Chapter 278 Taibai City Fisheries Research Institute

The father and son braved the drizzle and finished spreading the manure and fertilizer in a short while.

After finishing, Lin Heng went into the house again to look at the shrimps in the hatching pond. They were all alive and well without any problems. He threw some peanut cakes in and left.

I didn’t want to go home for the time being. I watched my father do some carpentry work and then strolled around the neighborhood for a while.

It was almost noon when Lin Heng returned home with a large bundle of dried hay. He distributed the hay to the livestock. He also took a look at the lamb. It was estimated that the little ram would not need anyone to take care of it for another half a month.

"Wife, are you going to tan the deerskin?"

Lin Heng walked into the house and saw Xiulan throwing the dried deerskin out in the rain, and asked curiously.

Xiulan nodded: "Yes, it's useless to do anything. After tanning, it can be used as a blanket."

"That's fine. When the weather clears up, I'll go into town and buy you some alum." Lin Heng nodded.

"Second father!"

"Hello, Uncle Lin!"

In the main room, Xiaoxia was playing with the little girl Yang Qing from the village and her second nephew Lin Tao. When they saw Lin Heng, they greeted him politely.

Lin Heng nodded and smiled: "You guys can play as you like, don't be restrained."

Playmates are also very important for a child's growth. Lin Heng does not object to Xiaoxia playing with the children in the village.

After saying that, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan who was sewing and said, "Let's go to the backyard to check on the bees. I asked around and heard that this is a sign of a honey bee split. If it really splits, we can just take them back and keep them. We can also harvest the spring honey."

"Wait a moment, I'll sew the protective clothing for Xiaoxia." Xiulan nodded. She made things like protective clothing and sleeves by herself.

"good."

Lin Heng nodded and entered the study room only to find his sister Caiyun lying on his desk doing homework.

"Brother, your desk is so comfortable, and the study is so beautifully decorated." Seeing Lin Heng, Caiyun tilted her head and said with a smile.

Her parents went to Hongfeng Mountain, and she was not used to living alone in the old house, so she ran here.

"I haven't even enjoyed it a few times, but you've already used it." Lin Heng said with a smile, but he still enjoyed his sister's praise very much. She is really a man with vision.

"Brother, if you need it, I'll make room for you." Caiyun asked with her head tilted.

"You can use it, I just came in to take a look." Lin Heng shook his head, turned around and went out again.

I had nothing better to do, so I looked at the fruits and vegetables in the front yard. The strawberries have begun to bear fruit, and will be ripe in half a month or so. The watermelons and cantaloupes have also bloomed, but it is still a long way to go before they are ripe.

The cucumber vines already had finger-long cucumbers, and the peppers had also produced small peppers. Other plants such as green beans, eggplants, and cowpeas were planted late and were only about ten centimeters tall.

After taking a look, Lin Heng went back to the bedroom, took out the unfinished copy of Capital and continued reading it in the pavilion in the backyard, aspiring to become an outstanding people's entrepreneur.

After the rain, the orchids in the yard have grown many flowers, some have already bloomed, emitting a faint orchid fragrance that floats in the drizzle.

There are many water droplets on the pink and white lilies, which look even more delicate against the green leaves, and seem to have a delicate temperament.

Coupled with flowing water, fish pond, calamus, lotus leaves, strange cypress and pine... the backyard has now become a beautiful small garden, full of vitality and fun.

Lin Heng leaned against the four-cornered pavilion, listening to the rain, smelling the fragrance of flowers, and reading a book, immersed in this quiet and beautiful world.

At one o'clock, Xiulan finished her protective clothing, took the basin and hat, went to the backyard, walked to Lin Heng, poked his head with her hand, blinked, and said, "Let's go, we can start harvesting honey."

"good."

Lin Heng nodded and put the book on the bench, then stood up, went to the eaves, got the ladder and leaned it against the wall.

"Take it with you."

Xiulan put on the bee-proof hat she made for Lin Heng. It was originally a cloth hat, but she sewed it into a bee-proof hat using gauze.

Lin Heng smiled and took it, climbed up the ladder with the basin and the tempered steel dagger, came to the beehive, opened it and found something different.

"It is indeed time to swarm the bees. The queen cells have been made. I estimate that the new queen bee will be born soon." Lin Heng turned his head and looked at Xiulan and said.

