Return to the small mountain village in 1983

"Not yet. I just painted the ceiling with latex paint. It will take two months for the smell to dissipate." Lin Heng replied.

As he was talking, the car had already arrived at the door of his house. Seeing that the gate was open, Lin Heng stepped on the gas and drove up and parked in the yard.

This yard is shared by his eldest brother's house and the small Western-style building built for his parents. After the two houses were built, the yards were directly connected together, connected to the road and hardened, and now cars can drive directly in.

Similarly, the back hill was also surrounded by a wall, forming a larger courtyard. The two buildings looked similar from the outside, two-and-a-half-story European-style villas with gates, square white pillars, and large French windows that provided good lighting.

His father, mother, older brother and sister-in-law had never seen these Western things, and they thought this style of house was beautiful, so they built them. The outsides of the two houses look similar, but the insides are different.

"My second father and second mother are back!!"

As soon as Lin Heng's car drove in, Lin Wei and others who were playing in the yard shouted loudly.

"Second brother, you guys are finally back. If you hadn't come back, we would have killed the New Year pig."

"You guys came back just in time, and your sister-in-law was cooking, so come to my house and eat."

After a while, Lin Yue, Liu Juan, Caiyun and others came out of the house, saw Lin Heng's family and said with a smile.

"aunt!"

Xiaoxia, Luming and the others got out of the car and ran towards their aunt. After Lin Heng parked the car, he got out with Xiulan and said a few words to his eldest brother.

"We agreed to have dinner at my house." Lin Yue reminded again.

"Okay, I'll come back after I pack my things." Lin Heng nodded and agreed.

"Second mother, let me help you move things." Lin Wei and Lin Tao ran over and said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll give you some candy after we finish moving." Xiulan said with a smile.

They moved all their things directly into their parents' small Western-style house, which is spacious and convenient for everything. They also visit guests here during the New Year, and it is better to keep the New Year goods here.

"Are my parents still in Hongfeng Mountain?" Lin Heng asked while moving.

Caiyun nodded: "I just left for a while, went to the farm to pick up eggs, and saw your car, I guess I will be back soon."

"Okay, let's go back over there and take a look first." Lin Heng nodded, handed the child to Caiyun, and he and Xiulan went to the earthen house.

They lived in this villa when they came back in the fall. They just painted it with latex paint, had a suspended ceiling, and bought some furniture, but it was not overly decorated.

There are many farm tools and bottles and jars made by my parents on the first floor. It doesn’t look like a villa at all. Only the second floor looks like a villa.

Their earthen houses were also renovated, mainly by replacing the original ceramic tiles with sturdy glazed tiles with a porcelain surface. The outer walls of the earthen houses were all reinforced with loess mixed with cement. Now they look quite small and unique.

"This vegetable garden is full of weeds again." Xiulan walked into the house and looked at the four small vegetable gardens in the front yard and sighed.

"It's the same with the backyard. If I hadn't come back to trim the trees regularly, they would have grown crooked." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Oh, time flies by so fast."

Xiulan sighed, opened the door of the house with brisk steps, and smiled knowingly as she looked at the unchanged furnishings inside.

The years she lived in this house were the happiest and most meaningful time of her marriage to Lin Heng. Although her life is better now, she still misses those years.

"Come in, why are you standing there like an idiot? Are you not used to living in a mud house?" Lin Heng said with a smile, putting his arm around her shoulders.

"I'll give you a slap." Xiulan rolled her eyes, walked into the house, looked around, and then started to clean up.

Lin Heng also went upstairs to take a look. There were a large number of various old items that he had collected placed here. He would put them all in the basement of the Red Maple Mountain Villa later.

After looking around, Lin Heng went to light the fire in the fireplace. He and Xiulan still liked living in this little house, which was small but warm.

The room became warm in a short while after the fireplace was lit. Lin Heng sat down on the armchair, and Xiulan leaned against him. The two of them looked at the burning fire quietly for a while.

After staying for a while, they went back to the villa. Lin's father and mother had also returned and were chatting with them, talking about what had happened in recent days.

Father Lin said that this year's pork should taste better because a lot of chestnuts were fed into the pigs.

The chestnut trees in the forest that Lin Heng grafted have all grown up. This year, he harvested more than 1,200 kilograms of chestnuts. More than 300 kilograms of chestnuts of poor quality were not sold but were crushed and fed to pigs, chickens and ducks.

