Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 246 Father Lin’s Versailles
Today is the Lantern Festival, and it is natural to celebrate it in the evening. On this day, the lights must be brightly lit, and every household must light the lights until twelve o'clock in the evening.

Besides the Lantern Festival, today is also Xiaoxia's second birthday.

However, Lin Heng and Xiulan were not prepared to say it, otherwise they would have to trouble everyone to give red envelopes or something, which was really unnecessary.

Before eating, everyone looked at saplings and seeds in the house.

In addition to purchasing large quantities of apples, grapes, and kiwis, Lin Heng purchased three types of fruit trees. I also bought a small amount of sugar oranges, pear trees, plum trees, peach trees, apricot trees, and cherry trees, but the numbers were not large. I bought them and planted them in front of and behind my house for my own consumption.

There are many varieties and it is a pleasure to eat something in every season.

Lin Heng pointed at the fruit trees and said with a smile: "Uncle, uncle, and third father, you all take four or five saplings of the same kind and plant them. These are all good saplings. They are much better than the local fruits, and they bear big fruits." And sweet.”

Li Baiquan grinned and said, "I'm not welcome."

After saying that, he went to pick some seedlings himself, wrapped them in film paper and put them aside.

The third father and his family took some without being polite. Although the fruit tree was not that expensive, it was different after the travel expenses from Ancheng.

"Okay, okay." Mother Lin suddenly smiled happily.

"This is the birthday gift I bought for Xiaoxia."

After chatting for a while, before Mother Lin left, Lin Heng saw his eldest brother, uncle, and uncle also coming in with red envelopes.

"I know, dad said today is the Lantern Festival." Xiaoxia said quickly, raising her little hand.

"Open the door, son."

Xiaoxia tilted her head and thought for a long time, then shook her head and couldn't think of anything.

"What's wrong, can't I celebrate my granddaughter's birthday?" Li Honghai had a tough attitude. Not only did he get a red envelope, but he also got a shuttlecock made of golden rooster feathers. He was obviously well prepared.

"Wash your hands and eat."

"Just give me a kiss and say thank you and you can eat noodles." Xiulan said with a smile.

After Mrs. Lin finished speaking, she walked towards Xiaoxia: "Xiaoxia, I'll give you a red envelope, and you will be healthy in the future."

"No, why are you doing this? It's not necessary." Lin Heng said with helpless hands, knowing everything.

Lin Heng took out a small colored leather ball, a book of paper-cut drawings, and a small Rubik's cube and handed it to her with a smile.

Lin Heng spread his hands, unable to say anything else. Xiaoxia was so happy to receive a lot of red envelopes that she jumped up and down.

"After tonight, you will be two years old, and you are getting bigger and bigger." Lin Heng also smiled.

"Boom boom boom!"

"It's time to eat." Mother Lin walked out of the house and said.

Xiaoxia was shocked when she saw so many gifts. It turned out to be such a good birthday.

"Let's go and eat." Lin Heng also nodded. Today is the meal cooked by his eldest brother.

Xiaoxia played in the room for a while. Xiulan brought a small bowl of noodles and placed it in front of Xiaoxia. She looked at her and asked with a smile: "Xiaoxia, do you know what day it is today?"

Xiaoxia couldn't wait to play with the toys, kissed the two of them on the face, and started to destroy the longevity noodles.

In the evening, I prepared two large dishes for the table and cooked rice wine glutinous rice balls. The rice wine and glutinous rice balls made the aftertaste of the New Year satisfying.

"Okay uncle, I'll catch some for you when you leave." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.

"Yes, but not completely right." Xiulan nodded and asked, "Xiaoxia, do you know when you were born?"

Mother Lin snorted softly: "Of course I gave a red envelope to my precious granddaughter. I really thought we didn't know Xiaoxia's birthday."

Lin Heng opened the door and smiled.

"Yes, it's all our thoughts. We didn't celebrate our first birthday before, but now it's just right." Li Baiquan also said with a smile.

Xiulan didn't eat much at first, but Xiaoxia finished the meal in two bites. She crawled over and grabbed the small leather ball and started hitting it, giggling happily.

Naturally, everyone is very happy if they can take some for free and plant them back.

Hearing what Lin Heng said, Xiaoxia jumped up immediately: "Okay, I've grown up."

After eating, Lin Heng and Xiulan took Xiaoxia back.

At this time, Mother Lin's knock on the door came from outside.

"You were born two years ago today. In addition to being the Lantern Festival, today is also your birthday." Xiulan touched her face and said.

"Thank you, grandma." Xiaoxia ran over with the ball in her arms. She was so happy to receive the red envelope that she kissed her grandma on the face.

