Chapter 79: The chain reaction caused by collecting Coriolus versicolor
"Be careful."
Seeing that Lin Heng was fine, Xiulan said something and went to clean up the dishes.
Lin Heng brought the dry straw into the house and spread it on the bed, then he also spread out the quilt and sheets that his wife had placed aside.
When he went out to help his wife clean up the dishes, he found that his mother had sent her family back home and came back to help. He swept the floor with a broom, and there was nothing much to do at home.
"Here, this is Xiongba's meal." Xiulan brought out a large bowl of leftover rice with some chicken bones in it.
"good."
Lin Heng went out and poured the food into the dog bowl for Xiongba.
“Woof woof~”
Xiongba wagged his tail excitedly. As soon as Lin Heng came in, he stuck his head over and started eating with a slurp.
"There are still some ceramic tiles and wooden boards left. I'll order a luxurious doghouse for you tomorrow." Lin Heng promised, touching Xiongba's head.
I had wanted to build one for him before, but since I was living in the old house, I thought I would have to move anyway, so I didn’t build it.
"Brother, Xiaoxia has fallen asleep. Shall we put her on the bed?"
After entering the house, Caiyun hugged Xiaoxia and asked softly.
"Come here, she has her own bed."
Lin Heng walked in front to lead the way. This time he asked the carpenter to make a special crib with high fences around it so there was no need to worry about the child rolling under the bed while sleeping.
"This little bed is beautiful." Caiyun's eyes lit up when she looked at the small wooden boat.
"Of course, it's made entirely of pine wood and has been finely polished." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Caiyun put Xiaoxia in and covered her with a quilt. She found that there were ropes on the four corners of the quilt. She was immediately puzzled: "What is this for?"
"To prevent her from kicking off the quilt, tie it to the railings around it so she can't kick it off. But this is the first time I'm going to use it, so let's tie it on and see how it goes."
Lin Heng explained and reached out to tie the rope.
"Is this also your idea, second brother?" Caiyun was speechless.
"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep well and I'd have to worry about her catching a cold." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"I hope it works. I'm leaving now." Xiaoxia said with a smile, and then went out and left with Lin's mother.
Xiulan sent them out the door, closed it, and came back. Suddenly, she felt a little uncomfortable. The number of people in the house suddenly dropped from 11 to three. It was too quiet and she was a little uncomfortable.
"Wash your feet and take a rest. Do you want to take a shower?" Lin Heng had already poured the foot washing water and brought slippers for both of them.
"No, I didn't go out today." Xiulan shook her head.
"Then just sit down and wash. I'll wash after you do." Lin Heng said.
Xiulan blinked her eyes and sat down to wash her feet. As soon as she took off her shoes, Lin Heng's hand reached out to her.
"I guessed it." Xiulan looked at him, with a hint of cunning in her bright big eyes.
Lin Heng said seriously: "I just saw that you were tired, so I wanted to massage your feet."
"Then you pinch it." Xiulan nodded and watched him move.
"It feels so good to touch." Lin Heng smiled foolishly.
He washed Xiulan's feet for a long time before he finished. After he finished washing himself, he poured the water and went to the bedroom.
"oops!"
As soon as they entered the bedroom, Lin Heng picked up his wife by the waist. Xiulan was startled and quickly hugged his neck for fear that she would fall.
"What are you doing?" Xiulan glared at him.
"Hehe, what do you think? Xiaoxia has her own little bed, so we don't have to worry about waking her up tonight." Lin Heng smiled.
Xiulan lowered her head, her face slightly red: "Do you want me to give you a son?"
"Let's wait until next year for this matter, forget about it this year."
Lin Heng chuckled, carried Xiulan to the bed, blew out the kerosene lamp at the bedside, and started the fight.
The hazy moonlight outside the window fell like a veil, and a battle far more intense than ever before began silently inside the house.
In the newly built house there was no need to worry about anyone hearing them, so the fight was more intense. They fought three rounds in a row before falling asleep in each other's arms.
The next morning, the two of them woke up slowly around seven o'clock. They looked at each other, and a blush immediately appeared on Xiulan's face.
Under the thin summer quilt, the two were still honest with each other.
"You touched me again." Xiulan glared at Lin Heng.
Lin Heng laughed: "There's nothing we can do about it, this is a natural phenomenon."
Xiulan rolled her eyes, quickly put on her clothes, got up, and took the dirty sheets on the chair out to soak.
But her legs actually hurt a little when she walked, and her face turned red again when she thought of some ridiculous actions she had done last night.
For a simple country girl, those things were too shocking.
