Chapter 248 Planning of Warehouses and Indoor Hatcheries
On the 23rd, it was another sunny and nice day.
When they got up in the morning, Father Lin and his family prepared to go to the fields to plow.
After breakfast, Lin Heng and his wife Xiulan basked in the sun in the front yard.
In this warm weather, the most pleasant thing is to do nothing but sit together and bask in the sun.
It will be even more comfortable if you clean each other's ears.
Lin Heng really wanted to keep doing this, lying on his wife's lap and watching Xiaoxia playing in the yard.
But after only a short while, Xiulan patted his head and said, "Get up. I'm going to wash clothes and dig some wild vegetables."
"Don't worry, I still have clothes to wear."
Lin Heng refused to get up and muttered with his eyes closed.
"What do you mean by 'I still have clothes to wear, so I have to wash the dirty clothes.'"
Xiulan looked at the head on her legs helplessly, and finally had to agree to let Lin Heng sunbathe for a while longer.
The sun was already very warm at this moment, and after sleeping for a while, Xiulan took off her cotton jacket because she was too hot.
There was a white sweater there. Lin Heng, who had his head resting on her thighs, opened his eyes and took a look.
He couldn't see Xiulan's face, he could only see half of the blue sky. The remaining part near Xiulan's face was blocked by her huge chest.
“It’s really huge!”
Lin Heng said to himself, it was bigger than when he felt it with his mouth at night.
"I'll beat you if you say something like that again. Be serious in broad daylight."
Xiulan glanced at Lin Heng, patted his face and warned him softly.
Lin Heng didn't say anything but wanted to reach out and touch it, but was slapped back.
Lin Heng laughed playfully, changed his position to face his wife's belly, hugged her waist and continued to bask in the sun.
I had just fallen asleep for a while when there was a knock on the door, followed by the voice of my eldest brother Lin Yue:
"Brother, let's go to the fields to catch eels. Dad has already harnessed the cows and he is plowing the field in front and we will catch them in the back."
Lin Heng didn't want to go at first, but after thinking about it, he said, "Okay, I'll be there in a minute, you go first."
Every spring, when the fields are being ploughed, it is also a good time to catch eels. When the fields are being ploughed, the soil is turned up and the eels come out with it, so you can catch them directly with your hands.
When he was a child, his favorite thing was to pick up eels. His father was plowing the field in front, and he and his older brother were picking them up behind.
"Wife, I'm going out now."
Lin Heng stood up, looked at Xiulan's little face and said, not only picking eels, he also had a lot of other things to do today, so he was destined not to be able to bask in the sun all the time.
Xiulan nodded: "Go ahead, I'll be watching my daughter."
After Lin Heng went out, he first went to the home of the village party secretary Tian Dongfu, still asking him to arrange some staff.
Warehouses and indoor incubation pools still need to be built on Hongfeng Mountain.
The land was leveled last year, and we are just waiting to start construction this year. The two mu of land, totaling more than 1,600 square meters, 600 square meters of which are used to build warehouses, 400 square meters to build indoor hatcheries, and the remaining 600 square meters to build houses for some people to live in, as well as houses for other purposes.
The warehouses are expected to be 200 square meters each, so three will be built. The indoor breeding rooms are expected to be 100 square meters each, so four will be built. As for the house for people to live in, just build one 120 square meter one.
This was something he had thought of a long time ago, and Lin Heng even took the time to draw the blueprint.
We will see what the remaining 400 square meters of land will be used for. I am not sure what it will be used for yet. Maybe it will be used to raise musk deer or something like that.
Lin Heng didn't need too many people this time, twenty would be enough, plus his uncle-in-law and his third father, there would be thirty people in total.
In addition, he also needed to go to the town to find a few bricklayers and call a carpenter.
Lin Heng himself had worked as a bricklayer in his previous life, so laying walls and plastering were no problem for him.
But he was lazy, and he alone was not enough.
"I'll go to the village committee at noon and use the loudspeaker to call for you."
Tian Dongfu agreed when Lin Hengyi said that. Now the village committee has bought a loudspeaker, which makes it much more convenient to shout, and people living by the river can hear it.
"Thank you, Uncle Tian."
After Lin Heng finished speaking, he went back and drove his three-wheeler to Hongfeng Mountain to take a look. Among the fifteen ponds, except for the pond for breeding grass carp, which had a lot of water, the other ponds were only about 30 centimeters deep, and some grass had already grown around them.
There were only fifteen ponds on the more than 20 acres of land, and the roads in the middle and between the ponds took up a lot of space.
After taking a look, Lin Heng roughly knew what work was scheduled for tomorrow. He wrote it down in his notebook and turned to Huangtan Town.
