The Eldest Sister is Like a Stepmother [60’s]

Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun hurried over when they heard their sister’s cry.

Lin Sijun: “Wild egg? Has my sister really found a wild egg?” Compared with the taciturn Lin Sanjun, Lin Sijun, who is only 10 years old, is more lively. Influence, the character is lively. Seeing wild eggs, just like seeing Tang monk meat, Lin Sijun didn’t even know that the saliva was left.

Lin Yiyi: “Three Army, bring the small back basket you are carrying, and put the wild eggs into the back basket with the haystacks. We will have egg soup at night.”

Lin Sanjun: “Yes.” Holding the haystack, he carefully put the wild eggs into the basket. There were as many as 16 wild eggs in a nest. Looking at the wild egg, Lin Sanjun unconsciously stuck out his tongue and licked his dry lips.

When Lin Yiyi was reading a chronology, she saw a description of pheasant laying eggs: pheasants start to breed from February to March every year, May to June is the peak breeding season, and gradually decreases and stops from July to August. Therefore, this nest of wild eggs should be the last nest of eggs laid by this pheasant. In general, pheasants have 15-20 eggs per nest, and now there are 16, which is also very impressive.

Lin Sijun: “Sister, do we eat eggs at night?”

Lin Yiyi nodded: “Yeah.” Eggs can’t be kept for long. There are 16 eggs here, and one may break a day, so two a day, and Lin Yiyi has even thought about how to divide them.

Hearing Lin Yiyi’s confirmation, Lin Sijun was even more happy.

Lin Yiyi: “Go and dig earthworms.”

“Hey.”

Because of the wild eggs, Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun became more active in looking for earthworms. Before Lin Dajun and Lin Erjun came back, they dug a lot of earthworms. There was nowhere to put the earthworms. Lin Sanjun took off his clothes and wrapped the earthworms in his clothes. Lin Yiyi looked horrified. But this is the age, and nothing. These two years have been famine and famine years. Almost all the battalions have not raised pigs, and everyone has eaten the bark, not to mention pigs? Not only pigs, but also chickens are hardly raised. Some people keep them, and I am afraid that they will be stolen in the middle of the night. Therefore, many people kill the chickens and air-dry them. In good times in the past, the chickens raised by ordinary people either graze on grass or feed earthworms, so children dig a lot of earthworms and wrap them in clothes, and rural people are almost not afraid of earthworms.

Seeing that the earthworms were almost digging, Lin Yiyi asked them to rest, not because they felt bad for them, but because they didn’t need so much.

Lin Yiyi: “The Third Army, Fourth Army, do you know where there are bamboo forests?”

Lin Sijun: “It’s between our village and Moon Village. What are you going to do in the bamboo forest? Are you digging bamboo shoots?”

Lin Yiyi: “…” That’s what I think.

Lin Sijun: “Sister, where are the bamboo shoots waiting for you to dig now? They have been dug up long ago.” Although Lin Sijun has no other meaning, this can be analyzed into another meaning, you know Bamboo shoots can be eaten, and others know it.

Lin Yiyi let go of this kind of thinking. She saw the world in the book too simply. In this world, everyone is a living, flesh-and-blood person, not a paper person without a brain.

At about two o’clock, Lin Dajun and Lin Erjun came back with three fishing rods and a kitchen knife. This kitchen knife was hidden by Father Lin when they were about to hand in the iron. He hid the kitchen knife on his body, so when the organization came to the Lin family to search for the iron, they searched the house and seized all the big iron. Well, this kitchen knife does not.

The two brothers ran all the way, panting and sweating.

As soon as they arrived, Lin Sijun said, “Big brother and second brother, come and see. Big sister found a nest of wild eggs. There are 16 eggs.” Although Lin Sijun hasn’t studied yet, his brothers and sisters are all studying. So he can count the short answer.

When Lin Dajun and Lin Erjun heard the words, they hurriedly went to see them. When they saw the wild eggs in the small back basket, their eyes were protruding. Lin Erjun: “Is this what the eldest sister found?”

Lin Yiyi: “Yeah.”

The taciturn Lin Sanjun also rarely nodded.

Lin Sijun: “Eldest sister said to eat eggs at night.”

When Lin Dajun and Lin Erjun heard the words, their faces also brought joy.

Lin Yiyi: “Everyone, let’s catch this big ominous shrimp.” It’s obviously a lobster, so it has to be called a big ominous shrimp, “Give me a fishing rod, I will fish with the second army of the army, the third army and the fourth army will smash the earthworms into pieces with stones. , then hooked onto the fishing hook.”

“Hey.”

Lobster likes fishy food. Not only do they eat earthworms, but they also kill each other very fiercely. When the three fishing rods went down, the lobster was quickly hooked.

Lin Yiyi: “Three Armies and Four Armies, come and get the big ominous shrimp. After the big ominous shrimp is taken off, hook the earthworm to the fishing hook.” She just sat and fished steadily and didn’t want to touch it. However, as a good sister, she still reminded, “Be careful when taking the big ominous shrimp, and don’t get your hands caught by its clips. After taking them off, chop off their heads with a kitchen knife, and put the rest of the meat in the back basket. Then take the meat from their clips and put them together, and then hook them on the fishing hook, and they eat their own meat.”

