Chapter 380 Love in the Old Times
After playing, Lin Hengxian and Xiulan collected the mushrooms they had picked today and spread them out on a round winnowing basket to dry.
The speed today was still relatively fast, mainly because most of them were small shiitake mushrooms, and there was not much mud growing on the wood, so they could just be spread out and left to dry. Only the chanterelles needed to be handled properly.
Fortunately, there weren't many chanterelles. After processing them, Lin Heng handed the lilies next to him to Xiulan and said with a smile, "The flowers are a little wilted. They looked pretty when I picked them in the afternoon."
"It's okay, just put them in water and make them into lily cakes to eat tomorrow morning." Xiulan took it, smelled it, and said with a smile.
Lin Heng went to fill the vase with water, and Xiulan had just put the flowers in the vase when her parents came over.
With the help of their father, the two of them dealt with the badger by skinning it and then cutting open its intestines. It didn't take long before the badger was dealt with.
Lin Heng left the badger's head, neck and lungs to Xiongba, and put them in the freezer to feed it over a few days.
They fried some badger meat and badger intestines in the evening. Lin Heng originally wanted to invite his elder brother's family, but his elder brother also had guests.
At the dinner table, everyone was eating badger meat while chatting, mostly about family matters, without any particular purpose.
I have stopped picking mushrooms today. I will have to wait for it to rain before I can pick more. Although there are still some on the mountain, they are difficult to find as most of them are rotten.
When they were almost done eating, Lin's mother looked at Xiulan and suggested, "Why don't we go catch some cicada monkeys to eat? There should be a lot of them after the rain."
Xiulan hesitated and said, "I don't know if it's easy to catch. Many people in the village are catching them to eat now."
They catch them every summer, so they can't be hidden in the village for long. Besides, cicada shells are also valuable, so many people pick them up.
"You guys go and try it, I'll feed the child." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Xiulan nodded: "Okay then."
After dinner, Lin Heng fed his two sons some rice noodles as complementary food, and planned to mash some vegetables and put them in the rice noodles tomorrow.
Don’t feed too much each time, the main purpose is to let the baby taste the food, cultivate eating habits, and slowly strengthen the intestinal flora.
Lin Heng finished his bath when Xiulan and the others came back. Xiulan held a bag of cicada monkeys and said with a smile, "We had a pretty good harvest today. We caught more than a pound of them just by walking a short distance in the back mountain."
"That's fine. Let's catch more next time. Now we have the freezer so we can preserve them for a long time." Lin Heng nodded.
"I thought so too." Xiulan nodded, handed the cicada monkey to Lin Heng, and went to take a shower.
Lin Heng washed the cicada monkey with water and put it directly into the freezer. He hoped that those killed by drowning would not taste good enough, so he tried freezing them directly this time.
Xiaoxia was very tired from playing today, so I told her two stories and she fell asleep. Of course, there are not so many new stories. I have bought all the story books, and it is not enough to make up my own stories. I often repeat the same stories.
Xiulan fed the two children, and then the two of them went to celebrate.
The fundamental property of matter is that both parties will attract and blend with each other, and they will celebrate until they are exhausted and out of food and ammunition.
The next morning, at noon, the two woke up to the sound of the baby crying. Xiulan smoothed her hair and sat up, still feeling weak and limp. It was really difficult for her to do these strange movements.
Lin Heng felt even more empty. It had been a long time since he had felt this intense.
After feeding the child, Xiulan casually put on a coat and went out for exercise. Lin Heng dressed his daughter and went out for exercise as well.
Life is so simple, three meals a day and endless happiness.
After exercising, Xiulan went back and changed into a goose yellow printed cheongsam as she had to wash the clothes at noon.
The goose yellow cheongsam makes her figure more curvy, with her snow-white neck and arms, her long legs half-exposed by the slit skirt, and the faint scent of her hair and milk, all make her extremely attractive.
After breakfast, Xiulan washed clothes and diapers in the backyard, and Lin Heng helped her. After washing the clothes, Lin Heng helped Xiulan wash her hair. Her thick and waist-length hair was difficult to wash by herself. After washing, Xiulan put her hair on her head with a hairpin and sat on the sofa to rest. Lin Heng thought her thin neck looked even more beautiful and couldn't help but want to take a bite.
"You've been looking at it all morning, and you still haven't seen enough." Xiulan rolled her eyes at him.
"When you put on the cheongsam, every move you make has a magical charm." Lin Heng lay on her legs, looking up at her with his head resting on her long white legs, "Don't wear this dress outside, it's enough for me to see it alone."
