Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

The father and son sat down under the shade of the tree. Lin Heng leaned against the tree and held a dogtail grass in his mouth, looking at the sky.

"It's so blue."

Lin Heng sighed, blue sky, green trees, clear water, birds singing and cicadas chirping, what a harmonious scene.

Xiongba had eaten a lot in the morning, and lay down beside Lin Heng, sleeping with his four legs facing the sky and eyes closed.

The dead grouse was a bit smelly, so I simply cooked it and fed it to Xiongba in the morning. It is very comfortable now.

"Don't you look at the fishing rod? What if you catch a fish?" Lin's father asked.

Lin Heng turned his head and saw that even when talking to him, his father's eyes were fixed on the fishing rod. He was so dedicated.

He couldn't help but smile and said, "Dad, you don't have to stare so hard. It's not that easy to catch a fish. It's good to relax in the blue sky."

"There's nothing good to see in the sky. I'd better look at the water." Lin's father shook his head and was not very interested in the sky.

Lin Heng had no choice but to touch the sleeping Xiongba. It licked his hand with its tongue, opened its eyes a little, and then closed its eyes again.

"I caught a fish!"

Suddenly, Lin's father climbed up, ran over and pulled up the fishing rod.

Pah ta! !

A fish was pulled out of the water by him, fell behind him, and landed in front of Lin Heng.

Lin Heng: "..."

"Dad, this is not how you fish. If you do this, the fish's mouth will be torn apart. Even if the fish's mouth is not torn, the line and the rod may break." He was speechless.

Lin's father didn't care about that. He walked over and caught the small catfish weighing more than one pound. He grinned and said, "Don't say, fishing is really interesting."

"Woof woof!"

Xiongba climbed up and shook his tail to show that he wanted to eat.

Lin's father couldn't bear it, so he dug a pool of water next to him and put it in.

He touched the dog's head and said with a smile: "If I can catch a five-jin one, this will be for you to eat."

"Woof woof!" Xiongba rubbed Lin's father happily.

"That's nothing, I'll catch you a big one later."

Lin Heng said casually.

Xiongba believed it, ran back and lay down in front of Lin Heng, looking at his fishing rod.

Lin's father hung up the pig liver and threw it down.

In less than three minutes, Lin's father suddenly cheered: "It's caught again, it's caught again."

He rushed up, grabbed the pole and pulled it hard, and a catfish came out of the water. Because it was a little big, it couldn't fly up, but it was directly dragged to the shore by him.

Lin Heng shook his head helplessly, thinking that this is the aura of a novice, it's really interesting.

Fortunately, Lin's father used nylon line for this fishing method, and the cotton line would probably be pulled apart by him.

"Two jin." Lin's father came over with the fish to show it, and his mouth couldn't close.

"Not bad." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Woof woof!" Xiongba put one paw on Lin Heng's leg, his eyes questioning.

It seems that he is asking you about the fish, my master.

"Don't worry, you will always catch fish. Haste makes waste, and small gains will lead to big things." Lin Heng smiled and touched Xiongba's round and smooth head.

Xiongba looked at him and lay down again.

When Lin's father pulled up a big catfish weighing three or four pounds for the third time.

Xiongba didn't make any sound, but he had quietly crawled in front of Lin's father and wagged his tail.

Lin Heng: "..."

Lin's father put the fish down, touched Xiongba, looked at Lin Heng and said with a smile: "Son, you have good hunting skills, but you don't seem to be good at fishing."

Lin Heng: "..."

"Why can't you catch fish? Is the bait gone?"

Lin Heng stood up and talked to himself, walked over and pulled up the fishing rod, feeling that he was provoked.

As a senior fisherman, how could he be defeated by a novice?

Pulling the bamboo pole up, a small piece of whitish pork liver was still hanging on it.

"It's strange, it really is." Lin Heng changed a piece of fresh pork liver and threw it down again.

Ten minutes later, Lin's father caught another small catfish. He put the fish down and said with doubt: "This fishing is strange. We are so close to each other and I can catch fish, but you can't."

Lin Heng: "..."

"Dad, do you know what the catfish's whiskers are for?" Lin Heng suddenly asked with a smile.

"What is it for?" Lin's father really didn't know.

Lin Heng smiled and explained: "Catfish hunts by taste, and it has 100,000 taste receptor cells on its body.

As for whiskers, it feels that there is no place to arrange taste receptor cells on its body. So it has specialized taste tentacles, which are all covered with taste receptor cells. This allows it to sense the smell released by prey from a long distance, and it is 360 degrees without dead angles."

Father Lin didn't understand, but was shocked: "Son, you are amazing. You can summarize so many things about fishing, so why can't you catch anything?"

Lin Heng: "..."

He could tell that his father was asking sincerely, but it was really hurtful.

