Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

The season of heavy snowfall is not suitable for going out. Even wearing down jackets is too cold, so everyone gave up after shopping for a while.

After finding a restaurant and having a simple bowl of hot noodles, they returned to the hotel.

In the afternoon, after resting for a while, Lin Heng went to inquire about the price of mutton.

"I'll stay with you, wait while I get dressed." In the hotel, Xiulan said quickly when she knew Lin Heng was going out.

"It's cold outside so I can go alone. You can rest." Lin Heng looked at her and smiled.

After saying that, he closed the door and walked out. As soon as he sat on the tricycle, he saw Xiulan running after him. She walked straight over and sat behind him, hugging his waist with her hands.

"It's hard for two people to survive the cold." Lin Heng said with a smile as he started the car.

"It's cold in front and back alone, so you can stay warmer." Xiulan put her head on Lin Heng's back and whispered softly.

"Okay, let's set off." Lin Heng speeded up the car slightly, and it felt much warmer with his wife holding him.

The two people went to a hut and got a rough idea of ​​the price of mutton here. It was a little more expensive than that in Taibai City, but not much more expensive.

It will be 1987 soon, and the prices of various commodities have been re-adjusted. They are no longer the same prices as in the early 1980s. When 1987 passes, and the market economic policy comes, all kinds of commodities will be in 1988, 89 The prices are rising faster.

Mutton in Taebaek City is now three yuan, eighty-nine pounds, and beef is nearly five yuan. Here in Anseong, mutton is four hundred and twenty, and beef is five twenty-three yuan.

This is the retail price, and it would be much cheaper to sell the whole sheep. It makes sense that they are not too expensive, because there is no shortage of sheep in the north. If they are taken to the south and sold, the price will naturally be much higher.

After learning about the price of mutton, Xiulan took Lin Heng's hand and asked sideways: "Husband, what are you going to do? Do you want to bring the sheep over and sell them?"

"Actually, I still want to wait and sell it. I always feel that it will last for two years, but if I don't sell it, the family won't be able to support it." Lin Heng looked at her and said, looking a little troubled.

Xiulan thought for a moment and said, "Then sell less, and if that doesn't work, just expand the sheepfold. I trust your judgment."

"That's all we can do." Lin Heng nodded, and then said, "Let's go back and have a meal and rest. It's so cold today and there's not much to do at night. Let's go back tomorrow morning to buy some daily necessities."

"Okay." Xiulan nodded in agreement.

Driving back, Lin Heng called his eldest brother and the others out, and found a state-owned restaurant for a good meal in the evening.

They were ready to go back early the next morning. Lin Heng took them to the department store to buy daily necessities, and then went to the factory to pick up a bunch of daily necessities, such as pots and pans, rubber shoes, clothes, and other industrial items. Taste.

The prices of industrial products will definitely be cheaper in developed cities. You can bring these back to Taibai City and put them in shops in the town, or sell them directly from village to village, and you can make a small profit of 500 yuan, just for a trip back and forth. Not only can you earn back the expenses, but you can also earn a little extra.

"Let's go back to Taibai City." Lin Heng said with a smile and drove towards Ancheng, walking at the front.

The road back was difficult and the journey was even slower. It took three or four hours to get out of the snowy area. It snowed in Anseong, but the roads in Taebaek City were all dry and it didn't rain at all.

They set off at 11 o'clock in the morning and returned to Hongfeng Village after dark, without much rest along the way.

"Dad, Mom!!!"

"Bahba!!"

"Mom!!"

As soon as Lin Heng's car stopped on the road below his home, the shouts of three children came from the door. If their grandparents hadn't been pulling them, they would have rushed down.

"Come right away, don't make trouble." Xiulan shouted, got out of the car and walked up to comfort the three children.

As soon as she went up, three children surrounded her, crying and saying they missed her.

After spending a while to make the child happy, Lin Heng called his parents to help unload some daily necessities. It was not convenient to buy things in rural areas, so he would buy a lot of the things he needed to buy at one time.

"The sales of Astragalus are going well, son?" Mother Lin asked curiously.

"It went very smoothly, and the price is pretty good. I'll tell you later when I get home." Lin Heng nodded.

"Are there some things in the car for sale?" Father Lin asked while carrying them.

Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, those are specially brought back from Ancheng to be sold. There is no need to unload them."

After a while, the things were all unloaded. Lin Heng temporarily put the car under the door of his house and went inside to warm himself up by the fire. There were no other cars in the village, so he didn't have to worry about blocking the road.

Inside, the fireplace was burning brightly and it was very warm.

"Let's just eat. I've prepared the food and it's all heating up in the pot and steamer."

