Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 180 16 ponds were built

Lin Heng walked to the front yard and asked loudly: "Who is it?"

"Second brother, it's me." A female voice came from outside.

When Lin Heng heard the voice, he knew it was Caiyun. He opened the door and asked curiously, "What's the matter?"

Caiyun shrunk and walked into the courtyard and said, "My parents asked me to call you over for dinner. Mom is already doing it."

"Okay, you go and hug Xiaoxia, I'll go first..." Lin Heng said helplessly. In fact, he didn't want to go to his parents' house for dinner. The food cooked by his mother was not as delicious as Xiulan's.

"Okay." Caiyun nodded and went to the house.

Lin Heng walked towards the old house. The cold wind was howling outside the yard and people were trembling all over. He quickly ran into the old house, where his mother was cooking in the kitchen.

Lin Heng saw his mother soaking the fern root powder, and immediately asked: "Mom, what are you going to do with the fern root powder?"

"Fried hot and sour seeds, what else can you eat?" Mother Lin asked matter-of-factly.

Lin Heng knew this as soon as he heard it. No matter what dishes his mother cooked, she couldn't do without the sour jar. This was caused by her poor life in the past.

"I'll make it for you. Are there any onions and fungus in the house?" Lin Heng looked at his mother and asked.

Mother Lin looked at him with wide eyes, with disbelief on her face: "You know how to cook? Don't be embarrassed. Go to the main room to warm yourself by the fire and wait for dinner."

Lin Heng said speechlessly: "Mom, this is called arrogance. You will beg me to teach you when I make it."

Mother Lin sneered: "I want to see what flowers you can make."

After saying that, she went to the house to find onions and fungus, and then looked on.

Lin Heng poured some water out of the pot and poured the fern root powder that his mother had soaked into the pot to cook.

When it's almost cooked, throw in the fungus and cook. After cooking, take it out and throw it into ice water in winter to cool down. This will make the fern root powder very strong.

After cooling, pour the water into a basin, add chopped onions, millet, minced garlic, add a small amount of salt, sugar, soy sauce, MSG, then pour some hot oil, finally add vinegar and coriander and mix with onions and fungus. The fern root powder is ready.

In fact, these two can be made separately, but Lin Heng was too lazy to occupy an extra plate and just used a small basin.

Mother Lin looked on with a puzzled look on her face, especially when Lin Heng put the sugar in, she shook her head and had a look of disgust on her face.

Lin Heng looked at his mother and said, "I'm done. Mom, please try it."

"It's weird that this is delicious." Mother Lin didn't even want to taste it.

But after thinking about it, he decided to give his son a chance, picked up the chopsticks and tasted it with a frown.

After taking two bites, her brows quickly relaxed, and an incredible look gradually appeared on her face.

"Not bad, right?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

Mother Lin snorted softly and said: "It's not bad, you have some skills."

Lin Heng spread his hands, turned around and ran away. He looked at it from a distance and found that her mother had taken two more bites. It seemed that she really couldn't understand why it was so delicious.

In fact, his mother can cook quite well, mainly because she has never seen real food. Her cooking skills are already good in the village.

Xiulan's cooking skills are better than Lin's mother because she once worked for a restaurant chef and learned some secretly.

Lin Heng, on the other hand, purely relied on the sharing of information in the Internet era. At that time, many famous chefs came out to teach cooking for the sake of traffic. Unlike now, everyone is self-conscious and has to pay a lot of money to learn.

In the main room, Xiulan was warming herself by the fire with her daughter in her arms, while Father Lin and others were playing cards with four hearts.

Today, his uncle and Li Shiwei went home to get wires, and the Lin family was the only ones in the house.

"Brother, come and play the Four of Hearts." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"I won't fight. I'll probably eat soon." Lin Heng shook his head and sat next to Xiulan and watched them fight.

I don’t play for money, I just play by myself. Today is the first day of power-up. Everyone is a little excited.

Lin Hengze took the opportunity to tell his family some common sense to prevent possible electric shock hazards.

At seven o'clock, Mother Lin had the dishes ready and put them on the table.

After everyone took a bite of the onion and fungus mixed with fern root powder, they couldn't help but praise it. It was so sour and refreshing. The spiciness of onions was much more unique than that of chili peppers.

And the texture is also good, chewing is very chewy, and the taste is better than ever.

"Hongmei, who did you learn this dish from? It's very delicious." Father Lin asked curiously.

Liu Juan praised: "Yes, Mom, it's so delicious. I want to learn how to make it."

Lin Wei and other children couldn't stop using their chopsticks and launched an attack on this dish.

They don’t speak, but use actions to make the most honest evaluation.