"I guess it's because catfish are most sensitive to acid, so we still have to use live earthworms. Live earthworms struggle in the water to release carbon dioxide and form carbonic acid, which catfish can sense better."

Lin Heng analyzed it, turned over two stones, and found a ten-centimeter-long blue-black earthworm, which was still moving wildly in his hand.

"It will definitely work this time."

Lin Heng pulled up another fishing rod, took off the pig liver on it, replaced it with the fat earthworm, and threw it into the water.

"Hey, son, I caught another one, the fourth one."

As soon as Lin Heng dropped the pole, Lin's father raised the pole again, and the fish was no bigger than a catfish weighing more than a kilogram.

"Woof woof!!"

Xiongba rubbed his father Lin's legs, sticking out his tongue and begging for food, with admiration in his eyes.

"Haha, let's go back and give it to you." Father Lin touched Xiong Ba's head.

"Don't worry, it will definitely be fine." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"It doesn't matter, no matter how much I catch, I can't catch as much as you, a wild boar."

Father Lin said with a smile, then looked at the sky: "The sun will be hot soon, let's go back to pick mushrooms."

"good."

Lin Heng was no longer in the mood to look at the blue sky, and the dogtail grass was also spitting out. He looked at the tip of the bamboo pole, always paying attention to the water surface.

As time passed, the water vapor on the ground evaporated, the freshness of the morning disappeared, heat followed, and the chirping of cicadas became noisy.

Lin's father caught another half-pound catfish and stopped moving. Lin Heng's side was the Dinghai Shenzhen, which didn't move.

"Take it and go back." Father Lin said with a smile.

"Dad, you clean up first, I'll wait a moment." Lin Heng was unwilling to give in. How could he be in the Air Force? Was he really sucked out of his luck?

"That's okay."

Father Lin nodded. He packed the fish in a bag and was about to collect the fishing rod when he saw Lin Heng rushing out.

Pulling up the fishing rod, it felt like catching the earth for a moment.

Just when Lin Heng was wondering if he was hooked on the bottom, a strong force pulled the fishing line out, and the fishing rod immediately turned into a big bow.

"Big fish, definitely a big fish!!"

Lin Heng's high-pitched voice of surprise could not be concealed, and the nylon thread squeaked as it was pulled.

"This fish is absolutely huge. What should I do? Do you want me to help you?" Father Lin was also overjoyed and stood by in a hurry.

"It's okay, I can sneak away slowly."

Lin Heng grinned widely, with his back teeth exposed: "Let me just say that my analysis is correct. Live earthworms are more likely to catch catfish."

As a senior fisherman, Lin Heng was not as anxious as his father. He would pull and release the fish for a while to strengthen the fish.

After slipping for more than ten minutes, Lin Heng finally felt that the fish had lost its strength and pulled it out of the water with force.

When they saw this big fish, the two people and the dog were all dumbfounded: "It's such a big turtle, but it's not a fish."

Lin Heng: "..."

Your mother is a big toad, and after blowing for a long time, you got such a big turtle.

"Son, you can do this." Father Lin gave a thumbs up.

"Okay, okay." Lin Heng chuckled. Although he didn't catch any fish, this turtle was obviously more valuable.

Pulling it ashore, although it was not as big as the big turtle found in Baishigou before, it was definitely still six or seven pounds.

"This turtle is okay, it's definitely six or seven pounds." Father Lin said with a smile.

Lin Heng pulled the nylon thread and looked at the fishhook. It was not eaten into his throat, but it just pierced his jaw.

"Fortunately, dad helped me remove the fishhook, so I can still feed him."

Lin Heng grabbed the turtle's legs with one hand and its neck with the other. Father Lin grabbed the fishhook and took a lot of effort to take it out.

"This turtle must have been around for more than ten years." Lin Heng looked at it, showed it to Father Lin, and then threw it into the snakeskin bag.

"Definitely, this is an old turtle. It's worth as much as a piece of white rice. Although you didn't catch any fish, you made more than I did when I caught five fish." Father Lin happily patted Lin Heng's hand. Shoulder.

Lin Heng: "..."

After packing their things, the two of them left chatting and laughing.

Back at the camp, elder brother Lin Yue hadn't come over yet, and Lin Wei was playing in the water and catching fish by the stream.

Seeing Lin Heng and the others coming back, he ran over excitedly: "Grandpa, Second Dad, have you gained anything?"

"Of course, although there was no prey, we caught catfish, and your second dad also caught a big turtle."

Father Lin touched his grandson's head and said with a smile.

"You guys are so awesome. I will go fishing next time too." Lin Wei looked at the fish and turtles and his eyes widened.

Lin Heng smiled, dug a beach, put the fish in, and put the turtle in a bag and hung it up. It would not die without water.

