Chapter 362 A lot of people came
After changing the children's diapers, Xiulan took the two children over to feed them.
Lin Heng held Lin Luming who had just finished feeding and looked at his wife and asked, "Do you need to buy some milk powder? Can you feed two children?"
Although he was worried about the quality of current infant formula, he was also worried that Xiulan would not be able to feed the baby.
Although her breasts are big, white, firm and not saggy, it might still be a bit difficult for her to breastfeed two children.
And sometimes I have to feed this "big kid" because it's hard for him not to be tempted when there's such delicious food in front of him.
"Not for now, I can still feed her." Xiulan glanced at him and shook her head.
"Then I will give you more milk-producing foods and give you more massages." Lin Heng nodded seriously.
Xiulan glared at him lightly and didn't want to talk to him for the time being. This guy just did it and liked to say such embarrassing things out loud.
"Okay, I was wrong. I won't say anything more." Lin Heng quickly admitted his mistake, but in fact he just liked to see Xiulan blushing.
Also, it feels really good in the hand and in the mouth.
After feeding the two children, they coaxed them to sleep for a while, and then went out for exercise together.
Lin Heng had a lot of money in his previous life, and he learned all the exercise methods from professionals.
After his rebirth, he had a very good memory, and he remembered very clearly what he taught Xiulan, and what she learned was very authentic.
Watching her practice graceful Tai Chi in the morning is also a pleasant experience.
"Your hair is messy again." Lin Heng looked at her and stretched out his little hand. She liked to let her hair down recently.
"Do it for me." Xiulan stretched out her little face and looked at him with her bright eyes.
"good."
Lin Heng always liked to smooth her hair when it was messy and touch her little face.
Seeing that Xiulan had almost finished her exercise, Lin Heng started as well. He not only practiced the Eight Vajra Exercises, but also did other movements to exercise his muscles and waist and abdomen.
It takes about 30 to 40 minutes to complete all of them, and you will be sweating profusely.
"You've done more today than yesterday." Xiulan came over with a handkerchief to wipe his sweat, standing on tiptoe slightly, her body unconsciously pressed against his chest.
"I feel refreshed today." Lin Heng said with a smile.
He especially liked it when Xiulan came over to wipe the sweat off his face after he finished exercising. He always felt an inexplicable sense of comfort when he smelled her scent and looked at her face.
"I'll beat you up if you're poor again!"
Xiulan glared at him, knowing that he was alluding to what happened last night.
She helped him relieve more than a month's stress, and it was magical and refreshing.
When she thought of the whole mouth being filled, her pretty face turned red, and she hit him hard a few times. The horrible amount almost choked her, so she drank a lot.
"No, you think too much." Lin Heng explained quickly.
"If I say yes, then yes."
Xiulan slapped him hard twice, threw the towel on his head and went to wash up.
Lin Heng wiped the sweat off his face, went back to the house to wash his face, then went to the main room to add some coal to the fireplace, and then put some firewood in to ignite it.
He originally wanted to buy a steel fireplace mantel yesterday, but Father Lin said he would make one for him, so he didn't buy it.
"Come on, go milk the cows with me!" Xiulan called him with a bucket in her hand. She liked to ask him to work with her.
"Here I come."
Lin Heng scooped some feed and went to the back mountain with Xiulan. He fed the chickens while Xiulan was responsible for milking the cows.
When I came back, the main room had already become warm and Caiyun was about to get up.
Xiulan went to make breakfast, while Lin Heng was responsible for waking up his baby daughter and then brought his two sons to the stroller in the main room and put them down.
As Lin Heng came out of the bedroom holding his two sons, he smelled a rich fragrance that made him drool.
"Are you frying dumplings? They smell so good!" Lin Heng said to Xiulan who was sitting next to the fireplace.
Because small pots can be placed on the fireplace, it is now very convenient for her to make breakfast. She doesn’t have to go to the kitchen and can just cook on the fireplace.
Xiaoxia suddenly woke up after smelling the food and ran over to grab her mother's clothes: "Mom, I want to eat fried dumplings!"
"Let your father take you to wash your face. It will be fine in a while." Xiulan looked at her and said.
"Caiyun just happened to be here, so it's perfect for us to be together." Lin Heng said when he heard the knock on the door outside.
Putting the children in the stroller, he went to open the door. Now the two children were easier to take care of.
As long as he is not hungry or pooping or wetting his pants, he won't cry much in the stroller, but sometimes the two brothers will fight with each other.
This is all thanks to Lin Heng and Xiulan who took the time to cultivate good habits for them.
