In September, the shrimps have basically grown up and can actually be sold.
But Lin Heng felt that they could still grow for another half a month, so he was not in a hurry to sell them.
Father Lin took a ground cage, packed some feed in it, put it in the earthworm and threw it in. After ten minutes, he would fish it out and find a pile of shrimps, about three or four pounds.
They picked out the big ones and ate them at night, and threw the small ones back into the pond.
Lin's mother doesn't have a freezer, but she has a few pieces of bacon, so she made a simple dinner, one with fatty meat fried with sour beans and the other with lean meat fried with celery.
The most common dish is scrambled eggs with leeks. I made a big bowl of it and beat eight eggs. It was prepared for my three grandchildren.
During this period, there is also ginger, also known as yanghe. It tastes strange when cut into shreds and fried, but it is delicious.
There were other vegetables as well, and there was quite a bit of food on the table.
Father Lin heated up some rice wine and the four of them had a sip.
Lin's mother and Xiulan would peel shrimps and feed eggs to the three children from time to time. Lin Heng couldn't stop eating the ginger. He felt that the more he ate it, the more delicious it became.
It was only eight o'clock after dinner, and a corner of the sun was still hanging in the sky. There were layers of fiery clouds, as if the sky was stretched with colorful ribbons. It was so beautiful that it was beyond words.
The children were running and playing in the yard, while the adults were sitting under the eaves to enjoy the cool air.
After chatting for a while, Lin Heng and Xiulan took the child home.
On the way home, I could hear occasional rumbling sounds in the mountains. During this period, the crops have gradually matured, and wild boars and muntjacs have come down the mountain to cause trouble. Many people have gone up the mountain with guns to hunt.
This is the hunting season, and his elder brother and uncle have gone into the mountains to hunt recently.
He glanced at Xiongba who was following him. It had gained some weight now. Apart from playing with the children, it would usually rest in the sun at home.
"Want to go hunting?" Xiulan looked at him and asked.
"I really want to go hunting, but there's no rush. Let's go after the leaves fall." Lin Heng said with a smile. Now is not the best season for hunting.
“Awoooo ...
Xiongba ran over and hugged his legs, rubbing them gently, as if saying that he wanted to go into the mountains.
"Wait a little longer." Lin Heng rubbed its dog's head.
Xiulan looked at him and said, "If you want to go, you can try it tomorrow. Maybe you will gain something."
"Then I'll get up early tomorrow and go take a look, and ask in the evening where the nearest prey is." Lin Heng said after thinking for a while.
He let Xiulan take the child to play by the ginkgo tree for a while while he went to find someone to ask about the situation.
However, after looking around, he found that everyone had gone hunting, so he had to go home first.
Xiulan was quite popular while chatting there. Everyone praised the two little twins and thought they were extremely cute.
After returning home, they washed up and then sat in the yard to enjoy the cool air.
Although it wasn't hot at home, it felt better to be able to look at the sky outside.
At half past nine he was ready to go back to his room to sleep. He did some work during the day and there was no television or radio for entertainment at night, so he fell asleep quickly and soundly, often sleeping until dawn.
Knock, knock, knock! "Brother, open the door."
As soon as he entered the house and closed the door, Lin Heng heard his elder brother calling from outside.
"Did you hit anything?" Lin Heng replied and walked over to open the door.
"I had a great harvest tonight. I shot three wild geese. Can you believe it?"
Lin Yue held up something that looked like three big geese and showed it to Lin Heng.
"Damn, you're not just good, you've made a fortune, how did you kill them? Did you find the place where the wild geese rest?" Lin Heng's eyes widened. It was really rare to shoot wild geese here.
Lin Yue chuckled: "So I'm lucky. I just happened to see a few wild geese resting."
After that, he took another one and handed it to Lin Heng, saying, "Brother, take this one back and eat it. This thing is very nourishing whether it is stewed or fried. The remaining two are enough for me."
"Then I won't be polite." Lin Heng took it with a smile and didn't bother to be polite with his elder brother, and then said, "Brother, do you know where there are a lot of rabbits recently? I haven't hunted for a long time, and I want to try it tomorrow morning."
Lin Yue nodded quickly: "I know, the soybean fields on Daliang have been badly damaged by rabbits recently. If you want to go, let's get up at five o'clock and go over to hunt them."
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.
The two chatted for a few more sentences, and then Lin Heng carried the wild goose back to the house. He did not invite his eldest brother to come over and sit down, but only told him that if he couldn't finish the meal, he could come over and freeze it in the freezer.
"Xiu Lan, boil water and kill the wild geese." Lin Heng said with a smile as he carried the wild geese back to the house.
