Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"Second father, I'm glad you're back. Grandpa asked me to ask you to go to Hongfeng Mountain to eat hot pot. My parents are here too. They killed a black goat this afternoon."

Lin Wei ran into the room and said to Lin Heng.

"Okay, I'll go there in a while, you play here for a while." Lin Heng looked at Lin Wei and said with a smile.

He has grown taller in the past two years and is not as fat as before.

"Okay, second dad." Lin Wei nodded with a smile and ran to the turtle koi in the backyard.

Lin Heng placed the stone he had brought back from the mountain with great effort next to the wall, then went into the house to wash his face and change his clothes.

Xiulan wiped the children's backs with a hot towel, and then wiped Lin Heng's back.

Some women's breasts and buttocks will sag after giving birth, and their stomachs will never recover. Some women's bodies are no different after giving birth, and their breasts may even get bigger due to breastfeeding.

Xiulan belongs to the latter. Apart from a normal bulge on her belly, there are almost no stretch marks, and her snow-white skin makes people think of something else.

"What a smooth talk~" Xiulan smiled and pinched his face, then packed her clothes and went out.

Her hair was tied in a braid in front of her chest. She wore a white autumn sweater and a black lapel cardigan. Her tight blue jeans revealed a pair of round and slender legs.

Lin Heng changed his coat, then set off for Hongfeng Mountain with his wife and children.

"Dad, the turtles seem to be hibernating. Let's make a hibernation nest for them tomorrow." Xiaoxia said as they walked on the road.

"Okay, let's do it tomorrow morning." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.

Walking towards Hongfeng Mountain, Lin Heng looked at the scenery on both sides of the river and thought it was very nice.

This year, Tian Dongfu has people plant cotinus coggygria and red maple. The subsequent strategy is to cut down trees such as cycads and oaks for firewood, and to plant and preserve these beautiful trees.

I believe it will be more beautiful in a few years.

On the way, you can always meet some villagers who say hello, exchange greetings and then go your separate ways.

"How about I take you to the Red Maple Mountain cabin to sleep tonight?" Lin Heng said with a smile, putting his arm around Xiulan's shoulders.

"I'm fine with it. I'll go if you go." Xiulan nodded.

"Then go ahead. I cleaned that place when I came back to paint a few days ago, and the quilts have been dried in the sun. Just take a bed sheet." Lin Heng said with a smile.

As they were talking, they soon arrived at Hongfeng Mountain. Seeing them, the eldest brother Lin Yue hurriedly said, "Brother Xiulan, come quickly. The hot pot is already cooking. We are waiting for you to come."

"Your brother and I just killed a black goat. The mutton is still warm and very fresh." Lin's father also said.

"We made fish balls that the children like a few days ago, and we're waiting to eat hot pot." Lin's mother also said that she had been planning this meal for a long time.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded and walked into the house.

"What a rich meal!" Xiulan said with a smile.

I brought the child into the house and saw that the table was already filled with vegetables and meat.

After preparing a dipping sauce, everyone sat down and started eating, talking as they ate.

They had beer with their hotpot to help relieve the greasiness.

Father Lin asked Xiaoxia, Luming and the others about their trip to the mountains today, and the children happily recounted their experiences.

Although they were a little tired, they were very happy to have their parents playing with them.

Lin Heng ate a few bites himself and then picked up the colander to scoop food for everyone.

"Brother, the village is planning to build two small reservoirs to supply water to the orchards and rice fields. Where do you think is suitable?"

Lin Yue asked with a smile after eating half full.

"Repair a reservoir?" Lin Heng looked puzzled.

"Our village is developing well. We have applied for subsidies from the town and received them. We are planning to build two small reservoirs," Lin Yue explained.

"Is that so? Then we can only find a ravine with a larger water flow to build it. The water flow of Shiban River is too large, so building a reservoir may be too costly." Lin Heng said.

"We have chosen three places: Sanyegou, Shibadanggou and Xiaocigou, all of which can be repaired," said Lin Yue.

Father Lin interrupted, "If I were here, I would definitely choose Sanyegou or Xiaocigou. These two places have high water and steep terrain, and require less materials to build."

"I also think that the Eighteenth Street is peaceful and has farmland on both sides, so the cost of repairing it is a bit high." Lin Heng also nodded.

Building a reservoir is a good thing. It will be very convenient for both drinking water and irrigation. In small places, an earth-rock dam is completely sufficient. It does not require much material as it can be found locally, and the whole village can be mobilized to work together.

"This is all thanks to you, brother. Otherwise, the village would not get any subsidies." Lin Yue said and took a big bite of mutton.

