Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Grafting of roses is very simple, whether it is split grafting or bud grafting, because it is a particularly easy plant to live.

Lin Heng and his eldest brother both used the split grafting method. They selected a section of rose branches, picked out half of the leaves, thinned the bottom, split the grafted wild rose branches, inserted the grafted branches to align with the skin on both sides, and finally used Just cover it all with plastic paper.

Father Lin found this method troublesome, so he chose the bud grafting method, which involves cutting off the buds of wild roses, then cutting off the buds of roses and putting them on top, and just bundle them with plastic film, which is much simpler.

The father and son were busy all afternoon and didn't finish it. When they were grafting, they realized that last year's planting was a bit dense. They worked for half a day the next day to finish grafting the roses.

Some of the rose seedlings Lin Heng bought were planted somewhere. When they grow up, they will not only serve as a fence for people to use as cattle, but they will also be very beautiful for people to appreciate.

After finishing this, the next main task is to plow the land and paddy fields in preparation for planting crops later. Although the father and son are separated, they still work together, and the work is much more efficient.

Nowadays, most of the land is planted with fruit trees, and some of it also has rapeseed and wheat. There is not much vacant land.

In the blink of an eye, it is already April 1st of 1985, February 12th of the lunar calendar, just less than four days before Tomb Sweeping Day.

It seems that because this year's spring rain fell very early and hard, the plants on the mountain woke up faster than in previous years. The riverside was already green, and all kinds of plants sprouted new leaves.

Pink and deep purple trees are blooming on the hillside. Cherry, pear, plum and other fruit trees are also in full bloom before Qingming Festival. You can smell the fragrance of flowers from time to time when walking in the village.

In the back hill of Lin Heng's house, the fruit trees planted last year have bloomed a lot this year. They were three-year-old grafted seedlings that were purchased last year. After growing for a year with sufficient water and fertilizer last year, they are already more than two meters tall. Tree.

The plants planted in the yard are also gradually recovering. The grapes have already sprouted new leaves, the orchids have sprouted foils, and the lilies have sprouted branches and leaves.

Especially since Xiaoxia didn't eat it last year, the giant lily she chose to plant, which weighed one pound and a half, was even more impressive. The pole was as thick as a rolling pin, and it had grown to more than two meters high in two days. The growth rate was frighteningly fast.

The breath of revival of all things makes people feel better. Watching the mountains and rivers change color and the rivers turn green is the romance of rural people.

In addition to training dogs and taking care of children at home, Lin Heng works with his eldest brother and father to clear the land and prepare to plant crops. When he comes back, he brings some flowers to Xiulan to add a touch of spring to the family.

Early that morning, the two of them got up as usual, but the beautiful weather made them exercise longer, and Xiaoxia was also with them.

Although nothing Xiaoxia does is standard, the exercise is still effective. She can run as steadily as an adult, and she is taller than other children of the same age.

"Mom, what are you eating this morning? I'm hungry!"

Xiaoxia said coquettishly while lying on the bench in the pavilion after exercising.

Xiulan looked at her and said, "I didn't want to drink yogurt yesterday. It was all prepared for you and you can eat it soon."

Xiaoxia immediately got up: "Okay, I like to eat yogurt."

"Let's go milk the cows together." Lin Heng came out with a small bucket and extended his hand to her and said.

"good."

Xiaoxia immediately got up and took Lin Heng's hand.

"You two go, I'll make breakfast." Xiulan walked towards the house, not with her father and daughter.

When Lin Heng came to the back mountain, his eldest brother and nephew Lin Wei happened to be milking cows here. When they saw Lin Heng, Lin Wei said with a smile: "Good morning, second dad. My dad said the cows seem to be in heat."

"Yeah?"

Lin Heng got closer and checked, and there were indeed signs of heat. This is quite normal, most animals come into heat in the spring.

"Let's breed it in two days." Lin Heng thought for a while and said, he took good care of this cow, not only feeding it nutritious green storage, but also feeding it some grain from time to time.

"Just use the one-and-a-half-year-old male cow from Hongfeng Mountain?" Lin Yue asked curiously.

"Yes, let's use the male cow for now." Lin Heng nodded.

"I will help you then." Lin Yue said with a smile. He also fed this cow frequently and took the initiative to take part of the responsibility.

Lin Heng nodded in agreement, leaned down and squeezed out most of the milk. They drank part of it themselves and gave the rest to their parents.

Back in the house, Xiulan fried the potato cakes and fried eggs.

Lin Heng took out the yogurt and let Xiaoxia eat it first, while he waited for Xiulan to eat together.

