Chapter 183 Want to buy a motorcycle [6k]
Lin Heng grinned and said, "I just bought it not long ago. Are you going to the town to sell things?"
"Yes, I picked some wild hawthorns in the mountains and took them down to sell."
The old man nodded, then looked at the red dates where Lin Heng sat and said, "I'm afraid your horse is not cheap. Have you made a fortune recently?"
He seemed unaware that Lin Hengdu had already become a millionaire.
"It's okay, it's not particularly expensive." Lin Heng said with a smile.
They walked to the town while chatting, and Lin Heng dismounted to take a look at the old man's hawthorns.
The quality is average, the particles vary in size, and some even have wormholes.
"How much is this?" Lin Heng asked.
The old man glanced at Lin Heng and said, "If you want to buy it, it'll be 20 cents per pound."
Lin Heng pointed at the bag and said, "Then I'll buy them all. How many pounds do you have in total?"
"Buy all?" The old man was stunned, then continued: "I have 22 kilograms, don't play tricks on me."
Lin Heng smiled and took out four dollars and fifty cents and handed it to him: "Four dollars and forty cents, right? I'll give you four dollars and fifty cents. Give me the bag too."
"You're really going to buy it?" The old man was stunned. How did this young man become so rich?
“I really want to buy it.”
Lin Heng took the hawthorn and left.
Someone nearby who knew Lin Heng explained to the old man with a smile: "He must have really bought it. He was on the town's commendation ceremony. He is the youngest millionaire in Huangtan Town."
The old man was stunned, staring at Lin Heng with wide eyes: "I heard that there is a millionaire in Hongfeng Village, could it be you!"
Lin Heng turned around, smiled, waved and left.
The old man was stunned for a long time, not quite understanding how Lin Heng could have changed so much in such a short period of time. It was only less than a few months.
Although the weather is cold, the streets are still very busy on market days, with stalls and pedestrians everywhere.
When he reached the bridge, Lin Heng saw that the meat stall actually had mutton, so he hurried over.
"How much do you sell this mutton?" Lin Heng asked the uncle in front of the stall.
Seeing Lin Heng asking about the price, the uncle grinned and said quickly, "One dollar and a half per pound, do you want to buy it? If you buy more, I can give you a discount. This is because our sheep broke its leg and we killed it."
"Where's the sheep's stomach? How much is it?" Lin Heng asked, pointing at the sheep's stomach hanging next to him. This is a good thing.
The uncle pointed at the sheep's stomach and replied: "These internal organs are two yuan per pound. If you want to buy them, I can give you a discount of one yuan and eighty cents."
Lin Heng nodded and said, "Then I'll buy ten kilograms of mutton. I'll buy all the tripes, intestines, and kidneys."
“So many.”
The uncle was also stunned when he heard this. It was very rare to see such a domineering person. He even doubted whether Lin Heng had so much money.
"Don't worry. I'll give you the money on the spot. How can I run away?" Lin Heng spread his hands and smiled, indicating that he could rest assured.
In this day and age, even a millionaire would not afford to eat and drink like this, and it is really hard to believe that so much could be purchased at one time.
"That's fine."
The uncle nodded, cut the meat and weighed it. Ten pounds of mutton cost 15 yuan, and 12 pounds of offal cost 21.6 yuan.
The total amount was 36.6 yuan, which was more than a normal person's monthly salary. The boss couldn't help but believe it.
Normally, people who come to buy meat buy it in half a pound or a pound, and most people cannot afford to eat meat.
The uncle looked at Lin Heng, pointed at the sheep's head and said, "If you add three dollars and forty cents to the sheep's head, I'll give you the rest. How about that?"
"That's fine. Come with me to the purchasing station to get the money. I don't have that much money on me." Lin Heng nodded. Four dollars for a sheep's head seemed quite a good deal to him.
The uncle was stunned for a moment, looked at Lin Heng and said, "Purchasing station? Are you the boss of the purchasing station?"
Lin Heng laughed: "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be."
The uncle slapped his thigh and said quickly: "I really didn't recognize the real thing. Then I'll give you some more mutton."
He turned around and was about to go back to add meat. Although he had never seen Lin Heng, many people had heard of his name. It was reported in the newspapers. He was the face of their Huangtan Town.
"That's not necessary." Lin Heng pulled him and took him to the purchasing station to get the money.
