Chapter 177: Winter is not cold with a fireplace
Lin Heng drove the carriage to the town and waited for about half an hour before Li Chengguo's truck arrived.
The fireplace he had been longing for was also pulled up, along with a large amount of goods.
Li Chengguo looked at him and said, "Boss Lin, are we going to load and unload everything here?"
Lin Heng looked at him and said, "Please help me move the fireplace, wires, light bulbs, etc. to the village, and come to my house for dinner."
"That's great. I can just visit Mr. Lin's home." Li Chengguo thought about it and agreed.
Lin Heng grinned and said, "I'll go buy some plaster powder later, you help me pull it."
"That's no problem." Li Chengguo nodded.
After unloading the goods and settling the accounts, we headed towards the place where gypsum powder was sold.
Last month, Lin Heng’s store earned two hundred yuan from sales, which was about the same amount of money that Lin Heng spent with his family in the city yesterday.
But this money could not make up for the gap. The fireplace also cost a hundred dollars, which meant that if there was only profit from the convenience store, he would have spent another hundred dollars.
Buying gypsum powder is not expensive, 90 yuan per ton. One ton is enough for Lin Heng to plaster the walls of his home.
After finishing all these, Lin Heng calculated the accounts.
After paying the one thousand yuan from the owner of the Tuanjie Brick Factory, there was only six thousand five hundred yuan left in the passbook.
After selling musk yesterday and adding the profit from the convenience store today, and buying lime powder and fireplaces, there is still 7,200 yuan in the passbook.
What is mentioned here is only the money in the passbook. Generally speaking, his cash has shrunk a lot recently, but fortunately he caught a male musk deer.
After digging the 20-acre pond and paying the workers their wages, he estimated that he would only have four or five thousand yuan left in cash.
Shaking his head, he sighed in his heart: "It's a pity that I never traded stocks in my previous life. I don't know the specific trend of the stock market. Otherwise, it would be much easier to make money."
Of course he knows which kind of companies to invest in to make money, but this kind of big-trend investment takes a long time, and only by experiencing it can one know the subtle changes and make big money in a short period of time.
"What's wrong?"
Li Guocheng looked at Lin Heng and shook his head and asked curiously.
Lin Heng smiled and shook his head, "No, I just feel that money is too hard to make."
Li Chengguo was speechless and wanted to hit someone: "When I was your age, I couldn't even take out five dollars from my pocket. You are already a millionaire and you are still complaining to me about this?"
The more I think about it, the more I find Lin Heng a terrifying person. He has achieved such great success at the age of only 20.
Lin Heng shook his head: "I'm 21 years old, and my birthday has already passed."
Li Chengguo: "...Okay, let's not talk about this topic anymore. I can't stand it."
"Do you have anything else to say?" Li Chengguo asked.
Lin Heng shook his head and said, "No more, I've bought everything I need, let's go straight away."
Li Chengguo immediately started the car and drove towards Hongfeng Village. Lin Heng went to the store and drove his own carriage in front to lead the way.
It only took half an hour to reach Hongfeng Village. It was mainly because Lin Heng's carriage was moving slowly, otherwise they would have arrived earlier.
Murakami was a little curious when he saw the truck, but when he saw Lin Heng, he immediately understood, it was the same thing again.
Lin Heng called two people to help move things.
Li Chengguo walked into the yard and said in surprise: "Your house is well built."
"Haha, it's okay." Lin Heng smiled.
"Xiu Lan, please cook a meal. Uncle Li is coming to our house for dinner." Lin Heng said to Xiu Lan.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded and turned to cook.
After moving the things, Lin Heng poured Li Chengguo a cup of tea. After drinking two sips of tea, he went to the toilet.
"In the backyard." Lin Heng pointed to the backyard and took him there.
"Your backyard is more beautiful than the front yard. You really know how to enjoy life," Li Chengguo exclaimed as he looked around.
"Wait, this is... Musk Deer?"
When he got closer and saw the musk deer, he was stunned. This was a good thing.
Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, I was lucky to catch it."
It’s no big deal if Li Chengguo finds out, as he doesn’t live in Hongfeng Village. What Lin Heng is mainly afraid of is that some people in the same village will find out.
The male musk deer was so frightened that he huddled in a corner. Li Chengguo took a closer look and asked curiously, "Are you selling it? I'll buy it for 1,500 yuan."
Lin Heng couldn't help but smile: "Boss Li, you are joking, don't even mention 1,500, I won't sell it for 15,000."
"Haha, I'm just kidding."
Li Chengguo smiled and went to the toilet quickly.
After coming out, he stopped talking about this topic, went to see Lin Heng's fish pond, and strolled around the village.
Soon Xiulan prepared the meal. Lin Heng and Li Chengguo had two drinks but were not allowed to drink. He could not take the responsibility if his car fell into a ditch.
"You are so lucky. Your wife is beautiful and virtuous, and her cooking skills are really great." Li Chengguo said enviously. His wife is a violent hen.
