Chapter 139 Double Happiness, Tian Dongfu was stunned
Lin Heng opened the door and saw Caiyun standing outside with her schoolbag on her back. Before he could say anything, Caiyun said, "Something big has happened, brother!"
"What's the matter? Why are you in such a hurry? Come inside and talk slowly!" Lin Heng pulled her into the house and locked the door.
"I just went over to show you the account book after school. After checking the accounts, I heard Wang Zhou tell me some shocking news." Caiyun took a breath and said to Lin Heng.
When Xiulan and Lin's father heard this, they looked over curiously. Judging from Caiyun's tone, this news must be very explosive.
"Tell me what news it is." Lin Heng was also a little curious.
Caiyun took a deep breath and said slowly, "Just last night, Liu Qicheng was arrested by the police for gambling in the town, and the news has spread.
According to several people who witnessed the incident, a group of people were arrested and sentenced to at least three years in prison. This means that the purchasing station business will belong to your family from now on, and you don't have to worry about competing with others. Don't you think this is good news?"
"ah?"
"ah?"
Lin Heng and his father were both stunned and couldn't help but exclaim, while Xiulan was stunned.
Father Lin exclaimed that it was unbelievable that Liu Qicheng, who was so rich, actually participated in gambling and was arrested.
Lin Heng was shocked at how things turned out like this.
In the previous life, the gambling arrests in the town didn't happen until the end of the next year, and only the head of the Cheng family who worked at the grain station and a few others were arrested. Liu Qicheng was not arrested.
He heard about Liu Qicheng's gambling when he was old and stole his son's money to gamble. It was exposed by his daughter-in-law. Only then did he know that this guy had started gambling from a very early age.
He was shocked that he was suddenly arrested in this life.
Could it be that he was upset because he opened a purchasing station, so he turned to gambling to relieve his sorrow, and then got arrested?
He thought it was not that serious, as it was generally difficult to catch such people. He had wanted to report it before, but he did not know the specific gambling venue.
"Did you ask how you were caught? Did someone report it?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
Caiyun shook her head: "I don't know about this, I only know that he was arrested, and it is said that the contract for his house has been negotiated."
Father Lin glanced at Lin Heng and said happily, "Why do you care so much about him? He will eventually perish if he does too much evil. It's enough for us to be happy."
"Haha, that's right. Let's have a good meal tonight to celebrate." Lin Heng laughed.
I didn’t expect that the butterfly effect did not harm me, but instead helped me. This is indeed great news.
"What's in this bag? It smells so good." Caiyun only noticed the black truffles in the bag at this time, but she didn't recognize them.
Xiulan looked at her and said, "Black truffles, wet ones are ten yuan a pound, and dry ones are at least a hundred."
"Oh my God, so many, that means I'm rich! It's a double happiness today!" Caiyun was surprised.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "It's only a few hundred dollars. I'll treat everyone to it tonight. This is also my first time trying this, so I don't know what it tastes like."
Father Lin glared at him: "You're still eating something this expensive? Sell them all."
"It's okay to eat a little, just try it." Lin Heng waved his hand. He was planning to keep a pound or two at home. He wouldn't mind making that little money if he sold it.
"How do you eat black truffles?" Xiulan looked at Lin Heng. This was the first time she had dug one and she had never seen it before.
"This can't be used to stew things. You can just slice it and eat it with soy sauce and chili, or scramble it with eggs."
Lin Heng thought about it and said, he didn’t eat this thing much, but he had seen others eat it.
It can be considered a top-notch delicacy. Unlike Ganoderma lucidum and Dendrobium, it has no medicinal effect and can only supplement some nutrients.
It's also very casual to eat, you can eat it however you want.
"Then cut some into slices and dip it in soy sauce or vinegar, and eat it with a scrambled egg." Xiulan nodded. There were so many of them anyway, and she wanted to try some.
Father Lin also let it go, nodded and said, "Eat it, I'll go back and kill some eels, and we'll have a good meal later."
"Caiyun, please help Xiulan. I'll go pick up Xiaoxia." Lin Heng took a bunch of wild grapes, a bag of shrimp crackers and a candy and put them in his pocket.
He handed his tempered steel dagger to his father, and then the two walked out together.
Lin's mother had returned from herding cattle a long time ago, and the red dates were tied up in the yard.
When Lin Heng came in, it was swinging its tail to hit flies and gadflies.
