Chapter 130: Detonator Fish Bombing, Childhood Friends
"Why are you all sitting at the kids' table? Come back and sit down quickly."
Lin Heng's third mother, Li Xue, brought the dishes and was stunned when she saw this situation.
"We saw Lin Heng sitting here, so we sat down too." Someone said with a smile.
"I don't drink, so I'll definitely sit at the table with the kids." Lin Heng spread his hands.
"That won't do. Lin Heng, come and sit down quickly." His third father, Lin Xutao, walked in from outside and pulled Lin Heng to the adults' table.
Unable to resist, Lin Heng had no choice but to go over and sit next to Lin's father.
Fortunately, now everyone has stopped making a fuss and the conversation is relatively normal.
Soon the food was served. Today's dishes were very good. In addition to the usual vegetables and bacon, there were also tofu with turtledove leaves, fried stream grouper, stir-fried yellow eel, and a large plate of snails.
"Come on, let's go. You've all worked hard today." Lin Heng's father raised his glass and said with a smile.
Lin Heng and others took some food and the table suddenly became lively.
Most rural people are good at drinking, and many of them can drink one or two kilograms of white wine without even stumbling when walking.
Lin Heng only likes to have a few drinks and doesn't like to drink too much. He is also very interested in stir-fried eels.
His third aunt cooked this dish very well, without any fishy smell.
The snails were also well-cooked. Although there was little meat, they tasted really delicious.
"Lin Heng, come and have a drink." Lin Shan said with a smile.
"I can't drink that much. I can't drink much." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head, then picked up the wine glass and clinked it with his.
"You are so unhappy, not like a man." Lin Shan drank it in one gulp, a little unhappy.
Lin Heng shook his head, took a sip and stopped drinking. It was the same for everyone.
Lin's father and elder brother Lin Yue laughed and excused Lin Heng. Everyone else also knew that Lin Heng was really not good at drinking, so they stopped urging him.
However, they were still full of envy for Lin Heng in their conversations. Some asked questions out of curiosity, while others wanted to know the process of opening a convenience store.
Lin Heng is not stingy and will give answers to most of the questions unless they touch upon the core issues.
Although the men at the table envied Lin Heng, they were relatively restrained and did not fawn on him.
At the women's table, Xiulan was surrounded by a group of women, who were concerned about this and that, asking her to do laundry, and even inviting her to their homes.
Lin Hengsan's mother treated Xiulan even better than her own daughter and never stopped picking food for her.
You have to know that they were not like this before. Many women didn't play with Xiulan and didn't talk to her much because she was from another county.
He secretly laughed at her for being blind and being tricked back by Lin Heng, and that the rest of her life would be miserable.
People like Wang Cuilian sometimes bully her on purpose.
Now that Lin Heng has become rich, everyone wants to become good sisters with Xiulan and consider her in every way.
It was as if they had suddenly become good friends for more than ten years. She kept finding all kinds of topics to talk about, trying to become good friends with Xiulan.
Xiulan was a little flustered for a moment, but fortunately, Lin's mother and sister-in-law were there and helped her a lot.
In response to some questions, Xiulan shook her head to indicate that she didn't know. She held her daughter and fed her vegetables without saying a word, occasionally nodding in response.
In fact, she initially wanted to have a good sister to talk to, but everyone ignored her, and gradually she got used to it.
She also fell in love with this quiet and simple life. Apart from being with Lin's mother Caiyun, she would take her daughter to pick mushrooms and feed pigs alone. It was also pretty good and quiet.
I would be in a daze for a while, thinking about Lin Heng, or what to eat for lunch, and the days passed quickly.
In the past few days, many women came to ask her to go out and collect grass for pigs, or do laundry.
She went there a few times at the beginning, but after hearing their complaints and grumblings, as well as their indirect inquiries into some matters at home, she stopped going.
She thought it would be best to go out with Caiyun, as Caiyun would never complain about these things.
Being with Lin Heng is such a blessing. Even picking mushrooms together is very joyful.
She also felt that these women were so strange. They clearly chose the men they married, but after marrying them they complained all day long and despised their men for not living up to their expectations.
Besides, there is no money at home, so shouldn't both of us work hard together? Why are we complaining to each other?
After dinner, Lin Heng and Xiulan certainly couldn’t just run away, that would be too rude.
Xiulan helped sift the millet at the door, and Lin Heng went to the rice field to help thresh the millet.
