Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"Time flies so fast, it's already been a month in the blink of an eye."

On the morning of May 1st of the lunar calendar, Lin Heng woke up and suddenly looked at the ceiling and sighed.

Today is June 18th on the Gregorian calendar, and it has been a month since he was reborn.

"Yeah, it's been a month."

Xiulan also looked at the ceiling, feeling unreal in a trance.

The family has changed a lot this month. Her husband turned back and went hunting in the mountains. Now he has made three hundred yuan, which was something she could not even think about before.

There is meat to eat at home every day, and she has gained a lot of weight.

A new house was also built, and my husband made it warm, comfortable and full of style.

The family will be completely separated tomorrow. From now on, I will live with my husband and daughter as a family of three. The foreseeable future seems to be full of happiness and beauty.

"Kind of like a dream."

Xiulan moved closer to Lin Heng, and the two hugged each other, listening to each other's heartbeat without saying a word or making any other movements.

After a while, Xiaoxia woke up and Xiulan dressed and picked her up.

Lin Heng lay down for a while before getting up.

When washing his face, he found that Mother Lin had soaked tofu. Mother Lin would always make tofu when there was something festive.

"There are tofu puffs to eat tonight." Lin Heng was a little nostalgic. It was different from the smooth and tender tofu puffs sold in later generations.

The tofu pudding of this era was very rough because the cloth used for filtering it was coarse, and the bean dregs were there, carrying the unique taste and imprint of the era.

In an era of backward productivity, a bowl of tofu is considered a feast.

"The last time we ate it was during the Chinese New Year, and I missed it too." Caiyun said longingly.

"Who eats the cicada monkey?"

During breakfast, Mother Lin took out a pot of cicada monkeys.

"Did you go pick up cicada monkeys last night?" Lin Heng was a little surprised.

"My mother and I went there. We fell in love with it the last time we ate it." Sister-in-law Liu Juan said with a smile.

Obviously, they had been waiting for Carpenter Liang to leave for a long time, and they immediately went to arrest Carpenter Liang as soon as he left.

"I've been eating a lot recently, so I can eat it every day."

Lin Heng picked up two of them and said with a smile.

After breakfast, Lin Heng went to pull the lamb he bought yesterday and tied it in front of the door so that it could eat grass on the roadside.

Herding a sheep is not difficult, just pull the rope and change places every once in a while.

None of the family members went to do farm work today. Father Lin was digging the road for the new house and smoothing the road outside the yard.

Lin Heng tied the sheep and then tidied up the new house with his wife.

The main thing is to tidy up and put the furniture in place to make it easier to move in tomorrow.

After finishing this, Lin Heng said: "Go back and cut the red paper, and I will write the couplet."

"Okay." Xiulan nodded.

Back at the old house, Xiulan took out the scissors to cut paper. Lin Heng found the old writing brush at home and soaked it in warm water.

The ink is Caiyun's pen ink. I don't have any ink at home, so I have to make do with it.

After a little gesture, Lin Heng started writing.

First couplet: The raw jade in the new home is polished and polished.

Second line: Old dreams are washed away with gold sand.

Horizontal batch: big move.

When Lin Heng was writing, Caiyun Lin’s mother was watching.

"Brother, your calligraphy is really good." Caiyun was a little surprised.

Although this word cannot be said to be amazing, it is square, orderly, and not ugly.

In his last life, as a sixty-year-old man, he was naturally involved in this kind of senior sport.

I have taken classes in painting and traditional Chinese painting, but my level is very amateurish and I can only entertain myself. But in this era of rural areas, I can still do well.

"What does this mean?" Mrs. Lin's education was not high. She knew every word, but she couldn't understand them when they were put together.

"I know, the general meaning is that the new home is like unpolished jade, it will shine. The second line is a metaphor that the old dream is like gold sand, it will shine when it is washed clean."

Caiyun raised her hand to translate.

"Lin Heng, write one for me too." Sister-in-law Liu Juan said.

"No problem at all."

Lin Heng nodded and wrote a simpler one for his elder brother and sister-in-law.

First couplet: The whole world is happy to move to a new house.

Second line: New home, prosperity, wealth and longevity.

Horizontal batch: Good luck and good fortune.

After finishing the couplet, I wrote a few blessing characters and a few small banners wishing you good luck and good fortune.

After doing this, the next step is to pack up the things in the old house and pack them all up for moving tomorrow.

It was already noon when he finished cleaning up. Lin Heng moved the goat to another place and tied it up, then went home for dinner.

