Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"Lin Heng, my shrimp pond seems to have a problem."

Lin Xutao shouted to Lin Heng from a distance.

"What's the problem? How could it go wrong?"

Father Lin asked with a puzzled look.

"I don't know either. I put out feed these two days and it seems that no shrimps are eating it. I didn't see many shrimps when I used a flashlight at night."

Lin Xutao spread his hands helplessly and looked at Lin Heng and said, "Good nephew, come and take a look for me."

"Okay, I don't have anything to do at the moment anyway." Lin Heng nodded, having expected this.

Farming looks simple, but there are actually many things to pay attention to, and it is easy for novices to have problems.

But he didn't expect that in less than a month, his third father had raised all the shrimps.

After going down the mountain, Lin Heng put down the honey, smeared the place bitten by the bee with cooling oil, and then went to his third father's house with his father.

Arriving at the pond of his third father's house, third mother Li Xue was checking the situation here. Seeing Lin Heng, she hurriedly said, "Good nephew, show me what's going on."

Lin Heng looked around. The water in the pond was green and the visibility was less than 20 centimeters. The algae bloom was quite serious.

He also found some shell remains of dead shrimp fry on the edge. You can see them at the edge. The bottom of the pond is probably in pieces. It's impossible to save them.

"What did you feed, third father?" Lin Heng asked curiously.

Li Xue rushed to answer, "The same feed as yours. Your father gave it to us."

Lin Heng nodded, "Is that so? Then I guess it was caused by lack of oxygen. The algae concentration in the pond is too high. Don't you usually pay attention to it?"

"The algae concentration is too high? What's the reason?" Lin Xutao was puzzled.

"There are many reasons for this. The most likely reason is overfeeding. There may be other reasons. I can't be sure." Lin Heng shook his head.

Li Xue said anxiously: "What should we do now, Lin Heng, do you still have shrimp seedlings?"

Lin Heng shook his head: "I don't have shrimp seedlings now, I suggest you don't raise shrimps. Raise grass carp, you can also sell a lot of money, much easier to raise than shrimp, and you can feed grass."

Father Lin also nodded and said: "Yes, the grass carp seedlings in my pond eat grass very quickly, and I feed hundreds of kilograms a day."

Li Xue was still a little unwilling, gritted her teeth and said: "Is there someone in the village who is playing tricks, otherwise we all feed the same as Lin Heng, how could we all die."

Lin Heng didn't say anything, it's not impossible, but he still tends to think that their technology is not good.

Generally speaking, no one would do such a bad thing without deep hatred, and if they were found out, they would be spurned by the whole village.

But it's hard to say, his third mother is mean and snobbish, maybe she offended someone.

This is also the reason why he fenced off the breeding base, just to prevent some people from sabotaging.

"Don't talk nonsense. It's probably because we don't have enough skills."

Lin Xutao criticized his wife, turned his head and looked at Lin Heng and smiled: "Nephew, where can we get grass carp fry now? Is it really easier to raise than shrimp?"

"Of course, it's much easier to raise. When the time comes, you can just run water here and raise it casually."

"As for grass carp fry, we can only buy them. Now we have missed the hatching time of the fry."

Lin Heng explained that he didn't listen to his advice at the beginning, and now he has no way to help this problem, and he doesn't even want to help.

He knows how many fry his eldest brother has in his pond, because when he was breeding, his eldest brother bought five pairs of grass carp for fear that they would not be enough.

But he won't say this, and he can't make decisions for his eldest brother casually.

"Alas, if I had known this, I should have listened to you and raised grass carp directly." Lin Xutao smiled and shook his head.

"How much is grass carp fry?" Li Xue was concerned about this, and she also regretted it a little. Maybe she should really raise fish.

Lin Heng thought for a moment and said, "It depends on the size. The newly born seedlings this year are cheaper by a penny and cost dozens of them. The big seedlings are more expensive, and the ones weighing one or two taels are all one penny per one."

"Then let's think about it." Li Xue backed off immediately after hearing the price.

After saying a few words, Lin Heng and his father went to his house to drink some tea before leaving for home.

"It seems that shrimp farming really requires skills." On the way back, Lin's father sighed, admitting that he was too arrogant before.

Lin Heng smiled: "Of course, otherwise it would be too easy to make money."

"Haha, you're right." Lin's father said with a smile.

Back at Hongfeng Mountain, Lin Heng picked some vegetables here and went back, and told his eldest brother the news first.

His eldest sister-in-law Liu Juan also sobered up after hearing this, and was glad that she didn't think about raising shrimps, otherwise they might be like this now.

Lin Heng went home and talked about this matter with Xiulan again. It was not a laugh, but just a topic of conversation.

Caiyun said after hearing this: "Given Sanma's personality, she would probably think someone is playing tricks on her, rather than feel that she has failed."