"Of course, I only wear it at home, specially for you to see." Xiulan said softly. When she was outside, she wrapped herself tightly. This was a special benefit for Lin Heng.
"I love you so much!" Lin Heng sat up and bit her face.
Xiulan pressed his head back onto her lap and said softly, "Lie down and I'll clean your ears for you."
Lin Heng closed his eyes and enjoyed his wife's gentle movements. Xiulan's gentle movements gave him a comfortable feeling of floating on the clouds.
Lin Heng didn't go anywhere that morning. He took a good rest at home, drying mushrooms, making milk tea, and frying cicada monkeys with Xiulan.
In the afternoon, after the sun had gone down, Lin Heng and Xiulan took their three children to Hongfeng Mountain. The water in the shrimp pond here was almost dried up, so he and his father caught the shrimps in it again.
In one afternoon, they caught another 30 kilograms of shrimp. Although they used a dragnet to catch them, there were always some fish that slipped through the net.
In addition to the prawns, we also caught ten large eels, each weighing half a pound. I don’t know how these things got in, but fortunately there were relatively few of them.
The pond has only been used for one year. There is no silt at the bottom and it does not need to be cleaned. It can be disinfected with lime water and then dried. Then water can be added again and the water can be maintained. There is still half a month left, which is more than enough time.
Many of the prawns caught had seeds in them. Lin Heng took them home and asked Xiulan and her mother to remove the seeds so that they could make shrimp seed rice dumplings.
As for the prawns, apart from a portion given to my eldest brother's family, the rest were all deveined, divided into two-pound pieces and put in the freezer.
It was already very late when they finished all this. After coaxing the child to sleep, Lin Heng slowly took off Xiulan's cheongsam, not for any other reason, but simply to experience the feeling of taking off the cheongsam.
Looking at Xiulan's blushing face, Lin Heng put the cheongsam aside and lay down to rest. They had been intimate enough last night and had no intention of doing that tonight.
The next period of time was relatively easy, mainly weeding corn and turning over sweet potato vines. Lin Heng helped with the work in the morning, and took Xiulan and the children out to play in the afternoon.
Xiulan is still focusing on taking care of the children for the time being. It seems like she is just having fun, but it is actually more annoying than working. Sometimes Lin Heng can't stand taking care of the children.
Even very well-behaved children can cry, make a fuss and act unreasonably sometimes, which is very exhausting, so he helps take care of them from time to time, and everyone goes out to play together in the afternoon.
In a blink of an eye, it is already halfway through June and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Lin Heng took some time out these days to go to the city and buy shrimp feed and lime for disinfection.
When he came back, he also brought back the baby crib made by Carpenter Liang. All the parts were ready, so he just had to take it home and assemble it himself.
This is a crib made of thorn fir wood boards, 1.5 meters long, 80 centimeters wide, and the bed height is 30 centimeters.
After assembling it, Xiulan took out a small quilt she had just sewn and spread it on top. She put her twin sons inside and let them turn over, twist and crawl inside by themselves. There was plenty of space and they didn't have to worry about falling.
If the crib is too small, it is easy for the baby to get prickly heat in the summer and it is not conducive to the child's exercise.
After putting the child on it, Lin Duheng twisted his body and turned over, looking at them with his bright eyes.
"Come on, turn over again!" Lin Heng waved at him, and the little guy babbled and stretched out his hands to him.
Lin Luming kicked his calves, moved his arms, and looked at the ceiling curiously without moving much. However, when Xiaoxia waved at him, he would always be attracted over.
"It's a little easier to carry now." Xiulan said happily.
Lin Heng looked at her and said, "Let's go camping in a few days and take you fishing."
"Okay." Xiulan nodded in agreement.
The two watched their son crawl in the crib for a while before going to rest on the sofa.
It was already very hot in mid-June, but luckily his house was made of mud, so it was a little better. Lin Heng planned to wait a few days to get some insulation sponges to set up under the roof, because with two babies this year, it was impossible to go to the cabin on the top of the mountain.
The next day, Lin Heng went to Hongfeng to disinfect the shrimp pond. It was simple to say, just splash lime water on the bottom and surrounding areas of the pond.
This work lasted for five days, working only in the morning and evening, and not daring to go out at noon. During this period, Lin Heng and his father built a small pond next to the mountain stream.
Dig up some space on both sides and spread some fine sand. Clean up the stones at the bottom of the stream, leaving only sand and pebbles less than three centimeters. Then block the water outside and a swimming pool is ready.
