"Don't say you can't believe it. I can't believe it myself either." Lin Heng put down his things, looked at Xiulan and said with a smile.
The children gathered around the roe deer, watching it curiously and asking questions, like curious babies.
"We just wanted to win the Golden Rooster, but who would have thought we would run into this guy." Lin Yue also sighed.
As he said this, he handed the bloody robe to Xiulan and said, "Xiulan, you take care of it. Your sister-in-law's skills are not good enough."
Xiulan nodded, then sighed and said, "It seems like you guys are really unstoppable when it comes to luck."
"Put the things here first. I'll go call my parents over." Lin Heng didn't even enter the house, he just wanted to let his parents know so he could show off.
"I'll go back and put my things away first, and then come over." Lin Yue also turned and left.
Lin Heng closed the door directly to prevent anyone from coming over to watch.
He trotted all the way to Red Maple Mountain and saw his parents as he walked through the gate. They were shoveling snow. It snowed heavily yesterday.
"Why are you here so early?" Father Lin looked at him curiously.
"Mom and Dad, do you believe me when I say that my brother and I killed a roe deer?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.
Father Lin looked at him and shook his head, saying, "I believe you said you killed a wild boar, but I don't believe you killed a roe deer. We haven't seen any traces of roe deer in four or five years."
"Son, you didn't kill a wild boar, did you? You want to lie to us and say you killed a roe deer." Mother Lin looked up and said.
Lin Heng looked at the two of them and said seriously, "It's really a roe deer. If you don't believe me, come and see. What if it's a roe deer?"
Mother Lin looked at him and said, "I really don't believe this. If it's true, I'll give you a hundred dollars."
"Really, son?" Father Lin looked at Lin Heng doubtfully.
"Come on, I'll take you there to see it." Lin Heng said with a smile.
The two elders nodded immediately, went back to put their things down, locked the door, and followed Lin Heng back to the village.
"Son, is it really a roe deer?" Lin's mother asked. Lin Heng was too calm, and she felt a little unconfident.
"You'll know when you go and see it." Lin Heng said with a smile.
After a while, the three of them arrived at the gate of the yard. In the yard, Lin Wei, Lin Tao and other children had already surrounded the roe deer, and Tian Baishun was also nearby.
"It's really a roe deer, and a male roe deer of this size!"
When she saw the real thing, Lin's mother opened her mouth wide.
Father Lin couldn't believe it either, and asked, "Son, how did you get this?"
Lin Heng immediately recounted what happened. After listening, Tian Baishun spoke first: "You are really lucky. It is obvious that it ran down to eat wheat."
His tone was sour and full of envy.
"It seems that you and your elder brother are going to be very lucky this year, encountering such a good prey at the beginning of the year." Father Lin said with a smile.
Lin's mother gave a thumbs up and said, "Son, I will give you the money later."
"I'm really lucky." Lin Heng smiled happily.
After a while, Lin Yue and Liu Juan also came over and chatted with their parents.
"Let's start killing." Lin Heng said to his eldest brother.
"Okay." Lin Yue nodded.
The two of them weighed the roe deer first. It was a big roe deer weighing 64 kilograms, which made the whole family very happy.
Then they hung the roe deer up and skinned it. After skinning it, they chopped off its head and took out the internal organs one by one. Lin's father took the large intestine to process it, and Tian Baishun took over the small intestine to help wash it.
When they were killing the roe deer, a few more people came to watch, all with envious looks on their faces, as this was one of the most valuable prey in the mountains.
As for the male roe deer, its gun and eggs are also things with great medicinal value and can be sold for a lot of money.
Lin Heng took it down intact and hung it on the wall, then cut the roe deer into pieces, with him and his elder brother sharing half each.
"Lin Wei and Lin Tao, these roe deer horns are for you." Lin Heng took off two roe deer horns and gave them to the two men.
He had two large sika deer antlers hanging in his house. He didn't like these small horns, but gave them to his children because they liked them.
"Thank you, second dad!" Lin Wei cheered.
"Second Dad, you are the best person in the world!" Lin Tao said loudly after holding the roe deer horn.
"Don't use this to hurt others." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"You don't even let your sister and brother play with this child." Liu Juan said from the side.
"We don't want it. I have big deer antlers at home. This is for Brother Lin Wei." Xiaoxia said obediently. She really thought it was nothing fun.
"Yes, I have one at home." Lin Heng also waved his hand and said.
After saying that, he divided the roe deer meat, half for each family. He gave the roe deer skin to his eldest brother and kept the roe deer whip and head for himself. The rest of the internal organs were also divided equally. Xiulan braised them before dividing them.
