Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

After they had eaten for a while, the eldest nephew Lin Wei came over after school, and his loud voice made the place full of joy.

Soon, everyone was full of grilled lamb skewers, and some were full. After Xiulan and the others had eaten enough, they went back to the house to sit and chat. Lin Heng, his eldest brother, and Lin Wei went to the mountain stream to swim again.

Now all children are strictly prohibited from swimming anywhere else except here. If they are found, they will be hung up and mercilessly whipped.

While taking a bath, they caught a few stream groupers and grilled them on the grill after taking a bath.

Lin Heng was satisfied with the barbecue today. Not only was the lamb from his own family delicious, but the quantity was also large, so he could eat it freely.

They didn't return home until dusk. After returning home, Xiulan started to braise the internal organs. There was a frozen old marinade in the refrigerator, and some new ingredients could be added to braise directly.

Braising for three hours on high heat, then covered and soaked in the marinade overnight to thoroughly taste.

After eating a lot of mutton in the afternoon, they ate some hawthorn cakes and fried winter melon slices in the evening, and didn't eat any greasy food.

The next morning was a treat. They took out the braised mutton and took off the sheep's head to find a lot of meat. They made a soul vinegar soup, which was so delicious that it made people swallow their tongues.

Especially the sheep's face was particularly soft after being braised, and there was lean meat inside. When you dip it in the vinegar soup and bite it, the taste and meat fragrance all bloomed in your mouth, making people just want to close their eyes and enjoy this feeling.

The lamb legs were also particularly fragrant after being braised. Every time at this time, Lin Heng would sigh that the invention of braised food was really genius. All kinds of ingredients that were not very delicious could instantly become top-notch delicacies after being braised.

After breakfast, Lin Heng sent some braised food to his parents and eldest brother. Xiulan boiled the braised soup and stored it in the freezer again. With the freezer, it was much more convenient for her to braise dishes.

There was nothing to do in the next few days. The main job was to dig potatoes. The potato seeds were also the virus-free potato seedlings bought this year, so the yield was nearly doubled compared to last year, and the size was much larger, with the largest weighing two kilograms.

After digging potatoes, he went to the city again and sold scorpions with his eldest brother. He had sold the ultraviolet lamp to his eldest brother a long time ago, and now he only sold scorpions to his mother.

In addition, he went around to understand the development of the times and find his own opportunities.

His third father's family finally did not buy grass carp fry, and his eldest brother took the initiative to catch some of the extra fry for them.

In the blink of an eye, it was already August. Time was like an avalanche. The older you get, the faster it goes by. It seemed that it was the end of the year again in a blink of an eye.

The weather has been unusually dry recently, and it has been sunny for more than ten days in a row.

On the afternoon of August 1st, Lin Heng asked his mother to look after his two sons. He and Caiyun Xiulan took Xiaoxia to Shibadanggou with a small net made of window screens in their hands.

The temperature in the mountains dropped quickly after the sun went down. Soon they arrived at Shibadanggou. Xiaoxia didn't know what to do yet. Caiyun pulled her head up curiously and asked, "Aunt, are we going to catch fish?"

"Yes, we're going to catch fish and shrimps." Caiyun said with a smile.

Lin Heng in front also smiled and said, "We're here, we can start."

After that, he jumped to the edge of the small puddle in the ditch, stretched out his hand to clear all the branches and stones inside, and he could feel the dense shrimps. He took a fine net and scooped up a large number of them. There were not only shrimps but also river groupers.

"Sure enough, this time it's enough to eat." Lin Heng smiled.

Xiulan also nodded happily: "There are so many small puddles. It seems that we can catch two or three pounds today and go back to make shrimp paste."

The crops can't stand the drought, but there is no way, so they can only have fun in the hardship and come to catch shrimps. The most abundant thing in the mountain stream is small shrimps. Now the water is almost dry, and a net is a net.

"Wow, there are so many shrimps!"

Xiaoxia was watching the shrimps pouring into the bucket and was even more excited, dancing with joy.

"I finally caught this fish."

After three consecutive nets, Lin Heng laughed and said, "This little fish that is only one finger long was caught by him."

Xiu Lan looked at the shrimps in the bucket and said with a smile: "Let's go up. I think we can catch more than three pounds today."

Lin Heng nodded and went up along the mountain stream. Not only can he find shrimps and small fish, but he can also catch mountain crabs. These are very plump in August. If they are fried, they can make the children next door cry.

They are not fishing out all the fish. If they don't eat these shrimps, they will soon die. When the water rises later, there will be more.

