Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Lin Heng jumped off the horse, looked at him and laughed: "You have good taste."

As he said this, he took Xiulan and Xiaoxia off.

"So handsome, brother!" Lin Hai walked over and touched the horse's neck.

This horse looks much more handsome when it is taller, and Lin Hai touched it with some envy.

"Can I go up and try it, brother?" Lin Hai begged.

"You don't know how to ride a horse, don't move around." Lin Heng said.

"Okay!"

Lin Hai nodded, and he was even more envious after riding the horse. It was so majestic to ride such a horse.

After riding for a few steps, Lin Hai got off.

Lin Heng looked at him: "Do you want to go to my house for dinner?"

"No, no, I still have to carry some straw back to feed the cows, brother Lin, you guys go back."

Lin Hai waved his hand and walked back to the field below the road.

"Okay, let's go." Lin Heng waved his hand, led the horse and followed Xiulan and Xiaoxia.

They chose a small road to go back, and passed through the center of the village instead of the highway.

It was inevitable to meet some people on the road, but it was much better than being surrounded by the ginkgo tree.

Xiulan took Xiaoxia back home, and Lin Heng led the horse to find the old house.

My parents had just returned and were pouring the Schisandra chinensis they picked today into the dustpan and spreading it out.

"Didn't you see a yellow horse? How did it become a red horse?" Father Lin asked curiously when he saw his son's horse.

"I'm lucky today. I met this red-maned horse. I named it Red Date. Isn't it very majestic?" Lin Heng said with a smile.

Father Lin came over and touched it, and liked it very much: "It's really good, how much is it?"

Lin Heng told his parents about the process of buying a horse. After listening, Lin's mother was a little confused: "You kid, you have money to burn. Give me 50 more yuan. Who doesn't have difficulties? It's not easy for us to earn money ourselves."

"Mom, this is called buying horse bones with a thousand gold. The difference is that I bought reputation. Although I lost 50, there are many benefits later." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"It's too much. Give 20 or 30 is enough." Lin's mother still shook her head.

Father Lin looked at it and rode it again.

After a while, Lin Heng's eldest brother heard the noise and ran over to experience it.

"Dad, brother, where do you think it's better to build a horse pen?" Lin Heng was now struggling with where to raise horses.

"We can build one behind the house. I plan to raise a dog. It's not unsafe." Lin Yue said.

He was referring to the area where pigs and chickens were raised.

"That place is fine. We didn't have railings before. Now we have a diesel saw. We can just fence it with wooden railings in two days, and then build a horse pen." Lin's father also nodded.

"That's fine. It's really no problem to repair the road behind." Lin Heng nodded.

"Are you going to the river tonight? My dad and I are going to catch turtles. The nets are ready." Lin Yue asked again. He came here to ask about this matter.

"No problem, if you want to go, we will do it. Wearing rain boots is not afraid of snakes." Lin Heng smiled and nodded. He is always interested in going to the river.

"Okay, let's wait until nine o'clock to set off. It's useless to go too early. Eels and turtles come out later." Lin Yue said with a smile.

After the agreement, Lin Heng led Hongzao home.

He temporarily tied it in the front yard, and then went out to cut ten corn stalks for it, took a bundle of straw, and brought a basin of water.

Hongzao drank the water first, and then chewed the corn leaves slowly, not very interested in the straw.

In the house, Xiulan had already started cooking. Seeing Lin Heng coming in, she said, "Go feed the poultry and pets. Mom probably didn't feed much at noon."

"Okay!" Lin Heng went out to feed the animals in the front yard first.

Unknowingly, there were already a lot of animals in the house. The pets included Xiongba, Jinbao, and Hongzao.

Other animals included wild boars, musk deer, turtles, goats that Lin's mother had released, and chickens and ducks in the back mountain.

"Xiongba, you should stay hungry first. You will have food when the meal is ready." Lin Heng said to Xiongba who was cheering and jumping for joy as he passed by the kennel.

"Awoo~" Xiongba shouted unsatisfiedly.

After Lin Heng fed the musk deer and wild boar, he took Xiaoxia to feed the chickens and ducks.

When he arrived at the chicken coop, he found that there were three more eggs in the nest, not counting the eggs left in the nest. He happily picked them up after feeding the chickens.

