After lunch, Lin Yiyi asked Lin Dajun to bring a bucket of well water, then wrapped the remaining meat tightly and put it in the well water, and then took the five brothers of the Lin family out to find food. She didn't want to go out, but if she didn't go out, the brothers of the Lin family would definitely not go out, and then they would stay at home and watch the betrothal gifts and food decrease day by day. Of course, she was going to get married in 15 days anyway, but she couldn't guarantee that these ungrateful people would come to the Xiao family to find her if they ran out of food, so now, she still took them to find food.

Lin Dajun and Lin Sanjun carried empty backpacks, Lin Erjun carried a backpack with Lin Wudi in it, Lin Yiyi and Lin Sijun were empty-handed. One of them was a patient and the other was the youngest besides Lin Wudi, so this arrangement was reasonable.

Lin Erjun: "Sister, there is nothing to eat in the nearby mountains. The food has been dug up long ago."

Lin Yiyi knew that when the Lin family's parents were still alive, they often took them to look for food, so the Lin family brothers were familiar with going up the mountain to look for food. But after their parents passed away, they stopped looking for food and ate up the remaining food, so Daya went to sell blood.

Some villagers saw Lin Yiyi and her brothers going out with a backpack on their backs, so they asked, "Daya, where are you going?"

"Daya, are you feeling better? Was it your fiancé who carried you here yesterday?"

"Daya, what does your fiancé do? He looks tall and strong."

Because Lin Yiyi was unconscious at the time, and the only doctor in the village also confirmed that Lin Yiyi fainted due to poor health, the villagers did not say anything about her relationship with a man or a woman, nor did they spread any unpleasant words.

Lin Yiyi said, "I feel better today, thanks to Dr. Lin's medicine. I recovered so quickly. I should have thanked Dr. Lin, but at this time, my family can't afford anything to thank me. I will thank Dr. Lin next year when things get better."

"Oh, you are so sensible."

"Daya has always been very sensible. It's a pity for her parents..."

Lin Yiyi said, "My dear ladies, I'm going to take my brothers to find something to eat, so I won't bother you any more."

"I have to go find something to eat. It's so hard to just stay at home."

"Yes, if this continues, what will we do?"

In fact, in the Shanglin Production Brigade, only the Lin family's parents died of hunger, and other families had not encountered such a situation. The main reason was that the Lin family's parents were the only two laborers and had many children, so they had no food reserves. Even if they had a little food reserves, they were reluctant to eat it, so this happened. Other families, on the other hand, had more or less food reserves.

Before the famine, everyone would have envied Lin Niang for giving birth to so many sons. Now they are so lucky.

There was nothing to eat in the nearby mountains, not even wild vegetables, so they had to walk a bit. Lin Yiyi and the younger brother of the Lin family had been walking for almost an hour. Except for the fifth brother Lin who fell asleep in the backpack, everyone was a little tired. Fortunately, they had a full lunch and were not exhausted.

Lin Yiyi said: "We will look around, but everyone should be careful, especially beware of snakes." What is the scariest thing in summer? What else but snakes?

Lin Dajun: "Sister, we know, we will pick up a stick to lead the way."

Lin Yiyi: “Yeah.”

They did not go deep into the mountains, but searched at the foot of the mountains. If they ran into hungry wild boars or wolves in the deep mountains, they would be doomed. So they searched along the foot of the mountains, mainly looking for wild vegetables and fruits.

Lin Yiyi didn't dare to walk in the front, but she didn't want to walk in the back, so she walked in the middle. Lin Dajun led the way, followed by Lin Erjun. They poked around with sticks, but didn't find anything along the way.

Lin Yiyi saw a stream over there and said, "Let's go to the stream and see if there are fungus or mushrooms there." She didn't know if there were any, but wasn't that what was written in the book? Maybe there really were.

Lin Dajun: "Of course not. How can there be wood ear mushrooms in such hot weather? They can only be found in humid weather."

Lin Yiyi: "Maybe there are fish, let's go and have a look. Even if not, let's just wash our feet and cool them down."

After searching for so long, everyone was really hot, and it would be nice to wash in the stream water. However, Lin Erjun said, "The water now stinks, there is little rain, the well water is almost gone, and the farmland in the field is not very good." Although Lin Erjun said this, everyone still walked over.

Lin Yiyi has never been to the countryside. Her grandparents are all from the city. She was born in the 1990s and really doesn't know much about the countryside. Even if she has been to the countryside, it was when she was traveling or staying at a farm, so she doesn't have a deep understanding of it. Now, her understanding of this era comes from various novels. Even if she doesn't understand it in detail, she has a general impression.

When we got to the stream, we found that the water level had dropped quite a bit and there was indeed a foul smell, a bit like the smell of a sewer.

