Return to the small mountain village in 1983

“It rained all day again!”

On the morning of the 19th, Lin Heng got up and sighed as he looked at the continuous rain outside.

Who would have thought that it would rain on the first day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, which made him lose the enthusiasm to work hard.

"Just take a rest when it rains. God has decided to rain, what can you do about it?" Xiulan said to Lin Heng.

"But I can't rest today. I have to go to town. I don't know when Li Shiwei will come down." Lin Heng closed the window and walked to the bed and said.

"Oh, yes, today is the 16th, which is market day, and you have to go to the town to open a shop." Xiulan then remembered that there was no one in the town now, and Lin Heng had to go in person.

She originally wanted to sleep in, but when she remembered this, she quickly got up and prepared to make breakfast.

"I can fix it myself, you sleep a little longer!" Lin Heng pushed her back and said.

"It's okay, I'm not sleepy, I just want to stay in bed." Xiulan shook her head and got up with Lin Heng.

The two had just finished their exercise and made breakfast when they heard firecrackers outside.

"From the direction, it looks like the Jin family is coming. Zhao Hu is here to propose marriage." Lin Heng went out to the yard and took a look and said.

"That's what I meant, setting off firecrackers so early in the morning." Xiulan nodded.

Boom boom boom!
"Brother Lin Heng, I'm coming down!"

Lin Heng was just about to go back to the house to have breakfast when he heard Li Shiwei's voice calling from outside the door.

"You're down so early. It's a good time to go in and have breakfast." Lin Heng said with a smile as he opened the door.

"We set out early in the morning for fear of delaying things." Li Shiwei said with a smile.

He was very excited that Lin Heng asked him to help look after the store. His whole family was also very happy and told him to seize the opportunity and learn from Lin Heng, so he stayed here early.

"Don't be in a hurry, let's go have breakfast first, some potato pancakes made by Xiulan." Lin Heng said with a smile.

When Xiulan brought Li Shiwei into the house, she had already put breakfast on the table: potato pancakes, eggs and milk, a simple yet not simple breakfast.

Although Li Shiwei knew what Lin Heng's family's breakfast looked like, he still couldn't help swallowing.

He didn't bother to be polite with Lin Heng and just picked it up and started eating it in big mouthfuls.

"You know what, the food at your house is really delicious. I won't get used to it if I eat two more meals at home."

After finishing breakfast, Li Shiwei said with emotion that his family still often eats cornmeal, and eggs and milk are really luxuries.

"That's okay, just eat here." Lin Heng said with a smile.

If you want to be healthy, eggs and milk are essential, especially for children.

"Haha, that's a deal. I'll come here to eat every day." Li Shiwei grinned.

The two chatted for a while, and Lin Heng finished eating and said something to Xiulan, then patted Li Shiwei's arm and said, "Let's go."

"it is good."

Li Shiwei nodded happily.

Driving on a sidecar, they soon arrived at Huangtan Town. Already early in the morning, many people were waiting here to sell mountain products.

Lin Heng smiled and welcomed the people into the house, and then taught Li Shiwei while selling goods. Li Shiwei only studied in the fifth grade of elementary school, so he still needed to be taught little by little to learn these things.

But he was not stupid and learned very quickly. Basically, he could master it in three or four market days.

After teaching him a general idea, Lin Heng sat aside drinking tea and let him take charge.

Because it was raining, not many people came to the market today, and soon Li Shiwei was free. He sat down and drank a sip of tea, looking at Lin Heng and said, "Brother Lin, do you think I did a good job?"

"Not bad." Lin Heng nodded, and then said, "When doing business, you have to be careful. The most important thing is to make money through harmony, especially for small businesses like ours in town. Reputation is very important. If you can provide some small help, you should help. If some acquaintances want to buy some not-so-large items on credit, you can give them credit."

Doing business in towns and villages is somewhat different from doing business in cities. Here you have to value friendship and loyalty, and if you offer fair prices, you can keep your business going for a long time.

"I understand." Li Shiwei nodded.

"Then you take care of the store. Grandpa Gao and I will go out and do some fishing." Lin Heng looked at him and said.

"Okay." Li Shiwei said happily. He was encouraged by Lin Heng's confidence in him.

Lin Heng is a man who trusts people and does not trust people he doubts. He took his fishing rod and put on a raincoat and went fishing with Grandpa Gao.

It is not easy to fish around the Huangtan River Bridge now. It is not because there are no fish, but because these fish have become cautious after experiencing the horror of fish hooks.

