Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Seeing Tian Yan coming in, Lin Heng smiled and said, "Oh, what brings Teacher Tian here?"

Tian Yan looked at him and said, "I'm here to see Xiulan, to see the two babies, and to talk about two things."

"What's the matter? Come in and sit down." Lin Heng stepped aside and invited her in.

"I'll tell you later." Tian Yan waved her hand, walked to the kitchen and said, "It smells so good, Xiulan, you haven't even finished your confinement and you're already working."

Xiulan smiled and said, "This isn't a heavy job, you can play for a while and then eat something when the stewed dishes are ready."

Caiyun also said, "Yes, Teacher Tian, ​​today we're stewing bear and roe deer meat."

"Then I'm in for a treat." Tian Yan smiled and said, "Take me to see the twins, I heard they're called Luming and Duheng, these names are very cultural."

"The names were found by Lin Heng, we chose them together, the child should be asleep in the bedroom by now." Xiulan said as she led her over. Although she didn't want the child to sleep more during the day, she didn't mean to completely stop him from sleeping.

"This name is good, not vulgar or ostentatious." Tian Yan smiled. She used to think that Lin Heng was an uneducated second-rate person, but after getting to know him more in the past two years, she found that this person was just low-key and read more books than her.

Especially when she found out that this person even read the obscure Capital, she felt even more amazing.

"I think it's good too." Xiulan smiled and opened the door, taking her into the house to see the children.

Looking at the two sleeping children, Tian Yan was surprised and said, "What cute little guys."

Xiulan and her chatted for a while while watching the children. After that, Tian Yan took out two red envelopes from her body and put them next to the two children.

Xiulan did not stop the festive red envelopes for the children, and smiled and thanked them.

When the two came out, Lin Heng had already set the leather door curtain and lit the fireplace, and the temperature in the room rose immediately.

Tian Yan looked at Lin Heng and said, "I suggest you get a wooden or iron rack to separate the fireplace. Children at home can get burned easily."

Lin Heng nodded and said, "I'm going to get an iron rack in the city, and pull a tractor of coal up. The coal burns longer and you don't have to get up all the time to add firewood."

Wood is good, but it needs to be added constantly. I didn't think so before, but after using coal in the city for a while, I felt that wood was not so fragrant.

"That's good." Tian Yan sat down with a smile, and Xiulan poured her a glass of brown sugar water.

Lin Heng packed up the tools and sat down, looking at Tian Yan and asked, "What are the two big things you mentioned?"

Tian Yan took a sip of water and said, "The first thing is that I will go to the city to teach when school starts this year. I won't be able to come to teach Xiaoxia to read and write in the future, and you don't have to fulfill your promise to donate 1,000 books to the village primary school."

"Are you promoted?" Caiyun said in surprise.

"Not really, it's just a change of school, and still a teacher." Tian Yan shook her head and said that she was still a little annoyed and angry because Lin Hai was angry with her and didn't want her to go to the city.

"Congratulations, even if you are still a teacher, going to the city has better development prospects than in the village." Lin Heng said with a smile, and then said, "As for donating books to the village primary school, you don't have to feel guilty. I was half joking when I said that I would donate books after you taught Xiaoxia. I will donate no matter what."

Xiaoxia can now draw simple sketches by herself, and can also write her own name and a dozen simple Chinese characters. Tian Yan also has a lot of credit in it.

"Thank you, and let me know if you need me later." Tian Yan smiled.

"It's a small matter." Lin Heng waved his hand and asked, "What about the other thing you said?"

Tian Yan replied, "The second thing is that my father asked me to bring it along. He said that when you have time, he is going to talk to you about the cooperative."

"Is that so? Then I will find time to go to him in the next two days." Lin Heng thought about it and nodded.

He was a little curious about what Tian Dongfu was going to say.

"Okay." Tian Yan nodded, and chatted with Caiyun Xiulan again, and went to the kitchen to soak the braised meat.

There were two pots in the kitchen, one pot was boiling bear oil, and the other pot was braising vegetables. Xiulan put a few pieces of lean meat in the pot boiling bear oil, and they had become burnt brown under the frying of bear oil.

"Try it, this is roe deer meat." Xiulan scooped it out and said with a smile.

Lin Heng took a piece, blew it, and put it in his mouth. Although he kept breathing, he couldn't help chewing. The burnt smell was too strong and the taste was super good. He liked it very much.

"This bear oil seems to be more fragrant." Caiyun was surprised. She had eaten the ones fried when her mother boiled lard, which were obviously inferior to bear oil.

