Chapter 063 Garlic Lobster
After leaving the western-style building, the group walked to the left.
It is said that the left side is also the workshop production area, and several warehouses are also here.
Compared to the ocean-view buildings, the buildings here are rather inferior. It is hard to tell without going inside, but from the outside the walls are covered with a layer of dust, and in some places the outer skin has even fallen off, revealing the steel bars and concrete inside.
At this moment, someone said, "The bullet marks are still there after so many years! I originally thought that the ivy covered it, but now that I have cleared the ivy, I can see the bullet marks. Why didn't they use cement to fill it?"
"What's there to make up for? We just need to leave the bullet marks there. This is called knowing shame and then being brave. We should always remember that if we fall behind we will be beaten!" said the person walking in the front. She seemed to be a deputy director of a chemical plant.
Wen Jiajia was immediately in awe. Looking at the "scars" on the wall, she no longer felt that it was shabby. Instead, she felt that it had a sense of history.
When we went inside, we found that it was too big.
All walls except the load-bearing walls were demolished to form a large, spacious room.
Some office supplies have been brought in, and Wen Jiajia saw quite a few tables and cabinets here.
Lin Yunfei whispered to her, "You know, this is the main production area. The production equipment will be delivered tomorrow. It is said that it will take up two train cars, and this is only part of it!"
Wen Jiajia was surprised: "Is there anyone who can help install it?"
"Is that so? We can't even screw a screw. Without the workers to install it, this equipment will just be a lump of metal taking up space." Lin Yunfei sighed.
Wen Jiajia nodded, what Lin Yunfei said was not an exaggeration.
Most people can’t even turn a screw!
The industrial system was established in 1958. We learned from the Soviet Union and even learned how to screw in screws from them.
During the honeymoon period between the two countries in the 1950s, the Soviet Union came to teach our workers how to read drawings and how to install parts according to drawings. They even taught them how to tighten screws, down to the level of how many turns to tighten.
When the Soviets taught to twist three circles, everyone learned to twist three circles. When the Soviets taught to twist three circles and return half a circle, everyone also followed suit and twisted three circles and returned half a circle.
So how do you tighten a screw? Many people don't dare to try it. Even experienced masters don't know how many turns to tighten the screw or whether to return it half a turn.
After looking at the factory area on the left side of the building, I went to look at the right side.
The right side is basically the logistics area, where the canteen, warehouse and other places are located.
Looking at the whole place, how should I put it... the area is indeed small enough, not even one-tenth the size of a pharmaceutical factory.
After watching, the group left again.
After returning to the pharmaceutical factory, Director Xue showed her the purchase report of the medical glass factory: "I got this from my friend. After reading it, you will know what the medical glass factory will mainly produce in the future. I hope it will be of some help to you."
Wen Jiajia took it and went back to the office to open it.
Needless to say, the glass melting furnace is one of the main equipment. Without it, the new factory cannot be opened.
She looked down and actually saw an oxygen concentrator production line. This was the first oxygen concentrator production line in the province. Wen Jiajia vaguely remembered that the oxygen concentrator in the military hospital was produced in the next province next door.
Since they are already producing oxygen generators, there is no guarantee that they will also produce liquefied petroleum gas cylinders, propylene tanks and other things in the future.
After all, the medical glass factory does not only produce medical glass, but also prepares to produce civil glass at the same time. Anyway, it is just a matter of convenience, who would complain about throwing away too much money?
It's just like a military factory making air conditioners and refrigerators, just make as much money as you can.
Of course, today's military factories still have a Big Brother vibe to them. This kind of thing would only happen in the 1980s and 1990s.
Looking further down, injection ampoules are also produced. The production process introduced is one tank furnace for melting materials and four tube drawing machines. You should know that the neighboring province is still using 24-head ampoule automatic machines and straight-line wire drawing machines. This is two or three steps ahead of them.
Wen Jiajia read it three times, which was enough to show how much expectations Linhe City had for this newly built medical glass factory.
"Comrade Wen, did you go to the new factory with Director Xue just now?" Li Haijun asked.
He was just in the purchasing department and missed this matter.
Wen Jiajia nodded: "I went there at half past nine."
What I mean is that you asked the question too late, it's almost half past eleven now.
"How is the new factory?" Li Haijun asked. He felt a little regretful. If he had known earlier, he would not have left.