"Stop talking about this and let's drink." Lin Heng raised his glass and said with a smile.

"Come!"

A few people had a drink and then ate hot pot.

It was already half past eight when they finished eating hot pot. Xiulan pulled Lin Heng and whispered, "Honey, let's go to the mountains next time. I want to go back and take a shower and change clothes. The smell of hot pot is all over my body."

"Then let's change it. It doesn't matter where we live." Lin Heng nodded. He knew that if he insisted, Xiulan would definitely go with him.

"Then I'll go help mom clean up the dishes." Xiulan smiled gently, broke free from Lin Heng's hand and got up.

Lin Heng did not go to help. He sat there for a while until the dishes were cleaned up, then he carried the remaining mutton and went back to the village with the children.

After returning home, the children washed up and went to bed first. Before Lin Heng could go over to tell them stories, they all fell asleep.

Lin Heng covered them with a quilt and then went to the study. There was no way to boil water tonight, so he could only wash in a basin. He and Xiulan washed together and helped each other rub their backs.

After taking a shower, Xiulan put on a black silk suspender. She was slightly warm, her skin was white and rosy, and she looked very attractive.

Lin Heng was wearing only a pair of shorts. He had a tanned body, solid muscles and smooth contours, and looked very safe.

"Honey, carry me into the house." Xiulan, whose face was particularly rosy due to being slightly tipsy and hot, hugged Lin Heng's neck and said in a tender voice.

Before Lin Heng could say anything, she clamped her legs around his waist and hugged him like a sloth: "You have no choice but to agree now."

"Okay, let's go back to the bedroom." Lin Heng smiled slightly and hugged her back to the room.

Xiulan didn't get up after lying down. She looked at Lin Heng's face with her misty eyes, then moved closer.

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In a blink of an eye, it was the next morning. The whole family got up late. Lin Heng woke up at 8:30. He turned his head to look at Xiulan who was sleeping against him, with a smile on his face.

After taking a look at Xiulan, he was ready to get up and ask the child to go to the bathroom, although he still wanted to sleep, after all, he had done a lot of exercise yesterday.

"Don't move, sleep a little longer, brother~" Xiulan drowsily grabbed his arms and held them tightly, then she climbed up to his chest and pressed against him.

Lin Heng was speechless. He really didn't want to stand up so early in the morning. It was too difficult for him.

After a while, Xiulan woke up. Looking at Lin Heng's smile, she suddenly remembered what happened last night. She slapped his face in anger and said, "What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing, I'm happy." Lin Heng said.

"Of course you are happy, my mouth still stinks." Xiulan rolled her eyes at him. She could still smell a faint scent of heather.

Lin Heng thought to himself that I didn't force him to do that yesterday, but he dared not say it out loud. He sat up and looked at Xiulan and said, "Let's go over and take a look. I think our son might have wet the bed."

When Xiulan heard this, she immediately remembered it and quickly let go of Lin Heng and went to put on her clothes.

Lin Heng lifted the black mosquito net and went out. He reached under Lu Ming's bed and his face changed. Then he touched Du Heng's bed. Finally, he smiled and looked back at Xiu Lan: "Congratulations. We have to wash the sheets and quilts again today. Fortunately, there is a washing machine."

"Both of them peed?" Xiulan had already put on her underwear. She walked over helplessly, reached out and touched him, and shook her head: "It's really worrying. If I don't call you once in the middle of the night, it will always be like this."

"Go get dressed, I'll wake them up." Lin Heng looked at his wife and smiled. She was indeed very busy yesterday.

Xiulan nodded and went to put on her clothes, then found clean pants for her son. Lin Heng shook them both and said, "Wake up, son!"

The two were quickly woken up. They rubbed their eyes and looked a little unhappy. When they felt something cold under their buttocks, they were stunned.

"Dad, I just dreamed of peeing on a big rock. How could I wet the bed?" Lu Ming said embarrassedly. He felt that wetting the bed was too shameful.

"I dreamed of playing in the river with my dad." Du Heng said eagerly.

Lin Heng: "...Remember, next time you dream about water, don't let it go."

Both of them nodded repeatedly: "Never again!"

Lin Heng didn't say anything to the two of them. He just asked them to take off their pants. He went to get a wet towel to wipe them and then changed them into new pants.

"Haha, it turns out that my two younger brothers wet the bed again!" Xiaoxia laughed when she woke up and found out about this.

"We won't do it again next time." Lu Ming Du Heng said quickly, feeling a little embarrassed.

"It's okay. I also wet the bed when I was a kid. My mom said I would get better as I grew up." Xiaoxia got up but did not continue to make fun of her brother.

