Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 157 Spending money is like running water, and the time has come for the forest to be dyed【6k】

"Brother Lin, come with me, someone gave you something."

Wang Zhou looked at Lin Heng and said something, then led him to the backyard.

Lin Heng was stunned for a moment and asked curiously: "Who is it and what did you send?"

"Brother Lin, that's the uncle who sells your red dates. He came here last time from the market and said that his old father didn't survive the ordeal and passed away. Then he thanked you for bringing this to you."

Wang Zhou walked to the backyard and pointed at the things in the basin.

"Salamfish!!" Lin Heng was stunned. Inside the barrel was a giant salamander that seemed to weigh two to three kilograms. It was frightened when it saw someone wagging its tail.

"Yes, if you don't come down, I want to send it to you. I'm afraid I won't be able to pay the job if I die." Wang Zhou said as he looked at Lin Heng and spread his hands.

"Don't worry, this thing won't die that easily." Lin Heng smiled.

He looked at the giant salamander in the basin and said with emotion: "I didn't expect this man to repay his kindness."

In this day and age, these things are wild, and the price is not cheap. It is really thoughtful to give him one.

He originally gave the extra fifty yuan just to gain a reputation and facilitate business, and he didn't care whether he returned the favor or not.

This is an unexpected surprise.

There were a lot of these things in the creeks in the mountains a few years ago, but they have been rare in the past two years. He has not encountered them this year.

This thing will be protected in 88, and it will be illegal to catch wild ones.

Salamander breeding is also very promising. He had done research on related technologies in his previous life, but it was too late to enter the industry at that time and he couldn't make money, so he didn't engage in it.

When you have capital in a few years, you can start your first giant salamander breeding business, and then sell the seedlings to others to earn crazy dividends.

"Indeed, most people would have sold it long ago. That uncle is really a good person." Wang Zhou nodded.

"That's all?" Lin Heng asked, thinking something big had happened.

"Yes, that's all." Wang Zhou said with a smile.

"Be careful next time. I won't let you pay even if I die. I'll scare you." Lin Heng smiled and patted his shoulder.

"Okay Brother Lin." Wang Zhou nodded.

After Lin Heng finished talking to him, he went to the storage room to take a look. There were a lot of mulberry and turmeric piled inside. These were all goods that Lin Heng had deliberately saved and not sold.

Because the prices of these two things will increase next year. Although the magnitude is not large, only about one yuan, you can still make a small profit.

Of course, it’s not that he doesn’t sell out, but he sells one-tenth each time and keeps nine-tenths.

This is also a way to avoid people in the city thinking something is abnormal and use it to cover it up.

After taking a look, he looked at the account book again, then found a bag to put the salamander in and left.

Then he went to the only sand and stone store in town. Unlike the cement resellers in town, the sand field was state-owned.

The price is also very fixed, 7 yuan per square meter of sand and 5 yuan per square meter of gravel. If it is to be transported to Hongfeng Village, each party has to add 3 yuan for travel expenses.

In fact, Lin Heng could also find someone to dig secretly in Shiban River. Many people did this.

But when I thought about the trouble of hiring someone, I just bought ten square meters of stones and sand.

However, we can't load the goods for him right away. We have to wait until tomorrow morning.

He signed the contract and paid the deposit, turned around and went to the cement sales side, and led the tractor back.

It was past eleven o'clock when we arrived at Hongfeng Mountain. A group of people at the flat site stopped and looked curiously when they heard the roar of the tractor.

"What did you buy here?" someone asked curiously.

"What I bought is cement, which is used to build factory buildings and lay stone ridges." Lin's father replied that Lin Heng had told him these things.

"Building a brick house?"

The people on the construction site were stunned for a moment, a little shocked.

"The houses you live in are all mud houses, right? Instead of raising fish, you build brick houses?"

"The price is too high, it's not worth it."

A group of people didn't understand what was going on. If you have money, you can really build something. Wouldn't it be better to build a brick house yourself?

"They're all the same. There's no difference in living there." Father Lin said with a smile.

Anyway, if the brick house is built there, it won't break down, and it won't be a loss no matter what.

"Everyone, please continue working. I'll go help." Lin's father said and walked to the side of the road.