Several people caught all the way to the top of the ravine. Except for a few large pools with a lot of water, they caught all other places.

"Let's take a look at the catch!"

Lin Heng said with a smile when he returned to the road from the ravine.

"There are quite a lot. Let's go back and clean them and keep them for half a day." Xiulan showed him the bucket, but she couldn't see clearly because the water was muddy.

"Then let's go back to the house." Lin Heng nodded and took the three of them home.

The sun had gone out on the road at this time. On the roadside, you can see the grown-up wax gourds. Because the mountains here are high, it will take another half a month to mature.

After enjoying the scenery at dusk, they returned to the house in a short while. Lin's mother was at home, playing with her two grandsons crawling on the bed.

"How did you harvest?" Seeing them come back, Lin's mother asked curiously.

"I think there are four or five kilograms of harvest." Xiulan said with a smile.

Lin's mother was shocked: "So many?"

"Of course."

Lin Heng said proudly, went to get a big basin and poured out the things. Then he took three more buckets to fill with water, and put crabs, shrimps, and small fish into the buckets separately.

When I put it in a bucket of clean water, I saw that shrimps are still the most numerous, weighing about two or three kilograms, all of which are black-shelled shrimps. Crabs can also weigh almost two kilograms, but there are fewer small fish, less than half a kilogram. This is because Once the water dries up, many birds will hunt for fish to eat.

When Mother Lin saw it, she nodded immediately: "So many, that's really not bad."

"Let's fry the crabs now. You can take some back to my dad later."

Lin Heng took out the crab and cut it in half in the middle, then dipped the split into batter and deep-fried it in an oil pan until golden brown.

Because it uses an electric oven, it can be cooked quickly without lighting a fire, and the crabs were fried in a short time.

Two kilograms of small crabs are fried in two small pots. They are golden in color and taste delicious and crispy. They are an excellent casual snack.

Even if it’s just for this little bit of crabbing, it’s worth it all afternoon.

“Yummy!”

Xiaoxia gave the most sincere cheer while eating crab.

Except for some left for Father Lin, Lin Heng and the others finished the little crabs in a short time.

Those little fry were left to the turtles raised by Xiaoxia. Those little turtles are still alive now, and they even laid eggs this year, but they did not hatch successfully.

The shrimps were kept overnight to drain away the dirt. The next morning, Xiulan cleaned them and fried them all.

Add some minced meat, then add chili peppers, onions, ginger and garlic to make shrimp chili sauce, store it in the freezer and take it out when you want to eat it.

This shrimp chili sauce is the soul that adds flavor whether served with rice or noodles.

When Xiulan cooked it in the morning, they ordered some chopped green onion noodles to eat. Adding a little shrimp and spicy sauce really made the flavor go up a notch.

"I don't know when it will rain." Lin Heng looked at the sky and sighed. After the dog days of summer entered, the rain suddenly became less.

He has been unable to swim in the past few days, and the water in the Hongfeng Mountain stream has dried up a lot, and a lot of moss has grown on it.

"I guess it won't take more than two days. Let's go, let's go to the back mountain to collect sunflowers."

Xiulan looked at him and said.

"Take it away."

Lin Heng nodded in agreement and took Xiaoxia to the back mountain.

The grape and peach orchards have been closed recently. The only apples left in the orchard are still edible. The others are sugar tangerines, oranges and citrus trees. These are all ripe in winter and are still green now.

The sunflowers are all mature. There are twenty here on the back mountain, and there are more on the Red Maple Mountain, one or two hundred.

Because there is no pesticide, the sunflowers are still infested with insects, but Lin Heng thinks it is still acceptable.

He cut down the sunflowers, and Xiulan peeled the sunflower seeds in the basket with her gloves on.

Xiaoxia was ordered to watch and talk to her mother.

After Lin Heng finished chopping, he helped peel it off. There was no need to pick it out. He took it back and poured it into a dustpan to dry. When it was dry, he used a windmill to pick out all the sunflower seeds from the Red Maple Mountain.

His parents have also harvested the sunflower seeds over there in the past two days.

In three days, the sunflower seeds have been dried very dry. Take it to the windmill and the good sunflower seeds will come out.

After weighing it, I found that there were fifty-eight pounds of sunflower seeds, which was pretty good.

Half is fried and eaten directly, and the other half is divided into two parts. Add five-spice powder and salt to one part and boil it in warm water to fry it into five-flavored melon seeds.

Another one is soaked in milk for a while, then stir-fried over low heat before adding milk and sugar to create milky-flavored melon seeds.