"The most important thing is that the ingredients in your house are really good. This meal makes me scared." Li Chengguo said again.
He originally thought it was just ordinary peasant food, so he didn't bring any gifts. But now he felt a little embarrassed about the food.
Apart from anything else, he had never tasted the Matsutake and crucian carp soup and sliced black truffles, and black truffles cost 40 yuan per pound.
Add the wild boar meat and sausage, this meal would be worth forty or fifty yuan in the city.
"Not really, not really. These are just some ingredients I made myself. They are not worth much money." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Lin Heng's sincere attitude made Li Chengguo feel even more guilty, and he thought that he would bring some gifts for Lin Heng next time.
After dinner, Lin Heng took Li Chengguo to Hongfeng Mountain to play for a while and made some tea. The quiet environment made Li Chengguo feel relaxed and comfortable, and he expressed a lot of his thoughts at that time.
During the conversation, he felt more and more that Lin Heng understood him and turned him from a business partner into a friend with whom he could talk.
He didn't know that compared to his own little middle-aged confusion, the middle-aged experience that Lin Heng had experienced in his previous life was extremely miserable, so he could naturally empathize with him.
When leaving, Li Chengguo patted Lin Heng on the shoulder and said, "Lin Heng, if you have any problems in the future, just send me a message. I will definitely be pulled up with you."
"Okay, go back slowly." Lin Heng nodded.
After sending him away, Lin Heng couldn't wait to go home to install the fireplace.
Xiulan was waiting for him in the house. She was wearing a navy blue cotton jacket and wrapped herself tightly. She was very afraid of the cold and was very conservative.
Whether it was winter or summer, she would only show her arms and calves at most.
Xiaoxia was also wearing warm clothes and she kept asking her mother questions. She had always been talkative, and recently she seemed to have suddenly become smarter and spoke more sincerely, talking nonstop all day long.
Lin looked at her and said with a smile, "Let's move the fireplace to the bedroom and install it. Then we won't feel cold when we sleep at night."
"Okay." Xiulan stood up and lifted the fireplace with Lin Heng.
Two men carried the fireplace into the house and placed it against the east wall. Outside this wall was the corridor between the house and the eldest brother's house.
The smoke exhaust will also be prepared here, and the smoke coming out from here will not affect the bees in the backyard.
"Which position do you think is best?" Lin Heng asked his wife. This matter was entirely up to her wishes. As long as she was happy, it was fine.
The window of the master bedroom faces south, that is, facing the backyard, and the double bed is against the east wall, facing the window.
So it is impossible to place the fireplace in the middle, it can only be in the southeast corner or the northeast corner.
Xiulan thought about it and decided, "Then let's go to the southeast corner. There's nothing in this corner."
The southeast corner is the one next to the window, and the backyard is the south.
"Well, let's move the stove over there."
Lin Heng nodded. He also thought that this location was the best. It was close to the corner, did not take up space and was safe.
The ground is made of bluestone, which was leveled when it was laid, so the fireplace is placed on it and is very stable, without any shaking.
After the stove was put in place, Lin Heng and the other man went out to get the chimney.
"This chimney is so heavy and thick." Xiulan said in surprise.
"Of course it costs so much." Lin Heng said with a smile. The chimney wall of this fireplace is five millimeters thick and the quality is excellent.
After bringing it into the house and determining the height, he lifted the fireplace a little and used a steel chisel to drill holes in the wall. It only took more than ten minutes to build the earth wall.
After drilling the hole, put the chimney in, and then seal it with some plaster.
Xiulan cleaned the floor, and the two of them couldn't wait to install the fireplace and get some firewood to light it.
The good thing about living alone is that there are no quarrels between parents. If the mother were still around, she would definitely ask for a good life. The two of them just do whatever they want.
After lighting the firewood on the rack and closing the furnace door, the fire will draw air from the air inlet below due to the pressure difference and exhaust from the chimney. A large amount of oxygen will flow in, which will make the fire burn very vigorously.
Through the transparent crystal, you can see the flames inside burning, twisting and jumping.
Complete combustion not only saves firewood, but also heats up quickly, making the room feel warm in a short while.
After about half an hour, the master bedroom became very warm, making people want to take off their cotton jackets.
"The money was not wasted. I really didn't buy any cigarettes at all." Xiulan said with a smile.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Of course, this stove can also be used to heat water and other things. Just use a chair to block it so Xiaoxia doesn't touch it."
The design of this fireplace is scientifically based and is guaranteed in all aspects.
Building a fireplace yourself requires skill, and if you’re not careful it can easily cause smoke to backflow.
What Lin Heng hates most is the smoke that appears everywhere when he makes a fire. Not only does it make him dizzy and unable to open his eyes, but he also gets a headache from inhaling carbon monoxide.
However, roasting charcoal fire in a closed room is more likely to cause carbon monoxide poisoning. For safety reasons, it is better to get a fireplace.
Of course, another main reason was that Lin Heng wanted to watch the fire. It was very interesting to see the flames dancing through the crystal.
