Lin Yiyi served them some cold noodles and asked them, "What did you bring in exchange?"

Lin Dajun: "We brought steamed bread, flour, brown sugar from you, and big prawns. We plucked the heads off the prawns and cooked them with green onions. They were delicious."

Lin Sijun: "We caught a lot of big prawns after fishing all day. We cooked them just before we came here. They are still hot. Do you want some?"

Lin Yiyi said, "No need. You can put the big shrimp here, put it together with my sister's food, and then go and exchange things after you finish your noodles. Put Xiaowu here too, so that there won't be too many people. Also, there are a lot of people here today, you have to pay attention to your safety, beggars and thieves may sneak in, you have to pay attention too. More importantly, be careful of others who try to scam you, understand?"

When Lin Dajun heard about the term "touching a car", he suddenly got an idea.

Lin Sanjun: “I know.”

Lin Yiyi: "What are you going to change?"

Lin Dajun: "We want to exchange the dishes and chopsticks, as well as the desk, and it would be best if we could exchange the kitchen cabinets as well."

Lin Yiyi: "You can exchange desks and cabinets with craftsmen to see if there are people who want to exchange handmade items, such as rattan baskets and baskets. Those items should be in the same area. If you can't find a craftsman, you can also ask those who buy handmade items to see if they know any craftsmen, or if they are craftsmen themselves."

Lin Dajun: "Yes, I've got it in mind. But I have to go to work later, so the Third Army and the Fourth Army need to keep this in mind."

Lin Sijun: "I will definitely remember it."

Lin Yiyi did not wake up Lin Wudi. Children need to sleep more, and it is really early now.

While Lin Dajun and his friends were eating cold noodles, Qin Xiangju came with Qi Spinach and Liang. They all carried baskets on their backs. Since they had separated, they were responsible for their own changes. Qin Xiangju didn't have anything to change. Every month, they received flour and meat from the second wife, and they had vegetables at home. What else did they have to worry about? So Qin Xiangju just joined in the fun. When they arrived at the commune's playground, the scene on Lin Yiyi's side was very eye-catching, and Qin Xiangju saw it at a glance.

Qin Xiang: "One by one."

Lin Yiyi: "Mom, sister-in-law, third brother's wife, you are here." This body is 17 years old this year, and I can no longer act cute and call Liang "Sister Liang" like I did when I was 15.

Qin Xiangju: "Yiyi, are you planning to trade these foods?"

Lin Yiyi said: "Yes, mother, what did you bring to trade?"

Qin Xiangju: "I'm just here to join in the fun. The eldest and third daughters-in-law are here to exchange things. I see you have too many things here. I'll stay and help you later."

Lin Yiyi: "Okay, thank you, mom.

Qin Xiangju: "Thank you."

Qi Bocai: "Second brother's wife, these things of yours are so delicious." She was a little greedy. She thought to herself, the second brother's wife is so happy in the county town, why would she come here to exchange for anything?

Lin Yiyi: "I think it smells good too, but the first order of the day hasn't started yet. How about you take my first order, so I can have a good start?"

Qi Spinach: "I only brought eggs. There is nothing else I can exchange at home, so I just have these eggs to make things look good. Do you think my second brother and his wife like them?"

Liang: "I have eggs too, sister-in-law. Let me exchange them with you for some vegetable buns and this noodles. How do you think we can exchange them?"

Lin Yiyi calculated that the cost of an egg was 6 cents, the cost of a bun was 1 cent, and the cost of a bowl of cold noodles was 3 cents, but things cannot be calculated in this way. Soon, Lin Yiyi had an idea in her mind.

Lin Yiyi said: "An egg, three steamed buns, and a bowl of noodles."

When Liang heard this, she said, "Isn't this me taking advantage of you? No, no, no, this is too..."

Qi Bocai: "Second brother and sister-in-law, I want to change. Give me two portions of noodles and nine buns."

