Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 6 The meaning of life is my wife’s smiling face

"what?"

Lin Heng heard his wife's voice and hurried over.

"Look, isn't this a good thing? Such a big pile of mulberry yellow can be sold for [-] cents per kilogram. This amount is at least four or five kilograms."

Chen Xiulan pointed to a fallen wild mulberry tree and said that its thin trunk was covered with golden mulberry trees.

Phellinus linteum is a woody fungus, like Ganoderma lucidum and tree tongue, it feels a bit like wood.

Phellinus mulberry has a golden color on the surface and wooden texture on the back, but it has great medicinal value. It is definitely luck to find it here. Generally, it should have been discovered long ago.

"Well...well..."

The daughter took a freshly picked mulberry tree and handed it to Lin Heng unsteadily.

She was just able to walk and couldn't walk steadily at all. Lin Heng quickly supported her for fear of falling.

Unexpectedly, after handing one Phellinus mulberry to Lin Heng, she ran over to get the second one and handed it over. She giggled and had snot bubbles popping out of her nose. She was still enjoying it.

"It's indeed a good thing. The one on this tree probably weighs five or six pounds, and it sells for four or five yuan. It's almost the same as the gray squirrel I shot."

Lin Heng nodded, smiled and took out the squirrel he shot from the basket and shook it.

"Did you hit a gray squirrel?" Chen Xiulan opened her mouth wide, with shock written on her face: "How did you do it?"

"Of course they were shot with slingshots. There were supposed to be two of them, but one was scared away by Xiaoxia." Lin Heng said while raising the squirrel up to prevent his daughter from touching it.

"Your slingshot is so accurate, why didn't you hunt before?" Chen Xiulan's eyes were filled with admiration. Her husband, who was not doing his job properly, actually had such a method.

These days, you can usually only eat some meat during festivals, but you can eat it tonight. She is drooling a little.

"I used to think about making a lot of money, but I didn't care about these things. Now I regret it." Lin Heng said with a smile. In fact, his skills mainly came from the archery club before his rebirth.

Before he systematically learned archery, his slingshot was not accurate.

Seeing his wife's eyes of joy and admiration, Lin Heng felt happy and felt that he had found the meaning of life.

It’s not the poems and the distance, nor the amount of money, but the smiling faces of my wife and children.

"Then we will hunt more in the future." Xiulan put the mulberry leaves she picked into her backpack, walked over, took the squirrel and weighed it, her eyes shining.

Lin Heng couldn't help but reached out and brushed her messy hair, feeling the joy of being needed.

Chen Xiulan was stunned for a moment, as if she was stunned by Lin Heng's gentle actions, and then smiled again: "Let's go down the mountain and go home. It's getting dark soon."

It looked like they didn't pick much, but in fact the two of them climbed two huge mountains and walked back and forth for who knows how long.

"Okay! I'll carry Xiaoxia while I carry the things." Lin Heng nodded.

"I will carry my daughter on my back so that if I encounter a squirrel again, you will be easy to beat." Chen Xiulan did not agree. She had just heard that a squirrel had escaped and she felt distressed for a long time. That was only four or five yuan.

Lin Heng didn't argue. Going down the mountain was very easy, and it was already commonplace for his wife.

After packing their things, the two of them went down the mountain together. After walking a few steps, Chen Xiulan started chatting.

"The child's father..."

"Change your name." Lin Heng shook his head.

"Huh?" Chen Xiulan was confused.

"Call me husband!" Lin Heng said with a smile,
  Although the term "husband" has not yet become popular, and is mostly used by young men and women. It was not until the [-]s that it gradually became popular, but he just wanted to hear it.

Chen Xiulan was stunned. She had only heard this title from people in the city. After thinking about it for a while, she did not refuse and said: "Husband."

After calling him, she felt strange, but as long as Lin Heng was the same as today, she would be willing to call him whatever he asked her to.

"Haha, wife, your scream is so nice, I will continue to scream like this from now on." Lin Heng smiled with satisfaction.