"Dad, let's go pick up fungi." Lin Heng came over and said.

Father Lin shook his head: "Lin Heng, you take Lin Wei to pick up the mushrooms, and I will deal with the wild boar head. Let's eat pig head meat for lunch."

He didn't want the boar's head to go to waste. He was heartbroken to hear that Lin Heng fed the big boar's head to Xiong Ba last time.

The processed pig head is very delicious, so he planned to prepare the wild boar head and eat it for lunch.

"Okay, Lin Wei, let's go." Lin Heng understood what his father was thinking and took his eldest nephew up the mountain.

"Today's goal is mainly to pick tea tree mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, ganoderma lucidum, and some egg mushrooms and green head mushrooms when I encounter them."

Lin Heng looked at his eldest nephew and said, he has been picking up fungi with adults since he was a child, and there is no need to teach him to identify them.

"I know the second dad, let's see who picks up the most." Lin Wei was very motivated.

"Then you have to work hard. You can sell what you pick up and buy what you want." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay." Lin Wei became more motivated after hearing this.

The two of them separated a little and started picking. Tea tree mushrooms were the most numerous.

After walking two steps, there was a large bush with many tree roots. After more than an hour of picking, Lin Heng's backpack was full, almost all of which were tea tree mushrooms. He estimated that they weighed forty or fifty kilograms.

On the other side, Lin Wei also picked up half of the basket.

Go back with the backpack on your back. Lin Heng poured the tea tree mushrooms on the pebble beach beside the stream to dry.

When it was time for lunch, Lin Heng picked three baskets of tea tree mushrooms, more than 150 kilograms.

"There are really a lot of these, but it's a pity that the dried ones are only worth 30 cents."

Lin Heng looked at the tea tree mushrooms on the ground and shook his head gently. It would be good if these dried ones could weigh 30 kilograms.

The mushrooms shrank too much, and it was not uncommon to dry 1 kilogram of dry ones out of 10 kilograms of wet ones.

"Second father, how many kilograms do you think I can get from these?" Lin Wei pointed to the piece he picked and asked.

"About 60 to 70 kilograms, not bad." Lin Heng patted his shoulder.

Back at the shelter, Lin's father had cleaned all the hair on the wild boar's head and peeled it off.

"How is it, isn't it good?" Lin's father asked with a smile.

"Yes, it would be perfect if it could be braised." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"It will definitely go bad if you take it back, so let's just stir-fry the mushrooms and eat them."

Lin's father shook his head and started cutting meat. There was no condition to braise meat on the mountain.

Lin Heng washed the green-headed mushrooms and egg mushrooms he picked and brought them over.

What was cooked in the pot was the skeleton left after peeling the pig's head, and there was still a lot of meat. Normally, the meat would be removed and fried, but today it was fed to Xiongba the dog.

The pork head meat was cut and fried with mushrooms. The fragrance immediately came out and spread everywhere, and everyone's stomachs were rumbling.

"What kind of meat are you frying? It smells so good."

At this time, Lin Yue's voice came from the stream.

"Dad, we fried wild boar meat. Second Dad and Grandpa killed a wild boar and caught two piglets."

Lin Wei jumped up and ran over to hug his father.

Lin Yue was stunned for a moment: "You killed a wild boar? How big is it?"

I was away for only one day, why do I feel that so many things have happened.

"You came at the right time, I'll tell you while we eat."

Lin's father said with a smile.

After the pork head meat was fried, the four of them sat together and started to eat. The water was boiling and they were going to cook it later.

There was still some rice and noodles, and they were going to finish the noodles first.

Pig head meat is almost all pig skin. After frying, it is soft and chewy, just like pig ears, chewy and crispy.

After listening to what happened to Lin Heng and his father in the past two days, Lin Yue couldn't help but admire: "This is too cool. I wouldn't have left if I had known. I didn't encounter wild boars."

Lin Heng smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll take you to hunt next time. There are not many things on the mountain, but wild boars are the most."

"Lin Yue, you and Lin Wei should go back again in the afternoon, send wild boar meat back, and call people by the way." Father Lin took a sip of sugar wine and said with a smile.

Lin Yue looked at the current things and shook his head and said, "Dad, I don't think it's necessary. I looked at it and there are actually not many things.

Wild boar meat is salty and it's not so easy to spoil. There's no problem for us to go together tomorrow afternoon."

"That's fine." Father Lin thought about it and agreed.

After dinner, everyone went to the mountain to pick tea tree mushrooms. Lin Heng picked more than 150 kilograms in the afternoon.

Lin Yue and Lin's father also collected more than 100 kilograms of mushrooms, all of which were placed on the stone man to dry.

They still ate pig heads in the evening, but the pig heads were too big, so they only ate one-third of them in the morning.