The tools people used to thresh grain in those days were very simple: a trapezoidal threshing barrel with a small bottom and a large mouth, surrounded on three sides by tarpaulin to a height of two and a half meters.
There is also an arc-shaped rake in the threshing barrel, and two people in a row take turns threshing the grain.
Hold a handful of millet in both hands and hit it hard on the wooden rake in the threshing barrel, and the millet will scatter into the threshing barrel.
In the distance, you can hear a very regular sound, each time it's four bangs, then a pause and then four more bangs, over and over again.
The women used sickles to cut the grain, and the men took turns threshing it. At the end of the day, the women had sore backs and the men had sore arms.
Until the threshing bucket is full, then you have to take out the wooden rake, shovel out the grain, and carry it back home.
There were a lot of rice leaves in the millet they carried back home. Xiulan and her friends used an oversized bamboo sieve to sift out the rice leaves and spread them on a tarpaulin to dry.
The next step is to wait for the millet to dry, use a windmill to blow away the shriveled millet, leaving only the good millet.
After beating Gu Zi for a while, Lin Heng's arms felt sore and he ran to the side to rest.
"It's so tiring." Lin Heng shook his head and sighed.
It would take them many days to do the work that a modern harvester can do in one day.
But even though it's so tiring, everyone is very happy. Compared to the previous years when they were so hungry that they had to eat pig grass, in recent years everyone can at least eat their fill and occasionally have a few good meals.
Compared to ancient times and compared to the past, life is indeed getting better and better.
Although this country has many shortcomings, at least it is getting better and everyone still has hope.
"Lin Heng, what time is it?" Uncle Li also came over and sat down to rest.
Lin Heng took out his watch from his pocket, looked at it, and said with a smile, "It's three fifty, almost four."
He took off his watch while threshing the grain.
"Is this the same as a clock? Can I see it?"
In fact, he was very curious, but he was too embarrassed to ask in public during the meal.
"Same." Lin Heng handed it to him to look at. He had seen this uncle before, but he couldn't remember his name.
"It's so nice. It feels so smooth and beautiful to the touch." Uncle Li said with emotion.
"Let me see too." Yang Zhaotao's father next to him took a sip of water and came over with a smile.
The watch was passed around several people before it finally returned to Lin Heng. Everyone was extremely envious, and some people were seeing it for the first time.
"Lin Heng, what ways do you think ordinary people can make money?" someone couldn't help but ask.
At this moment, everyone's attitude became sincere, no longer the joking and flattering before the meal.
Lin Heng glanced at everyone and said with a smile: "It must be planting fruit trees. Although there may be no harvest in the first five years, the yield will gradually increase after five years, and it will be easy to make thousands of yuan a year.
And in the past few years when the yield has not increased, we can intercrop soybeans and so on, and it won’t have much impact.”
After hearing this, everyone nodded, believing that planting fruit trees was indeed more reliable.
"Which one is better?" someone asked again.
"It depends on individual choice. It would be best if the whole village grows the same kind of fruit. It will be easier to sell on a large scale." Lin Heng spread his hands and said a few words.
"That makes sense."
The group chatted for a while, and no one heard anything, and then they went back to threshing.
His third father started beating him yesterday. There wasn't much left today, so he finished it around four in the afternoon.
We finished dinner at around seven o'clock, and all the plans I had made at noon were ruined.
His family had to thresh millet the next day, so Lin Heng estimated that the making of rice cakes would have to be postponed for a long time.
"The corn can only be fed to chickens. It will go bad by tomorrow morning." Xiulan said helplessly when she got home.
I had originally planned to cook corn, pumpkin and red dates porridge in the evening, but Third Aunt Li Xue was too enthusiastic.
Xiulan took the cleaned young corn to feed the chickens, and Lin Heng collected the red dates.
After being exposed to the sun for half a day, the skin of the red dates became wrinkled, and it would be dry in two more days of sunshine.
The next morning, Lin Heng got up early and asked his eldest brother to carry 200 kilograms of quicklime to Hongfeng Mountain.
"Brother, put the quicklime here first, and come over here to help me drain the water from the first fish pond." Lin Heng said as he put down the quicklime.
"Okay." Lin Yue nodded and followed Lin Heng.
The overflow port is always open, and the remaining water still has to be discharged by siphoning.
