Today is Saturday. Lin Yiyi slept in lazily. She didn't go back to the countryside yesterday. She should have gone to see it today, but she was too tired these days and was too lazy to move. She remembered that she hadn't told her brother Yu about her mother-in-law's foundation approval.

The weather was too hot, luckily there was a fan next to her. Lin Yiyi turned the fan to the highest setting. The fan was whirring, but she didn't even think it was noise. It was because the weather was too hot.

In July, in response to the rural development policy, the private plots of each brigade were basically ready, and the next thing was the free trade market. The free trade day of Yangguang Commune is the 15th of each month. In July, because the policy had just started, it was not held in July, that is, it started from August 15th. Yangguang Commune set the location of the free trade market in the commune. Of course, the commune has 13 villages, and the commune’s playground is definitely not big enough, so it extends from the commune to the roadside. However, there are no cars in this rural area, so it doesn’t matter if it occupies the road.

Lin Yiyi stretched her back and washed her face and brushed her teeth. When she was washing her face, she found that her facial cleanser was gone, so she had to buy some. After washing her face, Lin Yiyi bought a bowl of mung bean soup and a boiled egg from the system mall, then lay on the bed and ate while looking at the system mall.

"Huh?" Lin Yiyi was browsing the system mall when she saw an ad for shampoo soap. She clicked on it and saw that it was a business that used pure plant extracts to advertise. There were all kinds of pure plant handmade soaps, including facial soaps, bath soaps, and shampoo soaps. Different soaps had different functions. Lin Yiyi was immediately delighted. When she bought facial cleansers and shampoos, she had to worry about destroying the body. If it was soap, she didn't have to worry about that at all. She could even put it aside without attracting Xiao Yu's suspicion. It was really great.

Immediately, Lin Yiyi bought several bars of soaps for various purposes, especially bath soaps. She bought several bars. Bath soaps are more private, and she wanted an independent one for herself that could not be mixed with those of Xiao Yu and the Lin family's younger brothers, so she bought several bars of bath soaps.

After buying the soap, I looked at a few sets of underwear, but I was just looking at them. Such sexy underwear cannot be worn in this era because they cannot be made in the country.

Then, Lin Yiyi looked at some more clothes.

"Sister..." Lin Dajun's voice suddenly rang out in the yard.

Then: "Sister, we are here." Lin Sijun's voice is louder than Lin Dajun's.

"Sister, we are here." Lin Wudi's childish voice was much more pleasant than the two people in front.

Lin Yiyi opened the door quickly and saw the four brothers of the Lin family standing in the yard. They were carrying backpacks and their faces were covered with sweat. "Come in quickly. Are you hot? Have some cold tea first." She opened the kitchen door, let them in, and poured them some cold water. Seeing the dozens of kilograms of lobsters in the backpack, she knew they were delivering lobsters. "Dajun, did you come back yesterday?"

When Lin Dajun saw that his sister was asking about him, he quickly said, "I came back yesterday."

Lin Yiyi: "How did you feel about going out this time? What did you see? Tell your brothers about it and let everyone listen. When there is a chance in the future, let's all go out and take a look." Letting Lin Dajun share what he saw and heard not only helps other brothers understand the outside world, but also helps to cultivate Lin Dajun's courage and increase his self-confidence.

Then, Lin Dajun talked about what he had seen and heard in the past few days. He first talked about the train: "The train... is so long... it is made of iron and can move... When we came back, we took a tractor. We sat together with the piglet. The commune paid for it..."

Lin Sijun: "Wow, is there really such a long car? I want to ride in it too."

Lin Sanjun's eyes flashed.

Lin Yiyi was lighting a fire and cooking green bean soup. As she listened to them talking, she couldn't help but smile: "Then let's go to the train station tomorrow. I'll take you to see the train."

Lin Sijun: "Is it really possible?"

Lin Sanjun also looked at his sister.

