Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun heard their sister's cry and hurried over.

Lin Sijun: "Pheasant eggs? Did my sister really find pheasant eggs?" Compared to the taciturn Lin Sanjun, the 10-year-old Lin Sijun is more lively. He usually has to take care of Lin Wudi and coax him, so under this influence, his personality is lively. Seeing pheasant eggs is like seeing Tang Monk meat. Lin Sijun didn't even notice that his saliva was left.

Lin Yiyi: "Sanjun, bring the small backpack you carry. Put the pheasant eggs in the backpack along with the haystack. We will have egg soup tonight."

Lin Sanjun: "Yeah." He held the haystack and carefully put the pheasant eggs into the basket. There were 16 pheasant eggs in the nest. Looking at the pheasant eggs, Lin Sanjun unconsciously stuck out his tongue and licked his dry lips.

When Lin Yiyi was reading a period novel, she saw a description of pheasant eggs: Pheasants begin to breed in February and March every year, with the peak breeding period from May to June, and gradually decrease and stop in July and August. Therefore, this nest of pheasant eggs should be the last one laid by this pheasant. Generally speaking, pheasants have 15-20 eggs per nest, and now there are 16, which is also a very considerable number.

Lin Sijun: "Sister, are we having eggs tonight?"

Lin Yiyi nodded: "Yeah." Eggs cannot be kept for long. There are 16 of them. If you eat one a day, it might go bad, so you have to eat two a day, and Lin Yiyi has even thought about how to divide them.

Hearing Lin Yiyi's confirmation, Lin Sijun was even happier.

Lin Yiyi: "Let's go dig for earthworms."

"Why."

Because of the pheasant eggs, Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun looked for earthworms more actively. Before Lin Dajun and Lin Erjun came back, they dug up a lot of earthworms. There was no place to put the earthworms, so Lin Sanjun took off his clothes and wrapped the earthworms with clothes. Lin Yiyi looked at it and felt creepy. But this was just the era, and there was nothing special. The past two years were years of famine. Almost all the brigades did not raise pigs. People ate tree bark, let alone pigs? Not only pigs, but almost no one raises chickens anymore. Some families raise them, but they are afraid that they will be stolen in the middle of the night, so many families kill and dry the chickens, and cut a piece of meat to supplement the body when they really need it. In the past, when the harvest was good, most people raised chickens to eat grass or earthworms, so many children dug earthworms and wrapped them in clothes. Almost no rural people were afraid of earthworms.

Seeing that they had almost finished digging up all the earthworms, Lin Yiyi asked them to take a break. It was not because she felt sorry for them, but because they didn't need so many.

Lin Yiyi: "Third Army, Fourth Army, do you know where there is a bamboo forest?"

Lin Sijun: "There is one between our village and Moon Village. Sister, what are you going to do in the bamboo forest? Digging bamboo shoots?"

Lin Yiyi: “…” That’s what I thought.

Lin Sijun: "Sister, where are the bamboo shoots waiting for you to dig now? They have all been dug up long ago." Although Lin Sijun did not mean anything else, this statement can be analyzed into another meaning. You know that bamboo shoots are edible, and other people know it too.

Lin Yiyi let go of this thought. She viewed the world in the book too simply. In this world, everyone is a living person with flesh and blood, not brainless paper figures.

Around 2 o'clock, Lin Dajun and Lin Erjun came back with three fishing rods and a kitchen knife. The kitchen knife was hidden by Lin's father when they were about to hand over the iron weapons. He hid the kitchen knife on his body, so when the organization came to the Lin family to search for iron weapons, they searched the whole house and took away all the large iron weapons, but not the kitchen knife.

The two brothers ran all the way here, panting and covered in sweat.

As soon as they arrived, Lin Sijun said, "Brothers, come and look, sister found a nest of pheasant eggs, there are 16 of them." Although Lin Sijun had not yet started school, his brothers and sisters were all in school, so he still knew how to count simply.

Upon hearing this, Lin Dajun and Lin Erjun rushed to check. When they saw the pheasant eggs in the small basket, their eyes almost popped out. Lin Erjun: "Did my elder sister find this?"

Lin Yiyi: “Yeah.”

The taciturn Lin Sanjun also nodded rarely.

Lin Sijun: "My elder sister said we should eat eggs in the evening."

Upon hearing this, Lin Dajun and Lin Erjun also showed joy on their faces.

Lin Yiyi: "Let's all go fishing for this giant lobster." It's obviously a lobster, but they still call it a giant lobster. "Give me a fishing rod, and I'll go fishing with the second and third corps. The third and fourth corps will use stones to smash the earthworms into pieces, and then hook them onto the fishing hooks."

"Why."

Lobsters like fishy food. They not only eat earthworms, but they also kill each other. When the three fishing rods were cast, the lobsters were quickly hooked.

Lin Yiyi: "Three Armies and Four Armies, you guys come and get the big shrimps. After getting the big shrimps, hook the earthworms onto the fishing hooks." She just sat there and fished calmly, not wanting to do anything. However, as a good sister, she still reminded, "Be careful when getting the big shrimps, don't get your hands caught by their claws. After getting them, chop off their heads with a kitchen knife and put the remaining meat in a backpack. Then take out the meat from their claws and put them together, and then hook them onto the fishing hooks. They also eat their own meat."

