Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

After dinner, Lin Heng played with the children for a while, then told them stories to make them fall asleep, and he and Xiulan went to bed early to rest.

The next day, they got up a little after dawn. After exercising, they lit the fireplace together. Xiulan used a small pot to heat milk to make potato cakes on the fireplace, and Lin Heng sat beside her and took some palm wool to weave ropes.

After the New Year, the house gradually became cold and calm, but neither of them felt bored with such a life.

After Xiulan fried the potato cakes, Lin Heng also weaved four strands of palm wool ropes, and burned the loose wool with a torch. This is a very perfect and strong rope.

"Should we press the swing chair first or eat first?" Xiulan looked at him and asked.

"Let's eat first." Lin Heng said, he got some tung oil out, dipped it on a rag and wiped the rope twice. He suspected that the palm rope last time was not coated with oil to prevent wind and sun.

After waking up the children for breakfast, they went to change the rope of the swing chair under the grape trellis in the backyard.

"Let's go, let's go to Hongfeng Mountain to play." Lin Heng said with a smile after finishing it.

"Okay!" The children cheered and wanted to go with Lin Heng.

After returning to the house, Lin Heng took out the half-burned coal in the fireplace and put it into the brazier, and carried it to Hongfeng Mountain.

This kind of portable charcoal brazier is very popular in this era. It is simple to use iron wire to pierce three holes in a broken bowl to make a handle.

Things like his mobile phone are specially made by someone, which is more beautiful and easy to use, and can also barbecue.

In this era, most people lack clothing and food, and they basically get frostbite in winter, especially children who go to school. These portable charcoal braziers are almost a must-have for every rural family.

Lin Heng took this to use when he went to work in Hongfeng Mountain. Anyway, the coal was burning, so he was too lazy to put it out.

Arriving at Hongfeng Mountain, Lin's father and mother had just gotten up and were making breakfast. Xiaoxia came with milk and handed it to her grandfather: "Grandpa and grandma, here's some milk for you."

"Thank you, my dear granddaughter. Do you want to eat roasted sweet potatoes? Grandpa roasted them last night." Lin's father took the milk and said with a smile.

"Eat!" Xiaoxia said crisply.

Several people walked into the house and sat down around the stove, chatting while waiting for their parents to finish breakfast.

"We are going up to repair the sheep pen railings today, right?" Lin's father asked.

"Yes, after the railings, we will build two bamboo greenhouses for breeding. The fruits, vegetables and astragalus seeds planted in spring can be cultivated here." Lin Heng nodded.

Lin's father sighed: "The fruit trees need to be pruned, the pasture needs to be replanted, and the astragalus needs to be planted. There are also shrimps and fish fry to deal with later. There is a lot of work this year."

"So I plan to have someone come to help, otherwise we won't be able to finish it." Lin Heng said.

In addition to these, he also needs to find a suitable place to build a super-large pig pen for raising pigs this year, and help the village cooperative get astragalus seeds. He also has to deal with the factory affairs in the city. It can be said that he is very busy.

"It's time to find a few people to help. Let's find someone to spread the cattle and sheep manure accumulated last year into the pasture and orchard, and then turn the soil to plant pasture and astragalus." Lin's father nodded and said. It is impossible not to hire people at this scale.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded in agreement. He had planned this way before.

After his father finished his meal, everyone went up the mountain together, carrying a charcoal basin and some food.

The wind was strong on the mountain, and they quickly walked into the house when they arrived at the first platform.

The wire mesh at the bottom of the sheep pen had been prepared long ago. They came to make a fence for it this time. The steel pipes for the fence were cut and stacked here.

All they have to do is to assemble it and fix it with wire and screws. Lin Heng and his father are the main force, Xiulan helps by the side, and Lin's mother is responsible for watching the children so that they don't fall.

The steel was cold, and they had to warm their hands after working for a while. However, because the materials were ready, they worked very quickly and built all the sheep pen railings in the house in one night.

Finally, they just put the anti-jump net on the sheep pen to prevent some silly sheep from jumping out.

"Okay, let's go back to eat, and we'll go to the greenhouse in the afternoon."

After finishing, Lin Heng stretched and said with a smile.

Lin's mother said beside him: "Let's eat spicy hot pot. It's easy to make and you can put anything in it. Just make some braised dishes."

"Okay, I'm hungry, and breakfast is a bit too hungry." Lin's father said with a smile.

