Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

After returning home with the fish, it was still early, just past three in the afternoon.

"You caught so many fish, I thought you couldn't catch any." Xiulan was a little shocked when she saw the fish they had.

"I'm just average, but Dad is the best. He caught more than three pounds of mandarin fish in one day." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Then you're really amazing, Dad." Xiulan looked at Lin's father in shock.

"I'm lucky today, let's weigh it to see how much it weighs." Lin's father smiled and walked to the scale.

"Three pounds and six ounces, this fish is bigger than I thought." Lin Heng looked at the number on the scale and laughed.

"Haha, is it easy to make stinky mandarin fish with such a big fish, Xiulan?"

Lin's father laughed heartily and asked his daughter-in-law.

"It can be made, but it won't be as delicious as one that weighs about one pound." Xiulan nodded and said.

"Then let's steam it tonight and invite your uncle's family to have a meal, and then tomorrow we'll go catch some more than one pound to make stinky mandarin fish." Lin's father thought for a while and said.

"That's the best." Xiulan nodded with a smile.

Lin Heng put the crucian carp he caught in a bucket to keep it first, and then he and his father killed the mandarin fish and the small white striped grouper.

Mandarin fish is delicious when steamed, and these small fish are even better than mandarin fish when fried. Drinking a sip of wine and eating a bite of fried small fish can be said to be free and easy like a god.

After killing the fish, Lin Heng marinated all the fish with scallion and ginger water, and then burned charcoal and fried the small fish slowly in a pan over low heat.

Caiyun has been here all day. In addition to helping take care of the children, she reads books and works as a maid with Xiulan.

Seeing Lin Heng frying fish, Caiyun came over and said with a smile: "Second brother, can I take a look at the novel you wrote?"

Today, when she chatted with her sister-in-law, she knew that her second brother actually wrote a novel himself.

"I wrote it for fun. If you want to read it, just read it." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"It's amazing to be able to write so many words, more than I have written since I was born." Caiyun said with a smile. No matter what the content is, the number of 100,000 words is something she admires very much. Lin Heng nodded, turned the fish over and sat on the sofa, poured a cup of tea, and looked at the three children. His father had just killed the fish and went back to Hongfeng Mountain. He said he would go back to feed the cattle and sheep and come with Lin's mother after finishing the work there. Lin Heng helped Xiulan to dig up all the condiments such as onions, ginger, garlic, etc. that she needed and cleaned them up. An hour later, Lin Heng finally fried the dried fish, and the rich fragrance floated throughout the house. The three children had put down their toys and came over, looking at him eagerly, looking like they were waiting to be fed. "Wife, try one first." Lin Heng fed Xiulan one first. "The stream grouper is not very crispy, but the meat is very fragrant." Xiulan smiled and nodded, her red lips were shiny from eating. After that, she took another one to eat. Lin Heng tasted one himself to make sure it was ok before feeding it to his daughter and son.

"Because we have to fry it later, I'm afraid it will burn if it's too crispy now." Lin Heng explained.

And he thinks it's best this way. If it's dried any more, there will be no meaty aroma, and only a crispy taste will remain.

"Dad, I want more." Xiaoxia ate two and continued to act coquettishly.

"I want more poop!"

"I want fish!"

Luming and Du Heng also asked for it in a baby voice, and they learned quickly from their sister.

"We have everything." Lin Heng looked at them and said that children can eat dried fish. In this era, children are lucky to have meat, and there is no need to worry about it.

After feeding the child some food, Lin Heng called Caiyun again: "Caiyun, don't you want to eat?"

"I'm eating." Caiyun put down the book and walked out. She took a dried fish and ate it while looking at Lin Heng and said: "Second brother, I'm afraid you didn't write this novel casually. Most people can't compare with your writing style."

She has read a lot of books. Just reading a few pages can tell that the quality of Lin Heng's book is not bad. As for the content, she can't comment on it until she finishes reading it.

"Really?" Lin Heng said with a smile. He didn't feel that his writing was so good.

Caiyun nodded repeatedly: "Really, just some of the descriptions of the environment are very unusual, just right and deeply rooted in people's hearts."

"I also think it's well written, but your second brother doesn't believe it." Xiulan also said beside her. She is now much more knowledgeable than before. She has read a lot of books and knows more words. She thinks what Lin Heng writes is very interesting.

"It seems that I may have some talent." Lin Heng laughed. He thought it was because his brain became brighter after his rebirth.

The enhanced memory made him become handy in many things.

