Chapter 253 Shotgun and Melon Seedlings [Ask for monthly votes]
The workers stepped forward one by one, received their wages and walked back with smiles on their faces, and the yard was filled with laughter.
“Thank you, Boss Lin!”
Liu Haigui said with a smile after receiving his salary.
"You deserve this." Lin Heng said with a smile. Liu Haigui was the last one on the scene. The only person who worked for him this time was Liang Carpenter.
The person who hated the arrears of wages the most in his previous life will never arrears wages to others in this life.
"Boss Lin, I'm leaving now."
After taking the money, Liu Haigui didn't want to stay any longer and left directly.
“Won’t you stay for dinner?” Lin Heng said with a smile. This man worked very carefully, and he was quite satisfied.
“No, I’m covered in cement slurry, I have to go back and clean it up.” Liu Haigui shook his head and said with a smile.
"Okay, I just want to pay the carpenter and take you down." Lin Heng said again.
Handing the account book and the remaining eighty-one yuan to Xiulan, Lin Heng got up and went out to drive.
The six people crowded into the car again, all carrying tools in their hands. Lin Heng slowly sent them to Huangtan Town, then turned around and went to Zheng's store.
"Boss Zheng, have you returned the gun I bought?"
Lin Heng walked into the store and asked directly and openly.
His brother had obtained a shotgun license, registered it at the police station, and even invited people to dinner, so there was no need to be sneaky.
The fat, pockmarked owner sitting in this shop is named Zheng. If you want to buy a gun in town, go to him.
"It's here. I'm waiting for you to pick it up. Come to the backyard."
Boss Zheng stood up and said with a smile.
Lin Heng nodded and followed him to the backyard. After a while, Boss Zheng came out with a long wooden box and a cloth bag.
"That's it, take a look at the goods." He handed the stuff to Lin Heng with a smile.
Lin Heng opened it and took a look. It had a beautiful black barrel and the butt was made of red hardwood. It could be opened to load two shotshells.
This is the most common double-barreled shotgun, not a high-end product like Uncle Gao that can load rifle bullets.
“The red bullets are bird bullets with small lead pellets inside, the green bullets are deer bullets with large lead pellets inside, and the last metal-tipped bullet is a special lead-tipped bullet, which is the most powerful.”
While Lin Heng was looking at the gun, Boss Zheng introduced the bullets to Lin Heng.
As the name suggests, bird bullets are used to kill birds, deer bullets are used to kill wild boars and muntjacs, and special bullets are used to kill black bears, wolves, and tigers.
Lin Heng nodded, picked it up and counted it. There were two hundred and fifty rounds of bird bullets, one hundred rounds of deer bullets, and fifty rounds of lead bullets. A total of four hundred rounds. There was no problem.
"Thank you."
After confirming, Lin Heng put the gun back into the wooden box, carried the gun box and the bullets and went out.
He has given the money a long time ago. Here, the money is given first and then the gun is bought. A gun costs 120 cents, bullets cost 20 cents per round, and 400 rounds cost 80 cents, which adds up to exactly two hundred.
With the gun in the car, Lin Heng went to the place where the mixer was rented in town and asked him to go up and pull the mixer back and settle the bill.
After passing by Baima Village and delivering Carpenter Liang’s wages, Lin Heng would not owe anything.
“It cost another three thousand.” Lin Heng sighed. There were just two thousand five thousand left in the card.
Back in the house, Father Lin ran down the road to greet him and asked curiously: "Son, what are you holding?"
"The gun I bought for my brother." Lin Heng said He handed the gun to his father, stepped on the accelerator and drove the car home.
His third father, uncle, and others were chatting in the yard when they saw him coming back to ask if the matter was done.
Lin Heng parked the car, took out the bullet and handed it to Lin Yue: "Brother, you bought your gun back. Here are the bullets. The gun is in dad's hand."
" Coming back so soon?" Lin Yue was a little shocked, it was a bit fast.
"The finished bullets, are you buying a shotgun?" Li Baiquan asked curiously, looking at the bullets in the bag.
Father Lin locked the door and said with a smile: "The gun is here!"
After he finished speaking, he took out the gun and let everyone watch.
“What a good thing. The workmanship is really good. It’s shiny.”
Li Baiquan’s eyes widened when he looked at this double-barreled shotgun. Compared with this kind of gun, his rural Homemade hunting rifles are like fire sticks.
“How much is it?” Lin Hai asked curiously.
"Add two hundred more bullets." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Hiss, it's so expensive!" Lin Hai couldn't help but take a breath.
Others also silently gave up the idea of doing it themselves.
Lin Heng gave the bullet to his brother and went back to the house to take a shower. He washed himself and changed into a set of clothes, feeling completely refreshed.
After coming out, everyone was still looking at the guns in the yard and chatting happily.
"Brother, please take me to practice some time." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"No problem."
Lin Heng nodded, said a few words, then went out and waited outside.
