Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 8

"It was really Lin Heng who beat him. I saw it with my own eyes. The pheasant's blood wasn't even dry yet."

Chen Xiulan quickly proved for her husband.

"Watch it, I'll only show it once!"

After Lin Heng finished speaking, he picked up the slingshot and shot at a fist-sized dried gourd hanging on the wall five meters away.

With a bang, the gourd fell apart.

Everyone was horrified, and his father Lin Xuan's face was full of disbelief: "The sun really rises in the west?"

"Are you sure it's not evil?" Mother Lu Hongmei also looked shocked.

"Hmph, I just didn't bother to make such small money before. When I was a child, I practiced slingshots very hard." Lin Heng snorted and went to kill squirrels and pheasants.

Chen Xiulan's eyes were sparkling. She felt that her husband was so handsome and elegant today.

"Second father, wait for me, I will help you!" The eldest nephew Lin Wei hurriedly ran over. In his eyes, the second father is a god, and he must learn this slingshot skill.

The younger sister Lin Caiyun walked over to help her sister-in-law Xiulan take care of the baby.

"Second father, how do you practice so accurately? Please teach me." Lin Wei held Lin Heng's arm with a look of longing on his face.

He couldn't believe how powerful he would be in the village if he could master this slingshot skill.

By then, won’t all the other boys have to kneel down and worship? The village chief's daughter has to take the initiative to come over and kiss her, right?

Lin Heng glanced at him and said, "I want to boil water, I don't have time."

"I'll come, Second Dad, I'll come!" Lin Wei took the kettle and went to light a fire to boil water.

Lin Wei, who is naughty and mischievous all day long, does not know that he has fallen into the trap of working and is still enjoying his fantasy.

Lin Heng hung the squirrel up, took a knife and slowly skinned it. This skin was worth three or four yuan. Can't help but be careless.

"Second Dad, the water is boiling." As long as there is motivation, the naughty kid also has amazing potential. Lin Wei boiled the water in ten minutes.

"Give it to me, I'll make soup chicken." Lin's father, Lin Xuan, took the kettle, poured it into a wooden bucket, mixed it with some cold water, and plucked the chicken's feathers.

Lin Wei did not dare to disturb Lin Heng. He stood aside and watched him work, waiting for Lin Heng to teach him.

"Dad, do you believe me now?" Lin Heng looked at his father and asked with a smile.

Father Lin glanced at him: "If you can persist like this for a month, I will pay for you to buy a shotgun."

Obviously, although Lin's father's attitude has changed, he still does not believe Lin Heng's lies about reforming his past.

Although he has no hunting skills, he also knows that this thing has returned empty-handed ten times and has to run all over the mountains. He feels that even if Lin Heng is good at slingshots, he will not be able to endure this hardship.

"I don't want a shotgun. Just buy me a bow when the time comes. Don't regret it." Lin Heng chuckled. He felt that shotguns were too dangerous. Bows and arrows were safer, and he used them better than guns.

"If you go back on your word, I am your son." Father Lin glared angrily.

After ending the topic, Father Lin asked again: "Is it reliable that your ginseng can be sold for six to seven hundred?"

"Of course, if that doesn't work, we'll go to the city and we can definitely sell it for [-] yuan." Lin Heng nodded and assured.

"That's good." Father Lin nodded and said while gutting the chicken: "Today, your brother and I will discuss where the new house should be.

What we mean is to dig out the vegetable garden of more than an acre outside and build a house. You two can come together, so you can be close and have someone to take care of you. "

"Okay, I have no objection." Lin Heng doesn't care about this. If he doesn't have money now, he can just build a house to live in, and then plan carefully when he has money in the future.

"Brick houses are too expensive. Let's build a mud house. Then it will be good to paint the house with plaster." Lin's father added.

The red bricks shipped here from the town cost at least three cents per brick. Even if a house only cost ten thousand bricks, the total cost of two bricks would be six hundred.

But in fact, a house requires at least [-] to [-] red bricks, not including other materials, so the money is definitely not enough.

Earthen walls are cheap and only require labor. Loess is everywhere here. When built, you can also spend money to buy some furniture and decorate the interior.

