Chapter 150 Worth a thousand dollars! Fish released into the fish pond
"Woof woof~"
Xiongba put the black truffle in his mouth into Lin Heng's hand.
Lin Heng took a deep breath, not caring about his saliva, and sniffed it. It was that familiar scent, this time it was musk.
Lin Heng didn't know what to say for a moment after searching for the black truffle in the pine forest for five or six days and found it in the chestnut forest.
Following Xiongba's footsteps, we came to a piece of soft humus soil. The ground had been cleared by wild boars, and some black truffles had disappeared, leaving quite a few scattered on the ground.
"What a sin!"
Lin Heng shook his head with emotion, quickly took out a small hoe and started digging, and in a few seconds he dug out a handful of black truffles.
“I don’t know how many this time.”
Lin Heng was a little excited. He dug and threw things into the snakeskin bag.
Fortunately, he habitually carried a snakeskin bag and a small hoe, otherwise he would have to dig with his hands today.
An hour passed and Lin Heng hadn't stopped yet. There were still many places dug by the wild boar.
"Oh my god, this is already more than 30 kilograms, right?"
When Lin Heng stopped to rest, he was stunned by the half-full snakeskin bag of black truffles.
Although the density of truffles here is less than that found in the pine forest last time, the number seems to be far greater than that over there.
"I'm really confused. Black truffles are not necessarily found only in pine forests."
Lin Heng patted his thigh.
He looked along the pine forest out of habit. After all, there were few pine forests, but there were too many oak and chestnut forests. He didn't know how to look for them. It felt like looking for a needle in a haystack.
I didn't expect to come across it while running around. It was really like searching for a needle in a haystack but finally I got it without any effort.
"What a good dog, I almost missed it."
He picked up Xiongba and rubbed him hard.
“Ouch~”
Xiongba's eyes revealed dissatisfaction, as if saying that you should at least use some substantial rewards.
"Okay, okay, I promise you will have meat to eat every day for the next month, okay?" Lin Heng saw what it was thinking at a glance.
"Woof!"
Xiongba immediately showed a Samoyed smile and was extremely happy.
Lin Heng rubbed the silly dog and continued digging.
He was afraid that if he delayed for too long, he might meet other people and be discovered, which would be bad.
Although there is nothing wrong with picking mushrooms, this forest is not a wild forest after all. If the owner knew about it, he would definitely make trouble.
For money, especially so much money, not to mention face, not even a trace of shame will be left.
So he had to finish digging as quickly as possible and then get away.
He was really ruthless this time. Except for a small amount left near the tree, he searched all other places.
When he had almost finished turning over this piece, Lin Heng looked at the bag and found that it already contained forty or fifty kilograms.
The purchase price of black truffles in the city is 14 or 15 yuan per pound if it is wet, 10 pounds per pound if it is sun-dried, and 145 yuan per pound if it is dry.
Just these can be sold for six or seven hundred yuan, enough to build two mud houses.
"See if there are any more nearby."
Lin Heng tied the bag tightly and was too lazy to restore the traces here. Without seeing the ripe truffles, it would be hard for others to think that this was caused by digging black truffles.
I would just think they were digging for Gastrodia elata or other medicinal herbs.
The main reason is that the area is too large, there are not many leaves here, and it is impossible to restore it.
After going around, Lin Heng would hit every tree twice, and his main goal was not to miss one.
It was two o'clock in the afternoon when he couldn't bear it any longer. He took out the steamed bun made by his wife and ate it while thinking.
The vegetable steamed bun was filled with hot and sour potato shreds, and smeared with fermented bean curd and spicy sauce, which was very much to his liking.
I brought rice for Xiongba, and he ate it happily.
The sun has been exceptionally bright these two days, but the temperature is much lower than in summer. Lin Heng is neither cold nor hot in the woods wearing a shirt.
The scattered sunlight shining down is not unpleasant, and it even gives a slight warm feeling.
The cicadas in the woods were chirping miserably, as if they were wailing for their own fate.
Lin Heng thought about it and decided to keep looking. He couldn't give up. He had made a lot of money now, so whether he could find it or not wouldn't affect his mood.
After eating two vegetable buns, Lin Heng continued to search with a small hoe. Adjacent to the chestnut forest was an oak forest, which was also full of tall oak trees that could be hugged by a man. The ground was full of acorns that had taken root after the rain.
"Um?"