In addition to this, they also sold grass carp from five ponds these days and made 30,000 yuan. They said they would give the money to Lin Heng, but he didn't need it at all and asked his parents to save it for themselves.

After a while, they went to the eldest brother's house for lunch, drank a little wine, and spent more time chatting. They had endless topics to talk about since they hadn't seen each other for a long time.

In the afternoon, Lin Heng took Xiulan and the children to see Hongfeng Mountain. The whole mountain is now surrounded by a two-meter-and-a-half-meter-high wall, and there is an anti-theft barbed wire on the top. If you want to go in, you can only go through the main gate.

The entire creek was fenced in and became part of his home. It was originally his property and no one would say anything.

In fact, even if the creek is not fenced off, there is not much water left. The reservoir has been expanded to more than three acres and deeper, and the original dam has also been reinforced. Now all the water is intercepted by the dam. In addition to drinking water, it is also used to supply fish ponds, farms and orchards. There is basically no excess left.

Most of the crops planted inside the courtyard wall are fruit trees and crops, so the house doesn't take up much space and no one can say anything about it legally.

The part at the foot of the mountain is still a fish pond, and upwards are terraced fields. The original warehouses and brick houses have been demolished. The lower part of the terraces is planted with pasture grass and rapeseed, and the upper part is planted with fruit trees such as peach and pear trees.

Going further up the winding mountain road, you will reach the villa area, where ornamental trees are planted and Chinese-style garden landscapes have been built. Even in winter, you can still see this unique beauty.

Close to the core area of ​​the villa, in addition to the fish pond garden, there is also a swimming pool where you can swim in the summer. Various outdoor facilities are also available, so there is no problem at all if you want to hold an outdoor barbecue party in the summer.

The villa is a 500-square-meter main building with a 150-square-meter garage and side building on each side.

From the outside, the villa is blue and white in color, with blue tiles and white walls. The inside also has a suspended ceiling and is painted. It is now drying and will be renovated after the New Year.

Walking in from the front door, there is an eight-meter-high large living room, which looks transparent and grand. In the living room is a beautiful large spiral staircase leading to the second floor, where all kinds of rooms are also available. For the time being, Lin Heng plans to simply decorate it in a simple and exquisite style, because the more complicated it is, the harder it is to clean, and the house is so big, it will take a lot of effort to hire people.

"Now that it's been painted, it doesn't look as empty as before." After walking around inside and out, Xiulan spoke.

When I came back before, I thought the house was too big and looked very empty, but now it is much better. However, the children like it very much and say that it is fun to play hide-and-seek in the room.

"I estimate it will be spring by the time it's done. Then we can come back and stay for a while." Lin Heng said with a smile, holding her hand.

"Of course. You've been talking about this villa since 1983. Now that it's finally built, you must live in it for a while." Xiulan nodded.

After she finished speaking, she pulled Lin Heng and said with a smile, "Let's go to the mountain and take a look."

The villa was built on the original location of the first platform, and then it was dug a little deeper to expand the space.

This place is about two hundred meters away from the top of the mountain in a straight line. It is not good to be too close to the top of the mountain because the wind is too strong.

The top of the mountain is similar to the original one, with two more cabins and some long stone-paved forest paths in the woods, making it look more garden-like.

The two of them walked around happily for a while, and then hurried back to the village. It was so cold outside that their hands and feet were frozen.

The days before the New Year are spent preparing various New Year goods, such as slaughtering pigs, making tofu, stewing dishes, making rice wine, and a host of other things that are similar to previous years.

The people in Hongfeng Village have become much wealthier in the past two years. They can basically afford new clothes for the New Year and have a good year. Every household can earn at least a thousand yuan a year by growing medicinal herbs and orchards, which makes the village stand out from the other surrounding villages.

The biggest contributor here is not Lin Heng, but the village party secretary Tian Dongfu. He really has the ambition to lead the villagers to prosperity, rather than using this to gain benefits for himself.

With Lin Heng pointing him on the right path, Hongfeng Village became wealthy faster in this life. This year, they also started to grow high-mountain tea, and planted tea trees on some poor sloping lands. It was both beautiful and profitable.

They are in the Qinling Mountains, not too far north, but they can still grow tea, and they can even sell it under the banner of dragon veins and abundant trace elements.

