Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 162: The wealth gained for nothing

"I just found out that there are stones in Shimen Village. Lin Heng, didn't you say you wanted to buy them before?"

The person who spoke was Zhang Zhigang, who had a beard and a smile on his face.

"What kind of stone?" Lin Heng asked curiously.

He had indeed told everyone before that he wanted to buy stones because there was no stone seller in the town and he had to buy them from other places.

He just wanted to spread the news and ask, maybe he could gain something.

Unexpectedly, there would be news in just a few days.

“There are two mountains in Shimen Village that are specialized in producing bluestone. In the past, many of us used to build our houses with slate mined there.

That bluestone is easy to open. I asked, and there are still people opening slate. If you want to buy it, you can talk to the village party secretary of Shimen Village. "Zhang Zhigang said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll find time to ask." Lin Heng nodded.

He knew that stone slabs could be opened in Shimen Village, but it was unknown whether they could meet his requirements.

I didn't go there before because I didn't really believe in this kind of privately produced stone. If you want to buy it, you have to buy it cut by someone else's stone factory.

But since someone said it, it wouldn't hurt for him to go and take a look.

It is said that the scenery of Shimen Village is not bad, you can go in and have a look.

After a pause, Lin Heng continued: "Today's work is still the same, continue to level the ground."

After everyone signed the work book, he assigned the work one by one.

After watching the scene for half an hour, he felt that everything was fine, so he said something to his father and left.

"Leave this here to me. You go back and see Third Aunt and Third Uncle. They have been here for a day, so it would be inappropriate not to see them." Father Lin looked at him and said.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded,

After returning home, Xiulan was taking Xiaoxia to chat with his third aunt and uncle in the yard of her parents' house. They were having a great time talking.

"Third uncle, third aunt, I was in Hongfeng Mountain yesterday and didn't even know you were here. I'm so sorry. You must go to our house for dinner soon."

Lin Heng also smiled and came over to say hello.

Looking at their faces, he remembered that he had been to their house when he was a child, and he seemed to be a relative on his father's side.

He still remembered that their daughter was very beautiful, and he teased the girl a lot at that time, but that was all six or seven years ago, and he didn't know if she was married now.

"Your mother told you that you are busy, it's nothing." His third uncle said with a smile.

If Lin Heng was like this before, he would definitely be worried, but now he believes from the bottom of his heart that Lin Heng is very busy.

Her third aunt also held Lin Heng's hand and said with a smile: "When you came to my house six years ago, you were not very tall. Now you are so tall all of a sudden, and you are married to a beautiful daughter-in-law like Xiulan. That's great."

In recent years, they have also wanted to come to visit relatives, but their son has not allowed it. Now that the Lin family is rich, his son has taken the initiative to let them come to see the situation.

"Haha, thank you Third Aunt for the compliment. You will definitely come to my house for dinner at noon." Lin Heng said with a smile. He could feel Third Aunt's sincerity.

After chatting for a few more words, Lin Heng took the person to his home. After entertaining for a while, he asked his mother to help accompany him.

"Honey, please take care of me while I ride to Shimen Village to have a look."

In the backyard, Lin Heng held his wife's hand and said, it would be unkind to leave such a matter to her alone.

"It's not appropriate for you to come back for lunch when you don't even come to the wine table." Xiulan removed the leaves from his hair and said with a smile.

This was just a normal thing for her, but Lin Heng's words made her feel warm and happy.

"Okay, promise to come when the time comes."

Lin Heng nodded in agreement, went out and said something to his third uncle and third aunt, then went to the back mountain to ride on the red dates and set off.

"shelf!!"

"hiss!!"

As Lin Heng slapped the horse's butt, Hong Zao suddenly neighed and started running wildly on the dirt road.

In the past two days, the sky has been cloudy and sunny. There was still sun in the morning, but now it has disappeared, and it is a little muggy.

While riding a horse, the autumn wind suddenly became cooler, and the scenery on both sides of the road quickly swept behind me.

At the junction of Shimen Village, the road narrowed a lot, only about 11.78 meters.

But for Hongzao, this road can still be a wild ride.