Today is the 23rd day of the first lunar month, which happens to be market day. When walking towards the town, he met many people going to the market. Lin Heng took two people he knew with him.
The store was not very popular. There were not many herbs to sell in winter, so most of the people were selling animal furs. There were also many people who reserved some herbs to sell in order to get discounts.
When Lin Heng entered the store, he found that Liu Cihua had been sitting next to him, as if she was waiting for Wang Zhou to finish work.
"Brother Lin!" Wang Zhou saw Lin Heng suddenly appear and hurriedly greeted him with a smile, while Liu Cihua next to him seemed a little restrained.
"It's okay, you do your thing, I'll come down to do something."
Lin Heng waved his hand, looked around the store, and after asking, he found out that Grandpa Gao had gone fishing.
He did not stay any longer and turned out to look for a bricklayer. There were many bricklayers in the town, and their skills varied.
Lin Heng drove to the door of a blue brick house. The door was open and two children were playing a game of catching stones in front of the door.
"Is the owner of this house here? I'm looking for a bricklayer."
Lin Heng asked.
"My dad is in the house. I'll go call him."
One of the older kids nodded and ran into the house.
After a while, a middle-aged man with a mustache came out of the house. He looked at the tricycle driven by Lin Heng and smiled: "Boss, are you looking for a bricklayer?"
"Yes, I heard that your skills are good. How much is it per day?"
Lin Heng got out of the car, walked over and asked with a smile.
The man with the mustache invited Lin Heng into the house and offered him some tea, but Lin Heng refused: "I'll leave after we finish talking, so I won't drink any more."
The mustache man smiled and said, "Then it depends on whether you take care of the food or not."
"I'll provide you with a meal at noon. The work place is Hongfeng Village. We'll build a warehouse and a house. Here are the blueprints. Take a look."
After Lin Heng finished speaking, he handed him the drawing.
The man with a mustache looked at the blueprint and found that he had to build so many houses. He immediately became more serious because this was a big job.
After reading the blueprint, he looked up and asked, "Boss, this will probably take a lot of people, right?"
Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, I am going to find five or six bricklayers. I have already found a laborer."
The mustache man thought for a moment, looked at Lin Heng and said, "Boss, if you provide a meal, you will be paid 1.30 yuan a day. I have all the tools ready. I can also help you find other bricklayers, and I guarantee that they will all be good workers."
Lin Heng nodded and said seriously: "I can give you this price, but you have to find five more people for me, and you have to bring your own tools. But I have to say this in advance, if the skills are not good enough, don't blame me for kicking you out."
He has been a bricklayer for quite some time, and he can tell at a glance whether you have good skills or not.
The mustache man patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, boss. If I can't do my job well, I won't take your money and I'll just leave."
Lin Heng nodded: "Then you ask the good people to gather in front of the town's purchasing station tomorrow morning, and I will pick you up then. Your name is Liu Haigui, right?"
"Yes, boss." The man with a mustache nodded with a smile. He was very happy. It was great to get such a job at the beginning of the year.
"Okay, I understand."
Lin Heng nodded, turned around and rode away on his bike. The market was average in terms of crowds today, but there were quite a few people selling various livestock under the bridge and by the river.
There wasn’t anything good for sale on the street, so Lin Heng said something to Wang Zhou and drove home.
Huangtan Town is located in a relatively low-lying area. The peach blossoms on both sides of the road are already in full bloom. The surrounding trees and mountains are still bare and gray, making these peach blossoms particularly conspicuous. They are white with a hint of pink, like the rosy cheeks of a young girl. A light breeze can smell their faint fragrance.
"Brother, give us some discount."
As soon as Lin Heng climbed up, a girl who was walking back from the market called out with a smile.
Lin Heng turned his head and saw two girls in printed cotton jackets looking at him with their eyes, their gazes moving back and forth between his car and himself.
"That won't do. I made it for my wife."
Lin Heng smiled and waved his hand.
"I'm asking you to fold a flower, but it's not like you're doing anything shameful, so forget it!"
One of the girls with a pointed chin snorted and walked away unhappily.
When I heard that Lin Heng was married, all my thoughts disappeared.
Lin Heng smiled, folded the plum blossoms, put them in the car, and drove home.
When Xiulan got home, she had just finished washing clothes and was hanging them out to dry.
"For you."
Lin Heng parked the car and handed the peach blossoms to Xiulan.
“Have the peach blossoms in town bloomed yet?”
Xiulan took it happily and smelled it.
"Yes, I folded it especially for you."
Lin Heng smiled.
Xiulan glanced at him with her beautiful eyes, then happily took it into the house and put it in a bottle.
"I'm going to catch eels."