"Then let's make another beehive and take it away when the bees are swarming." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said.

Lin Heng nodded: "Dad and I have talked about it, and he is working on it."

After that, he took out the dagger and started to cut the honey. After a year without cutting the honey, the bees had already made seven honey combs, five of which were capped and full. Lin Heng used a basin to collect the honey and cut off all five full honey combs at once.

"What a great harvest." Xiulan's big eyes curved into crescents with joy as she took the basin.

"It's indeed a great harvest." Lin Heng was also very satisfied with the harvest. He drove away the bees inside, and the two of them carried the honey back to the main room.

"Wow, so much honey?" Caiyun just came out and said in shock when she saw the honey.

"Daddy, I want to eat honey." Xiaoxia smelled the rich honey fragrance and hugged his legs and said coquettishly.

The two children, Lin Tao and Yang Qing, had eyes full of desire and were swallowing their saliva uncontrollably.

"We have everything." Lin Heng put the basin on the table, took a dagger and cut the honey comb to distribute to everyone. When the honey comb was gently cut, light yellow honey could be seen flowing out, and the honey fragrance suddenly became stronger.

"Wash your hands before eating." Xiulan brought water from the door and washed the hands of the three children.

"Here!" Lin Heng gave it to Xiaoxia first, and then to Lin Tao and Yang Qing.

"Thank you, Second Dad!"

"Thank you, Uncle Lin!"

The two of them wanted to politely refuse, after all, that's what their parents taught them, but when they saw the sweet honey, their mouths and hands couldn't obey them at all, they took it and started to chew it.

Sweets are too tempting for children of this age.

Lin Heng then gave some to Caiyu and Xiulan, and cut a piece for himself to taste. Although the honey was very sweet, it was not greasy, and it had a rich aroma of flowers in the mouth.

“Delicious~”

Xiaoxia nodded as she ate, and even sucked her fingers after finishing. Yang Qing and Lin Tao also had satisfied looks on their faces, it was so delicious.

“It’s really good.”

Caiyun and Xiulan also nodded.

"Dad, I want to eat more." Xiaoxia started to act coquettishly again after she finished eating.

"No more. Children can't eat too much at one time." Before Lin Heng could say anything, Xiulan refused her and took the honey and Caiyun to the kitchen.

"There's nothing we can do. Dad will get you some tomorrow." Lin Heng touched her little head.

Xiaoxia hesitated for a while, and then was led by her friends to continue playing games.

In the kitchen, Xiulan and Caiyun took the gauze used to filter tofu and held the honey comb and began to squeeze and filter the honey.

There is still a lot of honey left over from last year, but honey can be preserved forever, so there is no need to worry about it going bad.

After lunch, Lin Heng continued to read in the pavilion in the backyard in the afternoon.

In the blink of an eye, it was already May 7th in the Gregorian calendar, and the drizzle that had been falling for several days finally stopped.

"It's not raining anymore, let's go pick morels and pine mushrooms today."

When she woke up in the morning, Xiulan put her cornrows on Lin Heng's neck and looked at him with her little face and said in a sweet voice.

Now her family is a millionaire and not as poor as last year, so she doesn't need to sell mushrooms to supplement the family income. But picking mushrooms is a form of entertainment for her.

"Then let's go pick it up after breakfast." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.

When he got up and finished his exercise and went to milk the cows, Lin's father came over and handed a finished beehive to Lin Heng, saying, "How about this?"

"Okay, I'll put it aside later." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.

After milking the cows, while Xiulan was making breakfast, Lin Heng smeared honey on the newly made beehive and placed it next to the old beehive. It would be best if the separated bees could go in by themselves, but if not, he would need to collect them.

He heard that professional beekeepers could capture old queen bees directly to form a new bee colony, but he was a novice and did not dare to do so.

After breakfast, Xiulan changed into a loose indigo dress to hide her beautiful figure. Her hair had already been braided and habitually pulled from her neck to hang in front of her chest.

"Let's go pick mushrooms." Xiulan said with a smile as she picked up the bamboo basket.

"Let's pick mushrooms!" Xiaoxia cheered happily. She hadn't gone out to play for several days because of the rain.

