Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

In the main hall of the old house, all the family members were present. Lin's mother Caiyun and Liu Juan brought their two sons, and Xiulan held her daughter.

"Dad, hold me!"

Xiaoxia hadn't seen her father for more than half a month, and she struggled to get out of her mother's arms so that her father could hold her.

Lin Yue's two sons also hugged his thighs to express their longing for him.

Lin Heng put his things down, wiped his sweat, walked over and hugged his daughter who was about to cry, and said with a smile: "My dear baby, do you miss your father?"

Xiaoxia rested her head on her father's shoulder and said coquettishly: "Xiaoxia misses your father, and so does your mother!"

"My dear baby, come here, give your father a kiss." Lin Heng was touched by his daughter's cuteness and kissed his daughter's fair face.

"Dad, don't go out, I want you." Xiaoxia wiped her eyes, and the little girl missed him so much that she was crying.

"Second brother, you don't know that after you left, Xiaoxia would take us to look for you every day, and she would cry if she couldn't find you.

We said you went up the mountain, and she would take us up the mountain every day." Caiyun said with a smile.

Lin Heng looked at his daughter, and then at his wife. Her eyes showed obvious concern and longing, and her soft eyes were like the charming autumn water.

Four people went up the mountain, and only Lin Heng and his eldest nephew didn't come back for nearly 20 days. Xiulan must be worried.

"It's okay, I'm back, and I won't go out for a while. I'll accompany you well, okay." Lin Heng touched his daughter's little face and said.

"Okay!" Xiaoxia stopped crying, and her tone was still a little delicate.

"Then let mom hold you, and dad pack up first, okay?" Lin Heng asked tentatively again.

Xiaoxia immediately hugged Lin Heng's neck, shaking her head like a rattle, and her voice immediately became tearful again: "No, no, I want Dad to hold you."

Lin Heng patted his daughter's back helplessly and comforted her: "Then Dad will hold you all the time and won't let you go."

On the other hand, his eldest brother Lin Yue's two sons were much easier to deal with. He hugged them, turned them around, and then asked what they had done recently before putting them on the ground. The rest was left to the eldest son to tell.

But Lin Heng found that his eldest brother's eyes seemed to reveal envy, wanting such a spoiled, hugged little cotton jacket.

"Okay, it's almost done, we should distribute things. According to the old rules, the herbs and mushrooms you dig yourself are yours. If no one helps you hunting, it is completely yours. If someone helps, it will be divided according to the amount of help."

Father Lin said, and divided the things out.

First, Lin Heng's. Lin Heng dug very few herbs, all of which were more valuable or useful. They were packed in his own bag. After drying, it was about ten pounds.

As for mushrooms, he harvested 50 jin of tea tree mushrooms, 1.5 jin of ganoderma lucidum, and 13 jin of shiitake mushrooms, all of which were already dried.

Then there was the prey, first of all the live prey, a forest musk deer, a wild boar cub, and a seven-jin old turtle.

As for fur, Father Lin thought that he did not contribute to the big wild boar, so he gave all the suede and white rice (civet cat) skins to Lin Heng.

Finally, there were about 50 jin of wild boar meat left, and the large and small intestines that were fried also belonged to Lin Heng, as well as three jin of Taibai Mountain Sophora japonica honey.

Father Lin's own harvest was five catfish, which added up to 11 or 12 jin. A small wild boar cub, more than 30 jin of tea tree mushrooms, and half a jin of ganoderma lucidum. And the 80 or 90 jin of fresh medicinal materials brought back before, which are estimated to be 30 or 40 jin after drying.

As for the eldest brother Lin Yue, there were one or two catfish brought back last time, a badger skin, and most of the meat.

In addition, there are more than 60 kilograms of dry medicinal materials, more than 30 kilograms of tea tree mushrooms, half a kilogram of Ganoderma lucidum, and three kilograms of Taibai Mountain Sophora honey.

If we count the harvest, then Lin Heng naturally has the most. Although hunting is difficult, it is definitely much faster to make money than digging medicinal materials, because valuable medicinal materials are too rare.

Not counting wild boar meat, badger meat, two little wild boar cubs and musk deer, only fur, medicinal materials, mushrooms, catfish and turtles are counted.

Lin Heng's income is about 230 yuan.

Lin's father's income is about 75 yuan.

Lin Yue's harvest is about 130 yuan.

Lin Wei's income is about 3 yuan.

