Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Lin Heng sent Xiaoxia to school. When he came back, Xiulan was drying rice. The rice at home was almost finished. They had to go to the town to get rice in two days.

"Let's go, let's go sell apples." Lin Heng asked while helping her.

"Let's go after lunch. Let's go and see the rice wine later. It should be ready." Xiulan looked at him and said.

She was wearing a red plum blossom cotton jacket with a collar open today. Her hair was tied into two braids. The broken hair on her forehead showed a beautiful golden color under the sunlight.

"That's fine." Lin Heng nodded and poured the millet on the tarpaulin. Xiulan took a rake to rake it open.

After the millet was dried, Xiulan went into the house and took two plastic pots, a funnel and a black plastic bag.

"Luming Duheng is gone. Let's go to the old house." Xiulan called her two sons and walked over with Lin Heng.

"What's in this bag?" Lin Heng asked curiously.

Xiulan handed him the things, and opened them side by side with him, smiling and showing him: "The silver osmanthus I collected in September this year will become osmanthus yellow wine when put into yellow wine."

"I said you dragged me to collect osmanthus at that time, and I thought you were making osmanthus cakes, but it turns out you are making this." Lin Heng nodded.

"I think osmanthus cakes are too fragrant, just right for making wine." Xiulan said.

While chatting, they had already arrived at the old house, and many leaves fell in the yard.

Entering the main room, they opened a closed large vat, and a strong rice fragrance came out.

"It seems that this year's yellow wine is very successful." Xiulan nodded.

Lin Heng found a small cup and scooped a cup to taste it, and nodded: "It is indeed very successful, my wife's rice wine making skills are getting better and better."

"Of course." Xiulan raised her chin happily, then inserted the bamboo colander into it and began to scoop the wine.

They scooped out the light yellow wine and put it into another empty wine vat.

After half of the filling, Xiulan poured in the dried osmanthus and continued to fill the wine.

Two large jars of rice wine were made here, and the first scoop of wine was about 20 liters.

The wine was scooped out and poured into the new jar to ferment and blend with the osmanthus, and the taste will become mellow next year.

The plastic pot they held was used to scoop the rice wine made the year before.

His family makes rice wine every year, and then they drink the old wine from previous years, which tastes more mellow and sweet.

After filling the two ten-jin plastic pots, they took the children home.

One pot of wine was left at home, and Lin Heng took another pot of wine to Hongfeng Mountain.

"Dad, I'll go with you." Seeing Lin Heng go out, Lu Ming chased after him.

"I want to go too." Du Heng also ran over happily.

"Let's go." Lin Heng glanced at the two little ones and said.

With his two sons, Lin Heng came to Hongfeng Mountain.

There was not much farm work these days, so Father Lin was doing carpentry work. When he saw his two grandsons rushing in, he quickly stopped and said, "Don't move, be careful not to hurt yourself."

"Grandpa, what is this?"

"What is this for? Can you cut a wooden sword for me?"

The two little guys chattered around their grandfather.

"Be quiet." Lin Heng said to the two of them, and looked at his father and said, "I'll go to the old house to get some wine, and bring you a pot by the way."

"Is this from the year before last?" Father Lin asked with a smile.

When it comes to roasting wine, his skills are beyond doubt, but when it comes to making rice wine, Xiulan's skills are still better, and the rice wine she makes is mellow and delicious.

Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, the one from the year before last, there are only 20 kilograms left from the one from the year before last. I put it in a small jar and sealed it with mud, and I'm going to put it in and drink it again."

"Okay, let your mother cook some dishes tonight and we'll have a drink. If not, we'll kill a sheep in the next two days." Father Lin nodded and said with a smile.

"Okay, Xiulan and I are going to sell apples and kiwis this afternoon." Lin Heng said.

His eldest brother's kiwis and his apples were left with a lot of second-rate fruits.

After talking to his father, he drove the car to the warehouse, spread straw and started loading the goods.

After loading a car full of goods, Lin Heng took his two sons to pick up eggs. It was quite fun to watch the chickens running around in the pen, especially the children were the happiest, running around with smiles.

The weather turned cold, and the chickens were still laying eggs, but the number was not as many as in summer and autumn.

After picking up the eggs, Lin Heng went to see the cows and sheep. This year's batch of calves have all been weaned, and the cows and ewes have begun to estrus, and have been mating recently.

Their family now has more than 200 sheep, and the smell near the sheep pen is very strong. Lin Heng plans to sell half of these sheep next year. Many of them are a burden to keep.