Mother Lin cleared the table as she spoke and put the round table on it. Lin Heng and his eldest brother's family naturally ate here, and the children were also here.

"They also stewed the leg of lamb. Eat something to warm yourself up." Lin Heng saw the fragrant lamb leg stewed with radish and picked up a piece of meat with his chopsticks. It was really enjoyable to eat a piece of mutton on such a cold day.

"Eat quickly to warm yourself up. You must be starving." Mother Lin said with a smile.

"I'm really hungry. I haven't eaten lunch yet." Lin Yue also sat over and started to move unceremoniously.

Soon everyone started to move. Even the children who got the new toys were very active in eating. After eating a few bites, they ran aside to play with the new toys.

The adults drank warm rice wine and continued to eat.

After dinner, Lin Heng took out the down jacket he bought for his parents and introduced it to them. When the two heard that this thing cost nearly 60 yuan and was so light, they were shocked.

"It's strange that it can keep you warm if it's so thin. Don't be fooled." Lin's mother took the clothes and looked inside and out, but she didn't think it was better than a cotton jacket.

Lin's father didn't believe it either: "This clothes is less than a pound, how can it be warmer than a cotton jacket of two or three pounds."

In their opinion, this is against common sense. How can light clothes be warmer than heavy clothes.

Lin Heng didn't explain to them, and said directly: "Take off your cotton jacket and wear this. If you don't have a cotton jacket to keep you warm on the way back to Hongfeng Mountain, you can come to me again."

"Then I really have to try it." Lin's father smiled.

Lin's mother also nodded, and took off her cotton jacket and put on the down jacket on the spot.

Then Lin Heng took out leather boots and some other things for them to take back.

After taking the things, Lin Heng drove a large truck to Hongfeng Mountain, and his parents drove a sidecar to take the things.

When they arrived at Hongfeng Mountain, they showed surprised smiles on their faces.

Father Lin touched the clothes and said: "This down jacket is really warmer than a cotton coat."

Mother Lin also nodded: "It's strange, this thing is so warm, I was still a little cold wearing a cotton coat, but I wasn't cold at all wearing this clothes, no wonder it's so expensive."

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

After talking to his parents, he was ready to drive the sidecar home. Father Lin held him and said: "Wait a minute, I'll go get you two bags of silage and take them back. I'll take the cow that produced for the first time this year back to the back mountain for you, so it's more convenient for you to milk and drink in the morning."

"It's the same if I come to get it, you also have to drink it, otherwise you can't finish it at all." Lin Heng said helplessly. His parents thought it was too troublesome for him to run every morning, so they decided to run every morning instead.

"It's the same if we go to get it in the morning." Father Lin said with a smile, anyway, they can drink it at any time, and it doesn't matter how much they drink. As the grandchildren drink more as they grow, it is more convenient to take them to the back mountain to raise them.

After taking two large bags of silage and putting them in the car, Lin Heng drove the sidecar back home. He left the fodder under the eaves for the time being and went straight into the house.

His parents said that they had been fed when it was dark and there was no need to feed them again.

After returning to the house, the children got into their beds after washing up, saying that they still wanted to sleep with them and would never go to their own beds.

There was no choice but to let them sleep together. After telling a story, he and Xiulan also lay down early to rest. They were very tired after a day of traveling.

The next morning, after breakfast, Lin Heng drove to Hongfeng Mountain to unload part of the things he bought to his eldest brother's house, and unloaded the rest to the store in the town, so that Li Shiwei could sell them at a lower price.

"By the way, these three pairs of shoes are bought for you, my aunt and my uncle." Lin Heng took out three pairs of cotton-rubber shoes and handed them to Li Shiwei.

These are of course not as good as the real leather boots he bought for his parents, but they are also very good shoes in the countryside.

"Damn, big brother, you are a real big brother, thank you so much!"

Li Shiwei was not polite, holding the shoes and thanking him repeatedly, smiling and thanking.

He felt unprecedented comfort working for Lin Heng, not only did he not have to be scolded by his wife every day and was quiet, but also because he had an income and went home, his wife and father-in-law's attitude towards him was much better than before.

"It's a small matter." Lin Heng smiled.

Then he checked the account book as usual. Li Shiwei did a good job here, and he was relieved. After moving the goods, he talked to Li Shiwei about this trip to Ancheng.

"Brother Lin, take me out to play next time you have a chance, I also want to see it." Li Shiwei said with a smile.

"I'll take you with me when I have a chance." Lin Heng nodded and agreed.

He didn't want to go home after he got warm, because he was addicted to fishing, so he asked Uncle Gao and Li Shiwei to go fishing in the river for a few hours.