After Lin Heng got up, he was holding his waist and couldn't walk. He couldn't help but shook his head: "It's really a beautiful woman in her twenties with a body as soft as butter, and a sword at her waist to kill ordinary people."
Lin Heng went to the toilet and when he came back he found his daughter woke up. He carried her to the toilet and then sat in a rocking chair to bask in the sun to replenish his yang energy.
After basking in the sun for a while, he took Xiaoxia to feed the chickens and ducks.
"This is the chicken, cluck, cluck, cluck, this is the duck, quack, quack, this is the lamb, bleat, bleat."
While teaching his daughter, Lin Heng threw out ground corn to feed the chickens and ducks.
"Little Ji coo coo coo, little duck quack quack, anti-inflammatory bleat bleat bleat~"
Xiaoxia grabbed some corn crumbs with her little hands and tried to scatter them just like Lin Heng did, but unfortunately they all scattered outside the cage.
"Come closer, do it again." Lin Heng picked up his daughter.
She opened her pink little mouth and said it again, and finally it went in.
"That's great." Lin Heng smiled and kissed his daughter.
Xiaoxia grinned, grabbed another handful of corn crumbs and threw them in, muttering "Chicken Clucking Clucking" to herself.
Looking at the chicks and ducklings fighting for the food she fed, her little faces were filled with happy smiles.
However, when Lin Heng led out the lamb, she was still a little scared and hid behind Lin Heng's legs.
"Don't be afraid, it won't bite you." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Afraid!"
Xiaoxia hugged his legs and was unwilling to let go.
Lin Heng picked her up, and the little girl hid her face in her arms, not daring to look.
Lin Heng was helpless. He didn't know why she dared to pull a dog's tail but was afraid of a lamb. Was it because she had never seen one before? He tied the lamb to a place with lots of grass. Lin Heng took his daughter home to wash her face and feed the fish fry by the water.
"I forgot to bring two bars of soap for my eldest brother and the others." Lin Heng remembered this when he was using soap to wash his face.
"Please give it to them later." Xiulan handed him the towel and said.
Lin Heng wiped his face: "Okay."
"What do you want to eat in the morning?" Xiulan asked again.
"You can do whatever you want." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Then let's have pickled cabbage soup."
"good."
Xiulan went to cook, and Lin Heng took his daughter to his eldest brother's house next door.
"Brother, let's eat. Do you want some pickled cabbage noodles?"
Seeing Lin Heng walking into the yard, Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Xiu-lan is working on it. I'm here to give you some soap. The one I gave Mom before wasn't very good. This stuff gets better as it gets older."
Lin Heng smiled, put the soap on the table, turned around and was about to leave.
"Brother, I won't be polite with you, but you have to play for a while before leaving." said the eldest brother Lin Yue.
"Yes, play for a while and drink some water before leaving." Sister-in-law Liu Juan also quickly put down the bowl and poured water for Lin Heng. She had been craving for soap for a long time.
"Okay." Lin Heng sat for a while.
My eldest brother's yard is filled with all kinds of fruits and vegetables, with only one third left empty.
After chatting for a while, Xiaoxia disagreed and wanted to go home to play with the dog, so Lin Heng had to take her back.
"Lin Heng, take these rapeseed seedlings back and make sauerkraut for Xiulan. Your brother dug too much yesterday and we can't finish it." When he left, his sister-in-law gave him a bundle of rapeseed seedlings.
"Okay, thank you." Lin Heng didn't hesitate and took it back.
"Here, my sister-in-law gave it to me." Lin Heng gave the rapeseed to his wife.
"Just leave it there, I'll come pick it later." Xiulan nodded.
Let Xiongba play with Xiaoxia, and Lin Heng took a hammer to build a doghouse for Xiongba.
It is also simple to make. Nail a square with a length, width and height of two meters, leaving the two adjacent sides unsealed. One side is the gate and the other side is the roof.
The roof was nailed into a triangle with boards. After thinking it over, Lin Heng did not use tiles, but instead went to find some leftover straw from last year. He used part of it to decorate the roof and part of it as a nest for Xiongba.
"Okay, your house is built. Eat well and grow well." Lin Heng brought Xiongba over and touched its head.
“Woof woof!!”
Xiongba let out a happy bark, crawled into the little house, lay down, and then stood up again. He played for a while, then ran over, brought his dog bowl and placed it at the door.
"Let's eat when you're done. The food is almost cold." Xiulan looked at him and said.
"Didn't I tell you to eat first?" Lin Heng chuckled.
Xiulan glanced at him and smiled, "I like waiting for you to come and eat."