After walking for about a kilometer, we entered Shimen Village.

The mountains on both sides of Shimen Village are very steep, with slopes of 70 or 80 degrees. There are a lot of cotinus growing there. Walking all the way in, it's like going deep into a peach orchard. The mountains are full of red cotinus.

This kind of tall and steep mountain looks more majestic, gives people a greater shock, and makes people feel incomparably small.

After walking for about two kilometers, the mountains on both sides suddenly moved away, and the slope became much gentler.

Lin Heng knew that he had arrived at Shimen Village, which was also a small valley basin.

The Shiban River is much smaller here, and there are farmlands along the river.

It seems that because of the last seven days of heavy rain, many farmlands were ruthlessly washed away.

"Come on, I'll take you to drink some water."

Lin Heng took the red dates to the river to drink water.

While Hong Zao was drinking water, Lin Heng washed his face and took a walk by the river.

He heard from Caiyun that someone had picked up crystals in the river, and he wanted to try his luck. If he could pick up ultra-high-purity crystals, they would be worth a lot of money.

Even if it was an ordinary crystal, it would be good to use as an ornament at home, so he started looking for it seriously by the river.

Don't worry about the red dates. It drank the water and ate grass by the river obediently.

"Hey, this wood is a bit strange."

As he walked, Lin Heng discovered something was wrong.

This is a rotten piece of wood three to four meters long, about forty centimeters in diameter, but less than half of it is rotten.

He felt something was wrong because the texture of the wood was not like ordinary rotten wood.

Lin Heng took out the Baidu Steel Dagger from his waist, found an inconspicuous place and chopped it twice, his expression gradually dulled.

"Oh my god, this is sombre wood."

He exclaimed in a low voice. Although he couldn't tell what kind of wood it was, the dark wood was already very valuable.

This made him a little surprised. This time the water rose, not only the crystals came out, but also the dark wood.

It's just that no one seems to have noticed this and doesn't care about these gloomy trees.

This is normal. There are rotten wood everywhere in the countryside, and no one cares about the rotten-looking wood.

And even if they know it is sunken wood, most farmers don't know how to sell it.

This is great news for Lin Heng. The wood in the river is ownerless, and whoever finds it belongs to him.

He could pick it up directly and take it home without spending a dime. This was what excited him the most.

After taking a look at the red dates, he walked upstream again and continued searching.

If there are too many, you have to inform the Shimen Village Committee and buy some stones for them to give away.

If it was less, he would take it home directly.

After searching for hundreds of meters upstream, he still couldn't find it, so he went downstream to look again.

He found three pieces of wood and a big tree root downstream, which surprised him: "It seems that these gloomy trees are all downstream. Maybe there are some in the village. I have to go back and look for them."

It is not yet known what kind of tree it is. Many trees can form gloomy wood. Common ones include greenwood, hemp willow, camphor, red toon, nanmu, as well as red sandalwood, cypress, etc.

Among them, nanmu takes the longest time to form, taking more than 8,000 years, and is also the most expensive, followed by red sandalwood, camphor and other tree species.

Before he was reborn, these gloomy trees cost hundreds per kilogram, and a small gloomy golden nanmu tree tumor could be sold for hundreds of thousands.

But he picked it up for free, any tree would do, and he earned it with blood.

After taking another look at these pieces of wood, he rode Hongzao into Shimen Village.

When walking, I always feel like these dark trees have been stolen, and I can't wait to take them home.

Shaking his head, Lin Heng looked at the old man on the roadside taking a cigarette and asked with a smile: "Uncle, where is the mountain where Murakami mines stones?"

"If you keep going up, look to the left as you walk, and you'll notice it."

The bald man grinned and looked at the cigarette again and again. Big Qianmen Cigarette. This is a good cigarette.

"Thank you." Lin Heng nodded and rode up.

There are much fewer people in Shimen Village than in Hongfeng Village. There are only sixty or seventy families, most of whom live in this small valley, and some in the mountains farther away.

In addition to the common mud houses, there are also many stone houses made simply of stone, which look very retro.

After passing through the village, the road had completely disappeared and turned into a fifty centimeter-wide mountain road. Lin Heng rode about four to five hundred meters before he saw the stone mountain.

