Chapter 327 Xiaoxia, who learned everything by herself

Xiulan patted Lin Heng and said, "Get up, pack up and go back to the village."

"It's time to get up."

Lin Heng yawned, sat up and got dressed. Xiulan dressed herself and woke Xiaoxia up as well.

Open the door of the room, and you can see the blue sky through the gaps between the leaves, and the morning sun which is not yet very hot as it just climbs to the top of the mountain.

The woods were filled with mist, and through the patches of sunlight one could see the diffusion of countless gases.

At first glance, the ground was covered with small red mushrooms, but Lin Heng had no intention of picking any of them.

After exercising and washing up, Lin Heng made breakfast. Xiaoxia was picking mushrooms nearby and playing, giggling happily.

Xiulan wanted to pick it up, but her belly was so big that it was not suitable for her to walk in the slippery forest.

After a while, Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said, "We have almost finished packing."

"Let's just take the more important things today, and leave the rest on the mountain for the time being. I'll take them away slowly when the weather clears up." Lin Heng said, looking at the pile of things.

Xiulan divided the things up again, and pointed to the last small pile she picked out and said, "Then take this little bit."

Lin Heng nodded and said, "Okay, let's go back to the village first, and then I'll come get the things."

Xiulan nodded and shouted to Xiaoxia, "Let's go, Xiaoxia."

"Okay, I'm here, mom." Xiaoxia trotted over with a small basket, followed by the two dogs Xiongba and Fengshou on her left and right.

After running a few steps, she slipped and sat down on the ground, with mushrooms scattered all over the floor.

Xiaoxia opened her eyes wide and was stunned for a moment, then she got up by herself and looked at her parents' hands with anxiety.

"You're a good boy if you can get up on your own. Come into the house and I'll change your clothes."

Xiulan stretched out her hand to her and was not angry that she had soiled her clothes.

Xiaoxia finally felt relieved and picked up the scattered mushrooms and brought them over.

"Mom, I picked a lot of mushrooms." Xiaoxia showed off her harvest.

"Xiaoxia is really amazing, but you can't eat these. You can only pick edible mushrooms when you grow up. If you eat them now, it will kill you."

Xiulan touched her head and said.

"I don't want to eat." Xiaoxia shook her head repeatedly. She already understood the meaning of death and didn't want to be separated from her parents.

"Come on, I'll change your clothes."

Lin Heng pulled her into the house and changed her clothes. Then he locked the door and supported Xiulan, and the three of them walked down the mountain.

The small waterfall on this side of the dam was flowing, washing away all the mud, sand and rocks underneath, forming a pool of water of four or five square meters. If it weren't for the hard basalt underneath, the pool would have been even bigger.

"What a huge pool! Daddy is the best." Xiaoxia waved her little hands in admiration for Lin Heng. She knew that this was built by her father.

"This can be called a waterfall that falls three thousand feet straight down, like a galaxy falling from the sky..."

Lin Heng took the opportunity to teach her a line of poetry, and together with Xiulan, he reminded her not to go near the water.

Now you can understand why their parents repeatedly warned them not to go into the river or go to the edge of a cliff when they were young.

That's because they love their child too deeply and are afraid that something might happen to their child.

This is how you raise a child. You have to teach her all kinds of knowledge and repeat it from time to time so that she can remember it. Don't blame the parents for being nagging.

However, unlike her parents who strictly prohibited her from using sticks, Lin Heng and Xiulan were more gentle and told her the pros and cons. When Xiaoxia thought about the harm of getting close to these dangers, she would pay attention herself.

They were all beaten when they were young, so they don't want to continue this way of education for their children.

It is obvious that love and warmth can have the same effect, but most people choose to use the simplest physical punishment to save trouble, and enjoy the feeling of dominating the fate of their children through punishment.

Only when I got old did I start complaining about my children being unfilial, and I never thought about my own reasons.

Of course, sometimes saying it several times doesn’t work, so Xiulan will let her know why her butt hurts.

We must fight, but not right away.

Lin Heng would always ask Xiaoxia why she did that. Only after he understood the reason would he decide how to treat her, instead of just beating her without asking anything if she didn't do what he wanted.

He felt that it was this kind of patient educational method that made Xiaoxia so cheerful and sunny, and her intelligence was several times higher than that of other children of the same age in the village.

The three of them looked at the waterfall for a while, then went down the mountain towards the gradually warmer morning sun.

Father Lin was squatting in front of the door eating noodles. When he saw them, he shouted to Xiaoxia, "Xiaoxia, have you had breakfast? Do you want some noodles?"

"We ate potato pancakes and boiled eggs made by my father." Xiaoxia said as she walked to her grandfather, took a look and then ran away. The food didn't smell good.

Father Lin laughed, walked into the house, took out a bunch of roasted corn and said, "Come, grandpa will roast corn for you."

