Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 120 The price of Phellinus linata has increased

It rained continuously for four days and stopped on the night of August 8th.

Lin Heng and Xiulan arrived at Hongfeng Mountain early in the morning on the 27th of the Gregorian calendar, July 7 of the lunar calendar.

The two fish ponds are full of water and are flowing out from the overflow openings.

"Do you want to drain all the water in the two ponds?" Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and asked.

Lin Heng held two pieces of five-centimeter-diameter plastic hose bought from the town. Each section was seven or eight meters long.

"No, just put the water from the second pond."

Lin Heng shook his head and said, the first pond has been disinfected, so there is no need to drain the water, just keep it.

The second pond has not been dug yet. It must be drained and left to dry for a day before work can continue tomorrow.

Lin Heng blocked one end of the water pipe, laid it outside the pond, and asked Xiulan to fill it with water.

When it is full, pinch it and put it into the pond. Lin Heng opens the mouth of the pipe below, Xiulan lets go, and the siphon action will automatically drain out the water in the pond.

In order to drain the water cleanly, Lin Heng brought two pipes and drained the water together.

Without electricity, even if there is a water pump, it cannot be used, so we can only use this stupid method.

But fortunately, the effect is not bad. The water is drained in one morning. When the sun is shining, it will not be possible to do the work tomorrow, but it can be done the day after tomorrow.

"Husband, tomorrow, July [-]th, is the market day. Are you going to the town to go to the market?" Xiulan asked on the way back.

"No, I want to pick mushrooms tomorrow." Lin Heng shook his head and said. .

"That's good. You can take care of Xiaoxia at home. Mom asked me to accompany her to the hospital in town to buy some medicine. She has been feeling sick recently." Xiulan looked at him and said.

"Okay, go ahead and let mom check it out, buy some more medicine, and give me some money." Lin Heng nodded.

"I understand, don't worry." Xiulan nodded.

After returning home and having dinner, Lin Heng and Xiulan's family went to the mountains to pick mushrooms. They had a leisurely life without any farm work.

During this period, there are still more tea tree mushrooms, and there are also some green head fungi and egg fungi. The broom fungus Lin Heng was looking for did not appear. He estimated that he would have to wait until mid-September of the Gregorian calendar when the temperature dropped a little.

Broom fungus, also known as coral fungus, is a very delicious fungus that blooms in autumn.

I found two Ganoderma lucidum flowers, which have almost stopped growing.

Lin Heng was looking forward to the temperature dropping in autumn. At that time, there will be an explosion of matsutake, Hericium and other mushrooms.

If you are lucky, you can also find a lot of black truffles.

They have black truffles here, and someone discovered them last year. It’s just that this thing grows underground, and finding it often depends on luck.

"Hey, Lin Heng."

When going back in the afternoon, Lin Heng met Jin Yan on the road. She looked at Lin Heng and said hello with a hint of resentment and a hint of amusement in her tone.

Because Lin Heng took all her mushrooms last time and didn't know what trick he used. From then on, Lin Hai didn't even look at her.

Even when she took the initiative to talk to Lin Hai, he was indifferent. Jin Yan felt that this must be Lin Heng's fault.

She felt that Lin Heng couldn't let go of her and didn't want to see her cousin interact with her, so she used a trick.

"What's wrong?"

Lin Heng was holding his daughter, looking confused. What was wrong with Jin Yan's tone?
  But Jin Yan didn't speak at all, she just glanced at Lin Heng.

Xiulan looked at Jin Yan, her intention to protect food was very obvious.

"Don't look at me like that. Even if you give me your man, I won't care." Jin Yan smiled disdainfully.

She has a strong sense of superiority. This is just a man she doesn't like, so Chen Xiulan treats him as a treasure.

Xiulan nodded calmly: "This is best. It's enough that I care about him."

Jin Yan sneered and left.

Xiulan turned her head to look at Lin Heng.

She never doubted Lin Heng's feelings for her, she just simply wondered what happened.

"I'll tell you when I get back. She probably hates me for ruining her good deeds."

Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay." Xiulan nodded.

When he got home, while handling the mushrooms, Lin Heng talked about what happened last time.

He probably took all the mushrooms from her, and then called Lin Hai away, saying that the woman was on the market and was not Lin Hai's cup of tea. If she had the time, she might as well go after Tian Yan or something like that.

"Do you understand now? She hated me for calling Lin Hai away." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan nodded: "Understood?"

"Are you jealous?" Lin Heng chuckled.

