Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 130 Detonator to fry fish, childhood friend

"Why are you all sitting at the children's table? Come back quickly."

Lin Heng's third mother, Li Xue, brought the dishes and was stunned when she saw this situation.

"We saw Lin Heng sitting here and we followed suit." Someone said with a smile.

"I don't drink, so I will definitely sit at the children's table." Lin Heng said, spreading his hands.

"How about that? Lin Heng, please come sit down quickly." His third father, Lin Xutao, walked in from outside and took Lin Heng to the adults' table.

However, Lin Heng had no choice but to go over and sit next to Father Lin.

Fortunately, everyone is no longer making noises, and chatting is normal.

The food was served quickly. Today's dishes were very good. In addition to the regular vegetables and bacon, there were also turtle dove leaf fairy tofu, fried creek grouper, stir-fried eel, and a large plate of field snails.

"Come on, let's get going. You've worked hard today." Lin Heng's third father raised his glass and said with a smile.

Lin Heng and others all took some, and the dining table suddenly became lively.

Most rural people are good drinkers, and there are many people who can walk without shaking even if they weigh a pound or two each.

Lin Heng only likes to drink and not drink alcohol. He is also very interested in stir-fried eels.

His third mother made this dish well, without any fishy smell.

The snails are also processed well. Although there is less meat, they taste really delicious.

"Lin Heng, come and have a drink." Lin Shan said with a smile.

"I can't drink that much, I can't drink enough." Lin Heng shook his head with a smile, picked up the wine glass and clinked it.

"You're so unhappy, you don't look like a man." Lin Shan drank it in one gulp, feeling a little unhappy.

Lin Heng shook his head, took one sip and then stopped drinking. This happened to everyone.

Father Lin and his eldest brother Lin Yue laughed and excused Lin Heng. Everyone else also knew that Lin Heng was really not good at drinking, so they stopped urging him.

However, in words, they were still full of envy for Lin Heng. Some were curious and asked some questions, and some wanted to understand the process of opening the canteen.

Lin Heng is not stingy and will answer most of the questions regardless of the core issues.

Although the men at the men's table said they envied Lin Heng, they were more restrained and did not flatter him.

As for the women's table, Xiulan was surrounded by a group of women, who were concerned about this and that, made appointments to do laundry, and invited her to play at their home.

Lin Heng's third mother was even closer to Xiulan than her own daughter, and she never stopped picking up food.

You must know that they were not like this in the past. Many women did not play with Xiulan or talk to her much because she was from another county.

Secretly, he also joked that she was blind and was tricked by Lin Heng into coming back, and that she would be miserable for the rest of her life.

People like Wang Cuilian sometimes bully her deliberately.

Now that Lin Heng is prosperous, everyone wants to become good sisters with Xiulan and thinks about her in everything.

It was as if they had been best friends for more than ten years all of a sudden. They kept looking for various topics to talk about and wanted to become good friends with Xiulan.

Xiulan was a little panicked for a moment, but fortunately her mother and sister-in-law were by her side and helped her a lot.

In response to some inquiries, Xiulan shook her head and said she didn't know. She held her daughter while feeding her and said nothing, occasionally nodding in response.

In fact, she initially hoped to have a good sister to talk to, but everyone ignored her, and she gradually got used to it.

She also fell in love with this clean and simple life. Apart from being with Lin's mother Caiyun, she also took her daughter to pick mushrooms and hunt hogweed by herself. It was also very good and clean.

I would be in a daze, thinking about Lin Heng, or what to eat for lunch, and the days would go by very quickly.

In the past few days, many women have come to ask her to go out to hunt pigweed or do laundry together.

She went there a few times at first, but she stopped going when she heard their complaints and complaints, as well as their insinuations about things at home.

She thought it would be best to go out with Caiyun, who would never complain about this.

It would be happiness to be with Lin Heng. Even picking mushrooms together would be fun.

Moreover, she felt that these women were so strange. They were obviously the men they chose, but after marrying them, they complained all day long, despising their men for not living up to expectations.

And since the family has no money, shouldn't the two of us work together? Why are we complaining to each other?

After eating, Lin Heng and Xiulan definitely couldn't run away directly, that would be too rude.

Xiulan helped sift millet in front of the door, and Lin Heng went to the rice field to help thresh millet.

