Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

The next morning, when they woke up, the sky was blue and cloudless, with only a few dark clouds hanging above.

"Where are we going to get barbecue today?"

Xiu Lan asked while practicing Tai Chi.

Lin Heng responded, "Let's go to the yard. The leaves outside haven't sprouted yet, so there's nothing to see outside. At most, we can catch some fish."

Xiu Lan nodded, "That's the best. We'll go out to eat when spring comes."

After exercising, they boiled eggs first, and then went to milk the milk together. After boiling and sterilizing, they separated the milk for their sons, and made the rest into honey milk tea. If they couldn't finish it in the morning, they could drink it when they had barbecue at noon.

"Dad... Let's go..."

"Let's go..."

As soon as they put on their clothes, the two sons couldn't wait to go walking. They were very addicted to walking when they just learned to walk.

"Eat first, you can't walk now."

Lin Heng shook his head, and he and Xiu Lan each carried one to the main room.

After a simple breakfast, Lin Heng played with his three sons, while Xiulan cut the meat from the barbecue at noon with a knife. There was still some venison, bear meat, and wolf meat, and with some pork belly, it was enough for everyone.

At around nine o'clock, Lin's mother came in with a basket of wild vegetables and said, "Is there anything I can help you with? I picked some wild vegetables, and we can eat them cold later. Otherwise, it would be too greasy if there was only meat."

"Xiu Lan has prepared everything, come and help take care of the children." Lin Heng looked at his mother and said that the two children had to walk all the time, which was too difficult to take care of.

"Okay." Lin's mother came over with a smile. She was happy to take care of the two cute grandchildren.

Lin Heng brought the basket over and took a look. Most of it was purslane, and a small part was dandelion. They were all very good wild vegetables when mixed cold.

After picking the vegetables, Lin Heng handed them to Xiulan to mix cold. He went to light a charcoal fire, and then made some spices for barbecue. Barbecue with only chili and cumin was not delicious enough.

Two barbecue grills were prepared. One was a large iron stove that Lin Heng made himself with iron sheets. The rectangular one was used to grill skewers. The other was a small ceramic stove on the table with a bluestone slab on it, where you could fry some meat with chopsticks.

"Mom, why hasn't my dad come yet?"

Lin Heng had almost finished preparing, but he found that his father hadn't come yet. The spring sun was casting golden rays, and it was just warm to sit in the yard.

"I don't know either. He said he would come in a while." Mother Lin shook her head and walked in the yard with her two little grandsons.

"Okay, I'll go see my eldest brother and them."

Lin Heng went out and went to his eldest brother's house again. After asking, he found out that his eldest brother had gone to his third father's house in Shanghe and would be back in a while.

"Let's eat first and wait while we eat." Lin Heng said as he returned to the house.

Xiulan looked at him and said, "Then wait a while. You're not hungry now. I'll boil some Polygonum multiflorum water and you can help me wash my hair."

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.

He sat down and took a sip of tea, looking at Xiulan. She was wearing a navy blue dress today, which made her skin look even whiter and softer, revealing a slightly weak temperament and a sense of elegance.

Lin Heng had just rested for a while, and Xiaoxia took out the checkers and looked at her and said crisply: "Dad, play checkers with me."

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded and agreed, and started playing chess with her.

After waiting for a while, Xiulan boiled the water of Polygonum multiflorum, and Lin Heng went over to help her wash her hair.

Xiulan's hair was thick and dense, and it had fallen to her hips. First, she wet her hair with the water boiled with Polygonum multiflorum, then washed it with the shampoo she bought, and finally washed it again with the water of Polygonum multiflorum, and it was done after washing once.

Although no conditioner was used, the hair still had a faint fragrance after drying. Soon her hair dried, and under the sunlight, the strands of black hair seemed to turn golden, giving her a different feeling. When she smiled, she was filled with a fresh and hot warmth, exuding a vigorous youthful power.

"Do you think I should sell some of my hair? It's too long now and it's hard to take care of it." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and asked, while gently tying her hair with a rubber band and tying it at the back.

Lin Heng nodded and said, "You can cut it a little bit. It's best to be longer than the shoulders."

Lin's mother also said, "Yes, Lin Heng will go to the city tomorrow and you can go with him to cut his hair. It's inconvenient if it's too long."

