Chapter 369 Stockings bear everything
Grafting roses is very simple, and either cleft grafting or bud grafting is fine, because roses are very easy to grow.
Lin Heng and his elder brother both used the cleft grafting method. They selected a rose branch, picked off half of the leaves, thinned the bottom, split the grafted wild rose branch, inserted the grafted branch into the graft, and aligned it with the epidermis on both sides. Finally, they covered it all with plastic paper.
Father Lin thought this method was troublesome, so he chose the bud grafting method. He cut off the buds of the wild rose, then cut a rose bud and put it on top, and then tied it with plastic film. It was much simpler.
The father and his two sons were busy for an entire afternoon but still couldn't finish the job. When they were grafting, they found that the roses were planted too densely last year. They were busy for half a day the next day before they finished grafting the roses.
Lin Heng also found a place to plant some of the rose seedlings he bought. When they all grow up, they will not only serve as fences to keep people out, but will also be very beautiful for people to appreciate.
After finishing this, the next main task is to plow the land and paddy fields to prepare for planting crops later. Although the father and his two sons have separated, they still work together, and their work efficiency is much higher.
Nowadays, most of the land is planted with fruit trees, and some of it is planted with rapeseed and wheat, so there is not much vacant land.
In the blink of an eye, it is already April 1st of 1985 in the Gregorian calendar, February 12th in the lunar calendar, and only four days away from Qingming Festival.
It seems that because the spring rain fell very early and heavily this year, the plants on the mountain woke up faster than in previous years. The riverside is already green and various plants have sprouted new leaves.
Pink and dark purple flowers are blooming on the hillside. Various fruit trees such as cherries, pears, plums, etc. are in full bloom before Qingming Festival. You can smell the fragrance of flowers from time to time when walking in the village.
In the back mountain of Lin Heng's home, the fruit trees planted last year have bloomed a lot of flowers this year. They were three-year-old grafted seedlings. After growing for a year under conditions of sufficient water and fertilizer, they have become small trees more than two meters tall.
The plants planted in the yard have also gradually revived. The grapes have already sprouted new leaves, the orchids have sprouted flower stems, and the lilies have grown branches and leaves.
Especially the large lily weighing one and a half kilograms that Xiaoxia chose to plant last year instead of eating it was even more amazing. The stem was as thick as a rolling pin, and it grew to more than two meters high in two days. Its growth rate was frighteningly fast.
The breath of revival of all things makes people's mood better. Watching the mountains and rivers change color and the river turn green is the romance of rural people.
In addition to training the dog and taking care of the children at home, Lin Heng also helps his eldest brother and father to prepare the land and plant crops. When he comes back, he brings some flowers for Xiulan to add a touch of spring to the home.
That morning, the two of them got up as usual, but the beautiful weather made them exercise a little longer, and Xiaoxia also followed them.
Although Xiaoxia didn't do anything standard, the exercise was still effective. She ran as steadily as an adult and was taller than other children of the same age.
"Mom, what are we going to eat this morning? I'm hungry!"
Xiaoxia said coquettishly while lying on the bench in the pavilion after exercising.
Xiulan looked at her and said, "Didn't you want to drink yogurt yesterday? I've made it for you. You can eat it soon."
Xiaoxia immediately got up: "Great, I like eating yogurt."
"Let's go and milk the cows together." Lin Heng came out with a small bucket and stretched out his hand to her.
"good."
Xiaoxia immediately got up and grabbed Lin Heng's hand.
"You two go ahead, I'll go make breakfast." Xiulan walked into the house without going with the father and daughter.
When Lin Heng arrived at the back mountain, his elder brother and nephew Lin Wei were also milking cows. Seeing Lin Heng, Lin Wei smiled and said, "Good morning, second father. My dad said the cows seem to be in heat."
"Yeah?"
Lin Heng walked closer to check and found that there were indeed signs of estrus. This was normal, as most animals went into estrus in the spring.
"Let's wait two days before breeding it." Lin Heng thought for a while and said that he took good care of this dairy cow. He not only fed it nutritious silage, but also some grain from time to time.
"Are we going to use the one and a half year old male dairy cow from Hongfeng Mountain?" Lin Yue asked curiously.
"Yes, let's use the male cow for the time being." Lin Heng nodded.
"I'll help you then." Lin Yue said with a smile. He also fed this cow frequently and took the initiative to assume part of the responsibility.
Lin Heng nodded in agreement, bent down and squeezed out most of the milk. They drank some of it themselves and gave the rest to their parents.
Back in the house, Xiulan fried the potato pancakes and some fried eggs.
