Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"No, as the saying goes, a person's wealth is nothing but a hair. There are not many assets at all."

Lin Heng shook his head and said.

Tian Dongfu waved his hand and said: "Don't be humble. If others can't see it, I can't see it. Don't worry, I won't come to you to do anything this time, but I have a good thing to come to you."

"Uncle Tian, ​​please come and tell me in person." Lin Heng said with some confusion.

Tian Dongfu took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Do you want to be an official? The village officials will be changed recently, and there will be a lot of vacancies."

Hearing this, Lin Heng understood immediately. He immediately shook his head and said, "I'm not interested in this, but I think my eldest brother is very suitable. Although he only has an elementary school education, he is enthusiastic and calm, and everyone likes him very much." he."

Tian Dongfu said: "You are more loved by the people in the village. If you want to be the village chief, there will be no problem for you."

He wanted to drag Lin Heng in. As for Lin Yue, although he was not bad, he was far behind Lin Heng.

"I don't want to be, I'm not interested, I'm too tired." Lin Heng shook his head and decisively refused.

After rejecting it, he poured another cup of tea for Tian Dongfu and drank it happily.

He has no interest in the village officials at all, and he doesn't want to use this to gain anything for himself. But he didn't want to know anything about it, so he wanted his eldest brother to go.

It was also an opportunity for exercise, which was perfect for his big brother.

"Really don't want to experience being an official?" Tian Dongfu still wants to fight for it.

"I recommend my elder brother Lin Yue, I think he is suitable." Lin Heng continued.

"Okay, I understand." Tian Dongfu nodded, a little helpless.

He stood up and wanted to leave, but was held back by Lin Heng: "Uncle Tian, ​​I just have lunch before leaving. Xiulan is already doing it."

"No, no, no, we're doing it in the house too." Tian Dongfu shook his head repeatedly.

"It's all the same."

Lin Heng forced him to stay.

After a while, Xiulan cooked five dishes. Lin Heng poured Tian Dongfu a glass of rice wine and started chatting while eating the dishes.

After drinking for three rounds, their conversation became more in-depth and less polite than before. Tian Fudong told Lin Heng the stakes here. He really likes Lin Heng as a junior now.

Lin Heng also revealed some details to him, allowing the two of them to understand each other better.

After finishing the meal, Lin Heng sent Tian Dongfu out with a smile.

Then I went to my eldest brother’s house next door.

"Sister-in-law, is my brother at home?" Lin Heng asked after entering the house and looking at Liu Juan picking vegetables in the yard.

"It's in the house. Come in and sit." Liu Juan said with a smile.

"Brother, why are you looking for me?" Lin Yue walked out of the room and asked with a smile.

"Brother, I recommend you to become an official in the village and serve the villagers." Lin Heng looked at his eldest brother and said.

"Ah?" Lin Yue was stunned.

Liu Juan even stood up: "You said you want your eldest brother to become an official in the village? Did I hear you correctly?"

She found it a bit incredible that Lin Heng didn't want it and gave it to his elder brother instead.

Although the officials in the village are small, they are all desired and respected by everyone.

"Yes, sister-in-law, you heard me right." Lin Heng smiled and nodded, then looked at his elder brother, "Brother, what are your intentions?"

Lin Yue brought two official hat chairs out under the eaves, motioned Lin Heng to sit down, and then said: "Brother, you are the most suitable for this. How could I be the one?"

"I'm not interested in this. Brother, just think about it. Everything else is not a problem. I am here." Lin Heng clapped his hands and smiled.

Seeing Lin Heng's serious expression, Lin Yue said: "You really want me to come on."

Liu Juan couldn't wait to agree on her husband's behalf: "Your eldest brother can definitely do it. He just needs to exercise."

In her opinion, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that must be seized.

"Don't talk too much. Let's understand it clearly before speaking." Lin Yue said to his wife.

Lin Heng said: "If I really let you go, listen to me and tell you the stakes involved."

Lin Heng told his elder brother what had happened. After listening, Lin Yue nodded and said, "In that case, let me give it a try."

"Okay, as long as you are willing to give it a try." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After chatting for a few more words, he asked the sister-in-law not to talk nonsense for the time being, and then he went home.

Xiulan was weeding the vegetables in the yard while wearing gloves. Lin Heng walked in and looked at her and said, "You don't quite understand my behavior, wife."

