Chapter 148 Father’s change, the pleasant time after the rain
Squatting behind the treetops, Lin Heng took a closer look. On a cupping tree in the distance, there was a gray-white rice seed ( Civets (civets) are eating premature cupping pots.
The so-called cupping pot is a type of persimmon. It is small and has seeds the same size as pumpkin seeds. The flesh is sparse and matures early. It is considered a kind of wild persimmon.
Baimizi is bigger than a cat and smaller than a dog. The normal weight is twenty or thirty kilograms, about the same as a pig badger. The larger ones are said to weigh fifty kilograms.
This guy likes to eat persimmons very much. Every autumn and winter, many people squat under the persimmon trees to catch civets.
Lin Heng is very worried now because the civet is on the tree and can detect every move under the tree.
It is only now that it is three to four hundred meters away, so it has not been discovered.
But it is impossible to get close, let alone fifty meters. If you take a few steps forward, you will be exposed.
After much thought, Lin Heng couldn't find a way to do it. People hunting civets always found that they were eating persimmons from that tree, so they stayed nearby in advance.
"Xiong Ba, it's up to you, give it a try." Lin Heng rubbed Xiong Ba and handed him this task.
Xiongba looked at the civet on the tree, then disappeared into the bushes.
Lin Heng waited silently. About half an hour later, the civet suddenly realized something was wrong and jumped out of the tree.
“Woof!!”
Then Xiongba rushed out from behind and ran wildly to catch up.
I chased from the bushes to the low secondary forest, and then to the tall broad-leaved forest on the mountain.
Ten minutes later, the bully came back dejectedly. It failed to catch up.
"It's okay, there's a rabbit ahead." Lin Heng rubbed its head and comforted him, mentally prepared for this outcome.
Civets can climb trees, and it is really difficult for Xiongba to catch them.
“Aww~”
Xiong Ba shouted and followed Lin Heng.
"It seems like I really need to get a better bow." Lin Heng sighed with emotion.
The orange wood bow I have is still not very good. I can’t get a modern compound bow for the time being, so I’ll get a Mongolian compound bow another day and use it first.
The effective range of his bow is fifty meters. If he wants to accurately hit small prey, he needs a distance of twenty to thirty meters, and there should not be too much wind.
This is not because people are incompetent, but because of the material limitations of traditional wooden bows. Unlike modern compound bows, the material performance and modern technology can accurately hit the target at a distance of 300 meters.
With Xiong Ba, one man and one dog, they soon arrived at the edge of the soybean field at the foot of Hongfeng Mountain.
Xiongba once again entered the fighting state, watching all directions and listening in all directions.
No trace was found on the edge of the ground at the beginning. Lin Heng was not discouraged and led Xiongba along the edge of the ground to search.
There is always a harvest in the soybean fields.
Poof! !
Suddenly two pheasants flew out of the soybean field, clattering and flying towards the mountains on the other side of the river.
Before Lin Heng and Xiong Ba had a chance to be stunned, there was sudden movement in the field ahead, and a big brown rabbit ran towards the bushes and thatch on the mountain.
“Woof woof!!”
Without Lin Heng’s orders, Xiong Ba chased after him.
Because the distance was a bit far, I couldn't catch up for a while. I caught up with the thatch from the soybean field and finally forced it into a hole.
“Woof woof!”
Xiongba looked back at Lin Heng, indicating that there was nothing he could do.
Lin Heng walked up slowly from the bottom of the mountain, and Xiong Ba was lying at the entrance of the cave looking at the rabbit.
Lin Heng looked down and saw that it seemed that out of panic, the rabbit had crawled into a nest that was not his own. It had crawled about thirty centimeters before it was blocked and its buttocks was exposed.
Picking up the bow and arrow, Lin Heng shot an arrow in. With a scream, the rabbit quickly stopped moving.
Lin Heng is not in a hurry, he will wait until it is completely dead before taking action.
There is no need to keep any alive, the rabbits we raised before are about to start breeding.
A few minutes later, Lin Heng easily pulled out the dead rabbit.
With a good dog, catching rabbits is really not a difficult task.
After weighing it, Lin Heng estimated that it weighed five or six kilograms. He rubbed Xiongba’s dog’s head and said with a smile, “Let’s go up to the cabin and have a look.”