Lin Heng took out the yogurt and let Xiaoxia eat it first, and he waited for Xiulan to eat together.
“Wow…”
The two were eating happily when their eldest son Lin Luming in the stroller suddenly started crying.
"You didn't pee when I was holding you in the morning, but now you're wetting your pants. You're really torturing me." Xiulan looked at the little guy helplessly.
"Let me do it." Lin Heng put down the food and went to get the diaper.
Babies are almost unable to control their urination and defecation before they are one year old, and adults can only give them some guidance.
However, the twin sons were lucky enough not to get sick much. In more than a month since they came back, the third son, Lin Duheng, had a fever only once. He was given a small amount of antipyretic medicine prescribed in the city, and he recovered early the next morning.
Of course, this is also to do with the way they are cared for, which allows them to slowly come into contact with the natural environment rather than sterilizing everything, which makes them more resistant.
After changing his son's diaper and having breakfast, Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain with milk. His father and mother had just prepared breakfast here, so he took the heated milk and it was just right for them.
"Brother, I'm going to school."
Caiyun poured a glass of milk into the cup and said, Sometimes she eats breakfast at Lin Heng's place, and sometimes at her parents' place.
"Okay, be careful." Lin Heng patted her shoulder.
After Caiyun left, Father Lin looked at Lin Heng helplessly and said, "Son, the hatching of the fry doesn't seem to be going smoothly this time."
"I'll go take a look." Lin Heng walked towards the incubation room.
By turning on the flashlight and shining it into the water, you can already see many tiny translucent creatures. These are hatched fish fry. Once they absorb the yolk and grow a little bigger, they will become opaque.
There seemed to be densely packed little bugs on the water surface, and there was oxygen pumping nearby to ensure that there would be no lack of oxygen, but in fact the number was much less than Lin Heng had expected.
If you look closely at the bottom of the water, you can see that half of the fish eggs have not hatched and have begun to deteriorate. It is unknown what caused their death.
"I guess it's caused by artificial incubation. Next year, we'll try to build a natural incubation pool to see how they hatch." Lin Heng said after thinking for a while.
Although this result is not very good, it can prove that artificial incubation is effective. It should be no problem to find the cause of the problem and make improvements.
However, this is only the first step. Later we have to help these fry open their mouths, which is also a difficult task. Originally, Daphnia pulex is the most useful, but in this day and age there are not so many equipments, and it is impossible to artificially breed a large number of Daphnia pulex at this point in time.
He hasn't figured out what to use as the opening material yet.
"So are we just going to ignore these fish fry now?" asked Father Lin.
Lin Heng said: "Of course, after you finish your meal, we will clean up the unhatched fish eggs at the bottom of the water, otherwise the water quality will deteriorate."
"Okay then." Father Lin nodded.
His father went back to eat, and Lin Heng walked around. The Forsythia seedlings planted by the stream last year have begun to bloom this year. Although the small yellow flowers are washy, they are very beautiful.
The grafted roses have also grown strong branches, and the grafting success rate is nearly 100%. The wild rose root system has such a strong absorption capacity that the new branches are thick and strong.
While watching, he also removed some wild rose branches that shouldn't have appeared, otherwise the roses would not be able to compete.
“Ga ga ga!!”
Just as Lin Heng reached the edge of the pasture, a pheasant flew out from the green ryegrass.
“So crazy!”
Lin Heng felt that this was a bit of a provocation, but he really hadn't been hunting much recently. He occasionally went hunting around near his home, but he didn't get much.
I heard that someone in Mujialiang, where his uncle lived, killed a big wild boar that weighed about 200 pounds.
"Son, I've finished my breakfast." Father Lin shouted from the foot of the mountain.
“Here I come.”
Lin Heng responded and walked down the mountain.
"The ryegrass on this mountain can be harvested, but we don't have enough plastic bags to make silage now," said Lin's father. There were three acres of land before, and now there are thirteen acres, so there is too much more grass to harvest.
"I will go to the city to get Astragalus seeds in the next two days, and then buy some more." Lin Heng said.
When they arrived at the hatchery, he asked Father Lin to use a flashlight to lure the fry to one side, and he used a siphon to suck out the impurities and fish eggs at the bottom of the water.
It took a whole morning to finish the work, and then some disinfected water from the pool next door was added to the hatching pool.
What follows is waiting. Since the water surface is large, there is no need to use oxygen for the time being.
"Son, can I feed the shrimp in small quantities recently?"
After finishing the plum fish hatching pond, Father Lin asked again.
"You can start feeding, but not too much." Lin Heng nodded.
