Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

After squatting down on the treetop, Lin Heng looked carefully and found that there was a grayish-white white rice civet on a fire pot tree in the distance, stealing the early-ripening fire pots.

The so-called fire pot is a kind of persimmon, which is small in size and has pumpkin seed-sized seeds. The flesh is scarce and matures early. It is considered a wild persimmon.

The white rice is bigger than a cat and smaller than a dog. The normal weight is 20 to 30 kilograms, which is about the same as a wild hog badger. The larger ones are said to reach 50 kilograms.

This guy likes to eat persimmons very much. Every autumn and winter, many people squat under the persimmon tree to catch civets.

Lin Heng is very worried now, because the civet is on the tree, and it can find every move under the tree.

That is to say, it is only three or four hundred meters away now that it has not been discovered.

But it is impossible to get close, let alone fifty meters. It will be exposed if you walk a few steps forward.

After thinking about it, Lin Heng has no trick. People beat civets because they find that it eats persimmons from that tree and wait nearby in advance.

"Xiongba, it's up to you. Try it." Lin Heng rubbed Xiongba and gave it the task.

Xiongba looked at the civet cat on the tree, got into the bushes and disappeared.

Lin Heng waited silently. About half an hour later, the civet cat suddenly found something wrong and jumped off the tree.

"Woof!!"

Then Xiongba rushed out from behind and chased it wildly.

He chased it from the bushes to the low secondary mixed woods, and then to the tall broad-leaved forest on the mountain.

More than ten minutes later, Xiongba came back dejectedly. He didn't catch up. He failed.

"It's okay. There are rabbits ahead." Lin Heng rubbed its head and comforted it. He was mentally prepared for this result.

The civet cat can climb the tree, and it is really difficult for Xiongba to catch it.

"Awoo~"

Xiongba shouted and followed Lin Heng.

"It seems that I really need to change a good bow." Lin Heng sighed.

The orange wood bow in hand is still not very good. I can't get a modern compound bow for the time being, so I'll get a Mongolian compound bow someday.

His bow has an effective range of 50 meters. If you want to accurately hit small prey, you have to be 20 to 30 meters away, and there can't be too much wind.

This is not because of people, but the material limitations of traditional wooden bows. Unlike modern compound bows, with material performance and modern technology, you can accurately hit the target at a distance of 300 meters.

With Xiongba, one person and one dog soon came to the edge of the soybean field under Hongfeng Mountain.

Xiongba entered the combat state again, keeping an eye on all directions and listening to all directions.

At first, no traces were found on the edge of the field, but Lin Heng was not discouraged and took Xiongba to search along the edge of the field.

The soybean field is big, and there will always be gains.

Plop! !

Suddenly, two pheasants flew out of the soybean field and flew towards the mountain on the other side of the river with a splash.

Without giving Lin Heng and Xiong Ba a chance to be stunned, there was a sudden movement in the field ahead, and a big brown rabbit ran towards the bushes and thatch on the mountain.

"Woof woof!!"

Without Lin Heng's order, Xiong Ba chased after it.

Because the distance was a bit far, he couldn't catch up for a while. He chased it from the soybean field to the thatch, and finally forced it into a hole.

"Woof woof!"

Xiong Ba looked back at Lin Heng, indicating that he had no choice.

Lin Heng walked up slowly from the bottom of the mountain. Xiong Ba was lying at the entrance of the hole looking at the rabbit.

Lin Heng looked down and saw that it seemed that the rabbit didn't seem to be in its own nest because it was in a panic. It was blocked after about 30 centimeters, and its butt was exposed.

Picking up the bow and arrow, Lin Heng shot an arrow into it. With a scream, the rabbit soon stopped moving.

Lin Heng was not in a hurry. It wouldn't be too late to wait until it was dead.

There was no need to keep it alive. The rabbits raised at home were about to start breeding.

A few minutes later, Lin Heng pulled the dead rabbit out easily.

With a good dog, catching rabbits is not a difficult task.

After weighing it, Lin Heng estimated that it weighed five or six pounds. He rubbed Xiongba's dog head and said with a smile: "Let's go up to the cabin to have a look."

Because this place is already halfway up the mountain, just go up and have a look.