In the afternoon, he took Xiongba up the mountain to see if he could catch some prey to eat tomorrow.

I don’t know if the novice protection has expired, or if there are too many people going up the mountain to pick mushrooms recently.

Lin Heng walked around the back mountain, which was better than yesterday. He found a few squirrels, but they still ran away from a distance.

"This feeling is so familiar." Lin Heng sighed.

This was also the case with fishing in my previous life.

"Woof woof!"

Xiongba let out a cry, not knowing what he was expressing.

"No, if we can't get it here, we'll go to Sanye Valley. We have to get a prey back today."

Lin Heng shook his head. He had to find a prey to move to a new home.

I took Xiongba down from the back mountain and walked three kilometers up the road. Then I walked more than one kilometer into the mountain and came to a ditch full of vines.

This is Sanyegou.

This ditch is full of various vines, forming green hills.

The main vines here are Schisandra chinensis vines and kiwi vines. The most common one is a kind of "pot vine" that is often used as a rope.

Lin Heng didn't know the specific scientific name, but he knew that the vines were very tough. In rural areas, they were generally used to tie things, and the leaves could be used to feed pigs.

When he walked into the ditch, Lin Heng was already hot and sweating all over. The road was too long.

"Fortunately, there are not many people here." After walking a few steps and not seeing anyone, Lin Heng finally felt a little relieved.

He came to the stream and washed his hands. The mountain stream was cold. Washing in the summer was really refreshing. It was so refreshing.

"Woof woof!"

Xiongba saw that Lin Heng had finished washing, and rolled in, soaking his whole body.

"Let's take a rest. There should be prey movements when it gets dark."

Lin Heng found a shade to rest and enjoy the rare cool moment.

On the branches above his head, Schisandra chinensis vines were entangled, and strings of green Schisandra chinensis hung down.

They have just borne fruit at this time, and they will not mature until around the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Looking at the sky, he estimated that it was already 4:5 in the afternoon, and he still had nothing.

"Let's go, let's go up and take a look."

After resting for more than ten minutes, Lin Heng touched Xiongba's dog head, and the man and the dog continued to go up the mountain.

Along the side of Sanyegou, looking for prey.

Not far up the mountain, Lin Heng suddenly heard the crisp sound of stepping on leaves.

"It's really fairy music." Lin Heng took a deep breath and tried to lower his steps and move up.

Not long after, he saw the origin of these sounds - a group of pheasants.

It is estimated that they are two or three months old, about one or two taels, playing in the woods.

"Little chickens." Shaking his head, Lin Heng gave up the shot, it was not worth wasting an arrow.

"Awoo~" Xiongba was a little eager to try and wanted to chase.

"No need, making a noise will alert the snake."

Lin Heng shook his head and stopped Xiongba.

After climbing and climbing, each of them took a bite and arrived at the halfway point of the mountain. There was nothing to gain along the way. When they arrived here, the birds were particularly sharp, which made people a little irritated.

Lin Heng shook his head and sat down: "Rest, wait a little later."

Anyway, he had a flashlight, so he was not afraid of the dark.

"Damn it!!"

As soon as he sat down, Lin Heng stood up in shock and quickly changed his position.

Because next to the place where he just sat, there was a beautiful green snake on the branch of a wild mulberry tree.

The green snake is a non-venomous snake, but it still scared him when he saw it suddenly.

This green snake was eating, and the object of his food was the chicks that had just hatched in the bird's nest on the tree branch.

"No wonder I said why the birds were so sharp, it seems that my son was killed in the nest."

Shaking his head, Lin Heng sat in the distance and watched the scene quietly, without any intention of helping.

He even felt that the green snake was more attractive, which might be because he liked this snake more, and he had raised one when he was a child.

After slowly swallowing the chick into its stomach, it climbed down the tree, crawled into a crack in the stone and disappeared.

The shrill and sharp bird calls in the distance sounded for a while, and there was no follow-up, obviously it had accepted its fate.

"Cuckoo, cuckoo!!!"

The sky gradually darkened, and at around five o'clock, a golden rooster's cry was heard on the mountain ridge not far away from Lin Heng.

At that time, Lin Heng stood up smartly. After more than half a day, he finally got some decent prey.

Taking the bow and arrow, Lin Heng quietly moved over, listening to the sound, it took him more than 20 minutes to get close.

At this time, only the fire clouds could be seen in the sky, and the sun could not be seen.

Lin Heng saw the golden rooster standing under the acorn tree.

