"What's the good news, Grandpa?"
Before Lin Heng opened his mouth to ask, Xiaoxia ran over and hugged Lin's father's calf.
"We have three hens at home, and I haven't laid eggs yet." Father Lin touched Xiaoxia's head and said with a smile.
Lai La is a hen that has entered the state of lying on the roost to hatch chicks. Here, hen is often used to describe a woman with a bad temper, because the hen is very aggressive when it is in Lai La.
"Three hens are laying eggs? Are you sure they are not laying eggs?" Lin's mother asked in surprise.
Lin Heng and Xiulan were also a little surprised. It was quite rare to have three chickens delivered at once.
"I've lived for decades, how could I be wrong? Come with me, I've caught the chicken and put it in the warehouse."
Father Lin said this loudly and walked towards the warehouse.
Lin Heng and his friends put their things down and went into the warehouse, where they saw three black hens lying in a basket.
"If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself." Father Lin snorted.
"Really? It's here. This way we can hatch fewer eggs this year." Mother Lin looked at it and nodded.
Hens don't come to spawn every year. Those that they artificially hatched have shown no sign of spawning in the past two years.
Xiulan also said: "I thought that artificially hatched chickens would not hatch. It seems that they have not grown up yet. These chickens are two years old, right?"
"Yes, two and a half years." Lin's mother nodded.
"That's fine, let's go serve the eggs now." Xiulan said again.
"Mom, I want to help." Xiaoxia watched curiously from the side. It was so interesting to her to see the hen hatching chicks.
Mother Lin said, "There are plenty of eggs. We have picked up a lot these past two days. But I am going to raise two broods of three-yellow chickens. I will go to the village and find a chicken with eight eggs."
"Then let's get a nest of eggs first." Lin Heng nodded, turned around and took Xiaoxia to get the eggs.
Lin's mother went with them and took eight eggs that had been laid in the last two days.
"Let me get it." Xiaoxia struggled to get the basin of eggs.
When they arrived at the warehouse, they picked up one of the hens and put the eggs down.
"Coo-coo!"
The hen looked at the eggs in the nest, squatted down and began to hatch the chicks.
"Is that okay?" Xiaoxia asked, tilting her head.
Lin Heng nodded and replied: "Yes, the rest is to come here every day to feed the hens with water and food. Xiaoxia, if you want to feed them, the hen and the chicks are all yours. The chicks that hatch are also yours."
"Okay, I want to feed the hens and the chicks." When Xiaoxia heard this, she jumped up happily, scaring the hens.
"Dad, I want one too." Lu Ming said in a childish voice, waving his little hands.
"I'll grab a few!" Du Heng rushed forward and tried to grab the hen.
Although they also clamored for it, they actually didn't quite understand what it meant. They are just a little over two years old now, and although they can talk and walk, they still can't understand as many words and sentences as Xiaoxia, and they are mostly imitating their sister.
Brother Lin grabbed him by the collar and brought him back. The little guy looked at him innocently.
"Don't touch it, or you'll get pecked." Lin Heng shook his head.
He nodded and said "oh", then Lin Heng put him down and ran to the side.
Then they all went back into the house. Xiulan prepared to cook dinner while Lin Heng went to look at the prawns and fish fry.
The water temperature indoors is higher. The carp have already completed spawning, and the grass carp will start spawning in the next two days.
The green shrimps have not started yet. They will have to wait until early May to gradually start to incubate eggs.
This spring, in addition to the sheep, his family also has musk deer that are about to give birth.
Although Lin Heng tried his best to control it, inbreeding has now become inevitable.
Only five musk deer became pregnant this year, and two of them were not considered inbreeding.
Speaking of which, these musk deer are also a blessing to his family. Except for those that died during childbirth, all the others grew up smoothly at home.
Moreover, starting this year, the number of musk deer in his family that produce musk will surge, and six or seven of them are already able to produce musk.
“Wow…”
Lin Heng was thinking about something when he suddenly heard a child crying. Then he saw his youngest son running out of the warehouse and jumping into Xiulan's arms.
Xiulan blew on his hand and said with a smile: "Your father told you not to touch it. Now it's beautiful, isn't it?"
Father Lin also laughed and said, "Now he won't provoke chickens anymore without anyone telling him. People can't teach you, but you can learn it once you've been taught."
Lin Heng also shook his head and smiled. When he came over, Du Heng had stopped crying.
"Is the meal not ready yet?" Lin Heng looked at his wife.
"My son started crying as soon as I prepared the food, so I ran out to see what was happening," said Xiulan.
"Then let me do it." Lin Heng said.