Xiulan gave him an angry look: "Then how about you kneel down on the washboard like other men?"

"But you still have to stay away from other women, otherwise I will feel uncomfortable when I see you. You will only be mine."

Xiulan added another sentence, expressing her strong possessiveness.

"Yeah, I promise." Lin Heng nodded hard. He didn't think this was a mandatory order, but a proof of his wife's love for him, and he was happy in his heart.

And Xiulan herself did the same thing. Except for sometimes responding to a greeting, she never talked to the men in the village alone.

"Dad is mine." Xiaoxia raised her little hand and held her father's and said crisply.

"You were all born to me, and you are also mine." Xiulan pinched her daughter's face, feeling a little funny.

After dinner, Lin Heng read a story and put his daughter to bed.

"Honey, I want to eat the paper wrap." Lin Heng smiled, opened the mosquito net and got into bed.

Soon I was eating the big, fragrant and soft buns, the kind that couldn’t be held in one hand.

Xiulan fiercely showed her possessiveness towards Lin Heng, overwhelming him with her gentle and delicate feelings.

Early the next morning, when Lin Heng woke up, his wife was already getting dressed, and he watched with interest.

"Be good and take care of the kids at home. My sister will give you sweets when she comes back." Xiulan playfully patted his face.

Lin Heng chuckled: "Sister, I also want to eat the paper wrap."

Xiulan gave him an angry look: "Well, it depends on your performance."

Lin Henglai didn't get up from the bed, mainly because he was a little tired yesterday and his lower back was a little weak.

Xiulan cooked the vegetables for Lin Heng and steamed the rice. She ate a portion for herself, then went into the bedroom and poked Lin Heng's chest: "I'll get up and eat later. I want to rest and eat before going to bed, otherwise I'll be starving." My sister feels sorry for me."

"Yeah." Lin Heng nodded. It felt good to be loved by his sister.

It's great to have a wife who loves you as a grown-up, but will also feel sorry for you.

Xiulan glanced at him, took ten yuan and put it on her body in front of him, and went out with her backpack on her back.

"Isn't Lin Heng going?"

Mother Lin looked at Xiulan and asked.

"No, he's still resting." Xiulan said with a smile.

"What a lazy man, let's go then." Lin's father laughed and complained.

Father Lin is also going to the market today. He plans to sell some medicinal materials. Liu Qicheng has no choice but to take a few items to the city to sell them.

Due to the continuous rain for three or four days, the weather cleared up and there were many people going to the market.

When they arrived in town, Xiulan accompanied Lin's mother to the hospital to see a doctor and buy medicine.

Father Lin went to sell medicinal materials. When he walked to the purchasing station, he felt that there was a lot of noise, as if something big had happened.

"What's wrong?" Lin's father asked as he walked forward.

"The price of mulberry and yellow has increased greatly. It has suddenly risen to [-] yuan. Look at the big words written on the wall." A person next to him responded.

"The price of mulberry and yellow has increased significantly??" Lin's father was stunned and couldn't believe it.

He immediately looked up and saw a few large characters written on the gray-white plaster with black charcoal: Harvest a large amount of mulberry, three yuan and a half a pound! !

"God!!"

Father Lin was shocked. The price of mulberry huang had really increased.

Rubbing his eyes, he looked carefully again and found that it was indeed true, the price had really increased.

"No, I have to ask." Father Lin felt that the words on it were not reliable.

I squeezed to the front and found Liu Qicheng, who was selling the goods, and asked, "Really the price of Phellinus mulberry has increased to [-] pounds? Are you not lying?"

When Liu Qicheng looked at Lin's father, he immediately recognized that this was Lin Heng's father Lin Xuan.

His expression instantly became complicated, with regret and jealousy intertwined.

He is really regretting it now. When Lin Heng bought Phellinus linata, he thought he was a fool and went crazy.

Now it seems that he is the biggest clown. If he had left some mulberry leaves at the beginning, he would have made a lot more money now.

The most uncomfortable thing was that the young boy he looked down upon had transferred such a large sum of money from him.    Especially these days, when he has nothing to do, he goes around saying that there are fools who still keep mulberry leaves. Now these people look at him like, oh, so this is a real fool.

"Of course it's true." Liu Qicheng said this reluctantly.

Father Lin was stunned. This information had such a big impact on him that he would not recover for a while.

"Do you still sell medicinal materials?" Liu Qicheng looked at him and asked, his tone involuntarily becoming kinder.