"Why."

After fishing for half an hour, Lin Wudi woke up and saw his brothers fishing. He looked around curiously, walking back and forth between Lin Dajun, Lin Erjun and Lin Yiyi, looking at this and that. But the child couldn't stand loneliness, and seeing that his brothers were busy, he also wanted to join.

Brother Lin Wu walked up to Lin Yiyi and said, "Sister, I want... I want..." As he said that, he reached out to take it.

Lin Yiyi held his little hand: "Little brother, do you want some candy?"

Candy? Lin Wudi thought of the sweet candy he had eaten in the morning, so he forgot about his fishing rod and looked at Lin Yiyi with drool: "Eat candy, eat candy...Sister..."

Lin Yiyi's heart softened when she heard the babyish cry. She took out a candy from her pocket and peeled it: "Here, eat it." She brought the candy with her to prevent Lin Wudi from crying when he woke up.

The other brothers of the Lin family saw this and looked at the fifth brother with envy. They had also eaten candy in the morning, and the sweet taste made them want to eat it too.

Lin Yiyi: "After you go back, each of you will get half a pill as a reward for your hard work this afternoon."

When the Lin brothers heard this, they worked harder. They did not complain that half a pill was too little. Even if the children in the countryside were given one, they would sometimes eat half of it and hide the remaining half to eat later.

Three people went lobster fishing together, from 2 to 5 o'clock, for three hours, and caught about 20 kilograms, mainly because there were many lobsters here, and because no one had ever come here to fish, the sizes were quite big. About 11 or 12 lobsters weighed one kilogram.

Seeing the lobsters with their heads removed, Lin Yiyi was more surprised than seeing the meat. She asked Lin Dajun to carry the lobsters, put a lot of grass under the basket, and then covered it with clothes. Then she put Lin Wudi in the basket. The lobsters were under Lin Wudi's buttocks, and no one would see them when they carried them into the village. Then she didn't throw away the remaining earthworms and lobster heads, but put them in another basket. Lin Yiyi planned to go fishing again tomorrow morning. This is food... It's like life.

On the way back, Lin Yiyi asked, "Do you know where to find ginger?" As for green onions, they were at the base of the Lin family's house. Rows of green onions were planted next to the base when Lin's father was here. It was like this in the countryside. Green onions were not planted in the fields, but were planted along the sides of their houses. They were planted in a few rows against the wall, so they didn't take up much space.

Lin Erjun: "Dr. Lin has ginger at home."

Lin Yiyi understood in her heart.

During the famine period, in order to conserve energy, few people walked around in the village, especially after dinner. It was already six o'clock when Lin Yiyi and the others returned to the village. It was summer, so the sky was not dark, but everyone had eaten dinner, so no one was walking on the road. Some people even skipped dinner, and would not walk around in the village.

As soon as they got back to the Lin family, Lin Yiyi said, "Fourth Army, take Xiaowu to play in the yard. Second Army, go get the scissors, cut the back of the big lobster, and pull out the black line inside. It's dirty and can't be eaten. Third Army, go boil water for both sand pots. Big Army, take this piece of meat to Dr. Lin's house to exchange for some ginger, and then thank the doctor for seeing me yesterday. I'll cook dinner."

The others had no objection to her arrangement, because it was not a strenuous job, but Lin Dajun had some objections: "Sister, we don't even have enough meat to eat, why give it to Doctor Lin?"

Lin Yiyi: "Dajun, you are the head of the family, you have to be sensible and know how to handle the relationship between people. First, my sister was sick yesterday, and it was Doctor Lin who came to see her. Although Brother Xiao Yu paid for the medicine, Doctor Lin also helped us. We gave him a small piece of meat to express our gratitude. In the future, if there is an emergency at home and we are without adults, Doctor Lin is famous in the village, can he take care of us? Second, if we want ginger, we can't ask for it empty-handed, we must exchange it for something, what do you think? Third, you are the head of our family, and you need to go around to interact with people in the village."

Lin Dajun understood all these words. He knew it would benefit his family as well. He also saw that the meat cut by his elder sister was only such a small piece, so he stopped talking.

Lin Yiyi was not idle either. She first went to the corner to pick up a handful of green onions, and then went to make egg custard. She made two bowls of egg custard and put them into the sand pot. She then filled the sand pot with water, which just happened to be used as a pot. The opening of a general sand pot is small, and even a small bowl for eating can't be put in it, but the sand pot of the Lin family is different. The opening on the top was broken. In fact, only two-thirds of the sand pot was broken. The sand pot mouth was gone, and the sand pot became bigger. The broken opening was smoothed by Lin's father with a stone, so it would not hurt his hands.

Two bowls of egg custard were stewing in the clay pot, and Lin Yiyi used a small wooden bucket to fill with water to wash the lobsters with black lines on their backs. Lin Dajun came back with ginger and two pounds of sweet potatoes in his arms.