Tian Yan ate the meat and said enviously: "Xiulan and Lin Heng, you two are so good. One is a great hunter and the other cooks well. They complement each other perfectly."

She really envied Lin Heng and Xiulan more and more. Their family was so happy, but her love was already in a painful struggle.

Xiulan looked at her and asked in confusion: "What's wrong with you? You are so emotional even when eating meat. Are you having a quarrel with Lin Hai?"

Tian Yan shook her head and smiled: "No, I just envy you."

Xiulan did not ask further, but said: "Then help us, let's make a meal."

"Wow wow wow..."

As they were talking, the crying of a child came from the bedroom.

Lin Heng took the initiative to say: "I'll go, it should be time to change the diaper."

When he entered the bedroom, he found that Lin Luming had defecated. He endured the stench and took a lot of effort to fix it.

After fixing it, he carried the two little guys to the living room and put them in the baby carriage bought in the city. Now the main room is also warm.

Lin Heng looked at his watch and said, "Xiu Lan, you guys make dinner. I'm going to Hongfeng Mountain and will be back soon."

Xiu Lan waved her hand: "You go, I'll take care of the child."

"Dad, I'll go with you."

Xiao Xia, who was tired of playing with the puppy, ran over and said.

"Then let's go, take your scarf with you." Lin Heng looked at her and said.

Xiao Xia turned around and took the scarf for Lin Heng to wrap around her. After putting on the hat, only a pink face was exposed, which looked seven points similar to her mother.

Lin Heng took her little hand and walked out. The river wind outside the yard was very strong, it was unusually cold, and the sky was also dark, as if it was about to snow.

Xiao Xia didn't want to leave after walking for a while, and hugged Lin Heng's thigh coquettishly: "Good dad, hug your good daughter, it's so cold."

She was even more coquettish now, looking up at Lin Heng pitifully with her little face.

"Okay then!"

Faced with such a request from his lovely daughter, he really couldn't refuse, so he held her in his arms and walked forward.

"Thank you, Dad. I love you so much~"

Xiaoxia kissed Lin Heng on the face, happily hugged his shoulders and looked at the scenery ahead.

Lin Heng brought Xiaoxia to Hongfeng Mountain quickly, opened the gate and went in. The ponds were all frozen with a thin layer of ice. From a distance, they saw the red-maned horse Hongzao eating grass on the hillside outside the cowshed.

"Dad, we haven't picked up eggs for a long time." Xiaoxia said while looking at the chicken coop on the hillside.

"I guess there aren't many eggs recently. Let's go ask your grandma." Lin Heng looked at her and said that this kind of outdoor free-range chickens don't lay eggs much in winter.

"They don't lay eggs much. I only picked up two eggs in three days. I guess there won't be any today." Lin's mother came out and answered. She had heard Lin Heng's voice a long time ago.

"Grandma, I miss you." Xiaoxia said coquettishly when she saw Lin's mother.

Lin's mother immediately happily carried Xiaoxia into the house: "Come, grandma will hold her, let's go in and get you your favorite dried sweet potatoes."

Xiaoxia followed Lin's mother away, and Lin Heng went to the warehouse to see his father who was installing the shelves. He had already assembled two shelves and was assembling the third one.

"Why did you come here when you are not at home to help take care of the children?" Lin's father looked at him and asked.

"Come to see the plum fish and study the hatching and breeding technology of plum fish." Lin Heng explained that unlike ordinary fish, the breeding period of plum fish is from February to March, and the best breeding time is when the spawning water temperature is below ten degrees.

"Plum fish can breed now?" Lin's father was a little surprised.

"Yes, this is a cold water fish." Lin Heng nodded.

Lin's father stopped his work: "Do you need my help?"

Lin Heng thought for a while and said: "Let me take a look at the situation first, and call you if I need it."

"Okay." Lin's father lowered his head and continued to work.

Lin Heng turned and went out, and his mother came out with Xiaoxia and took a small bag of dried sweet potatoes.

Seeing her father, Xiaoxia trotted over and took a handful and said, "Dad, this is for you."

"Thank you, my dear."

Lin Heng took a handful and ate while walking, thinking about the technical difficulties of breeding plum fish.

He didn't need to understand the principles like a scientist, he just needed to create a suitable environment for fish breeding, or artificial breeding, and then explore ways to raise the fry, and finally sell them.

The life characteristics of plum fish are that they like low temperatures and turbulent water with high dissolved oxygen.

