Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 278 Taibai Fisheries Research Institute
The father and son, despite the drizzle of rain, finished spreading the manure and fertilizer in a short time.

After finishing it, Lin Heng went into the house again and looked at the fresh shrimps in the hatching tank. They were all alive and well and had no problems. He threw a peanut cake in and left.

I didn't want to go home for the time being. I watched my father doing carpentry and strolled around for a while.

It was almost noon, and Lin Heng returned home with a large bundle of dried grass. He distributed the grass to the animals. He then looked at the condition of the lamb. It was estimated that the little ram would not need to be taken care of for another half month. .

"Honey, are you going to tan the deer hide?"

Lin Heng entered the house and saw Xiulan leaving the dried deer skin in the rain, and asked curiously.

Xiulan nodded: "Yes, idle time is idle. It can be used as a blanket after it is tanned."

"That's okay. When the weather clears up, I'll go into the city and buy you some alum." Lin Heng nodded.

"Second father!"

"Hello Uncle Lin!"

In the main room, Xiaoxia was playing with Yang Qing, a little girl from the village, and Lin Tao, her second nephew. When they saw Lin Heng, they both greeted Lin Heng politely.

Lin Heng nodded and said with a smile: "You can play casually, don't be cautious."

Playmates are also very important for a child's growth. Lin Heng does not object to Xiaoxia playing with the village dolls.

After finishing speaking, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan who was doing needlework and said: "Let's go to the backyard to see the bees. I asked about it and it is said that this is a precursor to the peak split. If the peak is really divided, we can just take it back and raise it. There is still spring. Honey can also be harvested.”

"Wait a moment, I will sew the protective clothing for Xiaoxia." Xiulan nodded and said, she made things like the protective clothing and sleeves herself.

"it is good."

Lin Heng nodded and entered the study room only to find his sister Caiyun lying on his desk doing homework.

"Brother, your table is so comfortable, and the study is so beautifully decorated." Seeing Lin Heng, Caiyun tilted her head and said with a smile.

Her parents went to Hongfeng Mountain. She was not used to living alone in the old house, so she ran over.

"I haven't even enjoyed it a few times, but you took advantage of it first." Lin Heng said with a smile, but he still took advantage of his sister's praise. He is really a discerning person.

"Second brother, if you want to use it, I'll clear it for you." Caiyun asked, tilting his head.

"You can use it, I'm just coming in for a walk." Lin Heng shook his head, turned around and went out again.

I had nothing to do and looked at the fruits and vegetables in the front yard. Strawberries have begun to bear fruit and will mature in another half month. Watermelons and cantaloupe have also bloomed, and they are still very early to mature.

There are already finger-long cucumbers on the cucumber vines, and small peppers are growing on the peppers. Other green beans, eggplants, cowpeas, etc. were planted late and are only about ten centimeters high.

After taking a look, Lin Heng went back to the bedroom and took out Capital, which he had not finished before. He sat in the backyard pavilion and continued reading, inspiring himself to be an outstanding people's entrepreneur.

It rained, and many of the orchids in the yard were blooming. Some of them were already blooming, exuding a faint orchid fragrance, floating in the drizzle.

The pink and white lilies are stained with a lot of water drops, and they become more delicate and delicate against the green leaves, seeming to have a delicate temperament.

Coupled with flowing water, fish ponds, calamus, lotus leaves, strange cypresses and strange pines...the backyard has now become a beautiful small garden, full of vitality and interest.

Lin Heng leaned in the four-corner pavilion, listened to the rain, smelled the fragrance of flowers, and read a book, immersed in this quiet and wonderful world.

At one o'clock, Xiulan prepared her protective clothing, took a basin and a hat to the backyard and walked to Lin Heng. She reached out and poked his head and said with a wink, "Let's go, we can start harvesting honey."

"it is good."

Lin Heng nodded and put the book on the bench. He got up and went to the eaves to get a ladder and put it on the wall.

"Take it with you."

Xiulan put the bee-proof hat she made on Lin Heng. It was originally a cloth hat, and she sewed it with gauze to make it into a bee-proof hat.

Lin Heng took it with him with a smile. He climbed up the ladder and came to the beehive with the basin and the hundred steel dagger. When he opened it, he found something different.

