Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Lin Heng took the things into the house, drank a sip of tea, and began to distribute them to everyone.

In addition to the two sets of clothes and shoes that everyone had, he also bought some other small gifts.

He took out a silver pocket watch and handed it to his father, smiling and saying, "Dad, this is for you. I will give you a big red envelope later and pay you this year's salary."

Lin's father often does farm work, and it is inconvenient to wear a watch, so a pocket watch is very suitable.

"How much is this? Don't be too expensive, then I dare not use it." Lin's father opened the pocket watch and looked at it, and liked it a little.

"More than seventy is not expensive, I bought it specifically for you." Lin Heng smiled.

"This is not expensive." Lin's father felt a little distressed, but he still liked playing with it.

"Mom, I bought you a jade bracelet, and I don't know what else to buy. I will give you the money when the time comes, and you can buy it yourself." Lin Heng took out a beautiful jade bracelet and handed it to his mother and said.

What to buy for his mother made him worry for several days. He asked Xiaoxia and Xiulan, and finally chose the jade bracelet.

The most important thing is that when asked, his mother said that she was stupid and didn't need anything, so he didn't know what to buy for his mother. In addition to clothes and some Chinese medicine for nourishing the body, he bought this.

"This is also very expensive." Lin's mother liked this beautiful bracelet very much, but habitually asked the price.

The beads are all translucent light green glass beads, with some smoky floating flowers inside, which looks like some mountains and rivers are sealed inside.

"It's more expensive than my father's pocket watch." Lin Heng smiled, without telling Lin's mother the specific price.

Lin's mother nodded and smiled: "Okay, thank you son, I like it very much. But don't buy it like this next year."

"Here, this is yours, Caiyun." Lin Heng took out five hardcover classics and handed them to Caiyun. These are all books she wanted to read.

"Thank you, second brother." Caiyun happily took it. This is better than anything else for her.

Then Lin Heng took out a small box and handed it to Xiulan, smiling, "Wife, this is for you."

In the small box was a pair of emerald green earrings, with a beautiful green jade inlaid in the middle of the silver pendant.

"It's really beautiful." Xiulan looked at it and liked it very much. She tried it on the spot.

She was dressed casually today, and her hair was just clipped with a hairpin. A lot of hair was scattered, but after wearing the earrings, the mess added a touch of elegance and luxury.

Lin Heng smiled and nodded, praising, "It's really beautiful."

She felt that if Xiulan wore a cheongsam at this time, this noble and elegant temperament would be more obvious. Thinking so in his heart, he planned to let Xiulan wear it for him to see in the evening.

"Sister-in-law is more beautiful." Caiyun also said.

Lin's mother also nodded and said: "My son is so lucky to marry Xiulan."

Lin Heng: "... Not really, I am also handsome."

Soon there was a voice of disdain in the room. Although Lin Heng was indeed handsome, everyone disdained him.

"Hey, you are so shameless, son." Lin's father shook his head.

Lin Heng was about to speak, but Xiaoxia spoke first, looking at him pitifully and asking: "Dad, don't you have a gift for me?"

Mother Lin squatted down and teased her with a smile: "Yes, everyone has a gift only if they have made contributions. What contributions did Xiaoxia have?"

Xiaoxia counted on her fingers and thought for a while before saying: "I... I planted sunflowers, I also got shoes for my father, I ate well and was not picky about food, and I also teased my brother..."

Xiaoxia thought and said a series of small things, then looked up at Mother Lin and Grandma: "Can Xiaoxia have a gift?"

Mother Lin smiled and touched her little face and said: "Grandma is joking with you, Xiaoxia, as long as she is healthy, Grandma will buy it for you even if Dad doesn't buy it for you."

"Of course there is Xiaoxia, you have made a lot of contributions this year, keep working hard next year."

Lin Heng took out a panda doll and gave it to Xiaoxia, saying with a smile.

"Thank you, Dad." Xiaoxia took it and jumped happily.

After giving the gifts away, Lin Heng packed up the things and put them away. The two sons didn't have any gifts, only a set of clothes.

Father Lin looked at Lin Heng and said, "Let's eat quickly. Go and call your eldest brother and the others."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Lin Heng nodded and agreed, and took some gifts to his eldest brother's house.

These gifts are worth more than 100 yuan, mainly for the three nephews.

After delivering the things, he asked them to come over for hot pot.

Because it's hot pot, eleven people can squeeze into one table. When the four children are full and go out to play, it will become much more spacious.

This year, green shrimps are selling well, and the hot pot ingredients are also very rich. There is plenty of beef and mutton, as well as roe deer meat, fish balls, and beef balls.

There is no shortage of other vegetables, mushrooms, tofu skin, etc., half of which is fish meat and mushroom soup hot pot, and half is beef oil spicy hot pot.

