Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

“It actually rained for another day!”

On the morning of the 19th, Lin Heng got up and looked at the continuous rain outside and sighed.

Who would have thought that the rain would come on the first day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and his original intention of doing something great was suddenly gone.

"Just rest when it rains. God has decided to rain. What can you do to him?" Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said.

"But I can't rest today. I have to go to town. I don't know when Li Shiwei will come down." Lin Heng closed the window and walked to the bed and said.

"Yes, today is the market day. You are going to open a shop in the town." Xiulan then remembered that there was no one in the town now, so Lin Heng had to go there in person.

She originally wanted to take a nap, but when she remembered this incident, she quickly got up and prepared to make breakfast.

"I can just stutter myself. You can sleep a little longer!" Lin Heng pushed her back and said.

"It's okay. I'm either sleepy or just want to stay in bed." Xiulan shook her head and got up with Lin Heng.

The two of them had just made breakfast after exercising, when firecrackers sounded outside.

"Looking in the direction of the Jin family, Zhao Hu is here to propose marriage." Lin Heng went out to take a look at the yard and said.

"I just said, let's set off the cannons so early in the morning." Xiulan nodded and said.

Boom, boom, boom!

"Brother Lin Heng, I'm coming down!"

Just as Lin Heng was about to go back to his room to have breakfast, Li Shiwei's shouts came from outside the door.

"I came down so early, I just went in to have breakfast." Lin Heng opened the door and said with a smile.

"I set off early in the morning, for fear of delaying things." Li Shiwei said with a smile.

He was very excited when Lin Heng asked him to help look after the store, and their whole family was also very happy. They told him to seize the opportunity and learn from Lin Heng, so he stayed early.

"Don't be in a hurry, let's go have breakfast first, the potato pancakes made by Xiulan." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After taking Li Shiwei into the house, Xiulan had already put breakfast on the table, potato pancakes, eggs and milk, a simple but not simple breakfast.

Although Li Shiwei knew what Lin Heng's breakfast looked like, he still couldn't help but swallow.

He was not polite to Lin Heng, picked it up and ate it in big gulps.

"Not to mention, your food is so delicious. I won't be able to get used to it when I get home after two more meals."

After breakfast, Li Shiwei said with emotion that his family still often eats cornmeal, and eggs and milk are really luxurious.

"That's okay, you can just eat here." Lin Heng said with a smile.

If you want to be healthy, egg milk is essential, especially for children.

"Haha, it's a deal, I'll come to eat every day." Li Shiwei grinned.

The two chatted for a while. Lin Heng also finished eating and told Xiulan, then patted Li Shiwei on the arm and said, "Let's go."

"good."

Li Shiwei nodded happily.

After driving the tricycle, they arrived at Huangtan Town in a short while. There were many people waiting here early in the morning to sell mountain products.

Lin Heng welcomed people into the house with a smile, and then taught Li Shiwei while selling goods. Li Shiwei only attended the fifth grade of elementary school, so he still needs to be taught bit by bit to learn these things.

However, he himself is not stupid, he learns quickly, and he can basically master it within three or four days of going to the market.

After being given a general idea, Lin Heng sat aside to drink tea and let him take charge.

Because of the rain, there were not many people going to the market today. Soon Li Shiwei was free. He sat over and took a sip of tea. He looked at Lin Heng and said, "Brother Lin, do you think I did okay?"

"It's okay." Lin Heng nodded and said, "You have to pay attention when doing business. The most important thing is to be friendly and make money. Especially for a small business in a town like ours, reputation is very important. Some small help can be provided. If you can help, please help. If some acquaintances want to pay for some small things on credit, you can give them to him on credit.”

Doing business in towns and cities is a little different from that in cities. This place requires a sense of friendship and a fair price, and your business can last for a long time.

"I understand." Li Shiwei nodded.

"Then you look at the shop. Uncle Gao and I will go out to catch a few fish." Lin Heng looked at him and said.

"Okay." Li Shiwei said happily, and he was encouraged by Lin Heng's reassurance.

Lin Heng just took the fishing rod and put on his raincoat and went fishing with Uncle Gao.

Nowadays, it is not easy to fish up and down the Huangtan River Bridge. It is not that there are no fish, but that these fish have become cautious after trying the terror of fish hooks.

But this was not a big deal. They walked down 700 to 800 meters and found a good catchment bay. Despite the continuous rain, the two of them caught more than three kilograms of yellow bonefish and more in just three hours. Two pounds of crucian carp.

