Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Back in the house at the foot of the mountain, Lin Heng sold the remaining seeds to Yang Guiquan, and the two parties signed a contract.

In fact, this contract has little legal effect in this era. It mainly serves as a voucher, and it also has a certain binding effect on people who don't understand it.

Yang Guiquan's salary was just lower than the ten yuan for the seeds. Lin Heng paid Zhang Guishan the salary and they left together.

"I hope it will rain soon in the next two days, so that we can go pick morels!"

Lin's mother said, looking at the gray sky. The temperature of about 15 degrees during this period is most suitable for morels and pine mushrooms to grow.

"It will probably rain. The sky has been gloomy for many days." Lin Heng said, looking at the gray sky. Xiulan also wanted to pick mushrooms after it rained, and it just met her wish.

After saying a few words, Lin Heng drove the sidecar back to the village. He was very tired from working these two days and wanted to go home and rest.

When he got home, the first person to greet him was Xiongba. Xiaoxia was having fun pulling a cart in the yard with a group of playmates, and Dazhuang was also pulled away to work as a laborer.

When he came back, she just called him dad and didn't rush over to hug him, but it was just right for him to go back to the house to rest.

In the main room, Xiulan was using a sewing machine to make clothes for the children. She was a little surprised to see Lin Heng coming back: "Have you planted the astragalus?"

"Yes, all of them have been planted. I'm so tired."

As Lin Heng said this, he put down the tools and prepared to go back to the house to take a shower.

"There is water in the electric kettle. Find the clothes yourself." Xiulan looked at him and said.

Lin Heng simply washed the sweat off his body with hot water, and then came out of the main room wearing clothes and cloth shoes, poured a cup of tea and sat down. The two sons reached out to him in the cradle for hugs.

"I have bad news for you. Jinbao is missing, but Xiaoxia doesn't know yet." Xiulan looked at him and said.

"Missing? Could it be that someone killed him!" Lin Heng frowned. Jinbao is a big golden cat, and his fur is worth a lot of money.

But it usually doesn't go out to move around, at most it stays near the house, and Lin Heng was also shocked by its disappearance.

Xiulan nodded slightly: "I think it's in danger. It's as well-behaved as a house cat. Who knows if someone will trick it into taking it home and harm it."

After thinking for a few seconds, Lin Heng said helplessly: "Then wait until Xiaoxia asks and tell her that it has returned to the forest."

Xiulan nodded and said: "Take Xiongba to look for traces nearby recently."

Lin Heng nodded in agreement. After a while, Xiulan finished making the clothes. It was a protective clothing for Xiaoxia to wear, so that she wouldn't always get her clothes dirty.

"You take care of the baby in the afternoon, and I'll make you soft cakes to reward our great man." Xiulan pushed the sewing machine aside and looked at Lin Heng and said.

"Okay, I didn't eat soft cakes when I got better." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.

In rural areas, soft cakes are a relatively high-end food among pasta, because they must be made with medium-high gluten wheat flour. Other flours will not be chewy and will break into slag.

The medium-high gluten wheat is much more expensive than the ordinary wheat.

Xiulan did it even better. She scooped a shovel of high-gluten flour into the basin, added two eggs, and then added water and stirred continuously until the water and flour were mixed into a gelatinous state without any lumps before making soft pancakes.

Light a fire under the pot, apply oil to the pot, and it also requires skills and techniques to bake one by one.

After baking ten soft pancakes, Xiulan also fried shredded pickled radish with bacon, shredded potatoes, scrambled eggs with Chinese toon, and finally morel and crucian carp soup.

It was already seven o'clock when it was done. Xiaoxia, who had played all afternoon, had already washed her hands and sat on the bench looking forward to it. As soon as the dishes were served, she picked up a piece of egg and stuffed it into her mouth.

"It's delicious~" Xiaoxia praised while eating.

Lin Heng took a soft pancake and spread it on the table. He first spread a layer of fermented bean curd and spicy sauce on it, then put the pickled radish shreds and bacon, Chinese toon scrambled eggs, and potato shreds on it, and then rolled the pancake. Every bite had several flavors.

This is a food that makes people unable to stop eating, and even move. The rich taste and texture are enough to make people linger after eating.

"It's delicious." Lin Heng said with emotion after eating two soft pancakes.

"Then you eat more." Xiulan rolled another one for Lin Heng. The daughter next to her also wanted to roll it up, but she couldn't get it herself, so she rolled it up and fed it to her.

The two sons looked at them curiously, and seemed to want to eat it, but they were not even half a year old and couldn't even eat complementary food.

