Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"Is your face okay?"

After eating, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan's face again while taking a break.

"It's okay, it doesn't hurt anymore." Xiulan shook her head and said.

Lin Heng came over to take a look. It was indeed nothing serious, but it looked a bit scary at the time. There were red palm prints on it.

"That's good."

Lin Heng nodded and lay down to rest. After working all day today, he had no energy to do anything else.

Early the next morning, Lin Heng did not help his eldest brother Lin Yue to apply plaster.

Because Lin's mother arranged a job for him, he and Xiulan went to his third father Lin Xutao's house to do some work.

Lin's mother took the muntjac meat she prepared earlier and a small bag of sugar to Lin Heng's uncle Li Bai's family to express their gratitude.

They all took the same things, three kilograms of muntjac meat and a small bag of half a kilogram of white sugar.

In this day and age, this is definitely a generous gift.

Lin Heng's third father, Lin Xutao, lives close to the river, with the Shiban River below the threshold.

After getting the things, Lin Heng held his daughter and Xiulan took the things and set off.

"Baba, run~"

Xiaoxia shook her little head, indicating that she wanted to run and didn't want to be held.

"Well, there's really nothing we can do about you." Lin Heng put her down and took her little hand and walked forward.

Pulling a handful of leaves from the gray cabbage, she turned her head and looked at Lin Heng: "Baba~"

Lin Heng understood what she meant and said, "This is Hui Hui Cai."

"It's gray grass ~ hehe"

Xiaoxia imitated Lin Heng's words, smiled, exposed her dimples, and stuffed grass into Lin Heng's body.

She still cared about her dad as always, giving him everything she could, and stuffing candy into her mouth when she saw it.

"A good daughter as always." Lin Heng shook his head and pulled her forward.

After Lin Heng taught her about recognizing objects and speaking for several days, Xiaoxia seemed to regard this as a game.

On the side, Xiulan looked at the father and daughter, and the corners of her mouth could not help but raise slightly.

While playing around, the three of them arrived at the door of Lin Heng and his third father, Lin Xutao.

"I'm knocking on the door, but I don't know if the third mother will welcome us. I didn't have a good face when I came here before."

Lin Heng said something and walked over to knock on the door. Even if her third mother didn't like them, she would still get what she deserved.

In the morning, his third father and his family had just woken up. His two sons, the eldest son Lin Shan, had gotten married, built a house and moved out.

The second son, Lin Hai, did not have a wife yet and lived with them. At this time, the couple just got up and were washing in the yard.

Boom!

"Who's knocking on the door?" Lin Heng and his third mother, Li Xue, put the washbasin on the ground and walked over to open the door expressionlessly.

"Lin Heng, Xiulan, why are you here?" After opening the door, Li Xue was a little surprised.

"Third Mom, why don't you bother us because we suddenly came to your door?" Liu Juan said with a smile.

"No, no, you can come as soon as you come. Why bring anything with you? You're too polite."

The third mother, Li Xue, smiled immediately when she saw what the two of them were carrying, and understood that this was Tao Lao.

She had been waiting for them to come for a long time, but she didn't expect them to come so soon, and the gifts she got were richer than she expected.

Originally, she hated the fact that her husband often helped Lin Heng's family.

She had endless work at home, and her second son still couldn't find a wife and couldn't get married. He even went to help others, which made her furious. She had to quarrel countless times.

But in the past two weeks, she could often hear the village discussing the Lin family's affairs while doing laundry.

It was no big deal that Lin Heng shot a pig badger, and then he shot a giant muntjac. This changed her attitude. The skins of the two things added up to nearly two hundred yuan.

Now that Lin Heng is rich, his family can benefit a little bit, and he can borrow some money when his second son gets married in the future.

No, the gifts I got from Tao Lao were three pounds of muntjac meat plus a pack of sugar, which was worth five or six yuan.

"Hurry up and sit in the house. You're welcome. Just treat it as your own home."

Li Xue took Xiulan's hand and welcomed them into the house.

Lin Heng was a little uncomfortable seeing such an enthusiastic third mother.

He still remembered that he had asked for a drink of water when he walked in front of her house, and she had said something weird about it, saying that it was hard to find water.

Now she seems to have forgotten what happened before and doesn't mention a word about it.