"It's so big, like a hen." Xiulan said in shock, and then hurriedly went to get the electric kettle and plastic bucket.
"Of course, this is probably the biggest bird we can catch." Lin Heng said with a smile.
He poured boiling water into the bucket and scalded the goose in two strokes. Then he plucked out the feathers and cut open the belly. He often killed chickens so he did it very quickly and it only took him about ten minutes.
He didn't throw away the internal organs, but processed them all. He thought they were all delicious.
He saved some for his parents to eat over tomorrow at noon, and put the rest in the freezer.
After finishing, he quickly coaxed the child to sleep and then went to bed early.
The next morning, he woke up before dawn, looked at his watch and got up quickly to get ready.
Just take a bow bag and bring Xiongba with you.
It was already dawn when they came out. Lin Yue saw him and said quickly, "We need to move fast. There are many rabbits at dawn."
He carried a hunting rifle and brought his hunting dog Good Luck, who was Xiongba's son.
Good Luck has grown up now and is quite capable, so Lin Yue always takes him with him when hunting.
The dew was very heavy in the early morning, and both of them wore rain pants in advance. Water shoes made a lot of noise when walking and were not suitable for hunting.
When they reached the beam, the sky was just getting bright. Lin Heng was looking around when Xiongba suddenly rushed out silently.
When it got close to the soybean field, a gray rabbit started running towards the woods.
But Xiongba was too fast. He bit the opponent before it entered the woods.
“Oh!”
Then it ran back triumphantly holding the big rabbit, showing off its achievement to Lin Heng.
"Very good, but you have to obey orders next time!" Lin Heng touched the dog's head and picked up the rabbit. The rabbit was not small and weighed at least six or seven kilograms.
He actually wanted to consecrate the bow and arrow, but was taken down by Xiongba.
"Xiongba is still as powerful as ever." Lin Yue exclaimed as he looked at Xiongba.
The luck is already good, but it is still far behind Xiongba. Just now, the rabbit was so lucky that it didn’t even notice that Xiongba had already made a move.
"It's my luck to meet Xiongba." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Well, let's separate later. I'll go over there and take a look." Lin Yue pointed in a direction.
"good."
Lin Heng nodded in agreement and took Xiongba to the other side.
Although there were signs of rabbits stealing food as we walked forward, we didn't see any rabbits.
Time passed quickly, and the sun came out in a blink of an eye. The top of the mountain was the first to be illuminated by the sun. The water vapor was dissipating quickly, and Lin Heng felt hopeless.
"It seems that we have to test the bow and arrow next time." Lin Heng said with a sigh.
He was just about to go down when a loud bang suddenly came from his brother's side.
After a while, Lin Yue came over with a rabbit in his hand and said with a smile, "It seems that I have good luck tonight. I also caught one."
"It's okay." Lin Heng nodded, although he failed to hit the second one.
On the way back, Lin Yue asked again: "Are you going to Ancheng tomorrow?"
"Yes, take some of the antiques we got, and some of the goods." Lin Heng nodded.
"Okay, I understand." Lin Yue agreed.
When they got home, Lin Heng handed the rabbit to Xiulan and said, "This morning's harvest, Xiongba caught it."
"That's awesome! He got something in his first try." Xiulan said. She originally thought Lin Heng would get nothing.
"I'll go catch a big one when the leaves fall." Lin Heng said as he sat down, drank a sip of milk tea, and then started to eat breakfast.
The children gathered around the rabbit and looked at it curiously, but they didn't dare to move because of Xiulan's warning.
Lin Heng was eating breakfast and preparing to kill a rabbit. Xiulan asked as she helped him, "Are we having rabbit or wild goose for lunch?"
"Let's eat something and call our parents over," said Lin Heng.
After killing the rabbit, he simply cleaned the internal organs, then put them and the rabbit head in a small pot and cooked them before feeding Xiongba.
They ate rabbit meat. At noon, Xiulan fried some rabbit meat and then stewed a wild goose with mushrooms in a casserole, adding some angelica, codonopsis and red dates.
The simple stew was also extremely delicious. Both Lin's father and mother liked it. Xiaoxia and Luming drank a lot of soup.
"No wonder people say wild goose meat is delicious. I miss it for half a month every time I eat it." Mother Lin said after she finished eating.
"Rabbit meat is just average, not as delicious as our pork." Father Lin laughed. He dared to say this because he had eaten too much meat. "It's not very delicious. It's a bit dry. It tastes better when braised." Xiulan nodded. If one rabbit was not too little, she would really prepare to braise it.
"I think it's okay. I'll catch a few more and stew them later." Lin Heng said.
