Chapter 212: Playing by the rules After
Xiulan said that, Lin Heng remembered that his carriage was still in the town and Caiyun was waiting for him there.
"It's over. I forgot about it because I was so happy."
Lin Heng patted his head, feeling a little annoyed.
Xiulan glanced at him and said, "Caiyun should be able to drive the carriage back by herself, so there's no need to worry."
"It's the only way."
Lin Heng nodded helplessly. Without a phone, there was no way to contact him, so this was all he could do for now.
"You must be hungry. I'm going to cook."
Xiulan said this and turned to go out to cook.
Lin Heng drank a sip of tea and followed him out. Xiaoxia was tired of playing the wooden horse, and when she saw Lin Heng open his hands to ask for a bag, he said, "Dad, go out and get candy wrappers."
"Okay, okay, go out and play."
Lin Heng did not refuse, because he wanted to see if Caiyun would come back.
After opening the gate of the yard, Lin Heng saw several boys from the village rummaging in a pit in the left front. It was obvious that they were looking for candy wrappers.
All the garbage from his family was dumped into the pit, preparing to fill it up. In the past, Xiaoxia would often throw her candy wrappers there.
But ever since Xiaoxia got involved in the candy wrapper game, she also started collecting them, and she treasures them very much by putting them in a small paper box.
When walking past his parents' yard, Lin Heng saw his elder brother Lin Yue was there too. The two had just returned from burning charcoal in the mountains.
When Lin's father saw Lin Heng, he also spoke curiously: "Lin Heng, I heard from your mother that two people drove a jeep over here just now. What were they doing?"
"I just came here to buy mountain products and take a look at my musk deer. That person's family owns a pharmaceutical group, and I may sell musk directly to her in the future."
Lin Heng said this with a smile, but did not mention the sale of hundred-year-old wild ginseng.
The fewer people who know about this, the better. Becoming a millionaire is already enviable enough, and now getting a hundred-year-old wild ginseng, if the news gets out, it's possible that people will have bad intentions.
It’s not that he was afraid of his parents or elder brother asking him to borrow money. He often bought them clothes and prepared delicious food. He didn’t care about that little money at all.
Even if no one has bad intentions, it would not be good to let the fact that I have so much money get out. Once my relatives see how rich I am, they will surely come to me one after another to borrow money.
Many of his relatives still have three generations living in one house, and they have always lacked money to build a house.
"I see, I thought it was for something else."
Lin's father and others did not have too many doubts. It was normal for people who sell medicine to be rich.
Lin's mother asked curiously, "Did you guys come to an agreement?"
Lin Heng shook his head: "No, that person wanted to buy my musk deer directly."
After saying a few words, Lin Heng was pulled out by Xiaoxia: "Dad, let's go out and play!"
"Okay, okay."
Lin Heng could only be dragged out with her.
When we arrived at the big ginkgo tree in the center of the village, we saw children playing the candy wrapper-shooting game on the benches.
Xiaoxia immediately let go of Lin Heng's hand and ran over to find someone to play with.
Lin Heng watched them playing from the side. The kids were having a lot of fun playing the little candy wrapper slapping game, and it was quite interesting to watch from the side.
Xiaoxia lost all her money after playing for a while. This time she didn't ask Lin Heng for it, but just grabbed one and ran away.
However, before she took two steps, Lin Heng grabbed her clothes and pulled her back: "What are you doing?"
“This is my candy wrapper~”
Xiaoxia said weakly while holding the candy wrapper.
"You've already lost to someone else, so it's theirs now. Since you're playing, you have to follow the rules."
Lin Heng looked at her and his face turned serious. What he hated most was a naughty child, and he couldn't let his daughter become that kind of person.
There is a degree of pampering, and not all requests can be met.
Seeing Lin Heng's stern face, Xiaoxia reluctantly returned the candy wrapper.
"You should also apologize."
Lin Heng looked at her and said again.
Xiaoxia looked at Lin Heng, then at the boy whose candy wrapper she had snatched, and apologized in a baby voice, "I'm sorry!"
The boy said nothing and ran away.
Lin Heng looked at Xiaoxia and thought that teaching children was too difficult, even he felt a little tired.
At this stage, she still needs to gradually understand the rules. After she understands them, she can receive other education, so that she can gradually understand the truth of the world and even learn to break the rules.
Raising a child is really difficult. You don’t want her to be a naive person, but you also don’t want her to be a bad person.
Lin Heng looked at her, trying to make her understand the reason. When he finished speaking, he found that Xiaoxia's big eyes were pure and ignorant, and he felt helpless.
After thinking about it, he changed his educational method. He took out a candy and played the game of rock-paper-scissors with Xiaoxia. He lost the candy to her and then took it back.
"Dad, you lose, this is mine!!"
Xiaoxia was stunned at first, then looked at Lin Heng angrily, with her hands on her hips, looking very unconvinced.