Because this place is already We're halfway up the mountain, so we might as well go up and have a look.
The cabin has not changed much, but it seems that the house has been visited by birds, leaving a lot of bird droppings.
After taking a look at the growth of Dendrobium candidum, Lin Heng ran to pick up pine cones under the pine forest.
Of course it’s not to pick pine nuts. The black pine nuts are too small to pick.
He picked up these pine cones to make rosin back home. The ancients used pine cones to make rosin.
After picking up half the bag, he took Xiongba back home.
When he got home, his wife had already made rice and the vegetables were heating in the pot, waiting for him.
“Such a big rabbit is really good.” Xiulan watched her husband bring back a big rabbit and praised it with a smile.
“Eat it braised. You can also braise those herrings or whatever.” Lin Heng hung up the rabbit and said with a smile.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded in agreement.
After breakfast, Lin Heng skinned the rabbit, fed the internal organs to Xiong Ba, and gave the rabbit meat to his wife for her to process and make braised rabbit meat.
While taking Xiaoxia with him, he made rosin.
I lit a fire in the front yard. When the firewood burned out and only the charcoal remained, I set up a pot and placed the washed pine cones in the pot to dry over low heat.
Xiaoxia watched curiously and asked questions from time to time. Lin Heng gave her a pine cone for her to look at.
While the pine cone was drying, Lin Heng went to get another piece of nanmu as thick as his wrist. Very thick and large nanmu is very rare, but there are still many small seedlings like this. Yes, after all, this is the Qinling Mountains.
Saw the small nanmu into small sections, brush with sesame oil and set aside to dry.
I found a stone mortar, threw the dried pine cones into it and pounded it. When it was almost done, I borrowed a medicine roller and crushed it again. After the last sifting, I got the pine cone powder.
While borrowing medicine to grind it, Lin Heng saw the calamus that his parents had dried and prepared to sell. He took it back, dried it on the kang, and ground it into powder.
In one noon, I got three kilograms of pine cone powder and two kilograms of calamus powder. Although tired, Lin Heng felt very fulfilled.
"Honey, the rabbit meat and dried fish are braised. You can try it." Xiulan brought the freshly baked rabbit meat and dried fish to Lin Heng.
The braised rabbit meat and fish are both reddish-brown in color, and the braised aroma is astonishing. Lin Heng tore off a piece of rabbit meat and tasted it. His eyes suddenly lit up. It tasted so good.
The original fishy smell of rabbit meat has completely disappeared, replaced by this pure braised aroma and the delicate taste of rabbit meat, which can be enjoyed even without dipping in any soup.
“Honey, you are so good at your craftsmanship.” Lin Heng tore off a piece and fed it to her.
"I want it too, Dad." Xiaoxia always wanted to take a bite of whatever she saw.
Lin Heng fed her a small piece and asked with a smile: "Is it delicious?"
"Yum~" Xiaoxia nodded in a milky voice, indicating that she still wanted to want.
Xiulan smiled slightly and said, "As long as it tastes good, I also braised some eggs for Xiaoxia. You can try the braised fish. It tastes very good."
Lin Heng tasted a piece of braised herring. The fish was very soft and the bones were crispy. The best texture in your mouth is this fish skin. After being dried and marinated, it absorbs the soup, brings the fragrance of the marinade and the umami taste of the fish itself, and has such a chewy texture that it is simply addictive. .
The texture of the fish meat is worse than that of the fish skin, but the taste is not inferior at all. Lin Heng couldn't help but give his wife a thumbs up.
“Then let’s make cornmeal fish for lunch and eat this.” Xiulan said with a smile.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, tore some meat for Xiaoxia again, and then went to help cook with his wife.
When the cornmeal-cooked fish is ready, Lin Heng also removes the braised fish meat. It is most enjoyable to eat it directly without fish bones.
When eating, add a soaked bamboo shoot to make it more filling.
After finishing the meal, I am still savoring the aroma. Braised pork is such a great invention, so delicious.
In the afternoon, Xiulan helped to tear the corn husks, and Lin Heng went to help break the corn. Because this time it was on the side of the road, the broken corn was directly taken back with the carriage, which was much faster than carrying it in a backpack. .
In one afternoon, half of the corn on the three acres of land was harvested.
