Chapter 277 The Old Father Who Has Nothing to Do for the First Time
Lin Heng was not surprised by Sandie's question. Many older people in this era still have ancient thoughts and do not have a deep understanding of modern technology.
Especially those who live deep in the mountains inland.
"San Die, how many acres of rice fields does your family have now?" he asked with a smile.
Lin Xutao asked in confusion: "There are still twelve acres of paddy fields, what's wrong?"
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Let me put it this way. My father still has more than four acres of paddy fields. This year's rice production is at least more than double yours. If you don't believe me, let's make a bet."
Lin Xutao shook his head repeatedly when he heard this, his face full of disbelief: "If you say the yield is the same as my 12 mu of land, I will believe it, but if it is more than twice as much as my 12 mu of land, I will never believe it."
Lin Heng's uncle Lu Honghai also shook his head and said, "I don't believe it either. Can changing the rice seeds produce such a good yield?"
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Well, if I lose, I will give you a bag of rice seeds for free next year. If one of you loses, you can work for me for half a month for free."
"That's no problem. I'll take your bag of rice, my good nephew." Lin Xutao smiled and patted his chest.
Lu Honghai also smiled and said, "That's right, my good nephew, I won't be polite to your uncle."
"No problem." Lin Heng nodded with a smile, then looked at his third uncle and asked, "Third uncle, do you want to make a bet?"
Lu Honggang shook his head and said with a simple smile: "I won't bet anymore. I support Lin Hengni."
He actually didn't believe it, but he didn't want Lin Heng to lose too much. He heard that the grain seeds were not cheap.
Lin Yue patted his shoulder and said, "Brother, you are really confident in this grain."
Lin's father and mother beside him were also infected by Lin Heng's confident aura and were looking forward to the results in autumn.
"Okay, it might rain today, let's hurry up." Father Lin said with a smile.
"Yes, work, work."
Everyone burst into laughter, then put on their slippers and went to the fields to pull up the seedlings together, and then started planting rice from the top field.
There are eight adults and a child, Lin Wei, planting rice today, a total of nine people.
These people were divided into two groups, each with a piece of land. Lin's father and other people of his generation were in one group of five, while Lin Heng, his eldest brother Lin Hai, and his eldest nephew Lin Wei were in another group.
Lin Heng was still the same as before, not caring much about horizontal and vertical lines, as long as the spacing between plants was about the same.
After the insertion, there was a sharp contrast between the two sides. His father's side was straight and neat, while their side looked messy.
The old father Lin Xuan shook his head helplessly, unable to bear to watch, but he did not have the urge to hit Lin Heng again this year.
In just one morning they finished planting the rice seedlings in Lin's father's four and a half acres of field.
Before lunch, Lin Heng's eldest uncle and third uncle went to visit Lin Heng's breeding base.
After reading it, my third uncle Lu Honggang nodded repeatedly: "This place is really beautifully decorated."
Uncle Lu Honghai also nodded repeatedly with a sense of pride, thinking that his nephew was really capable.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "It's okay. The main thing is whether we can make money."
"You can definitely make money." Lu Honggang patted Lin Heng on the shoulder.
After chatting for a while, they went back to the house to eat. Today's meal was also very rich, even more luxurious than last year's rice planting. The main course was a stewed catfish, and there was also a plate of fried shrimps, in addition to venison and braised venison offal.
Seeing the venison on the table, Lu Honghai was stunned: "Lin Heng, when did you hunt the deer?"
He didn't know that Lin Heng had killed a sika deer until he saw the venison. Lu Honggang was also stunned.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Not long ago, I went to Heihe with my brother to try our luck. We wanted to hunt a black bear, but we didn't catch one, so we hunted a sika deer weighing more than 200 kilograms."
"Sika deer, so cool." Lu Honghai took a deep breath.
"You guys are so lucky." Lu Honggang was also shocked.
"My luck is really good this time." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Tell us in detail quickly." Lu Honghai urged. He shouted that the fight against the black bear had not even started yet, but his nephew had already started.
"Let's talk while we eat." Lin Heng said with a smile, giving his elder brother the chance to speak.
They were both a little shocked to learn about Lin Heng and Lin Yue’s gains, and they were also very impressed that they dared to go to the deep mountains and forests for more than ten days.
Finally, the two of them gave a thumbs up, expressing their admiration for their two nephews. Then they began to eat the food. This large table was a feast for everyone.
Lin Heng picked up catfish and green shrimp for his daughter. Xiaoxia saw her mother eating shrimp and peeling the shells. She looked at Lin Heng with big eyes and said, "Dad, I don't know how to peel the shells."
"It's okay, just eat it to supplement calcium and grow taller." Lin Heng demonstrated it to her with a smile. He ate one shrimp in one bite. It was crispy and delicious.
"tasty."