Lin Yiyi: "Does sister-in-law have a lunch box or bowl?"

Qi Spinach: "Yes." She took out a large aluminum bowl. Many things in this era are made of aluminum, including lunch boxes. Today is the first trading day, so many people brought more things because they don't know what they will get in exchange.

Lin Yiyi used her own bowl to serve two servings of cold noodles, poured them into Spinach's aluminum bowl, and gave her nine buns: "Sister-in-law, I see you must be tired after walking all the way. You are my first transaction today, so I'll give you two bowls of mung bean soup. Drink one bowl first, and then have another bowl when you're tired from shopping." She used the mung bean soup to fill Spinach's mouth to prevent her from saying something she didn't like.

Qi Spinach: "..." She really wanted to say something, such as asking the second sister-in-law to take more noodles or give her an extra bun, but the second sister-in-law said to give her two bowls of mung bean soup, so she couldn't say anything. Qi Spinach gave Lin Yiyi five eggs, and then drank a bowl of mung bean soup soaked in well water, "Second sister-in-law, this mung bean soup is so sweet."

Lin Yiyi smiled. The market price of mung bean soup was 0.60 cents per pound, so the cost of a bowl was very low.

Lin Dajun: "Sister, we have finished eating. Please leave four bowls of noodles for us. We will come to eat at noon. Here are four eggs." The eggs were laid by two hens in the past two days. The hens in their family eat earthworms and are very well raised.

Lin Yiyi took the eggs and said, "Okay, I'll keep them for you. Go ahead."

Lin Dajun went to the commune's pig farm, and Lin Sanjun took Lin Sijun to exchange things.

Liang: "Second sister-in-law, I want to exchange the same with the eldest sister-in-law." Five eggs weigh half a pound, but she was willing to give them away to exchange for nine steamed buns and two bowls of noodles. She took the noodles and buns home for her husband to taste. Her husband had never tasted such delicious food.

Lin Yiyi: "Okay, okay. Since you are the second guest, I can only give you a bowl of mung bean soup."

When Qi Bocai heard this, he felt very comfortable immediately.

Liang said, "Thank you, second sister-in-law." She didn't care about the bowl of mung bean soup.

Qin Xiangju shook her head. She knew why the second daughter-in-law specifically asked to give the eldest daughter-in-law two bowls of mung bean soup and the third daughter-in-law one bowl of mung bean soup. Only the eldest daughter-in-law, this fool, didn't know.

Then, Qi Bocai and Liang went shopping together.

Today is the first market trading day of Yangguang Commune, and also the first market trading day of the rural policy, so today is very lively. Not only the people under the jurisdiction of Yangguang Commune have come, but also people from the county town have come here. Although there is not only Yangguang Commune under the county town, the free trading days of many communes are staggered, that is, several communes have the same day. With so many people in the county town, it is impossible for them to go to the same commune. They all go to whichever is closer.

However, Lin Yiyi's business was particularly good. As everyone knows, on market days, food was always very attractive. Once the Lin brothers started eating and Qi Spinach and Liang started trading, everyone who saw it would be tempted to buy some.

Although there may be few people raising piglets this year, there are definitely many people raising chickens. People hide eggs to exchange for something, and Lin Yiyi can exchange one egg for three steamed buns, even if they are vegetable buns, everyone thinks it is a good deal. Of course, everyone dares not exchange more, many people only exchange one or two eggs, and let the children taste the steamed buns at home. As for themselves, everyone is reluctant to eat them.

After Qi Spinach and Liang left, Lin Yiyi served a bowl of cold noodles to Qin Xiangju. Qin Xiangju came to help her daughter-in-law, so how could she eat it? But her daughter-in-law was too polite. Finally, Qin Xiangju took out an egg and stuffed it into her daughter-in-law's basket as her own exchange.

To put it bluntly, they are just being polite, there is no need to be so meticulous.

