Chapter 180 16 ponds built
Lin Heng walked to the front yard and asked, "Who is it?"
"Second brother, it's me." A female voice came from outside.
As soon as Lin Heng heard the voice, he knew it was Caiyun. He opened the door and asked curiously, "What's the matter?"
Caiyun shrank into the courtyard and said, "My parents asked me to call you over for dinner. Mom is already cooking."
"Okay then, you go and hug Xiaoxia, I'll go first..." Lin Heng said helplessly. In fact, he didn't really want to go to his parents' house for dinner, because his mother's cooking was not as delicious as Xiulan's.
"Okay." Caiyun nodded and went into the house.
Lin Hengze walked towards the old house. The cold wind was howling outside the yard, making people shiver all over. He quickly ran into the old house. His mother was cooking in the kitchen.
Lin Heng saw his mother soaking the fern root powder and immediately asked, "Mom, how are you going to make the fern root powder?"
"Fried hot and sour vegetables, how else can you eat it?" Lin's mother asked as a matter of course.
Lin Heng knew it was the case as soon as he heard it. No matter what dish his mother cooked, she always used sour sauce. This was caused by their poor life in the past.
"I'll make it for you. Are there any onions and fungus in the house?" Lin Heng asked his mother.
Mother Lin stared at him with eyes wide open, her face full of disbelief: "You can cook? Don't embarrass yourself, go to the main room and warm yourself by the fire while waiting for dinner."
Lin Heng said speechlessly: "Mom, this is called arrogance. When I make it, you will ask me to teach you."
Mother Lin sneered: "I want to see what kind of flower you can make."
After saying that, she went into the house to find onions and fungus, and then watched from the side.
Lin Heng drained some water from the pot and poured the fern root powder his mother had soaked into the pot to cook.
When it is almost cooked, throw the fungus in and cook. After cooking, take it out and throw it into ice water in winter to cool it down, which can make the fern root powder very chewy.
After cooling and draining the water, pour it into a bowl, add chopped onion, chili pepper, minced garlic, a small amount of salt, sugar, soy sauce, MSG, and a splash of hot oil. Finally, add aged vinegar and coriander and the onion, black fungus and fern root powder is ready.
In fact, these two can be made separately, but Lin Heng was too lazy to take up an extra plate, so he just used a small basin.
Lin's mother was watching from the side with a puzzled look on her face, especially when Lin Heng added the sugar. She shook her head so hard that a look of disgust appeared on her face.
Lin Heng looked at his mother and said, "I'm ready, Mom, please try it."
"It would be strange if this tasted good." Lin's mother didn't even want to taste it.
But after thinking it over, he decided to give his son a chance. He picked up the chopsticks and tasted it with a frown.
After taking two bites, her brows quickly relaxed and an incredible look gradually appeared on her face.
"Not bad, right?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.
Mother Lin snorted and said, "Not bad, you have some skills."
Lin Heng spread his hands, turned around and ran away. He glanced at her from a distance and found that her mother had taken two more bites. She seemed really unable to understand why it was so delicious.
In fact, his mother’s cooking is okay, mainly because she has never seen real food. Her cooking skills are already pretty good in the village.
Xiulan's cooking skills are better than Lin's mother's because she used to work as an assistant to a restaurant chef and learned some skills from others.
Lin Heng, on the other hand, relied purely on information sharing in the Internet era. At that time, many famous chefs came out to teach cooking for the sake of traffic. It's not like now, when everyone is so selfish and wants to pay a huge price to learn.
In the main room, Xiulan was holding her daughter and warming herself by the fire, while Lin's father, elder brother and others were playing Four of Hearts with cards.
Today, his uncle-in-law and Li Shiwei went home to fix the electrical wires, leaving only the Lin family in the room.
"Brother, let's play the Four of Hearts." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"I won't play. It will probably be time for dinner soon." Lin Heng shook his head and sat next to Xiulan watching them play.
We don't pay any money, we just play around. Today is the first day of electricity and everyone is a little excited.
Lin Heng took the opportunity to tell his family some common sense to prevent possible electric shock hazards.
At seven o'clock, Lin's mother prepared the dishes and brought them to the table.
After taking a bite of the onion, black fungus and fern root powder, everyone couldn't help but exclaim in praise, saying it was extremely sour and refreshing, and the spiciness of onions was much more unique than that of peppers.
And the taste is also very good, very chewy, and the taste is better than ever.
"Hongmei, who did you learn this dish from? It's delicious." Father Lin asked curiously.
Liu Juan praised: "Yes, mom, it's delicious. How do you mix it? I want to learn how to make it."
Children like Lin Wei couldn't stop using their chopsticks and started to eat the dish.
They don't say anything, but use their actions to make the most truthful evaluation.
