Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 46 The pleasant time of rain

He lay on the bed for a while and played with his wife's hand. They didn't wake up until their daughter woke up with a groan.

Lin Heng looked at the clock. It was only seven o'clock. In an era when there was no television, time felt like it was passing so slowly.

In the main room, Carpenter Liang has already started sawing boards. He has cut hundreds of boards in the past few days, but it is not enough.

Father Lin helped by peeling off the tree bark with a clipper.

"You came back wet yesterday, don't you have a cold?" Lin's father asked when he looked up, his eyes no longer filled with the usual hatred of steel.

"No, Xiulan made ginger soup for me last night, and nothing happened." Lin Heng smiled, feeling a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

This is just the beginning. He will slowly make the family completely wealthy, so that his parents do not have to run around for daily necessities, so that they have time to pursue their own hobbies.

"That's good. Your mother's breakfast should be ready soon. Wash your face and eat it quickly." Father Lin said.

Lin Heng nodded and was about to go out when Carpenter Liang handed over a dozen paulownia tree arrow shafts and said with a smile, "I have nothing to do when I get up in the morning. Do you think it's suitable?"

Lin Heng took a look and saw that the arrow shaft was rounded and had obviously been polished with sandpaper, which showed that Carpenter Liang was really attentive.

Obviously, all this was brought about by the pig badger last night. People in this era are also very pure in one aspect, that is, they admire capable people.

Hunting a pig badger alone undoubtedly proved Lin Heng's hunting skills.

"It's a perfect fit. Liang Shuqian's hands are so skillful." Lin Heng took the arrow shaft and said with joy.

Carpenter Liang chuckled: "A good horse with a good saddle is perfect for you. Coming to your house to work and eat meat every day can be considered as a contribution."

"Haha, judging from what you said, this is what Uncle Liang should have done." Lin Heng also smiled, showing his white teeth.

This carpenter Liang is really an interesting person.

"I heard the banging sound last night. Did you kill those mice?" Carpenter Liang asked, looking at the mice in the basket on the wall.

"Yes, they were too noisy. They were running around on the tarp. I lured them to the window sill and beat them to death with a slingshot." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Awesome!" Carpenter Liang was really convinced. All the rats were hit in the head and died. It was simply terrifying.

Not only him, but his family members were also shocked when they saw it when they woke up early. It was so dark at night that they could kill so many rats with a slingshot. This slingshot technique is really terrifying.

"Haha, it's so close, it's easy to fight." Lin Heng smiled and showed modesty.

The noodles for breakfast today, sauerkraut noodles, are considered a very good breakfast in this era.

After breakfast, the rain was still heavy. Mother Lin and others were processing yesterday's pig and badger meat, cutting the meat into pieces, spreading it with salt and smoking it with cypress branches.

There is no refrigerator, so this is all we can do.

After the pig is cooked, fry it all and set it aside. Fry it three times a day until it is eaten, otherwise it will spoil.

Even if it rains, it's still over ten degrees Celsius, making it difficult to store things for a long time.

"Here, this is your reward." Lin Heng poured the rice into its dog bowl. It was all mouse meat and there was no trace of food.

Fearing that something might happen to the dog, Lin Heng burned all the mouse hair and cooked it for more than half an hour until it was soft and rotten before serving it to it.

"Bah!"

When Xiongba saw the food, he lowered his head and started eating like crazy, smacking his lips.

It didn't even take two minutes to finish the three kilograms of meat. It raised its head and looked at Lin Heng with a pair of pale golden dog eyes, as if asking if there was more.

"No, that's all for the morning." Lin Heng patted the dog's head.

Then I found a bench and sat under the eaves to assemble my own arrows. The arrowheads and tail feathers were all ready-made, so it was quick to assemble.

After installing it, Lin Heng tried it again and the effect was very good. It felt better than the ones he bought.

After everything was done, Lin Heng leaned on the back of the chair, straightened his legs, put his left leg on top of his right leg, rested his head on his hands and watched the rain in the sky.

"Dog...dog..."

Xiaoxia was there teasing the dog, but Xiongba was completely beaten. He lay on the ground and let her pull his ears, touch his belly, and pull his tail, but he couldn't move him.

