Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 136 The Shiban River at night, watching the rain with my wife
  Lin Heng jumped off the horse, looked at him and laughed: "You have a good sense."

While talking, he picked up Xiulan and Xiaoxia.

"You're so handsome!" Lin Hai came over and touched the horse's neck.

This horse looked much more handsome when it was taller. Lin Hai felt a little envious when he touched it.

"Can I go up and give it a try?" Lin Hai prayed.

"You can't ride a horse, so don't move around." Lin Heng said.

"okay!"

Lin Hai nodded, and became even more envious after riding on the horse. Riding such a horse was so majestic.

After riding for a few steps, Lin Hai came down.

Lin Heng looked at him: "Would you like to go to my house for dinner?"

"No, no, I have to carry some straw back to feed the cows. Brother Lin, please go back."

Lin Hai waved his hand and walked back to the field under the road.

"Okay, let's go." Lin Heng waved his hand, led the horse and followed Xiulan Xiaoxia,
  They walked back and chose a small road, passing through the center of the village instead of taking the road.

It is inevitable to meet some people on the road, but it is much better than being surrounded by ginkgo trees.

Xiulan took Xiaoxia back home, and Lin Heng led the horse to find the old house.

My parents have just come back and are pouring the Schisandra chinensis picked today into a dustpan and spreading it out.

"Isn't the horse you were looking at a yellow horse? Why did it turn into a red horse?" Lin's father asked curiously when he saw the horse held by his son.

"I was lucky enough to meet this red-maned horse today. I named it Hongzao. Isn't it very majestic?" Lin Heng said with a smile.

Father Lin came over and touched it. He liked it very much: "It's really good. How much does it cost?"

Lin Heng explained the process of buying a horse to his parents. After hearing this, Lin's mother suddenly didn't understand: "You kid, you are so rich. If you give me an extra fifty yuan, who will have no difficulty? We ourselves It’s not easy to make money either.”

"Mom, this is called buying horse bones with a thousand pieces of gold. The difference is that I am buying a reputation. Even if I lose fifty cents, there will be many benefits in the future." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Too many, just give me twenty or thirty." Mother Lin still shook her head.

Father Lin looked at it and rode again.

After a while, Lin Heng and his elder brother heard the conversation and ran over to experience it.

"Dad, brother, where do you think the horse pen is better?" Lin Heng was now confused about where to keep the horses.

"I can build one behind the house. I plan to raise a dog. There is nothing unsafe." Lin Yue said.

He was referring to the area where pigs and chickens were raised.

"That place is fine. We didn't have railings before. Now we have a diesel saw. In two days, we will directly surround it with wooden railings, and then build a horse pen." Father Lin also nodded.

"That's okay. It's really no problem to repair the road behind." Lin Heng nodded.

"Are you going to go down to the river at night? Dad and I are going to catch turtles, and the nets are ready." Lin Yue asked again. He came here to ask about this.

"No problem, let's go wherever you want. Wearing rain boots will not be afraid of snakes." Lin Heng nodded with a smile. He was always interested in going down the river.

"Okay, let's wait until nine o'clock before setting off. It's useless if we go early. The eels and turtles come out relatively late." Lin Yue said with a smile.

After agreeing, Lin Heng took Hong Zao home.

I tied it up in the front yard for the time being, then went out and cut ten corn stalks for it, got a bundle of straw, and brought a basin of water.

Hong Zao drank up the water first, then chewed the corn leaves slowly and was not very interested in the straw.

In the room, Xiulan had already started cooking. When she saw Lin Heng coming in, she said, "Go and feed the poultry and pets. Mom shouldn't feed much at noon."

"Okay!" Lin Heng went out to feed the animals in the front yard.

Unknowingly, there are already a lot of animals in the house, including Xiongba, Jinbao, and Hongzao as pets.

Other animals include pigs, badgers, forest musk deer, and turtles, as well as goats kept by the forest mother, and chickens and ducks in the back mountains.

"Xiongba, you need to be hungry for now. You won't have anything to eat until the food is ready later." Lin Heng, passing by the kennel, looked at the cheering Xiongba and said.

"Ouch~" Xiongba suddenly shouted in dissatisfaction.

Lin Heng fed the forest musk deer and pig badgers, and took Xiaoxia to feed the chickens and ducks.

