Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"I made a profit this morning. I've only been here for more than ten minutes, and I've already made such a big harvest."

Father Lin came up and said happily.

"It's still unclear whether I can pull it up. This fish is not simple."

Lin Heng said while playing with the fish, and constantly wrestled with the fish to consume its physical strength.

"I don't know what kind of fish it is." Lin Yue asked curiously beside him.

"We used corn to fish, it should be grass carp or carp." Xiulan thought for a while and said.

"I think it's carp!" Father Lin said.

"I guess it's grass carp." Lin Heng said with a smile.

He enjoyed the process of playing with the fish very much. This kind of fighting feeling is so cool that he felt trembling all over.

He kept letting go of the hand rope and taking it back. Fortunately, there were no obstacles in this section of the river, so he could play with the fish very well.

After more than ten minutes, Lin Heng finally pulled the fish out of the water, and everyone was a little surprised when they saw its face.

Xiulan's eyes widened: "It's actually a black carp! So big!"

"It's probably more than 30 kilograms!" Lin's father shouted softly while setting up the scoop net.

"You made a lot of money this time, it's equivalent to catching a wild boar."

Lin Yue was so envious, how good it must feel to pull up such a big fish.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect it to be a black carp, Xiulan is really lucky."

Lin Heng smiled from ear to ear, fortunately he used big hooks and big lines, otherwise he would have to run away today.

The black carp in the water shook its tail and went back in, but it didn't matter, being able to be pulled out of the water meant that it didn't have much strength.

It slipped for another ten minutes before it was completely flipped over and pulled to the riverside. Lin's father could only catch half of the body with the scoop net and barely pulled it ashore.

"It must be 40 kilograms, it's a good deal today!" Lin's father smiled at the big fish in the scoop net with wrinkles on his face.

Lin Heng took out the hook, held the fish's gills and lifted it up, saying, "It's definitely 30 or 40 kilograms. The fur is beautiful enough."

If a grass carp weighs 30 or 40 kilograms, it is actually very old, but if it is replaced with a black carp, it can even be called a small fish because it can grow to 100 or 200 kilograms.

"I have already thought about how to eat it!" Xiulan said with a smile.

Let everyone see it, Lin Heng tied it up with a rope through the fish's gills and put it in the water to keep it.

The material used for the fish guard made by Xiulan is relatively thin, and Lin Heng is afraid that the fish will be too big and the fish guard will be broken.

"Keep going, maybe you can catch two more!"

Seeing Lin Heng put the fish away, Lin Yue smiled and picked up the fishing rod and changed a tender corn.

"I guess there is not much hope. It made too much noise just now."

Lin Heng said this, but he still threw a new rod.

Fishermen are like this. If you can't catch a fish, you want to keep fishing. You don't believe there are no fish. If you catch a fish, you will keep fishing, thinking that there must be other fish in the nest.

"You are still empty-handed, you have to work harder." Xiulan fed him a grape and said with a smile.

"It turns out that you caught the black carp just now." Lin Heng's eyes widened.

Xiulan raised her chin and snorted: "Of course, my fishing rod, I pulled it up, of course it is my fish."

"That's right, son, you have to work harder." Lin's father also laughed beside him.

"Okay, okay, then I will catch another one for you." Lin Heng said with a smile.

The sun has come out now, and it is already half past six.

However, the fishing rod did not move, and there was no movement.

In a blink of an eye, it was seven o'clock. My father and eldest brother changed places, and Xiulan leaned against him to eat fruit.

"There is no hope, let's go catch snails." Lin Heng turned his head and looked at his wife and said.

"Then you are empty-handed!" Xiulan laughed and patted his shoulder.

Lin Heng nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, I'm an air force guy, and my wife is a fishing expert!"

"Okay, let's go catch snails." Xiulan stood up and said with a smile.

They walked upstream and soon found an area with very shallow water. The two rolled up their pants, took off their shoes and went in to pick them up.

Snails are everywhere. You can find a lot of them in a river with good water quality.

In ten minutes, the two of them caught four or five pounds of snails, and they were all relatively large.

"Okay, enough for a meal." Xiulan looked at the snails in the bucket and said.

"Then we won't pick them up."

Lin Heng nodded, and the two of them went to the shore and found a place where the riverbed was all sandy to catch snails.

Xiulan sat on a stone that floated out of the water, stepped on the sand in the water and looked at Lin Heng.

Lin Heng added a lot of sand to the bucket and kept rubbing and stirring it. In less than two minutes, the moss on the snail shells was removed.

At this time, Xiulan came over to help pick the snails out of the sand.

"Just take them back now and let them spit out the sand."

