years old. Although there is no need to feed them, at least you have to help them put them. The uncle’s son has a child, and his daughter-in-law has also brought them, so she has to take care of them.

Anyway, it’s just what’s meant to be served. You have to be discerning when eating, and you have to wait when you’re done eating. When everyone has finished the first bowl, someone will naturally take the lead to serve the second bowl, and then everyone can follow. .

This is in rural areas, and now there are rules in cities. They are just a little bit better, but even if it is a walk among relatives to have a meal, or a get-together with colleagues. When eating, you must remember to give meal tickets to the people you entertain. When you go to someone’s home to eat, you don’t have to give them the money. If you don’t give them meal tickets, they may have to work hard to save you a bite. Everyone has their own quota, even in the city, whoever is in charge has to pay meal tickets for everyone else, even between father and son.

The aunts and uncles didn’t come to the table, let alone them. There were only a few people sitting on this table, so just Luo Cheng’s father, uncle and aunts sat there. Originally, grandma was asked to sit there too, but grandma No, she was willing to stand in the kitchen and eat with her mother and the others.

Except for grandma, there are no restrictions on eating, and everyone else has to follow the rules. If you don’t understand the rules, you won’t be able to touch the spatula in the kitchen. In the living room, a few gentlemen will directly let you know what the rules are.

Therefore, people of Luo Cheng’s generation, or those below this generation, always eat standing outside with bowls in hand. If you feel tired from standing, you can just find a piece of earth and rocks to sit on as a stool.

Luo Cheng’s mother in the kitchen will go to the living room when everyone has finished the first bowl. If all the elders in the living room have finished eating, she will start to serve the second round. In the second round, there are rules again. Children who are too young basically have no chance to enter the third round, that is, those under ten years old.

In addition, unmarried girls are basically given two bowls, which is a bit of a patriarchal mentality. It is said that female babies should not be eaten by male babies, but this is an era when there is no oil and water. Girls can eat three bowls of dry rice, but how can they not eat thin rice.

However, this round I will also take some care of the girls and try my best to get as many sweet potatoes as possible for them.

After the second round is finished, others can also serve the third bowl. After the third bowl, no matter whether there is any extra, you must understand the rules and don’t eat anymore. Unless there is too much left, everyone can have another bowl. If there is a little more, you can save it for Luo Chengjia to eat at night.

(The most lacking thing in this era is food, so eating more or less is a very shameful thing in the eyes of others. Until later, the food aspect became a little more relaxed. Everyone could not eat as much as they wanted. The rule of eating more is gradually disappearing. In this era, let alone guests, even if there are no guests, everyone in the family is hungry. You cannot eat more just because you can eat or eat quickly. Everyone eats in portions. If you don’t follow the rules, you will be criticized. Unless you prefer, give more to boys and less to girls. Many grandparents prefer their grandchildren and don’t like their granddaughters because they carry on the family line. .Ideological issues.)