Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Lin Heng's brother and father had no choice but to buy cigarettes. It was better than buying the cheap ones himself.

He has become accustomed to smoking and it is difficult to quit.

As soon as they put their things in the house, they followed Lin Heng to the house in the village.

Stopping the tricycle, Lin Heng came in carrying a lot of gifts. In addition to clothes, there were also toys and other supplies.

"Daughter-in-law, where do you put these?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

"Put it on the cabinet first, and we'll sort it out in detail in the evening." Xiulan said with a smile, not preaching anything.

If you have money, just buy it. She thinks Lin Heng is right, people should be kind to themselves while they are alive.

Mother Lin sat down, hugged her grandson and said, "Xiulan, what dishes do you want to prepare? I'll help you."

"I'm almost ready. Mom, you can just help stoke the fire later." Xiulan said softly.

She knew that Lin Heng would definitely celebrate when he came back today, so she started preparing ingredients all morning.

"Okay, tell me when it's time to light the fire." Mother Lin nodded.

"It's only five o'clock, do you want to do it now?" Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and asked.

"Let's play for half an hour first and then do it." Lin Heng replied, and then said, "I'll go over and call my eldest brother's family over, so we can have a meal together."

After saying that, he went out next door to inform his eldest brother. When he went to the city to do things, he would basically take his eldest brother with him. He would take care of his brothers if anything happened. At the same time, he would also let his eldest brother learn how to do business.

"I'll be here soon." Lin Yue readily agreed to his brother's invitation.

"Lin Heng, I have fern root vermicelli here that my dad made this year. You can take a handful back and eat it."

Sister-in-law Liu Juan even took out a handful of black vermicelli weighing two kilograms and handed it to Lin Heng.

Bracken root powder requires digging fern roots, which is a difficult starch to make and is more expensive than sweet potato vermicelli.

Just when Lin Heng was about to speak, Liu Juan stuffed the things into her arms and said with a smile: "You two are welcome, I still have several at home."

"Then thank you, sister-in-law." Lin Heng accepted with a smile and did not continue to decline.

Compared with before, his sister-in-law has changed a lot. She talks nicely and is not so mean anymore.

This is a normal situation. Many things in life are caused by lack of material. When material is sufficient, many problems will be solved.

Why is it said that impoverished mountains and harsh waters breed unruly people? It’s not that people are unruly, but that poverty makes people care about every gain and loss, which makes outsiders think they are unruly.

But in the final analysis it is caused by material conditions.

After taking the things back to the house, Xiaoxia and the others were nibbling on apples. Although there were not many apples in his house this year, they were big and crispy, and they were very popular with the children.

"Dad, you eat the apple!"

Xiaoxia took the apple cut by her grandma and handed it to Lin Heng.

"Dad, you eat!"

"You eat!"

The twins Lin Luming and Lin Duheng also followed their sister's example and gave Lin Heng food.

"Okay, it's all because of dad!" Lin Heng grinned, feeling that the apple was extra sweet.

Children are very imitative, and they especially like to imitate their peers. Lu Ming and Du Heng are all Xiaoxia's followers.

The good qualities Lin Heng cultivated in Xiaoxia were easily passed on to them.

After interacting with the children for a while, Lin Heng gave them a box of plasticine to play with and asked their father to watch so that they would not be eaten.

Then he entered the house with fern root powder and fed Xiulan a piece of apple. He put the things down and said, "Sister-in-law gave it to me. You can eat it cold."

Xiulan dressed up very simply, with just two double ponytails, simple beard bangs, and a black apron, but she had a simple and quiet beauty.

"good."

Xiulan agreed and stretched her head over. Lin Hengxin understood and helped her tie a bunch of long hair on her cheek behind her ear.

Lin Heng glanced around, took a soaked bamboo shoot and walked out.

These bamboo shoots are the kind of small bamboo shoots that Xiulan broke off, which are crisper and more tender than the big bamboo shoots.

"Son, how much did you earn this year?"

At the coffee table, Father Lin took a sip of tea and asked with a smile.

"It's more than last year. This year's net profit from freshwater shrimp can reach more than 13,000 yuan. One is that the market price of freshwater shrimp has increased again, and the other is that I replaced silkworm chrysalis meal with fishmeal, which saved a lot of money."

Lin Heng glanced at the child and responded in a low voice, saying that he didn't want the children to hear these things, lest they talk nonsense.

Counting the money from selling shrimps and grapes, he still has 58,000 yuan in his bankbook, of which 16,000 yuan is the final payment for buying a feed-making machine, and the remaining 42,000 yuan is just a deposit.

