Chapter 289 Scorpion Yogurt
The cattle and sheep pen originally wanted to use normal terracotta tiles, but found that the quantity was not enough. Then they thought of using slate to supplement, but found that slate was too difficult to mine.
Finally, we decided to use waterproof tarpaulin. It will last for four to five years without any problem. After four or five years, this place will probably have to be dismantled and rebuilt. Waterproof tarpaulin is easier to construct.
They first built the top with wood and rafters. Because of the tarpaulin used, the wooden rafters had to be placed more densely.
After finishing, Lin Heng brought up the waterproof tarpaulin and laid it out with his father. They just laid three layers and nailed it down.
After the paving was completed, Father Lin said, "Son, let's move some more slate bricks to hold it down. I'm afraid the wind will blow it up."
Lin Heng felt that this was completely fine, but he was too lazy to argue with his father since he wanted to do this. He put slates and bricks in a large basket and hung it up with a rope to press down the waterproof tarpaulin.
"Okay, it's safe now."
An hour later, Father Lin looked at the roof that was pressed down with stones and bricks and smiled happily.
Lin Heng nodded in satisfaction: "Now we just need to clean up the inside and build two composting pools for the feces."
This cattle and sheep pen is a whole, a long breeding shed that is 30 meters long from east to west and 8 meters wide from north to south. It is built with red bricks on all sides. Apart from some ventilation holes, there is a door in the middle of the east and west directions.
There is a two-meter corridor in the middle connecting the two doors in the north-south direction, which is convenient for feeding or cleaning feces. On both sides of the corridor, that is, in the north-south direction, there is a breeding pen three meters wide and thirty meters long, one for raising cattle and the other for raising sheep.
The breeding pens are separated by wooden railings, and only the bottom is made of red bricks. The 30-meter-long breeding pens are also divided into small breeding pens of 6 meters each. Of course, this can be freely moved and can be divided into new sizes at any time according to the situation.
The feed troughs are on both sides of the aisle, making it very convenient for people to feed the animals.
Father Lin looked at Lin Heng and asked, "Where do you think is the best place to store the excrement? Outside the east and west doors?"
"That place won't work because it affects ventilation." Lin Heng shook his head and pointed to a place a little below. "Let's build it a little below the cattle and sheep pens. Use bricks to build two composting pits. When the time comes, pour the cattle and sheep manure in and cover it with tarpaulin or film paper to let it rot."
In this way, the odor of cow and sheep manure can be effectively isolated to prevent it from causing pollution, and decomposed organic fertilizer can also be used.
"Okay, then should we build a composting pit first or bring the cattle and sheep back first?" Father Lin asked while checking the situation around him.
"Let's choose a good day first. If there is enough time, we can start building it. It doesn't take much effort to build it." Lin Heng said. For such a big thing, one still needs to find a good start. There is no harm in practicing metaphysics.
"Okay, I'll ask someone to pick a good day tomorrow." Father Lin said with a smile.
Lin Heng nodded and walked back with the tools. It was already six o'clock in the afternoon. Seeing that there was not much work to do, the two of them had been busy all day.
The Forsythia saplings on the edge of the field have grown quite taller, but the grassland not far away is a bit bare, with only two rows of grass left at the very edge, which are used to save seeds for expanding planting next year.
All the other forage grasses were cut a few days ago, packed in plastic bags and fermented into silage to prepare for winter fodder.
After returning to the house, Lin Heng took a towel and soap and went to the next door stream to take a bath. The water in the stream was a little cold, but it was very comfortable to take a bath in such a hot summer.
After taking a shower and feeling refreshed in the breeze, Lin Heng walked into the hatchery to check out the shrimp fry. After nearly a month of feeding, they had grown to more than one centimeter in size, and they could be put into the pond sometime soon.
The long and thin water peanuts on both sides of the pond have grown very lush. Lin Heng cleaned it up a few days ago. He also vomited some fertilizer water and splashed it in. Now the water in the pond is emerald green. The visibility is about 15 centimeters.
Lin Heng was just about to go back when he suddenly saw Xiulan and Xiaoxia walking towards him from the gate.
Xiulan was wearing crystal sandals, her floral skirt fluttering in the wind, her hair tied into a braid that fell from her shoulders to her chest. She had a smile on her pretty face, and her autumn-water eyes stared at Lin Heng from afar.
"Dad!" Xiaoxia waved her little hands and shouted from afar.
Lin Heng took it and said with a smile: "Why are you here?"
"I'm bored at home, so I'm going out for a walk now that the sun has set." Xiulan said with a smile, handing the fruits in her other hand to Lin Heng, "I'll bring some vegetables for my parents on the way."
"Dad, the cucumbers here are grown by me." Xiaoxia said with her head raised proudly.