She has already scooped out the rice.
While eating, Lin Heng brought up the previous matter with Xiulan again: "Wife, didn't I tell you before that I wanted to acquire Coriolus versicolor?"
Xiulan was stunned: "Why are you talking about this again? Are you ready to start?"
She had previously thought that it was just a whim of her husband, but she didn't expect that he was really planning to do it.
"Yes, do you know what Coriolus versicolor is used for?" Lin Heng asked.
"It's Chinese medicine, I don't know exactly what it does." Xiulan shook her head.
"Do you know about cancer? It's a disease that almost makes life impossible. The old man from the Wang family in the village died of stomach cancer." Lin Heng said again.
"I know, but does it matter?" Xiaoxia didn't quite understand.
Lin Heng explained with a smile: "It is like this. I was reading a book in the library before and saw a related report. In 1968, Japan discovered that the extract of Phellinus igniarius could fight cancer.
South Korea also discovered this anti-cancer substance in 1974, and it is said that it has started exporting recently. The price of Coriolus versicolor will definitely rise sharply, so I want to buy a batch before the price rises and store it, and then sell it when the price rises. "
Everything he said was true, without any falsehood.
Xiulan looked at Lin Heng, thought for a while and said: "I won't stop you if you want to do business, but I don't understand these. How about this, you just keep fifty dollars for your family as life-saving money.
If you want to do business, go ahead. You still have the ability to hunt. If you lose, you can just make it back slowly."
If it were a month ago, she might have hesitated for a long time, but now she decided to believe in her husband, just as she had always believed that he would turn over a new leaf.
"Wife, thank you for your trust." Lin Heng was a little touched, especially Xiulan.
If other men in the village said this to their wives, they would definitely be scolded and might even threaten to "go back to my parents' home" and "not live there anymore."
The reason why many rural families cannot become wealthy is, to a certain extent, because ignorant women are short-sighted and like to manage the household and money.
"I definitely trust you, as long as you don't steal or rob. You can try to do some small business. You can't farm for the rest of your life." Xiulan glared at Lin Heng, as if to say, you actually doubt my trust in you.
She used to run a small business selling tofu, but gave it up after following Lin Heng because there was too much farm work to do. She doesn't really dislike this aspect of the business.
Of course, the most important thing is that there is not much risk in collecting Coriolus versicolor. Even if the price does not increase, or even drops a little, you will not lose much money.
Lin Heng was a little excited. After drinking the soup in two gulps, he went to nail a big board with a message written on it saying he was buying Coriolus polygoni multiflori, as much as he could get, at 80 cents per pound, the same price as in town.
"Here, is fifty yuan enough?" Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and asked.
"Enough, enough." Lin Heng nodded, went out to stick the notice board on the side of the road, and then went door to door to collect the money.
"Are you really collecting Coriolus versicolor?"
Yang Zhaotao was a little shocked when he saw Lin Heng coming.
"Really." Lin Heng nodded.
"Okay then, just wait and I'll get it for you." Yang Zhaotao nodded and went to get the Coriolus versicolor.
Lin Heng weighed it and said, "One pound and three ounces. I'll give you one dollar. You don't need to change the remaining cents. Please help me promote it."
"Okay." Yang Zhaotao was happy to take advantage of this.
After Lin Heng left, Li Caifeng came out of the room, looking puzzled: "What is he doing? He has a lot of money to burn?"
Yang Zhaotao also smiled and said, "I don't understand. They have money and they can spend it."
Lin Heng directly collected the produce from more than 50 households living close to the village, and collected a total of 32 kilograms of Coriolus polypore, spending 27 yuan. The extra 1.4 yuan was the profit he gave up, asking everyone to help promote him.
He was busy until noon and finally returned home with a sore lower back.
Xiulan took Xiaoxia out to pick shepherd's purse and rapeseed, and they came back and were picking rapeseed seedlings.
I couldn't help but laugh when I saw him coming in holding his waist: "If you are tired, take a good rest and run again later."
Lin Heng put the Coriolus sinensis away, walked over and tickled his wife's armpits: "Are you still laughing? Don't you have a sore leg too?"
"Hahaha, wrong, haha, wrong, wrong, hahaha, really wrong..."
Xiulan couldn't bear the tickling anymore and begged for mercy while laughing.
"Tickle~"
Xiaoxia saw the two of them playing and reached out her little hand.
Lin Heng ran away, but her mother caught her: "You were the one scratching me, weren't you?"
Xiaoxia opened her eyes wide and looked at her mother and nodded crisply.
"I'll tickle you too~" Xiulan tickled her daughter twice, making her laugh.
