Chapter 343 Small Profits, Changes in the Industry

After counting the income from selling green shrimps, everyone was excited for a while.

Making money for the first time in aquaculture also boosted the confidence of the two and made them full of expectations for the future.

"I'll go cook, let's have a good drink to celebrate in the evening." Lin's mother said with a smile.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "Don't be in a hurry, mom, it's still early."

"I'll do it slowly, you guys can play outside." Lin's mother shook her head. She was very happy today, and she was proud of her son's success.

"Let your mother do it, she is happy like this." Lin's father said with a smile.

Lin Heng didn't force it anymore, took two benches, and several people went out to sit.

Looking at the beautiful scenery on both sides of the river, Lin Heng sighed: "It feels like this year has passed so quickly, and it's already the end of the year without knowing it."

At this time, the sun has reached the western ridge, and the sunset glow has formed beautiful red horizontal stripes, and the rosy sunset makes the layers of forests in the mountains more brilliant.

They had already taken off their short sleeves and put on autumn clothes. The autumn wind in the evening was a little bleak. From time to time, red or yellow leaves fluttered, drawing a few zigzag lines in the air, and finally fell to the ground reluctantly.

This beautiful scenery was solemn and bleak, but Lin Heng and others were in a mood like the morning sun in spring, looking forward to a better future. Therefore, looking at this beautiful scenery was as colorful as spring.

Xiulan rarely tied her hair today. Her waist-length black hair fluttered slightly in the wind, and her bright eyes were as gentle as autumn water.

She turned her head and looked at him and asked, "When are you going to go down to the city to buy things?"

Lin Heng looked at the top of Hongfeng Mountain and said, "It's all right. Think about what to buy in the next two days before going down."

Xiulan pointed to the small yellow chrysanthemums on the roadside and said, "Then let's go to the roadside to pick wild chrysanthemums to make pillows tomorrow."

This kind of chrysanthemum blooms in late autumn, in pieces, and dried into pillows has the effect of calming the nerves and helping sleep.

"Okay, it will probably be a good day tomorrow." Lin Heng nodded and said while looking at the sky.

He knew that Xiulan wanted to go out and play. She hadn't been out much for a month. She was too bored at home and had read a lot of books in the house.

"Okay." Hearing this, Xiulan suddenly became happy.

After chatting for a few words, Lin Heng stood up and walked around. Xiulan saw him getting up and wanted to join him. He pulled Xiulan, Lin's father and Xiaoxia to take a walk in the breeding base.

There was about one acre of wasteland opened up on the hillside. It was too slow for Lin Heng and his people to open up the wasteland slowly. Lin Heng planned to ask people to open up the wasteland in a few days.

Although it was late autumn, ryegrass could still be planted.

"The cattle and sheep are so big!" Xiulan said while looking at the cattle and sheep pen. She hadn't come up to see it for several months.

Compared with when they were just bought, these cattle and sheep have grown a lot bigger now. The black goats are basically 50 to 60 kilograms in weight, and the three largest rams have soared to 70 kilograms in weight.

But this is far from their limit.

Among the eleven cows next to them, the male dairy calf is the largest, and now it is estimated to be nearly 400 kilograms. The remaining ten Qinchuan yellow cattle have just reached 300 kilograms.

"By next summer, these cattle and sheep will almost be ready for breeding." Father Lin said with a smile.

"Indeed, we will fan all the rams in a few days. The weather is dry before winter and it is not easy to get infected." Lin Heng nodded.

By June next year, these sheep will generally be more than one year old, and the cows will be one and a half years old, so they can be bred.

Everyone retreated, and Father Lin closed the door while saying: "I plan to take them out and put them behind Hongfeng Mountain in the next two days. There are fewer crops now, and they can understand the sound of bells."

"Okay, I will bring Xiongba to watch together when the time comes." Lin Heng nodded.

After leaving the cattle and sheep pen, they went to look at the chickens again. Xiaoxia waved her little hand and said: "Mom and Dad, I want to pick eggs~"

"Grandpa will take you!" Father Lin opened the door and took her in.

The chickens that Lin Heng and Xiulan hatched have all grown up, but they may have to wait until next year to lay eggs.

Xiaoxia ran around and picked up five eggs.

A little further down, two pigs in the pigsty grunted. Lin's father and mother picked up five or six hundred kilograms of acorns in the fall, and Lin Heng ground them into powder and mixed them into the feed. He was looking forward to how good the pork would be after eating acorns every day.

"Is it time to collect musk?" When Xiulan walked outside the musk deer pen, she smelled a faint musk scent.

Lin Heng nodded: "It should be possible by the end of the month, and I estimate that I can earn 1,700 to 1,800 yuan by then."