From a distance, this is a blue stone mountain, and there are two people digging stones on the hillside.

Lin Heng tied the horse to the roadside to eat grass, and walked closer to check.

There was a lot of gravel on the roadside, but it was smooth and hard, which was beyond his expectation.

"Uncle, are you using this stone to build your own house?"

Lin Heng handed cigarettes to the two people who were cutting stones on the mountain and asked with a smile.

"Yes, prepare to build your own house." The older uncle nodded.

"It's getting harder and harder to open the stone. You have to dig the good ones inside, but others will dig out the outside." Another shorter uncle lit his cigarette with a match and sighed.

"How do you sell this stone?" Lin Heng asked curiously.

"We can dig whatever we want in our village. If you want to buy it from other villages, whether you dig it yourself or buy it ready-made, you have to ask the village party secretary."

"You are from Hongfeng Village, right. Someone came to buy it before. A one-meter-by-one-meter stone slab costs only 50 to 60 cents. If I open the door for you, you have to pay extra."

"I feel like it's not worth it. I can find a place in the village where I can dig some rocks."

The two of them were smoking and talking to each other.

"Thank you." Lin Heng nodded, chatted for a few more words, looked at the slate they drove out, and left.

He searched upstream along the river, looking for traces of the gloomy wood, but unfortunately he couldn't find it upstream either.

On the way back, he saw a stone foundation on the side of the road. It was estimated that the two uncles were also planning to use stones to build a house.

A pure stone house looks unconventionally beautiful. It costs nothing and will probably take a year or two to build.

After finding the village party secretary of Shimen Village, Lin Heng told him about this matter.

What he meant was that Shimen Village would open the stone slabs and he would come up and pull them out himself.

"Then how much do you want?" The village party secretary of Shimen Village is a tall, thin, middle-aged man named Zhang Lei.

"Three hundred yuan, at least three centimeters thick." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"It costs 50 cents a piece, and you have to make the shape regular when you open it. It takes half a day to get one piece. If it is rotten, you may not be able to get one piece in a day." Zhang Lei, the village party secretary, said.

"This is a bit expensive. I can accept 40 cents a dollar." Lin Heng shook his head and said.

Zhang Lei nodded and said: "Actually, this price is okay, but I guess there are fewer people willing to open the stone. For fifty cents a piece, I can do it for you in a month."

And you can also move other gravel on the mountain as you like. Many of those stones can be used. "

"That's okay." Lin Heng thought for a while and agreed. The two parties wrote a contract in duplicate and the matter was settled.

"By the way, Uncle Zhang, there are some rotten wood in the river. I think we can move it back?" Lin Heng asked again.

"Not to mention the ones in the river, but the ones on the mountains. As long as they weren't cut down by others, you can move them if you want." Zhang Lei didn't care about rotten wood at all.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, folded the contract and put it in his pocket, then rode away.

He rode his horse all the way and went home first to get a chain saw and a rope.

"Xiulan, where is the thick brown rope?" Lin Heng asked aloud.

"In the fire room, do you want to go up the mountain? It's already ten o'clock, and we're going to have dinner soon." Xiulan came over and asked.

"Well, I'm going to Shimen Village to transport some wood back. If we're lucky, we might make a fortune." Lin Heng found the rope, walked out and said with a smile.

"Get rich?" Xiulan looked confused.

"I'll tell you slowly when luck comes back. I'll leave first." Lin Heng grinned and went out with the rope.

After thinking about it, he went back to the house and made a pot of corn paste and fed some red dates before leaving.

When he arrived at Hongfeng Mountain, he found his father who was working. Lin Heng shouted on the road: "Dad, stop what you are doing. I have something to ask you."

"What's the matter?" Father Lin came over and asked.

"Dad, pull down the wooden cart and tie it to the horse. Let's go pull something." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"What? Why are you still holding the chainsaw?" Father Lin looked curious.

"You'll know when we get there." Lin Heng let it slip.

Father Lin showed a helpless expression: "Okay, just wait a moment."

He turned around to arrange the work, and then pulled the wooden cart onto the road.

