Chapter 306 Twins?
Lin Heng squinted his eyes and enjoyed it, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
"Mom, Dad seems to have fallen asleep, but he hasn't told me a story yet." Xiaoxia complained softly while massaging her father's waist. She hadn't heard a bedtime story for two days.
Xiulan looked at her and said, "Of course he is. He is very tired. The meat you and I eat is obtained by him walking a long way. Without his hard work, you would not be able to eat delicious food and wear beautiful clothes."
Although she was not with Lin Heng, she knew very well how tiring hunting was. It was normal to walk dozens of miles a day, and not only would you not have good food to eat in the mountains, you would also have to suffer from the cold.
Xiaoxia tilted her head and thought about it. When she thought of Yang Qing, she was particularly envious of her father. She thought her father was extremely powerful and she felt extremely happy.
"Then let me tell Dad a story!" Xiaoxia said, touching her father's back.
Xiulan was a little surprised, then she smiled and said, "Then keep your voice down, don't wake up your dad."
"Okay." Xiaoxia nodded and started telling her favorite fairy tale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Xiulan pressed Lin Heng's legs for a while and tried to turn him over but found that she couldn't do it no matter what she did. Finally, she changed direction and pushed with her feet before she turned him over.
"Like a pig."
Looking at Lin Heng who didn't wake up even after all the trouble she had done, she wanted to laugh, but also felt a little distressed.
"Mom, I want to sleep in the big bed tonight!" Xiaoxia said while holding Xiulan's hand after she finished telling the story.
"Then sleep here, next to me." Xiulan nodded and carried her over.
After coaxing her to sleep, I put her back into the crib. The weather was too hot and it was easy to get prickly heat if we were crowded together.
After taking a look at Lin Heng, Xiulan also lay down to rest.
The next morning, Lin Heng woke up and found that it was almost nine o'clock. He turned around and saw that Xiulan and Xiaoxia had already gotten up, and there was a set of clean clothes next to his head.
After putting on his clothes, Lin Heng walked out on his own and found some birds on the grape trellis in the backyard, and Jinbao was staring at them from the ground under the trellis.
"This thing is still of some use." Lin Heng thought, and felt that when the grapes are ripe, he could tie it under the rack to watch over it.
He went to the toilet and came to the main room. Xiulan was picking vegetables and Xiaoxia was playing with the village children in the yard.
"Your food is in the pot, just take it out and eat it yourself." Xiulan looked up and said.
Lin Heng nodded, walked into the kitchen, opened the lid of the pot and took a look. It was a very rich breakfast, with a glass of milk, potato pancakes and cold cucumber salad.
When Lin Hengduan went out to eat, Xiulan asked, "Mom and sister-in-law asked when you would go to the city. Some of the scorpions we caught are hard to keep and have started dying recently."
"Just for these two days. I also need to go down to purchase supplies. I think the shrimp feed will run out soon." Lin Heng said, looking up.
"Then go back and tell them." Xiulan nodded.
Lin Heng thought for a moment and said, "I'll call them over for lunch. We can't finish all the food we've prepared."
"You're too late. Brother has already called us. Sister-in-law even picked up a lot of snails and has been keeping them for two days." Xiulan said, spreading her hands.
"That's fine, it's the same if we call them tonight." Lin Heng nodded, and went to look at the hazel grouse that was stewed last night, and turned to ask, "Why don't you eat it? I stewed it for you."
"Let's eat together later." Xiulan said with a wink.
"I'll heat it up for you." Lin Heng lit some charcoal, put the cold hazel grouse on it to heat it up, and added some water and adjusted the salt.
This hazel grouse weighs 8 taels when killed, and the meat has been completely stewed until it is soft. The light yellow soup is rich and fragrant, with an aroma unique to hazel grouse, somewhat similar to the fragrance of hazelnuts.
Pheasants and golden roosters are not heavy. When killed, they only weigh about one pound. With the internal organs, they are heavier, but rarely weigh more than two pounds.
I had already eaten one blood pheasant last night, and I left one for my parents to eat together. There was quite a bit of badger meat, which I fried and placed on top of the water tank.
Lin Heng took some out and put them on three skewers. After the chicken soup was hot, he grilled them on the charcoal fire.
He served the hazel grouse soup, then tore a half piece of hazel grouse and put it in. By the time the meat was done roasting, the hazel grouse soup was just warm enough.
"Eat quickly." Lin Heng said to Xiulan.
"I just ate not long ago, I'm not hungry yet." Xiulan smiled and winked.
"It doesn't have much oil in it, so you won't get fat." Lin Heng handed it to her.
Xiulan had no choice but to take it and finished it while sitting on the bench. She burped and felt somewhat satisfied. The chicken soup was delicious, and the hazel pheasant meat was stewed very firm and tender, leaving a lingering fragrance in her mouth.