"The bees are indeed about to be divided. The queen bee has been made. It is estimated that the new queen bee will be born soon." Lin Heng turned to look at Xiulan and said.

"Then let's make another beehive and collect the bees once they are divided." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said.

Lin Heng nodded: "Dad and I both told him, and dad is doing it."

After saying that, he took out his dagger and started to cut the honey. The bees had already made seven honey spleens in a year, and all five were capped and full. Lin Heng used a basin to connect them and cut off all five plump honey spleens at once.

"What a bumper harvest." Xiulan's big eyes turned into crescents as she looked at the pot.

"It's indeed a great harvest." Lin Heng was also very satisfied with the harvest. He drove away the bees inside, and the two returned to the main room carrying the honey.

"Wow, so much honey?" Caiyun just came out and looked at the honey and said in shock.

"Dad, I want to eat honey." Xiaoxia hugged his legs and said coquettishly when she smelled the rich honey fragrance.

The two children, Lin Tao and Yang Qing, had eyes full of longing and their mouths were swallowing saliva unsatisfactorily.

"We have everything." Lin Heng put the basin on the table, cut the honey spleen with a dagger and distributed it to everyone. When he cut the honey spleen gently, he could see the light yellow honey flowing out, and the fragrance of honey suddenly became stronger. .

"Wash your hands first before eating." Xiulan brought water from the door and washed the hands of the three children.

"Here!" Lin Heng gave it to Xiaoxia first, and then to Lin Tao and Yang Qing.

"Thank you, Second Dad!"

"Thank you Uncle Lin!"

The two of them wanted to decline politely, after all, this is what their parents taught them, but when they saw the sweet honey, their mouths and hands couldn't control their movements at all, so they took it and started nibbling.

The temptation of sweets is too great for children in this era.

Lin Heng then gave it to Caiyu and Xiulan, and cut a piece for himself to taste. Although the honey is very sweet, it is not very greasy and has a rich floral flavor in your mouth.

“It’s delicious~”

Xiaoxia nodded while eating, and didn't forget to suck her fingers after eating. Yang Qing and Lin Tao also had satisfied looks on their faces, it was so delicious.

"It's really good."

Caiyun and Xiulan also nodded.

"Dad, I still want to eat." Xiaoxia started acting coquettishly again after eating.

"No, children can't eat too much at one time." Xiulan rejected her before Lin Heng could say anything, and took Caiyun to the kitchen with honey.

"There's nothing I can do. Let's wait until dad gets some for you tomorrow." Lin Heng touched her little head.

Xiaoxia struggled for a while and was led by her friends to continue playing games.

In the kitchen, Xiulan and Caiyun took the gauze used to filter tofu and hugged the honey spleen and began to squeeze and filter the honey.

There is still a lot of honey left over from last year, but honey can be stored forever, so you don’t have to worry about it going bad.

After lunch, Lin Heng continued to read in the backyard pavilion in the afternoon.

In the blink of an eye, it was already May 7th in the Gregorian calendar, and the light rain that had been falling for several days finally stopped.

"It's not raining anymore. Let's go pick morels and pine mushrooms today."

When she woke up in the morning, Xiulan put a pair of corns on Lin Heng's neck and looked at him with a small face and said softly.

Now that her family has a household income of 10,000 yuan and is not as poor as last year, she does not need to sell mushrooms to support the family. But for her, picking mushrooms is a form of entertainment.

"Then let's go pick it up after breakfast." Lin Heng nodded and agreed.

When I got up and went to milk the cows after exercising, Father Lin came over and handed a finished beehive to Lin Heng and said, "How about this?"

"Okay, I'll take it and put it aside later." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.

After milking the milk, while Xiulan was making breakfast, Lin Heng spread honey on the newly made beehive and placed it next to the old beehive. It would be best if the separated bees could go in by themselves, otherwise he would have to collect them.

He heard that professional beekeepers can directly capture old queen bees to form new bee colonies, but he did not dare to do this as a novice.

After breakfast, Xiulan changed into a pair of loose indigo clothes to hide her beautiful figure. Her hair had long been braided and was habitually pulled from her neck to hang on her chest.

"Let's go, let's go pick up the fungi." Xiulan said with a smile as she picked up the bamboo basket.

"I'm picking up fungi!!" Xiaoxia cheered happily. She hadn't gone out to play for several days because of the rain.