Musk deer are his treasures, and he comes to check every day.

"The musk deer reproduce too slowly, otherwise it would be more cost-effective than raising shrimp." Lin's father said with a smile.

Lin Heng shook his head: "Musk deer are not easy to raise. If another batch is born next year, we will have to raise a new pen."

Father Lin waved his hand: "That's okay. There is still a lot of land in the house."

Everyone opened the pen of musk deer and looked at them. They are in good condition now. The two small female musk deer born this year are already 20 kilograms, the same size as the female musk deer.

However, musk deer only reach sexual maturity after two years, and reproduction will have to wait until the end of next year.

In addition to musk deer, the plum fish on the mountain are also in good condition. The mountain spring water here is still very suitable for their growth. There have been no problems in raising them for so long.

After looking around, everyone came back and the sunset had disappeared, leaving only a touch of red clouds on the horizon.

Mother Lin's meal was not ready yet, so Lin Heng went in to help. It was about eight o'clock and it was dark for an hour before the meal was ready.

Six dishes were fried, but they were all hard dishes, pork, fish, shrimp, chestnuts, mushrooms and vegetables.

"Hurry up and eat." Lin's mother urged.

"Here it comes!" Lin Heng took a sip of rice wine first, and then picked up a chopstick of garlic shrimp and put it in his mouth.

Family members don't need to be polite at all, everyone picked up chopsticks and ate.

Xiaoxia took a spoon and ate the shrimp and chestnut fried chicken. No one would say anything to her, just worried about whether she could finish it.

"Come on, son, let's have a good drink." Lin's father raised his glass with a smile.

"Come."

Lin Heng raised his glass and drank a glass with his father.

Xiulan also drank a little sweet wine today, chatting with Lin's mother next to her, and occasionally picking up two dishes for Lin Heng.

There are so many good dishes, and rice is naturally cooked. It was already nine o'clock after dinner. The whole family was satisfied. This kind of food is so delicious.

After taking a look at the half-moon in the sky, Lin Heng took Xiulan and Xiaoxia back home.

Lin Heng went to feed the cow some grass and came back to wash and rest.

During this period, he kept guiding the calf to eat grass, and it has begun to open its mouth.

The output of milk from a mother cow is also extremely terrifying. Not counting the milk that the calf drinks, it can squeeze out more than 20 kilograms of milk a day.

Therefore, Xiulan needs to boil milk to make milk powder every morning.

Otherwise, the excess will go bad.

Lin Heng specially bought a one-liter glass bottle for milk powder and filled it with three bottles.

After washing, Lin Heng went to sleep peacefully. Xiulan is now six or seven months pregnant, and he can't torment her anymore.

In a blink of an eye, the next morning, it is now seven o'clock in the morning, and they get up at about 7:30.

Xiulan can only exercise slightly now, and dare not do as big movements as before, mainly because it is difficult to do it with a big belly.

"I'm going to milk the cows, Xiaoxia, look after your mother." Lin Heng touched Xiaoxia's head and said.

Xiaoxia nodded her head and smiled brightly: "I promise to complete the task!"

Lin Heng went to the back mountain to squeeze about ten kilograms of milk. After returning, Xiulan was still pressed on the sofa by Xiaoxia without moving.

"Do you still drink milk tea this morning?" Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and asked.

"Just drink milk tea." Xiaoxia raised her hand.

"Then milk tea." Xiulan nodded.

Lin Heng nodded, lit a small stove with firewood in the yard and quickly boiled the milk.

The part they drank in the morning was boiled for a while with some tea leaves, and a little honey, and a cup of hot milk tea was ready.

The food was potato cakes and fried eggs. Lin Heng and Xiulan liked to eat salty food, and Xiaoxia liked to eat with jam.

This morning they did not make milk powder. Lin Heng planned to ferment the remaining milk to make cream and cheese cakes.

The two simply dried the chestnuts and other medicines, and said: "Let's go, I've got the bags."

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded and took a sickle.

As soon as the two walked out of the house, they met the village party secretary Tian Dongfu. He saw Lin Heng coming over and asked with a smile: "How much money did you make from selling shrimps this time?"

"Not much, all hard-earned money." Lin Heng shook his head slightly.

"I don't believe it, you made 10,000, right?" Tian Dongfu said again.

"It's definitely not that much, don't ask the specific Tian uncle, this is a business secret." Lin Heng smiled and said, wealth should not be exposed, and he didn't want to tell anyone for the time being.

"Okay." Tian Dongfu shook his head helplessly, and said: "Remember to go to the district meeting next month, don't forget the commendation meeting."

"No." Lin Heng nodded.

Then they walked in the village, and many people asked about this, curious about how much he made.