Xiulan was not very good at frying, and Lin Heng had only heard about it. He experimented with small portions several times before putting everything in and frying.

With so many melon seeds, now you can eat melon seeds to kill time when you are bored and don’t want to read.

Just doing these trivial things and experiencing three meals a day, the time came to August 10th, the sky was gloomy and the wind was howling.

In anticipation of heavy rain, everyone got up early in the morning to clear the drainage ditches, and opened the drainage outlets of the rice fields lower. The cow grass and pigweed that needed to be prepared were also prepared in advance to avoid working in the afternoon.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, accompanied by a rumble of thunder, a silent rainstorm came.

"It's raining so hard!"

Xiaoxia looked at the heavy rain outside the house and exclaimed.

Just a few minutes after falling, water sprays arose on the ground, and soon gathered into a stream. For a moment, it was like someone was splashing water in the sky.

Xiulan looked at the heavy rain, shook her head and sighed: "I hope it won't rain too hard, otherwise someone will definitely suffer."

"Indeed, it's best not to be too heavy." Lin Heng nodded.

Caiyun is not too optimistic: "But I estimate it will take at least two or three days. I hope you can be careful if you live close to the river."

After watching the rain for a while, they sat back on the sofa and played checkers. Lu Ming and Du Heng on the stroller crawled slowly, looking curiously at the heavy rain outside with their big eyes.

The heavy rain continued, and within two hours Lin Heng found that the Huangtan River was full of water, growing like an angry dragon.

He was a little worried about the situation in Hongfeng Mountain. The small reservoir on the mountain must have withstood such a large amount of water for the first time since it was built. He didn't know if it could withstand it.

There is also the plum blossom fish he raised. In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, he and his father specially pulled a net in the morning to prevent the fish from escaping. I don’t know if it will be useful now.

If the plum blossoms in a reservoir disappeared, he would be heartbroken. He had worked hard for these plum blossoms.

But it is not realistic to go out in such heavy rain.

It was not until the evening that the rain suddenly stopped for a while, and then turned into light rain, which made Lin Heng feel relieved.

The next morning, the rain was still light rain, and Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain to check the situation after breakfast.

"Dad, how is the reservoir?"

As soon as he saw his father, Lin Heng asked hurriedly.

Father Lin smiled and replied: "Fortunately, it's not that bad. The water here is not particularly large. It only rushed out of the top of the dam by half a meter. The net is not broken and most of the fish are still there. The net cage is fine, but many branches were hit in and blocked the outlet."

"That's good, as long as the fish are still there." Hearing this, Lin Heng breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the dam is still there and the fish are still there, everything else is a minor problem.

This situation also shows that he chose the right location to build the dam.

After looking around Hongfeng Mountain, he found that there was no loss, so he turned back.

Then it rained for five days in a row, which was quite lucky because it was not heavy.

By the time the weather cleared up, it was already August 16th, after the beginning of autumn, and the dog days were over.

After the weather cleared up, Xiulan and her friends went out to pick mushrooms, but they didn't get much when they came back, because it rained for too long and most of the mushrooms had rotted.

"It is said that someone went to pick mushrooms in the rain two days ago and got a lot of egg mushrooms and broom mushrooms." Caiyun explained.

"No need, we have picked enough this year. We can wait for two days of clear weather to produce another crop, and I will pick them up then." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"When are you going to the mountains to hunt for ginseng?" Xiulan looked at him and asked.

Lin Heng thought for a while and said, "Yesterday I discussed with my eldest brother that we would go if it was sunny for two days, so we will leave early tomorrow."

"Are you going for half a month this time?" Caiyun asked.

"Not that long, as short as five or six days, and as long as ten days. We don't need to cook. We bring rice, flour and pots and cook on the mountain ourselves." Lin Heng replied.

The two nodded to show their understanding.

In the afternoon, Lin Heng packed up all the things he needed to go into the mountains. He checked them two or three times after finishing them. Going into the mountains to live permanently is not a joke, and you must be cautious.

This time, he brought two dogs up the mountain. Lin Heng brought Xiongba, and his elder brother brought Fengshou. Xiongba's son Haoyun, whom he adopted this year, is still a little young and is not as good at hunting as Fengshou.

After packing up, Xiulan made a big meal for Lin Heng in the evening. The next morning, just after dawn, they got up, put on their backpacks and took the dogs, quietly entered the forest from the back mountain, and then walked towards the birch cliff.

This kind of thing cannot be publicized. If people know that you all live in the mountains, they may have bad intentions.