Lin Yiyi: "Of course you can. Although you can't ride it for now, it's okay to go and have a look." Otherwise, Dajun would be disappointed if they didn't even see it after riding it. "How about this, starting from next semester, whoever gets first place in the exam, I will take him to ride the train and go to the zoo to see the animals."

Lin Sijun: “Really?”

Lin Wudi: "What are animals?"

Lin Yiyi: "Of course it's true. The animals are lots of small animals, such as piglets, chickens, little tigers, little lions..."

Lin Wudi: "I want to see animals, too."

Lin Yiyi: "Then you have to work hard too. If you can get five little red flowers next semester, I will take you there." Lin Wudi's nursery has three little red flowers every week, and the nursery aunt will give the little red flowers to the three best-behaved children.

Lin Wudi: "Okay, sister can't lie to children."

Lin Yiyi: "Sister never lies to children."

Lin Sijun: "Yes, my sister doesn't lie to children. She told us to study on our own first and then let us go to school when we have money. We are already in school now."

Lin Dajun nodded in agreement.

Lin Yiyi, who has been lying to children, feels a little ashamed.

Lin Sijun and Lin Wudi pestered Lin Dajun to ask about the train, while Lin Sanjun listened silently. After Lin Yiyi lit the fire, she went to see the lobsters in the basket. Each lobster was fat and strong, and roughly weighed about 40 kilograms. In the 1960s, there was no food, so lobsters were caught and eaten as food. Now that there is food, lobsters are of course a fiery landscape on the table. Lin Yiyi remembered the days of drinking beer, eating lobsters and watching football, even though she didn't like watching football.

But the problem is... Lin Yiyi doesn't know how to cook lobster. So, Lin Yiyi looked at the system mall and found that the system mall sells lobster dishes, including spicy and thirteen-spice flavors. She carefully read the detailed description of the seasoning and thought, this is too simple.

Just pour oil into the pot, put in the cleaned lobster and stir-fry for three minutes, then pour in the seasoning packet and simmer for half an hour. It's done. There is no technical content at all.

So, Lin Yiyi decided to buy it.

Lin Yiyi: "The first army, the third army, the fourth army, we are going to eat this big prawn for lunch, now you wash it clean."

The younger brother of the Lin family is an expert at washing lobsters and has rich experience. They simply cut off the lobster's head and then pick out the lobster's tendons. Their movements are very neat and efficient. Lin Dajun, Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun all know how to do it.

Lin Yiyi had already bought the seasoning packets, one packet of which was enough for three pounds of lobster. Seeing that there were many people at home, one pound of lobster was not enough for one person in the summer when the weather was good, so Lin Yiyi bought two packets of seasoning packets. Then she said to the Lin brothers, "Dajun, you guys stay at home while I go buy some drinks."

Even if you don't have beer, you can't eat lobster without drinks. So she has to find a reason to buy soda.

Lin Dajun: "Sister, don't worry."

Lin Yiyi: "There's green bean soup cooking in the pot, please keep an eye on it."

Lin Dajun: “Got it.”

So, Lin Yiyi went out. She went to the state-owned hotel to buy beer first, but the state-owned hotel was not open yet. However, she was relieved to know that the state-owned hotel had beer, so she could find the same one from the system mall.

Beer was introduced into my country in the late 19th century. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China's beer industry developed rapidly and gradually got rid of the backward state of relying on imported raw materials. In 1954, my country's beer entered the international market. So now is 1962, even if the county town is a bit remote, how could such a large-scale state-owned hotel not have beer?

When Lin Yiyi returned home, the basket was already filled with beer and soda. The soda was of course the famous Beibingyang soda of that era. There were many beers in the 1950s and 1960s, including Qingdao Beer, Snow Beer, Guangming Beer, Dalian Black Beer, etc. Lin Yiyi chose Qingdao Beer.

Seeing Lin Yiyi coming back, the four brothers looked at her eagerly.

Lin Yiyi: "You can only drink it when you eat."