After a while, Lin Wudi woke up. He was still a little confused and a little scared when he woke up, but when he saw his sister next to him, he was no longer afraid. Lin Wudi stood up from the basket: "Sister, where are my brothers?"

Seeing that he had woken up, Lin Yiyi carried him out and said, "My brothers are busy now. Are you hungry, Xiaowu? I'll give you some buns."

Fifth brother Lin: “Hungry…” and then shook his head, “I had a steamed bun that my brothers gave me.” The three Lin brothers came over in the middle of the night, woke up fifth brother Lin, and coaxed him with a steamed bun.

Lin Yiyi: "The brothers are so nice to Xiaowu, they even gave him steamed bread." The three brothers themselves were reluctant to eat it, so she gave Lin Wu a vegetable bun and a bowl of green bean soup. The cold noodles were a bit strong in the morning and not suitable for children, but it was okay to eat a few bites.

Fifth brother Lin took a bite of the bun and said, "Brother gave the egg back to fifth brother." When he was in the countryside during the summer vacation, the younger brothers of the Lin family each got an egg and took turns every day, and fifth brother Lin was also one of them.

Lin Yiyi: "Wow, I really envy Xiaowu for having three good brothers."

Lin Wudi: "Good brother." He took another bite of the bun and said, "Give it to the brothers and hide it."

Lin Yiyi: "...You eat it. I have more here for the brothers."

When he heard Lin Yiyi say there was more, he continued eating.

Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun were exchanging things with a purpose. They did not wander around, but looked at each stall one by one. They looked with a purpose, looking for what they wanted. Finally, after looking at half of the stalls, they found a place selling straw mats.

The brothers stopped walking. They had no home... no bamboo mat. No bamboo mat or straw mat.

Lin Sijun pulled Lin Sanjun's hand and said, "Third brother, look."

Lin Sanjun was also somewhat tempted. He nodded and walked to the stall. There were not many people at the bamboo mat stall. The people who came on the commune trading day were all country people. Country people were more practical and didn't care about mats. Anyway, they could sleep on their beds at home, so it didn't matter whether they had bamboo mats or not. So they didn't want to waste money on this.

The owner of the bamboo mat stall was an old man. He sighed at the two young men in front of him, probably just looking at them. They didn't have anything to show off at home. They were very poor. Everyone knew what the harvest was like before this year. This year, few families could show off good things. The old man was a man who only knew how to work. This was probably his only skill. However, this skill was really good in the past. A bamboo mat could be exchanged for money, but now... the harvest was bad, and bamboo mats couldn't be eaten, so his skill was useless. It took him a month to complete the two bamboo mats this time. He came here specially because he knew that August 15 was the commune trading day. However, there were people who asked, but no one wanted to exchange.

"How do we change this bamboo mat?" A middle-aged woman came over with a young girl. They looked like people from the county town instead of the country folk.

The old man hurriedly said, "I want 20 kilograms of rice or flour." He didn't know whether the other party would agree. 20 kilograms of rice or flour would only cost three or four yuan. If someone bought his bamboo mat, it would definitely not be worth three or four yuan. But he also knew that he couldn't get it at a high price.

When they heard that they needed 20 kilograms of rice or flour, Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun walked away. They didn't have that much rice or flour. The two brothers walked for a while, and then ran over excitedly. Lin Sijun: "How do we exchange these wooden bowls?" They saw the wooden bowls, and they wanted to exchange them, but ceramic bowls must be very expensive. If wooden bowls are cheap, it's better to use wooden bowls. Wooden bowls won't break even if they fall to the ground. Moreover, these wooden bowls are made very well, polished very smoothly, and have no other smell. There are wooden bowls for eating, wooden plates for dishes, and large soup bowls. In addition, there are wooden chopsticks and wooden spoons. Everything is complete.

