Chapter 181: Not Enough Money, Thoughts on Going into the Mountains in Winter
Early the next morning, someone came to collect the money. Lin Heng checked the wages with the person face to face as usual, and after confirming that everything was correct and signing and fingerprinting, he paid the money.
It took me three hours to finish the work after paying the wages.
"Hey, why didn't my uncle and third father come over?"
After paying the wages, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and asked curiously.
Xiulan had been in the room the whole time, playing with Xiaoxia's Luban Lock. Xiaoxia was so angry that she couldn't untie the lock and threw it on the ground and stepped on it.
"I'm embarrassed to take them. They're all in the old house," Xiulan replied.
"Okay, I'll go over there then."
Lin Heng smiled helplessly and walked away with his workbook and money.
In the old house, they were chatting and having a great time.
Lin Heng walked in and said with a smile: "Why don't you come to collect your salary? Don't you want it?"
As team leaders, each of them gets paid one dollar a day, which means 48 dollars in 48 days. It is impossible for them not to get paid.
"Haha, we're not in a hurry." Li Baiquan laughed.
In fact, they want it, but they are embarrassed to go too early because that would make them seem too snobbish.
Lin Heng was helpless: "There's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's only right that I get paid for my hard work."
After he finished speaking, he paused for a moment, then looked at his father again: "Dad and big brother, you guys take the lead and come over to sign and get your salary."
Father Lin was not polite, he walked over and said with a smile: "Then I won't be polite."
He knew that if he refused, his relatives would not be able to take the money.
Father Lin was the first to sign and took forty-eight dollars.
Lin Yue was the second one. He took the money and said with a smile, "Thank you, brother."
"What are you thanking me for? I should be thanking you." Lin Heng smiled and waved his hands.
"Then I'll come too." Lin Hai didn't hesitate and walked over to get the money.
Soon these people received the money, and they were all smiling happily. It was all thanks to Lin Heng that they could earn so much income during the slack season.
"Lin Heng, when are you going hunting? Let's go together." Li Baiquan said with a smile.
"Let's wait a few days, until there is a heavy snow. I'm going to plaster the wall in the next two days." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll come down to see you when it snows heavily." Li Baiquan said with a smile.
Lin Heng nodded, chatted for a few more words, and then went home to settle the accounts.
There is only 4,100 yuan left in the card now, which seems like a lot, but it is actually not enough.
A railing has been built on the Hongfeng Mountain to enclose the breeding base, and the interior has been preliminarily built. The remaining work in winter is to release water and maintain the water.
But after the spring he still has to repair the warehouse, indoor cultivation room and so on.
Although bricks, cement and other materials are already prepared and do not need to be purchased separately, the labor cost is estimated to be three to five hundred yuan.
In addition to these, he also has to cultivate shrimp fry and purchase food and feed.
Especially feed is the biggest expense, feed is always the biggest expense in breeding.
In addition to this, he also plans to buy some oxygenators, which can be used as emergency aid at critical moments and can also increase the breeding density.
Also, he plans to buy fruit tree seedlings in a few days, which will also cost a lot of money.
There are so many places to spend money. Four thousand yuan may seem like a lot, but it is really not enough.
In fact, Lin Heng could relax and take his time, but not too slowly. Especially planting fruit trees, this is an effective way to make his parents less tired.
If there were no fruit tree seedlings, they would definitely have to plant a full field of crops again next year.
In addition, he also wants to accumulate capital as quickly as possible. One effort now is equivalent to ten or even a hundred efforts in the future.
The first-mover advantage is too important.
The sooner he saves enough capital, the more wealth he will have.
Now that he had no money left, Lin Heng once again turned his attention to the mountains. There was a lot of wealth hidden in these endless mountains waiting for him to dig.
"Money, you are a knife that kills without blood!"
Lin Heng sang a line from a classic song from 1999, shook his head, and gave the workbook and the remaining few dozen dollars to Xiulan.
