Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

The next morning, it was still a beautiful sunny day. When he got up and finished exercising, Lin Heng went to milk the cows as usual.

This is not an easy job. When he is at home, he has to squeeze it in by himself.

Now the young cows have been isolated and kept in the cattle pen on the side of Hongfeng Mountain. This female cow Lin Heng has already tried natural breeding once, but it was not successful. She plans to breed again when she comes into heat again in a few days.

The first-born female cow is also being bred now and is suspected to be pregnant, but it is not yet completely certain.

He is going to wait for that cow to produce milk. This cow can be eliminated now. The life of a cow is very short, and the current milk production has shown a downward trend.

Carrying the milk back to the house, Xiulan was frying steamed buns. She had steamed them a few days ago and put them in the freezer, so that cooking in the morning would be much easier.

"Would you like to fry some cicadas for the monkeys to eat?" Xiulan turned around and asked when she saw him coming back.

"Come here and I'll get some. I'll also get some fresh meat for lunch." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay." Xiulan agreed, took the milk, looked at it and put it aside.

Lin Heng opened the freezer and took a look. He was a meat-loving person and tasted some meat every day. If he didn't eat it for three days, his mouth would feel tasteless and his whole body would feel uncomfortable.

"The meat is almost eaten. We can kill another pig." Lin Heng turned over and said to himself.

There are only about five kilograms of venison left in the wild animal meat. The others have been eaten. There is only some bear oil and wolf oil left. There are also some odds and ends. They can be frozen or not. Take them out. It shouldn't be a big problem to stuff another pig into it.

His family only killed one pig for the New Year last year, and the other one was planned to be killed after the freezer was empty. Now it seems that it is OK.

Last year's New Year pig is now over two years old. If we don't kill it, it will be bad for it to grow old. Moreover, it has become fat. If we don't kill it, we will have to keep feeding it and eating grain.

After bringing over thirty cicada monkeys, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said, "I'll tell Dad later and let him see how he can kill pigs on a good day."

Xiulan looked up at him curiously: "You said you were going out to do something, why do you still have time to kill pigs?"

"I don't have to go out every day. There is always time to kill a pig." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan nodded and said, "That's good. Mom actually wanted to kill him a long time ago. She felt that the big pig always snatched the feed from the little pigs."

Lin Heng added some fuel to the fire, finished breakfast with Xiulan, and then went to wake the child up.

"Oh, why did Xiaoxia wet the bed?" Xiulan was speechless as soon as she touched Xiaoxia's quilt.

"She really wet the bed, Xiaoxia, get up soon." Lin Heng called out to Xiaoxia. Bedwetting was not a big deal, but he admired her for being able to continue sleeping.

Xiaoxia woke up leisurely and realized that she had wet the bed. She covered her eyes in shame and said, "Xiaoxia won't pee next time."

"I'll go and wash you up before putting on clothes. Next time you need to pee, let someone know." Xiulan picked her up and said.

This was the first time Xiaoxia had wet the bed this year, so no one blamed her.

After tidying up for Xiaoxia, they woke up their two sons again. The younger son Lin Duheng also wet the bed. Fortunately, he had a diaper and did not wet the bed.

After breakfast, Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain and told his father the news. Mother Lin suddenly became happy after hearing it: "Today is a double happiness. The brood I hatched has ten chicks. Then Even pigs that don’t appeal to people can be killed.”

That pig disgusted her very much, mainly because it kept causing damage, even if it invaded the pig pen, it also bullied the two little pigs that were just caught this year.

"Then I'll find someone to look after the day." Lin's father said. In order to free up the freezer as soon as possible, they also ate meat every day in the first half of the year, and they became a little fat.

Lin Heng nodded, chatted with his parents, and went to feed the cattle and sheep together. Then he walked around the hillside and picked up two large handfuls of tree fungus.

Although it was a sunny day today, there was not much work to do. He looked at his father and said, "Dad, let's go harvest honey with me. You can harvest it once in the summer."

"Okay." Father Lin nodded in agreement. He had nothing to do, so he might as well collect some honey.

They now have a total of five beehives, two on Hongfeng Mountain, two on the hill behind Lin Heng's house, and one in the backyard of Lin Heng's house.

There were supposed to be six boxes, but the bees in one box couldn't resist last winter and died.

They are now experienced at harvesting honey, and they basically won’t get stung. They harvested it quickly. Father Lin looked at the harvest and said happily: "These two boxes are good. We can get five or six kilograms of honey."

