"Lin Heng, how are you selling grapes this time?"
Seeing Lin Heng drink two sips of water, aunt Zhang Gaolian couldn't wait to ask while holding the child.
His third parents, his uncle Li Baiquan, and his good brother Li Shiwei were also watching.
Lin Heng smiled and responded, "It's not bad. It's the same as what I said before. One acre of land can be sold for 500 yuan, so it must be sold for 4,000 yuan."
"That's great, four thousand yuan a year." Zhang Gaolian's eyes widened. She was a little excited about so much money.
"It's good, but I don't know how much the initial investment will be, and whether we can do it on our mountain." Li Baiquan said with some envy.
When Lin Heng first started planting the grapes, they were a little hesitant. Not only was the grapes easy to grow, they also didn't know where to sell them. It wasn't like a crop that they couldn't sell and they couldn't store them.
Moreover, not only do you have to buy seedlings to grow grapes, but there was no harvest in the first two years, so you wouldn't dare to do it without some surplus food.
But now that Lin Heng has succeeded, and they have seen so much profit and eaten so much, they are naturally tempted.
But in fact, when you see that a business is profitable and then get involved, you often can’t make much money.
"It's not that you can't farm, but your land and houses are all on the mountain, which is very inconvenient." Father Lin said.
Lin Hengsan's aunt Li Xue smiled and said, "Then it should be okay for us to plant a little more, nephew. Our kiwis have also produced some fruits this year. I'd like to trouble you to sell some of them when the time comes."
When Lin Hai first started planting kiwis, she got angry and scolded him. Now that she sees hope of making money, she only regrets not planting more.
"Of course you can plant more. Just buy some saplings." Lin Heng nodded.
"I think we can also grow crops on our mountain. There are several plots of land close to the road, and when the fruits are harvested we can just pick them up by hand." Zhang Gaolian said with a smile, unwilling to be outdone.
Li Baiquan also smiled and said, "As long as I can make money, it doesn't matter if I carry it down for a distance."
"As long as you are willing to contribute, there is nothing you can't do. You will learn how to take care of fruit trees in two years."
Lin Heng nodded, and then said: "But don't even think about the seedlings we have this year. They will take three or four years to bear fruit. You'd better buy the grafted seedlings that are two or three years old. Basically, they will start to bear fruit after one or two years."
"As long as I can make money, I can buy seedlings. I can't make any money from growing crops all year round." Zhang Gaolian said. She was determined to make money.
Lu Honghai was hesitant when she spoke at first, but now he agrees with whatever she says while holding his son in his arms.
"Yes, we have several plots of land above the tung tree forest, and they are not far from the highway." Lu Honghai nodded.
"Well, let me give you a rough price list later and you can do the math yourself."
Lin Heng finally said that he was happy to help his relatives and friends, and he would not make much money.
There is more to this world than money, friendship is often priceless. When everyone was poor, his third uncle, aunt and others would often visit him, and he would give them some of his good things, and the families would often help each other.
There's nothing wrong with making some money with them now.
Of course, he won't lose money even if he doesn't make money.
"Okay, thank you Brother Lin." Li Shiwei nodded.
"I can tell you when the time comes. I know this too." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Let's eat. The food is ready. We can talk while we eat." Xiulan walked over and said.
"Let's eat." Lin Heng immediately stood up to get the round table. Since there were so many people, only a large round table could accommodate them.
The main dish tonight was pork, including stewed pork legs, fried lean meat and fat meat, and steamed sweet potato and pork. In addition, a seven-pound rooster was specially killed and half of it was fried into a large pot.
The big roosters running around on the ground in the countryside eating insects and grass seeds are really delicious. Not only is the chicken firm, but it also has no fishy smell. It tastes good no matter how you stir-fry it.
What Xiulan made was a very simple dish of stir-fried chicken with sour peppers and sour radish, but the aroma was just as delicious as ever, and both adults and children couldn’t put their chopsticks down.
Lin Heng likes to eat country chickens because they will never be tough no matter how you stir-fry them, and they taste just as good as pheasants.
When he raises chickens, he likes to let them run free instead of keeping them in cages. The free-range chickens taste better.
The chickens on the back mountain are released during the day, while the chickens on Hongfeng Mountain are raised in an area of several hundred square meters.
They eat coarse grains and insects and drink mountain spring water, so the taste is naturally good.
The pigs in his house taste the same. People who come to his house for dinner will praise them and ask how they are fed.
What you feed your baby with can really make a difference.
