Lin Heng and Xiulan prepared the ingredients together and cut a lot of antelope beef. In the evening, they called their eldest brother and third father to come over and have a delicious meal together.
There wasn't much antelope beef left, and Lin Heng didn't want to keep it. It didn't have any special medicinal effects and was just eaten as meat.
When the freezer is empty, you can put other things in it. The bacon and sausages smoked during the Chinese New Year need to be put in and refrigerated.
After dinner, early the next morning, Lin Hengxian, his eldest brother and his third father went to Tongshugou, where the pig farm is located, to look at the progress here.
After reading it, he nodded and said: "It seems that this place can be repaired before April."
Now the barbed wire fence has been encircled, and thorns have been added around the perimeter, so that the closure and safety are guaranteed.
Furthermore, Xiongba’s litter of children from last year has also grown up, and he gave one to his uncle, and there are still five dogs left. It’s just right to work here.
"That's for sure. It's not difficult to build these pig pens at all." Lin Xutao said.
There are iron tiles and second-hand wooden boards obtained by Lin Heng. It is very simple to build.
“I don’t have to worry about my third father.” Lin Heng said with a smile and gave him a cigarette.
Lin Xutao took the cigarette and asked with a smile: "Nephew, your third mother heard that you want to hire someone to raise pigs here. She has some ideas. Do you think she is suitable?"
"Not suitable, this But it's different from raising one or two pigs. She can't move just the pig feed. Move. I only recruit men, and you can’t leave after you come. You have to work here until the end of the year. Of course, the salary is not low, 500 yuan a year.”
Lin Heng said immediately, how much do you have to support. Thousand pigs, this is physical work, women can't do it here.
"That's right, that's true." Lin Xutao smiled and nodded. And no worries.
"Third father, if you are willing to come, I welcome you." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Word has gotten out about it and many people want the job, but he hasn't finalized the candidate yet.
Many women in the village offered him good words and wanted to come over, saying they could get lower wages, but he didn't agree.
This is no joke. If he cannot raise pigs, he will lose tens of thousands of dollars. This was tens of thousands of dollars in the 1980s, which is equivalent to millions in future generations.
"I would like to come, but I can't live without me at home." Lin Xutao said with a smile. His family is also very busy this year, raising fish, growing astragalus and crops.
Lin Yue looked at them and then looked at Lin Heng and said: "Brother, I think you have to spend more money to make those pig pens and warehouses into cement. Even if it is three centimeters thick, it will be much better. Pig manure will be easier.”
"I have an idea for this, and I'm going to do it together eventually." Lin Heng nodded.
He thought about this for a while, and finally decided to lay a layer of cement, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with the feces, and the pigs would turn the pig pen into a mud pit
Finished here, Lin Heng left, instead of going home, he went to his home in a forest where a large number of chestnut trees grew.
This is not far from the apple orchard, the straight-line distance is only five or six hundred meters, and it is located on the other side of the ridge.
The hairy chestnut trees in this forest account for 60%, and most of the growth is acorn trees and miscellaneous trees.
Although there are many hairy chestnut trees, they are different from the chestnut mountain at the border of Shimen Village. The trees here hardly bear chestnuts.
Thick chestnut trees are as thick as human thighs, thin ones are as thick as fingers, and most are as thick as human wrists and forearms.
It has now been more than ten days since the Waking of Insects, and the Qingming Festival is not far away. Places with lots of water such as rivers are green, and many trees are gradually full of spores.
This period has always been chosen for grafting. It is the easiest time for grafting to survive.
Lin Heng took a look first and found that it seemed that the fire was not yet ready. The spores of the trees on the top of the mountain were not full enough. They could wait for a few more days.
After reading it, he went back and told Xiulan about it.
Xiulan stretched out her hand to straighten his collar, then removed the spider silk from his hair and said, "Then you should go and clean it up now. You have to cut down other trees so that they can be grafted later. "
"I think so too. I'll go there with my father in the next two days." Lin Heng nodded.
"I'll be with you. I can also graft. When I was young, I grafted many trees alive." Xiulan said.
"Then my skills in this area are not as good as mine, so I have to teach you, your husband." Lin Heng said with a smile, he had specialized in grafting.
"I don't believe it, let's compare." Xiulan said.
"No problem, whoever loses will agree to something unconditionally." Lin Heng nodded.
"Okay." Xiulan clenched her fists and hummed.
"Then I'll go pull the cement now." Lin Heng said again.
