Chapter 111 It doesn’t matter if you don’t catch this fish, just turn around and go back to the village
The father and son sat down in the shade of the tree. Lin Heng leaned against the tree with a piece of foxtail grass in his mouth and looked at the sky.
“It’s so blue.”
Lin Heng sighed, blue sky, green trees, clear water, birds chirping and cicadas chirping, what a harmonious scene.
Xiong Ba also had a full meal in the morning and lay down next to Lin Heng, sleeping with his legs in the air and his eyes closed.
The dead grouse was a little smelly, so I simply cooked it and fed it to Xiong Ba in the morning. It is very comfortable now.
"Don't you look at the fishing rod? What if you catch a fish?" Father Lin asked aloud.
Lin Heng turned around and saw that even when he was talking to himself, his father's eyes were still staring at the fishing rod. He was so dedicated.
He couldn't help but smile and said: "Dad, you don't have to stare so hard, it's not that easy to catch fish. It's good to relax under the blue sky."
"The sky is not interesting either. , I'd better look at the water." Father Lin shook his head, not very interested in the sky.
Lin Heng had no choice but to touch the sleeping Xiongba. It stuck out its tongue and licked his hand. He opened his eyes a little and took a look, then stopped dead again.
“Fish!!”
Suddenly, Father Lin climbed up, ran over and pulled up the fishing rod.
Pop tower! !
A fish was pulled out of the water by him, fell behind him, and landed in front of Lin Heng.
Lin Heng: "..."
"Dad, you don't catch fish like this. The fish's mouth will be torn apart by the fish. Even if the fish's mouth is not broken, the line and pole may be broken." He was speechless.
Father Lin didn’t care about that. He walked over and caught the little catfish, which weighed more than a kilogram. He grinned: “Don’t tell me, fishing is really interesting.”
“ Woof woof!”
Xiong Ba got up and wagged his tail to express his desire to eat.
Father Lin couldn't bear it, so he dug a beach next to it and put it there.
He touched the dog's head and said with a smile: "If I can catch a five-pound one, I'll give this to you."
"Woof woof!" Xiongba rubbed it happily. Father Lin.
"What the hell, I'll catch a big one for you later."
Lin Heng said casually.
Xiong Ba believed it, ran back and lay down in front of Lin Heng, looking at his fishing rod.
Father Lin hung up the liver and threw it away.
Not three minutes later, Lin's father suddenly cheered: "Up again, up again."
He rushed forward, grabbed the pole and lifted it fiercely, and a catfish When it came out of the water, it couldn't fly because it was a little big, but it was dragged directly to the shore by him.
Lin Heng shook his head helplessly, thinking that this was the novice halo, it was really interesting.
Fortunately, Father Lin used nylon thread for this fishing method. He would probably break the cotton thread.
"Two pounds, maybe." Father Lin came over with the fish and showed it, smiling so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.
“Not bad.” Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Woof woof!" Xiong Ba put a paw on Lin Heng's leg with a questioning look in his eyes.
I seem to be asking you about the fish, my master.
"Don't be anxious, you will always catch the fish. Haste makes waste, small gain means big things will not happen." Lin Heng smiled and touched Xiong Ba's round and smooth head.
Xiong Ba looked at him and lay down again.
Wait until Father Lin pulled up a three to four kilogram big catfish for the third time.
Xiongba didn't make any sound, but he had quietly crawled up to Father Lin and wagged his tail.
Lin Heng: "..."
Father Lin put the fish down, touched Xiongba, looked at Lin Heng and said with a smile: "Son, you are good at hunting, but you don't seem to be very good at fishing."
Lin Heng: "..."
"Why can't I catch fish? Is it because the bait is gone?"
Lin Heng stood up and said to himself, walked over and pulled up the fishing rod, feeling that he was being provoked.
As a senior fisherman, how could he be defeated by a novice?
Pulling the bamboo pole up, a small piece of soaked and whitened pork liver was still hanging on it.
