What a pity there is no tofu, Wen Jiajia thought.

She likes to put tofu on braised fish. The tofu is also fried and stewed together with the braised fish. The fried tofu has tiny holes in it, and the fish juice naturally cooks into the tofu, bubbling. Whoever has eaten it knows the taste!

After making the braised fish, I stir-fried some green peppers and eggplants and finally cooked a bowl of refreshing loofah soup, and lunch was ready.

The portions were big, and Wen Jiajia was very satisfied that she could have another meal in the evening.

In the afternoon, Wen Jiajia started to make milk tea again.

Although Wei Dai, a real man, refused with his mouth, his hands were quite honest. After Wen Jiajia stuffed the cup in his mouth twice, he took it and drank it sip by sip.

Wen Jiajia told him what had happened over the past two months, and then asked, “Now that you’ve finished your mission this time, you shouldn’t have any long-term missions in the short term, right?”

Wei Dai shook his head. “Not sure.”

He will probably have to go on a long-term mission in two months, but he can’t tell his wife about this. Firstly, there are regulations, and secondly, if he tells his wife now, she will be unhappy two months in advance.

Wen Jiajia assumed that he had no more tasks and happily poured some more milk tea into his cup.

“They said the new factory won’t open for another three or four months, which would probably be September or October by then. If you go out on a mission, I’ll be busy, and there’ll be no one to take care of the two children at home.” She sighed.

Wei Dai wasn’t too worried. It wasn’t because he didn’t care about Wen Chun and Wen Xuan, but because they were in the army and they wouldn’t let the two kids go without food.

Also, girls aged five or six will never get hurt at home.

Scissors, kitchen knives, matchboxes, plugs… Wen Chun and Wen Xuan would never touch these dangerous things.

Wei Dai took another sip of milk tea. “Will the infrastructure of the new factory be better than that of the pharmaceutical factory?”

Wen Jiajia shook her head. “The new factory was converted from an old hospital. Seventy percent of the pharmaceutical factory is newly built. It can’t be compared. It can’t be compared at all.”

“Is there no place that is new?”

“That’s true… but I haven’t been there, I just heard about it.” Wen Jiajia clicked her tongue. “Anyway, my application has been approved. Director Xue said that the leaders are not willing to let me go. They really are not willing to let me go. I’m quite popular.”

Wen Jiajia started laughing again as she spoke.

It feels so good to be in demand. Her self-confidence has increased a lot.

Wen Jiajia even thought about it. After the reform and opening up, if Wei Dai was still serving here, she could try to take over the medical glass factory after it could no longer operate. The pharmaceutical business was also very profitable, and she had a golden finger to help.

At eight o’clock in the evening, after the two children had gone to bed, the couple hurried to collect the traps while there was still some movement outside.

There is no way. The army does not allow people to walk around at night without reason, especially after the lights are turned off at nine o’clock.

The trap they use to collect ground traps^[1]refers to a type of device or method used to capture or monitor animals that come into contact with the ground. does not fall within the scope of “having a reason or fate^[2]refers to the idea that events or situations in life are guided by some sort of purpose or predetermined path..”

When the weather gets hot, there are countless insects and leeches, and you can hear rustling sounds wherever you go.

Some unknown birds were startled by the people passing by and flew away flapping their wings.

Wen Jiajia shone the flashlight in the direction of the sound, and Wei Dai quickly covered her eyes. “Don’t look, I’m afraid you won’t be able to sleep at night, and you’ll have nightmares even if you fall asleep.”

She became even more curious. “What the hell is this? It will give me nightmares if I see it.”

Wei Dai: “How can you look at an owl when you are scared of a moth and scream?”

His wife is really timid. She is afraid of all kinds of moths, snakes, and weasels. She even has to call him to clean up slightly larger cockroaches when she sees them.

Wen Jiajia hurriedly held Wei Dai’s arm tightly, only to feel a chill on her head.

Of course, she was afraid of owls. Just thinking about it scared her. They were birds, but they had a face like that…

“Hurry up, hurry up.” Wen Jiajia urged and quickly shone the flashlight back to the ground, deciding not to take pictures out of curiosity anymore.

Along the way, the two met quite a few people, and Wei Dai greeted five or six of them.

“They all went fishing,” Wei Dai said. “They caught a few fish at night to supplement their family income. The lakeside must be very busy now.”

The two came to the lake and found that it was indeed the case.

Although it was too dark to see people clearly, Wen Jiajia had already spotted four or five people fishing on the shore under the light of the flashlight.

She leaned close to Wei Dai’s ear and whispered, “Why don’t they put down the trap?”

Wei Dai laughed and tapped her head with his knuckles. “Do you think it’s so easy to make a ground trap? If you want to make a ground trap, you need a good one. The best ground trap is made of dense nets, but this kind of dense net is hard to buy and expensive. But if it’s a ground trap made of bamboo, first of all, you have to know how to make it, but the weaving method is complicated, and someone who doesn’t have some bamboo strip skills won’t be able to learn it even if he watches it three times.”

Wen Jiajia nodded, thinking it made sense. After reading it three times, she was still dizzy, and her hands and brain were not working.

“Then there’s the bait. The bait for our ground traps is prepared by me personally and has been tested on many fish. Ordinary baits cannot attract these clever fish.”

Wen Jiajia nodded again. Wei Dai was indeed good at making bait.

According to him, this was not his limit. He once used sheep fat as bait, and that time he caught more than a pound of shrimp, five fish, and countless crabs, eels, and loaches.