Caiyun took Xiaoxia to wash up, and Xiulan had prepared the meal. They drank milk, ate the fried dumplings that were left over from yesterday, and the baked potatoes that Xiaoxia liked.
After dinner, Lin Heng got up and went to Hongfeng Mountain to start building a hatchery pond for plum fish.
The weather today is still very gloomy. There is a very cold wind outside the yard. Not many people in the village come out. They all stay in their houses, warming themselves by the fire and playing cards.
He thought about it roughly over the past two days and decided how to build a hatchery pond for mullet.
Walking to Hongfeng Mountain and arriving at the warehouse, Lin Heng looked at his father and eldest brother and said, "Your shelves are not ready yet?"
They also make shelves here.
"This is the last container, the rest are ready." Lin Yue said with a smile.
Father Lin looked at him and asked, "Are you here to build a mullet hatchery?"
"Yes, you guys do the work, I can do it alone." Lin Heng said and went to the incubation room. He first turned on the faucet and let some water from the mountain into the incubation pool, then added quicklime and carried out a comprehensive disinfection.
Let it soak here first, and then he went to get some fine meshes and prepared to make small net cages to use later.
After Lin Heng had been working for a while, his mother came over to help. Making a net cage is a very laborious job.
Static water is completely fine when the fish eggs are hatching, but after they have been growing into fry for a period of time, the water will become somewhat fluid again, so the oxygen content needs to be increased.
Therefore, he had to build a pond for breeding young fish, which was the most difficult part because if the water flow was too strong, the young fish would die, and if the water flow was too weak, the dissolved oxygen might not be enough.
In the next few days, Lin Heng was busy with the incubation pool and left the child to Xiulan.
Time flies and it is the twelfth day of the first lunar month, which is March 3rd of 1985.
The renovation of his eldest brother's convenience store was completed yesterday, and a convenience store sign was erected at the intersection. A good day for the opening is the 16th day of the first lunar month.
It hasn't snowed recently, and it looks like it's not going to snow anymore, because the Waking of Insects is coming in two days, and spring will come after the Waking of Insects.
Compared to last year, this winter there is not much snow. There was a particularly heavy snowfall just before the Chinese New Year.
At nine o'clock that morning, Lin Heng, his elder brother, and his parents walked towards the small reservoir on the top of the mountain with buckets and scoop nets.
Arriving at the reservoir, Lin Yue held up a scoop net and said, "Lin Heng, Dad and I will catch the fish, and you and Mom will collect the eggs."
"No problem." Lin Heng nodded.
He filled two large buckets with water, and his eldest brother and father caught the fish and separated them according to male and female.
After the division, artificial ovulation and fertilization will be performed.
The spawning rate of plum fish is not high, so they catch them one by one and watch them ovulate slowly.
Mother Lin held up a female fish weighing three or four pounds and asked, "Why doesn't this fish have any eggs?"
"I guess they have already laid eggs in the reservoir." Lin Heng said after taking a look.
"That's fine. It's good to have more fish in the reservoir." Lin's mother nodded.
Soon, more than 40 plum fish in the net cage were caught and completed ovulation and fertilization.
The fish eggs obtained are not many, only about 20,000 pieces. It is hard to say how many plum fish can be produced in the future.
"Do you want to catch some more? And make a batch to eat at the same time." Father Lin looked at Lin Heng and asked.
Lin Heng thought about it and agreed: "Then let's catch it in a few days."
These two days are not a good option, because the baby’s full moon day is in two days, and our family will definitely celebrate then.
After the fish laid their eggs, Lin Heng released them and more than a thousand small fish fry into the reservoir and let them move freely. There was a wire mesh at the outlet of the reservoir, so there was no need to worry about them escaping.
On the way down the mountain, Father Lin looked at Lin Heng and said, "Son, should we prune the fruit trees in the next few days? These fruit trees have grown very lush over the past year."
They don't know much about pruning fruit trees, and they can't quite understand the professional books.
"Then let's do it in the afternoon. I'll teach you how to trim it first." Lin Heng nodded.
After returning to the foot of the mountain, Lin Heng poured the fish eggs into the hatching pond. Now he just had to wait for them to hatch slowly. The water temperature in the pond was six degrees Celsius, which was just the right temperature for hatching. They would hatch in about a month.
After catching the fish, it was still early, so Lin Heng went to check the shrimp pond to see if it needed to be cleaned.
It was already noon when we finished the tour. When we went back with our parents, Xiulan had already prepared dinner.
"Is the hatching pond for the mullet ready?" Xiulan asked curiously during the meal.
