He handed his bag of chrysanthemums to his eldest brother, and walked towards the road holding his two sons.
"Please walk slower. It's very slippery." Xiulan said as she pulled Xiaoxia along.
The path in the woods was covered with withered yellow leaves, which were very slippery to walk on. From time to time, a mountain breeze blew and leaves fell, which was quite interesting.
After only a few steps, he inevitably slipped and sat down on the ground.
“Hehehe~”
"Wrestling!"
Lu Ming and Du Heng in his arms giggled and found it very funny.
"I should have let you two walk by yourselves." Lin Heng looked at them. Even if they were wrestling, he didn't knock them down.
In fact, if he hadn't had to hold them and have something to hold on to, he wouldn't have fallen.
“No, no ...
"I'm hungry, I won't leave!"
The two little guys shook their heads and spoke in baby voices.
Lin Heng ignored the two of them and walked quickly to the road.
He asked them to wait there and went back to pick Xiaoxia up.
After a while, the group of people happily returned to Hongfeng Mountain. The sun was shining brightly and it was particularly warm walking on the road.
His elder brother and sister-in-law didn't go back either, so they had lunch at Hongfeng Mountain.
I opened the door and walked to the house upstairs, where Father Lin was making persimmon cakes.
"Dad, didn't you say that you wanted to use the rest to make wine? Why are you still making persimmon cakes?" Lin Heng looked at his father and asked.
"Make more for the children, they like sweets." Father Lin said with a smile.
"Okay then." Lin Heng nodded and agreed.
Walking into the house, he took out two bamboo dustpans and spread out the chrysanthemums that he and Xiulan had picked to dry.
Lin's mother had already gone into the house to make lunch.
For lunch, of course, we had simple rice, fried shredded potatoes, Chinese cabbage, and ham.
Several people at the dinner table drank two cups of rice wine. Although drinking this stuff is bad for the body, it always feels like something is missing if you don’t drink it.
"Brother, let's go play Golden Rooster this afternoon." Lin Yue invited during the meal.
"Okay, let's go in the evening." Lin Heng nodded.
In fact, not only his eldest brother invited him, but also his uncle-in-law, third uncle, and even Tian Baishun from the village had invited him.
They all felt that they were lucky to be with him, and that they could definitely get something, even if it wasn't a big deal, at least a small one.
After the meal, Lin Heng looked at everyone and said, "Come on, let's go up the mountain and dig up two ginsengs to see how big they are."
The ginseng on the mountain has been planted for three years. This year it bloomed and we harvested a large number of ginseng seeds.
Liu Juan looked at Lin Heng and said, "Then ask your elder brother to come with you. We will go back first to dry the chrysanthemums."
She only took her youngest son away; Lin Wei and Lin Tao are still here.
Father Lin also said, "I'll go up with you, and we'll collect the honey. It's time to collect it now."
"Okay, let's go together." Lin Heng nodded.
A group of them first went up to the small wooden house on the top of the mountain, opened the door and took out a table and benches. Xiulan and Lin's mother took care of the children here and boiled a pot of water to drink tea.
Lin Heng took a small medicine hoe, and Lin's father brought a basin, and the three of them entered the ginseng garden together.
There are a lot of weeds in the ginseng garden, but there are no saplings, all of which were dealt with in the spring.
If left untreated, ginseng will not grow larger than these small trees.
"This one is okay. It looks quite big." Father Lin said after finding a ginseng.
"good."
Lin Heng came over with a medicine hoe and started digging. In no time, he dug out a rough outline, and then dug out the ginseng with his hands in a few strokes.
"It's not bad. It weighs one or two pounds when wet." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Even the ginseng grown under the forest that is not well cared for grows much faster than wild ginseng.
"Well, after raising it for another two years, you can sell it." Father Lin nodded.
"Then dig five more, two for each of us, and take them back to make wine or stew meat, which will be great." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"One is enough. I can't eat more than that." Lin Yue shook his head.
"It's okay. We're planning to slaughter a sheep in the next two days. You can use it to stew the mutton then." Lin Heng waved his hand and dug out five more ginsengs. All of them were good, which meant that the place he had chosen was correct and very suitable for ginseng growth.
"Let's go and collect the honey." Father Lin gave Lin Heng the bee-proof hat.
Lin Heng nodded, gave the ginseng and medicine hoe to his eldest brother, then put on his hat and went to the beehive.
It was cool in the forest, and he was already familiar with harvesting honey. He opened the beehive and cut off the honeycombs, doing so gently as not to attract an attack from the bees.
After a while, he finished harvesting the honey and left with his father.
