Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 76 Unlocking new species of prey [[-] words]

"Time flies so fast, it's already been a month in the blink of an eye."

On the morning of May [-]st of the lunar calendar, Lin Heng woke up and suddenly looked at the ceiling and sighed.

Today is June [-]th on the Gregorian calendar, and it has been a month since he was reborn.

"Yeah, it's been a month."

Xiulan also looked at the ceiling, feeling unreal in a trance.

The family has changed a lot this month. Her husband turned back and went hunting in the mountains. Now he has made three hundred yuan, which was something she could not even think about before.

There is meat to eat at home every day, and she has gained a lot of weight.

A new house was also built, and my husband made it warm, comfortable and full of style.

The family will be completely separated tomorrow. From now on, I will live with my husband and daughter as a family of three. The foreseeable future seems to be full of happiness and beauty.

"Kind of like a dream."

Xiulan moved closer to Lin Heng, and the two hugged each other, listening to each other's heartbeat without saying a word or making any other movements.

After a while, Xiaoxia woke up and Xiulan dressed and picked her up.

Lin Heng lay down for a while before getting up.

When washing his face, he found that Mother Lin had soaked tofu. Mother Lin would always make tofu when there was something festive.

"There are tofu puffs to eat tonight." Lin Heng was a little nostalgic. It was different from the smooth and tender tofu puffs sold in later generations.

The tofu pudding of this era was very rough, because the filter was made of coarse cloth, and the bean dregs had passed through it, carrying the unique taste and imprint of the era.

In an era of backward productivity, a bowl of tofu is considered a feast.

"The last time we ate it was during the Chinese New Year, and I missed it too." Caiyun said longingly.

"Who eats the cicada monkey?"

During breakfast, Mother Lin took out a pot of cicada monkeys.

"Did you go pick up cicada monkeys last night?" Lin Heng was a little surprised.

"My mother and I went there. We fell in love with it the last time we ate it." Sister-in-law Liu Juan said with a smile.

Obviously, they had been waiting for Carpenter Liang to leave for a long time, and they immediately went to arrest Carpenter Liang as soon as he left.

"I've been eating a lot recently, so I can eat it every day."

Lin Heng picked up two of them and said with a smile.

After breakfast, Lin Heng went to pull the lamb he bought yesterday and tied it in front of the door so that it could eat grass on the roadside.

Herding a sheep is not difficult, just pull the rope and change places every once in a while.

None of the family members went to do farm work today. Father Lin was digging the road for the new house and smoothing the road outside the yard.

Lin Heng tied the sheep and then tidied up the new house with his wife.

The main thing is to tidy up and put the furniture in place to make it easier to move in tomorrow.

After finishing this, Lin Heng said: "Go back and cut the red paper, and I will write the couplet."

"Okay." Xiulan nodded.

Back at the old house, Xiulan took out the scissors to cut paper. Lin Heng found the old writing brush at home and soaked it in warm water.

The ink is Caiyun's pen ink. I don't have any ink at home, so I have to make do with it.

After a little gesture, Lin Heng started writing.

First couplet: The raw jade in the new home is polished and polished.

Second line: Old dreams are washed away with gold sand.

Horizontal batch: big move.

When Lin Heng was writing, Caiyun Lin’s mother was watching.

"Brother, your calligraphy is really good." Caiyun was a little surprised.

Although this word cannot be said to be amazing, it is square, orderly, and not ugly.

In his last life, as a sixty-year-old man, he was naturally involved in this kind of senior sport.

I have taken classes in painting and traditional Chinese painting, but my level is very amateurish and I can only entertain myself. But in this era of rural areas, I can still do well.

"What does this mean?" Mother Lin's education was not high. She knew every word, but she couldn't understand them when they were put together.

"I know, the general meaning is that the new home is like unpolished jade, it will shine. The second line is a metaphor that the old dream is like gold sand, it will shine when it is washed clean."

Caiyun raised her hand to translate.

"Lin Heng, write one for me too." Sister-in-law Liu Juan said.

"No problem at all."

Lin Heng nodded and wrote a simpler one for his elder brother and sister-in-law.

First couplet: The whole world is happy to move into a new house.

Second line: New home, prosperity, wealth and longevity.

Horizontal batch: Good luck and good fortune.

After finishing the couplet, I wrote a few blessing characters and a few small banners wishing you good luck and good fortune.

After doing this, the next step is to pack up the things in the old house and pack them all up for moving tomorrow.

It was already noon when he finished cleaning up. Lin Heng moved the goat to another place and tied it up, then went home for dinner.