But even without mutton fat, it’s not bad.

The couple sneaked around to the other side to set the traps, but they were not the only ones who were smart. Wei Dai saw a few more trap marks on the water.

“I don’t know who got here first,” Wei Dai said. Two of the spots he had originally chosen have already been taken.

Wen Jiajia was terrified during this process, fearing that a snake would emerge from the grass.

It took Wei Dai nearly half an hour to put out the four traps. It was almost nine o’clock, so the two of them quickened their pace to go home.

The people fishing at night walked even faster than they did. This stretch of road was dark, and they couldn’t really tell who these people were in the darkness.

They had a good night’s sleep.

The next day was a working day. Wen Jiajia went out to work on time and completely forgot about the traps.

After washing the dishes, Wei Dai went to collect the traps and only went to work after he was done.

If the traps are not collected in time, they are very likely to be taken away by others.

This time the catch was plentiful. Each trap yielded more than the previous day. Three large wooden barrels could barely hold it all.

There were six fish weighing more than one kilogram each, half a bucket of crabs, two eels, and one water snake.

However, his wife was extremely afraid of snakes, so Wei Dai did not keep the water snake but gave it to Xie Yang next door.

Xie Yang didn’t want it either, and it was later taken away by Sister Bao.

Sister Bao said that she wanted to cook it together with dendrobium^[3]refers to the use of certain orchid species in traditional Chinese cuisine., Chinese yam, and codonopsis^[4]refers to the use of its roots, which are commonly used in traditional Chinese cuisine and herbal medicine for their mild, nourishing properties., saying that eating it this way is good for people.

The rest were mostly crayfish, a whole bucket full, enough for his wife to cook two or three meals.

Wen Jiajia only remembered this after she arrived at the pharmaceutical factory. Before she could guess how much the traps had caught this time, Director Xue came to call her. What did he call her for? He called her to see the new factory.

“Can we go in?” Wen Jiajia was surprised.

Director Xue: “You can’t, but this time we are going with the chemical plant, so we have to act as a group.”

Wen Jiajia understood that individual actions were not allowed to prevent accidents.

That’s right, it’s said to be a new factory, but it’s also a construction site, so no one can be allowed in without permission.

At half past nine, the group set out for the new factory.

The new pharmaceutical glass factory was not far away, so the group from the pharmaceutical factory walked directly there. The people from the chemical factory came by bus, but fortunately, they left early, so the two groups arrived almost at the same time.

Wen Jiajia counted silently and found that there were more than 30 people. She followed behind Director Xue and was not noticeable at all.

The new factory had large signs reading “Linhe Pharmaceutical Glass Factory” hanging on the left side of the door.

Entering from the gate, a Western-style building came into view. Wen Jiajia took a closer look and felt that it looked a bit like the buildings left over from the Republic of China period in northeast China. She guessed that this building was built by foreigners decades ago.

Thinking of this, someone in the team asked, “This building of the old hospital has been used for many years, right?”

Someone answered, “Of course! It’s at least 60 or 70 years old. The building was there when my mother was a little girl. She said my grandfather used to pull a cart here. It’s really solid. It took a lot of strong men to build it. It’s only thanks to the new society that we can live here.”

This building used to be a hospital for foreigners, and 50% of the staff were foreigners with blond hair and green eyes. Ordinary people didn’t have the courage or the money to set foot here.

Later it was taken over by the state and turned into a municipal hospital.

After the municipal hospital^[5]is a hospital that is owned and operated by a city or local government. moved, this place became vacant. The government originally wanted to convert it into an epidemic prevention station, but the area was too large. When they were considering whether to add a veterinary station and other departments, applications from the pharmaceutical factory and the chemical plant were submitted. After discussion, this place was approved.

This Western-style building looks very big from the outside, and it is even bigger once you go inside.

The Western-style building has three and a half floors in total, covering an area of ​​at least 500 square meters, and there are 12 rooms on the first floor alone.

The light is just average, Wen Jiajia thought after walking around. In her opinion, the windows could be opened a little wider.

But if they want to expand it, they will have to tear down part of the wall, and the workers are not willing to do that.

Then they went up to the second floor.

The building is seven meters high, so the second floor gives you a sense of being up high and looking far. Standing on the second floor, you can actually see the pharmaceutical factory building through the houses.

The second floor is also a production workshop, like the first floor.

The third floor is not like that. It is home to various meeting rooms and offices.

As for where the remaining “half building” is?

It’s not on the third floor, but below the first floor. In short, it’s the basement.

This is totally normal. When this building was built, there was war all over the place, and the basement was used to avoid air raids.

“Wow! So the machines are all in the basement.” The first person who went down said, “I was wondering why it was so empty up there. Old Bai clearly said that some of the machines had already been moved in.”

“Really? Let me take a look,” someone said.

Upon hearing this, Wen Jiajia hurried downstairs.

However, there were too many leaders in front of her, and a small shrimp like her could only wait until others had seen enough before watching.

She looked around furtively, and the synthesis page popped up again. It turned out to be a melting furnace…

It doesn’t look like a brand new melting furnace, because there is an option for a 100% new melting furnace on the crafting page.

“Jiajia, let’s go.” Wen Jiajia was watching intently, and the people next to her reminded her to leave.

“Okay!” The speaker was Lin Yunfei, who was an employee of the chemical plant and would most likely be her colleague in two or three months.

Wen Jiajia came to the door of the pharmacy several times and saw her two out of three times.