After taking a look here, while the children were playing at the foot of the mountain, he walked from here to the back mountain, to the edge of the farmland to see if there were any pheasants or something, and then set a few fish hooks and traps to catch two.

From the back of Hongfeng Mountain, he walked all the way to Shibadanggou, and then walked to Shanghe.

On the way, he really found several places where pheasants often go, and even chased two pheasants away.

Pheasants are different from golden chickens. Sometimes they stay in the grass at night and don’t climb trees. It’s hard to shoot them with a hunting rifle, so there are still many near human farmland.

Although he hunted less this year, he often strolled around to see the traces of prey.

Halfway back, he saw Xiulan coming from a distance. After seeing him, she stopped where she was, and when he got closer, she stretched out her hand to him and said, "The meal is ready, go home and eat."

"Okay!" Lin Heng came over, took her hand and walked back with a smile.

"What are you happy about?" Xiulan turned her head and looked at him and asked.

"Just found three pheasants, I think we can catch them by setting a fishhook trap." Lin Heng said.

In fact, he was even happier that Xiulan came to pick him up. Every time he ran out, Xiulan would come to him before dinner and ask him to go home for dinner.

"Then let's go and set the hook together later. If we can catch one, we will make a profit. There are more pheasants than golden roosters." Xiulan looked at him and said.

"Okay, let's go together another day." Lin Heng put his arm around her shoulders and came closer. The two walked back shoulder to shoulder like good brothers.

Chinese people, especially rural people, are particularly reserved. If you pull and tug with your wife in broad daylight, you will definitely be laughed at and told dirty jokes.

But Lin Heng didn't care. He would express his love for his wife openly.

At first, many people in the village would also joke, and Xiulan was embarrassed, but gradually many people began to envy them and thought they were a model couple.

After returning home with the two children, Xiulan cooked rice for lunch and fried three dishes, one of which was fried bacon with pickled radish shreds, one was shredded potatoes, and the other was fried vegetables.

After the meal, Lin Heng and Xiulan took the children to Hongfeng Mountain, leaving the two sons to their mother, and they drove to sell fruits.

The apples and kiwis they sold were inferior fruits, but the size and luster were not good, and the taste was fine.

In addition, the price was cheap, and every time they went out to sell, there were many people willing to buy, and they all felt it was affordable.

The two did not go far this time, and sold in the villages around Huangtan Town.

Lin Heng asked Xiulan to collect money and settle accounts, and they sold all the fruits and came back at around four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Today, we collected food and medicinal materials, and there was almost no money and antiques."

Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said on the way back.

"It's normal. If there were so many antiques, those things would not be valuable." Lin Heng smiled back.

Going out to sell things, for him, was mainly to play with Xiulan and experience this kind of life.

"Well, we also collected some yam and Polygonatum today, which is not bad." Xiulan nodded.

It was quiet to be with Lin Heng without children. She enjoyed this world of two people. They could hear each other clearly when they whispered.

It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon when they drove back to Hongfeng Mountain. Lin's mother had just picked up Xiaoxia from school.

When they saw them coming back, the three children came to them, wanting to hug and lift them up.

Lin's mother looked at Lin Heng who was being stuck by her daughter and said, "Go and kill the black goat that loves to fight. We can stew mutton soup in winter."

"Really want to kill it?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

"Of course, it is raised to eat, and it is suitable to eat mutton in winter." Lin's mother said.

"Okay, I will go with my dad to kill it later." Lin Heng nodded.

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"Go now, it will be delicious in the evening." Lin's mother urged.

"Okay, okay, I'll go right away." Lin Heng put his daughter down and went with his father.

After going to the sheepfold, he quickly found the naughty black goat, which was a castrated goat that had been spurred long ago.

"Look, this guy is obviously spurred but still loves to fight."

Father Lin pulled its horns, and the black goat struggled violently and wanted to butt people.

"Let me see how strong it is." Lin Heng climbed up and held it down, and directly lifted it out amid its screams.

A sheep weighing more than 70 kilograms was not enough to struggle in his hands.

After tying its limbs, Lin Heng and his father carried it down the mountain.

After a while, it was bled, killed, hung up and skinned.

After peeling the sheep skin and taking out the internal organs, they first made some lamb chops and took them to the kitchen for dinner.

When the two of them cleaned the sheep's internal organs, it was dark and the meal was ready.