After dinner, they cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks. It was still early. There were no mosquitoes these two days, and the temperature was one of the most comfortable time periods of the year.

They played outside for a while, and after returning to the house, Lin Heng took another novel to read, which was considered a pastime after dinner. Because he often read novels, his reading ability has improved a lot, and he can read unfamiliar books fluently.

In fact, it’s not that they love reading, but mainly because there are no other entertainment activities in the mountains at that time.

Just like people in the subways in New York and London love reading books and newspapers, it’s also because there is no Internet there, so they can only spend time like this.

Everyone was sleepy when they read until about 9:30 or 10 o’clock, so they turned off the lights and lay down to rest.

The next morning, they got up at around 7 o’clock. When they got up in the morning, they found that it still didn’t rain. They were a little disappointed. After exercising and having breakfast, Lin Heng took the cow to Hongfeng Mountain.

When Lin’s father saw him coming, he went to the pen to pull the one-and-a-half-year-old cow over for breeding. After putting the two cows together, Lin Heng turned and left.

He went to see the pregnant musk deer. At this time, her belly was already quite big, and she was not far from giving birth. By the way, he put on his water pants and cleaned the pen and disinfected it.

Then I went to see the fry and fresh shrimps. This year, there are too many fresh shrimps with shovel seeds. When the seeds are harvested, I can catch a batch and take them back to take out the shrimp seeds and make dumplings to eat.

After looking around here, he went to the top of the mountain to take a look. Many plum blossom fry could be seen in the reservoir, and large plum blossoms could also be found from time to time.

There are many fewer ginseng seedlings in the ginseng garden than last year, and many of them were eliminated in one winter. It doesn't mean that they are definitely dead, some are just dormant and may grow back later.

After a spring of collecting, the bees are full of honey again. The bee colony is also larger than last year, and it seems that there is an intention to divide the bees. Maybe he can harvest another box of bees in a few days.

These wild bee colonies are very resistant and can survive stably for many years with a little care.

After he walked around for a while, he found that the cows had been bred, and he took them back home.

In the afternoon, I took Xiaoxia to plant a patch of sunflowers, and then took home various cultivated vegetable and fruit seedlings and some vegetable and sunflower seedlings.

Sunflowers, watermelons, winter melons, pumpkins and cantaloupe are all planted in the back hill. I don’t plan to plant any more in the yard because they take up too much space.

In the yard, we plant garlic seedlings, onions, ginger, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes and other vegetables that we usually eat a lot.

While planting vegetables, I also removed the plastic film on the strawberries. The strawberries inside were all green and had small flowers. After removing them, bees came to collect pollen soon after.

In the next two days, I was doing some trivial things, hunting near my home. Maybe it was due to the long time in the air force. On the afternoon of the 24th, I took Xiongba and finally found a hare on the edge of the wheat field. He was separated by a 20-meter barrier. Killed by an arrow from a distance.

When I got home, I asked Xiulan to take out the marinade from the freezer. After marinating, it tasted pretty good, especially Xiaoxia's favorite.

The weather has been gloomy all the time. His third father and uncle have been busy planting astragalus recently. His aunt Zhang Gaolian has really lived together since they came back. Maybe they are pregnant with a child now.

At noon on the 25th, the eldest brother Lin Heng found Lin Heng and called him to the river to see the two ponds dug by his lover in the past two days.

"Brother, do you think there is no problem in raising fish in these two ponds?" Lin Yue asked, pointing to the two and a half acres of ponds in front of him.

Each of these ponds is about 400 square meters, and the depth is about 1.5 meters. Lin Yue has been hiring people to dig them since the beginning of spring. He did not think about raising shrimps like his third father. Instead, he listened to Lin Heng and prepared to raise grass carp and carp.

Lin Heng nodded and said: "There is no problem in raising fish. What I am most afraid of is the rising water on the river here and the fish will be washed away."

"As long as it can be raised, it will be fine. Under normal circumstances, there is not that much water. This field is not suitable for growing crops." Lin Yue said with a smile.

Lin Heng nodded: "Then go and buy some big grass carp or carp. I'll teach you how to hatch the fry and then put them inside to raise them."

Lin Yue suggested: "Let's go fishing together sometime, or let's catch them in the net."

"Okay." Lin Heng had no objection to this. Fishing was his hobby.

After watching the fish pond, Lin Heng felt water dripping on his face on the way back, and more and more water dripped on his face. He glanced at the sky and shouted: "No, it's going to rain. Run back quickly." ”

"It's not even summer yet and the rain is coming so quickly!"

The two of them started running quickly. By the time they got home, it was already raining heavily outside, and within a short time, water was already forming on the ground.