In the afternoon, he took Xiongba up the mountain to see if he could catch some prey to eat tomorrow.

I don’t know if the novice protection has expired, or if there are too many people going up the mountain to pick mushrooms recently.

Lin Heng walked around the back mountain, which was better than yesterday. He found a few squirrels, but they still ran away from a distance.

"This feeling is so familiar." Lin Heng sighed.

The same was true for fishing in my previous life.

"Wang Wang!"

Xiongba let out a cry, not knowing what he was expressing.

"No, if we can't get it here, we'll go to Sanyegou. We have to get a prey back today."

Lin Heng shook his head. He had to find a prey to move to a new home.

I took Xiongba down from the back mountain and walked three kilometers up the road. Then I walked more than a kilometer into the mountain and came to a ditch full of vines.

This is Sanyegou.

This ditch is full of various vines, forming green hills.

The main ones here are Schisandra vine, Kiwi vine, and the most common one is the 'pot vine' that is often used as a rope.

I don’t know the specific scientific name of Lin Heng. I only know that its vines are very tough and are commonly used for tying things in rural areas. Its leaves can also be fed to pigs.

By the time he reached the ditch, Lin Heng was already feeling hot and sweating profusely. The journey was too long.

"Fortunately, there are no people here." After walking a few steps and seeing no one, Lin Heng finally felt a little more at ease.

I went to the stream and washed my hands. The mountain stream was cold. It was really refreshing to wash my hands in summer. It was so refreshing.

"Wang Wang!"

Xiongba saw that Lin Heng had finished washing, so he got in and rolled around, getting his whole body wet.

"Let's rest for a while. There should be some movement of prey when it gets later."

Lin Hengzai found a shade to rest and enjoy the rare moment of shade.

On the branches above the head, Schisandra vines are twined, and strings of green Schisandra chinensis hang down.

They have just begun to bear fruit at this time, and they will wait until around the Mid-Autumn Festival to mature.

Looking at the sky, he estimated that it was already four to five in the afternoon, and he was still empty-handed.

"Come on, let's go up and take a look."

After resting for more than ten minutes, Lin Heng touched the head of the dominant dog and continued up the mountain, one person and one dog.

Along the side of Sanye Gully, looking for prey.

Not far after walking up the mountain, Lin Heng suddenly heard the crisp sound of stepping on leaves.

"It's such a fairy tale." Lin Heng took a deep breath, lowered his steps and leaned up as much as possible.

Not long after, we saw the source of these sounds - a group of little pheasants.

It is estimated to be two to three months old, about one to two liang, and is playing in the woods.

"You little chicken." After shaking his head, Lin Heng gave up the attack, wasting an arrow and making no difference.

"Aww~" Xiongba was a little eager to catch up.

"It's not necessary. If you make any noise, it will alert others."

Lin Heng shook his head and stopped Xiong Ba.

Climbing and crawling, we reached the halfway point of the mountain in one breath. We didn’t gain much along the way. When we got here, the chirping of birds was particularly sharp, which made people a little irritated.

Lin Heng shook his head and sat down: "Let's rest and wait until later."

Anyway, he had a flashlight and wasn't afraid of darkness.

"I rely on!!"

As soon as he sat down, Lin Heng stood up in fright and quickly changed his position.

Because next to where he just sat, there was a beautiful green snake on the branch of a wild mulberry tree.

The green snake is a non-venomous snake, but the sudden sight of it still startled him.

This green snake is eating, and its food is a newly hatched chick in a bird's nest on a tree branch.

"No wonder I said why the birds chirp so sharply. The feeling is that my son was taken away from the whole nest."

Shaking his head, Lin Heng sat in the distance and watched the scene quietly, without any intention of helping.

He even felt that the emerald green snake was more attractive. This may be because he liked this snake better and had one when he was a child. After slowly swallowing the chick, it climbed down the tree, got into a rock crevice and disappeared.

The shrill and shrill chirping of birds in the distance rang for a while, but there was no follow-up. Apparently, they had resigned themselves to their fate.

"Cuckoo!!!!"

It was getting dark, and at about five o'clock, a golden rooster crowed on the mountain raft not far away from Lin Heng.

At that time, Lin Heng suddenly stood up. After a long time, he finally found some decent prey.

Picking up the bow and arrow, Lin Heng quietly went over to touch it. Listening to the sound, it took him more than [-] minutes to get close.

At this time, only fire clouds can be seen in the sky, and the sun cannot be seen.

Lin Heng saw the golden rooster standing under the acorn tree.

