Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Lin Heng grinned and said, "I just bought it not long ago. Are you going to the town to sell things?"

"Yes, I picked some wild hawthorns in the mountains and took them down to sell."

The old man nodded, looked at the red dates where Lin Heng sat and said, "I'm afraid your horse is not cheap. Have you made a fortune recently?"

He didn't seem to know that Lin Heng had become a millionaire.

"It's okay, not too expensive." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Chatting in the town, Lin Heng dismounted and looked at the old man's hawthorns.

The quality was average, the grains were of different sizes, and some had wormholes.

"How much is this?" Lin Heng asked.

The old man looked at Lin Heng and said, "If you want to buy, I'll charge you 20 cents per pound."

Lin Heng pointed at the bag and said, "Then I'll buy them all. How many pounds do you have in total?"

"Buy all?" The old man was stunned, and then continued, "I have 22 pounds here, don't play tricks on me."

Lin Heng smiled and took out 4.5 yuan and handed it to him: "4.4 yuan, right? I'll give you 4.5 yuan, and give me the bag too."

"Are you really buying it?" The old man was stunned. How did this young man become so rich?

"I'm really buying it."

Lin Heng took the hawthorn and left directly.

Someone who knew Lin Heng smiled and explained to the old man, "He must be really buying it. He was on the town's commendation meeting. He is the youngest millionaire in Huangtan Town."

The old man was stunned and looked at Lin Heng with wide eyes: "I heard that Hongfeng Village has a millionaire. Could it be you!"

Lin Heng turned around and smiled, waved his hand and left.

The old man was stunned for a long time, not quite understanding how Lin Heng had changed so much in such a short time, it was only a few months.

Although the weather was cold, the streets were still quite lively on market days, with stalls and pedestrians everywhere.

When he got to the bridge, Lin Heng saw that the stall selling meat actually had mutton, and he hurried over.

"How much do you sell this mutton?" Lin Heng asked the uncle in front of the stall.

Seeing Lin Heng asking about the price, the uncle grinned and said quickly: "One dollar and five cents per catty, do you want to buy it? Buy more and I'll give you a discount. This is also because our sheep broke its leg before it was killed."

"What about the sheep's stomach, how much is this?" Lin Heng asked again, pointing to the sheep's stomach hanging next to it. This is a good thing.

The uncle pointed at the sheep's stomach and replied: "These internal organs are two yuan per catty. If you want to buy them, I can give you a discount of one yuan and eighty cents."

Lin Heng nodded and said: "Then I will buy ten catties of mutton. I will buy all the sheep's stomach, large and small intestines, and kidneys."

"So much."

The uncle was also stunned when he heard this. It was rare to see such a domineering person. He even doubted whether Lin Heng had so much money.

"Don't worry, I will give you the money on the spot. Can I still run away?" Lin Heng smiled and spread his hands to let him rest assured.

In this era, even a millionaire would not be willing to eat and drink like this. It is indeed hard to believe that so much money should be bought at one time.

"Okay."

The uncle nodded, cut the meat and weighed it. Ten catties of mutton cost 15 yuan, and the internal organs totaled 12 catties for 21.6 yuan.

Totaling 36.6 yuan, which is more than a normal person's monthly salary, the boss couldn't help but believe it.

People who usually come to buy meat buy half a catty or a catty, and more people can't afford to eat meat.

The uncle looked at Lin Heng, pointed at the sheep's head and said, "How about you add three yuan and forty cents to this sheep's head and I'll give you the rest?"

"That's fine, come with me to the purchasing station to get the money, I don't have that much money on me." Lin Heng nodded, and it seemed quite cost-effective to him to buy a sheep's head for four yuan.

The uncle was stunned, looked at Lin Heng and said, "Purchasing station? Are you the boss Lin of the purchasing station?"

Lin Heng laughed, "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be."

The uncle slapped his thigh and said hurriedly, "I really don't know a great man, then I'll give you more mutton."

He turned around and was about to go back to add meat. Although he had never seen Lin Heng, many people had heard of Lin Heng's name. It was reported in the newspapers. He was the face of their Huangtan Town.

"That's not necessary." Lin Heng pulled him and took him to the purchasing station to get the money.

"Thank you." The uncle smiled and put the money in his pocket and turned away.