"If you don't sell it, you're selling it!" Father Lin grinned, turned around and rushed out, running to the hospital in one breath.

"Dad, what happened? Why are you running in such a hurry?" Xiulan asked quickly.

"That's right, why are you in such a hurry? You can't walk slowly." Mother Lin was speechless. At such a big age, she was still like a baby.

"Don't... don't talk about this. We'll go see a doctor later. I'll take you to see something." Father Lin gasped and said excitedly.

"What's going on? We'll be in line soon." Mother Lin felt that her husband was acting like a child today, and she didn't know what could get him so excited.

"Oh, stop talking nonsense, you will know when we get there."

Father Lin didn't bother to explain, so he pulled Mother Lin out quickly, and Xiulan could only follow.

"Really, if it weren't for such a big thing, I'd be happy with you." Mother Lin was speechless. She didn't even let her be seen when she was sick. She came to see something.

When Father Lin took them all the way to the purchasing station, Mother Lin and others found that many people from Murakami were coming here, looking at them very strangely.

"Look at that wall for yourselves!!" Father Lin pointed to the large black characters written on the plaster wall in front of the purchasing station.

They all have primary school education, so they still know these words.

“Purchase a large quantity of Phellinus linata for three yuan and a half a pound!!!”

Mother Lin murmured and read it several times before she understood the meaning of this sentence, and couldn't help but froze in place.

Xiulan had already guessed that the price of Phellinus linteum might have increased when Father Lin called them here, but she was still stunned when she saw the specific price.

She didn't expect it to rise so much all of a sudden, from [-] cents to [-] yuan, more than ten times.

It’s nearly double the original price of two yuan a pound.

Not only Xiulan Lin's mother was stunned, but most of the people in Hongfeng Village nearby were also stunned.

Phellinus mulberry costs three yuan and a half per kilogram. Lin Heng had hoarded at least a thousand kilograms before. How much does this cost? ?

Omg.

They had no idea how they would spend so much money.

Jin Yan, who was standing not far from Xiulan, was silent for a while, wondering how much money Lin Heng would earn.

She looked at Xiulan in front of her on the left, her eyes inevitably showing envy and regret.

If she had agreed to the Lin family's marriage proposal, she would be standing there waiting for everyone to envy her now.

Yesterday, she said that she didn't care if this man, Lin Heng, gave her gifts, but now she really regretted it.

It would be better if she had never had it, but she once had the opportunity, but she thought she was poor and looked down on her.

In the end, she gave up, and Chen Xiulan picked it up as a treasure, and actually found a piece of gold inlaid with jade.

The taste was so sour and refreshing that Jin Yan couldn't bear it. She felt empty in her heart, as if she had lost something.

"Jin Yan, why are you running so fast? You can do the math. How much money can Lin Heng make this time?" Liu Lan said quickly.

As soon as she said this, many people looked over and Jin Yan ran faster.

"Liu Lan, you are too discerning. Lin Heng proposed marriage to Jin Yan before." Someone said with a smile.

"That's right, no matter how much money Lin Heng earns, he must already be the richest man in Hongfeng Village. Can Jin Yan not feel uncomfortable?"

The people who spoke were a little gloating, and they were also envious and regretful. But when I saw someone who was suffering more than me, I immediately felt better.

Xiulan came back to her senses, glanced at Jin Yan who was running away, then pulled Lin's mother and said: "Mom, let's go."

"Okay!" Mother Lin nodded, feeling that it was really inappropriate to stay here. The whole village was talking about them, so it was better to leave first.

As she walked, she asked in a low voice: "Xiulan, how many kilograms of mulberry did Lin Heng collect?"

"A little more than two thousand pounds." Xiulan said with a smile.

Mother Lin did the math and couldn't help but open her mouth: "Oh my God, that's not seven thousand yuan. How much money does that have to be."

"More than that, this is just the price given by Liu Qicheng. It should be more expensive in the city. Not only has your son become the richest man in Hongfeng Village in one fell swoop, he may also become a household worth ten thousand yuan."

Father Lin excitedly held Mother Lin's hand. He really couldn't see through Lin Heng.

"Oh my God, I never dared to dream like this." Mother Lin's eyes widened and her mouth opened wide, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"I have to thank Xiulan for this, she is the biggest contributor."

Father Lin looked at Xiulan and said, "Xiulan has always believed in Lin Heng, even if we were against it. If other women had come in, Sang Huang would have been secretly sold. Lin Heng has really found a good wife."