"Thank you, Grandpa." Xiaoxia looked at the scorched yellow corn and ran over again.

Father Lin gave her the piece on top that was not burnt, and was very fond of Xiaoxia.

"Grandpa, I'll feed you." Xiaoxia peeled two apples with difficulty and gave them to her grandfather first. At such a young age, she had already learned to please her elders.

"Thank you, my dear granddaughter."

As expected, this move made Father Lin burst into laughter and couldn't close his mouth.

Xiaoxia ate two and shared them with her parents.

Lin Heng ate two, turned his head and asked with a smile: "Did you teach me?"

Xiulan smiled and said, "She learned it all by herself."

Xiaoxia ate two bites and went to tease Jinbao. Jinbao had been kept at the foot of the mountain for the past two days. He had orange-red hair and was chubby. He weighed about the same as Xiaoxia and was about the same height when he stood up.

Except for the times this year when it howled a few times due to heat and was locked in the house by Lin Heng, it would not leave even if Lin Heng tried to drive it away.

"Son, when will we lay the water pipes when the weather clears up?" Father Lin asked as he stood up after finishing his meal.

There is still one last project at the dam, which is the laying of water pipes. After this heavy rain, the strength of the dam has been recognized.

"Let's wait until the weather is drier tomorrow. It's too wet today." Lin Heng thought for a while and said, he was not very anxious about this.

"Okay then." Father Lin nodded in agreement.

After a few words, when Xiulan finished chatting with Lin's mother, Lin Heng took her back to the storage room.

When I opened the door and walked into the house, the blue-gray stone slabs were clean and tidy. The branches next to it were full of fruits and vegetables. Many of them had fallen to the ground and rotted, and the seeds had sprouted because of the rain.

"I haven't been back for a long time. I really miss it." Xiulan said with emotion as she walked into the yard.

Lin Heng opened the door, Xiongba and the two dogs went in first, followed by Xiaoxia.

Xiulan reached out and touched the coffee table: "There doesn't seem to be much dust in the room."

"Of course. I cleaned the place when I came back yesterday. I can't let you clean with a bulging belly," Lin Heng said with a smile.

"That's great." Xiulan said with a smile, took a step back and sat on the sofa, feeling the long-lost comfort.

"Then you take a rest first. I'll go to the mountain to get something." Lin Heng sat down and looked at her and said.

"Okay." Xiulan nodded in agreement.

Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain carrying a backpack. He ran back and forth twice before he brought all the things back, leaving only some unimportant things.

This naturally includes ginseng. Lin Heng placed it in the bookcase, which is always filled with bags of quicklime for drying, so it is less likely to cause problems here.

After finishing these, he and Xiulan went to the bedroom to tidy up the bedroom. After tidying up, Xiulan looked at the unused bathtub and said, "I haven't taken a bath for a long time."

"You can make a bath if you want. I'll boil water for you." Lin Heng said with a wink.

Xiulan smiled slightly: "Let's talk about it later."

Then the two went to the backyard to take a look. Lin Heng cut off some of the lush lotus leaves again and trimmed some other flowers and plants.

Although the sky had just cleared up today, which was a good time to pick mushrooms, he didn't really want to go, mainly because there were no good mushrooms during this period, and Matsutake mushrooms were not available until October.

Xiulan opened the back door and looked at the back hill. After returning, she looked at the bunches of grapes on the grape rack and asked curiously, "Can we eat this?"

"Let me pick one and see." Lin Heng carried a stool and stepped on it to take out the paper bag of grapes. The red grapes inside had turned a beautiful purple-red color, and the color was rich and round.

Lin Heng picked one and tasted it, his eyes lit up: "It's totally edible, very sweet."

As he said that, he handed one to Xiulan.

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"It's really sweet." Xiulan nodded in surprise.

Lin Heng returned to the house, took out a pair of scissors and picked up all five bunches of red grapes. The grapes were full and each bunch weighed four or five kilograms.

"I wonder how many fruits there will be next year." Xiulan sighed as she looked at the grapes that had already climbed all over the racks.

Especially the grafted red grape, which grew too lushly, and the roots of the wild grapes were too strong, so the Kyoho grape did not grow well.

"About twenty strings should be no problem."

Lin Heng smiled and said this, then carried the red grapes into the house. He first picked a bunch of grapes, picked them into grains, cleaned them, and put them in a small bamboo basket.

“Delicious~”

When Xiaoxia saw this, she got off the wooden cart and stuffed the red grapes into her mouth.

Xiulan waited for her to eat for a while before stopping her, because one cannot eat too many grapes at one time.

After Xiaoxia ran to the yard to play, the two began to taste it. Xiulan sat on the sofa, and Lin Heng lay directly on the sofa, with his head on her soft white thighs.

Originally Xiulan was wearing long pants, but because they were covered in mud, she changed into a skirt after entering the house. Even though the weather had just cleared up, the temperature at the foot of the mountain was not low.