Lin Heng nodded and said, "Yes, I'm going to prune the fruit trees this afternoon. In a few days, I'm going to go to the Black River to catch some plum fish. At this temperature, plum fish can survive transportation easily. Do you want to come with me?"
Compared to summer, we don’t have to worry about the mullet dying from high temperatures during transportation. We just need to provide enough oxygen.
"Forget it, I'll go when it's warmer in the spring. I can't take the child out now." Xiulan shook her head. She did want to go out for a walk. She had been staying at home for a whole year because she was pregnant last year.
"Then wait until spring, I'll take you and the child for an outing." Lin Heng thought for a while and said. He didn't dare let the child go out now. Once the child caught a cold, it would be very troublesome.
But after eating and feeding the baby, Xiulan could go for a walk in the fields with them. The apple orchard and vineyard were not far away.
Pruning this small apple tree is relatively simple. All you need to do is remove the strong branches to allow it to grow evenly, cut back some inner branches, and ensure that the plant is well ventilated.
Lin Heng gave a demonstration, and then everyone almost learned how to do it. They took the pruning shears and started pruning. It was a very stress-relieving job, and they finished pruning all eight acres of apple trees in one afternoon.
There are still two acres on the top of the mountain, so we will go there in a few days.
The next day after breakfast, they went to prune the grapes again. The main pruning of grapes is to shorten, thin out and thin out the branches. Basically, they leave a shorter main stem and cut off all other branches.
This way, the new branches that grow this year will be much stronger, and if you want to eat grapes, they will bear fruit. But this is an orchard, so they must maintain the trees for another year, and then they can start to build grape racks at the end of the year, and they can produce melons and grapes next year.
As for the apple tree, it will take another two or three years to grow. Now the trunk is only three centimeters in diameter.
Pruning these fruit trees was very quick and was completed in just one morning. In the afternoon, they also helped my eldest brother's family prune some kiwi fruits.
The basic principle is similar to that of grapes. Leave a main stem, thin out the branches, remove branches that are too dense in the same direction, and cut off old and broken branches.
Because you only need to trim the trees and nothing else needs to be done, you can work very quickly.
When he came back in the afternoon, Lin Heng also pruned the fruit trees on the back mountain, mainly dwarfing them and leaving a lot of fruit-bearing branches. He planned to let these fruit trees produce a small amount of fruits this year so that he could eat fruits freely.
The next day was March 5th, which was also the full-month day for Lin Heng’s two sons. The two little guys had always been healthy and had no problems.
Under normal circumstances, people would celebrate at such times, but Lin Heng didn't want to have a big banquet, so he just celebrated on this day.
After getting up in the morning and having breakfast, I start preparing meals. Even if I’m celebrating with my family, I have to prepare a table full of delicious food.
However, around noon, Lin Heng's father and mother came over with gifts. After a while, his three uncles also came over, followed by his uncle and aunt, and finally the village party secretary, the village chief, and Wang Zhou and Liu Cihua.
Later, five more distant relatives came and congratulated us with valuable gifts.
Lin Heng had never taken the initiative to spread the news, but his current status was different from before, and everyone would take the initiative to inquire about this kind of news. Since someone came on their own initiative, Lin Heng naturally couldn't drive them away. Fortunately, there was enough meat and other things, so he prepared five tables of dishes to entertain everyone.
It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when they finished. Lin Heng sat on the sofa, drank a sip of tea and shook his head, "It's really tiring. So many people came at once."
In order to entertain so many people, all the roe deer meat was eaten up, and there was not much bear meat left. Now there were only some bones left in the freezer.
"The gifts are all for children to eat. Xiaoxia will have a treat again." Xiulan said while sorting things out.
"Where are the red envelopes? How much are they?" Lin Heng asked curiously. Except for the gifts given by a few relatives who came later, all the red envelopes given by his own relatives were small red envelopes.
"They should have discussed it beforehand. All the red envelopes are five yuan each, so for seven families that's 35 yuan," said Xiulan.
"It's a generous gift." Lin Heng smiled. Nowadays, most gifts in rural areas are rice and flour. The better ones will be sugar and biscuits, and those who give money are those with particularly important relationships.
He actually doesn't care much about these things, but when you reach a certain social status, everyone will do this unconsciously.
Xiaoxia climbed onto Lin Heng's lap and sat down, saying in a soft voice, "Dad, grandma said tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, can I celebrate my birthday?"
"Xiaoxia, you remember all this, so of course you can celebrate your birthday." Lin Heng said with a smile.
(End of this chapter)
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