"What's for lunch?"
Xiulan looked at him and asked softly.
"It's all right. Just do whatever you want." Lin Heng smiled and walked into the house.
Put on the homemade mask, take out the plaster powder and start plastering the wall.
With two hours left, he coated the courtyard wall of the house with white plaster.
In the afternoon, his father and eldest brother came to help him, and the three of them worked together and quickly finished plastering the exterior wall.
Except for the backyard wall, the front yard and the main body of the house have been completed. It has red tiles and white walls, and is very beautiful.
People feel more comfortable just looking at it, and their mood will naturally improve when living inside.
In the evening, Lin's mother ran to his house to ask Xiulan for the secret of mixing onion and black fungus with fern root powder. She had tried several times in the past few days but had not mastered the key points.
Xiulan was explaining it to her in the room when Lin Heng ran in and said with a smile, "Mom, didn't you say that you mixed the fern root powder yourself? Why are you here to ask for advice?"
"Hmph, I'm just exchanging skills with Xiulan, not asking you for advice." Mother Lin glanced at him disapprovingly and pushed her out of the kitchen.
"Mom, this is my home." Lin Heng reminded.
"What happened to your family?"
Mother Lin snorted and closed the kitchen door without giving him any chance.
After a while, Lin's mother walked away with her head held high. Xiulan brought out the cold bracken root noodles and said, "Eat something first to fill your stomach. The rice will be ready soon."
"Thank you, wife." Lin Heng grinned, took it and ate several bites, and his stomach was filled temporarily.
"Dad, I want to~"
Xiaoxia saw him eating and ran over to ask for some.
Lin Heng wiped her nose and fed her some black fungus and some vermicelli.
“Spicy~”
Lin Heng didn't feel anything when eating the food, but Xiaoxia stuck out her tongue because of the spiciness. Lin Heng quickly got her a glass of water.
"Dad, I want candy~"
She drank the water, snuggled into Lin Heng's arms, raised her head and acted coquettishly.
Lin Heng gently scratched her nose and said with a smile: "I knew that you, a clever little ghost, were not interested in drinking."
"Please, Daddy, I want some candy." Xiaoxia begged him weakly.
Lin Heng had no reason to refuse, so he peeled a White Rabbit candy and fed it to her.
Pulling his daughter, he went to the front yard, opened a corner of the plastic film and took a look. There was already a lush green area inside.
The warm conditions allow them to grow better than any plant in winter.
Of these vegetables, peas grow the fastest, and you can eat the pea tips in two days.
For dinner, Xiulan prepared three dishes and a soup. In addition to the fern root noodles that Lin Heng didn't finish, there were also braised crucian carp made with dried crucian carp, stir-fried pork with sour shredded radish, and egg yolk soup.
The sumptuous meal allowed Lin Heng to eat two large bowls of rice. After drinking the yellow croaker egg soup, he felt warm all over. Lin Heng felt that the dried shrimps added to it were the essence.
After dinner, the three of them returned to the bedroom. Compared to outside, the bedroom with a fireplace was too warm.
Now that there is light, Lin Heng likes reading to his family more. He deeply believes that his personal example can make Xiaoxia fall in love with reading as well.
Xiulan was not well educated, but she was fascinated when Lin Heng read.
Sometimes when Lin Heng stopped reading, the mother and daughter would tickle him all over to force him to finish reading. They could not tolerate interruptions at all.
Xiaoxia fell asleep. As soon as Lin Heng climbed onto the bed, Xiulan came over and hugged his neck.
"Would you like some candy?"
She asked curiously in a low voice under the bright moonlight and the flickering firelight.
"I don't want to." Lin Heng said with a wicked smile.
Xiulan immediately let go of her hand somewhat unhappy and whispered, "Okay then~"
She was a little disappointed.
"I mean to skip the candy and eat you directly~"
Lin Heng hugged her and covered her mouth.