It was almost four o'clock in the afternoon when he returned to town after fishing. Uncle Gao gave him half of the fish. He couldn't finish that much by himself.

Lin Heng is now very familiar with Uncle Gao and is not so polite. When he left, he told Li Shiwei something more. He was mainly here to watch the business on important days when he went to the market. On days other than the market, he could take time to go home.

Do it for a month first, and if it works, make sure you let him do it.

Of course, the money is the same, 20 yuan a month, and there is no such thing as internship salary.

It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when Lin Heng returned to the house. He walked in with the fish and said, "Daughter-in-law, look at the yellow bone I caught."

Xiulan came out and took a look and said in surprise: "There are so many. It seems that the water is muddy and it is easy to fish. I will cook some for the children to eat at night."

She likes to make pickled yellow croaker and add some vermicelli. The vermicelli soaked in the soup is also a delicacy that everyone likes.

"Okay, I'll kill it now." Lin Heng smiled and nodded. This kind of yellow croaker weighing two taels is the most suitable. The meat tastes tender and fragrant, and it is easy to cook.

In the evening, Xiulan made a pickled yellow croaker, fried a small pot of Chinese cabbage, and the staple food was the scallion pancake made at noon.

The delicious dinner made people sleep comfortably. The children were also very happy to eat fish and vermicelli. After eating one, they still clamored to continue eating.

The next morning, it was still rainy and cloudy. Lin Heng got up late and went to Hongfeng Mountain to help. Recently, a lamb was born, and Lin's father was very busy.

Lin Heng came to help but only encountered a sheep giving birth. After helping to deliver the baby and feeding the cattle and sheep, there was nothing to do. Because it had been raining for a day, he thought about it and put on a raincoat and took the dog to the several matsutake nests he had found before. After searching for a long time, he only found three small ones, but he was reluctant to pick them because they were too small.

On the way home, he picked a lot of pine mushrooms. There were also many pine mushrooms during this period.

In the next few days, Lin Heng also helped in Hongfeng Mountain. There was no special change in the village. Zhao Hu took Jin Hai and Liu Sheng away after proposing the marriage. The news spread in the village that the two families were preparing to get married and hold a wedding before the New Year.

This continuous rain lasted for four days. During this period, apart from helping in Hongfeng Mountain, there was nothing else to do.

After the rain, a good day of sunshine came out. Their family began to harvest rice. This year, they had rice fish. Every time it rained, they had to prevent the water from turning over the fields and taking the fish away.

On the day of harvesting rice, they first drained the water in the fields, and then cut the rice while sword raining.

Soon, the rice of one mu of field was harvested. Father Lin poured out the rice fish in the bucket, looked at it and said with a smile: "This rice fish is not bad. One mu of field can produce 60 to 70 kilograms of fish."

The rice fish poured into the basket were crackling, and most of them were fish weighing two taels, which looked very healthy. This kind of rice fish tastes very good, and it tastes very fragrant and tender.

"More than good, we will also make rice fish next year." The villager who was threshing rice next to him said.

"That's right, even if one mu of land only produces 50 kilograms, five mu of land will produce 250 kilograms, which is equivalent to a pig."

They didn't have the habit of raising rice fish here, after all, they belong to the north, but after seeing Lin Heng's successful case, they were all tempted.

Father Lin smiled and patted his chest and said, "That's no problem. If you want fish fry next year, I will even buy them for you. You can wait until the rice fish are sold before giving them to you."

"That's no problem. We will ask you to get the fry next year."

"Old Lin, you are a very honest person. We will ask you next year."

Everyone nodded and said.

At this time, Lin Yue looked at Lin Heng and asked, "Brother, we can still raise these fish, right?"

"Of course, these fish can grow if we take them back to the pond. If we feed them well, they can grow five pounds a year." Lin Heng smiled and nodded.

"Then I will go back and raise all my rice fish in the pond. There are not many fish in the pond alive this year." Lin Xutao said.

He felt that his family was unlucky this year. First, the shrimps were finished, and then a batch of fish died. Fortunately, the rice fish were fine.

Everyone chatted playfully while continuing to thresh the grain. Today, 20 people were called to finish the fishing in one day. Four mu of paddy fields were fished in one morning. Lin Heng harvested 220 kilograms of rice fish. Most of them were kept in the pond in the hatchery. The big ones were picked for lunch.

