Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

After talking to his daughter for a while, Lin Heng and Xiulan went to filter the wine. The wine was made from purple-black Kyoho grapes. It had a beautiful purple-red color and a rich fruity aroma.

After filtering, they use a clean wooden barrel water bath to heat the wine to 65 degrees, which not only kills the yeast but also filters out some aldehydes produced in the winemaking process.

The two had just heated up the wine when the gate of the yard was pushed open, and then the eldest brother Lin Yue walked in carrying a basket of fruit.

"Brother, are you guys making wine?" Lin Yue walked into the main room smelling the wine.

"Yes, the wine needs to be burned after it is brewed to ensure its taste and sweetness." Lin Heng nodded. The rice wine at home is also treated in this way so that it will not continue to age and become sour.

"I haven't done it at home yet, so I'll try to make some in the next two days. It's okay if it starts to smoke, right?" Lin Yue put the fruit on the table, walked over, looked at the wine and asked.

"Okay, I'll go over there in the evening." Lin Heng nodded in agreement, without being polite with his elder brother.

Then the two of them chatted about the big and small things that had happened in the past few days, and then Lin Yue went back.

In the afternoon, Lin Heng took his wife and children for a walk and went to Shibadanggou to catch fish. It hadn't rained for a long time and the creek was very dry, making it easier to catch fish.

Lin Heng caught some big stream groupers, while Xiaoxia, Luming and Du Heng used small net bags to catch many black-shell shrimps and small fish fry two or three centimeters long.

After returning home, Lin Heng first fed the golden catfish a brook grouper. The golden catfish, which had not eaten fish for a long time, swallowed it in one gulp without waiting for the brook grouper to react. The violent movement caused countless bubbles to appear in the water in an instant.

"So fierce, so fierce, let me feed a daddy!" Xiaoxia said, clapping her hands.

"I want a daddy too!" Lu Ming and Du Heng also grabbed the corner of her clothes and said.

"Feed them all." Lin Heng looked at them and said, he set up a stool for the three of them to feed a small one each, and then they went to the backyard together to feed four big turtles.

In the evening they went to their eldest brother's house for dinner. After dinner, Lin Heng and his eldest brother went to the river to catch eels and turtles. However, they were unlucky and did not catch any turtles this year.

"You have to go to the streams in the deep mountains. People often use bamboo to poke the turtles in the river dams." Lin Yue sighed.

The method to find turtles during the day is to use a sharpened bamboo stick to poke it little by little in the sand. In recent summers, many people have used this method to find turtles, so there are fewer turtles in Shiban River.

"Then let's go to Sanchagou some other day. I guess there are a lot of turtles there." Lin Heng said with a smile.

He caught more than three pounds of eels and took them home without hesitation, and then invited his eldest brother and his family to come and eat them.

When he got home, the children were still awake and were playing chess with their mother on the bed. When they heard his voice, they ran out to see what he had gained tonight.

"Dad, I also want to catch eels with you." Xiaoxia hugged Lin Heng and said coquettishly.

"We want to too!" Lu Ming and Du Heng held his hands.

"Let's wait until you are older, eight or nine years old, then we'll go. It's too dangerous at night." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After talking to the children for a few words, he went to wash up, and then told them stories as usual to put them to sleep. The more troublesome thing was that Xiaoxia and her brother liked different stories now, so he had to tell them separately.

After he finished telling the story, he lay down to rest. Xiulan turned sideways and looked at him and said, "It's more comfortable in the mountains in the summer. It's much cooler."

"Yes, except for transportation, medical care and education, everything else in the mountains is very good." Lin Heng nodded and said, then smiled, "But the city also has its advantages."

The houses in the city are large and soundproofed, and children also have their own bedrooms, where they can do whatever they want when they have sex.

"You're such a jerk~" Xiulan rolled her eyes at him and turned off the lights.

Afterwards, the two chatted for a while and then fell asleep. They didn't do anything else. After all, they had just been in the master bedroom in the city yesterday.

Lin Heng stayed in the village for the next few days. During this time, he visited his uncle and aunt's house once, went fishing and camping with his family, went hunting in the mountains with his eldest brother, and took his wife and children to Baishigou, where he stayed for one night. He caught a three-pound turtle and many super-large stream groupers.

They also went to Birch Cliff once. Although they still didn't find ginseng, they had a good harvest. They found a lot of Polygonatum and Angelica, which was considered a good harvest.

Birch Cliff is their secret medicinal herb base. They know that there are more medicinal herbs there, so they always leave a piece of seeds behind when they dig, and never leave their family extinct.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the end of August. After playing at home for more than half a month, Lin Heng returned to the city with his wife and children. In early September, Lin Heng took Xiaoxia to Jiefang Primary School, the best primary school in Taibai City, to register for school and enter the second grade.