Everyone went to feed cattle, sheep and musk deer next door first. There are 23 cattle and 154 black goats here. They consume a lot of grass every day. Fortunately, there is enough reserve in winter.

These two days, they did not breed the pregnant ewes in estrus immediately, letting them wander in the ewe flock, which would prompt other ewes to estrus as well.

As long as these ewes get pregnant smoothly, their total number of sheep will increase by at least 20 by the end of this year.

"Is this cow about to give birth?" Lin Heng said, touching the cow's belly.

This is the old cow that was bought the first time. It was rested for a long time last year.

"It should be from the same batch as these yellow cattle, and it will also give birth in May and June." Father Lin thought for a while and said.

"That's just right. You can just put it here to get milk when the time comes." Lin Heng nodded.

The little cow in the back mountain got pregnant very early, and it is estimated that it will give birth next month.

After feeding the cows and sheep, they quickly went down the mountain to wash their hands and warm themselves by the fire.

After lunch, Lin Heng and his father went to sort out three plots of land that were ten meters long and three meters wide. Such land was not difficult to find, and they were quickly finished.

"Come on dad, let's go chop bamboo." Lin Heng looked at his father and said.

Father Lin nodded and said, "By the way, you can go and see if there are any bamboo shoots. If there are any, bring them back and fry them with meat."

After taking the tools back home, the two of them drove a tricycle and took the tools to their bamboo garden after warming themselves up for a while.

"Dad and grandpa, I want to be with you."

They were about to set off, Xiaoxia ran out of the house and said.

"Okay, please slow down." Father Lin waved her over and put her on his lap.

Lin Heng glanced at her and drove down the road. He soon reached his destination and parked the car on the side of the road. The two of them walked down and took Xiaoxia across the river to the bamboo garden.

"This bamboo garden is growing very well." Father Lin looked at it and nodded. There is abundant water in this place and the bamboo grows very fast.

"There are also a lot of bamboo shoots."

Lin Heng took a hoe and dug twice at a cracked spot under his feet, and a bamboo shoot was dug out.

"Dad, give it to me."

Xiaoxia happily ran over with a bamboo basket to pick up the bamboo shoots.

"Slow down, there are bamboo stubbles everywhere."

Lin Heng was very worried about her and asked her to look at the bamboo stubble on the ground and stay aside. It was mainly because she would fall and bump into it.

It's okay to wear thick clothes, but my face must be disfigured. If this really happened, he would have to kneel on the washboard for Xiulan when he returned home.

"oh."

Xiaoxia still listened to her father's words, so she stayed in a safe place and walked around in circles, picking up the bamboo shoots thrown by her father and grandpa, and counting them happily.

Lin Heng and his father didn't want to dig bamboo shoots specifically, so they found some that were easiest to see. They stopped after digging about twelve or three, and then started chopping bamboo with a hatchet.

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This time they wanted to cut the bamboo into long pieces to build a simple greenhouse, so they needed a lot of bamboo.

The two chopped a total of thirty bowl-sized bamboos, tied them up, carried them back to the road, and tied them behind the tricycle. Then the three of them got in the car and sat down, and Lin Heng drove back with the bamboos.

After dragging the bamboo to Hongfeng Mountain, he left the task of cutting the bamboo pieces to his father. He didn't know how to break bamboo, and he didn't learn much before he was reborn.

After Lin's father cut the bamboo into four equal parts, Lin Heng cut it into a smoother shape, sawed it into the same length, and then bowed it into a semicircle with the same diameter and placed it in the warehouse.

After waiting for a few days for it to begin to dry out, they will repair the bamboo pieces again, then lower them into the repaired ground, and then cover them with film paper, and it will be a simple greenhouse that can be entered.

It was already evening after finishing all this. After a simple meal of pickled cabbage noodles in the evening, Lin Heng and Xiulan took their children back to the village.

Lin Heng stopped in the village for a while and sent out a message to find some helpers. It would be better if there were big cattle at home who could come and help plow the fields.

As long as you pay, these are not difficult to find, and the manpower was quickly determined. Lin Heng asked them to go to Hongfeng Mountain to help tomorrow.

Back in the house, Lin Heng lit the fireplace in the bedroom. After they washed up, they went back to the bedroom to rest. The children played in the bedroom if they didn't want to sleep.

Lin Heng was not prepared to go to bed so early, so he made a pot of tea, ate snacks made by Xiulan, and chatted with her.