The next morning, they went to an acorn forest farther away, and each of them collected nearly 100 kilograms of tea tree mushrooms.

Because they were afraid that they could not take too much back, they stopped at 10 o'clock, spread the mushrooms on the stones, and dried them in one afternoon.

As for the ones that were dried yesterday, they were completely dry. The sun in the dog days of August was so terrible.

When packing mushrooms in the afternoon, Lin Heng still had 50 kilograms of tea tree mushrooms out of a total of more than 300 kilograms.

Lin's father and Lin Yue only had more than 30 kilograms, which was less than Lin Heng.

Lin Wei only had more than 10 kilograms.

When packing things, one forest musk deer, two small wild boars, and one for each of the three people were placed at the bottom of the backpack, and wild boar meat, mushrooms, herbs, catfish, turtles and other things were placed on top with wooden sticks.

The three of them shared the load. When the backpack was full, they tied it to the top with a rope and finally managed to load everything.

There was no need to worry about the wild boar or musk deer suffocating to death. The backpack was made of bamboo and had holes the size of a little finger.

Lin Heng looked at the backpack that was almost as heavy as himself, lifted it up and tried to smile: "This time it's going to cost someone's life. It must be more than 100 kilograms."

"It's my fault. It didn't look like much yesterday, but I didn't expect it to be so much today." The eldest brother Lin Yue said embarrassedly.

"It's okay. Just take a few more breaks on the way. Let's go home!!"

Father Lin waved his hand, picked up the backpack and shouted.

"Let's go home!"

Lin Heng looked back at the shelter, then at the fantastic dreamlike mountain forest and stream, and turned to leave.

He missed his wife and children.

It would be a lie to say that carrying more than 100 kilograms of things is not hard, but for healthy rural people, it's just more tiring.

And as long as they can make money, no one will complain even if it's heavy, just like the migrant workers on the construction site.

Everyone has the same goal, to make their home better.

We set out from the camp at about 3 o'clock and walked until the sun was setting in the west, which was still 5 or 6 kilometers away from Hongfeng Mountain.

Although we walked in a straight line all the way back, the things were too heavy, so everyone walked very slowly.

Fortunately, the daytime is getting longer now, and it is not dark at 8:30, and you can still see the road at 9 o'clock.

When everyone returned home, it was already past 9 o'clock, and many people were still outside enjoying the cool air and chatting.

Lin Heng and others originally wanted to go home quietly, but the calls of Piggy and Lin Shek soon attracted many people to notice.

A group of people searched for them and happened to see Lin Heng and four others coming back from the mountain carrying good backpacks.

"Lin Heng, you went hunting in the mountains again? Did you catch wild boar cubs and muntjacs?" Tian Baishun's eyes widened. This kid didn't even take him with him when hunting.

"Lin Heng, what did you do with this? A few bags this high are too many."

Li Caifeng asked aloud, her voice trembling.

"I just said why I haven't seen anyone recently. It turns out that I went hunting in the mountains." Liu Lan couldn't help but say, with a sour tone.

"The three backpacks are all high. How many things are needed."

"Are you going to the mountains to purchase goods?"

A group of people said something to each other.

"I didn't get much from my trip to the mountains this time. There were tea tree mushrooms in the bag. I caught two piglets and a female forest musk deer. We don't want the wild boar piglets. If you want to buy them, you can come and buy them tomorrow."

Lin Heng said with a smile, carried the things directly into the room, and put them in the main room.

Everyone saw that Lin Heng didn't want to show off, and it was already dark, so they had no choice but to go back.

"I guess there are a lot of good things, but he doesn't dare to show them. He must have made a lot of money again." Liu Lan's eyes turned green with envy.

"That's for sure. I know Lin Heng, and he definitely has good things." Tian Baishun sighed.

"It's really annoying. Why can't I get so many things when I go up the mountain? It's like he's buying goods."

Li Caifeng doesn't understand, not just her, but many people don't understand.

They are also human beings, and it’s not like they have never been to the mountains before. Why don’t they have such great achievements as Lin Heng?

If nothing else, the wild boar cub is eye-catching.

Tian Baishun understood that this was a gap in ability, but he didn't say anything, otherwise he would offend others again.

In fact, everyone knows it in their hearts, but they are unwilling to admit it.

Whether you are hunting or setting up a sling, there are skills involved in the noose.

The traps Lin Heng set were all found by Xiongba in places with the smell of prey, so they were naturally more likely to be set randomly than ordinary people.

"Hey, even though people are losing money by buying Phellinus linata, it is a great way to make money."

"It seems that there will be another thousand-yuan household in the village soon. I didn't expect that it would be Lin Heng's family."

A group of people sighed with envy. Three months ago, they would never have imagined that the Lin family would become like this.