"Then cut it a little longer than the shoulders." Xiulan nodded three times. She felt that what Lin Heng said was very reasonable.

Maybe it's because I've eaten better in the past two years, and my hair has grown faster than I thought.

As they were talking, Lin's father came in from outside and looked at them curiously and said, "Why haven't you started yet?"

"The children are waiting for you." Lin's mother looked at him and said.

"I was delayed by some cow and sheep dung in the house." Father Lin said, and came over to tease his grandchildren.

When his father came, Lin Heng started to grill directly, putting the skewers on the fire and started grilling.

Xiulan and her children could also eat the stone slab barbecue sitting at the table.

The barbecue was just cooked, and the eldest brother's family came over, bringing a pot of egg sweet wine.

This is a way of drinking eggs and glutinous rice sweet wine together with boiling water, which is very popular in rural areas.

"This is the sweet wine I just made, everyone try some." Liu Juan said with a smile.

"Okay, sister-in-law, come and eat the meat, it's just out of the pot." Xiulan handed them the venison skewers.

Lin Heng drank some sweet wine to make the eggs. He didn't like it so he went to drink milk tea. He promised that roasting wolf meat would be the most delicious, followed by pork killed during the New Year.

Both venison and bear meat taste average, which may have something to do with the barbecue technique.

Basking in the sun, eating sizzling barbecue, chatting and drinking wine, and watching the chirping children, Lin Heng was very satisfied.

Come to have a small dinner every once in a while, life is very comfortable.

It was already half past one after dinner, and everyone no longer wanted to eat meat. You took a bite of wild vegetables and I took a bite of wild vegetables. They seemed to be more delicious than meat.

"Take it away, we can't eat any more. You can stir-fry the remaining pork and eat it tonight."

Father Lin leaned on the back of his chair and said lazily.

"Don't be in a hurry, just wait and take your time." Lin Heng said. It was so comfortable just basking in the warm sun that he didn't want to move.

Lin's mother, Xiulan, and her sister-in-law were very diligent and packed up and washed these things in a short time.

"Mom, sister-in-law, you go away later, I will get you a good thing."

Xiulan said after finishing packing her things.

After saying that, she went upstairs and came down soon with a bag of bear oil soap.

There are twelve pieces in total, each piece is about two centimeters wide and about the size of a palm, weighing almost half a catty.

"This is the bear oil flower soap that Lin Heng and I made during the Chinese New Year. You can take it back and try it." Xiulan looked at the two of them and said with a smile.

"Soap made from bear oil is such a luxury." Mother Lin said in surprise.

"Yes, bear oil is very valuable when sold." Liu Juan was also surprised. She did not expect that Xiulan would make such a good thing into soap.

This was mainly because Lin Heng's family had too much bear oil and couldn't finish it, so they could only use part of it to make soap.

"It doesn't use much bear oil, and I haven't tried it yet."

Xiulan smiled and walked to the basin, dipped in water and rubbed it gently a few times, and a series of dense foam came out, exuding a faint fragrance of flowers.

"This bear oil soap is really different. It's much more delicate than ordinary soap."

Xiulan said in surprise.

"It's really different, the feel is very different."

"As expected, it's made of bear fat. I have to preserve this piece well."

After using it for a while, both of them agreed that the bear oil soap was very comfortable and unique to use.

Each of them was given a piece, Xiulan kept one piece for herself, and the rest was wrapped in paper and stored in a box. These were all treasures to her.

Everyone drank tea for a while while basking in the sun, and Lin Heng discussed some things with his father and elder brother.

Tomorrow morning, his eldest brother will go to the city with him to buy the corresponding things.

In the afternoon, Lin Heng didn't want to do anything. After his parents and brother left, he went to the backyard and sat under the pavilion and drank tea for a while.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Lin's mother came over to take care of the children. Lin Heng took Xiulan and his eldest brother into the city.

After a brief tidying up, Lin Heng pushed the cart onto the road. Xiulan sat behind him and held him, while her elder brother sat in the right side of the carriage.

After driving for less than an hour, we arrived at the suburbs. Although the Qingming Festival was still a few days away at the altitude of the suburbs, there was no grass in the distance.

"There are toon trees over there. You can break them and try them when you come back."

Xiulan pointed to the toon tree on the roadside and said that she had been looking for it for a long time and finally found it.

She also had another purpose in going to the city, which was to break some toons on the road.

