Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 392 The whole country is red
The next morning, Lin Heng slept until nine o'clock. Feeling Xiulan beside him, he slept particularly soundly.

Of course, part of this is also due to the fact that the small head controlled the big head yesterday, which resulted in the cumulative effect.

"I'll get up first. The baby needs to have his diaper changed and fed. You need to sleep a little longer."

Nine o'clock, Xiulan said, looking at the watch.

"I might as well get up. After eating, lying on the sofa is also a way to rest." Lin Heng thought for a while, then got up and said.

"That's fine." Xiulan smiled. She fed the baby first and then called Xiaoxia to get up.

The three of them went out to the front yard to exercise, and Caiyun followed them. She thought Xiulan's Tai Chi movements were very soft and graceful, and wanted to learn from her.

"Aunt, let me teach you. I'm the best at it."

Xiaoxia said seriously while performing clumsy Tai Chi.

"Okay, I'll learn from Xiaoxia." Caiyun agreed with a smile.

After exercising for half an hour, everyone sweated a little and then went to get some water to wash up.

After washing up, Xiulan went to the closet and found a floral short skirt with yellow flowers printed on it and put it on. She also changed her upper body into a white short-sleeved shirt.

Her hair was tied into a high ponytail, with a strand of hair left by her ears to frame her face.

Lin Heng didn't change his clothes and just wore the black shorts and a white short-sleeved shirt he wore last night.

He was a little surprised to see Xiulan coming out of the bedroom. She put on a little makeup to embellish herself, and under the sunlight she looked youthful and charming with bright eyes and white teeth.

But speaking of it, she is only 24 years old this year, a blooming age.

"Come on, let's milk the cows. Why are you standing there like an idiot?" Xiulan reached out and pulled him.

"okay."

Lin Heng came to his senses and went to the back mountain with her.

Xiulan went to milk the cows, Lin Heng fed the chickens and let them out, then went to take a look at the orchard.

There are pears and apples in the orchard. The pears are very ripe and will fall off if there is a gust of wind.

After a while, Lin Heng picked up seven or eight intact pears under the tree.

"There are too many. Pick some and take them back. I will make autumn pear paste later."

While milking the cows, Xiulan told him that she knew what Lin Heng was doing.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded and shook the tree again, and the ripe fruits fell down one after another.

After practicing with a dozen fist-sized pears, he went to get a basket to put them in.

After he finished, he came over to help Xiulan milk the cows. Milking cows is hard work and not easy.

"Let's go get some wax gourd to make jam in the next couple of days. We have a freezer this year so it can be stored longer. Also, milk mixed with some jam and cream to make ice cream is pretty good."

Xiulan said as she watched Lin Heng milking the cows.

"Sure. There are a lot of August melons this year. Let's go pick them tomorrow." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.

"Okay, let's go tomorrow morning." Xiulan agreed.

After milking, Lin Heng walked behind Xiulan. The breeze blew up her skirt, exposing her snow-white beautiful legs, which always made people feel a strange desire to explore.

Back in the house, Xiulan made some simple potato pancakes, and Lin Heng made some milk tea. The rest, except for the one they gave to their parents, was used to make cream.

Making cream is very simple. Boil the milk until it is almost boiling and then let it cool. The cream will solidify on the top.

After breakfast, Xiulan started to braise the meat. Lin Heng helped her prepare all the internal organs and roe deer meat, and then took Xiaoxia to Hongfeng Mountain.

Lin Heng brought the milk over. Lin's father and mother were cutting grass. The grass could be harvested recently. They cut some to dry and fed some to the cattle and sheep.

There is still a lot of silage, so there is no need to produce more for the time being.

Lin Heng put the milk in the house and took Xiaoxia to check on the cows and sheep. Most of the female black goats had bulging bellies and would give birth in the next month.

The nine Qingchuan cows nearby have also reached the age to become pregnant, and if they are in estrus by the end of the year, they can be bred.

Coming out of the pen, Lin Heng walked up to his father and said, "These ewes are not well taken care of. Have they not been fed corn paste?"

Before Father Lin spoke, Mother Lin spoke first: "Stop beating around the bush and point at me. I just pissed off your wife and she doesn't want me to feed her corn. So what? Are you going to beat me up?"

She spoke with dissatisfaction in her tone and squinted at Lin Heng.

"I am here to tell you about this, Mom. Your idea of ​​saving money doesn't work. I know you developed it when you were little, but it doesn't work now."

"Why is it not applicable?" Lin's mother said disdainfully.

"Then tell me, mom, have you saved as much as I earn in a month over the years?" Lin Heng asked back.

"If you don't feed the ewes more good food, and they have a difficult delivery or give birth to a stillbirth, won't you lose more?" Lin Heng asked again.