A beautiful male golden rooster, also called a red-bellied pheasant, has a touch of golden hair on its head. On its back are three-color feathers of peacock green, orange, and blue-green. The feathers on its belly are all red, which is also the origin of its name of red-bellied pheasant.

Behind it, the beautiful tail feathers were more than 50 centimeters long, with blue-green patterns in the pattern. Standing there, it looked extraordinary and not like a thing from the human world.

Measuring the distance, Lin Heng estimated that it was more than 30 meters, and the chicken had not discovered him yet.

Stealthily, he took another five or six steps forward, not daring to move forward. He raised his bow, put on the arrow, held his breath for a second, and shot out with the full bow.

With a whoosh, the sharp arrow made a whistling sound of friction with the air. Before the golden chicken could react, an arrow pierced through its chest and stuck in the ground behind it.

"Gada!!"

The legs and wings twisted, and it completely lost its life.

"Woof woof!!"

Xiongba ran over excitedly and circled around the golden chicken. This was another new species.

"Unlock a new species."

Lin Heng pulled out the arrow stuck in the ground, and chicken blood flowed out along the arrow.

Weighing it, he estimated that it was only more than one pound, and there might be only seven or eight taels of meat after plucking the feathers.

This is normal. An adult golden pheasant weighs at most two kilograms. Only such a light body is conducive to flying.

However, its meat is indeed delicious, even more delicious than pheasants, and the bones can be chewed directly.

After pulling out the arrow, Lin Heng picked up the golden pheasant in his hand and continued to search.

The most difficult part of hunting in summer is finding. There are too many leaves, and it is really difficult to find without relying on calls.

In the forest, you can only see ten meters in front of you.

Only in winter when the leaves fall is it a good time to hunt.

After waiting for a long time, I couldn't hear the calls of pheasants or golden pheasants.

"Let's walk down the mountain." Lin Heng shook his head, feeling that there was no hope.

Walking down the stream with a flashlight, Lin Heng half expected to find a turtle or turtle in the mountain stream.

Unfortunately, this mountain stream is much smaller than the stream in Baishigou. There are only a few groupers in the stream, and neither turtles nor turtles can be seen.

"It's really difficult to catch a golden rooster after running across two mountains."

After going down the mountain, Lin Heng rubbed his sore legs and complained, hunting is really not an easy task.

He was quite good at it. Sometimes he would come back empty-handed after running for two or three days.

Of course, he can't be in the air force. As long as his thinking doesn't slip and he doesn't dislike the smallness of his prey, he won't be in the air force.

Back at Shiban River, Lin Heng walked down the river with a flashlight.

The only catch was an eel lying on the river bed, which he caught.

When he got home, he smelled the fragrance of beans from a distance and quickly quickened his pace.

"Second father, have you gained anything?"

Seeing Xiongba coming back first, his eldest nephew Lin Wei ran out first.

"Unlucky, I got a golden rooster after running around all afternoon."

Lin Heng raised the golden rooster in his hand.

"This is so beautiful. Er Daddy is so awesome." Lin Wei took it and looked at it again and again.

"Okay, hunting is not that easy to begin with. You are lucky enough."

Entering the house, Lin's father comforted him and said that he thought Lin Heng would return empty-handed today.

"Yes, it's already very good. Go and eat tofu noodle quickly, we've locked it up for you, leave the golden rooster to us." The eldest brother Lin Yue patted Lin Heng on the shoulder and said.

"Pluck all the feathers dry, I'll keep them for use." Lin Heng said.

"Okay, don't worry." Lin Yue nodded.

Before Lin Heng entered the room, Xiulan came out with a large bowl of tofu puffs topped with garlic and garlic chili.

In this era, sugar is too expensive, and all we eat is salty tofu. Sweet ones only appeared later when life got better.

"It's so delicious." Lin Heng said drunkenly after taking a bite.

He felt that this kind of thick tofu brain was much more delicious than the thin and creamy tofu brain, especially when paired with the soul patchouli leaves and garlic chili.

Mother Lin glanced at him: "No matter how delicious it is, it's only that one bowl, and the rest are all made into tofu.

There are also bean dregs cakes available tonight. Do you want to eat them? "

Bean dregs were used to feed pigs in later generations, but in this era, people ate all the steamed buns, let alone bean dregs.

Naturally, it is mixed with some noodles and baked into bean dregs cakes in a pan, and almost no oil is used.

"Come here." Lin Heng nodded. He hadn't eaten this for a long time.

