Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

The next morning, after eating soft pancakes and potato shreds and drinking some milk, Lin Heng waited for the excavator to arrive at the gate.

Xiulan took out the things that needed to be dried in the morning and dried them, and prepared to make dumplings for lunch.

At around eight o'clock, Lin Heng heard the sound of a car horn, and soon saw a medium-sized tractor being pulled along the road by a trailer, followed by a small earth-moving truck.

"Wife, the excavator is here, I'm leaving."

Lin Heng turned around and shouted to Xiulan, then left quickly.

When he came to Hongfeng Mountain, he first gave a pack of cigarettes to the excavator and the earth-moving truck driver, and then opened the gate to let people in.

The excavator got off the trailer, repaired the road outside, and then drove in.

"Boss Lin, tell me how to dig specifically." Master Liu, who was driving the excavator, stopped the excavator and looked at Lin Heng and said.

"Just as I said before, you first repair the road, then deal with the shrubs and weeds, and I will draw a range for you to dig." Lin Heng looked at the excavator master and said.

Master Liu nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll do it first. Will the road be built four meters wide?"

"Four meters is fine." Lin Heng nodded.

After the preliminary discussion, the excavator started working.

It doesn't take too much to build a road. The main thing is to compact and level it, and clean up some protruding places on the road.

Lin's father and mother were watching from the side. They were also very curious about this big guy. Some villagers also came to the road below. They could watch the excavator digging soil for a whole day.

In less than an hour, the excavator repaired and compacted the road to the mountainside, and began to open up wasteland on it, digging shrubs and turning over weeds.

"It's really fast. This excavator is really easy to use." Lin's mother exclaimed.

"It takes half an hour for manpower to dig this digging." Lin's father also sighed.

"It's really worth it." Lin's mother nodded. This was her first time seeing an excavator, and she fully understood the power of this big guy.

"Let's go, Dad, let's go up and tell him how to dig." Lin Heng looked at his father and said.

"Okay."

Father Lin nodded and walked up happily with Lin Heng.

When they reached the halfway point of the mountain, Lin Heng began to explain to the excavator master how to dig specifically. After the excavator master understood, he dug the road above again. The previous road was not suitable.

After confirming it, the excavator started to work, digging the soil first, and the excess was pulled out by the dump truck and dumped in the place Lin Heng said.

The excavator worked very efficiently, and soon dug out a platform of more than 200 square meters. Father Lin looked at it for a long time before coming down. The two went to feed the cattle and sheep, and then bred a cow that had just been in heat today, and pulled out the cow that had been bred yesterday for the bull to mate again.

It was almost half past ten when they finished these tasks. At this time, the third father Lin Xutao also ran over to watch, and many people in the village who had never seen an excavator ran over to take a look.

Even the village party secretary and the village head came, and asked about Lin Heng's excavator and talked about many things.

Lin Heng took the opportunity of the villagers gathering outside Hongfeng Mountain to spread the news that he would continue to collect acorns this year, at one cent per pound.

The price was not high, but there were a lot of things, and the oak forests were everywhere. It was no problem for one person to pick up 100 pounds a day. Many people in the village were willing to make this extra money.

Lin Heng picked them up mainly to feed livestock. He cooked them, dried them, and then crushed them. Finally, he mixed some corn and wheat bran and other ingredients to feed pigs or chickens.

The two big fat pigs raised by his family in Hongfeng Mountain were already more than 200 pounds. They didn't use feed, but a lot of acorns, corn and sweet potatoes, as well as a lot of pasture.

These two pigs were going to be slaughtered during the Chinese New Year this year. In the first half of this year, Lin's mother had bought two piglets, one black and one white, and now they weighed 60 to 70 pounds, in preparation for the Chinese New Year next year.

It was noon in a blink of an eye. Lin's mother prepared a large table of dishes to entertain the excavator and the dump truck driver. Lin Heng also ate here and didn't go back to the village.

After the excavator finished eating, he worked until eight o'clock in the afternoon. Because this is not charged by the hour or day, the total price is fixed. If you can finish the work as soon as possible, you can get the final payment as soon as possible, so the master is also very hard.

At night, the two masters also slept in the old house of the Lin family. Caiyun does not live in the old house now. She either sleeps on the sofa of Lin Heng's house or lives here in Hongfeng Mountain.

Today, the first platform has been initially dug out of a surface, 25 meters wide, 60 meters long, and an area of ​​1,500 square meters.

It is still a long way from the completion of the first platform. Later, not only do we have to dig the soil, but we also have to use a drill to chisel some stones, and then dig and level them, and repair the nearby hillsides. It will take a long time.

