Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"Lin Heng, how are you selling grapes this time?"

Seeing Lin Heng drink two sips of water, his aunt Zhang Gaolian couldn't wait to ask while holding the child.

His third father, third mother, uncle Li Baiquan and good brother Li Shiwei and others were also watching.

Lin Heng smiled and responded: "It's not bad, just like what I said before, one mu of land can be sold for 500, and it must be sold for 4,000 yuan."

"That's very good, 4,000 yuan a year." Zhang Gaolian's eyes widened, so much money made her a little excited.

"It's good, but I don't know how much the initial investment is, and whether we can do it on our mountain." Li Baiquan said with some envy.

When Lin Heng planted it, they were a little nervous. Not to mention whether grapes were easy to grow, they didn't know where to sell them. This thing is not like a crop that can't be sold and can't be stored by oneself.

Moreover, planting grapes not only requires buying seedlings, but there was no harvest in the first two years, and there was no dare to do it without some surplus food.

But now that Lin Heng has succeeded, they have seen so much income and have eaten, so naturally they are tempted.

But in fact, when you see that a business is profitable, you often can't make much money when you enter it.

"It's not that you can't plant it, but your land and house are all on the mountain, which is very inconvenient." Lin's father said.

Lin Heng's aunt Li Xue smiled and said, "Then our family should plant more, nephew, our kiwis have also produced some fruits this year, and you can sell them together when the time comes."

When Lin Hai followed her to plant kiwis, she got angry and scolded him. Now that she sees the hope of making money, she only regrets not planting more.

"Of course you can plant more, just buy some more saplings." Lin Heng nodded and said.

"I think we can also plant on the mountain. There are a few plots of land close to the road. When the fruits are harvested, we can just pick them up by manpower." Zhang Gaolian smiled and said, a little unwilling to be outdone.

Li Baiquan also smiled and said, "As long as you can make money, it's okay to carry it down for a distance."

"As long as you are willing to work hard, there is definitely nothing wrong with it. You can learn to take care of fruit trees in two years."

Lin Heng nodded, and then said, "But don't even think about the seedlings that we just grafted this year. Those will take three or four years to bear fruit. You'd better buy the grafted seedlings that are two or three years old. Basically, they will start to bear fruit after one or two years of growth."

"As long as you can make money, it's okay to buy seedlings. You can't make any money from growing crops all year round." Zhang Gaolian said, she was determined to make money.

At the beginning, Lu Honghai was still hesitant when she spoke, but now he would agree with whatever she said while holding his son.

"Yes, we have a few plots of land above the tung tree forest, not far from the highway." Lu Honghai nodded.

"Then let's do this. I'll give you a rough quotation list later, and you can calculate it yourself."

Lin Heng finally said that he was happy to help relatives and friends, and he wouldn't make much money.

There is more to this world than money. Friendship is often priceless. When everyone was poor, his third uncle, uncle, aunt and others would often visit him. He would give them some good things, and the families would often help each other.

Now it is no problem to help them make some money.

Of course, he will not lose money if he does not make money.

"Okay, thank you, Brother Lin." Li Shiwei nodded.

"I can also tell you when the time comes. I know this too." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"Let's eat. The meal is ready. Let's talk while we eat." Xiulan came over and said.

"Then let's eat." Lin Heng immediately got up to get the round table board. There were so many people that only a large round table could fit them.

The dishes tonight are mainly pork, including stewed pork legs, fried lean meat and fat meat, and steamed sweet potato steamed meat. In addition, a seven-jin rooster was specially killed, and half of it was fried into a large pot.

The big roosters running on the ground in the countryside eating insects and grass seeds are really fragrant. The chicken is firm and has no fishy smell. It tastes good no matter how you stir-fry it.

Xiulan made a very simple stir-fried chicken with sour peppers and sour radish, but the fragrance is not reduced at all, and adults and children can't stop eating.

Lin Heng likes to eat rural chickens very much, because this kind of chicken is not dry no matter how you stir-fry it, and it tastes no worse than pheasants.

He likes to raise chickens and let them go, instead of keeping them in chicken cages. The more free-range chickens are, the better they taste.

The chickens in the back mountain are released during the day every day, and the chickens in Hongfeng Mountain are directly raised in a few hundred square meters of land every day.

They eat coarse grains and insects and drink mountain spring water, so the taste is naturally not bad.

The taste of his pigs is the same. People who come to his house for dinner will praise them and ask how they are fed.

