Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

After processing the rice wine, put it all into earthen jars for storage. They don't use plastic pots to store wine.

In addition to this sweet semi-sweet rice wine, they also have a semi-dry rice wine, which is almost not sweet but has a slight aftertaste.

Semi-sweet rice wine is not suitable for long-term storage, and not many are made. However, semi-dry rice wine becomes more fragrant with age, and I have a lot of it at home.

It was already eight o'clock after I had finished the wine. After washing up, I was ready to go to bed.

Before going to bed, Lin Heng teased his two sons. Now they can barely call them dad and mom, but their voices are not real.

"Brother, call me sister."

Xiaoxia stood next to them and raised her hands to them.

"Me...yah!"

Lin Duheng shook his limbs to imitate Xiaoxia's pronunciation, while his brother Lin Luming innocently blinked his eyes, ate his hands and giggled.

"Yeah, my little brother can bark, so why don't you, my second brother, call me sister!"

Xiaoxia was very happy. She touched Lu Ming again and taught him to call her sister.

"Mom...ah...hehe!"

Lu Ming blinked his big eyes and made a sound.

"Oh, I'm a sister, not a mother." Xiaoxia was very anxious.

Lin Heng watched from the side while Xiulan cleaned up the house.

After teaching for about ten minutes, Xiaoxia gave up impatiently and ran into Lin Heng's arms to act coquettishly and wanted to listen to the story.

Lin Heng held her in his arms and coaxed her to sleep, then covered his son's quilt and gently coaxed her to sleep.

After the child fell asleep, Lin Heng and Xiulan had a detailed and intensive exchange on the issues of pipe hardening and sewer unblocking.

Early the next morning, Lin Heng had breakfast and went to Hongfeng Mountain. He and his father took out some old wooden boards that had been piled up when building a house, picked out ones that were twenty centimeters wide, and dragged them up the mountain with a tricycle. Get the template.

This job is not difficult, just level the ground slightly and use wooden stakes to fix the formwork. Father Lin can do it as soon as he sees it.

In the morning, the two first set up a 100-meter-long formwork, and the remaining work was to level it. As long as there is excess concrete, it can be set up quickly at any time.

In the afternoon, they left their twin sons to be looked after by their mother. Lin Heng and Xiulan went to the junction with Shimen Village to pick Tangli pears and bring them back to make Qiuli paste.

Along the way, the two of them admired the beautiful scenery and looked around for Tangli.

"Honey, give me a hand." Xiulan reached out towards Lin Heng.

Lin Heng pulled him over, and the two of them walked in a ditch full of fallen leaves.

The stream is covered with leaves, and there are clusters of cotinus on both sides. The round orange-red leaves are extremely beautiful, giving people the feeling of walking in a peach blossom forest.

The ravine was extremely quiet. Xiulan was walking in front. The breeze was blowing her hair that she had just washed in the morning. The fragrance of lavender mixed with autumn chrysanthemums penetrated Lin Heng's nose with the wind.

At this moment, he felt as if they were the only two people in the world, lonely and at the same time illuminated by each other's warmth.

"There is a tree there with big fruits."

While walking, Xiulan pointed to the hillside on the left and suddenly said.

Lin Heng looked up and saw a Tangli tree as thick as an arm, not very big.

"Leave it to me."

After saying that, he cut a path with a knife, climbed up the tree and started shaking wildly, causing Tangli trees to fall like rain.

"Be careful."

Xiulan reminded as she stepped back.

After a while, Lin Heng had almost shaken off the fruit and jumped down from the tree to pick it up with Xiulan.

"Hey, it's not bad, quite sweet." Lin Heng tasted it and said with a smile, and then handed it to Xiulan.

"Do you think I'm a fool, you bad guy!"

Xiulan rolled her eyes and ignored him.

"Hahaha."

Lin Heng found it quite interesting and laughed.

The Tangli juice is quite sweet, but the pulp is astringent.

They picked up about thirty kilograms of this tree and placed the bag in the grass. Xiulan washed her hands by the water.

"Dad said there is a red tree in the ditch. I don't know where it is or how far we have to go."

Xiulan swung the water towards Lin Heng and said while looking at the vast mountains.

"Whatever, just walk in and treat it like you're here for fun."

Lin Heng stretched out his hand towards her and smiled.

"Then let's go."

Xiulan blinked and smiled, holding his hand.

The two of them walked inside, looking for Tangli and Shanlihong.

This year, all the hawthorns close to the village have been picked. If they want to pick them, they have to come to the deep mountains and old valleys.

Lin Heng also had a bow and arrows in the basket on his back, so he could shoot them if he encountered prey.

The two of them walked further in for about a kilometer or two, and came across two nice Tangli trees on the road, which they also shot.

