Chapter 177 A fireplace won’t be cold in winter
Lin Heng drove the carriage to the town. After waiting for about half an hour, Li Chengguo’s truck came up.
The fireplace that he cherished so much was also pulled up, along with a large amount of goods.
Li Chengguo looked at him: "Boss Lin, are they all loaded and unloaded here?"
Lin Heng looked at him and said: "Help me bring the fireplace, wires and light bulbs to the village. , drop by my house for a meal.”
"That's great, I just happen to be visiting Boss Lin's home." Li Chengguo thought for a while and agreed.
Lin Heng grinned and said, "I'll buy some gypsum powder later. You can help me pull it."
"That's no problem." Li Chengguo nodded.
After unloading the goods and calculating the accounts, we walked to the place where gypsum powder was sold.
Last month, Lin Heng's income from selling goods at the canteen was 200 yuan, which was about the same as the money Lin Heng spent yesterday when he took his family to the city.
But the money can't make up for the leakage. The fireplace also cost one hundred yuan, which is equivalent to the one hundred yuan he spent if it was only the profit of the canteen.
Buying gypsum powder is not expensive, 90 yuan per ton. One ton is enough for Lin Heng to plaster the walls of his home.
After finishing all these, Lin Heng did the calculations.
After paying off the 1,000 yuan from the owner of the brick factory, there was only 6,500 yuan in the bankbook.
Yesterday's sale of musk plus the profit from the canteen settled today, and I also bought lime powder and a fireplace. There is still 7,200 yuan in the bankbook.
What is mentioned here is only what is in the bankbook. Overall, his cash has shrunk a lot recently, and luckily he caught a male forest musk deer.
After the twenty acres of ponds were dug and the workers were paid, he estimated that he would only have four to five thousand in cash.
Shaking his head, he sighed in his heart: "It's a pity that I have never traded in stocks in my previous life, and I don't know the specific direction of the stock market, otherwise it would be much easier to make money."
What kind of companies can you make money by investing in? Of course he knows, but this kind of general trend investment takes a long time. Only through experience can you know the subtle changes and make big money in a short time.
“What’s wrong?”
Li Guocheng looked at Lin Heng and shook his head and asked curiously.
Lin Heng smiled, shook his head and said, "No, I just feel that money is too hard to make."
Li Chengguo was speechless and wanted to hit someone: "I have a lot of money in your pocket at your age. You can’t even come up with five yuan, and you already have a household worth ten thousand yuan, and you still lament this to me?”
The more I think about it, the more terrifying I feel about Lin Heng. He is only twenty years old and he is already so big. Achieved.
Lin Heng shook his head: "I am 21 years old, my birthday has passed."
Li Chengguo: "...Okay, let's not talk about this topic. I can't bear it."
"Do you have anything else to do?" Li Chengguo asked.
Lin Heng shook his head and said: "No, I have bought everything I need to buy, let's go directly."
Li Chengguo immediately started the car and drove towards Hongfeng Village. Lin Heng went to the store and set up his carriage to lead the way.
We arrived at Hongfeng Village in half an hour, mainly because Lin Heng’s carriage was moving slowly, otherwise we would have arrived long ago.
Murakami was a little surprised to see the truck, but when he saw Lin Heng, he immediately understood, again.
Lin Heng called two people to help move things.
Li Chengguo walked into the yard and said a little strangely: "Your house is well done."
"Haha, it's not bad." Lin Heng smiled.
"Xiulan, please cook a meal. Uncle Li will have dinner at our house." Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded and turned to cook.
After moving the things, Lin Heng poured a cup of tea for Li Chengguo. After taking two sips of tea, he had to go to the toilet.
"In the backyard." Lin Heng pointed to the backyard and took him there.
"Your backyard is more beautiful than the front yard. You really know how to enjoy it." Li Chengguo sighed while looking at it.
“Wait, this is... forest musk deer?”
When he got closer and saw Lin She, he was stunned. This was a good thing.
Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, you're lucky."
It's okay if Li Chengguo finds out. He doesn't live in Hongfeng Village. What Lin Heng is mainly afraid of is Some people in the same village know it.
The male forest musk deer was so frightened that he cowered in the corner. Li Chengguo took a closer look and asked curiously: "Do you want to sell it? I bought it for 1,500?"
Lin Heng couldn't help but smile: " Boss Li, are you kidding? Don’t say one thousand and fifty, I won’t sell it for fifteen thousand.”
"Haha, I was kidding."
Li Chengguo smiled and quickly went to the toilet.
After he came out, he kept silent about the topic. He went to see Lin Heng's fish pond and walked around the village.
It didn't take long for Xiulan to prepare the meal. Lin Heng and Li Chengguo had two drinks and refused to let him drink. He couldn't bear the responsibility if the car fell into a ditch.
"You are so lucky. Your daughter-in-law is beautiful and virtuous. Her craftsmanship is so good." Li Chengguo said with envy. His wife was a violent hen.
