Chapter 79 The chain reaction caused by harvesting mulberry leaves
“Be careful.”
Seeing that Lin Heng was fine, Xiulan said something and went to clean up the dishes.
Lin Heng brought the dried straw into the house and spread it on the bed. Then he also spread the quilt and sheets that his wife had put aside.
When he went out to help his wife clean up the dishes, he found that his mother had sent people back and came to help again. He took a broom and swept the floor, and there was no more work at home.
"Here, this is Xiongba's rice." Xiulan brought out a large bowl of leftover rice, with some chicken bones in it.
“Okay.”
Lin Hengduan went out to fill Xiong Ba’s dog bowl.
“Woof woof~”
Xiongba shook his tail excitedly. As soon as Lin Heng got in, he stretched his head over and started eating.
"There are some terracotta tiles and wooden boards left there. I'll book you a luxurious kennel tomorrow." Lin Heng promised, touching Xiong Ba's head.
I originally wanted to build it for him before, but it was always in the old house and I felt that it would always have to be moved, so I didn’t build it.
"Second brother, Xiaoxia has been coaxed to sleep. Can you put her on the bed?"
After entering the room, Caiyun hugged Xiaoxia and asked softly.
"Come here, she has her own bed."
Lin Heng led the way. This time he asked a carpenter to make a special crib with a raised fence around it, so there was no need to worry about the child rolling under the bed while sleeping.
“This little bed is beautiful.” Caiyun’s eyes lit up as she looked at the little wooden boat.
“Of course, this is made entirely of pine wood and has been finely polished.” Lin Heng said with a smile.
Caiyun put Xiaoxia in, and when he covered her with the quilt, he found that there was a rope at the four corners of the quilt. He was suddenly a little strange: "What is this for?"
"Prevent She's pushing on the quilt, but it's tied to the railings around it, and she can't push it off. But this is the first time she's using it, so let's tie it up first."
Lin Heng explained, stretched out his hand and tied the rope.
“Is this also your idea, second brother?” Caiyun was speechless.
"Of course, otherwise I won't be able to sleep well, and I have to worry about her catching a cold." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"I hope it's useful, I'm leaving." Xiaoxia said with a smile, then went out and left with Mother Lin.
Xiulan sent them out of the door, and when she came back after closing the door, she felt a little uncomfortable. The family suddenly changed from 11 people to three people. It was too deserted and a little uncomfortable.
"Wash your feet and rest. Do you want to take a shower?" Lin Heng had already poured the foot washing water and brought their slippers.
“No, I didn’t go out today.” Xiulan shook her head.
"Then sit down and wash it quickly. I will wash it after you wash it." Lin Heng said.
Xiulan blinked and sat down to wash her feet. As soon as she took off her shoes, Lin Heng's hand reached out.
“I guessed it.” Xiulan looked at him, a hint of cunning flashing in her big bright eyes.
Lin Heng said seriously: "I just saw that you were tired and wanted to give you a squeeze."
"Then you can squeeze it." Xiulan nodded and watched his movements.
“It’s so touching.” Lin Heng smiled silly.
After washing Xiulan's feet for a while, he finished. As soon as the water was poured out after he finished washing himself, the two of them turned around and went to the bedroom.
“Oops!”
As soon as they entered the bedroom door, Lin Heng picked up his wife by the waist. Xiulan was startled and quickly hugged his neck to avoid falling.
“What are you doing?” Xiulan glared at him.
"Hey, what do you think, Xiaoxia has her own little bed, so you don't have to worry about waking her up tonight." Lin Heng chuckled.
Xiulan lowered her head, her face slightly red: "Do you want me to give you a son?"
"Let this matter wait until next year, forget it this year."
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Lin Heng smiled, carried Xiulan to the bed, blew out the kerosene lamp beside the bed, and started the battle.
The hazy moonlight outside the window fell like a gauze, and a battle in the house that was far more intense than before began silently.
In the newly built house, there was no need to worry about anyone hearing, so it became even more intense. We fought three times in a row before falling asleep in each other's embrace.
Early the next morning, it was not until nearly seven o'clock that the two of them woke up and looked at each other. A blush immediately appeared on Xiulan's face.
Under the thin summer quilt, the two of them were still in a candid state.
"You touched me again." Xiulan glared at Lin Heng.
Lin Heng laughed: "There is no way, this is a natural phenomenon."
Xiu Lan rolled her eyes, quickly put on her clothes and got up, taking out the dirty sheets from the chair Go soak.
It was just that her legs hurt when she walked, and her face turned red again when she thought of her ridiculous actions last night.
For a simple rural girl, those are a bit too shocking.
