Chapter 400: Selling Shrimp Again
After the rice wine is processed, it is all stored in clay jars. They don't use plastic pots to store wine.
In addition to this sweet semi-sweet rice wine, his family also has semi-dry rice wine, which has almost no sweetness but has a slight aftertaste.
Semi-sweet rice wine is not suitable for long-term storage, so not many of them are made. However, semi-dry rice wine becomes more fragrant as it ages, and I have quite a bit of it stored at home.
It was already eight o'clock when I finished dealing with the wine. After washing up, I prepared to go to bed.
Before going to bed, Lin Heng teased his two sons. Now they could barely call dad and mom, but the voices were not real.
"Brother, call me sister."
Xiaoxia waved her little hands at them.
"Jie... Yeah!"
Lin Duheng shook his limbs to imitate Xiaoxia's pronunciation, while his brother Lin Luming blinked his big eyes innocently and smiled foolishly while chewing his fingers.
"Ah, little brother can call, second brother, you can call too, call sister!"
Xiaoxia was very happy. She touched Luming again and taught him to call her sister.
"Mom...ah...hehe!"
Lu Ming blinked his big eyes and made a sound.
"Oh, I'm a sister, not a mother." Xiaoxia was very anxious.
Lin Heng watched from the side while Xiulan cleaned the house.
After teaching for about ten minutes, Xiaoxia gave up in annoyance and ran into Lin Heng's arms, begging to hear a story.
Lin Heng held her and coaxed her to sleep, then he covered her with his son's quilt and gently coaxed her to sleep.
After the child fell asleep, Lin Heng and Xiulan had a detailed and intensive discussion on the issues of pipe hardening and sewer unblocking.
The next morning, Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain after breakfast. He and his father took out some old wooden boards that were piled up when they were building the house. He picked out the ones that were 20 centimeters wide, dragged them to the mountain on a sidecar tricycle, and used them to support the formwork.
This job is not difficult. You just need to level the ground a little and fix the template with wooden stakes. Father Lin will be able to do it once he sees it.
In the morning, the two men first set up a 100-meter-long formwork. The remaining work was to level it. As long as there was extra concrete, it could be quickly set up at any time.
In the afternoon, Lin Heng left his twin sons in the care of their mother, and went with Xiulan to the border of Shimen Village to pick pears and bring them back to make autumn pear paste.
Along the way, the two of them enjoyed the beautiful scenery and looked for Tangli everywhere.
"Honey, give me a hand." Xiulan reached out to Lin Heng.
Lin Heng pulled him over and the two of them walked in the ditch full of fallen leaves.
The stream is full of floating leaves, and there are clusters of cotinus coggygria on both sides of the river. The round orange-red leaves are extremely beautiful, giving people the feeling of walking in a peach blossom forest.
The valley was extremely quiet. Xiulan was walking in front at this moment. The breeze blew her hair, which she had just washed that morning. The scent of lavender mixed with chrysanthemums drifted into Lin Heng's nostrils with the wind.
At this moment, he felt as if they were the only two people in the world. He was lonely, but also illuminated by each other's warmth.
"There is a tree there, and it bears large fruits."
As they walked, Xiulan pointed to the hillside in front of her left and suddenly said.
Lin Heng looked up and saw a pear tree as thick as his arm, not very big.
"Leave it to me."
Having said that, he cut a path with his knife, climbed up the tree and started shaking it wildly, and the pears fell down like rain.
"You better be careful."
Xiulan warned as she backed away.
After a while, Lin Heng had shaken off most of the fruits and jumped down from the tree to pick them up with Xiulan.
"Hey, it's not bad, quite sweet." Lin Heng tasted one and said with a smile, then handed it to Xiulan.
"Do you think I'm a fool, you bad guy?"
Xiulan rolled her eyes and ignored him.
"Hahaha."
Lin Heng found it quite interesting and laughed out loud.
The juice of this pear is quite sweet, but the flesh is astringent.
They picked up about 30 kilograms of fruit from this tree and put the bag in the grass. Xiulan washed her hands by the water.
"Dad said there is a mountain red tree in this ditch, but I don't know where it is or how far we have to go."
Xiulan shook the water at Lin Heng and said while looking at the vast mountains.
"Never mind, just go inside and treat it as a trip."
Lin Heng stretched out his hand to her and smiled.
"Let's go, then."
Xiulan winked and smiled, then took his hand.
The two walked inside, looking for the pear and the mountain red.
This year, all the hawthorns close to the village have been picked. If they want to pick them, they have to come to the deep mountains and old ravines.
Lin Heng also had a bow and arrow in his backpack, so he could use it to hunt if he encountered prey.
The two walked about another kilometer or two and came across two nice pear trees on the road, which they also picked.
"Oh my god, I finally found it. It's really far away."