Among them, the price of fur is calculated at the cheapest price, which may actually be more expensive.

If the little wild boar and the female musk deer are counted, Lin Heng's income this time can reach about 270 or 280, crushing his father and eldest brother.

The reason why Lin Yue can reach 130 is mainly because he caught a badger, and he stayed in the mountains for more days than Lin's father and dug a lot more herbs.

After the distribution, Lin Heng had the most things, which made people envy him the most. The harvests of others were also quite satisfactory. This trip to the mountains was not in vain.

When the eldest sister-in-law Liu Juan saw her husband's harvest, she couldn't hide the smile on her face.

"Dad, take this white rice husk. If you don't catch the small wild boar, I can't catch the big wild boar." Lin Heng gave the white rice husk to his father.

Without waiting for Lin's father to speak, Lin Heng took out the wild boar meat and gave it to his eldest brother and father, each weighing 11 or 12 pounds.

"Don't say anything. It's just a courtesy. Big brother, you didn't eat the badger meat you caught alone." Lin Heng looked at his father and eldest brother and said.

The eldest brother's more than ten pounds of badger meat was also given to him and his father, five pounds each.

"Okay, then divide it like this. First move your things home, take a shower, and come back to eat later." Lin's father nodded without being pretentious.

Lin Heng looked at his daughter in his arms. She didn't dislike him either. Her clothes were smelly from his sweat and she had no intention of leaving.

"Caiyun, do Xiulan a favor. I can't carry Xiaoxia in my arms." If her daughter couldn't get out of her arms, she had to ask Caiyun and Xiulan to help her take it back.

I carried my daughter back home and walked into the yard. All the fruits and vegetables that Xiulan and I planted two months ago had already borne fruit.

Whether it's cowpeas, green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, or peppers, the branches are already so full that no one can eat them.

The shelves on the courtyard wall were covered with pumpkin vines, gourd vines, and winter melon vines. It had only been less than twenty days, but it felt like a long time had passed.

Lin Heng picked a rural cucumber, wiped off the sharp thorns and the tip of the pedicle, and took a bite.

The texture of native cucumber is crisp, sweet and moist, sweet and delicious, and it also has the slightly astringent feeling of cucumber skin slurry.

"Dad, I'll eat."

Xiaoxia thought about Xiaozui, touched Lin Heng's face with her little hand, and said softly.

"Here, you eat the cucumber core." Lin Heng nibbled off the outer ring, leaving the sweet cucumber core.

Xiaoxia opened her mouth and bit into half of it, her cheeks puffed up for a while, then she bit off the other half, and then stopped eating.

Lin Heng ate the rest in two bites and walked to the pig badger room to look at the baby pig badger. This guy has grown a lot now and weighs more than ten kilograms.

Now he is no longer afraid of people. If you throw in a leftover cucumber, he will happily run over to pick it up and eat it.

"Where are the forest musk deer and wild boar cubs?" Xiulan walked over and blinked at Lin Heng, her autumn eyes filled with tenderness.

She had not seen her little man for more than twenty days, and she missed him very much. However, there were only a lot of people in her eyes, so it was hard for her to do anything.

Lin Heng looked at his wife and said softly: "First take the separate backpacks and fasten them to prevent them from fighting."

"Brother, I'm leaving. I won't disturb you and your sister-in-law reminiscing." Caiyun put down her things, smiled, waved and left.

"Xiaoxia, let mom hold you. Dad will take a shower and come over. I promise not to leave."

Lin Heng put his daughter down and said.

"Pull the hook!" Xiaoxia stretched out her little hand, her voice less delicate and more crisp than before.

"Okay, hook up!" Lin Heng smiled and fulfilled his promise to hook up with his daughter.

Xiulan looked at her daughter and said, "Your clothes have been washed and put in the closet. You can take them yourself."

"okay."

Lin Heng carried the turtle in the bag, went to get clean clothes and towels and went to the backyard.

"call!!"

As soon as he walked to the backyard, Lin Heng heard the cat purring to scare him. He turned around and saw a red-haired cat with some leopard spots tied under the eaves.

"Eat my food and sleep in my house. If you yell at me again, be careful of starving."

Lin Heng glanced at it. He really didn't feel grateful at all. It wasn't him. It was already a skeleton now.

But this cat has grown up a lot now, and is a little smaller than the average civet cat.

It seems that now we can almost determine its species. It is the Qinling Golden Cat, a medium-sized cat.

