Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 321 Successfully Purchased an Old Factory
“Look, this fish is grilled perfectly, right?”

Xiulan said, pointing at the dried fish in the bamboo roasting basket.

These small fish, such as brook grouper and horsemouth, are all light yellow in color and give off a barbecue aroma.

Several larger plum fish were cut into small slices and roasted, and their flesh became crystal clear and had a beautiful pink color, which made them look even more tempting than those small fish.

"Meow~"

Jinbao yawned loudly and put his front paws on the bamboo grill, looking like he couldn't bear it any longer.

"It smells so good." Xiaoxia stretched out her little hand to grab it without any hesitation.

The next moment, her mother slapped her little hand away: "Wash your hands before eating."

"Oh~" Xiaoxia opened her big innocent eyes.

Xiulan shook her head, took one, tore it in half and fed it to her mouth. She had already finished washing up.

Lin Heng and Xiaoxia washed their hands and then tasted a piece. He nodded and praised, "It's chewier than fried ones. It's really delicious."

As he spoke he threw some to a cat and two dogs, which jumped into the air and caught it in one gulp.

"Ow~"

Especially the two dogs, who swallowed the food in one gulp without tasting it, and looked at them stupidly.

"That's all." Lin Heng was unmoved and put the remaining fish meat into a plastic bag, leaving only a little for breakfast in the morning.

The moisture in the meat has dried up, and coupled with the heavy salt content, it will be no problem to store it for a month or two.

"What do you want to have for breakfast?" Xiulan asked Lin Heng.

Lin Heng thought for a moment and said, "Make some milk powder and boil an egg. I'll make some stir-fried tea tree mushrooms and some potato pancakes."

"I don't really feel like eating potato pancakes today. Let's cook some corn. Mom brought up a lot yesterday." Xiulan said softly.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.

Then he exercised first and then had breakfast as usual. This has become a habit in his family. If he doesn't exercise in the morning, he will feel uncomfortable all over.

Xiulan continued to practice Tai Chi even when she was pregnant, and now her limbs have become more flexible and coordinated.

After the exercise, the eggs and corn were cooked, and the milk powder was prepared. Lin Heng heated the oil in a pan and made stir-fried tea tree mushrooms. After stir-frying, the mushrooms tasted very fragrant and chewy.

After dinner, Lin Heng took out the ginseng from the house and placed it under the scattered light through the leaves to dry.

Then he sorted out the mushrooms he had picked up on the mountain, mainly shiitake mushrooms, and took out some of each other type. He also got the black truffles left over from last year and the last few matsutake mushrooms.

"Are you going to make mushroom sauce?" Xiulan looked at him and asked.

Lin Heng nodded: "Yes, these mushrooms are delicious when made into sauce."

Making mushroom sauce is very simple. Soak all the dried mushrooms in water, squeeze out the water and cut them into small cubes. The main ingredients are ginger, garlic, chili and diced lean meat.

Chop a lot of ingredients, heat oil in a pan, add the ingredients and stir-fry first, then add the broad bean paste and chopped mushrooms, stir-fry for a while, scoop up, transfer to a glass jar and seal it.

Because it is oily, spicy and salty, it can be stored for a year without any problem if it is sealed well, so he made three pounds of it this time. When you eat it, just mixing it with rice is enough to make your tongue fall off.

When Lin Heng was making mushrooms, Xiulan brought Xiaoxia to watch beside him. She liked to see Lin Heng working seriously.

"Wow, what did you cook, brother? Why is it so delicious?"

Lin Heng had just finished frying the mushroom sauce when Caiyun came up from the foot of the mountain carrying a basket and exclaimed in surprise.

"Let's try the mushroom sauce your brother made at noon." Xiulan said with a smile.

"No wonder it smells so good, second brother, you are really good at cooking." Caiyun said with a smile.

Lin Heng said: "Don't eat noodles, wait until I get a steamed bun at noon and we can eat mushroom sauce."

After the mushroom sauce was ready, the three of them picked the vegetables that Caiyun brought up in the yard and drank some tea. Lin Heng felt his ears were a little itchy, so he took an ear spoon and prepared to clean them himself.

"Give it to me." Xiulan said, stretching out her white hand.

"I can do it myself." Lin Heng said, not wanting to trouble her who was pregnant.