Xiulan took a bite and looked at Lin Heng. She guessed that this was made by Lin Heng. He really didn't lie. She loved the taste of this cold fern root powder.
Mother Lin glared at Lin Heng, then looked at everyone and said, "I researched this myself. If you like it, eat more."
"Good, my mother's cooking skills are really good." Lin Heng picked up a piece of fern root powder with chopsticks and said with a smile.
He thought it was really interesting for him to watch his mother, but he didn't care, as long as there was something delicious to eat.
"That's awesome, mom!"
"You have enough skills to become a chef!"
The praise from her family made Lin's mother feel a little embarrassed.
She didn't expect that Lin Heng's seemingly ordinary steps could make the dish so delicious.
In fact, Lin Heng’s cooking skills were not that good, it was just that he had studied the dishes he liked many times in his previous life.
The whole family enjoyed the meal together happily, and life was instantly different with electricity.
After dinner, when they returned to the house, Xiulan asked curiously, "Did you make the cold bracken root noodles?"
"Yes, mom thought I was wasting food at first." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"I like it very much. Please teach me tomorrow." Xiulan said with a blink.
Lin Heng looked at her and smiled evilly: "Sure, but you have to pay the tuition."
Xiulan glared at him and said, "You big head ghost, forget it if you don't want to teach me."
She walked over and poured out the hot water from the fireplace for Xiaoxia to wash her hands and face. Lin Heng carried Xiaoxia out to pee, then put a diaper on her and coaxed her to sleep.
Although they had been teaching Xiaoxia not to wet her pants and to call them when she went to the toilet, she still wet the bed from time to time.
Washing diapers is what Xiulan does on a daily basis. Washing clothes in the middle of winter is much more difficult than Lin Heng coaxing his daughter to sleep.
With the lights on tonight, Xiaoxia fell asleep particularly slowly and only fell asleep after playing for half an hour.
"How about taking a bath, wife?" Lin Heng suggested to Xiulan.
"But there's not enough hot water, how can we take a bath?" Xiulan rolled her eyes at him.
"I've thought about this a long time ago, and I'm just waiting for the power to be turned on." Lin Heng chuckled.
He moved the bath tub in front of the fireplace, went out to fetch two buckets of cold water and poured them in, then put the "hot pot" he had bought earlier in and plugged it in.
"Can this heat water?" Xiulan asked curiously.
Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, this is called heating quickly. You can boil water by plugging it in, but you can't touch the water before unplugging the power, or you may get an electric shock."
He must educate his family about electricity usage to prevent any accidents from happening.
"knew."
Xiulan took a sip of water and watched from the side.
After about half an hour, the water became boiling hot. Lin Heng pulled out the hot water and added some cold water. The bath was ready.
"It's so convenient to use electricity." Xiulan said with emotion. It would be very troublesome to use firewood.
But with electricity, such a magical thing, it can be done so quickly, it's incredible.
"Of course, so come and take a bath." Lin Heng invited with a smile.
Xiulan went to turn off the lights, tied her hair up, took off her clothes, and got into the bathtub with Lin Heng.
"It's so comfortable~" Xiulan rested her head on the edge of the bucket and sighed.
The bedroom is so warm and I can take a comfortable bath. It’s such a pleasure.
Lin Heng enjoyed it even more. Not only could he take a bath, but he could also watch his wife undressing and taking a bath, and he could even help her wash. It was simply wonderful.
While soaking in the water, Xiulan leaned on Lin Heng, pinched his face and asked, "Do you still want me to pay tuition now?"
"No more, no more." Lin Heng felt so comfortable that his wife's skin was so white and soft.
"That's good." Xiulan nodded with satisfaction and loosened her hands.
After soaking for forty minutes, the water cooled down and they took a shower, dried themselves and went to bed.
After taking a bath and going to bed, I feel refreshed.
The two people fell asleep side by side.
When he woke up in the morning, Lin Heng went to the bathroom, added some firewood to the fireplace, got into bed and hugged his wife who had already woken up to keep her warm.
Xiulan looked at him, hugged his neck and slept for a while.
After getting up, Xiulan cooked, and you can take Xiaoxia with you and calculate yesterday's income.
Most of the people in the village bought their light bulbs, switches and wires from him. Except for five families who bought on credit, everyone else paid for the goods.
Even though the selling price was lower than that of the stores in town, Lin Heng still made 158 yuan, one yuan per store. There was no profit on light bulbs and switches, but there was a little profit on electrical wires.
Originally, his family could have earned more than one or two dollars, but in the end they gave face to Tian Dongfu and gave up some profits.
After calculating the amount, Lin Heng didn't take the money and gave it all to Xiulan. He planned to use the remaining wires, light bulbs and switches in the house at Hongfeng Mountain later and was too lazy to carry them to the town.