The cabin has not changed much, but it seems that the house has been visited by birds, leaving a lot of bird droppings.

After taking a look at the growth of Dendrobium officinale, Lin Heng ran to the pine forest to pick up pine cones.

Of course, it was not for picking pine nuts. The pine nuts of this black pine are too small to be picked at all.

He picked these pine cones to make rosin when he went back. The ancients used pine cones to make rosin.

After picking up half a bag, he took Xiongba home.

When he got home, his wife had already made rice, and the dishes were all hot in the pot, waiting for him.

"Such a big rabbit, it's really good." Xiulan looked at her husband bringing back a big rabbit and praised with a smile.

"Let's braise it. You can also braise dried herrings and other things." Lin Heng hung up the rabbit and said with a smile.

"Okay." Xiulan nodded in agreement.

After breakfast, Lin Heng peeled the rabbit skin, fed the internal organs to Xiongba, and gave the rabbit meat to his wife to prepare for braised rabbit meat.

He took Xiaoxia with him while making pine resin.

He built a fire in the front yard, and when the firewood was burned and only charcoal was left, he put a pot on the stove and put the cleaned pine cones in the pot to dry them over a low fire.

Xiaoxia watched curiously from the side, asking from time to time, and Lin Heng gave her a pine cone and asked her to watch from the side.

While drying the pine cones, Lin Heng went to get a wrist-thick fragrant nanmu. Very thick and large nanmu is rare, but there are still many small seedlings of this kind. After all, this is Qinling Mountains.

Saw the small nanmu into small pieces, brush sesame oil on it and put it aside to dry.

Find a stone mortar, throw the dried pine cones into it and crush them. When they are almost crushed, borrow a medicine mill to grind them again. The last sieve is pine cone powder.

When borrowing the medicine mill, Lin Heng saw the calamus that his parents dried and prepared to sell. He took it back to dry it on the kang and grind it into powder.

In one noon, he only got three catties of pine cone powder and two catties of calamus powder. Although tired, Lin Heng felt very fulfilled.

"Husband, the rabbit meat and dried fish are all braised. You try it." Xiulan brought the freshly baked braised rabbit meat and dried fish to Lin Heng.

The braised rabbit meat and fish are both reddish-brown, and the aroma of the braised meat is fragrant. Lin Heng tore off a piece of rabbit meat and tasted it, his eyes suddenly lit up, it tasted so good.

The original fishy smell of rabbit meat completely disappeared, replaced by this pure stewed aroma and the delicate taste of rabbit meat, even without any soup, it can make people enjoy it.

"Wife, you are really good at cooking." Lin Heng tore off a piece and fed her.

"Dad, I want it too." Xiaoxia would eat a few bites no matter what she saw.

Lin Heng fed her a small piece and asked with a smile: "Is it delicious?"

"Delicious~" Xiaoxia nodded in a baby voice, indicating that she wanted more.

Xiulan smiled and said: "It's delicious. I also stewed a few eggs for Xiaoxia. You can try this stewed fish. It tastes very good."

Lin Heng tasted a piece of stewed herring. The fish was very soft and the fish bones were crispy. The best taste in the mouth is this fish skin. After being dried and braised, it absorbs the soup, with the aroma of the marinade and the freshness of the fish itself, and this kind of chewy taste is simply irresistible.

The taste of fish meat is worse than that of fish skin, but the taste is not inferior at all. Lin Heng couldn't help but give a thumbs up to his wife.

"Then let's make cornmeal fish for lunch and eat this." Xiulan said with a smile.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, tore a little meat for Xiaoxia again, and then went to help cook with his wife.

After the cornmeal cold fish was ready, Lin Heng also removed the braised fish meat. It was the most refreshing to eat it directly without fish bones.

When eating, add a pickled bamboo shoot, it will taste more fulfilling.

After eating, I was still savoring the fragrance. Braised meat is really a great invention, so delicious.

In the afternoon, Xiulan helped to tear the corn husks, and Lin Heng went to help break the corn. Because this time they were on the side of the road, the broken corn was directly pulled back by the horse-drawn carriage, which was much faster than carrying it in a backpack.

In one afternoon, half of the corn from the three acres of land was harvested.

In the evening, when eating at her parents' house, Xiulan brought half of the braised rabbit meat, which was well received by everyone.

