Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 50 The Prodigal Son Really Turns Back

The foundation of rural mud houses is very simple. Dig a trench fifty centimeters wide and fifty centimeters deep, and then lay stones vertically inside.

Similar to placing your palms upright, one advantage of laying stones this way is that it drains water.

The main function of the foundation is to waterproof, and the earth wall is most afraid of water. The root of the wall needs to be built with stones, and then the wall can be built with yellow mud.

Behind the stones for building the wall, there are everywhere on the mountain. Just take the backpack and carry it up. Even if it is gone, just find a steel hammer and drill the mountain directly.

Lin Heng's family still uses terracotta tiles to build their house. In the past, they used bluestone slabs, which were cut out of the mountains. They had to be carried piece by piece.

Rural people are all migrant workers and have very good physical strength, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many migrant workers.

After the work started, no one was lazy. Eight people dug out the foundations of two houses in two hours.

"Come here and help dig this fish pond."

Carpenter Liang was responsible for the foundation work here. When he saw that the foundation was dug, he asked someone to come over and help Lin Heng dig the fish pond.

"Lin Heng, is this the fish pond you built?" Li Caifeng's husband, Yang Zhaotao, looked at Lin Heng and asked with a smile.

"Yes, let's build a fish pond." Lin Heng smiled and nodded.

"As expected, he is a man of culture. He cultivates different things." Yang Zhaotao said with some irony. In his opinion, cultivating such things is a waste of space.

"That's right, Lin Heng, just like your elder brother, it would be great to build the back into a house so that you can have children in the future. Building a fish pond will be useful for laying eggs."

The uncle of the Wang family persuaded him and said that in his opinion, Lin Heng had some kind of brain disorder and was doing something wrong in the fish pond.

Some other people also think that the fish pond is unnecessary and that a bigger house would be better. One hundred square meters is too small in a rural area.

"It's okay, I just like small ones." Lin Heng chuckled and did not listen to the advice.

These people all want to live in a house for a lifetime, but Lin Heng only regards this house as a transitional house. There is no need to consider it too big. Exquisite and compact is his plan.

After that, decorate the house well and it will have a different feeling when living in a mud house.

"If your boss doesn't want to mess with you, just leave them alone. Just three of us can dig the fish pond, and the rest can help move the rocks." Carpenter Liang smiled and helped Lin Heng out of the trouble.

Work is lively and fast when there are many people. The fish pond was completed in an hour. There are relatively few stones in the ground, so it can be dug quickly.

On the other side, the stone movers also piled stones into several hills.

"Okay, it's almost done. Just leave two or three people to help move the stones, and the others can help lay the foundation." Father Lin was carrying a basket of stones on his back. After putting them down, he looked at everyone and said.

The people who were called today were all people who had done house building work, and laying stones was no problem. Lin Heng helped hand over the stones and watched his second uncle do the work.

During lunch, more than half of the foundation was laid, and it will be completed in the afternoon.

For lunch, there were three tables in the house. When everyone saw the pig badger meat on the table, they couldn’t help but exclaimed: “Did you buy the pig badger meat or beat it?”

Father Lin chuckled, pointed at Lin Heng and said, "My second son was beaten the night before yesterday."

Then he briefly explained what happened.

"Do you really know how to hunt? Did you really hunt the rabbit that day?" The uncle of the Wang family was the first to look at Lin Heng. He couldn't believe that Lin Heng could hunt down the pig badger.

The people in the village also looked curiously. Can the second-rate son of the Lin family know how to hunt?
  Did the sun come out in the west?
  "Lin Heng, show us, is your bow and arrow really so accurate? I don't believe it. Could it be that you picked someone else's?"

Yang Zhaotao couldn't believe it.

Because he also learned how to hunt, but the harvest was very little. He could only rely on traps to harvest some small prey such as squirrels, rabbits, and grouse.

Lin Heng, a second-rate guy who was famous for his idleness, was actually able to beat the pig badger. He couldn't accept it, and he spoke very straightforwardly. Hearing someone start, everyone else in the village immediately followed suit.

"Lin Heng, show us how awesome bow and arrow hunting is!"

"That's right, let me learn more about it!"

Everyone was talking to each other, not giving Lin Heng a chance to speak.

Lin Heng was quite helpless, but he also knew that one day he would be exposed, so he took out his bow and arrows from the house.

"Is this wooden block okay?"

Yang Zhaotao smiled and placed a wooden pillar outside the courtyard gate, more than thirty meters away from Lin Heng.

It was obviously to give Lin Heng a little more difficulty, to kill his prestige, and to do evil in secret.

"If you can hit this, I'll admire you!"

Yang Zhaotao chuckled.

Everyone else also looked over, waiting for Lin Heng to take action without even eating.

Lin's father, Lin's mother, Xiulan and others were all worried about Lin Heng. He would definitely be laughed at in the village if he missed it.

I secretly complained about Yang Zhaotao. This guy was so bad and set his target so far away.

After exhaling, Lin Heng picked up the bow and arrow and said with a smile, "Think of it as a meal for everyone."

As he spoke, he shot out an arrow and accurately hit the wooden pillar thirty meters away.

With a bang, the expressions on everyone's faces froze. They stared straight at Lin Heng. They aimed at Lin Heng from more than [-] meters away and within two seconds, he hit the target with an arrow. This was an incredible skill.

"awesome!"

"What a skill! No wonder you can hit a pig badger!"

"Hey, this archery skill made him a great general in ancient times."

Everyone was shocked by the accuracy of Lin Heng's bow and arrow. They cheered continuously and the eyes they looked at him changed. They were no longer the light and airy ones before.

Especially the expressions on the faces of Yang Zhaotao and the Wang family uncles were even more wonderful. Lin Heng's archery accuracy exceeded their expectations.

"Just kidding, I was lucky this time."

Lin Heng smiled, turned around and put the bow and arrow in the bedroom.

He felt that he was talented at aiming at such things. He had been able to hit slingshots very accurately since he was a child, and he also learned bow and arrow very quickly in his previous life.

"Awesome!" When Lin Heng returned to the table, his eldest brother Lin Yue couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

Mother Lin and Father Lin also looked a little relieved. Lin Heng had broken their hearts and finally gave them a sigh of relief.

Perhaps, this time he has really changed his ways and the prodigal son has turned back!
  Everyone in the family thinks so, because Lin Heng did a lot of things at home during these eight days.

Even if I said I had reformed before, it was just that I didn't go out at home, so how could I make money everywhere like this time.

It can be said that in these eight days, the living standard of the Lin family has improved to a higher level. They can eat meat every day and everyone has become fatter.

Even my sister-in-law Liu Juan, who used to hate Lin Heng, had to admit that all of this was caused by Lin Heng.

(End of this chapter)