As he walked, Lin Heng finally saw a tree of bright red mountain hawthorn, also known as wild hawthorn.
"It's not a wasted trip. This tree is quite big. I can get several dozen kilograms."
Xiulan nodded, put down the backpack, and sat on the bluestone next to Lin Heng to rest.
After walking on the mountain road continuously, both of them broke out in a sweat.
After resting for a while, Lin Heng cut a path and picked up a good one under the tree and tasted it. It had a very sticky texture and tasted sweet and sour. It was good for making candied haws or hawthorn cake.
"I'd better shake it first, and then we'll pick them up slowly." Lin Heng said to Xiulan.
"Okay, be careful." Xiulan nodded.
Lin Heng climbed up and shook around, and the hawthorn rain fell again.
When the shaking was almost done, two people slowly picked up the fruits under the tree, putting the good ones in one bag and the not-so-good but usable ones in another bag.
Because they picked the hawthorns carefully, it was 3:30 when they finished. They had picked about 50 kilograms of hawthorns in total, but many of them were rotten, which was a pity.
Although his family also planted a hawthorn tree, the tree was small and did not bear many fruits.
"Let's go."
Lin Heng carried the hawthorn on his back and the two of them walked out.
There were still more than 100 kilograms of pears outside. Lin Heng gave the hawthorns to Xiulan and carried 120 kilograms of pears himself.
Fifty kilograms is not too heavy for Xiulan, and one hundred and twenty kilograms is also okay for Lin Heng.
Once you carry it to the road, you can use a sidecar to transport it home without having to use any more energy.
“Isn’t that a truck that hauls concrete?”
Before returning to Red Maple Mountain, Xiulan saw a large cart on the mountain from afar.
"Indeed." Lin Heng nodded. He sped up the car and quickly returned to Hongfeng Mountain.
When I asked my mother, I found out that the truck had just arrived and was now unloading concrete on the mountain.
"I'll go up and help."
Lin Heng immediately put on his wading shoes and went up the mountain to help. The truck that was pulling the concrete was an ordinary dump truck, not a tank truck.
The concrete used for paving is usually very dry, so it won't leak when loaded with this type of vehicle.
There was not only Lin's father here, but also two hired helpers. The three of them were digging concrete with hoes.
His eldest brother went up the mountain to hunt with his uncle recently and is not at home.
"Son, come here, do you think we can do it?"
Seeing Lin Heng, Lin's father asked hurriedly.
"Okay, that's it, take everything off the car."
Lin Heng nodded and asked the driver to back up.
After he finished pouring, he roughly estimated that this truckload of material could pave 30 meters of road.
The problem now is that they have to vibrate the concrete manually to remove the pores, which is a very difficult job.
If there is electricity, any electric motor fixed on a wooden board can be used as a vibrator, which is much faster than manual labor.
But this is the top of the mountain, about eight or nine hundred meters away from the foot of the mountain in a straight line. There are no such long electric wires, and he doesn't have a diesel generator.
"We're digging some holes and planting some electric poles these days to get the electricity to the platform."
Lin Heng said as he dug concrete.
It is not particularly far to go up the mountain from the second platform. After the electric wires are pulled, it will be convenient to build cattle and sheep pens, and it will also be convenient to do other things on the mountain.
"Then let's find time to dig in the next two days." Father Lin said.
Without electric vibration tools, their work was very slow. Before they had even finished the first thirty meters, the second truckload of concrete arrived.
There was no other way but to let them lie down first and they would continue working later.
According to what the driver said, there will be two trucks every day, no more and no less, and they will usually be pulled over after four o'clock in the afternoon, so they should be prepared.
"In this case, we have to dig a hole early tomorrow morning and find suitable wood. Then I will go buy some wires and bring up the electricity." Lin Heng said after the driver left.
"Yes, we have to do it. If we do it all manually, our hands will be wasted." Father Lin nodded.
For these two vehicles, they dug and leveled, vibrated, plastered, carved, and split, and it was already dark when they finished.
If I had a vibrator, it would be over in an hour.
When Lin Heng came down the mountain, he found that Xiulan was not there. After asking her mother, she learned that Xiulan asked her to go back with Caiyun after she came back.
She drove her sidecar to bring back the pears and hawthorns, planning to wash them and hang them up to dry so that she could use them to make pear paste and hawthorn paste tomorrow.
"Then I'll leave too, Mom. You guys eat, and I'll get up early and come over tomorrow morning." Lin Heng waved his hand and went home.
In the evening, Xiulan made soft pancakes, which were perfectly eaten with shredded potatoes and pickled radish and stir-fried pork.
The next morning, Xiulan was at home processing the pears and hawthorns she had picked yesterday, while Lin Heng had breakfast and went to Hongfeng Mountain.
He didn't get milk for his parents because the cow had been weaned for half a month and was about to give birth in December. Weaning was to prepare for calving.