In the evening, Lin Heng did not eat at Hongfeng Mountain. He went home and ate buns with Xiulan. Caiyun was also here.

"Is this a bun with green onion and roe deer meat filling? It's delicious." Lin Heng praised while eating the steamed buns.

"Yes, I made 103 buns this time, with five kinds of fillings, which can be eaten for a long time." Xiulan smiled and nodded.

"I like to eat wrapping paper!" Xiaoxia said, holding up the buns with red bean paste filling.

"This tofu filling is also delicious." Caiyun also nodded repeatedly.

Xiaolongbao is also a very luxurious food for rural people in this era. Normally, they are very happy to eat white flour steamed buns and flower rolls. They rarely dare to think about buns, especially meat buns.

The next morning, Lin Heng brought some buns to his parents. Master Liu of the excavator was shocked when he saw milk and buns for breakfast: "This food is really good, it's worth working for you."

"You can't do anything wrong to yourself. You must eat well." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Master Liu gave a thumbs up: "You have a clear realm."

After breakfast, the excavator went up to work. Today's task is to cut rocks, which is much slower than digging soil, and the working speed has become lower.

Lin Heng did not let the car transport the stones out, but cut them into small pieces and stacked them aside, so that they could be used when building a retaining wall later.

The National Day holiday ended on the third day, but the excavator still did not leave and continued to work here. Because there was more than one excavator on the road construction side, they found an excuse that the excavator was broken and needed to be repaired, and prepared to evacuate the excavator here in one go. The work is done.

After working on it until the tenth day, the first platform was finally dug out. A platform covering an area of ​​1,500 square meters looked very comfortable. The surrounding areas of the platform were also repaired. In the afternoon, the excavator built a road from the edge of the first platform and dug the second platform according to Lin Heng's instructions.

The second platform is larger than the first, 25 meters wide and 70 meters long, with an area of ​​1,750 square meters. Although the slope was only 20 degrees, there was not a lot of soil dug and it took a full 12 days.

Although there is still some distance from the top of the mountain, the soil layer here has begun to become shallower and there are more rocks, so the digging time is longer. It rained for two days, but the excavator is still working.

Originally, the ideal area was 1,500 square meters. The main reason why we excavated 1,700 square meters was because the excavator master felt that Lin Heng's food was good and he often smoked. It was much better than at the construction site, so he had to dig out more.

By the time the two platforms were dug, more than half a month had passed, from October 1st to October 22nd.

Starting on October 23, the excavator began digging the winding road to the top of the mountain.

It took two days to dig the winding mountain road. On the 25th, we dug to the top of the mountain and came directly to the cabin, destroying many trees along the way.

Originally, the excavator master on the 25th was about to leave, but Lin Heng felt that it was awkward that the first platform was smaller than the second one, so he paid an extra 100 yuan and asked the excavator master to expand the first platform to 1,800 yuan. 100 square meters, the length expanded to 72 meters.

After the digging was completed on the 25th, the excavator master was asked to clean up the area around the platform on the 26th and dig out the foundation trench for the first platform where Lin Heng was going to build a cattle pen.

Everything ended successfully on the afternoon of the 26th. The excavator was put on the trailer and the project manager came over in person. After Lin Heng paid the balance, he cooked a large table of dishes and everyone happily drank.

After the wine party was over, and when Manager Li was about to leave, he put his arm around Lin Heng's shoulder and whispered, "Boss Lin, the platform and road you dug out will be easily washed away by the rain if they are not hardened as soon as possible."

Lin Heng glanced at Manager Li, shook his head slightly and said, "Cement is too expensive. I don't have that much money. I'm going to buy some stones to pave on the road and use it later."

"What if there is very cheap concrete?" Manager Li said with a grin.

Lin Heng was curious: "How cheap is it?"

Manager Li said: "The concrete mixing station on Jianguo Road usually mixes more concrete when they mix it. In the end, some of it is always left unused and will be wasted. You only need to pay a little shipping fee to get the excess for you."

After a pause, he continued: "Just like your two platforms and the road up the mountain are completely paved, it doesn't cost a lot to lay twenty centimeters of concrete. One thousand five hundred yuan is enough."

"If it costs one thousand yuan, I can still consider it." Lin Heng said.

Manager Li thought for a while and said: "Then one thousand and three, you can lay the planks yourself, and they will be laid for you one after another."

"Although the price is good, I don't have that much money." Lin Heng shook his head.

After some back and forth, the price was finally settled on 1,100 yuan.

"No problem." Lin Heng nodded with a smile and watched Manager Li leave on his motorcycle.