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up." Xiulan glared at him, snatched the ear spoon and motioned Lin Heng to sit over.

Lin Heng sat over obediently, put his head on her thighs and closed his eyes to enjoy it. Xiulan liked to clean his ears, and he also enjoyed the process very much.

After a while, she finally said it was okay. Lin Heng opened his eyes and met her bright eyes. He smiled and said, "Do you want me to help you?"

Xiulan shook her head slightly: "Help me wash my hair later."

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, went to boil water, and adjusted the water temperature to wash her hair.

His hair-washing skills have become very good now, and he won't pull her hair and hurt it anymore. Xiulan also enjoys his massage-style hair washing.

After washing and drying their hair, they sat together on rattan chairs and drank tea. Life was plain and simple, but as long as they saw each other, no matter whether they were talking, busy, or bickering, they were very happy in their hearts. It was a feeling that they did not have when they were with other people.

"Second brother and sister-in-law, you have such a good relationship." Caiyun said with a smile.

Xiulan smiled and said, "It's OK. When he's happy, I'll do whatever he wants and make him delicious food. When he makes me angry, I'll cook the food he dislikes the most and watch him finish it."

"Haha, why didn't I see it?" Caiyun laughed.

Xiulan glanced at Lin Heng and said, "It seems that he hasn't really made me angry recently. If I get angry next time, I'll ask you to come and see him eating tomato and egg noodles."

What Lin Heng hates most is the whistle made of tomatoes and eggs. He can eat either one alone, but he is extremely uncomfortable with the sour, sweet, salty and spicy feeling when they are combined together.

Lin Heng: "...It seems you always made tomato and egg noodles on purpose before."

Lin Heng suddenly recalled the memory of eating tomato and egg noodles in his previous life. It turned out that he had made Xiulan angry so many times. It turned out that she either didn't know that she hated it or she was deliberately punishing him.

Then he remembered the time when he deliberately used Xiulan as a target and threw twigs at her to make her chase him and hit him.

Xiulan smiled slyly: "What do you think!"

"Then I won't dare to do it again." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head, picked up a small branch and threw it at Xiulan, which immediately caused her to roll her eyes.

"Okay, okay, you are starting to show your affection again, let's play chess." Caiyun said quickly.

After playing checkers for a while, Lin Heng played a game of chess with Caiyun.

"I went down the mountain to take a look."

At half past nine, Lin Heng said something to Xiulan and then slowly walked down the mountain.

When he went down the mountain to take a look at the cattle and sheep, he found that his parents were so hardworking that they had reclaimed about an acre of sloping land near the cattle and sheep pen and planted ryegrass, which was now three or four centimeters high.

The musk deer and shrimps are being raised well and basically have no problems. The male musk deer's leg has completely healed, but it is still limping.

After walking around the breeding base, he opened the gate and went up the mountain with a hoe, and soon saw his parents in the vineyard.

"Mom and Dad, is there only grass left in the vineyard now?" Lin Heng walked over and asked, putting down the water he brought.

Father Lin nodded and said, "Yes, your mother and I have already weeded the apple orchard. The saplings and astragalus are growing well. There are dozens of dead seedlings. We will replant them when the weather gets cooler."

"Why did you run out again? Why don't you take care of Xiulan?" Lin's mother looked at him and asked.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "Caiyun is enough. I'll help you. Come over and have a drink of water first."

Father Lin came over, took a sip of water and said, "Look, the grapes are growing well. Should we put up a trellis and do some maintenance?"

The grapes planted at home have almost no shortage of seedlings and are growing very fast. Each plant has many new branches and is very lush.

Lin Heng lifted up the branches and took a look, then shook his head and said, "No need now, just wait until winter to prune them. It doesn't matter if you put up a rack or not. There will be no fruit next year, so the main thing is to grow the trunk."

Mother Lin looked at Lin Heng and asked, "The orchard won't bear fruit next year, but the ones we planted in the back hills of our own home will bear fruit, right?"

"Of course you can. The red grape tree in my backyard has produced several bunches of grapes this year." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"That's great. We can taste the grape seedlings we bought this year." Lin's mother said happily.

After chatting for a while about the fruit seedlings, the three of them started to work, weeding and removing the thorny bushes on the edge of the field to prevent them from being damaged.