"It doesn't matter to us, we have helped those who should be helped." Xiulan shook her head, not very interested in these things.

Instead, she knew that Lin Heng was broken by a bee, so she pulled him over to take a closer look and applied medicine.

"Do you want to eat peaches? I'll peel them for you." Lin Heng asked, picking up a peach.

Xiulan shook her head: "It's just eaten. It tastes better after being frozen in the freezer. Take it yourself."

"Okay."

Since his wife didn't want to eat it, Lin Heng took a peach that had been frozen in the freezer, peeled the skin and ate it. The flesh was sweet and cold, which quenched thirst.

Since having a freezer, the quality of life has been upgraded to a higher level. Not only can we eat fresh meat at any time, but we can also freeze ice cream with milk. Some of the delicious food can be frozen and eaten for a long time.

Xiulan did not go to pick mushrooms in the afternoon. She washed her clothes and then was busy making stuffing for buns. This time she made more buns because she had a freezer to store them.

In the evening, they ate buns with four different fillings: mushrooms and lean meat, leeks and eggs, oil residue and sesame, and red bean paste. They also stewed a soup with yellow thorn bones, loofah and mushrooms, and had a good meal.

The next morning, Lin Heng went to kill sheep with his father. He was too lazy to find a good day. He killed them when he wanted to eat.

When Lin Heng came, his parents went with him to see the sheep. The white goats were tied outside and raised. The meat quality was better than those black goats in the pen.

"This is the little ewe, the batch born last year. Go weigh it to see how many pounds it weighs."

Mother Lin grabbed a little ewe and said, this guy is disobedient and likes to steal vegetable leaves. Now that he was caught, he had no idea of ​​his situation and was still holding his head against her.

"Okay."

Lin Heng took the sheep's front leg and took it directly to the warehouse, and put it on the scale to weigh it.

Seeing the number, Lin's father shook his head immediately: "It's only 35 kilograms, it really can't be compared with black goats."

Lin's mother also nodded: "It's true that black goats are not as good as black goats. Now the black goat ewes in the pen are almost 50 kilograms. I just don't know whether the taste is better with black goats or white goats."

"We'll know when we kill one and eat it next time."

Lin Heng tied up the sheep while saying this, and then pressed it on the rack, with a basin underneath to collect the sheep's blood.

After it was ready, he let his father hold it, took out his sharpest Damascus dagger, cut off the trachea and aorta with one knife, and gave it a quick death.

He didn't have so much sympathy, and letting it die quickly was the greatest respect. The sheep's blood was collected in the basin without any waste, and when the blood was drained, he and his father began to peel the sheep's skin.

One person helped to pull it, and the other used a knife to cut it, and the peeling speed was very fast and would not cut the sheep's skin.

It was already half past ten after skinning and slaughtering. Lin Heng and his father took the half of the mutton and all the internal organs to the new house.

The mutton was frozen to keep fresh, and the internal organs and sheep heads were prepared for Xiulan to braise, and then frozen and eaten slowly. The sheepskin was prepared to be dried in the shade and sold, and it was more troublesome to tan it by yourself.

Then Lin Heng and his father went back to Hongfeng Mountain, cut the mutton to be barbecued into small pieces and marinated them, and waited for the afternoon sun to pass before eating.

After doing all this, it was already noon. Lin Heng asked his father to take a bath in the swimming pool he built in the stream. He held his breath, doggy paddled, breaststroked, dived and touched stones, and played all the activities he liked to play in his childhood.

He also went to swim in the pool formed by the impact of the reservoir waterfall. This place is now one and a half meters deep and about three or four meters wide. Diving in, you can see groups of river groupers swimming under the water, and occasionally you can see two plum fish.

It is so refreshing to swim in the cold mountain stream. This is a natural swimming pool gifted by nature to rural people.

People will be troubled by things that they cannot get in their youth.

When I was a child, I wanted to have such a paradise of my own, where I could swim, barbecue, and do whatever I wanted, and it would be best if my father could accompany me.

Now Lin Heng has done it. Looking at his father soaking in the water, he feels sincerely happy, no matter how good his complexion and spirit are, he is much better than before.

"Let's go, it's a bit cold, it's not suitable for soaking anymore."

After half an hour, Lin's father reminded.

"Well, let's go back." Lin Heng nodded, shook the water off his hair, took off his swimming trunks, put on his clothes and walked back.

In such a hot sun, soaking in the water for half an hour can cool you down for two hours.

Mother Lin looked at him and asked, "I cooked corn porridge and buns made by Xiulan. Do you want to eat?"

"I'll have a bowl of porridge." Lin Heng said with a smile. The porridge was cooled. There were corn glutinous rice, red dates and dried sweet potatoes in it. It tasted rich and sweet.

After drinking the porridge, he walked back home. Xiulan did cook porridge at noon, but she cooked eight-treasure porridge and ate buns steamed yesterday afternoon.

