Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Brother Lin Heng's father had no choice but to buy cigarettes, but it was better than him buying the cheap ones himself.

He has become accustomed to smoking and it is difficult for him to quit.

They put their things in the house and followed Lin Heng to the house in the village.

After stopping the three-wheeler, Lin Heng walked in carrying a bunch of gifts, including clothes, toys and other items.

"Wife, where should we put these?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

"Put them on the cabinet first and sort them out in detail in the evening." Xiulan said with a smile without giving any lecture.

Just buy it if you have money. She thinks Lin Heng is right. People should be nice to themselves while they are alive.

Mother Lin sat down, hugged her grandson and said, "Xiu Lan, what dishes do you want to prepare? I'll help you."

"I've almost prepared everything. Just help me add some fire later, Mom." Xiulan said softly.

She knew that Lin Heng would definitely celebrate when he came back today, so she started preparing the ingredients early in the morning.

"Okay, tell me when you're ready to light a fire." Lin's mother nodded.

"It's only five o'clock. Do we do it now?" Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and asked.

"Let's play for half an hour first." Lin Heng replied, and then said, "I'll go call my eldest brother and his family over so we can have a meal together."

After saying that, he went out to the next door to inform his eldest brother. He would basically bring his eldest brother with him when he went to the city to do work, so that he could take care of his brothers if anything happened. At the same time, it was also a chance for his eldest brother to learn how to do business.

"I'll be there in a moment." Lin Yue readily agreed to his brother's invitation.

"Lin Heng, I have some fern root vermicelli that my dad made this year. Take a handful and eat them."

Sister-in-law Liu Juan even took out a handful of two kilograms of black vermicelli and handed it to Lin Heng.

Fern root powder requires digging fern roots, which is a very difficult to obtain starch and is more expensive than sweet potato vermicelli.

Just as Lin Heng was about to speak, Liu Juan stuffed the item into her arms and said with a smile, "Don't be polite between our two families. I still have several more at home."

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Lin Heng took it with a smile and did not continue to refuse.

Compared to before, his sister-in-law has changed a lot. She speaks nicer and is not so mean anymore.

This is a very normal situation. Many things in life are caused by material scarcity. When material is sufficient, many problems will be solved.

Why do people say that poor and remote areas produce unruly people? It’s not that people are unruly, but that poverty makes people care about every gain and loss, which makes outsiders think they are unruly.

But in the final analysis it is caused by material conditions.

I took the things back to the house and saw Xiaoxia and her friends eating apples. Although there were not many apples in his family this year, they were big and crispy, and were very popular with the children.

"Dad, eat the apple!"

Xiaoxia handed Lin Heng a piece of the apple that her grandmother had cut.

"Dad, you eat!"

"you eat!"

The twins Lin Luming and Lin Duheng also followed their sister's example and gave food to Lin Heng.

"Okay, you're daddy's good boy!" Lin Heng grinned, thinking the apple was especially sweet.

Children are very imitative, especially they like to imitate their peers. Lu Ming and Du Heng are both Xiaoxia's followers.

The good qualities that Lin Heng cultivated in Xiaoxia were easily passed on to them.

After interacting with the children for a while, Lin Heng gave them a box of plasticine and asked them to play with it by themselves, and asked their father to watch it to make sure it was not eaten.

Then he came into the house with the fern root powder and fed Xiulan an apple. He put the food down and said, "My sister-in-law gave it to me. You can eat it cold."

Xiulan was dressed simply, with two ponytails, simple dragon whisker bangs, and a black apron, but she had a simple, elegant and tranquil beauty.

"it is good."

Xiulan agreed and leaned forward. Lin Heng understood what she meant and helped her tuck a tuft of long hair around her cheek behind her ear.

Lin Heng glanced around, picked up a pickled bamboo shoot and walked out.

These bamboo shoots are the small ones that Xiulan broke off, which are more crisp and tender than the big ones.

"Son, how much did you earn this year?"

At the coffee table, Father Lin took a sip of tea and asked with a smile.

"This year, the net profit from shrimp is more than 13,000 yuan, which is due to the increase in the market price of shrimp and the fact that I replaced silkworm pupa powder with fish meal, saving me a lot of money."

Lin Heng glanced at the child and responded in a low voice that he didn't want the children to hear these things, so as to prevent them from saying anything careless.

Including the money from selling shrimps and grapes, he still has 58,000 yuan in his savings account, of which 16,000 yuan is the final payment for the purchase of a feed-making machine, and the remaining 42,000 yuan is simply a deposit.

Apart from this year's earnings, the rest is purely from selling antiques.