Now he can pick up at least three eggs every day, mainly because he feeds them skillfully.

He began to reduce the amount of food he fed one month before the egg-laying period. He could increase the egg-laying rate by resuming feeding during the egg-laying period. He also added bentonite to the chicken feed every time, and fed the chicken with cold mountain spring water.

All these methods are conducive to stimulating hens to lay eggs, so naturally more eggs will be collected, and more food will be fed.

He looked at the surrounding environment again and thought about where the horse pen would be arranged.

The daughter looked around and seemed to be tired. She didn't run around today.

"Go back."

Lin Heng shook his head and walked into the house. Xiulan's water had boiled, and she would cook a simple pickled cabbage noodle in the evening.

After eating and playing for a while, Lin Heng went to read a story to coax his daughter to sleep.

When she fell asleep, Lin Heng put on rain boots, took a cloth bag and three rechargeable high-intensity flashlights.

"Xiu Lan, you go to sleep first. I have the key. I locked the door and I will open it myself when the time comes."

After saying this to his wife, Lin Heng turned around and walked out with his things.

"Be careful of snakes." Xiulan pulled him and said this before letting go.

Lin Heng went out and first untied the saddle that Hong Zao had forgotten to take off, then locked the gate of the yard and came to the old house.

Lin's father and his wife both put on their rain boots and took their things, chatting in the house. Seeing Lin Heng coming over, Lin Yue smiled and said, "Lin Heng is here, let's go."

"Here, use my flashlight, and leave yours at home." Lin Heng handed the water and electricity in his hand to his eldest brother and father.

"This flashlight is good." Lin's father opened it and said in surprise.

Lin Yue also nodded: "With this strong light flashlight, we will definitely have a big harvest tonight!"

Lin Heng took a look and saw that his father was carrying a plastic bucket with a bag in it, and his eldest brother was holding two scoop nets and handed him one.

"Where do we start searching?" Walking to the road, Lin's father asked the two for their opinions.

Lin Heng pointed to the upper river and suggested: "My suggestion is to search from here all the way up. There are not many people in Shimen Village who catch fish and turtles, so there is a better chance."

"I thought so too. The day before yesterday, I heard that someone in Baima Village downstream went down to the river to catch turtles. I guess there is not much hope if we go down." Lin Yue also nodded.

The so-called catching turtles is to use sharpened bamboo to keep piercing in the sand in the river to search for the traces of turtles.

A group of several people often have some gains.

"Let's go!"

The three of them went straight through the rice fields where the millet had been threshed and came to the river.

At night, when the flashlight was shone, all the fish and shrimps in the clear river water were clearly visible. Whether it was stream grouper, peach flower fish (horse mouth), or yellow thorn bone, they all became much dumber.

The three of them separated, Lin Heng walked in front, Lin's father and eldest brother walked behind, and they were in groups of two.

"What a big yellow thorn bone, hurry up and chase it." Lin Yue set up the scoop net, and Lin's father chased it with a wooden stick, and a yellow thorn bone weighing two taels was caught.

Lin Heng took a look, bit the flashlight in his mouth, held a net in one hand and a wooden stick in the other, and caught a horse mouth weighing one or two taels.

This thing runs very fast during the day, and there is no way to catch it except to use drugs and discharge electricity, but it is very easy to catch at night.

He walked in front and caught several horse mouths in a row, staggered with his father and others for a distance. In this way, he caught them all, and when they came over, the water would be clear, and he could continue to catch the fish that slipped through the net.

"There are actually a few yellow eels!"

After walking a few dozen meters forward, Lin Heng came to a long pool of water. When the flashlight shone, several yellow eels lay motionless on the sand at the bottom of the water. They were trying to catch passing fish.

"How big is it?"

Lin's father and the others heard the sound and hurried up to help.

"It's not small. The largest one is probably one pound." Lin's father said in surprise as he looked at the things in the water.

"Brother, hold the things for me, I'll go into the water to catch them." Lin Heng said, and began to take off his shoes and pants.

You can only catch yellow eels with your hands or yellow eel clamps. You can't catch them with a scoop net. They have had many failed experiences.

As for the yellow eel clamps and hands, Lin Heng still trusts his hands more.

He counted them and found that there were five in total. There was a small one in the deep water area. Lin Heng gave up this one directly. He came to the big yellow eel in the middle lightly and reached down.

