Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"That's a pity. Let's leave two for Xiaoxia."

Xiulan said after eating a plum.

Xiaoxia was just taken out to play by her grandma and she hasn't come back yet.

Mother Lin likes to show off her granddaughter from time to time.

"You can eat it, she has other fruits." Lin Heng said, there will probably be no shortage of fruits at home next year. He planted many different varieties of fruit trees in the back hill.

Xiulan ate two plums, and the two of them cleaned up the fungi and prepared them for dinner later.

The sky had just cleared and the soil outside was still very soft and soft. Xiulan was mostly active in the yard. Lin Heng took her to the back mountain to look at the cows.

Recently, there is so much milk that I can’t finish it. In addition to drinking a cup in the morning and evening, I also use it to make yogurt, butter, soufflé and other dairy products.

Even so, I couldn't finish the drink, and would give some away from time to time.

Although there were some twists and turns in the production process of the young cow, there have been no problems since then. Recently, it seems that the baby cow has begun to eat some green grains, gradually building up the rumen flora.

Cows are incapable of rumination when they are just born, and they cannot digest cellulose. As they eat a small amount of forage, the bacterial flora will gradually build up. When the rumen is developed, they will ruminate, and they can be weaned.

Farmers who understand this principle will let calves try to eat grass very early and gradually build up the rumen bacterial community system. The advantage is that calves can be weaned very early, usually within three months.

Without manual intervention, it usually takes four to five months for a baby to wean on its own.

The method to try is also very simple. Keep the cow and the calf separately, provide some fodder, and it will always try to eat a few bites.

After watching the calf, they went home and planted some garlic. Today's sunset was beautiful, with the lower half of the western sky full of orange.

After planting garlic and watching the sunset in the yard, they started to make dinner. Life is about three meals a day. As long as it is what you are happy with, it is not a waste of time.

The rice was steamed in a rice cooker, and they cooked two dishes and one soup, one with ham and fried mushrooms, one with stir-fried winter melon, and a matsutake and crucian carp soup.

Add a soaked bamboo shoot and it will be today's dinner. After it is ready, the sun has already set, and there is still the last red afterglow on the top of the mountain in the west, like the wail of the setting sun.

The two sat outside to cool off for a while when they heard the door open. Xiongba and Fengshou stood up first and waggled their tails happily, and then Mother Lin pulled Xiaoxia out from behind the screen.

"Mom, Dad, I brought plums back." Xiaoxia said in a sweet voice while holding a small bag.

Lin Heng took a look and found that it was the golden wild plums that he had only picked a few this year. Xiulan asked curiously: "Did you pick these?"

"No, Yang Qing's mother gave it to me." Xiaoxia said with her head held high.

Then she took out two more and gave them to Lin Heng and Xiulan to try. The golden wild plums were moderately sweet and sour.

"It seems that you are so proud." Xiulan said with a smile while eating a plum.

Mother Lin also nodded and said, "No, his third mother gave him a gardenia tree a few days ago. As long as it's worthless, Lin Heng will give it to him just by casually saying so."

Both of them understood that this was given by Yang Qing's mother for Lin Heng's sake. Lin Heng's wealth and power caused all of this to happen, and everyone was willing to have a good relationship with him.

However, they will not tell Xiaoxia these words for the time being. She cannot understand them and is not old enough to understand them.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "Mom, come over and eat together. If my dad doesn't eat, just bring some back to him."

He knew that his mother and the others were eating late, so they were all doing it.

"That's okay." Mother Lin nodded and agreed.

She hasn't been catching scorpions very much recently. The area near her house is almost full of scorpions, and she can earn thousands of yuan from selling scorpions in one summer.

Lin's mother originally wanted to give Lin Heng 500, but he didn't ask for it. The money he received from his eldest brother was about 400 to 500, and he had already given the ultraviolet lamp to them.

After eating, Lin's mother took the food for Lin's father and left, while Lin Heng and the other two were enjoying the shade and playing games in the yard.

In the blink of an eye, it was the next day. Lin Heng was making a small 'fishing wheel' out of wood this year. It was said to be a fishing wheel, but it was actually a wooden wheel for reeling in thread.

"Why are you doing this?" Xiulan asked while picking up the soles. She successfully made a pair of small cloth shoes for Xiaoxia two days ago, and now she is picking up the cloth shoes made for Lin Heng.

Even though her family has enough money to buy them, she is still used to making shoes for Lin Heng. She will feel a sense of accomplishment when her beloved wears the shoes she made.

This is also the unique romance of this era. A pair of cloth shoes represents a woman’s passionate and sincere love.