After seeing the people leave, Father Lin and Mother Lin came over. Father Lin asked curiously: "Son, what did you just talk about?"

"It's about making concrete. They said there was extra over there to sell at a low price." Lin Heng briefly told his parents about the matter, but he didn't say anything about it.

After hearing this, Father Lin immediately said: "That's okay. It's very cost-effective to turn all the thousand and one into cement."

He knew how much it would cost to make concrete himself, and thought it was a good deal.

"There won't be any problems, right?" Mother Lin asked a little worriedly.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "No, it's just a little bit of concrete."

"If there is no problem, then you can do it." Mother Lin nodded. She still agreed with the construction of her own home. It would be convenient to make it into cement.

Early the next morning, the excavator master and truck master also drove away. Hongfeng Mountain returned to peace again, but the situation was completely different.

After breakfast, Lin Heng and Xiulan pushed their two children and Xiaoxia towards Hongfeng Mountain. It was already late autumn, and the trees of red, yellow and green colors intertwined, forming a beautiful scenery.

The sun is no longer harsh, the sun is shining warmly on the mountains, and the temperature is just right.

"Dad, how do you make flowers from ginkgo leaves?" Xiaoxia looked at Lin Heng with the ginkgo leaves.

Lin Heng touched her head: "I will teach you when we get to Hongfeng Mountain. Now you can pick flowers and play with them."

"Mom, this is for you!" Xiaoxia picked an autumn chrysanthemum and handed it to her mother.

"Xiaoxia is so good." Xiulan took it and smelled it, looking at the scenery around her. Everything in autumn was so beautiful.

When we arrived at Hongfeng Mountain, Father Lin had just finished feeding the shrimps and was feeding the musk deer and piglets.

Mother Lin looked at them and smiled, "You are taking Xiulan to the mountain to see it, right? Give me the two grandchildren and I will take care of them."

"Thank you, Mom." Lin Heng immediately pushed his two sons into the house and handed them to his mother, then took Xiulan and Xiaoxia up the mountain along the four-meter-wide dirt road that had been ground solid by the excavator.

Although Xiulan came to see it during the excavator's work, she had never been up the mountain.

There were many yellow chrysanthemums on the roadside of the mountain, exuding a faint fragrance. The three of them came to the first platform after walking for a while.

There were only some fallen leaves on the long platform except for the piled stones and the excavated foundation. Such a large platform with a length of 72 meters and a width of 25 meters is almost unheard of in such a mountain area, and it makes people feel comfortable just looking at it.

Xiaoxia ran happily after coming up, and Xiongba, who followed, also ran happily, and was very happy in the slightly cool autumn breeze.

While paying attention to Xiaoxia, Lin Heng explained the renovation plan here to Xiulan. At present, the cattle pen is built on the first platform at the bottom. It is large and convenient, and it is completely sufficient.

If a villa is to be built in the future, it will be built on the second platform, and then a third platform can be built behind it, and two stairs directly connecting the first and third platforms will be built. This is the front and back garden, which is perfect.

Now the roads connecting the two platforms are at the edge, connected by a 180-degree bend. The two connected together are like a super-large lying U-shaped bend.

Xiulan smiled and nodded: "It's quite suitable. You can see a large area below here. The scenery is very beautiful."

She supports Lin Heng's idea of ​​building a villa here and building a big house for them on the top of this beautiful red maple mountain.

Standing at the edge and looking at the scenery outside, the slope between the first platform and the hillside below is 20 degrees, and people can walk down easily.

Then Xiulan walked to the inside of the platform. There was a nine-meter-high slope inside. If you want to dig a 25-meter-wide platform on a 20-degree slope, the innermost part must be this high.

However, the slope at the innermost part is not 90 degrees, but a slope of 70 or 80 degrees.

Xiulan looked at the pile of stones not far away and wondered: "This amount of stones is not enough to build a retaining wall, right?"

Lin Heng nodded: "It is definitely not enough. The retaining wall is only built on some places on both sides that are prone to landslides. The rest is not built, so the slope is made instead of a 90-degree right-angle slope."

If the retaining wall with a height of 9 meters and a length of 65 meters is built, it will be a super large project, so Lin Heng gave up this project for the time being.

The loose soil on this slope has been removed, and the remaining are relatively solid stones and a small amount of clay. In addition, with a slope of more than 70 degrees, there is basically no problem unless there is an earthquake.

When the villa is really built later, the hillside behind will be cleaned up. Now we can't spend too much money on it. As long as there is no big problem, we won't spend more money. After all, he is still accumulating original capital.