Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 224: People will be trapped for life by the things that young people can’t get.

After having breakfast and resting for a while, Lin Heng and Xiulan went to deal with the pig head and internal organs. The pig head needs to be burned clean and then peeled off before marinating.

The internal organs are simply cleaned. The ones you bought may not have been cleaned well, so you need to wash them again with an alkaline surface.

Lin Heng finished processing the pig head meat, looked at Xiulan and said, "Let's kill another chicken and make braised chicken."

"Then you kill two chickens and two ducks, it will be enough for the New Year." Xiulan thought for a while and said.

"Okay, you boil the water and I'll kill you."

Lin Heng took a rope to the back mountain, but the chickens and ducks were still in the pen and had not been released. The duck then drew two unlucky eggs, and the chicken turned around and caught two big roosters that centipedes and scorpions like to attack people.

The wings and legs were tied, and they were carried back to the backyard, even if they screamed, it was useless.

After the water at Xiulan was boiled, Lin Heng started to kill the chickens. Killing a chicken is also very skillful. You need to hold the wings, legs and neck of the chicken with one hand, pluck out the hair on the neck, and use a hundred-smelted steel dagger to cut off the trachea and aorta.

After cutting it, hold the chicken leg upright with your right hand to let the blood flow down better. Lin Heng followed up with chicken blood. He and Xiulan didn't like eating it, but his parents liked it very much and could give it to them after it was ready.

After giving the chicken and duck blood to his mother, Lin Heng strolled outside the yard for a while. There were many children playing wooden tops in the courtyard of Li Caifeng's house next door, and their laughter spread far and wide.

Xiaoxia doesn't eat garlic sprouts, but she also praises the meat.

Now he has grown his bangs longer and looks much better. He is wearing a black cotton-padded jacket and is fatter than before.

After Lin Heng finished killing the chicken, Xiulan also came over with a bucket of water.

"Lin Heng, open the door!"

Lin Heng and his brother have been responsible for killing chickens in the house since they were young. They are extremely skilled in killing chickens or ducks. It only takes one minute to kill a chicken or duck.

"There's nothing fun about this. We can't finish it in one day." Lin Heng shook his head.

"too delicious."

When they were young, they liked to play the game of pulling a cart. One person tied a rope to a wooden board and pulled another person to run on the road.

These two things are fragrant enough when fried casually, not to mention Xiulan's skills are very good.

"Dad, let's go together."

Lin Heng opened the door and saw Liu Sheng walking in with two bottles of Erguotou. He said with a smile on his face: "There is nothing to take, so I just gave you two bottles of Erguotou. Don't dislike it."

Xiulan made fried pork with garlic sprouts for lunch, using fresh pork given by her father, and it was delicious.

Lin Heng shook his head helplessly and prepared to take him to the study for tea. But Liu Sheng said he was not thirsty and told Xiulan that he and Lin Heng would make a wooden cart for Xiaoxia.

Lin Heng went to deliver something, and Xiaoxia followed behind with her green wolf dog Laifu. She now likes Laifu, taking it with her wherever she goes, and playing with Xiongba less.

It took another half an hour to open the intestines and dispose of the internal organs, and then the chicken was finally killed.

“The meat is delicious!”

Liu Sheng laughed: "Looking back on my childhood, I often wanted to make a wooden car of my own. Now making one for my niece can be considered a dream come true."

Seeing that it was already past two o'clock at noon, Xiulan cooked chicken blood and duck blood and asked Lin Heng to take them to her parents. She started to make lunch.

Lin Heng felt as if his memory of playing these things was still yesterday, and he felt that there was a lot of fog behind him, and those memories had been blurred by the wind of time.

"It's really unnecessary. In our relationship, you bring gifts when you visit." Lin Heng looked at him speechlessly.

"As long as it's delicious." Xiulan ate her meal with a smile, feeling happy in her heart.

The water is boiling, not cold water. Put the killed chicken in and scald it, and the hair will be pulled out easily.

Lin Heng looked at him and smiled and said, "If you don't want to drink tea, let's go out and play. I'll take you to see the wooden house below that I built on Hongfeng Mountain."

Laifu meows like a husky, and his milky voice is really attractive. Several little girls in the village were also very envious.

Xiulan went into the house and got a steel scale. After the weighing, both of them were satisfied with the weight. After plucking, the big rooster weighed six pounds and the other seven pounds, and the two ducks weighed more than four pounds.

"alright."

Liu Sheng entered the room, put the wine on the long grain cabinet, and said with a smile: "This is not a gift. It's the New Year soon. It's not good to come empty-handed."

Lin Heng was full of praise. A few garlic leaves and a piece of meat were sandwiched together, and then eaten with a mouthful of rice. This was the most delicious enjoyment.

After dinner, Lin Heng washed the dishes and was bored. He planned to make a wooden car for Xiaoxia to play with some leftover boards from the previous furniture making, so that she could sit in it.

