Chapter 10 My wife wants to sleep on the floor [Please read more]
Breakfast was sauerkraut dumpling soup, also called mixed soup, which tasted pretty good. It is a kind of noodle dish commonly eaten in this era and tasted pretty good.
After breakfast, the father looked at everyone, especially Lin Heng, and said, "We are going to plant rice this morning. We have to plant all nine acres of land in one day. Everyone has to come.
Caiyun is collecting grass for the pigs and helping take care of the children, while the others are working in the fields. Once this is done, we can prepare to build the house.”
Lin Heng knew that these words were directed at him, and he did not refuse, which made his family members feel a little unbelievable.
When he went out to get tools, his mother Lu Hongmei followed him, which made Lin Heng feel helpless: "Mom, are you afraid that I will run away?"
"It's not like you haven't done this before." Lin's mother glanced at him.
"Second Dad, your slingshot." The eldest nephew Lin Wei handed the slingshot to Lin Heng and said with a smile: "Second Dad, please teach me."
"Sure, but I, your second father, have to work." Lin Heng spread his hands.
"That's okay, I'll help you." Five-year-old Lin Wei patted his chest and said.
"Well, let's go. I'll first teach you how to shoot accurately..."
Lin Heng carried a backpack and started talking to his eldest nephew, using a bunch of fantastic theories. The eldest nephew was stunned and his admiration for Lin Heng was beyond words.
"Lin Wei, come here and stop disturbing your second father from working!"
Sister-in-law Liu Juan suddenly shouted.
"Mom, my second father didn't work..." Lin Wei said aggrievedly.
"Come and keep an eye on your brother. Do you want me to get a note?" Liu Juan roared and started looking for branches around.
Fearing that his butt would be injured, Lin Wei hurried back to his mother without saying a word.
Lin Heng shrugged and said nothing. He knew that his sister-in-law was afraid that her son would learn bad things from him and not work hard.
Her sister-in-law is just like that. She manages her three sons very strictly and beats them if they don't listen to her.
She felt that everything she did was for the good of her children.
Lin Heng walked over to help his wife hold their daughter, taught her to speak, and made the little one laugh.
We soon arrived at the field. My eldest brother had already pulled out the seedlings and the field had been cleaned up a few days ago. Now all we had to do was plant the rice seedlings.
The whole family worked at the same time, with six people working together, the efficiency was very high.
Just after finishing a field, father Lin Xuan couldn't help but say: "Lin Heng, your planting is not as neat as your eldest nephew's."
The others' were straight and horizontal, but Lin Heng's was a little crooked.
"As long as I can survive." Lin Heng didn't care and buried his head in his work.
"How could I, Lin Xuan, give birth to a kid like you!" Angry, Dad Lin dragged his eldest brother to another field. His obsessive-compulsive disorder made him unable to bear it and he had to leave.
One morning, after planting four mu of land, while washing his feet by the river, Lin Heng rubbed his lower back and couldn't help complaining: "Farming is really the most unprofitable thing in the world."
He already had back pain, and having to hunch over to plant rice seedlings the entire morning, it was really killing him.
The rice from the nine acres of land was only enough for his family to eat, and it was just barely enough. There was no question of selling the grain.
Not to mention that in this day and age, farmers have to pay a portion of grain tax every year, so it is impossible for them to become rich by farming.
"Speak softly, or Dad will scold you if he hears." Chen Xiulan reminded him quickly. After washing Lin Heng's feet, she helped rub his waist.
"We told you last night that we would be planting rice today, but you said it was okay. Now your waist hurts?" Xiulan rolled her eyes at Lin Heng and said sarcastically.
"It's not to serve you..."
Before Lin Heng finished speaking, he felt his wife glaring at him, so he quickly smiled and stopped talking. His wife was shy, so he stopped teasing her.
"Then I'll sleep on the floor, so that no one will blame me." Chen Xiulan kneaded with more force.
"I was just joking." Lin Heng begged for mercy quickly.
Then he changed the subject directly: "Wife, how much money do we have in savings now?"
As soon as he said this, Chen Xiulan's face immediately became alert: "What are you going to do?"
"I plan to collect some Coriolus versicolor and store it. I have a feeling that the price of Coriolus versicolor will rise sharply from the end of the year, maybe double or triple."
He thought of one thing this morning. That is, starting from August and September, the price of mulberry fungus has suddenly increased from 80 cents per catty to 3 yuan per catty, and the price of other miscellaneous tree fungus can also be sold for 2 yuan per catty.
Then most farmers started picking them, resulting in not a single yellow tree being seen in the mountains for the next six months.
He planned to spend money to buy a large amount of Coriolus fungus, stockpile it, and then sell it in August or September. This way he would have some money to start his own business.
Relying on climbing mountains to save money is indeed a bit too slow.
Chen Xiulan didn't say anything, obviously not wanting to use the money in this way.
It was not easy for her to save this money. She saved it bit by bit from collecting mushrooms and herbs in the mountains.
If her husband was sick, she could give it out without hesitation, but she couldn't bear to do this kind of thing.
What if I lose money? Wouldn't that mean I'll lose everything? Seeing his wife's expression, Lin Heng quickly changed his words: "It's okay, I'm just talking, don't take it to heart."
He thought about it carefully and realized that he really shouldn't have done that. That money was his wife's hard-earned emergency money. What if his memory was unreliable?
And there is no rush for this matter. It is only the beginning of May in the Gregorian calendar and there are still three months left.
He also understood his wife's feelings. This is actually the mentality of all farmers. They dare not take risks because there is no cost of trial and error.
Once a business fails, one will be faced with foreign debts that may take decades to repay, and the whole family will not be able to afford food.
It’s not the farmers’ fault that they don’t have the entrepreneurial acumen, but that they don’t dare to do so. They don’t dare to gamble with the future of their entire family.
"Wife, what do you think this is?"
Lin Heng picked up a stone from the water. After the stone was removed, a six-centimeter-long stream grouper appeared in his hand.
"How did you catch it?" Chen Xiulan was stunned. Her husband had this skill.
"Oh my god, Second Father, please teach me, please teach me!"
The eldest nephew Lin Wei was stunned, with admiration written all over his face.
Erdie is not only good at shooting with a slingshot, but also has great skills in catching fish. He is exactly the master he has always dreamed of.
"When I was a kid, I did a lot of harm to the fish in this river." Lin Heng laughed.
When he was a kid, he had tried all these things, such as catching fish with his hands, hitting stones with a hammer to shock them, and breaking medicinal tree leaves and smashing them into pulp to poison fish. He was an expert at all of these.
As a result, there were very few fish, shrimps and crabs in the river for a long time. It was only in the past two years that the situation gradually recovered.
"Second Dad, let's grab a plate and fry it."
Nephew Lin Wei suggested.
"Let's give it a try." Lin Heng had no hope for this. Catching fish with bare hands requires a lot of skill.
First you have to build a trap, drive the fish under a small stone, then put your hands together and slowly reach in, blocking the front and back entrances, leaving no gap to catch the fish in your hands.
It sounds simple, but Lin Heng also played it for more than a year when he was a child before he gradually became proficient in it, and it requires very strong skills.
However, since he learned it, he has become the leader among the kids and won the unanimous admiration of his friends.
“Ahhh…”
Lin Heng had just caught a fish when he heard a painful scream from behind.
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