"Hey, this wild rose has a straight stem, I'll dig it up." Lin Heng said, looking at a rose stem as thick as his forearm. "This rotten thorn tree is everywhere, what do you want it for?" Father Lin stopped the knife in his hand and asked in confusion.

"You'll know when the time comes." Lin Heng dug off the root in two moves, leaving a two-meter-high pole at the top.

This thing can survive if you plant it anywhere in the ground, and then you can graft some roses on it and it will become a lollipop rose. The flowers will look like a natural bouquet.

After a while, Father Lin saw another one and asked, "There's another one here, do you want one?"

"Yes, two or three will be enough." Lin Heng nodded. In fact, if you dig more of this stuff, plant a large area of ​​hundreds or thousands of them, and then graft them into lollipop roses, you can also sell them for money.

But he was too lazy to do it. If he had time, he could plant some along the Red Maple Mountain Breeding Base.

They worked until about eleven o'clock, and when the sun was too strong they took their hoes and went home. It would take another two days to finish the rest of the work.

"Son, when are you going to start repairing the dam? If you don't repair it, it will rain again. The cement, sand and gravel have already been transported up." Lin's father asked on the way home.

"Let's start the day after tomorrow at the latest. I have to go into the city tomorrow." Lin Heng said.

"What are you going into the city for?" Lin's mother was curious.

Lin Heng smiled slightly: "Buy a house. Xiulan will definitely move to the city to give birth to twins."

"Are you sure?" Lin's mother asked again. She knew something about buying a house.

"Yes." Lin Heng didn't mention the matter of buying a factory. If he told him now, his parents would definitely not understand, so he didn't let them worry.

When they reached the highway, Lin Heng separated from them and went back home. He first looked at the fruits and vegetables in the yard. Although Caiyun often helped pick these fruits, many of them had fallen to the ground and rotted.

Lin Heng picked two old and terrible watermelons and cantaloupes and took them to the back mountain to feed the chickens. Then he discovered that many watermelons, pumpkins and cucumbers in the back mountain were also old, so he simply picked the watermelons and cantaloupes that were about to mature and carried them to the Red Maple Mountain area to feed the livestock.

"These red grapes are getting old." Lin Heng saw the red grapes that had already turned colored and tasted one. It was still a little astringent, but already quite sweet.

He went back to the house and took out a few paper bags he had bought earlier to cover the red grapes, then planted two wild rose poles by the stream of the fish pond in the yard. He would graft them as soon as they survived.

In fact, he could graft it directly now, but he was lazy, so he would wait until later.

Many of the silver thread vines planted on the wall died, but five of them survived. Only two of them survived under the orange tree.

Standing in the pavilion, he scattered a handful of feed and looked at the fish, then went to clean the house again. In addition to weeding the backyard, he also trimmed the overgrown and deformed flowers and plants.

Finally, I went to Hongfeng Mountain carrying the fruits and vegetables.

When we arrived at Hongfeng Mountain, we found that Wang Kaidian and Tian Baishun had also come, carrying some meat.

"Lin Heng, these pieces of meat are for you. Please ask Xiulan to braise the rest." Wang Kaidian pointed at the meat and introduced it again.

"Okay, take a watermelon back and eat it." Lin Heng put down the backpack and took a big watermelon for each of them.

Although they said no, they finally accepted it and took it back.

"Tian Baishun is very generous. He gave us five or six kilograms of meat." Mother Lin said in surprise as she picked up the pork.

Lin Heng explained: "I didn't ask for money when I gave him venison last time. I think he got a lot of meat this time. He definitely can't finish it all by himself."

"Should we take all these upstairs or leave them here?" asked Lin's mother.

"Just leave it here. I'll bring Xiulan down to braise it in the afternoon. I've brought all the ingredients back this time." Lin Heng said.

Mother Lin nodded: "Then take the meat up and eat it later."

"You guys carry them up and eat them at noon today." Lin Heng said, and then he carried the fruits and vegetables on his back to feed the cattle and sheep.

"Wait a moment, I'll pick out some to give away. It's a waste to feed the cattle and sheep." Lin's mother grabbed the backpack and picked out some before letting him go.

Lin Heng shook his head helplessly, thinking that his mother was really meticulous. She carried the remaining food to the cattle and sheep pen, chopped it up, and let the cattle and sheep have a delicious meal.

When Lin Heng returned to the mountain, he found that his parents and others had sat down to eat, and he was surprised and said, "Didn't you say I would cook it?"