Grafting will take some time, so let’s make the pig pen first.
"Be safe, drive slower." Xiulan patted her and said.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.
He actually wanted Xiulan to be with him, but the child could not be left alone to take care of.
Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain to tell his father about the incident, and then drove into the city.
Nowadays, the cement he pulls is directly pulled from the cement factory in the city, and the price is cheaper than in the town. The same goes for sand and gravel.
It took him a day to pull all the cement and stones, and for the next two days he worked with others to mix concrete and lay the floor of the pig pen.
At the same time, he also asked people from the electrical management station to pull the wires, install electric meters, and pull the lights to some key places in the pig farm.
The cement floors of the pig pens and warehouses have been laid, and the water pipes laid by Lin Heng have been laid. The owner's cabin has been trimmed, and the kitchen stove has been laid.
Soon it was March 27th. Early that morning, after they installed the large iron gate at the entrance of the pig farm, the pig farm was completely completed.
“Okay, good luck and good luck!”
"Raising pigs here is absolutely smooth without any problems!"
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With some blessings from everyone, this simple pig farm was finally completed.
Even though it was very simple, including the money for the excavator, it cost Lin Heng more than 4,000 yuan and nearly 5,000 yuan.
"Okay, we can leave for now. I will pay you when we get back." Lin Heng said with a smile.
The pig pen was built to make him happy. This was the beginning of making money this year.
“Thank you, Boss Lin!”
“I wish Boss Lin’s business will grow bigger and bigger!”
Everyone shouted with a smile, very happy to receive their wages.
Soon Lin Heng drove everyone back to the village in one car and settled the wages one by one as usual.
"Boss Lin, have you found the person who wants to feed the pigs in your pig farm?" someone asked.
"This has been found, no need to ask anymore." Lin Heng said with a smile.
One of the candidates is Li Shilei, his aunt's eldest son, who is also considered younger than him.
The other one is a person from Shimen Village next door named Zhang Feng. He looks honest and honest, he is only 27 years old, but he has three sons and one daughter waiting for him to be fed, and his parents can still work.
He came to talk to him about the person he was most satisfied with at work. He felt reassured by such a person who had a heavy family burden and was willing to help. With the job I gave him, his family's situation would be greatly improved, and it was considered a good deed.
He won't exploit people because of their poor conditions. He doesn't want to do such a thing.
After paying everyone's wages, Lin Heng invited his eldest brother and his third father's family over for a meal.
The bacon and sausages made during the Chinese New Year are fried especially well with wine and rice.
It was already afternoon after dinner. When Lin Xutao and Li Xue left Lin Heng's house, they happened to meet their elder brother Lin Xuping.
"Brother!"
Lin Xutao simply greeted him.
Lin Xuping nodded and left without saying anything, feeling regretful in his heart that he shouldn't have been so mean and arrogant.
Not only is Lin Heng rich now, but other important relatives of Lin Heng's family have also made a lot of money. His family is still almost the same as it was a few years ago.
What made him jealous the most was that Lin Heng actually arranged for Lin Hai to marry Tian Yan. His youngest son didn't have a wife yet.
He used to be jealous and want to cause sabotage, but now he doesn't dare to do so, because Lin Yue has become the clerk of the village committee, and Lin Heng is also very popular in the village, and he can't afford to offend him.
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There was only regret in his heart. He wanted to ease the relationship with Lin Heng's family, but they didn't accept it at all. He was more fortunate that Lin Heng was bullying them in turn.
"Dad, have the chestnut trees I planted come out?"
In the room, Lin Heng looked at his father and asked. He had gotten some chestnuts to raise seedlings a few days ago.
Since he wanted to build a chestnut forest, he had to make it so that it was full of chestnuts. He was going to kill the other trees one after another.
“They are all out, all kinds of melon, fruit and astragalus seedlings in the greenhouse are out.” Father Lin nodded with a smile.
After Lin Heng started growing seedlings in greenhouses in the past two years, he also fell in love with them, and sometimes he even took some to sell in the town.
"The next step is to graft the chestnut tree, right?" Xiulan asked beside her.
Lin Heng said: "I have one more thing to do in the past two days. I am going to dig out the golden marbles and pine trees from where I hunted takin before. I need to find someone to help."
"You are really precious about those trees. You have to dig them out from such a distance." Xiulan said helplessly.
"Daughter-in-law, you don't understand, this is a hobby and also money." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Xiulan spread her hands and said, "I don't object to you, I just think it's too far. It took you a long time to go there. Didn't you delay the grafting of chestnuts?"
