Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

By the time they drove back to Hongfeng Mountain, it was already past three in the afternoon. Although there was not much sun today, it was very hot.

"Grandpa, come and pick you up!" When he saw the car coming back, Father Lin drove to the passenger door to pick them up.

"Grandpa and grandma, I miss you too."

Xiaoxia opened the car door and threw herself into her grandfather's arms.

"I miss Xiaoxia too." Father Lin hugged her and kissed her face, and then let her go.

Mother Lin pulled her and said, "The iced watermelon is ready. Let's eat watermelon later."

"Okay." Xiaoxia cheered first, and when her brother came down, she took her brother outside to see the chickens and puppies.

"Are you dizzy?" Lin Heng asked while supporting his wife.

The walk back was very rough and bumpy, and Xiulan got carsick.

On the contrary, the three children were very adaptable and didn’t even get car sick.

"You should be fine after you rest for a while." Xiulan shook her head gently.

Lin Heng helped her into the house and sat down. Mother Lin killed a big watermelon and everyone shared some of it. After the meal, the children went out to play with the puppies.

Mother Lin ran out to watch, fearing that the children would be bitten by dogs. Lin Heng answered some of his father's inquiries while taking care of Xiulan.

"Let's eat here tonight. Your mother and I made fairy tofu, and we're going to make cornmeal cold fish for dinner tonight," Father Lin said, looking at the two of them.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded in agreement. Xiulan couldn't cook because she was motion sick.

"I'm going to rest on Caiyun's bed first. I want to sleep for a while." Xiulan stood up and said.

"Go ahead, Xiaoxia and the others will be taken care of by me." Lin Heng nodded and went into the room with her. He came out after seeing that she was asleep.

Lin Heng came outside. The previous sultry heat had turned into a strong wind. The leaves on the mountain were blown white. This was because the leaves were blown over and the backs were exposed.

"Dad, come quickly and watch the ants move." Xiaoxia called out sweetly when she saw Lin Heng.

"It looks like it's really going to rain." Lin Heng came over and took a look and said, it was a group of little ants moving up the hillside.

Mother Lin nodded: "It hasn't rained for half a month. It's probably going to be heavy this time. Maybe there will be flooding again."

Lin Heng glanced at the sky, then turned to look at his father: "Do we need to repair the water outlet of the rice field to prevent the fish from being washed away by the water when it rains?"

"I thought it was going to rain at noon and I already went to do it. You don't have to worry." Father Lin replied.

Lin Heng nodded: "Just get it done."

His family only has paddy fields to worry about now, and there is nothing else to worry about. Whether it is fish and shrimp ponds or pig farms, there are people watching over them, and they can deal with any problems at any time.

"When you are free, go get a tarpaulin and cover the chicken coop, so that when the time comes, there will be no place to hide and the chickens will freeze to death." Mother Lin said.

"I would have forgotten it if you didn't tell me." Lin's father said, turned around and went to the warehouse to get something, and went to the chicken pen on the hillside with Lin Heng.

They covered the top of the large chicken coop, and then went to look at several small soil holes dug for the chickens to lay eggs. They piled the holes higher and made a small drainage ditch so that the chickens would have room even if it rained. Hidden.

"Son, it will be easy to harvest honey when this rain stops."

Father Lin said with a smile on the way up the mountain.

"Yes, the spring honey should be full." Lin Heng nodded.

They added two more boxes of bees this year, which equals four boxes in Hongmaple Mountain and two boxes in the backyard of their home, making a total of six boxes of bees.

And his eldest brother also collected a box of bees and placed them under the tree in the back hill.

"I'll call you then." Father Lin nodded and said.

After speaking, he asked again: "Son, you said that you heard that there is an artificial nest foundation, and it is said that the honey yield is higher when installed in the beehive. Is it true?"

"It's true. That thing is made of industrial paraffin, so it can be used." Lin Heng nodded.

Industrial paraffin can cause cancer, so the nest base made of it cannot be eaten. Only honey is useful. The honey bee hive foundations they raise are all natural hive foundations made by the bees themselves. The natural beeswax can be eaten directly. It is not only non-toxic but also has certain benefits for the body.

"Then bring some back later and let's try it." Father Lin said.

"Okay, I'll do it next time I go to town." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.

He didn't want to keep bees, so the ones he caught were just allowed to grow naturally, otherwise he actually had a way to make the bees swarm quickly.

They looked at the cattle and sheep pens on the mountain and packed up all the things that needed to be packed before they came back.

Lin Heng went into the house and looked at Xiulan. He found that she was asleep and came out to play with the children. The black thornberries on the thorn vines beside the mountain stream were ripe, and he took his three children to eat them.

This stuff was sour and sweet and very appetizing. The children fed the thorn vine and ate it for half an hour. After eating the thornberries, they picked up rocks and splashed water.

Soon at six o'clock, Mrs. Lin started cooking. The meal was ready in half an hour. The staple food was cornmeal cold fish, and the dishes were fairy tofu and cold cucumber.