The fish was cut into pieces and fried until golden brown, then stewed and some pickled cabbage was added to make a sour soup, which is a dish suitable for all ages.

The luck was not very good in the afternoon. Only a few rice fish were picked up from two fields, and 150 kilograms of fish were caught from four mu of fields, which was not as good as in the morning.

But it didn't matter. After all, rice fish was harvested by chance, and the main harvest was rice. Lin Heng's rice this year was also good, because a lot of cow and sheep manure was used as base fertilizer, and the yield per mu was 850 kilograms. Eight mu of land harvested 6,800 kilograms of rice.

Other families in the village who bought rice seeds were also full of happy smiles. The rice yield changed from 300 to 400 kilograms per mu in previous years. This year, the worst yield reached 500 kilograms per mu, and generally around 600 kilograms.

It can be said that starting this year, every household will no longer have to be so tight on white rice.

Seeing the happy smiles of the villagers, Lin Heng was also happy. Although these people had various minor problems, they were generally simple and worthy of help.

Humans have cultivated various crops for at least thousands of years, but it was not until modern times that the problem of food and clothing was gradually solved. The main reason was the modern breeding technology and the production of chemical fertilizers.

Without these two things, the return of land to humans can only be said to be very average.

Although it is Mid-Autumn Festival, as long as it is a sunny day, the sun is still strong, and the harvested rice can be dried and stored in three days.

The best grains were taken out and happily paid to the state. The farmers were willing to taste the new rice, and their faces gradually filled with smiles.

Lin Heng waited for the road to dry before driving the sidecar into the city. He first went to the factory to take a look and asked Wang Zhou if there was anything recently.

He felt relieved after getting the answer that there was no problem. Then he and his elder brother went to contact the sales of kiwi fruit. Because of the previous sales of grapes, selling kiwi fruit was not difficult.

The market value of kiwifruit is comparable to that of grapes. His eldest brother's family produced more than 800 kilograms per acre this year, 25 cents per kilogram, which is 200 yuan per acre, and 2,000 yuan per 10 acres.

And his third uncle's family has less production because the seedlings are small and have not grown up this year, 500 kilograms per acre, and the quality is not as good as Lin Yue's, so they can only sell for 20 cents, 100 yuan per acre. His family planted five acres of kiwifruit, which is 500 yuan.

This harvest was unbelievable for them in the past. They never thought that it would be difficult to sell it, and the money they made was unexpectedly much.

"Brother, this is the money I borrowed from you at the beginning. Now I have it and I will pay you back in one lump sum."

On the day he received the money, Lin Yue first took out 800 yuan to return to Lin Heng. This was the money he used to buy guns and seedlings. He was supposed to pay it back after opening the store and making money, but Lin Heng never asked for the money.

"You can take it first, brother, I don't need it." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.

"It's time to pay it back. Don't be polite with me. Take it all." Lin Yue stuffed it into his hand.

After refusing several times, Lin Heng had to say, "It should be 700, why give me 800."

Lin Yue smiled and said, "100 is interest. Without you, I can't have run either the kiwi fruit or the store."

He remembered all the help Lin Heng had given him over the years. If it weren't for Lin Heng, he might have a hard time raising three children now, and he wouldn't be as strong as he is now at home.

In the past, his wife always complained about him because he had no money. In the past two years, his back has gradually straightened up. Both his wife and parents-in-law have been much kinder to him, and they have to take the initiative to ask him about things.

And he knew that all these were brought by his younger brother, and he was always grateful.

"Brother, don't say these." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head, and finally only took the 700 he lent out.

The next morning, Lin Hai also came with money. In addition to the money he borrowed from Lin Heng, there was also a part of interest and thank-you fee.

Lin Hai is also a smart man. He understands the role of Lin Heng and deserves it.

Lin Heng still treated his elder brother the same way, only collecting the money he should collect, the money he lent to Lin Hai and the freight he paid for transporting kiwifruit to him.

He still said that he would not make money from them, but he could not lose money either. He did not ask for anything in return for the help from his relatives and friends, he just wanted to see these people who were good to him live a good life.

The kiwifruit made money, and his third father and mother were so excited that they bought beef and mutton and invited Lin Heng's family to dinner, pouring wine and serving dishes.

Many people in the village were envious, they used to see Lin Heng's family making money, but now even his third father's family made money, everyone was very envious. (End of this chapter)