The road from the highway to Hongfeng Mountain was originally not wide. Lin Heng used the extra soil from the last fish pond digging to widen it so that the tractor could come up.

Lin Heng rode a horse and took the tractor all the way to the ground.

"That's it." Lin Heng said.

"Okay." The two people in the car nodded. They were going to unload it.

"Dad, go get some wood and put cement on it, otherwise it will be useless if it rains and gets waterlogged." Lin Heng looked at his father who was walking over and said.

"Okay." Father Lin turned around to find someone to move the wood.

The wood was moved and propped up, and the cement mover brought a large waterproof tarp and laid it out, and then began to move the cement.

I originally wanted to buy this waterproof tarpaulin, but because Lin Heng bought too much cement, the boss gave it to him directly.

Lin's father and elder brother wanted to help, but Lin Heng stopped them. Moving cement is not good for your health.

"When will the bricks be delivered? And where are the sand and stones?" Lin's father looked at Lin Heng and asked.

"We can only bring him here tomorrow. I'll send him to another place today." Lin Heng said, spreading his hands.

"There's no rush anyway, I can't do much work today." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"Yes, there's not much work to do. Just watch. I'll take the giant fish home and keep it. Don't work it to death."

Lin Heng said while holding the bag.

"Baby fish! Did you buy it or catch it?"

Lin's father was stunned and asked, and both of them came over to check on the giant salamander.

"No, it was given by someone else." Lin Heng told the story.

Both of them found it a bit incredible that there were too few people who repaid their kindness so gratefully.

"Are you ready to eat?" Lin Yue asked.

"Let's keep it for now. I'm not going to eat it." Lin Heng shook his head. If he was going to eat it, he wouldn't put it in the water and bring it back.

"This thing is very replenishing. It's better to keep it first. These two Shiban rivers are already extinct." Father Lin nodded and said.

Lin Heng rode back home, Xiulan was taking care of her baby at home, and she was curious when she saw him coming back with the giant salamander.

Xiaoxia was so scared that she hid behind Xiulan and didn't dare to look.

Lin Heng looked at his wife and asked, "Do you want to eat it? If you want to eat it, I will kill it and stew it for you immediately."

Xiulan shook her head: "There is a lot of meat at home recently, so keep it until we run out of meat."

"Then keep it."

Lin Heng nodded, went to the backyard and threw the giant salamander into the fish pond, letting it stay with the grass turtles and grass carp fry.

We also built a hiding place for it with stones in the stream channel. Whether it is the fish pond or the stream area, it is surrounded by large rocks. It is still fifty centimeters high, so it is impossible for it to escape.

And even if he comes out, he can't escape from the yard.

"Drink the water I poured for you."

Lin Heng entered the room, and Xiulan brought him black tea that had been left to cool.

"Didn't you drink brown sugar water?" Lin Heng asked curiously.

"No, but I cooked brown sugar, lotus seeds and red dates porridge. Xiaoxia and I ate it and left some for you." Xiulan said with a smile.

"I bought you pears from the town. Do you want me to make brown sugar pears for you?" Lin Heng asked again.

"Dad, I want candy~" As soon as Xiaoxia heard the candy, she ran over and hugged him and started acting coquettishly.

"Just one." Lin Heng gave her a White Rabbit toffee.

"Then you can cook it for me at noon." Xiulan thought for a while and said, she quite wanted to eat.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, took a sip of water, chatted with Xiulan for a few words, and then rode to Hongfeng Mountain.

This time we came to ask people to disperse. None of the workers were wearing watches and didn’t know the time.

Lin's father wanted to ask Lin Heng's third father and Lin Hai to go home for dinner together, but he didn't.

In the end, Li Baiquan and Li Shiwei returned to the old house together, and Lin's mother cooked for them.

Lin Heng directly brought Xiulan Xiaoxia over to eat without being polite at all. After eating, I went home and stewed a rock sugar snow pear for Xiulan.

"Try one." Xiulan took a bite and gave Lin Heng a piece of pear from the bowl.

Lin Heng shook his head: "You eat it. If I want to eat it, I will just grab a pear and gnaw it."

Xiulan blinked her eyes, puffed her cheeks, stared at him and said, "What, do you think you dislike me for eating?"

