Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

The trees along the river are green now, and the trees on the mountain have just sprouted tender leaves. The Chinese toon is only three or four centimeters tall and can't be broken.

While burning paper for his grandfather, Lin Heng asked: "Dad, how did my mother talk to the matchmaker yesterday afternoon?"

Lin's father smiled and responded: "No problem, Zhang Gaolian agreed, and she doesn't want a gift. But your uncle has to clean up the house, paint it with plaster, lay stone slabs, and drink less and don't hit people. Buy her a sewing machine after giving birth."

"This request is not excessive." Lin Heng nodded and said, he even thought it was not a request.

Zhang Gaolian is said to be pretty, but rural people in this era are a bit superstitious, and many people don't want to contact widows, so she herself didn't make excessive demands.

"It's not an excessive request, but it's a bit difficult for my uncle to drink less, and it's hard for adults to change this habit." Lin Yue smiled.

"Then he has to change, he has no choice now, unless he doesn't want offspring." Lin Heng said, in recent years, it can be clearly seen that his uncle's temper has changed a lot.

Lin's father smiled mysteriously and said: "I think you are too worried, your uncle will definitely be controlled by Zhang Gaolian."

Hearing this, the two couldn't help but show doubts.

Lin's father explained: "Because I heard that Zhang Gaolian's previous man also had a bad temper, like a stubborn bull, but after marriage, he was obedient to Zhang Gaolian."

"This is probably unreliable, maybe her previous man had a good temper." Lin Yue said.

Lin Heng nodded and said, "I think so too."

"Whether this is true or not, let's get them together first. If your uncle doesn't find a wife, he won't have a chance."

Father Lin waved his hand and continued, "What your mother meant is that we should meet in the next two days, and then your uncle will go back to get a house, and choose a good day in the next two months to do some small things."

Lin Heng had no objection to this. After burning the paper, he touched Xiongba's head behind him, looked at his eldest brother and father and said, "I'm going to go to Shuijinggou this way to see if there are Chinese toon and fern. It's wetter over there and the trees grow faster. Do you want to go?"

"Then let's go together. It's not raining now." Lin Yue nodded and said.

He also brought the dog that Lin Heng gave him today. He named it Good Luck, hoping that it would bring him good luck in hunting.

"Then I'll go and see it too." Father Lin nodded and agreed. He didn't have much to do when he went back today.

It's not far from here to Shuijinggou. Lin Heng and his eldest brother walked in the woods with the dog, and Father Lin picked some Chinese toon on the side of the road.

"Brother, we won't go out to hunt in the mountains this spring, right?" Lin Yue asked from a distance while walking in the woods.

"We won't go in the spring, there's a lot of work to do, let's hunt some pheasants and rabbits near our home. In July and August, we'll take Dad to Birch Cliff to find ginseng and hunt. In October, we'll ask my uncle to go to Changping County where he said he would hunt black bears for a month." Lin Heng said as he walked.

Changping is closer to the northwest, the mountains are high but the trees are mainly shrubs, there are more black bears and roe deer, and there are wolves.

At that time, call a few more people and have a big hunt.

"That's suitable." Lin Yue nodded and said.

While chatting, the two searched in the woods. Last year, the mushrooms were not good, but this spring, there should be morels, pine mushrooms, and broom mushrooms. These are all low-temperature mushrooms.

"Woof woof~~"

As they walked, Xiongba cheered in front of them. Lin Heng approached and took a look, and immediately smiled: "I said there was, this morel is out."

Under this fallen leaf, plump black-veined morels stood tall and beautiful.

Lin Heng took out a plastic bag from his body and picked them one by one and put them in. After picking them, Lin Heng looked at the morels in the bag and shouted to his elder brother: "This year's mushrooms are expected to explode. I picked up two or three pounds of morels in this nest."

This was very rare in previous years. This year's first nest had a great harvest. He rubbed Xiongba's dog head in excitement.

"I also found pine mushrooms here. This year is a good year." Lin Yue also said happily.

In nature, whether it is mushrooms or plants, there are big and small years. In the small year, they accumulate nutrients and grow explosively in the big year. Only crops with artificial intervention of flower and fruit thinning have no obvious big and small years.

Continuing forward, Lin Heng failed to find other mushrooms. The temperature was still low and mushrooms were scarce.

After a while, he came to the side of the well ditch. Lin Heng also came to his second morel nest, but unfortunately, no mushrooms came out.

Then he went into the ditch to pick Chinese toon. The ditch was full of water and the grass was lush. The grass was as deep as the calf, and the Chinese toon was about 15 centimeters. It was the best time to eat.

"I have picked a big bundle." Father Lin showed off with a bundle of Chinese toon, which was about four or five pounds.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "It seems to be a lot."

