Chapter 367: Sharp Techniques, Making People Nostalgic
“Meh!!”
"You still want to hit me with that little strength?"
Lin Heng sneered, subdued it with one hand, pulled it out of the sheep pen by its horns, and came to the side of the scale.
He was so strong that he could subdue a half-grown calf weighing two or three hundred pounds, and a sheep weighing seventy pounds had no right to jump in front of him.
However, when we weighed him, he was in a difficult position. He kept bleating and refused to stand on the scale. In the end, we had no choice but to put him in a basket and coax him with some grass before he could be weighed.
"This one is big enough, it weighs 82 kilograms." Father Lin was shocked after weighing it.
"Indeed, it is a good ram for breeding." Lin Heng nodded.
This guy looks pretty straight and strong, and he has now defeated other rams to become the leader.
Lin Yue also nodded and said, "A male black goat is considered big if it can grow to 120 kilograms. It is indeed possible to reach 82 kilograms in one year."
When people in the station said that the Longdong black goat could grow to 200 kilograms, it was definitely an exaggeration. It is difficult for ordinary male black goats to reach that weight, and most of them weigh between 120 and 50 kilograms.
The second female black goat is smaller. If it can grow to 80 kilograms, it is considered good. If it weighs 100 kilograms, it is considered a big goat.
"Put this one aside and tie it up first. We'll go find two good ones and kill the rest." Lin Heng said after tying up the sheep.
This guy didn't know that he had escaped the disaster because of his big size. He was grabbing the ryegrass next to him and eating it with relish.
"There are 22 male black goats. If we keep three, there will be 19." Father Lin nodded.
At the beginning, we bought 52 black goats, 30 females and 22 males.
Then they selected two strong, well-proportioned ones without any defects, weighing 72 catties and 70 catties respectively.
There was originally a cat weighing 75 kilograms, but it looked a bit ugly and had a crooked nose, so we didn't choose it.
After selecting the three rams, they cleaned a pen next to the cows and sprinkled lime on it to disinfect it.
Then they started to fan the sheep, and the first one to be fanned was the 75-pound goat with a crooked nose.
Father Lin and Lin Yue each held down the sheep's legs and pressed the sheep onto the bench.
Lin Heng washed his hands, held the sheep's testicles and squeezed them to the bottom. He disinfected them with strong liquor, took a knife and cut a two-centimeter incision. He squeezed hard to squeeze the sheep's testicles out.
Then cut the spermatic cord connected to the testicles and apply anti-inflammatory powder to complete the ram's sterilization operation.
"Okay!" Lin Heng threw two big sheep eggs into the basin and said with a smile. The whole process took less than half a minute.
“So fast!”
"Your technique is comparable to that of a professional sheep fanner!"
Both of them were extremely shocked. They thought that Lin Heng would suffer a lot the first time he had sex with a sheep, so they specially got a big sheep so that it would have better resistance.
As a result, Lin Heng's operation was completed before they could react.
"Haha, this is really not difficult." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Son, you have a great technique!" Father Lin gave a thumbs up, looked at the sheep's wound, carried it in and placed it in the pen that had just been disinfected.
After confirming that Lin Heng's skills were fine, they sped up the process.
It took two minutes to catch the goats and thirty seconds to kill them. The whole Red Maple Mountain was filled with the goats' miserable screams.
The three rams that were chosen at the beginning were so frightened that they were stunned and dared not even eat the grass.
In half an hour, all the eggs of the 19 rams were gone. A pair of sheep eggs weighed one to two taels, and 19 pairs weighed more than three kilograms. The small basins we brought could not hold them all.
After castrating all the sheep, when Lin Heng drove the three remaining rams back, none of them dared to resist.
Then they randomly selected three ewes and weighed them, and their weight was about 50 kilograms.
"Son, most of these ewes are in heat. Should we lock them up together?"
Father Lin looked at Lin Heng and asked.
"Take turns to put the rams in the pen and make sure they all get pregnant." Lin Heng said to his father.
In fact, artificial insemination is the best method of reproduction, and its efficiency is better than natural mating, but it is difficult to do without the equipment now.
"Okay, let's put one in first and see." Father Lin nodded. There were still many empty pens here. He put the three rams in separately, and then put the ewe in alone.
I don't know if he was scared or what, but he didn't move for a while.
Lin Heng went to take a look at the cows. The largest one among them was a male dairy cow, which was one and a half years old. It was now an adult and weighed an estimated 400 kilograms.
The smallest dairy cow, which was born last year, weighs only about 150 kilograms.
The ten Qinchuan yellow cattle are all one year old. The males weigh 400 kilograms, and the females weigh about 300 kilograms and show signs of estrus.
But they cannot reproduce for the time being. The reproduction of cattle is slower than that of sheep. Bulls can only reproduce at the age of two, and cows need one and a half years.