Apart from this year's harvest, the rest is purely money from selling antiques.

At present, he has basically completed the initial primitive accumulation. Once you have enough capital, money will generate money faster.

"That's okay. You made the right decision to raise shrimps in the pond." Father Lin nodded happily, feeling very satisfied.

Lin Heng chatted with him some more. His family was still busy recently. Although there was basically not much farm work left, there was still astragalus to dig and ryegrass to be replanted.

After a while, his eldest brother and his family came over. Everyone was chatting more lively, and the children were playing happily together.

It was already seven o'clock when dinner was ready, and it was already dusk and about to get dark.

"Another big table!" Liu Juan looked at more than ten dishes and smiled.

"Then let's eat. When the weather gets colder, we can have hot pot." Lin Heng said with a smile.

There is no need to say much about eating. Everyone can eat well and feel so comfortable that they can't speak. Delicious dishes with rice wine or milk tea for children are all great happy moments in life.

After eating, everyone drank another pot of tea before leaving. Lin Heng and Xiulan tasted a cup of tea and watched each other chatting. It was not boring, but enjoying the process.

After coaxing the child to sleep, the two of them played a 30-minute game. In the infinite happiness provided by hormones, the two hugged each other and fell asleep.

Under the control of genes, everything that is conducive to reproduction will be rewarded immediately. This is naturally the best way to relax. After reproduction, the body and mind will become comfortable.

In a blink of an eye, it was the next morning. What I did in the morning was the same as usual. I had already gotten used to exercising.

Lin Heng watched Xiulan's graceful movements when she practiced Tai Chi, and Xiulan also silently admired Lin Heng's thriving muscles when he was exercising.

"The apples haven't been picked yet. I'm going to help pick apples today. Do you want to go?" After breakfast, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and asked.

"No, I'm drying sweet potatoes at home. I think the sun is pretty good today." Xiulan shook her head and said, "Please bring me 50 kilograms of apples. I'm going to try to make some preserved apples."

"You don't have to try. I know how to make them. I'll bring them back to you in the afternoon." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"You can do it!" Xiulan was a little surprised, and then nodded: "That's great."

"Then I'll go."

Lin Heng said, took the bamboo backpack and drove the sidecar to Hongfeng Mountain.

He called his father and drove to the Huangliupo Apple Orchard. After the land was reclaimed and expanded, the land here was more than eight acres. There were a lot of messy alfalfa growing in the land. These were all deliberately sown by Lin Heng.

The apple trees are now about seven or eight centimeters thick. The good ones have a thickness of more than 12 centimeters. A lot of cattle and sheep manure was applied this year, and the fruit trees are growing thicker and thicker.

Because they have been doing dwarfing pruning, the tree height is only more than two meters, and the longest branch is no more than three and a half meters.

"The trees around here have grown again, and they have to be cut down." Lin Heng said, looking at the area around the orchard. Because many small trees have grown here, apples are the most seriously damaged.

"That's right, many of them have been pecked to pieces. Let's cut them down in winter or next year. There is no time now. Wrap them with black plastic paper after cutting. I think your method is good." Lin's father said.

Lin Heng nodded, picked an apple and tasted it first, and then started picking. It is not easy to set up bird-proof nets in apple orchards, so many apples were pecked to pieces.

But they didn't waste it. If people can't eat it, they can feed pigs, cattle and sheep. Domestic animals like to eat it very much. Therefore, the bad ones were picked and put into bags.

When the snakeskin bag was more than half filled, it was put into the backpack and carried down to the tricycle, and then pulled back to Hongfeng Mountain.

The yield per mu of apples with normal water and fertilizer management is generally between 2,000 and 4,000 kilograms. This year, Lin Heng's family mainly let the apples grow branches. Before that, Lin's father had picked five or six mu in succession, and the yield per mu was about 500 to 600 kilograms.

Lin Heng has trimmed the branches of the fruit trees very well. He believes that when the fruit trees start to bear fruit next year, the yield per mu can reach about 3,000 kilograms. In addition to water and fertilizer management, the most important thing for fruit trees to bear more fruit is pruning. Reasonable pruning can not only increase the yield, but also reduce the occurrence of diseases and pests.

Lin Heng is experienced in this area. He worked in an orchard in the human world in his previous life, and he also managed an orchard for a period of time. In this life, he has read professional books and combined theory with practice. He can call himself an expert.

In the morning, the two picked more than one mu of fruit, which was about 800 kilograms. There was only a little more than one mu left in the orchard.

