Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 121 The pond is completed and Caiyun is sent to school
  After Lin's father, mother and others left, only Lin Heng's family of three and some animals in the yard were left in the yard.

Lin Heng and Xiulan both sat in the yard without talking. Xiaoxia sat on the mat next to them and played with the wooden cart Lin Heng had whittled for her.

"Why don't you speak?" Lin Heng looked at his wife and asked.

Xiulan looked at the mountains outside and a corner of the blue sky, and replied, "I'm thinking about what it feels like to be rich."

"Then you don't have to think about it. I'll take you to experience it directly in a few days." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan didn't say anything, walked over, opened the door, and looked at the more than two thousand kilograms of mulberry huang piled in the room.

"From now on, you don't have to think about doing handicrafts to make money to support your family. Our family will no longer be short of food, and we can have rice and noodles for every meal."

Lin Heng came over, leaned against the door and looked at Xiulan.

Xiulan looked at the mulberry leaves in the room, then at Lin Heng, blinked her eyes and smiled softly: "That's great."

"Then when are you going to sell these things?" Xiulan thought for a while and asked.

Lin Heng thought for a while and said, "Let's wait until the fish pond is dug in the next few days."

"It just so happens that school will start soon. I will take Xiulan to school then." Lin Heng added.

Xiulan nodded and stood in the room not knowing what to do for a while, and couldn't go out.

"Honey, my ears are itchy. Please clean them for me." Lin Heng looked at his wife and said.

"Okay, I'll get a tool." Xiulan nodded and went back to the bedroom to get the tool.

Lin Heng placed two benches, one tall and one short, under the eaves. After a while, Xiulan came out with a small brown kraft paper box. Inside were two nail clippers and an ear pick, which were part of the dowry given by her mother when she got married.

Xiulan sat on the high bench, and Lin Heng sat on the low bench, putting his head on her lap.

"Don't move around. If it hurts, just make a sound." Xiulan said, gently holding his ear with one hand and leaning over to have a look. She held an earpick in the other hand and gave it to Lin carefully. Always pick your ears.

Lin Heng closed his eyes. His wife's technique was gentle and delicate and not painful at all. She leaned down and pressed her chest against his head. It was soft and comfortable, making him want to sleep.

"Take it out, switch to the other side." After a long time, Xiulan reminded.

"Oh!" Lin Heng opened his eyes, looked at his wife's smiling face, and changed the direction.

"This ear is ready!" Xiulan said a few minutes later.

"Keep it out for a while, it feels so comfortable." Lin Heng didn't want to get up.

Xiulan looked at Lin Heng lying on her lap, and fondled him for a while.

"It's okay now," she said.

"Okay." Lin Heng sat up, looked at his wife and said, "I'll clean your ears too."

"Okay, but you have to be gentle, I'm afraid of pain." Xiulan hesitated for a moment, but chose to believe her husband.

She moved to a short stool and placed her head on Lin Heng's lap.

Lin Heng had never picked out her ears, so she was a little scared. However, when Lin Heng took action, she realized that her worries were unnecessary. His technique was very gentle and there was no pain at all.

After both ears were removed, she felt so comfortable that she didn't want to get up. She looked up at Lin Heng and said, "Just rest like this for a while. I don't want to move."

"Wait a minute." Lin Heng said with a smile, and took out a small stool from the side for his wife to put her legs on to avoid cramping from bending her legs all the time.

Xiulan was warmed by her husband's gentle gesture, blinked and looked at him: "Why are you so good at picking out ears?"

Lin Heng touched her little face and said with a smile: "You want to ask me if I have paid for it to others, of course I haven't. I was afraid of hurting you, so I was careful and didn't dare to do anything. Energetic."

Xiulan pouted, closed her eyes and fell asleep without speaking, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

Lin Heng put his hands on his legs and played with a strand of his wife's hair, leaning on the chair and looking at her in a daze. The more I look at my wife's face, the more interesting it becomes.

Xiaoxia was also tired from playing on the mat in the room, so she lay on the mat and fell asleep.

After lying down for half an hour, Xiulan opened her eyes, took out a White Rabbit candy from her pocket, peeled it and gave it to Lin Heng: "Here, the candy my sister bought for you."

Lin Heng blinked his eyes but did not open his mouth.

"Not giving face to my sister?" Xiulan stared at him and said angrily.

"Whether it's sweet or not, I'll know after you eat it. I mainly want to know if it's sweeter for my sister or sweeter than sugar." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan was stunned for a moment, and a blush crept up her cheeks: "That's too bad!"