Lin Heng didn't drink much wine during the meal, but he ate enough meat to fill his stomach.
After the meal, everyone said something and left. Everyone was familiar with each other and no longer needed to be polite.
Lin Heng looked at his parents who were still helping to clean up the dishes and said, "Mom and Dad, give me your passbooks. I'll transfer half of the money to your passbooks later."
Father Lin shook his head: "What are you doing? Just take the money. We don't need it."
Mother Lin also glanced at him and said, "That's right. We need money so we ask you. We as a family have to transfer money back and forth."
"That's what you say, but mom and dad, you've been working for so long, you still have to see the money." Xiulan also said.
Lin Heng said firmly: "I will go over to get the passbook tomorrow and transfer the money to you."
This time he wanted to buy a car, and Lin's father and mother gave him all their money to support him, but he refused.
Now that he is making money from growing fruit trees, he naturally won't keep it all. It is only right that he gives half to his parents.
Father Lin said angrily, "If you want to give it to your mother, you might as well buy her something to eat. Money is just lying there, and we don't need that much."
"That's okay. I will buy you food and clothes, and give you money." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Do you think I will pay attention to you?" Lin's mother snorted.
He helped to clean up, hugged his grandson, and discussed with a few others about his uncle, aunt-in-law and others planting fruit trees.
Lin's father and mother told him that he could help out, but not to give too much, because sometimes the more help you give, the better the relationship is not necessarily.
There is also the issue of how to take care of the orchard in the future. In a few days, the kiwis from his eldest brother and third father's homes will be ripe, and his own family will also have some apples to sell.
After chatting for a few minutes, they returned to Hongfeng Mountain. Lin Heng and Xiulan also closed the door and prepared to go to bed.
Before entering the house, Xiulan glanced at the sky and said, "There are no moon or stars tonight, and the clouds are very thick. I'm afraid it's afternoon. It has rained lightly that day in the past twenty days."
"It's probably going to rain, and the weather will be a bit stuffy." Lin Heng nodded.
Back in the house, Lin Heng took a few apricots back to the bedroom. These were picked at the end of July and are now fully ripe. They are not sour at all, but very soft, sticky and sweet.
Both children and adults like to eat it. Lin Heng squeezed it open, removed the pits, and handed it to his children and wife.
Eating apricots, he told stories to lull the children to sleep. He has now started reading novels, because fairy tales and myths have been told over and over again.
Xiaoxia could still understand these easy-to-understand novels. As for her two sons, they had just started to speak and could not understand all the fairy tales, so they had almost the same effect no matter what they heard.
After coaxing the child, Lin Heng fell asleep peacefully next to Xiulan. Although it did not rain the next morning, the weather was very gloomy.
"I hope it rains soon. I want to pick some mushrooms to eat." Xiulan said, looking at the sky.
August is the peak season for mushrooms, and all that’s missing is some rain.
"I'll pick them with you then." Lin Heng said with a smile. He hadn't picked mushrooms for a long time.
During the day, I do farm work as usual. When I take a break, I look at the fishes and flowers and feed the chickens and cows.
The meal we had was the chicken and pork legs that we didn’t finish yesterday. It was a real treat to bake a big steamed bun and soak it in the pork leg soup.
A day passed just like that. A day in the countryside can be very long at one point, and very short at the other.
It rained outside that night, and the river was already flooded the next morning. Judging from the situation, he estimated that the rain would continue for several days.
"I just hope the rain won't last too long. Caiyun still has to go sign up." Lin Heng said, looking at the sky.
September is not far away, and Caiyun is going to high school. Nowadays, you can be assigned a job after graduating from technical secondary school, but if you want to go further, you have to go to high school and then take the college entrance examination.
People with faith will basically choose this path. College students are very valuable in this era, and as long as you pass the exam, you don’t have to worry about the future.
"That won't be the case. Caiyun still has more than ten days before school starts. If it really rains for more than ten days, Taibai City will be flooded." Xiulan shook her head.
"That's right." Lin Heng said with a smile.
He had nothing to do on the rainy day, so he went to Hongfeng Mountain to help his father in the morning and rested at home in the afternoon.
At home, Lin Heng drinks tea and takes care of the kids, while Xiulan likes to make clothes and pull soles on rainy days.
“Boom boom boom!”
"Is Lin Heng at home?"
Suddenly, accompanied by a knock on the door, Liu Lan's voice came from outside.
"Why is she coming to our house at this time?" Lin Heng was a little curious.
