The camera returns to daytime, on the passage next to the warehouse of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
It’s still relatively cold in Peiping in March, and because everyone doesn’t have enough food to eat, they don’t have enough calories in their bodies, so pedestrians huddle up in their cotton-padded jackets and walk around in a hurry.
Liu Shengli, the director of the Digital Hospital, was preparing to go to the train station to receive a batch of supplies. When passing by the warehouse of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, he suddenly saw Director Shen screaming excitedly.
Liu Shengli asked doubtfully:
"Hey, Lao Ma, look at that person over there, is he Shen Guoming from the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital?"
Ma Weiping, deputy director of Digital Hospital, pushed up the brim of his hat and took a closer look:
"Hey, it's really this old boy. Why did he come to the train station? Come on, let's go and have a look."
The active-duty soldiers were very vigilant. Liu Shengli suddenly grabbed Ma Weiping and said softly:
"Don't go there, let's retreat first."
Ma Weiping asked strangely as he walked:
"Lao Liu, Lao Shen is an old comrade with us, why don't you say hello? Why are you running away? Did you owe him money in the army?"
"Fart, how could I owe him money? Didn't you see how excited Shen Guoming was just now? Think about it with your brain, what could be the reason why Shen Guoming is so excited?"
Facing Liu Shengli’s guidance, Ma Weiping also became thoughtful:
"If the hospital has made any major achievements or made any major breakthroughs in medicine, then he should be excited sitting in the dean's office, but he was excited in front of the warehouse at the truck train station. Obviously, this warehouse contains what he values most. Something..."
"Food!"
Liu Shengli and Ma Weiping suddenly guessed it in unison.
"Don't mention it, it really might be food. I've heard that starting from next month, the food department will no longer sell food to major units, and let the employees of major units solve the problem of eating in the units themselves. The hospital cafeteria should also be closed, right?”
"Yes, I have also heard about this, so Shen Guoming should be looking sad now. How can he be excited? Look at his appearance just now, he is clearly about to jump with joy. This old guy must have got food. ”
When Liu Shengli said this, he looked at Ma Weiping, and the two said in unison again:
"Fuck him!"
Liu Shengli also became excited at this time:
"I won't leave today. I will keep an eye on the warehouse of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. If there is food, they will definitely not dare to store it at the train station. They will definitely find a way to transport it away. There are many people and eye-catchers during the day, so they don't dare. Waiting for the dark light at night is the worst way to do it. Good transfer opportunity.”
Ma Weiping was also gearing up: "Hey, if we don't have food, it's bad for us, and if there is food, it's bad for Shen Guoming!"
The two of them were talking and laughing as they walked towards the exclusive warehouse of their unit
On the other side, Dean Shen didn't know that he was already being remembered. The world is so strange. Dean Shen was afraid that others would leak the secret, but in the end, he himself became the breakthrough point for the leak.
As the city's largest freight station, Fengtai Railway Station has specially built a large number of warehouse areas, which are rented by major units in the capital to facilitate the storage and transfer of materials.
The warehouse of the Digital Hospital is right next door to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
Liu Shengli and Ma Weiping led people to the front and back of their warehouse. Several young men in military uniforms quickly guarded the surroundings, appearing very cautious.
Several other military uniforms were waiting in the warehouse early. When Liu Shengli and Ma Weiping walked into the warehouse, they stood up and saluted.
"Hello, Chief!"
Liu Shengli returned the gift and then asked eagerly: "How is it? How much food has the superior allocated to us this time?"
"Report, this time we received a total of 20 tons of grain, including sweet potatoes, cobs, potatoes, sorghum rice, and millet noodles. Oh, the superiors also specially allocated 1 ton of soybeans for our hospital."
There are many malnutrition diseases such as hunger and edema.
In the absence of high-quality animal protein, soybeans became the only food for the human body to obtain protein. So for a while, soybeans became a scarce nutritional product and a strategic material that could not be seen in the market.
Patients with edema can purchase a small amount of soybean supplements with a doctor's prescription.
However, ordinary people have no way to make soybeans into tofu, but fry them and eat them. As a result, the plant protein is absorbed very little, and it just plays the role of filling the stomach.
Liu Shengli frowned when he heard this: "It's only 20 tons, and it's still coarse grains? How can this be enough? It's stuffed between your teeth?"
The digital hospital is different from the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine does not have an inpatient department. Food only needs to be taken into account for the employees.
As a special hospital, digital hospitals have developed both traditional Chinese and Western medicine (mainly Western medicine), and have opened inpatient departments with many inpatients.
The key is that most of the inpatients here are in military uniforms, so the hospital needs to make every effort to ensure that the inpatients have three meals a day. It is better for the employees to go without food than to let the patients go hungry.
The consequence of this is that digital hospitals are like a gold-eating beast, requiring a lot of food. But one thing is that digital hospitals are better than traditional Chinese medicine hospitals. Traditional Chinese medicine hospitals are private systems and have to provide food themselves. If the hospital cannot do anything, let the employees find a way.
Due to the special nature of digital hospitals, food is allocated by superior departments, which is the biggest benefit in normal times.