At noon, when Xiao Yu got off work, he walked to Grandma Wang's house and smelled the fragrance. It was the lobster seasoning that was so fragrant and strong. Xiao Yu thought that Grandma Wang was making something delicious. He never thought that it was his own family. Although his wife's cooking skills have improved a lot, this level of fragrance is not something his wife can make. All the heavyweight dishes in the house are bought by his wife.

It’s just a little strange that the closer I get to the house, the stronger the fragrance becomes.

"Brother-in-law."

"Brother-in-law, are you back?"

"Brother-in-law, hug..."

Xiao Yu picked up Lin Wudi with one hand and let him sit on his arm. He walked to the kitchen. His nose was itchy. The smell was so strong that he wanted to slap his face and take back what he said just now. This smell was actually made by his wife. He walked to the stove: "What are you doing? It smells so good."

Lin Yiyi said, "The army has just caught some big shrimps. I'm cooking them now. I'll just need to collect the last bit of soup and we can eat it. By the way, the food is good today. I bought some beer."

Xiao Yu was indeed a little tempted when he heard this, but he had strong self-control: "I still have to go to work in the afternoon, so I won't drink at noon. I'll save it for when I get home in the evening."

Lin Yiyi: "Then drink soda. The soda is placed in the well water in the bucket. It's cool and tastes great."

Xiao-Woo: "Okay."

Lin Yiyi: "Dajun, take out the soda and let your brother-in-law open it for you."

Lin Dajun: “Hey.”

Fifth Brother Lin: "Drink soda...drink soda...I can drink a bottle."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yu touched his belly.

Brother Lin Wu looked at him and laughed.

The soda was opened and everyone poured a bowl. Lin Wudi couldn't help but took a small sip first. Lin Dajun, Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun didn't move. The three of them had suffered a lot, so they were very conservative about food. They had to wait until the dishes were served before eating. In this way, they could taste the deliciousness of the soda while tasting the deliciousness of the dishes.

Lin Yiyi didn't let them wait and lifted the lid of the pot to let the lobsters out of the pot.

Lin Sanjun twitched his nose: "It smells so good."

It was rare for him to open his mouth, and Lin Yiyi was quite proud: "Isn't it delicious? This big shrimp can be eaten for two months. August and September are the seasons when big shrimps breed vigorously. You can go fishing then, and I will cook it for you when you catch it."

Lin Sijun: "But it hasn't been that long. It's like last year, when everyone knew that the giant shrimps were edible and everyone was scrambling to catch them." Speaking of this, Lin Sijun felt a little frustrated. It was clearly their family that discovered the shrimps first, but they were always snatched away by everyone else.

This childish remark made Lin Yiyi laugh and cry: "This is a public resource. You can fish, and so can everyone else. It will taste better when we share it. Even if everyone doesn't fish, we won't be able to catch all of it."

Lin Sijun: "I know, I'm just saying it." Lin Sijun didn't mean any harm, he was just complaining.

Xiao Yu: "There are fish in the brigade's fish pond this year. By the end of the year, my family will be able to get a few fish."

Speaking of fish, Lin Yiyi has never eaten fish in this era: "Is fish harvested in winter?"

Xiao Yu: "No, fish are harvested in spring, from the river. But the end of the year is already the beginning of spring, and in order to have a good meal during the New Year, the fishing days are usually on the 25th or 26th."

Lin Yiyi: “So that’s how it is.”

This lunch consisted of three pounds of lobsters, which were eaten very quickly. After the meal, both the Lin brothers and Xiao Yu felt that they had not eaten enough.

Lin Yiyi: "There's beer in the evening, so I'll do more."

Xiao-Woo: "Thank you for your hard work."

Lin Yiyi: "There are more than 30 kilograms of lobsters here. We can't eat them all in one night. We can keep them for tomorrow. By the way, do you have any colleagues to treat? If so, you can bring them here and we can have a good meal tonight." When eating lobsters, it is best to have a few friends together. It is more comfortable to eat lobsters while chatting about gossip.

