Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

This time we didn't encounter horse-drawn carriages or ox-drawn carriages, so the family of three walked to the town.

Xiaoxia stopped walking after less than two kilometers and stuck to people.

Lin Heng put her in a backpack and carried her on his back. After carrying her for one kilometer, Xiulan took her over, and then carried her for another kilometer and took over again.

There was no sun today, it was cloudy and a bit hot, and the two didn't talk much. They walked side by side, sweating from time to time.

When they arrived at the river, Xiulan washed her handkerchief, and the three of them took turns wiping their sweat.

There was only the gurgling of the river and the wisps of hot wind. There was no need to speak, and the actions conveyed emotions.

When they were about to reach Huangtan Town, they met an elderly couple in their sixties.

They seemed to have a quarrel, one walking in front and the other walking behind, one outside the road and the other inside the road.

Not far away, the old man deliberately slowed down his pace and leaned towards the old woman.

The old woman didn't want to pay attention to him at first, but after he leaned over twice, the two walked side by side and talked again.

Lin Heng glanced at Xiulan, she blinked and said nothing.

Lin Heng remembered how Xiulan looked when she was angry. She was the type who would sulk, saying nothing and doing her own things.

He had never really made Xiulan angry in this life. She was a gentle and considerate woman, and it was difficult to make her really angry.

Lin Heng had offended her many times in his previous life, but later he could no longer offend her. He had changed all the bad habits that Xiulan hated.

After years of baptism, he understood some things and understood some things, and now he hardly makes his wife angry.

When they arrived in town, it was almost seven o'clock and almost eight o'clock. The streets were quite lively, with people scattered and shouting.

"Brother Lin, sister-in-law!" Seeing Lin Heng enter the store, Wang Zhou hurriedly greeted him with a smile.

Putting Xiaoxia on the bench, Lin Heng pointed to the medicinal materials in Xiulan's backpack and said, "I'll buy it at the normal price, and the money will be given to your sister-in-law."

"I'll sell it at the price in the city." Xiulan raised her chin slightly and said playfully to Lin Heng.

Wang Zhou was stunned: "This..."

He looked at Lin Heng and didn't know what to do.

Lin Heng looked at him and said: "She is the boss's wife and she is the boss. You must do what she says."

"Okay!" Wang Zhou nodded, envious in his heart. The relationship between the boss and the boss's wife is really good.

Xiu Lan counted the seven yuan and fifty cents from selling medicinal materials, looked at Lin Heng and put the money in his pocket.

Wang Zhou poured a cup of tea for Lin Heng and Xiu Lan, and said: "By the way, Brother Lin, Uncle Li said yesterday that the horse Li Gui said he was willing to lower the price a little and sold it for four hundred and fifty."

"I know, let's talk about it in the afternoon." Lin Heng nodded.

He is not in a hurry. It's still in time to buy it back before August 15th.

The two rested for a while, and Lin Heng took his wife to visit the store, and then people came to sell mountain products one after another.

Xiu Lan and her daughter watched Lin Heng receive the goods curiously, and the people who came were often amazed by the two of them.

After a while, at around ten o'clock, Lin Heng handed the work over to Wang Zhou alone, and he took Xiulan and Xiaoxia to go shopping.

"Dad, what is this!!" Xiaoxia pointed to a straw pillar full of candied haws and asked.

"This is a candied haws, would you like a bunch, little kid?" The old man selling candied haws answered the question for Lin Heng.

"One bunch!" Xiaoxia said crisply. She didn't know what a candied haws was, but she knew what candy was, and her big eyes were bright.

"Three cents a bunch." The old man looked at Lin Heng and said with a smile.

The price was a bit expensive, but Lin Heng still bought a bunch for Xiulan.

Xiulan took it and fed Xiaoxia one. Xiaoxia took a bite and ate it for a while with her cheeks puffed up.

After Xiaoxia finished one, Xiulan opened her red lips and ate three of the remaining four, leaving one for her.

Xiaoxia looked at her mother with her eyes wide open, but dared not say anything. She took her only remaining candied haws and licked it carefully. She licked the sugar coating before taking a bite of the hawthorn.

Lin Heng took Xiulan, Xiulan took Xiaoxia, and the three of them walked around the street twice and bought two kilograms of pears and two kilograms of apples.

"The clothes in this store are relatively good."

After choosing and choosing, Lin Heng took Xiulan into this clothing store to pick clothes for his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

This place has clothes ranging from one yuan to eight yuan, but the price is expensive, and the quality of the most expensive ones is far inferior to what Lin Heng bought in the big shopping malls in the city.

In rural towns, many stores make money from farmers by relying on this cognitive gap.