Lin Heng only said that he made some, not the specific amount.

His behavior made the villagers very uncomfortable. They naturally knew that he made money, but how much was the most important.

So under the ginkgo tree, they began to discuss how much Lin Heng made. Some said one thousand, and some said ten thousand, and they argued about it.

Lin Heng and Xiulan arrived at the edge of the field, and the slope inside the field was full of golden autumn chrysanthemums.

"You cut it, and Xiaoxia and I will pick it." Xiulan spread a film on the ground and said.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, walked up and cut a bunch with a sickle, and then Xiulan and Xiaoxia were responsible for picking the chrysanthemums on it.

They spent the whole morning like this, and when the warm autumn sun came out at noon, the 50-jin snakeskin bag they were holding had already filled one and a half snakeskin bags.

"Should we fill this half snakeskin bag back, or now?" Lin Heng asked Xiulan.

"Let's go back after it's full." Xiulan tilted her head and said.

Lin Heng agreed and said, "Okay, then let's go up a little."

It took another forty minutes before they filled the second snakeskin bag.

This thing looks a lot, but it will shrink a lot after drying.

"Are you tired?" Lin Heng asked Xiulan after tying the bag tightly,

"Not bad." Xiulan said with a smile, and took out a handkerchief to wipe Lin Heng's sweat.

"Mom, I'm so hungry." Xiaoxia pulled Xiulan's clothes and said with her head tilted up.

"I'll make it right when I get home." Xiulan comforted her and took her back.

Lin Heng naturally carried the two bags of wild chrysanthemums. They were not heavy but took up space.

When they got home, Xiulan first gave Xiaoxia some biscuits. She looked like she was about to starve to death.

Lin Heng took two dustpans and poured the chrysanthemums into them to dry, then quickly added fire to boil water.

After the noodles are cooked, take them out and add some chili and garlic. Then pour hot oil over them. A bowl of hot noodles is ready.

"Delicious." Xiaoxia said contentedly after taking a bite of noodles.

Lin Heng had already slurped up half a bowl. He ate noodles very quickly, especially when he was hungry.

In the afternoon, Lin Heng asked his eldest brother to look for prey near the door of his house.

As we entered late autumn, all kinds of prey, such as deer, roe deer, etc., have grown fat and strong, and even pheasants have grown a lot.

Lin Yue smiled and said, "It's time for us to hunt properly. We haven't caught any big prey this year."

"Yes, it's time to hunt properly. When I come back from the city this time, we will go for a run." Lin Heng nodded.

Xiulan needs to take care of him now and can't go into the mountains for a long time, but he can still go hunting on Saturdays and Sundays when Caiyun is on holiday.

The family also needs fresh meat to eat. After eating bacon for a long time, they want to change the taste.

The two searched for a long time in the forest at the doorstep of their home, but they still couldn't find pheasants and golden pheasants. They did hear the calls of muntjacs on the top of the mountain, but they basically couldn't catch them.

After going home for dinner, Lin Heng asked his father to go to the city to buy things the next morning.

After entering the city, Lin Heng's sidecar stopped at the largest store in the city, where various home appliances and daily necessities were sold.

"What do you want to buy?" Lin's father asked curiously.

"Let's take a look first." Lin Heng smiled and said, he was here to see the refrigerator.

After a round, he found that there was only a Wanbao brand refrigerator here, which was priced at 3,000 yuan.

There was also a Sanjiu brand freezer, which was priced at 2,500 yuan.

These things are all priced without a penny, it is completely a seller's market, supply exceeds demand, if you don't buy it, there are plenty of people who will buy it.

"Do you want to buy this?" Lin's father looked at Lin Heng and asked, he could see that Lin Heng wanted to buy this thing very much.

"I don't want to buy this refrigerator, I want to buy a freezer." Lin Heng pointed to the freezer next to him and said.

The advantage of the refrigerator is that it has a fresh-keeping layer, while the freezer only has a freezer but has a much larger space, so he is more keen to buy a freezer.

Two thousand five, this is indeed a very, very expensive price.

"If you want to buy it, buy it. Hunting does require something to freeze meat." Father Lin looked at him and said.

"Let's buy a freezer after we buy other things." Lin Heng nodded.

In fact, he had discussed this with Xiulan last night. Anyway, the feed factory couldn't be opened for a while, so he simply bought a freezer.

With a freezer, he didn't have to worry about meat and other things going bad in the future, and he could eat fresh meat anytime and anywhere.

Some of the valuable prey he hunted could also be frozen, and then slowly find buyers.

After considering all aspects, although it is expensive, it is very necessary to buy a freezer.

"Okay, let's go buy other things first." Father Lin nodded and agreed.

After discussing, the two went out together and went to the clothing store first.