The situation was bad in the past two years, and no one invited friends home. It was not until 1962 that the situation eased. Lin Yiyi remembered something: "You have been working at the Public Security Bureau for almost two years, and you have never invited guests. Why don't you invite everyone to dinner tonight? There are plenty of shrimps at home, and it won't be too bad to treat everyone with a plate. I will also prepare some vegetables and stew some soup."

Xiao Yu thought about it. He didn't care much about these personal relationships. Besides, he had already figured out his transfer mission. He thought that he would be transferred back to the army in the next two years. However, seeing that his wife was thinking about him and making detailed arrangements, he felt satisfied and didn't want to refuse her kindness, although he didn't want her to be so tired. Xiao Yu: "Okay, I will invite some people from the previous bureau, about ten people." In fact, generally, newcomers will invite people in the department to dinner when they go to the unit. This is a habit passed down from generation to generation, so it doesn't stand out if Xiao Yu invites everyone to dinner.

Lin Yiyi: "I promise I won't bring shame to you, Deputy Director Xiao."

Xiao Yu said: "As for face, your man can get it back even without these things. But... thank you for thinking about me." Whether it can be won back is one thing, and whether his wife has him in her heart is another.

Xiao Yu drank another bowl of mung bean soup before going to work.

In the evening, Xiao Yu's colleagues were coming, about ten of them, including the four brothers of the Lin family and Lin Yiyi, so one table couldn't accommodate them, so Lin Yiyi took the brothers to the scrap station, and when they came back, the brothers brought a table. The table was an old table that had been repaired and refurbished, and the scrap station painted it, but after telling Lin Yiyi about the situation, the table had been there for a long time, and the paint smell on it had long dissipated.

Lin Yiyi: "Da Jun and San Jun, wash the remaining lobsters, Si Jun, help me peel the potatoes."

Lin's brothers: "Hey."

Lin Yiyi took out four cucumbers and soaked them in a bucket of water. She then said to them, "I'll go buy some vegetables. You stay at home."

Lin's brothers: "Hey."

Lin Yiyi went out for a while and came back about half an hour later. In the basket were the spareribs she bought from the system mall. She stewed the soybean spareribs soup first, and picked beans and eggplants from the vegetable shed in the yard. Lin Yiyi likes to cut the vegetables in advance when cooking to avoid being in a hurry. So now, she started to wash and cut the vegetables.

When it was almost three o'clock, she started to cook. She only cooked simple dishes. For example, she made sweet and sour scallop beans. She fried the scallop beans in oil, then added soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar and water. When the sauce was almost dry, the sweet and sour scallop beans were ready.

Then the eggplant. The eggplant is served cold. First, cut the eggplant and steam it on a steamer. Finally, pour in soy sauce, salt, and rice vinegar. Then, sprinkle chopped garlic on top and pour in a thin layer of hot oil.

There were also pepper and salt potato shreds, cold cucumber salad, leek scrambled eggs, and finally the thirteen-spice lobster. She cooked 27 pounds of the remaining 37 pounds of lobster, leaving the remaining 10 pounds for tomorrow. She removed the lobster heads from the 27 pounds of lobster and cooked them in two iron pots. The aroma wafted far away.

Grandma Wang tried to hold it in at noon but when it was almost time for dinner she smelled the smell again and couldn't help it: "Yi Yi, what are you doing? Why does it smell so good?" Her voice came in before she even entered the kitchen.

Lin Yiyi walked out of the kitchen door and pointed to the basket under the eaves and the pile of lobster heads: "I'm cooking this shrimp."

When Grandma Wang saw the pile of lobster heads, she swallowed her saliva. The appetite that had just been aroused by the aroma was immediately gone: "What is this? Can I eat it?"

Lin Yiyi: "It's edible. We caught it in the countryside. There's a lot of meat. We survived the famine by eating this. Can you take a plate home and try cooking it? It's delicious when braised. Use more oil, soy sauce, and other seasonings."

Grandma Wang shook her head quickly: "No, no... I'll go back to cook."