The first fish pond was not maintained after disinfection. The water in it was a strong alkaline solution, so the water had to be drained when the fish were almost done soaking.
After so many days of soaking, there was no leakage and this first pond was perfect.
After fixing the water pipes, Lin Heng and his elder brother went to spread lime to disinfect the second fish pond.
After spreading the quicklime, Lin Heng went to the stream and opened the water inlet.
There is a waterproof membrane laid in the canal. After it is opened, the water flows along the waterproof membrane into the fish pond. The waterfall at the entrance of the fish pond is also laid with a waterproof membrane, so there is no need to worry about the slope being washed away by the water flow.
As the water flowed into the pond, it immediately reacted violently when it encountered quicklime, causing bursts of white mist to rise.
When the water reached a depth of about 30 centimeters, Lin Heng turned it off. He went in wearing water shoes and scooped up lime slurry to disinfect the slopes around the pond.
When the two men finished all these and returned home, the people Lin's father had called had already gone to the fields to start threshing the grain.
"Let's go quickly. I wonder how the millet harvest will be this year." Lin Yue said.
Lin Heng nodded, carrying the basket on his back and went straight to the field.
When we got over, Lin's father and his family had already harvested half of the rice in the field.
There were a lot of people threshing rice for their family today, so they used two threshing buckets and divided the people into two groups.
Father Lin took a group of people to the few acres of rice fields farther away. Lin Heng's eldest uncle, third uncle, and uncle-in-law brought people to thresh the rice in the acres of rice fields by the river in front of the door.
"Uncle, third uncle, and uncle-in-law, have you finished harvesting the rice?" Lin Heng walked over and asked with a smile.
"We finished the fight two days ago. I was going to call you, but you guys were busy," said his uncle Li Baiquan with a smile.
His uncle Lu Honghai next to him scolded, "Yeah, you didn't even inform us when you opened your new store. You really don't treat us as your elders."
"That's right, kid. If you don't tell others, we, your uncles, won't tell either." His third uncle also blamed him.
What Lin Heng did this time really shocked them. Starting from the price increase of Coriolus polypore, this series of events made them feel like they were on a plane, a little overwhelmed.
Clearly, he was a young man who had just reformed not long ago, but in the blink of an eye, he actually made a lot of money, opened a purchasing station, and became a small boss. It really made people feel like a dream.
"Haha, I was in too much of a rush and didn't have time to notify you." Lin Heng laughed, but in fact he hadn't thought about notifying you at all.
If you have different perspectives on some things, you will see different results. If you had notified him in advance, there would definitely be many people who would have advised him to save the money and not toss it.
Now that he has succeeded, the attitudes and ideas of his elders are naturally different.
"Don't do this next time." Several people blamed.
"I promise I won't do that again. I'll tell you if there's anything next time." Lin Heng assured with a smile. These elders are all very nice and are some of the people who have the closest contacts with his family.
"Lin Heng, I have prepared something good recently. Let's go fry fish when the weather gets cold." Li Baiquan said with a grin.
"What is it?" Lin Heng was a little curious.
Li Baiquan chuckled and said, "I got a kerosene bottle and stuffed gunpowder and detonators in it. Let's go to Huangtan River to fry fish in winter."
"Damn, where did you get this, uncle?" Lin Heng widened his eyes. His uncle had told him this before, but he didn't expect that he actually got it.
This is just like the Russians using grenades to blow up fish. They are both ruthless.
"Hehe, in the early years, when we were building roads for others, someone saved some detonators for opening mountains." Li Baiquan said with a smile.
"I still have two at home." His uncle Lu Honghai also said with a smile.
"Okay, call me when the time comes." Lin Heng nodded. Although it was ungentlemanly for a fisherman to fry fish, this was frying fish with detonators, so the scene must have been spectacular.
"No problem, I'll call you when the time comes." Li Baiquan smiled. He knew that Lin Heng was interested in this.
"Lin Heng, I saw your musk deer. I heard that you killed another wild boar. That's amazing." Lu Honghai said with a smile.
"Haha, it's also good luck." Lin Heng laughed.
After threshing the grain in his hand, he continued, "Let's go together in winter and walk a little to the foot of Taibai Mountain. Maybe we can catch something big."
"No problem, we have different opinions." Several people nodded.
After chatting for a few more words, Lin Heng went over to say hello to his aunt Lu Hongyun who was harvesting grain.