"Let's go." Lin Heng put the basket on his back and let go of Xiong Ba's dog leash, taking the green wolf dog Laifu and Xiquan Fengsheng with him, letting them learn from Xiong Ba.

"Woof woof~~"

Xiong Ba was spinning excitedly, wandering around Lin Heng, and the two puppies, already weighing twenty pounds, also began to howl around the three of them.

After opening the door, the three of them set off and walked towards the mountain behind the house. This was the path Lin Heng took when he and Xiulan went to pick mushrooms for the first time last year after they were reborn.

After climbing over this side of the mountain, there are many pine forests where you can pick up pine tree mushrooms, also known as pine milk mushrooms. Although last year, morels were found on the side of Shuijinggou where morels were found, but the two still chose this road.

"Wang Wang!"

As soon as they entered the mountain, Xiong Ba took the two puppies into the forest and searched in front of Lin Heng and the others.

Lin Heng followed Xiulan with Xiaoxia in his arms, stepping on the blackened leaves that had fallen last year. The forest was not muddy because of these leaves.

"This is the acorn tree, this is the pyracantha..."

Xiaoxia looked at the passing trees and identified them one by one, her serious look was very cute. Whenever she got stuck, she would face Lin Heng and look at him coquettishly. After Lin Heng told her the name of the tree, she would happily continue to identify it.

Not long after, Xiulan picked a mushroom on the roadside and showed off with a smile: "Green-headed mushroom, I'm really lucky."

"It seems like there will be a lot of gains today." Lin Heng said with a smile. A good start is a good sign.

The three of them walked very slowly, and it took them more than forty minutes to go up the mountain and reach a forest of pine and acorn trees.

“Oh my God, there’s so much pine fungus!”

As soon as she walked into the woods, Xiulan cheered.

“I made a fortune today!!”

Lin Heng was also pleasantly surprised. When he looked up, he saw small orange mushrooms pushing up the pine needles, revealing their chubby bodies.

"So many mushrooms!"

Xiaoxia cheered.

Lin Heng put her down, and she could walk on this flat place by herself.

Putting down Xiaoxia, Lin Heng grabbed the plastic bag and couldn't wait to start picking mushrooms. The most pine fungi would come out.

After picking up ten in a row, Lin Heng took a look and found that only half of the ten were not eaten by insects, but it didn't matter, they all were picked up together.

Those without worms are eaten by people, and those with worms are fed to pigs. There is no waste at all.

"Dad, here you go~"

Xiaoxia handed a pine milk mushroom to Lin Heng. "So good~"

Lin Heng praised and put away the mushrooms.

Xiong Ba and the three dogs were having fun in the woods, not looking for mushrooms. However, seeing that there were a lot of mushrooms here, Lin Heng didn't take care of them.

"I still have some here, come here quickly!" Xiulan's voice came after a while.

"Okay, I have quite a few here too." Lin Heng said with a smile.

The two would always call each other in the woods, and after a while they would get together to see each other's harvest. Picking mushrooms brings a sense of accomplishment and happiness, and constant sharing makes this happiness brew into honey and flow into their hearts.

Baby daughter Xiaoxia followed the two of them, picking up mushrooms and listening to their parents' praise.

Before they knew it, it was already noon, and the two gathered together to take a look at the harvest. Today I mainly picked up pine tree mushrooms, as well as a small amount of porcini mushrooms and green head mushrooms. Although there were a lot of red mushrooms, the two of them were not interested.

"It weighs forty pounds, which is not bad." Xiulan looked at the mushroom with big eyes that turned into crescents.

Lin Heng smiled and nodded: "I hope I can pick up some other fungi this afternoon."

Although half of the forty pounds contained insects, the harvest was already considered good.

"Xiaoxia is also very good today." Lin Heng praised his daughter lying on his lap again.

"Dad, I'm hungry~" Xiaoxia said coquettishly, looking listless.

"There is a pool next to it. Let's wash our hands and then eat." Lin Heng touched her face and said.

"Okay, I want to eat." Xiaoxia immediately became energetic and got up and went to wash hands with Lin Heng Xiulan.

After washing her hands, Xiulan opened the bag of food and handed a piece of unfinished potato cake from the morning to Xiaoxia. She and Lin Heng took the dried venison and started eating.

