Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 332: A bumper harvest of grain

The next morning, Lin Heng woke up immediately as soon as it was light. Although he was very tired yesterday and last night, he still got up early out of habit.

When people reach a certain age, they will wake up naturally in the morning.

I glanced at Xiulan next to me. She was not wearing any clothes, only covered with a light blue summer quilt. Her snow-white collarbone and long legs were exposed, which looked very tempting.

"Are you going to Heihe?" Xiulan asked with narrowed eyes.

"Well, let's go over and see what we can catch today. We haven't dismantled the fishing trap from yesterday yet." Lin Heng whispered, covered her with a blanket and said, "You can continue to sleep. I've locked the door from the outside."

"it is good."

Xiulan agreed in a daze, turned around and went back to sleep. After all, she had stayed up quite late last night.

Lin Heng washed his face, went to the back mountain to take a look at the cow, and opened a bag of silage to feed it.

Its belly has been getting bigger and bigger recently, and it is due to give birth soon, so he basically comes to check on it a few times a day.

After feeding the cows, Lin Heng just drove the car onto the road when a voice came from behind: "You got up so early?"

"Let's go check out yesterday's fishing trap." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"I'll go with you." Chen Changxia walked down and sat in the car by himself.

Lin Heng drove to Hongfeng Mountain. It was 5:30 and the sun hadn't come out yet. Lin's father had gotten up early and was already feeding the shrimps.

"You get up really early, father-in-law." Father Lin greeted with a smile.

"This is not early at all. We used to get up at dawn to weed the corn." Chen Changxia came over to help spread the feed.

"Let's eat first and then go there?" Father Lin said while working.

"No need for that. Let's go get the fish first and come back to eat it." Chen Changxia shook his head.

"Yes, let's finish it first and then eat." Lin Heng also said. He was not polite to his father-in-law at all.

"Okay." Father Lin nodded.

After feeding the prawns, they said something to Lin's mother and picked up their tools and headed quickly towards the Heihe River. Halfway through the journey, their car suddenly stalled.

"What's going on?" asked Father Lin.

Chen Changxia was also worried: "Is it broken?"

"No, I forgot to refuel. This car is a gas guzzler. Luckily I always have two liters of gasoline in the trunk."

Lin Heng shook his head, stopped the car and refueled. This second-hand sidecar was pretty good. There had been no problems for so long. Things of this era were really durable.

Driving, they soon arrived at the bank of the Heihe River. This section of the Heihe River was deserted and no one had touched the traps set yesterday.

The three of them took their things and went straight to the fishing trap, blocked the entrance and removed the leaves covering it. They saw the water surface in the trap splashing with white water and countless small fish were fleeing everywhere.

Father Lin was shocked and said, "Oh my God, this is much more than yesterday!"

Lin Heng also nodded: "This is fine, this should be two or three pounds of small fish."

"That's for sure. This time it will take a whole day and a night." Chen Changxia said calmly.

After being happy, the three of them immediately started catching fish, just like before, except for the living mullets, they caught all the other fish dead.

After catching all the fish in the first trap, Lin Heng roughly estimated that there were more than thirty carp fry, and the other miscellaneous fish such as whitebait and horsemouth weighed about two kilograms in total.

"If all the other traps are the same as this one, our harvest today can exceed that of yesterday." Lin said happily.

"If it's like this, we can harvest at least 30 kilograms of fish today," said Father Lin.

Chen Changxia had already walked over to check out the new trap. He took away the leaves and exclaimed, "There's actually a one-pound mandarin fish here."

"Let me see." Lin Heng ran over first to check. It turned out to be a beautiful spotted mandarin fish. For a moment he couldn't bear to eat it.

"Look at the others."

Lin Heng walked over and looked at several other traps, and found two mandarin fish, but they were ordinary white mandarin fish, weighing half a pound, and not as good-looking as the one just now.

After a while, the three of them caught all the fish in the fifteen fishing traps, but the final harvest was much less than they expected.

The miscellaneous small fishes all together weighed about twenty kilograms, and there were nearly four hundred to five hundred carp fry, which were slightly larger than those caught in the mountain streams, generally around ten centimeters in size.

There were fewer big fish, three weighing more than one pound, two catfish and one spotted mandarin fish, five weighing half a pound, two white mandarin fish, and the rest were carp.

"This is not bad." Lin's father said, although it is much less than expected, it is enough.