Lin Heng couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Sure enough, you have to have money and ability to be respected."

"Lin Heng, are you here to humiliate your third father and me by bringing so many things? I just did a favor and you brought so many things."

Third father Lin Xutao said angrily when he saw Lin Heng.

He helped simply because Lin Heng's father was good to him when he was a child, not for money or gifts.

"It's not much. Third dad, you also know that I'm a big muntjac weighing more than fifty pounds and I won't be able to finish it. Please help me eat some."

Lin Heng smiled and carried Xiaoxia into the house.

Xiulan has already put the things on top of her food cabinet.

"Drink water, you're welcome, just treat it as your own home."

For the first time, Li Xue poured a glass of sugar water for Xiulan and a cup of sugar tea for Lin Heng.

In this era, sugar was extremely precious and was considered a strategic material in many places. Treating guests with sugar water in rural areas was the highest standard.

"Third Mom, you are so polite." Xiulan was a little flattered. This was the first time she was treated like this by Third Mom.

"You guys talk to your third father, and I'll cook for you."

Li Xue smiled and quickly went out to cook again.

Lin Xutao was shocked to see his wife being so enthusiastic towards others, which was rare.

He turned to look at Xiulan and Lin Heng. Both of them were wearing clean clothes and shoes, and it looked like they had just bought them.

The two of them are talented and good-looking, and with this appearance, they look like they belong to a wealthy family in the city.

He understood in his heart that his wife changed because Lin Heng was now capable and rich.

He was very happy. At least he wouldn't be scolded by his wife when he went to his second brother's house, and she wouldn't say anything.

He can't understand his second nephew now. Even if he is a good hunter, he even took care of Wang Cuilian yesterday.

"Lin Heng, has your house been plastered?" Lin Xutao asked with a smile.

"It should be completed in one day today." Lin Heng nodded and said.

Lin Xutao asked again: "Has your family determined the days when they will live in water? Will there be a banquet?"

Living in the water means moving house.

"It's not confirmed yet, but there's a good chance we won't have a banquet. It would be too troublesome."

Lin Heng thought for a while and said.

Hearing this, the third father didn't understand: "Why don't you have a banquet for such a big happy event?"

"I can't do it with my brother at the same time, right? Whose house will the guests come to? Just don't do it at all."

Lin Heng spread his hands and said.

While chatting, third father Lin Xutao took Lin Heng to play chess.

"I carved this myself, what do you think?"

Lin Xutao showed Lin Heng a chess set he had carved.

Lin Heng: "Awesome."

Lin Xutao chuckled: "I'm asking you to win, but don't lose too quickly."

Three minutes later, Lin Heng hit the iron door bolt with one move and almost burned the third father's head. No matter how he moved, there was no chance of survival.

He is very invincible in the village. How could he not defeat Lin Heng?

"Cousin, sister-in-law, why are you here?"

At this time, Lin Hai, the second son of third father Lin Xutao, walked in from outside.

He was holding several bamboo eel cages in his hand, and he was obviously going to collect the cages.

"Come and see the three parents. Cousin, have you received the eel?" Lin Heng said with a smile. Lin Hai was one year younger than him.

"Not much, I guess it's barely a pound." Lin Hai poured the eels into the basin. They were all small, with a few big ones.

"As long as you're back, give me the eel and come play chess with your brother." Lin Xutao stood up quickly and said.

"Okay." Lin Hai understood as soon as he sat down that his father was ruthlessly killed by his cousin.

"Don't worry, Dad, I'll fight back for you." Lin Hai said with a smile.

"Fuck you, I didn't lose. How can I still bet if I didn't see it? How can I be considered a loser if I haven't reached the last step?"

Lin Xutao slapped his son on the head.

Lin Hai didn't care, looked up at Lin Heng and said, "His father likes to refuse to admit his mistakes, but I am very skilled.

School teachers are no match for me, cousin, be careful. "

"OK."

Lin Heng watched Lin Hai being slapped again and smiled slightly. His cousin was also really upright and he liked to tear down his father's side.

After playing for a while, Lin Hai had some respect for Lin Heng and looked up at Lin Heng: "Cousin, have you ever learned chess records?"

Lin Heng smiled: "I have read a few books."