After saying that, he turned and went to the kitchen. Xiulan followed him in and said, "I'll do it."
"I said I'd come, so I'll come. Go and have a rest, dear."
Lin Heng pushed her out.
"Okay then." Xiulan nodded helplessly and had to go out.
Lin Heng quickly lit the fire, fried some Chinese toon eggs first, then some Chinese toon bacon, and then made some shredded potatoes and fried shrimps to finish.
There were still some eels left after they were killed, but he didn't fry them because they are so nutritious that I don't dare eat too much.
After the dishes were cooked, Lin Heng came out and shouted, "It's time to eat. Is mom back?"
The rice was cooked in a rice cooker and had already been prepared.
"I'm back and I'm laying eggs for the chickens." Xiulan nodded and came over to help serve the dishes.
After smelling the dish, she smiled and said, "Honey, your dish smells really good."
"Of course, I learned it all from my wife." Lin Heng nodded as a matter of course.
After serving the dishes on the table, Lin Heng scooped rice for everyone.
After washing their hands, the children all came running over. Mother Lin was the last one to come in and said, "I switched to eggs from three-yellow chickens and white-feathered chickens this time. Let's see which one is better later."
"Our own black chicken is definitely the best." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"I can use an incubator to hatch black chickens." said Lin's mother.
Then everyone ate while talking to each other.
They all liked the taste of Chinese toon, and the children ate it with shrimp and shredded potatoes.
After dinner, Lin Heng drank a cup of tea and went out for a walk. He picked a lot of roses and brought them back. Then he, Xiulan and the children went home.
Looking at the red clouds in the sky, Lin Heng sighed: "Spring is almost over, it's coming so fast."
"Yes, it happened very quickly. I had the happiest time this spring, especially when I went out to play with you." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said softly.
"I will be happier and happier in the future." Lin Heng responded.
After returning home, Lin Heng handed the flowers to Xiulan, who put them in a vase.
After packing up their things and washing up, they returned to the bedroom.
Lin Heng told the child stories as usual until he fell asleep, and then went to bed to rest.
Lin Heng hugged Xiulan and said, "Wife, do you want to get some wood to partition off a small room for the children to rest in, so they don't disturb us."
Xiulan rolled her eyes at him and said softly, "Does it make any difference? The wooden planks are not soundproof. If the child wakes up, we won't be able to find out."
"That's right." Lin Heng grinned and said, "Our bed is already very old. How about I go downstairs and buy a Simmons bed?"
"Is it the kind of spring mattress we slept on in the city before?" Xiulan asked.
"Yes, let's go buy one of your favorite colors. I'll buy one for my parents, too. Straw beds are never as clean as those kind of beds."
Lin Heng put his arm around her shoulders and said, her delicate and white collarbone made people drool.
"Then let's go buy one together, and then buy a small cabinet." Xiulan leaned on her chest and said in a soft voice.
"Okay, let's find a chance to go together in a couple of days." Lin Heng nodded, then turned off the light and prepared to rest.
"Husband~"
As soon as Lin Heng turned off the lights, Xiulan came close to Lin Heng and called out in a sweet voice.
Lin Heng felt his whole body numb from her voice. Just as he was about to say something, Xiulan took the initiative to kiss him.
…
The next morning, Lin Heng opened his eyes and looked at his wife who was still sleeping, thinking back to the feeling when Xiulan took the initiative.
"Wake up, idiot."
Seeing Lin Heng in a daze, Xiulan kissed him, sat up and said.
"good."
Although Lin Heng nodded, he still liked to watch Xiulan get dressed and get up before he got dressed and got up.
After breakfast, he made a pot of tea and set it aside, then went to the old house with Xiulan and the children.
He held two glass bottles and two clear plastic jugs, while Shirley held a funnel and a vinegar spoon.
Arriving at the old house, they opened the door and went straight to the kitchen, where three large steamed buns had been placed in the past few years. When they opened them, they found persimmon vinegar brewed last winter.
"Hmm, it's so sour. It looks like it's done." Xiulan smelled it and nodded.
As she spoke, she scooped out some and tasted it, then nodded again: "You can scoop it out and use it, it tastes very good."
"Then I'll scoop it out." After saying that, Lin Heng took a bamboo strainer and pressed it down, then used a bamboo vinegar spoon to scoop the vinegar.
The persimmon vinegar has a nice pink color. It filled three large earthenware jars, two ten-liter plastic jugs, and two five-liter glass bottles.
"Okay, let's pour the remaining persimmon residue into a jar and make some vinegar." Xiulan said.
After they finished all this and cleaned the jar, they carried the vinegar back to the new house.
On the way, the two chatted about the further processing methods of persimmon vinegar.