In this era, the tools people used to thresh millet were very simple. They were a trapezoidal threshing bucket with a small bottom and a large mouth. It was surrounded by tarpaulins on three sides and was [-] meters high.

There is also a curved rake placed in the threshing bucket, and two people in a row take turns to thresh the grain.

Hold a handful of millet with both hands and slap it hard on the wooden rake in the threshing barrel, and the millet will scatter into the threshing barrel.

In the distance, very regular sounds can be heard, each time four bangs, bangs, bangs, then a pause and four more sounds, and the cycle starts again.

The women cut the millet with sickles, and the men took turns threshing the millet. At the end of the day, the women's backs ached, and the men's arms ached.

Until the threshing bucket is full, it is time to take out the wooden rake, shovel out the millet, and carry it home.

There were a lot of rice leaves in the millet they carried home. Xiulan and the others used a large sieve made of bamboo to sift out the rice leaves and spread them on a tarp to dry.

The next step is to wait for the millet to dry in the sun, then use a windmill to blow out the shriveled millet, leaving only the good millet.

Lin Heng's arms were sore after beating millet for a while, so he ran to the side to rest.

"It's so tiring." Lin Heng shook his head and sighed.

It takes them many days to do the same work that modern harvesters do in one day.

But even though they are so tired, everyone is still very happy. Compared with the past few years when they were hungry and eating pig grass, in recent years everyone has at least been able to eat enough, and occasionally can eat a few good meals.

Compared with ancient times, compared with before, life is indeed getting better and better.

Although this country has many shortcomings, at least it is getting better and everyone still has hope.

"Lin Heng, what time is it?" Uncle Li also came over and sat down to rest.

Lin Heng took out his watch from his pocket, looked at it, and said with a smile: "It's three fifty, it's going to be four o'clock soon."

Just after threshing the grain, he took off his watch.

"Is this like a clock? Can you let me see it?"

In fact, he was always curious, but he was too embarrassed to ask in public during dinner.

"Same." Lin Heng handed it to him to look at. He had seen this uncle before, but he couldn't name him.

"It's great. It feels so smooth to the touch. It's so beautiful." Uncle Li said with emotion.

"Let me take a look too." Next to him, Yang Zhaotao's father took a sip of water and came over with a smile.

The watch passed around several times before it was returned to Lin Heng. Everyone was envious of it, and some people saw it for the first time.

"Lin Heng, are you talking about how ordinary people can make money?" Someone couldn't help but ask.

Now everyone's attitude became more sincere, instead of just joking and flattering before the meal.

Lin Heng glanced at everyone and said with a smile: "They must be planting fruit trees. Although there may not be any harvest in the first five years, the output will gradually increase after five years. It is easy to make thousands of dollars a year.

Moreover, in the past few years when the yield has not increased, you can also interplant soybeans and so on, and it will not have much impact. "

After hearing this, everyone nodded, planting fruit trees is indeed more reliable.

"What kind of thing is good?" someone asked again.

"It depends on everyone's choice. It's best if every village grows the same kind of fruit. It will be easier to sell when the scale is large." Lin Heng spread his hands and said a few words.

"It makes sense."

A group of people chatted for a while, but I don’t know who listened, and then went back to threshing grain.

His third father started beating yesterday, and there wasn't much left today. He finished it around [-] p.m.

It was past seven o'clock after dinner, and the things I had planned for lunch were ruined.

The next day, his family had to thresh millet again, and Lin Heng estimated that the matter of beating rice cake would have to be postponed for a long time.

"The corn can only be fed to the chickens. It will be spoiled tomorrow morning." When she got home, Xiulan said helplessly.

I originally planned to cook corn, pumpkin and red date porridge in the evening, but my third mother, Li Xue, was too enthusiastic.

Xiulan took the cleaned tender corn to feed the chickens, while Lin Heng collected the red dates.

After being exposed to the sun for half a day, the skin of the red dates was wrinkled, and it would be dry after two good days of sunshine.

The next morning, Lin Heng got up early and asked his elder brother to carry two hundred kilograms of quicklime to Hongfeng Mountain.

"Brother, put the quicklime here first. Come over and help me put the water in the first fish pond." Lin Heng put down the quicklime and said. “Okay.” Lin Yue nodded and followed Lin Heng over.

The overflow port is always open, and the remaining water still has to be drained out by siphoning.