"The most important thing is that your ingredients are so good. This simple meal scares me." Li Chengguo added.
He thought it was just ordinary farm food, so he didn’t get any gifts. But now this meal makes him a little embarrassed.
Not to mention anything else, he had never eaten the matsutake and crucian carp soup, or the sliced black truffles. Black truffles cost forty yuan a pound.
Coupled with the wild boar meat and sausage, this meal is worth forty or fifty yuan in the city.
"It's not that, it's all the ingredients I made myself, and they're not worth much." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Lin Heng's sincere attitude made Li Chengguo feel more and more guilty, and thought that he would bring some gifts to Lin Heng next time.
After eating, Lin Heng took Li Chengguo to Hongfeng Mountain to play for a while, and made some tea to drink. This quiet environment made Li Chengguo feel comfortable physically and mentally, and he confided a lot of his feelings at the same time.
During the chat, he felt more and more that Lin Heng understood him and turned him from a business partner into a heart-to-heart friend.
But he didn't know that compared to his little middle-aged confusion, the middle age Lin Heng experienced in his previous life was a miserable one, and he could naturally sympathize with it.
When leaving, Li Chengguo patted Lin Heng on the shoulder and said, "Lin Heng, if you need anything in the future, just send me a message. I'm sure you will pull me up with you."
"Okay, go back slowly." Lin Heng nodded.
After sending him away, Lin Heng couldn't wait to go home and install the fireplace.
Xiulan was waiting for him in the room. She was wearing a navy blue cotton-padded jacket and wrapped herself tightly. She was very cold-resistant and very conservative.
Whether it is winter or summer, the most she can do is expose her arms and calves.
Xiaoxia also wore thick clothes and pulled her mother to ask questions. She always talked early, but recently she seemed to have suddenly enlightened and spoke more seriously. She talked endlessly all day long.
Lin looked at her and said with a smile. "Let's carry the fireplace to the bedroom and install it, so that it won't be cold when we sleep at night."
"Okay." Xiulan got up and carried the fireplace with Lin Heng.
Two people carried the fireplace into the house and placed it on the wall near the east. Outside this wall was the corridor between the eldest brother's house.
After that, the smoke exhaust is also prepared here. The smoke coming out from here will not affect the bees in the backyard.
"Which position do you think is better?" Lin Heng looked at his wife and asked. This kind of thing is entirely up to her wish, as long as she is happy.
The window of the master bedroom faces south, that is, facing the backyard. The bed for two people is against the east wall, facing the window.
So it is impossible to place the fireplace in the middle, it can only be in the southeast or northeast corner.
Xiulan thought for a while and decided: "Then let's take the southeast corner. It happens that there is nothing in this corner."
The southeast corner is the corner by the window, and the backyard is the south. "Okay, let's move the stove over."
Lin Heng nodded. He also felt that this location was the best. It was close to the corner and didn't take up any space. It was safe.
The ground is made of bluestone, which was leveled when it was laid. When the fireplace is placed on it, it is stable and does not shake at all.
After putting the stove in place, Lin Heng and the two went out to get the chimney.
“This chimney is really heavy and so thick.” Xiulan said in surprise.
"That's for sure, it's so much money." Lin Heng said with a smile. The thickness of the chimney wall of this fireplace is five millimeters, and it is of excellent quality.
After taking it into the house to determine the height and moving the fireplace away, Lin Heng took a steel drill to drill holes in the wall. It only took more than ten minutes to build the earthen wall.
After drilling the hole, put the chimney in and seal it with some plaster.
Xiulan cleaned the floor, and the two couldn't wait to install the fireplace and get some firewood to light it.
That's the good thing about living by yourself. There are no noisy parents. If my mother is here, I will definitely let her live a good life. The two of them just wanted to do whatever they wanted.
Light the firewood and close the furnace door. Due to the pressure difference, the fire will suck in air from the air inlet below and exhaust it from the chimney. A large amount of oxygen will flow in, which will make the fire burn very brightly.
Through the transparent crystal, you can see the flames burning, twisting and beating inside.
Full combustion not only saves firewood, but also heats up quickly. After a while, the room feels warm.
The master bedroom became very warm in about half an hour, making people want to take off their cotton-padded jackets.
“The money was not wasted, there is really no smoke at all.” Xiulan said with a smile.
Lin Heng said with a smile: "Of course, the stove can also have hot water and other things. Just use a chair to block it and keep Xiaoxia from touching it."
This fireplace design is based on science and is guaranteed in all aspects.
Building your own fireplace requires skills, and if you don’t do it right, it will easily cause smoke to return.
What Lin Heng hates the most is that there is smoke everywhere when making a fire. Even if he is dizzy and cannot open his eyes, he will also get a headache from inhaling carbon monoxide.
Barring a charcoal fire in a closed room is more likely to cause carbon monoxide poisoning. For safety reasons, it is better to get a fireplace.
Of course, another main reason is that Lin Heng wants to watch fire. It is interesting to watch the flames beating through the crystal.