Wen Jiajia: "The ocean-view building is pretty good. The rest of the place... is about the same as the west side of our pharmaceutical factory."
The west side of the pharmaceutical factory is the old factory area. The pharmaceutical factory was not so big at the beginning, but expanded gradually, so the west area is much more dilapidated than the newly built areas.
Li Haijun frowned: "It seems like we will suffer if we go there."
“…”
Wen Jiajia thinks she is a good talker, but she is always easily choked by words whenever she meets Li Haijun.
Everybody is so excited about the opening of the new factory. Isn't it a bit too disappointing that you suddenly said this?
But what they said was not wrong. Anyway, after Wen Jiajia visited the cafeteria, she wondered whether she should bring her own lunch in the future, because the cafeteria was so simple that even the floor was made of dirt, not cement like in a pharmaceutical factory.
Wen Jiajia avoided the topic and asked him, "Have you decided to go too?"
Li Haijun nodded: "I'll apply for it."
Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "That's great. We have worked together for more than a year. It will be easier for us to work together in the future."
Li Haijun pushed up his glasses and said, "If you have any problems in the future, just come to me directly."
Wen Jiajia covered her head and lowered her head to read the purchase order again.
evening.
When they got home, Wei Dai had already washed the crayfish. Looking at the basin full of crayfish, Wen Jiajia asked, "When did you come back? You even had to pull the shrimp thread off."
Wei Dai: "I was half an hour ahead of you, but I still haven't finished pulling all the lobsters. There's still half a bucket of lobsters in the bucket."
Wen Jiajia came over to take a look and was delighted: "So many! It looks like we can still eat some tomorrow."
She put down her backpack, rolled up her sleeves and carried the pot of processed lobster to the kitchen: "I'll start frying now."
I can’t make spicy food, I can only make garlic food.
Five-spice or thirteen-spice flavors would be fine, but today's spices are so expensive and difficult to match, so it would be better to have garlic flavored ones. Besides, she thinks crayfish with garlic flavor tastes better.
Wen Jiajia picked up two garlic cloves from the corner of the kitchen, broke off the cloves, smashed them with a knife, and then chopped them into minced garlic.
Lobster alone is not enough, it also needs side dishes. After thinking about it, I decided to use cucumber and cauliflower as side dishes.
Decades later, crayfish in restaurants large and small were mostly served with these two side dishes, which shows that these ingredients go well together.
This is the season when the two kinds of green vegetables are ripe. Cucumbers are readily available at home, while cauliflowers have to be picked from the vegetable fields.
Wei Dai shook off the water droplets on his hands and said, "I'll go. I'll pick whatever vegetables you need to eat tomorrow."
Wen Jiajia: "Pick two tomatoes! Oh, and watermelons, pick two more watermelons. I always feel that the weather is gloomy. If there is a heavy rain, I am afraid that the ripe watermelons will explode in the rain."
Wei Dai: "Not really. It's not that easy to explode."
"Hey, just go if I tell you to!"
There were not many watermelon seedlings planted in the vegetable garden. Wen Jiajia took care of them like she was taking care of her ancestors and grew a little over ten watermelons. Even with such a small number of watermelons, she still had to guard against people stealing them.
Fortunately, Wen Jiajia asked Xiaopang to help watch over the vegetables, as Xiaopang's window faced her vegetable garden. The two sisters even donated their basketballs and lent them to Xiaopang's children who lived in the family building.
She had worked so hard for so long and had managed to avoid being robbed. She would be furious if it got damaged by rain.
After Wei Dai left, Wen Jiajia started to make a fire.
Water was boiling in the pot, and Wen Jiajia was kneading the dough at the same time.
How can you eat lobster with rice? It doesn't go well together. Of course it should be eaten with noodles.
It’s best to have it with instant noodles.
It doesn’t matter if there are no instant noodles. Freshly made ramen is also good. In Wen Jiajia’s opinion, it is better than rice anyway.
The four people in the family all love noodles. Wen Jiajia scooped three cans of flour, paused, and then scooped another can.
After kneading the dough, he pulled it into pieces. After pulling it into pieces, Wei Dai came back with four melons on his back.
"Why did you pick so many?" Wen Jiajia asked hurriedly, sticking her head out of the window.
Wei Dai: "I feel these four are cooked after tapping them. Do you want to open one and eat it?"