Xiaoxia was a little reluctant because she missed her good friends in the village very much. Lin Heng had to promise her that he would take her back to play often.

Although he doesn't push his children, he would like his children to go to better schools if possible. A good environment and good teachers are always better, and children will not have to find it so difficult to learn.

Jiefang Primary School was not very close to their place, so he would pick up the child from school every day and tell Xiaoxia not to leave the school until he came.

There are many bad people in the city, and he is very afraid that his precious daughter will be abducted by human traffickers, so even if he doesn't go, he has to ask his subordinates to help pick her up.

Soon Xiaoxia had been studying at Jiefang Primary School for half a month. That afternoon, Lin Heng showed up at the school gate on time as usual. Seeing Xiaoxia looking around, he waved at her, "Dad is here."

"Here I come!"

Seeing Lin Heng, Xiaoxia happily ran over with her pink schoolbag on her back. Her schoolbag was very cute, and there was a rag doll sewed on it by her mother.

"How is school? No one bullies you, right?" Lin Heng asked with a smile, holding his daughter's hand.

"My classmates are all very friendly. There was one classmate who tried to snatch my pen, but I got it back. I am the tallest in our class." Xiaoxia said with a smile, looking up her little face.

"That's good. No matter who bullies you, you must tell me, okay?" Lin Heng looked at her and warned.

"This year I didn't become the class monitor, I was just a discipline committee member." Xiaoxia said with a pout.

"It's good enough. The discipline committee member is also a very good class leader. If you want to be the class monitor, you just need to work harder next year." Lin Heng said, touching her little head.

Although she just came to a new school, Xiaoxia was not stage-shy and was still very cheerful and lively. This was due to the encouragement she received since childhood, which gave her the courage to face everything that was unfamiliar to her last year.

Xiaoxia nodded, and then leaned against his body and said coquettishly: "Daddy, carry me on your back."

"Okay then, just hold on tight." Lin Heng smiled and carried her on his back.

"Daddy, I want to be carried too!" A little girl nearby saw this and also shouted for her dad to carry her.

"Okay." The thin man smiled and carried his daughter on his back.

Lin Heng didn't ride a bike today. He walked straight towards home. After walking for a while, he found that the thin man he had just met was actually on the same road.

"Do you also live on Linjiang Road?" the thin man came over and spoke.

"Yes, I just moved here. Are you living here too? That's such a coincidence." Lin Heng said with a smile.

The two soon got to know each other. The thin man's name was Zhao Tao, and his daughter was Zhao Ya, who was also in the second grade, but not in the same class as Xiaoxia.

The two put their children down and got to know each other. Xiaoxia was very open and willing to make friends, but Zhao Ya was a little timid. However, under Xiaoxia's generous invitation, Zhao Ya quickly got along with her, and was then invited by Xiaoxia to her home to play.

"Dad?" Zhao Ya asked, looking at her father with her big eyes.

"If you want to go and play, go ahead. It's not a problem. Dad will pick you up later." Zhao Tao looked at his daughter and smiled. His daughter was introverted and had few friends, so it was difficult for him to refuse someone who took the initiative to play with her.

Lin Heng invited Zhao Tao to his house for tea. When he arrived at Lin Heng's house, Zhao Tao was a little surprised at the layout of Lin Heng's house.

While drinking tea, he saw Xiaoxia playing happily with Zhao Ya and Xiongba. He couldn't bear to let the children go, so he played with them for a while longer.

Xiaoxia and Zhao Ya quickly became good friends. Later, when Zhao Ya's mother came over, Xiulan also had a playmate besides Tian Yan.

Lin Heng continued to be busy with the matters at the electromechanical factory. He did not start work but just kept busy inside without telling anyone. His subordinates were quite curious.

It was soon October and the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the past two months, Lin Heng went home only once a week to help harvest rice, and spent the rest of his time busy in the city.

Taking advantage of the National Day holiday, Lin Heng and Xiulan took their children to visit their parents-in-law, played there for two days, and then went home to help thresh the grain.

This year they don’t have any prawns, so they don’t need to contact anyone to buy or sell prawns, which saves a lot of trouble.

At the same time, the village's collective enterprise rural cooperative was established, and all the village's industries will be sold through the cooperative. With such a large enterprise, the price is naturally higher and more reliable than looking for vendors on your own.

Lin Heng also bought a 10% stake in this cooperative.