After breakfast, Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain to handle some business.
Today, the electricians from the power supply station are enough to provide electricity and wiring for the houses on the mountain, so he will not go.
There are already 12 ponds here in Hongfeng Mountain. In addition to the two acres of land reserved for building houses, four more ponds can be built.
The reason why four more towers could be built was because the land area became larger after being leveled, otherwise they could not be built.
Everyone who came was a little nervous because there was not much work left and they were afraid of being laid off.
Lin Heng looked at the crowd and said, "There are only four fish ponds left. Twenty people will start digging in a group, and the remaining twenty people will follow me to level the land."
Hearing this, everyone's expressions relaxed. As long as there were no layoffs, they would be happy as long as they could continue to make money.
Lin Heng's idea was that the weather was getting colder, so he had to dig the fish pond quickly, otherwise it would be too difficult to dig, and more people would work faster.
As for the warehouse, we can only wait until spring to build it. The weather has been so cold these two days that the water has frozen, and it will soon get colder.
This kind of weather is not suitable for building a house. The water inside the cement will freeze before it solidifies.
The wood for building the house has been chopped and can be dried in these two months.
After assigning the work, Lin Heng took twenty people to find a place that would not pollute the water source and fish pond and level it in preparation for future musk deer breeding.
There are twenty people in one fish pond. Lin Heng estimates that it will take less than ten days to finish the work here.
Lin's father and his eldest brother are not here today. The job he assigned to them is to use an electric saw to cut some more big trees, hang them in the air, let them dry in the winter, and use them to build houses in the spring.
While everyone was working, Lin Heng boiled some hot water and went to take a look at the stream.
The streams were also covered with ice, especially in places on the mountains where the sun did not reach.
After walking for a while, Lin Heng felt too cold and ran down the mountain to help with the physical work.
Three days passed quickly, and the fish pond was dug faster than he had imagined. Twenty people were able to dig half of it in three days.
On the 12th, Lin Heng wore a decent suit and went to the town with Tian Dongfu to attend the commendation meeting, and brought a big red flower.
As the youngest millionaire in Huangtan Town, he not only became rich himself, but also built his hometown and led the villagers to get rich together. He was promoted as a model.
He was also interviewed by reporters, and Lin Heng behaved very appropriately, making people hard to believe that he was a young man from the countryside.
Compared with the speeches of some other people, Lin Heng can be said to have won completely. Not only the reporters but also the leaders remembered him.
On the way back to the village, Tian Dongfu couldn't help asking, "Did you prepare for it? You speak so beautifully and with such literary talent."
Lin Heng nodded: "Of course, I have been preparing for a long time. After all, this is very important."
But in fact, those were just the words he randomly picked up from his mind when he searched his memory last night. There were simply too many of these polite words in his head.
"You have brought honor to our village chief. The town secretary has noticed you." Tian Dongfu said with a thumbs up.
"Haha, I like reading books too." Lin Heng said casually, not caring about it.
After the publicity in the town, Tian Dongfu returned to the village and used a loudspeaker to publicize the matter to Lin Heng.
Many people in the Lin family were extremely excited, but Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain with a calm face.
On the morning of the 15th, the fish pond was completely dug. In the afternoon, Lin Heng asked some people to spread quicklime to disinfect the fish pond.
He called some people to the mountain to help chop firewood and carry it back.
In just half a day, enough firewood to last for half a year was piled up outside Lin Heng's backyard.
"Okay, everyone come and get your wages tomorrow. The work on the construction site has come to an end. Thank you everyone."
In the evening, Lin Heng said with a smile.
“Thank you, Boss Lin!!”
Upon hearing this, everyone couldn't help but get excited. They had been working for almost two months and were just waiting for their salary.
In the evening, Lin Heng flipped through the work book. This time the construction period was quite long. 60 people worked for 48 days, and 40 people only worked for 21 days.
In addition to these, there are six other people: his father, eldest brother, third father, uncle-in-law, Lin Hai, and Li Shiwei.
In addition to the team leader's bonus, he finally had to pay 3,300 yuan as wages.
This is simply a huge number. If the constructed pond cannot make back the investment, it will be a huge loss.
"So much money has to be paid out as wages." Xiulan was a little shocked when she saw the bag of money.
Since the largest denomination is only ten yuan, three thousand yuan is really a lot. When Lin Heng withdrew the money today, he brought thirty people with him, which was really a bit too much.
"Yes, it's a lot. After the money is paid out, there will be 4,100 yuan in the passbook."
Lin Heng nodded with emotion, then smiled and said, "But it's worth it. This is a preparation to make more money."
(End of this chapter)
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