"Let's go." Lin Heng put on the backpack and loosened Xiongba's dog leash, and took the blue wolfhound Lai Fu and the greyhound Fengshou with him, letting them learn from Xiongba.

“Woof woof~~”

Xiongba was spinning around excitedly, circling around Lin Heng. The two puppies, each weighing 20 kilograms, also began to howl and circled around the three of them.

After opening the door, the three of them set off and walked towards the mountain behind the house. This was the road that Lin Heng took when he and Xiulan went mushroom picking for the first time after his rebirth last year.

There are more pine forests behind this mountain where you can pick pine mushrooms, also known as pine lactarius. Although last year they found that there were more morels on the Shuijinggou side, the two still chose this route.

“Woof woof!”

As soon as they entered the mountain, Xiongba took his two puppies into the woods and searched ahead of Lin Heng and the others.

Lin Heng held Xiaoxia in his arms and followed behind Xiulan, stepping on the blackened leaves that had fallen last year. The forest was not muddy because of these leaves.

"This is an acorn tree, this is a pyracantha tree..."

Xiaoxia looked at the trees passing by and identified them one by one. She looked very cute when she was serious. Whenever she got stuck, she would put her face close to Lin Heng and look at him eagerly. After Lin Heng told her the name of the tree, she would happily continue to identify it.

Soon, Xiulan picked a mushroom on the roadside and boasted with a smile: "It's a blue-headed mushroom. I'm so lucky."

"It looks like we will gain a lot today." Lin Heng said with a smile. A good start is a good sign.

The three walked very slowly, and it took them more than forty minutes to climb the mountain and arrive at a mixed forest of pine and oak trees.

“Oh my god, that’s a lot of pine mushrooms!”

As soon as they walked into the woods, Xiulan cheered.

"I got rich today!!"

Lin Heng was also pleasantly surprised. He looked up and saw small orange-yellow mushrooms pushing up the pine needles, revealing their chubby bodies.

“So many mushrooms!”

Xiaoxia cheered along.

Lin Heng put her down and she could walk on her own on this flat ground.

Putting Xiaoxia down, Lin Heng took the plastic bag and started picking mushrooms impatiently. Pine mushrooms were the most abundant at this time.

After picking up ten in a row, Lin Heng took a look and found that only half of them were not eaten by insects. But it didn’t matter, he picked them all up.

People without worms eat them, and those with worms are fed to pigs, so nothing is wasted.

"Dad, this is for you~"

Xiaoxia handed a pine milk mushroom to Lin Heng.

"So good~"

Lin Heng praised and put the mushrooms away.

Xiongba and the three dogs were having fun in the woods, not looking for mushrooms, but since there were quite a few mushrooms here, Lin Heng didn't take care of them.

"I have more here, come here quickly!" Xiulan's voice came after a while.

"Okay, I have quite a few here too." Lin Heng said with a smile.

The two would always call out to each other in the woods, and after a while they would gather together to see each other's harvest. Picking mushrooms brings a sense of accomplishment and happiness, and constant sharing makes this happiness brew into honey that flows into the hearts of the two.

The baby daughter Xiaoxia followed behind the two of them, picking mushrooms constantly and listening to the praise from her parents.

Before they knew it, it was already noon, and the two of them gathered together to look at their harvest. Today they mainly picked pine mushrooms, and a small amount of boletus and blue-headed mushrooms. Although there were many red mushrooms, the two were not interested.

"It's almost 40 kilograms now, which is not bad." Xiulan looked at the mushroom with her big eyes curved into crescents.

Lin Heng smiled and nodded: "I hope I can pick some other mushrooms this afternoon."

Although half of the 40 kilograms were infested with insects, it was still a good harvest.

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"Xiaoxia was great today too." Lin Heng praised his daughter who was lying on his lap again.

"Dad, I'm hungry~" Xiaoxia said coquettishly, looking listless.

"There's a puddle of water nearby. Let's wash our hands and then have dinner." Lin Heng said, touching her face.

"Okay, I want to eat." Xiaoxia immediately felt energetic and got up to wash her hands with Lin Heng Xiulan.

After washing her hands, Xiulan opened the bag of food and handed a piece of potato pancake that she had not finished eating in the morning to Xiaoxia. She and Lin Heng took the jerky and started eating.

The two of them ate a few bites, then tore some spice-flavored candy for Xiaoxia to eat.