In order to make the cooperative famous this year, Tian Dongfu asked Lin Heng to sell all his pigs, cattle, sheep, astragalus, etc. through the cooperative's stall to ensure that he earned every penny he deserved. The main purpose was to increase sales volume so as to attract some pre-ordered contracts.

Lin Heng did not refuse, because he was the one who was going to negotiate with the matching company. He had experience in this area. Because this was a collective enterprise, the negotiation process was much easier than when he was talking to someone else. After all, there was still discrimination against private enterprises at that time.

The first thing to sell is astragalus. All the astragalus that the village was forced to plant last year has been harvested this year because the environment here is more suitable for growing astragalus. Even if the villagers have no experience, the harvest is good.

Every household can earn at least 500 to 600 yuan. Those who grow well can earn 700 to 800 yuan. Those who grow well and produce a lot can earn over a thousand yuan.

Compared with the previous income from farming, the income was now much higher. All of a sudden, the villagers who were originally reluctant to do so started clamoring to plant again next year, and they would not stop them.

However, Tian Dongfu did not allow more crops to be planted. Grain must still be planted and all crops cannot be changed. Current conditions do not allow this.

In a blink of an eye, it was October 28th, which was also the 19th day of the ninth lunar month, the last Friday of October. That afternoon, after picking up Xiaoxia from school, Lin Heng and Xiulan took them back home.

"Lin Heng is back!"

"Come to my house when you have time!"

"Oh, the big boss of our village is back!"

Hearing the roar of the car, the villagers who were chatting in the courtyard ran out to check the situation. When they saw that it was Lin Heng's car, they greeted him from a distance.

In response, Lin Heng waved his hand and drove directly to Hongfeng Mountain.

In the past, the villagers respected Lin Heng because he made a lot of money and was a low-key and friendly person. Now it is more sincere because they also made money.

Most people in Hongfeng Mountain will have a good year this year. The income from astragalus makes them much richer than in previous years.

"My son is back!" At Hongfeng Mountain, Father Lin was already standing at the gate waiting.

"Dad, get in the car. I'll take you in." Lin Heng said after walking into the gate and stopping the car.

"You go first, it's just a few steps away." Father Lin waved his hand and said.

Lin Heng didn't say much and drove straight in. After getting out of the car, he and Xiulan went into the house carrying the clothes and shoes they bought for their parents.

"Why are you buying these again? We already have them." Lin's mother always says this when she sees clothes.

"Just buy it and wear it. It's a new style." Lin Heng said, walked over to get a cup and poured two glasses of water, one for him and one for Xiulan.

Xiulan took a sip of water and patiently explained, expressing her concern.

After chatting for a few minutes, Lin's mother went to cook. Although the dinner was simple, it was warm.

At the dinner table, Lin Heng and his father drank rice wine, while Lin's mother and Xiulan poured some wine that they had brewed this year.

Father Lin took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Son, your guess is right. Many things have increased in price now, 20% higher than at the beginning of the year. Fortunately, we changed the money into gold."

"I didn't believe it at first, but now it's true. Son, you are worthy of being able to build such a big business." Lin's mother also said.

Because of this, many people complained, and only those who listened to Lin Heng's words could be happy.

Especially for those like his eldest brother's family who exchanged all their money for goods in advance, they can be said to have made a lot of money now.

"Actually, I wasn't very sure at the time. I just guessed it because I read a lot of books." Lin Heng said after taking a sip of wine.

He had spent a lot of the 600,000 yuan he had. He spent nearly 200,000 yuan on various electromechanical manufacturing equipment, and 100,000 yuan on stockpiling a batch of raw materials such as copper and nepheline iron boron for manufacturing motors.

The feed factory also spent 100,000 yuan to stockpile raw materials such as fish meal and soybean meal for feed production.

In addition, he renovated two factories, decorated his own house, and bought a new and a second-hand domestic truck, which cost a total of 110,000 yuan.

Five hundred and ten thousand was spent in one go, and he now has one hundred thousand left.

Among them, 90,000 was saved from last year, and the remaining 13,000 was earned from selling grapes and astragalus this year.

He kept this money specifically for emergency preparedness. Otherwise, if he invested it in stocks that were bound to rise in value, he would not only be able to avoid inflation but also make a lot of money.

But he didn't do so. Emergency money is very important, and the demolition money has not arrived yet, so he can't spend it carelessly.

The 500,000 yuan spent is a guaranteed profit. The prices of these materials will increase later, so you can make a lot of money even if you just throw them into the warehouse.

Father Lin raised his glass again and said, "Anyway, you are amazing. Your uncle, your third father, and your uncle are all very happy. They said they must invite you to dinner and treat you well."