"It's weird, it really is." Lin Heng replaced it with a fresh piece of pork liver and threw it away again.
Ten minutes later, Father Lin caught another small catfish. He put the fish down and comforted him with doubts: "This fishing is strange. We are so close to each other and I catch the fish. You You can't catch it."
Lin Heng: "..."
"Dad, do you know what the catfish's beard is for?" Lin Heng suddenly asked with a smile.
"What for?" Father Lin really didn't know.
Lin Heng smiled slightly and explained: "Catfish relies on taste to hunt. It has 100,000 taste receptor cells on its body surface.
As for Beard, it feels that there is no place for taste on its body. Receptor cells. That’s why the specialized taste tentacles are all covered with taste receptor cells, so that they can be detected at a very high speed. You can feel the smell released by the prey from a long distance, and it is 360 degrees with no blind spots."
Father Lin didn't understand, but was shocked: "Son, you are amazing, you can even fish. If you can sum up so many things, why can’t you catch them?”
Lin Heng: “…”
He could tell that his father's question was sincere, but it was really hurtful.
“I guess it’s because catfish are most sensitive to sour taste, so we still have to use live earthworms. Live earthworms struggle in the water to release carbon dioxide, which will form carbonic acid, and catfish can sense it better.”
Lin Heng analyzed it, turned over two rocks, and found a ten centimeter-long blue-black earthworm. He held it in his hand and moved it wildly.
“I can definitely do it this time.”
Lin Heng pulled up another fishing rod, took off the pig liver on it, replaced it with this fat earthworm, and then threw it in Into the water.
"Hey, son, I caught the fourth one again."
As soon as Lin Heng dropped the pole, Father Lin raised the pole again, and the fish was not as big as a catfish weighing more than a kilogram.
“Woof woof!!”
Xiong Ba rubbed his father Lin’s legs, sticking out his tongue and begging for food, with admiration in his eyes.
"Haha, I'll give it to you when I go back." Father Lin touched Xiong Ba's head.
"Don't worry, it will definitely be fine." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"It doesn't matter, no matter how much I catch, I can't catch as much as you, a wild boar."
Father Lin said with a smile, then looked at the sky: "The sun will be hot soon, let's Just go back and pick mushrooms."
"Okay."
Lin Heng was not in the mood to look at the blue sky, and the dogtail grass was also spitting out. He looked at the sharp tips of the bamboo poles. Touching the water.
As time passed, the water vapor on the ground evaporated, the freshness of the morning disappeared, heat followed, and the chirping of cicadas became noisy.
Father Lin caught another catfish weighing half a kilogram and stopped moving. Lin Heng's side was the Dinghai Shenzhen, which didn't move.
"Take it and go back." Father Lin said with a smile.
"Dad, you clean up first, I'll wait a moment." Lin Heng was unwilling to give in. How could he be in the Air Force? Was he really sucked out of his luck?
“That’s okay.”
Father Lin nodded. He packed the fish in a bag and was about to collect the fishing rod when he saw Lin Heng rushing out.
As soon as I pulled up the fishing rod, I felt like I had caught the earth for a moment.
Just when Lin Heng was wondering if he was hanging on the bottom, a strong force pulled the fishing line out, and the fishing rod immediately turned into a big curved bow.
“Big fish, definitely a big fish!!”
Lin Heng’s high-pitched voice of surprise could not be concealed, and the nylon thread squeaked as it was pulled.
"This fish is absolutely huge. What should I do? Do you want me to help you?" Father Lin was also overjoyed and stood by in a hurry.
"It's okay, I can sneak away slowly."
Lin Heng grinned, with his back molars exposed: "Let me just say that my analysis is right, live earthworms are more It’s easy to catch catfish.”
As a senior fisherman, Lin Heng is not as anxious as his father. He pulls and releases the fish for a while to strengthen the fish.