After tying up the carriage, Lin Heng took him away with the carriage, speeding towards Shimen Village.

"Can you say anything now?" Father Lin glanced at him.

Lin Heng looked at his father and explained with a smile: "Let's go pick up a few pieces of wood. If we're lucky, we can earn several thousand yuan. If we're not lucky, we can earn several hundred yuan."

"Why is wood so expensive?" Father Lin was stunned and couldn't believe it.

"Yinchenmu, the high water washed out the gloomy wood." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Father Lin was even more confused: "What is dark wood?"

"There is also something called ebony, which is a type of wood that has been buried in the ground for thousands of years and is about to carbonize..." Lin Heng explained.

Very few people in rural areas know about gloomy wood, and have no idea about these things.

The price of gloomy wood in this era was not very high. The ordinary price was four to five hundred yuan per ton, and the price of golden nan wood might be thousands.

But no matter how you say it, this is wealth picked up for nothing.

Father Lin looked shocked: "The rotten wood buried in the ground is so valuable!"

When he arrived at the place, he couldn't believe it when he saw the rotten wood with a gray appearance.

"Come on dad, let's see if we can lift it." Lin Heng looked at his father and said.

This wood is four meters long, and the dark wood is very dense and heavy.

"Hey!! It's so heavy." Father Lin was shocked.

The two of them tried their best to lift the wood.

"This is five hundred pounds." Lin Heng said through gritted teeth.

The two of them lifted it for a few steps before putting it down. Father Lin took a deep breath and said, "It can only be cut into two pieces, otherwise it won't be able to be lifted."

"Then let's saw." Lin Heng also shook his head.

The two padded the wood, and Lin Heng started sawing directly.

Different from ordinary sawing of wood, this dark wood is too hard and extremely difficult to saw. Fortunately, it is not carbonized, otherwise there will be sparks.

Father Lin got some water and spent five or six minutes sawing the wood into two pieces.

When the cross section is poured with water, it shows a fine light yellow texture, which is somewhat grayish, but the texture is very hard.

"It looks like dark camphor wood, and it smells fragrant, but I can't be sure, but the dark wood is right." Lin Heng smelled it and said, as long as it is dark wood, it's fine.

"I didn't expect that this wood looks gray on the outside, but it's quite beautiful on the inside." Father Lin said with some surprise. He somewhat believed that the wood was valuable.

"Come on, hurry up and get in the car. There's still a tree root down there."

Lin Heng smiled and said that the gloomy tree root was his favorite thing. There were many scars on it, and the beads used to make the tea tray were all top quality.

If the internal texture is good, it is even more valuable.

After carrying the two pieces of wood onto the carriage and driving down for a while, Lin Heng took his father to the location of the second gloomy wood.

These three gloomy logs are two meters, five meters, and six meters in length respectively. Their diameters are more than thirty centimeters, but they have many cracks.

None of the three seemed to be complete pieces of wood, but rather like parts of a particularly large piece of wood that had been cracked and had a burnt black appearance.

The two men used a chain saw to cut it into a length of more than two meters.

The three sawn pieces are the same as the gloomy wood piece above, with a grayish-yellow color inside.

"How did you find out?" Father Lin asked as he moved the wood.

Lin Heng's ability is so great. He went to see a slate, got such a lot of good wood, and made hundreds of dollars.

It feels like it’s too easy for him to make money.

"I have to thank Caiyun for this. It's all the result of knowledge." Lin Heng grinned. Without Caiyun talking about the crystal, he might not have gone to see it specifically.

Again, there is a lot of wealth in the mountains, you just need eyes to discover the wealth.

Just like this gloomy wood, many people can't recognize it. If there are still people who want it in good condition, no one will look at this tattered one.

"Do you know where to sell it?" Father Lin asked again.

"I don't want to sell it yet. When I have the opportunity, I will find someone to carve it or make it into a tea tray or something. It will be more valuable." Lin Heng shook his head. There is no shortage of money for the time being. There is no need to sell these wood. It will increase in value in the future.

After loading the wood into the car, they walked half a kilometer down to the last gloomy wood Lin Heng found.