"Well, let's go back." Lin Heng looked at the small fish fry in a bag in his hand. He found two more mutated fish fry today.

These are two mutated minnows. Ordinary minnows only have the scales on both sides of their backs that are blue-green, and that only happens at specific angles.

But the two minnows in his hands were completely different. Their entire bodies were a beautiful blue-green color, and they looked extremely beautiful.

Therefore, they were also qualified to go back alive, and he also picked out a few beautiful common minnows to take back with them.

Neither his father nor his father-in-law understood the value of this thing, but in fact this mutated native fish is very precious. After continuous cultivation, it can become a new variety of ornamental fish, which can also be sold for money.

As he was walking, Lin Henggang suddenly stopped. Father Lin behind him was startled and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Look over there, is that the fish that escaped yesterday?"

Lin Heng pointed to an area in the middle of the river where a number of fish were gathered. There was a fish there that was shaking from time to time, and the water splashed with beautiful light.

"It seems to be true." Father Lin said in shock.

"Let me do it. I'll swim over and catch it." Lin Heng turned east and west and started to take off his clothes.

"Be careful." Father Lin said, but did not stop him. After all, it was such a big fish.

Lin Heng took a fishing arrow, patted his limbs and chest with water, and then went into the water and swam towards the fish.

This section of the Black River is about one hundred meters wide. There are two raised rocks in the middle, so many branches gather there.

Lin Heng swam over and climbed onto a rock first. Upon closer inspection, he saw that it was indeed a huge silver carp. It was almost dying because many fishing nets were stuck in its gills and it was also caught on the branches.

But even so, there is still a risk of escape if you catch him directly.

Looking at the fishing arrow in his hand, Lin threw it aside and picked up a two-meter-long dry branch as thick as his arm.

After testing the strength of the tie again, he aimed at the silver carp's head.

boom! !

As Lin Heng hit the fish hard with the stick, water splashed everywhere and the fish disappeared.

But Lin Heng was not in a hurry, because he clearly felt that his stick had hit the fish's head, and it was impossible for it to still be alive.

After waiting for about half a minute, a white fish appeared five meters away. It was naturally the silver carp.

Lin Heng swam over excitedly, tied it through a rope and brought it back to the shore.

"The water is so cold!" Lin Heng shivered when he got ashore.

"This fish looks bigger than yesterday's. It must be 30 kilograms." Father Lin said excitedly.

This silver carp is about one meter long when lifted up, a real giant.

"This big head, the chopped pepper fish head is very beautiful." Chen Changxia nodded. "Home, home." Lin Heng said excitedly while holding the fish. His ruthless blow of the stick had already ended the life of the fish.

When they reached the highway, Lin Heng tied the silver carp directly to the back of the car.

After taking the other things into the car, the three of them returned home happily.

We met quite a few people on the road, and they all looked envious when they saw the big silver carp behind their cars.

When they returned to the village, many people asked them how they got such a big silver carp.

"Hey, you guys caught such a big silver carp."

On Red Maple Mountain, Lin's mother asked in shock.

"The one that escaped yesterday was caught again today." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"We really can't finish it now. We haven't even eaten the black fish we caught yesterday." Mother Lin had a happy worry.

"It's okay. We didn't kill the big fish today. We gave it some oxygen and brought it back alive." Father Lin said.

"That's okay." Lin's mother was immediately happy.

Lin Heng first threw the minnows, catfish and mandarin fish he had brought back into the hatching pond.

This place has been empty, and now he uses it to raise these fish. It doesn't matter if they are separated from each other.

After going up the mountain and taking a look at the small waterfall, Lin Heng poured the plum fish fry into the breeding cages.

Now, he has more than 42 carp fry and adult carps.

There is no problem in breeding so many fish. For now, we feed them shrimp feed, which these splendid fish like to eat.

He left after taking a look at the fry. The remaining half of the year will be spent studying how to feed them. Artificial breeding will have to wait until next year.

After they got down the mountain, Lin's father had already killed the big silver carp. Seeing Lin Heng, he said, "I weighed it and it's still 32 kilograms. How are we going to eat this fish?"

"We ate the fish head at noon. I'll take another five catties of fish meat back to make fish balls for Xiaoxia. You can give the rest away. Silver carp doesn't taste good when made into dried fish."

"Okay, let's have lunch here at noon. We'll move corn today and see how much the new variety of corn can produce per mu." said Father Lin.