When I arrived at the chicken coop, I found that there were three more eggs in the nest, not counting the remaining eggs. After feeding the chickens, I happily picked them up.

Now he can pick up at least three eggs every day. The main reason is that he feeds them skillfully.

One month before the laying period, he began to reduce the amount of food he feeds. When he resumes feeding during the laying period, he can increase the egg production rate. Secondly, he also adds bentonite to the chicken feed and cold mountain spring water.

All of these methods are beneficial to stimulating hens to lay eggs, so they will naturally collect more eggs and feed them more food.

He looked at the surrounding environment again and thought about where the horse pen would be arranged.

My daughter looked around, she seemed tired and didn't run around today.

"Let's go back."

Lin Heng shook his head and walked into the house. Xiulan water had been boiled, and he was going to make a simple pickled cabbage noodles for dinner.

After eating and playing for a while, Lin Heng went to read a story to put his daughter to sleep.

After she fell asleep, Lin Heng put on his rain boots and took a cloth bag and three rechargeable strong flashlights.

"Xiulan, you go to sleep first. I have the key with me. I have locked the door. I will open it myself when the time comes."

After saying something to his wife, Lin Heng turned around and walked out with his things.

"Be careful of snakes." Xiulan pulled him and said, then let go.

Lin Heng went out, first untied the saddle that he had forgotten to take off from Hong Zao, then locked the yard gate and came to the old house.

Father Lin put on his rain boots and took his things, chatting in the room. When he saw Lin Heng coming, Lin Yue smiled and said, "Lin Heng is here, let's set off."

"Here, use my flashlight. Leave yours at home." Lin Heng handed the water and electricity in his hand to his eldest brother and father.

"This flashlight is good." Father Lin opened it and said in surprise.

Lin Yue couldn't help but nod: "With this bright flashlight, we will definitely gain a lot tonight!"

Lin Heng took a look and saw that his father was carrying a plastic bucket with a bag inside. His elder brother was holding two nets and handed one to him.

"Where should we start searching?" When they reached the road, Lin's father asked the two for their opinions.

Lin Heng pointed to the upper river and suggested: "My suggestion is to go all the way up from here. There are not many people in Shimen Village doing fish and turtles. I hope it is bigger."

"I think so too. The day before yesterday, I heard that people in Baima Village downstream went into the river to insert turtles. I guess there is little hope of going down there." Lin Yue also nodded.

The so-called turtle insertion is to use sharpened bamboos to keep inserting them into the sand in the river to search for traces of turtles.

A group of several people will often gain something.

"Let's go then!"

The three of them walked directly through the rice fields where the millet had been threshed and came to the river.

When I shine a flashlight at night, I can clearly see all the fish and shrimps in the clear river water. Whether it is creek grouper, peach fish (horse mouth), or yellow bonefish, they all become much dumber.

The three of them separated, Lin Heng walked in the front, Lin's father and eldest brother walked in the back, and they worked in pairs.

"It's such a big yellow bone, hurry up and catch it." Lin Yue set up the net, and Father Lin used a wooden stick to catch it, and a two-pound yellow bone was caught.

Lin Heng took a look, held the flashlight in his mouth, used a net in one hand and a wooden stick in the other, and he caught a horse's mouth that weighed one or two weight.

This thing runs very fast during the day, and there's nothing you can do about it other than drugging and discharging it, but it's easy to catch at night.

He walked ahead and caught several horse mouths in a row, keeping some distance away from his father and the others. In this way, after you catch them, the water will be clear when they come over, and you can continue to catch fish that slipped through the net.

“There are actually a few eels!”

After walking a few dozen meters further, Lin Heng came to a long pool. When he shined his flashlight, he saw several eels lying motionless on the sand at the bottom. They were trying to catch passing fish.

"How big?"

When Father Lin heard the sound, he quickly ran up to help.

"It's not small. The biggest one is probably a pound." Father Lin said in surprise as he looked at the things in the water.

"Brother, hold something for me and I'll go into the water to grab it." Lin Heng said this and began to take off his shoes and pants.

Catching eels can only be done with hands or eel clips, and the net cannot be caught. They have experienced many failures.

As for eel clips and hands, Lin Heng still trusts his own hands more.

After counting, there were five in total. One of them was a small one in the deep water area. Lin Heng gave up on this one. He quietly came to the big eel in the middle and reached down.