At the junction of the chestnut forest and the oak forest, Lin Heng made another discovery.
He walked over and dug with a hoe, and two red lumps the size of fists were dug out.
"Made a mistake?"
Lin Heng was stunned. He removed the dirt, picked it up and smelled it. It had a familiar fragrance.
"A fist-sized red-skinned black truffle, each one must weigh half a pound." Lin Heng couldn't help but grin, and excitedly wanted to turn around to share, but he only saw Xiongba.
He reached out and rubbed its head, temporarily suppressing his excitement.
This was the first time he had seen red-skinned black truffles, but he had heard of them.
Continue digging with a hoe. There are few black truffles here, but they are all very large.
After searching everywhere and digging for three hours, they dug up every field nearby, but found nothing except the seeds that were intentionally left there.
When Lin Heng looked at the bag, he was so excited that he could not hide it. He had actually dug out more than 30 kilograms. This was really incredible.
It’s a treasure land, a real treasure land.
Lin Heng loves this piece of land so much. He lives on the edge of this inconspicuous ravine. No one would have thought that this place actually contains so much wealth.
After calming down, Lin Heng looked at his watch. It was half past five.
"Search for another hour." Lin Heng muttered to himself, and then he and Xiongba continued to search around.
Xiongba can only smell ripe black truffles, while Lin Heng can use a hoe to find those that may not be ripe.
An hour later, Lin Heng shook his head and called out to Xiong Ba: "Let's go home."
He wasn't sure if there was anything else here, but this was the place to go this time. If he didn't leave, he would not be able to go back after dark.
“Ouch~”
Xiongba shouted and followed Lin Heng back.
Lin Heng carried the backpack, took a detour, and walked back quickly in another direction, trying his best to avoid others on the way.
"Lin Heng, what did you get? Such a big basket?"
In the field, Liu Sheng's father Liu Kai asked with a smile.
"It's all gold." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"You kid, you talk nonsense all the time." Liu Kai shook his head helplessly.
Lin Heng didn't say anything, he just ran away, returned home in a hurry, and knocked on the gate of the yard.
Because he saw Jin Yan, Liu Lan and others were about to walk over.
"Lin Heng, why are you so anxious? You are so afraid of seeing people. What good things did you get?" Liu Lan spoke from a distance.
"Let's see."
Liu Lan pulled Jin Yan and Li Yan over and jokingly insisted on opening Lin Heng's bag to take a look.
"It's nothing, just ordinary medicinal herbs." Lin Heng said with a smile, thinking that this crazy woman had really come, he was doomed.
"I don't believe it. How could the rich man Lin get ordinary medicinal herbs?" Liu Lan said as she removed the rope and opened the bag.
The other two also came closer to take a look.
"It smells so good, what is this?" Li Yan was stunned and didn't react at first.
Jin Yan and Liu Lan were both stunned, their mouths opened so wide that they could fit the huge giant giant clam in.
"This, this bag is full of black truffles?" Liu Lan was confused. She was just taking a look, so why was she given such a big lemon?
"You...how did you get it?" Jin Yan's pretty face was full of disbelief.
"Also, that bag of yours couldn't be black truffles too, right?" she asked after taking a deep breath.
If this bag is also like this, my God, how much money can this make? Is Lin Heng going to buy goods? She goes to pick mushrooms every day. In all these years, let alone black truffles, she has only encountered matsutake mushrooms a few times.
At this time, the door creaked. Xiulan opened the door and looked at the people, and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
"No, I only dug up this much turmeric below. I was lucky."
Lin Heng said this and pulled his wife and children into the house without even asking them to come in for a drink of water.
"Do you think the bag below contains black truffles?" Liu Lan was a little unsure.
Jin Yan thought about it and shook her head: "It's unlikely. How can we dig up so much at once?"
The gate to the yard was not closed, but they didn't have the courage to go in and take a look, for fear that the blow would be too great and they would be unable to help but curse.
"What happened?" Xiulan and Xiaoxia looked confused when they were pulled into the house by Lin Heng.
"Look for yourself." Lin Heng placed the backpack in front of his wife.
"Black truffle!" Xiulan was surprised and pointed at the bag below and asked, "That too?"
"Yes, all of them!" Lin Heng said with a smile.
“Oh my god!!”
Xiulan was shocked and hurried out to close the gate of the yard.
Jin Yan and the other two had already left. She closed the door and ran back quickly to pick up the bag.
