Chapter 392 The whole country is red
Early the next morning, Lin Heng slept until nine o'clock. Feeling Xiulan next to him, he slept very soundly.
Of course, part of this is caused by the small head controlling the big head yesterday, and the accumulation of fatigue.
"I got up first. It's time for the baby to change diapers and feed. You need to sleep for a while."
At nine o'clock, Xiulan looked at her watch and said.
"I'll just get up and lie down on the sofa to rest after eating." Lin Heng thought for a while, got up and said.
"That's okay." Xiulan smiled. She fed the baby first and then asked Xiaoxia to get up.
The three of them went out to exercise in the front yard, and Caiyun also followed. She felt that Xiulan's Tai Chi form was very soft and graceful, and she wanted to learn from it.
"Auntie, let me teach you, I'm the best at it."
Xiaoxia said seriously while practicing poor Tai Chi.
"Okay, I'll learn from Xiaoxia." Caiyun agreed with a smile.
After exercising for half an hour, everyone sweated a little, and then went to get water to wash up.
After Xiulan finished washing, she went to the closet to find a floral short skirt with small yellow flowers printed on it and put it on, and also changed her upper body into a white short-sleeved shirt.
His hair was tied into a high ponytail, with a strand of hair left around his ears to frame his face.
Lin Heng was wearing the black shorts and a white short-sleeved shirt from last night without changing his clothes.
He was a little surprised when he saw Xiulan coming out of the bedroom. She put on a little makeup to embellish herself. She had bright eyes, white teeth, and a youthful and charming look in the sunlight.
But speaking of it, she is only 24 years old this year, an average age.
“Let’s go milk the cow, why are you just standing there?” Xiulan reached out and pulled him.
“Oh, okay.”
Lin Heng came to his senses and came to the back mountain with her.
Xiulan went to milk the cows, Lin Heng fed the chickens and let them out, then went to the orchard to have a look.
In the orchard, there will be pears and apples. The pears are particularly ripe and will fall off if there is a gust of wind.
In a short while, Lin Heng picked up seven or eight intact pears under the tree.
"There are too many. You pick some more and take them back. I will make Qiuli ointment later."
Xiulan said to him while milking the cows. She knew that Lin Heng was doing it. Well.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded and shook the tree again, and the mature ones fell down.
After practicing with a dozen fist-sized pears, he went to get a basket to put them in.
After he finished, he came over to help Xiulan milk the cow. Milking the cow was such a tiring job and not easy.
“Let’s get some August melons to make jam in the next two days. There is a freezer this year so it can be stored for a longer period of time. It’s also good to add some jam and cream to milk to make ice cream.”
Xiulan said while watching Lin Heng milk the cow.
"Okay, there are quite a lot of melons in August this year. Let's pick them tomorrow." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.
"Okay, let's go tomorrow morning." Xiulan agreed.
After squeezing the milk, Lin Heng walked behind Xiulan. The breeze blew up her skirt, exposing her beautiful white legs, which always made people feel a strange desire to explore.
Back at home, Xiulan made some simple potato cakes, Lin Heng made a milk tea, and the rest was used to make cream except for what was brought to her parents.
Cream is very simple to make. Boil the milk until it is almost boiling and then let it cool. The cream will condense on the top.
After breakfast, Xiulan started to braise the meat. Lin Heng helped her prepare all the offal and roe deer meat to be braised, and then took Xiaoxia to Hongfeng Mountain.
Lin Heng brought the milk over. Father Lin and Mother Lin were cutting the grass. Recently, the grass could be harvested again. They cut part of it to dry and feed part to the cattle and sheep.
There are still many Qingshu, so there is no need to make any more for the time being.
Lin Heng put the milk in the house and took Xiaoxia to see the cows and sheep. Most of the female black goats had their bellies straightened out, and they would give birth in the next month.
The nine Qingchuan cows next to them have also reached the age where they can become pregnant. They can be bred if they are in heat at the end of the year.
Coming out of the pen, Lin Heng walked up to his father and said, "These ewes are not well taken care of. Have they not been fed corn paste?"
Before Father Lin could speak, Mother Lin spoke first: "Stop beating around the bush, I've offended your wife and you don't want me to feed you corn. Why don't you come and beat me up?"
She sounded dissatisfied and looked at Lin Heng with squinted eyes. .
"I'm really here to say this, mom. Your idea of saving doesn't work. I know you've developed it since you were a child, but it doesn't apply now."
"Why doesn't it apply anymore?" Mother Lin was disdainful.
"Mom, tell me, after all these years of saving, do you think I can earn more in a month?" Lin Heng asked.
