Chapter 238 The Importance of Signboards
"Then let us help kill them."
Father Lin and eldest brother said in unison.
"good."
Lin Heng squatted down with a dagger in his hand and started to deal with the largest mandarin fish. Naturally, the first thing he did was to remove the scales and gills.
Xiaoxia, Lin Wei and others came over to watch and asked questions non-stop. Lin's father also took a knife and killed people nearby.
Lin Heng processed the big mandarin fish and when he cut open its belly, he saw a belly full of fish roe.
"What a pity for this fish. Its belly is full of fish roe."
Lin Heng shook his head. He had originally wanted to bring it back alive for breeding. When he caught it, he guessed that it was a female fish.
"I have only female fish here, but it doesn't matter, the fish roe is delicious."
Father Lin showed the fish roe he had taken out.
Lin Heng nodded. The roe of his big mandarin fish weighed half a pound and could not be held in one hand.
“Ouch~”
The fish roe and fish soup were placed in a bowl. Lin Heng was just about to throw the internal organs on the ground when Xiongba's big head stretched over.
"I'll cook it for you later, don't worry."
Lin Heng patted its big head. He still felt sorry for Xiongba and was afraid that the parasites would be harmful to it.
“Woof woof!”
Xiongba seemed to understand, and sat beside him, sticking out his tongue and waiting. He was now an adult, sitting a little higher than Lin Heng when he was squatting, and sticking out his tongue didn't have the feeling of a Samoyed smile, but was very majestic and domineering.
“Ahhh~”
The small fine dog Feng Fengshou and the blue wolf dog Lai Fu nearby ran over happily and wanted to smell the fish entrails. As soon as they arrived, they were pushed away by Xiongba. No dog could covet its fish entrails.
After a while, all the fish were processed. Lin Heng went to check on the fish in the secondary reservoir. Three mandarin fish weighing half a pound survived, but the smelt fish did not survive.
Lin Heng had no choice but to fish it out and kill it, and its stomach was full of fish roe.
After killing the fish, Lin Heng asked his father to take it to the kitchen. He cleaned the ground and washed away the blood.
"We can't finish all the fish. We can only cook three small ones or one big one tonight."
Xiulan said when she saw Lin Heng enter the kitchen.
"Then just cook all fish, and cook less of the other dishes. We can just eat fish."
Lin Heng blinked and said.
"You really want to bloat me." Xiulan glared at him, patted him and said, "Do you know what stinky mandarin fish is?"
"I've heard of it, but can you do it?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
Xiulan nodded proudly: "Of course, there was an auntie who fled from Anhui in our village in the early years. She knew how to make it. I learned from her and it tastes pretty good."
"Then you do it. It's a good opportunity for me to try it." Lin Heng reached out and smoothed the hair in front of her eyes.
Xiulan explained: "I was afraid you wouldn't eat, so I asked."
"Since you want to eat it, I'll pickle two mandarin fish, one large and one small, and make them stinky mandarin fish, and then ask my parents and big brother to come and eat them."
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, then watched Xiulan pickling curiously from the side.
It is very simple to marinate stinky mandarin fish. Just make some cross-shaped cuts on it and marinate it with onion, ginger, garlic slices and white wine for a few minutes.
Then take out these ingredients, apply a layer of salt on the mandarin fish inside and out, put it in a plastic bag and press it lightly with stones to ferment.
Generally, fermentation takes four or five days in summer and more than ten to twenty days in winter.
When Xiulan was making it, she also put some fermented bean curd on it, saying that it would ferment faster.
While watching her prepare the dish, Lin Heng boiled water to cook the fish entrails, then took them out to feed Xiong Ba.
After Xiulan finished pickling the mandarin fish, she pickled the remaining five fish, steamed all four of the croakers, made a soup with the remaining salmon, and used the fish roe and fish float to make a braised fish roe dish.
The Lushui County where Xiulan was born has a well-developed water system, and she is also good at cooking fish.
After cooking the fish, stir-fry the meat with garlic sprouts and cut some braised vegetables, you can eat.
"This steamed plum fish is so delicious." Caiyun said, "This fish is not fishy at all, and the fish meat has a little sweetness." Lin Yue said.
Mother Lin also nodded: "The most important thing is that it doesn't even have a single fish bone. Xiaoxia and the others can eat as much as they want."
At the dinner table, everyone loved the steamed Qinling salmon, the meat of which was much better than that of ordinary freshwater fish.
Lin Heng picked up some for Xiaoxia and took a bite himself. It tasted sweet without soy sauce, but had a richer taste with soy sauce.
"I plan to raise this plum fish." Lin Heng said to everyone.