Xiaoxia was playing with Lin's mother in the main room. Lin Heng came over and smiled at her, "Xiaoxia, come here, let daddy hold you."
Xiaoxia glanced at Lin Heng, snorted, turned around and ran into the bedroom, pushing the door to lock him out.
Obviously, she was very angry because Lin Heng had left her there and ran away for a whole day before coming back.
"Look what this is? Dad went to pick grapes for you." Lin Heng blocked the door and waved the grapes in front of her.
Xiaoxia looked at the grapes and her big eyes were a little hesitant.
"Dad was wrong. Can I give you some shrimp chips as an apology as well?" Lin Heng took advantage of the situation and took out some shrimp chips.
Xiaoxia swallowed her saliva helplessly and was completely unable to walk.
Lin Heng handed the grapes and shrimp crackers to her and moved the little darling into his arms.
"Dad, don't run!" Xiaoxia said tearfully.
"Okay, okay, Daddy won't leave." Lin Heng said, touching her little face.
Sometimes there is no other way, it is too unrealistic to carry her over several mountains.
"Mom, did Xiaoxia cry today?" Lin Heng asked his mother.
"She cried for a long time. After she finished eating the shrimp crackers, she yelled for you and Xiulan and insisted on going home.
When I got home and didn’t see you, I cried for a long time. I remember that you weren’t so clingy before.” Mother Lin was helpless. Her granddaughter was too difficult to raise.
"Maybe I've gotten used to it these days." Lin Heng said helplessly, it will be fine when the child grows up.
Now she doesn't understand anything and is used to being close to them. Although her grandparents can take care of her, she will cry if she can't see them for a long time.
After holding Xiaoxia and coaxing her for a while, Lin Heng put her down and went to help Lin's father kill the eels.
"What are you doing? What do you want to celebrate?" Lin's mother asked curiously.
While catching yellow eels, Father Lin said, "Your son was blessed by the sacred mountain today. He was very lucky and dug up mountain products worth four or five hundred yuan.
That’s not all. Caiyun brought back news that Liu Qicheng was arrested for gambling, and the purchasing station business is now his alone.”
When Lin's mother heard this, she stood up and said, "What!!"
Whatever the news was, it sounded a little unreal to her.
"I'll tell you in detail after dinner tonight." Father Lin shook his head and worked with Lin Heng to kill the eels.
I found a wooden board and used two nails to nail the eel's head and tail, with its back facing up.
Lin Heng held the tempered steel dagger and cut vertically along the spine. After flattening the eel, he pulled it down horizontally. The entire spine was removed. He chopped off the head and tail, scraped the internal organs and it was done.
After processing the eel in this way, only the meat is left, which is delicious when cut into pieces and stir-fried.
“This yellow eel is delicious, but it’s really hard to handle!”
Lin Heng shook his head and took out the two-pound and five-ounce yellow eel he had caught.
This thing seemed to sense its fate and twisted wildly, struggling even before the nail was driven into its head.
However, after Lin Heng hit it with the stick, it stopped moving.
About four pounds of yellow eels were killed, and two pounds of meat came out. The internal organs were thrown away, and the spine and head and tail were collected and stewed for Xiongba.
Xiongba made great contributions today. Although he failed to find black truffles, he discovered almost all the matsutake mushrooms.
Lin Heng planned to get some meat to feed it later, and also planned to set a trap in the old house to catch some big rats.
When Lin Heng washed his hands and was about to take Hongzao back, his elder brother Lin Yuecai came back with his elder sister-in-law.
"Lin Heng, I picked up 30 kilograms of Hericium erinaceus today. I'm lucky, right?" Lin Yue said with a smile.
"That's really great. Come to my house for dinner later. I've already told my parents." Lin Heng nodded.
"How can I feel comfortable going to your house to eat every day!" said sister-in-law Liu Juan politely.
"Don't be polite, just come. Don't make me come and invite you." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Okay, we'll come over later." Lin Yue nodded with a smile.
Dinner was ready quickly. There were nine dishes on the table, which was very sumptuous.
There are not only fried bacon with pine mushrooms and stir-fried eels, but also fried river grouper and black truffle sashimi.
The eldest brother found out that Lin Heng not only dug up black truffles today, but also had no competitors left, so he happily brought some Hericium erinaceus to celebrate.
"How about everyone try this truffle first?" Lin Heng said with a smile. He first picked up a piece and put it directly into his mouth without dipping it in anything.