"No problem." Lin Heng nodded in agreement, picked up a piece of fish meat that his father had cut out, and took ten kilograms of small fish.

He planned to go back and kill the fish clean and dry them over charcoal fire instead of adding too much salt and drying them in the sun. The dried fish tasted better and could be eaten directly.

As soon as Lin Heng pushed open the door of his house, Xiaoxia and his mother-in-law made voices.

"dad!!"

"Son-in-law, come and eat. I made some chive dumplings."

They were having breakfast in the room. Today's breakfast was leek dumplings made by Wang Zhi, as well as cantaloupe and porridge.

"Here we are. We have a big harvest today. We found the fish that ran away yesterday." Lin Heng walked into the house and put the fish in the basin and said.

"Found it. Then you have a good harvest today." Xiulan said in surprise.

"Yes, that big silver carp weighs 32 kilograms, and we will have chopped pepper fish head for lunch." Lin Heng nodded, touched Xiaoxia's head, and came over to eat.

The leek dumplings taste very good. After eating them, drinking porridge and having a cantaloupe is simply perfect.

After dinner, Lin Heng cleared the dishes and put the fish on the table, asking Xiulan and mother-in-law to help kill it.

He used a knife to scrape the fish wool to make fish balls. It was already nine o'clock when they finished these tasks.

"Dad, I want to eat fish balls." Xiaoxia said coquettishly while looking at the cold fish balls that had been cooked in clear water.

"I'll come back for you to eat at noon. Now let's go pick some corn."

Lin Heng rubbed her head and said.

But seeing her eager eyes, he finally had no choice but to give her one to try.

“Deliciousヾ(▽)ノ”

Xiaoxia said with her cheeks puffed out.

Lin Heng took her out, and on the other side, his mother-in-law Wang Zhi had already put the fish on the bamboo grill to grill.

Taking the snakeskin bag, she drove the three of them to Red Maple Mountain.

Come over here, there is a pile of corn on the cement ground in front of the warehouse.

"These corn cobs are so big, they are indeed purchased corn." Wang Zhi said in surprise.

Although their Lushui County is relatively flat, they have not yet bought corn seeds for planting.

"I don't know how many kilograms of crops can be produced per mu." Xiulan also asked curiously. Farmers always have a special feeling when they see crops.

"I'll go help first."

Lin Heng said with a smile, drove out, parked the car on the road, and went into the cornfield to pick corn.

His family only had three acres of corn this year, all on the roadside. They broke the corn, put it in bags, and carried it back in the car.

With the help of the eldest brother, the four big men harvested almost an acre of corn in one morning.

When I got home at noon, Xiulan and her mother had already peeled the corn husks and placed the golden corn cobs on the cement floor to dry.

"This acre of land is definitely more than the two acres of land last year. The corn seeds and fertilizers we bought are just good." Father Lin was so happy looking at the corn all over the ground that he couldn't stop smiling.

He had never had such a good harvest in his entire life of growing corn, and he was very excited.

"It's indeed effective. There's a reason why the fertilizer is expensive." Chen Changxia nodded.

"The meal is ready." Lin's mother came out of the house with a smile on her face.

For farmers, there is no greater joy than a good harvest.

At lunch, Father Lin and the others were a little too excited and drank a lot of wine.

Lin Heng enjoyed the chopped pepper fish head. After the meal, he went back home to look at the roasted dried fish and turned it over.

When the sun began to set at four o'clock, the four men harvested another acre of corn in the afternoon.

They finished harvesting the corn early the next morning, and the golden corn cobs filled the concrete floor near the warehouse.

That afternoon, many villagers came to watch. They picked up the corn ears and looked at them again and again, some in admiration or shock, and they simply couldn't believe it.

There is no need to weigh it. People who often grow crops can tell at a glance that it is definitely more than 3,000 kilograms, maybe close to 3,500 or 3,600 kilograms.

"This is really amazing, the yield per acre!"

“We’ll try to buy some seeds next year.”

Many people asked about seeds and fertilizers, and in the spring many people were dismissive because they had a deep-rooted belief that it was impossible.

But when the facts were laid out before them, these people were dumbfounded and shocked, and for the first time they experienced the horror of technology.

At the same time, they all thought about buying seeds. If rice and wheat could have such a high yield per mu, they would not have to eat coarse grains in the future.

(End of this chapter)