After slipping for more than ten minutes, Lin Heng finally felt that the fish had no strength and pulled it out of the water with force.
When they saw this big fish, the two of them were dumbfounded: "What a big turtle, it's not even a fish."
Lin Heng: "..."
You Damn, you're a big toad. I've been blowing for a long time, and now you have such a big turtle.
"Son, you are good at this." Father Lin gave a thumbs up.
“It’s okay, okay.” Lin Heng chuckled. Although he didn’t catch any fish, this turtle was obviously more valuable.
Pulling it ashore, although it was not as big as the big turtle found in Baishigou before, it was definitely still six or seven pounds.
“This turtle is okay, it must be six or seven pounds.” Father Lin said with a smile.
Lin Heng pulled the nylon line and looked at the fishhook. It was not eaten into the throat, but the hook just pierced the lower jaw.
“Fortunately, dad helped me take out the fishhook, and I can still feed him.”
Lin Heng grabbed the turtle’s legs with one hand and its neck with the other. Father Lin grabbed It took a lot of effort to get the fishhook out.
"This turtle must have been around for more than ten years." Lin Heng looked at it, showed it to Father Lin, and then threw it into the snakeskin bag.
"Sure, this is an old turtle. It's worth as much as the skin of a piece of white rice. Although you didn't catch any fish, you made more money than I did if I caught five fish." Father Lin was happy He patted Lin Heng on the shoulder.
Lin Heng: "..."
After packing their things, the two of them left chatting and laughing.
Back at the camp, eldest brother Lin Yue has not come over yet, and Lin Wei is playing in the water and catching fish by the stream.
Seeing Lin Heng and the others coming back, he ran over excitedly: "Grandpa, second dad, have you caught anything?"
"Of course, although there was no prey, I caught catfish. Your second dad also caught A big turtle has arrived.”
Father Lin touched his grandson’s head and said with a smile. "You guys are so awesome. I will go fishing next time too." Lin Wei looked at the fish and turtles and his eyes widened.
Lin Heng smiled, dug a beach and put the fish in. The turtles were just thrown into the bag and hung up. They would not die without water.
"Dad, let's go pick up fungi." Lin Heng came over and said.
Father Lin shook his head: "Lin Heng, you take Lin Wei to pick up the fungi, and I will deal with the wild boar head. Let's eat pig head meat for lunch."
He didn't want the wild boar head to go to waste. , I felt sorry to hear that Lin Heng fed the big boar head to Xiong Ba last time.
The processed pig head is delicious, so he planned to process the wild boar head and eat it for lunch.
"Okay, Lin Wei, let's go." Lin Heng understood what his father was thinking and took his eldest nephew up the mountain.
"Today's goal is mainly to pick tea tree mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, ganoderma lucidum, egg mushrooms and green head mushrooms."
Lin Heng said looking at his eldest nephew, who has been picking up with adults since he was a child. There is no need to teach him to identify fungi.
"I know the second dad, let's see who picks up the most." Lin Wei was very motivated.
"Then you have to work hard. You can sell what you pick up and buy what you want." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Okay." Lin Wei became more motivated when he heard this.
The two of them separated a little and started picking. Tea tree mushrooms were the most numerous.
Two steps away, there was a large bush with many tree roots. After more than an hour of picking, Lin Heng’s backpack was full, almost all of which were tea tree mushrooms. He estimated that they weighed forty or fifty kilograms.
On the other side, Lin Wei also picked up half of the basket.
Go back with the backpack on your back. Lin Heng poured the tea tree mushrooms on the pebble beach beside the stream to dry.
While waiting for lunch, Lin Heng picked three baskets and more than 150 kilograms of tea tree mushrooms.
"There are really a lot of these things, but it's a pity that they only cost thirty cents."
Lin Heng looked at the tea tree mushrooms on the ground and shook his head slightly. It would be good if these dried tea tree mushrooms can weigh thirty kilograms.