With the achievements over the years, the villagers are willing to listen to Tian Dongfu's efforts for development. Because he has done a good job, he has become famous in the county and has received many orders from the town government. He is also planning to build a road here.

People from other surrounding villages wanted to imitate but failed for various reasons. Some villagers could only sell the medicinal herbs they grew through their own village channels.

Now the village is also preparing to set up a collective medicinal materials primary processing company to further process these Chinese medicinal materials and then sell them, which will earn more profits.

Lin Heng also invested some money and took a small stake. The Director Qian he knew has now been promoted and is willing to contact this side for cooperation. It is expected that the company will be opened next year, and the land for building a steel structure factory has already been dug.

Time passed quickly and the Spring Festival was soon here again. It started snowing on the night of the 30th and when I woke up on the morning of the 1st, the snow was already 30 centimeters thick.

But everyone liked the snow very much, especially the children. They took the red envelopes of New Year's money and went up the mountain to the Taoist temple to worship the gods early in the morning. Then they came back and started making snowmen and igloos. Lin Heng was even dragged along to join in.

They did not go out to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of this year because the snow was making the roads difficult to walk on, so they decided to wait until it melted. However, by noon, a large group of people came to his house, including his eldest uncle, third uncle, third father, and youngest aunt, a total of four families, all came to pay New Year's greetings to them.

Suddenly the whole yard was bustling with activity. There were more than a dozen children and twenty or thirty adults. The whole house was filled with the atmosphere of the New Year.

These people basically took care of and supported each other when everyone was poor. Because of Lin Heng's strong rise, they are all rich now, so it's natural that they feel more connected when they gather together.

The children are setting off firecrackers and playing games, while the adults are playing cards and mahjong. During the Chinese New Year, all we need to do is have fun together, and the games we play are all for entertainment.

In the following days, we continued to visit relatives and friends and eat delicious food. As we made more friends and relatives, this process lasted until the thirteenth day of the first lunar month.

This time Lin Heng went down to the city early because he had some friends in the city to visit. After the visit, the New Year was over and life returned to normal.

After finishing the company's affairs, Lin Heng started to busy himself with the decoration of the villa, mainly the purchase of various furniture and decorations. Although it was just a simple decoration, better things had to be used, and many of them were sent from Ancheng.

In addition to this incident, the price of gold has risen sharply. Because of the Gulf War, the price of gold has risen a lot both at home and abroad, and those who bought it before have made a profit.

As a reborn person, Lin Heng also knew that a historic event would happen in the second half of this year. The largest country in the world would disintegrate. He had already taken the opportunity to stock up on some things that would appreciate in value by then, so that he could make a little more money when the time came.

The rest is not something he can worry about.

Although many things had to be sourced from Ancheng, the renovation was still completed very quickly and was all completed by early April.

This is also the time when spring comes and flowers bloom, and all things come back to life.

"Honey, Dad called and said that the date has been chosen. The 9th is a good date. He said that it would be a good time for us to move into the villa."

Xiulan said with a smile when Lin Heng came back at noon on the 4th.

Lin Heng glanced at the calendar on the wall and said, "That day happens to be Tuesday, so let's ask the child for two days off and go back on Friday afternoon."

"I thought so too." Xiulan nodded.

After sitting down in the living room to eat, Xiulan said, "Dad also asked if we should invite those people?"

"Just call a few important relatives and friends as I said before. No gifts will be accepted unless they do the job." Lin Heng shook his head. He didn't mind the trouble and didn't need the money, so he would keep a low profile if possible.

"That's what I replied. I knew you wouldn't change your mind." Xiulan said with a smile. She was very familiar with Lin Heng.

"Of course. I just want a peaceful life now. When the child grows up a little, we can go out and play together." Lin Heng said with a smile.

The purpose of making money has always been to enjoy life. Now that I have earned so much, of course I have to live a good life.

In the blink of an eye, it was already Friday the 5th, which also happened to be the Qingming Festival this year. Lin Heng and Xiulan prepared everything in the morning, and picked up the children as soon as they got out of school in the afternoon and rushed back to their hometown without even having to pack their schoolbags.

It was spring now, and the rape flowers in the fields were almost withering, but all kinds of wild flowers on the mountains were still in full bloom, and you could smell the fragrance of flowers all along the way.

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PS: It will be finished tomorrow. This is really the last chapter. I still need to think about it carefully. (End of this chapter)