Chapter 257 Materials Needed for Shrimp Farming
"I don't know, let's go and take a look."
Lin Heng glanced at the poplar forest not far away and walked over.
The four of them soon arrived at the woods, the environment in the forest was similar to the place where they picked morels before.
But after searching around, they found nothing.
"Probably not." Xiulan shook her head.
"What a shame, I thought I could pick up some morels."
Caiyun also shook her head in disappointment.
Lin Heng was not surprised by this. If morels were really so easy to find, they wouldn't be so expensive.
"Going back?"
Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and asked.
Xiulan glanced upstream and said, "Let's go back. It's a bit far to go up further."
Several people nodded and turned back. When they returned to the river where they were fishing, the fishing rod was still motionless. When Lin Heng put it away, he found that the earthworms on it had been eaten.
Lin Heng wanted to fish a few more times, not wanting to be a loser. After searching for a while, he found another earthworm and shouted to Xiulan under the willow tree, "Fishing? I found another earthworm."
"It's too sunny. You play and we'll wait for you."
Xiulan shook her head. She didn't wear a hat today because she didn't want to get tanned.
"Okay then."
Lin Heng nodded, walked over and put a piece of earthworm on each of the two fishing rods. Then he sat by the river and watched. The sun shone from above, and he could only barely see the seven-star float on the fishing line.
The sun was a little too hot, but the river breeze was cool enough. Lin Heng shielded his eyes from the sun with one hand and stared at the green mountains in the distance with the other.
Suddenly he found that the seven-star float had disappeared, so he hurriedly lifted the rod and pulled. A huge force came from the other end. The fish in spring are much more active than in winter.
However, in shallow water, it was destined not to be able to exert much power, and was pulled up by Lin Heng in a few seconds. A large golden crucian carp mixed with a few water droplets was pulled up.
"Dad caught a big fish!!"
As soon as Lin Heng got the fish in his hands, team member Xiaoxia ran over excitedly and clapped her hands non-stop.
"I'll make you some fish soup when I get home."
Lin Heng showed her how to do it, smiled and put the fish back into the puddle, then continued fishing.
"Xiaoxia likes to eat fish~"
Xiaoxia looked at the fish and squatted beside Lin Heng to accompany her fishing.
Lin Heng was afraid that she would get sunburned, so he used his body to shade her. He silently waited for the fish to take the bait, and from time to time he looked at the mountains to relax his mind.
Since there was no bait, it was all based on luck. No fish came for five minutes. Just as Lin Heng was about to retract his rod to take a look, a fish suddenly took the bait.
But before Lin Heng could exert any force, the fish flew up. Compared with the previous two fish weighing seven or eight taels, this one weighed only two taels.
If in 2023 he could still call it big crucian carp, in 1984, these were all fry.
"Little fish~"
Xiaoxia clapped happily regardless of whether the fish were big or small, and was a qualified member of the praise team.
"This one will be used as food for Jinbao when we take it back."
Lin Heng said with a smile and threw the fish into the puddle.
Then he caught two more small crucian carps of this size. Lin Heng no longer had any emotional fluctuations. They were too small to get excited. He still caught one every seven or eight minutes.
"Pack up and go home."
Lin Heng smiled and shook his head, reeled in the fishing line and stopped fishing.
He was not going to take the five crucian carps back alive, so he found a willow branch, passed it through the gills of the fish, and held it in his hand.
"That's enough, let's go back."
Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and others and said.
"good."
Everyone had no objection to this, packed up their things, and walked back. There was still some food left, and Lin Hai Caiyun had just finished it all.
They sat in the same way as before. After everyone got seated, Lin Heng drove back and threw the garbage into the garbage dump when passing by Heihe Town.
Not to mention being with Xiaoxia, even if the riverside is so beautiful, I can't bear to destroy it.
We drove slowly and it took more than an hour to get back. The sun was already setting, but the sky had not yet turned red.
Everyone got off the bus happily, said goodbye, and went home with their spoils.
Lin Heng parked the car in the yard and ran to the old house to show off, but found that only Caiyun who had just returned was there.
He shook his head helplessly and turned back to slaughter the crucian carp. The internal organs were snatched away and eaten by Xiongba, and he didn't have time to stop him.
"I've divided the Chinese toon and morel into two portions. You can give them to my parents and big brother later. We can keep the prickly ash for ourselves."
Seeing that Lin Heng had finished killing the fish, Xiulan brought the portioned morels and Chinese toon to him, knowing full well that he wanted to show off.
Now that she is rich, she doesn’t care much about morels and eats them whenever she wants.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded and put the things on the cabinet.