At the end of June, all fruits and vegetables entered their peak fruit-bearing period, including the cucumbers and pumpkins planted by Xiaoxia.
"Xiaoxia is so amazing." Lin Heng picked her up and spun her in the air.
"Dad, I want to ride a horse again." Xiaoxia smiled silly, very happy.
"Okay, okay, let's ride horses." Lin Heng smiled and put her on his neck. Xiaoxia was too light for him, and he could easily pick up his wife Xiulan and do squats and horse stances.
Xiaoxia waved her hands on Lin Heng's neck, feeling the joy of being high. Lin Heng turned his head and looked at Xiulan: "You didn't vomit too much today, did you?"
As time went by, Xiulan's belly began to bulge slightly, and her morning sickness became more and more severe. In the past two days, she would vomit suddenly even if she didn't eat anything, which made Lin Heng feel distressed.
Xiulan smiled and shook her head: "It's okay, I just vomited once."
"Have you finished eating the sweet and sour plum blossom fish I made for you?" Lin Heng asked again.
Although he had been busy building cattle and sheep pens these days, he also found time to go fishing with Grandpa Gao a few times.
He brought the six fish he caught back alive with oxygen in an oxygen cylinder and kept them in the well water at a very low temperature in the house. Xiulan and Xiaoxia could catch them and eat them whenever they wanted.
"Yes, I have. I heated it up three times in the rice cooker and ate it together with Xiaoxia." Xiulan squeezed Lin Heng's hand and nodded.
"That's good. I'll take you to see the cattle and sheep pens we built." Lin Heng nodded.
When they arrived at the house above the breeding base, Xiaoxia got off Lin Heng's neck and ran towards the house, shouting as she ran: "Grandma, grandma, I brought you cucumbers."
"Xiaoxia is such a good girl, let grandma hug you." Lin's mother came out of the house and said with a smile.
After praising Xiaoxia, Mother Lin looked at Xiulan and asked, "Have the chicks you hatched come out?"
"Not yet. It may take a few days." Xiulan shook her head.
"Mine haven't been born yet, so I don't know how many I will have." Mother Lin shook her head.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mom. The temperature is higher now than before. I'm sure all your batch will be able to hatch."
"I hope so. If they come out, I'll sell a few." Mother Lin said with a smile.
After chatting for a while, Lin's mother took Xiaoxia to taste the sweet wine she had just made, while Lin Heng took Xiulan to see the shrimp seedlings and the cattle and sheep pens.
She was not allowed to go to the musk deer and pig pens because it was not very hygienic. The diarrhea symptoms of the female musk deer and the little sheep have been cured. The little musk deer is half the size of the female musk deer in one month and is growing very fast.
Mother Lin bought two piglets from the pigpen. Now they eat fruits and vegetables every day, but there are too many people in the field and they can’t finish them all.
"It looks great here. When are you planning on bringing back the lambs and calves?" Xiulan asked after looking around.
Lin Heng said: "Dad is looking at the date, it's not certain yet."
Xiulan nodded and said as she walked downstairs, "Now we can catch cicada monkeys. Do you want to catch one?"
"If you want to catch it, let's go tonight. I was planning to catch a scorpion." Lin Heng said with a smile, putting his arm around her shoulders.
Xiulan blinked and said, "Then let's go tonight. I really want to eat cicada monkeys."
After the two of them had discussed it, they went downstairs and took Xiaoxia home. It was still very cool in the evening after the sun had set, and it was very comfortable to walk back in the breeze.
Many children in the village were playing under the ginkgo tree, and many of them greeted Lin Heng and Xiulan. Compared to last year, Lin Heng was much more low-key in the village and did not show himself much.
"What are we having for dinner?" Lin Heng turned around and asked after returning home.
The vegetable garden in the yard is full of fruits and vegetables. The watermelons and cantaloupes are as big as small bowls, and the cucumbers, green beans, cowpeas, tomatoes, etc. are so numerous that you can’t even finish eating them.
"I'll just eat a little, you can do whatever you want." Xiulan said with a smile.
"Then let me think about it." Lin Heng looked at the vegetable garden, picked some green peppers first, then picked a few cucumbers and some spinach.
The green peppers are made into tiger skin peppers, and the cucumbers and spinach are eaten cold. These dishes are enough as they don’t require a meal.
After finishing their meal, they stayed outside to cool off for a while. It was almost ten o'clock when they returned to the room and coaxed Xiaoxia to sleep.
However, this was a good opportunity to catch cicada monkeys, so the two of them took flashlights, net bags, put on waders and set off.
You don’t have to run around everywhere, you can find it in the woods behind the mountain.
"There's a white cicada here." As soon as Xiu Lan entered the forest, she found one, a white cicada that had just finished molting.