It is known as the "yellow tiger". It is a very powerful predator that can prey on muntjacs, pigs and badgers. The male can grow to more than thirty kilograms, and the female can grow to more than twenty kilograms.

After taking a look at this guy, Lin Heng took a wooden bucket from under the eaves, scooped some water from the fish pond, and put the newly caught turtle into it.

Then he found a wooden basin and fetched water from the well to take a bath.

After I finished taking a shower and put on clean clothes, it was already ten o'clock, and the stars in the sky were so beautiful.

Back in the main room, Xiulan was sorting out his things. Hunting bows, arrows, hatchets, etc. were all neatly hung on the wall.

The mushrooms and herbs were poured into the garden dustpan and hung up to dry. Everything in the house was neat and clean.

"Did you make this wooden bowl and basin yourself? Your craftsmanship is quite good." Xiulan saw him, pointed to the wooden bowl and basin on the table and said with a smile.

Lin Heng nodded and said with a smile: "Of course I did it. I miss you and do this to pass the time on rainy days.

I wanted to cut one knife at a time, but ended up making so many things. There were also a lot of ugly ones left on the mountain without being brought back. At least I thought of you tens of thousands of times. "

Xiulan gave him an angry look: "Stop talking so much, I don't believe it."

Lin Heng came over, hugged his wife's waist, and blew wind into her ear: "It's true, the conscience of heaven and earth."

Xiulan's body softened, but she still pushed him away forcefully, and whispered: "I didn't see that my daughter was still there, just say it, don't do anything."

"It's okay if you give me a hug."

Lin Heng smiled and spread his hands.

"These lean meats have gone bad. I'll fry them when I get back soon, and I'll also refine the fat meat into oil. It's difficult to preserve them in this weather."

Xiulan refused to argue with him and pointed at the fat.

"It's up to you to decide." Lin Heng spread his hands and said.

"Then it's decided, let's go to our parents' place for dinner first, and then we'll do it when we get back." Xiulan said with a smile.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, picked up the Liangbai on the big cabinet and said with a smile, "Are you preparing it for me?"

"Could it be prepared for Xiongba?" Xiulan glanced at him and said angrily.

Lin Heng drank it all in one gulp, then picked up his daughter and walked to the old house.

After Xiulan locked the door, Lin Heng asked as he walked: "Has that little wild cat raised a family?"

"That's right, but it only recognizes Xiaoxia, and it roars when I go there. It's very fierce.

Xiaoxia once touched its belly, and it lay there motionless with its eyes narrowed. Xiulan complained.

"Then it really knows how to recognize its master." Lin Heng smiled. This little kitten is quite smart. He fell in love with Xiaoxia. When he grows up, he won't be able to kill her.

A group of people came to Lin's father's house and were chatting, especially the eldest nephew Lin Wei, who described their life in the mountains vividly like his two younger brothers, making the two of them extremely envious.

Lin Heng held his daughter and didn't want to interrupt. He sat next to his wife and listened quietly.

"Catfish have a really long life. They can survive after working for an entire afternoon and put them back into the water."

Father Lin walked in and said with emotion.

"That's natural." Lin Heng said with a smile, the catfish's vitality is so abnormal.

Other fish can only swim along the current if they want to change to another water area, but catfish can go directly to the shore and jump over on land.

Therefore, this product can be found in large and small waters all over the world, and it is definitely a leader on the road of evolution.

The food was served soon. I couldn't finish all the fruits and vegetables in the past two days, so Mother Lin cooked nine dishes.

"Come, eat."

Lin's father said something and took the lead in using chopsticks. Everyone in the family was staring at the meat and braised catfish, while Lin Heng was interested in the cold gray vegetables and lettuce.

He was a little tired of the greasy food he had eaten these past few days on the mountain, especially in the past two days, he had been eating meat every day in order to get rid of the wild boar's offal.

After eating a few bites of vegetables, he felt extremely comfortable. He almost finished a plate of gray vegetables and lettuce by himself.

"Come on, Xiaoxia eats fish." Lin Heng gave his daughter a piece of catfish meat.

Wild catfish meat is good, there are no fish bones, the meat is tender and nutritious.

Xiaoxia took a bite of her chopsticks and ate happily.

I drank a little rice wine, had dinner, and then went home quickly. Because I was very late, everyone lit three candles during the meal.