"If you don't feed the ewe more good food, will it cause a difficult delivery or stillbirth? Will you lose more?" Lin Heng asked again.
"Xiulan saw that you were working hard alone and came to help you. Why do you have to reprimand her?" Lin Heng said a little angry. He felt that there was something wrong with his mother's attitude.
He understands that it may be that his mother has reached menopause, which sometimes happens. He understands but he has to let his mother understand what is right and wrong.
"Okay, okay, you are amazing. When you have a wife and forget about your mother, you are the most amazing." Mother Lin walked into the house angrily.
"This is not something we will never forget. I hope you won't do this in the future. If you have anything to say, what I hate the most is being unreasonable and being unreasonable. Isn't that what you taught us when you were young?"
Lin Heng finished his words while watching his mother walking into the house.
Actually, he originally thought of a euphemistic way of saying it, but Mother Lin directly jumped in and admitted it, making him too lazy to turn around.
He also has to establish his own authority. After all, he is already the actual leader of the family. When he is in charge, he must be fair and just, so that there will be less complaints among family members.
This is just like parents who want to treat their children equally. Don't treat them differently, otherwise you will only suffer the consequences in the end.
The best example is his grandmother. If she hadn't treated him differently and favored his eldest father since childhood, the relationship between the two families would not be what it is now.
"Your mother may have been feeling unwell these past two days. She had a quarrel with me last night." Father Lin whispered from the side.
"I know, Dad, I have to explain myself. My mother is wrong, it is wrong. If Xiulan is wrong, I will not favor Xiulan."
Lin Heng looked at his father and said He said something, and then added, "Let's have a good rest today. The crops will be harvested in two days. We won't have a barbecue this afternoon. My mother will probably be unhappy if we come over like this."
After that, He turned around and left. He originally wanted to stay longer, but now he didn't want to stay anymore.
He was also very painful about this kind of thing. He didn't want to talk about his mother who gave birth to him, but he had to talk about it.
Fortunately, Xiulan is not the kind of moody person, otherwise this matter would be even more difficult to handle.
When a man reaches the age of being the master of the family, he will inevitably encounter these problems. It is often at this time that some men are forced to collapse. Not only do they have to face the problem of supporting the family and making money, they also have to solve the problem. Quarrel issues between family members.
It is often at this stage that men understand how important it is to marry a virtuous wife.
"Dad, grandma is angry?"
After walking out of Hongfeng Mountain, Xiaoxia asked tentatively. She was a little scared after the quarrel just now.
Lin Heng touched her face and said: "Xiaoxia, remember, the most important thing in life is self-love. Don't make trouble unreasonably just because you are a girl. Do things right and wrong. Just like your grandma, It’s unreasonable to be wrong.”
He hopes that both his daughter and son will love themselves first, be sensible, and not make trouble unreasonably. Only when people love themselves first can they have the ability to love others.
Of course, he is talking about self-love and not self-esteem. People should cherish themselves and not think they are noble.
"I understand dad, I won't imitate grandma." Xiaoxia nodded and rested her little head on Lin Heng's shoulder, as obediently as a kitten. "Let's go and find you an August melon."
Lin Heng held his daughter and walked on the road for a while, and saw the red August melon on the tree outside the road. Xiaoxia saw it at the first sight and pointed it out: "Dad, there is it there. "
"I saw it, just stand still and don't move."
Lin Heng put his daughter down, walked down and climbed up the tree, barely reaching enough to pick them off.
"Daddy is so awesome, I love daddy!"
Xiaoxia saw Lin Heng picking the August melon and waved her little hands happily.
“Here, I’ll give you a bite, remember to spit out the seeds.”
Lin Heng broke open the August melon and took a bite to demonstrate, then fed Xiaoxia a bite.
Xiaoxia sucked it in, spit out a lot of seeds, and then laughed happily.
“Here, have another bite.”
Lin Heng smiled and fed his daughter another mouthful. Seeing her happily spitting out the seeds, his bad mood improved.
I took my daughter home and opened the courtyard door, and a strong aroma of braised pork wafted out.
"Why are you back so soon?"
Xiulan, who was sitting on the sofa, asked curiously.
"I didn't work, so I came back. Also, we won't go to the barbecue in the afternoon. We will eat at home." Lin Heng sighed and sat down, putting his daughter next to him.
"You really went over and said mom is gone. I already told you it's okay and she's gone." Xiulan guessed the reason immediately and looked at him helplessly.
“Second brother, you are so brave.” Caiyun gave a thumbs up.
Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and smiled: "Next time you make a mistake, I will also tell you. Of course, if I make a mistake, you can also tell me."