"Wife, I want to drink the freshly brewed sweet wine. Can you go home and make some for me?" Lin Heng said. The fragrant wine rice was a delicacy that he could not refuse.
"The temperature is fine now. I'll steam the rice for you at noon." Xiulan nodded in agreement.
As they were talking, they quickly entered the yard and did not notice Jin Yan passing by behind them.
Jin Yan looked at the two of them with deep envy. She had thought that if she got married she would be as happy as them, but in the end she found out that it was just wishful thinking.
Not to mention that Zhao Hu is not at home most of the time, even when he is at home, he will not treat his wife like Lin Heng. He either plays cards or drinks, and rarely shows tenderness to her except when he is horny.
Lin Heng was so rich and treated his wife so well every day. Seeing them often appearing together in the village, Jin Yan was jealous. She would inevitably regret it late at night, imagining how great it would be if she was Lin Heng's wife.
But unfortunately, Lin Heng didn't even look at her, his mind was entirely on his wife.
Lin Heng Xiulan, who was drinking tea in the room, had no idea what Jin Yan was thinking, and didn't know that they were already envied by many people in the village.
Xiulan used an electric rice cooker to steam rice to make sweet wine, boiled water to cook noodles, and used persimmon vinegar to make vinegar sauce.
"No problem, it has a more fruity flavor than aged vinegar." Lin Heng commented while eating noodles.
"You can drink persimmon vinegar directly." said Xiulan.
"I'll get some for my parents later." Lin Heng nodded.
After dinner, Xiulan made sweet wine. Lin Heng blanched the Chinese toon that he had made yesterday, cut it into pieces, packaged it and put it in the freezer. This way, when you want to eat it after thawing, the taste will be almost the same as freshly picked ones.
Over the next two days, Lin Heng and Xiulan took their children to plant red beans and mung beans. There wasn't much work to do at home now. They just had to wait until May to harvest the rapeseed and then plant rice seedlings. The rest was for their own consumption.
Then we wait until June to plant grapes, apples, vegetables and fruits. Besides that it is the daily routine of raising shrimps, cattle and sheep.
After planting the red beans and mung beans, it was already the beginning of May.
The chirping of cicadas gradually became louder, and the chirping of various insects could be heard at night.
Spring had passed by unnoticed, and Lin Heng was in a very happy mood as he drank the sweet wine made by Xiulan.
The rapeseed has now turned yellow, and the cherry loquats on the back mountain are about to turn yellow as well.
From time to time, the children would run to the strawberry field in the yard to steal a strawberry and put it in their mouths.
As the strawberries in the yard matured in large quantities, Lin Heng harvested the bees' spring honey again.
Xiulan made milk tea with fresh honey and strawberry milk, and the family enjoyed a pleasant afternoon.
Lin Heng has not been to the city for the past ten days. He mainly goes to the pig farm to check on the situation every two days.
He bought some disinfectant and asked Li Shilei and Zhang Feng to spray it on time.
Although there have been no cases of swine fever or pig disease in recent years, he still does not let his guard down and would rather spend a little more money to ensure the health of the pigs.
He also asked them to put all the pig manure into the large plastic barrels he bought. He would go and collect it once every two weeks and bring it back to pile in the composting area, or directly give it directly to people in need in the village.
Pig farms, cattle and sheep farming produce a lot of manure, and it is often difficult to compost it.
May 6th is the ninth day of the fourth month in the lunar calendar, which is the beginning of summer. In rural areas, people say that the three yellow things in summer are rapeseed, wheat and cherry.
But here, all three of these will take about a week to arrive, while everything in the city can be harvested now.
That morning, Lin Heng took the child to Hongfeng Mountain to be taken care of by his parents, and he drove Xiulan into the city.
In the car, Xiulan stuck half of her head out of the window and looked at the beautiful scenery of the river and mountains outside.
Although the flowers are not in full bloom like in early spring, the weather is warmer and more comfortable.
"Honey, what color bed do you like?" After looking at the scenery for a while, Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and asked in a soft voice.
"I like everything you like. If you're not in the bed, no matter how good the bed is, it's useless." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Slippery tongue~" Xiulan rolled her eyes at him, then thought for a moment and said, "Most of our cabinets are yellow and white. I think white and yellow might be more suitable."
"It doesn't matter. Other colors are fine. Don't worry too much." Lin Heng shook his head.
"That's right. Let's go downstairs and take a look. This time we can buy a bigger bed. At least that one is a bit small." Xiulan said happily.
She just looked at Lin Heng's profile, her face slightly flushed, like the red color of the sky after the sunset.
(End of this chapter)
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