After getting up, Lin Heng couldn't walk while holding on to his lower back. He couldn't help but shook his head: "It's so beautiful that the human body is so fragile that she can kill ordinary people with a sword at her waist."
Lin Heng went to bed. I came to the toilet and found that my daughter was awake. I took her to the toilet and sat on a rocking chair to bask in the sun to replenish her yang energy.
After basking in the sun for a while, he took Xiaoxia to feed the chickens and ducks.
“This is the chicken cuckoo, this is the duck quack, this is the lamb bleep.”
Lin Heng was teaching his daughter while throwing out the ground corn. Feed the chickens and ducks.
"Xiao Ji cuckoo, duckling quack, anti-inflammatory blea blea~"
Xiaoxia grabbed some chopped corn with her little hands, and followed Lin Heng's example and scattered it, but unfortunately it all fell outside the cage.
"Get closer and do it again." Lin Heng picked up his daughter.
She opened her pink mouth and said it again, and finally sprinkled it in.
"Awesome." Lin Heng smiled and kissed his daughter.
Xiaoxia grinned, grabbed another handful of chopped corn and threw it in, chanting "chicken coo coo".
Looking at the chickens and ducks fighting for what she fed, their little faces were filled with happy smiles.
But when Lin Heng took out the lamb, she was still a little scared and hid behind Lin Heng's legs.
“Don’t be afraid, it won’t bite you.” Lin Heng said with a smile.
“Afraid!”
Xiaoxia hugged his legs and was unwilling to let go.
Lin Heng picked her up, and the little girl hid her face in her arms, not daring to look.
Lin Heng was helpless. He didn’t know why she dared to pull a dog’s tail but was afraid of a lamb. Could it be because she had never seen it before?
Finding a place with plenty of grass to tie the sheep, Lin Heng took his daughter home to wash her face and feed the fry by the water.
“I forgot to give my eldest brother and the others two pieces of soap.” Lin Heng only remembered this when he used the soap to wash his face.
"You can take it to them later." Xiulan handed him the towel and said.
Lin Heng wiped his face: "Okay."
"What do you want to eat in the morning?" Xiulan asked again.
“You can do whatever you want.” Lin Heng said with a smile.
“Then let’s mix the sauerkraut into the soup.”
"Okay."
Xiulan went to cook, and Lin Heng took her daughter to her eldest brother's house next door.
"Brother, let's eat, pickled cabbage dough, do you want to eat it?"
Seeing Lin Heng walking into the yard, Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Xiulan is making it right now. I'm here to deliver soap to you. The one I gave to mom before was not very good. This thing gets better as it gets older."
Lin Heng smiled and put the soap on the table, turned around and left.
"Brother, I won't be polite to you, but you should play for a while before leaving." The eldest brother Lin Yue said.
"Yes, let's play for a while and drink some water before leaving." Sister-in-law Liu Juan also quickly put down the bowl and poured water for Lin Heng. She had been craving for soap for a long time.
"Okay." Lin Heng sat for a while.
The eldest brother’s yard is filled with all kinds of fruits and vegetables, but only one third is empty.
After chatting for a while, Xiaoxia disagreed and wanted to go home to play with the dog, so Lin Heng had to take her back.
"Lin Heng, take these rape seedlings back and make sauerkraut for Xiulan. Your brother dug too many yesterday and we can't finish them." When he left, his sister-in-law got him a bunch of rape seedlings.
"Okay, thank you." Lin Heng was not polite and took it back.
“Here, my sister-in-law gave it to me.” Lin Heng gave the rapeseed to his wife.
"Just leave it there, I'll pick it up later." Xiulan nodded.
Let Xiongba play with Xiaoxia, and Lin Heng took a hammer to nail the kennel for Xiongba.
It is also simple to make. Just nail a square with a length, width and height of two meters, leaving the two adjacent sides unsealed. One side is the door and the other side is the roof.
The roof was nailed into a triangle with boards. After thinking about it, Lin Heng did not use terracotta tiles. Instead, he found some straw left over from last year. Part of it was used to decorate the roof and part of it was used to make a nest for Xiong Ba.
"Okay, your house is built. It will eat well and grow well." Lin Heng brought Xiongba over and touched its head.
“Woof woof!!”
Xiongba let out a cheerful cry, got into the small house, lay down and stood up again. After playing for a while, he ran over and picked up his dog bowl and placed it at the door.
“Let’s eat when we’re done. The rice is almost cold.” Xiulan looked at him and said. "Didn't I let you eat first?" Lin Heng chuckled.
Xiulan glanced at him and said with a smile: "I just like to wait for you to come and eat together."
She had already scooped out the rice.