This gift was carefully selected by Lin Heng. It is not only full of fun, but also can exercise the coordination ability of hands and feet, which is beneficial to the intellectual development of children.

"There are red envelopes and longevity noodles for my birthday. Come and eat." Xiaoxia took out a red envelope and said with a smile.

Xiaoxia's birthday was on the same day as the Lantern Festival, so it was easy to remember, but she didn't mention it during dinner.

"Thank you mom and dad."

After taking a look at the remaining saplings, he planned to plant them in the back mountain, where his family could pick them whenever they wanted.

"Mom, why are you coming here so late at night?"

When the time comes, cut off the trees in the back hill and wrap some black film paper around the stumps. The new branches will not be able to photosynthesize and will die on their own after one summer.

Lu Honghai smiled and said, "Lin Heng, I'll just take two saplings. Give me a handful of your ginseng seeds. I'm going to go back and plant some."

The two called everyone into the room to have another meal, but they all left after giving out red envelopes.

"Just give it, as long as Xiaoxia is happy, and pay it back later."

Lin Heng said with a smile.

"This is the only way." Xiulan also nodded.

Xiaoxia played for a while and then was taken into the house to sleep. Before going to bed, she opened all the red envelopes and deposited them into her piggy bank.

In addition to the money, there was also a rag doll with a bell that Caiyun gave her during the day. Caiyun made it herself, with Xiaoxia's name embroidered on it, and she spent a lot of thought on it.

When Xiaoxia sleeps, she hugs her doll, and several little cloth dolls sleep on the same bed with her.

In the blink of an eye, the next morning, Lin Heng and Xiulan got up early to wash up and exercise.

The weather was a bit gloomy today, with a lot of dark clouds in the sky. After the exercise, I walked back to the mountains to feed the animals and milk the cows.

"hiss!!"

Hong Zao roared again and kicked the wall in dissatisfaction. For three days, it has been sleeping under the eaves. It can only eat a little bit of fresh grass every day, and the rest is all hay.

"You can move back today." Lin Heng looked at it a little embarrassed.

The original plan was to build a cattle pen as a prerequisite, but planting fruit trees is more important. These fruit trees are bare roots and cannot be left for a long time, otherwise the seedlings will have a high probability of dying.

Lin Heng temporarily got some corn stalks for the cows to eat, while Xiulan was busy milking the cows.

Boil the milk and call everyone over to drink it.

"Caiyun, do you need me to register this year?" Lin Heng looked at her and asked.

Caiyun finished drinking the milk and raised her head and said, "It's all fine, it's up to you, second brother." "Then go ahead and I'll help plant fruit trees. You can use the extra money to buy books and pens." Lin Heng took out twenty yuan. Hand it to her.

"This is too much, brother." Caiyun shook his head.

"Take it, buy whatever you need, live with dignity, your brother is not short of this money." Xiulan patted her hand and said with a smile.

"That's right, study hard so you can work for me." Lin Heng also smiled.

Both of them said this, Caiyun could only nod and accept it, and then went back to prepare for school.

After Lin Heng and others finished breakfast, they continued planting fruit trees. I got up early today. There are a thousand kiwi fruit trees in ten acres of land. They were finished in the morning.

All you need to do is plant. Depending on the weather, it won't be long before it rains, so you have to seize the time. After it comes back to life, we will slowly weed and fertilize later.

"It's finally done." Seeing that the kiwis were planted, Lin Yue felt at ease.

"How many years does it take for this thing to grow?" Li Shiwei asked curiously.

"Kiwi fruits and grapes will bear fruit next year, and they will reach high yields in three or four years. It will take four to five years for apple trees to enter their peak fruiting period, and the next few decades will be their peak yield period."

Lin Heng said with a smile. What he chose at this time of year was very good. It will be almost ninety years before these fruit trees fully grow.

When the market economy is reformed, people's living standards improve, and market demand increases significantly, their fruits will just catch up with this time point, and they will have no worries about selling.

The Chinese medicinal materials he grows are also the same, and they can all be sold at very good prices when the time comes.

You won't make money by waiting until the market demands it. Only by preparing in advance can you stand at the forefront.

"It's not easy to plant crops on our mountain, otherwise we would have an orchard." Li Shiwei said with emotion.

There is nothing anyone can do about it. Planting and transporting fruit trees on the mountains is a big problem.

"Let's go back to eat. We have to plant seeds for Third Dad and the others in the afternoon." Lin Yue said with a smile.

Everyone nodded and walked back. During lunch, Lin Heng and his third father gave Xiaoxia a birthday red envelope and gave his mother a harsh speech, not telling them such a thing.

Lin Heng didn't stop him and asked Xiaoxia to accept it. It wouldn't be appropriate if everyone else took it and it wasn't his third father's.