The real reason is that he has a good memory. He remembered some layout routines he learned in his previous life, but his actual level is not that good.

"It seems I'm going to use my true skills." Lin Hai smiled and became more serious.

Gradually, Lin Heng realized that he really couldn't win the game. His cousin had studied chess very deeply.

"I lost, Lin Hai, have you read the chess records?" Lin Heng admitted defeat.

Facts have proved that he is not good at everything after being reborn, he can also abuse vegetables, and he is still not good at what he is not good at.

"No, but I often play by myself when I'm bored. Brother, your level is very good. Even the old man in the village and I couldn't last more than fifteen rounds."

Lin Hai laughed.

For a person to be able to achieve this level by himself, Lin Heng somewhat recognized his cousin, thinking that he was a talent that could be made.

Although he had been a playmate since childhood, he didn't play much chess in his previous life until he was forty years old. He really didn't know that Lin Hai had such chess skills.

"time to eat!"

Not long after, Li Xue shouted and began to clean the table and serve food.

We cooked six dishes, and the best one was the fried bacon with sour chili peppers, the full-fat kind.

At the dinner table, Li Xue, the third mother, brought food to Lin Heng and Xiulan from time to time, which made him feel the different side of the third mother.

Even though Lin Heng only hunted a few prey, his income was only two to three hundred.

But this was rural life in 1983, which was already remarkable. Many families only had an income of three to five hundred yuan a year, and some even had no income.

And Lin Heng got so much money in half a month, and it was still the kind of money that he could use freely.

By 2023, it would be equivalent to a monthly income of 100,000.

After eating, Lin Heng naturally did not stay to play, and left on the pretext of going home to help.

On the way, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan with a smile: "How do you feel?"

Xiulan shook her head: "I didn't expect Third Mom to have such a kind side."

"Of course, she is the most snobbish. She hates poor relatives and fawns over rich relatives."

Lin Heng chuckled: "We are now considered rich relatives."

Xiulan looked at Lin Heng: "It's really unbelievable."

She felt that the past half month had been like a dream, but it was so real.

After returning home, Xiaoxia fell asleep, and Xiulan hugged her to sleep.

Lin Heng took out the lard jar at home, scooped out some lard, and prepared to make soap.

Enough materials have been collected.

The fundamental principle of soap is saponification reaction. The reaction between oil and alkaline substances will produce carboxylates and glycerol, which has a good cleaning effect.

At the earliest time, the ancients accidentally discovered that the "putty" mixed with wood ash and oil has a good cleaning effect, so they invented soap.

If you make it now, it is actually very simple. Go buy a bag of strong alkali, sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide, and mix it with oil to make soap easily.

Lin Heng can't buy this thing for the time being, so he has to make it himself.

Put the picked shell powder on the carbon fire to calcine it, so that the calcium carbonate in it is converted into calcium oxide, and then grind it into powder and mix it with wood ash water to get a strong alkaline solution containing potassium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide.

Lin Heng picked up shells by the pond and the river dam in the village. There are a lot of these things, but no one wants them.

"Second father, what are you doing?" When Lin Heng was burning shells, his eldest nephew Lin Wei came over.

"Alchemy." Lin Heng laughed.

"Ah?" Lin Wei didn't understand, but was very curious.

After the shells were calcined, Lin Heng crushed them in a stone mortar.

Then pour them directly into the water soaked with straw ash that had been prepared.

After stirring for a while, you can filter it. It is basically enough to filter a few more times. It doesn't matter if there are some small particles.

Then Lin Heng melted the lard and poured it into a basin to cool it slightly, and then began to add the strong alkali solution made before.

The first time he did it, he didn't dare to use too much lard, so he only melted a part of it and used only a part of the strong alkali solution.

"It's over, it's soapy water, too much strong alkali solution."

Looking at the soap made for the first time, this can only be called soapy water, but it can definitely be used wherever it is fully saponified.

With the experience of the first time, Lin Heng added the strong alkali solution little by little for the second time, and finally got a more suitable result.

The black-gray strong alkali solution will form a gray-white solid after reacting with lard. As long as you can write on it without disappearing, it proves success.

Lin Heng put the successfully made bowl of soap into the mold box made by Liang Carpenter.

One bowl made two bars of soap.

"Okay, we can start working."

