Chapter 78: Have you eaten? How much pain and suffering are hidden behind the words!
Park Dajian ate with relish. He picked up seven or eight dishes in total, and the chicken alone was cooked in three different ways!
There are so many delicious foods in China, but he has spent too little time in China.

I can only try to take a few more types each time and eat a little more at each meal.

This way you will not miss out on delicious food!
As for the results of the competition, I can only say it depends on fate!
He can’t control that, but he can control how much delicious food he eats every day!
He even wanted to ask his coach to stay in China for training after the Asian Games.

Otherwise, after returning to China, I will only be able to eat terrible Korean food. It’s so sad just thinking about it!

Park Dae-geon devoured the food on the plate like whirlwind, then stood up to get more food.

The other Korean athletes were not to be outdone, and each of them had to go get food at least twice!

[Wardfa? This little kimchi is too good to eat! ]

[Aren't athletes supposed to strictly control their calories? Won't they exceed the calorie limit by eating this way?]

[What? With so many delicious foods in front of you, can you resist? Have you ever quit drugs?]

[I have to admit that Chinese food looks better than our English food.]

[Better? Except for you British people, who wants to eat fish and chips all day long? ]

[I have a question, why are European countries not allowed to participate in the Asian Games? I want to go and eat too! ]

Some athletes who arrived late had already eaten and left, but the athletes from Little Pickle were still eating, and none of them got up and left.

After finishing the main meal, it is time to eat fruit.

The athletes of Little Pickle have a clear goal and go straight for the watermelon!

There is no other fruit in sight!

Everyone had at least seven or eight pieces of watermelon on their plate.

During my time in China, I have eaten enough watermelons.

There is no way, the watermelons in the Korean country are too expensive and I can’t afford them!

In comparison, watermelons in China are really cheap, almost like they are free!
It’s also very delicious, crunchy and sweet.

Sometimes when they want to eat at night, they will go to the entrance of the Asian Games Village to buy two.

Buying a whole watermelon only costs a few dollars?
To buy a melon in Paocai, you can’t do it without 100 Chinese Yuan!
They all envy the Chinese people. Being able to eat watermelon every day, life is really such a happy life!
Park Dae-gun took big bites of the watermelon until he had only bitten off the rind and no trace of red was left on it.

I was still not satisfied after eating it, so I went to get five or six more pieces of watermelon.

Chen Lu selected some special foods and had a delicious meal with the mother and daughter.

The food here tastes really good and there are many varieties, many of which they have never eaten before.

After finishing their meal, the three of them walked out of the cafeteria.

I saw two Chinese athletes greeting each other.

"Have you eaten yet? If not, can we have some together?"

"Hey, I just ate. Did you eat?"

"No, I was just planning to go eat!"

Anna and Sofia were confused when they heard this.

What does have you eaten mean?
The secret code of Chinese athletes?

Anna tugged at the corner of Chen Lu's clothes: "Honey, are they exchanging secret signals?"

"Silly wife, of course it's not a code. Do you think they are agents? They were just saying hello."

"greet?"

Anna was even weirder.

Shouldn't we say hello or good afternoon?

How is that a way of saying hello?
Ask people if they have eaten when you meet them?

Chen Lu pinched her little face.

It's normal that Anna doesn't know.

She was a princess, and had been pampered since childhood. She could eat whatever she wanted and had never had the chance to feel hungry.

But the Chinese people have truly experienced what hunger feels like.

"Because we in China really do have times when we don't have enough to eat..."

From the time when Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms to the present day, the Chinese nation has suffered from famine for a long period of time.

Once a war or natural disaster occurs, it often means famine. Especially in ancient times, the mountains are high and the roads are long, making it difficult to transport relief grain.

You can't starve to death, right?

The people would pull out grass roots, gnaw on tree bark, and eat Guanyin soil.

Everything they could put into their mouths was eaten by them.

But these things cannot fill the stomach at all. On the contrary, eating them is harmful to the body. Many people starve to death every year.

During the Ming Dynasty alone, there were thousands of famines, big and small.

Countless people starved to death, and corpses were everywhere.

People trade their children for food just to find a glimmer of hope for survival in the cracks.

Even in modern times, famine still occurs from time to time.

A famine that once swept across the heartland of the Central Plains took the lives of tens of millions of people!

They don't ask for much, just a meal and a bowl of porridge.

But when famine strikes, even such a simple request becomes a luxury that is difficult to meet.

Therefore, the Chinese people have truly experienced the feeling of not having enough to eat.

This feeling is deeply engraved in their memories and blood.

People eat for food.

Having enough food to eat is always everyone’s most basic pursuit.

This situation lasted for thousands of years until a man appeared.

He is not tall and he is very thin.

He could obviously choose a better life, but he chose to take root in the land, just for his dream of enjoying the shade under the rice plants.

Walking in the mud, clearing the land amid poverty and misunderstanding.

He bowed his head and worked hard, shuttling between the fields and ridges.

Green hopes were planted at the age of thirty, the rice fields were carefully protected for sixty years, and 1.5 billion mu of saline-alkali land harvested golden dreams.

His wish was very small, so small that he just wanted people to have enough food to eat.

His wish was huge, so big that he wanted the people of a country, or even the world, to no longer suffer from hunger!
My lifelong pursuit is just to keep everyone away from hunger.

He is famous all over the world, but he is indifferent to fame and fortune.

A farmer who sticks to his job all his life and serves the people wholeheartedly!
All I wish is for hybrid rice to cover the whole world under the shade of rice plants, that's all.

Three-line indica hybrid rice, two-line hybrid rice, super hybrid rice technology system, three-production and four-yield project...

These nouns are not enough to describe even a fraction of his greatness.

But his image has long been engraved in everyone's heart.

In today's China, no one will go hungry anymore.

But this greeting has been passed down.

Canglin is practical and knows etiquette.

This sentence not only reminds us not to forget that hungry era and who provided us with enough food, but also represents the humility and politeness of the Chinese people.

If you say you haven't eaten, they will definitely invite you home and have a simple meal.

Even if you don't know each other.

This is the enthusiasm of the Chinese people.

Listening to Chen Lu’s story, Anna seemed to see that figure.

The scorching sun shone down between the ridges, illuminating his short, hunched figure.

The old man did not raise his hands to cover them, but lowered his head and quickly planted the seedlings.

While planting, he kept muttering to himself: The sun is shining brightly. With such good weather, the seedlings will surely grow healthily.

Grow up quickly and produce more rice ears, so that everyone will not go hungry.

(End of this chapter)