Wen Jiajia was speechless: "Why are you eating melon when you're about to eat? How can you eat your meal after eating melon?"
Of course it's okay to eat just one slice, but watermelon... when you cut it open, the flesh is so bright red and tempting, how can you bear to eat just one slice?
"Put it in the water tank first, and eat the watermelon after dinner." Wen Jiajia said, "It doesn't matter if you can't finish it. Share half with Teacher Shen's family. Put the rest on the floor in the bedroom. Don't leave it outside. Chun'er and Xuanxuan will cut them and eat them themselves!"
Wen Jiajia frowned when she heard this, "Why haven't they come back yet?"
Wei Dai walked towards the room holding the melon and said, "I'm playing skipping rope with someone in the family building."
Wen Jiajia felt relieved when she heard this.
After making the noodles, start stir-frying the lobster.
She fried the garlic first, putting half of the garlic into the oil pan. When the garlic turned golden brown, she poured the lobster in. Wen Jiajia quickly stir-fried it with a spatula.
When it’s almost done, add the remaining half of the minced garlic, add the seasoning, and then pour boiling water into the pot to cook.
It would be better to put beer in it, but there was no beer at home, which made Wen Jiajia feel very regretful.
She said, "I'll go to the department store tomorrow to see if they have any beer. This dish should be eaten with beer."
"If you want to buy bottled beer, you need a specially approved liquor ticket. But if you want to buy individually, you don't need that. If you want to buy individually, you have to go to the state-owned hotel to buy it." Wei Dai said.
Wen Jiajia was puzzled: "Huh? State-owned hotel? I didn't see any state-owned hotel selling beer in front of the pharmaceutical factory."
Wei Dai smiled, came to the kitchen and leaned against the counter: "That's the state-owned restaurant outside the factory. In order to prevent your factory employees from drinking alcohol on a regular basis, they are not allowed to sell beer."
Wen Jiajia was curious: "If I buy beer in bulk, do I need to bring a bottle with me?"
"Yes, you have to bring it. Most people bring a thermos, but an enamel basin is also fine."
Wen Jiajia said, "We have a kettle at home. I can just bring it with me tomorrow."
She looked at the crayfish bubbling in the pot and smacked her lips twice.
It’s too early to cook it. You should cook it tomorrow after you get the wine.
Bring the water to a boil. After it has cooked for a while, add the chopped cucumber and cauliflower into the pot and cook.
The soup in the pot has turned a little yellow, and the aroma of minced garlic is particularly prominent. Combined with the crayfish, it forms a wonderful taste that is both fragrant and fresh.
Water mist floated in the kitchen. Occasionally a gust of wind blew it away, but it was quickly replenished by new water mist.
The fragrance is hidden in the mist, and as the wind blows away, the fragrance is taken away too.
"Jia Jia, what delicious food are you making?" someone outside the house shouted, "I can smell it from far away."
It's strange, this one has never smelled it, and he is very domineering.
Wen Jiajia laughed: "Cook the shrimps from the lake! The red ones. Sister-in-law, put plenty of minced garlic in them. I guarantee it will taste good."
"Just use garlic?" The woman at the door stopped.
Wen Jiajia: "Of course you have to add other seasonings. If you want to make it, I'll write you the method."
"Hey, how can this be so embarrassing..."
"It's okay, it's okay. This method is not expensive. You can figure it out by just thinking about it."
That is, after giving it away, it will most likely make it difficult to catch the crayfish in the lake.
The two kids really know how to keep track of time. When the crayfish are almost ready, they come back covered in sweat.
Wen Jiajia looked at Wen Chun for a while, then turned to ask Wei Dai, "At what age can a child be sent to primary school? Chun'er is already five years old, which means she is six years old. Can she go to school?"
Don't go out and play all day.
Wei Dai looked as if he was asking, "Who's crazy?" and said, "She's only five years old!"
"Yeah! A five-year-old can sit still."
A few decades later, five-year-old children are in the senior kindergarten and can even do simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This shows that five is an age when children can learn.
Wei Dai hurriedly pulled her to sit down: "Let her play more. Learning is a lifelong thing. She will have a lot to learn in the future. It's just that she can relax in the few years before school."
Wen Chun also acted coquettishly: "I don't want to go to elementary school."
"Why?" Wen Jiajia didn't understand. Don't children all want to be like the older kids?