"This time we can get more than four kilograms of honey." Lin Heng said. Because it was autumn, he did not kill all the bees.
"That's enough, two buckets of harvest is enough." Father Lin said with a smile. He would be happy as long as there was a harvest.
Taking the honey over to the cabin, Xiaoxia was the first to discover the honey and ran over to Lin Heng and said coquettishly, "Dad, I want to eat honey."
"All of them." Lin Heng nodded, sat down, and used a knife to cut off a piece of honeycomb for Xiaoxia.
The bees they raise are allowed to collect natural wax to make their own honeycombs, and they do not use artificially produced paraffin wax for nest storage, which is non-carcinogenic, so all of them can be eaten.
“Thank you, Dad!”
"Thank you, Second Dad!"
The children who got the honey all happily put it in their mouths, gurgling in thanks. The sweet honey made them jump for joy.
"You have one too." Lin Heng cut another piece for Xiulan.
"Just let the children eat it, why give it to me?" Xiulan wanted to refuse, but Lin Heng had already stuffed it directly into her mouth.
"Eat it quickly. I didn't know you liked it." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Xiulan showed a helpless but sweet smile and ate the honey with her cheeks puffed out.
After giving everyone a piece, Lin Heng sat down to drink tea.
The gentle autumn breeze on the top of the mountain, accompanied by the rustling of leaves, coupled with a cup of good tea, is simply refreshing.
Standing on the top of the mountain, looking up, the nearby forest is the most beautiful, with red maple leaves, cotinus coggygria, yellow poplars, and all kinds of colors complementing each other.
Lin Heng likes to sit under the woods and feel it all.
The children were playing around, his mother and Xiulan were chatting nearby, and he was also chatting with his father and older brother.
After resting for more than an hour, Lin Yue looked at Lin Heng and said, "Brother, shall we go up the mountain?"
"Okay, let's go." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.
After coming down the mountain, Xiulan decided to go back. It would be inconvenient for her to take care of three children if she went home alone.
"I'll go with you. I'll see if there are any yams to dig up." Father Lin said to Lin Heng.
"Sure, it's still early today." Lin Heng nodded. One more person means one more hope of catching prey.
Father Lin nodded and packed up briefly. Lin Heng packed up the wild chrysanthemums and took them with him. He then went to the truck to get a double-barreled shotgun and waited for his father to come out before heading back.
This hunting rifle was originally placed in the car for self-defense when traveling long distances, but now it can also be used for hunting.
After returning home, Lin Heng took out his compound bow, carried it on his back, and took Xiongba with him to go hunting with his eldest brother and father.
Their route was to Shuijinggou, and from there they went in the direction of Sanchagou, looking on the ridges in that area to see if there were any prey such as badgers, golden roosters, or hares.
The three big men walked together very quickly and reached the top of the mountain in half an hour, then they separated to look for prey.
The leaves of the trees have not fallen yet, so the view is not very wide.
Lin Heng took Xiongba to search in the woods. It took them more than half an hour. Apart from seeing a few small yams, the largest animals they saw were a few birds.
After a while, Lin Heng reached the top of the mountain and walked towards another ditch.
Suddenly, a loud gunshot was heard from a ditch not far away. He quickly turned around to take a look. He knew that it was his eldest brother who fired the gun, but he didn't know whether he hit anything.
“Ah!! Ah!!”
Just as we were about to move forward, we heard bursts of calls from yellow muntjacs in the mountains ahead.
Xiong Ba pricked up his ears to listen. Lin Heng took a quick look and said, "Let's go over there and take a look."
The sound was far away, but he still wanted to go over and give it a try, just in case he was lucky enough to encounter it.
"Alas, things don't go as planned, doggie!"
After walking halfway up the mountain, Lin Heng shook his head helplessly. It seemed as if this thing could sense him.
Before they got close, the calls of the yellow muntjacs could be heard from far away, as if they could sense them.
Before he knew it, it was getting dark. Lin Heng felt helpless. He didn't even see a squirrel. His luck was not good today.
After walking for a while, he decided to go back to the wheat field to see if there were any rabbits or something, so that he wouldn't come back empty-handed if there were.
At this moment, a strong sound of fanning suddenly appeared in the sky.
He looked up and was stunned to see a large group of wild geese forming a V-shape and flying towards the south.
“Oh my god!”
“Ouch!!”
Seeing such a large group of meat, Lin Heng and Xiong Ba couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
"These things are flying towards Sanchagou. Will they stop there tonight?"
Lin Heng talked to himself, patted his thigh, and felt it was a pity. If he had decided to go to Sanchagou today, he might have been able to shoot wild geese.
