Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 253 Shotgun and Melon Seedlings [Please vote for me]

The workers moved forward one by one, received their wages and walked back with smiles on their faces. The yard was filled with laughter.

"Thank you, Boss Lin!"

Liu Haigui said with a smile when he got his salary.

"You deserve this." Lin Heng said with a smile. Liu Haigui was the last one on the scene. The only person who worked for him this time was Carpenter Liang.

The person who hated the arrears of wages the most in his previous life will never arrears wages to others in this life.

"Boss Lin, I'll take my leave now."

After taking the money, Liu Haigui didn't want to stay any longer and left directly.

"Won't you stay for dinner?" Lin Heng said with a smile. This man worked very carefully, and he was quite satisfied.

"No, I'm covered in cement slurry. I have to go back and clean it up." Liu Haigui shook his head and said with a smile.

After making sure, Lin Heng put the gun back into the wooden box, carried the gun box and the bullets and went out.

"Brother, please take me to practice some time." Lin Yue said with a smile.

Lin Heng nodded and followed him to the backyard. After a while, Boss Zheng came out with a long wooden box and a cloth bag.

The six people crowded into the car again, all carrying tools in their hands. Lin Heng slowly sent them to Huangtan Town, then turned around and went to Zheng's store.

"The finished bullets, are you buying a shotgun?" Li Baiquan asked curiously, looking at the bullets in the bag.

After he finished speaking, he took out the gun and let everyone watch.

Boss Zheng stood up and said with a smile.

His brother had obtained a shotgun license, registered it at the police station, and even invited people to dinner, so there was no need to be sneaky.

"Okay, I just want to pay the carpenter and take you down." Lin Heng said again.

With the gun in the car, Lin Heng went to the place where the mixer was rented in town and asked him to go up and pull the mixer back and settle the bill.

After coming out, everyone was still looking at the guns in the yard and chatting happily.

Lin Heng nodded, picked it up and counted, there were two hundred and fifty rounds of bird bullets, one hundred rounds of deer bullets, and fifty rounds of lead bullets, a total of four hundred rounds. There was nothing wrong with it.

"What a good thing. The workmanship is really good. It's shiny."

As the name suggests, bird bullets are used to kill birds, deer bullets are used to kill wild boars and muntjacs, and special bullets are used to kill black bears, wolves, and tigers.

Lin Heng opened it and took a look. It had a beautiful black barrel and a butt made of red hardwood. It could be opened to load two shotshells.

"It cost another three thousand." Lin Heng sighed, and there was now just two thousand five thousand left in the card.

His third father, uncle, and others were chatting in the yard when they saw him coming back to ask if the matter was done.

"The red bullets are bird bullets with small lead pellets inside, the green bullets are deer bullets with large lead pellets inside, and the last metal-tipped bullet is a special lead-tipped bullet, which is the most powerful."

Lin Heng parked the car, took out the bullet and handed it to Lin Yue: "Brother, you bought your gun. Here is the bullet. The gun is in dad's hand."

"Thanks."

"That's it, take a look at the goods." He handed the stuff to Lin Heng with a smile.

Everyone else also silently gave up their thoughts on doing it themselves.

"Hiss, it's so expensive!" Lin Hai couldn't help but take a breath.

"Boss Zheng, have you returned the gun I bought?"

Li Baiquan's eyes widened when he looked at this double-barreled shotgun. Compared with this kind of gun, his homemade shotgun in the countryside was just like a fire stick.

This is the most common double-barreled shotgun, not the high-end product like Uncle Gao that can be loaded with rifle bullets.

Lin Heng walked into the store and asked directly and openly.

Lin Heng gave the bullet to his brother and went back to the house to take a shower. He washed himself and changed into a set of clothes, feeling completely refreshed.

"It's here. It's waiting for you to pick it up. Come to the backyard."

"no problem."

"Come back so soon?" Lin Yue was a little shocked, it was a bit fast.

"Add two hundred bullets." Lin Yue said with a smile.

Father Lin locked the door and said with a smile: "The gun is here!"

While Lin Heng was looking at the gun, Boss Zheng introduced the bullets to Lin Heng.

He had given the money a long time ago. Here, he gave the money first and then bought the gun. A gun cost 120 cents, bullets cost 20 cents a shot, and 400 rounds cost 80 yuan, which added up to exactly 200 yuan.

"How much is it?" Lin Hai asked curiously.

The fat, pockmarked owner sitting in this shop is named Zheng. If you want to buy a gun in town, go to him.

Handing the account book and the remaining eighty-one yuan to Xiulan, Lin Heng got up and went out to drive.

"I bought a gun for my brother." Lin Heng handed the gun to his father, then stepped on the accelerator and drove the car home.

After passing by Baima Village and delivering Carpenter Liang's wages, Lin Heng wouldn't owe anything.

Returning to the house, Lin's father ran down the road to greet him and asked curiously: "Son, what are you holding?"

Lin Heng nodded, said a few words, and went outside to wait.