The result was not good. The three of them caught four half-jin crucian carps, and Lin Heng didn't take any and left them all to Uncle Gao.

He rushed home, lunch was over, but Xiulan had saved lunch for him.

"I'm making hot pot base today." Lin Heng said as he looked at the large amount of onions and ginger in Xiulan's pot.

"Yes, the hot pot base at home is almost used up, so make some to eat in a few days." Xiulan nodded. The butter and various ingredients were bought in Ancheng.

After lunch, Lin Heng took the children with him in the afternoon. Don't you want to work today? Take a rest first.

The next day was December 10th. He had breakfast and went to Hongfeng Mountain to load the remaining apples, and asked his eldest brother and father to go to the village to sell them.

On the way, he told his eldest brother some car knowledge while driving, preparing to teach him to drive.

It was still the same model as before. The apples sent to the village were sold very quickly. This time, a lot of yam and medicinal materials were harvested, but the others were gone.

It was only two o'clock in the afternoon when they sold everything. They found a place to fish by the Black River. After fishing for three hours in the river wind and changing the fishing spot three times, the effect was better than yesterday in Huangtan River. The three of them caught more than a dozen crucian carps weighing 300-400 grams, and a total of 500-600 kilograms of fish.

"It's a pity that we didn't catch plum fish and mandarin fish." Lin Yue sighed, crucian carp is definitely not as good as plum fish and mandarin fish.

"Crucian carp is the best to catch in winter, be content." Lin Heng smiled, he was always empty-handed when fishing in winter before his rebirth.

"Hurry back home, it's cold and hungry." Lin's father urged.

"Let's go back." Lin Heng nodded, and the three of them drove back to Hongfeng Mountain quickly.

Back home, eating hot pickled cabbage noodles by the fireplace, it was so comfortable.

"How was it today?" Xiulan asked him while he was eating.

"If it's all converted into money, it's more than 300 yuan." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"That's fine, this money is enough for the New Year." Xiulan nodded.

Lin Heng took a sip of tea and said, "I'll take a day off tomorrow and go to Ancheng to sell sheep."

"Sell them quickly and prepare for the New Year, so you can go hunting too." Xiulan nodded.

Lin Heng sighed, "Yes, my hands are itching. I heard that the village has killed a lot of wild boars and muntjacs this year, and it is said that there are also two roe deer."

His eldest uncle and third uncle also killed a wild boar a few days ago and asked them to go up to eat meat, but because they were very busy, they never went up.

And they dug a badger cave these two days and got two badgers. They brought a letter to ask their family to go up to have a meal. He gave them the letter and told them to keep it and he would go up in a few days.

Seeing others catching big prey, it was impossible for him not to be excited. If he hadn't been busy at home, he would have gone to the mountains to hunt long ago.

And there were not many years left for hunting. With the recovery of the market economy, hunting in China was gradually prohibited.

After drinking tea, he went to kill three crucian carps and asked Xiulan to make a crucian carp soup in the evening. The children also liked to eat crucian carps.

The next day, Lin Heng and Xiulan went to dig konjac near their home to prepare to make konjac tofu in a few days.

Early in the morning of October 12, Lin Heng got up early and came to Hongfeng Mountain. His eldest brother also came to help. First, he put the iron cages for sheep on the car, and then drove to the first platform to load the sheep.

The sheep for sale were all castrated sheep. The ewes had to be kept for production, so they would naturally not be sold.

A car barely held fifty sheep. Living things took up more space than dead things. His car could only hold one layer without a revolving door modification. If it had two layers, he could hold more.

After the fifty castrated sheep were sold, there were only 155 black goats left in the sheepfold, including 104 ewes, and the rest were castrated sheep and breeding males.

After the packing was completed, he called his father and Li Shiwei to go to Ancheng together. This time they went quickly and returned quickly, and arrived in Ancheng that afternoon.

Their black goats were of high quality, so they had no worries about selling them. The fifty sheep added up to 4,823 kilograms, and the whole sheep sold for three yuan per kilogram. These sheep sold for more than 14,400 yuan, and the difference of a few dozen yuan was 15,000 yuan.

Adding his original money, he now had 65,000 yuan in cash. He thought that this amount of money should be enough to raise pigs next year, so he didn't plan to sell other sheep.

On the way back, Lin Heng bought two good black goat breeds, and planned to inject new genes into the black goats at home next year to prevent inbreeding.

Then some wire mesh and iron tiles were pulled on the car to rebuild the sheepfold next year, which cost him nearly 1,000 yuan.

"Let's go home. There's nothing to do this year. We can spend the rest of our time hunting." Lin Heng said with a smile. (End of this chapter)