Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 429 Spring Construction

In the blink of an eye, it was the next morning. When Lin Heng woke up, Xiaoxia was still in his arms, with her head under his shoulder, sleeping like a little pig.

Seeing that his daughter was sleeping soundly, Lin Heng didn't have the heart to disturb her, so he continued to sleep on the bed. When it was past eight o'clock, he called Xiaoxia to get up, got dressed, and went to the bathroom.

I had a simple meal at my parents-in-law's house in the morning, and went to my eldest brother-in-law's house for lunch at noon. I wanted to leave after dinner, but was forced to stay and continue playing.

We had no choice but to stay for another day and went for a stroll around the area in the afternoon.

After lunch on the seventh day and a lot of conversation, they finally agreed to let them go back.

When they set off, all three children received red envelopes, even Caiyun got one.

"I'm finally back."

Lin Heng sighed as he opened the gate to his yard. Even at his parents-in-law's house, it was not as convenient and comfortable as at his own home.

"Xiongba, Dazhuang, I'm back!"

Xiaoxia ran over excitedly to play with Xiongba and Dazhuang, but the two dogs lay there motionless, not wanting to play with her at all.

"Come in and light the fire, it's too cold."

Xiulan stomped her feet and quickly opened the main hall door while picking up her things. This time when they left, Chen's father and mother also gave them a large amount of dried fish and dried shrimp, which added up to about 20 to 30 kilograms.

Lin Heng put the child in the crib, went out to shovel some coal, put some charcoal into the fireplace, then added firewood and lit it. After a while, the fire was burning fiercely, and several people gathered around the fireplace to keep warm.

After the charcoal was ignited, Lin Heng shoveled out some and put it into the brazier so that everyone could warm their feet.

"It's finally warm."

After warming his feet for a while, Lin Heng took a deep breath, went to get the boiling water on the fireplace and made a pot of tea.

"We don't have to run around anymore after this, right? All the relatives should have left by now." Caiyun asked.

Xiulan nodded and said, "No, you don't have to go anywhere from now on. Caiyun, you should concentrate on your studies. You have worked hard to help take care of the children during this period."

"Second sister-in-law, you are too polite. This is what I should do." Caiyun smiled and shook her head.

Lin Heng poured them a cup of tea and said, "Let's enjoy life from now on. Have fun and eat."

Visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year is a social activity that adults cannot avoid, but after the socializing, they still prefer to eat and drink with their family.

After drinking a sip of tea, the temperature in the room was already quite high. After Lin Heng warmed up, he went for a walk in the backyard, looked at the flowers, plants and koi, and then went to see the cows and chickens on the back hill.

Seeing that the cow and the chicken were safe and sound, Lin Heng returned home satisfied, said something to Xiulan, and went to Hongfeng Mountain to find his parents.

When he arrived at Hongfeng Mountain, Lin Heng found that his parents were on the north side of the first platform on the mountain. He guessed that they were feeding the cattle and sheep.

He walked up and saw that it was indeed the case. His parents were digging holes and planting wooden stakes in preparation for setting up a wire fence at the back.

"Mom and Dad, you're working in the mountains during New Year's Day. Why don't you have a good rest?" Lin Heng shouted at them.

"You guys are back, why don't you stay for a few more days? Xiulan finally came back." Mother Lin looked at him and said, "We can do these chores when we have nothing to do, so that we won't have so much trouble later."

Father Lin also looked up and said, "In addition to growing crops this year, we also have to fertilize the fruit trees, build racks for the grapes, and build new cow pens to cultivate shrimp fry and raise freshwater shrimp. There's too much work to do, so it doesn't matter if we have nothing to do."

"Xiu Lan said that two days is enough, and there is no more fun." Lin Heng answered his mother's words and said, "You don't have to worry about these. You can ask someone to help you when the time comes."

He knew what his parents said, but he could ask someone to help him do it, so there was no need to be so anxious.

He walked to his parents, looked at them with disheveled hair and dirty faces, and said, "Let's go back and make dinner. We can have a couple of drinks tonight."

"Then let's talk about it after we have cleaned this up." Father Lin said with a smile.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded. He didn't help and went out to the mountain to take a look.

When he came back after a walk, Lin's father and mother had already come down from the mountain and were feeding the animals with grass.

"Son, you said that cement pillars are needed for vineyards and kiwifruit orchards. Should we build the molds ourselves?" Father Lin asked while washing his face and hands.

Lin Heng nodded and said, "Yes, I will buy some plastic box molds and thin steel bars and make the molds myself. It won't take much time. The weather is cold now, so it's not suitable for this job."