At lunch, Lin's father said: "Let's call two more people in the afternoon to finish harvesting the Huangliupo side, and then go to Shuijinggou to harvest the two mu of apples at once."

"Call my brother and find another third father?" Lin Heng turned his head and asked.

"No need to find a third father, let my mother take care of the children, I will do it." Xiulan said.

Lin's mother shook her head and said, "You take care of the children, I'll go pick them. You haven't worked for a long time, you're not used to it."

Xiu Lan smiled and responded, "I used to do it often before, what's there to be used to? I still want to try it."

"Then let Xiu Lan do it, just wear gloves, picking apples is very simple." Lin Heng saw that Xiu Lan really wanted to do it, and decided to do it immediately.

"That's fine." Lin's mother nodded, and she agreed to her son's words.

After lunch, Lin Heng asked his eldest brother if there was any work. As soon as he asked, his eldest brother said he would come to help. He only had a few sweet potatoes left to dig, so it was okay to stop.

In the afternoon, the four of them went to pick the remaining one acre of apples in Huangliupo. It was easier here, and it was not far from the road, just a few hundred meters.

After picking here, we went to Shuijinggou and had to carry them back home by manpower.

I picked a basket and carried it over two mountains to get home, which was nearly three kilometers away. But fortunately, there were fewer apples left here, so I should be able to finish it in one afternoon.

"Are you tired? Do you want to pick up some and put them in my backpack?"

When resting halfway up the mountain, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said with a smile. Xiulan's things also weighed about 50 to 60 kilograms, which was not light.

She was now wearing a navy blue old-fashioned dress with a slanted collar, and gloves, wrapping herself tightly with only her head exposed. Her hair was tied into a ponytail, her bangs were a little messy, and there were fine beads of sweat on her cheeks and neck, mixed with the fragrance of her hair, which was actually a bit nice.

"No need, I can still carry it."

Xiu Lan shook her head slightly, took off her gloves, took out her handkerchief and wiped her sweat, then reached out to wipe Lin Heng, then took Lin Heng's water bottle, drank some water, and sat on the stone to rest.

"Tell me if you can't carry it, it will be bad if you fall." Lin Heng still said with a little distress, although he knew that she was probably fine.

Because he was worried that Xiu Lan couldn't carry it, he kept walking with her. His father and elder brother were probably home by now.

"It's okay, I used to carry it often, and now I'm in better shape than before." Xiu Lan smiled.

Lin Heng didn't say anything else, looked at her, and reached out to pick a small leaf off her hair.

"Tell me how to make apple preserves."

Xiu Lan turned her head and poked Lin Heng and said.

"It's very simple, cut the apple into four pieces, take it out to dry for a day, then steam it, and then dry it again and steam it again." Lin Heng looked at her and said.

"I understand. I'll try it tomorrow." Xiulan nodded, stood up and stretched out her hand to Lin Heng, "Let's go, let's walk slowly."

Lin Heng took her hand and stood up. The two of them carried the apples home. When they reached the road, their elder brother and father had already driven a sidecar to go up the mountain again.

But the two of them were not in a hurry. They put the apples on the car and drove to Hongfeng Mountain.

The two of them walked slowly, shoulder to shoulder, up and down the mountain with the setting sun getting more and more slanting. It must be very tiring, just like climbing a mountain with a load.

But because they were together and supported each other, it felt okay. They picked the apples with laughter.

Of course, about three-fifths of the work was done by his father and elder brother, who were a little lazy.

"Tired."

Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said, it was already six o'clock when they carried the last basket back home. The sun had already reached the western ridge, and the sky was orange-red for most of the day.

Xiulan nodded: "But I'm very happy."

"Let's boil a hot bath when we get back." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay!" Xiulan nodded.

Dinner was eaten at Hongfeng Mountain. Lin's mother fried a pot of green shrimp and a pot of lean meat to reward everyone. There were not many dishes, but they were all excellent.

After dinner, the two took the child home. After letting the child take a bath, Lin Heng coaxed the child to sleep first. When the child fell asleep and the water temperature in the bathtub was suitable, the two got in and took a bath for half an hour.

After taking a bath, Xiulan was just wrapped in a bath towel when Lin Heng hugged her waist like a princess. She cried out and hugged Lin Heng's buns, angrily blaming: "You are not tired after picking apples for a day?"

Lin Heng hugged her to the bed and leaned close to her cheek and smiled: "I want to experience the feeling of being exhausted to the extreme. Don't you want to try it?"

Xiulan blushed quietly, forming a sharp contrast with Saixue's skin, and said in a mosquito-like voice: "Turn off the light first..." (End of this chapter)