The next morning, it was still a beautiful sunny day. When he got up and finished exercising, Lin Heng went to milk the cows as usual.
This is not an easy job. When he is at home, he has to squeeze it in by himself.
Now the young cows have been isolated and kept in the cattle pen on the side of Hongfeng Mountain. This female cow Lin Heng has already tried natural breeding once, but it was not successful. She plans to breed again when she comes into heat again in a few days.
The first female cow born is now being bred and is suspected to be pregnant, but it is not yet completely certain.
He is going to wait for that cow to produce milk. Now this cow can be eliminated. The life of a cow is very short, and the current milk production has shown a downward trend.
Carrying the milk back to the house, Xiulan was frying steamed buns. She had steamed them a few days ago and put them in the freezer, so that cooking in the morning would be much easier.
"Would you like to fry some cicadas for the monkeys to eat?" Xiulan turned around and asked when she saw him coming back.
“Come here, I’ll get some, and get some fresh meat for lunch.” Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Okay." Xiulan agreed, took the milk, looked at it and put it aside.
Lin Heng opened the freezer and took a look. He was a meat-loving person. He tasted some meat every day. If he didn't eat it for three days, his mouth would feel bland and tasteless, and his whole body would feel uncomfortable.
"The meat is almost eaten. We can kill another pig." Lin Heng turned over and said to himself.
There are only about five kilograms of venison left in the wild animal meat. The others have been eaten, except for the bear oil and wolf oil. There are also some odds and ends, whether they are frozen or not. It's all ok, it shouldn't be a big problem if you take it out and stuff it with a pig.
His family only killed one pig for the New Year last year, and the other one was planned to be killed after the freezer was empty. Now it seems that it is OK.
Last year’s pig is now more than two years old. If we don’t kill it for meat, it will be bad for it to grow old. Moreover, it has become fat. If we don’t kill it, we will have to keep feeding it and eating grain.
After bringing more than thirty cicada monkeys over, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said, "I'll tell dad about it later and let him see how he can kill pigs on a good day."
Xiulan looked up at him curiously: "You said you were going out to do something, why do you still have time to kill a pig?"
"I don't have to go out every day, there is always time to kill a pig. Lin Heng said with a smile.
Xiulan nodded and said, "That's good. Mom actually wanted to kill her a long time ago. She felt that the big pig always snatched the feed from the little pigs."
Lin Heng added I made some fire, finished breakfast with Xiulan, and then went to wake the child up.
“Oh, why did Xiaoxia wet the bed?” Xiulan was speechless as soon as she touched Xiaoxia’s quilt.
"She really wet the bed, Xiaoxia, get up soon." Lin Heng called out to Xiaoxia. Bedwetting was not a big deal, but he admired her for being able to continue sleeping.
Xiaoxia woke up leisurely and knew that she had wet the bed. She covered her eyes in shame: "Xiaoxia won't pee next time."
"I'll go and wash your body." Get dressed and let people know next time you want to pee." Xiulan picked her up and said.
This was the first time Xiaoxia wet the bed this year, so no one blamed her.
After Xiaoxia tidied up, they woke up their two sons. The younger son Lin Duheng also wet the bed. Fortunately, he had a diaper and did not wet the bed.
After breakfast, Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain and told his father the news. Mother Lin immediately became happy after hearing it: "Today is a double happiness. The brood I hatched has ten chicks. Then You can also kill an unpopular pig.”
That pig was very annoying to her, mainly because it was always causing damage, even if it invaded the pig pen, it also bullied the two little pigs that were just caught this year.
"Then I'll find someone to look after the day." Lin's father said that in order to free up the freezer as soon as possible, they also ate meat every day in the first half of the year, and they became a little fat.
Lin Heng nodded, chatted with his parents, and went to feed the cattle and sheep with fodder. Then he walked around the hillside and picked up two large handfuls of tree fungus.
Although it was a sunny day today, there was not much work to be done. He looked at his father and said, "Dad, let's go and harvest honey with me. You can harvest once in the summer."
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"Okay." Father Lin nodded in agreement. He had nothing to do, so he might as well collect some honey.
They now have a total of five beehives, two on Hongfeng Mountain, two on the hill behind Lin Heng’s house, and one in the backyard of Lin Heng’s house.
Originally there were supposed to be six boxes, but one box of bees couldn't resist last winter and died.
They are now experienced at harvesting honey, and they basically won’t get stung. They harvested it quickly. Father Lin looked at the harvest and said happily: "These two boxes are fine. Once you get this, you can get five Six pounds of honey."