After a while, a tractor came up outside. Lin Heng walked to the roadside and waved, and took people to Hongfeng Mountain to load the mixer.

The cement on Hongfeng Mountain has begun to solidify, but Lin Heng found that there were some more bird footprints on it, like those of the green-bearded Diaozi, and he silently took revenge.

When he got back to the house, the meal was already ready. The construction site was completed today, and his people would definitely celebrate. Xiulan cooked more than ten dishes and brought them to the table. Everyone picked up the wine and started drinking.

Lin Heng likes to drink rice wine, which has the aroma of rice and makes people intoxicated. Father Lin and the others liked sweet wine with higher alcohol content, and they drank it very vigorously.

After finishing the meal, it was already six o'clock, but it was not dark yet. The uncle and third father left one after another, and the room became quiet.

Lin Heng held an official hat chair and sat in the yard to enjoy the breeze. Two puppies, Laifu and Fengsheng, were fighting and playing in the yard. Xiongba and Jinbao were lying on the ground and the other on the stone table watching the two puppies fight.

After the wind blew for a while, Lin Heng walked over and uncovered both sides of the small greenhouse above the strawberries, allowing the strawberries to gradually adapt to the outside temperature.

The weather has also warmed up, so it can be opened completely, and the same goes for the watermelon and other seedlings next to it.

Lin Heng finished these things and sat back on the official hat chair in a daze, enjoying the leisurely time in the evening.

"Dad, you play ball with me~"

Xiaoxia came over with the ball and said crisply.

"Ha, then you've got it."

Lin Heng nodded, sat on a chair and played a ball-throwing game with her. He would throw it over and she would throw it back. It was a boring game for adults, but Xiaoxia laughed while playing it.

Lin Heng got tired after playing for a while, so he called Lin Wei next door and asked him to bring his second and third brothers over to play with Xiaoxia.

Lin Heng took the initiative to call, and his sister-in-law Liu Juan had to agree, telling her son not to make Xiaoxia cry, otherwise he would be spanked.

Lin Heng remembered that there was a little girl named Liu Qingqing who played well with Xiaoxia in the village, but she didn't know why she couldn't come over these days.

"Third father!"

Lin Tao and his brother came over after a while, with smiles on their faces. In fact, they really wanted to come over and play, but under normal circumstances, they wouldn't allow it.

"You guys play ball with Xiaoxia!"

Lin Heng said something, then leaned on the back of the chair and watched the children happily playing with a ball in the yard, intervening from time to time, which was quite fun.

After Xiulan cleared away the dishes, she also took a bench and came out to sit next to Lin Heng and watch the children playing. Unconsciously, he put his head on Lin Heng's lap, his movements were very skillful.

Lin Heng glanced at her and leaned back on the chair to blow the air.

Only after it got dark did a few people enter the house. Lin Heng made charcoal and burned it in the earthenware stove. He didn't eat in the evening, so he drank some milk, ate some biscuits and rested. Before taking a break, he found a book to read, and at the request of Xiaoxia and Xiulan, he read it and listened to it.

The next morning, Lin Heng woke up at seven o'clock, but it still felt gray outside.

"Look at this, even if it doesn't rain today, it will rain tomorrow."

Lin Heng opened the window, and a strong wind blew in. He was so cold that he immediately closed the window and crawled into bed.

"Get up. Since it hasn't rained, let's transplant the watermelon seedlings." Xiulan looked at him and said softly.

"Warm up later."

Lin Heng hugged her and said, "Both of them like to sleep naked in their underwear. It's very comfortable to hold my wife softly and smell good."

"Okay~"

Xiulan spread her hands, unable to do anything to him. However, we can't go hiking in this weather today, so we might as well sleep a little longer.

At half past seven, the two got up from the bed and were about to go out. Xiaoxia also woke up and shouted that she needed to go to the toilet. Lin Heng had to put her clothes on and take her to the toilet.

After going to the toilet, she stood aside and made trouble while Lin Heng and Xiulan were exercising, learning Tai Chi from her mother and shaking wildly.

"How about we eat potato pancakes and drink milk in the morning?"

Xiulan finished her exercise and looked at Lin Heng and said.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.

Xiulan went back to the house to get the bucket, and he took Xiaoxia, who was lying on the railing watching fish, to milk the cows together.

The lotus in the fish pond has begun to sprout, revealing small spores. It is expected that lotus leaves will grow out of the water soon.

The fish pond can be said to be very rich in fish species, including yellow bonefish, crucian carp, koi carp, spotted mandarin fish, stream grouper, plus the giant salamander that has ended its hibernation.

Now that the weather is hot, these fish are more active, swimming around in search of food.

After returning from milking, Xiulan went to heat the milk to make potato cakes. Xiaoxia wanted to watch the fish in the backyard, and Lin Heng was watching from the side, not worried even if there were railings.

As the sun gradually came out, the buzzing of bees became louder. Many bees had returned full of honey. Dots the size of rice grains could be seen on both sides of their wings. These are most likely the honey of rape flowers.