Lin Heng walked into the hatchery and first thought about how to transform the hatchery pool into a plum fish hatchery.

Water can be drawn from the mountain. The current water temperature is about four or five degrees, which is very suitable for the breeding of plum fish. Then, it is probably enough to continuously form a strong impact flow through the water pump.

It seems that it is not that difficult to build by taking advantage of the terrain. He decided to try it in the next two days.

There is also a simpler method, which is to use natural streams to let the fish breed naturally, and then he will wait for the fry to grow up and catch them.

It's just that this method is too inefficient, and artificial breeding is more efficient.

Breeding fry is only the first step. How to feed them and what to feed them are another big problem. These need to be studied slowly. Lin Heng does not expect to succeed all at once this year.

After looking at the hatchery, he determined the general transformation plan in his mind. Lin Heng took a scoop net, a bucket and a small bowl and walked towards the mountain.

"Dad, wait for me."

Xiaoxia saw him going up the mountain and wanted to go with him.

"Let your grandma pull you. I'll wait for you." Lin Heng stopped and said.

After waiting for his daughter, Lin Heng took his daughter and mother to Hongfeng Mountain. He hadn't been there for a month.

In the dry season in winter, the water flow at the overflow of the small dam is already very small. A stream of water about the thickness of a small bowl rushed down like a white ribbon.

The water droplets splashed around the water flow formed clusters of ice flowers on the mountain wall, which was extremely beautiful.

Lin Heng took a look, walked to the overflow of the dam, salvaged the leaves and branches piled up in the wire mesh, and then went to see the fish in his cage.

In winter, the water is clearer with less algae. You can vaguely see the activity of the plum fish in the net cage, which is obviously rushing upstream, much more active than other grass carps and carps.

Lin Heng took a long time to scoop out two fish with the scoop net. He took a look and said, "Lucky, both of them are female."

Female plum fish are larger, with a bigger belly and ovaries on both sides, so they can be recognized at a glance.

"Dad, do you want to eat fish for lunch?" Xiaoxia drooled at the fish in the bucket. She liked this kind of fish the most.

Mother Lin looked at her and said, "Don't eat this fish for lunch. Eat crucian carp."

Lin Heng fished for a while before finding a small male fish. After catching both the male and female fish, he made a small bowl, filled it with half a bowl of water, and then grabbed the female fish and gently pressed the abdomen.

If the fish eggs are mature, they will come out with a slight pressure. He tried the first one but failed. When testing the second one, a large amount of golden fish eggs flowed out with a slight pressure, and half a bowl was filled in a short while.

"This is much less than grass carp." Mother Lin said.

"This fish lays fewer eggs." Lin Heng nodded and said, then he grabbed the male fish and pressed it a few more times. This time it was a one-time success, and a white liquid flowed into the bowl in a thin line.

Put the fish back, Lin Heng stirred the water in the bowl, and the fertilization of the fish eggs was completed.

"It seems that the fish I caught are all sexually mature big fish." Lin Heng nodded, took the fish eggs to the stream above the dam, and chose a small pool to pour the fish eggs into it and let them hatch naturally.

Because his hatchery has not been renovated yet, he can only hatch in the open air like this.

After confirming that the breeding fish he caught were fine, Lin Heng felt relieved, and then he just needed to renovate the hatching pool with peace of mind.

Then he went to see the cabin again. This time he bought paint, but he didn't have time to paint the cabin for the time being.

There are no wild boars in the ginseng garden, and the bees are living normally. The cattle and sheep have grown up again, and the rams in the sheepfold are very agitated. After eating grass, they will rub their horns together, and the sound of rubbing horns can be heard from a distance.

"These sheep should be fanned, they are very noisy all day long." Lin's mother looked at Lin Heng and said.

"Wait until the temperature rises a little at the end of March to start fanning the sheep." Lin Heng nodded, the size of these sheep is just right now.

After looking around, Lin Heng and his father discussed it and decided to find an opportunity to transform the hatchery in the next two days and then try artificial breeding of plum fish.

"This is the wild big crucian carp I bought specially. You can give it to Xiulan. It helps with milk production." When Lin Heng left, Lin's mother took out five or six golden big crucian carps weighing about one pound from the house and said.

"Don't buy any more after this. I'll go fishing." Lin Heng said while holding the fish. Buying fish is a bit insulting to a fisherman.

"I don't want to buy it yet." Lin's mother spread her hands and said.

"Son, let's go fishing together next time you go fishing." Lin's father smiled and said that he liked fishing a little bit now.