" You, I told you not to talk about mom, and it will be fine after a few days." Xiulan looked at him and thought about how to help their mother and son ease their relationship. She was so sad.
"Stop talking and pick out my ears." Lin Heng took her hand and said, not wanting to discuss this troublesome issue.
"Okay."
Xiulan opened the drawer of the coffee table and took the tools, and sat on the sofa. Lin Heng lay on her lap and turned around so that one side was close to her thigh.
After enjoying his wife’s ear picking for a while, Lin Heng ran to the water room to write, and suddenly he had inspiration.
His book has already written 20,000 words, and he has been polishing it. The content is also very simple. It is a story of a person living a miserable life, experiencing the most real and simple hardships in the world, and still living in the end.
He hasn't thought of a name yet, so he just wrote it for fun, completely based on his inner feelings and thoughts.
He did not want to be a literary copyist, otherwise there would be too many good literary works that have not yet been released that could be copied.
After writing three thousand words, he stopped, opened the cabinet and looked at the ginseng in the hidden glass bottle.
This ginseng is intact and its skin is wrinkled, giving off an old feeling.
After taking one look, Lin Heng put it back to its original place. He was not going to sell it for the time being.
Put together with the ginseng, there are three boxes of Angong Niuhuang Pills and a bunch of stamps kept in plastic bags. These are what Lin Heng collected everywhere when he went to the city in the past two years, except for the ordinary ones. , there are ten monkey tickets, and three tickets for the mountains and rivers all over the country to be red.
In this era, stamps were just normal receipts for mailing letters. No one thought that they would be worth so much in the future.
He has been deliberately collecting these things. This is the simplest investment. Just store it and wait for the price to increase later.
After two glances, he closed the secret compartment, and then looked at the Boshan furnace, soapstone and other things placed there.
If nothing else happens, these will be quite valuable in the future.
In addition, there is a batch of porcelain upstairs that was exchanged before. He doesn't know whether it is authentic or not. He is going to find an opportunity to go to Ancheng to find someone to identify it.
Lin Heng came out and saw that the milk boiled in the morning had condensed into cream, so he put it in the freezer to speed up the process.
"The roe deer meat stew is ready, do you want to try it?"
Xiulan walked out of the kitchen and asked with a smile.
“Here we come.” Lin Heng walked over with a smile, and Xiulan cut a small piece for him.
"Hmm...it's delicious, just like braised beef, with a more delicate texture." Lin Heng nodded with satisfaction.
"These are all finished braised. Next, we will braise the head of the roe deer."
Xiulan also took out the braised roe deer internal organs and put them in a bamboo sieve to cool.
Lin Heng had cooked the roe deer head in the evening. Now Xiulan would add some ingredients and just throw it into the marinade.
"We have noodles for lunch. How about I cut some braised pork and we can get some sweet wine?"
While braised the roe deer head, Xiulan looked at Lin Hengdao who was stealing the food.
"Okay, okay."
Lin Heng nodded repeatedly, the braised roe deer meat was so fragrant.
After lunch, Xiulan changed into a pair of trousers and Caiyun went to the river to wash clothes. Lin Heng was too lazy to go, so he just lay at home and took care of the children.
He was bored and soon fell asleep. When he woke up again, he would be woken up by the knocking on the door.
“Coming, coming.”
Lin Heng looked at his watch and it was already two o'clock, so he went to open the door.
"Second brother, mom asked us to have a barbecue in the afternoon."
After opening the door, Caiyun looked at Lin Heng and said.
Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and was not very happy: "Have you reconciled with mom? Don't admit her mistake like she did. If you admit your mistake, she will subconsciously think that you were really wrong."
< br>"Hurry up and pick up your clothes and come into the house to talk."
Xiulan handed him a basket of wet clothes and smiled.
Lin Heng's attitude made her very happy. Her man was so kind to her.
"My mother came to apologize to me. We went to wash clothes together. She said she was in a bad mood that day and told me not to worry about it. She would never say this again."
Close Xiulan opened the door and walked into the room and said softly.
"Yes, grandma admitted her mistake." Xiaoxia also nodded.
"In that case, okay, let's go have a barbecue in the afternoon." Lin Heng nodded and said.
Xiulan nodded while hanging the clothes: "The roe deer head should be braised. I'll take it over to eat in the afternoon."
"It's braised."
Lin Heng Nodding, he helped put on clothes.
Back at home, Xiulan changed into a floral skirt again, sat on the sofa and blew on the fan to cool off.
Lin Heng went to take out the roe deer head. The head, which was split into two halves, was completely marinated.
(End of this chapter)