"I want to eat pickled fish, and I'm going to catch some black fish." Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said.

The roads have not been dry for the past two days, making it inconvenient to enter the city, and tomorrow and the day after tomorrow happen to be Sunday. Caiyun helped take care of Xiulan during the holidays, and he was going to get some black fish to eat.

He has no ambitions, he just wants to eat delicious food. Autumn is the season for plump fish, so he plans to catch some snakehead fish.

"Where are you going, Heihe?" Xiulan raised her head and asked.

"No, you have to go to the swamp to catch snakeheaded fish. I'll go to the swamp over Sanchagou." Lin Heng explained.

The place with the most snakehead fish is not in the river, but in swamps and areas with many floating aquatic plants. There are snakehead fish in the swamp over Sanchagou, and he is going to give it a try.

Fishing is much simpler than hunting. No matter what, you will definitely get something, and you don’t have to search all over the mountains and fields.

"Is that so? Then I'll cut the pickled cabbage and wait for you when you come back." Xiulan said with a smile. She also likes to eat pickled fish, especially the vermicelli in it.

The vermicelli soaked in the hot and sour soup tastes so good.

Lin Heng grinned: "No problem, I promise you can eat pickled fish tomorrow afternoon."

After working on the wooden fishing reel for a day, Lin Heng prepared the fishing line and went to the waterside in the afternoon to catch five big green frogs to take with him, so as to avoid catching frogs everywhere tomorrow.

"Brother, are you going hunting tomorrow?"

After catching the frogs, Lin Heng went to ask his brother again.

Lin Yue said happily: "Are you going hunting? I have time anytime."

As long as he goes out hunting now, his wife will not stop him.

"I'm going to fish for black fish, you can look for prey nearby." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Is that so? That's fine. I'll go and put down a few ground hooks. If I can't catch prey, I can still have fish to eat." Lin Yue nodded and said.

Then he added: "There are quite a few people there now. Since you had a big harvest there last year, there are more people there now, especially after they caught a big wild boar a few days ago, it became even more lively there."

"It doesn't matter. There are a lot of people." Lin Heng waved his hand. He was not surprised by these things, just like when you caught a big fish, the fishing spot was full of fishermen the next day.

Without him saying anything, those people would judge the approximate direction of his hunting by themselves, and then run over to hunt.

Lin Yue nodded and smiled: "Okay, then we will set off at four o'clock. I heard that they recently found traces of yellow muntjac and roe deer. Maybe we will be lucky enough to meet them."

After discussing with his eldest brother, Lin Heng returned home. Caiyun had already helped him prepare dinner when he came back.

"Second brother, my sister-in-law taught me to bake steamed buns. See if you like it." Caiyun said with a smile.

Knowing that Lin Heng was going to go into the mountains, Xiulan kneaded the dough at noon, and Caiyun came back to help make fennel buns.

Fennel buns are made by chopping fennel leaves, adding sesame seeds, spreading oil on the buns, kneading them into a ball and rolling them out to make fennel buns similar to thousand-layer cakes.

"Very skilled, better than what mom makes." Lin Heng nodded affirmatively.

Caiyun smiled and said, "That's fine, I don't expect to make it better than my sister-in-law."

"Hurry up and eat." Xiulan said with a smile.

Xiaoxia was the most pragmatic, and she had already taken the buns and started eating.

The unique aroma of fennel and sesame seeds are perfectly matched. After applying fermented bean curd and spicy sauce, Lin Heng can eat a whole bun with a diameter of 20 cm. After drinking a bowl of winter melon soup, he leaned back comfortably on the chair, enjoying the satisfaction of being full.

Caiyun didn't go back at night, and slept on the sofa in his house.

Lin Heng packed up everything and went back to the house to rest. He woke up at three o'clock the next day. He slept for a while and woke up at half past four.

"Be safe and be careful of snakes." Xiulan pulled him and said.

"Don't worry." Lin Heng nodded. After getting up and washing his face, he drank a bowl of yogurt and went out with his equipment.

He went to his eldest brother's house and knocked on the door for a while. His eldest brother came out to open the door: "I forgot to sleep today."

"It's okay, then I'll wait for you to pack." Lin Heng smiled and said, he got up a little late today.

Lin Heng and his eldest brother went into the house and waited for about ten minutes. His eldest brother was ready, and the two set off for Sanchagou together.

It was five o'clock when the two set out, but because it was already October, it was more than six o'clock in the morning, and the opportunity for hunting in the morning had not been missed.

The two did not explore along the path all the way. When it was dawn, they were not far from Sanchagou, so they started to explore a little at this time.