He plans to wait until the second half of the year to find a bull to breed these cows.
After Lin Heng finished watching the cows, the three rams finally became strong and completed two or three matings.
After mating, the sheep were put back in a place and three ewes were replaced and left there.
It is enough to breed two or three rams a day. If there are more, the rams cannot handle it and the effect will not be good.
In addition to these sheep, there were three female white goats, all grown up.
He planned to raise these three goats and eat them. He would not breed them, and just keep them as black goats.
"Let's go back and get some barbecue. The sun is very warm today."
After finishing, Lin Heng held the sheep eggs and said with a smile.
"Haha, this is enough for a delicious meal." Father Lin also laughed.
As the three were talking, a voice called out from outside the railings at the distant stream: "Lin Heng, are you fanning the sheep?"
Lin Yue took a look and said, "Tian Baishun, this old man seems to have just returned from hunting."
"It seems like he was hit, and he has something in his hand." Father Lin said while looking over there.
Lin Heng looked at Tian Baishun and replied, "Yes, what are you going to do?"
"I'll exchange this wild goose for some sheep eggs from you." Tian Baishun said as he walked closer.
Hearing this, Father Lin couldn't help but laugh softly: "This old guy still wants to eat goat eggs even though he's so old."
Lin Heng and the other man also laughed. Lin Heng gave the sheep eggs to his eldest brother and father to deal with first, and then walked over to talk to Old Man Tian.
"Where did you kill this wild goose?" Lin Heng asked, looking at the wild goose in Old Man Tian's hand.
"We were lucky enough to catch one over at Sanchagou. It weighs over four kilograms. If you wanted to catch it, there's probably no hope. It all flew away." Tian Baishun said, holding it up.
"That's not bad, but we're going to roast the goat eggs ourselves, so we can't exchange them with you. If you want to eat them, just come and get a skewer."
Lin Heng looked at him and said that he also wanted to shoot wild geese, but he often couldn't see any.
Upon hearing this, Tian Baishun immediately said, "Are you making barbecue? Then I'll bring the wild goose over too, so that I can taste your cooking skills for free."
"No need for Dayan, just come and eat." Lin Heng said.
"It's okay. I can't eat it myself, so I'll leave it here for you to eat."
Tian Baishun waved his hand and went back to take a detour. There were thorns blocking the fence and he couldn't get in at all.
"It looks like these wild roses are alive and ready for grafting."
After Old Man Gao left, Lin Heng looked at the wild roses he had planted last winter and spoke to himself.
There are already full buds on the rose stems, and he plans to cut some climbing rose branches for grafting when he has time in a few days.
After washing his hands by the stream, Lin Heng turned back. Xiulan and her mother had already lit the charcoal fire for the barbecue and had cut the lamb skewers and were starting to string them together.
"How do we get these sheep eggs? Haven't we done it before?" Lin's mother looked at Lin Heng and asked.
"This is easy. I'll do it. Who of you will go open the door for Tian Baishun? This old man insists on eating roasted lamb eggs, and he also wants to bring over the hunted geese to roast." Lin Heng looked at everyone and said, you really can't do anything about the thick-skinned person opposite you.
"I'll go." Father Lin said.
Lin Heng took the sheep eggs, cut them, made cuts on them, put them in a bowl and marinated them with rice wine and onion and ginger water. Then he put them on skewers and grilled them on the grill.
Lin Heng first cut ten lamb eggs and roasted them to see how they tasted before deciding whether to try the others.
"Oh, these sheep eggs are quite big. The sheep I raised last year have grown so big." Tian Baishun said in surprise as he looked at the sheep eggs.
"It's okay." Lin Heng smiled, flipping the skewers, brushing a little oil and soy sauce on them from time to time.
"This is a good thing, more nutritious than wild geese." Tian Baishun said with a smile, and then said, "I'll go skin the wild geese and roast them here."
Without giving Lin Heng and others a chance to stop him, he walked into the house, found a basin, poured boiling water and started to scald the wild geese.
After a while, Lin Heng's mutton skewers and lamb eggs were grilled first. The rich barbecue aroma surrounded everyone. The originally soft lamb eggs were also grilled into sharp edges and smelled fragrant.
"Let's eat." Lin Heng shouted and sprinkled the lamb skewers with barbecue seasoning and distributed them to everyone. Xiulan and the others were not interested in the lamb eggs and started eating the lamb skewers.
At that time, there was no technology for synthetic meat in China, but authentic lamb would taste good even if it was just grilled casually. Everyone ate it with gusto and praised it repeatedly.
"These goat eggs taste better when baked than when fried!"
Tian Baishun took a bite and gave a thumbs up. Compared to his own cooking, Lin Heng's barbecue was definitely a delicacy.
"Yes, it's not bad!" Father Lin also nodded.