Xiulan picked two sets of good quality and spent twenty yuan after negotiating the price.

When he was about to buy shoes for his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Wang Zhou came.

Seeing Lin Heng, Wang Zhou hurriedly said, "Brother Lin, someone brought a red-maned horse to sell, right in front of the store."

"Red-maned horse?" Lin Heng was interested and nodded, saying, "Let's go over and take a look first."

"The man selling the horse is an uncle in his forties. He said that this horse was carefully raised by the old man in his family. Recently, the old man got cancer and was hospitalized. The family has no money and is in a hurry to buy it." Wang Zhou said as he walked.

Lin Heng nodded and said nothing. This kind of thing needs to be understood on the spot to know whether it is true or not.

It is not uncommon to cheat sympathy by pretending to be pitiful.

When you arrive at the door of the store, you can see a middle-aged man with dark skin and a forehead full of ravines leading a horse with red fur.

This horse looks good from a distance, with a well-proportioned and strong body. It looks much taller than the yellow horse, and the shoulder height is estimated to be 1.3 meters.

Judging from its soft and reflective fur, it is indeed not an exaggeration to say that it is carefully raised.

And it is also equipped with a leather saddle, it seems that he really wants to sell it.

"Uncle, do you want to sell the horse?" Lin Heng came over and asked with a smile.

The middle-aged man nodded, with anxiety and bitterness on his face: "Yes, boss, the old man has brain cancer and needs money for treatment. We have sold everything that can be sold at home, but no one has bought this horse. I heard that you are buying horses here, so I hurried to pull it from Dahe Town."

Lin Heng nodded, looked at him and asked: "How much are you going to sell this horse for?"

Cancer is an incurable disease in the future, and this is brain cancer. There is no hope in the hospital. But Lin Heng would not say it naturally. If he said this without relatives, he would only be hated.

Moreover, if relatives are sick, they will be treated even if there is no hope. This is a long-term affection. If it is his parents, he will do the same.

Although he sympathizes, he will not buy it if it is too expensive.

"Boss, what do you think about 450?"

The middle-aged uncle looked at Lin Heng and said, his voice was rough, revealing fatigue and anxiety.

This price surprised Lin Heng a little. He was really going to sell it, and it seemed that the matter was true.

"Let me take a look at the horse first." Lin Heng said with a smile.

He felt around and found that although the horse was a male horse, it was not very aggressive. He looked at its eyes, ears, hooves and tail.

He also took off the saddle and checked to make sure there was nothing wrong.

"Uncle, can you ride it for two laps for me to see?" Lin Heng asked again.

Although the uncle was miserable, he didn't want to spend so much money on a problematic horse.

"Okay." The middle-aged uncle tied the saddle, climbed on the horse and ran three times back and forth on the deserted road here.

There were already quite a few people watching nearby, and they all heard about the tragedy in the uncle's family. They felt that Lin Heng's strict inspection of the horse was a bit inappropriate.

When the horse came over, Lin Heng listened to its breathing for a while and was very satisfied.

The horse performed very well during the riding process just now, and its breathing was also very even and there was no problem.

Lin Heng turned and went into the house to discuss with Xiulan for a while, and came out with 500 yuan.

After looking at the onlookers and the middle-aged man, Lin Heng smiled and said, "Uncle, your horse is very good. I will buy it.

I discussed with my wife and decided to give you an extra fifty yuan, five hundred yuan. Your horse is worth so much money, and I hope the old man can get well soon."

The middle-aged man was stunned, and then he was about to kneel down and kowtow to Lin Heng. After being stopped by Lin Heng, he couldn't help nodding: "Thank you, thank you, you and your wife are really good people, thank you..."

He thought Lin Heng would lower the price, but he didn't expect that Lin Heng not only didn't lower the price, but also helped him in times of need. How could he not be grateful?

During the days when his old father was in the hospital, he saw through the warmth and coldness of human feelings. He didn't expect that a young man who met for the first time would treat him like this.

"Don't be polite, this is what I should do." Lin Heng said with a smile.

He naturally wanted to do good deeds to gain a good reputation. But no one didn't give him a thumbs up, after all, he really helped people.

With this good reputation, even if Liu Qicheng moved to the main street later, he would not have to engage in any price war. As long as he maintained the same price as Liu Qicheng, I believe that a large number of people would still choose to come to his place.

The uncle kept thanking him and said it many times before taking the money and leaving. Lin Heng told him to be careful and put the money in his pocket before leaving.

After the uncle left, Lin Heng looked at the bay horse again and again, and loved it very much.

Although it was not a pedigree horse, it was indeed very majestic, and the five hundred yuan was definitely worth it.