"Oh my god, I finally found it. It's really far away."

As he walked, Lin Heng finally saw a red tree called wild hawthorn.

"It's not a waste of time. This tree is quite big and can weigh dozens of kilograms."

Xiulan nodded, put down her backpack, and sat on the bluestone next to Lin Heng to rest.

The continuous walking on the mountain road made both of them sweat a little.

After resting for a while, Lin Heng cut out the road and picked up a good one from under the tree. It tasted very glutinous and tasted sour and sweet. It was good for making candied haws or hawthorn cake.

"I'd better shake it first, and then we can pick it up slowly." Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said.

"Okay, be careful." Xiulan nodded and said.

Lin Heng climbed up and shook around for a while, and the hawthorn rain fell again.

When the shaking was almost done, the two of them slowly picked it up under the tree, putting a bag of good ones and a bag of not so good but usable ones.

Because they picked carefully, the two of them finished it at half past three. They picked up a total of fifty kilograms of hawthorns. It was a pity that many of them were rotten.

Although his family also planted a hawthorn tree, the tree was small and did not bear much fruit.

"Let's go."

Lin Heng carried Hawthorn on his back, and the two of them walked out.

There were still more than 100 kilograms of Tangli pears outside. Lin Heng gave the hawthorns to Xiulan and carried 120 kilograms of Tangli pears on his back.

For Xiulan, fifty pounds is not very heavy, and one hundred and twenty pounds is not too heavy for Lin Heng.

Once it's on the road, you can use a three-wheeler to transport it home, eliminating the need for human effort.

"Is that a concrete truck?"

Before returning to Hongfeng Mountain, Xiulan saw the cart on the mountain from a distance.

"Indeed." Lin Heng nodded, speeding up the car and quickly returned to Hongfeng Mountain.

After asking my mother, I found out that the truck had just arrived and was now unloading concrete on the mountain.

"I'll go up and help."

Lin Heng immediately put on his water shoes and went up the mountain to help. The truck pulling the concrete was an ordinary muck truck, not a tank truck.

The concrete used for paving is generally very dry, so it won’t leak with this kind of truck installation.

Father Lin and two hired helpers are not here. The three of them are digging concrete with hoes.

His eldest brother and his uncle recently went hunting in the mountains and were not at home.

"Son, you're here, do you think we can do it?"

Seeing Lin Heng, Lin's father asked quickly.

"Okay, that's it, just get everything off the car."

Lin Heng nodded and asked the driver to back up and fall down.

After the dumping was completed, he roughly estimated that this car could pave thirty meters of road.

The problem now is that they have to manually vibrate the concrete so that there are no pores in it, which is a very difficult job.

If there is electricity, any motor fixed on a wooden board can be used as a vibrator, which is much faster than manual work.

But this is the top of the mountain, a straight line distance of eight or nine hundred meters from the bottom of the mountain. There are no such long wires, and he doesn't have a diesel generator.

"In the past two days, we have been digging a few holes and planting a few telephone poles to bring electricity to the platform."

Lin Heng said while digging concrete.

It’s not too far to go up the mountain from the second platform. After pulling out the wires, it’s convenient to build a cattle and sheep pen, and it’s also convenient to do other things on the mountain.

"Then let's take time to dig in these two days." Lin's father said at the beginning of the year.

Without electric vibrating tools, they were very slow. They didn't finish the first thirty meters before the second truck of concrete came.

There is no other way but to let others fall down first and they will do it later.

According to what the driver said, there will be two cars every day from now on, no more, no less. They will usually be pulled over after four o'clock in the afternoon so that they can get ready.

"In this case, we have to dig a hole early tomorrow morning to find suitable wood, and then I will buy wires to get electricity." Lin Heng said after the driver left.

"Yes, we have to do it. If we do it all manually, our hands will be exhausted." Father Lin nodded.

For these two cars, they dug the ground, shook it, plastered it, carved it, and divided it. It was already dark when they finished.

If you had a vibrator, it could be over in an hour.

When Lin Heng came down the mountain, he found that Xiulan was not there. When he asked his mother, he found out that Xiulan had asked her to go back with Caiyun after she came back.

She drove the tricycle to bring Tangli and Hawthorn back, planning to wash them and dry them first so that they could be used to make Qiuli paste and Hawthorn paste tomorrow.

"Then I'm leaving, Mom. You guys can eat. I'll get up early and come over early tomorrow morning." Lin Heng waved his hand and went home.

In the evening, Xiulan made soft pancakes, rolled with shredded potatoes and shredded sour radish and fried with shredded pork. It was perfect.

Early the next morning, Xiulan was at home processing the Tang pears and hawthorns picked yesterday. Lin Heng had breakfast and went to Hongfeng Mountain.