After drinking a sip of tea and taking a short rest, Lin Heng went to the back mountain to check on the transplanted fruit and vegetable seedlings. Except for one wilted watermelon seedling, the others were all doing well.
After this rain, the fruit trees we planted all grew small tender leaves and are growing very well.
The backyard is now full of green, with flowers, plants and trees sprouting. The fish are also much happier than before, with small mandarin fish attacking groupers and koi from time to time, and the awakened giant salamanders are also hiding in the water, staring at them eagerly.
Lin Heng took a look and went back to the house to take out the sorted Chinese toon and morels.
"Brother and sister-in-law, we picked a lot of things today. This is for you to eat."
Lin Heng walked into the room, put the things on the table and smiled.
"There are morels now?" Lin Yue asked in surprise.
"Wow, second dad, you guys are so awesome." Lin Wei couldn't help but praise.
Lin Heng waved his hands contentedly: "Lucky, I found it in the forest over there in Heihe."
"These morels are really good, thank you, brother." Liu Juan looked at the mushrooms and said with a smile, this is a good stuff.
Lin Yue poured a glass of water for Lin Heng and asked with a smile: "Brother, when are we going to hunt black bears?"
Lin Heng thought for a moment and said, "I'll take you to the back of Hongfeng Mountain to practice shooting these days, and then after Qingming Festival, we'll go bear hunting."
Lin Yue nodded and said, "Then let's go tomorrow?"
Lin Heng shook his head and smiled, "Tomorrow afternoon is fine. In the morning, Xiulan and I have to go to the city for a physical check-up. I'm planning to have a second child."
"This is a good thing. You just go about your business and call me when you have time." Lin Yue said with a smile when he heard it.
"Yes, it would be better to have the baby together while Xiaoxia is still a child." Liu Juan also smiled. They all felt that it would be best to have the baby every two or three years so that they could bring it up together and avoid any more trouble.
Lin Heng nodded, said a few words, and turned to go to his parents' yard.
"Mom and Dad, look what I brought you!"
Lin Heng walked into the house with a bag and a smile.
"Caiyun told me that you actually picked up morels. You are really lucky." Father Lin said with a smile.
"It's warmer over there in Heihe than here."
Lin Heng said something, handed the things to his mother, and then sat down and chatted for a few more words.
The two elders were very happy when they learned that the two were going to have a pregnancy check-up tomorrow.
Mother Lin nodded repeatedly: "It's time to have a baby a long time ago. Family planning is becoming more and more strict now. If you don't have a baby now, you won't be able to have one anymore."
"That's right. Try to give me a big fat grandson this time." Father Lin also said with a smile.
They still have very traditional ideas, believing that a boy is the best child. Some of them prefer boys to girls.
Lin Heng doesn't favor boys over girls, but he also wants to have a son. Although it is a modern society, it is still not good for a family to not have a son.
"Don't worry."
Lin Heng nodded. Family planning and the like didn’t matter. At most he would just have to pay some fines. As long as he had money, these wouldn’t be a problem.
In his previous life, his second child was a son, but now that he was reborn, the time was wrong and he had no idea whether it would be a son or a daughter.
When Xiulan got home, she was cooking. She blanched the Chinese toon briefly, then chopped it up and mixed it with egg liquid to make a Chinese toon scrambled eggs.
The remaining toon is used to stir-fry bacon. The fat from the bacon can bring out the flavor of the toon very well, and the rich aroma fills the whole house.
Finally, I used a half-pound crucian carp to make a crucian carp and morel soup, and then I could cook rice. As for the prickly ash sprouts, Xiulan planned to eat them tomorrow.
Soon the rice was ready. Xiulan scooped up the rice and Lin Heng brought the vegetables and sugar to the table.
Picking up the chopsticks, Lin Heng first took a bite of the scrambled eggs with toon. His mouth was filled with the taste of toon and the burnt aroma of the eggs.
"tasty!"
Lin Heng nodded repeatedly, thinking that it was worth it to run for so long today just to eat this bite of Chinese toon.
“Delicious~”
Xiaoxia ate the Chinese toon eggs and nodded like Lin Heng, she liked the taste very much.
Then Lin Heng picked up a piece of bacon and Chinese toon and put them in his mouth. He chewed it twice and swallowed it impatiently. It was so delicious.
If Chinese toon fried eggs is eggs wrapped with Chinese toon, and the original taste of Chinese toon is released when you eat it, then Chinese toon fried meat fully stimulates the taste of Chinese toon, and after combining with oil, it bursts out with rich fragrance, which strongly stimulates people's taste nerves.
Lin Heng didn't want to talk. He just wanted to put the fried pork with toon and rice into his mouth and then swallow it hard.
“Wow, it’s delicious!”
