Chapter 418 Fish and Pearls
Lin Heng helped stoke the fire, and soon breakfast was ready. Now life is better, and the food is delicious and delicious.
After lunch, the winter sun finally melted away the hoarfrost on the ground, and people can feel the comfortable warmth wherever they are exposed to the sun.
“Let’s go fishing in Hongfeng Mountain, and take the kids with us.”
After clearing away the dishes, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded and agreed, and she would do anything with Lin Heng.
After a pause, Xiulan asked again: "Should we fish for grouper, grass carp or plum blossom in the stream?"
"I also want to fish daddy!" When Xiaoxia heard about fishing, she ran Come over.
"No problem, I'll teach you how to fish later." Lin Heng touched her little face and replied to Xiulan, "I'm going to catch grass carp. I'll catch a few and keep them in the stream for the New Year. Eat.”
Although the water in the pond is mountain stream water, it is stagnant water after all, and the fish still has an earthy smell.
If you put it in mountain spring water for a while, it will taste much better.
"Okay, let's clean it up."
Xiulan nodded, pushed out the stroller, put the child in, and then covered it tightly with a small quilt.
She has always been very careful in taking care of her children. When she goes out, she tries her best to prevent the children from being blown by the cold wind.
Lin Heng just needs a few fishhooks. Others are available in Hongfeng Mountain.
After finishing it, he pushed a stroller and pulled Xiaoxia and Xiulan side by side towards Hongfeng Mountain. Now there was a deserted scene everywhere. The mountains were gray, the sky was foggy, and there were only wheat fields on the ridges. The rapeseed fields reveal a bit of greenery.
Walking in the village, many people were very curious when they saw his figure. Someone said: "Lin Heng is back. I heard that you went hunting. How was the harvest?"
< br>"Just so so, I didn't hit anything." Lin Heng shook his head and said.
Tian Baishun walked down the slope and said: "Don't lie to me. If you say less, you will definitely gain a lot. Tell us and let us see."
"That's right, I did it yesterday I saw your car pulling Gao Gao back late, how could you not hit him?" Someone made a voice, it was not too late that Lin Heng came back last night, someone still saw him.
"It's just a wild boar, and the rest are pots, pans, yams and other things." Lin Heng spread his hands and said.
Hearing what he said, Wang Bing said with a hint of ridicule: "Then you can't do that. After running out for so long and hunting something like this, I not only shot a wild boar, but also a muntjac. ."
Lin Heng smiled and said: "Then you are awesome. I can't hunt any prey now, so I just raise cattle, sheep and shrimps."
Wang Bing: "..."
There was cheerful laughter next to me, which made Wang Bing a little embarrassed. , he wanted to show off, but was suppressed by Lin Heng before he could do it.
"Stop talking, let's go."
Lin Heng waved his hand and left with his wife and children.
He doesn't need to rely on prey to prove how powerful he is. Every time the villagers pass by Hongfeng Mountain, they will sigh.
After a while, the five people arrived at Hongfeng Mountain. From a distance, they could now see a gray-white cement road leading from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. There were also two large platforms at the bottom of the mountain. The silhouette is visible from a distance.
“Honey, when was this repaired?” Lin Heng turned around and asked.
"It has been repaired for about ten days, and it has been repaired down the mountain and a retaining wall has been built." Xiulan pointed to the location where the soil was dumped on the roadside down the mountain.
Lin Heng ran over and took a look. The soil that had been dug for the platform was poured into the pit outside the road, and a platform of more than an acre was filled. Lin Heng walked over and took a look and found that his father had moved the outside close to the Shiban River. A retaining wall is built on the other side, so the platform does not have to worry about being washed away by rising water.
This platform was compacted by the excavator at the beginning, but it was not hardened. Some excavated gravel was just poured to cover the yellow mud. It will not be muddy when walking on it on rainy days.
He planned to use this place to build a compost pit and pile up cow and sheep dung, but he had not yet made up his mind whether to do it this way.
After looking twice, he turned around and went back. He and Xiulan pushed the child into the breeding base and came to the parents' residence above.
"Come here, sit down and have a bite."
Father Lin and the other three were eating at the moment, and they saw the three of them standing up and said.
Because all the dogs they raised knew Lin Heng Xiulan, they naturally did not bark, and they did not find out in advance.
"We just ate, and we are going to go fishing in the grass carp pond now. You can eat." Lin Heng shook his head and said.
Xiulan pushed the child into the house and said, "Yes, Mom, you don't have to worry about us."
Only Xiaoxia was curious about what her grandparents were eating, so she trotted over to take a look. Her grandma picked out some lean meat and fed it to her. After taking a bite, she shook her head and ran away, expressing that she didn't want to eat anymore.