"Thank you." The uncle smiled, put the money in his pocket and turned to leave.
Lin Heng walked into the house and looked at Grandpa Gao, then cut two pounds of the lamb he had bought into the pot and gave it to him.
"Xiao Lin, you always come here to take things, and I, an old man, can't bear it." Grandpa Gao smiled and shook his head.
Lin Heng grinned: "I didn't bring anything valuable. It's just winter now, so I'll give you some mutton to warm you up. If you feel bad about it, you can teach me some more techniques when we go hunting in a few days."
Grandpa Gao smiled and shook his head, "I can't argue with you, so let's eat together. I haven't had lunch yet."
"Then I'll make some Old Beijing mutton hotpot." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Okay." Grandpa Gao didn't hesitate and nodded with a smile.
Lin Heng turned around and went to make sesame paste first. Grandpa Gao had sesame seeds at home, so he just dried them on the kang and crushed them with a stone mortar. A bowl of sesame paste was ready in ten minutes.
The soup base for Old Beijing mutton hotpot is even simpler, just two scallions, three red dates, a few slices of ginger and some dried shrimps.
Use sesame paste to prepare two dipping sauces, cut the mutton and you can eat the mutton hotpot.
The mutton I bought is very fresh and can be eaten after a little cooking.
Dip the boiled mutton in the dipping sauce and put it in your mouth. The freshness of the mutton and the taste of the dipping sauce burst out together. Lin Heng's dipping sauce is sour and spicy, with a lot of garlic added. It is simply a pleasure to eat.
Grandpa Gao took a bite and praised repeatedly: "It's delicious. Xiaolin, the dipping sauce you prepared is very good. It's not much different from the authentic shabu-shabu mutton I had in BJ."
"Uncle Gao, you have been to BJ?" Lin Heng said in shock, with envy on his face.
Grandpa Gao looked at Lin Heng, took another bite of mutton and recalled: "Of course I have been there. I went there with my friends when I came back from the war."
He always thought that Lin Heng knew his identity, but now it seems that this kid really doesn't know.
"Fighting, you came back from the army? Then I must toast you, old man, you defended our country."
As Lin Heng spoke, he picked up the wine glass and toasted. He really admired those who went to the battlefield to defend their country. They were all true heroes.
"Hahaha, it's not as noble as you say..."
Grandpa Gao and Lin Heng clinked lips and ate mutton hotpot while telling each other about his experience of crossing the Yalu River to hunt eagles.
After listening to this, Lin Heng sighed with emotion: "You are so amazing and great. Just hearing about your deeds makes my blood boil."
Grandpa Gao is indeed a noble man. If he had revealed his identity, he would have been well taken care of, but he quietly chose to go home and live on his own in his old age without wasting national resources.
Moreover, Lin Heng knew that he was not a lonely man. His son was a high-ranking official in the army and his nephew was also an official in the county.
If he wanted to arrange it, it would only take a few minutes. This made him look even more noble.
"Just keep these things to yourself. Don't go out and talk about them. I don't want to be disturbed."
They were almost done eating, Grandpa Gao patted Lin Heng on the shoulder and said.
He really liked the younger Lin Heng and treated him as his grandson, otherwise he would not have said these things.
Lin Heng grinned and said, "Don't worry, Master Gao. I promise not to tell anyone else a word. I won't even tell my wife."
Grandpa Gao nodded and said with a smile, "That's good. Let's continue eating meat. Bring me some sesame paste."
"Okay." Lin Heng stood up with a smile. He felt that this was the old man's initial recognition of him.
After the meal, both of them were very full. Lin Heng took out some hawthorns and played a few games of chess with the old man.
After playing enough with Grandpa Gao, Lin Heng went for a walk on the street again.
By this time the market was drawing to a close and vendors were starting to pack up their stalls.
Lin Heng walked around and bought two kilograms of pears and six kilograms of oranges, then went to buy a new pair of horseshoes for Hongzao. Lin Heng rode it and took the things back to his hometown.
"In this weather, the snow won't fall. It's really annoying."
Lin Heng covered his face with a scarf and put on a cotton hat. Fortunately, he had the scarf and gloves knitted by his wife, which provided some protection against the cold wind.
Back in the house, Xiulan looked at him with curiosity as he brought back so many things: "Didn't you go to the cage? Are you going to town?"
