Chapter 73 Novice Protection Period
When you walk into the new house, Carpenter Liang is working. Today he is planing wooden boards to make furniture.
"Do you want my help?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.
“No, I’m just finishing the boards these two days, not assembling them. I’ll assemble them together in two days.” Carpenter Liang shook his head.
“By the way, the wood for the pavilion and corridor you want to build has been processed. Now we just need to install the tiles. Your corridor and pavilion are complete.”
Carpenter Liang pointed to the wood placed under the eaves and said, these are all pine wood, pillars and boards made of old pine trees cut down on the mountain.
"Okay, when my dad and my brother come back in the afternoon, let them help install it."
Lin Heng put Xiaoxia down and went into the house to get tung oil to prepare these boards. Anti-corrosion, open-air ones are more susceptible to insects and rot.
“Baba~”
Xiaoxia watched Lin Heng brushing tung oil and stretched out her little hand to play, thinking it was a game.
"No, you can't play with this. Mom will spank her if her clothes are dirty."
Lin Heng warned her.
The little girl opened her mouth and looked at Lin Heng with her big, pure eyes. She was stunned for a moment: "Mom... hit me, and I'll hit... her."
After saying that, she stretched out her hand. She went to grab a brush. Thanks to Lin Heng teaching her to recognize objects and speak every day, her speech at only one year and two months old was already relatively clear.
Although I still speak only one or two words.
"I hope you can say it in front of your mother." Lin Heng was speechless, being made unable to do work by his daughter.
After thinking about it, he went back and got the reins for plowing and a basket with a rope.
Thread the rope through a pole, and then hang the basket half a meter above the ground.
Xiaoxia looked on stupidly, and when Lin Heng was about to pick her up and put her in, she suddenly grabbed his clothes and refused to let go.
“Wow wow…”
The little mouth was deflated at that time, and she cried when she opened her mouth.
“Why are you crying? It’s so fun.”
Lin Heng pulled up the basket and waved it gently in the air. Xiaoxia cried and found that it seemed quite interesting. She held the basket with her little hands. On the edge, looking out stupidly.
“Haha (=^▽^=)”
All of a sudden, the whole person suddenly smiled again.
"Sure enough, the swing is a surefire weapon for children." Lin Heng shook his head and turned to apply tung oil.
"Bahba!!" The little girl yelled after a while.
“Here we come, shake it and fly into the sky!!”
Lin Heng knew that the swing must have stopped, so he turned his head and shook it twice.
After a while, Xiaoxia learned the word shake and shouted: "Dad, shake!"
In this way, for a whole morning, Lin Heng painted all the wooden structures with tung oil.
Xiaoxia fell asleep under the warm sun and the shaking feeling. There was a small bubble on her nose, which grew bigger and smaller.
“You are really good at raising children.” Carpenter Liang praised when he saw this scene.
"Haha, the swing is a surefire move." Lin Heng smiled slightly.
When he was a child, he always wanted to have a swing of his own, so he and his elder brother Lin Yue built one in the woods behind.
It's just that the rattan used was worn out after not playing for a while, so it had to be remade.
At 12:30, Xiulan and the others came back from the mountain.
“It’s so crazy, Zhushaoya is full of people breaking bamboo shoots.”
Father Lin shook his head and said.
"How many did you get?" Lin Heng looked at Father Lin. He didn't even have a full basket today.
"Your mother and I didn't get much, just forty or fifty kilograms of bamboo shoots. It depends on your brother and Xiulan's harvest."
Father Lin shook his head and said, the wild bamboo forest is now full of broken bamboo shoots. people.
There were too many people on the mountain in the past two days, either breaking bamboo shoots or picking mushrooms and honeysuckle. The pheasants did not dare to approach. Lin Heng had no chance to hunt.
"Xu'an, you handle the bamboo shoots, and I'm going to cook." Mother Lin knew it was a little late, so she put down the basket and entered the kitchen.
“Okay.”
Father Lin arranged the bamboo shoots that had been processed in the forest and put them in a wooden barrel to soak.
These are the kind of small bamboo shoots that are as thick as a thumb. After soaking in water, they taste better than the thick bamboo shoots.
Not long after, elder brother Lin Yue and elder sister-in-law Liu Juan also came back. They went to pick honeysuckle again today. There were many more honeysuckle than yesterday, with only a few fungi and bamboo shoots.