Seeing that the bags below were also full of black truffles, she hesitated to speak, turned around twice, calmed down, and then looked at Lin Heng and said, "Where did you go to find so many? This must be about 70 or 80 kilograms, right?"
"A forest of old chestnut trees. Isn't that strange?" Lin Heng picked up his daughter and threw her in the air several times to express his excitement.
"Chestnut forest?" Xiulan didn't know what to say.
"It's normal if you think about it. No one cuts down chestnut trees, and those trees are even older, so it's very likely that they contain black truffles."
Lin Heng smiled slightly. This week's time was not wasted, and he made a profit today.
"I'll get the dustpan."
Xiulan didn't know what to say, so she turned around and got a large round dustpan.
Lin Heng went to get a beam scale and weighed the two bags of black truffles.
"Seventy-five kilograms, but it's less than eighty kilograms. After the soil is cleaned off, it will probably be only seventy kilograms." Lin Heng said with some regret.
Xiulan rolled her eyes at him and said with a smile, "Be content. Seventy kilograms can be sold for thousands of yuan."
"Haha, indeed."
Lin Heng laughed, poured out the truffles, and he and his wife picked out the dirt.
It is impossible to wash it. You are not going to eat it yourself, so a little dirt will make it a little heavier.
I separated the ripe ones from the unripe ones and used four round winnowing baskets with a diameter of two meters to put them down.
"Great hero, what do you want to eat today? I'll make it for you."
Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said with a smile.
"Let's have three dishes and a soup with rice."
Lin Heng sat on the bench with a big horse and a golden knife. He was indeed very tired today.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded and went to cook for Lin Heng.
Lin Heng rested for a while, then went to the backyard to get a basin of water and took a bath.
After returning, I took out the Boshan stove, lit the mugwort incense, and drove away those damn mosquitoes.
After sitting down and drinking two sips of tea and resting for a while, Lin Heng prepared a pound of bacon for Xiongba, both fat and lean, just as he promised.
Xiongba took the meat to the doghouse and started eating it, while Jinbao watched eagerly from the side.
"You don't have it, so there's no point in looking." Lin Heng shook his head. However, this silly cat didn't understand what he meant and was still posing and trying to be cute.
It was not until dinner time that Lin Heng gave it a piece of meat.
After eating and coaxing Xiaoxia to sleep, Lin Heng lay comfortably on the bed. Xiulan massaged his shoulders and waist.
"Are you going again tomorrow?" Xiulan asked while pinching.
"I won't go. It's probably futile to go again. This kind of thing can only be encountered by chance."
Lin Heng shook his head and had already let it go.
After a fisherman catches a big fish, he always comes up empty-handed for a long time. So he might as well give up and try to build up his luck.
And today is already the 15th, the first day of the ninth lunar month, so he has to go down in the next two days to see if the road into the city has been repaired.
Then I went to the city to get my business license, negotiate the contract, and buy some things.
"That's what I meant. You've been too crazy these past few days." Xiulan massaged him for a while and then lay down beside him to rest.
"Haha, there are many places to spend money. Autumn is a good time to find black truffles, so we have to look for them carefully." Lin Heng said with a smile. He was still too short of money.
After chatting for a few sentences, he fell asleep due to exhaustion. He had been digging in the woods all day today. He would be lying if he didn't feel tired.
When I woke up the next day, my whole back and waist ached and I didn't want to move at all.
He had originally intended to ride into town today, but he decided to postpone it, as it would be just as easy to go in two days.
Looking up, the sky is still clear, with only a few scattered white clouds visible in the blue sky.
They took out the black truffles to dry, fed the animals at home, and had breakfast. Xiulan went to do the laundry, while Lin Heng took Xiaoxia to the river.
The river water has now returned to its original clear and calm state, but Lin Heng still couldn't help but be shocked: "The topography of this river has completely changed."
Whether it is the width or the location of stones and trees, everything is different.
This section of the river, which originally had few large rocks, now has many more large rocks, and the fine sand riverbed has been replaced by fist-sized gravel.
When exposed to the sunlight, these gravels emit golden and silver light, like treasures, making the river water sparkle.
"There's a deep pool up there."
Xiulan pointed to the location where the mudslide fell and said.
"I'll go and take a look."
Lin Heng took Xiaoxia and walked up curiously.
"Wow, it's so deep!"
