Chapter 522 No More Shrimp Farming

"What is it?" Lin Heng looked at his mother curiously.

"I saw a golden ball tree over on Chestnut Hill. What do you think?"

Mother Lin took out a golden ball tree from the bag by the wall.

Lin Heng looked at it and was surprised: "There are golden balls over on Chestnut Hill?"

This golden ball tree looks really good. It is only more than one meter tall, but the thickness reaches three or four centimeters in diameter. The tree trunk is also naturally twisted.

The only flaw is that the root system is not well developed. Except for a main root, the rest are all small and thin roots.

But this is normal. Bonsai is mostly cultivated by humans, and those that are naturally generated are rare.

Mother Lin said: "It's not from Chestnut Hill. I suddenly found it on the roadside when I was going down the mountain. I thought you like these things, so I dug it out."

"Oh, I understand now, thank you mom." Lin Heng nodded. He estimated that the reason why the tree was like this was that it was cut down by people who went up the mountain. Now the shape is not bad.

"You can have dinner here tonight. Anyway, the children are here." Mother Lin said.

"Of course, I just killed the chicken, it would be a waste if I don't eat it." Father Lin came over with a big rooster.

This rooster was so crazy a few days ago that he wanted to peck at Xiaoxia who was picking eggs. Today, it was just right for him to eat.

"The chicken has been killed. No matter what, we have to drink a cup with Dad." Xiulan said with a smile.

Lin Heng naturally agreed. He looked at the golden bullet tree and sawed it into two or three pieces. The upper two pieces were buried in the sand for cuttings. Then it would be a bonsai again.

The small golden bullet bonsai is more beautiful. Three pieces will be three bonsai in the future.

After sawing it, he put it there temporarily and went to help his mother deal with chestnuts.

Mother Lin also picked some beautiful porcini and pine mushrooms, which she was going to eat with the chicken.

The big rooster raised at home did not need to be processed. After chopping it, put it in the pan with oil, add seasoning soy sauce and stir-fry until fragrant, then add water and chestnuts and stew it.

The main dishes for dinner were chicken and green shrimps, both of which were served in small bowls. Everyone ate them together until their mouths were full of oil.

The chicken was fragrant and chewy, and even the bones of a dog made a clanging sound.

"Come on, Dad, let's go!" Lin Heng said with a smile after he had eaten his fill.

"Come on." Father Lin picked up the cup and went with Lin Heng.

Mother Lin was looking for meat for Xiaoxia, Luming and Duheng. She gave them the ones that were full of meat and peeled shrimps for the three of them.

She didn't eat much herself, but she was happy to see her children eating. She took care of her grandchildren more carefully than Lin Heng and his wife.

"Take the rest, Xiulan, and stew it for the children. This chicken weighs nine pounds after it's been killed. We only fried half of it tonight." Mother Lin said when it was almost time to eat.

"You keep it for yourself. We're going to kill another one, so you and my dad can also make up for it." Lin Heng looked at them and said.

The taste of the chicken was amazing. They raised a lot this year. There were more than 30 chickens in Hongfeng Mountain, half male and half female.

He also raised twelve chickens in the back hill, four males and eight females.

It didn't matter if the chickens ate a lot, they mainly raised them in a free-range manner, feeding some every day, and finding the rest for themselves.

It's not that they couldn't feed the coarse grains well, but the chickens raised by Lin Heng tasted better.

"How can we finish so much? We can't leave it in the hot weather." Lin's mother waved her hand.

"As long as you want to eat it, eat it three times a day, it won't go bad." Lin Heng shook his head.

"You silly kid, even if it tastes good, you can't eat it three times a day." Lin's father laughed.

Lin Heng didn't say anything to them, scooped up some rice and ate it heartily.

However, when they left, they still took the remaining half.

Lin's mother persuaded them to wait until the shrimps were sold before killing the next chicken, and then eat it together.

Xiulan agreed, so Lin Heng naturally couldn't say anything.

After returning home, Lin Heng put the golden bullet aside. This thing needs to be repaired slowly, so he plans to plant it again tomorrow.

The next morning, after exercising and having breakfast, he went to work on his golden marbles.

The two sections that needed to be grafted were wrapped in plastic film and inserted into the sand.

The one with roots was trimmed well, and then placed in a ceramic pot he prepared, placed by the wall, watered and shaded.

Then he looked at the other bonsai in the yard. After a summer, they had grown a lot. He would trim them every month and was not worried about their shape.

Several of these bonsai had good shapes and could be called bonsai now. They would be perfect when they grow longer.