Afraid that she would laugh too much and breathe in the cold wind, Xiulan let her go.
"Tickling you~"
After being released, Xiaoxia still did not repent and ran over to seek revenge, showing that she still dared.
As a result, Xiulan caught him and scratched him, and slapped his butt a few times.
After playing for a while, Lin Heng pulled his daughter over and asked her to learn about wild vegetables. He gave her two small vegetable leaves and helped his wife pick them.
"Tomorrow morning, go and help Dad and brother remove the corn stalks. Although we have separated, we will each do our own thing after the crops are harvested this year," said Xiulan.
The so-called corn is corn, and they like to call it corn here.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.
Crunch!
Just as the two finished talking, the sound of the front yard gate being opened was heard, and then Lin's father, mother and uncle all came.
"Lin Heng, I heard from the villagers that you were collecting Morizoia in the village today?"
Father Lin asked straight to the point.
Lin Heng knew this would happen, and that was the reason why he chose to split up the family and do business. It was easy for Xiulan, but not necessarily for others.
"Yes, collecting Coriolus versicolor makes money." Lin Heng nodded.
"How do you make money?" Father Lin glared at him.
"In less than two months, the price of Coriolus polypore will rise sharply, and then we will be able to make money." Lin Heng said with his hands spread out.
"Whether you can calculate or pinch, you will make money in two months.
I just told you to live a good life in the future, but you are so unreliable.
The little money I made from hunting has all been lost. I wonder how you and Xiulan are going to live in the future."
Lin's mother was furious, thinking that Lin Heng was too risky and became arrogant after having some money.
The price of traditional Chinese medicine rises and falls rapidly, and she was afraid that Lin Heng would lose all his wife's money.
"Yeah, you should just focus on hunting instead of doing these unnecessary things." His uncle also looked unhappy.
"Don't give me these things anymore. Can't you just focus on hunting? You can live a comfortable life by farming and hunting. Why do you have to do these things?" Father Lin warned with a frown.
This is the mentality of farmers. It is also caused by their weak capital and inability to afford losses. They dare not do such risky things. His previous life is the best example.
Fifty thousand yuan in 1992 might be a drop in the bucket for a wealthy person, but for a rural family, it might take decades or even a lifetime to pay it back.
Although Lin Heng had expected this, he did not expect the opposition to be so strong. Not only did a group of people in the village say that he was crazy, but his parents were also very worried.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Heng smiled and explained, "I do this because I don't want to be a farmer all my life, working hard in the fields and end up with nothing.
I also don’t want you to go to the hospital when you are old and sick because I don’t have money.
What I don’t want is for my son to get married in the future and for me, as a father, to not be able to pay a penny.
Although I have been hanging around in the city with people over the years, I have not just been idle. I have also read a lot of books and thought about many things.
So I came back and hunted to make money, not only to provide meat for my family, but also to make some money to do business and get the entire Lin family out of the hard life they are living now.
There are risks in everything you do, and I am willing to take this risk. I have already done my research, so you don’t have to worry.”
After Lin Heng finished speaking, Lin's father, mother, and his uncle, who wanted to speak, all fell silent.
Poverty is a lifelong suffering for them, and no one understands better than them how painful it is.
Sometimes when they see others making money in business, they think that maybe they should give it a try too.
But then he thought of the elderly and young children to take care of, and the disastrous consequences of failure, so he quietly put this idea to rest in the silent and dark night.
So they were silent at this moment. Isn’t Lin Heng just them when they were young?
"Dad, Mom, Uncle, I agree. It's okay to give it a try. Even if I lose money, I can still sell the Coriolus versicolor, so I won't lose too much."
Xiulan was stunned by Lin Heng's words at first, and then she spoke up for Lin Heng.
Father Lin opened his mouth, then waved his hand fiercely and sighed: "Well, since this is a joint decision between you and your wife, then you can make your own decision."
After saying that, he turned and left. His broad back seemed to gradually become thinner. At this moment, he felt that he was really old.
Lin Heng wanted to stop him, but he didn't stand up. At this time, he had to keep walking.
He would never let this family suffer again what they had gone through in their previous life.
"If it doesn't work, remember to stop in time." Lin's mother said, and then turned and left.
She didn't know anything, but she just didn't want her son to lose the money he had worked so hard to earn. This is the simple heart of a mother.
His uncle looked at Lin Heng and finally said only one sentence: "When are you going to the mountains to hunt? Let me know."
Lin Heng smiled slightly: "I will ask Old Man Tian later, how can we set a time, no later than the day after tomorrow."
(End of this chapter)
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