"I don't know. I'll go open the door." Xiulan put down her needlework and went to open the door.
After a while, she brought Liu Lan into the house and said, "Liu Lan's big yellow ox leg fell to death, and she wants us to buy some."
"Oh, it's very slippery when it rains. I fell down the slope and it became useless in an instant. I have to kill it. Can you guys help me buy some? I can give it to you at a lower price." Liu Lan said with a bitter face.
The death of the plowing cow was a disaster for her family. If they couldn't sell the beef, it would be all over. Therefore, they could only look for rich families in the village to buy it.
"Xiu Lan, what do you think?" Lin Heng looked at his wife. If a man came, he would agree immediately, but if a woman came, it depended on what Xiu Lan thought.
"Buy some. I'll help if I can. The freezer can't hold much. You can make beef jerky." Xiulan looked at him and said.
"How about buying 50 kilograms? I'll also buy the tripe." Lin Heng said. Farmhouse yellow beef is still delicious.
"Thank you, thank you, Lin Heng, you are so nice. I will see you next time." Before Xiulan could say anything, Liu Lan, who had a pockmarked face, hurriedly thanked her.
"Then buy this much." Xiulan had no choice but to agree.
After sending the man away, she shook her head and said, "You should agree to buy a little bit first, and then when she can't sell it and continues to lower the price, you can buy more. Beef is not easy to sell when it rains heavily."
"It doesn't matter. It's just a little money. The tripe can be used to stew hot pot in a few days. If you can't pick the meat you buy later, it won't be as good as the one you buy earlier." Lin Heng shook his head and said.
Xiulan knows how to live her life. This method not only helps others, but also benefits herself.
But he didn't care much about the gains and losses, he just considered it as helping out a little more.
"That's right. Let's go buy some good meat later." Xiulan nodded.
"I know." Lin Heng nodded.
After playing at home for about an hour, he went to Liu Lan's house, where the cow had just been skinned and gutted.
He asked for the tenderloin and 50 pounds of hind leg meat.
He originally wanted to buy all the tripe, but the village chief also wanted to buy one, so he gave some away and bought five pounds of butter, preparing to go back and make beef tallow hotpot base.
"This meat is really good. Their big bull is several years old, and the meat looks firm."
Xiulan looked at the beef that Lin Heng brought home and said.
"That cow was so miserable. There was a hole in its stomach caused by the branch," said Lin Heng.
"But since you bought so much, let's make a beef pie." Xiulan said after thinking for a while.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.
Next, he simply cut the beef into small pieces, wrapped them and put them in the freezer.
The tripe also needs to be cleaned thoroughly with baking soda. It tastes delicious but it is not easy to clean.
After spending the whole afternoon washing the tripe, Xiulan made beef pies and loofah soup in the evening. They were so delicious that she couldn't stop eating them.
The minced beef filling was well spiced and tasted so good.
It rained for the next few days. On the third day of the rain, Xiulan went to the woods wearing a raincoat and tried to pick some mushrooms to eat.
There are still a lot of broom mushrooms and boletus during this period, in addition to blue-headed mushrooms, chanterelles and egg mushrooms.
Xiulan picked up a lot of beef livers and fried them with beef for two meals.
It’s just because of the rain that we can’t pick up much, because if the fruits are not dried quickly after being picked up, they will rot very quickly.
During the rainy days, his elder brother also went to the village to do business and became a clerk in the village committee.
So they had a small celebration and Lin Heng gave his elder brother a book, telling him the important things to do to listen more and talk less.
Although it is just a small village, it is undoubtedly a very training place. If his elder brother can gain a firm foothold, he won't have to worry about doing other things in the future.
The rain stopped on the 23rd, and Xiulan's plan to pick mushrooms was ruined because it had been raining for too long, and most of the mushrooms that Lin Heng and she encountered when they went up the mountain were rotten.
After running around for a whole day, I only picked up 30 kilograms of mushrooms, most of which were porcini.
Although the weather was fine, Lin Heng was not in a hurry to go out. He had to wait until the 30th to send Caiyun to school. There was also the matter of supporting Liu Ciwen.
Although not many mushrooms were picked on the day the weather cleared up, a new batch of mushrooms emerged after a few days of clear weather, allowing Xiulan to pick up hundreds of kilograms of tea tree mushrooms.
Dried mushrooms weigh more than 10 kilograms. They are more delicious when stir-fried with meat than ordinary mushrooms. Dried mushrooms are very popular. (End of this chapter)
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