Lin Wei and others chased Xiaoxia to play with the ball and ran around in the yard.

After dinner, they went to Lin Hengsan's father's house in the afternoon and planted a thousand one-year kiwi fruit seedlings bought by Lin Hai.

The land is right on the roadside, so you don’t have to travel far and it can be planted quickly.

It was done at five o'clock in the afternoon. After finishing it, Li Baiquan smiled and said: "I won't eat anymore, go back."

"That's impossible. We have to finish eating before we talk." Lin Hai ran over and held him back.

It was impossible to walk away and in the end we were left to eat. It was dark after dinner, so the two of them had to stay at Lin Heng's house before leaving early the next morning.

After dinner in the morning, Lin Heng also drove to the town, bought some black film paper, and then brought back several bags of fertilizer that Li Chengguo had sent.

"Dad, you guys did it pretty fast."

When Lin Heng came back, he found that his father, brother and uncle had finished sawing the trees in the back hill and started to build a fence.

"There is a diesel saw." Father Lin said with a smile.

"Then let me wrap the roots."

Lin Heng said something and wrapped all the tree roots in the fence with black film paper.

They continued to expand the back mountain and now have two acres of land, with a slope of about thirty or forty.

After finishing, they planted thirty fruit trees here, three or four of each type.

There are still more than a hundred pear trees left in the house. Peach trees, plum trees, apricot trees and the like were bought infrequently, and there are only a dozen or so left.

This is also easy to deal with. Afterwards, it will be planted on the edge of Hongfeng Mountain to stabilize the soil, and the excess will be given to the villagers as a favor.

After planting the fruit trees in the morning, his uncle returned home with saplings and ginseng seeds in the afternoon. Lin Heng, his father and his elder brother continued to build a cowshed for the cows.

The cowshed is still made of wood, and it is a fenced cowshed instead of a fully enclosed one.

The advantage of this kind of room is that it is very ventilated, so Mr. Niu is less likely to get sick. There is also a fence to protect you from the wind when sleeping at night.

The ceiling above is still made of wooden boards, and then multiple layers of membrane paper are laid to make it waterproof, and a layer of straw is added on the outside to prevent the membrane paper from weathering.

Whether it is a cattle pen, a horse pen, or other livestock pens, they are all built behind Father Lin's house. There are no such things behind Lin Heng's yard.

It's not a matter of the smell of feces. They are not far from the Shiban River and the wind is strong all year round. In fact, it doesn't have much of a stink, and you can't smell it at all in the yard.

The main reason is because there is a well behind Lin Heng's house. Even though it is groundwater, the fecal water that seeps into the ground has been filtered. But for the sake of my own comfort and safety, I didn't build a livestock pen in the back.

Moreover, the slope behind his parents' old house is gentler, making it easier to build a cattle and horse pen.

"It's finally done."

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Heng took a long breath and said.

"It's really tiring." Lin Yue sat down next to him.

It took three people more than four hours to finish it. The new cattle pen is six meters long, three meters wide and 18 square meters in size.

There are three compartments inside, with a cow in each compartment to prevent the cows from getting together with the calves. The newly weaned calves are very restless.

There is also a grid just for stacking fodder, or for raising calves when there are calves in the future.

"Come on, let's go get the cows. The red dates have been living under the eaves for several days." Lin Heng stood up and said.

"Don't you need to watch a good day?" Lin's father asked.

"Today is a good day." Lin Heng waved his hand.

He took the big cow, and the eldest brother took the little cow, and gave them new homes.

"Moo~~"

As soon as the two cows arrived at their new home, the big ox in the pen not far away let out a loud cry.

"What's your name? You've been castrated for many years."

Lin Heng glanced at it and gave the cow some fodder. This grid is three meters long and two meters wide, which is enough for a cow.

"I will work hard to hunt cattle from now on. There are more and more animals in the family."

Father Lin looked at the animals in the back mountain and sighed. Now his family has three cows, a horse, a sheep, and two forest musk deer, all of which are big eaters of grass.

But he is in pain and happy at the same time, which means that his family is rich, which he would have never imagined last year.

"In a few days, you can find some trees on the edge of the land, cut them down and burn them, and then plant the grass I bought. Then you won't have to cut grass everywhere. These high-quality grasses grow quickly and are nutritious." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"I know, I'm just feeling emotional." Lin's father smiled honestly. He was in Versailles, and no one else had such troubles these days.

"Let's go home." Lin Heng put his arms around the necks of his father and elder brother and hung up.

On the way back, Father Lin asked again: "By the way, son, when will you plant those Chinese medicinal materials, and when will the work on Hongfeng Mountain start?"

(End of this chapter)