By the time they drove back to Hongfeng Mountain, it was already past three in the afternoon. Although there was not much sunshine today, it was very hot and humid.

"Come, grandpa will pick you up!" Seeing the car coming back, Father Lin drove to the passenger door to pick people up.

"Grandpa and grandma, I miss you too."

Xiaoxia opened the car door and threw herself into her grandfather's arms.

"I miss Xiaoxia too." Father Lin hugged her and put his face against hers before letting her go.

Mother Lin pulled her aside and said, "The chilled watermelon is ready. Let's go eat some watermelon later."

"Great." Xiaoxia cheered first, waited for her brother to come down, and then took him outside to see the chickens and puppies.

"Are you feeling dizzy?" Lin Heng asked while supporting his wife.

The road back was very bad and bumpy, and Xiulan got carsick.

On the contrary, the three children were very adaptable and didn’t suffer from carsickness at all.

"It should be fine after resting for a while." Xiulan shook her head slightly.

Lin Heng helped her into the house and sat her down. Mother Lin killed a big watermelon and everyone shared some of it. After the meal, the children went out to play with the puppy.

Lin's mother ran out to watch, fearing that the children were bitten by the dog. Lin Heng took care of Xiulan while answering some of his father's questions.

"Let's eat here tonight. Your mother and I made some magical tofu, and we're also going to make some cornmeal cold fish for dinner." Father Lin said, looking at the two of them.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded in agreement. Xiulan was too carsick to cook.

"I'm going to rest on Caiyun's bed first. I want to sleep for a while." Xiulan said as she stood up.

"Go ahead, I'll take care of Xiaoxia and the others." Lin Heng nodded, went into the room with her, and only came out after seeing that she had fallen asleep.

Lin Heng came outside. The previous sultry heat had turned into a strong wind. The leaves on the mountain were all blown white. The leaves were blown over and the backs of the leaves were exposed.

"Dad, come and see the ants moving." Xiaoxia called out in a tender voice when she saw Lin Heng.

"It looks like it's really going to rain." Lin Heng walked over and took a look and said, this is a group of little ants moving to the hillside.

Mother Lin nodded: "It hasn't rained for half a month. This time it will probably be very heavy. Maybe there will be floods somewhere else."

Lin Heng glanced at the sky, then turned to look at his father: "Do we need to repair the water outlet of the rice field to prevent the fish from being washed away by the water when it rains?"

"I thought it was going to rain at noon, so I went to do it. You don't have to worry." Father Lin replied.

Lin Heng nodded: "It's fine once it's done."

Now his family only has to worry about the paddy fields, there is nothing else to worry about. Whether it is the fish and shrimp ponds or the pig farms, there are people watching over them and any problems can be dealt with at any time.

"When you are free, go get the tarpaulin and cover the chicken coop, so that the chicks will have nowhere to hide and freeze to death." Lin's mother said.

"I would have forgotten if you hadn't mentioned it." Father Lin said this and turned to go to the warehouse to get something, and went to the chicken coop on the hillside with Lin Heng.

They covered the top of the large chicken coop, then went to look at the small holes dug for the chickens to lay eggs. They piled the hole openings higher and made a small drainage ditch so that the chickens would have a place to hide even if it rained.

"Son, when the rain is over, we can harvest honey."

Father Lin said with a smile on the way up the mountain.

"Yes, the spring honey should be fully prepared." Lin Heng nodded.

They added two more boxes of bees this year, which means there are four boxes at Red Maple Mountain and two boxes in the backyard at home, for a total of six boxes of bees.

His eldest brother also collected a box of bees and placed it under a tree in the back mountain.

"I'll call you then." Father Lin nodded.

After that, he asked again: "Son, you said that there are artificial nest foundations now, which are said to increase honey production when installed in beehives. Is it true?"

"It's true. That thing is made of industrial paraffin and can be used." Lin Heng nodded.

Industrial paraffin wax is carcinogenic, so the honeycomb made from it cannot be eaten, only honey is useful. The honeycomb they raise is made of natural beeswax made by the bees themselves. Natural beeswax can be eaten directly, which is not only non-toxic but also beneficial to the body.

"Then bring some back and we'll try it," said Father Lin.

"Sure, I'll get it for you next time I go to the city." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.

He had no intention of raising bees. He just let the captured ones grow naturally. Otherwise, he actually had a way to make the bees swarm quickly.

They checked the cattle and sheep pens on the mountain and packed up everything that needed to be packed up, and then they came back.

Lin Heng went into the house to check on Xiulan, and when he found that she was already asleep, he came out to play with the children. The black berries on the thorny vines by the mountain stream were ripe, so he took the three children to eat them.

This thing is sour and sweet and very appetizing. The children fed the thorn berries for half an hour. After eating the thorn berries, they picked up stones and splashed water.

Soon it was six o'clock, and Lin's mother started cooking. The meal was done in half an hour. The staple food was cornmeal cold fish, and the dishes were fairy tofu and cold cucumber.

Although the meal was simple, it tasted good and everyone enjoyed it. We finished our meal at seven o'clock. The wind was strong at this time and the setting sun was in the clouds, dyeing the top of the western ridge blood red.