"Wow wow..."

The two of them were enjoying their meal when the eldest son Lin Luming in the stroller suddenly cried.

"I didn't pee in my pants in the morning, and peeing my pants now is really torturous." Xiulan gave the little guy a helpless look.

"I'll do it." Lin Heng put down the food and went to get a diaper.

Before the baby is one year old, it is almost impossible to control the bladder and bowels, and adults can only provide a little guidance.

However, the best thing about the twin sons is that they didn't get sick very much. Only the third son, Lin Duheng, had a fever once in more than a month after returning. He was given a small amount of anti-fever medicine prescribed in the city and was cured early the next morning.

Of course, this is also related to their care methods, which will allow them to slowly come into contact with the natural environment instead of disinfecting everything, which makes their resistance stronger.

After changing his son's diaper, Lin Heng took the milk to Hongfeng Mountain after breakfast. Father Lin and Mother Lin had just made breakfast here, and he brought over the hot milk just in time.

"Second brother, I'm going to school."

Caiyun poured a glass of milk into the cup and said. Sometimes she eats breakfast at Lin Heng's place, and sometimes at her parents' place.

"Okay, pay attention to safety." Lin Heng patted her shoulder.

After Caiyun left, Lin's father looked at Lin Heng helplessly and said, "Son, the hatching of the fry doesn't seem to be going smoothly this time."

"I'll go take a look." Lin Heng walked towards the incubation room.

Turn on the flashlight and shine it into the water, and you can already see many translucent tiny creatures. These are all hatched fry. When they absorb the yolk and grow larger, they will not be transparent.

The surface of the water looked densely packed with small bugs, and there was oxygen on the side to ensure there would be no lack of oxygen, but the number was actually much less than Lin Heng expected.

If you look carefully at the bottom of the water, you can find that half of the fish eggs have not hatched and have begun to deteriorate. It is unknown what caused their death.

"I guess it is caused by artificial incubation. Next year we will try to build a natural incubation pool to see how they hatch." Lin Heng thought for a while and said.

Although this result is not very good, it can prove that the effect of artificial incubation is good. If you find the cause of the problem and improve it, there should be no problem.

However, this is only the first step. It is also difficult to help these fry to open their mouths later. Water fleas were originally the most useful, but there are not so many equipments in this era, and it is impossible to artificially raise a large number of them at this time. water fleas.

He hasn't figured out what to make for opening yet.

"Then we won't care about these fry now?" Father Lin asked.

Lin Heng said: "Whatever, after you finish your meal, we will clean up the unhatched fish eggs at the bottom of the water, otherwise the water quality will deteriorate."

"That's okay." Father Lin nodded.

His father went back to eat, and Lin Heng walked around. The forsythia seedlings planted last year by the stream have begun to bloom this year. Although the yellow flowers are washed away, they are quite beautiful.

The grafted roses have also produced strong branches, and the grafting success rate is nearly 100%. The absorptive capacity of the wild rose root system is too strong, and the new branches are thick and strong.

While watching, he removed some wild rose branches that shouldn't be there, otherwise the roses wouldn't be able to compete.

“Quack quack!!”

As soon as Lin Heng walked to the edge of the pasture, a pheasant flew out from the green rye grass.

"So crazy!"

Lin Heng felt that it was a bit provoking to himself, but he really hadn't hunted much recently. He occasionally walked around near his home, but he didn't gain much.

But I heard that someone shot a big wild boar on the wooden beam where his uncle lived, weighing more than two hundred kilograms.

"Son, I've finished breakfast." Lin's father shouted from the bottom of the mountain.

"Coming."

Lin Heng responded and walked down the mountain.

"The ryegrass on this mountain can also be cut, but if it is used for green storage now, plastic bags are not enough." Father Lin said, before there were three acres of land, now it is thirteen acres, and there is too much grass to be harvested.

"I'm going to the city to get astragalus seeds in the next two days, and I'll buy some more then." Lin Heng said.

When he arrived at the incubation room, he asked Father Lin to lure the fry aside with a flashlight, and he used a siphon to suck out the impurities and fish eggs from the bottom of the water.

It took me a whole morning to finish it, and then I added some sterilized water from the pond next to the hatching tank.

The next step is to wait. There is no need to add oxygen for the time being because the water surface is large.

"Son, can we feed fresh shrimps in small amounts recently?"

After finishing the plum blossom hatching pond, Father Lin asked again.

"You can start feeding, don't feed too much." Lin Heng nodded and said.