"That's fine. We're the only one with this fish. It should be easy to sell if we raise it. The number of fish in the river will only decrease as we catch more and more of them." Father Lin nodded.
"This boneless fish will definitely be popular. People who don't eat fish will want to eat it." Lin Yue also nodded.
The lack of fish bones is an overwhelming victory for a large group of freshwater fish, and this selling point alone can attract a large number of customers.
"I just don't know if it's difficult to raise it." Xiulan pointed out the key to the problem. She has never seen anyone raising plum fish by themselves, so she is afraid it will be very difficult.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Take a look at it, and then we can eat some vegetables."
As he said this, he picked up another piece of fish roe with chopsticks and gave it to Xiaoxia. Eating fish roe can improve immunity and is a very good food for children.
Xiaoxia likes to eat mullet fish, but after tasting the fish roe and taking two bites, she didn’t want to eat it anymore because she felt it wasn’t as delicious as mullet fish.
Lin Heng also tried it and found it tasted like egg yolk and quite delicious.
Everyone ate slowly, chatting as they ate, otherwise they wouldn't be able to sleep that night.
Lin Heng had almost finished eating and scooped up some rice, eating it with the fried meat with garlic sprouts. It was so delicious that he wanted to swallow it.
By the time we finished our meal, it was already past eight o'clock.
Lin Heng packed up and fed the two puppies, then covered his car with a tarpaulin.
Early in the morning on the eighth day, it was drizzling and it did not turn into snow.
Early in the morning, Lin's father harnessed the oxen to plow a field under the road, and then he and his eldest brother carried manure to prepare for planting potatoes.
Lin Heng drove to the town in the morning to wish Grandpa Gao a happy new year, and also went to find Wang Zhou and asked him to come to work the next day.
However, to Lin Heng's surprise, when he came down, Wang Zhou had already arrived in town and was wiping the counter.
"You're quite hardworking."
Lin Heng walked into the room and said with a smile.
Wang Zhou laughed: "Brother Lin, since you gave me so much year-end bonus, I will naturally come to work hard."
"Don't worry, there will still be year-end bonuses this year, and more."
Lin Heng said this with a smile, then took the things and went to find Grandpa Gao.
The three of them had a drink and went fishing for a while at noon, and they were happy to catch nothing.
In the afternoon, Lin Heng went to the credit union and withdrew 500 yuan in cash for Wang Zhou. Tomorrow, the ninth day of the first lunar month, is a market day.
In the 1980s, the Spring Festival holiday lasted only five days, ending on the fifth day of the New Year, so the credit union in the town had already opened for business by then.
After returning home, I leveled a piece of land on the back hill and built a closed pen for the male musk deer. This guy is basically not afraid of people now and will not think of escaping.
The good life of eating and sleeping every day has corroded its free heart, but even so, Lin Heng still carefully tied it with a rope, in case it ran away, his plan of breeding musk deer would be ruined.
The musk deer moved to another place. Lin Heng shoveled up the musk deer on the ground in the backyard and took them to the front yard to plant vegetables. By the time he finished cleaning the ground, it was already dark.
Tonight Xiaoxia suddenly wanted to sleep with Xiulan and Lin Heng. No matter how much she talked, it was useless. She could only put her in the middle of the quilt and the three of them rested together.
When Xiaoxia fell asleep, Lin Heng and Xiulan were still awake.
"I'm going to go down to the city tomorrow. I'm going to contact a truck to go to Ancheng to buy fruit trees and some Chinese medicinal seeds. I'm also going to see if there are any dairy cows or something like that. I'll get a couple of them."
Lin Heng was lying on the bed, looking at Xiulan and said, "With their daughter between them, they were a little uncomfortable not being close to each other."
In fact, if possible, Lin Heng didn't want to go to the city at all, but if he wanted to make money and develop, he had to go to the city.
There is a saying that goes, a speck of dust from the times falling on a person is heavier than a mountain. Even if Lin Heng is reborn, he has to go with the flow of history. It is impossible to reverse the tide of history.
Just like this small mountain village, no matter how hard Lin Heng tries, he can never turn it into a city. He also has to follow the trajectory of history in order to change his own destiny and that of his entire family.
"Then do you want me to accompany you?" Xiulan asked.
"You stay in the house to take care of the kids. I'll take my brother with me." Lin Heng shook his head. He was going to discuss business with someone, so there was no need to bring his wife along.
"Okay, be careful." Xiulan nodded.
The two looked at each other and fell asleep peacefully in the flickering firelight of the fireplace.
That night Lin Heng suddenly dreamed of a different future, and he was still a little dazed when he woke up on the ninth morning.
After washing up and changing into a set of clean clothes, Lin Heng went over to call his elder brother. He had told his elder brother everything yesterday afternoon, so there would naturally be no problem today.