Xiulan took a bite and looked at Lin Heng. She guessed that it was made by Lin Heng. He really didn't lie. She loved the taste of this cold fern root powder.

Mother Lin glared at Lin Heng, looked at everyone and said, "I researched it myself. If you like it, just eat more."

"Okay, my mother's craftsmanship is really good." Lin Heng picked up a chopstick of fern root powder and said with a smile.

He thought it was really interesting to see his mother, but he didn't care, as long as there was delicious food.

"Awesome, Mom!"

"You can become a chef if you are skilled in craftsmanship!"

The family members' praise made Mother Lin feel a little embarrassed.

She didn't expect that Lin Heng's seemingly ordinary cooking would make such delicious food.

In fact, Lin Heng's cooking skills are not that good, but he has studied the dishes he likes to eat many times in his previous life.

One meal, the whole family enjoys it happily, and life changes instantly with electric lights.

After eating and returning to the house, Xiulan asked curiously: "Did you make the cold fern root powder?"

"Yes, mom thought I was wasting food at first." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"I like eating very much. You can teach me tomorrow." Xiulan said with a wink.

Lin Heng looked at her and smiled mischievously: "Yes, but you have to pay tuition."

Xiulan glared at him: "I'll give you a big-headed ghost and forget it if you don't teach me."

She walked over and poured out the hot water on the fireplace to wash Xiaoxia's hands and face. Lin Heng carried Xiaoxia out to pee, put a diaper on her and put her to sleep.

Although Xiaoxia has been taught not to wet her pants and call them to the toilet, she still wets the bed from time to time.

Washing diapers is what Xiulan usually does. Doing laundry in the winter is much more difficult than putting Lin Heng's daughter to bed.

There was a light tonight, so Xiaoxia fell asleep very slowly, playing for half an hour before she fell asleep.

"Would you like to take a bath, honey?" Lin Heng suggested looking at Xiulan.

"But there isn't that much hot water, how can we take a bath?" Xiulan rolled her eyes at him.

"I've thought about this a long time ago. I'm just waiting for the power to come on." Lin Heng chuckled.

He moved the bath bucket in front of the fireplace, went out and picked up two buckets of cold water and poured it in. Then he put the "heating device" he had bought a long time ago and plugged it in.

"Can this heat water?" Xiulan asked curiously.

Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, it's called fast heating. You can boil water just by plugging in the electricity, but you can't touch the water until the electricity is unplugged. It's easy to get an electric shock."

He must educate his family about the use of electricity, but no accidents will occur as a result. "knew."

Xiulan drank some water and looked on.

The water became scalding hot in about half an hour. Lin Heng turned off the heat and added some cold water. The bath water was ready.

"It's so convenient to use electricity." Xiulan said with emotion. It would be very troublesome to use firewood to burn it.

But with electricity and such a magical thing, it was completed quickly, which is incredible.

"Of course, so come and take a bath." Lin Heng invited with a smile.

Xiulan went to turn off the lights, tied up her hair, took off her clothes and got into the tub with Lin Heng.

"It's so comfortable~" Xiulan put her head on the edge of the bucket and sighed.

The bedroom is so warm and you can take a bath comfortably. It's so enjoyable.

Lin Heng enjoyed it even more. Not only could he take a bath, he could also watch his wife take off her clothes and take a bath, and he could even help her wash her. This was simply wonderful.

While soaking, Xiulan leaned against Lin Heng, pinched his face and said, "Do you still want me to pay tuition now?"

"No more, no more." Lin Heng felt extremely comfortable. His wife's skin was white and soft.

"That's good." Xiulan nodded with satisfaction and released her hands.

After forty minutes of soaking in the water, the two of them took a shower, dried themselves off, and went to bed.

After taking a bath and going to bed, I felt completely refreshed.

The two fell asleep next to each other.

When he woke up in the morning, Lin Heng went to the bathroom, added some firewood to the fireplace, got into the bed and hugged his wife who had woken up to keep her warm.

Xiulan looked at him, hugged his neck and slept for a while.

After getting up, Xiulan cooks. You can take Xiaoxia with you and calculate yesterday's income.

Most people in the village bought light switches and wires from him. Except for five companies that had temporary credit, everyone else paid and delivered the goods.

Even though the price was lower than that of the shops in town, Lin Heng still made a profit of 158 yuan, one yuan for his family. The light bulbs and switches made no profit, and the wires made a little profit.

Originally, his family could earn more than one yuan or two yuan, but in the end, they gave Tian Dongfu some face and gave up some profits.

After calculating, Lin Heng didn't take the money, and gave it all to Xiulan. He planned to put the remaining wires, light bulbs and switches in the house for use at Hongfeng Mountain later, and he was too lazy to carry them to town.

After breakfast, Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain to handle matters.