Chen Xiulan continued: "Husband, what do you think about family separation?"

Separating families is not as simple as building separate houses to live in, but also dividing land, some basic furniture, etc. She wanted to see Lin Heng's thoughts. "I have already thought about this. Our family has thirty acres of land and six hundred acres of forest. No matter how dad divides it, I have decided to take the Hongfeng Mountain to the west of the village plus the land below the mountain." Lin Heng said as he walked.

"You want it over there? Why?" Chen Xiulan didn't understand. The land there was not very fertile, and Hongfeng Mountain was also a mixed forest with no big trees, so it was worthless.

Lin Heng chose this place for two reasons. The first is that the village road passes here. In [-], there was also a big national highway not far from there, so the transportation is convenient.

The second point is that Hongfeng Mountain is very gentle, with a slope of only ten or twenty degrees. There is a mountain stream next to it that never stops flowing all year round. It is not too far away from the Maple River in the distance.

This is a good place for breeding farms and orchards.

The third point is that it is far away from the population center of the village and will not affect others.

Another point is that the land and mountains and forests in other places are all in pieces, with a few acres here and a few acres there.

However, Hongfeng Mountain and the land below the mountain are connected together. They can be directly enclosed in the future without worrying about other people's disputes.

Compared with these advantages, Lin Heng feels that even a little barren land is acceptable.

"Because it's a whole area and there's water, so it's very convenient for breeding and orchards..." Lin Heng explained.

When Chen Xiulan heard that her husband was going to engage in breeding and building an orchard, she instinctively felt that it was a bit unreliable.

But then I thought, it would be better than him going out and not seeing anyone all day long, so I nodded: "Then you can choose this place."

"Shh!"

At this time, Lin Heng suddenly hissed, then put down his backpack and took the slingshot towards the front left cat.

Chen Xiulan also became nervous. Looking in that direction, she saw a pheasant foraging under a tree more than ten meters away.

Lin Heng couldn't move forward after walking five meters. There were branches in front of him. Any big move to cross would definitely disturb the pheasant.

But the distance was at least eight or nine meters, and he wasn't sure of his accuracy. He wasn't sure of the power of the slingshot in his hand, and his palms couldn't help but sweat.

But there was no time to hesitate. He found the best stone from his pocket, raised the slingshot and aimed it for five seconds. He took a deep breath, relaxed his hand, and the stone flew out with a whoosh.

"Gada Gada..."

The pheasant started up with a squawking sound, and just when Lin Heng and Chen Xiulan thought they had failed, it flopped and fell down again, scurrying around.

"injured!!"

Lin Hengdun finally understood and started chasing him.

One person and one chicken started a thrilling chase. Lin Heng chased and shot with a slingshot.

From a distance, Lin Xiaoxia raised her little hands and cheered: "Oh...oh..."

Chen Xiulan was full of nervousness. This was a chicken. Although she had one at home, she was reluctant to kill one every year and kept it to lay eggs.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Heng ran away after the pheasant. It took a full ten minutes before Lin Heng walked out of the forest.

When Chen Xiulan saw that her husband had nothing on his hands, she felt disappointed and regretful: "Did he get lost?"

"Yes, I'm really useless." Lin Heng said disappointedly.

"I don't blame you. The slingshot won't work. The tree is too blocking the road. Maybe there is still a chance."

Chen Xiulan did not scold Lin Heng. She felt that although it was a pity, she thought it would be okay to have a squirrel. Her husband was already very powerful.

"I'm lying to you. How could your husband fail if I try to do it? Look!"

Lin Heng laughed and took out a large gray pheasant from his back, weighing more than two pounds.

This is what he likes most about Chen Xiulan. She is not like other women in the village who always scold her husband for being useless and make noises and curse all day long.

Chen Xiulan was gentle and kind. Even when Lin Heng was not doing his job properly, she did not insult him. She cooked for him as usual, washed his clothes as usual, and persuaded him in a soft voice.

It is precisely because of this that after her death, Lin Heng blamed himself and felt guilty for the rest of his life.

(End of this chapter)