The stall owner is a man in his thirties. He used to be a carpenter, but in these years, who would hire a carpenter to do carpentry work? He couldn't even make enough to eat, and for a carpenter, it was very uncomfortable not to touch wood, so in the past few years when he had no work, he made a lot of wooden bowls, wooden plates, large soup bowls, wooden spoons, and wooden chopsticks. The wood he found was all picked up from the mountains, not specially cut down. The stall owner's business was not very good, but there were people who wanted to trade.

The man looked at Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun and thought for a moment: "What are you going to exchange for?"

Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun put down their backpacks. Lin Sijun said, "We have steamed buns, flour, brown sugar, white sugar, soap, rice, and free meat coupons." It was a bit of miscellaneous stuff, but not much. The most abundant thing was probably the steamed buns.

The man's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Free meat coupons mean that you can directly exchange them for meat without paying any money, right?" Everyone who raised pigs in the early years knows this.

Lin Sijun: "Yes, do you want to change?"

The man said, "10 wooden bowls, one pound of free meat ticket. One steamed bun, one wooden spoon."

Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun discussed it for a while, and Lin Sijun said: "One pound of free meat ticket can be exchanged for 11 wooden bowls. We will give you four steamed buns in exchange for 6 spoons."

man:"……"

Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun calculated that the four brothers plus their sister and brother-in-law would need exactly six spoons. Then Lin Sijun took out three pounds of meat coupons and 12 steamed buns: "We want three portions of each, and we choose them ourselves."

Man: "..." I thought he was a stingy little customer, but he turned out to be a big customer. However, the man kindly reminded, "After using wooden bowls and chopsticks, they should be placed in a dry and ventilated place, otherwise they may become moldy if they are damp." Of course, they will not become moldy under normal circumstances, otherwise the wooden bed at home would become moldy. However, he still had to remind him, because he was afraid that after the little guest left, the adults at home would complain about it again.

Lin Sijun: “Got it.” They are always looking for bargains.

Then, Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun began to take things, each with 6 rice bowls, 3 wooden plates, a large soup bowl, and 6 spoons. They put them in the backpack and were in a very good mood.

Lin Sijun asked again: "Uncle, are you a carpenter?"

Fortunately, this is the money the man has saved over the years, otherwise there would be no time to make so many bowls at once.

Man: "Yes, you want to make something?"

Lin Sijun: "We want three desks and three kitchen cabinets. How can we exchange them?"

Man: "It depends on the wood. If you provide the wood, it will be cheaper. If I provide the wood, it will be more expensive."

Lin Sanjun: "We don't know anything about wood. How can we exchange it for the wood you provide?"

Man: "A desk needs 20 kilograms of coarse grain or 5 kilograms of fine grain, a cabinet needs 20 kilograms of coarse grain or 5 kilograms of fine grain, and then a kilogram of eggs or half a kilogram of meat." The desk is simple, just a piece of wood with four pillars, but the cabinet is very complicated, so the man asked for a little more.

Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun looked at each other, and then they discussed for a while. Finally, Lin Sijun said, "We will only make a desk and a cabinet, and then give you 10 catties of fine grains and 1 catty of eggs." 10 catties of fine grains refers to rice or flour, which they exchanged with their sister. The reason why they made one portion was because they gave it to Lin Dajun first. They planned to take turns to Lin Dajun when they did homework in the future. As for the cabinet, they all ate together for the time being, so as long as there was a cabinet in Lin Dajun's house, it would be fine. Moreover, they also thought that their eldest brother would get married in two years, so they would take their time, so they prepared for their eldest brother first.

The free trade market has just been launched, and this is the first phase. The prices of many things are relatively low. People are still thinking about the famine, so they dare not ask for too much food. If it is a good year, 20 kilograms of coarse grains or 5 kilograms of fine grains can be exchanged for a desk, which is definitely a profit.

After the two brothers had reached an agreement with the man, they asked each other for their addresses. After the trading day was over, the two brothers would go to the man's house to understand the situation and then pay the deposit (food). The table, cabinet and bowls were solved, and Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun were relieved.