But this was not a big deal. They walked down about seven or eight hundred meters and found a good watershed. Despite the continuous rain, the two of them caught more than three kilograms of yellow mullet and two kilograms of crucian carp in just three hours.

It was almost four o'clock in the afternoon when they returned to town after fishing. Grandpa Gao gave him half of the fish as he could not finish so much by himself.

Lin Heng was now very familiar with Grandpa Gao, and he was not so polite. When he left, he told Li Shiwei something else. He was mainly here to look after the business on important market days, and he could take time to go home on days other than market days.

Let him do it for a month first, and if he can do it, confirm that he will do it.

Of course, the money is the same, 20 yuan a month, and there is no such thing as internship salary.

It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when Lin Heng returned to the house. He walked in with a fish in his hand and said, "Wife, look at the yellow thorn I caught."

Xiulan came out and looked at it, and was surprised and said, "There are so many! It seems that the muddy water is good for fishing. I will cook some for the children tonight."

She likes to make pickled yellow croaker and put some vermicelli in it. The vermicelli that has absorbed the soup is also a delicacy that everyone likes.

"Okay, I'll kill it right away." Lin Heng nodded with a smile. The yellow thorn bones weighing two taels each are the most suitable. The meat is tender and fragrant, and it is also easy to cook.

In the evening, Xiulan made a sauerkraut yellow croaker and fried a small pot of Chinese cabbage. The staple food was the scallion pancake that she had made at noon.

The delicious dinner made people sleep comfortably. The children were very happy eating the fish and vermicelli. After eating one, they kept clamoring for more.

The next morning, the rain had not stopped yet. Lin Heng got up late and went to Hongfeng Mountain to help. Recently, a lamb was born and Lin's father was very busy.

Lin Heng came to help but only encountered a sheep giving birth. After helping with the delivery and feeding the cattle and sheep, there was nothing else to do. Because it had been raining all day, he thought about it and put on a raincoat and took the dog to the matsutake nests he had found before. After searching for a while, he only found three small ones, but they were too small for him to pick.

I picked a lot of pine mushrooms on the way home. There are quite a few pine mushrooms during this period.

In the next few days, Lin Heng also helped in Hongfeng Mountain. Nothing special happened in the village. After Zhao Hu proposed the marriage, he took Jin Hai and Liu Sheng away. The news circulating in the village was that the two families were preparing to get married and hold a wedding before the New Year.

The continuous rain lasted for four days. During this period, I could not do anything except helping out at Hongfeng Mountain.

After the rain, the sun came out for a day and they started to harvest rice. This year they had rice fish. Every time it rained, they had to be careful that the water would flood the fields and take the fish away.

On the day of harvesting rice, they first drained the water from the fields, and then cut the rice while practicing sword rain.

Soon the rice in the one-acre field was harvested. Father Lin poured out the rice fish in the bucket, looked at it and said with a smile: "This rice fish is not bad. One acre of field can produce 60 to 70 kilograms of fish."

The rice fish poured into the baskets were crackling, and they were basically two taels of fish, looking very healthy. This kind of rice fish tasted very good, very fragrant and tender.

"It's not only good, we'll make rice fish next year too." said the villager who was threshing grain nearby.

"That's right. Even if one mu of land only has 50 kilograms, five mu of land has 250 kilograms, which is equivalent to a pig."

They originally had no habit of raising rice fish here, after all, it is located in the north, but after seeing Lin Heng's successful case, they were all tempted.

Father Lin smiled and patted his chest and said, "That's no problem. If you want fish fry next year, I'll even buy them for you. You can give them to me after the rice fish are sold."

"That's no problem. We'll ask you to get the seedlings next year."

"Old Lin, you are a sincere person. I will come to you next year."

Everyone nodded and said.

At this time, Lin Yue looked at Lin Heng again and asked, "Brother, we can still keep this fish, right?"

"Of course you can. Take this fish back and put it in the pond and let it grow. If you feed it well, it will grow five kilograms in a year without any problem." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.

"Then I will go back and raise all my rice fish in the pond. Not many fish in the pond survived this year." Lin Xutao said.

He felt that his family had bad luck this year. First, the shrimps were finished, and then a batch of fish died. Fortunately, the rice fish were fine.

Everyone chatted and played while continuing to thresh the rice. Twenty people were called today, and the goal was to finish the threshing in one day. Four acres of paddy fields were threshed in one morning, and Lin Heng harvested 20 kilograms of rice fish. Most of them were placed in the pond in the hatchery, and the big ones were picked for lunch.