"I definitely won't do that next time." Du Heng said.

"Hurry up and get up, and exercise with us today." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan took the children out, and they had already boiled the water, and then they finished their exercise in the front yard. For Lin Heng, this was already muscle memory, and he would feel uncomfortable if he didn't practice for a day.

Xiulan sometimes wanted to rest, but seeing Lin Heng practicing, she would follow suit. As for the children, they would just play when they remembered, fishing for three days and drying the nets for two days.

After exercising, they brushed their teeth and washed up together, then went to the back mountain with Lin Heng to milk the cows.

After breakfast, Xiulan went to do the laundry, while Lin Heng and the children took out the big bucket where the turtles hibernated last year, filled it with sand again, and put the turtles that were preparing to hibernate in it.

As the children watched, the turtles burrowed into the sand one by one and disappeared.

"What time do we leave this afternoon? If it's late, I want to wash my hair." Xiulan hung up the clothes and sat down next to Lin Heng.

"Let's do it later. I can help you wash your hair now." Lin Heng said, touching her head.

"Thank you, brother~" Xiulan smiled gently and turned to boil water.

After Xiulan washed her hair, they took the children and the dog to Red Maple Mountain and picked up many golden ginkgo leaves under the ginkgo tree on the way.

Xiaoxia picked out a few good pieces to put in her diary, and they made a bouquet of flowers together with the rest.

After spending noon with his parents, Lin Heng went to see his big blue-purple grass carp. It was now placed in a large pond outside and could be seen from time to time. It now weighed four or five kilograms and its color was even brighter.

After seeing the grass carp, they went up the mountain to play for a while and feel the autumn. The children played in the sand for half a day.

"Son, do you think my business of selling fruit tree seedlings is going well?" Father Lin asked during lunch.

"Of course there is. It can be done as long as you master the techniques of cuttings and grafting. But I don't think it's necessary. We don't lack that little money." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Then let me take a look. I might as well get some myself later. Some land is empty anyway, so it might be a good idea to grow some seedlings there." Father Lin said.

"That's fine." Lin Heng nodded.

After dinner, he drove his military green Dongfeng 140 back to the city. When he left, he took Xiongba with him and left Dazhuang in the house.

He has a lot of good things in his house, including a dog and his eldest brother and parents to take care of it, so he feels at ease.

It was not dark when they arrived in the city. They happened to meet Lin Hai who was returning home. Lin Hai looked at Lin Heng and said, "Brother Lin, sister-in-law, let's go to my house for dinner. My mother is cooking now."

"Forget it. We just ate here and can't finish it. Let's not bother." Lin Heng shook his head and said.

Xiulan searched in her bag and took out a small bag and handed it to Lin Hai: "Inside are ginseng, golden ginseng, Panax notoginseng, Codonopsis, Cordyceps, and a lot of wild yam. Take it back and give it to Tian Yan to nourish her. It will be good for her recovery after childbirth."

It has been half a month since Tian Yan gave birth. She went to see a specialist doctor when she just gave birth and was absent for several days.

"...This is too expensive!" Lin Hai was embarrassed. He knew that these were all real wild good things and it was difficult for ordinary people to get them.

"Don't be polite, we're just friends." Lin Heng stuffed it directly into his hand.

"Then I'd like to thank you on behalf of Yan Zi." Lin Hai scratched his head and accepted it with a smile.

Lin Heng waved his hand and took his wife and children back to his house.

Everything was normal in the house. The children were running and playing in the yard. Lin Heng played a song, boiled some water and drank some tea.

"The environment in this city is indeed not as good as that in my hometown." Xiulan sighed after taking a sip of water.

Although the leaves of the small red maple trees in the yard are as red as fire, they do not have the autumn feeling of the mountains.

"In a few years, I will take you to some super beautiful places." Lin Heng said with a smile. He had many beautiful places in mind where he wanted to take his wife, children and parents to visit.

"Then remember to buy a camera and take a photo every time we go to a place." Xiulan said with a wink.

After talking for a while, it was dark. They had a simple boiled egg in the evening and went to rest. The next morning, which was the last day of October, Lin Heng sent Xiaoxia to school and then went to the factory to check on the situation.

Although his two sons are already three and a half years old, Lin Heng did not send them to kindergarten. He plans to teach them himself first and send them to preschool when they are four years old next year.

After feeling the charm of autumn, Lin Heng then turned his attention to work. There is still a lot to do this year. Now that he has his wife and children by his side every day when he returns home, he is full of motivation.

This is a good opportunity. If you don't make a little effort, you will definitely regret it later. (End of this chapter)