The next moment, he immediately picked up a piece of cold spinach and put it in his mouth.
"Well, this thing tastes good, but it's too fresh." Lin Heng shook his head. He felt like he was eating MSG, but it did taste quite fragrant.
"I feel fine." Caiyun said with a strange look.
Xiulan picked up the chopsticks and took a bite. She said curiously, "I feel like it has a milky flavor, but it's really fresh."
Lin's mother frowned and said, "I think it smells like a stinky shoe sole, but it tastes good."
Father Lin and his elder brother and his wife all thought it had a musky flavor and tasted good.
Children like Lin Wei thought it smelled like meat and wanted to eat more.
Everyone tastes different after eating it.
"No wonder this thing is so valuable. It tastes different. But I still think it tastes best when chopped up and fried with eggs." Father Lin took another bite of the egg and concluded.
Xiaoxia also likes this truffle scrambled eggs, and Lin Heng has fed her several bites.
Lin Heng himself likes to eat stir-fried yellow eel and fried grouper. The yellow eel has a chewy texture and is very spicy. It tastes absolutely amazing when eaten with a slice of black truffle.
Everyone also loves this Matsutake soup. It is just a simple stew of sliced Matsutake and green vegetables, and it tastes very fragrant.
The whole family was having a great time eating and drinking.
"Lin Heng, do you have any secret? Why do we always get a lot of harvest every time we go up the mountain?" Liu Juan asked curiously.
This is both matsutake mushrooms and truffles. I never went empty-handed in the previous summer. My luck is simply too good to be true.
"Haha, what luck! Maybe it's the blessing of the mountain god." Lin Heng laughed and didn't want to tell anyone about Xiongba.
“Boom boom boom!!”
Just as the sister-in-law was about to speak, there was a knock on the door.
"Who is it? It's so late." Lin Heng was a little curious. It was about to get dark, so who was knocking on the door?
He stood up to open the door. Father Lin and others also put down their chopsticks and looked towards the door.
He opened the door and saw the village party secretary Tian Dongfu standing outside. Seeing Lin Heng, he smiled and said, "Lin Heng, do you still have the quicklime you used to disinfect the fish pond? I'll buy five pounds and use it."
"Yes, Uncle Tian, we are having dinner. It's a good time for you to come in and have a meal before leaving." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"No, no, your Aunt Wang wants to cook. I'll go back with the lime." Tian Dongfu waved his hands repeatedly, not interested in the meal that the Lin family had already started.
It was not until Lin Heng pulled him into the house that he saw the nine-dish dish on the table and was stunned. Nine large dishes, fish and meat, but was the soup made of matsutake? And what was that black thing? "Uncle Tian, sit down and eat something. Don't look down on us for starting by ourselves." Lin Heng smiled and pushed him to the chair, brought chopsticks, and poured wine.
Tian Dongfu had no choice but to sit down and drink two sips of wine. After chatting for a while, he pointed at the soup and asked, "Is this Matsutake?"
"Yes, Uncle Tian, you can try it, it tastes good." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"What is this black thing?" Tian Dongfu picked up a matsutake mushroom and pointed at the truffle and asked.
"Secretary Tian, this is black truffle. Lin Heng just happened to dig some today. Let's try it." Lin's father said with a smile.
"Black...black truffle!" Tian Dongfu couldn't help but be speechless when he heard this.
You're eating this food which costs 100 yuan per pound just like this? Even a millionaire can't do this.
Before coming in, he was not envious at all, because his own food was never bad, but after seeing these foods, he could no longer remain calm.
What kind of family is this!
He wanted to leave, but his body seemed to be welded to the bench.
"Come on, drink!" He couldn't help but pick up the wine glass.
After the meal, Tian Dongfu felt a little dizzy and his stomach was full.
They were all smiling when they took the quicklime back.
The Lin family was also very strong in fighting. They finished all the food and left almost nothing.
Lin's mother Caiyun helped to clean up before going back. Lin Heng went to feed Xiongba and prepared a sumptuous dinner for him.
The next morning was the ninth day of the eighth lunar month. Lin Heng rode on horseback with Caiyun to the town.
When he rode his horse to send Caiyun to the entrance of the study, a group of students couldn't help but look over.
The horse is so majestic and the colorful clouds are so beautiful that I feel that the white moonlight is more and more out of my reach.
"Wang Zhou, what exactly happened?" Lin Heng found Wang Zhou again to find out the situation.