"Dad, come back and eat!"

Xiaoxia saw him coming back and pulled her to say that she was punished by her mother several times because she didn't eat on time. Seeing that her father came back late, she was afraid that he would have no food to eat, so she ran over to pull him.

"Thank you, dear. I'll come right away." Lin Heng smiled, sat down next to Xiulan and took a bun to eat, looked at his daughter, and then took a spoon to feed the two sons on the bed with porridge without grains.

"Do you feel comfortable in the shower?" Xiulan looked at him and said.

Lin Heng smiled: "Why don't you go together? It's really comfortable."

"I'll go wash my hair in the afternoon." Xiulan said while eating.

Lin Heng quickly said: "I'll help you then."

After dinner, everyone sat on the sofa to rest. Since the insulation cotton was installed, it was quite cool to blow the electric fan in the room.

Lin Heng played with his daughter, and he was in a good mood watching her happy and silly smile. Xiulan and Caiyun both took a book to read, looking a little bored.

After a while, it was more than two o'clock, and the door was pushed open. Lin Yue walked in and shouted: "Let's go and take a bath."

"Then let's all go, and then have barbecue in the afternoon." Lin Heng looked at his wife for advice.

Xiulan shook her head and said: "You go, the sun will burn your son and daughter, I'll go later."

Lin Heng continued to persuade: "It's okay, I'll hold an umbrella for you, it's cool over there too."

Xiaoxia was immediately interested when she heard about playing in the water, and ran over to hug her mother's legs and acted coquettishly: "Mom, let's go!"

"Okay, okay." Xiulan had no choice but to get up after she couldn't persuade her husband and daughter. She went back to the house to pack up, and took her swimsuit and fruit.

Lin Heng put his two sons in the stroller, held an umbrella for them, took Xiongba, and the family went directly to Hongfeng Mountain.

The whole family of the eldest brother also went out, and this time the eldest sister-in-law Liu Juan also went to play with them.

After going over, Lin Heng put his two sons on the mat and asked his mother to watch them, and they went to the natural swimming pool. Although the water here comes from the ground and is very cold, because this area of ​​water is large and shallow, it is still quite warm under such a big sun.

This is why Lin Heng wants to build a reservoir to raise plum fish. The water is much deeper to maintain the original temperature. If you go up the mountain, even at the waterfall, the temperature will be much lower.

A temporary sunshade net was pulled across the stream to provide a shaded area, and everyone went into the water one after another. Even if they couldn't swim, it was very comfortable to soak in such a hot summer. Xiaoxia, Lin Tao, and Lin Shan sat on swimming rings and played in the water.

Lin Heng washed Xiulan's hair and taught her to hold her breath while swimming. As a result, she accidentally choked on a big mouthful of water, and she was so angry that she bit Lin Heng's arm.

"Eat a grape to slow down, I'll get it for you." Lin Heng said with a smile, and ran to the deep pool of the waterfall above to get the cold grapes, black plums, and pears.

These fruits are ripe during this period.

"I won't learn to swim next time." Xiulan ate grapes and shook her head, feeling very uncomfortable.

Lin Heng nodded: "Haha, I won't learn, just take a bath."

Swimming and playing in the water always makes you hungry quickly, and eating fruits can't stand it. Everyone got up at around three o'clock to make a barbecue.

Seeing them coming back, Father Lin smiled and said, "We've prepared everything. The meat skewers are all on the skewers, and the vegetables are ready. We're just waiting for you to grill them."

If he were to eat alone, he would definitely not have the time, but with the family together, he would have the motivation and time.

"That's great, I'll make the charcoal."

They were grilling under the east wall of the house. It was already shady and there was no sun.

After the charcoal fire was lit, the fresh mutton was put on the grill and soon it started to sizzle and oil came out. The rich aroma of roasted mutton floated throughout the field. Xiaoxia and Lin Tao, who were chewing pears, had already run to the front and were waiting to eat.

"Wait a minute, it will be ready soon." Lin Heng looked at them and said.

It was him, his elder brother, and his father who were grilling the meat. Xiulan and the others were tired enough from cooking, so it was time to enjoy it now.

Soon the first batch of grilled skewers was ready, and everyone got two skewers of mutton. Everyone sat on small stools and ate.

Fresh goat meat is very fragrant even without any seasoning. The thick fat with the burnt aroma of goat meat and the cumin and chili pendants are so fragrant that they make your tongue fall off.

"Delicious!"

"So fragrant!"

The children praised while eating, and the adults nodded and ate the goat meat.

"It's worth it that I raised it for a year. It tastes really good." Lin's mother said with a smile.

"Everyone, eat as much as you want. There's still a lot today. Let's go take a bath after we eat it."

Lin Heng said with a smile, this is how life should be.