"Yes, I bought some mutton. We'll have mutton hotpot tonight. You take these things and take care of them. I'll go warm them up. It's too cold."
Lin Heng said as he ran into the house.
"Then take your daughter into the house quickly and leave these to me." Xiulan nodded.
Although she felt that Lin Heng bought a little too much, she did not blame him. He bought it for himself and his daughter, and there was nothing wrong with that.
"Dad, let me warm your hands."
Xiaoxia seemed to understand what Lin Heng said about his hands being cold, and held Lin Heng's big hand.
"What a thoughtful little cotton-padded jacket."
Lin Heng couldn't help but laugh. He added two more firewoods to the fireplace and then held his daughter in his arms.
Xiaoxia warmed his hands for a while, then tilted her head and said coquettishly, "Daddy, candy~"
"Here, here." Lin Heng nodded with a smile, took out a candy and gave it to her.
After taking a look at Xiongba who was lying on the ground and unwilling to go out, Lin Heng turned around and left the bedroom. Xiaoxia also ran out like a little follower.
"This sheep's head needs to be burned, I can't do it." Xiulan said to Lin Heng while washing the sheep's stomach and small intestines.
Lin Heng nodded and said, "I'll do it."
The sheep's head had to be burned black with fire until it was almost burnt. I found some dry bamboo strips and started a fire, and soon the sheep's head was burnt.
The roasted sheep's head was given to Xiulan to deal with. Lin Heng got a thin bamboo tube, thinned the open end and used it to remove the seeds from the hawthorn. It was done by poking it from the center.
Xiulan looked at his actions and asked curiously, "What are you going to make with these hawthorns?"
"Part of it is used to make hawthorn paste, and part of it is used to make cottage cake." Lin Heng said as he worked on it.
He also likes hawthorn cake very much, and the hawthorn paste is prepared for Xiaoxia. Giving her a little after meals can effectively improve the problem of indigestion.
"You really love your daughter so much." Xiulan said with a smile. She had never seen anyone who treasured his daughter so much.
"Of course." Lin Heng smiled.
After the hawthorns were prepared, he kept eight pounds to make hawthorn paste, and the remaining 12 pounds were sliced, dried, and ground into powder to make hawthorn cake.
By the time he had cut the hawthorn into slices, it was almost dark.
"You said we want to have mutton hotpot tonight. Do we need sheep tripe? I have already washed it clean." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and asked.
"No need, let's invite my parents to come eat next time." Lin Heng shook his head and said.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded and went back to cut the mutton.
Lin Heng lit the charcoal fire on a small ceramic stove and placed it on the table. He then put a small iron pot on the stove and added green onions, ginger, wolfberries, red dates and dried shrimps. Finally, he added cold water and brought it to a boil.
In addition to preparing the dipping sauce and lamb, Xiulan also prepared some coriander, pea tips and green vegetables.
Lin Heng took a bite and said with emotion: "I will never get tired of eating this."
Especially in winter, this bite of mutton hotpot can really warm your whole body.
Xiulan also agreed deeply and nodded, "It's really enjoyable."
Her current life seems so happy to her.
"Good times~"
Even Xiaoxia nodded repeatedly, although she was not allowed to eat much, mostly vegetables.
"Try eating it with coriander. I think it tastes better." Lin Heng said to his wife.
The boiled mutton is put together with coriander and dipped in hot and sour sesame paste. The rich taste and various aromas seem to constantly stimulate the taste buds, which is simply intoxicating.
"It's delicious." Xiulan also liked it immediately after tasting it.
The meal was delicious. Each of them ate a pound of mutton and plenty of vegetables.
After the meal, the three of them ate some hawthorns and played in the bedroom for an hour and a half to digest the food before going to rest.
The next morning, Lin Heng went to check the mutton that had been hung outside last night. It was indeed frozen hard, so it could be cut into very thin slices.
After completing the exercises he did every morning, Lin Heng continued to make his own hawthorn paste.
This thing is not difficult to make, just like making Pipa paste, just wash the hawthorn and tangerine peel and pour them in to cook. Cook until the hawthorn is rotten and then filter it out. At this time, most of the nutrients of the hawthorn will be integrated into the soup.
