Chapter 123 Recruiting, Mongolian bow, catching snails and crabs
"Excuse me, has my household registration been completed?"
Public Security Bureau, Lin Heng handed over his ID card at the window of the household registration office and asked softly.
"Okay, here is your household registration book." The policewoman inside looked at the ID card, searched for it, and took out a household registration book.
"Thanks."
Lin Heng took the household registration book and looked at it. The head of the household was Lin Heng, his wife was Chen Xiulan, and his daughter was Lin Xiaoxia.
After reading it, he couldn't help but feel happy. He took his ID card and household registration booklet, turned around and walked out.
After leaving the police station, he looked at the sky. The sun was too strong. It was now past eleven o'clock, and he was so hot walking back that he might get heatstroke.
Lin Heng went to look for Wang Zhou, his junior high school classmate who drove a tractor. The last time they met, he learned that Wang Zhou lived with another driver uncle.
When Lin Heng came over, the two were playing chess in the main room.
"Wang Zhou!" Lin Heng shouted with a smile.
Hearing Lin Heng's voice, Wang Zhou suddenly looked up and shouted happily: "Lin Heng!"
"Come in and sit down." The tone of the uncle next to him was also very polite, and the look he gave Lin Heng was different from the last time they met.
Apparently, he had already heard about the sharp increase in the price of Coriolus polyphylla. The boy whom he had previously thought was a whimsical and reckless boy had suddenly become a wealthy man whom he could not reach.
"Lin Heng, are you here to sell Coriolus versicolor? You've made a fortune this time." Wang Zhou said with a smile, feeling genuinely happy for his old classmate but also a little regretful at the same time.
"No, I'm here to send my sister to school." Lin Heng said with a smile.
The uncle next to him took the initiative to bring a stool and poured water. Lin Heng nodded and thanked him.
"You are a wealthy man now, so it's so easy to send your sister to school. That's great." Wang Zhou said with emotion that his old classmate now has the ability to change the fate of others.
He once wished he had such an elder who would allow him to continue his studies. Unfortunately, he didn't.
"You're joking. He's not a rich man at all. He doesn't have much money." Lin Heng said with a smile.
The driver next to him smiled and said with emotion: "That's a lot. We earn 16 yuan a month, and it takes 20 to 30 years to earn 5,000 or 6,000 yuan. Boss Lin, how could you be so sure that the price of Coriolus versicolor would increase?"
"It's nothing. I analyzed it after reading more books." Lin Heng smiled slightly.
"Is that so? That's amazing." The driver praised. He didn't quite believe it in his heart. He thought that Lin Heng must know some expert and got the news in advance.
But he was really envious. With so much money, Lin Heng would have no worries about food and clothing for at least the next ten years.
"I really regret not buying some Coriolus versicolor and saving it before, otherwise I could have made a small profit." Wang Zhou said with emotion.
No matter whether it was him or the driver, they would sigh uncontrollably while lying in bed every night, or even slap themselves, wondering why they didn't buy some in the first place.
Lin Heng smiled and didn't respond. Instead, he looked at Wang Zhou and asked, "How do you think about the matter I asked you to consider before?"
Wang Zhou was stunned: "What's the matter?"
"Come and work for me. It's twenty dollars a month, with food and lodging provided. The work is easy, too. You can just stay in the house and don't have to run around all day." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Really?" Wang Zhou was stunned. He thought Lin Heng was just joking before.
"Of course, it's true what I said about introducing a wife to you. If you work hard, I guarantee that you will have a wife by this time next year." Lin Heng looked at him and said.
He didn't dare to guarantee it before, but now his influence in the village has soared, and it is not too difficult to match Wang Zhou with a girl from an ordinary family.
"What kind of job?" Wang Zhou was stunned and was deeply attracted, but he was a little entangled: "The boss here is very good to me. I'm afraid that he will have no one to work with after I leave."
"Hurry up and leave. The boss will be hiring in a day or two. He doesn't need you." The driver next to him hurriedly persuaded.
"If Boss Lin didn't want me, I would have wanted to work under him for four more dollars." The driver was a kind-hearted man and was afraid that Wang Zhou would be ignorant and miss the good opportunity.
"The work location is also in town. I can't reveal the details for now, but you will know in a few days. Come and tell me if you want to." Lin Heng looked at Wang Zhou and said.
He didn't have to help Wang Zhou, he just wanted to help because they were classmates.
If you post a job announcement for a salary of 20 yuan, a bunch of people will be eager to get in. In this era, the country lacks everything except population.
As a person who had experienced it, the driver knew how valuable this job was and urged Wang Zhou to agree.
"Is this okay? I'll go ask the boss and give you a reply in two days." Wang Zhou finally did not agree directly, which made the driver next to him very angry.