This is a chicken that has been fed for half a year. It is already very good at this weight.

"Boom boom boom!"

Several children in the village later had wooden carts made by adults and showed them off everywhere. Liu Sheng also wanted one, but unfortunately his father had no idea of ​​making one for him. He would only spank him with a wicker stick and say that he was not doing his job properly.

Liu Sheng, like his father, has a very long horse face. This face shape was often laughed at in the village as "Last year I shed a tear, but this year it has not reached my lips." When he was a child, he often fought with people because of this. Mr. Lin Heng He is loyal enough to help.

After a while, the blood drained out and the chicken stopped moving. He threw it aside and continued to kill the next one.

He wanted to give it a try, but he shook his head and pulled his daughter into the house, thinking that he might as well keep it to play with his daughter and son later.

There are several people on the road below playing with rolling hoops. They use hooks to push the hoops to see who can roll further. The competition with each other is also very lively.

"The water is coming!"

"I'll go get a scale and weigh it."

Just after finishing the car's floor, Liu Sheng's shouts came from outside.

Xiaoxia had nothing to do, so she was running around in the backyard with her green wolf dog Laifu, seemingly simulating hunting. Lin Heng and Xiulan were busy plucking the feathers, and it took them half an hour to pluck the chicken and duck feathers cleanly.

Having their own secret base outside was also one of their childhood dreams.

"Okay, then I'll just go over and have a look." Liu Sheng smiled and nodded, quite interested in this.

Lin Heng looked at Xiulan who was smashing walnuts, and asked in a low voice: "Honey, Liu Sheng and I are going to play in Hongfeng Mountain, are you going to go?"

Xiulan raised her head and glanced at him, and said softly: "You go ahead. I won't disturb you and reminisce about old times. Just come back before dark."

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded and said, "You don't have to smash the walnuts. I'll do it for you tomorrow morning."

"Ah."

After agreeing with Xiulan, Lin Heng took the key, bow and arrow and Xiongba, and walked to Hongfeng Mountain with Liu Sheng.

"Now that I think about it, I shouldn't let you run around with us."

When Liu Sheng walked out of the yard, he sighed with emotion. He was extremely envious of the relationship between Lin Heng and Xiulan.

"It's all about making money." Lin Heng smiled. He went out just to make money, but he made the mistake of trusting Zhao Hu too much.

"You have made money in the house now. I'm so envious. What did you think at first that you suddenly went home?" Liu Sheng asked curiously.

Lin Heng smiled slightly and said: "I had a long and very real dream, and then I woke up. I think money is important and family is important." "Okay, it seems you have figured it out." Liu Sheng agreed. It’s not surprising that people sometimes change a lot when they figure it out.

Xiongba ran in front, while Lin Heng explored the road at home. Lin Heng and Liu Sheng chatted, and it didn't take long for the two of them to arrive at Hongfeng Mountain.

Arriving in front of the wooden house, Lin Heng said with a smile: "Look, this is the wooden house I built this year. Is it okay?"

Liu Sheng's eyes lit up when he saw this wooden house: "This is not only good, it is so good and so beautiful."

He said and tried the swing first, then looked at the wooden platform, and finally entered the wooden house. After looking at it three times, Liu Sheng took a deep breath: "It would be great if I could build such a house when I was a child."

When he was young, he, Lin Heng and Lin Hai spent more than half a month collecting wood to build a simple wooden house. They called it a secret base. They liked to hide in it when they got angry at home, and even grilled frogs and river grouper in it. .

It's just a pity that the secret base didn't exist for a month before it was deliberately pushed down by the old man from the Tian family who was dead in the village, took it home and burned it. At that time, they were so angry that they secretly beat two of the old man's chickens to death, and the vegetable garden was ruined. The angry old Tian family man cursed in the village for several days.

Lin Heng also sighed with emotion: "It was because we didn't have one when we were young, so we built it when we grew up."

People will eventually be trapped for life by the things they can't get when they are young.

There was no wind in the woods today. Lin Heng took some charcoal from the house to light it, boiled a pot of water, and made a cup of tea.

There was no snow in winter, and there was nothing to see in the distant scenery. The two of them walked around in the forest, and Liu Sheng suggested catching two fish to grill and eat.

On a cold day, only two people could catch fish in the freezing mountain stream. Lin Heng fished one out from under the stone in a short while.

"Your skills haven't changed at all." Liu Sheng said in surprise.

"That's natural." Lin Heng smiled slightly, his ability to catch fish was already engraved in his bones.

I caught about ten stream groupers, none of them big, so I washed them in the stream water, took them up and grilled them on the charcoal fire.

"It's not bad, it tastes the same as before." Liu Sheng took a bite and said with a smile.

Lin Heng also nodded. The fish taste of the river grouper is not very strong. After grilling, the fish tastes tender and fragrant, and seems to have a hint of sweetness.

After playing here for a while, Lin Heng took him to search in the nearby woods, but unfortunately there was no trace of the prey.

