Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"Why are you all sitting at the children's table? Sit back quickly."

Lin Heng's third mother, Li Xue, brought the dishes and was stunned when she saw this situation.

"We saw Lin Heng sitting here and we followed suit." Someone said with a smile.

"I don't drink, so I will definitely sit at the children's table." Lin Heng said, spreading his hands.

"How about that? Lin Heng, please come sit down quickly." His third father, Lin Xutao, walked in from outside and took Lin Heng to the adults' table.

However, Lin Heng had no choice but to go over and sit next to Father Lin.

Fortunately, everyone stopped making noises and chatting became more normal.

The food was served quickly. Today's dishes were very good. In addition to the regular vegetables and bacon, there were also turtle dove leaf fairy tofu, fried creek grouper, stir-fried eel, and a large plate of field snails.

"Come on, let's get going. You've worked hard today." Lin Heng's third father raised his glass and said with a smile.

Lin Heng and others all took some, and the dining table suddenly became lively.

Most rural people are good drinkers, and there are many people who can walk without shaking even if they weigh a pound or two each.

Lin Heng only likes to drink and not drink alcohol. He is also very interested in stir-fried eels.

His third mother made this dish well, without any fishy smell.

The snails are also processed well. Although there is less meat, they taste really delicious.

"Lin Heng, come and have a drink." Lin Shan said with a smile.

"I can't drink that much, I can't drink enough." Lin Heng shook his head with a smile, picked up the wine glass and clinked it.

"You're so unhappy, you don't look like a man." Lin Shan drank it in one gulp, feeling a little unhappy.

Lin Heng shook his head, took one sip and then stopped drinking. This happened to everyone.

Father Lin and his eldest brother Lin Yue laughed and excused Lin Heng. Everyone else also knew that Lin Heng was really not good at drinking, so they stopped urging him.

However, in words, they were still full of envy for Lin Heng. Some were curious and asked some questions, and some wanted to understand the process of opening the canteen.

Lin Heng is not stingy and will answer most of the questions regardless of the core issues.

Although the men at the men's table said they envied Lin Heng, they were more restrained and did not flatter him.

As for the women's table, Xiulan was surrounded by a group of women, who were concerned about this and that, made appointments to do laundry, and invited her to play at their home.

Lin Heng's third mother was even closer to Xiulan than her own daughter, and she never stopped picking up food.

You must know that they were not like this in the past. Many women did not play with Xiulan or talk to her much because she was from another county.

Secretly, he also joked that she was blind and was tricked by Lin Heng into coming back, and that she would be miserable for the rest of her life.

People like Wang Cuilian sometimes bully her intentionally.

Now that Lin Heng is prosperous, everyone wants to become good sisters with Xiulan and thinks about her in everything.

It was as if they had been best friends for more than ten years all of a sudden. They kept looking for various topics to talk about and wanted to become good friends with Xiulan.

Xiulan was a little panicked for a moment, but fortunately her mother and sister-in-law were by her side and helped her a lot.

In response to some inquiries, Xiulan shook her head and said she didn't know. She held her daughter while feeding her and said nothing, occasionally nodding in response.

In fact, she initially hoped to have a good sister to talk to, but everyone ignored her, and she gradually got used to it.

She also fell in love with this clean and simple life. Apart from being with Lin's mother Caiyun, she also took her daughter to pick mushrooms and hunt hogweed by herself. It was also very good and clean.

I would be in a daze, thinking about Lin Heng, or what to eat for lunch, and the days would go by very quickly.

In the past few days, many women have come to ask her to go out and hunt pigweed together, or do laundry.

She went there a few times at first, but she stopped going when she heard their complaints and complaints, as well as their insinuations about things at home.

She thought it would be best to go out with Caiyun, who would never complain about this.

It would be happiness to be with Lin Heng. Even picking mushrooms together would be fun.

Moreover, she felt that these women were so strange. They were obviously the men they chose, but after marrying them, they complained all day long, despising their men for not living up to expectations.

And since the family has no money, shouldn't the two of us work together? Why are we complaining to each other?

After eating, Lin Heng and Xiulan definitely couldn't run away directly, that would be too rude.

Xiulan helped sift millet in front of the door, and Lin Heng went to the rice field to help thresh millet.

