Chapter 420 Bear Oil Soap
The next morning, after breakfast as usual, his uncle also came down, and everyone gathered together to sort out the harvest.
Almost all the Lin family members were here. Everyone moved their things out, and Lin Heng took out the account book to verify the accounts one by one.
Lin Heng looked at the things and said, "Everything is here. Now let's separate the ones we want to sell from the ones we keep for consumption, and divide them according to our respective harvests."
The main food they eat is meat, including wild boar meat, musk deer, deer, white rice deer, sika deer, and various pheasants, golden pheasants and other poultry.
These things wouldn't fetch a high price, and it would be troublesome to sell them, so I just divided them up and dealt with them myself.
After some distribution, Lin Heng took 50 kilograms of venison and the deer's internal organs, head and limbs, 20 kilograms of bear meat, 30 kilograms of bear oil, 20 kilograms of wolf meat, 5 kilograms of musk deer meat, 8 kilograms of roe deer meat, 5 kilograms of yellow-throated marten meat, one pair of black bear intestines, one pair of yellow muntjac intestines, one pair of wolf intestines, three stomachs, seven golden roosters, three grouse and three hazel grouse.
He didn't want any of the wild boar meat, and the yellow muntjac also gave up, so he ended up getting a few more golden roosters.
The remaining meat was divided among the other four people. If calculated based on the proportion of merit, he was at a disadvantage and should have taken more.
After the meat was divided, everyone saw that the proportions were a little off. Li Baiquan looked at Lin Heng and said, "Lin Heng, you gave us too much. Why don't you take some back?"
"Indeed, you mainly hunted a wild boar, a black bear, two wolves and a sika deer. This is too little." Lu Honghai also nodded and directly took some venison and stuffed it into Lin Heng's hand.
"Yes, we agreed to distribute the profits according to the merits. We won't let you suffer any loss." Lu Honggang also said.
"Brother, your division is indeed not very reasonable." Lin Yue also said.
Several people took some meat and stuffed it towards Lin. They were all simple people who didn't want to suffer losses themselves or see others suffer losses.
Lin Heng waved his hands and said, "No need to do that. I volunteered not to give up the wild boar meat. What I have is more than enough."
"No, you have to take some more. If you think it's too much, you can give it away. Otherwise, we will be embarrassed to go hunting with you in the future. You were the one who made the most contribution to this hunt."
Lu Honghai sternly refused and gave Lin Heng a golden chicken and a ten-jin bacon. The remaining three also handed some back.
"You can't pass it like this. It's too much. I don't need to take so much." Lin Heng waved his hands repeatedly.
After a lot of tugging and pulling by several people, even though he didn't want them, he still got three more golden roosters, fifteen pounds of wild boar meat, and more than ten pounds of white rice meat.
"That's good. We are all family. It doesn't matter if there is a little more or a little less." Father Lin also persuaded.
Lin's mother also advised: "Yes, there is no need to haggle over the meat like the hunting team in the village. This meat is enough for everyone to eat."
They felt that Lin Heng should indeed take more, but this was enough, and there was no problem in sharing the remaining profits with everyone.
According to the current situation, Lin Heng took about 40% of the meat, and the remaining people took 15% of the meat, which means that Lin Heng still took out 20% of the meat to distribute to everyone.
Normally based on his contribution, he should have received 60% to 70% of the total meat, but he did not take that much because these were his closest relatives and he was willing to share some with them as he himself was not short of food.
"Okay, let's have lunch at my house. You guys can take the meat back first, and then we can go to the city tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to sell all the furs at once, how about that?"
After the division, Lin Heng looked at everyone and said.
"Okay, then let's do it the day after tomorrow. Have a good rest tomorrow. We've been too tired recently." Lu Honghai said.
"Yes, the day after tomorrow will be suitable." Li Baiquan also said.
After discussion, everyone packed their own meat. Lin Heng put the venison and a few fresh chickens into the refrigerator, and the other dried meat was hung in front of the second-floor window to be blown by the cold wind.
He was destined to have more meat than he could finish this year, so he gave some to his parents on the spot and asked them to take it to Hongfeng Mountain to eat. They could also take some to his third uncle's house. No matter what his third aunt was like, his third uncle and Lin Hai were very nice people.
The others also put the meat into bags and put them aside, while the furs and other things were temporarily piled in the study.
For lunch, we chose a simple and delicious hot pot, and everyone gathered together to eat meat and drink wine.