Leaving the backyard and coming to the main room, he heard Xiaoxia in the study imitating the teacher to teach her two younger brothers.

"I've already stewed the chicken. Let's make steamed buns for lunch." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded. He liked steamed buns very much.

"I also want to soak some soybeans and make tofu for the next two days. My parents also like to eat tofu, but I'm afraid you won't have time to go to the city these days." Xiulan said again.

"Then let's wait a few days. I'll have some free time after I sell the shrimp." Lin Heng thought for a while and said that he really should go to the city.

"That's fine." Xiulan agreed. She got up to pick some vegetables and came back to knead the dough to prepare lunch.

The chestnut stewed chicken for lunch was irresistible, and the steamed buns with vegetables and fermented bean curd were also delicious.

The ground was relatively dry today. In the afternoon, they took the children to the fields and collected all the fruits and vegetables that had been harvested.

At this time, most of the vegetables had reached the harvest time, and the vegetable fields needed to be sorted out and replanted.

There are so many autumn cucumbers, pumpkins, winter melons and other fruits in the field that they need to be filled with many backpacks.

People can't eat them all, and most of them are taken back to feed livestock.

"Let's build a greenhouse here this year and grow some winter vegetables."

After finishing the vegetable field, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said.

"This place is close to our home, it's quite suitable." Xiulan nodded.

The greenhouse is very useful in winter. With a greenhouse, there is no need to worry about eating green vegetables in winter.

"I'll come to do it in a few days. This time I plan to weld a steel structure directly." Lin Heng said.

Bamboo is easy to rot, and it's really troublesome to rebuild it every year.

After finishing here, they went home early and had the steamed buns and chicken left over from lunch for dinner.

The next morning, Xiaoxia was sent to school, and Lin Heng drove the truck to the city.

When he arrived in the city, he routinely checked the production workshop and the research institute.

He spent more than an hour here before returning to the office.

Because of the rain, he hadn't come to see the fish for half a month. It took him an hour to check the accounts, and another morning to calculate them together.

After calculating the accounts, Lin Heng didn't smile at all. The sales of feed in the second half of the year increased steadily, as expected.

After using it, most people are willing to use it because the benefits are much greater than the cost.

Some large breeders also began to buy in large quantities, probably because they want to fatten the fish earlier and put them on the market at the end of the year.

In the afternoon, Lin Heng first investigated the market prices of various meats this year.

In general, there is not much fluctuation compared with last year. There is an increase, but the amplitude is not large. However, if the timeline is extended, compared with three or four years ago, it has increased a lot.

The market price of pork is now 1.3 yuan per catty, which was only 80 cents per catty a few years ago.

The price of green shrimp is not much different from last year, and Lin Heng estimates that the profit will not be much different.

He is already considering giving up shrimp farming because green shrimp farming is difficult and requires careful care.

Another reason is that it is impossible to raise large shrimp species such as Macrobrachium rosenbergii here, and the competitiveness of green shrimp is not as good as these things.

Therefore, it is better to use it to raise fish, without worrying so much, and there will be a stable income.

As for special breeding such as giant salamanders and Chinese sturgeons, he thinks it is unnecessary. Now is the dividend era. Doing more popular things can still make a lot of money in large quantities.

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After understanding the market situation, Lin Heng stayed in the factory for one night, and then went to talk to someone about the sale of green shrimp the next day. Whether it is a state-owned company or a private vendor, they all want to buy in large quantities, but the price is different.

Lin Heng has been doing business in Ancheng for several years and knows a lot of people. He is a stable supplier and the price he gives is still good.

When talking about green shrimp, Lin Heng also asked about the situation of pork. In the end, he decided to sell the green shrimp this time to a private vendor.

The next week was mainly about collecting green shrimp and transportation. On the first Saturday of November, Lin Heng received all the money.

He had returned to Hongfeng Mountain just after noon, and Xiulan and the children were also here. It was agreed that they would have a big meal here today, and Xiulan came early to help Lin's mother. In the evening, the eldest brother and his family would also come to eat.

When Lin Heng got out of the car, his two sons surrounded him and wanted to hug him. Lin Heng picked up the two children and held them up high for a while before they became a little quieter.

Seeing him enter the house, Lin's mother asked curiously: "Son, didn't you buy anything this time?"

"I bought some things to use, and bought you a pair of shoes, but I didn't take them down in the car." Lin Heng said.

"I said, if my son doesn't buy anything, then the sun will rise from the west." Lin's mother smiled.

Lin Heng sat down and drank a sip of water before saying: "I plan to stop raising green shrimps in our family from next year."