"Tonight, I made a cumin lamb chop and a radish stewed lamb. Everyone, eat it while it's hot." Lin's mother said as she brought the dishes to the table.

Lin Heng took the lead and took a bite of cumin lamb to taste it, then nodded and said, "This lamb is good, come and try it."

Although they are kept in a pen and don't run much in the mountains, they are all grass-fed and taste very good. Basically, you can't tell the difference.

Since they are all family members, no one is polite. They eat cumin lamb chops in big mouthfuls, and they are happy to eat a mouthful of rice wine and a mouthful of lamb chops.

Mutton stewed with radish is another flavor. The deliciousness of the lamb is all stewed in the soup. The children all scoop it up with bowls.

"This lamb tastes good." Lin's father nodded after eating a bowl of lamb stewed with radish.

"Let's have a hot pot these two days. Lamb hot pot is also delicious." Lin's mother smiled. She prefers hot pot lamb.

"I'll stew the sheep's internal organs and head. We can eat one lamb three times." Xiulan said with a smile.

After dinner, they took most of the lamb back home because they had a freezer at home, which was better for preservation.

Lin Heng also brought three pounds of mutton to his elder brother. Although they had separated, their relationship was still the same. They would give each other some meat when they had it.

In the evening, after washing up, Lin Heng counted his money.

At the beginning of the year, he had 65,000 yuan. He spent more than 45,000 yuan on building a pig farm, buying piglets, and opening a factory.

The factory had been spending money in the first half of the year and had very little income. It didn't start to make a profit until after July, so he didn't have to put in any more money.

At this time, he only had 20,000 yuan in cash.

Not counting the money from the factory and the pig farm, he would count them together during the Chinese New Year.

His main source of income in the second half of the year is selling grapes, apples and shrimps.

Grapes and apples sold for 9,500 yuan, and the shrimps made a net profit of 14,000 yuan, with a total income of 17,000 yuan.

The total is 26,500 yuan, plus the 20,000 yuan left in the first half of the year, he has 46,500 yuan.

This does not include the profits from the pig farm and the factory.

Musk deer have recently started to produce musk. Lin Heng estimates that this year's musk can be sold for 4,000 to 5,000 yuan, after all, the number of musk deer producing musk has increased.

Then the profit from the town's purchasing station is estimated to be around 4,000 yuan.

Add up to more than 8,000 yuan.

In other words, if there were no factories and pig farms, his income from these industries in the village and town this year would be around 35,000 yuan.

Add the remaining 20,000 yuan, which is 55,000 yuan, which is also a considerable amount.

It's okay to be a little rich, but there's still a lot to do if you want to do something big.

Lin Heng is now looking forward to the summary of the factory's projects at the end of the year, and the pigs in the pig farm will also be sold before the New Year.

These two are the biggest sources of income this year. Lin Heng estimated that he would bring himself a big surprise.

After roughly calculating the accounts, Lin Heng went back to the bedroom to rest.

After coaxing the children to sleep, he lay on the bed and told Xiulan about his calculations.

He was unreserved to Xiulan. If she couldn't trust him, there were few people in the world who could be trusted.

As for the passbooks, they were all placed in a fixed place at home. If there was anything that needed to be spent, the two would discuss it together.

Of course, Lin Heng also gave Xiulan a lot of change. There were many items at home that he had made to maintain their value. These were not included, and they were things that he would not move even if he went bankrupt.

"Then we are not bad this year. I thought the factory would let us put in a lot of money." Xiulan smiled after hearing this.

"I thought so at first, but things are much simpler than I thought." Lin Heng hugged her and said.

Xiulan turned over and hugged his neck and asked again: "When are you going to sell the pigs?"

"I learned about it before. I will do this when I collect musk and sell it in the city in a few days." Lin Heng said.

The two of them discussed quietly for a while, and then they made out for a while, and finally they fell asleep together.

The next morning, they woke up honestly. Xiulan shrunk into Lin Heng's arms, and Lin Heng held her without saying a word, feeling her beautiful figure.

After breakfast, Lin Heng sent Xiaoxia to school and went with Xiulan to set fishhook traps to catch pheasants.

"Are you going to hunt golden pheasants these two days?"

On the way home, Xiulan asked Lin Heng while holding his hand.

"Yes, I will be back around ten o'clock, so I won't be away for too long." Lin Heng nodded and said that he just wanted to get a few golden pheasants to eat, and other big prey would be up to fate.