When Lin Heng asked, he found out that they had gone to Sanyegou.
The rice was almost cooked when Xiulan and Caiyun came back from outside. One of them was carrying a basket of bamboo shoots, and the other was carrying a basket of mushrooms.
"The mushrooms you picked up are pretty good, so many good things."
Lin Heng saw a dozen egg mushrooms and many chanterelles in the basket, but there were relatively few porcini mushrooms.
"I'm lucky today. I picked up all the egg mushrooms. Sister-in-law Xiulan picked up a lot of chanterelles."
Caiyun held her chin up, like a fisherman who caught a rare fish. The pride of the fish.
"Then we're going to get the benefit of the doubt. Let's get the egg mushrooms in quickly and let mom fry them."
Lin Heng was a little greedy.
The people in the mountains are so poor that they can only survive by eating mushrooms.
Dried noodles were served at noon. The noodles were made of egg mushrooms. The taste, the hot and sour noodles paired with the smooth egg mushrooms, was fresh and refreshing.
Add some garlic chili and mix it with the noodles. Lin Heng didn't even care about burning it and put it into his mouth in big mouthfuls.
Only the smooth and satisfying feeling reaches the depths of the brain, and the whole person exhales happily, and the hunger and fatigue all over the body are suddenly swept away.
Immediately afterwards, there is a stronger desire to eat, and he will not stop until his stomach is full.
Lin Heng, who usually eats noodles but not soup, drank all the soup today.
“It’s cool, it’s so cool!”
Lin Heng couldn’t help but admire.
Mother Lin glanced at him and was speechless: "No one is grabbing it from you, so just pour it into your mouth, right?"
The others had just finished half a bowl of noodles, and Lin Heng had already finished two bowls of noodles.
“I can’t help it, I was born to eat so fast.”
Lin Heng chuckled. In fact, this was a habit he developed when he was hungry when he was a child.
After dinner, Lin Heng told his father and elder brother that the materials for the corridor and pavilion were ready.
"After it's done, help build it." Lin's father nodded, rested for a while, and then the three men came to Lin Heng's new house together.
"Lin Yue, don't say it. You said that your brother's house looks different with this decoration."
Father Lin looked at Lin Heng's backyard. He thought it was ordinary before, but now it has been repaired. It's really artistic.
"Yes, it feels like sitting here and drinking tea is a pleasure. I will also build a pavilion in the yard later." Lin Yue nodded.
"It's okay, what's mine is yours, you can come over at any time." Lin Heng smiled. His original idea of building this house was to be a beautiful farmhouse.
"Okay, let's start building." Father Lin said, and the three of them went to the front to move the wood.
This is a small pavilion measuring three by three and nine square meters. The four main pillars were buried a few days ago. The pillars are made of pine wood with a side length of 20 centimeters. The parts buried in the soil were carbonized and brushed with tung oil three times.
"Lin Heng, hold the ladder up, your brother and I will build the beam." Father Lin said, leaned the ladder against the pillar, and climbed up with the beam in one hand.
There are holes punched in the columns, and the beams are passed through, and the four columns are connected together to form a stable three-dimensional structure.
With a sound of knocking, all the wooden beams passed through. Father Lin added some wooden wedges to completely fix it, and then rode on the beam.
“Give me the short upright.”
Father Lin said again.
The next step is to install columns of different lengths in the middle and on both sides of the beam. The middle is higher and the sides are lower. A triangular frame is formed. Then the beams are set and the rafters are set, and the laying of terracotta tiles begins.
Since all the wooden beams were done in advance by the carpenters, the direct installation was very fast. It took one and a half hours to complete a small square wooden pavilion.
Facing the small wooden bridge over the fish pond, sitting in the pavilion you can just watch the gurgling stream and the fish playing in the water. After putting some lotus flowers in the fish pond, the artistic conception will be more intense.
Father Lin stood in the pavilion and looked around, his eyes scanning the yard. He had been a farmer all his life and rarely put any effort into enjoyment.
Because he carries the burden of a family on his shoulders, the most common thing he says is that when I get old, I need to take a good rest, make a fish pond, build a fish pond, be self-sufficient, and travel around. But this is always just chatting, and he can never be idle. Working seems to be the inevitable fate of his generation.
After his son was raised, he thought about his grandson. When he could no longer do heavy work, he picked up garbage. He was busy all his life, completely burning himself for the sake of this country and his children and grandchildren.
