With the labor being so tough and the food so meagre, as soon as you saw any wheat growing out-side you would discard the husks and swallow it. You would eat anything you could catch, or weeds with some salt added. If you could find peas, then you ate peas. Because of this many people died from internal swelling and distention.
勞改犯勞動重，吃不飽，到外頭看見生麥子，把糠搓掉就吞下去，逮住機會就吃，野菜加鹽巴，收豌豆就吃豌豆，很多人就因此漲死、撐死了。