Chapter 324 The final construction, roasted whole lamb
"Will it be possible to store water after drying it for a few days?"
Lin Hai looked at the small dam and said.
Third father said: "If this is to store water, we need to surround it with railings, otherwise the water depth will easily cause trouble."
"It has to be surrounded, otherwise it will be unsafe." Lin Father nodded and said.
Lin Heng looked at everyone and said: "Third father and Lin Hai, you guys can come over tomorrow too. Let's finish the last bit of work and have a roast lamb, and prepare to kill the lame lamb at home."
Father Lin also said: "Yes, come over and let's eat roast lamb."
"That's a good relationship." Father Lin Heng agreed with a smile.
The guys tithe and everyone goes back to eat.
The next morning, Lin Heng got up early. After dinner, he went down the mountain to take a look at the lame lamb. He caught it and put it on the scale. It weighed only 24 pounds, while the other lambs at least weighed 24 pounds. Thirty pounds heavier.
"Are you going to kill it now?" Father Lin asked when he saw him taking the sheep.
Lin Heng nodded: "Kill them now, and then let Caiyun and the others dress them into skewers, and we will grill them and eat them in the afternoon."
"Okay, I'll go back and get a basin to pick up the sheep. Blood." Father Lin nodded.
When he brought the basin over, brother Lin Heng also came over, and the three of them quickly drained the little lamb's blood.
The green wolf dog Laifu tied not far away licked his lips excitedly, wanting to come over and drink blood.
When Lin Hai came over, he was shocked and said: "You guys acted fast enough, the skin has been peeled off!"
"Of course." Lin Heng smiled and threw the sheepskin aside, then opened the intestines and gutted the sheep. After the internal organs were taken out, the cleaning work was left to his mother and Caiyun.
Looking at the little mutton left, Father Lin said: "Son, do you think we should just build an earthen stove and roast the whole lamb? It would be troublesome to cut it into skewers. "
"I think it's okay, let's just have a roasted whole lamb." Lin Yue said with a smile.
Lin Heng nodded and said: "That's okay, but it's troublesome to build a clay oven."
"What's the trouble? Leave it to me and I'll do it." Lin Hai patted his chest and said.
"Then, I'll leave it to you." Lin Heng nodded.
After adding some knives to the mutton, he took it into the house, found a big basin, and made some onion, ginger, water and rice wine to marinate it.
Lin Hai found a place where he could dig out clay, dug out the clay and built an earth oven on the edge of the vegetable field. This required building a conical oven nearly two meters high.
But not long after, Lin Wei, Lin Tao and the others came running over. They were very interested in playing in the mud and started working with Lin Hai.
Lin Heng and the others went to work on the dam. They mainly did three things today. One was to build a small well above the dam for drinking.
If you want to raise fish in the dam, there will be a lot of algae in the water, which is not suitable for eating. For a water well, you only need to dig a two-cubic pit, then plaster the four walls with cement and install the water pipes.
The second thing is to build a railing. Build a blocking railing along both sides of the dam to prevent people or animals from falling into the water.
The third thing is the final treatment of the dam, which is to plaster the dam body with cement.
“I’ll dig the well.” Lin Heng’s third father said with a smile.
"Dad, let's mix the cement first, and then we can build the railing together?" Lin Yue looked at his father and asked.
"Yes, your brother is better at plastering walls than us." Father Lin nodded in agreement.
It was agreed that the four of them would start working separately. Lin Heng first helped his third father dig a well, and then went to plaster the wall after his father and elder brother had mixed the cement.
This job is very simple for him, because he worked for a long time in his previous life, and the wall area is not very large, so plastering does not require much effort.
In about two and a half hours, he finished the work of plastering the wall. Looking from a distance, this small dam also looks pretty.
Because a small dam has been built, the water level behind it will rise by four and a half meters. When the water overflows, the height difference from the bottom will be eight or nine meters. It can be regarded as an artificially created small waterfall landscape.
He couldn't wait to see the big and small dams filled with water.
I turned to look at the progress of my father and the others. They had just sawed the wood for the railings, and now they were just starting to dig the hole. He looked at it and decided to come over and build a few small docks on the water's edge later, which would be very convenient for fishing and other things.
His third father has completed nearly half of his work, which is quite fast.
After taking one look, he went down the mountain to see how the oven was being built. When he came down, he found that they had finished it and were about to light the fire and burn the charcoal.
"Brother Lin, do you think we are doing well?" Lin Hai asked with a smile.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded. The bottom of the oven is one meter in diameter, the top is 30 centimeters in diameter, and the wall is more than ten centimeters thick. It looks pretty good.
