Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 124
Lu Lu heaved a long sigh of relief, and finally kicked the woman out.

I just hope that she will be sensible and don't step half a step into this meadow next time.

As for Zhou Fangjing, Lu Lu didn't want to worry about it.

I just vaguely felt that when I met Zhou Fangjing in the previous life, his wife was not this woman, and something should have happened during this period.

With Zhou Fangjing's situation, it is impossible to support this woman, and it will be a matter of time before something goes wrong.

As for how he left, Lu Lu didn't seem to have heard anyone mention it in his previous life, which is a bit strange.

Putting aside all the things in his mind, Lu Lu walked towards his buckets of black bees, ready to check the situation.

Taking advantage of the sunny and warm weather, Lu Lu lifted the lid of the beehive bucket and found that the bees had already fixed the honeycombs tied to the foundation bars to the wooden bars of the foundation. He started to remove the twines tied on them one by one.

During the inspection, he also saw that two colonies of black bees that were particularly vigorous had begun to build larger nest holes on the honeycomb, which was about to come out of the male peak.

Producing males means that it won't be long before there will be swarms of bees.

Lu Lu thought for a while, then went back to the cellar, cleaned his iron pot, lit firewood in the earthen stove, boiled the old honeycomb that had been kept in the iron pot with water, and then filtered it.

After tossing and tossing for more than an hour, Lu Lu got a wax cake weighing two catties in the small wooden barrel used to carry it.

There are many uses of beeswax. It is often used for batik on the clothing of southern minorities, and it also has some industrial uses.

For Lu Lu, its biggest function is to lure bees.

Bees are very sensitive to the smell of beeswax.

Apply beeswax in the bee barrel, and in the bee-separating season, attracted by the smell of beeswax in the bee barrel, scout bees will enter the bee barrel to check by themselves.

This is much easier than going into the mountains to find bees.

He re-melted the beeswax he obtained in an iron pot, then tied a small grass brush with Ula grass, moved those bee barrels that had been made for a while back to the cellar, and dipped them one by one in the barrel and at the door of the nest. brushed with beeswax and baked on an earthen oven to allow the wax to infuse the wood.

The honeycomb bucket is finished!
The remaining nearly [-] honeycombs were waxed and baked, and it took Lu Lu nearly two hours to complete.

There is a faint beeswax mixed with the aroma of honey in each beehive bucket. Lu Lu believes that as long as black bees find this beehive bucket, they will be happy to live in it.

Attracted by the aroma of the wax being boiled, from time to time black bees came in through the gap of the small window, buzzing and dancing in the cellar.

This is the reason why Lu Lu didn't boil it outside.

The five swarms of black bees kept might be affected by the smell and become chaotic. If they get into a fight, the loss outweighs the gain.

Next, Lu Lu moved the bee barrels out of the cellar one by one, found a place on the hillside for beekeeping on the left, and erected them one by one.

This busy, in the blink of an eye, it was evening.

Looking at the results of this day, Lu Lu was full of joy, which was a very solid feeling.

He looks forward to the day when bees dance and smell the fragrance of honey.

Seeing that it was almost time, Lu Lu went up to the ridge, greeted Wang Dalong, and asked them to divide the roe deer that had been fried through and take them home. Xiushan village to go.

During this period of time, he was busy with farming. As he saw along the way, the fields were full of people driving horses and oxen to plow and sow. Even though it was already evening, they still refused to stop.

Lu Lu also wanted to farm. With food, at least the rations for humans and animals would not have to be so troublesome to find someone in the district to exchange tickets for.

But Caodianzi, where the basement is located, is too far away from the village.

The soil in the meadow is turned up, and it is thick fertile black soil. When farming in this kind of place, you don’t need to consider the issue of fertilizer. As long as there is no natural disaster, you can get a good harvest, corn or rice is no problem.

But growing crops on the meadow alone is quite old fashioned.

There are a lot of wild animals around, and it is impossible for him to guard here all the time. If he goes out for a while, he may be harmed by many rats, badgers, wild boars and the like.

Farming, you still have to stay with the people in the village, at least it can have the effect of sharing the damage.

But it's useless to think about it now.

It's just attached to Xiushantun, he has no land.

If you want land, you have to cultivate it yourself.

But looking around Xiushantun, the land that can be opened has already been owned.

It’s okay on weekdays, everyone is busy opening the land, and they are all working hard for the goal of filling the warehouse with grain.

He can only temporarily press this idea.

All the way into the village, Lu Lu simply greeted everyone he met, and when he arrived in the village, he turned to Zhang Shaofeng's house.

As he expected, there was no one in Zhang Shaofeng's family.

Lu Lu simply waited at the door, it was almost evening, but Zhang Shaofeng's family came back from the field in a carriage, all of them disheartened.

"Brother, you finally think of me!"

As soon as he saw Lu Lu, Zhang Shaofeng put the rope leading the horse into his wife's hand, hurried a few steps, stepped forward to open the courtyard door, put his arm around Lu Lu's shoulders, and was about to walk into the courtyard: "Let's go, hurry up!" Go into the house..." As he said that, he turned to his wife and said, "Daughter-in-law, brother Lu is rarely here, and I will kill a hen later, and I want to have a good drink with him tonight."

"okay!"

Zhang Shaofeng's daughter-in-law responded with a smile.

This is a very simple woman, few words, hard-working hands and feet.

Lu Lu had a lot of contacts in her previous life, and she also helped her family's mountain goods purchase point. She had a very good relationship with Chen Xiuyu, and she told Zhang Shaofeng to help deal with many of the difficulties she encountered.

Lu Lu hurriedly stopped: "Sister-in-law, don't worry about it. It would be nice to keep the hen to lay eggs. When I came over, I brought a roe deer to eat this..." He pointed to the sack next to him.

The status of local chickens is not low these days, and it is known as the "chicken butt bank".

Every household in the mountains raises several hens.As long as you raise chickens, it seems that the money will continue to flow forever. Although it is not much, it is still flowing.The yard with chickens flopping seems to be much more lively, and life is much more practical.

Usually, I can't bear to slaughter, unless there are important guests who need to be entertained.

As soon as they heard that there was a roe deer, their twin sons jumped up excitedly: "Ok...okay...you can eat roe deer meat!"

The two little guys are very strong and look exactly alike, the older one is called Zhang Tianhua and the younger one is called Zhang Tianyu.

The only difference is that the bigger one has a mole behind the pinna of the left ear.

Lu Lu remembered this clearly.

In order to distinguish the two brothers, the ears of the two little guys were often pulled by him.

So much so that in the end, as soon as the two brothers saw Lu Lu, the first thing they did was to declare their names, and they were frightened.

"You come as soon as you come, why bother?"

Zhang Shaofeng smiled and led Lu Lu into the house.

(End of this chapter)