Although it was simple, it tasted good and everyone had a good time. At seven o'clock after the meal, the wind picked up. The setting sun among the clouds dyed the top of the western ridge blood red.

"Let's go home quickly. It won't be good if it rains on the way."

Lin Heng took the children and said.

The children were pulled by the two of them, said goodbye to their grandparents and walked towards the village. Lin Heng didn't take the dried fish given by his parents-in-law, so he kept it with his parents.

"I haven't picked up any fungi this year. I hope I can pick up some yellow thread fungi this time it rains." Lin Heng said with a smile. Yellow thread fungi are chanterelles.

He now loves chanterelles, squirrel mushrooms, morels, tea tree mushrooms, etc. He only picks up red mushrooms and porcini mushrooms when others cannot.

"There are a lot of chanterelles at this time, and tea tree mushrooms are also beginning to appear." Xiulan nodded and said.

"When the time comes, I will join you, and I will also pick up fungi." Xiaoxia said from the side.

The few people were talking and soon arrived at the door of the house. After opening the door, Lin Heng went to get a hoe to dig the drainage ditch in front of and behind the house. When he got there, he found that it had already been dug out. .

He knew without guessing that his eldest brother had done it for him. His eldest brother had been like this since he was a child. He would help him with any work he had not finished.

He went to his eldest brother's house to say thanks and then sat down to play for a while. It was already dark when we got home, the wind was howling outside, but there was no rain.

The children have washed their faces, hands and feet, Lu Ming and Du Heng are playing games on the sofa, and Xiaoxia is reading children's books. She knows a lot of words. Reading children's books is easy, and she can understand most fairy tales.

Thanks to Lin Heng's habitual cultivation since she was a child, she likes reading very much.

Lin Heng washed his face and sat down to drink a cup of Huangjing tea. Soon it was getting dark at half past eight.

"Honey, are you hungry?" Lin Heng suddenly looked at Xiulan, "I'm not feeling hungry after eating the cold fish."

Xiulan nodded: "It's just a little bit, do you want to make some food?"

"No, it's up to me. Let's grill some lamb."

Lin Heng went to get the electric stove. This kind of stove is a ceramic with a circle of heating resistors inside, which can be used to boil water or keep warm.

Lin Heng placed the round iron plate for barbecue on top, poured a little oil on it, then took out the mutton from the freezer, marinated it with salt and soy sauce and put it on the baking pan.

Soon the oil was sizzling and exuding a rich aroma of barbecue. Xiaoxia and Lu Ming Du Heng, who were still reading, gathered their little heads around.

"It smells so good, Dad!"

"I want to eat~"

"I want to eat too!"

"Wait for a while, it will be cooked soon." Lin Heng said with a smile.

It needs to be grilled until the surface is slightly browned before it tastes delicious. While flipping it, he added some ginger slices and onions, and when it was almost done, he added pepper powder and barbecue seasonings.

Immediately, a more fragrant smell came out, and the children stretched their heads closer and began to swallow.

Lin Heng tasted one first, then nodded and said, "Here, you can eat it."

He fed each of the children a piece, and then gave Xiulan a piece.

"It's really good." Xiulan nodded with a smile and brought a pair of chopsticks over.

"It's delicious." The children nodded repeatedly, saying they would like more.

Lin Heng got about five or six taels of mutton. He put aside the mutton for the children, and sprinkled some pepper noodles on his own and Xiulan's. The taste immediately became even better.

"It feels so good!" Lin Heng said with satisfaction as he ate the mutton. His stomach felt comfortable now.

"You still know how to eat." Xiulan said with a smile, her red lips were also oily.

They finished the mutton in a short while, and some of them were still unsatisfied.

"Half full is enough. When the weather gets better, let's have a barbecue and have a good meal." Lin Heng said, looking at the children.

He and Xiulan didn't care, but they were worried that the children would suffer from indigestion after eating too much.

"Rinse your mouth and let's go to bed." Xiulan also said.

Lin Heng went to soak the iron plate in water, came back, drank the tea, made another cup and carried it into the bedroom.

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They left the windows half open, and although there were screens outside to block them, the wind was still blowing.

After telling the story, the children fell asleep after a while.

Lin Heng and Xiulan were also tired from traveling and traveling, so they lay down early to rest.

When the two woke up the next morning, there was already the sound of rain pattering outside the window.

"Do you know when it rained last night?" Lin Heng looked at Xiulan.

"I don't know, I slept very hard." Xiulan shook her head and leaned next to Lin Heng.

The two of them got dressed after listening to the rain for a while. They did a brief exercise because it was raining, and then got the children up to go to bed.

It was raining heavily outside, with moderate rain not stopping. Lin Heng walked to the gate and found that the Shiban River had swollen, and the dim water rushed downstream, like an angry dragon.

"It doesn't matter if it rains!" Lin Heng nodded.

After breakfast, they huddled at home. Lin Heng taught Xiaoxia to read for a while, then started a small barbecue and made a pot of tea.

He just wanted to eat barbecue and drink tea today, looking at the hazy green mountains in the rain, and didn't want to do anything else.