Xiaoxia tried to eat one and soon fell in love with the taste of shrimp. However, her baby teeth could only eat small shrimps; large shrimps were a bit prickly to her mouth and she couldn't eat them.
"I'll peel it for you."
Xiulan shook her head helplessly and fed the peeled shrimps to her daughter.
Lunch took more than an hour. The shrimps were eaten first, then the stir-fried venison, and finally the catfish.
Shrimp is a very popular delicacy. It tastes delicious even with simple cooking. However, its picky nature on water quality has also led to its high price.
This is also the reason why Lin Heng chose to raise shrimp. Only industries with difficulty and thresholds can make money.
After finishing the meal, everyone noticed that it was drizzling outside.
"It's okay, Xiaoyu, let's continue working." Third father Lin Xutao said with a smile.
"Then let's go."
No one would be deterred by this little rain, and in the drizzle, everyone went down to the fields to help Lin Yue plant rice.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, Lin Yue's five acres of land were ready. Because the land had been prepared in advance, it was very simple to just plant the seedlings.
After planting, there were still more than three acres of seedlings left, as Lin Heng had bought some in excess.
Apart from keeping some for himself, the rest was distributed to Lin Heng's father, eldest uncle, and third uncle.
After lunch in the afternoon, Lin's mother took out some homemade milk powder and said, "Brother, take this back and mix it with water for mom to drink. It's good for her health."
"Okay." Lu Honghai took the things without refusing. His mother really needed them.
Lin Heng brought 50 pieces of deer antler and said, "Uncle, I got some deer antler for my grandma. You can take it back and mix it with water for her to drink."
The antlers of the sika deer have already been processed, dried, sliced and packaged.
Seeing the antlers, Lu Honghai quickly declined, saying, "This thing is too expensive. You can sell it. There's no need."
Lin Heng stuffed it in and said with a smile: "Give it to my grandma. This is a gift from me."
From the top to the root, the antlers are divided into wax flakes, semi-wax flakes, white powder flakes, red powder flakes, blood flakes, and bone flakes.
The top ones are called antler wax slices, which are delicate and smooth like wax. One antler can be cut into two or three slices, and they are the most expensive. The bone slices at the bottom of the root have no medicinal value and are generally not recommended for consumption.
Among the thirty pieces of antler slices that Lin Heng took out, there were 20 blood slices, 20 red and pink slices, and 10 white and pink slices. It wasn't that he was stingy, but there were only two or three hundred pieces of antler, and the sika deer he hunted only had more than 500 pieces in total.
If his grandmother had not been very kind to him when he was a child, he would have been reluctant to take it out. This is a precious piece of wild sika deer antler antler.
"Just take the child if it's given to you. It's not for you to use." Lin's mother also advised.
"Okay then." Lu Honghai nodded and accepted it. He was full of gratitude, but he didn't know what to say. He just felt that his love for his nephew was not in vain.
Lin Heng smiled and sent his two uncles away, then looked at his parents and asked, "Do you want some deer antler slices?"
"Just keep it for yourself. We are healthy and well, so why do we need this thing?" Father Lin shook his head.
"That's right, keep it for yourself." Lin's mother also agreed.
His parents didn't want to go, and Lin Heng didn't force them. After chatting for a few words, he hurried back. The rain seemed to be getting heavier.
"ah!"
After returning home, Lin Heng stretched and lay down on the chair. There was less farm work this year, so both his parents could do it.
His next focus will be on breeding, and also to prepare for selling shrimps later. He will have time to study other ways to make money. As long as he accumulates the original capital, he can use the advantage of rebirth to make a lot of money.
When he thought of this, Lin Heng's mood became better again, because everything was undoubtedly moving in a good direction.
"What are you so happy about?" Xiulan finished feeding the chickens and ducks, walked over and asked with a smile.
"I feel like life is getting better and better." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"That's true. It's a huge change compared to last year." Xiulan nodded with a smile, sat down next to Lin Heng and asked, "Are you still having dinner tonight?"
It was almost seven o'clock now. There was a drizzle outside and it was about to get completely dark.
Lin Heng looked at her and smiled, "If you want to go back to the house to rest, then let's rest. If you are hungry at night, just eat venison and drink some milk powder or kudzu root."
"Then let's go back to the room. I want to lie on the bed." Xiulan nodded.
The two of them took Xiaoxia to wash up and then went back to the room to rest in bed. Lin Heng leaned on the bed reading a book, while Xiulan lay there playing paper cutting with Xiaoxia.
They played until ten o'clock. Lin Heng took out the dried venison and shared it among the three of them. Xiulan made three bowls of kudzu root powder, and the three of them ate and drank at the same time.
"What a great time~"
Xiaoxia's big eyes curved into crescents as she ate the spiced venison.