In this era, the tools people used to thresh millet were very simple. They were a trapezoidal threshing bucket with a small bottom and a large mouth. It was surrounded by tarpaulins on three sides and was 2.5 meters high.

There is also a curved rake placed in the threshing bucket, and two people in a row take turns to thresh the grain.

Hold a handful of millet with both hands and slap it hard on the wooden rake in the threshing barrel, and the millet will scatter into the threshing barrel.

In the distance, very regular sounds could be heard, each time four bangs, bangs, bangs, then a pause and four more sounds, and the cycle started over and over again.

The women cut the millet with sickles, and the men took turns threshing the millet. At the end of the day, the women's backs ached, and the men's arms ached.

Until the threshing bucket is full, it is time to take out the wooden rake, shovel out the millet, and carry it home.

There were a lot of rice leaves in the millet they carried home. Xiulan and the others used a large sieve made of bamboo to sift out the rice leaves and spread them on a tarpaulin to dry.

The next step is to wait for the millet to dry in the sun, then use a windmill to blow out the shriveled millet, leaving only the good millet.

Lin Heng's arms were sore after beating millet for a while, so he ran to the side to rest.

"It's so tiring." Lin Heng shook his head and sighed.

It takes them many days to do the same work that modern harvesters do in one day.

But even if it is so tiring, everyone is very happy. Compared with the previous years when people were hungry and ate pig grass, at least in recent years, everyone can eat enough and occasionally have a few good meals.

Compared with ancient times, compared with the past, life is indeed getting better and better.

Although this country has many shortcomings, at least it is getting better and everyone still has hope.

"Lin Heng, what time is it?" Uncle Li also came over and sat down to rest.

Lin Heng took out his watch from his pocket and looked at it, and said with a smile: "It's three fifty, and it will be four soon."

He took the watch out when he was threshing the grain just now.

"Is this the same as a clock? Can I see it?"

In fact, he was always curious, but he was embarrassed to ask in public during the meal.

"The same." Lin Heng handed it to him to take a look. He had seen this uncle before, but he couldn't name it.

"It's so good, it feels so smooth to the touch, so beautiful." Uncle Li said with emotion.

"Let me see it too." Yang Zhaotao's father next to him drank a sip of water and smiled and came over.

The watch was passed around several people before it returned to Lin Heng. Everyone was envious. Some people saw it for the first time.

"Lin Heng, what do you think are the ways for ordinary people to make money?" Someone couldn't help asking.

At this moment, everyone's attitude became sincere, not joking and flattering before dinner.

Lin Heng glanced at everyone and said with a smile: "It must be planting fruit trees. Although there may be no harvest in the first five years, the yield will gradually increase after five years, and it is easy to make thousands of yuan a year.

And in the past few years when the yield is not up, you can also interplant soybeans and so on, which will not have much impact."

Everyone nodded after hearing this. Planting fruit trees is indeed more reliable.

"What kind is good?" Someone asked again.

"It depends on each person's choice. It is best for a village to grow the same kind of fruit. It is easy to sell on a large scale." Lin Heng spread his hands and said a few words.

"That makes sense."

A group of people chatted for a while, and I don't know who listened to it, and then went back to threshing the millet.

His third father started threshing yesterday. There is not much left today, and it was finished at around four o'clock in the afternoon.

After dinner, it was past seven o'clock, and the things that we had planned at noon were ruined.

The next day, his family had to thresh the millet again, and Lin Heng estimated that the matter of beating the rice cake would have to be postponed for a long time.

"The corn can only be fed to the chickens, it will go bad tomorrow morning." After returning home, Xiulan said helplessly.

Originally, I planned to cook corn, pumpkin and red dates porridge in the evening, but Third Mother Li Xue was too enthusiastic.

Xiulan took the cleaned tender corn to feed the chickens, and Lin Heng collected the red dates.

After half a day of exposure to the sun, the skin of the red dates was wrinkled, and it would be dry in two more good suns.

The next morning, Lin Heng got up early and asked his eldest brother to carry 200 kilograms of quicklime to Hongfeng Mountain.

"Brother, put the quicklime here first, come and help me drain the water in the first fish pond." Lin Heng put down the quicklime and said.

"Okay." Lin Yue nodded and followed Lin Heng.

The overflow mouth has been open, and the remaining water still needs to be discharged by siphoning.