"Okay, okay, I'll eat." Lin Heng opened his mouth helplessly and was fed a mouthful, mainly because it was a bit too sweet.

Xiulan nodded with satisfaction and fed her daughter a little more.

After eating, Lin Heng read a storybook to them for a while, and then set off to the construction site at half past one.

There was no change in the work in the afternoon. The cement delivery guy made four more trips, and the rest was delivered the next day.

"Do you know how to work with cement?" Lin Heng asked, looking at the six people building the stone ridge.

"Not really." Several people smiled reluctantly, a little embarrassed.

"One part cement, two parts sand, three parts pebbles, and then add water to mix it." Lin Heng said, and took six people to the creek to dig some sand and pebbles and teach them how to mix them with cement.

When using it, I found that the quality of the current cement was too poor, so Lin Heng asked me to increase the specific gravity of the cement, otherwise it might not be effective.

After reconciliation, they can use small buckets to carry them to build the ridge. Lin Heng also taught them how to use cement to build the stone ridge.

His three rows of fish ponds from the bottom to the top are of different heights. They definitely need stone ridges to retain the soil, but ridges made of stones will definitely not work. They must be made of concrete to have sufficient strength.

A foundation of fifty centimeters was dug underground, and large stones that required two people to be lifted were used to build the foundation bit by bit. Cement was used as an adhesive.

This job is not easy at all, but fortunately it only requires building two or three meters high.

The next day, stones and sand began to be transported one after another, making the work much easier.

By the fourth day, all the work materials had arrived, and Lin Heng went to the town to pay the money. Cement costs 1350 yuan and sand and gravel cost 180 yuan, which adds up to 1530 yuan. After the money was given out, Lin Heng suddenly had only yuan left in his hand. Building a fish pond was a waste of money.

There are also red bricks and terracotta tiles being transported here. When they are all shipped, he will owe the owner of Tuanjie Brick Factory a thousand yuan.

"I still have to keep climbing mountains to make money." Lin Heng sighed with emotion.

On the morning of October 29, Lin Heng walked to the construction site. The first row, that is, the grass fish pond and the west row had been completely leveled, and the stone ridges were only just a little bit complete.

"Lin Heng, is our working speed okay?" Lin Xutao, the third father, asked with a smile.

"Okay, of course." Lin Heng smiled and nodded, much faster than he expected.

That's what farmers are like. As long as the money is in place, they can do any job for you.

"But your price is really high. Just these materials cost a lot of money, right?" Li Shiwei asked curiously.

Lin Heng grinned: "It's not a little big, but it's very big. When all the red bricks and terracotta tiles are brought, I will spend almost 5,000 yuan."

"Oh my god!!"

"Five thousand!!"

There were gasps at the construction site. They couldn't even imagine spending so much money, let alone spending it like Lin Heng did.

Lin Hai said with emotion: "The investment in digging a fish pond is so huge, and we haven't even started raising fish and shrimp yet."

Lin Heng smiled and shook his head: "You definitely can't spend so much money just to dig a pond. It's going to be different because I have a large scale and have to build several houses."

However, as all the materials were collected, there was no big money to spend. The majority of what was left was the wages of the workers.

"Anyway, if we had so much money, we would never dare to spend it like this." Li Baiquan shook his head. Lin Heng's spending was too big, and it was unbelievable for farmers with an annual income of one or two hundred.

"Everyone, let's continue working. Help dig the foundation and build the stone ridges for the second row of fish ponds." Lin Heng said with a smile and stopped discussing this issue.

After arranging the work, he slipped away again.

This time he didn't go to the city, but took the money to Liu Ciwen's house. He heard that a calf in Liu Ciwen's family was killed by a fall. He went there to buy some beef, which was considered a help to his family.

Before the others arrived, they saw Liu Cihua grazing cattle on the hillside, and immediately walked over with a smile.

"I'm going to your house to buy beef. Is your dad at home?" Lin Heng asked aloud.

Liu Cihua glanced at Lin Heng and nodded: "At home, I should plant vegetables behind the house."

"I see."

Lin Heng nodded and said: "By the way, let me ask you a question, do you have someone you like now?"