In the evening, while having dinner at her parents' house, Xiulan brought over half of the braised rabbit meat, which was well received by everyone.
“Xiulan’s craftsmanship is really good.” Mother Lin praised.
Lin Heng looked at his mother and said, "I shot the rabbit, Mom, why don't you praise me."
Mother Lin glanced at him and said perfunctorily: "You too It’s pretty good, but I think this is all due to my daughter-in-law.”
Lin Heng: “…”
Xiulan smiled slightly and gave him a piece of rabbit meat to comfort him. Lin Hengfa stuffed the rabbit meat into his mouth.
"Dad, please find someone to watch for a while. I want the grass carp fry in his fish pond to be transferred to the fish pond." Lin Heng looked at his father and said.
Father Lin nodded: "Okay, let me find someone to take a look at it tomorrow."
Early the next morning, everyone got up. The sky was overcast, and it seemed like it would rain heavily at any time.
In the early morning, Father Lin found his two sons to harvest corn. I don’t know how long the autumn rain will last. If it lasts too long, the corn will rot in the ground.
It was really a race against the heavy rain. Not only them, many people in the village climbed up the slope early in the morning to harvest corn.
That’s how it is to grow crops. You have to rely on the sky for food. It will be very difficult if God doesn’t give you face.
Even with a quick harvest, it still started to rain at about 8 o'clock. It took less than a minute from the beginning of the drops to the heavy rain.
"Dad, go back quickly. If you don't leave, you're going to catch a cold." Lin Heng dissuaded him.
Father Lin slapped his legs, looked at the sky and wailed: "Why is this God so blind? It might as well be an hour later."
However, God only responded to him with more merciless heavy rain. Without any time to say anything, he put on the prepared film paper, loaded the corn into the carriage and hurried back.
When he got home, his pants were already wet and the red dates were wet. Lin Heng took him back to the horse pen, weighed some dry straw, and got some fresh ones. Eat corn leaves.
After settling down the red dates, Lin Heng wiped his body with hot water at home, changed his clothes, and came to the old house with an umbrella. His father was still cursing God. He was so disrespectful. The rain was about to start. Down.
Lin Heng walked into the house and said with a smile: "So dad, don't plant so much land next year. I will buy a batch of fruit saplings in the spring and we will plant fruit trees on all the land. Just leave four or five acres to grow some crops for yourself.”
If Lin Heng had said this before, Lin's father would have definitely criticized him for not having crops to eat, but Lin Heng's recent success has changed his mind.
He nodded and said, "That's right. Let's plant some fruit trees in the spring next year."
Gradually, he also saw that he couldn't make money just by farming.
You look up and see that there are only thousand-yuan households in the village, including weavers, beekeepers, snack sellers, and even herbal diggers. The only ones who do not rely on crops to become thousand-yuan households.
Even those who grow crops are few and far between. They are often like the Lin family half a year ago, with a dozen people crowded into one house and unable to even build a house for their children. .
Sometimes Father Lin sat alone on the edge of the field, looking at the pieces of land on both sides of the river. He had to admit that his second son was right. You really couldn't get rich by farming.
After all, he has been farming for half his life, and no one knows it better than him.
Today’s rain made him feel unreasonable resentment towards God. Hemp ropes are cut at thin spots. Bad luck only seeks out the poor. Life only bullies the poor. It’s useless to work hard to grow crops. God doesn’t care. I won’t help you.
"Okay, then dad, eldest brother, the three of us will go change fruit trees together, let's go together."
Lin Heng said with a smile, hard work will lead to success, it is a lie to children, grow up Only great people understand that choice is greater than effort.
No matter how far you go on a road destined to failure, you will never reach the end of success.
"Hey, let's shell these corns first and hang them up." Father Lin sighed and went to get the ladder.
The women peeled the corn, the children handed the corn to them, and Lin Heng and the other three tied the corn.
There are wires under the eaves. Starting from the bottom, take the corn and wrap it around it. Turn it up and up, and finally form a very thick and big corn string.
When the corn ears are dry in winter, pick them and peel them into corn kernels when you have free time.
There was so much corn this year that my father’s yard couldn’t even string it. After hanging it all under the eaves of my eldest brother’s house, there were still some that were not hung. It took a total of two days to get it done.
On the morning of October 4th, Lin Heng got up from the bed and looked at the still raining weather outside. He felt a little irritated: "The autumn rain is really continuous."