"No." Xiulan shook her head, looked at him and said, "Your decision is right. You are usually busy with business. If you go to Murakami, you won't have time to go home."

For ordinary women, if their husbands can become officials, they will perform the same as Liu Juan, but Xiulan is not so excited. She did not understand it at first, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt that this was the best way to deal with it.

"As expected of my wife, she is just smart." Lin Heng praised her.

Xiulan pursed her lips and smiled and said: "Come and help me pull the weeds, and take care of your daughter by the way. She insists on catching earthworms to feed the turtles."

"Dad, what a big earthworm." Xiaoxia fiddled with a small wooden stick while her two younger brothers looked on.

"I'll catch it for you and put it in a bottle. You can feed it to the turtle later." Lin Heng found a plastic bottle next to him and grabbed the earthworms for her.

"Okay, thank you, dad." Xiaoxia was happy to see Lin Heng helping her catch it.

The four rectangular vegetable plots next to the wall of the yard are originally humus soil. This year, when growing vegetables, a large amount of decomposed cow and sheep manure was mixed in. There are many earthworms growing in them. You can pull out a piece of grass by pulling out a piece of grass. Two items.

And they were all big blue-black earthworms as thick as fingers. Xiulan felt dirty and didn't want to handle them. Seeing Lin Heng and three children catching them, she shook her head speechlessly.

Lin Heng took the children to pull weeds while playing, and then picked a lot of small tomatoes. These tomatoes, which are the size of pigeon eggs, bear fruit in large numbers and turn red quickly. They can be eaten directly or cut in half. Add some sugar and mix and eat.

"Dad, let's go feed the turtle." Xiaoxia said eagerly, holding the bottle.

There were more than a dozen large and thick earthworms caught in the bottle.

"Feed the turtle!"

"Daddy hug!"

Lu Ming and Du Heng also walked over hummingly, wanting to play with their sister.

Lin Heng took them to the backyard. There was a wooden basin with a diameter of one meter in the backyard. There were four turtles in it, one mutated closed-shell turtle, and the remaining three were all jet black tortoises.

Lin Heng first grabbed them out and changed the water in the basin, and then put them in. Xiaoxia couldn't wait to pour a few earthworms into them.

Now these turtles are used to being fed. If earthworms are thrown in, they will happily run over and bite them.

"Wow, the turtle is playing tug of war!" Xiaoxia cheered.

"Wuwu!"

Lin Duheng wanted to touch it, but Lin Heng stopped him in time.

The turtles rushed to eat the earthworms, just like sucking noodles, and quickly finished several earthworms.

Xiaoxia couldn't wait to feed more. Watching the turtle eat, the three of them giggled beside it.

"Feed the rest to the fish. The turtle can't eat too much at one time, otherwise it will starve to death." Lin Heng said and pulled them to the edge of the fish pond.

Xiaoxia poured all the earthworms in at once, and there was a splashing sound in the water. The fish fought for them harder than the turtles.

The largest koi here are now four or five kilograms, and they are round and very beautiful. Only some small koi and colored crucian carps do not grow big.

However, the fish pond does not seem crowded, because there are giant salamanders and the golden catfish, and many small fish will be eaten.

Lin Heng originally thought that the giant salamander would not be able to survive, but he did not expect that it lived exceptionally well in the mountain spring water. It was now fatter than before, and would harm a few of his small fish from time to time.

Fortunately, the fish in the fish pond have reproduced, and he usually feeds some stream grouper, so everything is still fine.

"The tomatoes are ready. Come over and eat."

When they returned to the main room, Xiulan had already mixed the tomatoes with sugar.

"Wow, mom, you are so kind!" Xiaoxia was the first to run over and kissed Xiulan sweetly on the face.

"Eat quickly."

Xiulan smiled and touched her head, then stuck a tomato for her with a fork.

Lin Heng picked up another fork and ate one, and then fed one to each of his two sons. They have no problem eating tomatoes now.

After eating, they played in the house for a while and made a toon scrambled egg in the evening. Lin Heng and Xiulan both wanted to eat it, so they made one.

Early the next morning, Lin Heng had breakfast and went into the city. His uncle's family was still down there, so he had to go down and take a look.

After entering the city, he went directly to the house rented by his uncle.

"Lin Heng, you figured it out. We asked the doctor and it's completely safe to leave the hospital. We are ready to go back." Seeing Lin Heng, Lu Honghai said.