When she was little, she always wanted to go to primary school.
Wen Chun frowned and said, "When you go to primary school, the teacher will easily call your parents. You can't even go to the bathroom whenever you want."
"...Okay." This was such a strong reason that she suddenly worried whether she would be called on by the teacher often in the future. After all, it was unlikely that these two children would be able to sit still.
Wait, how are the internet celebrity kids in short videos raised? Parents have to simulate a classroom environment for their children first, right?
Wen Jiajia fell into deep thought.
"What are you thinking about? Let's eat noodles." Wei Dai said. When a large pot of lobsters was served on the table, the noodles were also cooked.
The noodles are cooked in a big stove. When they are taken out of the water and soaked in the lobster soup, the plain noodles instantly become appetizing.
"Wow!" Wen Chun and Wen Xuan exclaimed in unison, put their hands on the table, and put their heads close to the lobster.
"Sit down." Wei Dai picked up one in each hand, "Do you want to eat noodles or shrimp first?"
Wen Xuan smiled and said, "Uncle-in-law, I want to eat them all. I want to eat them together!"
"Where's Chun'er?"
"Me too!"
Wei Dai gave them both half a bowl of noodles, saying, "You can get more if you're not full."
Wen Jiajia started eating. She grabbed a lobster with a big pair of pliers and separated the head from the body of the lobster. She then sucked the head of the lobster and peeled off the shell after that.
The shrimp shell is also peeled quickly. Grab the tail with the right hand and open the shell with the left hand, and the lobster meat finally appears.
This was not enough, Wen Jiajia pinched the tail of the lobster and put it into the soup to swirl around before putting it in her mouth.
"Mmm - so fresh!" she exclaimed. The lobsters grown in the lake are so fresh, the meat is very tender, and after chewing it carefully, you can actually taste the slightest bit of sweetness.
The garlic sauce is also well seasoned, fragrant but not spicy, and cooked until soft. When the lobster meat is swirled in the soup, the garlic will adhere to the meat. The noodles are even more so, the noodles are more juicy than the meat. At this moment, slurping a mouthful of noodles and then picking up a piece of soft-cooked cucumber, the taste is really delicious, so beautiful that Wen Jiajia's legs under the table can't help shaking.
As someone who has eaten many kinds of lobsters many times, she feels the same way, so there is no need to say more about Wen Chun and Wen Xuan.
Wen Xuan picked up her chopsticks and vowed, "My favorite food from now on will be lobster."
She even tilted her head and told Wen Chun: "Sister, if the teacher asks me what my favorite food is in the future, you must remind me that it is lobster!"
Her cheeks were puffy and her face looked serious.
Wen Jiajia chuckled: "Why do you need your sister to remind you?"
"Because I'm too sentimental." Wen Xuan slurped another mouthful of noodles and sighed, "I always fall in love with everyone I meet, and it's easy for me to forget who I love the most."
Just like when she was eating braised pork in red sauce, she thought she loved braised pork in red sauce the most. Then it became pickled fish, then pork with preserved vegetables, then fish head with chopped pepper, and then fried chicken…
Now crayfish has become number one in her heart. She loves it so much and will never forget it.
Wen Jiajia laughed so hard that even Wei Dai couldn't help but cover his mouth to hold back his laughter.
This dinner was a bit messy. Everyone's hands were dirty after eating, and the table was full of lobster shells.
Wen Jiajia was very full. She sat paralyzed on a chair with her big belly and said to Wei Dai, "You wash the dishes today."
Wei Dai rubbed his stomach: "Wait a moment."
Neither of them had any desire to eat watermelon.
night.
It was drizzling outside the house. The rain came at the right time, as many crops in the fields needed irrigation from the rain.
The same goes for the vegetable garden. If it doesn't rain, she will have to water the vegetables after she gets home from get off work tomorrow.
Judging from the sound of rain, it shouldn't be heavy.
Wen Jiajia woke up in a daze and heard Wei Dai closing the window.
"Is the rain blowing in?" He was half asleep and spoke in a gibberish.
Wei Dai patted her across the quilt and said, "Go to sleep."
The rain did come in, not heavy but the wind was strong.
The next day.
Wen Jiajia brought two water bottles to work.
She would go to the scrap yard to buy scrap iron from time to time, and most of the time she could craft a kettle out of it.