After eating, Lin Heng handed the squirrel skin water bag to Xiulan. She drank it and fed it to Xiaoxia, and then Lin Heng drank it himself.

The three of them were very satisfied with this life of looking for mushrooms in the forest. After dinner, they leaned against each other and stared at the mottled shadows of the trees in the forest. They relaxed their minds and enjoyed life.

“Ouch~”

Xiongba, Lai Fu and Fengshou were squatting next to them, sticking out their tongues, wanting to eat.

"Now you know what to eat. Did you have fun this morning?"

Lin Heng rubbed Xiongba Dog's head and smiled. He didn't bring any food for them. He fed them well in the morning and planned to feed them again in the afternoon when he returned to the house.

They were not very hungry, they just saw Lin Heng and the other two eating and wanted to ask for some.

“Ouch~”

Xiongba rubbed his big head against Lin Heng's thigh with a pitiful look in his eyes. The two puppies fed Xiaoxia and Xiulan, wanting to eat too.

"If you have the ability, go catch some prey yourself and I'll roast it for you. Otherwise, just wait until you get home in the afternoon to eat it." Lin Heng patted its head mercilessly.

Xiongba was unhappy because he couldn't get food and lay on the ground, not wanting to work anymore.

After resting for a while, Xiulan wanted to continue looking for mushrooms. The two of them were not in a hurry and took Xiaoxia to look slowly in the woods.

I didn't find any mushrooms in large patches in the afternoon, just scattered here and there.

“Woof woof!”

Along with the sound of a dog barking, Xiulan's excited voice came over: "Honey, there are morels over here!!"

“Here I come.”

Lin Heng walked over there quickly holding his daughter.

In the poplar forest here, I saw many black-veined morels growing on the ground, they were plump and very beautiful.

"Xiongba finally showed his strength in the afternoon." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Yes, pick it up quickly." Xiulan said with a smile.

Lin Heng put Xiaoxia down, and the three of them picked morels together. These morels were freshly harvested and very beautiful.

After picking up the items in this place, the two men searched nearby, but unfortunately they found nothing.

Before she knew it, it was already past three in the afternoon. Xiulan looked at her watch and said, "Let's go home."

If it were last year, she would definitely find ways to pick more mushrooms and would not go back until dark, but this year she was picking mushrooms just for her own entertainment so there was no need to do so.

"good."

Lin Heng also nodded and walked back with Xiaoxia.

"There are cranberries here. Come and eat them now that they are all red."

On the way down the mountain, Lin Heng saw a few raspberries growing beside a pile of rocks and said with a smile.

"It's actually red here." Xiulan looked surprised, then pulled Xiaoxia over.

"Delicious." Lin Heng ate two first. They were sweet with a hint of sourness and tasted better than strawberries.

Xiaoxia was fed one and opened her eyes wide, recalling the memory of eating this fruit last year. "It's delicious, Dad, I want more."

As she said this, she wanted to pick it herself, but the thorns pricked her hand, so she immediately pulled back and looked at Lin Heng eagerly.

"Don't worry, there's plenty of food here. Let's eat enough before going home." Lin Heng said while feeding her.

Lin Heng fed Xiaoxia the fruits on the spot, and Xiulan found a small bag and picked them off for her to take back.

The three of them stayed here for half an hour, and it was already four o'clock when they returned home.

After going back to the house to rest for a while and drink some water, the two began to pick mushrooms. The mixture of good and bad mushrooms had to be processed immediately, otherwise they would go bad after a long time.

It took half an hour to sort the mushrooms, and we finally picked thirty pounds of pine mushrooms. It looks like a lot, but if you dry ten pounds of wet mushrooms and one pound of dried mushrooms, there are actually only more than three pounds of dried mushrooms.

There are two and a half kilograms of morels and three blue-headed mushrooms.

"It's a good harvest." Lin Heng nodded.

Xiulan smiled and said, "We'll have fried bacon and mushrooms tonight."

"I haven't eaten fresh pine mushrooms for a long time. I really miss them." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Then I'll go steam the mushrooms and cook." Xiulan took the prepared mushrooms to the kitchen.

Lin Heng took the remaining worm mushrooms to the back mountain and fed them to the piglets from his eldest brother's family. Neither his family nor his father's family had bought any piglets this year.