The two of them ate a few mouthfuls, then tore some spiced ones into Xiaoxia's mouth and fed them to her.

When he was full, Lin Heng handed the squirrel skin water bag to Xiulan. After she drank it, she fed it to Xiaoxia, and then Lin Heng drank again.

The three of them were very satisfied with this life of searching for fungi in the forest. After eating, they leaned together and stared at the mottled tree shadows in the forest in a daze. Free your mind and enjoy life.

"Ow~"

Next to them, Xiongba, Laifu and Fengsheng squatted and stuck out their tongues, wanting to eat.

"Now you know what to eat. Have a good time in the morning?"

Lin Heng rubbed the bulldog's head and said with a smile, he didn't bring them anything to eat. He fed them very well in the morning and planned to feed them again in the afternoon when he returned to the house.

They were not very hungry, they just saw Lin Heng and the others eating and wanted to beg for it.

"Ow~"

Xiongba rubbed his big head against Lin Heng's thigh with a pitiful look in his eyes. The two puppies were feeding Xiaoxia and Xiulan, and they also wanted to eat.

"If you are able, go catch a prey yourself, and I will roast it for you. Otherwise, just wait until you get home in the afternoon to eat it." Lin Heng patted its head, very ruthlessly.

Xiongba lay on the ground unhappy because he couldn't get anything to eat and didn't want to work anymore.

After resting for a while, Xiulan wanted to continue looking for fungi again. The two of them were not in a hurry and took Xiaoxia to search slowly in the forest.

I couldn't find any more patches of fungi in the afternoon, they were scattered here and there.

"Wang Wang!"

Accompanied by a dog barking, Xiulan's excited voice came over: "Hubby, there are morels here!!"

"coming."

Lin Heng held his daughter and walked quickly over there.

I saw many black-veined morels growing on the ground in the poplar forest here, and they were chubby and beautiful.

"Xiongba finally showed his strength in the afternoon." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Yes, pick it up quickly." Xiulan smiled.

Lin Heng put down Xiaoxia, and the three of them picked morels together. These morels were all freshly grown and very beautiful.

After picking up this place, the two of them searched nearby again, but unfortunately they didn't find it.

Unconsciously, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon. Xiulan looked at her watch and said, "Let's go home."

Last year, she would have tried her best to pick up some more fungi and not go back until dark, but this year she was just picking up fungi for fun, so there was no need.

"it is good."

Lin Heng also nodded and walked back with Xiaoxia.

"There are thornberries here. They are all red. Come and eat them."

On the way down the mountain, Lin Heng saw a few raspberries growing beside the rocks and said with a smile.

"The ones here are actually red." Xiulan expressed surprise, then pulled Xiaoxia over.

"It's delicious." Lin Heng ate two first. They were sweet with a bit of sourness, and tasted better than strawberries.

Xiaoxia was fed one, her eyes widened, and she remembered the memory of eating this fruit last year, "It's delicious, dad, I want more."

As she said that, she wanted to pick it herself, but when her hand was pricked by a thorn, she immediately shrank back and looked at Lin Heng helplessly.

"Don't be in a hurry, there are a lot here. Let's go home after we've eaten enough." Lin Heng said while feeding her.

Lin Heng fed Xiaoxia on the spot, while Xiulan found a small bag and picked it off for her to take back to eat.

The three of them stayed here for half an hour, and it was already four o'clock when they got home.

After returning to the house to rest for a while and drink some water, the two began to pick mushrooms. This mixture of bad and good must be dealt with immediately, as it will spoil over time.

It took half an hour to sort out the mushrooms. In the end, the pine mushrooms we picked weighed thirty kilograms. It looked like a lot, but ten kilograms of wet mushrooms and one kilogram dried in the sun were actually just over three kilograms of dried mushrooms.

There are two and a half kilograms of morels and three green head mushrooms.

"It's not a bad harvest." Lin Heng nodded.

Xiulan smiled and said, "Let's eat bacon and stir-fry mushrooms tonight."

"It's been a long time since I've eaten fresh pine mushrooms, and I really miss them." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Then I'm going to steam the mushrooms for cooking." Xiulan took the good mushrooms and went to the kitchen.

Lin Heng took the remaining mushrooms to the back mountain and fed them to his eldest brother's piglets. Neither his family nor his father's family had bought any piglets this year.