"This is good." Lin Heng reached out and grabbed it.
Lin Heng had just caught two when Xiulan said in surprise, "There are more over here, also white cicadas."
This is the first time I went up the mountain to catch cicadas this year. There were too many of them. The ones I caught were white cicadas that had just shed their shells, which are of the best quality.
Lin Heng caught more than 30 of them in a short while, then turned on the ultraviolet lamp he bought in Ancheng and shone it on the stone walls and steps.
"Xiu Lan, look."
Lin Heng pulled Xiulan and shouted.
"It's true! It's so magical." Xiulan said in surprise.
When the ultraviolet light was shone on the backs of the scorpions, they emitted a bright green light. The scorpions that were originally hidden and the same color as the stones now became clearly visible.
"It looks like there are quite a lot of them on the mountain." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Xiulan looked at him and asked, "Do you want to catch it? We need to use a stick, right?"
"You need to use a stick and a plastic bottle. But let's just watch tonight and catch it another day." Lin Heng nodded.
After taking a look, he turned off the ultraviolet lamp and continued to catch cicadas with Xiulan. There were a lot of cicadas at this moment.
The two of them were so excited that they looked at the time and it was almost midnight.
"Let's go home." Xiulan said with a yawn.
"I'll pull you."
Lin Heng pulled her back. No stars or moon were visible today, so they walked faster.
When they got home, they divided the cicadas among themselves and found that there were 25 cicadas in total.
"Just fry it now." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Xiulan accompanied Lin Heng. After they cleaned the cicada monkeys, they put them in the pot and blanched them for a few seconds. Then they took them out, drained the water and could fry them.
There is no skill in frying, just fry it once and then fry it again. After frying, Lin Heng took out the white cicada, sprinkled some salt and cumin powder and chili powder, picked it up and ate one.
"tasty."
This thing is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It tastes crispy and delicious, and is full of the aroma of protein.
"Try it." Lin Heng fed one to Xiulan.
"White cicadas are tastier than golden cicadas," Xiulan commented, but she didn't dare eat any more after eating five, which was a little regretful.
Lin Heng put his things away, rinsed his mouth and said, "Then let's rest. It's quite late."
"Um."
The two of them simply washed up and went back to the house to rest.
The weather is very hot and there are mosquitoes, so the fan has to be turned on until midnight. The two of them pulled up the mosquito net, lay on the bed with almost no clothes on, and covered their stomachs with summer quilts.
Xiulan leaned against Lin Heng and felt something strange in his body, so she crawled over and used her big chest to help him.
Although I couldn't have sex and couldn't help him bite because of morning sickness, I let Lin Heng use it on other parts of his body.
To Lin Heng, this seemed to be even better than before Xiulan became pregnant.
He felt that Xiulan was really a little love-brained. She was so nice to him and always used her tenderness to sweep away all his fatigue.
"Oh, you didn't tell me again. It's been so long today."
After a long time, Xiulan helplessly wiped her neck and chest with paper and gave Lin Heng an unpleasant look.
"Sorry wife."
Lin Heng helped her clean up with an apologetic look on his face.
"You apologize every time but never change, right?" Xiulan pinched his face. This guy just liked to do things to her. It was so hateful.
I apologize every time, but never change.
"No, I can't help it." Lin Heng said, holding her close.
"Go to sleep."
Xiulan looked at his face, kissed him, and fell asleep beside him.
"good."
Lin Heng smiled happily. Actually, sometimes he didn’t say anything and didn’t want to trouble Xiulan, but she could always feel his situation. She was so nice.
The next morning, Lin Heng woke up and found it was drizzling outside. He looked at the beautiful woman sleeping next to him, covered her with a blanket and prepared to get up.
"Sleep a little longer, there's no rush to cook."
Xiulan hugged him with her pair of white arms and said in a daze.
"Okay." Lin Heng looked at her. He also liked Xiulan holding him and pressing him against his chest like this.
He lay down silently and slept for a while until Xiaoxia woke up and wanted to go to the bathroom. Then he quickly got up and took her to the bathroom.
"Dad, the cicada monkey is delicious."
During breakfast, Xiaoxia caught cicada monkeys one by one and talked about them.
"Eat less. Even if it tastes good, you can't eat too much." Lin Heng looked at her and said.
"Okay, I'll eat three and then no more." Xiaoxia nodded in agreement, and then ate three after that.
Xiulan didn't want to drink the milk anymore after taking a sip. She ate a cicada monkey and looked at Lin Heng and said in a sweet voice, "Honey, I want to eat the yogurt you made."
"Then you eat the vegetables first. I will cook for you later and you can have it at noon." Lin Heng said with a smile. He has now completely mastered the method of making yogurt, but it cannot be stored for a long time without a refrigerator.
(End of this chapter)
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