It is more than seven meters long, two meters wide, and fifty centimeters at its deepest point.
After the shrimp pond was disinfected, on the 21st, Lin Heng brought his family over to play. In addition to his family, there were also his eldest brother and his three sons.
It is inevitable to play in the water when it is hot in summer. Instead of letting children go to the river secretly, it is better to build a safe one yourself and take your children to play there every day.
When Lin Wei and Lin Tao heard about their second father Lin Heng's project, they agreed with both hands and would come over to help with the construction after school every day.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun has heated up the water, they come here to take a bath, build a sunshade net on the shore, and have a barbecue and picnic nearby.
Lin Heng even bought swimming rings and swimsuits for this purpose. The children played and fought in the water with the swimming rings, while Lin Heng and other adults quietly soaked in the deep water to cool off.
"Is it very comfortable?" Lin Heng asked Xiulan.
"Comfortable!" Xiulan nodded and leaned her head on the rocks on the shore to rest. Soaking in the water made her whole body relax. There was nothing more comfortable than this in summer.
Lin Heng looked at his wife. Of course she was not wearing a bikini. She was just wearing a normal swim skirt and her swimming trunks covered half of her thighs.
But even so, the figure is still very visible after being soaked in water.
After taking a bath for more than an hour, they went ashore. Lin Heng prepared a charcoal barbecue. Next to it were cherries that had just been picked in the morning. Xiaoxia would eat two and then feed one to Xiulan and Lin's mother.
After finishing their meal and drying their bodies, everyone prepared to go back to the house to rest up and get ready to work in the afternoon when there was a knock at the door outside the base.
When Lin Yue heard this, he was surprised and said, "Hey, it seems to be Lin Hai, why is he back!"
"It's Lin Hai, for sure." Lin's father also nodded.
Curiosity showed on everyone's face, and Lin Heng and his eldest brother went to open the door for Lin Hai.
At the gate, Lin Hai pushed a bicycle and waved at them: "Brother Lin Heng and Brother Lin Yue, long time no see."
"Why are you back and brought a bicycle?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
"I'll tell you as we go along."
As Lin Hai walked in, he told his own story. After Lin Heng left, he worked on the construction site that Lin Heng introduced to him. He worked for half a month and earned thirteen yuan and fifty cents.
With the money, he bought a set of books that Tian Yan liked very much, and got a bouquet of flowers to go to school to find her and apologize for his previous childish behavior.
Tian Yan didn't expect him to come to the city. She was deeply moved when she learned that he had worked for half a month to buy these gifts for her.
Although it wasn't much money, it was all Lin Hai had. He gave all his best things to Tian Yan.
After the two reconciled, Tian Yan couldn't bear to see him continue doing this kind of hopeless hard labor, so she used her savings to buy him a second-hand bicycle, and asked him to use the bicycle to take some small medicines and goods to more remote villages to sell them. Although it was tiring, he could earn more money.
They discussed starting other businesses after saving more money, and urged Lin Hai to continue studying chess to see if he could join the chess association later.
The two decided to save money first and get married in the next two years when they had enough.
"You can do it. You got it at the critical moment." Lin Heng smiled and patted his shoulder.
"The main reason is that I can't bear to part with Tian Yan." Lin Hai said shyly. He just wanted to give everything he had to Tian Yan and didn't realize that doing so would hurt Tian Yan's heart.
"So you came back to sell goods this time too?" Lin Yue asked with a smile.
"Yes, I came back to see you and my parents." Lin Hai nodded in agreement.
After entering the house, everyone chatted for a while. Lin Hai sat here for a while. His main purpose was to return the ten dollars to Lin Heng and then invite them to his house for dinner in the evening.
If Lin Heng hadn't enlightened him, he would still be stuck in a dead end and might have missed this good opportunity.
After becoming independent, he also figured out many things.
Qian Linheng accepted it, not wanting to appear to be giving alms, as that would hurt others' self-esteem.
After Lin Hai left, Lin Heng told Xiulan everything again, and they recalled the time when they first met.
Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and blinked, saying, "I hope Lin Hai won't be like someone who just ignores everything after getting what he wants."
"Ahem!" Lin Heng coughed and smiled apologetically, "I was young at the time, my wife, please be magnanimous and don't take it to heart."
"I was just kidding." Xiulan smiled and reached out to straighten his clothes.
Lin Heng looked at her and said, "Then let's go pick up eggs!"
(End of this chapter)
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