"Xiu Lan saw that you were having a hard time, so she came to help you. Why did you have to scold her?" Lin Heng said a little angrily. He felt that his mother's attitude was very problematic.

He understood that it might be his mother's menopause. This sometimes happens. He understood but also had to make his mother understand right from wrong.

"Okay, okay, you are awesome. You forget your mother after you get a wife. You are the best." Mother Lin walked into the house angrily.

"This is not a matter of whether you forget or not. I hope you won't do this in the future. If you have anything to say, just talk it out. What I hate most is being unreasonable and making trouble. This is not what you taught us when we were little, right?"

Lin Heng finished his words as he watched his mother walk into the house.

In fact, he had originally thought of a euphemism for what he wanted to say, but Lin's mother interrupted and admitted it directly, leaving him too lazy to beat around the bush.

He also has to establish his own authority. After all, he is the actual leader of the family. When he is in charge, he has to be fair and just so that there will be fewer complaints among family members.

This is just like parents should treat their children equally and not discriminate against them, otherwise they will only suffer the consequences in the end.

The best example is his grandmother. If she hadn't treated him differently and favored his eldest father since he was a child, the relationship between the two families would not be what it is now.

"Your mother may be feeling unwell these past two days. She even had a fight with me last night." Father Lin whispered beside him.

"I know, Dad. I have to make it clear. My mom is wrong and she is wrong. If Xiulan is wrong, I will not side with her."

Lin Heng looked at his father and said, "Let's take a good rest today. The crops will be harvested in two days. We won't have a barbecue this afternoon. My mother will probably be unhappy if we come over like this."

After saying that, he turned and left. He originally wanted to stay longer, but now he didn't want to stay anymore.

He was also very painful about this matter. He didn't want to talk about his mother who gave birth to and raised him, but he had to talk about it.

Fortunately, Xiulan is not the kind of person with unstable emotions or mood swings, otherwise this matter would be even more difficult to deal with.

When men reach the age of being the head of the family, they will inevitably encounter these problems, and it is often at this time that some men are forced to collapse. Not only do they have to face the problem of supporting the family and earning money, but they also have to resolve quarrels among family members.

It is often at this stage that men understand how important it is to marry a virtuous wife.

"Dad, is grandma angry?"

After leaving Hongfeng Mountain, Xiaoxia asked tentatively. She was a little scared after the quarrel just now.

Lin Heng touched her face and said, "Xiaoxia, remember, the most important thing in life is to love yourself. Don't be unreasonable just because you are a girl. You should distinguish right from wrong when doing things. Just like your grandmother, she was unreasonable even when she was wrong."

He hopes that no matter whether it is his daughter or son, they will first love themselves, be reasonable, and not be unreasonable. Only when people love themselves first can they have the ability to love others.

Of course, what he meant was to love oneself but not to think oneself superior. People should love themselves instead of thinking themselves superior.

"I understand, Dad. I won't learn from grandma." Xiaoxia nodded and leaned her little head on Lin Heng's shoulder, as obedient as a kitten. "Let's go find you a wax gourd."

Lin Heng walked along the road with his daughter in his arms for a while, and saw the red wax gourds on the trees outside the road. Xiaoxia saw them at first sight and pointed them out: "Dad, there are some over there."

"I see. Stand still and don't move, dear."

Lin Heng put his daughter down, walked down, climbed up the tree, barely reached two and picked them up.

"Dad is so awesome, I love him!"

Xiaoxia saw Lin Heng picked the wax gourd and waved her hands happily.

"Here, I'll give you a bite. Remember to spit out the seeds."

Lin Heng broke the wax melon in half and took a bite himself to demonstrate, then fed Xiaoxia a bite.

Xiaoxia took a puff, spit out a bunch of seeds, and then laughed happily.

"Come on, have another bite."

Lin Heng smiled and fed his daughter another bite. Seeing his daughter spitting out the seeds happily, his originally bad mood improved.

When I returned home with my daughter and opened the gate to the yard, a rich aroma of braised food wafted out.

"Why did you come back so soon?"

Xiulan, who was sitting on the sofa, asked curiously.

"I came back because I don't have to work. Also, we're not going to have a barbecue this afternoon. Let's just eat at home." Lin Heng sighed, sat down, and put his daughter next to him.

"If you really go over and tell him that your mom has passed away, I'll tell you it's okay and it's over." Xiulan immediately guessed why and looked at him helplessly.

"Second brother, you are so brave." Caiyun gave a thumbs up.

Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and smiled: "Next time you do something wrong, I will also tell you. Of course, if I do something wrong, you can also tell me."