At present, he has basically completed the initial primitive accumulation. When you have enough capital, the speed of making money will increase faster.

"That's great. It's the right decision for you to build a pond to raise shrimps." Father Lin nodded happily, feeling very satisfied.

Lin Heng chatted with him some more. His family has been busy recently. Although there is not much farm work left, there is still astragalus to be dug and ryegrass needs to be replanted.

After a while his eldest brother and his family came over, and the conversation became more lively, and the children played happily together.

It was already seven o'clock when dinner was ready, and it was dusk and about to get dark.

"It's another big table!" Liu Juan said with a smile as she looked at the dozen or so dishes.

"Let's eat. When the weather gets colder we can have hotpot." Lin Heng said with a smile.

There is no need to say much about the meal. Everyone can eat their fill and feel speechless with comfort. The delicious dishes paired with rice wine or milk tea for the children are one of the happiest moments in life.

After finishing the meal, everyone drank another pot of tea before leaving. Lin Heng and Xiulan drank another cup of tea, watching each other chatting. It was not boring, but enjoying the process.

After coaxing the child to sleep, the two played a 30-minute game. Amidst the infinite happiness brought by the hormones, the two fell asleep in each other's arms.

Under the control of genes, anything that is beneficial to reproduction will be rewarded immediately. This is naturally the best way to relax. After reproduction, the body and mind will become relaxed.

In the blink of an eye, it was the next morning. I did everything as usual, and exercise was something I had already gotten used to.

Lin Heng watched Xiulan's graceful movements while she practiced Tai Chi, and Xiulan also silently admired Lin Heng's thriving muscles while he was exercising.

"We haven't picked all the apples yet. I'm going to help pick apples today. Do you want to come over?" After breakfast, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and asked.

"No, I'm drying sweet potatoes at home. I think the sun is pretty good today." Xiulan shook her head and said, "Please bring me 50 kilograms of apples. I'm going to try to make some apple preserves."

"You don't have to try this. I know how to do it. I'll carry it back to you in the afternoon." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"You can!" Xiulan was a little surprised, then nodded: "That would be great if you can."

"Then I'll go."

Lin Heng said this, then took his bamboo backpack and drove his sidecar to Hongfeng Mountain.

He called his father and they drove to the Huangliupo Apple Orchard. After the land was reclaimed and expanded, it had an area of ​​more than eight acres. There were a lot of messy alfalfa growing in the fields, which were all deliberately planted by Lin Heng.

The apple trees are now about seven or eight centimeters thick, and the better ones are already more than 12 centimeters thick. A large amount of cow and sheep manure was applied this year, and the fruit trees are growing thicker and thicker.

Because of the dwarfing pruning, the tree is only about two meters tall, and the longest branch does not exceed three and a half meters.

"The trees around here have grown again and they have to be cut down." Lin Heng said, looking at the area around the orchard. Because many small trees have grown here, apples have suffered the most damage.

"That's right. Many of them have been pecked to death. Let's cut them down in winter or next year. We don't have time now. After cutting them down, wrap them in black plastic paper. I think your method is good." said Lin's father.

Lin Heng nodded, picked an apple and tasted it before starting to pick. It was difficult to set up bird-proof nets in the apple orchard, so many apples were pecked to pieces.

But they didn't waste it. If people couldn't eat it, they could feed it to pigs, cattle and sheep. Livestock like to eat it. So they picked the bad ones and put them in bags.

When the snakeskin bag is almost half filled, he puts it into the backpack and carries it down to the tricycle, and then pulls it back to Hongfeng Mountain.

The yield per mu of apples with normal water and fertilizer management is generally between 2,000 and 4,000 kilograms. This year, Lin Heng's family's apples are mainly grown to grow branches. Lin's father has already harvested five or six mu of apples, with a yield of about 500 to 600 kilograms per mu.

Lin Heng has pruned the branches of the fruit trees very well. He believes that when the fruit trees start to bear fruit next year, the yield per mu will be about 3,000 kilograms. In addition to water and fertilizer management, the most important thing for fruit trees to bear more fruit is pruning. Proper pruning can not only increase the yield, but also reduce the occurrence of diseases and pests.

Lin Heng is very experienced in this area. In his previous life, he worked in an orchard on earth and also managed an orchard for a period of time. In this life, he read professional books and combined theory with practice. He can call himself an expert.

In the morning, the two of them picked more than one acre of fruit, about 800 kilograms, and there was only a little more than one acre left in the orchard.

At lunch, Father Lin said, "Let's call two more people this afternoon to finish harvesting the apples on Huangliupo, and then go harvest the two acres of apples in Shuijinggou all at once."