When we sold shrimp last year, we sold them through a net. Almost all the fresh shrimps were caught. Only the more than 30 kilograms of large fresh shrimps were kept in the pond and kept in the net. They were specially reserved for breeding this year. Green shrimp.

But it’s still early for the green shrimps to hatch, so just take your time.

Before leaving, Lin Heng went to see Lin She. The pregnant female was only two months away from giving birth, and her belly was already obvious.

I just don’t know how many will be born this year, whether they will be male or female.

But no matter what, three female forest musk deer will be able to breed by the end of this year, and the number of forest musk deer will increase significantly starting next year.

On the way home, he took his time and folded a handful of deep purple peach blossoms on the side of the road.

After returning home, Lin Heng put the flowers outside and went to find his elder brother first to explain about going to the city tomorrow.

"Your brother was just asked by Tian Baishun to go hunting and is not at home." Liu Juan said with a smile.

"Sister-in-law, please tell my brother and we'll go to town together tomorrow," Lin Heng said.

"No problem. Even if I want to go with you, can you? I haven't entered the city yet."

After Liu Juan finished speaking, she looked at Lin Heng expectantly. She had always wanted to go to the city to see it, but she had no chance.

"Okay, it's absolutely fine, sister-in-law. You can pack up tomorrow morning and we'll set off at nine o'clock." Lin Heng agreed with a smile.

This is the case for people living in these mountains. Some people have never been out in their lives and have never seen the prosperity outside.

"Okay." Liu Juan suddenly became happy.

Lin Heng waved his hand, walked out, picked up the flowers outside and returned home.

"I don't think this flower is as beautiful as yours, but I picked it anyway." Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said seriously.

Xiulan was amused and smiled brightly. She took the flower and said, "Your mouth is getting sweeter and sweeter."

"Seriously, when we raise our children, I will take you around the country and see other parts of the world."

Lin Heng said with a smile, he is 22 years old this year, and it has only been two thousand years since his children grew up. He was only 37 at that time, and there is still a lot of time to see the world.

"Why do you say these things all of a sudden?" Xiulan asked curiously while arranging flowers.

“I just feel like it’s not worth it if people are trapped in this mountain for the rest of their lives.”

Lin Heng lamented that there are many people like his grandmother and even his parents who have never left the mountains in their lives.

"I can accompany you whenever you want, but I don't think you have to wait that long. When the child is older, I can just take him with me." Xiulan arranged the flowers and said with a smile.

"You're right." Lin Heng reached out and smoothed Xiulan's messy hair, and touched her soft face.

Today she wore a white autumn coat and a navy blue coat, with simple black pants underneath. The hair is tied up casually, and the bangs parted in the middle are scattered, making people feel like the delicate flowers by the river in spring, with a hint of charm in their gentleness.

Faced with Lin Heng's actions, Xiulan just blinked and looked at him with a smile.

Lin Heng didn't make any unnecessary moves. He touched it and let go. Xiulan just put on lipstick, and her skin was truly white and smooth.

Of course, the main thing is that Xiaoxia is in the yard.

"How are the plum blossom fry?" Xiulan asked, pouring a cup of tea for Lin Heng.

"Halfway through, I guess there will be more deaths later." Lin Heng briefly talked about the morning's work, and then looked at his two sons.

"Take your time, don't be in a hurry." Xiulan leaned against Lin Heng and said.

Lin Heng nodded, this was something that shouldn't be rushed.

After talking for a while, the child cried and asked for milk, and Xiulan fed her.

It looked more impactful in broad daylight than at night, leaving Lin Heng a little stunned.

After feeding the child, the two went to get lunch together. After dinner, the two of them took Xiaoxia to give the family dog ​​a bath.

These puppies are already quite old, and Lin Heng has almost trained them, so he can put them to work these days.

Lin Heng has also regained his source of happiness these days. Xiulan has been recovering for two months and has basically recovered completely. The two of them can have sex again.

After putting the child to sleep at night, the two of them started doing big things.

Xiulan's recovery was no different from before giving birth, while Lin Heng was stronger than before. So much so that Xiulan sometimes had to use some special methods to end things quickly.

“It’s another refreshing morning!”

Early in the morning, Lin Heng woke up and looked at the person next to him and sighed.

"Hurry up and find me your underwear." Xiulan pushed him and asked him to look for his discarded underwear.

Lin Hengda didn't want to compete with his son for food in the morning, so he smiled and went to find the underwear littered on the chair.

Next to her was a pair of caked flesh-colored stockings, exuding the unpleasant smell of heather, telling of everything she had endured.

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