"Be careful and don't go to the water." Mother Lin warned.
"I know, grandma." Xiaoxia agreed and started playing outside on a small wooden car made by her grandfather.
Lin Heng entered the house and found the fishing rods placed here. They were all in good condition, including the hooks.
Mother Lin looked at her son and daughter-in-law and said, "If you want to go fishing, go ahead. I will keep an eye on the child."
"Thank you, Mom. The children have just eaten. Just be careful not to let them crawl out." Xiulan said with a smile.
At this time, Father Lin said: "Son, you go fishing first, and in the evening we can get musk for the forest musk deer. It's time to get it."
"Understood." Lin Heng nodded and put the fishing rod aside, took a hoe and went out to dig for earthworms.
Xiulan went out with him and took Xiaoxia with her. Lin Heng hadn't been back for a long time and looked around. The top of the mountain was too far. He didn't go, so he just looked at the animals raised at home.
The sheep have grown up a lot, and the cows’ bellies are bulging, but nothing else has changed. The red dates are raised outside, and the three white goats are bleating on the mountain while eating grass. The chickens no longer lay eggs, and there are no insects to eat in winter, so they are not very active.
After looking around, he started digging for earthworms at the edge of the compost pond. It was difficult to dig earthworms in winter, but there was a lot of manure in this place, so Lin Heng wanted to try it.
“There are so many native silkworms, this thing should be good for fishing.”
The earthworms were not dug up, Lin Heng looked at the white native silkworms dug out of the soil and said.
Xiulan blinked and put the silkworms into a plastic bag with a wooden stick: "It should be OK, they are all meat."
"Then go fishing, if you can't catch any more Change it to something else." Lin Heng nodded and said, even the earthworms next to the dung pile are not easy to dig in winter.
But he didn't think it was a big problem. There were fish everywhere in the fish pond and they could definitely be caught.
"You can definitely catch it. Dad is the best." Xiaoxia raised her hands, more confident than Lin Heng.
She was pulled by Xiulan, still jumping and carefree.
Coming down from above, Lin Heng looked in the pig pen again. Two big fat pigs were eating in the pig pen.
Xiulan said: "You have killed so many prey this time, we have to kill as many pigs as we do during the Chinese New Year."
"Then kill one and have a taste." Lin Heng said with a smile. He had been fed acorns for two years. He wanted to taste the difference between this pork and ordinary pork.
After saying that, he took Xiulan back to the house to get the fishing rod, fish guard and bench, and the three of them went to the grass carp pond together. The two sat down side by side and fixed the hook line. Lin Heng first threaded a silkworm on Xiulan, then threaded one on himself and threw it into the fish pond.
“Yeah, there is a fish!”
Xiulan exclaimed as soon as she threw it in, and the fishing rod bent into a big bow in her hand , a big grass carp struggled hard in the water.
"Wow, mom is so awesome." Xiaoxia cheered from the side.
"You slide the fish yourself, and I will copy it for you."
Lin Heng picked up the fishing net and said with a smile, fish have little strength in winter.
Lin Heng set up the net, and Xiulan pulled the fish twice into the net. When she saw the fish pulled ashore, she squatted down and smiled: "This grass carp must be six or seven pounds. "
"Definitely, I estimate the big one can weigh ten kilograms." Lin Heng nodded and said, grass carp can grow six or seven kilograms a year, and these grass carps have been fed very well this year.
The scales of this grass carp are golden and very beautiful, almost the same as the big grass carp caught in wild rivers. Put it into the fish guard and the two continued fishing.
After waiting for about half a minute, Lin Heng found that the float was floating down. He pulled hard and stung a fish. After playing with it for a while, he picked it up and put it into the fish guard.
“Yeah, I hit it again.”
Lin Heng had just put the fish in, and Xiulan got another one. She excitedly pulled it over and let Lin Heng copy it.
There is basically no such thing as air force when fishing in your own fish pond. It is completely about experiencing the joy of fishing.
"Dad, I want to fish too." Xiaoxia acted coquettishly next to Lin Heng. She thought fishing was so interesting.
"Then give it a try." Lin Heng held her in his arms and assisted in fishing.
“Wow, big fish, big fish!!”
After a while, a fish bit the hook, and Xiaoxia screamed excitedly. Even if Lin Heng was helping behind, she would not He was pulled towards the water.
When she saw the big fish landing, she was even more happy from ear to ear. Xiulan put a scarf around her mouth, fearing that she would catch a cold from breathing in too much cold wind.