"Second brother, you can try to publish it." Caiyun said. Although he hadn't finished reading it, he felt that it was very promising.

"Let's talk about this later, and don't make it public." Lin Heng waved his hand. He didn't want to do this for the time being. He could try it when he had money and time.

"Okay." Caiyun nodded, feeling a little pity. In her heart, she admired her second brother a little. The second brother was really amazing for focusing on the main business. Not only making money, but also calligraphy and writing.

If she wasn't sure that the person in front of her was her second brother, she really doubted whether it was a god descending to the earth.

"What are you talking about?"

As they were talking, Lin's mother and father pushed open the gate of the yard and walked in one after another. Lin's mother looked at them with a basket of vegetables in her hand and smiled.

"Talking about my fried fish is delicious, you can try it." Lin Heng said while holding the fried dried fish.

"Of course it's delicious. The fish is delicious and deep-fried. We didn't have such a luxury before."

Mother Lin said as she took two and put them in her mouth. Father Lin next to her also tasted a few and nodded repeatedly.

Not only does it become lively when there are more people, it also makes cooking faster.

Xiulan, Linmu, Caiyun, and the other three went into battle and quickly prepared the meals and set up a special large round table that could seat more than a dozen people.

After the meal was ready, Lin Heng also called his eldest brother's family and his uncle's family over. They all sat together, and the banquet began at the table in the evening.

The men drank and punched happily, the women chatted about village gossip, and the children went to play games after eating two bites.

The steamed mandarin fish is the favorite of women and children, and the fried dried fish and peanuts are the favorites of the men who drink. Everyone chats happily while eating.

It was already after seven o'clock after the meal, and it was raining heavily outside. They got a big umbrella and took the uncle's family to the old house.

Early the next morning, the rain was still falling, and it was heavier than yesterday. Lin Heng looked at it and shook his head helplessly. He understood that it was a continuous rain, and he liked continuous rain in July and August.

This rain makes it difficult to go fishing today, so I have no choice but to give up.

After breakfast, he drank tea at home and took Das Kapital to study it there. Even if he could only scratch the surface, he would still read it. Now that his memory is good, he would read it into his mind first and then slowly understand it through the back door.

People can survive in this society without academic qualifications, but it is absolutely impossible without knowledge. From chatting to talking, to economics and politics, there are all kinds of knowledge.

Even if you just want to be a leisurely small farmer and live a simple life, you still need to be able to farm, cook, and do various things.

At noon, the rain suddenly stopped for a whole day. Lin Heng put on his rain boots and went out for a walk in the village, watching the angrily rushing water of the Shiban River, the charming green hills after the rain, the cows and sheep grazing on the hillside, the rice fields and the clouds and mist. Look at everything.

The water outlet in the rice field is blocked with barbed wire to prevent the rice fish from flowing out. Lin Heng looked around and unknowingly came to the hillside, where Liu Ciwen was grazing cattle and sheep.

He was less than 1.7 meters tall and had a sallow complexion. He was wearing a big bamboo hat and a thick raincoat. On his feet were a pair of asparagus-woven shoes that were so worn that they were calloused.

He has a pair of yellow rubber shoes, but he only wears them when going to school. He usually wears his own straw sandals to make a living. His sister's marriage has made his family's life slightly better, but they are still one of the poorest households in the village.

The rain stopped now, and the surfaces of many big rocks on the hillside were dry. Liu Ciwen dipped his fingers in water and wrote in boredom.

"Herding cattle is hard work." Lin Heng came over and said with a smile.

When Liu Ciwen saw it was Lin Heng, he said shyly, "Brother Lin, it's okay, it's not very hard."

Lin Heng ignored the topic and asked, "Why don't you come to my house to borrow books recently?"

Liu Ciwen replied: "I'm borrowing it too, just because I'm a classmate with Caiyun, so she often lends it to me directly."

Lin Heng nodded, and then asked: "I heard that you did very well in the high school entrance examination. What are your plans now?"

Speaking of this issue, Liu Ciwen sighed softly and said, "I'm still thinking about it."

His burden was heavy and he didn't know what to do.

"Are you thinking of giving up your studies?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

"Yes." Liu Ciwen nodded. He was unwilling to give up, but the reality forced him to give up. He had to take care of his parents and help plant crops. Although he was only eighteen years old, he had already felt the burden of life. .

"You go to school. I will support you with your tuition and living expenses."

At this time Lin Heng spoke.