Soon a tractor came up outside. Lin Heng walked to the roadside and waved, and took people to Hongfeng Mountain to install the mixer.
The cement on the Hongfeng Mountain side has initially solidified, but Lin Heng found that there were some more bird footprints on it, like those of the green-bearded Diaozi, who silently took revenge.
The meal will be ready when he returns to the house. The construction site is completed today, and he will definitely have to celebrate. Xiulan cooked more than ten dishes and brought them to the table. Everyone picked up the wine and started drinking.
Lin Heng likes to drink rice wine, which has the aroma of rice and makes people intoxicated. Father Lin and the others liked sweet wine with a higher alcohol content and drank it very vigorously.
It was already six o'clock after finishing the meal, but it was not dark yet. The uncle and third father left one after another, and the room became quiet.
Lin Heng held an official hat chair and sat in the yard blowing the wind. Two puppies, Laifu and Fengsheng, were fighting and playing in the yard. Xiongba and Jinbao were lying on the ground and the other on the stone table, watching the two puppies. Dogs fight.
After the wind blew for a while, Lin Heng walked over and uncovered both sides of the small greenhouse above the strawberries, allowing the strawberries to gradually adapt to the outside temperature.
The weather is getting warmer, so you can open it completely, and the same goes for the watermelon and other seedlings next to it.
Lin Heng finished these things and sat back on the official hat chair in a daze, enjoying the leisurely time in the evening.
"Dad, you play ball with me~"
Xiaoxia came over with the ball and said crisply.
"Ha, you've got it then."
Lin Heng nodded, sat on a chair and played a ball-throwing game with her. He threw it over and she threw it over. It was a boring game, but Xiaoxia laughed while playing it.
Lin Heng got tired after playing for a while, so he called Lin Wei next door and asked him to bring his second and third brothers over to play with Xiaoxia.
Lin Heng took the initiative to call, and his sister-in-law Liu Juan had to agree, telling her son not to make Xiaoxia cry, otherwise he would be spanked.
Lin Heng remembered that there was a little girl named Liu Qingqing who played well with Xiaoxia in the village, but she didn't know why she couldn't come over these days.
"Third Dad!"
After a while, Lin Tao and his brother came over, with smiles on their faces. In fact, they really wanted to come over and play, but under normal circumstances, their mother wouldn't allow it.
"You guys play ball with Xiaoxia!"
Lin Heng said, leaning on the back of his chair and watching the children happily playing ball in the yard, and getting involved from time to time, which was quite fun.
After Xiulan cleared away the dishes, she also took a bench and came out to sit next to Lin Heng and watch the children playing. Unconsciously, he put his head on Lin Heng's lap, his movements were very skillful.
Lin Heng glanced at her and leaned back on the chair to blow the air.
After dark, a few people entered the house. Lin Heng made charcoal and burned it in the earthenware stove. He didn't eat in the evening, so he drank some milk, ate some biscuits and rested. Before taking a break, he found a book to read, and at the request of Xiaoxia and Xiulan, he read it and listened to it.
The next morning, Lin Heng woke up at seven o'clock, but it still felt gray outside.
“Look at this, even if it doesn’t rain today, it will rain tomorrow.”
Lin Heng opened the window, and a strong wind blew in, making him cold and immediately closed the window. , crawling into bed.
"Get up. Since it hasn't rained, let's transplant the watermelon seedlings." Xiulan looked at him and said softly.
"It will take a while to warm up."
Lin Heng hugged her and said. Both of them like to sleep naked in their underwear, and holding their wives soft and fragrant is very comfortable.
“Okay~”
Xiulan spread her hands, unable to do anything to him. However, we can't go hiking in this weather today, so we might as well sleep a little longer.
The two got up from the bed at half past seven and were about to go out. Xiaoxia also woke up and shouted that she needed to go to the toilet. Lin Heng had to dress her and take her to the toilet.
After going to the toilet, she stood aside and made trouble while Lin Heng and Xiulan were exercising, learning Tai Chi from her mother and shaking wildly.
"How about we eat potato cakes and drink milk in the morning?"
Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said after finishing her exercise.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.
Xiulan went back to the house to get the bucket, and he took Xiaoxia, who was leaning on the railing to watch the fish, to milk the cows.
The lotus in the fish pond has begun to sprout, revealing small spores. It is expected that lotus leaves will grow out of the water soon.
The fish pond can be said to be very rich in fish species, including six species: yellow bonefish, crucian carp, koi carp, spotted mandarin fish, stream grouper, plus the giant salamander that has ended its hibernation.
Now that the weather is hot, these fish are more active, swimming around in search of food.
After returning from milking the cows, Xiulan went to heat the milk to make potato cakes. Xiaoxia wanted to watch the fish in the backyard, and Lin Heng was watching from the side, not worried even if there were railings.
As the sun gradually comes out, the buzzing of bees becomes louder. Many bees have returned full of honey. Dots the size of rice grains can be seen on both sides of their wings. These are most likely the honey of rape flowers.
"See if they have made new honeycombs."