Lin Wei said happily: "Then let's light the fire, and we can roast the mutton in a while."
"I'm here to marinate the mutton." Lin Heng nodded with a smile, and he entered The house marinated the mutton again, and the mutton offal was already cleaned and hung on the wall.
Remove the original onion and ginger. This time the marinating mainly involves adding some seasonings, such as soy sauce, salt and pepper powder. The barbecue ingredients will be added after the barbecue is completed.
After marinating, he got two wires to pass through the ribs, preparing to put them in the oven later.
Over the earth oven, Lin Hai has already started a fire, and thick smoke is rising. Even an oven made of clay will crack if burned like this, but it doesn't matter, it will not affect the use effect.
After the firewood was burned and the charcoal was ignited, Lin Heng took the roast mutton and hung it on a steel bar in the stove, then sealed it with a pot lid, and the roasting began.
In the remaining time, just add some charcoal fire from time to time.
After finishing this, he took Lin Hai and his two nephews up the mountain. After going up the mountain, Lin Hai helped his father dig a well, and Lin Heng helped install the railings.
It was not until lunch that the foundation pit for the railing pillars was initially completed, and the well was completed very quickly.
I didn’t have the roasted whole lamb for lunch because it wasn’t done yet, so I would invite everyone to eat together in the afternoon. But with the haggis, it still tastes pretty good.
After lunch, they continued their previous work. Lin Heng plastered the dug well with cement, leaving some small holes for water to seep in.
Then the railings were installed, and finally some unused sand and gravel were mixed and laid on the shore near the cabin to harden the ground to avoid inconvenience when fishing. .
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the entire small dam was completely completed.
"Looking at it this way, this dam looks pretty good." Lin Hai said with a smile.
"Lin Heng, what kind of fish are you going to raise here?" Third Dad looked at him and asked.
"Sichuan fish and mandarin fish, we haven't decided yet." Lin Heng said that he plans to use this dam to try to breed plum blossoms, because the water temperature is still very low on the top of the mountain.
"I'm afraid this fish is difficult to raise." Third Dad said, the plum blossom fish will almost die if it is caught alive from the water, but he has experience.
"It's not easy to raise, so I'll give it a try." Lin Heng nodded and said, "Let's go and have a rest first, and then we are going to eat roasted whole lamb."
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"Okay!"
Lin Wei and others next to him jumped up happily: "Okay, let's eat roasted whole lamb!!"
Everyone returned to the cabin, First, they ate a watermelon to relieve the heat, and then Lin Heng paid them wages, but this time Third Dad and Lin Hai refused no matter what, because they thought this was normal help and there was no need to talk about money.
If they don’t want it, naturally his eldest brother and father won’t accept it either.
Lin Heng spread his hands helplessly and said with a smile: "Since no one wants it, wash your face quickly, we are going to eat roasted whole lamb."
"No rush, let's go back and take a shower and change clothes first," said the third father.
"Yes, I also want to go back and take a shower." Lin Yue nodded and said. Lin Heng looked at everyone: "That's okay. Come here later. Don't ask me to come to the door to call you."
Only after receiving their guarantee, Lin Heng let them go with peace of mind. .
After they left, Lin Heng looked at his wife and said, "Xiulan, find me a set of clothes. I'll take a shower."
"I've found it, it's on the bed." Xiulan pointed to the clothes on the bed and said.
Lin Heng walked over to get his clothes, took some soap and washing powder to the stream at the foot of the mountain, found a pool, stripped down to his underwear and took a good bath.
The workload in the past few days has been quite heavy, and soaking in the cold stream water is particularly comfortable.
After taking a shower, he washed his clothes and went up the mountain.
“Xiaoxia, what are you doing!”
As soon as he went up the mountain, Lin Heng saw Xiaoxia playing next to the newly plastered cement. She was putting her footprints and handprints on the wet cement.
“Baba~”
Xiaoxia seemed to realize that this was not appropriate, and looked at her timidly with her big eyes.
Lin Heng looked at her: "Please don't do it again, otherwise your mother will know that she will be spanked again."
"I was wrong, dad, don't tell mom." Xiaoxia ran over and wanted to act coquettishly.
Lin Heng grabbed her little hand, washed it by the water, and took her back: "Don't do it next time, I won't tell your mother."
Lin Heng rubbed her little head , this is not a big deal, getting a small handprint is considered a special mark.
"Okay!" Xiaoxia nodded in agreement.
Lin Heng asked her why she ran there, and then he found out that it was Lin Wei who took her there, and then they ran away without a trace and left her alone.