Move a small table to the bedroom, and you will definitely spend a lot of time in the bedroom in the winter.
After setting up a small table, Lin Heng took the Boshan stove and lit a rosin. He took out the purple clay pot and made tea and poured a cup for Xiulan to drink.
But she was not interested in this. She took dried red dates and peanuts and chewed them with her cheeks puffed out like a squirrel.
Xiaoxia couldn't stop asking questions, so she could only get her some shrimp crackers.
But they didn't expect that she would ask questions while eating, which was much more annoying than before.
"It seems that it's really time for her to speak." Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said helplessly.
Children will always talk non-stop at a certain stage when they learn to speak.
"Dad, what is the talking period?" Xiaoxia tilted her head and asked in a milky voice.
"That's what you are like now." Lin Heng pinched her little face helplessly.
"Dad, you eat~" Xiaoxia didn't understand and handed Lin Heng a shrimp cracker.
She finally stopped feeding her father grass now.
"Good baby." Lin Heng was very happy immediately,
Xiulan smiled, looked at him and said: "The fern root powder you dug will be beaten today. If you don't beat it, It’s too late for the vermicelli.”
“Let’s get it done soon.”
Lin Heng nodded and said that he originally wanted to plaster the courtyard wall and the exterior wall.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded.
Before the two of them said a few words, the bedroom door was pushed open by Xiongba, and a dog and a cat walked in one after another, taking a place in front of the fireplace and lying down.
Looking at these two guys, Lin Heng ignored them. Both of them were fairly self-aware and did not urinate in the room.
After drinking two cups of tea, the two went out. Xiaoxia also ran out, leaving Xiongba and Jinbao lying inside.
The fern roots had been washed and dried long ago. The two of them carried them to their parents' yard, where there was a large stone mortar with a diameter of sixty or seventy centimeters.
Mother Lin looked at Lin Heng and said, "You are finally willing to get your fern root powder."
"Haha, I'm quite busy." Lin Heng laughed.
The powdering method is the same, that is, mash the melted water and let it settle to get the powder.
Xiulan threw the fern root into the stone mortar. Lin Heng picked up the stone pestle and started pounding it. He smashed it into pieces and threw it out into the water.
"It's really tiring. I'll buy a grinder when the power comes on." Lin Heng shook his head.
If you have a machine, you can not only crush it to get more powder, but also easily.
"You can buy it next year. It will be used for feeding anyway." Xiulan said.
“I will definitely buy it.”
Lin Heng worked hard by himself. This was really a good exercise. One afternoon, he felt that his arms were stronger than after doing 500 push-ups. Be tired.
At half past five, Lin’s father and others returned home. Lin Heng’s fern roots had also been pounded and were settling in the bucket. The fern root powder would be available tomorrow morning.
Father Lin looked at Lin Heng and reminded: "The construction of the first batch of fish ponds is expected to be completed tomorrow. Please plan what to do next."
Lin Heng thought for a while and said: "It will be six days until the completion tomorrow. It’s called, so let’s just take two days off. We’ll have to go to the village to get electricity on the 8th, and we’ll start working again on the 9th. Dad, you can take advantage of these two days to get drunk.”
Mother Lin said again: "Your dad and your eldest brother will also be in the house tomorrow. It's impossible to make vermicelli without them."
Lin Heng waved his hand and said, "That's no problem, we have my uncle and third dad." Look, there won’t be any problems on the construction site.”
Father Lin nodded and agreed, “Then just follow the instructions and we’ll make vermicelli tomorrow morning.”
"Okay!"
Lin Heng agreed. He hadn't made vermicelli for a long time.
Early the next morning, Lin Heng had breakfast and went to Hongfeng Mountain to preside over the construction. He asked the workers to sign and he took a look at the current situation.
Two of the ten fish ponds dug at the back also contained large stones that could not be removed. The other ponds are still very good, with clay bottoms, so there is no need to worry about water leakage.
After watching for a while, he left the work to his uncle and third father to take care of, and then went back.
Li Shiwei and Lin Hai are working here these days. Lin Heng occasionally chats and plays with them, but he usually doesn't have time.
He actually doesn’t want his good brothers to work for him, but they don’t have other abilities. If they want to rise, they will have to endure hardships and accumulate capital.
He can't give them money directly, it's impossible and inappropriate.
And in the process of working for him, they can also learn something. It will be logical for him to support them in the future when he has money.
The two of them had no complaints about this. It was not easy to find profitable jobs in rural areas. Lin Heng also arranged management positions for them and answered all their questions. It was interesting enough.
When Lin Heng returned home, Lin's father and eldest brother had set up a big pot in the yard and the water was boiling.
"Brother, you came back just in time, we are going to start making vermicelli." Lin Yue said with a smile.
Sorry, there are only four thousand words today.
I changed the previous article, added a thousand words to Chapter 171, and revised the plot.
But it doesn’t matter if you haven’t seen it, it just adds a scene where the protagonist celebrates his birthday.
(End of this chapter)