"Dad, in two years I will build you a villa. You will drink tea and walk in the villa every day. You will be more beautiful than this and more chic than the previous landlords."
Lin Heng looked at his father and said with a smile.
Hearing this, Father Lin's slightly tired brown pupils first showed a hint of longing, and then turned into a faint smile on his face. He patted Lin Heng on the shoulder: "You kid, don't let me worry about you for you." Okay, don’t be unable to eat anymore, and your mother and I will help you.
After building a new house, we can live a good life with Xiulan, and we will work hard as a family.”
< br>"Dad, I believe what I said. Let's make money together to build a big house for you and my mother." Lin Yue also said with a smile.
Hearing this, Father Lin smiled: "Live your own life first, let's go and go to the corridor in the front yard."
Although he knew what his sons said It is difficult to realize it, but I still can't help but long for it.
Lin Heng was also very happy. The best thing about this family is that everyone is of the same mind. Even though his sister-in-law Liu Juan is shrewd and careless, she is also very filial to Father Lin and Mother Lin.
It is also such a harmonious and warm family that makes him yearn for and full of motivation.
If it were like his eldest father's family, where the son and the father think about sucking each other's blood every day, one despises the husband and the other despises the wife, life will be meaningless.
When we came to the front yard, the work was done in the same way, installing beams, erecting columns, installing main beams, installing rafters, and installing terracotta tiles.
Front yard corridor Lin Heng originally wanted to use straw to repair the roof, but he thought it would be too troublesome to replace it every year. Anyway, there were a lot of terracotta tiles left, so he could just use terracotta tiles.
"Okay, good luck and success!"
After Father Lin laid the last tile, he smiled and blessed, and then climbed down from the ladder.
"Do you still want to lay stones?"
Father Lin asked again, he was always like this and couldn't take any time off.
"Yes, but it's not much. I can just do it myself." Lin Heng nodded.
"Let's go then, we will help you until the end." Father Lin said as he took tools and went to the mountain behind to get stones.
The eldest brother Lin Yue also patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "It's not much. The three of us can finish it in a while. It will take you a long time to do it alone."
"Okay." Lin Heng was not polite either.
While walking, he discussed with his elder brother about penning the pigs behind the house.
“I don’t think there is a problem. It does stink too much when placed in the yard, especially in summer, when mosquitoes are everywhere. I plan to move the pigsty in our yard outside next year.”
Father Lin nodded and said that he thought this proposal was a good one.
"Then wait for a good day in two days, and let's build pig pens, chicken and duck pens together." The eldest brother Lin Yue nodded, it is indeed better to build outside.
“There is no need to find a special day. Tomorrow is a good time to start building a pig pen. When I asked people to check the days, the first day was tomorrow.
But because I will definitely not be able to do the carpentry work tomorrow. It’s over, so it’s postponed to May 2nd.” Father Lin turned around and said.
"Okay, we'll do it tomorrow." The eldest brother nodded and said.
After the stones were moved and laid, it was almost seven o'clock. It didn't get dark until eight o'clock these two days. Back at the old house, Mother Lin was already cooking.
Sister-in-law Liu Juan is chopping pigweed, Xiulan and Caiyun are collecting mushrooms and bamboo shoots. The porcini mushrooms picked up yesterday were sliced and dried completely in the sun today.
Xiaoxia was training Xiongba and playing a stick-throwing game. When she saw Lin Heng coming back, she quickly threw the stick away and staggered over: "Dad~"
"Come on , baby, give her a kiss." Lin Heng picked up his daughter and stretched out her face.
“Bah!”
The little girl's pink mouth kissed Lin Heng's face. Lin Heng, who was satisfied, put his daughter on his neck and trotted around the yard.
"You know how to show off your daughter." The eldest brother Lin Yue was extremely envious. Among his three sons, he didn't have a daughter.
Although I am very happy, sometimes I also want a caring little cotton-padded jacket. Look at Xiaoxia, how can she be like his son who only knows how to be naughty and misbehaving?
But there is nothing we can do. We have family planning, and we have to pay a fine for having three children, so we don’t dare to have a fourth child.
And now it is impossible to have a baby. His wife Liu Juan has already had a sterilization ring.
Lin Heng chuckled: "It's okay, I'm also your niece. I'll give you a hug."
"I won't hug you." Lin Yue shook his head. He was afraid that if he hugged him for too long, he couldn't help but deal with the three naughty ones at home. Tricky boy.
