Chapter 420 Bear Oil Soap
The next morning, he had breakfast as usual. His uncle also came down, and everyone gathered together to sort out the harvest.
Almost everyone in the Lin family is here. Everyone moved their things out, and Lin Heng took out his accounting book to verify the accounts one by one.
Lin Heng looked at the things and said: "Everything is here. Now let's separate what we want to sell and what we keep for our own consumption, and divide them according to their respective harvests."
< br>The main food eaten is meat, including wild boar, forest musk deer, muntjac, white rice seeds, sika deer, as well as various pheasants, golden pheasants and other poultry.
These things wouldn't fetch a high price when sold, and they were very troublesome, so I divided them up and dealt with them myself.
After some distribution, Lin Heng took fifty kilograms of venison and its internal organs, head and limbs, twenty kilograms of bear meat, thirty kilograms of bear oil, twenty kilograms of wolf meat, and forest musk deer meat. Five pounds of roe deer meat, eight pounds of roe deer meat, five pounds of yellow-throated marten meat, one pair of black bear intestines, one pair of yellow muntjac intestines, one pair of wolf intestines, three bellies, seven golden pheasants, three grouse, and three hazel grouse.
He didn’t want any wild boar meat, and the yellow muntjac also gave up. After all, he got a few more golden roosters.
The remaining meat was divided among the other four people. If calculated according to the proportion of credit, he would suffer a loss and should get more.
After dividing the meat, everyone looked at the proportions and found something was wrong. Li Baiquan looked at Lin Heng and said: "Lin Heng, you gave us too much, please take some back."
"Indeed, all you can hunt by yourself is a wild boar, a black bear, two wolves and a sika deer. This is too little." Lu Honghai also nodded and directly gave Lin Heng some venison.
"Yes, we have agreed to distribute the work according to merit, and we will not let you suffer any loss." Lu Honggang also said.
"Brother, what you said is really unreasonable." Lin Yue also said.
A few people took some meat and stuffed it towards Lin. They were all very simple people and did not want to suffer losses themselves or see others suffer.
Lin Heng quickly waved his hand and said: "No need for this, I voluntarily don't want wild boar meat, and what I got is completely enough."
"This won't work. You have to get more. If you think it's too much, you can give it away. This will make us embarrassed to go hunting with you in the future. This hunting is originally your greatest contribution."
Lu Honghai sternly refused and gave Lin Heng a golden rooster and ten pounds of bacon. The remaining three people also handed some back.
"You can't do this if you want to hand it over. This is too much, and I don't need to take so much." Lin Heng waved his hands repeatedly.
After some pulling by several people, three more golden chickens, fifteen kilograms of wild boar meat, and more than ten kilograms of white rice meat came out even though he didn’t want it.
"That's good, we are all our own people, it doesn't matter if there are more or less." Lin's father was also advising beside him.
Mother Lin also advised: "Yes, there is no need to worry about dividing the meat like the hunting team in the village. This meat can be taken back to everyone."
They felt that Lin Heng should really take more, but This is enough. It’s okay to share some of the remaining benefits with everyone.
According to the current situation, Lin Heng took almost 40% of the meat, and everyone else took 15% of the meat, which means Lin Heng still took 2%. Ten pieces of meat were distributed to everyone.
According to the normal calculation of his contribution, he alone can get 60% to 70% of the total amount of meat, but he does not take that much because these are his closest relatives. I am willing to share some, and I am not short of that food.
"Okay, have lunch at my house, uncle and uncle, you can take the meat back first, and then we can go to the city tomorrow or the day after tomorrow and sell the furs at once?"
After finishing the distribution, Lin Heng looked at everyone and said.
"Okay, let's do it the day after tomorrow. Have a good rest tomorrow. I've been too tired recently." Lu Honghai said.
"Yes, it will be suitable the day after tomorrow." Li Baiquan also said.
After the discussion, everyone packed their own meat. Lin Heng put the venison and a few fresh chickens in the refrigerator. The other dried meat was hung in front of the second floor window to be blown by the cold wind.
He was destined to have too much meat this year, so he gave some to his parents on the spot for them to take to Hongfeng Mountain to eat. He could also take some to his third father’s house. No matter what his third mother did, his third father The people in Lin Hai are also very nice.
The others also put the meat into bags and put it aside, while the furs and other items were temporarily piled in the study.
We chose simple and delicious hot pot for lunch, and everyone gathered together to eat meat and drink wine.