He was also looking around with a bag. The small Chinese toon trees in this ditch were miserable. They were chopped off with a knife every year. Therefore, the more and more side branches there were, the more they were chopped.

Father Lin chopped with a knife. This was their own territory. They could chop as they wanted. After being chopped, they could harvest another crop after waiting for half a month.

Lin Heng followed his father. He chopped and picked up the ready-made ones. After a while, the eldest brother Lin Yue came out, holding a bag and boasting: "I was lucky today. I picked up four or five kilograms of pine mushrooms."

Pine mushrooms are orange-yellow and orange-red, both are edible, and they are plump and enviable.

"Come and pick the bracken, there are a lot of them down here." Lin Heng waved at him.

The three of them walked from here to the bottom of the well ditch, and then went home along a path here.

"Wife, I picked up three pounds of morels!"

As soon as he returned to the house, Lin Heng couldn't wait to shout.

"Really so many, it seems that there will be more mushrooms this year." Xiulan was immediately happy. If there are more mushrooms, she can enjoy the joy of picking mushrooms.

"Definitely a lot." Lin Heng nodded.

Xiulan went to get two small stools and two knives, and the two of them processed the mushrooms together.

While working, Lin Heng told her about the harvest of his eldest brother and father, as well as the situation of his uncle.

"That's good, you just urge your uncle to restrain his temper a little." Xiulan nodded.

As she was talking, a bug on the mushrooms crawled onto Xiulan's hand. She threw it to the ground and stepped on it to death, without any fear.

Gentleness is different from affectation. People living in the countryside will not scream when they see a bug.

"It depends on my uncle. If he can't control it, he can't blame others." Lin Heng sighed.

As the two talked, the mushrooms and vegetables were picked quickly. Xiulan stood up and said, "I'm going to cook. You keep an eye on your son."

Lin Heng looked at the two little guys. They were all grinning at him, and one was still eating his hand.

Xiaoxia was playing with her toys on the side and talking to herself.

After a while, Xiulan brought the food. In the morning, she had rice, and the dish was a fried egg with chopped toon and egg liquid, a simple stir-fried meat with morel mushrooms, and a simple soup with morel mushrooms.

The fried eggs with Chinese toon have a strong Chinese toon flavor, while the fried meat with morel is a delicious and tender mixture of meat and mushrooms. Both are very good with rice, especially Xiaoxia likes it very much.

The three of them finished their meal slowly, and it started to rain outside, which meant that they couldn't do anything in the afternoon.

Because there was a freezer, Xiulan froze the extra morels and Chinese toon, and there was no need to dry them. She could just take them out when she wanted to eat them.

At a little after one o'clock, Lin's mother brought Lin Heng's aunt Lu Hongyun and uncle-in-law over.

Because someone specially brought them a message yesterday, today they just happened to come by while visiting the grave.

It was the same thing yesterday that Lin Heng talked to the two.

After listening, aunt Lu Hongyun immediately said: "We can grow five acres of astragalus, and five or six acres of ginseng."

"That's about it. Our family is far away from the mountains and forests. It's not worth it to grow them too far away, and they are easy to be stolen." Uncle-in-law Li Baiquan said.

"I know." Lin Heng nodded.

After the chat, the two looked at Lin Heng's twin sons, played here for a while, and then refused the invitation to dinner and went home.

Lin Heng waited for the rain to subside a little and walked to Hongfeng Mountain to look at the plum fish fry, and then looked at the astragalus seeds, which had not yet sprouted.

In the evening, his third father came and reported the area planted by his family, four acres of astragalus and eight acres of ginseng. His family wanted to leave more land for crops.

His eldest uncle had seven acres of astragalus and five acres of ginseng. There were few people in the family and they didn't plan to plant more crops.

His eldest brother's family wanted to plant five acres of ginseng. The fields were planted with kiwis, and there was no place to plant astragalus.

The approximate number of acres was determined, a total of 16 acres of astragalus and 24 acres of ginseng, and finally plus the ten acres of ginseng for his third uncle, a total of 50 acres.

He got everything for his eldest uncle, so his third uncle naturally couldn't forget it. After asking, his third uncle didn't plan to plant astragalus, but chose to plant ten acres of ginseng directly.

As for his second uncle, he has been developing his own bun shop in the suburbs this year. He couldn't notify him if he didn't come back.

After the calculation, Lin Heng calculated the approximate seed demand. One acre of Astragalus requires at least 20 kilograms of seeds. They have never planted it before, so they calculated it as 30 kilograms per acre. For ginseng, 50 kilograms per acre are needed, because the mortality rate of ginseng under the forest is relatively high if it is not taken care of.

It costs 240 yuan for 480 kilograms of Astragalus seeds and 1,360 yuan for 1,700 kilograms of ginseng seeds, a total of 1,600 yuan for seeds.