"Xiulan's cooking skills are really good." Lin's mother praised.

Lin Heng looked at his mother and said, "I caught the rabbit, why don't you praise me, mom."

Lin's mother glanced at him and perfunctorily said, "You are also very good, but I think this is all the credit of my daughter-in-law."

Lin Heng: "..."

Xiulan smiled slightly and gave him a piece of rabbit meat to comfort him. Lin Heng stuffed the rabbit meat into his mouth fiercely.

"Dad, find someone to pick a date. I want him to transfer the grass carp fry in the fish pond to the fish pond." Lin Heng looked at his father and said.

Father Lin nodded: "Okay, I'll find someone to show you tomorrow."

The next morning, everyone got up, the sky was overcast, and it seemed that it would rain heavily at any time.

Early in the morning, Father Lin asked his two sons to rush to harvest corn. It's unknown how long the autumn rain will last. If it lasts too long, the corn will rot in the field.

This is really a race with the heavy rain. Not only them, but many people in the village climbed up the hill early in the morning to harvest corn.

This is how crops are grown. They rely on the weather for their livelihood. It's very uncomfortable if God doesn't give face.

Even if they quickly harvested, heavy rain still fell at more than eight o'clock. It took less than a minute from the beginning of the rain to the heavy rain.

"Dad, go back quickly, or you'll catch a cold if you don't leave." Lin Heng advised.

Father Lin slapped his legs, looked at the sky and wailed: "Why is God so blind? It's better to rain an hour later."

However, God responded to him with even more ruthless heavy rain.

Without saying anything more, he put on the prepared film paper, put the corn on the carriage and hurried back.

When he got home, his pants were soaked and the red dates were soaked. Lin Heng led it back to the stable, weighed some dry straw, and got some fresh corn leaves to eat.

After settling the red dates, Lin Heng wiped himself with hot water at home, changed his clothes, and came to the old house with an umbrella. His father was still cursing the sky, saying that it was too disrespectful. The rain fell as soon as it was said.

Lin Heng walked into the house and said with a smile: "So, Dad, don't plant so much land next year. I will buy a batch of fruit tree seedlings in the spring. We will plant fruit trees on the land and leave four or five acres to grow some crops for ourselves."

If Lin Heng said this before, his father would definitely scold him and say what he would eat without crops, but Lin Heng's recent successes changed his mind.

He nodded and said, "That's right. Let's plant some fruit trees next spring."

Gradually, he came to terms with it. He realized that farming alone would not make any money.

Looking up, there are only 1,000-yuan households in the village, some weaving, some beekeeping, some selling snacks, and even digging herbs, but there is no one who has become a 1,000-yuan household by farming.

Even those who grow crops are not rich, and they are often like the Lin family half a year ago, with a family of more than a dozen people squeezed into one house, and they can't even build a house for their children.

Sometimes, Father Lin sits alone on the edge of the field, looking at the land on both sides of the river, and he has to admit that his second son is right, farming really can't make you rich.

After all, he has been farming for half his life, and no one knows better than him.

Today's rain made him resent God for no reason. Hemp ropes break at the thinnest part, bad luck finds the unfortunate, life only bullies the poor, and it's useless to work hard to grow crops, God won't help you.

"Okay, then, Dad, brother, the three of us will go to exchange fruit trees together, go together."

Lin Heng smiled and said, it's a lie to children to say that hard work will lead to success, and only when you grow up will you understand that choice is greater than hard work.

Going forward on a road destined to fail, no matter how far you go, you will never reach the end of success.

"Hey, let's peel these corns first and hang them up." Father Lin sighed and went to get a ladder.

The women peeled the corns, the children handed the corns, and Lin Heng and the other two tied the corns.

There were iron wires under the eaves. Starting from the bottom, the corns were wrapped around them, and they were piled up one by one, and finally a thick and large corn string was formed.

Wait until the corn cobs are dried in winter, and they are picked and peeled into corn kernels when they are idle.

There are a lot of corns this year, and the yard on my father's side can't hold them. I hung them under the eaves of my eldest brother's house. There were still some left to hang. It took two days to get it done.

Early in the morning of October 4, Lin Heng got up from the bed and looked at the rainy day outside. He was a little irritated: "The autumn rain is really continuous."