"Ah!" Liu Cihua was shocked and immediately lowered her head, very shy.

"Is there any?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

Liu Cihua looked at her feet and shook her head: "Why are you asking... why are you asking this?"

"Let me introduce you to someone. It seems like you don't like anyone anymore. I'll bring him to meet you next time."

Lin Heng said with a smile and walked towards her house, while Liu Cihua was still standing there, wondering whether she was scared or in admiration.

Although Liu Cihua and her father Liu Haizhou are a bit demented and deaf, they are still sensible. Lin Heng told him to buy beef. He quickly understood and took Lin Heng into the house.

There was a lot of beef hanging in the room, which showed that the calf that had been thrown to death was quite big, probably weighing one or two hundred kilograms.

"I'll buy this beef shank." Lin Heng pointed at the uncut beef shank and said.

I took the meat off and weighed it. It was a little over thirty-five pounds in total.

"How much?" Lin Heng looked at Liu Haizhou and shouted loudly, keeping his voice low to avoid being heard.

"How much do you think is appropriate?" Liu Haizhou smiled honestly, but he was not sure about the price.

"Then it's one yuan a pound, that's the price." Lin Heng took out thirty-five yuan and handed it to him.

Liu Haizhou counted the money, put the money in his heart pocket, and said with a simple smile: "Thank you, let's go in and have a drink of water."

"I won't drink anymore. I'm going back now. I still have work to do." Lin Heng waved his hand and left directly.

On the way back, Lin Heng saw Liu Cihua and said something more: "I bought thirty-five kilograms of beef. I gave it to your father for one yuan a kilogram. Please tell Liu Ciwen."

"Okay." Liu Cihua nodded softly.

Lin Heng returned home with the meat. Xiulan was speechless when she saw him carrying so much meat: "I told you to buy less. It will cost thirty or forty kilograms."

"Not much. I will go to Hongfeng Mountain to have a barbecue the day after tomorrow. This may not be enough to eat." Lin Heng said with a smile.

He planned to let everyone rest for two days tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. He would come back the day after tomorrow and his family could also relax.

During this period, the leaves have turned yellow and red. Looking up, there are red and yellow trees everywhere on both sides of the river in Hongfeng Village, especially maple trees. This is also the origin of the name of Hongfeng Village, because there are maple trees here. Quite a few, very beautiful in the fall.

If the tree is the most dazzling, it must be the ginkgo in the center of the village. With its golden leaves and fan-shaped leaves, no other tree can compare with it.

To say which place has the most beautiful scenery, it is undoubtedly Hongfeng Mountain. It can be said that the forests are dyed with various colors of red and yellow. It is absolutely like a fairyland outside the world.

"Is everyone going?" Xiulan asked curiously.

Lin Heng smiled and shook his head: "No, I told my parents. They entertained the third father, uncle, and others at home, and young people of our generation went to Hongfeng Mountain to have a barbecue.

It's not fun for two generations to play together, so it's better to separate. In a few days, our own family will be reunited. "

Anyway, we have to invite other people to have a barbecue now, and it can't be just our own family, so we might as well separate and have a young people's party first.

It just so happens that tomorrow and the following days are Sundays, and Caiyun doesn't have to go to school, so we can come over for dinner together.

"That's okay. Then I'll prepare some things today and we'll go get them tomorrow morning." Xiulan nodded and agreed.

"You prepare it first and do it the day after tomorrow. We are going to fry fish tomorrow." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll prepare first." Xiulan nodded.

"Then I'll leave first." Lin Heng nodded and turned around to go to Hongfeng Mountain.

Xiulan looked at Lin Heng's leaving figure, exhaled, pouted, and turned to deal with the beef.

Lin Heng walked to the road, wearing a double-layered coat that was just right. This is the north, the altitude is high, and it gets cold quickly.

Walking to the ginkgo tree in the center of the village, Lin Heng looked up and saw golden ginkgo leaves hanging all over the treetops. As the autumn wind sways slightly, it looks sparkling. From time to time, a few leaves fall down, like a rain of time.

Lin Heng bent down and started picking up ginkgo leaves, just like some children around him.

"Why are you picking these leaves?" Liu Sanye asked curiously.