This delicacy from the mountains and forests, whether it is mushrooms, yams or meat, has an unparalleled taste. It is a purely natural green food without any additions.
"Dad, I want to eat meat." Xiaoxia took her chopsticks and wanted to mess with it, but the copper pot was too high and she couldn't reach it.
Lin Heng picked up the chopsticks and gave her a chopstick, dipped it in a little sesame sauce and fed it to her. His daughter sits between him and Xiulan, but she always likes to let him give her food.
After picking it up for her, Lin Heng picked up a chopstick of tripe himself. Putting the tripe cooked in hot pot in his mouth was an intoxicating and wonderful experience, with a unique texture and taste.
“You can have some too, we have enough hairy belly to eat as much as we want.” Lin Heng gave Xiulan a chopstick and said with a smile.
The house not only has the belly of sika deer, but also the belly of horse musk deer, forest musk deer, and roe deer. He took the initiative to take all these goodies for hot pot.
"Okay." Xiulan smiled and nodded. She also liked the taste of hairy belly.
The longer you eat hot pot, the more fragrant it becomes, and you don’t have to worry about the food getting cold.
It was already one o'clock in the afternoon after finishing the hot pot. After everyone exchanged greetings, they left one after another. Lin Heng sent them away. Xiulan Lin's mother was cleaning the dishes in the house. The copper pot was washed and she could get some hot pot base in the afternoon. Keep eating, there are still dishes to finish today.
Not far away, Li Baiquan met some people in the village. Someone asked curiously: "Li Baiquan, is this the meat you picked? Did you gain a lot from this hunting?"
"It's meat, just wild boar. I haven't caught anything good in hunting." Li Baiquan said with a smile. He really wanted to show off, but after Lin Heng said something, he had to keep the same tone.
“I don’t believe you have only hunted wild boars for so long. There must be muntjac roe deer, and maybe forest musk deer?” Tian Baishun said with a smile.
This is also the speculation of many people in the village. They speculate that Lin Heng and the others must have gained a lot this time, otherwise they would not have been out for such a long time.
"Maybe you hit a black bear or a wild wolf? You didn't even tell us to let us see it," someone joked.
Li Baiquan said with a smile: "It would be great if we really hit it. There are wild boars and golden pheasants."
"Black bears are impossible, and wild wolves may be a little bit possible, maybe. It's sika deer, takin, etc." Tian Baishun said.
Everyone thought the same thing, but they didn’t know that Lin Heng, the prey they joked about, had all been killed this time. If they really said it, they would be jealous.
Lin Heng didn't know this. He drove to the town and got some venison and bear meat for Uncle Gao. Then he found Wang Zhou and asked, "Find the shell I asked you to find." ”
He has communicated with Wang Zhou quite a lot this year. The young man is working harder than before because his wife Liu Cihua is getting pregnant and he has to work hard to earn money to support the family.
Liu Cihua is a shy and obedient girl who treats Wang Zhou very well and makes him fall in love and unable to extricate himself.
He was also happy to see that he had changed Wang Zhou's destiny. He felt that every honest and kind person should receive good rewards.
Wang Zhou walked in and took out a bag and said, "I found it. I also went to a few dry ponds not far away and picked up a lot. It weighed five or six pounds. Brother Lin, look at these. Is it enough?"
He was very grateful to Lin Heng. He tried hard to do everything Lin Heng said.
"That's enough, that's enough." Lin Heng nodded with a smile, and then said, "When you go home in two days, remember to come to my house first, and I will give you something."
"Okay. "Brother Lin." Wang Zhou agreed with a smile. "Xiao Lin, aren't you going to go fishing? I recently caught a crucian carp nest. I think it has already made a nest." Uncle Gao came out with a fishing rod and said with a smile.
"That's okay, let's go fishing and try it." Lin Heng thought for a while and said, there was nothing urgent to do today.
"Let's go, tell me what you gained from entering the mountains." Uncle Gao said as he walked.
"Okay."
Lin Heng took the fishing rod and pony to the river, chatting while fishing.
It was soon past four o'clock in the afternoon. Two people caught six large crucian carp, all weighing about one pound.
Lin Heng took two shells and returned home.
When he got home, Xiaoxia ran over to see what he had brought. When she saw it was a fish, she started to moan: "Dad, if you don't take us fishing with you, I don't want to play with you anymore."
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Lin Heng looked at her and smiled and ignored her. He poured the shells into a basin and brought them into the house, pouring boiling water in to wash them.
"Are you going to make soap?" Xiulan asked looking at the shells he made.