The original owner also raised it much better than Li Gui's three horses, which could be seen from the fur.

After touching it, Lin Heng rode it to try it out, and gently shook the reins, and the horse moved forward.

After patting its butt, it ran away. Lin Heng only felt the whistling wind around him, and felt like an ancient general galloping on the battlefield.

After riding two laps, Lin Heng jumped off the horse and looked at Grandpa Gao and asked, "Grandpa, isn't this horse good?"

Grandpa Gao, who was drinking tea in the room, smiled and gave a thumbs up: "The horse is good, and you, Xiaolin, are even better."

"Haha, thank you for the compliment." Lin Heng laughed.

"Dad, I want to ride a horse too!" Xiaoxia ran over and said in a baby voice.

Seeing her father riding a horse, her eyes lit up.

"Then I'll carry you up, but you're not allowed to move."

Lin Heng carried her onto the horse and led the horse to the backyard to tie it up.

Wang Zhou couldn't understand Lin Heng. He was so shrewd before. Now he heard that he was in trouble, but he took the initiative to give him an extra fifty yuan. It was really strange.

But he thought that following such a boss should have a good future.

"Let's call you Red Date." Lin Heng touched the horse and gave it a name.

Just asked, it's four years old this year, and it didn't have a name before.

After letting Xiaoxia sit for a while, Lin Heng took her down and took her and Xiulan to buy the shoes they had not bought just now.

When he came back, Lin Heng took two kilograms of crushed corn flour from his mobile phone, poured it into a basin, added water and stirred it into a paste, and brought it to Hongzao.

"Sizzle~"

Hongzao lowered his head to drink it, making a sizzling sound. Lin Heng touched his head and felt very relaxed.

"Dad, I want to ride a horse!!"

Xiaoxia waved her hands excitedly at the tall horse. She liked it after riding it for a while.

"Wait a minute."

Lin Heng pulled her away. If she was kicked by the horse, it would be terrible.

After the horse finished drinking the corn paste, Lin Heng put Xiaoxia on the saddle, led the horse and Xiulan out together.

"Are you going back now?" Grandpa Gao asked curiously.

"No, go to the blacksmith shop to see if you can put horseshoes on the horse." Lin Heng shook his head and said.

This horse has no horseshoes because the original owner didn't ride it often, and the horseshoes need to be replaced frequently, which costs a lot.

If you ride it often, it would be better to order horseshoes for the horse, so as not to hurt the horse's hooves.

"Then we really need to get one." Grandpa Gao nodded.

"Xiu Lan, go up and hold Xiao Xia." After leaving the house, Lin Heng said to his wife while holding the horse.

Xiu Lan had never ridden before and was a little scared. She looked at him and said, "Why don't you do it?"

"Don't be afraid, it's easy to ride with a saddle." Lin Heng smiled and comforted.

He first carried Xiao Xia down, then helped his wife get on the horse, and waited for her to sit down before carrying Xiao Xia up.

Hong Zao had just eaten a bowl of corn paste, and was very well behaved at this time, and did not move from beginning to end. It was not until Lin Heng led it forward that it slowly took steps.

"How does it feel?" Lin Heng asked with a smile. As long as the horse does not run, just walking slowly like this is not dangerous for beginners.

"It's quite novel."

Xiu Lan smiled as she rode on the horse, while Xiao Xia was a little excited, her short legs swaying.

Lin Heng led the horse and walked slowly. It was only one o'clock now, and there were still many people on the street. Everyone looked at Hong Zao sideways. Not only was the horse good-looking, but the person was also good-looking.

When they arrived at the Li's blacksmith shop, the family was having dinner. When they saw Lin Heng, the uncle hurried out to greet them and said with a smile: "Boss Lin, what are you going to make this time?"

"Make a pair of horseshoes for my horse, Uncle Li, can you make them?" Lin Heng looked at him and asked.

When the middle-aged uncle Li Tie heard this, he smiled and patted his chest: "You really found the right person. I can not only make horseshoes, but also repair horseshoes.

You can come down and rest for a while. Horseshoes are made very quickly. They can be made in two or three hours. I guarantee you will be satisfied."

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded. It would be best if he could make horseshoes.

He took his wife and children down, tied Hong Zao to the shade in the yard, and it made a hissing sound and shook its head.

Li Tie brought tea to Lin Heng, and the ones for Xiulan and Xiaoxia were still sugar water, which showed that he still valued Lin Heng very much.

"You sit down for a while, I will start working after I finish my meal." Li Tie said with a smile.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, and sat here with his wife waiting.