After disinfecting the first fish pond, no one cared about it. The water in it was all strong alkaline solution. When it was almost soaked, the water had to be drained.

After soaking for so many days, there was no leakage. This first pond was perfect.

After fixing the water pipes, Lin Heng and his eldest brother went to spread lime to disinfect the second fish pond.

After spreading the quicklime, Lin Heng went to the stream to open the water inlet.

There was a waterproof membrane laid in the canal. After opening it, the water flowed along the waterproof membrane to the fish pond. The waterfall at the entrance of the fish pond was also laid with a waterproof membrane, so there was no need to worry that the slope would be washed away by the water flow.

As the water flowed into the pond, it immediately reacted violently after encountering the quicklime, and bursts of white mist rose.

After the water was drained to a depth of about 30 centimeters, Lin Heng closed it. Wearing water shoes, he went in to scoop lime slurry and poured it on the slopes around the pond for disinfection.

When the two of them finished these and returned home, the people Lin's father had called had already gone to the fields to start threshing.

"Let's go quickly, too. I wonder how the harvest of millet will be this year." Lin Yue said.

Lin Heng nodded, carrying a backpack and going directly to the field.

When he came over, Lin's father and his family had already threshed half of the rice field.

There were many people threshing rice for their family today, so they used two threshing buckets and divided the people into two groups.

Lin's father led a group of people to the few acres of rice fields farther away, while Lin Heng's uncle, third uncle, and uncle-in-law led people to thresh the rice in the few acres of rice fields by the river in front of the door.

"Uncle, third uncle, uncle-in-law, have you finished threshing the rice in your family?" Lin Heng came over and asked with a smile.

"We finished threshing two days ago. I was going to call you, but you were busy." His uncle-in-law Li Baiquan said with a smile.

His uncle Lu Honghai next to him blamed him, "Yeah, you didn't even notify us when you opened your new store. You really don't treat us as your elders."

"That's right, kid. If you don't tell others, we, your uncles, won't tell them either." His third uncle also blamed him.

What Lin Heng did this time really shocked them. Starting from the price increase of Coriolus versicolor, this series of things made them feel like they were on a plane, a little overwhelmed.

Not long ago, he was a young man who had just reformed himself. In the blink of an eye, he actually made a lot of money and opened a purchasing station and became a small boss. It was like a dream.

"Haha, time was too rushed and I didn't have time to notify you." Lin Heng laughed, but in fact, he didn't even think about notifying you.

Some things have different perspectives, and the results are different. If he had been notified in advance, there would definitely be many people who would dissuade him from saving the money and not tossing it.

Now that he has succeeded, the attitudes and ideas of the elders are naturally different.

"Don't do this next time." Several people blamed him.

"I promise not to do it again. I will definitely tell you if there is anything in the future." Lin Heng smiled and promised. These elders are very good and are some of the people who have the closest contact with his family.

"Lin Heng, I have prepared a good thing recently. Let's go fry fish when it gets cold." Li Baiquan smiled and said.

"What is it?" Lin Heng was a little curious.

Li Baiquan smiled and said, "I got a kerosene bottle with gunpowder and detonators in it. Let's go to Huangtan River to fry fish in winter."

"Damn, where did you get it, little uncle?" Lin Heng widened his eyes. His little uncle had told him this before, but he didn't expect him to really get it.

This is the same as the bear using grenades to fry fish. They are all tough guys.

"Hehe, in the early years, someone saved some detonators for building roads and opening mountains for others." Li Baiquan said with a smile.

"I still have two at home." His uncle Lu Honghai also said with a smile.

"Okay, you can call me when the time comes." Lin Heng nodded. Although it is not elegant for a fisherman to go fishing, this is detonator fishing, and the scene must be spectacular.

"No problem, I will call you when the time comes." Li Baiquan smiled, he knew that Lin Heng was interested in this.

"Lin Heng, I saw your musk deer, and I heard that you killed another wild boar. It's amazing." Lu Honghai said with a smile.

"Haha, it's also good luck." Lin Heng laughed.

After hitting the millet in his hand, he continued: "Let's go together in winter and walk a little to the foot of Taibai Mountain. Maybe we can kill something big."

"No problem, we have different ideas. "Several people nodded.