Lin Heng also said with a smile: "Including the ones in the house, it is estimated that the pure honey will be more than ten pounds."
Keeping bees is a very dangerous thing. He was stung a lot in the past, but now he has basically learned it. It can be regarded as a craft. Raising some bees is not about selling them. At least he can eat pure food. of good honey.
Father Lin said regretfully: "My luck is not good this year. Two swarms of wild bees came to the village and the Wang family took them away. That guy wanders around the village every day and is discovered whenever there is honey. "
"It's okay, we don't rely on this to make money." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Haha, that's true. We just feed ourselves, not sell it like him."
Father Lin laughed happily. Their family can now be called a family in the village. My family has a big business and I don't care about the little money from selling honey.
After collecting the honey here, Lin Heng and his father went to the mountain behind the house to harvest honey.
"Xiulan, there will be a bumper harvest of honey this year." When he returned to the house, Lin Heng first gave her the harvested honey.
“There are so many. The color of this honey is so beautiful.” Xiulan said in surprise after taking it and looking at it.
This honey is orange-red in color and looks better than ordinary honey.
"It should be caused by collecting ginseng nectar." Lin Heng explained that in previous years it was light yellow, but the only difference this year is that the ginseng has bloomed, and they have collected a lot of ginseng nectar.
"Then I have to pretend to be alone, I'm afraid it's unusual." Xiulan said immediately.
Lin Heng and his father sat down and took a sip of water. While it was still morning, they hurriedly went to the backyard to harvest honey. The amount of honey harvested from the backyard and the back hill weighed more than ten kilograms.
When they took it back and filtered it all out, there were eight kilograms of pure honey, which was considered a good harvest.
"This honey can be sold. There is still a lot of it at home." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said.
"It's quite a lot. We can't finish it ourselves now, and we've already given it away to others." Father Lin also said.
Lin Heng Lin Heng shook his head and said: "There is no need to sell it for now. I will go to the city in a few days to buy a few large glass jars to put in and sell them later."
Honey is considered a valuable thing, and it is sold now. It’s not cost-effective either, we’ll talk about it later.
"That's okay." Xiulan nodded, but she didn't have any opinion on this.
After filtering the honey, Lin Heng boiled the beeswax, melted it, filtered it again, and stored it there.
The sun is still very strong at noon in summer. The soil has basically been dried today, and the fungi have also been thoroughly dried after a day of drying.
Lin Heng and his eldest brother went to the village committee in the afternoon, while Xiulan prepared the marinade for stewing pig offal. Since the pigs were killed in the summer, they had to be finished within one day, otherwise they would spoil.
Her braised pig offal and pig head must be finished on the same day.
"Daughter-in-law, I have agreed with my eldest brother today that I will go out tomorrow and start collecting old things."
Lin Heng and Xiulan said during dinner in the evening.
The way he thought of making a lot of money was to use money to collect a batch of old objects. There were still many antiques in the village in this era. He planned to collect some at a high price and then exchange them for money in Ancheng. Then use the money in exchange to open a feed factory and buy a truck.
It is not easy to get a loan at this time. He had thought of this method for a long time, including the antiques collected at home.
Maybe he is lucky enough to receive a good item and sell it to make enough money to open a pig farm.
“Which village will we go to tomorrow?” Xiulan asked curiously.
“Let’s take a look at our three villages, Shimen Village and Baima Village first, and then go to other villages.” Lin Heng said while eating vegetables.
He has prepared the trumpet and cash, and when the time comes, his elder brother will go with him to make the purchase.
"That's okay, just pay attention to it." Xiulan nodded.
The two chatted for a while, and Xiaoxia spoke next to her: "Dad, I want to eat fish balls."
"There are no fish balls now. I will wait for two days." I'll go fishing and make fish balls for you." Lin Heng rubbed her head and said.
"Hurry up and finish the rice in the bowl. You are not allowed to sleep until you finish eating." Xiulan was very strict.
She knew that Xiaoxia was a sign that she couldn't finish her meal, so she ate a lot of snacks in the afternoon.
"I've finished eating." Xiaoxia said with a smile, and she actually finished it in one bite, which was somewhat beyond Lin Heng's expectation.
Early the next morning, the golden sunshine could be seen early, which showed that today was another beautiful sunny day.
After breakfast, Lin Heng took the money and the horn and drove out. Lin Yue took out a double-barreled shotgun and got into the car and said: "Let's go, let's go."
" Okay, let’s go to Shimen Village first.”
Lin Heng nodded and drove to Shimen Village not long after.