“Hey.”

After half an hour of fishing, fifth brother Lin woke up, and when he saw his brothers fishing, he looked around curiously, walking between Lin Dajun, Lin Erjun and Lin Yiyi, looking at this and that at a while. But the child can’t stand loneliness. Seeing that his brothers are busy, he also wants to join.

Lin Wudi walked to Lin Yiyi’s side: “Sister, I want…I want…” He reached out and took it.

Lin Yiyi held his little hand: “Do you want candy, little brother?”

sugar? Fifth Brother Lin thought of the sweet candy he ate in the morning, so he forgot the fishing rod and looked at Lin Yiyi with saliva: “Eat candy, want to eat candy…Sister…”

Lin Yiyi’s heart softened when she heard the milky cry. She took out a candy from her pocket and peeled it off: “Here, eat it.” In order to prevent Fifth Brother Lin from waking up and crying, she came out with the candy.

The other brothers in the Lin family saw it and looked at the fifth brother Lin enviously. They also ate candy in the morning, and the sweet taste makes them want to eat it too.

Lin Yiyi: “After you go back, each of you will reward you for your hard work this afternoon.”

When the Lin brothers heard this, their work became more vigorous. They didn’t dislike half of them. Children in the countryside gave them one, and they sometimes ate half of them, and hid the rest before eating them.

The three of them caught lobsters together for three hours from two to five o’clock, and they caught about 20 pounds. The main reason is that there are many lobsters here, and because no one has ever fished them, they are quite big. About eleven or twelve are a pound.

Looking at the headless lobster, Lin Yiyi was more surprised than seeing the meat. She asked Lin Dajun to carry the lobster on his back, put a lot of grass under the basket, and then covered it with clothes, and then put Lin Wudi in the basket. The lobster was under Fifth Brother Lin’s butt, and no one would see them when they carried their backs into the village. Then the remaining earthworms and lobster heads were not thrown away, but were placed in another basket. Lin Yiyi planned to come back to fish tomorrow morning. This is food… it’s like life.

On the way back, Lin Yiyi said, “Do you know where there is ginger?” If you are talking about green onions, the base of the Lin family’s house is there, and the rows of green onions next to the foundation were planted when Lin’s father was there. This is the case in the countryside. In the land where green onions are not planted, they are planted according to their own houses, and they are planted in rows against the wall without occupying any area.

Lin Erjun: “Dr. Lin’s family has ginger.”

Lin Yiyi understood in her heart.

During famine and famine, in order to store energy, few people in the village move around, especially after meals. It was already six o’clock when Lin Yiyi and the others returned to the village. At this time, it was not dark because of the summer, but everyone had dinner, so no one was walking on the road. Even some people don’t even eat dinner, so they don’t even walk around the village.

As soon as he got back to Lin’s house, Lin Yiyi said: “Fourth Army, you take Xiaowu to play in the yard. Second Army, you go and get scissors, cut the back of the big ominous shrimp, and pull out a black line inside, this It’s dirty and can’t be eaten. Sanjun, you go to boil water, and both sand pots should be burned. Dajun, take this piece of meat to Dr. Lin’s house to exchange some ginger, and then thank the doctor for seeing me yesterday. I’ll cook dinner .”

Others have no opinion on her arrangement, because it is not tiring work, but Lin Dajun has some opinions: “Eldest sister, we don’t have enough meat to eat, why should we give it to Dr. Lin?”

Lin Yiyi: “Dajun, you are in charge of the family. You have to be sensible and know how to deal with the relationship between people. First, my sister was sick yesterday, and it was Dr. Lin who came to see the doctor, although Brother Xiao Yu gave us medicine. Fei, but Dr. Lin also helped us. We thanked us for a small piece of meat. In the future, there will be an emergency at home. We have no adults. Dr. Lin is famous in the village. Can you take care of us? Second, we If you want ginger, you can’t ask for it empty-handed. It must be exchanged for something, what do you think? Third, you are the head of our family, and you need to move around to communicate with the people in the village. “

Lin Dajun understood all these words. When he heard it, it was also good for his family, and seeing that the meat cut by the eldest sister was only such a small piece, he didn’t say anything.

Lin Yiyi was not idle either, she went to the corner to pick a handful of onions, and then went to make egg custard. I beat two bowls of egg custard and put it into a casserole, which was filled with water again, just to be used as a pot. Ordinary sand pots have small openings, and even a small bowl for eating cannot be put in. However, the sand pot from Lin’s family is different. The opening on the top is broken. In fact, there are only two thirds of the sand pot, and the sand pot has no mouth. Yes, the sand pot is bigger. The cracked hole was smoothed by Lin’s father with a stone, and it would not hurt his hand.

Two bowls of egg custard were simmered in a sand pot, and Lin Yiyi filled a small wooden bucket with water to wash the lobster with black lines on its back. Lin Dajun came back with **** and sweet potatoes in his arms, weighing a full two pounds.