For dinner, Lin Heng had fried bacon with pine mushrooms and morel mushroom and crucian carp soup. One was fragrant and the other was fresh, which was quite enjoyable. I finished two bowls of rice.

Life in the countryside does not seem to have so many rituals and romance, but the simple firewood, rice, oil and salt seem to be the greatest romance. After happily finishing the meal, Lin Heng and Xiulan slept together and continued to study the techniques of creating humans.

Early the next morning, Lin Heng got up earlier than usual because he was going to buy broodstock and various feeds for shrimp farming today.

Xiulan also got up early to find clothes for Lin Heng, cleaned up for Lin Heng, and then made breakfast.

"Be safe." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng after eating and said.

"Do not worry."

Lin Heng nodded with a smile and drove out. His elder brother Lin Yue was already waiting on the road.

"Brother, come and drive."

Lin Heng gave Lin Yue the opportunity to drive and sat on the side of the car.

"Okay." Lin Yue agreed with a smile and asked while driving, "What should we buy today? Just shrimp seedlings?"

Lin Heng shook his head: "I'm going to check out the shrimp seedlings today and don't rush to buy them. I mainly want to buy feed bleaching powder, oxygen and other things."

"That's right." Lin Yue nodded and drove towards Taibai City.

Although the water system in Taibai City is developed, there are not many fish and shrimp farmers. The largest one at present is Qingshui Town on the edge of the suburbs. This is where Ge Qingshan introduced Lin Heng to buy shrimp seedlings.

But Lin Heng did not go there directly. Instead, he went to the Taibai Fisheries Research Institute in the city first.

They stopped at the door, and a guard immediately came over and asked, "Which unit are you from?"

"We are here to learn about aquaculture and would like to come over and ask about the situation." Lin Heng replied with a smile.

"Okay, then you go in." The guard glanced at Lin Heng, nodded and let the two of them in.

Lin Heng led his elder brother straight into the lobby of the building inside. The female staff in the lobby was attracted by Lin Heng's dress and asked with a smile: "What kind of business do you do?"

Lin Heng is already very fair and handsome, and with his years of training, his physical aura is much stronger than that of ordinary people. In addition, the maturity and confidence revealed in his eyes will attract anyone who sees him.

Lin Heng smiled and said: "I want to know if our research institute has any freshwater shrimp for sale. I am ready to invest in breeding."

The female staff member was embarrassed to look at Lin Heng, shook her head and replied softly: "Well, we don't have any green shrimp species here. Currently, we don't have enough technical staff here, so we can only provide some consulting services."

"Then can I visit your leader?" Lin Heng asked again.

He was not surprised by this answer. In this era, many departments in small cities are just decorations, especially technical ones, because of the lack of relevant technical talents.

"Let me inform you." The female staff member nodded, got up and went upstairs to report.

"Brother, what are you preparing to do?" Lin Yue asked quietly from the side.

"Nothing, just asking about the situation." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After a while, the female staff member came down and said with a smile: "Director Zhang is here. He invites you to come up. You and I can come."

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded and asked his eldest brother to sit on the first floor and wait. He followed him up to the second floor.

Lin Heng went up to the second floor and took a look at the office sign. It was a deputy director.

"Hello, Director Zhang, I'm Lin Heng." Lin Heng followed the female staff member into the office and said with a smile.

"Sit down, let's talk about it slowly." Director Zhang pointed at the bench and nodded. He was a little surprised by Lin Heng's youth, but at the same time he did not dare to underestimate him.

He still wanted to start a business at such a young age, but when faced with him, he didn't have the humility of ordinary people. He felt that this young man was not simple, he looked like someone who had seen the big world.

"It's like this. I want to consult all of our brood shrimps that don't have green shrimps or Macrobrachium rosenbergii, and prepare to invest in breeding." Lin Heng started the conversation from this question.

"Due to technical limitations, we don't raise this here for the time being, but if you want to invest, we can help you coordinate shrimp breeding from other places." Director Zhang said with a smile.

Lin Heng secretly smiled. This was a much more sophisticated way of speaking. If you really want to believe it, just go home and wait.

But that’s not why he came here. He continued: “Then do we have a feed production company in Taibai now?”

This is what he wants to know.

(End of this chapter)