Lin Heng handed Xiaoxia a skewer of barbecued meat and ate it in big mouthfuls. Badger meat is similar to hog badger meat, with a unique taste that can be described as earthy but not accurate, because it doesn't taste disgusting but rather a bit fragrant.
It seems to be a unique flavor that can only be obtained by eating herbs. It is roasted until slightly brown and oily, and it tastes very satisfying when sprinkled with some barbecue seasoning.
Xiaoxia put some salt in the string of glutinous rice and she still tasted very fragrant when chewing it, which fully demonstrated that it was not the smell of earth, but the unique flavor of the badger.
"Try it." Lin Heng handed over the half-eaten skewer.
Xiulan took one and tasted it, then nodded and said, "This is very good. It tastes delicious when roasted."
"Would you like another skewer?" Lin Heng said, pointing at the skewer that was still being grilled.
"No, I can't eat." Xiulan shook her head, then touched her belly and looked at Lin Heng, "Honey, do you think my belly is growing too fast?"
"I feel a little bit." Lin Heng nodded.
Xiulan shook her head: "Not a little, but it's growing much faster. Normally, it shouldn't be noticeable for more than three months. When I was pregnant with Xiaoxia for four months, I could still wear normal pants, but now I can only wear skirts or special wide-waisted pants."
Lin Heng took a closer look and said, "Maybe something is wrong? Let's go to the hospital."
Xiulan shook her head: "There shouldn't be anything wrong, otherwise I would definitely feel it."
After a pause, she looked at Lin Heng and whispered, "Honey, do you think it's possible that I'm having twins? That's why my belly is getting bigger so fast."
Lin Heng was stunned. He instinctively felt that it was unlikely, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it made sense. Why couldn't they be twins?
"You're right, it's really possible. We should go to the hospital to check it out!" Lin Heng said in surprise. He walked over and put his lips against her belly to try to hear the fetal heartbeat.
But after listening for a long time I still couldn't understand it.
Xiulan looked at him with big eyes: "Do you remember the doctor said my pulse was very strong? And my morning sickness is more serious than before, and my belly is getting bigger very fast. I think it's almost certain."
She touched her belly. Being pregnant with twins was something she had never experienced before. It was a very rare event and she was very happy.
At the same time, she was a little anxious because she didn't know the specific gender of the twins. If the two daughters were forced to have IUDs inserted by the hospital, then there would be no way for Lin Heng to give birth to a son.
It’s not that I hate daughters, I just need a boy to carry on the family line. Having both a son and a daughter is best.
"That's really possible. Come with me to the city in a couple of days. I should be able to drive slowly and everything should be fine." Lin Heng said happily.
"Okay, then let's tell our parents and others after we finish reading it." Xiulan nodded. She felt more at ease after finding out the truth.
Lin Heng thought about it and decided, "Then let's go tomorrow. Caiyun is on vacation now, so let her help take care of Xiaoxia."
"That's fine." Xiulan nodded in agreement. She also wanted to confirm whether they were twins.
Lin Heng lay on her belly and listened again, but still couldn't hear clearly. He couldn't tell whether it was the fetal heartbeat or Xiulan's heartbeat.
After finishing the remaining barbecue, Lin Heng made a cup of herbal tea.
Then I went out for a walk and looked around, but there was nothing I was looking for.
His parents came over at noon. Lin's mother asked him when he would leave the city, and Lin Heng told her what happened.
"Then you have to bring another person with you tomorrow, take your brother down?" asked Lin's mother.
"Yes, let my brother come along." Lin Heng nodded. It is indeed better to have more people to take care of each other.
Because he has to take Xiulan for a check-up, he doesn't plan to do any extra work tomorrow. Things like buying a factory building and so on will all be done next time he goes there.
"I'm also making the coffee table for your sofa. I bought a piece of camphor wood for the table top, and the legs are made of thorny fir." Father Lin looked at Lin Heng and said that it was he who took the initiative to ask to be a carpenter, and it was interesting to do carpentry work when he had nothing to do.
"Just watch and do it." Lin Heng said with a smile. He originally wanted to ask Carpenter Liang to do it for him, but his father stopped him and asked him to try it himself.
Everyone chatted in the room for a while, and around one o'clock, the eldest brother Lin Yue came over and called them to eat.
Sister-in-law Liu Juan prepared a very sumptuous meal today. In addition to the hunted badger meat, there were also snails, fried river fish, etc., a total of ten dishes.
Lin Yue got a badger skin when she went into the mountains this time. She was naturally happy that she could sell it for a lot of money.
Halfway through the meal, Liu Juan asked with a smile: "Lin Heng, when are you going into the city?"
"Tomorrow." Lin Heng explained the matter while eating snails.
“That’s good. We have caught some scorpions and can’t keep them anymore.” Liu Juan said happily.
"How many did you catch?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
"I caught about three kilograms." Liu Juan said with a smile.
Mother Lin also spoke up: "Caiyun and I caught about three kilograms of fish together."