"Let's go, let's go home quickly. It will be bad if it rains on the way."

Lin Heng pulled the children and said.

The children were pulled by the two people, said goodbye to their grandparents and walked towards the village. Lin Heng did not take the dried fish given by his parents-in-law, but left it to his parents.

"I haven't picked any mushrooms this year. I hope I can pick some yellow silk mushrooms when it rains this time." Lin Heng said with a smile. Yellow silk mushrooms are chanterelles.

He now loves several types of mushrooms, such as chanterelles, squirrel mushrooms, morels, and tea tree mushrooms. He will only pick up some red mushrooms and boletus mushrooms when he can't find others.

"There are a lot of chanterelles at this time, and tea tree mushrooms are also starting to appear." Xiulan nodded.

"I want to join them then, and I will pick mushrooms too," Xiaoxia said from the side.

As they were talking, they soon arrived at the door of their house. After opening the door, Lin Heng went to get a hoe and prepared to dig the drainage ditch in front of and behind the house. But when he got up to it, he found that it had already been dug by someone.

He knew without guessing that it was his eldest brother who helped him. His eldest brother has been like this since he was a child. He would help him with any work that his eldest brother has not finished.

He went to his eldest brother's house to thank him, and then sat down to play for a while. When he got home, it was already dark, and the wind was howling outside, but it didn't rain.

The children had already washed their faces, hands and feet. Luming and Du Heng were playing games on the sofa, and Xiaoxia was reading children's books. She knew quite a few words, so it was very easy for her to read children's books, and she could understand most of the fairy tales.

Thanks to Lin Heng's habit formation since childhood, she likes reading very much.

Lin Heng washed his face, sat down and drank a cup of Polygonatum odoratum tea. Soon it was dark at 8:30.

"Wife, are you hungry?" Lin Heng suddenly looked at Xiulan, "The cold fish doesn't seem to satisfy your hunger."

Xiulan nodded: "Yes, a little bit. Do you want to make some food?"

"No, just watch me, let's roast some lamb."

Lin Heng went to get the electric stove. This kind of stove is made of ceramic with circles of heating resistors inside. It can be used to boil water or keep warm.

Lin Heng placed the round iron plate for grilling on top, poured a little oil on it, then took the mutton out of the freezer, marinated it with salt and soy sauce, and put it into the baking tray.

After a while, the barbecue started to sizzle and emit a rich aroma of barbecue. Xiaoxia and Luming Duheng, who were still reading, both turned their heads around.

"It smells so good, Dad!"

"I want to eat~"

“I want to eat too!”

"Wait a moment, it will be cooked soon." Lin Heng said with a smile.

It tastes best when fried until the surface is slightly charred. He adds some ginger slices and onions while turning it over, and puts in pepper powder and barbecue seasoning when it is almost done.

Suddenly, a more fragrant smell came out. The children leaned their heads closer and began to swallow.

Lin Heng tasted one first, then nodded and said, "Here, you can eat it."

He fed each of the children one piece and also fed Xiulan one piece.

"It's really good." Xiulan nodded with a smile and took a pair of chopsticks.

"It's delicious." The children nodded repeatedly and wanted more.

Lin Heng got about five or six taels of mutton. He put the ones for the children aside and sprinkled some pepper powder on the ones for himself and Xiulan, which immediately tasted even better.

"It's so delicious!" Lin Heng said contentedly while eating the mutton. His stomach felt better now.

"You still know how to eat." Xiulan smiled, her red lips also oily.

After a while, they finished eating the mutton, and they were still a little reluctant to leave.

"Just eat half full. When the weather is good, we'll have a barbecue and a good meal." Lin Heng said to the children.

He and Xiulan didn't care, but they were worried that the children would eat too much and suffer from indigestion.

"Rinse your mouth and then let's go to bed." Xiulan also said.

Lin Heng went to soak the iron plate in water, came back, finished his tea, made another cup and brought it into the bedroom.

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They left the window half open, and although there was a screen blocking the air from outside, the wind could still come in.

After telling the story, the children fell asleep soon.

Lin Heng and Xiulan were also tired from the journey, so they lay down to rest early.

When they woke up the next morning, they could hear the sound of rain outside the window.

"Do you know when it started raining last night?" Lin Heng looked at Xiulan.

"I don't know. I sleep very soundly too." Xiulan shook her head and leaned closer to Lin Heng.

The two listened to the rain for a while and then got dressed. They did some simple exercise because it was raining, and then called the children to go to school.

It was raining heavily outside, and the moderate rain had not stopped. Lin Heng walked to the gate and found that the Shiban River had risen. The dim water rushed downstream like an angry dragon.

"It's good even if it rains!" Lin Heng nodded.

After breakfast, they stayed at home. Lin Heng taught Xiaoxia to read for a while, then he made a barbecue and boiled a pot of tea.

Today he just wanted to eat barbecue and drink tea, looking at the hazy green mountains in the rain, and didn't want to do anything else.

Xiulan had some free time, so she taught her son how to paint for a while.