Still approaching gently, he quickly grabbed it and threw it directly onto the sand on the shore, leaving the rest to his elder brother.

He continued to attack the next one, because there was sand below, and he successfully captured all four eels without missing a single one.

"Awesome!" Lin's father praised, saying that his second son's eel-catching skills were already perfect.

"Continue!" Lin Heng chuckled, put on his clothes and shoes and continued moving forward. They caught whatever they could, whether it was fish, shrimp, eels or turtles.

After walking not far, Father Lin suddenly shouted again: "There are two eels here!"

Lin Heng came over to take a look and shook his head: "I guess there is little hope of catching him."

It's not that the water is too deep, but that the eel is lying on a stone. When you push your hand downwards, you can't catch it if it hits the stone.

I tried it in the water and both of them ran away, as expected.

It is cloudy tonight. The crescent moon in the sky is always among the dark clouds. It is very dark on the ground. Fireflies fly from time to time by the water, flashing and flashing, adding a touch of light to the night.

Lin Heng saw a dark figure in the water and was shocked when he shined his flashlight on it: "Holy crap!"

I thought it was an eel, but it turned out to be a spicy water snake hiding in the water to catch fish.

"Stay away!" The three of them took a detour in unison.

It was so great to catch fish in the river at night. I kept catching fish and couldn't stop.

Unknowingly, they had arrived at the border with Shimen Village. They didn't know whether it was bad luck or not. It was already ten fifty and they hadn't seen a single turtle yet.

"How many things have you caught?"

After finding a beach, Lin Heng stopped and asked. His father carried everything he caught.

"It's quite a lot. The fish in my bucket weighs seven or eight pounds, and the eel weighs six or seven pounds." Father Lin said with a smile.

"I have about three kilograms of fish here, which is a lot anyway." Lin Yue also said.

Their things are all packed together without distinction, because they are not planning to sell them, so they just eat them themselves.

"Go on, I don't believe that we won't catch a turtle today." Lin Heng said and moved on.

Not many fish were caught along the way. The main thing was to see if there were any turtles. The fish caught so much was enough to eat.

Of course, I won’t let go of big fish and eels, but I won’t catch them so meticulously.

Lin Heng had already walked to the front, and the elder brother Lin Yue behind him suddenly exclaimed: "I caught the turtle!"

Lin Heng: "???"

"Really?" Father Lin quickly turned around.

The two of them walked in front and didn't notice it.

"Look!" Lin Yue loosened his legs a little, and he held down a turtle whose back was covered with moss.

"It's not big, probably just over a pound. You didn't notice it in the moss by the river." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"Brother is so lucky." Lin Heng said enviously.

"Haha!" Lin Yue chuckled.

After grabbing the turtle into a bag, the three of them continued moving forward.

In the blink of an eye, it was already half past eleven, and Lin Heng was about to go back when the flashlight shone on him and he was suddenly startled.

He originally thought it was another snake, but upon closer inspection, he found that it was actually an eel, but the size was a bit scary.

The length is definitely half a meter, and the thickness is about the same as a baby's arm. He didn't dare call anyone for fear of being scared away. Carefully, he reached out to grab it.

This time he changed his strategy, grabbed it and threw it directly to the beach by the river, then ran over and held it down.

"Come quickly, the three-pound eel!" Lin Heng couldn't help but shout loudly after holding it down.

Father Lin and his eldest brother ran over quickly.

Lin Yue was shocked when he saw it: "From a distance, I thought you caught a snake. It's really big."

Father Lin also quickly opened the bag for fear of running away: "I definitely have these three kilograms, and maybe four more kilograms. Just this eel is worth it tonight."

After putting the eel into the bag, Lin Hengxuan's heart was at peace. He would regret running away for half a month.

"Are you still going on?" Father Lin asked.

Lin Heng shook his head: "Forget it, I guess there is no hope."

He had caught enough eels and was a little tired. Moreover, it is often in vain to continue fishing after catching a big fish, so he chooses to finish his fishing rod wisely.

"Then I'll go up and have a look. If it's gone, let's go." Father Lin nodded and walked some distance forward with a flashlight.

After waiting for two or three minutes, he came back with a smile on his face: "I caught a turtle, look at it."

He was holding a two to three kilogram turtle in his hand, which was larger than the one Lin Yue caught just now.