These words were too shocking to her, and her little heart suddenly beat a lot faster.

Lin Heng took the candy and stuffed it into her mouth, waited for her to eat it for a while, and then leaned over to taste it.

Xiulan didn't want to resist, and couldn't. Her whole body went limp on the bench.

"My wife is sweeter." After a while, Lin Heng said with a smile.

"That's so bad!" Xiulan glared at him and walked away shyly.

Lin Heng went into the room and picked up Xiaoxia, wanting her to go to bed, but she opened her eyes and hugged Lin Heng's neck, her voice trembling: "Dad, I dreamed that the big bad wolf was going to catch me."

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. With dad and Xiong Ba here, the big bad wolf won't dare to enter our house." Lin Heng coaxed his daughter and took her to see Xiong Ba.

After a while, she started chasing and quarreling with Xiongba again. Xiongba had not been able to go hunting in the mountains recently, and all his energy was consumed by playing with Xiaoxia.

It was also in the afternoon, and many more people gathered under the big ginkgo tree in the village than before. The discussion was all about the huge increase in the price of mulberry and how much money Lin Heng could make.

Some people say three thousand, others say five thousand or seven thousand, and some think it can be as high as nine thousand, but no matter how much it is, it is definitely more than all the families in the village.

Someone asked how much [-] yuan was, but they had no idea how much money it was. When they learned that it could buy [-] to [-] kilograms of rice, they fell silent.

Lin Heng's house was closed and no one went there, but Lin's father and mother's house was different. People kept coming in to chat and ask questions.

At first, Father Lin and Mother Lin were cheerful, but soon they became bored. There were too many flattery words, which made them deeply understand the feeling of being rich.

After dinner, Lin Heng read a story to his daughter. The more he read, the more he longed for power supply as soon as possible. Otherwise, he would not be able to see clearly even if he wanted to read a book and it would be inconvenient to do anything else at night.

Early the next morning, as soon as Lin Heng finished breakfast, a group of pond digging workers arrived before seven o'clock.

"Everyone came too early." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Not early, not early." Everyone smiled kindly, with respect in their eyes.

Lin Heng can make so much money. In the eyes of the villagers, he is a capable person. If he is close to such a person, he may be able to get some light and make some money.

"Then let's go." Lin Heng nodded, not surprised by this.

On the way to Hongfeng Mountain, Yang Zhaotao in the crowd couldn't help but ask: "Lin Heng, how much mulberry have you stocked up this time?"

Lin Heng turned around and found that everyone was looking at him, obviously very concerned about this topic.

He grinned: "Don't worry, it will definitely be more than enough to pay everyone's wages."

Everyone was speechless, but Lin Heng made it clear that he didn't want to talk, so they couldn't ask any more questions.

When they arrived at Hongfeng Mountain, everyone quickly got to work.

While working, someone asked out of curiosity: "Lin Heng, are you just going to build these two acres of fish ponds?"

"I plan to dig all these twenty acres of land into fish and shrimp ponds." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Twenty acres, what a price to pay for this."

“Oh my God, it’s going to cost a lot of money to buy fish and shrimp fry, right?”

Everyone was shocked that Lin Heng's ambition was so big.

If Lin Heng had said this a few days ago, they would have laughed at his whims, but now everyone was just shocked by how ambitious he was.

"I have to dig at least ten acres before the Chinese New Year this year, and we will need everyone's help then." Lin Heng said with a smile. Now that he has shown his ambition, no one will laugh at him anymore.

"Haha, that's easy to say. If you make money, we'll guarantee you a good job."

"Yes, you will definitely be satisfied."

Everyone agreed. With these words, even if Lin Heng left now, there would be no one who would cheat.

After all, this is just a small project, and there will be bigger projects later. If you are cheating now, there will be no place to make money later.

In this era, people with rural household registration cannot seriously go to the city to find a job. It is too difficult for farmers to make money.

It took another three days to finish it at noon on August [-]th. The reason was that there were a lot of stones in the second fish pond and it took a lot of effort.

This afternoon, Lin Heng directed everyone to build something on this side of the mountain stream. One was to prevent the rising water from rushing into the fish pond; the other was to build a channel in the innermost part of the fish pond. It would be very convenient to divert water into the fish pond later.

There are also things like leveling, repairing corners, and building up stone ridges.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, all the work was completed. Everyone gathered together and looked at Lin Heng.