Today, the electricians at the electrical pipe station are enough to connect the power lines to the houses on the mountain, so he won't go there.

There are already 12 ponds here in Hongfeng Mountain. In addition to the two acres of land left for building houses, four more ponds can be built.

The reason why four more buildings can be built is because the acres of land have become larger after leveling, otherwise it would not be possible to build them.

Everyone who came was a little nervous because they didn't have much work left and were afraid of being laid off.

Lin Heng looked at everyone and said: "There are only four fish ponds left. A group of twenty people will dig them. The remaining twenty people will come with me to level the land."

Hearing this, everyone's expressions relaxed. It would be great if there were no layoffs. They would be happy if they could continue to make money.

Lin Heng's idea was that the weather was getting colder and he should dig the fish pond quickly, otherwise he wouldn't be able to dig it anymore, and the work would go faster if there were more people.

As for the warehouse, we can only wait until spring to build it. The water has frozen in the cold weather in the past two days, and it will get even colder soon.

This kind of weather is no longer suitable for building a house. The water in the cement will freeze directly before it solidifies.

The wood used to build the house has been cut, and it can be dried in the past two months.

After allocating the work, Lin Heng led 20 people to find a place that would not pollute water sources and fish ponds and level it in preparation for future forest musk deer breeding.

There are twenty people in a fish pond. Lin Heng estimates that the work here can be completed in ten days.

Father Lin and his eldest brother are not here today. The job he arranged is to use a chainsaw to cut some big trees, hang them up in the air, let them dry in the winter, and build a house in the spring.

While everyone was working, Lin Heng heated up hot water and went to the stream to have a look.

There is ice everywhere in the streams, especially in the mountains where there is no sun.

Lin Heng felt extremely cold after walking for a while, so he ran down the mountain to help with manual labor.

Three days passed quickly, and the fish pond was dug faster than he imagined. Twenty people could dig half of it in three days.

On the 12th, Lin Heng wore a set of decent clothes and went to town with Tian Dongfu to attend the commendation meeting, bringing big red flowers.

As the youngest household in Huangtan Town worth 10,000 yuan, he not only became rich himself, but also built his hometown and led the people in the village to get rich together. He was promoted as a model.

He was also interviewed by reporters, and Lin Heng behaved so appropriately that people couldn't believe that he was a young man from the countryside.

Compared with the speeches of some other people, Lin Heng can be said to be a complete victory. Not only reporters, but leaders also remembered him.

On the way back to the village, Tian Dongfu couldn't help but ask: "Have you specially prepared it? What you said is so beautiful, so literate."

Lin Heng nodded: "Of course, I have been preparing for a long time. After all, this is quite important."

But in fact, those were just things he searched for in his memory last night and randomly found them in his mind. This kind of scene simply didn’t require too much in his mind.

"You have given face to our village chief, and the town secretary has noticed you." Tian Dongfu said with a thumbs up.

"Haha, I usually like reading." Lin Heng said casually, not caring about it.

After publicizing it in the town, Tian Dongfu used a loudspeaker to publicize the matter to Lin Heng when he returned to the village.

Many people in the Lin family were extremely excited, but Lin Heng went to Hongfeng Mountain with a calm face.

The fish pond was completely dug on the morning of the 15th. In the afternoon, Lin Heng asked some people to spread quicklime on the fish pond to disinfect it.

He asked some people to go to the mountains to help chop wood and carry it back.

In just half a day, enough firewood was piled outside Lin Heng's backyard to burn for more than half a year.

"Okay, let's pay our wages tomorrow. The work on the construction site is over. Thank you everyone."

In the evening, Lin Heng said with a smile.

“Thank you, Boss Lin!!”

Upon hearing this, everyone couldn't help but get excited. After working for almost two months, they were just waiting for their wages.

In the evening, Lin Heng checked the work book. This time the construction period was quite long. 60 people worked for 48 days, and 40 people only worked for 21 days.

In addition to these, there are six other people: his father, eldest brother, third father, uncle, Lin Hai, and Li Shiwei.

As well as the team leader's bonus, he ultimately had to pay 3,300 yuan as wages.

This is simply a huge number. If the pond constructed cannot pay back, it will be a loss to grandma’s family.

"Such a lot of money has to be paid out as wages." Xiulan looked at the bag of money and was a little shocked.

Since the maximum denomination is only ten yuan, three thousand yuan is really a lot of money. When Lin Heng withdrew money today, he always brought thirty people with him, which was really a lot.

"Yes, it's a lot. Once the money is distributed, there will be 4,100 yuan in the bankbook."

Lin Heng nodded with emotion, then smiled and said: "It's not a waste of money, it's a preparation to make more money."

(End of this chapter)