Lin Yue also said: "I thought it would be very smelly, but it doesn't have a smell at all, and the taste is quite good."
“Then I’ll bake it a little longer.” Lin Heng said with a smile. He was afraid that it would not taste good, so he baked it very well. He didn’t consider it finished until the outer skin turned brown and hard.
"I want to eat too." Lin Tao walked over and said as he watched the adults eat.
"Dad, I want one too!" Xiaoxia also said coquettishly.
"I'll cut a little for each of you. If you like, just tell me."
Lin Heng didn't refuse. This thing is just like normal meat after being cooked, so there is nothing wrong with eating it.
"Mom, and Xiulan, do you want to try some?" After Lin Heng distributed the food to the children, he looked at his mother and daughter-in-law.
"don't want."
Both of them shook their heads. If Old Man Tian wasn't here, they would still like to try it, but with him here, they didn't want to try it because this guy would definitely tell dirty jokes after eating it.
"Please roast some konjac and potato chips." Xiulan said.
Tian Baishun brought the wild goose over and said, "And this wild goose, I've prepared it all, cut it up and roast it together."
"Then let's make a honey goose. Big brother, go light the oven and put some charcoal in it." Lin Heng took over and said. Not far away, there was a clay oven that they used to make roasted whole lamb last time, which could be used to roast the goose.
"Okay." Lin Yue nodded and went to make a fire.
He chopped off the goose's neck, cut it in half, removed the lymph nodes on the neck, and then skewered them separately and roasted them.
He massaged the goose's body with onion and ginger water and then marinated it with seasonings. When the charcoal was ignited, he hung it on wire and put it in to roast.
The wild geese were roasted, and everyone on their side joined in, roasting and eating together, and drinking warm rice wine and sugar water.
At twelve o'clock, Lin Wei got out of school and ran over with her mother.
"Wow, it smells so good! I'm so hungry!" His loud voice arrived before the others.
"Come, I have some grilled lamb skewers here." Lin Yue handed a few skewers of lamb to his son.
Lin Heng looked at his nephew and smiled: "There are sheep eggs here, do you want to eat some?"
"Why not? I dare." Lin Wei took a skewer and started eating, screaming, "It's delicious, even better than mutton."
Liu Juan came over and Lin's mother handed her the mutton. After she ate it, she took the initiative to take a bunch of mutton eggs to taste. After eating, she smiled at Xiulan and said, "It's really delicious. Xiulan, you try it."
"It's useless for you women to eat it. There's no place to replenish it." Old Man Tian laughed.
Liu Juan is not a woman like Xiulan who would blush when being joked. She has a Sichuan and Chongqing spirit. She looked at Tian Baishun and retorted: "Then it will be even more useless if you eat it. You are too old to take supplements. Even if it is useful, you have no place to use it."
"you!"
Tian Baishun was speechless for a moment. It's not that he had nothing to say, but this was Lin Heng's home and there were children. If it was any other woman in the village, he would have to take her back to the house.
"It's okay, Xiulan, just eat your food. This old man is joking. I'll deal with him and kick him out." After arguing with Tian Baishun, Liu Juan said again.
"No, I'm full." Xiulan shook her head and refused.
Lin Heng stood up and said, "I'll go get the wild goose. It should be almost done roasting. It's been over an hour."
After walking over and taking out the wild goose, Lin Heng was surprised at first: "This one is roasted well today, what a beautiful color."
"With your skills, you can become a chef!"
Tian Baishun was shocked when he saw the wild geese that Lin Heng brought over, saying that he would never be able to produce such a wine-red stain by himself.
"Everyone come and eat." Lin Heng smiled and took out a knife to cut the wild goose into pieces and distributed them to everyone. This was a good thing and everyone except the baby should have some.
"So crispy, tender and fragrant!" Xiulan exclaimed in amazement. The roasted goose meat was indeed very special.
"Second Dad, your skills are ten thousand times better than my mom's!" Lin Wei said bluntly.
Xiaoxia raised her chin proudly and said proudly, "My dad is the best!"
Wild goose meat is delicious to begin with, and it becomes even more fragrant after Lin Heng roasted it like this, which won everyone's approval.
"It tastes better if you dip the skin in sauce after eating it. You can try it." Father Lin said while dipping the skin in garlic and chili.
"It's really good." Lin Yue also tried it and praised it.
Everyone found the dish different after trying it, and soon they figured out how to eat it by dipping it in fermented tofu or jam.
Under the warm sunshine, the green ryegrass on the Red Maple Mountain swayed in circles. At the foot of the hill, a group of people were eating barbecue and laughing.
After eating, everyone sat comfortably in the chairs, enjoying the breeze and warm sunshine, recalling the delicious food and the happy feeling of fullness. Several children played games happily on the cement floor.
(End of this chapter)
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