Lin Heng also smiled and said: "Including the ones in the house, it is estimated that the pure honey will weigh more than ten kilograms after being punched out."

Keeping bees is a very dangerous thing. He was stung a lot in the past, but now he has basically learned it. It can be regarded as a craft. Raising some bees is not about selling them. At least he can eat pure ones. of good honey.

Father Lin said regretfully: "I'm not very lucky this year. Two swarms of wild bees came to the village and the Wang family took them away. That guy wanders around the village every day and is discovered whenever there is honey."

"It's okay, we don't make money from bees like this." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Haha, that's true. We just feed ourselves, not sell it like him."

Father Lin laughed happily. Their family could be considered a big business in the village now, and they didn't care about the money from selling honey.

After collecting the honey here, Lin Heng and his father went to the mountain behind the house to harvest honey.

"Xiulan, there will be a bumper harvest of honey this year." Lin Heng first gave her the harvested honey when he returned to the house.

"There are so many. The color of this honey is so beautiful." Xiulan took it and looked at it and said in surprise.

This honey is orange-red in color and looks better than ordinary honey.

"It should be caused by collecting ginseng nectar." Lin Heng explained that in previous years it was light yellow, but the only difference this year is that the ginseng has bloomed, and they have collected a lot of ginseng nectar.

"Then I have to pretend to be alone, I'm afraid it's unusual." Xiulan said immediately.

Lin Heng and his father sat down and took a sip of water. While it was still morning, they quickly went to the backyard to harvest honey. The backyard plus the back hill weighed more than ten kilograms.

When they took it back and filtered it all out, there were eight kilograms of pure honey, which was considered a good harvest.

"This honey can be sold. There is still a lot of it at home." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said.

"It's quite a lot. We can't finish it ourselves now, and we've already given it away once." Father Lin also said.

Lin Heng Lin Heng shook his head and said, "No need to sell it for now. I will go to the city in a few days to buy a few large glass jars and put them back in, and then sell them later."

Honey is considered a valuable thing. It is not cost-effective to sell it now. We will wait until later.

"That's okay." Xiulan nodded, but she didn't have any opinion on this.

After filtering the honey, Lin Heng boiled the beeswax, melted it, filtered it again, and stored it there.

The sun is still very strong at noon in summer. The soil has been basically dried today, and the fungi have also been thoroughly dried after a day of drying.

Lin Heng and his eldest brother went to the village committee in the afternoon, while Xiulan prepared the marinade for stewing pig offal. Since the pigs were killed in the summer, they had to be finished within one day, otherwise they would spoil.

Her braised pig offal and pig head also have to be finished on the same day.

"Daughter-in-law, I have already agreed with my eldest brother today that I will go out tomorrow and start collecting old things."

Lin Heng and Xiulan talked during dinner in the evening.

He said that the way to make a lot of money was to use money to collect a batch of old objects. There were still many antiques in the village in this era. He was going to use the money to collect some at a high price and then exchange them for money in Ancheng.

Then use the money in exchange to open a feed factory and buy a truck.

It is not easy to get a loan at this time. He had thought of this method for a long time, including the antiques collected at home.

Maybe he would be lucky enough to receive a good item and sell it to make enough money to open a pig farm.

"Which village are you going to tomorrow?" Xiulan asked curiously.

"Let's take a look at our three villages, Shimen Village and Baima Village first, and then go to other villages." Lin Heng said while eating vegetables.

He has prepared the trumpet and cash, and when the time comes, his elder brother will go with him to make the purchase.

"That's okay, just pay attention to it." Xiulan nodded.

The two chatted for a while, and Xiaoxia spoke from the side: "Dad, I want to eat fish balls."

"There are no fish balls now. I will go fishing in two days to make fish balls for you." Lin Heng rubbed her head and said.

"You should finish the food in the bowl quickly. You are not allowed to sleep until you finish eating." Xiulan was very strict.

She knew that Xiaoxia was a sign that she couldn't finish her meal, so she ate a lot of snacks in the afternoon.

"I've finished eating." Xiaoxia said with a smile, and she actually finished it in one bite, which was somewhat beyond Lin Heng's expectation.

Early the next morning, the golden sunshine could be seen early, indicating that today was another beautiful sunny day.

After breakfast, Lin Heng took the money and the horn and drove out. Lin Yue took out a double-barreled shotgun and got into the car and said, "Let's go."

"Okay, let's go to Shimen Village first."

Lin Heng nodded and drove to Shimen Village not long after.