Wang Zhou spread his hands helplessly: "Brother Lin, I really don't know about this, there are various versions.
Some say the police had been planning this for a long time, others say it was reported by someone who had a grudge against someone involved in gambling, and still others say it was reported because they lost money. There are many different versions of the story.”
"Well, it seems that there is no way to know the truth." Lin Heng shook his head and said.
"Never mind. This is a good thing, Brother Lin. We are the only one in the market now. Do you want to adjust the price?" Wang Zhou said with a smile.
"Don't do anything for now. Let's talk about it next month." Lin Heng waved his hand.
He looked at the closed door of Liu Qicheng's house again, turned back to give some instructions to Wang Zhou, and told him that he had found a candidate, then rode home.
He was riding on the red date alone and felt like a brave knight. It was a really good feeling.
A distance that would take a person an hour to walk at a fast pace took me less than 20 minutes by riding Hongzao. Apart from a little pain in the hips, everything was fine.
On the way, he also dug up some seedlings from people's cherry, apricot and plum trees.
When he got home, he first fed Hongzao some corn stalks. After it finished sweating and calmed down, he fed it a bowl of corn porridge.
Behind the house, Lin's father and eldest brother had worked together to cut down a large area of trees using a diesel saw. Except for some trees that served as shade, all the others had been cut down.
The cut trees are then made into fences to prevent others from trespassing.
"Lin Heng, do you think it would be better to build the horse stable over there?" Seeing Lin Heng coming, Lin's father asked.
"Let's go a little further east. This place is close to the path and it's easier to lead the horse out."
Lin Heng chose a place. Horses are different from cows. Horses need to be ridden frequently, so they need to be bathed and groomed.
The stable also has to be cleaned every day, otherwise there will be too much feces and it will be difficult to wash it away even if you take a bath, so he has to choose a good location.
"Okay, let's chop some wood and build a horse stable." Father Lin nodded.
Lin Heng first planted the fruit trees he dug up. Although the varieties were not very good, they could be grafted later.
After the fruit trees were planted and watered, Lin Heng came over to help build the horse stable.
Use two living acorn trees as the main trunks, dig a hole and erect two more trunks, put up a horizontal bar and tie them up with wire, and a framework will appear.
The stable was surrounded on three sides with wood, leaving a ravine on one side with a wooden board as a door.
First lay wood on the top, then lay a layer of straw after it is fixed, then lay a thin film of water on the straw, and finally add another layer of straw and press it down with wood. It can be said that it is foolproof.
A horse pen was built in the morning and surrounded by wooden railings in the afternoon.
There is about 300 square meters of space inside the wooden railing, and there are pyracantha trees and thorns outside the wooden railing.
There is nothing else except two pig pens, two chicken and duck pens, and a horse pen. Later, the chickens can be released and raised.
The eldest brother tied his five black dogs to the side of the pigpen. Even if someone crossed the brambles to steal things at night, the five black dogs were there to guard the door.
With Xiongba in front and five black dogs behind, we can be truly safe.
It was four o'clock in the afternoon when all this was done. My eldest brother called Lin Heng and his parents over for dinner, and my eldest sister-in-law was already cooking.
Lin Heng took Hongzao and Xiongba and went to the river with soap.
After giving the red dates a bath and washing its body, it stood comfortably in the water without moving.
"hiss!!"
After Lin Heng finished giving it a bath, it actually snorted in a humane way.
"Okay, go eat grass over there." Lin Heng smiled and patted the horse's butt.
Hongzao seemed to understand and walked to the riverside and ate grass.
"Woof woof~"
Xiongba stuck out his tongue at Lin Heng, as if to say, "It's my turn now."
It had swam several laps in the water, waiting for Lin Heng to give it a bath.
"Don't shake the water off." Lin Heng glanced at it and picked up the soap to give it a bath.
Xiongba climbed comfortably on the stone, letting Lin Heng toss over and over.
"After rubbing it, put it in the water." Lin Heng said, and he put it in the water, rinsed the hair a few times, and the water suddenly turned dim.
"You're so dirty. Roll on the ground less every day." Lin Heng patted its head.
“Ouch!!”
Xiongba cried out, seeming to think that this was not its problem.
“Ah! Help!!”
Lin Heng was bathing Xiong Ba when he heard a terrified scream from above. He was startled. Who was this? What could have happened in broad daylight? Please give me a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)
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