"Now you know how it feels to rob someone, right? That's how they felt when you robbed them just now."
Lin Heng walked over, looked at her with a smile, and handed her the candy.
Xiaoxia digested Lin Heng's words for a while, and seemed to understand a little bit. She looked at the candy in Lin Heng's hand again and took it back: "If you want to eat it, I'll give it to you!"
Lin Heng: “…”
Why is this different from what I expected? Is this education a success or a failure?
Just when Lin Heng was stunned, Xiaoxia took the candy back, peeled it, hesitated for a long time, and then handed it to Lin Heng's mouth.
"If you want to eat, tell me. Don't snatch it away!" Xiaoxia looked at Lin Heng and said crisply.
Lin Heng: “???”
"Who taught you this? Did you know that you just stole someone's things?"
Lin Heng was speechless. Why didn't Xiaoxia play by the rules? You knew you couldn't steal other people's things, but you still did it on purpose, right? "Mom said so. Eat it quickly."
Xiaoxia put the candy on Lin Heng's lips.
"I don't want to eat, what do you think?"
Lin Heng shook his head and looked at his daughter's little head, becoming more and more confused.
Xiaoxia stuffed the candy into her mouth and snuggled into Lin Heng's arms, trying to get away with it.
"Tell me, why did you steal other people's things?"
Lin Heng wanted to understand the logic behind this more and more.
"She always beats me!"
Xiaoxia said while eating candy, somewhat unconvinced.
Lin Heng was speechless: "Then you can't steal other people's things. If it weren't for me, you would be spanked."
Hearing this, Xiaoxia got scared: "Then I won't rob next time!"
"No matter if you will be beaten or not, you can't rob." Lin Heng warned.
"Okay!"
Xiaoxia ate the candy and her smile was sweet.
Lin Heng wanted to say something else when he saw Caiyun coming back in the carriage.
"Second brother, why don't you come down? I've been waiting for a long time."
As she approached, Caiyun began to complain.
Lin Heng smiled helplessly and said, "I can't help it. It happened suddenly. I'll treat you to hotpot later to make up for it."
Caiyun's eyes lit up when she heard this: "Well, I'm going to make you poor, second brother."
"If you're not afraid of getting fat, then eat." Lin Heng laughed.
After leaving Xiaoxia on the road, Lin Heng went to help unload the carriage and took the horses to the stable in the back mountain to keep them.
When Lin Heng came back to get the carriage, Caiyun asked curiously, "Second brother, what business did you discuss today? That woman looked so majestic."
Lin Heng spoke very quietly when he was talking to Jin Fuqiang and Bai Xueqing, and she and Wang Zhou were helping to get the goods, so they didn't hear clearly at all.
"Buying and selling mountain products, what else could it be?" Lin Heng laughed.
"Auntie, hug me!"
At this time Xiaoxia opened her arms again.
"good."
Caiyun held Xiaoxia in her arms and walked into the house with her report card and award certificate.
After a while, the surprised voices of the parents were heard in the room. Caiyun proved that her studies were not in vain, and she felt proud.
Lin's father and mother felt a little guilty, but more of them were happy, because Caiyun's results were indeed impeccable.
Seeing Xiaoxia and Caiyun having fun, Lin Heng relaxed temporarily and turned back to the house.
In the kitchen, Xiulan had already cooked the dishes. When Lin Heng entered the room, she was scooping up the freshly made crucian carp soup.
“It smells so good.”
Lin Heng hugged his wife's slender waist from behind and laughed, but the feeling was not as comfortable as in the summer because the clothes were too thick.
Xiulan rolled her eyes at him and said in a coaxing tone, "Stop making trouble. Go get some firewood so we can eat."
"All right."
Lin Heng didn't want to make trouble, so he went to add some firewood.
After the rice is cooked and the rice soup is drained, you can start eating.
"Give me a bowl of rice soup."
Lin Heng looked at the milky white rice soup in the basin and smiled, saying that this rice soup had a strong rice aroma and he had always liked it.
"You are not allowed to drink it now. There is crucian carp soup."
Xiulan put the rice soup aside and handed the chopsticks to Lin Heng.
Lin Heng smiled and spread his hands, then called Caiyun over to have dinner together.
There were three dishes and a soup, including a small pot of fried sour cowpea with meat, which was very delicious when eaten with rice.
Xiaoxia now also started to eat with a spoon by herself, sitting on a small stool and concentrating on eating. Xiulan mixed a little white sugar into her rice, which tasted really good.
"Sister-in-law, your cooking skills have improved again. I am so satisfied."
After dinner, Caiyun said with a smile.
Lin Heng looked at her and said, "You seem to be enjoying your meal so much. Please help take care of Xiaoxia tomorrow. Xiulan and I will go to the city for a while. When we get back, we will have hotpot."
"good."