Father Lin nodded to show that he understood. He and his wife went back to the house to change clothes, then returned home with Lin Heng and had a big dinner in the evening.

The weather was very good on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. The sun came out early in the morning, and the golden sun made people feel warm. Lin Heng asked his parents to have a barbecue in the front yard.

There were barbecues on skewers and with oil, as well as iron plate barbecues. Everyone was eating, drinking tea and chatting happily.

After the tenth day, Lin Heng began to prepare for work. He harnessed the oxen to plow the fields at home, preparing to plant crops in two days.

In addition, he and his father erected wooden stakes in the area for grazing cattle and sheep on the mountain. When these tasks were completed, it was the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

The arrival of the Lantern Festival means that the Chinese New Year is completely over and spring is coming.

"What are you going to do today?"

When he woke up in the morning, Lin Heng hugged Xiulan and asked with a smile.

When he came back, Xiulan satisfied all his strange ideas, and his waist hurt a little because of her cooperation.

"Barbecue or hot pot, or stir-fry?"

Xiulan put her arms around Lin Heng's neck and asked with a smile, she was not sure either.

"What do you want to eat?" Lin Heng touched her little face and put his other hand on her butt.

"Let's have hotpot. How about some cold dishes to go with the hotpot?" Xiulan asked after thinking for a while.

"What a pity. Let's get up and do it." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.

The two got up, dressed, washed their faces, then exercised as usual and milked for breakfast.

I boiled a lot of eggs this morning. In addition to eating them in the morning, I also put some in a small pot on the fireplace and boiled them into tea eggs. I can eat them whenever I want.

After a casual lunch, they started preparing dinner in the afternoon. Xiulan and Caiyun cut cold dishes together and prepared various ingredients for hot pot.

Lin Heng took the two children and taught them to walk. The two little guys walked more and more properly and were not far from learning to walk completely.

"Daddy...dog..."

"Borrow it...Dog..."

The two little ones can speak more and more words. Now they are full of curiosity about the world. When they see their sister playing with the dog, they also want to play.

"Be good, you can't play with the dog yet."

Lin Heng brought the two children back, put one in the stroller, and taught them to walk one by one.

We were busy like this for the whole afternoon, and by the time it got dark around six o'clock, the ingredients for the hot pot were ready.

Lin Heng poured charcoal into the copper stove and turned on the lights inside and outside. The Lantern Festival is all about bright lights.

Before eating hot pot in the evening, a small bowl of glutinous rice balls was prepared for everyone.

"Delicious!" Xiaoxia nodded while eating. She loved the fermented glutinous rice dumplings, which were sweet and fragrant.

"Let's just eat hotpot." Lin Heng shouted with a smile.

"Okay, Dad and brother, let's go first." Lin Yue said, raising his glass.

Their whole family is here tonight, and it will be lively when there are so many people eating together.

"Okay, have a drink." Father Lin nodded.

Lin Heng also took a sip of wine, but he liked eating meat more. He dipped the beef and sika deer meat in the pot and then dipped them in the dipping sauce filled with sesame paste, minced garlic and coriander. He felt his taste buds blossoming after taking a bite.

The pork belly from the big fat pig we slaughter at home during the Chinese New Year is also very good and tastes very fragrant.

In addition, there are various dried mushrooms, hand-made beef balls and fish balls.

Of course, the soul-stirring noodles are also indispensable. The sweet potato noodles that have absorbed the soup are placed in a bowl and dipped in sesame paste and minced garlic. The sour taste is simply an ultimate enjoyment.

All the ingredients are made by ourselves. They are not only pure natural but also rich in ingredients, and include many precious wild game delicacies.

No one was in a hurry. They ate hotpot leisurely and chatted from 6:30 to 9 o'clock.

"Second Dad, can I stay at your house from now on? You have so many delicious foods."

Lin Wei, who was full, sighed and envied Xiaoxia very much.

"I also want to live in my second father's house." Lin Tao also shouted with a smile.

"Of course, come over anytime you want to eat something delicious." Lin Heng agreed with a smile.

Xiaoxia came over and hugged Lin Heng, saying protectively, "This is my dad. Brothers, you can't steal my dad from me."

Xiaoxia's words made all the adults present laugh. Lin Heng held her in his arms and fed her a fish ball.

"Don't worry, Xiaoxia, no one is competing with you for your father." Liu Juan shouted with a smile.

"We only know how to steal food, hehe." Lin Wei said with a smirk.

"Then I'll share some food with you." Xiaoxia was quite generous with food because she was not short of snacks.

After chatting for a while, the children went out to play while the adults continued to eat.