What they are fed with can really bring different results.

Lin Heng didn't drink much wine during the meal, but he ate meat until his stomach was full.

After the meal, everyone said something and left. Everyone was familiar with each other and no longer polite.

Lin Heng looked at his parents who were still helping to clean up the dishes and said, "Mom and Dad, give me your passbook, and I will transfer half of the money to you and put it in the passbook."

Lin's father shook his head: "What are you doing? Just take the money, we don't need it."

Lin's mother also glanced at him: "That's right, we need money and ask you, and the family has to transfer money back and forth."

"That's what you said, but you have been working for so long, you still have to see the money." Xiulan also said.

Lin Heng said firmly: "I will go to get the passbook tomorrow and transfer the money to you."

This time he wanted to buy a car, and Father Lin and Mother Lin gave him all the money to support him, but he didn't ask for it.

Now that he is making money from growing fruit trees, he will naturally not harvest them all. He should give half of them to his parents.

Father Lin said angrily: "You can take it as I said. If you want to give it, you might as well buy something for your mother to eat. The money will just lie there, and we won't use that much."

"That's okay. I'll buy you food and clothing, and I'll give you the money." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"See if I will pay attention to you." Mother Lin snorted.

After helping to tidy up, he hugged his grandson, and the others discussed for a while about his uncle, uncle, and others planting fruit trees.

Father Lin and Mother Lin warned that it was okay to ask him to help, but not too much. Sometimes, the more help the better, the better.

There is also the issue of how to take care of the orchard in the future. In a few days, his eldest brother and his third father’s kiwi fruits will mature, and he also has some apples to sell.

After chatting for a while, they returned to Hongfeng Mountain. Lin Heng and Xiulan also closed the door and prepared to sleep.

Before entering the house, Xiulan glanced at the sky and said, "There are no moon or stars tonight. The clouds are very thick. I'm afraid it's already afternoon. It's been raining lightly that day for the past twenty days."

"It's probably going to rain, and the weather is a bit boring." Lin Heng nodded.

After returning to the house, Lin Heng took a few apricots back to the bedroom. They were picked at the end of July and are now fully ripe. They are not sour at all and are very soft, glutinous and sweet.

Both children and adults liked to eat it. Lin Heng pinched it open, removed the apricot core, and handed it to his children and wife.

Eating apricots, he told stories to put the children to sleep. He has started reading novels now, because he has told fairy tales and mythological stories many times.

Xiaoxia can still understand these easy-to-understand novels. As for her two sons, they have just started talking and they can't understand all the fairy tales. The effect of listening to them is about the same. After coaxing the child, Lin Heng slept peacefully against Xiulan. Although it didn't rain the next morning, the weather was also very gloomy.

"Let it rain quickly. I want to pick up some fungi and eat them." Xiulan said, looking at the sky.

August is the peak season for fungi, and all it takes is a rain.

"I'll pick it up with you then." Lin Heng said with a smile. He hadn't picked up fungi for a long time.

During the day, I did some farm work as usual. During my break, I watched the fish and flowers, and fed the chickens and cows.

The meal we ate was the chicken and pork leg that we had not finished yesterday. It was also a pleasure to bake a big steamed bun and soak it in the pork leg soup.

The day passed like this. A day in the countryside can be long or short.

That night, it started to rain outside, and when he woke up the next morning, the water in the river was already swollen. Looking at the situation, he estimated that it would rain for several days in a row.

"I just hope it won't rain for too long, Caiyun still has to sign up." Lin Heng said looking at the sky.

September is not far away, and Caiyun will go to high school. In this era, you can get a good job after graduating from technical secondary school, but if you want to go further, you have to go to high school and then take the college entrance examination.

People with faith will basically choose this path. College students are very precious in this era. As long as you pass the exam, you don't have to worry about your future.

"That's not the case. Caiyun still has ten days to go to school. If it really rains for ten days, Taibai City will be flooded." Xiulan shook her head and said.

"That's right." Lin Heng said with a smile.

He had nothing to do on a rainy day. He went to Hongfeng Mountain to help his father in the morning and rested at home in the afternoon.

At home, Lin Heng just drinks tea and takes care of the baby, while Xiulan likes to make clothes and pull the soles of her shoes on rainy days.

"Dong dong dong!"

"Is Lin Heng at home?"

Suddenly, along with a knock on the door, Liu Lan's voice came from outside.