He still approached gently, then caught it quickly and accurately, and then threw it directly on the sand on the shore. The rest was left to his eldest brother.

He continued to attack the next one, because there was sand below, and all four yellow eels were caught successfully.

"Awesome!" Lin's father praised that his second son's yellow eel catching skills had reached perfection.

"Keep going!" Lin Heng smiled, put on his clothes and shoes and continued to move forward.

They caught whatever they could, whether it was fish, shrimp, yellow eels or turtles, they caught them all.

Not far away, Lin's father suddenly shouted again: "There are two yellow eels here!"

Lin Heng walked over and shook his head: "I guess there is little hope of catching them."

It's not that the water is too deep, but the yellow eels are lying on the rocks. When you pull your hands down, you can't catch them if they touch the rocks.

After trying in the water, both of them ran away, as expected.

It's cloudy tonight. The crescent moon in the sky has been in the dark clouds. The ground is very dark. Fireflies are flying from time to time by the water, flashing, adding a touch of light to the night.

Lin Heng saw a black shadow in the water, and was shocked when he shone the flashlight: "Damn it!"

I thought it was a yellow eel, but it turned out to be a spicy strip. This water snake is lurking in the water to catch fish.

"Stay away!" The three of them took a detour at the same time.

It's so cool to catch fish in the river at night. I always get something and I can't stop.

Before they knew it, they had already arrived at the border with Shimen Village. It was not known whether it was because of bad luck or because it was already 10:50, and they had not seen a single turtle.

"How much did you catch?"

After finding a beach, Lin Heng stopped and asked. He had handed all the fish he had caught to his father.

"A lot. I have about 7 or 8 kilograms of fish in the bucket, and 6 or 7 kilograms of eels." Father Lin said with a smile.

"I have about 3 kilograms of fish here, anyway, it's a lot." Lin Yue also said.

All their things were packed together, without distinction, because they were not going to sell them, just eat them themselves.

"Keep going, I don't believe that we can't catch a turtle today." Lin Heng said and continued to move forward.

They didn't catch many fish along the way. It mainly depended on whether there were any turtles. Catching so many fish was enough to eat.

Of course, if they encountered big fish, they would not let go of eels, but they were not caught so carefully.

Lin Heng had already walked to the front, and the eldest brother Lin Yue behind him suddenly exclaimed: "I caught a turtle!"

Lin Heng: "???"

"Really?" Father Lin quickly turned around.

The two of them walked in front and didn't notice it.

"Look!" Lin Yue loosened his legs a little, and he held down a turtle whose back was covered with moss.

"It's not big, probably just over a pound. You didn't notice it in the moss by the river." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"Brother is so lucky." Lin Heng said enviously.

"Haha!" Lin Yue chuckled.

After grabbing the turtle into the bag, the three of them continued moving forward.

In the blink of an eye, it was already half past eleven, and Lin Heng was about to go back when the flashlight shone on him and he was suddenly startled.

He thought it was another snake, but upon closer inspection, it turned out to be an eel, but the size was a bit scary.

The length is definitely half a meter, and the thickness is about the same as a baby's arm. He didn't dare to call anyone for fear of being scared away. Carefully, he reached out to grab it.

This time he changed his strategy, grabbed it and threw it directly to the beach by the river, then ran over and held it down.

"Come quickly, the three-pound eel!" Lin Heng couldn't help but shout loudly after holding it down.

Father Lin and his eldest brother ran over quickly.

Lin Yue was shocked when he saw it: "From a distance, I thought you caught a snake. It's really big."

Father Lin also quickly opened the bag for fear of running away: "I definitely have these three kilograms, and maybe four more kilograms. Just this eel is worth it tonight."

After putting the eel into the bag, Lin Hengxuan's heart calmed down. He would regret running away for half a month.

"Are you still going on?" Father Lin asked.

Lin Heng shook his head: "Forget it, I guess there is no hope."

He had caught enough eels and was a little tired. Moreover, it is often in vain to continue fishing after catching a big fish, so he chooses to finish the fishing rod wisely.

"Then I'll go up and take a look. If it's gone, let's go." Father Lin nodded and walked some distance forward with a flashlight.

After waiting for two or three minutes, he came back with a smile on his face: "I caught a turtle, look."