Lin Heng picked up a beef ball for Xiulan. She shook her head and handed it back to him: "I can't eat it anymore. You eat it."

"I'm almost done." Lin Heng shook his head, looked at his father and elder brother and smiled, "The remaining beef balls and food are left to you."

"Let's share the food in the pot among the three of us." Father Lin nodded. He could still eat a little more.

Xiulan went to the freezer and got some hawthorn cakes, put them by the fire to soften them, and then took them out to give to the children. They had eaten too much meat in the evening and needed to digest the food.

The adults continued to eat until ten o'clock, during which time they talked about the work they had to do this year and how to do it.

It was already half past ten when we finished cleaning up the dishes. The children had played for so long and had almost digested their food, so it was time for them to go to bed and rest.

After everyone else went back, Lin Heng coaxed the children to sleep and quickly went to bed.

Both of them were a little full, and they looked at each other very happy and joyful. This was the kind of life they wanted.

The next morning, after getting up early, exercising and having breakfast, Lin Heng and his father went to the town to take Caiyun to register for school, and then opened the store.

He gave Wang Zhou a holiday until today, and he had a great time during the Chinese New Year this year.

After finishing this, Lin Heng and his father went to order cement, sand, gravel, red bricks and other materials to prepare for the construction of cattle and sheep pens.

This time, Lin Heng is not going to use ceramic tiles. He plans to buy wire tiles. This type of tile is also very effective and can be used for at least four to five years without any problems. It is also easy to install.

After returning home, Lin Heng went to talk to the village party secretary again in the afternoon and found some people to help with the work in the next few days.

For the next five days, Lin Heng, his parents and five helpers mainly installed wire fences for the outdoor cattle and sheep farm.

Loosen the soil for the fruit trees, bury rotted cow and sheep manure as fertilizer, and sprinkle a lot of fertilizer to kill pests such as silkworms.

There is a lot of cow and sheep manure, which is not only used for fruit trees, but Lin Heng also asks his helpers to fertilize the pasture and astragalus, and to pour some on the crop fields.

There are a lot of jobs to do, and they can come and do them when they have nothing to do.

On the 86th day of the first lunar month, which was also February 2th in the Gregorian calendar in 28, Lin Heng went to the city with his eldest brother, bringing along three cousins ​​who had asked him to help during the New Year.

The two stayed in the city for two days. Lin Heng contacted some people and arranged a good job for the three cousins.

If they work hard, they will definitely achieve something.

On the second day in the city, Lin Heng and his eldest brother rented a truck to buy the concrete column molds that they had ordered last year.

This mold is made of plastic and can be reused. It measures ten by ten centimeters. Lin Heng bought one hundred at one time.

In addition to the molds, he also bought steel wire for building grape and kiwi racks, and thin steel wire for filling concrete columns.

At two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the truck stopped at the first platform on Hongfeng Mountain and unloaded everything.

In the following days, trucks carrying sand, gravel and red bricks arrived one after another. Lin Heng also rented a mixer and hired several bricklayers.

While he asked the bricklayers to build the cattle and sheep pens according to his design drawings, he worked with his parents and older brother to make cement pillars.

The production of cement pillars is very simple. Just put the cut steel bars into the mold, add some thin iron wires as the skeleton, and add concrete with a good proportion.

The construction of the cattle and sheep pen was more complicated. Because he was going to use iron tiles this time, he planned to build a larger cattle and sheep pen. He designed a large cattle and sheep pen covering an area of ​​600 square meters, which was ten meters wide and sixty meters long.

Such a large cattle and sheep pen will not need to be expanded for several years after it is built, so raising hundreds or thousands of cattle and sheep will be no problem at all.

He was not a professional in the design of cattle and sheep pens, but he had seen professional cattle and sheep pens in his previous life. Combined with his own experience in raising cattle and sheep, he constantly directed the masons to build according to his requirements.

Now it is almost the Jingzhe season, and there is basically no ice or frost, so the construction project has begun in full swing.

Soon the Waking of Insects arrived. It didn't rain that day, but there were two spring thunders.

The buds of the trees are gradually becoming full, and Lin Heng and his team have already made three hundred cement pillars.

"Son, I think the cement pillars are almost enough. We are not sure how to set up the frame. Can you teach us today?"

Early in the morning, Lin's father found his son and said.

"Have you already moved the concrete pillars over?" Lin Heng asked curiously.

"We moved some over yesterday." Father Lin said with a smile.

"That's no problem. I'll go to the field to teach you later." Lin Heng nodded.

These days, he watched the masons help build the cattle and sheep pens, and he himself took part in the work. He didn't even pay attention to the work of pouring concrete pillars.

(End of this chapter)