The sesame paste is made by myself, and it is particularly fragrant when paired with other condiments.

Now the weather is very cold, and the acorn trees and the like have completely lost their leaves. Only the cotinus coggygria, red maple, and mountain poplar trees are still holding on.

They ate in the main hall, and when they looked up, they could see the mountains on the other side. The family enjoyed the delicious hot pot happily, and the aroma drifted far away.

Lin Heng had a great meal of beef rolls and mutton rolls today, and drinking some rice wine was perfect.

"Brother, when do we set off now?"

After eating almost everything, Lin Yue took a sip of wine and looked at Lin Heng and asked.

Lin Heng thought for a while and said: "Today is the 6th, so let's leave on the 8th. We will have a day off tomorrow."

"Okay, then I'll go tell my uncle and uncle tomorrow." Lin Yue nodded and said.

Lin Heng nodded, picked up a chopstick of mutton, dipped it in the dipping sauce and put it in his mouth. He likes meat when eating hot pot.

Xiulan liked to eat hairy tripe, and he would feed her some until she was full.

At this time, Xiaoxia, Lin Wei, and the others were all full, and the four of them ran out to play in the yard. Occasionally, when they got tired, they ran in and asked the adults to feed them a bite of meat.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when we finished eating. There were only some vegetables left in the prepared dishes, and everything else was eaten. Lin Yue and his sister-in-law left with their children and invited them to have dinner at his house tomorrow morning.

After putting away the dishes and chopsticks, everyone sat down to drink tea and eat. Lin Heng handed another passbook to his parents: "Mom and Dad, there is a thousand yuan in it, which is your salary this year."

This passbook was issued by Lin's father's ID card. He knew the password and deposited their wages into it.

Five hundred yuan per person per year is definitely a high salary.

"You are so polite. Pay wages to both of us." Father Lin smiled.

Mother Lin also said: "That's right. If word gets out that we still need wages for working for our own family, we will be laughed at to death."

"Then just keep it for me. You will have a salary and something to look forward to." Lin Heng handed it to his father anyway.

He knew that his parents had thousands of dollars from selling Chinese medicinal materials and were not short of money, but the concept was different. This was the salary he gave them.

And he still trusts his parents very much. They like to save money and are not the kind of people who spend it randomly.

"Okay, we'll keep it for you. If you're short of money, take it from us." Father Lin finally accepted it.

"Son, how much did our green shrimps cost this time?" Mother Lin asked in a low voice. She didn't know the specific amount yet.

Lin Heng whispered the number: "Sold for 16,435 yuan, which is 1,000 yuan more than last year. The net profit is 13,000 yuan."

"That's okay." Mother Lin suddenly laughed. She made more than 10,000 yuan a year, which seemed a bit unreal to her.

Father Lin nodded and warned: "We only need to know this number ourselves. You won't be able to explain it clearly when we go out, even relatives. If you tell it, it will easily attract red eyes."

When they spoke, their voices were low so that Xiaoxia, who was playing outside, could not hear them. Children had no control over their talk and were most likely to talk nonsense.

"I know, my mouth is tighter than yours." Mother Lin snorted.

After chatting for a while, Father Lin stood up and said, "I have to go back. The concrete truck will be coming up soon."

"Then I'm leaving. The pigs haven't been fed yet." Mother Lin also nodded and left together.

After sending her parents away, the room became quiet again. Caiyun couldn't wait to go to the nearby study to read. Xiaoxia was riding a wooden horse in the yard. Lin Heng and Xiulan were left in the main room.

"Guess how much money we have now?"

Lin Heng took Xiulan's hand and asked with a smile. The new earrings suddenly gave her a different kind of charm.

Xiulan looked at him and blinked: "It shouldn't be more than thirty thousand, right?"

Lin Heng shook his head and smiled: "You guessed wrong, it's just over 30,000."

Originally he had 21,000 yuan, but this year he spent on buying shrimp feed, hiring an excavator to dig mountains, laying cement, and other expenses, such as buying Angong Niuhuang Pills, buying stamps, treating guests to dinner, etc., all he has left is Fifteen thousand dollars.

Then this time I sold 16,000 green shrimps and gave 1,000 to my parents. After shopping, there was just over 15,000 left.

Added up to just over 30,000.

"Do we already have so much money?" Xiulan was a little shocked.

Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, the musk can still be sold for money later, at least more than three thousand at the purchasing station. You are already a little rich woman."

In addition, the astragalus from the apple orchard was also harvested this year, weighing 1,200 kilograms after drying. But he didn't sell it because this was not the time when the price of astragalus was at its best. It was better to store it than to sell it after two years.

