Chapter 273 Confused Old Father
Lin Yue was building a stand for fruits and vegetables in the house. When he heard Lin Heng's words, he opened the door and said, "Come over and help me build the stand first."
Lin Heng nodded and walked into the house to help: "Brother, the cucumbers in your room are growing very fast."
"I got the seedlings from you. Maybe I covered them with a lot of cow dung." Lin Yue said with a smile. The soil in the vegetable garden in his yard was still ordinary loess, but it was covered with a lot of dung.
"Okay, I'll go up there later." Lin Heng said while helping.
"Just add some sheep manure. Your land is already fertile, so it won't burn the seedlings." Lin Yue said.
While chatting, the two of them quickly finished setting up the frame, and then went to Lin Heng's house to help lift the machine. They first moved the four aerator motors to the sidecar, and Lin Heng ran a trip, and then pulled the other accessories over.
Lin Heng ran twice to unload the crusher and lawn chopper, and his eldest brother Lin Yue followed him, otherwise Lin Heng would not be able to unload the crusher and lawn chopper by himself.
"Do you still need my help?" After unloading the things and putting them into the warehouse, Lin Yue asked again.
"No need, I'll take you back and bring Xiongba here too." Lin Heng said.
Lin Yue smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll go help Dad fix the field ridges."
Repairing field ridges means using mud to pile up and repair the edges of the fields, mainly to prevent water leakage.
"Have you finished harrowing the fields?" Lin Heng asked while driving.
"Yes, after we finish repairing the field ridges today, there is not much work to do for the time being." Lin Yue nodded. If it were a previous year, there would definitely be endless farm work to be done, but this year most of the land is planted with fruit trees so there is not so much work to do.
"That's great." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.
After arriving at the place, he put his elder brother down, then went back to the house and brought Xiongba out.
“Woof woof~~”
This guy is very smart. He sits upright in the truck bed, barking in the wind. Unfortunately, when he grins, he doesn't look as cute as before. Now he looks more majestic.
Arriving at Hongfeng Mountain, Lin Heng first assembled the oxygenating units. There were four in total, three of which were 2,200 watts and one was 1,500 watts.
These are all floating aerators, which, as the name implies, are attached to the water surface. After Lin Heng assembled them, he took two and placed them in the aeration pool, and then went to the mountain to release water.
Lin Heng bought a high-power water pump, but it was just for emergency use, to facilitate pumping water from the Shiban River. The pipes on the mountain stream were already buried, and Lin Heng went up to open the blocked gap, and immediately the beating water flowed down the pipe.
The stream in Hongfeng Mountain has a large amount of water of good quality, without any rust. It is pure mountain spring water. Lin Heng only needs to build a pool of water halfway up the mountain.
However, in order to prevent dirt from entering the aeration pool, Lin Heng still used wire mesh and gauze to make several strict filtrations to prevent the shrimp's natural enemies from entering the pool.
"Dad, catch me some fish!"
Seeing Lin Heng putting water on it, Xiaoxia shouted crisply from below.
"Come over later, baby." Lin Heng agreed with a smile.
He put the hoe away and turned to look at the aeration pool. The bottom of the 400-square-meter aeration pool was not completely wet. Even if a 10-centimeter diameter pipe was used, it would still take a long time to fill the 400-square-meter pool.
The oxygenation pool is two and a half meters deep, fifty centimeters deeper than the initial decision. It is surrounded by a brick and wood fence to prevent children or people from accidentally falling in.
The warehouse area above and the breeding area below are separated by fences for safety reasons.
Leaving the water alone, Lin Heng took a plastic bag and went to the mountain stream to play with his wife and children.
"Dad, there are so many fish here. I want to catch some and feed the turtle." Xiaoxia pointed at the stream grouper in the water.
She treasures the turtle that Lin Heng gave her very much. The grass turtle is still being kept in a small pot, and now she has a topaz-colored box turtle.
"I have finished washing the clothes, you can catch them for her." Xiulan nodded.
"Okay." Lin Heng took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs and walked into the pool to show Xiaoxia his fishing skills.
There were no small stones in the pond, so the fish ran away very fast. But it didn't matter, Lin Heng immediately built a hiding place with small stones, and soon a fish got in. Lin Heng approached slowly from both sides and easily caught it in his hand.
"Look what this is?" Lin Heng smiled and showed it to his daughter, then filled the plastic bag with water and put the fish in it.
"Wow, Dad is so awesome, so awesome!!"
Xiaoxia clapped her hands with admiration in her eyes, and saw Xiaoyu's happy eyebrows curved.
"Daddy will catch you another one."
Lin Heng was very happy to be praised by his daughter and continued to work hard to catch fish. Every time he caught one, Xiaoxia would praise him. His cute look would melt anyone's heart.