The shrinkage of mushrooms is so serious that it is not unusual for ten pounds of wet mushrooms to be dried and one pound of dried mushrooms.
"Second father, how many pounds do you think these can weigh if I make them?" Lin Wei asked, pointing to the piece he picked.
"About sixty or seventy pounds, not bad." Lin Heng patted him on the shoulder.
Back at the shelter, Father Lin had cleaned all the hair on the wild boar's head and peeled it off.
"How is it? Is it not bad?" Father Lin asked with a smile.
"Yes, it would be perfect if it could be marinated." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"It will definitely be spoiled even if you take it back. It's better to fry the mushrooms and eat them."
Father Lin shook his head and started to cut the meat. There was no condition to braise the meat on the mountain.
Lin Heng cleaned the green head mushrooms and egg mushrooms he picked and brought them over.
What is being boiled in the pot is to peel off the pig head and leave enough skeleton, and there is still a lot of meat. Normally, the meat is taken out and fried, but today I fed it to the dog Xiongba.
The pig head meat was cut into pieces and stir-fried with mushrooms. The aroma immediately came out and spread around, making everyone’s stomach growl.
“What kind of meat are you frying? It’s so fragrant.”
At this time, Lin Yue’s voice came from the creek.
"Dad, we were frying wild boar. Second dad and grandpa shot the wild boar and caught two piglets."
Lin Wei jumped up and ran over to hug his dad.
Lin Yue was stunned for a moment: "Did you hit a wild boar? How big is it?"
I have only been away for a day, how come it feels like so many things have happened.
"You came just in time, I will tell you while eating."
Father Lin said with a smile.
After the pork head was fried, the four of them started to eat together. The water was boiling and they were ready for a while.
There is still some rice and noodles left, and they plan to finish the noodles first.
Pork head meat is almost all pig skin. After frying, it is soft and elastic, just like pig ears, chewy and crispy.
After hearing what happened between Lin Heng and his father in the past two days, Lin Yue couldn't help but admired: "This is so cool. If I had known about it, I wouldn't have left. I didn't encounter wild boars when hunting."
Lin Heng smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll just take you to fight next time. There aren't many things on the mountain, except for wild boars."
"Lin Yue, you and Lin Wei will go back this afternoon. Come on, send the wild boar meat back and call someone over." Father Lin took a sip of the sugary wine and said with a smile.
Lin Yue looked at the things now, shook his head and said: "Dad, I don't think it's necessary. I looked at it and there aren't many things.
Wild boar is not that heavy in salt. It’s easy to break. It’s okay if we go together tomorrow afternoon.”
“That’s okay.” Father Lin thought for a while and agreed.
After dinner, everyone went to the mountain to pick tea tree mushrooms. Lin Heng picked more than 150 kilograms of tea tree mushrooms in the afternoon.
Lin Yue and Lin's father also collected more than a hundred kilograms, and put them all on the stone man to dry.
What I ate at night was still pig head meat. The pig head was too big, so I only ate a third of it in the morning.
Early the next morning, they went to an acorn forest further away, and each picked nearly one hundred kilograms of tea tree mushrooms.
Because I was afraid that there would be too much to take back, I stopped at ten o'clock and spread the fungi on the rocks to dry them in the sun at noon.
As for yesterday, the sun was completely dry. The sun in the dog days of early August is so terrifying.
When loading the mushrooms in the afternoon, Lin Heng still had 50 kilograms of tea tree mushrooms that totaled more than 300 kilograms.
Both Lin's father and Lin Yue only weighed more than thirty pounds, which was slightly less than Lin Heng.
Lin Wei’s weighs only a dozen pounds.
When loading things, one forest musk deer and two small wild boars, one for each of three people, were placed at the bottom of the backpack, and wooden sticks were used to separate things such as wild boar meat, mushrooms, herbs, catfish, and turtles on top.