When he arrived at the center of the village, he stopped the car, took out his loudspeaker and shouted: "We are collecting things. We are collecting antiques at high prices."
As he shouted a few times, Soon someone gathered around and recognized them: "Are you Lin Heng from Hongfeng Village?" , are you here to collect antiques and old objects?”
“Yes, you can collect some for free. Anyone who has good things can bring them out. If the things are good, the price will be good, old coins, silver ingots, antique bowls. Discs or anything like that are fine."
Lin Heng agreed with a smile.
"I have an ancient bowl at home. Do you want it?" Someone soon brought a blue and white porcelain bowl to Lin Heng.
Lin Heng didn’t know much about antiques. Even after reading some books, he still didn’t have a thorough understanding. He looked at it twice and gave a price: “I can give you eight yuan for this thing.”
"Eight yuan, that's fine, you can take it." Upon hearing the price, the owner happily sold it.
After a while, people started to sell some things they thought were old. Lin Heng could recognize some of them as fake at a glance, so naturally he wouldn't want them.
I stayed here all morning and collected ten antique dishes and more than a dozen antique copper coins.
"What do you think of these things?" Lin Yue asked on the way back to Hongfeng Village.
Lin Heng shook his head: "It's probably not good. The best ones are probably from the Qing Dynasty."
Lin Yue said: "Then you spent a lot of money, so It feels like it’s not cost-effective. If it’s all fake, it’s a big loss.”
“That’s not the case.” Lin Heng shook his head. He must have thought about this problem before he dared to do this. .
When he returned to the village at noon, Lin Heng directly asked the village party secretary to use the village committee’s electric loudspeaker to promote him and shout a wave.
Nowadays, everyone is poor. When they hear the propaganda that they can exchange money with these possibly antique items, most of them want to give it a try.
There are more people in Hongfeng Village, and more people come, and each one identifies the price that he thinks is good.
I originally planned to go to Baima Village in the afternoon, but I ran out of time because many people in the village brought bottles and cans for him to see.
This embarrassed him, but he was not short of money and bought all the things he thought were good.
In the evening, Lin Heng was eating when Zhang Zhigen came, carrying several porcelain bottles and a bag of copper coins and said, "Lin Heng, what do you think of this thing of mine?"
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"Not bad. The porcelain bottles can be given for twenty yuan each, but the copper coins are worthless." Lin Heng looked at them and said.
Zhang Zhigen shook his head: "It's cheap. I have to pay at least two hundred for this bottle. What I have is much better than what other people in the village get."
Lin Heng looked at it again. He knew that Zhang Zhigen There are a lot of antiques in the house, many of which were passed down from his ancestors. They even exchanged these items for deer whips with him before.
“This is too expensive.” Lin Heng shook his head.
“It’s really not expensive.” Zhang Zhigen looked at him and said.
The two chatted and slowly pulled each other, and finally Zhang Zhigen said something, and Lin Heng took the things for one hundred and fifty.
But he only accepted one.
For the next period of time, Lin Heng and his eldest brother ran to the surrounding villages every day to collect some things they thought were good.
Not only did Yuan Datou collect a lot of various other antiques, he also bought a lot of them, and there was no room for them on the second floor of his house.
He is very sure about some of these things because he knows the source. Some of the things that were previously hidden by landlords have been collected by him.
On the 16th day of the seventh lunar month, his family kills pigs.
Because I am not busy, it is not like starting before dawn during the Chinese New Year. I only pull out the pig after nine o'clock, and it is already eleven o'clock when I finish cutting the meat.
This time all the meat was put in the freezer, and the braised offal and pig head were also braised in the afternoon.
This pig was killed very happily. It ate two tons of rice at noon and afternoon. Pigs fed by grain, grass and acorns are different.
“Let’s make a pork barbecue in a few days.” Lin Heng said after dinner in the evening. This pork is completely suitable for barbecue.
"Okay, I like to go out for barbecue." Xiaoxia cheered.
“I like it, I like it!”
There were two little guys behind him who echoed.
"Then let's have a barbecue when it's not so hot, and I'll make some sweet wine and drink it cold." Xiulan said.
"Then wait until I collect some more antiques, eat them when the weather is nice, and treat it as a celebration." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"How many more antiques are you planning to collect?" Xiulan looked at him and asked. Recently, he has spent more than three thousand yuan collecting antiques, which is not a small amount.
And those old-looking bottles and jars made her a little worried.
"Don't worry if I charge another two thousand yuan, I'm measured." Lin Heng said, pressing her shoulder. (End of this chapter)