After Li Tie and his son finished their meal, Li Tie came over with tools and said: "Boss Lin, come and help control the horse and measure the size of the horseshoe for it."

"I just bought this horse, I may not be able to control it." Lin Heng said and stood up to help.

"It's okay, it shouldn't be too difficult." Li Tie waved his hand.

Lin Heng came over and grabbed its front hoof and lifted it up, shouting: "Lift the hoof."

Hongzao didn't understand, Lin Heng bent it several times before it lifted the hoof up, Liang the carpenter took a bamboo stick and measured the length, looked at the shape, and printed it on paper.

After a while, the shapes of the four hooves were measured. Li Tie touched Hongzao and said with a smile: "Your horse is quite majestic, and looks as mighty as Red Hare."

Lin Heng grinned: "Haha, it's majestic enough, I don't want it to be so difficult to ride."

The horseshoe was made of good soil, and soon found an iron bar and burned it red to start forging. Lin Heng and Xiulan were not bored watching here.

They used long iron bars to forge it quickly, and it took more than ten minutes to punch out the shape, and then used tools to punch grooves on the horseshoe and six holes for nailing the horseshoe.

In less than forty minutes, two horseshoes were made, and the eldest son polished them, while Li Tie and the second son continued to forge the horseshoe of the hind hoof.

Lin Heng held his daughter and watched with relish, just like watching a sword forging competition.

"Let's go over and see if the shape is suitable. If not, we can adjust it." Li Tie said with a smile after it was done.

"Okay." Lin Heng and Li Tie walked to Hongzao together. With the experience of the last time, it lifted its hoof very quickly this time.

Li Tie confirmed that the size was fine, and then began to install it. He first used a small curved knife to trim the feet of Hongzao, and then heated the iron to make grooves on the horse's hoof, and thick smoke immediately rolled out.

"Don't be afraid, I have shoed many horses." Li Tie said with a smile.

After taking the horseshoe and quenching it, Li Tie came over with a lead nail, clamped the horse's hoof with his legs, and began to nail the horseshoe.

Lin Heng stroked and comforted Hongzao, who struggled for a while and then gave up, letting the blacksmith deal with it.

"Okay!"

After a while, Li Tie nailed all four horseshoes.

"How much?"

Lin Heng watched the whole process and was very satisfied. The uncle's work was very meticulous. There was a reason why the Li family blacksmith shop was doing so well.

Li Tie grinned: "Just give two yuan, generally, if you don't do heavy work, you can change it once a month. If you do heavy work, you may have to change it once every half a month. Next time you change it, just give one and a half yuan."

For him, this is also a long-term business.

Xiulan took out two dollars and gave them to Li Tie, who smiled and sent the three of them out of the yard.

"Let's try to see if it can carry three people." Lin Heng found a suitable position and let Xiulan hold the reins, and he tried to ride on it.

Horses can usually carry 500 to 600 kilograms of things, and the three of them together are less than 300 kilograms.

"Hiss!!"

Accompanied by Hongzao's neigh, Lin Heng stepped on the stirrup and sat on it.

"Go!"

Lin Heng took the reins and loosened them, gently patted the horse's butt, and Hongzao slowly walked.

"Not bad!" Lin Heng smiled, it felt really good to ride a horse with his wife and children.

He was not in a hurry, so he let the horse go slowly as it pleased. If it went too fast, Xiulan's daughter, who had never ridden a horse before, would not be able to bear the bumps.

"Ride a horse, ride a horse!" Xiaoxia waved her hands, very excited, and wanted to pat the horse but was held down by Xiulan.

Lin Heng stretched out his hands from his wife's waist to pull the reins, his head next to his wife's head, and he could smell the fragrance of her hair while walking.

Xiulan leaned into Lin Heng's arms, her head just at the position of Lin Heng's shoulder. She also felt very comfortable and said with a smile: "Hongzao is a really good horse!"

There were no people on the streets of Huangtan Town. Lin Heng rode back to the store to get the things he bought, said a word to Wang Zhou and Grandpa Gao, and then got on the horse and walked back.

He didn't walk fast along the way, and Hongzao didn't sweat much, walking slowly.

It was already past six o'clock when he returned to Hongfeng Village. He didn't walk much faster than a human, but he was exhausted and very happy.

"Brother Lin, is this the new horse you bought? It's really majestic?"

Under the road, Lin Hai, who had just finished turning over the straw, ran over and looked at the horse that Lin Heng sat on with envy.

PS: I'm going to take a day off today. This is the only one. From the time it was put on the shelf to now, it has been 47 days of daily sales. I'm really a little uncomfortable today. I'm really a little uncomfortable today. I hope everyone can forgive me.