These days they drink milk tea made with milk powder in the morning.
When we arrived at Red Maple Mountain, we found that the maple leaves and cotinus trees were redder, and the poplars were yellower.
Lin Heng and his father determined the route and decided to dig three holes to plant the poles. They called yesterday's helpers to dig the holes. Lin Heng found three good dry woods and burned them to carbonize the surface so that they could be used for a longer time.
In the afternoon, he went to find the electrician at the town's power supply station, who promised to come the next morning to help pull the wires. He would pay for the wires and the labor would be free.
When he came back from the town, Lin's father and his helpers had already planted the electric poles. They added some concrete they had mixed themselves to the bottom of the pit and filled it with loess to compact it.
In the afternoon, Lin Hengduo found a helper to help, a total of three helpers. Because they were only needed for half an afternoon every day, every three days was considered a normal day.
With more people around, the road paving was faster in the afternoon. Yesterday's concrete had already solidified and looked pretty good.
The next morning, electricians from the power station came on motorcycles. After taking a look at the electric poles planted by Lin Heng, they were quite satisfied. However, they asked them to use the steel wire they brought to hold them diagonally, because this was on a hillside after all.
The electrician worked for the whole morning and finally pulled the wires to the second platform, spending twenty dollars on the wires.
When pouring concrete again in the afternoon, Lin Heng could pull the electricity over, unload an electric motor and install it on a wooden board as a vibrator.
When the motor starts, it will vibrate continuously and drag the wooden board along. The concrete will soon be vibrated flat and the cement slurry will reach the surface, making work such as plastering easier.
After passing on the operating techniques to his father, Lin Heng stopped helping as three helpers were enough.
He has to go to the city to contact people for the sale of shrimps, which has been delayed for quite a long time.
In the blink of an eye, it is November 1st, which is the real end of late autumn. The Frost Descent has passed, and it will be the Beginning of Winter in seven days.
The leaves on the mountain are becoming more and more colorful, as if they are the last swan song, hoping that someone can remember their beauty. It also seems to be saying that autumn leaves are not just quiet and beautiful, they can also be more colorful and gorgeous than summer flowers.
When a gust of wind blows, a large number of leaves fall from the branches. Some trees are already bare, and other deciduous trees will also lose all their leaves at the beginning of winter.
"Be careful."
After breakfast, Xiulan tidied Lin Heng's clothes and gave him some gentle instructions.
"Don't worry."
Lin Heng nodded, touched his daughter's head, walked out the door and asked his eldest brother to drive to the city.
The fallen leaves along the way looked like rain, and there was a thick layer of leaves on the dirt road. Such scenery always gives people a different emotion.
"Brother, we are leaving on the 10th, right?" Lin Yue asked on the way.
"We are planning to set off on the 10th. If we can sell all the prawns before the 5th, we will set off on the 5th." Lin Heng said. He said last year that he wanted to go hunting black bears, so it's time to go.
The black bears here usually hibernate completely in December, and the black bears killed now are the fattest bears of the year.
"It's just the two of us, the eldest uncle and the third uncle. Are there any others?" Lin Yue asked.
Lin Heng thought for a moment and said, "I'll ask Mr. Gao if he wants to go. If he does, we can go together. I won't bring the others."
"Just make sure you go. I'll inform my uncle in the next two days and then be ready." Lin Yue nodded.
As they chatted, they soon arrived in Taibai City, and their first stop was Lin Heng's own factory.
I looked around here, took a rest, and then went to contact the shrimp trading party.
Because he had already sold green prawns once last year, and he had already informed each family in advance this year, today he mainly went to find out how much each family wanted, and for this purpose he even took samples.
Lin Heng basically completed the work in one morning. The price of prawns has increased a little bit this year, so his prawns have no worries about selling, because there are very few prawns of such good quality as his in the whole Taibai City.
This is the characteristic of this era. There is little competition in business, and as long as you are willing to do it, you can basically make money.
After staying in the city for one night, we arrived early the next morning with a revolving truck carrying seafood to pick up fresh prawns and deliver them to the parties who had agreed on the deal.
When catching the shrimps, the black goats raised by Lin Heng were also noticed, but he refused to sell them as it was not the time to sell them yet.
For the next four and a half days, batches of prawns were pulled out, and almost all of them were sold out. I kept some for myself to eat during the New Year and raised them in the hatchery pond.
On the afternoon of the 6th, Lin Heng returned home with a lot of gifts. Xiulan had prepared the dishes for the hot pot in the house, and she had also made the beef balls herself in the past two days.
Mr. and Mrs. Lin were already waiting here, waiting for them to come back for dinner.
Lin Heng and his eldest brother carried some things into the house, looked at everyone and said with a smile: "This time we made a little more money than last year. This time everyone has gifts, and the hardest-working people will also get big red envelopes."
(End of this chapter)
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