"Yes, wash it first and make bear oil soap tomorrow." Lin Heng smiled and nodded. There was too much bear oil at home, and he wanted to try bear oil soap.
"I'll help you." Xiulan was very interested in this and squatted down to help clean it.
Seeing that Lin Heng ignored him, Xiaoxia ran over again, held her head high and said, "Dad, you must take me fishing next time. I forgive you this time."
"Okay, give me a kiss." Lin Heng said while washing the shells.
Xiaoxia smacked his face, then squatted down and played with the shell.
"Let's go to Hongfeng Mountain to pick up live shells at noon tomorrow to see if there are any pearls." Lin Heng said while washing.
Xiulan raised her head: "Are they the batch of pearl oysters you put in last year?"
"Yes." Lin Heng smiled.
"Okay, I want to pick up pearl shells!" Xiaoxia said crisply.
“No problem, I’ll take you there when the time comes.” Lin Heng smiled and nodded.
After washing them, he took a hammer and hammered the shells into small pieces, then divided them into two parts and put them into iron cans, and put them in the fireplace for calcination.
In fact, you can also use quicklime directly, but Lin Heng always feels that this ancient method of using shells has a better feel.
After resting for a while, Lin Heng took out two yellow-throated marten skins and handed them to Xiulan and said: "We made these two skins ourselves, and then made a scarf for you and mom."
Xiulan blinked and said, "You can buy a lot of woolen scarves with the money, why do we waste so much time?"
Then she added: "And I already have a mink coat. When you sell it, I’ll buy a good dress for my mother.”
“But the mink scarf feels good,” Lin Heng said, stroking her messy hair.
"No need, I think my hand-knitted scarf is better." Xiulan shook her head, patted his hand again and said: "Obey, just do this, I'm too lazy to make it, it's very time-consuming Time."
"Okay." Lin Heng spread his hands and agreed.
After sitting on the sofa and resting for a while and eating an orange, he went out for a walk to see if the cows showed any signs of giving birth.
When he got home, he found candles lit in the house, and he couldn't help but said, "There's a power outage again?"
"Yes, it will probably come tomorrow." Xiu Lan said.
Lin Heng nodded, walked over and sat down. Power outages were a normal thing in this era. At this time, the power was not that abundant, and various technologies were not good.
"It should be burned." Lin Heng looked at the shells in the fireplace, took them out and put them aside to cool. The second portion will be stuffed into the bedroom fireplace later. If there is no electric light, it will be early. rest.
Xiulan chose to make a spicy hotpot for dinner, and went to bed early after eating.
After putting the children to sleep, Lin Heng and Xiulan did some simple exercise. This was a way to spend the long night even if they were not used to going to bed too early.
The two fed each other some snacks and made some other attempts, such as Lin Heng holding Xiulan on his waist...
After being tired, the two gradually fell asleep.
Early the next morning, the two got up together. After exercising, Lin Heng went to the back mountain to check on the condition of the cows. He immediately noticed something was wrong.
"Xiulan, prepare some boiled corn paste, the cows have given birth." Lin Heng returned to the backyard and shouted.
"Okay, I'll do it right away." Xiulan nodded, feeling very good.
The birth of the cow went particularly smoothly this time. When Xiulan came to the back mountain with the cooked corn paste, Lin Heng had already taken out the placenta.
“Is the calf a male or a female?” Xiulan asked curiously.
Lin Heng smiled and said: "Another heifer."
"That's good, we are lucky." Xiulan said with a smile. She walked in and fed the corn paste to the cow.
Cows can produce milk, and they are definitely better than bulls anyway.
"That's for sure."
Lin Heng went to bring another bundle of dry straw and chopped it into small pieces with a knife to keep the cows warm in the pen. The birth went smoothly this time. Cows are also very healthy. Next, you just need to pay attention to the nutrition of the cow.
Xiulan is very careful in this regard. In the past month, she has been feeding the cows some grain to supplement their nutrition. This is one of the reasons why the cows can give birth smoothly.
"Let's go." Xiulan reached out and removed the straw from Lin Heng's head and shoulders and said.
Lin Heng nodded, went home and made breakfast with Xiulan, and asked the children to get up to eat.
After breakfast, Xiulan brought bear oil over. Lin Heng used a stone mortar to crush the shells and sift out the powder. The two were ready to make bear oil soap.
"By the way, I remembered that I have another good thing here."
Suddenly Lin Heng said.
"What?" Xiulan and Xiaoxia looked over at the same time.
(End of this chapter)