"Autumn is like this, there is a lot of rain." Xiulan covered Lin Heng with a quilt and whispered beside him.

The house was a bit cold after three consecutive days of autumn rain. The two of them didn't want to get out of bed. Xiaoxia woke up and was carried to stay in bed together.

They stayed in bed until nine o'clock, then the three of them got up and made three dishes and a soup for breakfast.

At noon, Xiulan looked at the tanned leopard skin and added some prepared stock solution. It would be almost ready in two days.

Lin Heng steamed the fragrant nanmu wood that had been sawed into small pieces and coated with sesame oil in a pot for two or three hours, then dried it and pounded it into powder with a stone mortar. It took more than half a day for him to make three pounds of nanmu sticky powder.

In fact, if there was a wall breaker, this would take half an hour, but unfortunately there is no one.

But it's quite interesting to toss it slowly like this, and sometimes it's fun to waste time.

On October 5, the rain was still falling. Lin Heng was very bored. He went to the village with an umbrella to find a leaky old clay pot and transformed it into a small stove with a height of 25 cm and a diameter of 30 cm.

The inside is smeared with yellow mud mixed with straw crumbs and dragon beard grass. After adding charcoal, it can be placed on the table to burn. The surface and the base are only slightly warm and not hot.

"Wife, is the bacon cooked?" Lin Heng asked with a smile after lighting the charcoal fire.

"It's ready." Xiulan brought the cooked bacon and the cutting board and knife together and cut the bacon into small pieces.

Lin Heng has made a barbecue net with iron wire, spread it on the clay pot stove, put the bacon on it and roasted it. After a while, it made a sizzling sound of oil, and the aroma of barbecue came out immediately.

"Come on, wife, you eat one first." After roasting, Lin Heng blew it and fed his wife a piece first.

Xiulan chewed it for a while, blinked and smiled, "It's delicious."

"Dad, I want one~"

Xiaoxia had opened her mouth for a long time, but Lin Heng didn't give her the first piece of meat. Now there is a sad expression on her little face. If she doesn't give the second piece, she will cry. There is no kind of meat that can't be coaxed.

"Here, here." Lin Heng said with a smile, and fed a small piece of meat into her little mouth.

"Good time~" Xiaoxia smiled happily.

Lin Heng also got himself a piece. The bacon didn't need to be seasoned at all. It was directly roasted like this. It tasted so good that people couldn't stop eating it.

"Ah, it's not so urgent to rain now." Lin Heng grinned. It's a beautiful thing to eat barbecue, listen to the rain, and watch the hazy figures of all things in the rain.

"Meow~" Jinbao sat on the bench and looked at the stove.

"Awoo~" Xiongba squatted on the ground and looked at Lin Heng.

These two guys were begging, but Xiongba was shaking his tail and grinning, while Jinbao was just rubbing the back of the bench, and he had to keep his reserved and arrogant.

After Lin Heng fed Xiongba a piece of meat, Jinbao couldn't sit still anymore. He came over and rubbed his hand. His eyes looked at him with a pleading look.

It is no longer afraid of people. It won't leave even if the rope is untied. It is just like the musk deer, sleeping in the forest. It is not as comfortable as eating and sleeping here.

From time to time, it catches a mouse to show Lin Heng and Xiulan its ability as a powerful predator. Most of the time, it plays games with Xiaoxia.

"Here, you can eat one too." Lin Heng touched Jinbao. Its fur was shiny and shiny, and it felt very comfortable to touch.

"You don't need to eat lunch." Xiulan burped and said with a smile. Lin Heng is so good at enjoying life. She has gained weight.

"We still have a few pears from the last time we bought. Let's stew a brown sugar pear to relieve the greasiness." Lin Heng said with a smile.

If you just sit and watch the rain when it rains, anyone will get bored, but it's much more pleasant to make a small stove to roast meat, stew something to eat, and then watch the rain.

It's a pity that there is no clay pot at home, so he stewed it in a small iron pot he used in the mountains. Write this down in a notebook, and buy a few small clay pots when you go to the city to buy goods next time.

In more than ten minutes, a pot of bright red rock sugar pear was stewed, and red dates and a dendrobium were thrown in it.