When we sold shrimps last year, we used a dragnet and caught almost all the green shrimps. Only over 30 kilograms of large green shrimps were left and kept in the net in the pond. These were the green shrimps specially left for breeding this year.
But it’s still early for the shrimp to hatch, so just take your time.
Before leaving, Lin Heng went to see the musk deer. The pregnant female musk deer was only two months away from giving birth, and her belly was already very obvious.
I just don’t know how many will be born this year, and whether they will be male or female.
But no matter what, there will be three female musk deer able to breed by the end of this year, and the number of musk deer will increase significantly starting next year.
He walked slowly on his way home and picked a bunch of deep purple peach blossoms by the roadside.
After returning home, Lin Heng put the flowers outside and went to find his eldest brother to tell him about going into the city tomorrow.
"Your brother was just called by Tian Baishun to go hunting, so he's not at home." Liu Juan said with a smile.
"Then sister-in-law, please tell my brother and let's go down to the city together tomorrow." Lin Heng said.
"No problem, I just want to go too, is that okay? I haven't been into the city yet."
After Liu Juan finished speaking, she looked at Lin Heng with some anticipation. She had actually always wanted to go into the city to take a look, but she never had the chance.
"Sure, no problem at all, sister-in-law. You guys pack up tomorrow morning and we'll leave at nine o'clock." Lin Heng agreed with a smile.
This is the case with people living in these mountains. Some of them have never been out in their entire lives and have never seen the prosperity of the outside world.
"Okay." Liu Juan immediately became happy.
Lin Heng waved his hand, walked out, picked up the flowers outside and went home.
"I don't think this flower is as beautiful as you, but I picked it anyway." Lin Heng looked at Xiulan seriously and said.
Xiulan was amused and smiled sweetly. She took the flower and said, "Your mouth is getting sweeter and sweeter."
"I'm serious. When we raise our child, I will take you around the country and see other parts of the world."
Lin Heng smiled and said, he is 22 years old this year, and the child will only be 2,000 years old when he grows up. He will be only 37 at that time, and there is still plenty of time to see the world.
"Why are you suddenly talking about this again?" Xiulan asked curiously while arranging flowers.
"It just feels like it's not worth it for people to be trapped in this mountain for their entire lives."
Lin Heng said with emotion that many people like his grandmother and even his parents' generation had never left the mountains in their entire lives.
"I can accompany you whenever you want to go, but I think we don't have to wait that long. We can take the child with us when he is a little older." Xiulan said with a smile after arranging the flowers.
"You're right." Lin Heng reached out and smoothed Xiulan's messy hair, and touched her soft face.
Today she wore a white autumn coat and a navy blue jacket, with simple black pants. Her hair was tied up casually, with a middle-parted bangs showing a few scattered strands of hair, giving people the feeling of delicate flowers by the river in spring, gentle and charming.
In response to Lin Heng's actions, Xiulan just blinked and watched him with a faint smile.
Lin Heng didn't make any unnecessary movements. He just touched her and then let go. Xiulan had only put on lipstick, and her skin was truly white and smooth.
Of course, Xiaoxia was mainly in the yard.
"How are the plum fish fry?" Xiulan asked as she poured Lin Heng a cup of tea.
"Half of them have been killed, and I guess more will die later." Lin Heng briefly talked about his work in the morning and looked at his two sons.
"Take it easy, there's no rush." Xiulan leaned on Lin Heng and said.
Lin Heng nodded. This was not something that should be rushed.
After talking for a while, the child started crying for milk, and Xiulan fed him.
It looked more impactful in broad daylight than at night, and Lin Heng could not take his eyes off it.
After feeding the children, the two went to make lunch together. After the meal, the two took Xiaoxia to give the family dog a bath.
These puppies have grown up quite big now, and Lin Heng has almost finished training them, so he can let them go to work in the next few days.
These days, Lin Heng has also regained the source of happiness. Xiulan has recovered for two months and is basically fully recovered. The two can make love again.
After putting the child to sleep at night, the two of them started to do big things.
Xiulan's recovery was no different from before giving birth, while Lin Heng was even stronger than before. So much so that Xiulan sometimes had to use some special methods to help it end quickly.
"It's another refreshing morning!"
Early in the morning, Lin Heng woke up and looked at the person next to him and sighed.
"Hurry up and find my underwear for me." Xiulan pushed him and asked him to find the underwear he had thrown away.
Lin Hengda didn't want to compete with his son for food in the morning, so he smiled and went to look for his underwear that was thrown on the chair.
Next to it was a pair of caked flesh-colored stockings, emitting an unpleasant smell of heather, telling of everything she had endured.
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(End of this chapter)
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