Lin Dajun said: "The water here is too shallow, so it gets smelly quickly. If it were deeper, it would be better."

Lin Yiyi covered her nose.

Lin Erjun: "Forget about the fish. Even if there is fish, it stinks."

Lin Yiyi: "Wait...something is moving."

Lin Dajun: "It's a big shrimp. It hurts when it bites." When they were naughty, they caught it and thought they could eat it, but they were pinched by its claws and cried so hard. And since it was in such stinky water, everyone was worried that it was not clean, so they didn't eat it. They would rather chew tree bark than eat this.

Lin Yiyi looked at it carefully again, and then her eyes lit up: "It's lobster." Lin Yiyi knew some of the history of lobster. When she first ate lobster, there was a brochure about lobster in the lobster restaurant. She read it while waiting for the lobster to be served. Lobster was introduced to my country during the Anti-Japanese War, and then it was bred several times, so the number is very wide. However, some rumors about lobsters on the market are false. Lobsters do not like to live in places such as stinky ditches, but lobsters have strong survival ability and can survive in places like stinky ditches. In other words, when the water was still clean, the lobsters were there.

At that time, lobsters were unknown in many places, whether in the countryside or in the county town. In addition, lobsters tasted a bit fishy and were very tough, so no one thought of eating them, just like people at that time did not like to eat crabs.

However, Lin Yiyi knew that lobster meat was very firm.

Looking at the upper reaches of the stream, the water level may have dropped, so the water from the upper reaches cannot come down, and these lobsters must have come down from above, so... there must be more lobsters above.

"Big Army...Second Army, can you make a fishing rod?"

Lin Dajun: "...There is a fishing rod at home. Sister, have you forgotten it? When Dad was alive, he made a fishing rod for us to catch fish for us to eat. We used to go fishing with Dad." The fish in the rivers and lakes are not the property of the brigade. Although they belong to the state, it is allowed to catch them for your own consumption and to be sold by everyone, as long as you are careful. The prohibition of speculation and profiteering was clearly started in 1963. Because the free market was opened in 1962, there were many problems of speculation and profiteering. Therefore, in 1963, the state promulgated a separate law to list the categories of speculation and profiteering, and clearly defined speculation and profiteering as illegal activities.

After Lin Dajun's words, Lin Yiyi also remembered that when there was no meat at home, Father Lin would take his son fishing. Some of the fish were eaten, and some were sold on the black market.

Lin Yiyi said: "First Army and Second Army, go home and get your fishing rods, we're going to fish this. Third Army and Fourth Army, go dig for earthworms."

Lin Dajun: "Sister, this is really inedible."

Lin Yiyi: "Yes, I can eat it. When I went to sell blood the day before yesterday, I saw a doctor eating it. It smelled so good. If doctors can eat it, why can't we eat it?"

Lin Dajun was a little skeptical: "Is it really possible?"

Lin Yiyi: "If you don't believe us, just don't eat it when we catch it. Now go get the fishing rod."

Lin Dajun: "Okay." He and Lin Erjun ran back home.

Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun also started digging earthworms. Lin Yiyi moved the backpack to a cool place and planned to sit down against the tree, but, eh? She widened her eyes and saw... pheasant eggs in the haystack beside the tree. Lin Yiyi was familiar with eggs. Even if it was 2020, no matter how "noble" a person was, he would definitely know eggs. But eggs appeared in such a place, and the haystack next to it looked a bit like a nest, so it was definitely not a domesticated chicken, so it could only be a pheasant. Lin Yiyi couldn't tell the difference between domesticated eggs and pheasant eggs. She just made a judgment based on what was described in the novel, so she thought it was a pheasant egg.

Seeing the pheasant eggs in this place, Lin Yiyi felt that she was very lucky. However, although Lin Daya in the novel is the heroine, she does not have the luck of the heroine in the novel. This novel or TV series "Long Sister is Like a Mother" is a sad drama.

How come I am so lucky to see a nest of pheasant eggs?

Lin Yiyi said to Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun who were digging earthworms: "Sanjun, Sijun, come here, these are pheasant eggs, right?" It was impossible for her to eat alone. She couldn't secretly run outside to cook. If she cooked at the Lin family, the Lin brothers would definitely find out. Although these brothers were ungrateful, Lin Yiyi couldn't break up with them at this stage. She was about to get married, and her brothers were still young. If she broke up with them, others would only say that she was bad, and her brothers would be children who didn't understand. In this way, she would be the one who was wrong.

Lin Yiyi doesn't want to ruin her reputation, so for now, at least until her brothers grow up, she can't fall out with them. When her brothers can no longer use her ignorance as an excuse, then she can just break off relations with them.

The author has something to say: PS: The descriptions of speculation and profiteering are all referenced from the Internet. If there are any inappropriate parts, please treat it as the 1960s in a parallel universe and don’t take it too seriously!