Lin Heng found a bag, said something, and walked out with Xiongba.
"There are a lot of garlic cloves by the field. You can dig some and stir-fry them with bacon." Xiulan said.
"good."
Lin Heng had already walked out the door when he agreed.
“Woof woof~~”
Xiongba hadn't been out with Lin Heng for several days. As soon as he came out, he started to have fun and jumped around happily.
When he came to the field, Lin Heng found that his father and elder brother had already plowed three or four fields. Some of his fields were dry these days, and they needed to release water when planting rice. After planting rice, they could also plant wheat or rapeseed.
One type is muddy fields, which have water all year round and can only be used to grow rice. His family has about three acres of muddy fields, which his father keeps for himself.
"How many have you caught?"
Lin Heng glanced at the happy Xiongba and walked over to ask.
Lin Yue smiled and said, "Brother, you are late. The muddy fields have been plowed and we have caught five or six kilograms of yellow eels."
There are the most eels in muddy fields that have water all year round. There are fewer eels in dry fields that dry up, but they do exist.
Lin Heng looked at the plastic barrel placed not far away. Inside, there were eels as thick as thumbs overlapping each other. The thickest ones were only as thick as two of them put together.
"These are all the big ones. The small ones have not been caught." Lin Yue said with a smile.
Lin Heng nodded and was about to speak when he heard his father's call from a distance: "Come quickly, we have plowed out another big yellow eel."
He stretched out his hand and threw it over. Lin Heng ran to pick it up. It was a yellow eel thicker than a thumb.
"Not bad, not bad." Lin Heng picked it up and threw it into the bucket.
There are few eels in this dry field, and it takes a while to find one. You don't have to follow the plow. Just wait until your dad calls you.
There are a lot of garlic cloves growing on the edge of the field. You can see them from afar at this time of year, but they are not particularly thick.
“Woof woof~”
After Lin Heng had been pulling for a while, Xiongba began to give him instructions again, and would always wait for him where there were small garlics in front.
Its body shape has now been finalized. Lin Heng has measured it before. Its shoulder height is 72cm and its body length is 81cm, which is a circle larger than a normal German Shepherd.
The so-called shoulder height refers to the distance from the feet to the hind legs, and the body length refers to the distance from the forechest to the hips, excluding the tail and head.
The final size is smaller than Lin Heng expected, but it is reasonable. The bigger the size, the better.
“You bastard!”
Lin Heng rubbed its head, and the guy ran away with his tongue hanging out. After a while, he found some garlic cloves and called out to him.
If Lin Heng didn't go, it would just wait there and watch him. But Lin Heng would usually go, because it would find good stuff, and he had to trust Xiongba when looking for things.
While Lin Heng was looking for Xiao Suan, Lin's father caught a few more eels, and the harvest was pretty good.
At about 12:30, we finished plowing this field in the morning, and plowed the rest in the afternoon. After plowing, we could soak it in water, and then use a rectangular wooden rake pulled by an ox to rake it several times in March to break up the soil and plant rice.
"Son, give me the rice seeds and corn seeds you bought later."
Father Lin walked over, leading the cow, and said.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.
Rice needs to be cultivated, which they call "sowing sprouts". After sowing, they are wrapped up with bamboo film paper and can be planted in April or May.
"Brother, let's kill these eels and eat them ourselves. I don't think there's any need to sell them." Lin Yue said while holding the bucket.
"Wait until the fields are plowed and see how much there is. Eat some of the excess and sell the rest." Lin Heng said with a smile. He really likes to eat eels, and stir-fried shredded eels are very good.
"That's fine." Lin Yue nodded.
When he got home, Lin Heng handed Xiulan a handful of picked garlic cloves, which he only needed to wash and then cut.
"Go upstairs and get some bacon. We've finished eating what we brought down."
Xiulan reached out and picked off a few Bidens pilosa seeds on Lin Heng's clothes, and said with a sweet smile.
"OK."
Lin Heng walked up the stairs to the second floor. The bacon in the house was hanging on the second window. It had already been smoked and dried.
Lin Heng counted and found that there were still 22 pieces of bacon and 3 pieces of ham. Each piece of bacon weighed more than 10 jin, and each piece of ham weighed 30 jin, so there were nearly 300 jin of meat in total.
This is considered a lot of eating. The meat of the badger and musk deer has been eaten up, and most of the meat of the big sow wild boar has been refined into lard, otherwise the amount would be even greater.
"When the weather gets hot, we'll have to take it downstairs and hang it up."
Lin Heng said to himself, when the weather is hot, the upstairs is like a steamer, so it is no longer suitable for putting meat in it.
After taking a look, Lin Heng picked out a smaller one and carried it downstairs.
(End of this chapter)
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