"Why is she coming to our house now?" Lin Heng was a little curious.

"I don't know. I'll open the door." Xiulan put down her sewing and went to open the door.

After a while, she brought Liu Lan into the house and said, "Liu Lan's big yellow ox leg fell to death, and she wants us to buy some."

"Oh, it's raining and it's very slippery. If you fall down the slope, it's useless. You can only kill it. Please help me buy some. I can give it a discount." Liu Lan said with a bitter face.

The death of a plowing cow is a disaster for her family. If the beef cannot be sold, it will be over, so she can only lick her face and find wealthy people in the village to buy it.

"What do you think of Xiulan?" Lin Heng looked at his wife. If a man came, he would agree immediately. If a woman came, it would depend on what Xiulan thought.

"Buy some, if you can help, I can't put much in the freezer, so I can make beef jerky." Xiulan looked at him and said.

"How about buying a fifty kilogram piece? I also bought tripe." Lin Heng said, the farmer's yellow beef is still delicious.

"Thank you, thank you, Lin Heng, you are so kind, please come back." Before Xiulan could say anything, pockmarked Liu Lan quickly thanked her.

"Then just buy this much." Xiulan could only agree.

After sending him away, she shook her head: "You should agree to buy a small amount first, and then when she can't sell it and continues to lower the price, you can just buy more. It's hard to sell beef when it rains heavily."

"It doesn't matter, it's just a little money. I bought tripe and waited for a few days to make hot pot. If you can't choose the meat you buy later, it won't be as good as the meat you bought earlier." Lin Heng shook his head and said.

Xiulan knows how to live her life. This method not only helps others, but also benefits herself.

But he didn't really care about the gain or loss, so he just wanted to help more.

"You're right, let's go buy some good meat later." Xiulan nodded.

"I know." Lin Heng nodded.

After playing at home for about an hour, he went to Liu Lan's house, where the cow had just been gutted and gutted.

He asked for the beef tenderloin and 50 kilograms of hind leg meat.

He originally wanted to take all the tripe, but the village chief also wanted one, so he gave up some and bought 5 kilograms of butter to make beef hot pot base.

"This meat is really good. Their big bull is several years old, and the meat looks firm."

Xiulan looked at the beef that Lin Heng brought home and said.

"That cow was so miserable. A hole was pierced in its stomach by a branch." Lin Heng said.

"But since you bought so much, let's make a beef pie to eat." Xiulan thought for a while and said.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.

Then he simply cut the beef into small pieces, wrapped them and put them in the freezer.

The tripe needs to be cleaned with baking soda. It tastes good, but it is not easy to clean.

After a busy afternoon washing the tripe, Xiulan made beef pies and loofah soup in the evening. They were so delicious that you couldn't stop eating them.

The minced beef stuffing was added with a lot of spices, and it tasted so good.

It rained all the time in the next few days. On the third day of the rain, Xiulan wore a raincoat and went to the woods to try to pick some mushrooms to eat.

There are still a lot of broom mushrooms and boletus during this period, in addition to blue-headed mushrooms, chanterelles and egg mushrooms.

Xiulan picked up a lot of yellow cattle livers and fried beef for two meals.

It was just because of the rain that she couldn't pick more, because if she didn't dry it quickly, it would rot very quickly.

During the rainy days, his elder brother also went to the village to do business and became a clerk of the village committee.

Therefore, there was a small celebration. Lin Heng gave his elder brother a book and told him the precautions of listening more and talking less.

Although it was just a small village, it was undoubtedly very training. If his elder brother could gain a foothold, he would not have to worry about doing other things in the future.

The rain stopped on the 23rd, and Xiulan's plan to pick mushrooms was ruined because it rained for too long, and most of what Lin Heng and she encountered when they went up the mountain were rotten.

After running for a day, they only picked up 30 kilograms of mushrooms, most of which were boletus.

Although the sky was clear, Lin Heng was not in a hurry to go out. He had to wait until the 30th to send Caiyun to school. There was also the matter of supporting Liu Ciwen.

Although not many mushrooms were picked on the day when the sky just cleared, another batch of mushrooms appeared after a few days of clear weather, allowing Xiulan to pick up hundreds of kilograms of tea tree mushrooms.

There were more than ten kilograms of dried mushrooms. This stuff is more delicious than ordinary mushrooms when stir-fried or fried with meat, and dried goods are very popular. (End of this chapter)