A big black tree root looked rotten.

"Is this useful?" Father Lin asked in surprise. This thing is useless no matter how you look at it.

"This is probably the most valuable." Lin Heng grinned.

Whether this shape is used for carving, tea trays, or beads, it is more valuable than the few pieces of wood just now.

It's normal for his father not to understand. How can rural people imagine that city people pursue these things?

Wenwan, etc., are all played by rich people.

Holding the electric saw, Lin Heng cut open a little to see what color it was inside.

There were many knots at the root of the tree, making it even more difficult to saw. It took a lot of water to manage to saw it open.

"Oh my god, blood red!!!"

The moment he sawed it open, Lin Heng was stunned. The root knot, which looked dark on the outside, was actually a beautiful blood-red color inside.

"This wood is so beautiful!!" Father Lin was also shocked. After cutting out this piece, the texture turned out to be so beautiful.

"I'm so rich!" Lin Heng was so excited that he couldn't close his mouth. He was so rich for nothing.

If you put this tree root in your home, it won't be a problem to get a new apartment in a few years.

"Is this the root of the red toon tree?" Father Lin asked curiously.

Lin Heng nodded: "The only red ones I know of are red sandalwood and red toon trees. We don't have red sandalwood here, so it must be the ancient red toon tree."

"Then take it home quickly to avoid long nights and dreams." Father Lin also became excited.

This small tree root weighed more than 300 kilograms, so the two of them reluctantly carried it onto the road and onto the carriage.

The total weight of the wood in this car weighs more than 2,000 kilograms, and the tires are so compressed that it feels unbearable.

Fortunately, the road back to Hongfeng Village is downhill or flat, with very few uphills, otherwise we would never be able to get back.

After tying up the wood, Lin Heng and his father held on to each other and walked back slowly.

It took more than forty minutes to reach the road in front of the door. When I looked at the time, it was almost noon.

Lin Heng's uncle and aunt were all waiting for them to come back for dinner.

When I saw them bringing back a cart of wood, I curiously asked, "What kind of wood is this?"

"Ebony, it's not worth much. I took it back and wanted to make something. Let's go have a meal." Lin Heng said with a smile, not wanting to expose his wealth.

"We won't talk about it until we move back?" Lin's father asked.

"No, come back after dinner." Lin Heng said with a smile. He was already back, so he didn't worry anymore.

Now this thing has changed from ownerless to owned.

I have it installed in my car, but no one dares to come and touch it.

"That's fine."

After going back to the room and washing her face, Xiulan had already served the dishes.

After the nine dishes were served, his third uncle and third aunt couldn't help but look shocked on their faces.

"This dish is too good." His third uncle said in shock.

I thought that the meal Lin Heng's parents had was sumptuous enough, but now it seems that it was just a small meal.

Lin Heng's nine dishes include all fish, pork, and beef, as well as braised pig offal, and a little fish ball and winter melon soup, with black truffle added.

Just the smell made the two of them salivate and their stomachs growl.

It would be good to have one meal of pork a month at home. As a result, Lin Heng only had five or six meat dishes at home, as well as braised pork.

For a time, they had a very profound idea of ​​Lin Heng's wealth, and they were envious from the bottom of their hearts.

"You're too polite, just do whatever you want." Aunt Lin Hengsan also said quickly.

"It's nothing special. There is a lot of meat during this period. Uncle and aunt, let's drink and eat."

Lin Heng said something and took the initiative to eat. He was almost starving.

"Yes, you're welcome." Father Lin and Mother Lin also said.

"okay."

The two agreed with a smile, took a sip of wine and couldn't wait to eat a piece of braised pork liver.

Even if they want to be polite, their bodies are out of control.

The two of them wanted to cry when they ate it in their mouths. It was so delicious, it felt like they were in a dream.

"Thanks to you Lin Heng, I haven't eaten braised pork for a long time." His uncle sighed.

"Then eat more, it's enough." Lin Heng said with a smile.

　I'm sorry, it's too late today. I let my dad go back to my hometown this morning, and it's already eleven o'clock when I get back. I just finished the manuscript, and I know the plot a few hours longer than you do.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)