The places where wild geese rest on their way south are all near rivers, lakes and ponds. We caught some in Sanchagou last year, so we should be able to catch some today.
Shaking his head, he walked back. It was too late to go there now. Unless he traveled at night, he might be able to intercept them before they took off tomorrow morning.
When he walked back, it was already dark, and he still encountered nothing. He saw some wild boar footprints, but they were not new.
Finally, he found his father and elder brother at the agreed place on the beam.
"Brother, how did you harvest?" Lin Heng asked hurriedly after getting closer.
Lin Yue turned around and showed off the two golden roosters hanging around his waist, and said with a smile: "I'm lucky to have encountered two golden roosters."
"Alas, my luck is bad. I didn't catch anything. I didn't even hear the calls of the Golden Rooster or Bamboo Rooster." Lin Heng shook his head helplessly.
Father Lin also deliberately laughed at him, "Then I am better than you. I harvested two yams today, which together weigh about five or six kilograms."
"I plan to go to the persimmon tree now, and then go to the bamboo forest to take a look." Lin Heng said to the two of them.
He was still a little unwilling.
Lin Yue nodded: "No problem, I also want to see if there are any white rice seeds. It stands to reason that there are a lot of white rice seeds on the persimmon trees these days."
Even if you pick persimmon fruits from the tree, some will still be out of reach and will still be eaten by civet cats.
The three of them took a detour and looked at three persimmon trees in a row, but they didn't see their beloved civet cat.
On the way, Lin Heng told his father and elder brother about seeing the wild geese.
After hearing this, Lin Yue clapped his hands and said, "I was wondering why I couldn't find Tian Baishun these days. This old man must be guarding the geese in Sanchagou."
"He's in Sanchagou?" Lin Heng widened his eyes. This old guy is so cunning.
Lin Yue affirmed: "He must be here. He asked me to go hunting with him before. I haven't seen him in the past two days. He said he went up the mountain to guard the prey."
"Then he will most likely get something out of it." Father Lin said enviously.
"Wild goose meat is very delicious. Keep an eye on it these two days. If he catches a lot of them, I'll buy one to eat." Lin Heng said. He really wanted to eat wild goose meat.
"It's okay, let's eat some golden chicken to satisfy our cravings and have a couple of drinks tonight." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"It's fine with me. I don't drink anyway, so don't be polite, big brother." Lin Heng laughed.
Father Lin patted him and said, "Do you think I will be polite to my son?"
They went down the mountain and searched in the bamboo forest, but didn't find any bamboo partridges, so they went home.
The eldest brother invited them to eat golden chicken. Father Lin gave some yams to his eldest son and went back to Hongfeng Mountain to call Mother Lin.
Lin Heng also returned home first. Xiulan and the others were still playing in the main room. It was only nine o'clock and they hadn't gone to bed yet.
"Have you eaten?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.
"I've eaten it. I've left some of the sliced noodles. I'll make them for you when you come back." Xiulan looked at him and said.
"Big brother asked us to go over and eat Golden Roosters. He got two, and I didn't get anything today." Lin Heng said with a smile and spread his hands.
Xiulan nodded: "It's normal that he didn't get hit. Eat an apple to calm down. I'll make some food for the dog and feed it, then we'll go over to eat."
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded in agreement, ate an apple first, and then ate the scallion pancake left over from the morning.
After feeding the dog, he took his wife and children to his eldest brother's house. He never asked people to invite him for dinner several times, and he would always go there in advance if he said he wanted to go.
"You guys have some snacks first. I've already killed the golden rooster. I'll chop it up and your sister-in-law will cook it right away. It will be quick." Lin Yue said as he brought some walnuts, peanuts, melon seeds, kiwis and apples.
Lin Heng nodded and ate another kiwi fruit, while Xiulan went to the kitchen to help.
After a while, my parents came over and the meal was almost ready. The rich aroma of meat wafted from the kitchen.
Sister-in-law Liu Juan was also not frugal at all. She fried both golden chickens and filled a small pot with them.
"Eat it all! You're welcome!"
The food was served and the drinks were poured, and Liu Juan said with a smile.
Lin Hengshi was the most impolite. He added a piece of golden chicken meat and put it in his mouth first. The rich aroma of chicken almost made him swallow it whole.
"It's delicious. I haven't eaten golden chicken for a long time." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Then let's go play again in two days. Golden Rooster is easy to play during this period." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Yes, sure." Lin Heng nodded, and then said, "Let's eat quickly."
As he spoke, he picked up a few pieces of meatier ones for his wife and children. (End of this chapter)
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