Wen Jiajia also discovered that if you buy discarded water bottles, you can synthesize them into water bottles that are currently available on the market.
This made her go to scrapyards to look for discarded water bottles, but these things were very durable and it was more difficult to find them than to find discarded bicycles. She went to three scrapyards before finding two, so she only combined two water bottles that were available on the market.
She sold one of the two water bottles to Sha Yue and kept the other for herself. This meant that she now had two water bottles, which was quite luxurious.
You have to go get some wine at noon. After lunch, Wen Jiajia rode her bike to a state-owned hotel on another street.
Master He said that the beer in this hotel is good. What's good about it? Fortunately, the beer barrels are usually covered with lids.
What does it mean? It means that the beer barrels in other hotels are open.
The dusty wind blew, the spit flew, the water splashed...Oh my God, the beer was as dirty as it could be.
When Wen Jiajia heard this, she didn't care that it took half an hour to ride a bike to get to the hotel, and she still had to make sure the things at the entrance were clean.
As expected, Master He did not lie to her. The beer in this hotel had a wooden lid on it, and after the lid was opened, there was a layer of oil paper underneath.
"Two servings?" the waiter asked. "One liter each. Are you sure you want two?"
Wen Jiajia smiled, unscrewed the lid and handed the kettle over: "Excuse me, comrade, I want two servings. Please help me fill two kettles. Both kettles are one liter."
"Eight cents a liter." The waiter took the jug and filled it with wine. As he filled it, he said, "You came at the right time. There are only about four or five liters of wine left today."
Wen Jiajia was surprised: "The barrel is so big, and there are only four or five liters left?"
The waiter raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course not. Beer sells well when the weather is hot. Our hotel's beer is the best-selling among the nearby hotels. It's just that it's not that hot today, otherwise you wouldn't be able to buy it now."
Wen Jiajia took the jug filled with wine and asked, "Is this wine only available in summer?"
"Yes. Wine has to be brewed from grain, and it can only be sold a few months a year."
As he spoke, the second kettle was filled.
At this time, a guest came over: "Xiaoying, give me a glass of wine!"
This person brought a canning cup, yes, the cup left over from eating canned food.
Wen Jiajia looked at the other people at the table again, and found that some were drinking from canned cups.
At this moment, a table of people had finished eating and drinking, screwed the can lids tightly, and left with the cans.
Wen Jiajia couldn't help but sigh that there is nothing useless in this era.
Beer is quite tempting, especially for someone like her who hasn't had beer for almost two years.
Wen Jiajia secretly took a sip, her face wrinkled, she said "ah" silently, and quickly screwed the lid back on.
Not to mention, it's quite fragrant and not bitter at all. It tastes quite good, much better than most cheap beers made a few decades later.
She didn't dare drink too much, because she was at work, and the factory prohibited drinking during working hours, including lunch time. If she was caught, it would not be a matter of fine, but a matter of record.
In the evening, after returning home, Wen Jiajia went to deal with the remaining crayfish first.
There are quite a lot of lobsters in the bucket, and it looks like they can be cooked in two batches.
But the crayfish was getting thinner and thinner, and she didn't want to ride half an hour to buy wine tomorrow at noon, so she did it today.
Wen Jiajia processed the crayfish as fast as she ate it.
Brush the crayfish with a discarded toothbrush, pull the shrimp thread, and then use scissors to cut the head part of the crayfish, leaving only the roe. This is how you process a crayfish.
After half an hour of washing, scrubbing, pulling and cutting, half a bucket of lobsters was cleaned.
The cucumbers and cauliflowers I picked yesterday are still there, so there’s no need to go to the vegetable garden again. Another half hour later, two large pots of lobsters came out of the pot, and the aroma was even stronger than yesterday!
Wen Jiajia divided one of the pots into several portions and sent one portion to each of the neighboring households.
"This is really... How did you make this thing, it's so fragrant." Sister Bao swallowed her saliva, unwilling to refuse, so she went into the house and got four scallion stoves for Wen Jiajia.
Sister Bao stuffed it into her hand and said, "I made this for lunch. It's a snack from my hometown. We don't have it here. How about you take a few back and try them?"
"Okay! I'm just short of staple food." Wen Jiajia was not polite. There was not enough flour at home, so she didn't make noodles to eat. These strangely shaped pastries came just right.
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