Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 309 The Visitor's Surprise

The two of them were not in a hurry and assembled the coffee table first. It was the first time for Father Lin to make such a large table, and he was a little excited when he started to assemble it.

The two of them started assembling at eight in the morning. Because some parts were not assembled smoothly, they made several modifications before they made it fit perfectly.

Another thing is to make arc chamfers on the edge of the table. We have children at home, and two more will be born next year, so this kind of detail must be taken care of.

Lin Heng paid special attention to this matter when he was making tables, chairs and benches.

"It's finally installed. What do you think?"

At ten o'clock, Father Lin looked at the coffee table that had finally been installed and asked everyone.

This coffee table is 130cm long, 70cm wide, and 45cm high. The table top is made of camphor wood, and the rest is made of thorn fir. The middle part under the table top is hollow, with a small cabinet at one end and a drawer at the other.

"Pretty good." Lin Heng nodded. Compared to the desk made for him by Carpenter Liang, it was still a little different, but it had reached the level of an average carpenter. It was straight and smooth without any major problems.

Xiulan also praised: "Dad, you have such skills that you can be a carpenter."

"Yes, Dad, that's awesome." Caiyun also gave his affirmation.

Father Lin was very happy to receive everyone's affirmation: "Then it seems that I can practice well, and then I can make some furniture to sell when I am old."

Then, they carried the coffee table to the study room and temporarily placed it there. Lin Heng took out the varnish to apply it for anti-corrosion, and did not plan to use colored paint. The original solid wood texture looked very comfortable.

The camphor wood on the tabletop is dark yellowish with a hint of purple. The legs and other parts are all made of thorn fir, which is white in color. The two complement each other very well, so there is no need to paint them.

Also, he didn't have any tools for spraying paint. In rural areas, people usually scrape black lacquer, which is made from the sap extracted from lacquer trees. That kind of lacquer has a shiny black color and the furniture will not rot for decades after it is applied.

At first, Lin's father wanted to paint the surface, but Lin Heng found it troublesome, so he finally decided to paint a layer of anti-corrosion transparent varnish.

Although these things had already been painted when they were spare parts, a lot of adjustments were made today, so they had to be painted again.

After painting, Lin Heng and his father began to install the sofa. They first wrapped the exposed wood with a layer of purchased cotton and linen cloth, fixed it, and then put the cut sponge blocks into the cloth cover and installed them on the sofa.

Once the sponge blocks are installed, the entire sofa is basically completed, and the remaining work is to make the pillows and headrests.

"It looks like a bed, but it's softer than a bed when you sit on it." Caiyun said with emotion as she sat on the sofa.

"So comfortable!" Xiaoxia took off her shoes and climbed up directly.

Xiulan also sat on it out of curiosity and tried it out, then nodded with satisfaction: "This is much more comfortable than sitting on a hard bench."

"That's natural. It mainly relies on these soft sponges." Lin Heng said with a smile as he sat on it. What he bought was the most expensive high-resilience and high-density sponge, and the material was much better than those finished sofas.

"My son knows how to enjoy himself." Father Lin said with a smile as he sat next to Lin Heng.

"Of course, I know how to enjoy myself." Lin Heng was very proud, looking at everyone and said, "The advantage of this sofa is that you can sit on it whenever you want, and you can sleep on it whenever you want. It is safe for Xiulan to sit on it even when she is pregnant."

He stood up and looked at the sofa. The whole sofa was made of one color, without any mixed colors. The color was the light gray that Xiulan chose, which looked simple and stain-resistant.

The sofa looks square overall, with clear edges and corners, and no strange shapes. It looks very simple, with a simple and elegant style.

"Now that it's done, let's move the big cabinet upstairs." Lin Heng said. Today was a good day, so there was no need to pick a special time.

"I'll go call my brother to come and help." Caiyun said, and ran out to call for help.

After a while, the eldest brother Lin Yue came over, looked at the finished sofa and said with a smile: "It's done so quickly."

He went up to sit on it again and nodded, "This sponge sofa is really comfortable. I'll get one later."

"When the time comes, buy the sponge and I'll help you make it." Father Lin said with a smile.

"No problem." Lin Yue nodded with a smile.

After chatting for a while, they started moving the large cabinet, one person was upstairs, two were downstairs, and Caiyun was there to help.

The empty wooden cabinet was not heavy, and the four people moved it to the second floor without much effort. They installed it on the second floor, poured the food that had been packed in the bags back, and the job was done.

While they were moving the large cabinet, Xiulan cleaned the floor, and when they finished, she could just install the sofa against the wall.