Just cut the fish into pieces, fry until golden brown, then stew it, add some sauerkraut to make a sour soup. It is a dish suitable for all ages.

My luck was not very good in the afternoon. I only picked up a few rice fish in two fields and caught 150 kilograms of fish from four acres of fields. It was not as good as in the morning.

But it didn't matter, after all, the rice fish was harvested at random, and the main harvest was rice. Lin Heng's rice was also good this year, because he used a lot of cow and sheep manure as base fertilizer, and the yield per mu was 850 kilograms, and 6,800 kilograms of rice were harvested from eight mu of land.

Other families in the village who bought rice seeds were also filled with happy smiles. The rice yield was changed from 300 to 400 kilograms per mu in previous years. This year, the worst yield was 500 kilograms per mu, and the general yield was around 600 kilograms.

It can be said that starting this year, every household will no longer have to worry about eating white rice.

Lin Heng was also happy seeing the happy smiles of the villagers. Although these people had various minor problems, they were generally simple and worthy of help.

Humans have been cultivating various crops for at least thousands of years, but it was not until modern times that they gradually solved the problem of food and clothing. The main reason was modern breeding technology and the emergence of chemical fertilizers.

Without these two, the land's return to humanity can only be described as mediocre.

Although it is Mid-Autumn Festival, the sun is still strong on sunny days and the harvested rice can be dried and stored in three days.

Only after the farmers happily took out the best grain and paid the public tax to the country did they feel willing to taste the new rice, and smiles gradually appeared on their faces.

Lin Heng waited until the sun was dry before driving his sidecar into the city. He first went to the factory to take a look and asked Wang Zhou if there was anything going on recently.

He felt relieved after getting the answer that there was no problem. Then he and his elder brother went to contact the sales of kiwi fruit. Because of the previous sales of grapes, selling kiwi fruit was not difficult.

The market value of kiwifruit is comparable to that of grapes. His eldest brother's family produced more than 800 kilograms per acre of land this year, at 2.5 cents per kilogram, which means 200 yuan per acre, and 2,000 yuan from ten acres of land.

As the seedlings of his third uncle's family are small and have not grown up yet this year, the yield is even lower, 500 kilograms per acre, and the quality is not as good as Lin Yue's. They can only be sold for 20 cents, or 100 yuan per acre. His family planted five acres of kiwifruit, which is only 500 yuan.

This harvest was unbelievable to them in the past. They never thought that it would be so difficult to sell it and the money earned was more than they expected.

"Brother, this is the money I borrowed from you. Now I have the money and I will pay you back in one lump sum."

On the day he received the money, Lin Yue first took out 800 yuan to return to Lin Heng. This was the money he used to buy the gun and seedlings. He was supposed to return it after he opened the store and made money, but Lin Heng never took the money.

"Just take it first, brother. I don't need it." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.

"It's time to return it. Don't be polite with me. Just take it all." Lin Yue stuffed it into his hands.

After refusing several times, Lin Heng had no choice but to say, "That should be 700, why give me 800?"

Lin Yue smiled and said, "One hundred is the interest. Without you, I wouldn't be able to run the kiwi fruit business or the store."

He remembered all the help Lin Heng had given him over the years. If it weren't for Lin Heng, he would have a hard time raising his three children, and he wouldn't be as strong at home as he is now.

In the past, his wife always complained about him because he had no money. In the past two years, he has gradually straightened his back. Both his wife and parents-in-law are much kinder to him and they always come to him for help when there is something.

He understood that all these were brought by his younger brother, and he was always grateful.

"Brother, don't say that." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head. In the end, he only took back the 700 yuan he had lent out.

The next morning, Lin Hai also came with money. In addition to the money he had borrowed from Lin Heng, there was also some interest and a thank-you fee.

Lin Hai is also a smart man. He understands Lin Heng's role and knows that he deserves every bit of it.

Lin Heng treated him the same way as he treated his elder brother, only collecting the money he should have collected, including the money he had lent to Lin Hai and the shipping fee he paid for transporting kiwifruit to him.

He still said that he would not make money from them, but he would not lose money either. He did not ask for anything in return for the support from his relatives and friends, he just wanted to see those who were kind to him live a good life.

The kiwi fruit made money, and his third parents were so happy that they bought beef and mutton and invited Lin Heng's whole family to dinner, pouring wine and serving food for them.

Many people in the village were envious. They used to just watch Lin Heng's family make money, but now even his third father's family has made money, so everyone is envious. (End of this chapter)