He didn't get milk for his parents because the cow had been weaned for half a month and would give birth in December. Weaning was to prepare for giving birth to a calf.

What they drink these mornings are milk tea made with milk powder.

When we came to Hongfeng Mountain, the maple leaves and cotinus were redder today, and the aspens were more yellow.

Lin Heng and his father determined the route and decided to dig three holes to plant the telephone poles. They called in the helpers from yesterday to dig the holes. Lin Heng found three good dry logs and burned them to carbonize the surface so that they would last longer.

In the afternoon, he went to see the electrician at the town's power station. He promised to come over tomorrow morning to help pull out the wires. He would pay for the wires and the labor would be free.

By the time he came back from town, Lin's father and his helpers had already planted the telephone poles. He added some of his own concrete to the bottom of the pit, and filled it with loess and compacted it.

In the afternoon, Lin Hengduo found a helper to help. There were three helpers in total. Because it is only needed for half an afternoon every day, every three days is considered a normal day.

There were more people, so paving the road went faster in the afternoon. The concrete from yesterday had initially solidified and looked pretty good.

Early the next morning, the electricians from the power management station came on motorcycles. They looked at Lin Hengzai's pole and were satisfied with it, but asked them to use the steel wire they brought to pull it diagonally because it was on a hillside after all. .

The electrician was busy all morning and pulled the wires to the second platform. The wires cost twenty.

When he was laying concrete again in the afternoon, Lin Heng could pull the electricity over, remove a motor and install it on the wooden board to become a vibrator.

When the motor is started, it will continuously vibrate and drag the wooden board away. The concrete will soon be smoothed by the vibration, and the cement slurry will reach the surface, making work such as plastering the surface easier.

After giving this set of operating skills to his father, Lin Heng will not come to help him later. Three helpers are enough.

He had to go to the city to contact the sales of green shrimp, which had been delayed for a long time.

In the blink of an eye, it was November 1st, which was the end of late autumn. Frost had passed, and it would be the beginning of winter in seven days.

The leaves on the mountain became more and more colorful, as if it was the last swan song, hoping that someone would remember their beauty, and seemed to be saying that autumn leaves were not only quiet and beautiful, but also more colorful and gorgeous than summer flowers.

A gust of wind blew, and a large number of leaves fell from the branches. Some trees were already bare, and other deciduous trees would also fall all at the beginning of winter.

"Be careful."

After breakfast, Xiulan tidied Lin Heng's clothes and whispered.

"Don't worry."

Lin Heng nodded, touched his daughter's head, walked out the door and asked his eldest brother to drive to the city.

The fallen leaves along the way were like rain, and there was also a thick layer of leaves on the dirt road. Such scenery always gives people a different emotion.

"Brother, we are leaving on the 10th, right?" Lin Yue asked on the way.

"We are thinking of leaving on the 10th. If we can sell all the green shrimps before the 5th, we will leave on the 5th." Lin Heng said that he said he would go to hunt black bears last year, and it was time to go.

Black bears here usually hibernate completely in December, and the black bears killed now are the fattest bears of the year.

"Just the two of us, uncle and uncle, are there any other people?" Lin Yue asked.

Lin Heng thought for a while and said, "I will ask Uncle Gao if he is going. If he is going, we will go together, and I won't take the others."

"Just go, I will notify my uncle in the next two days, and then make preparations." Lin Yue nodded.

Chatting, they soon arrived in Taibai City, and the first stop was Lin Heng's own factory.

He looked around here, rested for a while, and then contacted about the green shrimp trading.

Because green shrimps had been sold once last year, and this year they had already made advance notices, today they mainly went to determine how much each family wanted, and for this he also took samples.

Lin Heng basically completed the work in one morning. The price of green shrimps has increased a little this year, and his green shrimps are not worried about selling, because there are few green shrimps of such good quality in the whole Taibai City.

This is the characteristic of this era. There is little competition in business. As long as you are willing to do it, you can basically make money.

After staying in the city for one night, he took the revolving door truck to the door to pull green shrimps the next morning and took them to the parties who had agreed.

When pulling green shrimps, the black goats raised by Lin Heng were also taken a fancy to, but he didn't sell them. These goats are not ready to sell yet.

For the next four and a half days, batches of green shrimps were pulled out. All the green shrimps were basically sold out, so he kept some for the New Year and raised them in the hatchery.

On the afternoon of the 6th, Lin Heng returned home with a lot of gifts. Xiulan in the house also prepared the dishes for hot pot. She also made the beef balls herself in the past two days.

Lin's father and mother were also waiting here, waiting for them to come back for dinner.

Lin Heng and his eldest brother carried things into the house, looked at everyone and said with a smile: "This time we made a little more money than last year. This time everyone has gifts, and the hardest-working people will also get big red envelopes."