The three of them took it separately. When the backpack was full, they tied it to the top with a rope, and finally managed to pack everything.
Don’t worry about wild boar cubs or forest musk deer suffocating to death, the basket is made of bamboo and has holes the size of your little finger.
Lin Heng looked at the backpack that was about the same weight as himself, lifted it up, tried it, and said with a smile: "This time it will cost someone's life. It must weigh more than a hundred pounds."
"It's my fault. I didn't see much yesterday, but I didn't expect so many when I pretended to be today." The eldest brother Lin Yue said embarrassedly.
"It's okay, just rest a few times on the way. Let's go home!!"
Father Lin waved his hand, put the basket on his back and shouted.
“Let’s go home!”
Lin Heng looked back at the shelter, then at the mountains, forests and streams that were like a fantasy dream, then turned and left.
He misses his wife and children.
It would be false to say that weighing more than 100 kilograms is not strenuous, but for healthy rural people, it is just tiring.
And as long as they can make money, no one will complain even if it's heavy, just like the migrant workers at the construction site.
Everyone has the same goal, to make their home better.
We set off from the camp at about three o'clock and walked to the west slope of the red sun, still five or six kilometers away from Hongfeng Mountain.
Although we walked in a straight line back, the things were too heavy and everyone walked slowly.
Fortunately, the days are getting longer now. It’s not dark until half past eight, and you can still see the road at nine o’clock.
It was already after nine o'clock when everyone got home, and many people were still outside enjoying the cool air and chatting.
Lin Heng and others wanted to go home quietly, but the calls of Piggy and Lin Shek soon attracted many people.
A group of people searched for it and happened to see Lin Heng and four others coming back from the mountain carrying good backpacks.
"Lin Heng, you went hunting in the mountains again? Did you catch wild boar cubs and muntjacs?" Tian Baishun's eyes widened. This kid didn't even take him with him when hunting.
"Lin Heng, what did you do with this? There are so many bags at such a high level, they are too many."
Li Caifeng asked aloud, her voice trembling.
"I just said why I haven't seen anyone recently. It turns out that I went hunting in the mountains." Liu Lan couldn't help but say, with a sour tone.
"The three backpacks are all high. How many things are needed."
"Are you going to the mountains to purchase goods?"
A group of people say something to each other. Said in one word.
"I didn't get much from my trip to the mountains this time. There were tea tree mushrooms in the bag. I caught two piglets and a female forest musk deer. We don't want the wild boar piglets. If you want to buy them, you can come and buy them tomorrow."
Lin Heng said with a smile, carried the things directly into the room, and put them in the main room.
Everyone saw that Lin Heng did not want to show off, and it was already dark, so they could only walk back.
"I guess there are a lot of good things, but he doesn't dare to show them. He must have made a lot of money again." Liu Lan's eyes turned green with envy.
"That's for sure. I know Lin Heng, and he definitely has good things." Tian Baishun sighed.
"It's really annoying. Why can't I get so many things when I go up the mountain? It's like he's buying goods."
Li Caifeng doesn't understand, not just her, but many people don't understand.
We are all human beings, and it’s not like they have never been to the mountains before. Why don’t they have such great achievements as Lin Heng?
If nothing else, the wild boar cub is eye-catching.
Tian Baishun understood that this was a gap in ability, but he didn't say anything, otherwise he would offend others again.
In fact, everyone knows it in their hearts, but they are unwilling to admit it.
Whether it’s hunting or setting up a sling, there are skills involved in the noose.
The traps set by Lin Heng are all found by Xiongba in places that smell of prey, so they are naturally more likely to be set randomly than ordinary people.
“Hey, even though people lose money buying Phellinus mulberry, but this is a great way to make money.”
“It seems that there will be another thousand-yuan household in the village soon. , I didn’t expect it to be Lin Heng’s family.”
A group of people sighed with envy. Three months ago, they would never have imagined that the Lin family would become like this.
(End of this chapter)