Caiyun readily agreed to this. She also liked Xiaoxia very much, so it would not be difficult to take care of her.
After finishing the meal, Xiulan looked at Lin Heng who was running to wash the dishes and said, "If you don't make sugar out of your malt, it will grow too big."
"Okay, then I'll do it this afternoon." Lin Heng said hurriedly, having almost forgotten about it.
"By the way, is your fermented tofu ready?"
Lin Heng asked again.
"Of course, they're all put into jars and fermented." Xiulan blinked. She has never failed since she learned how to make it.
The most difficult part of making fermented bean curd is the fermentation that turns white hairs into it. After that it is easy. It is just a matter of chopping it into pieces and mixing it with chili peppers and other seasonings, and finally pouring it into a jar, covering it with wine, and fermenting it for a year.
As long as the white hair grows out, it is impossible for it to go bad in the subsequent steps because of the wine used as a preservative.
Lin Heng finished washing the dishes and went to check on the malt. Xiulan had been changing the water for the past few days, and the malt was growing very well. Because it was not exposed to the sun, the malt was a beautiful light yellow, the same color as chives.
It looks like you are ready to start making malt sugar.
"Hurry up and do it. I'll help you."
Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said that she wanted to work with Lin Heng, which always made her happy.
Lin Heng looked at the time and shook his head, "Why don't we wait until we get back from the city tomorrow? There's no rush for a day or two. We'll be busy until late at night today."
The steps of making maltose are still very complicated, especially when it is fermented with glutinous rice, it takes six or seven hours, and it is already 5:30 in the afternoon.
Xiulan felt a little disappointed when she heard this, but when she thought about what Lin Heng said, she nodded and said, "That's fine too."
"Let's play cards."
Lin Heng felt bored, so he asked Xiulan and Caiyun to play cards together.
They played until eight o'clock, when Caiyun wanted to go back to sleep.
"I'm going to cook. Caiyun, eat first and then go back."
Xiulan was about to leave, but Lin Heng stopped her and said, "I'm not hungry. Let's eat some cookies, drink some kudzu root powder, and go to sleep."
"That's fine."
Xiulan blinked and didn't refuse. She wasn't very hungry either.
"Caiyun, don't go back either. Go back after you finish eating."
Lin Heng said to Caiyun who was about to go home.
"Okay then, thank you, brother."
Caiyun didn't hesitate and stayed with a smile.
Lin Heng took out the red dates, cut them into small pieces, added brown sugar, and poured boiling water over them. The gelatinous kudzu root powder took on a beautiful deep red color, which made people hungry just by looking at it.
Then Lin Heng crushed the biscuits and soaked them in water, mixed them together, and handed them to the three people: "Try this."
"It's delicious. You are such a good eater, brother."
Caiyun scooped a spoonful and couldn't help but praise it.
Xiulan also blinked, with surprise in her eyes: "It's really good."
Only Xiaoxia pointed at the hawthorn paste and shouted, "I want this too."
Lin Heng gave her another spoonful of hawthorn paste, and her eyebrows and eyes immediately became curved.
After eating, Lin Heng sent Caiyun home. After returning, he washed up and coaxed Xiaoxia to sleep.
After Xiaoxia fell asleep, Lin Heng was finally able to go to bed and rest.
The room with a fireplace was not cold to begin with, and it felt even more comfortable when I went to bed and hugged my wife's warm body.
"I still feel better now, the clothes are too thick during the day."
Lin Heng hugged Xiulan's slender waist and laughed, saying, "It feels really good."
Xiulan blinked, feeling very comfortable, and said softly, "Go to sleep, we have to go down to the city tomorrow."
"No, I made so much money today, we have to celebrate. Honey, please serve me." Lin Heng said with a wicked smile.
Without waiting for Xiulan to reply, Lin Heng's hands started moving around.
"No~"
Xiulan originally wanted to sleep peacefully, but her body was softened by Lin Heng after a while. Faced with Lin Heng's powerful invasion, she was forced to surrender herself.
After some friction and interaction between the two, this special day was added with a new memory.
"Oh, you are so hateful!"
Xiulan gave Lin a fierce look.
Seeing Lin Heng's silent smirk, she said, "Go get me a glass of water. I'm so thirsty."
The sheets were all wet and she was severely dehydrated and very thirsty.
"Hehe, then I'll give you some?" Lin Heng said with a wicked smile.
Xiulan rolled her eyes at him. You can make up for all the missing parts. She pushed her and said softly, "Go quickly."
Lin Heng got up to pour some water, and Xiulan changed the bed sheets.
After replenishing water, Xiulan lay down contentedly and leaned into Lin Heng's arms.
Lin Heng immediately hugged his wife, who was still naked. Although she said she didn't want to, she cooperated very well.
Although the sticks are always out of control in this state, it always makes people feel closer to each other.
(End of this chapter)
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