This delicacy from the mountains and forests, whether it is mushrooms, yam or meat, has an incomparable taste and is a pure natural green food without any additives.
"Dad, I want to eat some meat." Xiaoxia took the chopsticks and tried to tinker with it herself, but the copper pot was too high for her to reach.
Lin Heng picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of food for her, dipped it in a little sesame paste and fed it to her. His daughter sat between him and Xiulan, but she always liked him to pick up food for her.
After picking up the food for her, Lin Heng picked up a piece of tripe with chopsticks for himself. Putting the tripe cooked in the hot pot in the mouth was an intoxicating and wonderful enjoyment, with a unique texture and taste.
"You can have some too. We have enough tripe for you to eat as much as you want." Lin Heng picked up a piece of food with his chopsticks and said with a smile.
There were not only sika deer stomachs at home, but also musk deer, forest musk deer, and roe deer stomachs. He took the initiative to take all these good things for hot pot.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded with a smile. She also liked the taste of tripe.
The longer you cook hotpot, the more delicious it becomes, and you don’t have to worry about the food getting cold.
It was already one o'clock in the afternoon when they finished eating hotpot. After exchanging greetings, everyone left one after another. Lin Heng saw them off. Xiulan and her mother cleaned up the dishes and washed the copper pot in the house so that they could make some hotpot base in the afternoon so that they could continue eating. There were still some dishes that were not finished today.
Li Baiquan had not walked far when he met some people from the village. Someone curiously asked, "Li Baiquan, this is the meat you picked, right? Did you get a lot from hunting this time?"
"It's meat, just wild boar meat. I didn't get anything good from hunting." Li Baiquan said with a smile. He really wanted to show off, but since Lin Heng had said that, he had no choice but to speak in unison.
"I don't believe that you have been out for such a long time and only hunted wild boars. There must be muntjacs and roe deer, and maybe even musk deer?" Tian Baishun laughed.
This is also the speculation of many people in the village. They guess that Lin Heng and his team must have made a lot of money this time, otherwise they would not have been out for such a long time.
"Could it be that they have killed a black bear or a wild wolf? Why don't you tell us so that we can see it?" someone joked.
Li Baiquan said with a smile: "It would be great if we could really kill them, a wild boar and a golden pheasant."
"A black bear is impossible, but a wild wolf might be a possibility. Maybe it's a sika deer, antelope or something like that." Tian Baishun said.
Everyone thought so too, but they didn't know that Lin Heng had caught all the prey they mentioned as a joke this time. If they really told them about it, they would be so jealous that their eyes would turn red.
Lin Heng didn't know this. He drove to the town, brought some venison and bear meat to Grandpa Gao, and then found Wang Zhou and asked, "Did you find the shells I asked you to find?"
He has communicated with Wang Zhou quite a few times this year. The young man is working harder than before because his wife Liu Cihua is pregnant and he has to work hard to earn money to support his family.
Liu Cihua was a shy and obedient girl. She was very kind to Wang Zhou and made him fall in love with her and unable to extricate himself.
He was also happy to see that he had changed Wang Zhou's fate. He felt that every honest and kind person should be rewarded well.
Wang Zhou walked in and took out a bag and said, "I found it. I also went to a few dry ponds not far away and picked up a lot. There are about five or six kilograms. Brother Lin, do you think this is enough?"
He was extremely grateful to Lin Heng, and he tried his best to do everything Lin Heng said.
"That's enough." Lin Heng nodded with a smile, and then said, "Remember to come to my house when you go home in a few days. I'll give you something."
"Okay, Brother Lin." Wang Zhou agreed with a smile.
"Xiao Lin, aren't you going to go fishing? I recently found a crucian carp nest, and I think it has already started." Grandpa Gao came out with a fishing rod and said with a smile.
"That's fine, let's go try fishing." Lin Heng thought for a while and said, there was nothing urgent today.
"Let's go, tell me what you gained from going into the mountains." Grandpa Gao said as he walked.
"good."
Lin Heng took his fishing rod and a small stool and went to the river, chatting while fishing.
Time passed quickly and it was already past four in the afternoon. The two of them caught six large crucian carp, each weighing about one pound.
Lin Heng took two and carried the shells back home.
When he got home, Xiaoxia ran over to see what he had. When she saw it was a fish, she whined, "Dad, you went fishing without us. I don't want to play with you anymore."
Lin Heng looked at her and smiled, ignoring her. He poured the shells into a basin, brought it into the house, and poured boiling water in to wash them.
"Are you preparing to make soap?" Xiulan asked, looking at the shells he made.