"You, I told you not to talk about mom anymore. It will be fine after a few days." Xiulan looked at him and wondered how to help ease the relationship between them. She was so worried.

"Stop talking and clean my ears." Lin Heng held her hand and said, not wanting to discuss this headache-inducing problem anymore.

"it is good."

Xiulan opened the drawer of the coffee table, took out the tools, and sat on the sofa. Lin Heng lay on her thighs, turning sideways so that one side just touched her thigh.

After enjoying his wife cleaning his ears for a while, Lin Heng went to the bathroom to write, and suddenly he had an inspiration.

He has already written 20,000 words of his book, and he has been polishing it. The content is very simple, it is a story about a person who lives a miserable life, experiences the most real and simple hardships in the world, and finally still manages to survive.

He hasn't thought of a name yet, but he just wrote it for fun, completely according to his inner feelings and thoughts.

He didn't want to be a plagiarist, otherwise there would be too many good literary works that had not yet been published to plagiarize.

After writing three thousand words, he stopped, opened the cabinet and looked at the ginseng in the glass bottle in the secret compartment.

This ginseng is intact, but its skin is wrinkled, revealing a sense of age.

After taking a look at it, Lin Heng put it back to its original place. He was not going to sell it for the time being.

Placed together with the ginseng were three boxes of Angong Niuhuang Pills and a stack of stamps kept in a plastic bag. These were collected by Lin Heng when he came to the city in the past two years. In addition to the ordinary ones, there were also ten monkey stamps and three "The Whole Country is Red" stamps.

In those days, stamps were just normal tickets for mailing letters, and no one thought that they would be worth so much money in the future.

He has been deliberately collecting these things. This is the simplest investment. He just needs to store them and wait for the price to go up later.

After taking a look, he closed the secret compartment, and then looked at the Boshan furnace, bloodstone and other things placed there.

If nothing unexpected happens, these will be very valuable in the future.

In addition, there is a batch of porcelain that was exchanged before upstairs, and he doesn't know whether it is real or not. He plans to find an opportunity to go to Ancheng to find someone to identify it.

Lin Heng came out and saw that the milk boiled in the morning had already solidified into cream, so he put it in the freezer to speed up the process.

"The roe deer meat stew is ready, would you like to try it?"

Xiulan came out of the kitchen and asked with a smile.

"Here it comes." Lin Heng walked over with a smile, and Xiulan cut a small piece for him.

"Hmm... delicious, just like the braised beef, but with a more delicate texture." Lin Heng nodded with satisfaction.

"All of these have been braised. Next, we'll braise the roe deer's head."

Xiulan also took out the braised roe deer viscera and placed them in a bamboo sieve to cool.

Lin Heng had already cooked the roe deer head in the evening, so now Xiulan just needed to add some seasonings and throw it in to braise.

"How about having noodles for lunch? I'll cut some braised meat for you and we can get some sweet wine?"

"Braise the roe deer head," Xiulan said as she looked at Lin Heng who was stealing a bite.

"Ok, Ok."

Lin Heng nodded repeatedly, the braised roe deer meat was so delicious.

After lunch, Xiulan changed into long pants and went to the river with Caiyun to wash clothes. Lin Heng was too lazy to go, so he just lay at home taking care of the children.

He was very bored and fell asleep in a short while. When he woke up again, he would be woken by the knocking on the door.

"I'm coming."

Lin Heng looked at his watch and saw that it was already two o'clock, so he went to open the door.

"Brother, mom asked us to have a barbecue this afternoon."

After opening the door, Caiyun looked at Lin Heng and said.

Lin Heng looked at Xiulan with an unhappy look: "Did you go and reconcile with mom? Don't admit your mistakes to her. If you admit your mistakes, she will subconsciously think that you are really wrong."

"Hurry up and pick up my clothes. Let's go into the house and talk."

Xiulan handed him a basket of wet clothes and said with a smile.

Lin Heng's attitude made her very happy. Her man was so good to her.

"My mom came to apologize to me. We went to wash clothes together. She said she was in a bad mood that day and asked me not to take it seriously and not to mention it again in the future."

After closing the door, Xiulan walked into the room and said softly.

"Yes, grandma admitted her mistake." Xiaoxia also nodded.

"In that case, okay, let's go over for a barbecue this afternoon." Lin Heng nodded.

Xiulan nodded as she hung the clothes to dry: "The roe deer head should be braised by now, let's take it over to eat this afternoon."

"The stew is ready."

Lin Heng nodded and helped to put on the clothes.

Back in the house, Xiulan changed into a floral short skirt and sat on the sofa to cool off with the fan.

Lin Heng went to get the roe deer head, which was split in half and was completely braised.

(End of this chapter)