"The weather is still cold now. When spring starts this year, I will take you out to play." Lin Heng took a sip of dendrobium tea and said with a smile.

Xiulan had always wanted to go on a spring outing last year, but she couldn't go because her children were inconvenient. This year, he has a big car and the children are older, so there is no problem at all if he wants to go out on a spring outing.

"Then it's estimated to be two months away. It's only February 17 of the Gregorian calendar." Xiu'an said while cracking melon seeds.

Lin Heng nodded and said: "Forget it, this is just right. I can finish the initial work in these two months, and then I will have time to go out."

"That's good." Xiulan smiled.

The two chatted for a while, drank dendrobium tea, put the children to sleep, and went to bed to rest.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, they took their children to Hongfeng Mountain. The helpers called yesterday had also arrived, and they were all eating the pickled cabbage noodles cooked by Lin's mother.

After they finished eating, Lin Heng simply arranged the work, which was to cut and bring back all the existing ryegrass and alfalfa in the pasture, then transport the cow and sheep manure to the astragalus field in the pasture and spread it, and finally Use oxen to plow and harrow once.

As for sowing, there is no rush at the moment. We will wait until the hibernation of hibernation is over in the middle of next month. The person who came to help was Lin Heng's third father, who could help take care of him.

After Lin Heng arranged the things, he worked together for a whole morning. After making sure that everything was done well, he went home and made green storage with his father.

After a winter, both hay and green storage have bottomed out and will not last long.

Time flew by, half a month passed quickly, and the time came to March 1987. With the help of everyone, the twenty acres of pasture and ten acres of astragalus land in Hongfeng Mountain were successfully cultivated. The seeds were sown a few days ago.

However, the work of the helpers did not end there. Lin Heng asked them to carry cow and sheep dung back to the orchard to feed the apples and grapes in the orchard.

They produced too much cow and sheep manure last year, and even then they didn't use it up. The rest was left to his eldest brother and his third father's family to fertilize the orchards.

During this period, Lin Heng was not idle either. He traveled frequently between the city and the village, pruning the shapes and branches of grape and apple trees, helping with work, looking for a suitable place to raise pigs, and even went there with the village party secretary to find a suitable place for raising pigs. Astragalus seeds have successively gone to some places engaged in aquaculture to promote their feed, and discussed cooperation with animal husbandry stations.

After a comprehensive investigation, Lin Heng finally found a more suitable place to raise pigs. This place is called Tongshugou. It is located in the uninhabited area between Baima Village and Hongfeng Village. Starting from Lin Heng’s home, follow the highway to Walk down for about four kilometers.

There is no crop land in this ditch, and no one lives nearby. The adjacent forest belongs to his third father's family. As for the ditch, it is the collective asset of the village and has not been divided. Lin Heng plans to rent it out.

There are a lot of bamboos growing in this place. There is only a very small stream of water flowing out of the ground all year round. There is only water in a few pools.

One side of this ditch is steep and full of stone walls that are difficult to climb, while the other side is relatively gentle and connects to his family's forest.

The only bad thing is that the road up is very difficult. There is a rock cliff with a drop of more than ten meters high from the road. You have to find a suitable location to build the road again.

In fact, there are several similar places that are good, but they are all places where it is more difficult to build roads. Three of them have to cross rivers and two have to climb mountains. None of them are what he likes now.

After discussions with my father, eldest brother, and others, I finally chose this place and planned to rent out the entire 200-acre area, including the nearby woods. After discussing with Murakami, the rent was not expensive. One acre of land only costs 3 per year. bucks.

Because this is not good land, it is just an ordinary forest. If he doesn't rent it, no one will ever rent it, so Lin Heng signed a five-year lease contract. The money is paid annually and is settled at the end of each year. once.

When Lin Yue learned that Lin Heng had rented the land, he sighed with emotion: "Brother, renting land is not expensive, but it is not easy to enclose such a large area. It requires a lot of barbed wire and road construction, which is very expensive." Small."

Lin Heng responded with a smile: "I won't enclose such a large area. I will just enclose the outer area with thorns and trees, and the inner one hundred acres with barbed wire. It won't cost much."

Lin Yue nodded and asked again: "Then when are you going to start construction?"

"Let's start when the time comes. I estimate that it will take more than a month to build. This is not an easy job." Lin Heng thought for a while and said.

He planned to go to the city to hire an excavator to dig a road that could allow trucks to enter and exit, and then dig out some platforms inside and build some simple wooden pigsties.