After dinner, Lin Heng drove a sidecar to take some antiques to Hongfeng Mountain in the afternoon, where he wrapped them in straw and loaded them onto the truck.
It would be too conspicuous to drive the delivery truck directly to the door to load the goods, and he didn't want to attract attention.
After packing up the antiques, Lin Heng packed up briefly and went to the town to pick up the double-barreled shotgun he had ordered.
He planned to put this thing in the car. It was unsafe these days and he needed some powerful weapons to protect himself.
If you encounter prey, you can also hunt it.
As a hunter, it is reasonable for him to carry a shotgun with him.
This time when I went to Ancheng, I only asked my eldest brother to go with me. I didn’t ask Lin Hai because he went into the mountains and missed us.
This time, I won’t be driving the tricycle, but he will have to sit on it even though he is carsick.
Fortunately, the formaldehyde smell has dissipated a lot now, and their motion sickness is not as serious as it was the first time.
Lin Heng brought some fruits from Taibai City to Ancheng, and sold them here after arriving. He could earn more than 100 yuan, and he could earn even more if he sold them himself.
The car stopped in Ancheng, and Lin Heng went to find someone to give Jianding the antiques.
Those were very chaotic times, and antique trading was booming. He separated his stuff into batches and asked someone to appraise them.
In the end, I selectively sold some of the genuine goods, for a total of 56,200 yuan.
For him, this was considered an overnight fortune. He had saved up a little over 40,000 yuan over the past four years. If he hadn't sold the cattle, sheep and Chinese medicinal materials, he wouldn't have had that much money.
Of course, he could actually sell it for more money. The Ru kiln pieces he bought from Murakami were all authentic, but he kept them all away and decided not to sell them for the time being.
For now, this money is enough, and if there is any major change, we can take action at any time.
"Brother, you really made a lot of money this time. The money came so easily." Lin Yue sighed in the car.
He followed Lin Heng throughout the whole process and didn't expect that he would earn so much. It has only been a short time. He had wasted nearly 50,000 yuan before, but he earned it back so quickly.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Brother, if you want to do that, you can also collect some antiques. Maybe you will get a real one, which will be worth a lot of money."
In fact, collecting antiques is a small matter. In this era, there are still many tomb robbers, who make big money that way. It can be said that the ways to make money are written into the Constitution.
He doesn't have the technical skills in this area and doesn't want to do anything illegal. It's enough for him to make a little money from collecting antiques.
"Then I'll go back and try it, and you can help me take a look at it then." Lin Yue said with a smile. He was indeed tempted, as this antique was too valuable.
He planned to put his bloodstone away when he got home. He had not thought much of it before, but now it seemed that it might be the most valuable thing in his house.
Thinking of the bloodstone and the underground cave, he turned to look at his brother Lin Heng and said, "Brother, do you think we can still get bloodstone if we go back to that place?"
Lin Heng glanced at his elder brother, smiled and shook his head: "There is little hope. There is a lot of underground water in that place. Once the water rises, the rocks will be washed away or buried."
It was luck that they were able to pick up the bloodstone in the first place, and it would probably be difficult to try their luck again.
"Well, it seems that I can only collect antiques." Lin Yue nodded.
Lin Heng looked at the sky and said, "It's still early today, let's go to the Red Star Machinery Factory to talk and decide on the machine."
He still didn't want to keep the money and wanted to exchange it for means of production as soon as possible.
"Okay." Lin Yue nodded.
Lin Heng immediately drove Dongfeng 140 to the Red Star Machinery Factory.
"What would you like to buy?" the receptionist asked with a smile.
"Buy a large feed processing machine, the kind that can handle a production line." Lin Heng replied.
Surprisingly, this receptionist was the one who had initially received him, but it was obvious that the other party had forgotten about him long ago.
"Large machines? Come with me." Upon hearing Lin Heng's words, the receptionist immediately became excited. Those large machines are not cheap.
Lin Heng walked over and took a look. After the demonstration and introduction, he nodded and said, "Not bad, I'll buy it. Let's talk about the specific contract."
Of course, he didn't just look at this one, but after looking around, he felt that this one offered the best value for money.
The receptionist was also a little shocked. He quickly invited Lin Heng over and called the director over.
Lin Heng drank a sip of tea and waited for the director to come over and chatted for a long time. They talked about everything from price to transportation, and in the end both parties were quite satisfied.
Most things these days cannot be bargained for, but this kind of expensive machinery for civilian use can still be bargained for. Such a large order, every one of them is hard-earned.
After signing the contract, Lin Heng paid half of the deposit, and the machinery factory delivered all the machines to him within a month. (End of this chapter)
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