Chapter 421 Selling and Sharing the Money
Lin Heng turned around and went upstairs. After a while, he brought down a glass bottle filled with red oil and many petals in it.
"What is this, Dad?"
Xiaoxia ran over and looked at it curiously.
"This is the essence of petals extracted with camellia oil." Lin Heng said with a smile. Looking at Xiaoxia's puzzled expression, he explained it to her, but Xiaoxia was still confused.
"Are you going to put this in the soap?" Xiulan asked curiously.
"Yes, I am going to make a flower bear oil soap. I also want to make a mugwort bear oil soap, but unfortunately I didn't extract the mugwort essence in advance." Lin Heng nodded.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded, went to get a small pot and placed it on the fireplace, then took out last year's bear oil and put it in to melt.
No need to heat with open flames, just rely on the temperature radiated by the shelter to melt the oil. Let the oil melt slowly, Xiulan picked up the shell powder and added water to make lye. She has made soap many times, and her control of details is better than Lin Heng.
Once the oil has melted, pour it and the lye solution into a larger bowl and stir. After a while, the reaction will produce a white, creamy paste.
"Just add the floral oil now." Lin Heng said as he took the floral oil.
"I'll add dad." Xiaoxia, who had been watching from the side, said.
Lin Heng handed the things to her and said, "Just pour it in along with the flowers."
"good!"
Xiaoxia poured the floral oil in and Xiulan stirred it evenly. The creamy soap liquid soon turned light red. Now you can use the mold to put it in.
"The soap made from bear fat looks very delicate. Let's see how it works. It should be ready for use during the Chinese New Year."
Xiulan placed the mold on the cabinet in the main room and said that the bear oil and flower soap she made this time could be divided into about ten pieces, enough for nearly half a year.
It doesn't necessarily mean that making it yourself is good, but the materials are solid and I enjoy the process of making it. Bringing children along will make you experience the joy of doing it together.
"Dad, I want to take another look." Xiaoxia stretched out her arms and looked at Lin Heng. She hadn't seen enough and thought making soap was very interesting. This year she was much more sensible than last year and she thought this change was very strange.
"Okay." Lin Heng picked her up and let her look at the bear oil and flower soap on the top of the cabinet again.
Xiulan hugged her son in the crib and said, "If you want to go to Red Maple Mountain, you can set off now. The sun is getting warmer now."
"Okay." Lin Heng put his daughter down and walked over to look at his son. The two little guys now liked to move around and call out, and were not peaceful in the crib.
After packing up, he pushed a stroller this time and held Lu Ming and Lin Heng in his arms.
Taking Xiongba with him, the family set off. In the village, they inevitably met people who asked him what prey he had caught, and his answers were still the same as they had agreed upon.
"The weather is beautiful today, with sunshine and no wind." Xiulan said as they walked on the road.
"Good weather." Lin Heng nodded. Winter like this is the most beautiful.
When they arrived at Hongfeng Mountain, they saw their mother before entering the breeding base. She was busy picking up something by the pond.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Lin Heng walked in holding the child and shouted.
Mother Lin smiled and said, "Your father and I are picking up river clams and also got a lot of shrimps. Let's fry them and eat together at noon."
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, walked over to look at his father bending over and busying himself in the pond and said, "Didn't Dad say he would wait for me to join him? Why are you doing all this by yourself?"
Father Lin waved his hand and said, "It's cold in winter, just freeze for a while. I'll be done soon, just wait by the side."
"Yes, there is not much work." Lin's mother also said.
What else could Lin Heng say? His father had almost finished the work, and there was no point in going in to help at this time. He could only wait by the side.
They chatted for a while on the shore and told their parents about dairy cow production.
"The little cow is good. Now we have one more cow and we will have milk to drink in the future." Lin's mother smiled. She couldn't get used to drinking it before, but now she feels like something is missing if she doesn't drink a little every day.
"Can the two grandchildren drink milk now?" Father Lin asked while picking clams and shrimps.
"It's time to drink. I've fed it some and there's basically no problem." Xiulan nodded.
When the child was young, he couldn't be fed milk because his gastrointestinal function was not perfect and he couldn't digest it. Now that he is almost one year old, there is no problem with him.
She is also slowly weaning her child, because sometimes she feels uncomfortable in her chest due to the tightness in her chest, and she has to ask Lin Heng for help.
"That's good." Father Lin nodded.
After chatting for a while, Father Lin finished his work, and everyone hurried into the house carrying the clams and shrimps.