Lin Heng went into the house and looked at Grandpa Gao, and cut two pounds of the sheep he bought and gave it to him.

"Xiao Lin, you always bring things here, and I, an old man, can't bear it." Grandpa Gao smiled and shook his head.

Lin Heng grinned: "I didn't bring anything valuable, it's just winter, I'll give you some mutton to warm your body. If you feel bad, you can teach me some more skills when you go hunting in a few days."

Grandpa Gao smiled and shook his head and said: "I can't argue with you, so let's eat together, I haven't had lunch yet."

"Then I'll make an old Beijing mutton hot pot." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay." Grandpa Gao didn't hesitate and nodded with a smile.

Lin Heng turned around and made sesame paste first. Grandpa Gao had sesame seeds at home. After drying them on the kang, he just crushed them with a stone mortar. A bowl of sesame paste was ready in ten minutes.

The soup base of the old Beijing mutton hot pot is even simpler, two scallions, three red dates, a few slices of ginger and a little shrimp skin.

Use sesame paste to prepare two dipping sauces, cut the mutton and you can eat the mutton hot pot.

The mutton I bought is very fresh and can be eaten after a little cooking.

The mutton is dipped in the dipping sauce and put in the mouth. The freshness of the mutton and the taste of the dipping sauce burst out together. Lin Heng's dipping sauce is sour and spicy, with a lot of garlic added. It is a real pleasure to eat.

Uncle Gao took a bite and praised repeatedly: "It's delicious. Xiaolin, you prepared the dipping sauce well. It's not much different from the authentic mutton-shabu I had at BJ."

"Uncle Gao, have you ever been to a BJ?" Lin Heng said in shock, with a look of envy on his face.

Uncle Gao looked at Lin Heng, took another bite of mutton and recalled, "Of course I have been there. I went there with my friends when we came back from the war."

He always thought that Lin Heng knew his identity, but now it seems that this kid really doesn't know.

"Did you come back from the army during the war? Then I must give you a toast, old man. You have defended our country."

Lin Heng said, picking up the wine glass and toasting. He really admired these people who went to the battlefield to defend their country. They were all real heroes.

"Hahaha, it's not as noble as you said..."

Uncle Gao and Lin Heng met each other, and while they ate the hot-boiled mutton, they talked about their experience of crossing the Yalu River to make hawk sauce.

After hearing this, Lin Heng sighed with emotion: "You are so powerful and great. Listening to your deeds makes people's blood boil."

Uncle Gao is indeed a noble man. If he revealed his identity, he would have been well placed, but he quietly chose to go home and take care of himself in his old age, without spending any national resources.

Moreover, Lin Heng also knew that he was not the kind of person who lives alone. His son was a senior official in the army and his nephew was also an official in the county.

If you want to arrange it, it only takes a minute. This makes him even more noble.

"As long as you know these things, don't go out and talk nonsense. I don't want to be disturbed."

When they were almost done eating, Uncle Gao patted Lin Heng on the shoulder again and said.

He really fell in love with Lin Heng, a junior, and treated him as a grandson, otherwise he wouldn't have said these things.

Lin Heng grinned and said: "Uncle Gao, don't worry, I promise not to reveal a word to anyone, not even my wife."

Uncle Gao nodded and said with a smile: "That's good, let's continue eating meat, and you can get me some sesame sauce."

"Okay." Lin Heng stood up with a smile. He felt that this was the uncle's initial recognition of him.

After finishing the meal, both of them felt very full. Lin Heng took out some hawthorn, and then played a few games of chess with the uncle.

After having enough fun with Uncle Gao, Lin Heng went shopping on the street again.

By this time, the market was coming to an end, and the sellers had begun to close their stalls.

Lin Heng went shopping around and bought two kilograms of pears and six kilograms of oranges. Then he went to buy a new pair of shoes for Jujube. Lin Heng rode it back to his hometown with his things.

"With this weather, it won't snow. It's really annoying."

Lin Heng covered his face with a scarf and put on his cotton hat. Fortunately, he had a scarf and gloves knitted by his wife, so he had some protection against the cold wind.

Back in the house, Xiulan looked at him with a curious face when he came back with so many things: "Didn't you get out of the cage? Are you going to town?"