He was holding a two to three kilogram turtle in his hand, which was larger than the one Lin Yue caught just now.

Lin Heng: "???"

"Hahaha, it seems that you have no fate with Turtle today, brother?" Lin Yue patted Lin Heng's shoulder and laughed.

Father Lin's face was flushed: "Then shall we go back or continue?"

"We must continue. What a waste of time." Lin Heng stood up and led the charge.

After walking uphill for another half an hour, the river turned into a creek and there were fewer fish.

"It seems that I am not destined after all." Lin Heng felt that he was still careless and should have stopped just now.

It was like he was about to finish fishing and saw that someone else had caught a big fish. In fact, there was no hope of continuing to fish. After all, he couldn't hold it back.

"Go back!"

The three of them walked back along the river dam to see if there were any turtles or eels. They were not going to catch any fish.

Just as he was approaching the road, Lin Heng's eyes suddenly lit up. He dug into the sand by the water and pulled out a palm-sized tortoise.

"Damn, I thought it was a big deal." Lin Heng sighed and shook his head. He no longer had any hope.

So I walked directly along the road home. It was quite cool while walking, but I didn't see any animals. Instead, the sky started to lighten, and from time to time a big lightning lit up the world.

It was already one o'clock when the three of them got home. This was the latest Lin Heng had slept in since his return.

"Don't separate the things for now. Keep the turtles and eels, soak the fish in ice water, and deal with them early tomorrow." Lin Heng looked at the things and said, he was really a little tired.

Father Lin both agreed. If we deal with it slowly now, it will take two or three hours to finish it.

Lin Heng took his things and went straight home. As he walked outside, small raindrops fell on his face. Lin Heng estimated that the reason for his bad luck tonight might be related to the fact that it was about to rain.

Opening the door and walking into the yard, Lin Heng pulled Hong Zao to the gate and tied it up. This place was protected from rain by the gatehouse. As for the ground getting dirty, there was nothing he could do about it. He couldn't let it get wet.

After taking a basin of water and taking a shower, Lin Heng gently opened the bedroom door and walked in.

The daughter was sleeping soundly, with a sweet smile on her face.

My wife was lying on her back on the bed, with the summer quilt only covering her stomach. Her beautiful legs intertwined together were so long and white that she could see clearly even in the dim light.

Lin Heng did not disturb her, took off his shoes, and lay down next to her to sleep. As soon as he lay down, Xiulan suddenly turned over and hugged him, putting her long legs on him.

"How was the harvest?" Xiulan asked in a low voice.

"You're not asleep, you're still pretending." Lin Heng twisted his wife's waist.

Xiulan lay on his chest and said, "I'll wake up as soon as you open the door."

Lin Heng hugged his wife and replied: "The harvest is not bad, the eels and fish can weigh about ten kilograms. My eldest brother and dad both caught a turtle, and I caught a small tortoise, but I was not very lucky."

It is really a beautiful thing to have such a wonderful wife waiting for him when he comes back from outside.

Xiulan praised: "That's not bad."

Lin Heng raised her chin and whispered softly: "Then reward your man."

Xiulan kissed him, but was held down by Lin Heng and forced into a deep kiss.

Just when Lin Heng was about to eat the wrapping paper, Xiulan blocked him and said softly: "Goodbye, I'm afraid you won't be able to control it again and blame me for not getting up tomorrow!"

Lin Heng pointed outside: "It's raining, what am I afraid of?"

As he spoke, he gnawed on it.

Outside the window, there was not only lightning, but also thunder. As the thunder and lightning became more frequent, the heavy rain finally poured down, and everything was soaked.

In the room, Xiulan changed the bed sheet helplessly and wiped her long legs that were wet by someone.

She glanced at the man next to her and lay on his chest, wanting to crush him to death.

Lin Heng didn't say anything. It was much cooler after the rain. He hugged his wife and listened to the rain and gradually fell asleep.

The rain fell all night and didn't stop until the next morning, and it was as heavy as before.

Lin Heng woke up, and his wife leaned over again, pushed him, and said softly: "Go open the window a little, I want to see the rain."

"Okay." Lin Heng couldn't refuse at all, so he opened the window a little, came back and lay on the bed hugging his wife to watch the rain.

Covering with the summer quilt, it was not cold at all even if the wind blew in, just cool.