"Brother, you are losing money. This skin can be sold for at least 120 yuan." Lin Yue shook his head.
"It's okay, you can take it, I don't need it." Lin Heng waved his hand and said.
"Then take away all the internal organs, otherwise it will not be appropriate." Lin Yue said.
"Yes, we don't want the internal organs." Liu Juan also said.
"Okay then, I won't argue with you." Lin Heng didn't say anything else. He would send them some after the stew was ready.
"It's not far from noon, let's have a meal together later." Lin Heng said again.
"Okay, we'll come over later." Lin Yue nodded with a smile, and took the roe deer meat back with Liu Juan.
Lin Hengze further divided the roe deer meat, separating the meat and bones. Roe deer bones are also medicinal materials, and he planned to stew a pot of them at noon.
The meat is cut into small pieces and frozen in the freezer so that you can eat it later when you want to.
After everything was done, Lin Heng went to the house to warm up by the fire. Xiulan put away her things, came to sit next to him and said, "Your breakfast has been kept warm, do you want to eat it?"
"Eat, let's cook and eat something cheaper." You can say.
"good."
Xiulan nodded in agreement and turned around to get milk and eggs for Lin Heng for breakfast.
After finishing the meal, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said, "Let's go to the back mountain to dig some yams and stew them with pork ribs."
"I was just about to say this." Xiulan said as she and Lin Heng got up and went to the back mountain.
They planted more than a dozen yam trees in the back mountain, all of which were the taproots left over from digging yams in the past. They dug the ground deeper and laid plastic film, then placed the yam taproots on top and covered them with soil and sprinkled manure.
Because of the film paper, the yam cannot grow into it and can only grow along the film paper, making it easy to dig.
The two men went to the back mountain and after a few tries they found the yams. They were straight and white and could be dug out in just a few tries.
Xiulan broke the yam from under the dragon head and took out the lower half. The remaining dragon head could continue to grow next year.
"How much did you dig?" Lin Heng turned his head and asked.
"Dig four more and save the rest for New Year's Day." Xiulan said after thinking for a while. She estimated that this yam might weigh two or three pounds, and five would be more than enough.
Lin Heng dug out four more in a row. The yams blocked by film paper were very easy to dig out. It only took him more than ten minutes in total.
Although the ones grown by himself are not as good as wild ones, they are also good. During the planting process, Lin Heng only added some pig manure and sheep manure, and did not use any fertilizer.
When they got home, Father Lin and Tian Baishun had already processed the internal organs and were drinking tea by the fireplace. Seeing Lin Heng and the other man coming back with the yam, Tian Baishun smiled and said, "I'm lucky to have had this meal today."
"Then you should eat more when the time comes." Lin Heng smiled slightly. He was actually too lazy to deal with this old man, but he couldn't resist his thick skin and often went to him.
They have offered to help us, so it is not reasonable or moral to chase them away.
"I, old man, like yam the most. I will make sure you eat more of it when the time comes." Tian Baishun said with a smile.
While Lin Heng was peeling the yam, Tian Baishun was praising the fireplace for being so useful. It didn't produce any smoke and was still warm, unlike other people's fires that made the roof of the house pitch black.
He was also very good at saying nice things, which made Lin's father and mother very happy. Although Lin Heng didn't say anything, he felt quite comfortable.
After stewing the roe deer ribs, Lin Heng went to blanch the pheasant and clean it. He decided not to eat it at noon and save it for next time.
It was soon noon, and Xiulan and Lin's mother went to the kitchen to cook. At half past twelve, twelve dishes were served on the table.
Lin Heng, his eldest brother's families and Tian Baishun sat down together. Lin Heng took out rice wine and poured it for everyone. Xiulan and Lin's mother Liu Juan chose to drink wine.
"Old man, I'm so lucky today. Not only is the food in your house delicious, but the rice wine is also unique and tasty. It's even more wonderful than my own New Year's celebration." Tian Baishun said with a smile, holding up his wine glass.
Lin Heng and the others raised their glasses and drank, then said a few nice words. This old man Tian was actually a pretty good person, except that he always liked to tell dirty jokes, which made everyone unhappy.
"You should eat more of this." Lin Heng scooped a bowl of roe deer and pork ribs soup for his wife. This thing is very good for the body.
Of course, there was a lot of this stuff, and everyone else had some too. Lin Heng scooped a bowl for each person. Roe deer meat tasted similar to venison, but was more tender than beef, very chewy, and had a very strong meaty aroma. The stewed soup was milky white and memorable.