"Yes, I bought some mutton by the way. Let's eat boiled mutton tonight. You can take care of these things first, and I'll go and warm them up. It's too cold."

Lin Heng said as he ran into the house.

"Then take your daughter to the house quickly and leave these to me." Xiulan nodded.

Although she felt that Lin Heng bought a bit too much, she did not blame him. He bought it for himself and his daughter, which was not wrong.

"Dad, let me warm your hands."

Xiaoxia seemed to understand what Lin Heng said about cold hands, and held Lin Heng's big hand.

"What a considerate little cotton-padded jacket."

Lin Heng couldn't help laughing, went to add two firewood to the fireplace, and then held his daughter in his arms.

Xiaoxia warmed his hands for a while, then tilted her head and said coquettishly: "Daddy, candy~"

"Here you go." Lin Heng nodded with a smile, took out a candy and gave it to her.

After taking a look at Xiong Ba who was lying on the ground and unwilling to go out, Lin Heng turned around and left the bedroom. Xiaoxia also ran out like the little follower.

"The sheep's head needs to be burned. I can't do it." Xiulan said to Lin Heng while washing the sheep's tripe and small intestine.

Lin Heng nodded and said, "I'll do it."

The sheep's head needs to be burned black with fire until it is almost scorched. I found some dry bamboo pieces and made a fire, and the sheep head was burned in a short time.

The cooked sheep head was handed over to Xiulan. Lin Heng made a thin bamboo tube, thinned the open end and used it to remove the seeds from the hawthorn, then poked it through the center.

Xiulan looked at his movements and asked curiously: "What are you going to do with these hawthorns?"

"Part of it is used to make hawthorn paste, and part of it is used to make copycat cake." Lin Heng said while making it.

He also likes to eat hawthorn cake, and hawthorn paste is prepared for Xiaoxia. Giving her some after meals can effectively improve the problem of indigestion.

"You really love your daughter so much." Xiulan said with a smile. She had never seen someone who regarded her daughter as such a treasure.

"Of course." Lin Heng smiled.

After the hawthorns were finished, he kept eight kilograms to make hawthorn paste, and the remaining 12 kilograms were dried and ground into powder to make hawthorn cake.

By the time he had cut the hawthorns into slices and processed them, it was almost dark.

"You said you want to eat hotpot mutton tonight, do you need the lamb tripe? I've already washed it." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and asked.

"No, let's wait until next time when we call our parents to eat." Lin Heng shook his head and said.

"Okay." Xiulan nodded and went back to cut the mutton.

Lin Heng lit a charcoal fire on the small pottery stove and placed it on the table. He set up a small iron pot and put in green onions, ginger, wolfberry, red dates and dried shrimps. Finally, he added cold water and boiled it.

In addition to preparing dipping sauce and mutton, Xiulan also prepared some coriander, pea tips and small green vegetables.

Lin Heng took a bite and said with emotion: "I will never get tired of it."

Especially in winter, this bite of mutton hotpot really warms the whole body.

Xiu Lan also agreed deeply and nodded: "It's really enjoyable."

In her opinion, life now is too happy.

"Good times~"

Even Xiaoxia nodded repeatedly, although she didn't let her eat much, most of it was vegetables.

"Try to eat it with coriander, I think it tastes better." Lin Heng looked at his wife and said.

The mutton and coriander that were cooked were put together, and then dipped in sour and spicy sesame paste. The rich taste and various aromas seemed to constantly stimulate the taste buds, which was simply intoxicating.

"It's delicious." Xiu Lan liked it immediately after tasting it.

The meal was delicious. The two of them ate a pound of mutton each, and there were also a lot of vegetables.

After the meal, the three of them ate some hawthorns and played in the bedroom for an hour and a half to digest the food before going to rest.

The next morning, Lin Heng went to see the mutton hanging outside last night. It was indeed frozen hard, so it could be cut very thinly.

After doing the exercise he did every morning, Lin Heng continued to make his own hawthorn paste.

This thing is not difficult. Just like the pipa paste, just wash the hawthorn and tangerine peel and pour them in to cook. Cook until the hawthorn is rotten and then filter it out. At this time, most of the nutrients of the hawthorn are integrated into the soup.

Then add some rock sugar and cook it until it becomes a gelatinous liquid like honey. Pour it out and put it into a blue and white porcelain round-bellied jar that has been boiled in water.