Lin Heng: "???"

"Hahaha, it seems that you have no fate with Turtle today, brother?" Lin Yue patted Lin Heng on the shoulder and laughed.

Father Lin's face was flushed: "Then shall we go back or continue?"

"We must continue. What a waste of time." Lin Heng stood up and led the charge.

After walking uphill for another half hour, the river turned into a creek and there were fewer fish.

"It seems that I am not destined after all." Lin Heng felt that he was still careless and should have stopped just now.

It was like he was about to finish fishing and saw that someone else had caught a big fish. In fact, there was no hope of continuing to fish. After all, he couldn't hold it back.

"Go back!"

The three of them walked back along the river dam to see if there were any turtles or eels. They were not going to catch any fish.

Just as he was approaching the road, Lin Heng's eyes suddenly lit up. He dug into the sand by the water and pulled out a palm-sized tortoise.

"Damn, I thought it was a big deal." Lin Heng sighed and shook his head. He no longer had any hope.

So I walked straight back home along the road. It was quite cool on the walk, but I didn't see any animals. Instead, the sky started to lightning, and from time to time a big lightning lit up the world.

It was already one o'clock when the three of them got home. This was the latest Lin Heng had slept in since his return.

"Don't separate the things for now. Keep the turtles and eels, soak the fish in ice water, and deal with them early tomorrow." Lin Heng looked at the things and said, he was really a little tired.

Father Lin both agreed. If we deal with it slowly now, it will take two or three hours to finish it.

Lin Heng took his things and went straight home. As he walked outside, small raindrops fell on his face. Lin Heng estimated that the reason for his bad luck tonight might be related to the fact that it was about to rain.

Opening the door and walking into the yard, Lin Heng pulled Hong Zao to the gate and tied it up. This place was protected from rain by the gatehouse. As for the ground getting dirty, there was nothing he could do about it. He couldn't let it get wet.

After taking a basin of water and taking a shower, Lin Heng gently opened the bedroom door and walked in.

The daughter was sleeping soundly, with a sweet smile on her face.

My wife was lying on her back on the bed, with the summer quilt only covering her stomach. Her beautiful legs intertwined together were so long and white that she could see clearly even in the dim light.

Lin Heng did not disturb her, took off his shoes, and lay down next to her to sleep. As soon as he lay down, Xiulan suddenly turned over and hugged him, putting her long legs on him.

"How was the harvest?" Xiulan asked in a low voice.

"You're not asleep, you're still pretending." Lin Heng twisted his wife's waist.

Xiulan lay on his chest and said, "I'll wake up as soon as you open the door."

Lin Heng hugged his wife and replied: "The harvest is not bad, the eels and fish can weigh about ten kilograms. My eldest brother and dad both caught a turtle, and I caught a small tortoise, but I was not very lucky."

It is really a beautiful thing to have such a wonderful wife waiting for him when he comes back from outside.

Xiulan praised: "That's not bad."

Lin Heng raised her chin and whispered softly: "Then reward your man."

Xiulan kissed him, but was held down by Lin Heng and forced into a deep kiss.

Just when Lin Heng was about to eat the wrapping paper, Xiulan blocked him and said softly: "Goodbye, I'm afraid you won't be able to control it again and blame me for not getting up tomorrow!"

Lin Heng pointed outside: "It's raining, what am I afraid of?"

As he spoke, he gnawed on it.

Not only was there lightning outside the window, thunder was also rolling in. As the thunder and lightning became more frequent, the heavy rain finally poured down, pouring down thousands of miles, moistening everything.

In the room, Xiulan reluctantly changed the sheets and wiped her long legs that were wet by someone's chewing.

She glanced at the man next to her and lay on his chest, wanting to crush him to death.

Lin Heng didn't say anything. He felt much cooler after the rain. He hugged his wife and listened to the rain and gradually fell asleep.

It rained all night, and it didn't stop until the next morning, and it was as heavy as ever.

Lin Heng woke up, and his wife leaned over again, pushed him, and said softly: "Go and open the window a little, I want to watch the rain."

"Okay." Lin Heng couldn't refuse at all, so he went to open the window a small opening, came back and lay on the bed holding his wife to watch the rain.

Covered with a summer quilt, even if the wind blows in, it's not cold at all, it's just cool.

(End of this chapter)