Lin Heng brought Xiongba, and his elder brother brought Fengshou. It was more convenient and safer to do anything with a dog in the wild.

It was already eight o'clock in the morning when the two arrived at Sanchagou. Lin Heng didn't see any prey along the way, so he picked up a few Ganoderma lucidum and about one kilogram of other mushrooms.

"It seems that this place is no longer comparable to the past. I didn't even see a squirrel this morning." Lin Yue shook his head disappointedly. His harvest was also more than one kilogram of mushrooms.

"It's okay, let's go get black fish." Lin Heng shook his head, having expected these.

"It can only be like this." Lin Yue nodded and sighed.

The two walked up and just when they reached the edge of the swamp, they suddenly met someone who said, "Lin Heng, are you here to hunt too?"

Lin Heng looked up and saw two people walking out of the swamp in the distance. One was Wang Kaidian, and the one who was talking was Wang Bing, who was about twenty-six or seven years old. He was Wang Kaidian's nephew and had been following him to hunt.

"Yes, did you catch anything?" Lin Heng asked casually.

"I've been here for two days and I've only hunted one rabbit. There are so many people here now that it's hard to hunt. I finally encountered a yellow muntjac but it ran away." Wang Kaidian shook his head and said.

Wang Bing also nodded and said, "Yes, I think you've come here for nothing. It's better to go back."

Lin Yue couldn't stand these words and frowned, saying, "Just because you can't hunt doesn't mean others can't either."

"Hey, you still don't believe me. This is the advice of an experienced person. You've only been hunting for a few days and don't understand." Wang Bing shrugged and said frivolously.

He even looked down on Lin Heng, thinking that he was just a second-rate guy who was lucky enough to make money by hoarding mulberry mushrooms. If he had this good luck, his industry would be bigger than his.

"Wang Bing, stop talking. You're far behind him." Wang Kaidian turned his head and scolded him.

Wang Bing stopped talking, but he looked unconvinced. He thought Lin Heng relied on luck and looked down on him from the bottom of his heart.

"Lin Heng, don't take it personally. My nephew just talks like that." Wang Kaidian turned his head and apologized to Lin Heng.

"Oh, it's okay." Lin Heng waved his hand. He didn't care about Wang Bing at all. He had seen many young men like him.

And he noticed that Wang Bing was wearing a silver-white necklace, which was very reflective and not suitable for hunting.

Maybe this was the reason why the yellow muntjac ran away, but he was too lazy to point it out.

After he finished speaking, he took his elder brother upstairs, but Lin Heng's indifference made Wang Bing feel very uncomfortable. After the people left, he cursed: "You are so arrogant. It's just that you are lucky and made a few stinky money."

Wang Kaidian looked at him and said, "You have to change your temper. His current wealth and power are not something you can challenge."

"I'm not afraid. I can't ask him for help, so what should I be afraid of?" Wang Bing said proudly.

Wang Kaidian was too lazy to say more, and nodded: "Let's go, let's look for more."

On the other side, Lin Heng had brought his elder brother to a swamp full of water peanuts and floats.

Lin Yue asked curiously: "Brother, how do you catch this black fish? Do you still use a ground hook?"

"It's OK to use a ground hook, but it's not as good as my method." Lin Heng smiled mysteriously.

He took out the fishing reel he made from his bag, caught a frog, pierced its body with an oversized hook, and broke its hind leg bones to prevent it from jumping around, so it could only struggle to move.

Then he looked at the direction and found a grass hole four or five meters ahead. There was no grass in this place, which was obviously the breathing hole of the black fish.

He aimed and threw the frog to the breathing hole. The blood of the green-skinned frog seeped into the water. Its front paws and hind legs kicked weakly, but it couldn't swim at all because of the broken leg bones.

"What method is this?" Lin Yue asked curiously.

Plop! !

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge splash of water appeared on the surface of the grass cave, and a loud splash was heard.

"Damn, it's so big!!"

Lin Heng excitedly reeled in the line. His wooden wheel did not unload the force, and he relied on brute force to pull it hard, relying on the line to be thick and strong enough.

With his violent pulling, the black fish was pulled out of the water in a short while and was violently pulled in front of him by Lin Heng.

"This one is big enough, about six or seven pounds." Lin said with a smile, this ferocious carnivorous fish feels good to pull, it's so cool.

Lin Yue was stunned beside him, looking at Lin Heng and said: "Brother, what kind of fishing method are you using? It's amazing."

This was the first time he saw this method of fishing black fish, and he never thought that black fish could be caught in this way.