There was no interaction, and Xiaoxia soon felt bored. She was so angry that she punched him in the air, and then turned around to annoy Lin Heng.

Lin Heng also pretended to be dead, and the angry little girl beat him for a long time. Only when he saw his aunt Caiyun did he stagger over and run over.

"Wang Wang~"

After Xiaoxia left, Xiongba walked up to Lin Heng and looked at him with some resentment.

"Isn't he leaving?" Lin Heng touched the dog's head. Xiong Ba didn't buy it and turned around and lay down with his tail facing him. Xiulan and her sister-in-law Liu Juan both took out their sewing work. Xiulan was pulling out the soles of her shoes, and her sister-in-law Liu Juan was mending her clothes.

There was the sound of rain outside, and the sound of chopping and whittling wood in the main room.

The mountains in the distance looked hazy in the rain, and the heavy fog invaded from the other side of the mountains toward this side, like a huge white monster eating, swallowing up the mountains one after another.

The quiet and peaceful environment made Lin Heng doze off a little. The slow time always made people want to sleep.

However, the sound of his daughter's laughter and the playfulness of his two nephews playing hide-and-seek from time to time would always wake Lin Heng up.

This kind of lazy time gave him inner peace, which was a scene that he could only dream of in his previous life.

But not everyone is so leisurely. Some people are wearing raincoats and hunting cattle, and some are busy inserting sweet potatoes into the ground. There are always people in this world who are busy.

Lin Heng fell asleep in the sound of rain. When he woke up, he had an extra piece of clothing on him. Who else could it be if it wasn't Xiulan?

When Lin Heng fell asleep, she was also doing sewing and taking care of the children, and didn't leave much.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the rain stopped, and the eldest brother went out to hunt cattle. Lin Heng and Xiongba went out to help, holding a basket and a slingshot.

I don't have much hope for hunting, I just hope to collect some fungi. In this season, there will be no shortage of fungi after the rain.

Xiulan, Lin's mother, and sister-in-law Liu Juan also went up the mountain with baskets, while Caiyun stayed at home to take care of the children.

Many women from the village also went up the mountain. The first wave of fungi after the rain was the most attractive. Everyone had their own fungus nest for fear of being robbed.

Especially near villages, there are only a few places where fungi are found, and everyone knows about them.

"Let's search separately and get some to build a house for tomorrow."

Mother Lin said something, and the three of them separated.

"Brother, I can cut the cow grass alone. You and Xiulan and the others can go pick up the fungi together."

The eldest brother Lin Yue said with a smile.

"It's okay, I can pick it up anywhere."

Lin Heng chuckled. Those places with many people may not have good bacteria.

"Okay!" Lin Yue nodded and took Lin Heng to the woods to the west of the village.

Mushrooms don't grow here much, so there are few people here.

“Delicious porcini!”

Just now in the forest, Lin Heng found two delicious porcini mushrooms next to a pyracantha tree.

It has just grown up and is about the size of a fist. The cap is cinnamon-colored and has depressions on it. The gills are white and the stipe is very thick with light brown netting on it.

This fungus is so iconic that it looks like the mushroom house where the dwarfs live in a fairy tale.

Of course, the taste is also first-class delicious, second only to Mian Teqing.

But they have young people here, and they have relatively little food.

"This fungus has appeared in the past two days. It's a bit early this year."

Lin Yue nodded and said.

"Yes, I'll go into the woods and have a look, Zou Xiongba."

Lin Heng nodded and led Xiong Ba into the forest.

"Wang Wang!!"

Xiongba screamed twice in excitement, ran forward, stopped in front of a delicious porcini, and touched it with his paws.

Lin Heng walked over and picked it up, and it immediately ran forward, stopped in front of the next porcini, and patted it twice with the dog's paw: "Woof woof!"

"Damn it, you're calling a dog, right?!" Lin Heng scolded with a smile, walked over and asked the fungus to pick it up.

"Wang Wang!!"

After picking up the porcini mushrooms, Xiongba ran into the forest and walked around twice before calling Lin Heng again.

Lin Heng came over and took a look, and suddenly showed an expression of joy: "It turned out to be green-headed fungus!"

(End of this chapter)