Mother Lin weighed the prawns and said happily, "There are still a little over 10 kilograms left, enough for several meals."
"Then you can make some shrimps for lunch. Xiaoxia, Luming and Duheng can all eat them." Father Lin grinned.
"Thank you, Grandpa. I like eating shrimps!" Xiaoxia walked over and hugged her grandfather's legs and said coquettishly.
"Eat more if you like it." Father Lin happily held her in his arms.
Lin Heng washed the clams with water and placed them in a large, tall wooden basin, and it was not clear whether there were any pearls inside.
He first opened a medium-sized river clam with a dagger, and after opening it, he smiled: "There really is a pearl. It seems that the method of growing pearls that I heard about is correct."
"Really? There are four pearls in this mussel. That's more than last year's mussel."
Mother Lin came over and looked at the pearl in the shell in surprise.
"In this case, we can harvest a lot of pearls this time." Father Lin was surprised after taking a look.
"Let me see the pearls too." Xiaoxia came over and looked at the beautiful silver-white pearls.
Lin Heng picked out the pearls and put them in a small plate, then took out the clam meat and put it in a small basin.
Then he pried open the second clam, but unfortunately there was nothing inside.
"This one has pearls again!" Xiaoxia cheered when she saw the third clam.
"There are five of them, which is quite a lot." Lin Heng took out the pearls with a smile.
There are clams coming in continuously, and only one third of them have pearls. However, they are all of good size. The smallest one has a diameter of five millimeters, and there are also many ones with a diameter of one centimeter.
It took Lin Heng twenty minutes to open all the clams, and the pearls he got out filled a small bowl.
Xiulan handed the child to Lin's mother, and counted and divided the baby with Xiaoxia.
"Dad, there are 24 big pearls and 47 small pearls in total." Xiaoxia looked at Lin Heng and said crisply.
"Xiaoxia is awesome. It seems that artificially grown pearls are really effective." Lin Heng touched his daughter's head and said while looking at the pearls.
Last year, only a few pearls were produced from such a large pile of clams, but the yield from artificial cultivation is so terrifying, and this is the result of his lack of skills.
However, in terms of preciousness, it is indeed not as good as natural pearls.
"These can be sold for a lot of money, right?" Lin's mother said.
"It won't sell for much money, so keep it for each of you to make a pearl bracelet. I'll find someone to process it later." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Do I have one too, Dad?" Xiaoxia acted cute
"Both." Lin Heng nodded.
"Okay, you can make it into a pearl bracelet. I heard that this thing can be ground into powder to cure diseases and nourish the liver and improve eyesight. I'll take a few small ones and give them to your grandmother."
Mother Lin nodded and said.
"Okay." Lin Heng gave her a portion on the spot.
The rest can be cleaned on the spot, dried and stored.
After processing the pearls, Lin Heng took the shells out to dry. Once they were dry, they could be used to make soap.
Then he went to check on the grass carp raised in the mountain stream. Seeing that they were all swimming slowly at the bottom of the water, he felt relieved. He was afraid that some of them might have been unable to adapt and had died.
When Lin Heng came back, his father and his friends were basking in the sun at the door. Seeing him, his father said, "Son, I want to tell you something."
"What's the matter?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
"You plan to build the new cattle and sheep pen after the New Year, right?"
"Yes, it will be completely in time to build it by then."
Father Lin said, "What I want to say is that we can build a larger fence nearby and let the cattle and sheep run around in it. There are dozens of acres of wasteland near the two platforms. Let them go in and weed the land so that we can slowly reclaim it."
"That's totally fine. I'll see if there's a suitable net when I go to town tomorrow. I'll buy some and we'll fence off an area for the sheep and cattle to graze." Lin Heng nodded. He was too lazy to do it, but if his father wanted to do it, then let's do it. It doesn't cost much, and letting the sheep and cattle run around can also help strengthen their bodies and improve their resistance.
"Okay." Father Lin nodded with a smile. He always felt it was not good if he didn't take the cattle and sheep out and let them go.
There was nothing to do in winter, so the few of them basked in the sun for a while, and soon it was noon. Lin's mother fried some shrimps, which came in three different flavors: deep-fried crispy shrimps, blanched shrimps, and stir-fried shrimps.
Xiaoxia held the prawns in her hands and ate them herself, while Xiulan peeled some shrimps and fed them to her two sons who were too young to eat them with the shells.
Lin Heng poured some drinks for everyone, and they happily finished their lunch with some shrimps.