This investment is not too big for Lin Heng. As long as there is no life at all, he will not lose money. If the output reaches his expectations, he recalled the future price and can make at least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, or even 100,000 yuan.

The difference is whether he can sell it directly to pharmaceutical companies. If he can, 100,000 is very likely.

If not, let the middle draw once, it will be much less. But this is also simple, as long as the time is right, everything will be easy.

Also, if something unexpected happens two years later, for example, if a relative thinks that he has made money from others and makes a fuss, he will be able to see more clearly which people are worth taking with him.

"Are you going to Ancheng again to buy so many things at once?"

Xiu Lan put her chin on the desk and looked at Lin Heng.

"No need, such a big business can be done directly by Taibai Seed Station, no need to go there specially." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.

"Is that so? That's good." Xiu Lan smiled.

If Lin Heng went out for a long time, she would not only worry about his safety, but also that she could not take care of the children at home by herself.

The rain stopped the next day, but the sky was gloomy all the time, and it seemed that the rain had not stopped yet.

Early in the morning, Lin's father called Lin Heng and prepared to plant alfalfa, the seeds of which only needed to be soaked two hours in advance, and no seedlings were needed.

The sowing method used at that time was row sowing, which was to dig a row of furrows with a spacing of about 30 cm. This sowing method was conducive to fertilization and watering.

The land on Hongfeng Mountain was reclaimed last year. Many trees were burned, and it contained a lot of humus. It was planted directly without applying base fertilizer.

There were no rhizobia in this era, otherwise the seeds would grow better.

In the morning, Lin Heng came over and asked his father to sow first, and he and his eldest brother went to the city quickly.

Lin's mother asked Lin Heng to take his uncle with him, let him pick two good clothes, and buy a set for Zhang Gaolian, and she had measured the size.

When the uncle was going, Lin Yue said that he would help farm at home, and he would only go to accompany Lin Heng, and he would not go if his uncle was there.

Lin Heng took his uncle to the city, driving very fast all the way, and went to the seed station to find someone to discuss the business.

Finally, he paid a deposit of 1,000 yuan, and the seed station issued a receipt.

Fortunately, there happened to be a truck at the Ancheng Seed Station these two days. We called Ancheng directly to ask them to add the seeds that Lin Heng wanted to buy, and they would be shipped back the day after tomorrow.

"Lin Heng, you have really grown up!"

Coming out of the seed station, his uncle Lu Honghai patted his arm and sighed.

He was shocked by the fluent and natural way that Lin Heng chatted with the people here and the ability to pick topics at will.

He thought that he often ran out for a reason, and this eloquence was something he couldn't compare with.

"Haha, I also practiced a lot." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After that, he said: "Let's go, uncle, go buy you clothes."

His uncle and Zhang Gaolian had agreed that they would not hold a big wedding, but just a small event. The clothes he bought this time were equivalent to wedding clothes.

He picked a set for his uncle and future aunt, about 20 yuan, and he paid for them.

Then he asked his uncle to buy another set of things with his own money, as well as some things for cleaning the house and getting married.

It was natural not to come here in vain, and the things that could be brought would be much cheaper in the city.

It was noon when they returned to the village, and they caught up with lunch.

"Dad, how many acres of land did you plant this morning?" Lin Heng asked while eating.

Father Lin took a bite of the dish and said, "The four of us planted about one and a half acres this morning. The soil was loose and it was easy to plant."

"It looks like it will take several days to plant." Lin Heng sighed.

"It will take about ten days, after all, there are ten acres of land." Lin Yue said with a smile.

Lin Heng nodded and asked when the day would be for his uncle. Lin's mother replied that it was the day after tomorrow, which happened to be a good day.

After lunch, when Lin Heng took a break at noon, he went home again. It was windy today and Xiulan did not bring the children to Hongfeng Mountain.

He went back not for anything else, but just wanted to see his wife and children. He took the unknown wild flowers he picked by the roadside.

It's not that there is any special meaning, but when I see beautiful words, I will think of my wife, so I want to pick it and give it to her.

Xiulan took the flower and sniffed it, and happily put it in the vase. Lin Heng grabbed her and said, "Wait a minute!"

"What?" Xiulan turned her head and looked at him.

Lin Heng took a flower and put it on her head, and smiled, "You look better with this contrast."

"I really have to keep an eye on you when you go out in the future, you are more sweet-talking than before!" Xiulan looked into his eyes and smiled tenderly.

"I'm telling the truth." Lin Heng said seriously, and after a pause, he looked down at Xiulan's moist and bright red lips and said, "My mouth is so dry, can you help me?"

Xiulan understood what he meant, and looked at him shyly at first, then suddenly hit him and ran away with a smile: "If your mouth is so dry, drink water, there is water on the table."