"Okay, you're the one who pays for it anyway, you just make the decision." Lin Heng said with a smile.

At this time, the squirrel skin had been peeled off. He found a bamboo circle and made a circle to stretch the squirrel skin. Otherwise, it would shrink into a pile during the drying process.

"What do you mean I pay for it and it's OK for me to decide? This is the place where you will live your whole life." Father Lin glared at him. "What I mean is that the decision you made is good. Let's talk about the details after we start building it."

Lin Heng didn't say that he wanted to build it himself in the future, because he knew that at this stage, his father would only laugh at him and not believe him.

Hearing this, Father Lin felt better and nodded: "Then the ginseng will be sold the day after tomorrow, so I will go and tell Murakami."

To build a house these days, you only need to give a notification and you can build it at will. There is no approval process.

Lin Heng nodded and took out the squirrel's internal organs. These days, no matter the internal organs of pheasants or squirrels, they will not be thrown away. People will eat them once they are processed.

For this poor mountain village farmer, every bit of meat is hard-earned.

"Has all the meat been fried?" Mother Lin asked after getting the meat. After killing it, there were still more than two kilograms of meat, which made her feel a bit unreal.

"Of course, the weather will be bad tomorrow morning." Lin Heng said.

After Lin Heng said this, Mother Lin went back to cook, stir-frying pheasant meat with hot and sour seeds and red onions. Soon the spicy and sour taste came out along with the aroma of oil. Everyone in the room was salivating and their stomachs were rumbling. Coo.

Everyone hasn't had meat or fish for at least a month, so they are really hungry.

The rice was ready soon. The squirrel meat was stir-fried with pickled radish, the pheasant meat was stir-fried with hot and sour seeds and red onions, and there was also a plate of the offal of two animals stir-fried with pickled radish.

Rural cooking is inseparable from sour jars.

"Lin Heng, do you want to give some to your mother-in-law?" Father Lin is still very filial. If he has meat, he wants to give some to the old lady, even if he is seriously biased towards his eldest brother.

But the meat belonged to Lin Heng, so he had to ask Lin Heng.

"If you don't give it away, we don't have enough to eat ourselves." Lin Heng refused directly. Not all old people are worthy of filial piety, and his mother-in-law is one of them.

Although she has three sons, everything goes to her eldest son. As long as his family and his third father's family have something good, she will come back and give it to her eldest son.

Sometimes if they don't give it, the old lady will sneak over and get it herself.

But they never brought anything to him or his third father's family.

"Second father is right, my wife is not good at all." Lin Wei, the eldest nephew, also agreed.

"Shut up." The eldest brother Lin Yue scolded his son.

"Then I won't give it away." Father Lin thought for a while and nodded. The old lady must be disappointing.

"Everyone eats!" Lin Heng first took a big piece and gave it to his wife Xiulan, and then said with a smile.

As soon as he moved his chopsticks, everyone couldn't help it and moved their chopsticks one after another.

Three pots of meat were finished in less than ten minutes. Everyone had not eaten for so long that they couldn't bear it.

Lin Heng gave his wife half a bowl of meat, and even her sister-in-law Liu Juan, who always liked to care about her, didn't dare to say a word because it was Lin Heng who made this.

"There are too many, you eat some." Chen Xiulan gave some to Lin Heng. She felt that today was the happiest day since she got married.

"You eat, you have to nurse the baby and work, so take a good supplement." Lin Heng took it back and said without any doubt.

Chen Xiulan offered some to her mother, but was rejected: "Eat it yourself and see how thin you become."

Mother Lin didn't scold Lin Heng tonight. She felt that Lin Heng finally looked like a husband and knew how to love his wife.

"It's so delicious. It would be great if I could eat it every day." Lin Caiyun licked her lips to taste it.

"Yes, sister-in-law, it's so delicious."

After Lin Wei finished speaking, he looked at Lin Heng again: "Second father, please teach me how to shoot a slingshot. I also want to hunt prey for my family."

"When you have time." Lin Liao stretched and took his daughter from his wife's arms.

Everyone else was also smiling, and Lin Heng's face looked much better. It felt like today was like the Chinese New Year.

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