"See if they have made new honey spleens."

Lin Heng moved the ladder up and removed the insulation mats and rotten clothes placed around the box, then opened the beehive and took a look.

Since there was no harvesting of honey in winter, they ate a lot of the original honey, but now they have also made new honey spleens, and they are still very diligent.

After feeding Xiaoxia the fish for a while, they went to the front to eat.

The fried potato pancakes are very fragrant. Although they are very hot, I still can't help but eat them. After eating, I drink a glass of milk. It is so comfortable.

It makes people full of yearning for this new day.

"Come on, let's go plant seedlings."

Xiulan finished drinking the milk, looked at Lin Heng and said.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.

The two of them went out together, first peeled off the plastic paper and removed the bent bamboo pieces. The strawberries and melon and fruit seedlings here are all green.

"There are too many watermelon and cantaloupe seedlings."

Xiulan counted roughly and found that there were about sixty or seventy watermelon seedlings and cantaloupe seedlings. Even if some were given to her parents and elder brothers, they would be too many.

"I can't help it. Who made me successful in breeding?"

Lin Heng smiled proudly, and then added: "It doesn't matter if there are too many, just plant them. If you get too many, just give them away or sell them on the street. If it doesn't work, you can feed them to pigs."

Anyway, there is no need to take care of the farmland except for applying fertilizer. The melons and fruits in rural areas in summer and autumn are all overflowing and there is no way to eat them all.

"It's enough to plant five watermelons and five cantaloupe trees in the yard, and plant the rest outside in the fields or in the mountains behind." Xiulan thought for a while and said.

"can!"

Lin Heng nodded and walked to the nearby land where ginseng was grown and dug a nest. Xiulan dug up the seedlings and the soil and transplanted them.

Half of the two meters wide and ten meters long land was planted with five watermelon trees, five cantaloupe trees and ten cucumber trees. The remaining half was planted with green peppers.

"Dong Dong Dong!!"

"Son, open the door."

As soon as the two of them were about to go out after planting, Father Lin knocked on the door outside.

"Dad, I was just looking for you, would you like me Guan Miao?"

Lin Heng opened the door and asked with a smile.

When Father Lin saw the green melon seedlings in the distance, he nodded and said, "Of course, have you planted enough?"

"Yes, you and my elder brother will take some and plant them, and I will plant the rest in the mountains behind." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.

"Okay, I'll pull out a little later."

Father Lin nodded and finished speaking, then took out thirty yuan and handed it to him: "Here, you can take this money back. You and your brother can just settle the accounts. There is no need to settle with me. If you don't have enough money and I said, I can still make some."

Lin Heng looked at the money and understood that his father was worried that he would run out of money to repair the pond.

It cost more than 5,000 yuan to repair the pond last year, and another 3,000 yuan this year. The 8,000 yuan is gone. This does not include other expenses. If you add the purchase of a motorcycle, you will definitely have no money under normal circumstances.

Lin Heng leaned into his ear and whispered: "Dad, let me tell you the truth. Last year, I went into the mountains during heavy snowfall and was lucky enough to dig up a wild ginseng tree. It is a wild ginseng that is hundreds of years old."

“Centennial wild ginseng???”

Father Lin's voice was thin and sharp. He was obviously frightened but did not dare to speak loudly.

His eyes were as wide as copper bells, and he couldn't believe it for a long time.

"Dad, you just need to know. That thing sold for a lot of money, and the remaining money is enough for me to do business." Lin Heng laughed softly.

"call!"

"That time that jeep came, was it you selling ginseng?" Father Lin took a deep breath and asked in a low voice.

Lin Heng said nothing and nodded with a smile.

"call!!"

Father Lin took a deep breath again, but he still couldn't calm down for a long time. The century-old wild ginseng is a legendary good thing.

He couldn't calm down, but now everything made sense. He asked why Lin Heng suddenly bought a motorcycle.

Immediately, he pulled Lin Heng and stuffed thirty yuan into his hand, and said with a smile: "You should keep this money and give it to me for my retirement."

As for how much money Lin Heng sold, he didn't care, as long as he knew that his son had money to use.

Lin Heng had no choice but to accept the money after looking at it.

"This seedling is good. It has seven or eight leaves."

Father Lin walked over there, looked at Miao Zi and said with a smile.

After saying that, he found a basket, took out the seedlings and the soil together.

Twenty watermelon and cantaloupe seedlings were taken, thirty cucumber seedlings were taken, and forty-three pepper seedlings were taken.

"You can plant the rest in the back hill. Your brother and I will be enough." Father Lin said with a smile. It was obviously going to rain under the dark clouds today, so it was a good opportunity to transplant the seedlings.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, closed the door, walked over and gave Xiulan thirty yuan.

"Bring it with you. I have more than three hundred yuan in change here." Xiulan looked at him and said, Lin Heng always gave her this kind of change whenever he had it.

"Then take it and treat it as if it's for you." Lin Heng smiled and put it in her hand.

(End of this chapter)