After the sofa was installed against the wall, Lin Heng nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, now just move the small cabinet from the storage room over."

After the large cabinet was moved away, the main room suddenly became much more spacious and looked more comfortable. The snow-white walls and the light gray sofa complemented each other very well.

The only problem is that there is nothing on the wall, which makes it look a bit monotonous. This can only be added slowly later. Lin Heng bought two picture frames and planned to make a feather painting with the blood pheasant feathers.

Xiulan looked at everyone and said, "I have already cut the vegetables. Let's eat here at noon."

Lin Heng brought the square dining table from home to use as a coffee table and made tea for everyone.

The eldest brother finished his tea and said with a smile: "I won't eat here. Your sister-in-law has already prepared the meal. After we finish eating, we are going to go to Baishigou to dig some herbs."

"That's fine." Lin Heng nodded and didn't try to persuade him to stay. They were all family, so there was no need to be polite.

When lunch was ready, Lin's mother came over and said to Lin Heng and the others, "I have some bad news for you. A lamb broke its leg."

"White goat?" Lin Heng asked.

Lin's mother spread her hands and said, "Yes, I don't know how it fell. Its hind legs were already broken when I saw it."

"Could someone have broken its legs?" Father Lin wondered. The white goat had been tied outside, but the three lambs were not tied and were able to run outside the breeding base.

"I don't know about that." Lin's mother shook her head.

Lin Heng waved his hand and said, "It's okay. The lamb is already more than ten pounds. We can eat it directly in a few days. I just want to eat barbecue."

"It must be more than ten kilograms, maybe even twenty kilograms. But it just has a broken leg. It would be a pity to eat it now. It’s better to wait until it grows a little bigger." Lin's mother said.

"Eat it if you want. We have black goats now. White goats are raised for eating. They won't grow fast if they are injured." Father Lin didn't feel sorry.

"Let's talk about it later. Mom, you should rest first." Lin Heng grabbed his mother's shoulders and pushed her onto the sofa.

"This sofa is really comfortable!" Lin's mother nodded with a smile.

"My dad will make another one later so you can enjoy it too." Lin Heng said, patting his mother's shoulder.

Lin's mother was immediately happier: "That's great, I'm enjoying myself."

After saying a few words, he got up to help Xiulan cook. Lunch was ready in a short while. There were only bacon and sausages today, and all the other game was eaten.

There were no survivors in the fish pond, except for two soft-shelled turtles and some yellow mullets which could not be fished out for the time being.

Lin Heng plans to find some time to go to the Heihe River to catch some more mullets and mandarin fish, which are the two most popular fish.

After dinner, Lin's father and mother went back. Lin Heng planned to build a small dam on the top of Hongfeng Mountain in the next two days. He could keep the plum fish and mandarin fish he caught later there. He could catch them whenever he wanted to eat them. In the afternoon, Lin Heng brought Xiaoxia and Caiyun to help Xiulan make sofa pillows.

"This sofa is so comfortable to sit on. I'm suddenly so conflicted. It's very hot here but there are sofas. It's cooler over at Hongfeng Mountain but there are no sofas."

Xiulan said as she made a pillowcase.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "It's very simple. Just sew a few cushion covers and make two seat cushions out of sponge and take them with you."

Caiyun looked at Xiulan and said, "Sister-in-law, you can enjoy it for a few days first, and then go and live there."

"That's great. I think so too," Xiulan said with a smile.

After chatting for a while, Lin Heng took Xiaoxia to sort the feathers of the blood pheasant. After arranging the feathers according to color, Lin Heng took Xiaoxia to start making feather paintings.

You don't need to make any complicated patterns. Just make circles, swirls, petals and leaves made up of colorful feathers. Although simple, the effect is very good because the feathers themselves are beautiful.

Xiaoxia also made a bird feather painting, which Lin Heng also hung on the wall. With these feather paintings, the wall suddenly became less monotonous.

"Not bad." Lin Heng looked at his wife and sister.

"Xiaoxia's is beautiful." Caiyun hugged Xiaoxia and kissed her while praising her.

"They are all good. I have made the pillowcases too." Xiulan said with a smile.

"Then I'll fill it with sponge." Lin Heng nodded and went to get the small-grain sponge he bought specifically for filling pillows.

After it is completed, the sofa is completely finished. With pillows and headrests, the sofa can be said to have a soul.

After resting on the sofa for a while, Lin Heng moved the sewing machine to the study because Xiulan would need it tomorrow.

"Brother, it's okay now. Mom and I are going to catch scorpions, and we'll also catch some cicadas to eat." Caiyun said to Lin Heng and Xiulan. They had made so much money from selling the scorpions last time, and now they were full of motivation.