This is just cash. Counting other assets, Lin Heng's net worth can now reach 200,000.

Xiulan was amused, looked at him and said, "Aren't you about to be able to afford a machine for making feed, and are you going to open a feed factory?"

"We won't open it for now. We will build it again when we have more money." Lin Heng shook his head and said.

It is still too reluctant to open a feed mill now. When there is more money, he plans to build a feed mill and a pig farm at the same time.

"That's good."

Xiulan nodded and leaned on the sofa to rest for a while.

Lin Heng looked at his two sons on the crib and reached out to tease them.

He had been running all day today, and he didn't want to move much now that he was full.

After resting for a while, he came to the yard. The autumn wind was very cool and blowing. He lay on the chair and stared at the sky and the distant mountain tops in a daze.

Half the afternoon passed in such a dull way. Watching the sky gradually turn from blue to orange, Lin Heng got up and entered the house.

Xiulan was packing things in the kitchen. Lin Heng came over and hugged her from behind and said softly: "Honey, I'll boil the water and let's take a bath together."

"What do you want to do?" Xiulan turned around and poked him, her eyes scrutinizing.

"I just want to take a bath with you." Lin Heng said honestly.

"Really?" Xiulan looked at him with big eyes.

"Really, I went to boil the water. You must not have soaked in it for a long time." Lin Heng kissed her, turned around and walked out quickly.

He moved the tub to the bedroom, added water and heated it up quickly.

When the temperature was right, he walked to the living room and said to Xiulan, "Wife, the water is hot."

"So fast?" Xiulan was a little surprised.

"Let's go. Xiaoxia is playing with Caiyun right now."

Lin Heng said while holding her hand.

"Wait a minute, I'll tell Caiyun." Xiulan glanced at him and went to the kitchen to say something before returning to the bedroom.

The light was on in the bedroom, and Lin Heng also lit the fireplace, otherwise it would be too cold to take a bath in this weather.

Xiulan touched the water, found clothes in the closet, then turned off the lights and began to take off clothes to prepare for a bath.

Otherwise, she would still be a little embarrassed to take off clothes with Lin Heng under the bright light.

However, as soon as she walked to the bathtub, Lin Heng hugged her small waist from behind and had an intimate contact.

"What are you doing~ Didn't we agree to take a bath..."

Xiulan's pretty face suddenly turned red, and she turned her head to look at him angrily.

"You're not very dirty now, wait until you're dirty before washing." Lin Heng showed a cunning smile and pulled her waist back. "Ah... you're bad..." Xiulan was forced to support herself on the edge of the tub with both hands, otherwise she would fall down. In the blazing firelight, the wooden tub was so old that it shook and creaked for half an hour. In the tub, Xiulan, who was taking a bath, sat on Lin Heng weakly, biting his shoulder and not letting go, as if she was taking revenge. But Lin Heng made a slight move, and she gave up weakly. "This is what you call a bath, a liar!" Although she had no strength, Xiulan still blushed and was indignant. It's not that she didn't want to, but his sudden attack was too shameless, which almost made her fall. "I'm going to go hunting for a long time the day after tomorrow, I can't bear to leave you." Lin Heng said affectionately, holding her in his arms face to face, feeling the warmth and softness. "You~"

Xiu Lan didn't want to say anything more. It seemed that what he said touched her heart. She leaned on him quietly, like a kitten.

After taking a bath, Xiu Lan put on a light blue cheongsam and walked out of the bedroom.

Lin Heng looked at her figure and wanted to hug her. But when he saw that the bath water had not been cleaned up, he temporarily extinguished this idea.

Looking at the puddle of water next to the bathtub, Lin Heng found a mop to clean it.

The wonderful experience of pushing the cart and supporting the lotus in the water was still in his mind.

After pouring the water, Xiu Lan also had breakfast. It was enough to eat a simple salad of vegetables in the evening. You didn't need to eat too much in the afternoon.

At the dinner table, Xiu Lan's face was rosy. Caiyun said curiously: "Sister-in-law, you look really good."

"It must be from the hot bath." Xiu Lan smiled, but her eyes glanced at Lin Heng without leaving a trace.

Lin Heng looked like he didn't see anything. After dinner, Xiaoxia yelled that she wanted to go to bed.

He fell asleep soon after getting on the bed, without telling any stories.

Xiulan fed her two sons and coaxed them to sleep.

Looking at Lin Heng resting on the bed, she recalled what happened just now, slapped him lightly, and warned him: "Don't be complacent in the future, do you hear me?"

"Yeah." Lin Heng nodded repeatedly, holding his wife's hand and begging: "Wife, I'm hungry again, can you feed me?"

"I'll feed you a big head ghost!" Xiulan glared at him and snorted unhappily.