For dinner, Lin Heng had pine mushroom fried with bacon, and morel and crucian carp soup. One was fragrant and the other was fresh, and he ate two bowls of rice.

Life in the countryside doesn't seem to have so many rituals and romance, but these simple daily necessities seem to be the greatest romance. After a pleasant meal, Lin Heng and Xiulan slept in the same bed and continued to study the techniques of making a baby.

The next morning, Lin Heng got up earlier than usual because he had to go out to buy broodstock and various feeds for shrimp farming.

Xiulan also got up early to find clothes for Lin Heng, took care of Lin Heng, and then went to make breakfast.

"Be careful." After Lin Heng finished his meal, Xiulan looked at him and said.

"Don't worry."

Lin Heng smiled and nodded, then drove out. His elder brother Lin Yue was already waiting on the road.

"Brother, you open it."

Lin Heng gave the driving opportunity to Lin Yue and sat in the truck bed himself.

"Okay." Lin Yue agreed with a smile, and asked while driving, "What are we going to buy today? Just shrimp fry?"

Lin Heng shook his head: "Today I will go down to take a look at the shrimp seedlings first. There is no rush to buy them. The main thing is to buy feed bleaching powder and other things such as oxygen."

"Oh, I see." Lin Yue nodded and drove towards Taibai City.

Although Taibai City has a well-developed water system, there are not many people raising fish and shrimp. Currently, the largest one is Qingshui Town on the edge of the suburbs, and that was also where Ge Qingshan introduced Lin Heng to buy shrimp seedlings.

But Lin Heng did not go there directly, but went to Taibai City Fisheries Research Institute in the urban area first.

They stopped at the door, and immediately a security guard came over and asked, "Excuse me, which unit are you from?"

"We are here to learn about aquaculture and would like to come over to ask about the situation." Lin Heng replied with a smile.

"Oh, then you can go in." The guard glanced at Lin Heng, nodded and let the two in.

Lin Heng led his elder brother straight into the lobby of the building. The female staff in the lobby was attracted by Lin Heng's dress and asked with a smile, "Excuse me, what business are you doing?"

Lin Heng is already very fair and handsome, and his physical fitness due to years of exercise makes him much stronger than ordinary people. In addition, the maturity and confidence revealed in his eyes will attract anyone who sees him.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "I want to know if our institute has any shrimp fry for sale. I plan to invest in breeding."

The female staff member was embarrassed to look at Lin Heng, shook her head and replied softly: "Well, we don't have any shrimp broodstock here. We don't have enough technicians at the moment, so we can only provide some consulting services."

"Then can I visit your leader?" Lin Heng asked again.

He was not surprised by this answer. In this day and age, many departments in small cities are just for show, especially technical ones, because there is a lack of relevant technical talent.

"Let me inform you." The female staff member nodded and got up to go upstairs to inform.

"Brother, what are you going to do?" Lin Yue asked in a low voice beside him.

"Nothing, just asking about the situation." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After a while, the female staff member came down and said with a smile: "Our Director Zhang is here, he wants you to go up, come with me."

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded and asked his eldest brother to sit on the first floor and wait for a while, and he followed him upstairs.

After going up to the second floor, Lin Heng took a look at the office sign, which showed that this was a deputy director.

"Hello Director Zhang, I am Lin Heng." Lin Heng followed the female staff member into the office and said with a smile.

"Please sit down, we'll talk slowly." Director Zhang pointed at the bench and nodded. He was a little surprised by Lin Heng's youth, but at the same time he did not dare to underestimate him.

He wanted to start a business at such a young age. He did not look humble like other people. He felt that this young man was no ordinary person and seemed like someone who had seen the world.

"It's like this. I want to consult about all of our shrimp breeders that we don't have, such as freshwater shrimp or Macrobrachium rosenbergii, as we are planning to invest in breeding them." Lin Heng started the conversation with this question again.

"Due to technical limitations, we are not raising this here for the time being, but if you want to invest, we can help you coordinate shrimp breeding from other places." Director Zhang said with a smile.

Lin Heng smiled secretly. This was a much more advanced way of speaking. If you really want to believe it, then just go home and wait.

But he didn't come here for this, and continued, "Then may I ask if there is a company producing feed in Taibai now?"

This is what he wanted to know.

(End of this chapter)