Looking at the clean snails, Lin Heng smiled. He still liked to eat this thing.

Xiu Lan also said: "It's about time to go back. Lu Ming and Du Heng are probably hungry. Caiyun is not easy to take care of alone."

Lin Heng nodded: "Let's go down and see what's going on with Dad and Big Brother."

The two put on socks and shoes and walked down. When they saw people, Lin Heng asked loudly: "Did you catch any fish?"

Father Lin shook his head: "Go back. There are bites but I can't pull them up. I don't want to fish anymore."

"I just caught a crucian carp, but it didn't work." Lin Yue also said.

"Then go home." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After packing up, they carried the big black carp back.

Because they didn't come to the center of Huangtan Town, only a few people saw it early in the morning, but they were really shocked.

Driving home, passing by Baima Village shocked many people again, especially when they learned that they caught it.

When they returned to Hongfeng Village, they did not show off, but drove the car directly into the yard.

"Wow, what a big fish!"

Xiaoxia, who was playing in the yard, was shocked to see a fish bigger than herself.

"Oh my God, who caught this fish!" Lin Tao next to him opened his mouth wide.

And Xiaoxia's playmate Yang Qing was also surprised and speechless.

"I caught it, isn't it amazing?" Xiulan said with a smile.

"Really?" Lin Tao didn't believe it.

"Mom is amazing!" Xiaoxia hugged her mother's legs.

"It was your second mother who caught it, let's go weigh it."

Lin Heng said with a smile, and took out the scale to weigh it.

"Forty-three pounds, it really broke the record!" Lin Heng said in surprise.

"It's equivalent to catching a deer!" Lin's father laughed.

"Second sister-in-law, you are too amazing!" Caiyun also said in disbelief.

"Your second brother pulled it up. I just lifted the pole." Xiulan smiled.

"My turtle is also seven pounds, not bad." Lin Yue weighed his turtle and said with a smile.

"Mine is indeed more than five pounds."

Father Lin weighed his fish and quickly put it into the basin. His catfish was not dead yet.

"Let's make some pickled cabbage soup in the morning and then kill the fish."

Xiulan first poured hot milk for everyone.

"It's okay, you go cook, the fish will be killed in a while." After Lin Heng finished speaking, he took a big sip of milk. He was already hungry.

Father Lin also said: "Yes, it doesn't take much effort to kill the fish."

After drinking the milk and pressing his stomach, Lin Heng found a piece of film paper and spread it on the ground and started to kill the fish, scraping the scales and gills, and then he could open the belly.

The internal organs only need a fish bladder, and the others are not needed. They are directly divided and fed to the three dogs.

Then he cut the fish into pieces, and after taking off the head, Lin Heng began to look for the herring stone. He soon found a flesh-colored, orange-red flake structure at the throat, and carefully took it out.

"This herring stone is okay, it can be made into a pendant." Lin Heng smiled as he looked at the three-centimeter-diameter herring stone in his hand.

This thing is only one centimeter thick and looks fleshy. It is a tool used by herrings to crush snails.

"Take it to make a peace charm for Xiaoxia. It is said to have the effect of exorcising evil spirits." Lin's father nodded.

Lin Heng took it in and found a ventilated place to dry it in the shade. This thing must be evaporated before it can be polished. He hopes that his will have a good appearance.

After coming out, he cut the fish meat and gave ten pounds to his eldest brother's family, five pounds to his parents, and five pounds to his own family for consumption. The fish head was also left together, ready to be used for stewing soup.

The herring has large bones and tender meat, and the taste is still very good. It tastes better than carp.

They killed the fish, and Xiulan also prepared the pickled cabbage soup, which is a unique way of cooking in Shaanxi, also called pickled cabbage soup, which is sour and appetizing.

After eating a bowl of soup, the stomach was full, and Xiulan took the fish to process it. She prepared to fry part of it into fish fillets and part of it into pickled cabbage fish, adding some vermicelli to it. Xiaoxia and herself like to eat vermicelli cooked in pickled cabbage fish.

Lin Heng was about to send fish to his elder brother, and his elder brother first sent him more than two kilograms of turtle meat. Lin Heng took the turtle meat and gave him the fish and said: "Come over for lunch at noon, let's drink a little."

"In the evening, I'm going to ask my father-in-law to come over for a meal at noon." Lin Yue said.

"That's fine." Lin Heng nodded.

Since his elder brother didn't come, Lin Heng's family was alone at noon, so he made a pickled cabbage fish, fried some other seasonal dishes, and drank a little wine.

In the evening, we fried cicada monkeys and scorpions, made spicy fish nuggets, and snails with basil leaves. Everyone chatted while eating snails and drinking.