However, Lin Heng thought this was a good thing. He valued Wang Zhou because he was principled and grateful. No one wanted to recruit a subordinate like Lu Bu. No matter how capable he was, he would not dare to use him.
"Okay, I'm not in a hurry either." Lin Heng nodded.
"Thank you." Wang Zhou looked at Lin Heng with gratitude. This old classmate was such a good person.
"Come, let's play two games of chess. I'll hide from the sun and then go home." Lin Heng said to Wang Zhou.
"Okay!" Wang Zhou nodded.
The three of them took turns playing a few games of chess, and then Lin Heng asked about the tractors and went to their boss to rent two tractors.
"Remember to drive the tractor up early tomorrow morning. I'm leaving now."
After saying this, Lin Heng left. Tomorrow morning he would use a tractor to transport mulberry yellow to the city to sell for money.
After Lin Heng left, the driver dissuaded Wang Zhou: "You silly kid, you will definitely choose to follow Lin Heng. You are classmates, and if he becomes wealthy, you will definitely benefit from him.
If you follow your current boss, you will be a tractor driver all your life, don't you understand?"
"This!" Wang Zhou was confused. Although he was 24 years old, he was still confused about the future.
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After leaving Wang Zhou's residence, Lin Heng went back to Grandpa Gao's house and bought a new lock. There was only one key left of the original lock in Grandpa Gao's house.
After changing the locks, he chatted with Grandpa Gao for a while. When Grandpa Gao learned that Lin Heng could hunt with a bow and arrow, he sat up and asked, "Do you have this skill?"
"Haha, I know a little." Lin Heng said modestly.
"You wait." The old man said, then stood up and walked into the house.
After a while, he took out a dark brown bow and two black arrows.
"Come on, try it. Just shoot at the big wooden stake in the yard. I've drawn a target on it." Grandpa Gao said with a smile.
"This is a Mongolian compound bow, it's really a good thing." Lin Heng took the bow, looked at it and praised.
He had played with bows and arrows in his previous life, so he naturally had some knowledge of the relevant knowledge. This bow was obviously a fine product, much better than his previous slingshot.
His slingshot was made of a piece of orange wood, and its pulling force was only six or seven kilograms.
This is a fine Mongolian composite bow, and it is also the strongest bow in ancient times. Genghis Khan used this bow. This bow is made of a variety of composite materials. In addition to the wood used for the main body of the bow, it also requires ox horn, fish glue, silk, lacquer, beef tendon and other materials.
It usually takes one or two years to complete its manufacturing. It feels much better in the hand than the hunting bow in his home. It is said that the best Mongolian bow can have a pulling force of fifty or sixty kilograms.
However, what Lin Heng wanted more was a modern compound bow, which had an ergonomic design and was equipped with a series of accessories such as laser aiming, a balance bar, shock absorption, and a pulley. Its accuracy, range, and lethality far surpassed those of ancient bows and arrows.
He recently wanted to buy a modern compound bow, and Mongolian bows were fine for collection. But he was not sure if Taibai City had modern compound bows at this time, after all, it was just a small fifth-tier city.
"Haha, this was given to me by an old friend of mine. I play with it sometimes. You can try it." Grandpa Gao was very happy. It was easy to chat with people who knew the goods.
"I'll try."
Lin Heng put the arrow on the bow and pulled the bowstring. The pulling force of this Mongolian bow was 20 kilograms, and it was much more difficult for him to pull it than his own bow.
But after all, he had practiced bow drawing frequently in the past few months, so he was not unable to draw the bow. He aimed and shot an arrow, which hit the target with a whoosh and pierced into the wood with a bang.
"It's indeed a good bow." Lin Heng praised.
"Your technique is not bad. You can hit the eight ring at thirty or forty meters." Grandpa Gao also praised. He believed that Lin Heng was not lying when he said he used a bow and arrow to hunt.
"Haha, the main thing is that this bow is very good." Lin Heng said modestly.
"Stop being so modest. Let's go hunting together in winter. I also want to satisfy my urge to hunt." Grandpa Gao waved his hand and said.
"Okay, I'll pick you up when the time comes." Lin Heng said with a smile. This veteran who had fought in the war had strong reconnaissance capabilities and might be able to kill something big. It would be nice to learn from him.
After playing for a while, when the sun was not so scary at three o'clock, Lin Heng prepared to go home.
"Here, there are five crucian carps left. You can take them back. I can’t finish them all." Grandpa Gao put the crucian carps into a bag and handed it to Lin Heng.
"Thank you then." Lin Heng did not refuse and walked back with the fish.
After going out, he went to the tofu shop in the town and bought two pounds of tofu, preparing to go home and make some crucian carp and tofu soup.
The weather was hot and I walked slowly, so it was already past four o'clock when I got home, and even then my clothes were soaked.
When I walked to the door, I happened to meet Lin's father. He asked, "Why did you come back just now? Didn't Caiyun's registration go smoothly?"