Xiulan had some leisure time and taught her son to draw for a while.

The rain continued until early the next morning. The bluestones in the yard were washed away spotlessly by the rain, and the bonsai, flowers, plants and trees in the yard became even greener.

The fresh air after the rain was intoxicating, but it was slippery and difficult to walk around.

In the morning, Lin Heng took out Xiulan's skewered meat skewers from the freezer and defrosted them. In the evening, he called his parents and eldest brother's family over for barbecue.

After breakfast, he went to Hongfeng Mountain to harvest honey with his father. Two buckets of bees harvested this year did not produce much honey, adding up to two kilograms.

The remaining four buckets of old bees are all powerful swarms, and one bucket can harvest three kilograms of flower nectar.

"Not bad." Father Lin weighed himself and said with a smile.

"Well, this time I took it to a store in town and sold it. I have a lot of honey at home," Lin Heng said.

After putting the two honeys, they killed a watermelon and a cantaloupe. They were picked before the rain, and they are still as sweet now.

Put it in the freezer for an hour before eating. It will taste sweet and cold, making people forget about the heat and indulge in the delicious taste.

They enjoy summer more now. Ice-cold watermelon is nothing, but they also have popsicles and homemade juice. They are happy all summer long.

When the sun went down in the afternoon, they started to have barbecue. The adults had barbecue with beer, and the children had barbecue with just sweetened liqueur.

BBQ is only lively when there are many people eating. Everyone eats while grilling and is very comfortable.

"You can go pick up fungi tomorrow." Xiulan said during the evening break.

"Let's work together. I guess the harvest from picking up mushrooms this time will be good." Lin Heng hugged her and said.

"Well, let's go pick up yellow thread fungi on the beams here in Shuijinggou." Xiulan thought for a while and said.

When they got up the next morning, after breakfast, they took their son to Father Lin to watch. They took Xiaoxia and her mother and sister-in-law up the mountain to look for fungi.

Of course, Xiong Ba must follow them.

At this time of year, the woods are densely packed with fungi, mostly red mushrooms and some unknown toadstools, and there are also quite a few porcini mushrooms and tea tree mushrooms.

Lin Heng and Xiulan mainly use chanterelles, tea tree mushrooms, porcini mushrooms and other edible fungi of the highest quality.

The sky was cloudless today and the weather was very hot, but it was still cool in the woods. Lin Heng and Xiulan walked around looking for it.

The chanterelles are not big, and many of them are hidden under the leaves that have not rotted last year. Use a stick to pull the leaves apart, and you can see the beautiful golden fungi.

"I'm lucky today. There are a lot of them here, but they are a little small." Xiulan said happily as she looked at the pieces of chanterelles.

"The little ones don't have any bugs, so bring them back and fry the bacon." Lin Heng said, the meat fried with mushrooms is the most delicious.

"Yeah, let's finish it here and then go look for it on the other side." Xiulan nodded.

With Xiongba around, many chanterelles hidden under the leaves can be found.

The two of them searched for a while before Xiaoxia ran over from her grandma, acting coquettishly in front of them and shouting that she was hungry.

Lin Heng looked at his watch and realized that it was already past one o'clock. No wonder the child was hungry.

But they didn't go back. Instead, they brought out some food and called their mother to eat together.

Then they didn't go home until after three o'clock. When they got back to the house, they couldn't wait to weigh the harvest.

"Thirteen kilograms of chanterelles, twenty kilograms of tea tree mushrooms, and more than ten kilograms of other fungi. Today's harvest is not bad." Xiulan smiled.

"Hurry and pick them and dry them in the sun before the sun has passed." Mother Lin said.

"You guys do it, I'll get you some noodles, otherwise you'll be too hungry." Lin Heng said.

They are now picking up mushrooms solely to satisfy their own appetites and will not sell them.

What everyone pays more attention to is the joy of picking up fungi together, and the fungi themselves don't matter.

In the evening they made fried bacon with chanterelles, and the family drank some rice wine.

The next day, Lin Heng went to visit his orchard, ran to the pig farm to look at the pigs, and pulled the pig manure back.

The pig manure was placed at the entrance of the village for villagers in need to take it away. His family now has no place to pile it.

This rain washed the mountain stream very clean. On a sunny day, Lin Heng pulled a sunshade net over the mountain stream like last year, and then took the children to play in the water.

Then we played at home for two more days, and on July 19th, Lin Heng drove into the city.

He first asked Lin Hai to transport some goods that the factory needed to ship, and then went with him to the place where people were being recruited.

Workers are very easy to recruit. As before, he selects people who are young and have families. Such people will work more stably and will not leave after a short period of time.

This time he recruited ten young workers, gave these workers some words, and asked them to go back and prepare and report tomorrow.

Now the factory cafeteria has also opened, and a chef is responsible for cooking. Liu Cihua helps. Employees eat for free at noon, so they have to deal with it themselves sooner or later.

"Boss, should you recruit someone with a veterinary major here?"

Lin Heng was about to leave when three men, two women and five students came in outside the door.