The rain continued until early the next morning. The bluestone in the yard was washed clean by the rain, and the bonsai, flowers, plants and trees in the yard became even greener.

The fresh air after the rain is intoxicating, but it is difficult to walk because everything is slippery.

Lin Hengyi took out the skewers of meat that Xiulan had prepared from the freezer to thaw in the morning, and in the evening he called his parents and his eldest brother's family over for a barbecue.

After breakfast, he went to Red Maple Mountain to collect honey with his father. The two buckets of honey produced by the bees that had just been harvested this year were not much, weighing only two kilograms in total.

The remaining four buckets of old bees are all large and strong colonies, and one bucket can harvest three kilograms of honey from various flowers.

"Not bad." Father Lin said with a smile after weighing it.

"Well, this time I'll take it to the store in town to sell it. I have a little too much honey at home." Lin Heng said.

After putting away the two honeys, they picked a watermelon and a cantaloupe, both of which were picked before the rain and were still as sweet now.

Put it in the freezer for an hour before eating, and it will taste sweet and cool, making you forget the heat instantly and indulge in the deliciousness.

They enjoy much more in summer now. Chilled watermelon is nothing to them. They also have popsicles and homemade juice. The whole summer is happy.

When the sun sets in the afternoon, they start to eat barbecue. The adults barbecue with beer, and the children barbecue with liqueur that has just become sweet.

Barbecue is more lively when there are many people eating together. Everyone can barbecue and eat at the same time, which is very comfortable.

"We can go pick mushrooms tomorrow." Xiulan said when they were resting at the evening.

"Let's go together. I think we should have a good harvest of mushrooms this time." Lin Heng said while hugging her.

"Well, let's go to the beam on the Shuijinggou side to pick up yellow silk fungus." Xiulan said after thinking for a while.

The next morning, after having breakfast, they took their son to be looked after by Lin's father, and went up the mountain with Xiaoxia, her mother and her sister-in-law to look for mushrooms.

Of course, Xiongba would definitely follow them.

At this time of year, the forest is densely populated with mushrooms, mostly red mushrooms and some unknown poisonous mushrooms, as well as quite a few boletus and tea tree mushrooms.

Lin Heng and Xiu Lan’s main ingredients are chanterelles, agrocybe, porcini and other edible fungi, and they only require high-quality ones.

The sky was cloudless today and the weather was very hot, but it was still cool in the forest. Lin Heng and Xiulan walked and stopped everywhere while searching.

Chanterelles are not big, and many of them are hidden under last year's leaves that have not yet rotted. If you use a stick to pull apart the leaves, you can see the beautiful golden mushrooms.

"We're lucky today. There are so many here, but they're a little small." Xiulan said happily as she looked at the pieces of chanterelles.

"The small ones don't have any bugs, take them back and stir-fry them with bacon." Lin Heng said, stir-fried mushrooms with meat are the most delicious.

"Okay, let's finish here and then look for it on the other side." Xiulan nodded.

With Xiongba around, many chanterelles hidden under the leaves can be found.

After they searched for a while, Xiaoxia came running over from her grandmother's place, acting coquettishly and shouting that she was hungry in front of them.

Lin Heng looked at the watch and found that it was already past one o'clock. No wonder the child was hungry.

But they didn't go back. Instead, they took out some food and called their mother over to eat together with the other four.

They searched until after three o'clock before returning home. When they got home, they couldn't wait to weigh their harvest.

"Thirteen pounds of chanterelles, twenty pounds of tea tree mushrooms, and more than ten pounds of other mushrooms. Today's harvest is pretty good." Xiulan said with a smile.

"Hurry up and pick them and dry them in the sun before the sun goes down," said Lin's mother.

"You guys do it, I'll go make some noodles for you, otherwise you'll be too hungry." Lin Heng said.

They now pick mushrooms just to satisfy their own appetite and will not sell them.

What everyone cares more about is the joy of picking mushrooms together, and the mushrooms themselves don’t matter.

In the evening they cooked fried bacon with chanterelles, and the family drank some rice wine.

The next day, Lin Heng went to check on his orchard, ran to the pig farm to check on the pigs, and brought back the pig manure.

All the pig manure was placed at the entrance of the village for villagers in need to take away, and his family now has no place to pile it.

The rain washed the Jiushui Creek very clean. On a sunny day, Lin Heng hung a sunshade net over the creek just like he did last year, and then took the children to play in the water.

After playing at home for another two days, on July 19th, Lin Heng drove into the city.

He first asked Lin Hai to transport some goods that the factory needed to ship out, and then went with him to the recruiting place.

It is very easy to recruit workers. As before, he selects young people with families. Such people are more likely to work steadily and will not leave after a short period of time.

This time he recruited ten young workers, gave them a few words, and then asked them to go back and prepare and report the next day.

The factory canteen has now opened, with a chef cooking and Liu Cihua helping out. Employees have free lunch at noon, but they have to take care of themselves in the morning and evening.

"Boss, shouldn't you be hiring a veterinarian?"

Lin Heng was about to leave when five people who looked like students, three men and two women, came in from outside the door.

(End of this chapter)