After the meal, everyone was very satisfied. Tian Baishun roasted the fire for a while and then left. He also said that he would catch a big prey before the New Year and bring it to share with everyone. He felt very happy every time he had a meal at Lin Heng's place.
After playing for a while, Lin's father and mother returned to Hongfeng Mountain. It was time to feed the cattle and sheep, and they also had other things to do.
Naturally, Lin Heng would not go out in the afternoon. He stayed at home and followed his wife's instructions to trim the hair on the roe deer's head, prepare the things that needed to be braised, and even killed a big rooster to braise.
The sun didn't come out today and the snow didn't melt. The children played on the slide in the yard and played house in the igloo, and their laughter never stopped.
The next morning, Lin Heng got up late, woke up the children to go to the toilet at around six o'clock, and then slept until nine o'clock.
"It seems like the sun is out outside." Xiulan said in a soft voice while leaning on Lin Heng's arms.
"Then let's get up." Lin Heng said as he held her and sat up.
"Get up. I'm going to braise the food." Xiulan stretched and started to get dressed.
After exercising, they woke up the children. After having breakfast, Xiulan started to braise the meat. Lin Heng stayed at home with her and the children.
Today the sun was shining brightly, the snow was melting everywhere, it was terribly cold outside, the children didn't want to go out. When the sun went down in the afternoon, there was no snow on the sunny slope, only in the forests on the high mountains.
In Lin Heng's yard, the only things that had not completely melted were the snow house and the slide, but they had shrunk a lot and could not withstand the second sun.
"Your braised dishes are still as delicious as always."
In the afternoon, Lin Heng tasted Xiulan's braised dishes and said, the rich aroma of the braised dishes, the beautiful color, and the perfect taste, all of which are irresistible.
"Then husband, please take some for our eldest brother and parents, and we can cut some to go with wine in the evening." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said with a smile.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded and took out the things Xiulan had prepared.
Xiulan is a thoughtful person. The braised dishes she prepares for her elder brother and parents are all the ones they like.
In the evening they also cut some for themselves, including the braised chicken that the children loved the most, the braised large intestine that Xiulan liked, and the roe deer belly that Lin Heng liked.
The two of them heated up the rice wine and drank while eating, enjoying this wonderful and pleasant time.
The next morning, Lin Heng received a message from Li Shiwei that the pig drivers from the city had arrived. He had originally planned to go dig lotus roots with his father, but now he could only go to the pig farm and wait.
At noon, the pig-carrying trucks from the slaughterhouse arrived. Five of them came at once, and each truck could carry 15 pigs.
Lin Heng didn't let them in, and asked Li Shilei and Zhang Feng to pull the pigs out, weigh them, and load them onto the truck.
All the pigs in his pig farm are feed pigs. They are all large white pigs from foreign countries. They generally weigh over 400 kilograms, and the largest can weigh more than 520 kilograms. The average weight is about 450 kilograms per head.
Over the next month, the slaughterhouse came to transport pigs every day, sometimes with five trucks, sometimes with six trucks. It was not until January 23rd of the Gregorian calendar and December 25th of the lunar calendar that all the pigs were transported.
These days, in addition to supervising the daily accounting, Lin Heng also helps with the preparation of New Year's goods at home. They dug up kudzu roots and made kudzu powder, lotus root powder, fern root powder, tofu, dried tofu, konjac tofu, etc.
Basically, by the time the pig is harvested, all the New Year's goods that can be made by yourself have been prepared.
On the day the pigs were delivered, Lin Heng took Xiulan and his elder brother into the city to settle the bill. There was no delay at the slaughterhouse, and after the accounts were settled, the money was transferred to him on the same day.
There are a total of 2005 pigs in the pig farm, and none of them died. If a pig gets sick, it will be difficult to save the others.
On average, a pig weighs about 450 kilograms, with a total weight of 898,240 kilograms. The total purchase price is 538,944 yuan.
After looking at the figures in his savings, Lin Heng went to the credit union and deposited another 1,056 yuan, making a total of 540,000 yuan.
This is the after-tax money, and the slaughterhouse has already withheld the tax during the transaction.
Lin Hengshen took a deep breath and felt somewhat satisfied. With this step, he had completed the original accumulation of capital. At the beginning of 1988, he had a huge sum of 600,000 yuan. Such a large sum of money would be enough to do many things in the future.
Among them, 60,000 yuan is the money he earned from the shrimp and musk deer in the orchard this year, as well as the leftover from last year.
After Lin Heng finished reading it, he handed the money to Xiulan, hugged her shoulders and said with a smile: "Look, this is our wealth!" (End of this chapter)
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