The expenses in the city are not small for them. If they can go back early, they will try not to stay as long as possible. The money saved can also buy some delicious food.

"I came down just because I guessed that you wanted to go back. You can leave whenever you want," Lin Heng said.

"Then the day after tomorrow. If the weather is good, then the day after tomorrow. As long as it doesn't rain, we can go and buy some supplies tomorrow." Lu Honghai said.

"I understand." Lin Heng nodded and stayed here for a while. After eating, he went to the factory to check on the situation.

Now that it's done, we just need to buy the machine and start work.

The next day, I accompanied my uncle to buy some things, and I also bought some daily necessities.

Early on the third day, I woke up to a clear blue sky and sparse white clouds, indicating that it was going to be a bright and sunny day.

So they had a simple breakfast, wrapped the child up, and the aunt also dressed a little thicker, and then got in the car and set off.

It was afternoon when we returned to the village, and since it was a sunny day, there were no other problems except that it was very hot.

For the time being, they will still live in Lin Heng's old house, and they will stay here at least until their child is one month old.

If you need anything, you can find a doctor near the roadside. It takes a long time to go to their barefoot doctor on the top of the mountain.

When the child comes back, naturally everyone will come to see it and express their concern.

After reading it, Mother Lin came out and said with emotion: "Now your uncle's life is complete. After you have a son, you will have someone to die with when you get old."

In their view, carrying on the family line is the most important thing in life. If there are no descendants, they will be sorry for their ancestors and they will be laughed at.

"Yes, thanks to you, son." Father Lin also said with a smile.

He was very proud because finding a wife for Uncle Lin Heng was something even the Lu family had not been able to do, but they had done it.

"This is nothing. When I get rich again, I will find a way to give my third uncle a wife." Lin Heng said with a smile, and he would reward everyone who was kind to him.

"Your third uncle is too honest, I'm afraid it will be difficult." Lin's mother sighed.

"That's not a big deal." Lin Heng waved his hand.

In the evening, his uncle prepared a table of dishes in the old house of the Lin family to thank Lin Heng and others.

At the dinner table, he happily drank three cups with Lin Heng in a row, patted his hand and said: "Good nephew, in the future, if you need your uncle's help, just ask. Your uncle has all this thanks to you."

"We are all a family, there is no need to be so formal, uncle." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"It is because we are a family that we should be like this." Lu Honghai said.

He drank happily that night and felt that life had never been so good.

Lin Heng returned home a little drunk after dinner. His uncle's work was done, and then he should do his own things.

He wanted to open his own feed factory before the end of this year.

The money saved was part of it, and he had to find a way to get some more money.

The next day, he found it raining outside and was stunned: "Damn, there were stars all over the sky last night, but it rained today."

"Let it rain, and rest for two days." Xiulan put on her clothes and came to him and said.

"It can only be like this, and I don't know how long it will rain." Lin Heng nodded helplessly.

"Let it rain for two more days, I want to pick chanterelles." Xiulan said with a wink.

Lin Heng put on his clothes and went out with Xiulan. After practicing the bow and arrow that he had practiced for a long time today, he suddenly felt itchy and wanted to play.

After breakfast, Lin Heng found that the rain was not very heavy and wanted to go fishing.

He called Caiyun to help take care of the children, and then called his father and elder brother to go fishing in Huangtan River.

It is easy to catch fish on rainy days. You can sit there and fish with a raincoat and a hat, watching the drizzle and fishing leisurely.

At the end of the afternoon, Lin Heng caught five catties of fish. He didn't catch any big carp, but he caught a lot of big crucian carp and stream grouper.

His elder brother was not as good as him. He caught small crucian carps and a lot of big whitebait.

His father was the luckiest. He caught a spotted mandarin fish weighing more than three kilograms.

"Take this mandarin fish back and make it into stinky mandarin fish. Then invite your uncle and his family to taste it."

When leaving, Lin's father looked at the plump mandarin fish and smiled.

"Okay, I haven't eaten stinky mandarin fish for a long time. I really miss it." Lin Heng smiled and nodded.

Lin Yue was not very happy with his fishing and suggested: "If it doesn't rain too much tomorrow, let's go fishing in Heihe. I think it's better to fish there."

"Okay, anyway, I'm free at home." Lin's father agreed first. He really loves fishing now.

"Then I have no objection." Lin Heng smiled and nodded. Fishing in the rain is better than fishing in the sun. The sun is too hot and you can't stand it. (End of this chapter)