"Yes, wash it first and make bear oil soap tomorrow." Lin Heng nodded with a smile. There was too much bear oil at home, and he wanted to try making bear oil soap.
"Let me help you." Xiulan was very interested in this and squatted down to help clean.
Seeing that Lin Heng ignored him, Xiaoxia ran over again, raised her head and said, "Dad, you must take me fishing next time. I forgive you this time."
"Okay, give me a kiss." Lin Heng said while washing the shells.
Xiaoxia kissed him on the face, then squatted down and played with the shells.
"Let's go to Hongfeng Mountain tomorrow at noon to pick up live shells and see if there are any pearls." Lin Heng said while washing.
Xiulan looked up: "Is it the batch of pearl oysters you released last year?"
"Yes." Lin Heng smiled.
"Okay, I want to pick up pearl shells!" Xiaoxia said crisply.
"No problem, I'll take you there when the time comes." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.
After washing them, he took a hammer and hammered the shells into small pieces. He then divided them into two parts, put them into an iron can, and put them into the fireplace to calcine.
In fact, it is also possible to use quicklime directly, but Lin Heng always feels that this ancient method of using shells has more feeling.
After resting for a while, Lin Heng took out two yellow-throated marten skins and handed them to Xiulan, saying, "We will process these two skins ourselves, and then make a scarf for you and mom."
Xiulan blinked and said, "We can buy a lot of wool scarves with the money from selling them. Why are we wasting our time on this?"
Then she added, "And I have a mink coat. You can sell it and buy Mom a nice dress."
"But the mink scarf feels good." Lin Heng said as he reached out and smoothed her messy hair.
"No need, I think my hand-knitted scarves are better." Xiulan shook her head and patted his hands again, saying, "Be obedient and do it this way. I'm too lazy to make one, it takes a lot of time."
"Okay then." Lin Heng spread his hands and agreed.
After resting on the sofa for a while and eating an orange, he went out for a walk to see if the cows showed any signs of giving birth.
When he got home, he found candles lit in the house and couldn't help but ask, "Is the power out again?"
"Yes, he will probably come tomorrow," said Xiulan.
Lin Heng nodded, walked over and sat down. Power outages were a very normal thing in this era. At this time, electricity was not so abundant and various technologies did not work.
"It should be done." Lin Heng looked at the shells in the fireplace, took them out and put them aside to cool. He would put the second portion in the bedroom fireplace later. Without electricity, he would have to go to bed early.
For dinner, Xiulan chose to make a spicy hotpot and went to bed early after eating.
After coaxing the child to sleep, Lin Heng and Xiulan did some simple exercises. If they were not used to going to bed too early, they could also use this method to get through the long night.
The two fed each other some snacks and tried some other things, such as Lin Heng holding Xiulan on his waist...
After being tired, they both fell asleep.
The next morning, the two got up together. After exercising, Lin Heng went to the back mountain to check on the cows. He immediately found something wrong.
"Xiu Lan, prepare some cooked corn porridge, the cows have given birth." Lin Hengxian shouted as he returned to the backyard.
"Okay, I'll do it right away." Xiulan nodded, in a good mood.
This time the cow's delivery was particularly smooth. When Xiulan came to the back mountain with the cooked corn paste, Lin Heng had already taken out the placenta.
"Is the calf male or female?" Xiulan asked curiously.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Another little cow."
"That's great, we're lucky." Xiulan said with a smile, and she went in to feed the corn paste to the cow.
Cows can give birth and produce milk, so they are definitely better than bulls no matter what.
"That's for sure."
Lin Heng went to get another bundle of dry straw, chopped it into small pieces with a knife and put it in the pen to keep the cow warm. The delivery went smoothly this time and the calf was very healthy. From now on, we just need to focus on the nutrition of the cow.
Xiulan is very careful in this regard. In the past month, she has fed the cow some grain every other day to supplement its nutrition, which is also one of the reasons why the cow was able to give birth naturally.
"Let's go." Xiulan said as she reached out to take off the straw on Lin Heng's head and shoulders.
Lin Heng nodded, went home, made breakfast with Xiulan, and called the children to get up and eat.
After breakfast, Xiulan brought over bear oil. Lin Heng used a mortar to crush the shells and sift out the powder. The two prepared to make bear oil soap.
"Oh, I remembered I have another good thing here."
Suddenly Lin Heng spoke.
"What?" Xiulan and Xiaoxia looked over at the same time.
(End of this chapter)
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