A beautiful male golden pheasant, also called golden pheasant, has a touch of golden hair on its head. There are three colors of malachite green, orange, and blue-green feathers on the back. The feathers on its belly are all red, which is where its name comes from.

Behind it, the beautiful tail feathers are more than [-] centimeters long, with blue and green lines mixed in the pattern. Standing there, it looks extraordinary, not like a human being.

After measuring the distance, Lin Heng estimated that it was more than thirty meters, and the chicken hadn't noticed him yet.

Secretly, he took another five or six steps forward. Not daring to go any further, he raised his bow, nocked the arrow, held his breath for a second, and shot out with the full bow.

With a whooshing sound, the sharp arrow made a whooshing sound as it rubbed against the air. Before the golden rooster could react, an arrow pierced through its chest and was inserted into the ground behind it.

"Gada!!"

His legs and wings twisted for a moment, and then he completely lost his life.

"Wang Wang!!"

Xiong Ba excitedly ran over and circled around the golden rooster. This was another brand new species.

"Unlock new species."

Lin Heng pulled out the arrow stuck in the ground, and chicken blood flowed out along the arrow's body.

Weighing it, he estimated that it was only a little over a kilogram. After plucking the hair, it might only be [-] to [-] ounces of meat.

This is normal. An adult golden pheasant only weighs two pounds at most. Only such a light body is conducive to flying.

However, the quality of the meat is indeed excellent. It is more delicious than pheasant, and the bones can be chewed directly.

Pulling out the arrow, Lin Heng held the golden rooster in his hand and continued searching.

The most difficult thing about hunting in summer is finding it. There are so many leaves that it is really difficult to find without relying on calls.

In the woods, you can only see ten meters in front of you.

Only in winter, when the leaves have fallen, is it a good time to hunt.

After waiting for a long time, I could not hear the cry of pheasant or golden rooster again.

"Let's walk down the mountain." Lin Heng shook his head, feeling that there was no hope.

Walking down the stream with a flashlight, Lin Heng half expected to find a turtle or turtle in the mountain stream.

Unfortunately, this mountain stream is much smaller than the stream in Baishigou. There are only a few groupers in the stream, and neither turtles nor turtles can be seen.

"It's really difficult to catch a golden rooster after running two mountains."

After going down the mountain, Lin Heng rubbed his sore legs and complained, hunting is really not an easy task.

He was pretty good. Sometimes he would come back empty-handed after running for two or three days.

Of course, he can't be in the air force. As long as his thoughts don't slip and he doesn't dislike the smallness of his prey, he won't be in the air force.

Back at Shiban River, Lin Heng walked down the river with a flashlight.

The only catch was an eel lying on the river bed, which he caught.

When he got home, he smelled the fragrance of beans from a distance and quickly quickened his pace.

"Second father, have you gained anything?"

Seeing Xiongba coming back first, his eldest nephew Lin Wei ran out first.

"Unlucky, I got a golden rooster after running around all afternoon."

Lin Heng raised the golden rooster in his hand.

"This is so beautiful. Er Daddy is so awesome." Lin Wei took it and looked at it again and again.

"Okay, hunting is not that easy to begin with. You are lucky enough."

Entering the house, Lin's father comforted him and said that he thought Lin Heng would return empty-handed today.

"Yes, it's already very good. Go and eat the tofu noodle quickly, we've locked it up for you, leave the golden rooster to us." The eldest brother Lin Yue patted Lin Heng on the shoulder and said.

"Pluck all the feathers dry, I'll keep them for use." Lin Heng said.

"Okay, don't worry." Lin Yue nodded.

Before Lin Heng entered the room, Xiulan came out with a large bowl of tofu puffs topped with garlic and garlic chili.

In this era, sugar is too expensive, and all we eat is salty tofu. Sweet ones only appeared after life got better.

"It's so delicious." Lin Heng said drunkenly after taking a bite.

He felt that this kind of thick tofu brain was much more delicious than the thin and creamy tofu brain, especially when paired with the soul patchouli leaves and garlic chili.

Mother Lin glanced at him: "No matter how delicious it is, it's only that one bowl, and the rest are all made into tofu.

There are bean dregs cakes available tonight. Do you want to eat them? "

Bean dregs were used to feed pigs in later generations, but in this era, people ate all the steamed buns, let alone bean dregs.

Naturally, it is mixed with some noodles and baked into bean dregs cakes in a pan, and almost no oil is used.

"Come here." Lin Heng nodded. He hadn't eaten this for a long time.