"I made this, come and eat it, second brother." Caiyun said with a smile.

"This steamed bun with mushroom sauce is delicious. Come and try it." Father Lin said while eating.

"it is good."

Lin Heng washed his hands and sat down. He picked up the steamed bun and put some mushroom sauce in it to eat. His appetite was indeed great. The fried mushroom sauce was so fragrant.

The soup is corn and pumpkin soup. The pumpkin is soft and the corn is sweet, and it tastes good.

After dinner, facing such a strong sun, everyone chose to go to the mountain to cool off. It was much cooler here than the breeding base and the village below.

As the sun set in the afternoon, Lin Heng did not go with his parents to weed the grapes, but took Xiulan back to his home in the village.

"Did you clean this morning? It's quite clean." Xiulan asked in surprise, looking at everything in the room.

"Of course." Lin Heng nodded, then said, "I'll go to my eldest brother's house first and talk to you when I come back."

"Please help me move the sewing machine out first." Xiulan said.

Lin Heng moved the sewing machine to her, then looked for his eldest brother and asked him if he wanted to go down to the city together tomorrow.

Lin Yue readily agreed to this: "I'm just about to go into town to buy some medicine, let's go together."

"Okay, then, let's set off at seven tomorrow morning, so we can go early." Lin Heng nodded.

"Okay, I got it." Lin Yue nodded in agreement.

After leaving his eldest brother's house, he returned to his own home. He called Xiulan together and took out all the 20,000 yuan from the secret compartment under the bed, as well as the receipt with the official seal that Bai Xueqing had given him when she collected ginseng.

"Then I'll go to town first." After getting the money, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said.

"Okay, be careful." Xiulan nodded and continued her needlework.

Lin Heng drove a sidecar to the town and took some watermelons and cantaloupes. He gave some of the fruits to Grandpa Gao and asked Wang Zhou to sell the rest.

Not only did his family grow their own crops, but his parents also planted a lot around the edges of the fields, so much that they simply couldn't finish eating them.

Then he went to the credit union and deposited all the 20,000 yuan into his passbook. He had to go to the city to discuss business tomorrow, and he couldn't just go with cash.

It’s safer to keep it in savings and you can also withdraw it at a credit union in the city.

After saving the money, I didn't stay in the town for too long. I bought some big black plums and took them home.

"Wife, eat some plums." Lin Heng said as he carried the plums home.

"Are these big black plums?" Xiulan curiously reached out and took two and washed them with water.

"Yes, I just happened to see someone selling it." Lin Heng nodded.

Xiulan handed one to her daughter, took a bite and said in surprise, "It's sour and sweet, I like it."

"Then I'll leave the rest to you. I won't give it to anyone else." Lin Heng took a bite of the plum and asked, "Have you finished sewing the clothes?"

"It's done. We can go back to Red Maple Mountain." Xiulan got up from the sofa, picked up her things and was ready to leave.

Lin Heng put the sewing machine away, covered it, helped Xiaoxia put on shoes, took a piece of bacon and left.

When he arrived at Hongfeng Mountain, he helped to braise the meat sent by Wang Kaidian and Tian Baishun under Xiulan's guidance, and he also braised a chicken and three pounds of wild boar meat for himself.

After the treatment, he was sent back on the same day. I spent the rest of the time in the mountains and made dinner for my parents.

The next morning, Lin Heng got up early, made breakfast and ate it, then filled up the tricycle with gas and went into the city with his elder brother.

After entering the city, he quickly found Zhang Zhi, the owner of the old factory, and through his introduction, he met another man named Liu Chao. The three of them went to the Land Bureau and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau together to make the corresponding property rights changes.

With the help of Liu Chao, once the money was paid, other procedures were also completed. As long as you have connections, many things are very simple.

Then the three of them went out to have a meal together, and Lin Heng focused on getting to know Liu Chao and expanding his network.

He also asked him about buying a house and offered him a business deal. With this deal, Liu Chao immediately became more friendly to him and gave Lin Heng his address and phone number, asking him to call him next time he came.

It was already afternoon when all this was done, and Lin Heng went to look for his elder brother. He had been waiting in Baihe for a long time after finishing his business.

"Have you finished your business?" Lin Yue asked with a smile when he saw Lin Heng coming over.

(End of this chapter)