While eating, Lin Heng mentioned the previous matter to Xiulan again: "Honey, didn't I tell you before that I wanted to acquire Phellinus mulberry?"
Xiulan was stunned: "What happened again?" "Say this? Are you ready to start?"
She thought it was just a whim of her husband, but she didn't expect that he was really planning to do this.
"Yes, do you know what the uses of Phellinus linteum are?" Lin Heng asked.
"Chinese medicine, I don't know exactly what it does." Xiulan shook her head.
"You know about cancer, right? It's a disease that is almost impossible to survive. The old man from the Wang family in the village died of stomach cancer." Lin Heng added.
"I know, does it matter?" Xiaoxia didn't quite understand.
Lin Heng explained with a smile: "It's like this. I was reading in the library and saw relevant reports. In 1968, Japan discovered that Phellinus linteus extract can fight cancer.
South Korea also had the same problem in 1974 This anti-cancer substance has been discovered, and it is said that it has recently begun to be exported. The price of Phellinus linteum will definitely rise sharply, so I want to buy a batch before it rises and then sell it when the price rises."
He. What I said is all true and there is no trace of fraud.
Xiulan looked at Lin Heng, thought for a while and said: "If you want to do business, I won't stop you, but I don't understand these things. So, as long as you keep fifty yuan for your family as life-saving money.
If you want to do business, just do it. Anyway, you still have the ability to hunt. If you lose it, you can make it back slowly.”
A month ago, she might have hesitated for a long time, but now. She decided to believe in her husband, just as she had always believed that he would turn around.
"Honey, thank you for your trust." Lin Heng was a little moved, it was Xiulan.
If other men in the village said this to their mother-in-law, they would definitely be scolded, and they might even be threatened with having to "go back to their parents' home" or "not being able to live anymore."
Many rural families cannot get rich, and to a certain extent, this is also due to the short-sightedness of ignorant women who still like to be housekeepers and manage money.
"I definitely trust you. As long as you don't steal or rob, it's okay to try to do a small business. You can't just farm the land for the rest of your life." Xiulan glared at Lin Heng, as if to say that you actually suspect me of you. of trust.
She also had a small business selling tofu before, but she gave up after working with Lin Heng because the farm work was too much. She was not very disgusted with this aspect.
Of course, the most important thing is that the risk of harvesting Phellinus linteum is not high. Even if the price does not increase, or even drops a bit, you will not lose much money.
Lin Heng was a little excited. After finishing the soup in two gulps, he went to nail a big board and wrote on it that he wanted to buy Phellinus linata, as much as he wanted. The price was 80 cents per catty, the same as in the town.
"Here, is fifty yuan enough?" Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and asked.
“That’s enough, that’s enough.” Lin Heng nodded, went out and put the notice board on the side of the road, and then went directly to collect it door to door.
“Are you really harvesting mulberry leaves?”
Yang Zhaotao was a little shocked when he saw Lin Heng coming over.
"Really." Lin Heng nodded.
"That's okay, you wait for me to get it for you." Yang Zhaotao nodded and went to take out the mulberry.
Lin Heng weighed it: "One pound and three taels, I'll give you one dollar. You don't have to change the remaining few cents. Please help me promote it more."
"Okay. "Yang Zhaotao was happy to take advantage of this.
After Lin Heng left, Li Caifeng walked out of the room with a puzzled look on his face: "What is he doing? He has a lot of money and spends it all?"
Yang Zhaotao also smiled: "I can't understand, people can waste money when they have money."
Lin Heng directly collected more than 50 stores near where Murakami lived. He collected a total of 32 kilograms of Phellinus mulberry at a cost of 27 yuan. The extra 1.4 yuan was the profit he gave away. Let everyone help him promote it.
He was busy until noon before he got home. His lower back was very sore.
Xiulan took Xiaoxia out to pick shepherd's purse, gray vegetables, and rape seedlings. They came back and were picking vegetables.
I couldn't help laughing when I saw him holding his waist and coming in: "If you are tired, take a good rest and then run again."
Lin Heng let go of the mulberry tree and scratched his wife when he came over. Kuzhiwo: "If you still smile, don't your legs hurt?"
"Hahaha, wrong, haha, wrong, wrong, hahaha, really wrong..."
Xiulan couldn't bear the tickling, and she laughed and begged for mercy.
“Tickle~”
Xiaoxia saw the two of them playing around and stretched out her little hand.
Lin Heng ran away, but she was caught by her mother: "You tickled me, right?"
Xiaoxia's eyes widened as she looked at her mother and nodded sharply.
“I’ll tickle you too~” Xiulan tickled her twice, making her daughter laugh.