"Autumn is like this. "It rains a lot." Xiulan covered Lin Heng with a quilt and leaned next to him and whispered.
The house was a little cold under the three consecutive days of autumn rain. Neither of them wanted to get out of bed. When Xiaoxia woke up, she was hugged over and stayed in bed together.
The three of them didn't get up until nine o'clock. They made three dishes and one soup for breakfast and ate them slowly.
At noon, Xiulan looked at the tanned leopard skin and added some prepared liquid. It would be ready in two days.
Lin Hengze steamed the fragrant nanmu that had been cut into small pieces and smeared with sesame oil in a pot for two or three hours, then dried it and pounded it into powder with a stone mortar. It took more than half a day. He just made three kilograms of nanmu sticky powder.
Actually, if there was a wall-breaking machine, it would only take half an hour, but unfortunately there is not.
But it’s fun to toss slowly like this, and sometimes it’s fun to waste time.
On October 5th, the rain kept falling. Lin Heng was very bored. He went to the village with an umbrella and found a leaky old earthen pot, and transformed it into a 25-centimeter-tall pot. A small stove with a diameter of thirty centimeters.
The inside is made of yellow mud mixed with straw chips and asparagus. After adding carbon, it can be burned on the table. The exterior and base are only slightly warm but not hot to the touch.
"Honey, is the bacon ready?" Lin Heng asked with a smile as he raised the charcoal fire.
"Okay." Xiulan took the cooked bacon and the cutting board and knife and cut the bacon into small pieces.
Lin Heng has made a barbecue net with iron wire, laid it on the earthen pot stove, and put the bacon on it to bake. After a while, there will be a sizzling sound of oil, and the aroma of the barbecue will come out immediately. .
"Come on, wife, eat one first." After it was baked, Lin Heng blew on it and fed a piece to his wife first.
Xiulan chewed for a while, blinked and smiled: "It's so delicious."
"Dad, I want it too~"
Xiaoxia had already opened her mouth, but Lin Heng The first piece of meat was not given to her. Now there is a sad expression on her little face. If she doesn't give him the second piece, she will cry. There is no way that two pieces of meat can't coax her.
"Here you go." Lin Heng said with a smile, taking a small piece of meat and feeding it to her little mouth.
“Good time~” Xiaoxia smiled happily.
Lin Heng also got a piece for himself. The bacon didn't need to be seasoned at all. It was grilled directly. It tasted so delicious that people couldn't stop eating it.
“Ah, it’s not so urgent to rain now.” Lin Heng grinned, eating barbecue, listening to the rain, and watching the hazy figures of all things in the rain. It was a beautiful thing.
"Meow~" Jinbao sat on the bench and looked at the stove.
"Ouch~" Xiongba squatted on the ground and looked at Lin Heng.
Both these guys are begging, but Xiongba is wagging his tail and grinning, while Jinbao is just rubbing against the back of the bench, and still wants to retain his reserve and arrogance.
After Lin Heng fed Xiongba a piece of meat, Jinbao couldn't sit still anymore. He came over and rubbed his hand. He looked at him with strange-colored eyes, showing a pleading look.
It is no longer afraid of people. It will not move when the rope is untied. It is just like the forest musk deer. It eats and sleeps in the forest. How can it be comfortable to eat and sleep here?
From time to time, I would catch a mouse to show Lin Heng and Xiulan its ability as a powerful predator. Most of the time, it would be playing games with Xiaoxia.
“Here, you can have one too.” Lin Heng touched Jinbao. The hair was shiny and very comfortable to the touch.
“There’s no need to eat lunch.” Xiulan burped and said with a smile. Lin Heng was so good at enjoying life that she had gained weight these days.
"I still have a few pears I bought last time. Let's stew a brown sugar snow pear and eat it to relieve our tiredness." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Everyone would be annoyed if it rains and just sits and watches the rain, but it is much more pleasant to set up a small stove to grill barbecue, stew something to eat, and watch the rain.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a casserole at home, so I stewed it in a small iron pot he used on the mountain. Write this down in your notebook and buy a few small casseroles when you go to town next time.
In ten minutes, a pot of bright red rock sugar pear stew was ready, with red dates and a dendrobium tree thrown in.