In the afternoon, Xiulan and her mother went to dig up shepherd's purse and peeled some shrimps. They planned to go back to make dough and steam buns. They would make hundreds of them and put them in the refrigerator to eat slowly.
Lin's mother soaked the soybeans and wanted to make a pot of tofu, dry it and make dried tofu, and also make some fermented tofu chili sauce.
When Xiulan got home in the afternoon, she started to make the dough. Although it was winter, it was not difficult to make the dough because there was a fireplace in the house. When she got up the next day, she saw a rich fragrance coming from the dough. When she tore it open, she saw that it was full of honeycomb-shaped holes.
"It's fully fermented. We can make dumplings after breakfast and you can eat them when you come back from the city." Xiulan said with a smile.
"Then I will definitely come back early." Lin Heng nodded, and he started drooling at the thought of the meat buns.
After getting dressed and exercising with Xiaoxia, they picked up the buckets and went to the back mountain to milk the cows.
"Fresh milk is more fragrant than powdered milk." Lin Heng said as he looked at the steaming milk in the pot. The rich milky aroma filled the whole room.
Next to him, there was the aroma of potato pancakes made by Xiulan. Potato pancakes are simple to make and delicious, and are often the first choice for morning exercises. Sometimes they would also roast some taro and add jam to it. This is Xiaoxia's favorite way of eating.
"It's almost time. Give your son some air," Xiulan reminded.
Lin Heng nodded, poured out half of it and let it dry, and added some tea leaves and honey to the other half to make milk tea.
After they finished breakfast, the milk was cooled to the appropriate temperature and put into bottles to feed their two sons. It was not the first time for them to drink milk, so they drank it quickly without any resistance.
At half past eight, his uncle Lu Honghai and his uncle-in-law Li Bai all arrived, and his elder brother Lin Yue also came.
After chatting for a while, Lin Heng said, "Then let's go directly and have dinner when we come back."
"Okay, go to the city quickly and come back quickly." Lu Honghai also said that his wife's belly was getting big now and it was not convenient for him to stay outside for long.
Everyone put the furs and other things they were going to sell into snakeskin bags. These things definitely could not be sold openly.
After everything was ready, Lin Heng said something to Xiulan, coaxed Xiaoxia, and then set off, taking his uncle, his uncle-in-law, and his eldest brother with him, a total of four people.
It was just noon when they entered the city. Instead of selling mountain products and furs first, they went to buy daily necessities and the like that everyone wanted.
Because selling these furs would definitely bring a huge sum of money, and it's not safe to use them to buy things everywhere, so he buys them now and he will advance the money and then everyone will pay him back after the money is divided.
He also asked about the barbed wire. The price was not expensive, and he planned to buy a batch and take it back when he came down again in a few days.
"Have you finished buying everything?" Lin Heng asked everyone. He had already written down everything he wanted to buy on paper.
"There shouldn't be any more." said Li Baiquan.
"Let's sell our things quickly and then go back." Lu Honghai also said that it was fun to go shopping in the city, but he still wanted to go home quickly.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, drove everyone to the state-owned store, and sold the items one by one.
"So many!!" The people receiving the goods were shocked when they saw the things.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "We saved it for a year, otherwise it wouldn't be so much."
"I guess so," the clerk said with a smile.
Two people came and counted all the items one by one, then gave different prices according to their quality and size, and finally completed the settlement smoothly.
"Let's go out and settle the bill slowly." After getting the money, Lin Heng looked at everyone and said.
Li Baiquan smiled from ear to ear: "There is no need to rush now, we are all family."
"Yes, there's no rush." Lu Honghai also said with a smile.
"It's only right that we break up early." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Lin Yue also said, "Lin Heng, it's not safe to break up here, let's go home and talk about it."
"I was planning to use the money to buy some gold or silver dollars after dividing it. My third uncle asked me to help him handle the money." Lin Heng said while looking at everyone.
His third uncle Lu Honggang had said this to him alone before. He didn't know how to use money and didn't know what to do, so he told him to handle it and trusted him completely.
He felt that for a country boy like his third uncle, it would be best to buy gold and silver coins, because who knows how many years he might need to save them, and the two things he chose would definitely not depreciate.
"Is that so? Then just sell more. We can keep the extras later." Li Baiquan said.
"Okay then." Lin Heng nodded, took part of the money to buy some silver dollars and gold, and took out all the money from selling the black bear and took it all back to Hongfeng Village.
Driving home, Lin Heng took them to the living room, closed the door, and began to divide the money. This time the harvest was not small.
(End of this chapter)
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