During this time, you have to go hunting in the mountains, or squat in the green wheat fields and rapeseed fields where there will be wild boars, or wait until night to go to the edge of the ditch to have a look.

Not catching any prey was unexpected by Lin Heng. When it was almost dark, the two of them walked back. On the way, they met Liu Ciwen who was herding cattle. Lin Heng chatted with him for a few words.

After returning home, Liu Sheng insisted on helping Xiaoxia build the wooden cart, but Lin Heng did not stop him anymore. He went to help Xiulan and made the wooden cart with him.

At half past six, Xiulan finished frying the vegetables, and Lin Heng asked Liu Sheng to eat.

Liu Sheng saw the dishes on the table and said in shock: "Oh my god, are you making a New Year's Eve dinner? It's so rich."

The four meat, four vegetarian and eight dishes are of a higher standard than his New Year’s Eve dinner.

"I've hunted the most wild boar meat. Let's eat it freely. Let's have a drink first." Lin Heng raised his glass with a smile.

"This is too much, Xiulan's craftsmanship is so good." Liu Sheng also picked up the wine glass and said with a smile.

"You praise me before you even eat it, but you can barely eat it."

Xiulan said modestly, she took Xiaoxia with her, drank rice wine, and occasionally added a few words.

"It smells delicious, and one bite is better than what's served in a restaurant."

Liu Sheng praised a few words and started drinking with Lin Heng.

After the meal, Liu Sheng felt that it was more comfortable than going to a restaurant. It could be said that he was full.

After finishing the meal and sending Liu Sheng off, Lin Heng brought him a piece of meat: "I'll bring you some wild boar meat and give it to your parents to try. You've seen a lot of it in my house, so don't refuse."

"Okay, thank you." Liu Sheng looked at it, didn't refuse, took the meat and left with a smile on his face.

After sending Liu Sheng away, Lin Heng helped Xiulan clear the table.

The next day, it suddenly got a lot colder in the morning. After exercising, Lin Heng smashed the walnuts. He knew they were what Xiulan was going to use to make dumplings.

In the South, rice cakes are a must at the reunion dinner, while in the North, dumplings are a must. They are located in the Qinling Mountains, at the junction of the north and the south. It all depends on your preference. The Lin Heng family likes to eat dumplings.

Xiulan made breakfast in a hurry and was busy braised meat, because she had the old stewed soup that she had saved before, and her sister-in-law and Mrs. Lin both came to ask for some to braise the meat.

Lin Heng helped set up the fire all morning, and at noon he drove his three-wheeled motorcycle to Huangtan Town.

Today is the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, which is also the 31st of January in the Gregorian calendar. The shop is closed and he has to go down and settle the accounts. At the same time, he can pay Wang Zhou his wages so that he can go home to celebrate the New Year.

He also brought Uncle Gao cakes he made, honey, and a braised chicken. Although he will definitely not be short of these, this is also his part of the heart.

He didn't hunt the golden rooster himself, but bought it from Wang Kaidian in the village.

Before the New Year, he also got some gifts for Manager Jin, Li Chengguo, Guo Xu, and even Ge Qingshan.

When Uncle Gao saw Lin Heng taking these things, he was naturally happy. As the saying goes, it is not surprising that many people are polite.

"Brother Lin, I have calculated all the accounts for this year. We opened on September 7th, seven days and five months later. We have made a total profit of 2,020 yuan."

Seeing Lin Heng coming out of Uncle Gao's house, Wang Zhou smiled and handed the account book to Lin Heng.

Lin Heng nodded and took the account book. He looked at it for a while and found no problems.

The original estimated profit of the canteen and buying station was a little more than 3,000 yuan a year, but now they have sold 2,000 yuan in five months.

This has something to do with Lin Heng's sales routine. Another point is that the purchase price of the mountain products here is not so high, and some people from other towns will come to sell them, especially some of the more valuable mountain products.

“How much cash is there now?”

Lin Heng asked.

"The cash is eight hundred and twenty-three yuan and seventy-eight cents." Wang Zhou said as he handed over a black cloth bag.

Lin Heng counted it and found that the money was correct, plus the money he took was just right.

After thinking for a while, Lin Heng took out four ten-dollar bills and handed them to Wang Zhou with a smile: "Twenty is your salary, and the other twenty is the year-end bonus. You have done a good job this year."

"This... so much!"

Wang Zhou's eyes suddenly widened when he saw so much money. He thought that the year-end bonus Lin Heng said would be good for five yuan, but unexpectedly it was directly his one month's salary.

This was a huge surprise.

"What's wrong? Too little?" Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Of course not, thank you Brother Lin."

Wang Zhou shook his head quickly, took the money and nodded vigorously, feeling very flattered.

"It's still the same. Just sign the salary slip. Then you wait for me here. I'll take you home after I finish the work," Lin Heng said with a slight smile.

(End of this chapter)