"Call my brother and find another third father for me?" Lin Heng turned his head and asked.

"There's no need to look for Sandie. Let mom take care of the child. I'll do it." Xiulan said.

Mother Lin shook her head and said, "You take care of the children, I'll go pick them. You haven't worked for a long time, you might not be used to it."

Xiulan smiled and responded: "I used to do it often, so what's there to get used to? I still want to give it a try."

"Then let Xiulan do it. Just wear gloves. Picking apples is easy." Lin Heng saw that Xiulan really wanted to do it, so he made the decision immediately.

"That's fine." Lin's mother nodded. Since her son said so, she agreed.

After lunch, Lin Heng went to ask his eldest brother if there was any work. As soon as he asked, his eldest brother said he would come over to help. He only had a few sweet potatoes left to dig, so it was okay to take a break.

In the afternoon, the four of us went to pick the remaining one acre of apples at Huangliupo. It was easier here, and not far from the highway, just a few hundred meters away.

After picking the fruits here, we go to Shuijinggou and have to carry them back home by hand.

I picked a basket of apples and carried them over two hills to get home, a distance of nearly three kilometers. Fortunately, there are fewer apples left here, so I should be able to finish them in one afternoon.

"Are you tired? Do you want me to pick some and put them in my backpack?"

While resting halfway up the mountain, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said with a smile, "The things Xiulan was carrying must have weighed about 50 to 60 kilograms, which was quite heavy."

She was now wearing a navy blue old-fashioned dress with a slanted collar, and gloves, wrapping herself up tightly with only her head showing. Her hair was tied into a ponytail, with her bangs a little messy, and there were fine beads of sweat on her cheeks and neck, mixed with the fragrance of her hair, which actually smelled a bit good.

"No need, I can still carry it."

Xiulan shook her head slightly, took off her gloves, took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat off her own face, then reached out to wipe Lin Heng's face, then picked up Lin Heng's water bottle, drank a sip of water, and sat on a rock to rest.

"Tell me if you can't recite it. It would be bad if you fall." Lin Heng still said with a bit of heartache, although he knew she was probably fine.

Because he was worried that he couldn't carry Xiulan on his back, he walked with her. His father and elder brother should have been home by now.

"It's okay. I used to carry it on my back often. Now I'm in better shape than before." Xiulan said with a smile.

Lin Heng didn't say anything else. He looked at her and reached out to pick a small leaf out of her hair.

"Tell me how to make preserved apples."

Xiulan turned her head and poked Lin Heng and said.

"It's very simple. Cut the apple into four pieces, take it out to dry in the sun for a day, then steam it, and then dry it in the sun and steam it again." Lin Heng looked at her and said.

"I understand. I'll try it tomorrow." Xiulan nodded, stood up and stretched out her hand to Lin Heng, "Let's go. Let's walk slowly."

Lin Heng took her hand and stood up, and the two of them carried the apples home. When they reached the road, her eldest brother and father had already driven over on a sidecar and went up the mountain again.

But the two were not in a hurry. They put the apples in the car and drove to Red Maple Mountain.

The two of them walked slowly, shoulder to shoulder, up and down the mountain as the setting sun was getting lower and lower. It must have been very tiring, as if it was like climbing a mountain with a heavy load.

But because there were two of us together and we supported each other, it felt okay, and we finished picking apples while chatting and laughing.

Of course, about three-fifths of the work was done by my father and eldest brother, and they were a little lazy.

"You must be tired."

Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said, it was already six o'clock when they carried the last basket back home. The sun was already over the western ridge, and the sky was orange for most of the day.

Xiulan nodded: "But I'm very happy."

"Let's take a hot bath when we get back." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay!" Xiulan nodded.

We had dinner at Hongfeng Mountain. Lin's mother fried a pot of prawns and a pot of lean meat to reward everyone. There were not many dishes, but they were all excellent.

After dinner, they took the child home. After the child took a bath, Lin Heng coaxed him to sleep first. When the child fell asleep and the water temperature in the bathtub was suitable, they both got in and took a bath for half an hour.

After taking a shower, Xiulan had just wrapped herself in a bath towel when Lin Heng hugged her in a princess hug. She cried out and hugged Lin Heng's arms, angrily blaming him, "You've been picking apples all day, aren't you tired?"

Lin Heng carried her to the bed, leaned close to her cheek and smiled, "I want to experience the feeling of being extremely tired and exhausted. Don't you want to try it?"

Xiulan blushed quietly, forming a sharp contrast with Saixue's skin, and she whispered softly: "Turn off the lights first..." (End of this chapter)