But if the skin is gone, how will the hair be attached? Now there is a food supply problem across the country, and it is inevitable for the entire army to avoid it. Therefore, the food allocated by superiors is getting worse every year, and less and less every month.
Ma Weiping checked the quality of the grain and came back shaking his head:
"Old Liu, no, this batch of food is all coarse grains. If the coarse grains are not enough to withstand hunger, I'm afraid I won't be able to last for a few days."
Liu Shengli also had a headache, but his military principles remained:
"Forget it, bring all the food to the canteen of the inpatient department. Prioritize the food of the patients. As for the staff, they can only go through hardships and close the staff canteen..."
Ma Weiping thought for a while and suggested:
"How about we try food substitutes such as chlorella, wheat straw steamed buns, artificial meat, and leaf protein?"
The production process of chlorella is relatively simple. First, mix the algae seeds with urine, put it in a water tank or pool, and expose it to the sun. After the sun has dried to a certain extent, the algae are filtered out from the urine for disinfection, and then It's ready to eat.
There are many ways to eat this thing, some are made into a nest with whole grains, some are directly made into porridge, and some even use it as stuffing for steamed buns.
In some places, chlorella is used to trial-produce cakes, breads, candies, dishes, algae porridge, algae sauce and other foods, and the taste is naturally fragrant and delicious.
Some places use chlorella powder to feed babies, and the effect is as good as milk powder.
Ahem, that's what it said in the newspaper.
Wheat straw steamed buns are easy to understand, which refers to the use of wheat straw, rape straw, chaff, bean straw, bean husk, corn root, corn stalk, corn husk, corn cob, sorghum stalk, etc. to make starch.
Guangqi Hechi once conducted an experiment. One hundred kilograms of wheat straw can be made into sixty or seventy kilograms of wet starch. This starch is mixed with some flour and rice noodles to make steamed buns, flower rolls, pancakes and noodles with the same quality as those made from flour. Same.
As for how one hundred pounds of wheat straw can be made into sixty or seventy pounds of wet starch? Don’t understand? That's what it said in the newspaper anyway.
Among various crops, corn plays a particularly prominent role in manufacturing food substitutes. Not only the corn husks taken off from the corn kernels are excellent food substitutes, but also the corn leaves, stalks, roots, and even the outer layer of corn cobs, as well as The cores can be used to make food substitutes.
(The father and son Lin Musen and Lin Sanqi were still ignorant. They thought that corn cobs would be ground into grain and would be struck by lightning, but they did not expect that even corn stalks and leaves could be used)
In addition, the south is better than the north or the Central Plains. You can eat sweet potato stems and leaves, cassava roots, and plantain taro roots as food substitutes.
For example, sweet potato leaves can be picked, washed and dried, and can be used as vegetables or mixed with rice; the tips and petioles of potato leaves can be blanched in boiling water and salted for a day before they can be made into dried vegetables.
Cassava, which is widely cultivated in the South and is "low-labor and low-cost", is used to make food from its roots and leaves. It is believed that cassava contains a lot of starch and sugar and tastes sweet.
It can be eaten alone or mixed with rice, and can also be used to make delicious steamed buns, steamed buns, snacks, jelly, etc.
Anyway, in order to get a bite to eat, all kinds of martial arts were used.
This is also the reason why Dean Shen pays special attention to Lin Sanqi. When such a little food expert appears in the lean years, he will be provided as a treasure no matter which unit he works in.
When Liu Shengli heard that the hospital was asked to prepare food substitutes, he also sighed:
"Lao Ma, you are also a doctor. You can't really believe what the newspaper said. These food substitutes are rich in nutrients and taste delicious, right? These food substitutes may cause more troubles. The simplest one is that you can't even poop. , do you believe it?”
At this time, a young man in military uniform came over and saluted and said:
"Reporting to the chief, we have been sticking to the warehouse and haven't even had breakfast or lunch. Can we get some sweet potatoes to satisfy our hunger?"
Liu Shengli refused without even thinking:
"No, these sweet potatoes are for the patients. If we eat one more bite, the patient will eat less. Maybe it is this missing bite that causes the patient to miss a breath and not be saved. Every grain of food is precious now. , I understand everyone’s difficulties, but please overcome them.”
The young man in uniform did not complain. He saluted and then stepped back. Then several young people swallowed their saliva as they looked at the tons of food in front of them.
In fact, Liu Shengli's heart was bleeding when he refused. Thinking of this, he became determined to deceive people.
"You guys, hurry up and find some ladders. I'm going to be a bandit today. Give me your best to observe every move in the warehouse of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital opposite."
The warehouse was built with windows at the top, about two or three stories above the ground, and one had to climb a ladder to see outside.
The Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital didn't know that its warehouse was being targeted, so that night, the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital drove 10 large trucks over to prepare to transport the food overnight.
Liu Shengli waited for a long time and finally waited for the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital to take action, so he suddenly became excited:
"Everyone's attention, the target has appeared. Shen Guoming, this stupid landlord, has really hidden so much food. Everyone is ready to grab it!!!" (End of Chapter)