Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 40 Amber
  "Brother, I feel like you are very familiar with these things, much better than I can tell you."

After walking out of the brick factory, the eldest brother Lin Yue said with emotion.

"Brother, you haven't exercised. I used to walk around the city a lot. I've seen a lot, so I can speak better."

Lin Heng said with a smile that when buying and selling things, don't be afraid of bargaining. You have to be thick-skinned and talk more to determine the other party's psychological price.

Never ask someone to offer you a price, and if you agree immediately, it's over, and the other party will most likely catch you and slaughter you.

"Then I'll leave this kind of work to you from now on. I'm not good at it." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"It would be nice to exercise more. Don't we have to go to the town to buy nails, cigarettes, glutinous rice flour and other things? We can put them on the carriage and take them back together."

Lin Heng put his arm on his elder brother's shoulder and said with a smile.

The two walked to the street talking and laughing, and the eldest brother Lin Yue went to buy some things his father had given him.

Lin Heng wandered around boredly.

Huangtan Town is run through the center by the Huangtan River. There is a stone arch bridge in the center of the town. The stalls for each market are also placed on the bridge and on both sides.

Those selling pork, mutton, dried tofu and other fruits and vegetables were all placed together, but Lin Heng was not interested in these.

However, there was a guy selling bear traps next to him, which made him very interested.

"Want to buy one? It costs [-] cents each?" the boss looked at him and asked.

"I won't buy it." Lin Heng shook his head, thought for a while and asked, "Do you have a slingshot rope here?"

"Do you want a medical pressure band?" the boss said with a smile.

"Do you really have it?" Lin Heng didn't expect that the boss really had something when he asked casually.

The slingshot made from a motorcycle inner tube at his home is really not very powerful and cannot kill a squirrel even from a distance.

"One dollar a piece, look at it."

The boss took out two yellow tourniquets as thick as little fingers from a box.

Lin Heng took it over and stretched it to take a look. He found no holes or other scars, and confirmed that this was a new pair of tourniquets.

"One price, one dollar and fifty cents, I'll take two of them. If you don't sell them, I'll leave." Lin Heng put down the things and said.

"No...forget it, come back and sell it to you."

The boss was speechless. This thing was not easy to sell. Lin Heng really took advantage of it.

Lin Heng accepted these two tourniquets at an expensive price of one dollar and fifty cents. There was no way, this kind of industrial product was so expensive.

The previous slingshot couldn't kill a pheasant ten meters away, but it will be no problem to replace it with this one.

After buying this, he continued to wander around. On the river bed under the bridge, piglets and goats were sold, which were bred by rural people themselves.

April and May are good times to buy piglets, but Lin Heng already has them at home.

I found a store and bought ten lollipops for my daughter Xiaoxia for five cents.

On the way to meet up with Big Brother, Lin Heng suddenly discovered a man selling stamps.

I originally wanted to buy it, but after thinking about it, forget it, stamps will only be valuable in future generations, and it is useless to exchange them now.

"Uncle, can you give me a candy? I'll trade this with you!"

Suddenly, a six or seven-year-old boy walked in front of Lin Heng and looked at him timidly.

Opening his slightly dirty hands, there was an orange-yellow translucent stone inside.

Lin Heng took a closer look and found that it was actually a piece of amber with a ladybug inside.

"Where did you pick this up?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

This should be true. After all, in this era, it is probably more difficult to make a fake than to pick up the real thing.

"By the river, I picked it up by the river." The little boy pointed at the Huangtan River and said.

"Are you sure you want to change it?" Lin Heng asked again. This little amber is not worth much, but it is a little more expensive than candy.

"Yeah!" The little boy nodded. He had long been tired of playing with this stone.

"Okay, I'll give you these five lollipops." Lin Heng gave him the five lollipops.

Without saying thank you, the little boy ran away with the candy. Lin Heng saw him running up to a little girl, taking out the candy and giving it to her, asking for a kiss before giving it to her.

"Oh, I have already learned how to coax girls at a young age." Lin Heng shook his head and smiled, finding it interesting.

I held the amber and looked at it. It felt smooth to the touch, almost like pebbles. It was oval-shaped, three centimeters high and more than one centimeter wide.

The inside is orange-yellow and translucent, and a red seven-star ladybug is clearly wrapped inside. There are a lot of ambers in the world, but they are not very valuable. It is quite interesting to hold them, and it can be regarded as a small profit.

Looking back, he bought ten more candies to supply his daughter Xiaoxia.

"Lin Heng, have you finished shopping?"

Seeing Lin Heng coming over, Lin Yue asked.

"After I finished shopping, I didn't buy anything." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Then let's wait together." Lin Yue nodded.

After waiting at the bridge for more than half an hour, I finally saw two carriages pulling clay tiles approaching.

"Boss Zhao, we are here." Lin Yue greeted.

"Get in the car and lead the way." Boss Zhao said with a smile.

The two got into the carriage together. Although they walked very slowly, they didn't have to walk after all.

There are only some big potholes on the road that require you to come down and help push them.

At noon, the rain stopped and the carriage came to the road below Lin's house.

Lin Heng led the way, and Boss Zhao took the first two workers to carry it.

Seeing Wa coming back, Lin's father also came over quickly and took out the big Qianmen cigarettes that he usually couldn't bear to eat to entertain the guests.

After a few discussions, they enthusiastically helped unload the goods and move the terracotta tiles.

Lin Heng was too lazy to help, so he took a hatchet and chopped up a slingshot fork and polished it carefully.

He was going to go deep into the mountains recently, but he kept wandering around this low place, and the harvest was too little.

"Five hundred pottery tiles have been moved, and the thirty pieces are broken. I will remember them until they are finally replaced at once."

Boss Zhao said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll settle the payment after you move all the money." Father Lin nodded and sent the person to the road.

After lunch, Lin Yue was assigned to hire someone to help build a house for fifty cents a day.

Lin Heng followed the drawings he designed, drew lines and spread ashes on the ground, and prepared to build a house the day after tomorrow.

"Carpenter Liang, can you make me some arrow shafts? I can't make them straight myself."

After finishing the work, Lin Heng found Carpenter Liang.

"Okay, can we use paulownia trees?" Carpenter Liang said in a nonchalant manner.

"can."

Lin Heng nodded. He also made a few with bamboo, but they still felt a bit heavy, maybe because the bamboo was not dried well.

He had bought some tail feathers, and he could also use the grouse feathers he had killed earlier.

"I'll do it for you when I'm free!" Carpenter Liang said lightly.

During lunch, Xiulan came back, and Lin Heng grabbed her while she was going into the bedroom to get something.

"What?" Xiulan looked back at him.

"You can save the thirty yuan you earned today." Lin Heng handed the money to his wife.

Xiulan was stunned for a moment. This was the first time since her marriage that Lin Heng asked her to save so much money.

Make her feel like she's in a dream.

"Why don't you want it?" Lin Heng asked with a slight smile.

Xiulan shook her head: "No, you can keep it yourself, as long as you don't spend it randomly."

"Then kiss me and I'll keep it for you." Lin Heng smiled, he liked seeing his wife like this.

Xiulan blinked, a little embarrassed: "In broad daylight, at night."

"No." Lin Heng shook his head.

Xiulan looked at the door. No one was there. She suddenly came closer and pecked Lin Heng on the face. She quickly turned around with the money and deposited it in a small iron box of her own.

Lin Heng laughed and said, "When the house is finished, I'm going to go to the mountains."

Rural mud houses are built very quickly. With dozens of people, it can be completed and tiled in up to five days.

(End of this chapter)