Afraid that she would catch the cold wind if she smiled too much, Xiulan let her go.
“Tickle you~”
Xiaoxia still didn’t repent after being released, so she ran over to take revenge, showing that she still dared.
As a result, Xiulan caught her again, scratched her, and slapped her butt several times.
After playing around for a while, Lin Heng pulled his daughter over to teach her about wild vegetables, gave her two small vegetable leaves, and helped his wife pick them beside him.
"Tomorrow morning, go and help dad and brother weed the corn weeds. Although we are separated, we can only do our own thing after harvesting the crops this year." Xiulan said.
The so-called corn is corn, and they like to call it corn here.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.
Crunch!
Just as the two finished talking, the sound of the front yard door being opened was heard, and then Father Lin, Mother Lin, and uncle all came.
"Lin Heng, I heard from the villagers that you were collecting mulberry leaves in the village today?"
Father Lin asked straight to the point.
Lin Heng had known this would happen for a long time. This was also the reason why he chose to separate the family and start a business. Xiulan was easy to talk to, but the same could not be said for others.
"Yes, you can make money by harvesting mulberry leaves." Lin Heng nodded.
"How do you make money?" Father Lin stared at him.
"In less than two months, the price of Phellinus linteum will rise sharply, and you will be able to make money by then." Lin Heng said, spreading his hands.
"Whether you can count or pinch, you will make money in two months.
I just told you to live a good life in the future, but you are so unreliable.
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You have lost all the money you finally earned from hunting. I wonder how you and Xiulan will live in the future. ”
Lin’s mother was very angry. She felt that Lin Heng was taking too many risks and lost money after just two dollars.
Traditional Chinese medicine was rising and falling, and she was afraid that Lin Heng was taking too many risks. Heng paid all the money for his wife.
“Yes, you should still hunt well and don’t do all these things. "His uncle also looked bad.
"Stop getting these things for me, can't you just keep hunting?
You can live a comfortable life by planting some land and hunting, so why bother doing these things. "Father Lin frowned and warned.
This is the usual psychology of farmers. It is also caused by weak capital and unable to afford compensation. He does not dare to do such risky things. He was the best in his previous life. Example.
50,000 yuan in 1992 may be a drop in the bucket for a wealthy person, but for a rural family, it may take decades or even a lifetime to repay it.
Although Lin Heng. I expected it, but I didn't expect the opposition to be so strong. A group of people in the village said that he was funny, and his parents were also very worried.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Hengxiao explained: " I just don’t want to be a farmer all my life, farming with my face facing the loess and my back turned to the sky, only to end up with nothing, so that’s why I do this.
I don’t want you to go to the hospital when you get old and sick. I don’t have the money.
I don’t want my son to get married in the future, and I, as a father, can’t afford a penny.
Although I have followed people around the city these years, I have not only been idle, I have also read many books and thought about many things.
So I came back, hunting to make money, not only to provide my family with meat to eat, but also to earn a sum of money to do business, so that the entire Lin family can escape from this hard life.
Everything you do has risks. I am willing to bear this risk, and I have already investigated it, so you don’t have to worry. ”
After Lin Heng finished speaking, Father Lin, Mother Lin, and his uncle who wanted to speak fell silent.
Poverty is what they have suffered their entire lives. No one understands better than them how uncomfortable this feels.
Sometimes when they see others making money doing business, they also think that maybe they should try it too.
But then I thought of the old and the young, and the inevitable consequences of failure, so I quietly extinguished this idea in the silent and dark night.
So they are silent at this moment. Isn't Lin Heng the same as them when they were young?
"Dad, Mom, uncle, I agreed. It doesn't matter if you try it. Even if you lose money, you can sell Phellinus linteus without losing too much."
Xiulan first said He was stunned by Lin Heng's words, and then spoke for Lin Heng.
Father Lin opened his mouth, waved his hands in the end, and sighed: "Forget it, since it is a joint decision between you and your husband, then you can make up your own mind."
After that, He turned away, his broad back seemed to gradually become thinner. At this moment, he felt that he was really old.
Lin Heng wanted to stop him, but didn't get up. At this time, he had to walk all the way.
He would never let this family endure the suffering he suffered in his previous life.
"If it doesn't work, remember to stop in time." Mother Lin said, said no more, turned and left.
She doesn’t understand anything, she just doesn’t want her son to lose the money he finally earned. This is the simple heart of a mother.
His uncle looked at Lin Heng, and finally just said: "When will you go hunting in the mountains, please give me news."
Lin Heng smiled slightly: "I will ask later. Mr. Tian, let’s decide on a time. It won’t be later than the day after tomorrow.”
(End of this chapter)