"Ah!!" Liu Ciwen shouted, thinking that he heard wrongly, and looked at Lin Heng blankly.

Lin Heng patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't think too much, I am willing to support anyone who has a dream. To me, the money you spent to go to school is nothing."

"Brother Lin..."

Liu Ciwen was a little at a loss and didn't understand why Lin Heng, who was neither a relative nor an old friend, would help him.

"Have you ever heard of a thousand-mile horse and a bole? Now I think you are a thousand-mile horse, and I am willing to be a bole." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Then he had a good chat with him, and finally Liu Ciwen believed this dream, and solemnly nodded to Lin Heng: "Brother Lin, I will not let you down."

"It doesn't have to be for me, just do it for yourself." Lin Heng shook his head, and then said: "I will come to you when school starts and take you and Caiyun to school together, so that you can take care of each other. ”

"Thank you, Brother Lin." Liu Ciwen said again, feeling very confused.

Lin Heng waved his hands and left. He looked at him by the river and then went to the mountains in his raincoat. He was a little musty after staying at home, so he liked to walk in the woods.

“So many chanterelles!”

Not far away, Lin Heng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw small golden mushrooms growing out of the leaves on the ground of the acorn forest in front of him. They were chubby and extremely cute.

He quickly took out a bag and squatted down to pick it up. He was in a very good mood. Although there was a lot of damage, he still picked up a full two kilograms.

Then he moved on and looked elsewhere, and sure enough he found a lot more. July is the season when chanterelles bloom, and it’s a pleasure to pick them up.

Of course, there were a lot of other red mushrooms and porcini mushrooms, but the bag he took today was small, so he only picked up chanterelles, and checked the status of other mushrooms.

The rain got heavier in the evening. Lin Heng returned home with his harvest and couldn't wait to show off: "Xiu Lan, look, I picked up five or six pounds of chanterelles."

"I knew you went up the mountain. I'll fry these chanterelles for you tonight." Xiu Lan said with a smile, and then went to get him a dry towel, and waited for him to change his raincoat and wiped his hair and neck.

"It's delicious to eat fried bacon." Lin Heng nodded with a smile, and then said, "There are so many mushrooms in the forest after the rain. We can pick them up when the weather clears up."

Caiyun said: "I hope it won't rain for too long, otherwise they will rot on the mountain."

"Yes, I hope it won't rain for too long." Xiu Lan also sighed.

Lin Heng sat down and drank a sip of tea, and smiled and said: "Let it rain, I don't care, I'm not in a hurry."

After holding his daughter and son for a while, he drank tea at home. Usually, except for playing with them, he basically didn't teach them anything unless the children wanted to learn.

The only thing he insisted on was telling them stories every night to cultivate their reading habits.

The next day, the rain did not stop or get smaller as they had imagined. Instead, it rained moderately for another day. Lin Heng went to clean his drainage ditch again, fearing that water would enter the house.

It was not until the morning of July 8 that the sky cleared up. The long-lost sun came out, and the green mountains and the sky were cleansed very pure, and clouds spread in the mountains.

After breakfast, Lin Heng went up the mountain with Xiulan to pick mushrooms. The rain lasted too long, and there were many rotten mushrooms. After picking for a whole morning, each person only picked more than ten kilograms. After going back to clean and pick, they picked a little more than ten kilograms.

"I'm too lazy to go. They are all rotten. It's better to catch cicada monkeys these two days. There will be the most at night after the rain." Xiulan shook her head while drying mushrooms.

"It's meaningless." Lin Heng nodded. He would go to do his own thing after the weather cleared for two days and the road was hardened. He couldn't delay any longer.

After the rain, the weather returned to the hot weather in July in just one afternoon. The mushrooms were almost dried in half a day, and the water vapor evaporated quickly.

In the evening, after Lin Heng and Xiulan coaxed the children to sleep, they went to catch cicadas. Because it had been raining, there were more cicadas tonight, and they were everywhere.

There was no need to look for them deliberately. Just take a few steps and you can see the golden cicadas that had just climbed up the tree, and many white cicadas that had already shed their shells.

"Tonight's harvest is big. I estimate that we can get three or four pounds together." Xiulan said with a smile. They caught about two or three hundred tonight.

"I estimate it's about the same." Lin Heng nodded.

When they got home and put them on the scale, Xiulan smiled and said, "It's actually four pounds and two ounces. The freezer is enough to eat for a long time."

After that, she threw the golden cicadas directly into the freezer to freeze. It's so cold that they will die in a short time. (End of this chapter)