The ratio has been determined, about one to three, one part oil, three parts ash water.

This time, Lin Heng added the prepared gardenia oil to the lard, and then mixed it with the strong alkaline solution.

After stirring for a while, the off-white fragrant "cream" took shape.

Lin Heng put it in the mold, and with the previous two pieces, a total of fifteen pieces of soap were made.

"Finally done, but it will take at least three or four days to see if it succeeds."

Lin Heng sighed, took the things and put them in the new house to allow them to fully saponify.

"Are you making soap?"

When Lin Heng was doing it, Lin's mother had already returned, and his sister-in-law Xiulan and Caiyun were also watching.

"Yes, I don't know if it will succeed, after all, I read it in a book."

Lin Heng smiled and said that it was really uncomfortable that there were no two soaps for washing hands at home.

"It will definitely work, brother, you have made lipstick successfully before." Caiyun nodded.

"If you don't succeed, just wait for your beating. You can use a lot of my lard."

Mother Lin snorted coldly.

Many people have heard that lard and wood ash can make soap, but most of them don't know how to make it. Seeing Lin Heng tinkering with it, she felt a little incredible.

If it really succeeds, can't it be made into soap and sold?

For a while, she really hoped that it would succeed, so that the family would have another source of income.

"I think it's okay, Lin Heng is very capable." Liu Juan was also full of confidence in Lin Heng.

It's not good to be without confidence. Every time she mocked before, she was slapped in the face. She has learned her lesson.

Xiu Lan picked the gray vegetables and said softly: "It doesn't matter if it fails. He can go hunting and get some oil. Anyway, it doesn't cost much."

She was afraid that Lin Heng would not be able to get off the stage if he didn't succeed, so she took a step first.

"Second father, can oil be turned into soap?" The eldest nephew Lin Wei didn't understand the change.

"Study more, you will understand, it's all in the book." Lin Heng smiled and patted his shoulder.

Lin Heng turned his head and said to his wife Xiulan: "I'll go see if Dad and Big Brother have finished their work."

"Wait a minute." Xiulan pulled him and took him into the house.

"Change your clothes." Xiulan found him some old clothes. How could he wear new clothes to work?

"Forgot." Lin Heng smiled and changed his clothes before going to Big Brother's new house.

When he entered the house, he saw that Big Brother's house was less than half finished. After all, he was not here today, there were only two of them, and Big Brother's house was bigger than his.

"Brother, I'll help mix the plaster, you go to plaster the wall." Lin Heng walked up and said.

Lin Yue smiled and said, "Okay."

But even if Lin Heng joined, he couldn't finish it today.

On the 20th of the fourth lunar month, his uncle finished making ten stools and two small tables, and went back, saying that he would come down with a gun later and go hunting with Lin Heng.

On the 21st, the plaster, doors and windows of the two houses were completed, and the earthen walls had turned yellow under the sun and were completely dry.

That day, Lin Heng mainly moved furniture and took care of his daughter. In the afternoon, he made a few green beards at the doorstep to give Xiongba a snack.

On the 22nd, it rained lightly. Lin Heng wanted to go out but couldn't. He cleaned up the new house, made a new earth stove, and Liang the carpenter started making furniture, mainly desks, wardrobes, grain storage cabinets, wooden beds, dressing tables, and several small boxes for storing valuables.

It was impossible to identify objects on rainy days, so I read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to the little girl at home, mainly to kill time when I was bored.

In the next three days, 23rd, 24th, and 25th were all drizzling. The Gregorian calendar was already June 12th, which was midsummer.

During these three days, Lin Heng's life was eating, playing with his daughter, hunting green bearded deer, exercising with his wife, and sleeping.

In three days, a total of 15 green bearded deer were hunted, all for Xiongba. The deer meat at home had not been eaten up yet, so there was no worry at all. Even the family was a little tired of it. It was really incredible in this era.

Anyway, there are many green-bearded crickets, and they are stupid, so they are the easiest to catch. He would catch a few whenever he wanted. His eldest nephew Lin Wei also chased green-bearded crickets all day long.

During this period, Lin's father found someone to look at the date and determined that the second day of May was a good day. At that time, the family was officially divided, and Lin Heng and his eldest brother Lin Yue moved into a new house.

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