After chatting for a few more words, Lin Heng went over to say hello to his aunt Lu Hongyun who was cutting grain.

Her aunt is more than five years younger than her uncle, but the funny thing is that the age on the household registration book is wrong, resulting in 12 years older than the actual age.

According to the household registration book, she is now in her fifties, ten years older than Lin Heng's mother.

But she really looks older than Lin's mother, because she is too capable. She does the work of women and men, and her hands are full of calluses.

Her two sons can get married and have children, and she is the one who has contributed the most. Li Bai is far inferior to her.

Lin Heng was also taken care of by his aunt when he was a child. He secretly gave him candy and biscuits, which made his childhood more sweet.

In the last life, he was in debt, and his aunt also helped Xiulan a lot.

"You are successful now, aunt, you must let me take advantage of you when you sell medicinal materials in the future. "Aunt Lu Hongyun joked.

"No problem, aunt, you come to my place to sell mountain products, I will give you the original price, not a penny to make." Lin Heng patted his chest and said.

If he was asked to choose one of these relatives to help, the first one would be his aunt, and then the third father.

"This is a good relationship, then aunt will take advantage of you." She said this as a joke, how could she really take advantage.

If Lin Heng let her take advantage, wouldn't he have to do the same for other relatives? She would not make it difficult for her nephew.

Then Lin Heng asked about his two cousins ​​Li Shilei and Li Shiwei.

Lin Heng and Li Shiwei played better, because the two were close in age, only a few months apart, and later they got married and had no time to play together.

As for Li Shilei, he preferred to hang out with a few other people, and had an average relationship with Lin Heng. The main reason for asking this question was to find out whether Li Shiwei came, and wanted to play with him. They used to be best friends.

"Your brother Shilei is not coming, he is busy with something. Li Shiwei came down at noon and said he wanted to come down to play with you. "Aunt Lu Hongyun said with a smile, he knew that Lin Heng was looking for his second son Li Shiwei to play.

"Haha, that's good." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.

When I was a child, the friends who played better in the village were Li Shiwei, Lin Hai, and Liu Sheng, besides my eldest brother.

Liu Sheng is still fooling around with Zhao Hu and others, and he doesn't want to care about him anymore. Li Shiwei still wants to meet him and reminisce about the past.

After going back to thresh the millet for a while, it was soon noon. There were many people calling today, so the threshing was fast.

Sister-in-law Liu Juan came to call people to eat, saying that the meal was ready.

"Okay!"

Everyone threshed the harvested rice, shoveled out the millet and carried it back home.

After returning home, Li Shiwei didn't come down from the mountain until lunch.

"I guess something delayed him." Aunt Lu Hongyun said.

"It's okay, I'll go to play with him next time. "Lin Heng said with a smile, it is normal for married people to be helpless.

After all, women as gentle as Xiulan are rare.

For lunch, four tables were set up. In order to finish threshing the millet in one day, Lin's father called many people to help today.

The food was also very rich. Lin's father killed the catfish that he had not been willing to eat before, and also killed two chickens. It was much better than the food of ordinary people.

Just this meal was worth it for many people who came to help. They didn't have such good food at home.

Lin Heng sat at the same table with his uncle and two uncles. He was very comfortable. He drank when he wanted to drink, and said if he didn't want to drink. There was not much trouble.

But his uncle kept looking at his watch, and he was very envious.

After dinner, he went to his house to see Lin Musk.

"I didn't expect you to actually catch it. It's a pity that it's a female, otherwise it would be rich." Li Baiquan looked very sorry.

"That's fine. I can catch a male and pair up with him." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"That's hard. Sometimes you can't find one for several years. It's hard to kill it, and it's even harder to find one alive." Li Baiquan shook his head and said.

"You can always find one." Lin Heng smiled.

After taking his uncle to visit the house, the two went to the fields to thresh the millet.

My aunt was kept by Lin's mother to help cook in the afternoon, in fact, to get her some good food to eat.

Because they had to finish threshing the millet in one day, they threshed until more than seven o'clock in the afternoon, but there was still some left.

But not much, tomorrow my family can finish threshing.

In the evening, Lin Heng was watching his own millet and helping to dry it. His uncle Li Baiquan suddenly came over and said, "Lin Heng, there are many bamboo partridges in the bamboo garden. Let's go and catch two to eat."