Lin Heng moved the ladder up and removed the insulation mats and rotten clothes placed around the box, then opened the beehive and took a look.
Since there was no honey harvesting in winter, they ate a lot of the original honey, but now they have made new honey spleens, and they are still very diligent.
After feeding Xiaoxia the fish for a while, they went to the front to eat.
The fried potato pancakes are very fragrant. Although they are very hot, I still can’t help but eat them. After eating, I drink a glass of milk. It is so comfortable.
It makes people full of yearning for this new day.
“Let’s go and plant seedlings.”
Xiulan finished drinking the milk and looked at Lin Heng and said.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.
The two of them went out together, first peeled off the plastic paper and removed the bent bamboo pieces. The strawberries and melon and fruit seedlings here are all green.
"There are too many watermelon and cantaloupe seedlings."
Xiulan counted roughly and found that there were about sixty or seventy watermelon seedlings and cantaloupe seedlings, which were too many even if they were given to her parents and eldest brother.
"No way, who made me successful in breeding."
Lin Heng smiled proudly, and then said: "It doesn't matter if you have more, just keep planting. You will get more. Just give it away or sell it on the street. If it doesn’t work, you can feed it to pigs.”
Anyway, there is no need to take care of the farmland except for fertilizer. In the countryside, fruits and melons are everywhere in summer and autumn. It's too much to eat.
"It's enough to plant five watermelons and five cantaloupe trees in the yard, and plant the rest outside in the fields or in the mountains behind." Xiulan thought for a while and said.
“Okay!”
Lin Heng nodded and walked to the side of the land where the ginseng was grown before digging a nest. Xiulan dug up the seedlings and the soil and transplanted them.
Half of the two meters wide and ten meters long land was planted with five watermelon trees, five cantaloupe trees and ten cucumber trees. The remaining half was planted with green peppers.
“Dong dong dong!!”
"Son, open the door."
As soon as the two of them finished planting and were about to go out, Father Lin knocked on the door.
"Dad, I was just looking for you, would you like Gua Miao?"
Lin Heng opened the door and asked with a smile.
Father Lin looked at the green melon seedlings in the distance, nodded and said: "Of course, have you planted enough?"
"Yes, you and my elder brother will take some and plant them, and I will plant the rest in the mountains behind." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.
"Okay, I'll pull out a little later."
Father Lin nodded and finished speaking, then took out thirty yuan and handed it to him: "Here, you take this money back. Just settle the accounts with your brother. There is no need to settle with me. If you don’t have enough money, tell me and I can get some more.”
Lin Heng looked at the money and understood. It was my father who was worried that he would run out of money to repair the pond.
More than 5,000 yuan was spent on repairing the pond last year, and another 3,000 yuan was spent this year. 8,000 yuan is gone. This does not include other expenses. If you add the purchase of a motorcycle, you will definitely have no money under normal circumstances. .
Lin Heng leaned into his ear and whispered: "Dad, let me tell you the truth. Last year, I went into the mountains during heavy snowfall and was lucky enough to dig up a wild ginseng tree. It is a century-old wild ginseng."
"Centennial Wild Mountain ??”
Father Lin’s voice was small and sharp, obviously because he was frightened but did not dare to speak loudly.
His eyes were as wide as copper bells, and he couldn't believe it for a long time.
"Dad, you just need to know. That thing sold for a lot of money, and the remaining money is enough for me to do business." Lin Heng laughed softly.
"Phew!"
"That time the jeep came, was it you selling ginseng?" Father Lin took a deep breath and asked in a low voice.
Lin Heng said nothing, smiled and nodded.
“Hoo!!”
Father Lin took a deep breath again, his mood still couldn’t calm down for a long time. The century-old wild ginseng is a legendary good thing.
He couldn't calm down, but now everything made sense. He asked why Lin Heng suddenly bought a motorcycle.
Immediately, he took Lin Heng and stuffed thirty yuan into his hand, and said with a smile: "You should keep this money and give it to me for my retirement in the future."
As for how much Lin Heng sold it for, he didn't care, as long as he knew his son had money to use.
Lin Heng had no choice but to accept the money after looking at it.
“This seedling is good, it has seven or eight leaves.”
Father Lin walked over there, looked at Miao Zi and said with a smile.
After saying that, he found a basket and took out the seedlings and the soil together.
Twenty watermelon and cantaloupe seedlings were taken, thirty cucumber seedlings were taken, and forty-three pepper seedlings were taken.
"You can plant the rest in the back hill. Your brother and I will be enough." Lin's father said with a smile. Today, the weather is covered with dark clouds and it's obviously going to rain. It's time to transplant the seedlings. good opportunity.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, closed the door, walked over and gave Xiulan thirty yuan.
"Bring it with you. I have more than three hundred yuan in change here." Xiulan looked at him and said, Lin Heng always gave her this kind of change whenever he had it.
"Then take it, and I'll treat it as yours." Lin Heng smiled and put it in her hand.
(End of this chapter)