"Is it done? Let me try it." Xiulan saw that Lin Heng had finished, came over and scooped a spoonful to taste it.

Lin Heng looked at her and asked, "How is it? Eight pounds of hawthorn made this four pounds of hawthorn paste."

"It tastes sour and sweet. I guess Xiaoxia will definitely like it."

Xiulan blinked and fed Xiaoxia some.

Xiaoxia tasted it, her eyes lit up immediately, and she leaned on the edge of the table like a little greedy cat and said, "Good, Dad, I want more!"

This sweet and sour taste is very popular.

"Then I'll make some for you."

Lin Heng added a little water to the pot that couldn't be scooped out and poured it out for Xiaoxia, and then added a little kudzu root powder to make it. Xiaoxia sat on the bench with a spoon and ate happily.

The sun appeared at noon today. Lin Heng walked to the yard and turned over the hawthorn slices that were drying in the sun and looked at the bacon.

"What are mom and dad doing today?" Lin Heng asked his wife.

"Dad and big brother are digging lotus roots, and mom is in the house." Xiulan replied.

Lin Heng looked at her and suggested, "Then how about letting mom take care of Xiaoxia for a while, and you and I go to collect the traps?"

"Okay." Xiulan nodded.

"Okay."

Lin Heng waited for Xiaoxia to finish eating, took her to her mother's place, and asked her mother to help take care of her.

Then he went to the back mountain to get the horse, Xiulan went home to get the bag, and took Xiongba out for a walk.

When they got to the road, Lin Heng smiled and said, "Get on the horse."

"Okay."

Xiulan blinked, and was helped by Lin Heng to get on the horse first, and then Lin Heng got on the horse himself and stretched out his hands from her waist to hold the reins.

"Go!"

At the command, Hongzao trotted. The two of them were bumping on the horse's back. It was not very comfortable but it felt very good, especially when their bodies collided with each other.

Lin Heng wanted to buy a motorcycle. It must be more comfortable to ride a motorcycle by himself and Xiulan hugged him and sat on the back.

And it is very convenient to have a motorcycle to go into the city. You can go into the city at any time, but it is not certain to ride someone else's.

"Hey."

Lin Heng put his head on Xiulan's shoulder and sighed, taking a deep breath of her hair.

Xiulan pinched Lin Heng's hand and asked, "What's wrong?"

Lin Heng smiled and said, "Nothing, I just sigh that you smell so good."

Although the house was comfortable, he still planned to go hunting in the mountains in a few days, hoping to get something. It would allow him to afford a motorcycle and make some money to prepare for shrimp farming next year.

It's just that there's no need to tell Xiulan about this kind of thing, otherwise she will definitely worry.

Xiulan pouted: "You are so smooth-talking, there must be something you haven't told me yet."

"Go!!"

Lin Heng suddenly accelerated the horse and sprinted. Xiulan was so scared that she screamed and got into Lin Heng's arms.

"Slow down, slow down, brother, slow down."

Xiulan begged hurriedly, it was too fast and she was scared.

"Good sister, we're here."

Lin Heng got off the horse first by holding the reins, and then took Xiulan off.

Xiulan got off the horse and glared at Lin Heng: "Next time I won't go out with you so fast, my butt hurts."

"Okay." Lin Heng smiled and nodded in agreement.

As they talked, they led the horses to the river. The river was already very wide.

They put the horses on the edge of the field to graze, and went to the river to collect the traps.

Lin Heng found a place and pulled the rope back. After a while, the trap came out of the water, and there were fish rolling and struggling inside.

"There's something!" Xiulan was immediately happy.

Lin Heng collected it and looked at it, and he was also smiling: "So many yellow thorn bones? This cage is not a waste of time."

There were a lot of yellow thorn bones of all sizes in the cage, and some of them were golden yellow, which were particularly conspicuous.

Xiulan nodded: "This fish is better than crucian carp and has no bones."

Not only Xiaoxia likes it, she also likes it.

Lin Heng fell to the shore with the ground cage. The most annoying thing about the Yellow Thorn Bone was that it had three spikes that could easily get stuck on the ground cage. It took a lot of effort to get them out.

Throw the ones that are too small back into the river and put away the ones that are too big.