Lin Heng and Xiulan chewed a piece of the spicy one with their own mouths, while they tore the five-spice one into toothpick-sized strips and fed them to Xiaoxia.
Her little baby teeth were unable to chew a whole piece of meat, and her little hands were unable to tear the dried venison apart. She just had to wait for her parents to feed her, eating a bite from Lin Heng and then a bite from Xiulan, and she was very happy.
After feeding two strips of venison, Xiulan said, "Okay, that's all for dinner. Drink the kudzu powder and we'll tell stories."
Because the hawthorn cake was gone long ago, I didn’t dare let my daughter eat too much at night.
"Okay then." Xiaoxia agreed with a pout, and slowly drank the kudzu powder with a spoon.
Lin Heng and Xiulan ate more dried meat. The more they chewed, the more delicious it became and they could not stop. They finished a pound of spicy venison dried meat before stopping.
After coaxing Xiaoxia to sleep, Lin Heng was tired after a day's work and fell asleep beside Xiulan.
The next morning, it was still drizzling. After Lin Heng woke up, he was not in a hurry to get up. He picked up Das Kapital and read it by himself.
In this world without the Internet, reading is a great pleasure.
Xiulan leaned against Lin Heng and continued to take a nap. At eight o'clock, Xiaoxia woke up, Xiulan dressed her, and she went out to the yard to pee, then came back to bed to play by herself.
"Dad, I want to read too." Xiaoxia didn't want to play alone, so she pulled Lin Heng and said.
"Then I will teach you to read." Lin Heng touched her face and said with a smile.
"Okay." Xiaoxia was in high spirits.
Lin Heng went to get a children's literacy book and taught her to read aloud, but he didn't intend to teach her, he just wanted to play with her.
However, Xiaoxia studied very seriously and learned spelling from Lin Heng.
After concentrating for about forty to fifty minutes, she didn't want to study anymore, and Lin Heng was about to get up.
After washing her face, she was not allowed to go to the back mountain because it was raining today, so she was asked to feed the little turtles under the eaves. Lin Heng caught two stream groupers and threw them in.
He and Xiulan went to the back hill to milk the cows and to see the poor little ram.
After a few days of feeding, it was finally able to stand up. It was put back next to the ewe, but it still couldn't compete with the other two lambs. Lin Heng had to separate the two guys and let it eat alone, or feed them some milk.
When she was returning home after milking, Xiulan looked at the beehive and wondered, "How come the bees are so diligent even in the rain?"
If Xiulan hadn't said it, Lin Heng wouldn't have noticed it. But when he looked up, he found it really strange that there were so many bees working on the rainy day.
"I don't know either. I'll ask other people later." Lin Heng shook his head.
"Dad, Jinbao ate the little fish."
Xiaoxia looked at Lin Heng coming back and said while touching Jinbao's tail.
"Then I'll throw two more and we'll take Jinbao to the front room." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Okay." Xiaoxia nodded and wanted to hug Jinbao, but Jinbao weighed nearly 20 kilograms and was as heavy as her, so she couldn't lift him up at all. She could only look up at Lin Heng.
"I'll do it."
Lin Heng picked up Jinbao and touched its round face. This guy is really fat.
For breakfast, we had potato pancakes with milk. To make potato pancakes, we just need to shred potatoes with a stick, add some flour and wine, and fry them in a pan. They are crispy and delicious. Xiulan has been making them more often recently.
After breakfast, Lin Heng went to the Hongfeng Mountain Breeding Base with an umbrella. Father Lin had nothing to do today, so he cut some grass and dried it in the house, and then did some carpentry work.
"Dad, what are you going to do?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
Father Lin raised his head and smiled, "I'm going to make a long back chair to use outside the house."
He is really not used to the days when he has no work to do. There is really not much work to do on the rice field. The rapeseed and wheat are still nearly a month away from harvest, and the early corn has only sprouted not long ago, so there is no rush to weed.
Lin Heng had taken care of the orchard when he had asked someone to help plant medicinal herbs, and there was not much work for the time being. He didn't know what to do for the first time, so he found some wood and decided to become a carpenter.
"Then Dad, please help me spread the manure." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Okay." Father Lin nodded, stopped collecting the fruits and walked over.
"Carry the ammonium carbon over first." Lin Heng said, pointing to the warehouse.
Father Lin wondered: "Isn't it enough to have only manure?"
"Of course, that amount of manure is a little too little." Lin Heng nodded.
After carrying the fertilizer, the father and son began to implement the base fertilizer of the fish pond. They spread the sterilized manure evenly into the pond, and that was it.
Originally, he was thinking of using bleach to disinfect the plants before applying base fertilizer. However, because it takes time for algae to grow after the fertilizer is spread, Lin Heng decided to apply the fertilizer first, and then buy bleach to disinfect the plants after the weather clears up in a few days.
(End of this chapter)
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