Then add some rock sugar and cook it until it becomes a gelatinous liquid like honey. Pour it into a round-bellied blue and white porcelain jar that has been boiled in water.
"Is it done? Let me try it." Xiulan saw that Lin Heng had finished, so she walked over and scooped a spoonful to taste it.
Lin Heng looked at her and asked, "How's it going? Eight kilograms of hawthorns were used to make four kilograms of hawthorn paste."
"It's sour and sweet and delicious. I think Xiaoxia will like it."
Xiulan blinked and fed Xiaoxia some.
Xiaoxia tasted it, her eyes lit up immediately, and she leaned on the edge of the table with both hands like a greedy cat and said, "Good, Dad, I want more!"
This sweet and sour taste is so popular.
"Then I'll give you some."
Lin Heng added a little water to pour out the food that could not be scooped out of the pot and gave it to Xiaoxia, then added a little kudzu root powder to dissolve it. Xiaoxia sat on the bench holding a spoon and ate happily.
The sun came out after a long absence this noon. Lin Heng walked into the yard, flipped through the hawthorn slices that were drying in the sun, and looked at the bacon.
"What are my parents doing today?" Lin Heng asked his wife.
"Dad and brother are digging lotus roots, and Mom is in the house and hasn't gone out yet." Xiulan replied.
Lin Heng looked at her and suggested, "How about letting mom take care of Xiaoxia for a while, and you and I will go collect the traps?"
"Okay." Xiulan nodded.
"Okay then."
Lin Heng waited for Xiaoxia to finish eating, then took her to her mother's place and asked her mother to help take care of her.
Then he went to the back mountain to get the horse, Xiulan went home to get the bag, and took Xiongba out for a walk.
When they reached the road, Lin Heng smiled and said, "Get on the horse."
"good."
Xiulan blinked and was helped by Lin Heng to mount the horse first. Then Lin Heng mounted the horse himself and put his hands around her waist to hold the reins.
"drive!"
At the command, Hongzao started to trot. The two of them were jolted on the horse's back, which was not very comfortable but felt very good, especially when their bodies collided with each other.
Lin Heng wanted to buy a motorcycle. It would definitely be more comfortable to ride a motorcycle with Xiulan holding him and sitting on the back.
Moreover, it is very convenient to have a motorcycle when going into the city. You can go into the city anytime you want, but it is not necessarily the case to ride someone else's.
"Why."
Lin Heng put his head on Xiulan's shoulder, sighed, and took a deep breath of the scent of her hair.
Xiulan squeezed Lin Heng's hand and asked, "What's the matter?"
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Nothing, I just sigh that you smell so good."
Although his home was comfortable, he still planned to go hunting in the mountains in the next few days, hoping to get something, which would allow him to buy a motorcycle and earn some money to prepare for shrimp farming next year.
But there is no need to tell Xiulan about this kind of thing, otherwise she will definitely worry.
Xiulan pouted: "You are so smooth-talking. There must be something you haven't told me."
"drive!!"
Lin Heng suddenly accelerated the horse and Xiulan was so scared that she screamed and jumped into Lin Heng's arms.
"Slow down, slow down, brother, slow down."
Xiulan begged quickly, it was too fast and she was afraid.
"Good sister, we are here."
Lin Heng got off the horse first, holding the reins, and then took Xiulan down.
Xiulan got off the horse and glared at Lin Heng: "Next time if you come out so soon, I won't go out with you. My butt hurts."
"Okay." Lin Heng smiled and nodded in agreement.
As they talked, they led the horses to the riverside. The river was already very wide at this place.
After leaving the horses to graze by the field, the two men went to the river to collect the traps.
Lin Heng found the place and walked back with the rope. After a while, the trap came out of the water, with fish rolling and struggling inside.
"There's something!" Xiulan was immediately delighted.
Lin Heng put them away and took a look, smiling: "So many yellow thorn bones? This basket is not a wasted trip."
There are a lot of yellow thorns of all sizes in the cage, among which there are some golden individuals, which are particularly conspicuous.
Xiulan nodded: "This fish tastes better than crucian carp and has no bones."
Not only Xiaoxia likes it, she likes it too.
Lin Heng fell to the shore with the trap in his hand. The most annoying thing about the yellow thornfish is that it has three sharp thorns, which can easily get stuck in the trap. It took a lot of effort to get it out.
Throw those that are too small back into the river and collect the big ones.