Lin opened his mouth wide when he saw the deep pool.
Most of the soil and debris in the debris flow were washed away, but these huge rocks weighing dozens or hundreds of tons are still here, lying across the riverbed motionless.
Stones, branches and mud rushed down from upstream filled the gap, and a large deep pool was formed.
The pool of water looked dark and one couldn't see the bottom at a glance. Lin Heng estimated that the water was at least four or five meters deep.
Moreover, this pool of water is very long, extending upwards for more than ten meters, which is equivalent to a small dam.
Xiaoxia picked up a stone and tried to throw it in, but she only threw it two meters away. She said something incomprehensible, picked up another stone and tried again, having a lot of fun.
Taking her back to where Xiulan was washing clothes, Lin Heng looked around again.
The snails that were originally quite numerous have almost disappeared, the fish have also become scarce, and I couldn't find any trace of crabs after turning over several stones.
Now it seems that the only benefit is that the Shiban River has become completely clean.
Without any moss and garbage, it feels very comfortable to walk on the riverbed after taking off your shoes.
After accompanying Xiulan to wash clothes, I met Lin's father on the way home.
Lin Heng knew that his father and elder brother were cutting corn stalks and plowing the fields these days, preparing to plant rapeseed and wheat in a few days.
However, due to his suggestion, they greatly reduced the planting area and only cultivated the good land, and prepared to plant fruit trees in the rest next spring.
"Lin Heng, I asked someone to check the date again. You can go release the fish fry tomorrow. It's a good day." Father Lin looked at him and said.
Lin Yue asked from the side: "Do you want us to help?"
"Of course, otherwise I would have to do it many times by myself." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Okay, we'll get up early tomorrow morning to help you." Lin Yue nodded.
"By the way, Dad, don't worry about planting crops. I will go to the city to buy seeds for you in the next two days. The yield will be much higher than the seeds we have at home." Lin Heng said to his father.
Many people in rural areas blindly believe in the seeds passed down by their ancestors and are unwilling to buy seeds that have been professionally bred, as they think they are too expensive.
In the past two years, high-yield crop seeds are gradually becoming popular. They are expensive but have high yields.
"Okay, then I'll wait." Father Lin nodded and did not refuse. Now that he had money, he also wanted to give it a try to see what the results would be.
In the afternoon, Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain to check on the fish pond again. There was no problem here. The pond drained smoothly when it rained and did not overflow.
The next morning, when Lin's father and eldest brother came to help, they were suddenly stunned.
"Lin Heng, when did you get so many black truffles?" Father Lin didn't know what to say for a moment.
"This... this must weigh about fifty or sixty kilograms." Lin Yue was so shocked that he was speechless.
"Seventy kilograms, dug from the mountain the day before yesterday." Lin Heng smiled.
"Awesome!" Lin Yue gave a thumbs up.
Father Lin looked at it again and again, and he felt that if he continued like this, he might not be able to earn more by opening a purchasing station than by working in the mountains himself.
"Actually, there are quite a lot of these things, but they are hard to find. You can try to get a dog to look for them in the woods." Lin Heng explained.
The domestic production of black truffles is actually very high, so much so that the price of this thing has dropped significantly since then.
"It's your destiny to be able to find it. You are destined to be a mountain hunter." Father Lin sighed.
After entering the backyard, I cut off the water to the fish pond and started catching fish with a fishing net. There were so many fish fry that there were hundreds of them in just one net.
They scooped the fish up and poured them into buckets. When they had made enough money, the three of them carried the buckets to Red Maple Mountain.
"Are they all going to be poured into this pond?" asked Father Lin.
"Yes."
Lin Heng poured the bucket and water into the fish pond and said a blessing, hoping that the fish would eat and grow.
"If you eat well, you will grow well, and you won't get sick or suffer any harm!"
Father Lin poured the fish fry into the fish pond while chanting blessings.
After entering the fish pond, the grass carp fry quickly scattered and disappeared into the water.
The three of them went back five more times and put most of the grass carp fry into the fish pond.
There were probably about one or two hundred fish fry left that could not be fished out, so Lin Heng gave up and let them stay in the fish pond.
Block the overflow and cut off the water inlet. There is no need for new water to enter the fish pond for the time being. The water level of two meters is enough for the grass carp fry to survive.
As he was about to walk back with the bucket, his elder brother Lin Yue suddenly called out from a distance: "Come here quickly, damn it!"
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