"Everyone can go home and rest." Lin Heng looked at everyone and said with a smile.

Everyone was stunned, we didn’t want to rest. Lin Heng laughed again and continued: "I want you to go back, put down your things, wash your face and cool down, and then come to my house at six o'clock to collect your wages. Remember to bring thirty cents in change. I may not have that much change at home."

"Okay!" Upon hearing this, everyone grinned, dispersed, and ran home.

Lin Heng returned home and looked through his workbook. This time, it took [-] days to dig two fish ponds, which far exceeded his expectations. The main reason was that there were too many stones in the second fish pond. Sometimes one stone had to be dug. long time.

"Honey, I'll read your name in a moment and you count the money. It's nineteen yuan and two cents per person." Lin Heng looked at his wife and said.

"Okay." Xiulan took out the money from her bag and started counting.

It was only half past five, and a group of people couldn't wait to come over. They crowded at the door of the courtyard and were too embarrassed to come in.

"Since you are here, everyone can come in directly. You can also start distributing money now. Get in line." Lin Heng walked out and looked at everyone and said.

"Okay!" A group of people entered the room one after another with smiles on their faces.

Lin Heng understood everyone's mood. After sitting down, he took out the workbooks of the people queuing in front of him and said, "Check it out. It's 24 hours a day, 24 days a day. Once you've confirmed it, you can sign and fingerprint and you can get the money." "

"Okay!" Uncle Li signed without even looking and pressed his fingerprints.

Xiulan had also prepared the money and put it on the table. Uncle Li picked it up, counted it, and said with a smile: "That's right, thank you."

"You deserve this, why are you thanking me?" Lin Heng waved his hand.

It took half an hour to pay everyone's wages, and 384 people paid out [-] yuan in wages.

"The investment in digging fish ponds is really huge." Xiulan said with emotion.

"This is just a small head. We will raise shrimps next year, and feeding them will really cost money." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Then we have to raise it well and supervise it well, otherwise we will easily lose money." Xiulan nodded. She also knew some basic knowledge about fish and shrimp farming and could help.

"That's natural. Opportunities to make money like Phellinus huang are rare, so we have to rely on breeding." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"By the way, the day after tomorrow is September [-]st. I'm going to register Caiyun for school. Are you going?

I also wanted to go fishing by the way, but what happened last time was unpleasant and I didn’t catch any fish. Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and asked again.

Lin Heng planned to wait until Caiyun went to school to talk about selling mulberry huang and opening a purchasing station.

When the mulberry huang is sold, he will have to negotiate with the state-owned stores in the city before he can open a purchasing station.

There are quite a lot of things involved in this and it's quite troublesome. Not just anyone can open a buying station.

So he didn't really want to do these things at first, but now he has changed his mind, and it's okay to have a little trouble.

"Forget it, the sun has been too strong these two days, and there was no one to take care of me when I went to Xiaoxia." Xiulan shook her head.

"Okay then." Lin Heng thought carefully and it was right. It would not be good for his wife and daughter to get tanned.

"You can go to the blacksmith shop in town and forge a kitchen knife for me. This one at home is not very good." Xiulan added that she was not short of money now and wanted to change to a good kitchen knife.

"No problem, I'll ask the blacksmith to forge a piece of [-]-melted steel for you." Lin Heng patted his chest and assured.

There was nothing much to do in the afternoon. The family of three went out to get some gray vegetables and came back to eat.

In the evening, Lin Heng and Xiulan went to catch some cicada monkeys. These were the last few days, and after this period, there would be no more cicada monkeys.

It's a pity that there is no refrigerator, so the cicada monkey you caught must be eaten the next morning, otherwise it will spoil.

At noon the next day, Lin Heng came to the old house and found his parents.

"Mom and Dad, I want Caiyun to go to school, and I'll pay for the tuition."

Lin Heng looked at his parents and said, Caiyun sat next to him, his eyes full of expectation.

Father Lin looked at Caiyun, nodded and said, "My family didn't have any money before, but now that you have money, of course we have no objection to supporting her in school."

"It's good to study more. Only when you are educated can you be successful." Mother Lin also nodded.

Lin Heng was not surprised by this. Lin's father and mother were both very open-minded people. If the family was not really poor and had no money, they would not let Caiyun drop out of school.

Now that Lin Heng is paying tuition for his sister to go to school, the two naturally have no objections.

"Thank you, parents!!" Caiyun choked and said with tears in her eyes.

In this era, the preference for boys over girls was still very serious in rural areas. Many parents were not even willing to send their sons to school, let alone their daughters.