Next to her, Mother Lin said. : "The trees in the deep mountains sprout slowly. , you wait until the chestnuts are grafted, I guess those trees won’t turn green in the second half of the Qingming Festival.”
Father Lin nodded and said, “Your mother is right, call more people then. I'm with you."
"Okay, that's it, let's go get the chestnut trees tomorrow." Lin Heng could only agree in the end.
Another day, he invited his elder brother and old man Tian from the village to help him go to the Maolizi Forest.
Xiulan and her mother came here with their children.
The pastures here in Hongfeng Mountain have been sown, and the astragalus seedlings are still being raised, and other work will still take time.
They first cut all the other miscellaneous trees with a chain saw, bundled them together, waited for them to dry, and carried them home to burn.
These logs were kept as small as possible, and Lin Hengneng saw them even at the roots.
This forest is not big, only about ten acres of land. It took them two days to cut down all the miscellaneous trees, and then prepared for grafting.
The grafted branches were taken from some large chestnut trees in the village.
For thinner chestnut trees, branch grafting is often used. The survival rate of chestnut grafting is very high, as long as you pay a little attention to some skills.
There is also a way to deal with those particularly thick woods, and that is to use bud grafting. Take a full bud point and graft it onto the bark. This survival rate is actually easier to survive than branch grafting, but Some techniques are required.
"Is my grafting okay?" Xiulan called Lin Heng to come over and see her grafting results.
Lin Heng smiled and said: "Of course, you are my top disciple, I leave all my skills to you."
The competition between him and Xiulan has been completed long ago, He dug up some wild kiwi fruits and planted them on the fence in the back mountain. Then he and Xiulan grafted some male and female kiwi fruits respectively to see who had the higher grafting survival rate.
He made these to fence the back hill with kiwi fruit. When the kiwi fruit branches grow up, he will control them to grow along the fence. It will be a living fence in a short time.
"As you can tell, this is my own credit, not yours as a master." Xiulan said softly.
"I still recognize Lin Heng's grafting skills, they are of a high standard." Tian Baishun said with a smile not far away.
He had heard of this kind of bud grafting, but he didn't expect Lin Heng to be able to do it, and he really admired it.
"Not bad." Lin Heng said with a smile.
There were many chestnut trees, and it took them two days to graft and process the sawed branches.
The day of completion happened to be April 1st. Lin Heng looked at it and smiled and said: "As long as this is successful, I will have nothing to worry about in the future and can still sell it."
Father Lin and Mother Lin also nodded. Very few people like Lin Heng specialize in managing a chestnut forest. Lin Heng didn't say that none of them had this idea.
But this kind of thing is indeed a long-term thing. With such a forest, chestnuts can be sold in the future.
“Walk home and cook a good meal.” Xiulan smiled.
"I'm hungry too!" Lin Heng nodded.
They walked back together. The mountains were still bare at this moment, but the riverside was beginning to turn green, and the leaves were gradually sprouting.
Now they have taken off their cotton-padded jackets and put on double coats. The toon buds have not yet grown, but some bracken has grown.
On the way back, Lin Heng also picked two peach blossoms. He also kindly grafted some wild peach trees on the roadside in the village into shiny peaches.
In his free time these days, Lin Heng also grafted an orange tree with a sugar orange and a plum tree with a peach branch.
He likes to randomly graft fruit trees of the same family or even the same genus. He is very happy to see several different fruits growing on one tree.
And he also took Xiulan's son with him and told them that this was his magic. The children still didn't believe it, so Lin Heng asked Xiaoxia to write it in a notebook so that they would find surprises when they grow up.
Xiulan made fried bracken and bacon for dinner, and the first taste of spring entered everyone's mouths.
"There should be Chun Ya in the city now. Lin Heng, have you gone down recently?" Mother Lin asked.
"Go down in a few days." Lin Heng replied.
"When the time comes, you can take Xiulan to fold some and play with them." Mother Lin said.
Xiulan ate the food and smiled and said, "No, Mom, let's wait for a spring rain, and then let Lin Heng take all of us out to play."
She understood what her mother meant. She felt that she would be irritable taking care of the child at home and asked her to go out and play.
But this year has been much better, and she is looking forward to everyone playing together.
"Yes, when everything becomes green in a few days, I will take you to a good place to play." Lin Heng said with a smile.
(End of this chapter)