Lin Heng counted and found that there were twenty yellow spines that were collected, each of which was about two taels.

Then Lin Heng went to pull up the second cage. When he pulled it up, he was a little disappointed. Maybe it was not in a good position. There were only five or six yellow thorns and some creek groupers.

Xiulan was very open-minded: "Anyway, it's not a loss anymore. The first cage is already three or four kilograms."

Lin Heng nodded and pulled up the third cage. This cage was next to a pile of water plants, far away from the other two cages.

As soon as I pulled it up, there was no movement. Just when the last two sections came out of the water, there was a sudden pop and a huge splash of water.

"Holy shit, big catfish."

Lin Heng was stunned and suddenly showed a look of surprise.

"How old?"

Xiulan trotted over from not far away and asked curiously.

Lin Heng held up the cage and showed it to his wife with a smile: "Look, there are three catfish in this cage. The largest one is at least six or seven pounds, and is as thick as my forearm."

"Awesome, you are very capable under the cage." Xiulan smiled and gave a thumbs up, praising her husband.

"Collect them all and put them back into our fish pond to eat slowly." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay." Xiulan also felt that there was no need to let go.

Pour the fish out and throw it into the bag, and there is no need to fill it with water. Catfish and yellowtail can breathe air with their gills, so they will not die for a while.

The two wanted to continue lowering the cage, but a cattle herder came from the opposite side and watched from a distance.

Lin Heng didn't want to use the floor cage that the two of them had spent two days making to test the man's quality, so he decisively took it away.

He was holding the ground cage in his right hand, Xiulan was holding the fish in her left hand, and Lin Heng was pulling her right hand up.

After getting on the horse, the two of them walked slowly and chatted while going back. At this time, there was still sun in the sky, which was warm on the people.

After returning to the house, the two of them kept one catfish and five yellow spines in the basin, and threw the rest into the fish pond.

This fish pond originally contained black fish, red carp, stream grouper, a small turtle and a hibernating salamander.

This snakehead fish is extremely ferocious and often attacks the creek grouper, causing a roaring sound in the water.

Catfish is also a big overlord, but it lives at the bottom of the water and does not conflict with the snakehead fish.

The worst thing is the river grouper. The days to come will be even more miserable. There is no one in the water they can afford to offend.

"Let's go back to the house."

After it was done, Xiulan said quickly.

The two of them went back to the bedroom to warm up their hands and feet. Xiongba lay on the floor too tired to move. This time, he was able to slip away.

After their whole bodies were warm, the two of them went to the old house to pick up Xiaoxia.

It was past one o'clock at noon, and Father Lin had returned from digging lotus roots. He was eating in the house. There were forty or fifty kilograms of lotus roots in the yard.

"We'll have dinner together when we come over, and I'll make some for you." Mother Lin looked at them and said.

Lin Heng nodded and said, "You go to our house to eat mutton hot pot tonight. I bought a lot of mutton yesterday."

Mother Lin looked at him and asked, "It must have cost a lot of money. There is no need to eat well all day long."

"Not much money." Lin Heng shook his head. His mother was like this. She cared about money. Fortunately, they lived separately and didn't have to listen to his mother's "chanting" every day.

"Oh, just eat. If he doesn't have money, he won't eat." Father Lin was now more open-minded than Mother Lin and agreed immediately.

In the afternoon, Xiulan cooked the sheep head, removed the meat, and cooked the bones into a stock. In the evening, we invited a whole room of people to eat copper stove hot pot.

Lin Heng brought out the mutton, while his eldest brother and his parents brought in a lot of vegetables, and everyone in the room ate them happily.

“This mutton hot pot is so delicious.”

“Sheep tripe is also delicious…”

There was a lot of fun in the house, and we ate from five o'clock until about seven o'clock, and all the dishes were finished.

When everyone was about to disperse, snow suddenly started falling outside for no reason. It was snow at first, but soon it turned into large flakes.

"It's snowing so heavily. If it keeps falling like this, tomorrow will be a waste of time." Father Lin said with emotion.

Lin Heng also walked out after hearing this. He was very happy when he saw the heavy snow falling in the sky. When the snow fell, it was time to go into the mountains.

Six thousand words today, six thousand words every day from now on, and strive to regain 10,000 words after the New Year.

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