"No, it went smoothly. I was delayed because I was doing something in town, and I picked up my household registration booklet while I was there."
After Lin Heng finished speaking, he said, "Dad, take these crucian carps back and eat them. I have five of them here, and I also bought some tofu."
"I still have the catfish I caught before, you can eat it yourself." Father Lin shook his head, he was reluctant to eat it.
"Then I'll make it and bring it to you in the evening." Lin Heng was too lazy to say more and left with the fish.
I gave my eldest brother a one-pound fish and half a pound of tofu, and took the rest back home.
"Dad!" Xiaoxia rushed over as soon as Lin Heng entered the room.
"Here's some candy." Lin Heng could only use a candy to coax her aside. He was too hot and didn't want to hug her.
"Make crucian carp and tofu soup tonight, honey. Cook all four fish and send half to our parents." Lin Heng handed the fish and tofu to Xiulan.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded and went out with a knife to kill the fish.
Lin Heng took off his shirt, washed his upper body and hair with cold water, and drank a glass of boiled water to cool down.
“Ouch~”
Xiongba lay on the wall of the main room and called out to him. He also stuck out his tongue because of the heat, and his eyes seemed to say that he hadn't been to the mountain for a long time.
Over a month has passed, and Xiongba has grown a lot in size, but the awkward period of growth has not yet ended, and he now looks a bit ugly.
It is now about five months old, and is already much larger than a medium-sized dog. It will take a year for it to reach adulthood. However, its size is set at about seven or eight months, and the rest is just some other development.
Compared to Xiongba, the little golden cat Jinbao who was lying lazily beside the mat was growing very fast. He was only over a month old and was only a little smaller than an adult domestic cat. It would probably grow up completely in another month or two.
This guy was lying there yawning. He was not afraid of people anymore. He would not even raise his eyes when people came in front of him. He slept and ate, ate and slept. His only exercise was being teased by Xiaoxia.
After growing up, this guy's appearance improved a lot. He looks like a little tiger and is much more powerful than an ordinary domestic cat.
"Meow~"
As if it smelled the fishy smell outside, it stood up and stretched, dragged the leash towards the outside, stood at the door and rubbed the door frame, wanting to eat.
"Here, do you want to eat the fish entrails?" Xiulan took the fish entrails out of the basin and threw them onto the stone slab.
"Meow~" Jinbao was about to eat it when a big paw behind him pushed him away and ate the crucian carp's entrails on the ground in one bite.
"roar!!"
Jinbao suddenly became angry, rushed forward and clawed at the dog and the cat, and soon the dog and the cat started fighting.
Just as Lin Heng was about to come over to stop him, Xiongba subdued Jin Bao. After all, there was a huge weight difference between them.
"Roar!!" Jin Bao roared, but he was pinned down so tightly that he couldn't move at all.
"No fighting, otherwise both of you will have no food to eat." Lin Heng shouted coldly.
Hearing this, Xiongba immediately let go of the little golden cat and ran back to Lin Heng.
“Roar~~”
Jinbao kept barking at Xiongba, and seemed to be cursing him with extremely dirty words. He was so angry that he took his food and hit him.
"Good cat!" Xiaoxia walked over and touched his head a few times, and only then did Jinbao calm down.
Xiulan gave it another crucian carp innards, and it immediately took it to the side and started eating with a grunt, looking back at Xiongba from time to time.
"Dad, let's go out and play!" Xiaoxia pulled Lin Heng to go out and play. Lin Heng had hardly taken her out to play in the past few days.
"When the sky gets cloudy, let's go catch some snails and crabs to eat." Lin Heng said to Xiaoxia.
"Catch crabs and snails!!" Xiaoxia raised her two little hands high and jumped happily.
"Then let's invite our parents over to eat tonight." Xiulan said after she prepared the crucian carp and brought it in.
"That's fine." Lin Heng nodded. This is also fine.
He went to the yard and picked a cucumber, eating it while observing the badgers and musk deer.
The wild hog now weighs more than ten pounds. After all, its life nowadays is to sleep and eat, eat and sleep every day. It is not like in the wild where it would be hungry and full, so it grows much faster.
The female musk deer hasn't changed much, it still looks the same as before. It has gotten used to it and is not so afraid of people anymore. It is not afraid even when Lin Heng walks in front of it.
"Here!" Lin Heng handed half a cucumber to it.
The guy looked at it and ignored it. Lin Heng had no choice but to throw the remaining half to the badger, wait for it to finish eating, catch it, deal with the feces in the pen, and bury it in the soil for compost like the feces of the forest musk deer.
I really didn't dare to close the pigsty at the back of the mountain. Unlike cattle and sheep, they can't be found once they run away. Fortunately, the two guys are very small and there is not much feces. If you clean it up diligently, the smell is not strong.