"No problem, go ahead." Lin Heng nodded.

Xiulan asked: "Are you coming over for dinner tonight?"

Caiyun thought for a moment and said, "No, I'll come over for breakfast tomorrow morning and stay at Hongfeng Mountain tonight."

"Okay." Xiulan nodded.

After Caiyun left, they tidied up the house. Lin Heng followed Xiulan's instructions and arranged things according to her requirements.

After that, he and Xiaoxia went to the back mountain to feed the chickens. He had reinforced the chicken coop. The weasel never came, which made Lin Heng wonder if it was a cat that stole the chickens last time.

Because the weather was hot, the batch of chicks hatched by Xiulan were also put on the back mountain and raised in a separate chicken cage. Fifteen of the eighteen chicks are still alive now.

Including the seven chickens he hatched that are still alive, there are still seven left from the chickens he bought last year, so there are a total of 7 chickens in the family, in addition to two ducks.

These chickens and ducks are released during the day to find food in the woods on their own, and are fed once in the morning and once in the evening.

Lin Heng was already prepared to wait for the 15 chicks hatched by Xiulan to grow to about one kilogram and then take them to Hongfeng Mountain. There he would find an area of ​​more than square meters and surround them with a net to let them run around the mountain. This would use less feed and the meat quality would be better.

The main reason is that there are too many chickens here, including those from our own family and my eldest brother’s family, and we can’t keep them all.

After feeding the animals, I returned to the house and started cooking dinner. I made a hodgepodge of cold vegetables for dinner, and then I dealt with some bacon left over from lunch.

When they got up the next day, the varnish on the coffee table had dried completely. Lin Heng and Xiulan carried it to the main room and put it away.

While making breakfast, Caiyun came over with a bag of dead cicada monkeys soaked in salt water and said with a smile: "Second brother and sister-in-law, we went to Baima Village last night and caught half a pound of scorpions."

"Of course." Xiulan said enviously. If she wasn't pregnant, she would definitely go catch scorpions.

"You guys are really good at running." Lin Heng shook his head in shock and started making breakfast.

After heating the milk and boiling the eggs, Lin Heng fried some cicada monkeys and cut a cantaloupe. Breakfast was ready and it was so sumptuous that it didn't seem like life in the countryside.

He didn't make the cake today because it requires too many eggs and can only be eaten once every few days.

"It's really rich, all thanks to my sister-in-law."

Caiyun looked at the food on the table and sighed. She couldn't believe that this was the food in her home now.

Xiulan pursed her lips and smiled: "Eat quickly."

Only Xiaoxia had already gotten the hang of it and was eating it with a clamorous noise.

"Boom boom boom!"

Just as they finished their breakfast, there was a knock on the door.

"Brother Lin, it's me." Then Wang Zhou's voice came in.

"Wang Zhou, why is he here?" Caiyun asked curiously.

Xiulan guessed, "I think he asked your brother to help him find a marriage."

"I guess so. I'll go check it out."

Lin Heng nodded, wiped his hands, stood up and went out to open the door.

When the door opened, Wang Zhou was seen standing outside the door wearing new clothes, accompanied by a short middle-aged man with a square face, who was in his forties or fifties.

Seeing Lin Heng, Wang Zhou introduced him a little awkwardly: "Brother Lin, this is my dad. We have a good life."

Wang Houhai, who was only as tall as Lin Heng's shoulders, looked at Lin Heng with a smile on his face and said, "Hello, Mr. Lin, we are sorry to bother you so suddenly."

"Uncle Wang, you're too polite. Let's go inside and talk." Lin Heng said with a smile and turned sideways to motion them to go in.

Wang Houhai was a little shocked when he walked into the yard. The room was paved with bluestone, with bluestone floors and white walls, and there was a beautiful military green sidecar next to it.

This doesn't look like a rural courtyard at all, it's too luxurious.

Lin Heng thought Wang Houhai was afraid of dogs, so he added, "The dog is on a leash, come in."

"okay!"

Wang Zhou brought Wang Houhai into the house. Xiulan had already poured two glasses of milk for them. She pointed at the sofa and said with a smile, "Please sit down. You haven't had breakfast yet. It's a good time to have something to eat."

Wang Houhai was stunned again as he looked at everything in front of him. Before he came, he heard from his son that Lin Heng was very rich. It was not until he visited him and saw it in person that he had a deep impression.

Oh my God, the breakfast is boiled eggs, milk and cantaloupe. It’s too rich. Is this what they eat every day?

(End of this chapter)