Xiulan and Xiaoxia both liked it very much, and drank it slowly with a spoon.

"Dong Dong Dong!!"

At this time, the door outside was knocked, and then Lin's father's voice came out: "Son, open the door quickly, I have something important to talk to you about!"

"What's the big thing, Dad?"

Lin Heng opened the gate of the yard and asked curiously.

"Look at the other side of the river." Lin's father pointed to the direction of the other side of the upstream of the Shiban River.

Lin Heng looked up in that direction. That was where he and his nephew Lin Wei had caught wild rabbits before.

Because it rained these two days, water from the mountain poured down directly from that direction.

"Damn! Mudslide!!"

It doesn't matter if you don't look, but you'll be shocked when you see countless trees and rocks collapsing from the top of the mountain. With a loud bang, the water splashed more than ten meters high.

The flowing stones and mud directly blocked the river channel, and the river water, like an angry dragon, was cut off and kept pushing up.

"It's over. The few acres of corn and soybeans below haven't come, and we probably have no fields." Father Lin shook his head and sighed. God really didn't bless him.

"How could this happen? There are trees on the opposite mountain, how can there be a mudslide."

Xiulan came out with Xiaoxia and looked at the other side in confusion.

"That's a soft rock mountain. It will definitely collapse if water pours in. I hope the families near the river below are okay."

Lin Heng shook his head. He was also very anxious.

This rain will definitely cause the road to collapse. When the rain stops, it may be difficult for cars to pass for ten days or half a month. He still needs to go to the city to buy goods.

"Look, Secretary Tian is wearing a raincoat and bringing people down. They are going to inform the people below." Lin's father pointed to the figure on the road and said,

"Secretary Tian, ​​pay attention to safety." Lin Heng shouted loudly. This is a good cadre. I hope nothing will happen on the road.

"Remember to dig the drainage ditch behind the house. Be careful." Secretary Tian replied and took people to the downstream.

Lin Heng looked at the door. He estimated that the river would burst the dam in less than an hour. A large head of water would wash away the entire downstream river channel, and even some surrounding areas could not be saved.

Fortunately, his house is far away from the Shiban River. If it flooded to this location, Huangtan Town might be submerged.

In his memory, this mudslide only appeared in the summer three years later. It was a super heavy rain.

But it broke out now. It's really unpredictable.

Fortunately, the mudslide was not large, and at most it destroyed the fields and houses that were too close to the river.

"Dad, where did you go?" Lin Heng asked his father, who was covered with film paper.

Father Lin slapped his head and suddenly said, "There is one more thing, I forgot to tell you."

"I went to pick grass for cattle in the morning, and someone in the village said that the corn was destroyed by wild boars. I went to see that our half acre of corn was also destroyed by these damn wild boars." Father Lin cursed.

Originally, the corn might have a chance to be rescued on the stalk, but it was definitely destroyed after being knocked to the ground by the wild boar.

"There is no way, there is no way to guard the wild boar in the second half of the day, just eat it." Lin Heng spread his hands. There is an influx of wild boars in the mountains, and this happens every year.

"Ah!" Father Lin sighed fiercely.

"Dad, come in and have some rock sugar and snow pear before you go back. There's barbecue."

Lin Heng pulled his father into the house, made him a bowl of hot rock sugar and snow pear, and cut some bacon to roast on the stove.

Father Lin drank the hot rock sugar and snow pear, ate the barbecue, and couldn't help but smile and said: "You still know how to enjoy it."

Lin Heng looked at his father and persuaded him with a smile: "Dad, you should learn it too. Now you don't have much pressure, don't think about working all day long."

"Okay." Father Lin nodded. There is really no pressure at home now, but he instinctively can't sit still.

After eating barbecue here for a while, Father Lin also thought that this small stove was good and wanted to go back and make one himself.

"It feels like the mudslide should be about to burst the dam. Let's go out and take a look." Lin Heng looked at the watch and said, unknowingly, almost an hour has passed.

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PS: It’s the last day of playing badly. I will start to earn 10,000 yuan a day tomorrow. I will work hard, friends. By the way, I would like to ask for monthly tickets. I will double the monthly tickets at the end of the month. My monthly tickets have never exceeded 1,000 yuan in a single month.