Move a small table to the bedroom, as you will spend a lot of time in the bedroom in the winter.
After getting a small table, Lin Heng took out the Boshan stove, lit some pine incense, took out the purple clay teapot, brewed some tea and poured a cup for Xiulan.
But she was not interested in this. She took some dried red dates and peanuts and chewed them with her cheeks puffed out like a little squirrel.
Xiaoxia asked all kinds of questions and couldn't stop talking, so I could only give her some shrimp crackers.
But the two of them didn't expect that she would ask all kinds of questions while eating, which was much more annoying than before.
"It seems that she has really reached the stage of speaking." Lin Heng said helplessly as he looked at Xiulan.
There is a stage in the process of children learning to talk in which they will constantly talk.
"Daddy, what is the talking period?" Xiaoxia tilted her head and asked in a baby voice.
"That's how you are now." Lin Heng pinched her little face helplessly.
"Dad, you eat~" Xiaoxia didn't understand and handed Lin Heng a shrimp stick.
Now she finally stops feeding her father grass.
"Good baby." Lin Heng was very happy immediately. Xiulan smiled and looked at him and said, "The fern root powder you dug has to be made into vermicelli today. It will be too late if you don't make it into vermicelli now."
"Then we'll do it in a moment."
Lin Heng nodded and said that he had originally planned to plaster the courtyard wall and the exterior wall later.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded.
Before the two of them said a few words, the bedroom door was pushed open by Xiongba, and a dog and a cat walked in one after the other, and took a spot in front of the fireplace and lay down.
After taking a look at the two guys, Lin Heng ignored them. They both had some self-awareness and didn't pee or poop in the house.
After drinking two cups of tea, the two went out, Xiaoxia also ran out, and Xiongba and Jinbao lay inside.
The fern roots had been washed and dried long ago, and the two carried them to their parents' yard, where there was a large stone mortar with a diameter of about sixty to seventy centimeters.
Mother Lin looked at Lin Heng and said, "You are finally willing to come and make your fern root powder."
"Haha, I'm quite busy." Lin Heng laughed.
The method of making powder is the same, just crush the melted water and let it precipitate to get the powder.
Xiulan threw the fern roots into the stone mortar, and Lin Heng picked up the stone pestle and began to pound it, mashing it into pieces and throwing it into the water.
"It's really tiring. I'll buy a crusher when electricity is available." Lin Heng shook his head.
If there is a machine, not only can you crush it to get more powder, but it is also easy.
"Just wait until next year and buy it. You'll need it to make feed anyway," said Xiulan.
“I’ll definitely buy it.”
Lin Heng was working hard on it by himself. It was really a good job to exercise. In one afternoon, he felt that his arms were more tired than after doing 500 push-ups.
At half past five, Lin's father and others returned home. Lin Heng had finished pounding the fern roots, which were settling in the bucket. He would be able to get fern root powder tomorrow morning.
Father Lin looked at Lin Heng and reminded him, "The construction of the first batch of fish ponds is expected to be completed tomorrow. You should arrange what to do next."
Lin Heng thought for a moment and said, "It will be the 6th tomorrow when we finish the work, so let's just take two days off. The village will have electricity on the 8th, and we'll resume work on the 9th. It's a good opportunity for you to take advantage of these two days to get some wine."
Mother Lin added, "Your father and your eldest brother must also be in the house tomorrow. We can't make vermicelli without them."
Lin Heng waved his hand and said, "That's no problem. With my uncle and third father watching over us, there won't be any problems on the construction site."
Father Lin nodded and agreed: "Then do as you say. Let's make vermicelli tomorrow morning."
"good!"
Lin Heng agreed, he hadn't made vermicelli for a long time.
The next morning, after breakfast, Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain to preside over the construction. He asked the workers to sign and then he took a look at the current situation.
Of the ten fish ponds dug later, two also had large rocks that could not be moved. The other ponds were still very good, with clay bottoms, so there was no need to worry about leaks.
After watching for a while, he handed the job over to his uncle and third father and went back.
Childhood friends Li Shiwei and Lin Hai have been working here these days. Lin Heng occasionally chats and plays with them, as he usually doesn't have time.
He actually didn't want his good brothers to work for him, but they had no other skills, and if they wanted to rise, they would have to endure hardships and accumulate capital.
He couldn't just give them money directly; that was impossible and inappropriate.
Moreover, they can also learn something in the process of working for him, and it will be natural for him to support them when he has money in the future.
The two of them had no complaints about this. It was not easy to find lucrative jobs in the countryside. Lin Heng arranged management positions for them and answered all their questions, which was very thoughtful of him.
When Lin Heng returned home, his father and elder brother had already set up a big pot in the outer yard and the water was boiling.
"Brother, you're back just in time. Let's start making vermicelli." Lin Yue said with a smile.
Sorry, only 4,000 words today.
I made some changes to the previous text, adding one thousand words to Chapter 171 and modifying the plot.
But it doesn’t affect those who haven’t seen it, it just adds a scene of the protagonist’s birthday.
(End of this chapter)
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