"No, really?" Lin's father spoke first. Lin Heng had told him about this, but he didn't expect Lin Heng to make a decision so quickly.

"Is the profit of green shrimp not good enough?" Lin's mother asked.

Xiulan didn't say anything. She knew this long ago. Lin Heng had discussed it with her many times. So she went straight into the house to make food for Lin Heng.

Lin Heng nodded and replied: "There are some reasons. The main reason is that raising green shrimp is too troublesome. The risk is high, but the income is not high."

He drank a sip of water and continued: "The profit of raising green shrimp this year is 13,800 yuan, which is about the same as last year, but if you raise fish with a higher density, you can make more money, and the breeding will be much simpler."

Lin's father thought about it and nodded and said: "Raising shrimp is indeed troublesome, and you are right about this. Raising fish is also good. I will listen to you, son. You have vision and you can make decisions."

There is another bad thing about green shrimp, that is, the life span is short. If you don't sell it after it grows up, it will be a loss. Fish do not have this problem. It doesn't matter if you raise it in the pond and don't sell it for the time being.

"Then what kind of fish are you going to raise, son?" Lin's mother asked again.

She was not very opposed to this, because the family already had fish, and it was nothing more than expanding the scale.

"The four major carps, mainly grass carp, and some crucian carp and carp." Lin Heng replied that these popular fish species are the best to sell and there is no problem with sales.

"Just make your decision, your father and I will listen to you." Lin's mother finally said.

Lin Heng smiled and nodded: "Okay, let's make a happy decision."

"Let's eat, and talk while we eat." Xiulan brought him a bowl of pickled cabbage noodles and said.

"Thank you, my wife." Lin Heng took it and ate it with big mouthfuls. Xiulan understood him, and he was already hungry.

After finishing the meal, he took the things he bought back, and then ate a cantaloupe. The cantaloupe in late autumn was particularly sweet.

After giving the gifts to his parents, Lin Heng walked out feeling relieved, because the big things he wanted to do this year were basically accomplished, and this was a successful year.

Now in early November, the leaves have begun to fall one after another, and the mountains have become colorful. The coldness of late autumn has made the leaves red.

"It's autumn again!" Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said with a smile.

She sat on a bench picking vegetables, and the autumn wind blew up the corners of her clothes. Hearing Lin Heng's words, she sighed: "Time is passing faster and faster."

The ryegrass on the hillside was bullied by the wind, the chickens ran around in the grass, and the children chased the puppies and ran freely in the mountains.

Lin Heng sat down and drank tea while looking at the red leaves all over the mountain. In a few days, he could go pick persimmons and hawthorns again. Last year's events seemed to be still vivid in his mind.

After a while of being in a daze, Lin Heng went to help Xiulan.

Their meal today was very rich. There were fish and shrimp, as well as chicken and lamb legs. The chicken was killed by his father in the afternoon, and the lamb legs were white goat legs bought by Lin Heng.

In addition, Lin Heng also squeezed apple juice for the children. There were too many apples at home to eat, so the residue was fed to pigs and chickens, and the juice was used as a drink.

In the evening, they set up a big round table, and all the people who could come from the whole family sat together. It was not like a reunion dinner, but it was better than a reunion dinner.

"Come on, let's eat and drink." Lin Heng raised his glass and said with a smile.

"Come on!"

"Cheers!"

Adults and children raised their cups, and after taking a sip, they could eat freely.

There were no outsiders, so they could eat whatever they wanted. The most important thing was that everyone was happy.

Delicious cumin lamb legs, sweet chestnut stewed chicken, prawns and pickled fish, everyone was so happy eating.

"This apple juice is really good." Xiulan praised after taking two sips.

"There are still many apples in the house, take some back and I'll squeeze them for you." Lin Heng smiled.

There was no juicer, so he used gauze to squeeze them with a homemade wooden board.

"Okay." Xiulan nodded happily.

At the dinner table, everyone talked about this year's harvest while drinking, and life was generally getting better.

Lin Heng talked about his decision, and his eldest brother also thought it was very reasonable. Raising fish is indeed much simpler.

It was already past eight o'clock in the evening when we finished eating, and it was past nine o'clock when we packed up and left.

The sky was dotted with stars, and the autumn wind was a little cool at night. Lin Heng pulled Xiulan, and the three were still playing tricks with flashlights in front.

"Will you go to the mountain to see the red leaves tomorrow?" Lin Heng turned his head and asked.

"Go, I'll go if you go." Xiulan replied with a tender smile.