After catching eight fish in this pond, Lin Heng moved to another pond with better conditions and caught seven more, making a total of fifteen.
"I love daddy! Daddy is the best!"
Xiaoxia jumped up and took the plastic bag.
"Come on, let's go hang the clothes out and then go check out the cabin."
Xiulan said with a smile.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, picked up the bamboo basket and went back to the warehouse to hang up the clothes to dry.
Xiulan put Xiaoxia's fish in a large wooden basin and kept it temporarily. When the three of them were about to set out for the mountain, Lin's mother came over.
She looked at Lin Heng and the other two and said, "You guys are going to have dinner here today. I'll be there soon. I just picked up a lot of wild black fungus. We'll have fried meat with fungus for lunch."
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded in agreement without being polite.
Xiulan smiled and said, "There are quite a lot of fungus here."
"I was herding cattle and came across a rotten oak tree with a large number of rotten oak leaves on it." Mother Lin boasted happily. The wet wood ear mushrooms she picked up weighed nearly two kilograms. It was definitely a stroke of luck to pick up so many at once in the wild.
"I want to see it too~" Xiaoxia stood on tiptoe to see it, and Lin's mother squatted down lovingly to let her see enough.
Lin Heng asked curiously, "Why don't you take the tree back? It will grow again after the rain."
Mother Lin was stunned for a moment, then patted her forehead and said, "Oh, I was so happy that I forgot all this."
Xiulan smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll get it next time."
"That's right. My daughter-in-law is so considerate." Mother Lin said with a smile.
After a few more words, Lin's mother went to cook. Lin Heng took his wife and daughter up the mountain and walked towards the cabin.
“Woof woof!!”
Xiongba was having fun nearby.
The three of them walked slowly and in no hurry, enjoying the spring scenery as they walked. The tender green forest in spring is really lovely.
"Honey, what do you think I found?"
As she walked, Xiulan suddenly stopped and picked a morel from a bush nearby.
"Hey, there are morels here." Lin Heng said in surprise.
"It seems to be the only one. I don't see any others." Xiulan said after looking around.
"Xiongba, go look for him quickly." Lin Heng called out to Xiongba.
“Woof woof!”
Xiongba ran back with his tongue hanging out. He looked around and shook his head, but found nothing.
"Forget it if there's nothing." Xiulan shook her head and continued walking forward.
Lin Heng used a branch to hit the spider webs along the way. The forest path did not change much, and soon the three of them arrived near the cabin. Some of the Dendrobium officinale planted on the trees last year died, but many survived the winter and sprouted green leaves.
The Dendrobium here in Qinling Mountains is obviously a more cold-resistant variety.
"These Dendrobiums can actually survive if grown this way. Wouldn't it be possible to make a lot of money if we expand the scale?" Xiulan was a little surprised. She thought they would all die this year.
"Just grow it for fun. It will be difficult to grow it when it grows big." Lin Heng shook his head. He has given up on growing Dendrobium officinale.
Compared to it, planting other Chinese medicinal materials can easily make a lot of money, and the technical difficulty is not too great. There are too many projects that can make money by taking advantage of the rebirth advantage.
If you really want to plant it, you can wait until you have money and invest some people to study the planting methods. It will be much faster than figuring it out on your own.
"Not planting anymore?" Xiulan asked puzzledly.
"Yes, you can still make money by growing ginseng and Panax notoginseng, and it's easy." Lin Heng said, holding her hand.
"That's right." Xiulan smiled.
As they were talking, the three of them had already arrived at the cabin. It had been abandoned for two months and looked a bit dilapidated. Of course, this meant that it was a bit dirty because it had not been cleaned. A lot of effort had been put into building the cabin, and the drainage was also very good, so it would not be a problem to use it for more than ten years.
"Dad, I want to sit on the swing." Xiaoxia pointed to the swing next to the hut and said. Although there was a rocking chair in the backyard, it was obviously not as exciting as the swing here.
"I'll play with you later." Lin Heng said to her.
"Okay." Xiaoxia agreed while fiddling with the bag, her eyes fixed on the swing.
Crunch!
After opening the wooden door, everything in the house was the same as before, because Lin Heng had cleaned it up when he was planting ginseng before, and there was not much dust, so people could move in directly.
Xiulan opened the window, picked up the broom and said, "Let me sweep outside."
Lin Heng stopped her and said, "Don't worry, just clean up the bench so that you can sit on it. The rest will get dirty soon even if you clean it."
After that, he took Xiulan to see the ginseng plantation. Twenty acres of ginseng plantation is very large. After nearly a month, the ginseng has sprouted.
The chubby little seedlings are full of vitality and look very pleasing to the eye.