Lin Heng put his clothes on the rope, sat down on the bench next to Xiulan, picked up the teapot, poured a cup of tea and asked, "Where are Caiyun's mom and the others?"
"I went down to braise the mutton offal. The braised soup from last time is still there." Xiulan replied.
Lin Heng nodded, took a sip of tea, and asked again: "Have the barbecue ingredients been prepared?"
"Of course, we also mixed the cold dishes, dried fish and Fried shrimps." She said, went into the house and brought out a small bowl of shrimps for him, "Try the shrimps you raised."
This kind of farmed shrimp is the first to look at. The first impression is that they are neat, unlike those caught in the wild that vary in size. After frying, it turns golden and crispy, and smells delicious.
Because the shrimp threads have been removed, Lin Heng can put the whole shrimp in his mouth and eat it. It is fresh and fragrant, and it feels like it has been swallowed by his tongue.
"It's delicious, but the shell is hard to remove." Lin Heng said with emotion.
“Please order me, right?” Xiulan glanced at him, stretched out her hand, peeled two shrimps and stuffed them into his mouth and said, “Eat quickly now.”
“Thank you, wife.”
Lin Heng grinned and sucked on his wife's finger.
Xiulan shook her hand in feigned disgust and peeled off two more.
"No, no, no, I'll peel them for you. Mom will beat me when she sees them later."
He said with a smile, peeled off two and fed them to her.
"You are afraid of mother so you feed me, don't eat."
Xiulan blinked, closed her mouth and refused to eat, but continued to peel the shrimps with her hands.
“You have to eat even if you don’t want to eat.” Lin Heng snorted and stuffed the shrimp into her mouth, squeezing the delicate red lips out of shape.
The two were fighting, and Lin Heng suddenly stretched out his hand to scratch her itch and put the shrimp into her mouth.
“I’ll kill you!” Xiulan hit him.
After a small fuss, Lin Heng refused to let her peel it. He felt that eating it with the shell would be more crispy and delicious.
The two ate some and left the rest to Xiaoxia who ran over.
After the eldest brother and the others came over after taking a shower, Lin Heng went down to take out the roasted lamb from the oven, cut it into pieces, sprinkled it with barbecue ingredients and put it on a large plate.
Pair it with some other dishes and eat it when everyone arrives.
“It smells so good.” Before they started eating, Lin Wei and others started to drool.
Even Lin Heng’s third mother, Li Xue, couldn’t bear it. She usually would have liked to eat bacon. For her, this roasted whole lamb was something that would never appear in her dreams.
She was jealous and envious of Lin Heng, and a little scared. At this moment, she took Caiyun and Xiulan and talked about the village gossip, but her eyes focused on the mutton from time to time.
“Okay, everyone is here, let’s start eating.”
Lin Heng waited for his father to come over, then smiled and announced that he would give everyone a piece of mutton, and then the party officially started.
The men drank rice wine, while the women drank rice wine.
“It’s so fragrant!”
“This is the most delicious meat I’ve ever eaten!”
Lin Wei and Lin Tao ate with their mouths full of oil and praised them again and again.
"It's really delicious. The lamb meat is so tender that you can bite off the ribs and eat it." Lin Hai also praised.
Others talked less, but they didn’t stop talking, and they drank less than usual.
This roasted lamb is so delicious, chewy but not chewy, most of the bones are soft, and the mutton smell is not as strong as that of adult sheep.
Drinking rice wine and roasting lamb, you can still see the beautiful sunset at dusk, and everyone has a happy smile on their face.
Two dogs, Xiongba and Fengshou, are also waiting here, and they are rushing to eat every bone.
"I can't eat anymore, I'm so satisfied." Xiulan shook her head and handed the remaining half of the meat to Lin Heng.
The meat Lin Heng picked for her was all from the leg of lamb, which was too much.
"Then you want to eat some more shrimp?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.
“Give me that piece of cantaloupe.” Xiulan said.
"Okay." Lin Heng got her a piece of melon, and then ate the rest of the mutton.
The middle man ate for two hours, but his fighting ability was still good. He ate all the food and there was nothing left.
After a sumptuous dinner, everyone felt satisfied and full. It is extremely rare to be full of meat in this era.
Finally, everyone helped clean up the dishes and the place, and then they went home.
Lin Heng leaned on the wicker chair and looked at the last bit of red clouds in the west through the trees. He turned to Xiulan and said: "Now, the construction of our Hongfeng Mountain has been initially completed."
This water storage dam is a very important part of the construction of Hongfeng Mountain.
(End of this chapter)