"Bring it off now. You may not have time to come back." Lin Heng stopped the car and said.

"Yes, I probably won't have much time to come back."

Lin Yue went out and pulled down the toon tree, and the three of them broke the toon together.

By the time they entered the city, the toon they had folded weighed two or three kilograms.

After entering the city, Lin Heng first took Xiulan to have her hair cut. Her hair was very good, and half of it was sold for twenty yuan.

"My head feels much lighter after the haircut."

Xiulan smoothed her hair in front of Lin Heng, obviously wanting to see her evaluation.

Lin Heng smoothed her hair and said with a smile: "It looks better now than before. This length is the most suitable."

"That's good." Xiulan felt relieved now, looked at Lin Heng and continued, "Let's go, I will use the money from selling my hair to buy you a pair of shoes."

"Thank you, wife." Lin Heng did not refuse, and took Xiulan to go shopping with a smile.

Xiulan bought him a pair of shoes, and he picked out an autumn coat for Xiulan. Then they bought some daily necessities and then went to do business.

I went to the seed station and asked him that the seeds he had ordered had arrived. He bought a large quantity and they could send them directly to Huangtan Town.

In addition to seeds, he also bought some fertilizers and pesticides.

Let his elder brother watch over the seed station, while Lin Heng and Xiulan went to the iron tile seller.

The iron tiles have been ordered a long time ago and have been made here. If he adds a little money, they are willing to deliver them.

By the way, he moved all other pipes and other materials to others.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Heng and the others came up with two trucks.

The man who transported the iron tiles went directly to Hongfeng Mountain, and there were helpers there to help him unload the goods.

Lin Heng and his eldest brother unloaded the seeds into the house. Many people in the village saw them unloading the seeds and came over to help.

"Lin Heng, this price is still the same as last year, right?"

While helping to move things, someone asked,

"Yes, the same price, no change." Lin Heng nodded.

"That's good." Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Can I buy it today?" someone asked again.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "Okay."

The seeds were unloaded soon, and some were left to be unloaded in the store in Huangtan Town. He plans to sell seeds in the store this year.

After all this work, it was already evening. Lin Heng lay on the sofa and didn't want to move. Xiaoxia was massaging his legs at his feet, like a caring little cotton jacket.

"It's time to eat."

Xiu Lan brought the prepared meal over and said that she was also very tired today, so she simply cooked some pickled cabbage noodles.

After eating, the two of them were too lazy to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, so they went back to the house to rest.

After a night of rest, I felt much better the next day.

After breakfast, Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain. Today he was busy building the roof of the cattle and sheep pen, but there was something busy.

He was busy all day at the site. How to install, how to fix screws, and how to apply glue required his guidance.

After working for two days in a row, the roof of the cattle and sheep pen was finally built.

Lin Heng looked at the blue roof and took a deep breath: "Finally it's done."

"Next, we can clean up the house and find a good day to drive the sheep in, right?" Lin's father said with a smile.

"Yes, there is not much work, and it will be done in another day." Master Huang, the mason, asked Lin Heng to answer.

"That's great." Lin's father was very happy. After the work on the cattle and sheep pen was done, he could focus on spring farming.

In the evening, Lin Heng went back to the house and took a comfortable bath. His work was relatively easy.

The next morning, he and the mason did some of the follow-up work on the cattle and sheep pen by themselves, and then took the vegetable seeds to the simple greenhouse to cultivate the seeds.

"Son, I asked someone to see that the day before Qingming, which is the day after tomorrow, is a good day." Lin's father said while helping him.

March has passed quietly, and it is now early April.

"The cattle and sheep pen can be driven in at any time, any day." Lin Heng smiled and nodded.

After the two of them planted the seeds, Lin Heng returned to the house. Xiulan had to take care of the children and sell crop seeds at the same time, which was not easy.

After returning home and taking care of the children for a while, Lin Heng liked to sit on the stone table or in the pavilion, drink a sip of black tea, watch the children play with cats and dogs, watch the clouds roll and the mountains change color.

The two sons learned to walk too fast. Now they can walk even without support, and they always want to chase their sister everywhere.

The next morning, a drizzle suddenly came. This was the first serious rain in spring this year.

This rain lasted all day. Lin Heng was very chic, accompanying Xiulan and the children at home, drinking tea and playing with the walnuts he picked up on the mountain. (End of this chapter)