Only after he finished a bowl of rice did Lin Heng speak with satisfaction. The taste of spring is so delicious.
"There is still rice, please go and scoop some more." Xiulan said with a smile.
"good."
Lin nodded and scooped up all the remaining food in the pot to eat. The rice crust tasted better and had a richer texture when eaten together with the fried bacon with toon.
After finishing the meal, drink a bowl of fish soup. The morels and wild crucian carp are so delicious that the rich taste fills the mouth. You can finish a bowl in one breath.
After eating two morels, Lin Heng put down his bowl and chopsticks with satisfaction, feeling refreshed.
After resting for a while, Lin Heng picked up the chopsticks and fed Xiaoxia, asking her to eat more morels and crucian carp meat, which are good things for growth.
"I'll leave the rest to you."
While feeding Xiaoxia, Lin Heng said to Xiulan.
"I can finish the scrambled eggs with Chinese toon." Xiulan shook her head. It would be too much to eat it all.
She eats slowly, chewing her food carefully. Xiaoxia had just finished eating after Lin Heng had fed her.
It was dark after dinner, and it was not time to write anything yet, so the three of them played in the yard for a while to help digest the food.
Lin Heng looked up at the starry sky. Because it had just rained, the stars were bright tonight, and he could see the Milky Way hanging upside down. However, he didn't know much about the starry sky. He could only see the Big Dipper and the North Star, and the others were not clear.
But this does not stop them from staring at the starry sky and lamenting their own insignificance.
Back in the bedroom, Lin Heng told Xiaoxia the story of Ma Liang's magic brush to coax her to sleep, and then he hugged his wife and fell asleep.
The next morning, they both got up as usual, except that they skipped breakfast after exercising because they had to go for a check-up.
Calling Caiyun to take care of Xiaoxia, Lin Heng drove the car onto the road, and Xiulan took a small leather bag and went to the side of the car to work.
"That place is not suitable for you, sit behind me."
Lin Heng smiled at her.
Xiulan blinked, stood up and sat behind Lin Heng, hugged his waist and tilted her head and said, "Are you satisfied now?"
"satisfy."
Lin Heng chuckled, started the car and drove towards the city.
Since Lin Heng was driving only with Xiulan, he drove faster and arrived at the City Center Hospital in an hour.
After parking the car, he took Xiulan into the hospital for examination. She was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday, only with a different pair of pants.
It took the two of them an hour and a half to complete the prenatal checkup. The main reason was that the hospital was relatively backward and there was no prenatal checkup. The examination was all based on normal physical examinations, with only three or four items such as blood tests. There was no equipment for B-ultrasound or anything like that.
Originally, Lin Heng wanted to earn money for two years, buy a house in Ancheng, and let Xiulan live there when she was pregnant. The medical facilities there were good, and he felt at ease.
But Xiulan thought it was unnecessary, so she could give birth now, and she could only go to the city center hospital for a routine physical examination. But there were no problems with giving birth in her previous life, so Lin Heng was not too worried.
"It's finally done." After walking out of the hospital, Lin Hengshen took a deep breath and looked at Xiulan and said, "What do you want to eat? I'll take you there."
"Fried dough sticks, I want to eat fried dough sticks and soy milk." Xiulan thought for a while and said.
"no problem."
Lin Heng nodded and drove her to what he thought was the best breakfast stall in the city.
After ordering rootless fried dough sticks and two bowls of soy milk, Xiulan asked as she ate, "Where are we going later?"
Because the physical examination report will not come out until the afternoon, they have to wait here.
Lin Heng thought for a while and said, "I will go to the oil press station in the city to ask about the price of bean cake and wheat bran. If it is suitable, I will buy some and take it back to raise shrimps later."
"good."
Xiulan nodded.
After breakfast, the two went to the grain station to ask.
After some research, I found out that the prices for small and large quantities are different. Bean cakes are 8 cents per pound, peanut cakes are 6 cents per pound, wheat bran is 3 cents per pound, and corn is 5 cents per pound.
If you buy by ton, the price can be much cheaper. Lin Heng went to several oil pressing stations to inquire about the approximate price, and generally speaking, they were all about the same.
Bean cakes are expensive because they are not the main soybean producing area. Unwilling to give up, he went to a soybean product factory to inquire. The price here is cheaper than the oil pressing place, but the quality is also worse.
"Aren't you going to buy some today?"
Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and asked.
"Not necessary for now, let's buy them together when the time comes."
Lin Heng shook his head and said, "Raising shrimps requires more than just these, it also requires animal protein and calcium supplements, a lot of them."
There is no rush to buy it for now, wait until you understand it clearly at one time.
There is one more chapter in the evening.
(End of this chapter)
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