On the way home, Lin Heng had already put his daughter to sleep, walked into the bedroom, and put her on the crib.

There are so many mosquitoes these days that Xiulan made a small opaque mosquito net for her daughter out of cloth so that she would not be afraid of being bitten by mosquitoes while sleeping.

After arranging his daughter, Lin Heng turned around and went to bed. Xiulan had already taken off her clothes to "rest".

She expected that Lin Heng would be back in the next few days, so she took a fragrant shower every afternoon as soon as the sun went down.

Lin Heng lay down and gently hugged his wife's waist. She turned over and hugged Lin Heng, and the two immediately kissed each other.

Xiulan's hot body silently expressed her thoughts these days.

Lin Heng searched up and down. Even though he was very tired today, he still couldn't stop his passionate heart. The young knight's determination to charge into battle could not be stopped.

But before that, he ate two large soup dumplings.

In the dark room, the sheets were changed twice, and finally Lin Heng fell asleep holding his wife's bumpy body.

Early the next morning, Lin Heng slept until 12 noon. He didn't wake up until the sun's rays hit the bed.

"God, I'm so tired."

Lin Heng lay on the bed and didn't want to move. Xiulan and her daughter had already gotten up.

"Dad, get up!"

After a while, his daughter walked in from the door and trotted to the bedside to call him.

Xiaoxia now walks very straightly, unlike before where she always felt like she was about to fall.

"okay."

Lin Heng smiled and touched his daughter's face, got dressed, got up, and pulled his daughter out.

"Eat when you get up. I left some rice and vegetables for you."

Xiulan was refining oil in the kitchen. When she saw Lin Heng pulling her daughter over, she spoke.

"Right now, I'm going to plant this tree first."

Lin Heng wanted to eat directly, but when he saw the cypress bonsai placed in front of him, he remembered that he had forgotten it last night.

It was simply repaired, the roots were shortened, some leaves were removed, and the rotten areas were also removed.

Then he planted it in a flower pot, watered it thoroughly and placed it in the east corner. This place is humid and has short sunlight hours.

"Don't die." Lin Heng was very satisfied with this bonsai.

The back bark of the cypress trunk is gray-white, full of deathly silence and desolation, but a green leaf sprouts from it, which is full of artistic conception of life and death.

Lin Heng returned to the room and Xiulan brought the rice to the table.

Lin Heng sat down to eat, and Xiulan sat beside him with her daughter to talk.

"In the past few days since you went up the mountain, many people came here to sell Phellinus huang. I paid the price you said. It weighed more than 280 kilograms and cost more than 80 yuan."

Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and reported.

"Well done, no matter how much they come, I'll take them all." Lin Heng nodded.

The more Phellinus mulberry, the better. Xiulan was indeed a good wife, and she did what she said she would do, without making any mistakes.

If there were other women, let alone taking it, they might be able to sell it to you quietly on their own initiative, and then keep the money in their own hands under the pretext of doing your best.

"When are you going to dig a fish pond? You have to find someone to look after it."

Xiulan asked again.

"I'll go to the village party secretary to report it later and ask about the specific situation, and then I'll find someone to see a better life." Lin Heng thought for a while and said.

While eating, the two of them shared with each other what they had been doing these days.

In addition to taking care of the children at home, Xiulan and Caiyun Lin's mother picked mushrooms and honeysuckle together, picked up some dry firewood, and looked through the prepared soap. Her life was very ordinary and monotonous.

"The soap feels like it's ready. I'm going to sell some in the village with Caiyun in the next two days to test the water."

Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said.

"Okay, you can make your own decision. I'll go to the village party secretary's house to find out about the situation."

Lin Heng said after finishing his meal.

"Okay." Xiulan nodded.

Lin Heng washed his face and walked out. Xiaoxia hugged his leg: "Dad won't leave."

"I'm not leaving. I'll be back after a while." Lin Heng said helplessly.

"No!" Xiaoxia shook her head.

"You take her with you. She always checks in every once in a while when you don't get up in the morning. She's afraid that if you leave, she'll cry again if you don't take her with you."

Xiulan said with a smile.

"Okay then." Lin Heng looked at his daughter, picked her up and walked out with her.

"Wait a minute, go get a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus soap." Xiulan thought for a while and felt that it was not a good idea to be empty-handed, even though the village party secretary did not accept gifts.

He turned back and wrapped a piece of osmanthus soap for Lin Heng and asked him to take it with him.