When he arrived at the center of the village, he stopped the car, took out his loudspeaker and shouted: "We are collecting things. We are collecting antiques at high prices."

As he yelled a few times, people soon gathered around and recognized them: "Are you Lin Heng from Hongfeng Village? Are you here to collect antiques and old things?"

"Yes, you can collect some by spending money. Anyone who has good stuff can take it out. If the stuff is good, the price will be good. Old coins, silver ingots, antique dishes, etc. are all fine."

Lin Heng agreed with a smile.

"I have an ancient bowl at home. Do you want it?" Someone soon brought a blue and white porcelain bowl to Lin Heng.

Lin Heng didn't know much about antiques. He didn't understand it thoroughly even after reading some books about it. He looked at it twice and gave a price: "I can give you eight yuan for this thing."

"Eight yuan, that's okay, you can take it." Upon hearing the price, the owner happily sold it.

After a while, people started to sell some things they thought were old. Lin Heng could recognize some of them as fake at a glance, so naturally he wouldn't want them.

I stayed here all morning and collected ten antique dishes and more than a dozen antique copper coins.

"What do you think of these things?" Lin Yue asked on the way back to Hongfeng Village.

Lin Heng shook his head: "It's probably not good. The best ones are probably from the Qing Dynasty."

Lin Yue said: "Then you have spent a lot of money. It feels very uneconomical to do this. If it is all fake, you will lose a lot."

"That's not the case." Lin Heng shook his head. He must have thought about this issue before he dared to do this.

When he returned to the village at noon, Lin Heng directly asked the village party secretary to use the village committee's electric loudspeaker to promote him and shouted.

Now everyone is poor, and most of them want to try it out when they hear that they can exchange these things that may be antiques for money.

There are more people in Hongfeng Village, so many people come, and they identify and give what they think is a good price.

Those who originally planned to go to Baima Village in the afternoon did not have time because many people in the village brought some bottles and jars for him to see.

This made him embarrassed, but he didn't lack this little money, so he bought all the things he thought were good.

In the evening, Lin Heng was having dinner, and Zhang Zhigen came, carrying a few porcelain bottles and a bag of copper coins and said: "Lin Heng, what do you think of my things?"

"Not bad, the porcelain bottles can be given 20 yuan each, and the copper coins are not worth much." Lin Heng looked at it and said.

Zhang Zhigen shook his head: "It's cheap, this bottle should be given at least 200, and my things are much better than those of other people in the village."

Lin Heng looked again, he knew that Zhang Zhigen had a lot of antiques at home, and his family had passed down a lot of them from his ancestors, and he had used these things to exchange for deer penises with him before.

"It's too expensive." Lin Heng shook his head.

"It's really not expensive." Zhang Zhigen looked at him and said.

The two chatted and slowly pulled, and finally Zhang Zhigen said something, and Lin Heng took the thing for 150 yuan.

But he only took one.

For a period of time in the following period, Lin Heng and his elder brother went to the surrounding villages every day to collect some things they thought were good.

Not only did he collect a lot of Yuan Datou, but he also got a lot of other antiques of all kinds, and there was no room for them on the second floor of his house.

He was very sure of some of these things because he knew the source. Some of them were hidden by the landlords in his family before, and now they were all collected by him.

On July 16th of the Gregorian calendar, his family slaughtered pigs.

Because they were not busy, unlike the New Year, they started before dawn, and pulled the pig out at more than nine o'clock. It was already eleven o'clock when the meat was cut.

This time, all the meat was put into the freezer, and the internal organs and pig heads that needed to be braised were also braised in the afternoon.

The pig was very happy to be killed. It ate two tons of rice at noon and in the afternoon. Pigs fed with grain, grass and acorns are different.

"Let's have some pork barbecue in a few days." Lin Heng said after dinner. The pork was perfect for barbecue.

"Okay, I like barbecue." Xiaoxia cheered.

"I like it, I like it!"

Two little guys behind him echoed.

"Then let's find a time when it's not so hot to barbecue. I'll cook some sweet wine to drink cold." Xiulan said.

"Then wait until I collect some more antiques and find a good day to eat them. Just celebrate." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"How many more antiques are you going to collect?" Xiulan looked at him and asked. He has spent more than 3,000 yuan on antiques recently, which is not a small amount.

And those shabby-looking bottles and jars made her a little worried.

"I'll collect another 2,000 yuan. Don't worry. I know my limits." Lin Heng said, pressing her shoulder. (End of this chapter)