However, Lin Sijun said: "Third brother, since we are eating with eldest brother, aren't we changing the bowls and chopsticks too early?" This is meat.

Lin Sanjun: “Not early.” He changed early, and hoped that one day his sister would come to his room for dinner.

…

Lin Yiyi's business is very good. She basically exchanges eggs. As a farmer, eggs are the most valuable thing. Some people exchange their own cloth shoes. Lin Yiyi's feet are small, only size 35, so she didn't get any. However, she exchanged two pairs of shoes for Xiao Yu's feet.

Qin Xiangju was moved again when she saw her daughter-in-law changing two pairs of shoes for her son.

"You... do you want to trade for something else?" A young man came to Lin Yiyi's stall carrying two wooden barrels. He smelled the cold noodles and vegetable dumplings and swallowed his saliva. He asked most of the stalls, but no one wanted to trade with him. When he asked Lin Yiyi, he had given up hope. However, he was really attracted by the fragrance of this stall, so he mustered up the courage to come over.

Lin Yiyi: “What is it?”

The young man opened the lids of two wooden barrels. One barrel contained crabs and the other contained shrimps.

Lin Yiyi's eyes lit up when she saw it. The crab was similar to a swimming crab, and the shrimp seemed to be a prawn. Lin Yiyi was a little excited and asked, "Did you catch this yourself in the sea?"

The young man thought it was hopeful and said quickly, "Yes, my family used to be fishermen. When I was young, I often went out to sea with my father." The young man is only 18 years old this year, and China has been liberated for only 13 years. Before liberation, there were 5-year-old boys going out to sea with their fathers. Moreover, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, fishing and crab fishing in the sea were also allowed. "In the past two years, my family survived by eating seafood, but... but maybe it was because she ate too much seafood, my mother's health was not good, but it's okay to eat a little. The doctor said that my mother's illness was caused by the rich nutrition of seafood, and it was a minor illness."

Lin Yiyi looked at his anxious expression and said, "I know that seafood is generally fine. Eating too much may lead to excessive nutrition, which can cause high cholesterol, high uric acid, etc."

Young man: “Ah?” He didn’t understand.

Lin Yiyi did not explain. She knew something about this because her mother had high cholesterol. She looked up some knowledge about this and learned that eating too much seafood can cause high cholesterol, but eating normally will not. Her mother is in good health. In addition to high cholesterol, she especially admires her mother's eyesight, which is 5.2. It is rare for a 50-year-old mother to have a vision of 5.2. Even she is 200 degrees nearsighted.

Lin Yiyi said: "I want all these things, how do you want to trade?"

Young man: “...you...you decide what to give?” In fact, he was shocked by Lin Yiyi's "I want everything". He asked at most of the stalls along the way, and no one was interested in crabs, but they were interested in prawns. However, the items they offered were very few, and he was reluctant to give them away, so he might as well take them home and eat them himself.

Qin Xiangju looked at it and asked, "Yi Yi likes to eat this?"

Lin Yiyi: "I bought a recipe before in order to make different dishes for Brother Yu. The recipe includes methods of cooking crabs and shrimps. I want to try it."

Qin Xiangju heard that her daughter-in-law was really jealous of her son because of her son. Her son was so lucky that his daughter-in-law thought so much about him. She sighed and said, "This crab must be 5 kilograms, and this shrimp must be about 3 kilograms."

Young man: "Auntie, your estimate is really accurate."

Lin Yiyi said, "All the things I have here are here. Do you see anything you like? If you like it, I can trade with you. If you don't like it, I still have coarse grains, fine grains, brown sugar, white sugar, soap, and oil. But these are at home, not here."

The young man asked, "Is there any cloth?"

Lin Yiyi: “I don’t have the cloth, but I can exchange it with others.” Actually, it was purchased in the system mall.

Young man: "I want the cloth, the steamed buns, the cold noodles, and the rice. How much can I get in exchange?"