"It seems a bit dense?" Xiulan asked curiously as she looked at the ginseng in the field.
Lin Heng nodded: "It is quite dense, but many will surely die. It will be almost over by then. If there are still more in two years, we can dig some out and transplant them."
The ginseng he planted under the forest were all grown through seedling raising, so the germination rate was high. However, because it was in the wild environment, the death of seedlings during the growth process was more serious than in the greenhouse.
Xiulan nodded, then tilted her head and asked, "Does this need weeding?"
There are many seeds of various plants in the soil in the forest, not only ginseng seedlings, but also seeds of many other trees and grasses have sprouted.
"No need. Once the ginseng is planted under the forest, there will be no human interference. It just imitates the growth environment of wild ginseng." Lin Heng shook his head and said.
"Oh, I see." Xiulan probably understood.
"Yes, it will be ready for digging and selling in about five years." Lin Heng nodded.
The three of them looked around the ginseng garden and then turned back to the wooden house. Xiulan simply packed up the wooden bench and sat there to rest. Lin Heng first tested the reliability of the swing, and then played with Xiaoxia.
"Honey, do you want to come and live here?" Xiulan asked, touching Xiongba's head.
Except for the inconvenience of using water here, where you have to walk several hundred meters to fetch water from the nearby mountain stream, everything else is very good, especially the environment is very quiet.
"Let's wait a few days. There are so many meats in the house now, and it's impossible for them to come and live here." Lin Heng said with a smile.
He quite likes living in this kind of cabin in the woods.
"Then let's wait a few days." Xiulan nodded.
After playing for a while and looking at the ginseng, they went to the back mountain to try to pick mushrooms. Even with Xiongba, they didn't find any mushrooms.
I finally found a piece of ground fungus, but it was all dried up.
But the main purpose was to have fun, so it didn't matter whether or not they picked up mushrooms. Lin Heng sat on a rock, watching his wife and daughter looking for mushrooms not far away, enjoying this peaceful time.
Xiulan searched for a while, then came over and pulled Lin Heng and said, "Forget it, Mom's meal is probably ready, let's go eat."
"Okay." Lin Heng stood up, and the three of them and the dog walked back.
The sun was quite strong today and it felt a bit hot after a while. After leaving the forest, Lin Heng carried Xiaoxia on his back and quickly returned to the warehouse.
Father Lin saw the three of them and said with a smile, "Come in quickly, the meal is ready."
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, and the three of them quickly walked into the house.
Lin's mother fried four dishes, cut some braised meat, and made an egg yolk soup, which was quite rich.
"It's so rich." Lin Heng said in surprise.
"Then eat quickly." Lin's mother said with a smile.
"Yes, let's have a drink together." Father Lin poured Lin Heng a glass of sweet wine.
"Okay." Lin Heng took a bite of the food, picked up the wine glass and drank with his father.
His father can't live without alcohol and has to drink a small glass at every meal.
“I want to eat fungus!”
Xiaoxia tried to pick up some black fungus with chopsticks, but her hands were too short to reach. Now she has learned how to use chopsticks, and she doesn't need someone to hold her food and feed her anymore.
"I'll pick some for Xiaoxia!" Mother Lin smiled and picked some fungus for Xiaoxia.
After everyone ate a few bites of the food and filled their stomachs a little, they started chatting.
Father Lin took a sip of wine and said, "When are you going to start raising shrimp? My dad has prepared the fields, and the rice seedlings are tall, so we can plant them now."
Because there are fewer crops planted this year, rice seedlings are planted earlier than usual.
Lin Heng shook his head and said, "I'm not sure yet, but it should be soon. But it's okay, it won't affect your rice planting."
He planned to play at home for a few days before going down, so he would first fix the water.
"I plan to plant rice the day after tomorrow." Father Lin said.
"Okay, I'll help you then." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.
After dinner, Lin Heng checked the water. The vegetables had been in the water for a long time and the water was about 30 to 40 centimeters deep. However, the water was deep enough to use an aerator, so he asked his father to help him install the aerator.
As the power was turned on, the blades began to spin rapidly, creating a large number of bubbles with a rumbling sound, and the entire water surface was covered with white bubbles.
"Is that all?" Father Lin asked curiously. He didn't quite understand the principle of the oxygenator.
"Yes, the principle is actually very simple..." Lin Heng saw his father's confusion and explained it to him.
"So that's how it is." After hearing this, Lin's father looked as if he had suddenly understood something, but in fact he was still a little confused and couldn't quite understand the knowledge that Lin Heng was talking about.
Lin Heng nodded, and when he was sure that the machine was fine, he turned it off and turned it on again when the water was deeper. After finishing this, he told his father to turn off the water on time and prepared to do another job.
(End of this chapter)
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