"Awesome!" Lin Heng admired him. Three kilograms of scorpions could be sold for more than one hundred yuan, which was definitely a huge income.
But the prerequisite is that there must be ultraviolet light.
"Then Caiyun, you will help take care of Xiaoxia tomorrow." Lin Heng said to Caiyun.
"Of course that's no problem, brother." Caiyun agreed with a smile.
After lunch, Lin Heng told his parents and elder brother that he would go over for dinner in the evening.
After dinner, the parents returned to Hongfeng Mountain, and Caiyun stayed directly at Lin Heng's house.
In the evening, Lin's mother came over to help with cooking, and the whole family had another happy meal at night. Rural life is so simple, and we are very happy to have a good meal.
The next morning, after breakfast, they packed up and prepared to leave. Xiaoxia was clingy, and it took a long time to appease her before she agreed to go into the city.
Scorpions were put in gauze bags and hung at the back of the car. We were afraid that they would suffocate to death in the storage box. The price difference between a dead and alive was too great.
Big brother Lin Yue sat in the right side of the truck bed, and Xiulan sat behind Lin Heng, hugging him.
"I'm leaving." Lin Heng said and started the car.
Because Xiulan was pregnant, she didn't dare drive too fast. We set off at 8:30 and it took two and a half hours to get into the city.
The first stop must be the hospital in the city. After handing the car to his eldest brother, Lin Heng took Xiulan to the gynecological examination.
"Doctor, my wife seems to be pregnant with twins. Could you please take a look?" Lin Heng said as he walked into the doctor's office.
The female doctor holding the stethoscope looked at Xiulan curiously: "Twins? How long have you been pregnant?"
"My period stopped in mid-May, so it should be more than three months now." Xiulan said as she sat down.
"That's really possible. Let me take a look for you." The doctor nodded.
She listened with a stethoscope, then asked some more questions. After a moment, she nodded and said, "It is indeed twins. There is no problem at the moment, but you have to pay attention to nutrition. Twins consume twice as much energy as a single baby."
"It's twins!"
Hearing the doctor's affirmative words, Lin Heng was stunned for a moment. Twins! He would actually have a pair of twin children. Two little cuties who look identical.
"Don't just stand there like an idiot. Take your wife to get tested to see if there are any other problems." The doctor looked at Lin Heng and reminded her.
"Good!" Lin Heng couldn't contain his joy. He pulled Xiulan out of the clinic and said excitedly, "Wife, you are amazing. You are pregnant with twins."
Xiulan blushed and said shyly, "Let's go back and tell them. There are too many people outside."
She felt that it was related to the fact that Lin Heng was too crazy during that period, because he had no self-control at all without using any contraceptive measures.
After the test, Lin Heng asked a Chinese doctor to take a look. Only after making sure there was no problem did he pull Xiulan out.
Lin Yue saw the two people coming out and asked curiously: "What's going on? Why are you so happy?"
Lin Heng looked at his eldest brother and said, "Actually, the main reason we came here this time was to check if Xiulan was pregnant with twins. Now it has been confirmed."
Lin Yue opened his mouth wide: "Twins! Oh my god, you must be blessed by God."
"It's really God's blessing." Lin Heng nodded with a smile. No matter whether it's a son or a daughter, the twins themselves are already SSR.
It must be a very happy and interesting thing to have two children who look alike.
"Okay, let's do other things quickly. Scorpions are easy to die when it's hot." Xiulan patted Lin Heng and said. Seeing Lin Heng's happy look, she felt happy too.
"good."
Lin Heng drove his sidecar and took Xiulan and his elder brother to the herbal medicine shop where he said he would buy scorpions last time.
The herbal medicine shop was run by an old man. He was a little surprised when he saw Lin Heng carrying two large bags of scorpions in. "You are here to sell scorpions. How did you get so many?"
Lin Heng put down the bag and said, "Pure wild scorpions. You said last time that they were 40 yuan per pound. You wouldn't refuse, would you?"
The old man's eyes widened: "I said thirty-five, when did it become forty? You can only find someone else for this price."
"Thirty-five is fine, weigh it." Lin Heng nodded. Forty yuan was just something he made up.
After weighing, his eldest brother's weighed 3.5 jin and his mother's weighed 3.2 jin.
After weighing them, the old man poured the scorpions out and put them in a basin to take a look. He confirmed that these were local wild scorpions. He looked at Lin Heng and his friends in shock and asked, "How did you catch so many scorpions?"
He knew very well how difficult it was to catch this thing. Most of the people who came to him to buy it weighed only one or two taels. Three pounds at once was too terrifying. There must be a special method.
“Just use a bamboo stick to catch it.” Lin Heng pretended to be dumb and would definitely not tell this secret.
"Okay, if you have any more I'll take it." The old man glanced at Lin Heng and turned to get money for them.
(End of this chapter)
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