Mother Lin took one for him. Lin Heng took a bite and nodded reluctantly: "It tastes as bad as ever."

The rough bean dregs have a faint sweetness when eaten directly, but more of a rough and unpleasant texture, making it difficult to swallow. You still need some spicy food to eat it.

Mother Lin rolled her eyes: "I really should let you experience the life of eating tree bark when we were young. The pig food is delicious after three days of starvation."

Lin Heng chuckled: "Isn't this a complaint? I'm still eating it."

The meal in the evening is bean dregs cake, and there are three dishes: spicy and sour shredded potato, tofu mixed with garlic and spicy garlic, and fried bacon with sour radish shreds.

There is also a potato (potato) pimple soup.

Just eat it with vegetables, and the bean dregs cake is not particularly hard to swallow.

After eating a piece of cake, Father Lin put down his chopsticks, looked at his two sons and daughter-in-law and said, "We will move to a new house tomorrow. Let's divide the house today."

"I don't have much property to share with you. It cost more than 700 yuan to build various houses. I bought you 100 yuan yesterday, and there is nothing left from selling ginseng.

We still have four hundred catties of rice at home, so I packed one hundred catties for each of your families. There are still three hundred catties of wheat left, and I will give you one hundred catties each, enough to last until this year's harvest.

There is nothing else for you, mainly to divide the mountains, forests and land. "

After a pause, I ate some tofu and drank some potato pimple soup.

Father Lin continued: "Our family has a total of 600 acres of forest and 30 acres of land. These are originally divided according to population, and you have your share.

Now you can choose by yourself. You can choose 200 acres of forest, 10 acres of land, and paddy fields. You cannot take all of them as a family, but only one third.

Now think about it, I guess you must have thought about it before and decided to separate the household registrations in a few days. "

The eldest brother Lin Yue nodded and looked at Lin Heng: "Brother, you choose first."

His words made his wife Liu Juan immediately unhappy. You are the boss, why do you always let your younger brother choose first?

Lin Heng was already capable, but if he chose a good place, how would they live in the future?

Lin Heng looked at his elder brother, then at his parents, smiled and said, "Xiulan and I have already discussed this."

"What did you discuss?" Father Lin looked at him and Xiulan.

"The mountain forest is the entire Hongfeng Mountain to the west of the village, which is almost more than 200 acres. The land is the ten acres of land at the foot of the Hongfeng Mountain."

Lin Heng said with a smile.

As soon as he said this, everyone except Xiulan was stunned.

"Are you sure?" Father Lin looked at him, thinking he was joking.

Lin Heng's elder brother and sister-in-law also looked incredulous. There are so many good places in the house, Lin Heng, why did you choose the lowest place?

"Sure, it's that piece." Lin Heng nodded.

"That piece of land is all sand. It's far worse than loess and black soil. If you don't choose two good pieces of land, you may not be able to make a living later." Mother Lin reminded.

"It's okay. We've chosen that piece of land. We've decided to take the one on Hongfeng Mountain." Lin Heng shook his head firmly.

"Okay, we can't change our minds now that we've decided." Father Lin glanced at him, not knowing what he and Xiulan were thinking.

At this point, he couldn't be biased. He had chosen everything himself.

"What about you two?" Father Lin asked again.

"For the forest, we want 80 acres on the other side of Shuijinggou, 60 acres on Erlanggou, and 60 acres on Daliang.

For the land, we want three acres of sloping land on the other side of the river, two acres of paddy fields on the upper river, four acres of land opposite Hongfeng Mountain, and one acre of sloping land near my third father."

Lin Yue said, and it was obvious that this was what they had discussed long ago.

Compared to Lin Heng, their choices were much more normal. There were forests near and far, mixed woods, and pure pine and oak forests.

The land was the same. They didn't take up all the good land. They took three-fifths of the good land and two-fifths of the poorer land.

Originally, they wanted to take another piece of poorer land, but after Lin Heng took all of Hongfeng Mountain, there were few poor lands left.

"Now that you have chosen, Lin Heng, take a pen, write a note, and put your fingerprints on it. I will take it to the village to get a stamp someday to avoid conflicts over this.

As for the support of your mother and me, you don't have to worry about it for the time being. Let's talk about it when we are too old to work."

Father Lin looked at the four people and said. Although he only had an elementary school education, he understood the truth very well.

In any case, brothers have to let them settle their accounts to avoid disputes in the future.

"Okay." Lin Heng thought it was a good idea to do so, and turned to get paper and pen.

Ask for monthly tickets.