“Ah… well…”
Under the soft moonlight, Lin Heng suffered severe soil erosion. Xiulan fell asleep holding Lin Heng's arms.
Lin Heng felt his arm on his wife's chest, glanced at the fireplace, and gradually fell asleep.
When he woke up early the next morning, Lin Heng found that Xiulan was still asleep, so he couldn't help but go over and kiss her.
"Well... that's so bad~"
Xiulan opened her eyes wide, pushed Lin Heng away, and glared at him fiercely. This guy was so bad.
Lin Heng chuckled: "Didn't you take the initiative last night..."
Before he could finish his words, Xiulan covered his mouth.
"Don't say anything else, or you'll be dead." Xiulan warned harshly.
"Then compensate me again." Lin Heng said with a blink. He really wanted to eat a big meat bun now.
"You wish!"
Xiulan found a new set of underwear and got out of bed. She looked back at him with a punishing smile.
Lin Heng was just about to pull her back to taste her properly, and he had even held her hand, but Xiaoxia on the small bed next to him rubbed her eyes and woke up.
Xiulan smiled slyly: "Just bear with it, brother~"
Lin Hengneng sighed helplessly, calmed himself down, sat up and got out of bed.
He rubbed his daughter's face, held her in his arms and helped her urinate in the potty, then he went out and poured it out.
In winter, he didn't dare let his baby daughter go out to the toilet for fear that she would catch a cold.
"Dad, Jinbao~"
Xiaoxia pointed at Jinbao who had just run in and wanted to hug him.
"Let's talk about it after you get up." Xiulan said after washing her face and applying facial cream.
Lin Heng ignored her and went out to exercise with his compound bow. After the exercise, he started the work that he had not finished yesterday - plastering the wall.
I ate half of it and had breakfast, and the sauerkraut noodles were just a few bites away.
After finishing his meal, he continued to plaster the wall while his father Lin and his eldest brother were sawing firewood with a chainsaw in the back.
The wood that the workers had helped to cut down had not been sawn yet. Normally this would take one or two days.
But with a diesel saw it only took half a day to do it.
Lin Heng finished plastering the wall and was finally satisfied with the current backyard.
After resting for a while, he went to the back mountain to help Xiulan carry firewood, and took it home and stacked it under the eaves.
The trees we cut down were all oak trees, which are good firewood and burn more durable than ordinary trees.
"Dad, there's too much firewood. We can just pile the rest here. We can cover it with plastic so it won't leak in the rain."
Lin Heng took one look at the pile of wood and said that he didn't want the whole house to be filled with wood. Not only was it unsafe, it also affected the appearance.
Father Lin nodded: "That's fine too. Then should I put the wood I asked you to saw for the stove here as well?"
"I'll take the pine wood ones home and leave the others here for now." Lin Heng said after thinking for a while.
Pine wood has oil in it, so it can be easily ignited even when wet, whereas other woods need to be dried out.
Lin's mother and Liu Juan moved some things but didn't want to move anymore. What they had at home was enough.
Now, this piece of land of more than 1,000 square meters in the back mountain has been developed by them into a small manor, where they raise various livestock and store firewood.
It was already afternoon when the wood was stacked. There was not much work to do in winter, so all I had to do were similar chores.
"Lin Heng, when are you going to buy the saplings?" Lin's father asked curiously.
"Maybe at the end of the month or January, it depends on the situation." Lin Heng said after thinking for a while.
It is actually better to plant trees in winter than in spring, as long as it is not too cold.
Although trees planted in winter have no leaves, their roots are actually already growing and will sprout directly in spring.
If planted in spring, it will take a lot longer to take root and then sprout.
Father Lin nodded and said with a smile: "There's no rush. If it doesn't work, we can plant it after the Chinese New Year."
Lin Yue also smiled and said, "Yes, it won't bear fruit for the time being anyway, so there's no need to rush."
Lin Heng shook his head: "We have to be anxious about this, some saplings are in great demand."