Snails with basil leaves tasted really good, and we couldn't stop eating them.

"When do you think we should go to Birch Cliff?"

Lin Yue asked when they were almost done eating.

Father Lin looked at the two of them and smiled, "I can do anything, but I don't have much hope of finding ginseng there. It's best to go after the rain, so that we can pick some mushrooms."

"Then wait until it rains heavily in August before going." Lin Heng thought for a while and said, ginseng is indeed not that easy to find, otherwise it wouldn't be so expensive.

They chatted and finished their meal at nine o'clock in the evening, and it was exactly ten o'clock after they cleaned up and rested.

There was not much to do in the next few days. July was still relatively free. Lin Heng sent some fruits and milk to his parents every day, and went to see fish, shrimp and livestock by the way.

In the afternoon, he took his wife and children to play in Hongfeng Mountain. They cut grass and the children played there. If I am not tired in the evening, I will go to the mountains with my elder brother to hunt.

After two months of growth, the alfalfa can be harvested. They cut part of it to make silage, and the rest is dried into hay for storage.

In addition to these, they also picked a few more suitable weather to drive cattle and sheep up the mountain to run and get in touch with the outside environment.

Half a month has passed in a blink of an eye. On this day, Lin Heng has not caught any prey recently, but he harvested a golden chicken, but he had a lot of fun playing at home.

On the 16th, after breakfast in the morning, Lin Heng was preparing to go with Xiulan to find some fairy leaves to make fairy tofu. Just after packing up, the door was pushed open.

Lu Honghai and Zhang Gaolian walked in together. Lu Honghai was carrying a backpack, while Zhang Gaolian greeted with a smile: "Lin Heng, did we disturb you by coming here?"

"No, no, uncle and aunt, please come in and sit down quickly." Lin Heng greeted the two of them with a smile.

He was a little confused as to why they came suddenly, but his uncle seemed much younger now than before.

"You guys drink water!" Xiulan also put the things away and poured water for the two of them.

"I recently shot a wild boar and got one for you and your brother's family." Lu Honghai sat down and took out a piece of cured wild boar.

"Uncle, you are too polite." Lin Heng said with a smile, but he was not polite to his uncle either.

After chatting for a while, Lin Heng found out that his uncle was returning to his parents' home with his aunt, and that his aunt had recently suffered from morning sickness and was going to the hospital.

After hearing this news, Lin Heng immediately understood why his uncle felt younger. This was due to the happiness of having a wife.

"Uncle and aunt, you will have dinner here today at noon. I caught a fish weighing more than 40 kilograms a few days ago and still have it, and I just caught a bucket of screws yesterday and didn't eat it."

Lin Heng looked at the two of them and smiled to persuade them to stay.

"Yes, uncle, let's eat here for lunch." Xiulan also said to persuade her to stay.

Lu Honghai looked at his daughter-in-law Zhang Gaolian, who nodded with a smile: "Okay, I'll eat it at your house."

Naturally, she wanted to get closer to the Lin Heng family. This was the reason why she married Lu Honghai in the first place.

"Then I'll go tell my parents and ask them to come over and chat with you."

Lin Heng looked at the two of them again and said, they didn't have much to talk about with his uncle and aunt.

The two nodded in agreement, saying that they would go to his eldest brother's house to deliver a piece of meat first.

At the same time, Lu Honghai froze the meat he brought for his father-in-law in the freezer.

These are all bacon. We can’t keep them in summer, so we salt and smoke them the same day we bring them back.

After the two left, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and smiled and said, "Now I can only pick fairy leaves in the afternoon."

"As long as you don't get picked off." Xiulan spread her hands and started to prepare the meal.

"It's okay. If it's picked, we'll kill the white sheep at home and have a barbecue. We haven't eaten mutton for a long time." Lin Heng looked at her and said.

"This is okay, I haven't eaten mutton for a long time." Xiulan said with a smile.

Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain and called his parents over. They were very happy to hear that his aunt was pregnant.

With the help of my mother and Caiyun, I prepared two large tables of dishes at noon, and called all the eldest brother's family over for dinner.

At the dinner table, his uncle once again expressed his desire to go hunting black bears together. After knowing that he was about to have a child, he now especially wanted to make money.

Lin Heng naturally did not refuse, he also needed money.

After a pleasant lunch, Uncle Lin Heng and his aunt returned to their parents' home together.

Lin Hengze and Xiulan went to pick the fairy leaves that had not been picked in the morning, and Caiyun helped take care of the children for a while.

Just as they were going up the mountain, Xiulan accidentally noticed something strange. She pulled Lin Heng's shoulder and whispered, "Hubby, do you think there is a pheasant moving over there?"