Xiulan and Xiaoxia both liked it very much and drank slowly with a spoon.
"Dong dong dong!!"
At this time, there was a knock on the door outside, and then Father Lin's voice came out: "Son, open the door quickly, I have something big to do with you!"
"What's the big deal, dad?"
Lin Heng opened the courtyard door and asked curiously.
“Look at the other side of the river.” Father Lin pointed towards the other side of the upper reaches of the Shiban River and said.
Lin Heng raised his head and looked in that direction. That was the place where he and his eldest nephew Lin Wei had caught hares.
Because it has rained in the past two days, water from the mountain poured directly from that direction.
“Holy shit! Mudslide!!”
It doesn’t matter if you don’t look at it. I was shocked when I saw countless trees and rocks collapsing from the top of the mountain. There was a loud bang and the water flowed down. It splashed more than ten meters high.
The stones and mud flowing down directly blocked the river. The river was cut off like an angry dragon and kept pushing up.
"It's over. The few acres of corn and soybeans down there haven't come, and one of our fields is probably gone." Father Lin shook his head and sighed, God really didn't bless us.
"Why is this happening? The mountain opposite is full of trees, why is there still a mudslide?"
Xiulan and Xiaoxia also came out, looking at the other side in confusion.
"That is a soft rock mountain. If water is poured into it, it will definitely collapse. I hope the families down there by the river are okay."
Lin Heng shook his head, he was also anxious. very.
This rain will definitely cause the road to collapse. When the rain stops, it may be difficult for cars to pass for ten and a half days. He will have to go into the city to buy goods.
"Look, Party Secretary Tian is wearing a raincoat and bringing people down. They are going to inform the people below." Father Lin pointed at the figure appearing on the road and said,
" Party Secretary Tian, please be safe." Lin Heng shouted loudly, he is a good cadre, I hope nothing happens on the road.
“Remember to dig out the drainage ditch behind the house, be careful.” Tian Party Secretary replied and took the people downstream.
Lin Heng looked at the door, and he estimated that the river would burst its banks in less than an hour, and a large head of water would wash away the entire downstream river, and even some surrounding areas would not be able to survive.
Fortunately, his house is quite far away from the Shiban River. If it were to reach this level, Huangtan Town would probably be flooded.
In his memory, this mudslide only appeared in the summer three years later. It was a super heavy rain.
But it broke out now. Things are really unpredictable.
But fortunately, this mudslide is not big. At most, it will destroy fields and houses that are too close to the river.
"Dad, what are you doing here?" Lin Heng asked, looking at his father who was wrapped in film paper.
Father Lin slapped his head and suddenly said: "There is one more thing, I forgot to tell you."
"I went to hunt cattle grass in the morning, and someone in the village said that the corn was killed by wild boars. I went to take a look. , our half acre of corn was destroyed by these damn wild boars," Lin's father cursed.
Originally, there might be a chance to save the corn on the pole, but when it was knocked to the ground by the wild boar, it was definitely doomed.
"There's nothing we can do about it. There's no way we can guard the wild boar for the rest of the day. Just eat it." Lin Heng spread his hands. Wild boars were overflowing in the mountains. This happened every year.
"Hey!" Father Lin sighed fiercely.
"Dad, come in and drink some rock sugar pear before you go back. There is also barbecue."
Lin Heng pulled dad into the house, made him a bowl of hot rock sugar pear, and cut some more Bacon is roasted on the stove.
Father Lin drank hot rock sugar pear and ate barbecue. He couldn't help but smile and said, "You still know how to enjoy it."
Lin Heng looked at his father and persuaded him with a smile. : "Dad, you should also learn from it. Now you don't have any pressure. Don't think about work all day long."
"Okay." Father Lin nodded. There is indeed no pressure at home now. It's just that he instinctively can't take any time off.
After eating barbecue here for a while, Father Lin also thought this small stove was good and wanted to go back and get one himself.
"It feels like the mudslide is about to burst. Let's go out and have a look." Lin Heng looked at his watch and said, almost an hour had passed before he knew it.
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PS: It’s the last day of the show. Tomorrow I’ll start earning 1,000 a day. I’m going to work hard. Friends, please give me a monthly pass. I’ll double my monthly pass at the end of the month. My monthly pass has never exceeded 1,000 in a single month.
(End of this chapter)