In fact, it’s no wonder that Grandma Wang had this reaction. For people who have never seen lobster, it does look a bit scary, especially when the lobster heads are piled together, it looks bloody.

Lin Sijun chuckled: "Grandma Wang is so timid. What's there to be afraid of with big fierce shrimps? They taste delicious."

Lin Yiyi: "The first time we went fishing for big shrimps, you told me we couldn't eat them. Were you not afraid then?"

Lin Sijun said, "It's all other people's fault. Everyone said we couldn't eat it, that it was dirty. Isn't that just scaring people?"

At half past five, Xiao Yu arrived with his colleagues from the Public Security Bureau. At first glance, there were more than ten police officers, all in work clothes. They were quite attractive when they walked into the vocational college. Everyone thought that some family had committed a crime, and the timid ones didn't even dare to breathe.

Lin Dajun and his friends were playing in the yard when they saw so many police officers coming in, led by Xiao Yu, who said to the inside, "Sister, brother-in-law is back." Lin Dajun might be afraid of other officials, but not of police officers. His brother-in-law is a police officer and he is used to them.

Before Lin Yiyi could say anything, the police officer who came with her said, "Sister-in-law, sorry to bother you."

Yang Tai: "Sister-in-law, sorry to bother you." He handed over a bottle of wine and said, "What's this dish? It smells so good."

Lin Yiyi said, "These are the shrimps my brothers caught from the lake in the countryside. They are stewing in the pot. Please feel free to take a seat. Dajun, bring up the beer and soda."

The table was already filled with dishes, each dish was served in duplicate. There weren't many varieties, but the portions were sufficient.

Smashed cucumber, cold eggplant, sweet and sour peas, pepper and salt shredded potatoes, scrambled eggs with leeks, soybean and pork ribs soup, and finally Lin Yiyi served four plates of lobster.

Zhang Ming: "This tastes amazing, so fragrant. Sister-in-law, you are a great cook. Do you have any younger sisters? Cousins ​​are fine. My family is looking for a partner for me, and I want someone like you." If this was said by an ordinary man, everyone would think it was impolite, but Zhang Ming is a police officer, and the image of the police is positive, so people would not think otherwise.

Lin Yiyi was familiar with him and said with a smile: "I am the only one in my family. Young man, take your time in finding a partner and find someone who is suitable for you."

Zhang Ming: "How long did it take you and the deputy director to find the right person?"

Lin Yiyi said: "We have known each other since we were young. We are childhood sweethearts. He was the one who gave me my name."

Zhang Ming: "It turns out that the deputy director has been smart since he was young. He has chosen you. People don't eat grass near their nests. Deputy Director, you are really smart."

Xiao Yu picked up a lobster and stuffed it into his mouth.

Lin Yiyi couldn't help laughing. This policeman was quite interesting.

Xiao Yu: "You can eat now, stop busying yourself." She was exhausted from trying to feed this group of people.

Lin Yiyi: "I'm not busy anymore. I'm going to eat with Dajun and the others. There's lobster in the pot."

Xiao Yu: "Okay." He knew there was another table in the utility room, and the dishes were similar to this table. He had seen it and knew that his wife would not let herself down.

Lin Yiyi placed the other table in the utility room. Firstly, it was because the utility room was spacious, and secondly, if it was placed in the other two rooms, the smell of lobster would fill the whole room.

27 jin of lobsters, after dinner, there were still four or five jin left, almost two jin per person on average. After the police finished their beer, they drank the wine brought by Yang Tai, and everyone enjoyed the meal very much. After the meal, Lin Yiyi packed the remaining lobsters and took them away.

After they left, Lin Yiyi asked the Lin brothers to clean up and Xiao Yu to wash the dishes.

Lin Dajun: "Sister, I heard that the cinema in the county town has been built. Can we go and see it?"

The county originally had no cinema, but a theater. It was rebuilt in 1958 and completed this year. It was still early to go to bed. After hearing Lin Dajun's suggestion, Lin Yiyi thought it was feasible: "Okay, I don't know if there will be a movie today."