"Oh my god, the rain is really heavy, fast and urgent." Lin Heng ran home and stood in the house with emotion.

Xiulan was very happy: "It's raining really well. I can pick up fungi after it rains!"

Xiaoxia was also jumping and cheering: "I want to pick up fungi with my mother too!"

Lin Heng naturally likes the rain. When it rains, grass and astragalus can sprout smoothly, and the fruits and vegetables at home can also grow smoothly.

However, what he didn't expect was that it rained for three days in a row, and several people were bored at home for three full days.

I watched the mountains and rivers on the opposite side change from beautiful tender green to dark green, and the whole mountain looked like a piece of emerald.

The rain finally stopped on the afternoon of the 28th. As soon as it stopped, Mother Lin came to the house wearing rain boots and raincoat and called Xiulan: "Come on, let's go pick up fungi. I guess the forest is full of pine fungi and morels." ah."

"Mom, wait a moment, I'll feed the children." Xiulan said, turned around and fed her two sons, then put on her rain boots and raincoat and carried the basket up the mountain.

She doesn't like to stay at home all the time, and she doesn't like to do nothing. She feels that doing some labor is the right thing to do, so that people can be energetic.

Lin Heng didn't have any objections to raising the children at home. He took his sons out and put them on the sofa to play with them. At only three months old, they were not very good at crawling. They could only raise their hands and squirm some distance away.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Xiulan came back happily. The basket she was carrying was full of orange-yellow pine fungi, and she also carried a twenty-pound bag filled with fungi.

Lin Heng was a little surprised: "So much has been done in more than three hours!"

Xiulan put down her things, took off her raincoat and said with a smile: "This year is definitely a big year for fungi. I picked these at my doorstep. Tomorrow I will go up the mountain to pick some morels."

"You can go and take Xiongba with you. I will take care of the child." Lin Heng nodded and smiled. You could see that Xiulant was happy.

As he spoke, he brought a round dustpan and a knife to help clean up the pine fungus.

These are relatively delicious, especially when they are fresh, they taste good, but not when they are dried.

That night, Xiulan fried a large pot of mushrooms and made noodles with pine mushrooms.

The next day, after breakfast, she went out with Lin's mother again. When she came back, she brought more than ten kilograms of pine mushrooms and more than ten kilograms of morels.

This was a big harvest that had never been seen in previous years, and she was excited to go again in the afternoon.

And the next morning, she ran all day until she had searched all the mountains near her home.

There were indeed quite a lot of morels, and there were still ten kilograms after drying. In other words, Xiulan picked nearly 100 kilograms of fresh morels, which was definitely the most abundant harvest in recent years.

There were more than ten kilograms of pine mushrooms after drying, and this was the result of her being busy picking morels.

The villagers also picked a lot, and every household dried mushrooms.

Unlike the village, Lin Heng's family didn't sell the morels, but kept them for themselves.

This is a good thing, rich in nutrition, smooth taste, and very fragrant. It is very beneficial to the human body.

Even if you eat it every day, you will never get tired of it.

As May came, the temperature rose and morels were not so common.

Xiulan returned to her life of taking care of the children. However, because the temperature was high, she could often take the children out. When Lin Heng was not working, she could also go pick wild vegetables.

These days, Lin Heng helped to harvest all the rapeseed and wheat at home. Because they used purchased seeds and fertilizers, the yield was very good.

Then he plowed the fields and filled them with water to prepare for planting rice, and at the same time, he had to start planting corn and potatoes.

He was busy again in early May. Starting from the 10th, his uncle and aunt came down every day to buy various things to prepare for the wedding.

On the 11th, the weather was very sunny, the breeze was gentle, and the temperature was about 20 degrees. Lin Heng and Xiulan pushed the children and took Xiaoxia to Hongfeng Mountain for an outing.

Today's Hongfeng Mountain is no longer the same as it used to be. There are neat ryegrass and alfalfa on the hillside, as well as astragalus seedlings.

At the foot of the mountain is an emerald green pond. The surrounding fences are covered with rose vines. The sparse roses of various colors exude a faint fragrance, making this place look like a paradise.

Even if there are cattle and sheep pens on the mountain, there is no smell. This place is open and ventilated, and the feces are covered with tarpaulins to rot. As long as you don't get close, there is no smell.

Lin Heng and his team stopped by the long pond below the small reservoir.

Lin Heng used the tarpaulin to make a shaded place and put the two children's strollers underneath.

Then he and Xiulan packed up the fishing rods and prepared to go fishing in the deep water pond in front. Although there are many fish in this shallow water, the fish that people can see will not eat bait and cannot be caught.