"Let's set off after breakfast." Lin Heng looked at his elder brother and said with a smile. He also wanted to bring his elder brother along to discuss business. The family business would definitely need manpower in the future, so training had to be started in advance.
"Okay, your sister-in-law is cooking, do you want to eat together?" Lin Yue asked with a smile.
"Xiu Lan is doing it too."
Lin Heng said this, turned around and walked towards the village party secretary's house.
He took two bars of soap made by Xiulan, not for Tian Dongfu, but for Wang Qin.
I talked to Tian Dongfu about the hunting rifle license, and he readily agreed and directly issued me a certificate, which I could use to apply for a gun license.
Lin Heng returned home with the certificate, had his meal, and asked Xiulan to take out two hundred yuan in cash.
"Be careful." Xiulan gave the money and tidied Lin Heng's collar and hair.
"Don't worry."
Lin Heng lowered his head and bit his wife's face, then went out with his helmet.
He threw a helmet to his elder brother and drove out. The two of them got in the car and drove towards the city.
Since they were two grown men, Lin Heng drove very fast and arrived in the city in less than an hour.
The first stop was in front of a tailor shop that made custom clothes.
Lin Yue asked in confusion: "Brother, you are here to discuss business, why are you in the tailor shop?"
Lin Heng patted his eldest brother on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I ordered a fifty-yuan Zhongshan suit here before the New Year, and I'm here to pick it up now."
"A fifty-yuan Zhongshan suit? Why did you buy such expensive clothes?" Lin Yue widened his eyes, thinking that this was totally unnecessary.
Lin Heng smiled slightly, looked at his brother and said: "Brother, the first thing to pay attention to when discussing business is momentum. If you don't dress well, people will subconsciously think that you are not good at business management, and it will be difficult to discuss business."
"So we can't save on these things, we just have to make up for it."
It's like if you have a shop and you decorate it luxuriously but save money on the signboard, this is not acceptable. When you are doing business with people, your clothes and conversation are your signboard, and this signboard must be bright enough.
Lin Hengyi said, and Lin Yue suddenly realized: "So that's how it is. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have thought of it at all."
He turned his head again and saw that all the shops with inconspicuous signs on the street were not doing well.
Lin Heng said nothing more. He smiled and led his elder brother into the store. He took out the previous deposit invoice, and soon the clerk took out his Zhongshan suit.
This is a gray Zhongshan suit. After Lin Heng put it on, his whole temperament changed. He had a handsome face with a pair of bright eyes, an upright figure, and a mature temperament. Standing there, he looked like a leader, a meritorious person.
"Boss, you are the most handsome man I have ever seen wearing a Zhongshan suit." The female tailors in the store couldn't help but praise him.
Lin Yue couldn't help but nod his head. The feeling of wearing this formal suit and casual suit is just different.
Lin Heng took out forty yuan and handed it over, smiling slightly and said, "Your craftsmanship is good."
"Thank you, boss. It takes a lot of craftsmanship and temperament to wear it like you." The boss took the money with a smile on his face and packed up Lin Heng's old clothes and shoes.
I bought a Zhongshan suit for fifty yuan, but it was more than just a suit, including two shirts, two pairs of leather shoes, and a briefcase.
After taking his things, Lin Heng walked out.
He did not rush to the transportation company to find a truck, but went to find the wholesaler Li Chengguo first.
Some employees of Li Chengguo were loading goods. When they saw Lin Heng driving this rare sidecar three-wheeler over, they thought it was some leader coming and hurried in to report.
Lin Heng had just walked to the gate when Li Chengguo came out. He was about to nod and bow to greet him, but when he took a closer look, he was stunned.
Li Chengguo sighed and said, "Brother Lin Heng, you have changed a lot after the New Year."
Lin Heng smiled and said, "You want to do business? I changed my clothes and bought a car."
"Your carriage is not ordinary. It must be very expensive." Li Chengguo said with a smile.
"Not bad." Lin Heng smiled and introduced him to his elder brother Lin Yue.
After entering the house, Li Chengguo poured a cup of tea for Lin Heng and the other man, and asked with a smile: "Are you here to discuss new business this time?"
"It's not really a new business. I just wanted to ask if you have time to go to Ancheng with me and use your car to transport some goods for me." Lin Heng said with a smile.
In addition to this, he also planned to let him pull some fertilizer up.
"That won't work. I only have one truck and I won't be able to deliver goods in Ancheng." Li Chengguo shook his head, not knowing why Lin Heng was going to Ancheng.
After taking a sip of tea, he continued, "But you came at the right time. I have something to talk to you about."
The author used to write a beast taming novel. I recommend a beast taming novel written by a friend.
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