"Dad, second dad, I found the rabbit!"
As soon as he said about his son, his eldest son Lin Wei ran in with his younger brother one after the other.
"Rabbit, where are you?" Lin Yue looked at his son and asked curiously.
"On the other side of the river, in the thatch at the head of the field, I was shooting a green-bearded fool with a slingshot. Suddenly I saw a rabbit. I wanted to hit it, but after taking two steps, it ran into the grass and disappeared. "
Lin Wei pointed in that direction and said excitedly.
"This is interesting, let's get up early tomorrow morning and go take a look." Lin Heng nodded and said.
"Can I come with you?" Lin Wei didn't believe that his second father would take him with him.
"Of course, don't you have class at eight o'clock? We will go there at six o'clock in the morning." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Okay, second daddy, I like you the most." Lin Wei jumped up excitedly, he really wanted to experience hunting up close.
"Is it okay if he follows him? He won't scare the rabbit away, it will only startle him." Lin Yue was very worried.
"Definitely not, I'm very quiet." Lin Wei shook his head quickly and said.
Lin Heng also smiled and said: "It's okay, it's just a rabbit hunt. If he wants to go, he can go."
This kind of novices often have good luck, just like those who do it for the first time. A fishing guy can catch a big fish just by throwing his fishing rod into the water. There is really something mysterious in it.
When Lin Heng said this, Lin Wei felt that his second father was closer to him than his biological father.
"I...go~"
Xiaoxia opened her mouth and waved her dirty little hands to indicate that she wanted to go too.
"Go, go, I'll take you there." Lin Heng threw his daughter up and caught her, making her laugh.
But after throwing it for a while, he couldn't hold on anymore and his back hurt.
"Bring it to me." Xiulan said after packing her things.
"Brother, do you want to catch eels tonight?" Lin Yue suggested while washing his hands.
Due to delays in building a house, they only caught eels once this year.
"Take dad with you. He is also good at catching eels. My legs hurt." Lin Heng changed his waist pain to leg pain.
"It's okay, let's go." Father Lin nodded. He was also very interested in catching eels.
"Let's eat first, it's already done." Mother Lin walked out of the kitchen and looked at everyone and said.
Dinner is pickled cabbage noodles, stir-fried six butterfly vegetables, and I drank some wine before cooking the pickled cabbage noodles.
Lin Heng went to rest after eating, lying on the bed and playing with his daughter. Father Lin and his eldest brother Lin Yue went to the fields to catch eels. Father Lin took an eel clip made of bamboo.
When the two left, they vowed that their target tonight was fifteen kilograms of eel. Lin Heng estimated that it would be good if they could get ten kilograms.
"The pigsty will be built tomorrow..." Lin Heng lay on the bed and told Xiulan the work he had done today.
Xiulan also told Lin Heng what she saw and heard on the mountain today, confiding in each other's feelings and chatting about tomorrow's plans.
Most of the days in rural areas are ordinary, eating, working, going up mountains and rivers, nothing more than that. But if two people are in harmony, ordinary days can also be warm and happy.
At around twelve o'clock, Lin Heng heard the courtyard door being pushed open and put on some clothes.
"How was it? How was the harvest?" Lin Heng asked with a smile on his face.
"Hey, son, you will have suffered a big loss if you didn't come today. I caught a good thing." Father Lin smiled and said a little showily.
"What is it? What else can there be besides a turtle?" Lin Heng didn't care. Even if it was a turtle, it wouldn't be bigger than the old turtle he raised.
“It’s not a turtle, it’s a small tortoise.” Father Lin shook his head and took out a palm-sized tortoise from behind. There were gold threads on the tortoise shell and the whole body was jet black, which was very iconic.
"Where was this found?" Lin Heng was a little surprised. This thing is rarer than a turtle.
"It's in the ditch beside the field. It probably ran in from the river." Father Lin said with a smile.
"It's amazing. Although it can't be sold for much, it's good to keep and play with." Lin Heng was a little envious.
"Where's the eel?" Lin Heng asked again.
“The eel is not much, only five or six pounds, and some of it ran away.” The eldest brother Lin Yue said with some pity.
Lin Heng was not surprised by this: "Not bad, hurry up and go to bed."
After saying that, he went back to the house and told Xiulan about their harvest. He slowly fell asleep.
(End of this chapter)