The first fish pond was left alone after it was disinfected. The water in it was a strong alkaline solution, and the water had to be drained when it was almost soaked.

After so many days of soaking, there were no leaks. This first pond was perfect.

After fixing the water pipes, Lin Heng and his elder brother went to spread lime to disinfect the second fish pond.

After spreading the quicklime, Lin Heng went to the stream to open the water inlet.

There is a waterproof membrane laid in the ditch. When opened, the water flows along the waterproof membrane into the fish pond. A waterproof membrane is also laid at the entrance of the fish pond. There is no need to worry about the slope being washed away by the water flow.

As the water entered the pond, it immediately reacted violently when it encountered quicklime, causing white mist to rise.

When the water was released to a depth of [-] centimeters, Lin Heng shut it down. Wear water shoes and go in to scoop out lime slurry and water the slopes around the pond to disinfect it.

By the time the two of them finished all this and returned home, all the people Lin's father called had already gone to the fields to start threshing millet.

"Let's go quickly. I don't know what the harvest of millet will be like this year." Lin Yue said.

Lin Heng nodded and went directly to the fields with his backpack on his back.

When they came over, Father Lin and the others had already plowed half of the field.

There were a lot of people threshing rice for their family today, so they used two threshing buckets and divided the rice into two groups of people.

Father Lin led a group of people to a few acres of rice fields farther away. Uncle Lin Heng, his third uncle, and his younger uncle led people to thresh millet in the few acres of rice fields by the river in front of the door.

"Uncle, uncle, uncle, have you finished threshing the rice?" Lin Heng came over and asked with a smile.

"Our fight was completed two days ago. I was going to call you, but you have something to do." His uncle Li Baiquan said with a smile.

Next to him, his uncle Lu Honghai scolded him: "Yes, you didn't even notify us when your new store opened. You really don't treat us as your elders."

"That's right, you kid, if you don't tell anyone else, our uncles won't tell either." His third uncle also blamed him.

What Lin Heng did this time really shocked them. Starting from the increase in the price of Phellinus mulberry, this series of things made them feel like flying on a plane, a little overwhelmed.

It was obvious that not long ago he was a junior who had just reformed. In the blink of an eye, he made a lot of money and opened a buying station and became a small boss. It felt like a dream.

"Haha, I was in such a hurry that I didn't have time to notify." Lin Heng laughed, but in fact he didn't even think about notifying him.

Different perspectives on some things will lead to different results. If he had given advance notice, many people would have dissuaded him and told him to save his money and not bother with it.

Now that he has succeeded, the attitudes and ideas of the elders are naturally different.

"We can't do this next time." Several people blamed him.

"I promise I won't. I'll tell you if something happens in the future." Lin Heng assured with a smile that these elders are very nice and they are the people who have the closest contact with his family.

"Lin Heng, I recently prepared a good thing. When the weather gets cold, let's go fry fish." Li Baiquan added with a smile.

"What?" Lin Heng was a little curious.

Li Baiquan chuckled: "I got a kerosene bottle and filled it with gunpowder and detonators. Let's go to the Huangtan River to fry fish in the winter."

"Holy shit, uncle, where did you get it?" Lin Heng's eyes widened. His uncle told him this before, but he didn't expect that he actually got it.

This is just like the Mao Xiong who uses grenades to fry fish. They are both ruthless characters.

"Hehe, in the early years when I was building roads for others, someone saved some detonators for digging mountains." Li Baiquan said with a smile.

"I still have two at home." His uncle Lu Honghai also said with a smile.

"Okay, you can call me when the time comes." Lin Heng nodded. Although it would be inappropriate for a fisherman to fry fish, this was a fish fry with a detonator, so the scene must be spectacular.

"No problem, I'll call you when the time comes." Li Baiquan chuckled, knowing that Lin Heng was interested in this.

"Lin Heng, I saw your forest musk deer, and I heard that you shot another wild boar. It's really impressive." Lu Honghai said with a smile.

"Haha, you are also lucky." Lin Heng laughed.

After beating the millet in his hand, he continued: "Let's go together in the winter and walk a little further to the foot of Taibai Mountain. Maybe we can hit something big."

"No problem, we all have different opinions." Several people nodded.

After chatting for a few more words, Lin Heng went over to say hello to his aunt Lu Hongyun, who was harvesting grain.