When the sun had set a little, almost five o'clock, Lin Heng held his daughter in his arms, and Xiulan carried a basket and a plastic bucket and set off for the river. Xiongba followed the three of them and played around happily.
"Dad, what is this?" Xiaoxia asked as she walked past the field, pointing at the rice in the field.
"This is rice. When it matures, it will become the rice you eat," Lin Heng explained.
The rice in the fields will be harvested soon. The plump rice ears have already spread out and the leaves have begun to turn yellow. It will be time to thresh the rice in a few days.
"Rice grains will produce rice!" Xiaoxia said crisply. She couldn't yet connect the two things together.
Soon, she asked about other things.
Soon the three of them arrived at the river. His cows and sheep were tied here to graze, while Lin's father and others were turning over sweet potato vines in the field.
There is no end to the farm work. Xiulan did some in the morning, but only came here in the afternoon because of Lin Heng.
Lin Heng really didn't want to do it. He looked at his wife who was about to help and shook his head, saying, "Let's get the snails and crabs first. When you have enough, then come and help."
Parents can't sit still. Even if you help them finish the work, they will find some other work. In short, they can't sit still.
Lin Heng plans to get a batch of fruit tree seedlings next spring and ask his parents to plant fruit trees on a large part of the land.
Then he sent them to help him raise fish and take care of fruit trees. Although these were not easy tasks, they were definitely much easier than growing crops and the returns were higher.
Lin Heng has made up his mind to train his father to be a fisherman, and as for his mother, he has to find her a new hobby. Otherwise, even if he has money now, they will still think about working all day long.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded and had no choice but to follow Lin Heng to the river.
Xiulan and her daughter were playing with snails while diving, while Lin Heng was touching them wildly with a bucket.
It's September now, and there are so many snails in the river that you can catch seven or eight of them on the rocks.
Lin Heng picked the big ones and caught more than ten kilograms in half an hour. Although this thing is delicious, it is difficult to clean and handle. The villagers are too lazy to do it, so only Lin Heng has the time.
After giving the snails to Xiulan to clean, Lin Heng went to catch crabs. Catching crabs was a little more difficult than catching snails, and the easiest way was to use a ground trap.
But the same is true for Lin Heng. If his hand speed is fast enough, the effect will be better than setting a trap in the ground.
After catching about two or three pounds of small crabs, Lin Heng went back to take care of his daughter and process the snails. He also took the opportunity to graze the cattle and walk the dog.
Xiaoxia likes to throw stones into the water, so Lin Heng picks up stones for her. When she doesn't want to play anymore, Lin Heng takes her to wash snails.
There is no purpose. Life doesn't need a purpose. Seeing his daughter happy, he is happy too.
At six o'clock, Caiyun came back from school and ran excitedly to the dam and picked up Xiaoxia.
"Brother, it's great to go to school." Caiyun said with a smile while holding her little niece.
"Come over and help me process the snails." Lin Heng looked at her and said.
"You are worthy of being my second brother. You let me do the work as soon as you come back." Caiyun pouted and came over to help.
The two chatted while they were dealing with it.
In the evening, Lin Heng called his parents and eldest brother to have dinner together.
The snails are fried with chopped peppers, which tastes spicy and fragrant. The crabs are wrapped in dough and fried until golden brown, and eaten with the shells, which is crispy and fragrant.
In the middle is a pot of crucian carp and tofu soup. The fish soup is milky white, and the green plants floating in it are whole corianders.
The side dishes are pickled bamboo shoots and five kinds of summer fruits and vegetables.
The food was placed in the gazebo in the backyard, with some incense burning around it to temporarily repel mosquitoes.
The whole family happily gathered together to eat.
Eating snails, crabs, chatting and drinking.
There was a gust of west wind, the gurgling of the water, and more importantly, the sound of laughter at the dinner table.
In this slow-paced era, a delicious meal like this can help a family find the meaning of life.
After dinner, when it was completely dark, there were fewer mosquitoes. Lin Heng liked to lean on the recliner to enjoy the cool air and look at the stars.
I don't want to see anything, I just want to see.
"One, two, three, one..."
Xiaoxia sat nearby, counting the stars with her little hand, but she could never count them all.
Xiulan soon came over and leaned back in the recliner to enjoy the cool air. As the chair rocked gently, she looked at the starry sky.
"Are you going to sell Coriolus versicolor tomorrow morning?" Xiulan asked.
"Yes, we'll go sell it tomorrow morning and the tractor will come up directly." Lin Heng nodded.
"Go to the city to sell?"
"Of course." Lin Heng was also a little looking forward to how much this batch of Coriolus versicolor could be sold for.
The plot of buying a watch around Chapter 15 was changed. Watches were too expensive in the 1980s, so I wrote it as a few dollars. It has been revised and the watch is no longer among the things Lin Heng bought.
(End of this chapter)
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