Xiulan looked at him and reached out to feed him a red grape.

"You eat it, I'll lie down for a while." Lin Heng didn't want to eat anymore after eating two, and preferred to lie down facing his thighs.

Xiulan shook her head, not quite understanding, and wondered if this leg was even more delicious than ordinary ones.

But, if he wants to do so, then so be it, because he is the man she loves deeply.

After lying down for a while, Lin Heng got up and went to the back mountain to feed the chickens, ducks and cows, and picked the ripe melons.

Then he picked the vegetables and melons in the yard, kept some for himself, and carried the rest to Hongfeng Mountain to feed the livestock. He also brought a string of red envelopes to his eldest brother and parents.

"The grapes are so big. No wonder you said the grapes you bought are of good quality."

Mother Lin looked at the red grapes in surprise, saying that they were much bigger than the small green grapes grown locally.

"Not only is it big, it's also delicious." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Mother Lin tasted one and nodded, "It's really delicious. It looks like we can save some more for next year."

"You eat, I'm going back first."

Lin Heng said this and turned away without waiting any longer.

When Lin Heng returned to the village, he ran into the village party secretary and asked with a smile, "Uncle Tian, ​​what are you doing?"

"I was looking for you, and we just happened to meet!" Tian Dongfu said with a smile.

Lin Heng was puzzled: "Uncle Tian, ​​what do you want from me?"

"Let's go, let's talk while we walk." Tian Dongfu said as he and Lin Heng walked towards his home, where they had a cup of good tea and ate some grapes.

What he was talking about was not a big deal. It was just that the leaders of the town wanted to visit his breeding base, and there was a conference in the county at the end of the year and he was invited to attend.

Lin Heng naturally did not refuse. The leaders in the town were all very nice, so he decided to come and have a look. It would also be nice to have free publicity in the newspaper.

After lunch, the ground became a little less slippery in the afternoon, and many people in the village went to the mountains to pick mushrooms.

"If you want to pick mushrooms, go ahead." Xiulan looked at him and said.

Lin Heng shook his head: "I won't go. I'll take a break and clean up the fruits and vegetables in the yard. The green bean vines can be pulled out."

After resting for a while, Lin Heng went to work. Xiulan also helped in the yard, but Xiaoxia made things worse from time to time.

The early green beans, cowpeas, etc. that I have planted have reached the point of being exhausted, so they can be pulled out and replaced with other vegetables.

After pulling these things out, Lin Heng picked the red peppers. Unlike the humid south, the peppers here are generally not spicy and they are all fragrant.

After working for half an afternoon, the two finally finished the work. It wasn't much work, just tidying the vegetable garden and picking vegetables. They just worked slowly because there was no need to rush.

After they were done, they cut a cantaloupe to share, and gave the rest to the children in the village. Lin Heng was quite generous to those children who were not particularly bad, and although they were young, he remembered clearly who was good and who was bad.

In the evening, the eldest brother and his friends brought a lot of mushrooms, all of which were freshly picked today. Lin Heng fried them with bacon and ate them that night.

After breakfast the next day, Lin Heng left home and came to Hongfeng Mountain. He and his father first dug a ditch for burying the water pipes. The water pipes had already been bought and all they had to do was wait to be buried.

The temperature here is still relatively low in winter, and water pipes can only be kept buried in the ground to avoid freezing.

It took the two men a day to dig the ditch, and another day to connect the water pipes and bury them.

On the afternoon of the 7th, Father Lin looked at the laid water pipes and said with a smile: "Let's go up and drain the water."

"Let's each take care of one." Lin Heng nodded, and his mother was responsible for watching the faucet here.

Draining the water is also very simple without using a water pump. First, unplug the joint and fill water into the lower half of the water pipe. When it is almost filled, you can plug it in and the siphon effect will automatically suck the water down.

"Here it comes, the water pressure is good!"

Hearing Lin's mother shouting from below, Lin Heng and his father wrapped up the exposed water pipe and went down the mountain.

When the faucet was turned on, water immediately flowed out, and the huge pressure made the instep of the feet hurt a little.

"Yes, yes. The water pressure here is much better than the pool halfway up the mountain." Father Lin said with a smile. High water pressure makes everything convenient.

After looking at the faucet, Lin's mother asked curiously, "Son, didn't you say before that you were going to raise fish in the small dam?"

Lin Heng nodded and said, "Yes, I plan to catch him. If the situation doesn't work, I'll go tomorrow."

After he returned home, he discussed this matter with Xiulan. Xiulan did not refuse and even wanted to go with him.

Lin Heng thought about it and decided to take her with him. When the weather cleared up and the road became hardened by the sun, they would drive to the Heihe River to play. As long as they drove slowly, there would be no problem.

But what the two did not expect was that several unexpected guests suddenly came to their house at noon the next day.

(End of this chapter)