Lin Heng counted them and found that there were twenty yellow thorn bones he had collected, each weighing about two taels.
Later, Lin Heng went to pull the second cage. When he pulled it up, he was a little disappointed. It might be because of the bad position. There were only five or six yellow mullets and some stream groupers in it.
Xiulan was very open-minded: "It's not a loss anyway. This first basket already weighs three or four kilograms."
Lin Heng nodded and pulled the third cage. This cage was next to a pile of water plants, quite far away from the other two cages.
There was no movement when it was just pulled up, but just when the last two sections were coming out of the water, there was a sudden splash and a huge splash of water.
"Damn, it's a big catfish."
Lin Heng was stunned, and immediately showed a look of surprise.
"How old?"
Xiulan trotted over from not far away and asked curiously.
Lin Heng held up the cage and showed it to his wife with a smile: "Look, there are three catfish in this cage. The largest one weighs at least 10 to 20 pounds and is as thick as my forearm."
"Awesome, you are really capable under the cage." Xiulan smiled and gave a thumbs up, praising her husband.
"Collect them all, and then go back and put them in our fish pond so we can eat them slowly." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Okay." Xiulan also felt that there was no need to release it.
Pour out the fish and throw it into the bag without adding water. Catfish and yellowtail fish can breathe air through their gills, so they will not die in a short time.
The two men wanted to continue lowering the trap, but an old man herding cattle came over and watched from afar.
Lin Heng didn't want to use the trap that the two of them spent two days making to test the old man's quality, so he took it away decisively.
He held the trap in his right hand, Xiulan held the fish in her left hand, and Lin Heng pulled her right hand up.
After getting on the horses, the two of them walked slowly and chatted on their way back. There was still sunshine in the sky at that time, and it felt warm on their bodies.
After returning to the house, the two kept one catfish and five yellowtail fish in the basin, and threw the rest into the fish pond.
Originally, there were black fish, red carp, stream grouper, a small turtle and hibernating giant salamanders in this fish pond.
This black fish is extremely ferocious and often attacks the stream grouper, making a loud splashing sound in the water.
Catfish is also a major overlord, but it lives at the bottom of the water and does not conflict with snakehead fish.
The worst off are the brook groupers. Their days will be even more difficult in the future as there is no one in the water they can afford to offend.
"Let's go back to the house."
After finishing it, Xiulan hurriedly said.
The two went back to the bedroom to warm up their hands and feet. Xiongba lay on the ground, too tired to move. This lap was finally completed.
After they were warm enough, they went to the old house to pick up Xiaoxia.
It was a little after one in the afternoon. Father Lin had returned from digging lotus roots and was eating in the house. There were forty or fifty kilograms of lotus roots in the yard.
"Come over and eat together. I've cooked for you too." Mother Lin said as she looked at them.
Lin Heng nodded and said, "Come to our house tonight to have mutton hotpot. I bought a lot of mutton yesterday."
Mother Lin looked at him and asked, "You spent a lot of money, right? There's no need to eat well all day."
"Not much money." Lin Heng shook his head. His mother was just like that. She was stingy with money. Fortunately, they lived separately and didn't have to listen to her "nurse" every day.
"Well, just eat it. If he has no money, then he won't eat it." Father Lin is more open-minded than Mother Lin and agreed immediately.
In the afternoon, Xiulan cooked the sheep's head, removed the meat, and cooked the bones into a broth. In the evening, she invited everyone in the room to eat copper stove hot pot.
Lin Heng brought out the mutton, and his elder brother and parents brought out a lot of vegetables. Everyone in the room started to eat happily.
"This mutton hotpot is really delicious."
“The lamb tripe is delicious too…”
The room was filled with joy and we ate from five o'clock until after seven o'clock, finishing all the dishes.
When everyone was getting ready to leave, it suddenly started snowing outside for no reason. At first it was just snow flakes, but soon it turned into large flakes of snow.
"It's snowing so heavily! If it keeps snowing like this, tomorrow will be a white snowy day." Father Lin sighed.
Hearing this, Lin Heng also walked out. He was so happy looking at the heavy snow falling from the sky. When the snow fell, it was time to go into the mountains.
Six thousand words today, and six thousand words every day from now on. I will try to recover ten thousand words after the New Year.
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(End of this chapter)
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