Lin Heng smiled slightly: "Nothing, just picking it up and playing with it."

"Young babies are just weird." Mr. Liu shook his head and went back to the house. After the season changed, his old cold legs started to hurt again and he needed to go back to warm himself by the fire.

Lin Heng picked up a bunch of ginkgo leaves and took them to Hongfeng Mountain. Walking on both sides of the path up the mountain, red leaves and yellow leaves were everywhere, as if he was in a fairyland.

After crossing the creek, we arrived at the wooden house. A lot of red maple leaves had fallen on the ground, and it felt soft when you stepped on them.

Walking in the maple forest, maple leaves slowly fell from all around from time to time. The cabin under the autumn scenery also looked very harmonious. Lin Heng opened the door and saw that a lot of things had been moved here.

They brought pots, pans, charcoal, etc. every time they came over. The stove for cooking was also ready. In order to prevent fire, the surroundings were protected from the wind.

After being busy here for a while, I felt the beautiful autumn scenery in the forest. During lunch, Lin Hengcai went down to ask the people to disperse and everyone went home to eat.

When he went back, Lin Heng looked at his uncle and Li Shiwei and said with a smile: "I'm going to take two days off tomorrow. Let's go to the Huangtan River to fry fish."

Li Shiwei smiled and said, "Okay, I just wanted to ask you when can I go."

"Yeah, it won't be good if it's too late." Li Baiquan also nodded.

"Dad, brother, why don't you go together and take you fishing?" Lin Heng asked.

Father Lin shook his head: "I won't go. I'll do other work and let your elder brother go."

"Then let's go fishing with Dad next time." Lin Yue said with a smile.

Lin Heng had no choice but to do this.

When I got home, the Lin family had fried beef with green pepper for lunch. Needless to say, it tasted delicious. No matter how you prepare it, beef and other ingredients will be delicious.

"This calf meat is more delicious than the meat of old cows." Father Lin said with emotion.

"Of course, I bought a lot, and everyone can eat as much as they want." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After a pause, Lin Heng continued: "Tomorrow we will fry some big fish. We will grill the fish with beef and pork the day after tomorrow."

"That's a big grass carp. Let's get up early tomorrow morning and find two places to build a big nest. Then we can blow it up in the afternoon." Li Shiwei said with a smile.

"Hey, as long as the nest is built, it's not impossible to catch a big fish of fifty or sixty pounds." Li Baiquan chuckled.

A group of people finished their lunch talking and laughing, rested for more than an hour, and then set off again to work in Hongfeng Mountain in the afternoon.

Lin Heng didn't leave. After his wife packed her things and put them in her backpack, Lin Heng took her daughter and walked towards Hongfeng Mountain with her things.

"Didn't you say you would wait until the day after tomorrow to get it? Why did you start today?" Xiulan looked at him and said helplessly.

Lin Heng smiled: "It's the same thing today. I changed my mind."

Xiulan shook her head: "There's really nothing I can do about you!"

Helplessly carrying her things on her back, she went to Hongfeng Mountain with Lin Heng. Walking into the forest of Hongfeng Mountain, Xiulan looked at the beautiful scenery around her in a daze.

beautiful!

She didn't have time to appreciate it before, but now that her life is better, she starts to pay attention to the scenery, and then she realizes how beautiful Red Maple Mountain is, especially the slow and leisurely rain of red maples, which is even more intoxicating.

Xiaoxia was also stunned. She stretched out her hand to catch the fallen maple leaves. Her big eyes were full of curiosity. She still couldn't quite understand why the leaves turned red and yellow at this time.

"Dad, what is this~"

Her little head was filled with questions.

"These are yellowing leaves. The leaves will turn red and yellow in autumn." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"What is autumn?" Xiaoxia asked curiously.

……

After explaining all the way, he finally arrived at the cabin. Lin Heng put his daughter down and let her pick up the maple leaves on the ground to play with.

Then he took out the key, opened the door, walked in, and packed things with Xiulan.

"What's in this?" Xiulan asked as she looked at the wooden basin covered on the table and took off the wooden cover.

"Oh my god...na!!"

The moment she took off the wooden cover, Xiulan was stunned and couldn't believe it.

(End of this chapter)