Father Lin and Mother Lin are so open-minded, Caiyun is naturally moved.

"You baby, why are you crying?" Father Lin said with a smile.

"Your dad had no choice but to not let you go to junior high school. The burden on the family was too heavy and he didn't mean to look down on you." Mother Lin sat over and held her daughter's hand.

"I know, Mom, I'm just happy, I can continue studying." Caiyun choked with sobs.

"Study hard and don't let down your brother's wishes." Father Lin patted her shoulder and sighed. If he had money, he wouldn't let his daughter drop out of school.

Fortunately, my second son is showing promise.

"Mom and Dad, don't worry, I will study hard and seriously." Caiyun nodded fiercely.

Wiping his tears, he looked at Lin Heng and promised, "Second brother, I will definitely not let you spend your money in vain. I will make a difference."

Lin Heng smiled, patted Caiyun on the shoulder with one hand, wiped her tears with the other hand, and said with a smile: "You don't have to feel pressure, just study hard if you like it. It doesn't matter whether you are successful or not, there is a second brother standing by I’ll give you a guarantee behind your back, so you don’t have to be afraid.”

After he was reborn, he worked so hard just to let his family live a good life. It didn't matter what Caiyun could learn, as long as she was happy.

It doesn't matter if you fail in studying, he is your guarantee. This is the meaning of his efforts.

"Yeah, I'm definitely the second brother who works hard." Caiyun nodded.

"Okay, you prepare your things today, and I will personally take you to school tomorrow morning." Lin Heng said with a smile and walked out.

After leaving the old house, Lin Heng found his eldest brother standing outside and walking back and forth.

Seeing Lin Heng come out, Lin Yue was a little embarrassed and blamed himself: "This kind of thing is supposed to be done by me as the eldest brother, but I don't have the ability, hey."

"Brother, we are brothers, no matter who comes. Besides, it's not that you don't have the ability, you just don't have the chance.

When I have a thorough understanding of fish farming, you and your parents will raise fish with me, and then you won’t have to worry about these things. "

Lin Heng grabbed his eldest brother's shoulders and said with a smile.

His words are not comfort. There are many people like his elder brother who spend their whole life running for a living and have no chance to try to start a business. Naturally, there is no such thing as failure and success.

He was able to go to junior high school because his elder brother voluntarily gave up going to junior high school.

Not to mention the various help his eldest brother gave him when he was in debt in his previous life.

"Okay, then I'll wait for you to take me. If you need help, don't be polite." Lin Yue looked at his brother and said solemnly.

The two chatted for a while, and then Lin Heng returned home and told Xiulan what happened.

"Honey, is there anything you want to learn?" Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and asked.

Xiulan looked at him doubtfully: "I can't go to school even if I want to."

"It doesn't matter. No matter what you want to learn, it can be piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. I will ask a dedicated person to come and teach you one-on-one in the future." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan only went to fifth grade, and her family didn't let her go to school. Lin Heng felt that she must have a lot of regrets, and wanted to help her make up for it and let her have her own hobbies.

Xiulan blinked her eyes, thought for a while, and then shook her head: "I haven't thought about it yet."

"That's okay, you still have time to think." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay." Xiulan agreed crisply.

It was just six o'clock the next morning, while Lin Heng was still eating, Caiyun came over carrying an indigo cloth bag sewn by herself.

Her hair was braided into two ponytails hanging down from her shoulders to her chest. She had straight bangs. She was wearing a red shirt on her upper body, a pair of washed indigo trousers on her lower body that were a little bit whitish, and her feet were made from the ginseng she used to sell. I bought her a pair of yellow rubber hiking boots when I was young.

Her pretty face, big bright eyes, and bright lips with lipstick gave this not-so-pretty outfit a little more elegance.

"Second brother, I'm ready." Caiyun said excitedly.

"We'll leave after I finish eating. Have you eaten?" Lin Heng looked at her.

"I ate it." Caiyun nodded. She ate steamed buns and potato pimple soup.

"Then eat some more." Xiulan brought her a bowl of pickled cabbage noodles.

She knew that Father Lin and Mother Lin were reluctant to eat, and the food must not be very good.

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Caiyun smelled it and was not polite, took it over and sat down to eat.

After dinner, Lin Heng took a purple bamboo fishing rod, hook and line and set off to Huangtan Town with Caiyun.

　There is one more chapter to correct typos, I am slow today, sorry my friends
  　　
  　
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