He planned to talk to Li Chengguo in a few days and rent his car to go to Ancheng Agricultural Science Institute to get some good saplings.
If you go too late, there might be no good stuff.
"Okay, we'll go together when you go." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.
After gathering the firewood, he was about to go back to the house to warm himself by the fire when he suddenly saw his mother scattering seeds in the woods.
I immediately asked curiously, "Mom, what are you talking about?"
"Nettles, plant them to prevent others from coming in." Lin's mother said as a matter of course.
"Oh my God, then stop it. Even our own people can't stand this." Lin Heng hurriedly stopped him.
Not only does this thing hurt a lot, it's also extremely dirty and once it grows, there's no way to eradicate it.
This is used in many places in rural areas to keep thieves away. No thief dares to cross this thing to steal things.
But in the end, our own people were often hurt as well.
"I've already spread it out. We have to be careful with so many things." Mother Lin spread her hands.
"Okay, Mom, you are too cautious. The thorny trees and dogs are enough." Lin Heng said helplessly.
"It's better to be careful than to go wrong." Lin's mother said, and left with Lin Heng.
After warming herself in Lin Heng's bedroom for a while, she looked at the fireplace again and again.
But she was just curious and not envious. She also had a fireplace made of cement and stone in her bedroom, and the effect was just as good.
But stone doesn’t dissipate heat as quickly as steel. It takes a long time for the house to warm up, and it also wastes firewood.
After warming up by the fire for a while, Lin Heng took the bow and arrow and went out with Xiongba.
He hadn't gone hunting for many days and his hands were a little itchy.
Winter is very cold, and it is also a good time for hunting. These days, almost all hunters in the village can catch golden pheasants and the like.
"Brother, are you going?" Lin Heng went to his eldest brother's house and asked.
"Is it late at night?" Lin Yue was cutting Pueraria root at home, apparently preparing to make Pueraria root powder.
"Just look around. Don't go hunting too late today. Come back as soon as it gets dark." Lin Heng shook his head. He still likes to have a companion when he goes hunting.
"Okay, let's go look for it." Lin Yue nodded, went to get the bow and arrow and went with Lin Heng.
The two went to Hongfeng Mountain first, but found nothing when it got dark. They decided to go to Shibalanggou to have a look, but this time they would not go to the top of the mountain, but just walk around the bottom of the gully.
After dark, the cold wind became even stronger, and it was a little unbearable for the two of them wearing thick cotton trousers and cotton coats.
But hunting is like this: it is easier to find prey in winter, but it is more difficult for people.
People are more comfortable in summer, but it is very difficult to find prey.
The cold wind was blowing, and the leaves rustled as the two men walked in the woods.
There is a small crescent moon in the sky tonight, but due to the thick clouds, it cannot come out at all. After dark, the forest is dark and quiet.
There was only the whistling of the wind and the occasional noise made by mice.
After searching for half an hour, Lin Heng shook his head and said, "Let's go, there's no hope in this place!"
Lin Yue nodded and asked, "So should we change places or go home?"
Lin Heng thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the river and take a look. Maybe we'll find something."
There are a lot of people hunting recently, and these golden pheasants and pheasants have been scared. I guess they have all gone to the mountains.
It was too difficult for him to catch one near his home, so he had to travel far to the mountains like he did in the summer.
But he is waiting for a heavy snowfall, as going to the mountains on a snowy day will yield a greater harvest.
Lin Heng went to a forest by the river upstream. There were many pheasant chicks there this summer, and he hoped to get some.
The trees are bare in winter, and you can see them without a flashlight.
After checking around, he didn't see a single bird feather. Lin Heng looked at his watch and it was already past eight o'clock.
He was about to go home when his elder brother suddenly called out from a distance: "Brother, come here quickly, there is something."
I’m sorry everyone, today I still have 4,000 words to write, and I’m still in my hometown. My mother insisted that I help her chop wood, which is too difficult.
(End of this chapter)
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