Her aunt is more than five years younger than her uncle, but the funny thing is that the age in the household registration book is wrong by one round, making her 12 years older than her actual age.

According to the household registration book, she is now in her fifties, about ten years older than Lin Heng's mother.

But she looks really older than Mrs. Lin, because she is so capable. She does the work that women do, and the work that men do, and her hands are full of calluses.

Her two sons can get married and have children, and she is the one who contributes the most, while Li Bai is far inferior to her.

Lin Heng also received a lot of care from his aunt when he was a child. She secretly gave him candies and biscuits, which added a touch of sweetness to his childhood.

I was in debt in my last life, and my aunt also helped Xiulan a lot.

"Now that you are prosperous, you have to let me take advantage of my aunt's future sales of medicinal materials." My aunt Lu Hongyun joked.

"No problem, auntie, if you come to my place to sell mountain products, I'll give you the original price and you won't make a dime." Lin Heng said, patting his chest.

If he were asked to choose one of these relatives to help, the first one would be his aunt, and then his third father.

"If you have a good relationship, then my aunt will take advantage of you." She was joking, how could she really take advantage of you.

If Lin Heng allowed her to take advantage, wouldn't he have to do the same to other relatives? She would not make it difficult for her nephew.

Lin Heng then asked about the situation of his two cousins, Li Shilei and Li Shiwei.

Lin Heng and Li Shiwei played better because they were close in age and only a few months apart. Later, they got married and had no time to play together.

As for Li Shilei, he prefers hanging out with a few other people and has a normal relationship with Lin Heng. I asked this mainly because I wanted to know whether Li Shiwei was here and to play with him. We were all best friends before.

"Brother Shi Lei won't come. He is busy with something. Li Shiwei came down at noon and said he would come down to play with you." Aunt Lu Hongyun said with a smile. He knew that Lin Heng came to play with his second son Li Shiwei.

"Haha, that's good." Lin Heng smiled and nodded.

When I was young, the best friends in the village besides my eldest brother were Li Shiwei, Lin Hai, and Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng is still fooling around with Zhao Hu and others, and he no longer wants to deal with it. Li Shiwei still wants to meet and talk about old times.

We went back to thresh millet for a while, and soon it was noon. There were many people calling today, and the threshing was fast.

Sister-in-law Liu Juan came to ask people to eat and said the food was ready.

"okay!"

After everyone finished threshing the cut rice, they shoveled out the grain and carried it home.

After returning home, Li Shiwei did not come down from the mountain until lunch.

"It's probably something that delayed me." Aunt Lu Hongyun said.

"It's okay. I'll go play with him next time." Lin Heng said with a smile. It's normal for married people to be involuntarily.

After all, there are only a few women as gentle as Xiulan.

For lunch, four tables were opened. In order to finish threshing the millet in one day, Father Lin called many people to help today.

The food was also very sumptuous. Father Lin killed the catfish that he had been reluctant to eat before, and also killed two chickens. It was much better than ordinary people's food.

Just this meal was worth it to many people who came to help. I didn't have such good food as the Lin family at home.

Lin Heng sat at the same table with his uncle and two uncles. They were very comfortable. He could drink if he wanted to, and just say something if he didn't want to drink. It wasn't that much trouble.

On the other hand, his uncle kept looking at his watch with envy.

After dinner, I went to his house to see Lin She.

"I didn't expect you to actually catch it. It's a pity that it's a female, otherwise it would have developed." Li Baiquan's expression was very regretful.

"That's okay. I'll catch another male and we can match them." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"That's very difficult. Sometimes we can't touch it for several years. It's hard to kill, but it's even harder to live." Li Baiquan shook his head and said.

"You can always meet him." Lin Heng smiled.

I took my uncle around to see the house, and the two of them went to the fields to thresh millet.

Aunt Lin was left by Mother Lin to help cook in the afternoon. In fact, she was getting her some good food for her to eat.

Because I had to rush to finish threshing the millet in one day, I thowed until after seven o'clock in the afternoon, but there was still some left.

But it’s not a lot, I can finish it tomorrow for my family.

In the evening, Lin Heng was looking at his own millet and helping to dry it. His uncle Li Baiquan suddenly came over and said, "Lin Heng, there are a lot of bamboo chickens croaking in the bamboo garden. Let's go hunt down two."

(End of this chapter)