"Yes, Xiulan's contribution is the greatest. Without you, that brat Lin Heng might still be fooling around outside." Mother Lin grabbed Xiulan's hand and nodded in affirmation.

Xiulan smiled, with a happy expression on her face: "Mom and Dad, you are going too far. I'm not that good."

……

Not long after Xiulan and the others left, Lin Heng, his eldest father Lin Xuping and aunt Li Ping also came over quietly.

Seeing the current price of Phellinus japonica, they were stunned in place. They had been waiting for Phellinus mulberry to fall sharply again so that they could laugh at Lin Heng. As a result, not only did it not fall, but it also rose sharply.

Their hearts were empty and they didn't know what to say for a moment.

The two looked at each other and left silently. Every time they looked at each other, they felt more regret and jealousy in their hearts.

In Hongmaple Village, Xiulan and the others haven't come back yet, but someone has already brought the news back in advance.

The news of the huge increase in the price of mulberry and yellow came out as fast as if it had lost its wings.

Village chief Zhao Chengcheng was drinking tea at home. His wife Tang Qing hurriedly ran into the house and looked at him and said, "The price of mulberry has increased greatly. It's three yuan and a half a pound. Lin Heng is going to make a lot of money!"

"What!!" Zhao Chengcheng was stunned when he heard this, and the enamel jar almost fell to the ground.

That boy really made a lot of money by hoarding Phellinus mulberry?

He felt a little unreal. He was fooling around with his son before, but now it's like this all of a sudden.

Tian Dongfu, who also received the news, seemed much calmer: "Now you don't have to worry about Lin Heng not being able to pay him wages. It won't be long before a household worth [-] yuan will be born in our Hongfeng Village."

"It's incredible. How did Lin Heng determine that the price of Phellinus linteum can increase?" Wang Qin was very confused and couldn't figure it out.

Looking at his daughter Tian Yan who was sitting in the yard reading a book, Wang Qin said with a smile: "I heard that Lin Heng pursued you before. Do you regret it now?"

Tian Yan rolled her eyes: "What do you regret? What I care about is people, not money."

As she spoke, Lin Hai's shadow flashed across her mind.

"Hahaha, she is indeed my daughter. Cultural people really see things differently." Tian Fudong laughed.

No matter what, this is something to be happy about for him.

Before 12 noon, Xiulan and Lin's father and mother came back. Her parents didn't go home, so she and Xiulan went directly to the new house.

"Lin Heng, you've made a fortune!!" Lin's father said loudly and happily as soon as he entered the door.

Lin Heng was playing games with Xiaoxia in the room. When he heard this, he couldn't help but smile: "Has the price of Phellinus mulberry increased?"

"Yes, not only has the price increased, it has also increased to three yuan and a half per catty, which is a huge increase." Mother Lin said excitedly.

"Haha, it'll be good if it goes up." Lin Heng said with a smile. Although his tone was calm, he was also very excited in his heart.

Although he was reborn, he was not sure that the price would definitely increase, just in case something changed due to the butterfly effect.

"Hey, I won't say anything about what you do in the future. I really can't understand what's going on outside." Father Lin shook his head and said.

"Yes, you can do it if you want. Your dad and I won't let you starve to death even if you lose money." Mother Lin also nodded and said, feeling that Lin Heng had really grown up and matured at this moment.

"Mom and Dad, don't think too much. What you said is what you said. I know you don't let me collect Phellinus mulberry because you are worried about me. After all, I have earned so much money. I have never been angry." Lin Heng said with a smile, feeling a little heroic for a moment. .

It's been half a year since I was reborn, and I finally got the approval of my parents.

"Brother, you have become rich."

My elder brother and sister-in-law also came to congratulate me. They learned the news just after they returned from collecting mushrooms in the mountains.

The eldest brother's eyes showed the most sincere blessings, while the eldest sister-in-law's eyes showed envy and happiness.

I envy Lin Heng for making so much money, and I am glad that I am married to Lin Yue and can also benefit from it.

"Mom, dad, and brothers and sisters-in-law, let's eat here at noon. Xiulan bought meat, so it's a celebration."

Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Yes, I'll cook for you." Xiulan was so excited that she forgot to cook.

After having lunch and drinking some wine, the family finally calmed down.

Lin Heng didn't dare to go out in the afternoon, and stayed at home with Xiulan.

Then if you go out, there will still be an overwhelming amount of inquiries and congratulations. Let's wait until things calm down a bit.

(End of this chapter)