Mother Lin took one for him. Lin Heng took a bite and nodded reluctantly: "It tastes as bad as ever."

The rough bean dregs have a faint sweetness when eaten directly, but more of a rough and unpleasant texture, making it difficult to swallow. You still need some spicy food to eat it.

Mother Lin rolled her eyes: "I really should let you experience the life of eating tree bark when we were young. The pig food is delicious after three days of starvation."

Lin Heng chuckled: "Isn't this a complaint? I'm still eating it."

The meal in the evening is bean dregs cake, and there are three dishes: spicy and sour shredded potato, tofu mixed with garlic and spicy garlic, and fried bacon with sour radish shreds.

There is also a potato (potato) pimple soup.

Just eat it with vegetables, and the bean dregs cake is not particularly hard to swallow.

After eating a piece of cake, Father Lin put down his chopsticks, looked at his two sons and daughter-in-law and said, "We will move to a new house tomorrow. Let's divide the house today."

"I don't have much property to share with you. It cost more than [-] yuan to build various houses. I bought you [-] yuan yesterday, and there is nothing left from selling ginseng.

We still have four hundred catties of rice at home, so I packed one hundred catties for each of your families. There are still three hundred catties of wheat left, and I will give each of you one hundred catties, enough to last until this year's harvest.

There is nothing else for you, mainly to divide the mountains, forests and land. "

After a pause, I ate some tofu and drank some potato pimple soup.

Father Lin continued: "Our family has a total of [-] acres of forest and [-] acres of land. These are originally divided according to population, and you have your share.

Now you can choose by yourself. You can choose [-] acres of forest, [-] acres of land, and paddy fields. You cannot take all of them as a family, but only one third.

Now think about it, I guess you must have thought about it before and decided to separate the household registrations in a few days. "

The eldest brother Lin Yue nodded and looked at Lin Heng: "Brother, you choose first."

His words made his wife Liu Juan immediately unhappy. You are the boss, why do you always let your younger brother choose first?

Lin Heng was already capable, but if he chose a good place, how would they live in the future?

Lin Heng looked at his elder brother, then at his parents, smiled and said, "Xiulan and I have already discussed this."

"What did you discuss?" Father Lin looked at him and Xiulan.

"The mountain forest is the entire Hongfeng Mountain to the west of the village, which is almost more than [-] acres. The land is the ten acres of land at the foot of the Hongfeng Mountain."

Lin Heng said with a smile.

As soon as he said this, everyone except Xiulan was stunned.

"Are you sure?" Father Lin looked at him, thinking he was joking.

Brother Lin Heng and his sister-in-law also looked incredulous. There are so many good places in the house, Lin Heng, why did you choose the lowest place?

"Sure, it's that piece." Lin Heng nodded.

"That piece of land is all sand. It's far worse than loess and black soil. If you don't choose two good pieces of land, you may not be able to make a living later." Mother Lin reminded.

"It's okay, we've just set our sights on that piece of land, and we're sure we want the Hongfeng Mountain piece." Lin Heng shook his head firmly.

"Okay, you can't change your mind once it's confirmed." Father Lin glanced at him and didn't know what he and Xiulan were thinking.

At this point, he can't be biased and whatever he wants is his own choice.

"Where are you two?" Father Lin asked again.

“For the forest, we want eighty acres on the Shuijinggou side, sixty acres on Erlanggou, and sixty acres on Daliang.

As for land, we want three acres of sloping land on the other side of the river, two acres of paddy field on the upper river, four acres of land opposite Hongfeng Mountain, and the one acre of sloping land near my third father. "

Lin Yue said, obviously this was what they had discussed long ago.

Compared to Lin Heng, their choices were much more normal. There were forests near and far away, mixed woods, and pure pine and acorn trees.

The same goes for land. Not all the good land was occupied, but three-fifths of the good land and two-fifths of the less fertile land were taken.

Originally, they wanted to take another piece of barren land, but after Lin Heng took all of Hongfeng Mountain, there were not many pieces of barren land left.

"After you've chosen Lin Heng, take a pen, write a note, and put your fingerprint on it. I'll take it to Murakami to stamp it some other day to avoid any conflicts in the future.

As for the support of your mother and I, you don’t need to worry about it for the time being. We’ll wait until we are old enough to work. "

Father Lin looked at the four of them and said, although he only had a primary school education, he understood the principles very well.

No matter what, the brothers must let them settle their accounts to avoid any further quarrels.

"Okay." Lin Heng thought this was a good idea and turned around to get paper and pen.

　Ask for a monthly pass.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)