Her aunt is five years younger than her uncle, but the funny thing is that the age on the household registration book is wrong, making her 12 years older than her actual age.
According to the household registration book, she is now in her fifties, ten years older than Lin Heng's mother.
But she really looks older than Lin's mother because she is so capable. She does women's work and men's work. Her hands are covered with calluses.
She was the one who contributed the most to her two sons getting married and having children. Li Baiquan was far inferior to her.
When Lin Heng was a child, he was taken care of by his aunt, who secretly gave him candies and biscuits, which made his childhood more sweet.
In my previous life, I was in debt, and my aunt helped Xiulan a lot.
"You've become successful now. You have to let me take advantage of you when you sell medicinal herbs in the future." Aunt Lu Hongyun said jokingly.
"No problem, auntie. If you come to my place to sell mountain products, I will charge you the original price and not make a penny." Lin Heng said, patting his chest.
If he were asked to choose one relative to help, the first one would be his aunt, and then his third father.
"That's a great relationship. Your aunt is taking advantage of you." She was joking. How could she really be taking advantage of you?
If Lin Heng lets her take advantage, then wouldn't he have to do the same to other relatives? She won't make things difficult for her nephew.
Then Lin Heng asked about the situation of his two cousins Li Shilei and Li Shiwei.
Lin Heng and Li Shiwei got along well with each other because they were close in age, only a few months apart. Later, they got married and had no time to play together.
As for Li Shilei, he prefers to hang out with a few other people, and has an average relationship with Lin Heng. The main reason for asking this question is to find out if Li Shiwei has come, and to play with him. They used to be best friends.
"Your brother Shi Lei is not coming because he is busy. Li Shiwei came down at noon and said he wanted to come down to play with you." Aunt Lu Hongyun said with a smile. He knew that Lin Heng was going to play with his second son Li Shiwei.
"Haha, okay." Lin Heng smiled and nodded.
When I was a child, apart from my eldest brother, the other three friends I played with best in the village were Li Shiwei, Lin Hai and Liu Sheng.
Liu Sheng is still fooling around with Zhao Hu and others, and he doesn't want to care about them anymore. However, Li Shiwei still wants to meet him and reminisce about the past.
After going back and threshing the millet for a while, it was soon noon. There were many people calling today, so the threshing was done quickly.
Sister-in-law Liu Juan came to call everyone to eat, saying that the meal was ready.
"Okay!"
After harvesting the rice, everyone threshed the grain and carried it back home.
After returning home, Li Shiwei did not come down from the mountain until lunch time.
"I guess something delayed him." said my aunt Lu Hongyun.
"It's okay, I'll go play with him next time." Lin Heng said with a smile, it's normal for married people to be forced to do things on their own.
After all, women as gentle as Xiulan are rare.
For lunch, four tables were set up. In order to finish threshing the millet in one day, Father Lin called a lot of people to help today.
The meal was also very sumptuous. Lin's father killed the catfish that he had been reluctant to eat before, and also killed two chickens. The meal was much better than that of ordinary people.
Just this one meal was worth it for many people who came to help, because they couldn’t have such good food at home.
Lin Heng sat at the same table with his uncle and two uncles. They were very comfortable. If they wanted to drink, they would drink. If they didn't want to drink, they would just say so. It wasn't a big deal.
But his uncle kept looking at his watch, looking very envious.
After dinner, I went to his house to see the musk deer.
"I didn't expect that you actually caught it. It's a pity that it's a female, otherwise you would have become very rich." Li Baiquan's expression looked regretful.
"That's fine too. I can catch a male and we can mate." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"That's difficult. Sometimes you may not see one for several years. It's hard to kill them, let alone keep them alive." Li Baiquan shook his head and said.
"You'll always meet him." Lin Heng smiled.
After showing my uncle around the house, they went to the fields to thresh the grain.
Aunt was asked by Lin's mother to help with cooking in the afternoon, actually to prepare some delicious food for her.
Because we had to thresh all the millet in one day, we worked until after seven in the afternoon, but there was still some left.
But not many, my family will be able to finish the fight tomorrow.
In the evening, Lin Heng was watching his own millet and helping to dry it. Suddenly, his uncle Li Baiquan came over and said, "Lin Heng, there are a lot of bamboo partridges calling in the bamboo garden. Let's go and catch a few to eat."
(End of this chapter)
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