Then Lin Heng and Xiulan caught several fish one after another until all the dug silkworms were caught. Both of them have become addicted to fishing. Although there are not as many surprises as wild fishing, it feels good to catch fish frequently.
“How many fish were caught in one?”
Xiulan asked curiously after catching the fish.
"About eight or nine." Lin Heng walked over and lifted the fish up. With the sound of splashing water, the fifty or sixty kilogram fish was pulled up.
“There are nine fish in total. This is enough. Let’s go, let’s take them to the mountain stream and raise them.”
Lin Heng counted the fish and said that there must be too much fish for his own consumption, and he would also like to give some to relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year.
"Okay." Xiulan nodded and pulled Xiaoxia to follow Lin Heng.
Lin Heng carried the fish to the edge of the mountain stream, walked and stopped, and finally chose the pool created by the waterfall from the small dam on the top of the mountain.
The water in this pool is one person deep and covers an area of three to four square meters. The best thing here is that the dissolved oxygen is very sufficient. The arm-thick waterfalls coming down from the mountain are constantly splashing with countless splashes in the water. There are nine large waterfalls. Grass carp raised here don’t have to worry about insufficient oxygen.
Lin Heng put the fish in one by one and watched them swimming slowly in the pool, and then moved stones to block the outlet.
"Okay, that's enough. It will be absolutely delicious to catch and eat fish during the Chinese New Year." Lin Heng said with a smile.
“There are nine fish in total, I can count them clearly.” Xiaoxia said with her chin held high, her big eyes gleaming. She is very powerful now. She can count to a hundred and can write a lot. I can write, draw, and recognize many plants.
The most powerful thing is speaking. She can speak clearly for a long time, and sometimes tells stories to a lot of people in the village without any stage fright.
"My dear baby is so awesome." Lin Heng praised her, then looked at Xiulan and said, "Daughter-in-law, do you want to go up the mountain to catch plum blossoms?"
He is Those who were planning to go up the mountain to play have all come back, so naturally they want to go up the mountain to have a look.
Xiulan said: "No need to fish, there are stinky mandarin fish frozen in the freezer at home, it's enough to eat."
Lin Heng nodded, holding his daughter and sitting on his neck, the three of them looked towards Walk up the mountain.
There are some fallen leaves in the small reservoir on the mountain. The water is green and the bottom cannot be seen clearly. However, if you throw some things in, you can see the plum blossoms turning out to find food.
"I harvested a lot of dendrobium this year. The ones you planted on the tree can indeed survive."
Xiulan said, looking at the dendrobium on the tree.
Lin Heng took a look and said: "Dendrobium is too difficult to grow, otherwise I would like to expand the scale."
Now I just keep these for fun, and make some for myself to drink dendrobium tea.
While talking, they came to the cabin. Lin Heng looked at a few big trees not far away and said: "When I have time, I will build a tree house on the tree here. Let’s play.”
A house on a tree was one of the gifts he wanted most when he was a child. I believe both Xiaoxia and Lu Ming Du Heng would like it if it was built.
"Okay, Dad, let's build it now." Xiaoxia said immediately after hearing this.
"Wait later, I don't have time now." Lin Heng put her down.
The scenery on the top of the mountain is not pretty when there is no snow in winter, and the scenery below the mountain is not good either, but together with Xiulan she is a beautiful scenery. After looking at the house and the ginseng garden, they went down the mountain.
Father Lin and the others had already finished their meal and were waiting for him to come over to help get the musk from the forest musk deer.
"Dad, how are the pearl mussels I raised last year? Have you seen them?"
Lin Heng asked when walking to the forest deer circle. When he just came down the mountain, he asked Just remembered this.
Father Lin shook his head: "I don't know. I moved it out this year and threw it into the shrimp pond at the bottom and I haven't seen it since. If you want to look for it, I can drain the water in the next two days to see if there is any."
He would have forgotten it if Lin Heng had not mentioned it.
"Let's release the water, catch some shrimps and check the condition of the mussels." Lin Heng said, he felt that there must be pearls in these mussels.
"Okay." Father Lin agreed.
After arriving at the forest musk deer circle and waiting for a while, his uncle also came over after going to the toilet. Three people went in and caught the male forest musk deer. The two held him down while one slowly took out the musk.
Although there is a new male forest musk deer this year, you have to wait another two years to get musk. Forest musk deer mature sexually in two years, but it takes more than three years for a male forest musk deer to produce musk.
After taking out the musk, Lin Heng carefully packaged it. This year, there is more musk, which can probably be sold for a few hundred yuan more.
"By the way, son, you should go to Xiaozhuo Township early tomorrow morning. I will tell you something."
Putting Lin She back into the pen, Lin's father said.
(End of this chapter)