Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 94 Collecting bees, the years are quiet, and we meet by chance in the forest

"Buzzing!!"

Feeling the taste of honey, the outer layer of honey quickly climbed up.

Lin Heng was filled with joy, thinking that it was so simple and successful, but without thinking, a few bees flew over and there was no movement.

After hesitating for a few seconds, he gritted his teeth and poked the bee cluster with the tip of the bamboo pole. Suddenly a large number of bees flew up, some fell into the bamboo basket, and some flew back again.

"There is a play!"

Lin Heng's eyes lit up and he felt that this method could be successful. He leaned the bamboo pole against the branch and went to cut another branch next to it.

He poked the bees with the cut branches, and some of them flew into the bamboo basket.

After more than ten consecutive operations, the queen bee finally appeared. Lin Heng could see it from a distance. It was much larger than ordinary bees.

The queen bee hovered in the air for a while, and was finally attracted by the honey on the bamboo basket and fell on it.

"It's done!!"

Lin Heng couldn't help but smile. After the queen bee passed, things were basically settled.

Sure enough, King Feng moved, and most of the other bees also flew over. Within a few minutes, the entire bee group fell into the bamboo basket.

"Did it succeed?" Xiulan asked from a distance while holding her daughter.

Lin Heng grinned: "It's done!"

He succeeded in harvesting bees for the first time, and he felt full of accomplishment.

Carefully putting down the bamboo pole, Lin Heng looked at the bees in the bamboo basket and felt a little excited, as if he had caught a big grass carp while fishing.

But what comes next is the most thrilling part. Transferring the bees to the hive requires close-range operations.

Open the beehive, hold the bamboo basket and shake it off constantly.

"Buzzing!!"

Soon many bees flew out. Lin Heng was a little scared and exerted a little force. Most of the bees were shaken out at once, and many bees flew out buzzingly.

Fortunately, there was a lot of honey in the beehive, and the queen bee also went in. The bees that flew out fell in after turning around.

"Huh, if you succeed, it's not that difficult."

Lin Heng took a deep breath and discovered that collecting bees is not that difficult as long as he overcomes his fear of bees.

Lin Heng took the bamboo basket away and used it to cover the beehive. Xiulan also came from a distance with her daughter.

"hiss!"

Lin Heng suddenly took a breath of cold air, endured the pain, covered the beehive to death, and tied it up with a rope.

"Stung by a bee?" Xiulan asked quickly looking at his expression.

"Well, one came out when I was closing the lid and I pressed it."

Lin Heng stretched out his right hand in front of Xiulan. There was still a bee's tail needle on his little finger.

"Endure the pain." Xiulan first pulled out the bee's tail sting, then squeezed the stung area hard, and a little transparent liquid was squeezed out, and then she applied a little honey on it.

"This is the only way." Xiulan let go of Lin Heng's hand and said.

"A little injury, it's fine."

Lin Heng waved his hand, put the things in order, carried the basket on his back, and walked back with the beehive in his arms. Xiulan carried the basket on her back and held her daughter in her arms, walking behind.

"Lin Heng, is this a beehive you are holding?"

As we walked into the village, someone asked.

Lin Heng grinned: "Yes, I just collected it on the mountain."

"You're so lucky, you don't have to worry about having a box of bees' honey."

"Yes, bees coming to invest are a sign of wealth and good luck."

As they passed by, many people cast envious glances and were shocked that Lin Heng could actually collect bees. This is a city that raises bees.

Walking near Wang Jin's house, Wang Jin looked at Lin Heng holding the beehive with a smile on his face, and couldn't help but be stunned: "Did you succeed in harvesting it yourself? Didn't you get stung by a bee?"

Lin Heng shrugged and said loudly: "Of course, collecting bees is not difficult. I wasn't hurt at all."

Wang Jin saw that there were no traces of stings on Lin Heng's body, and he was a little surprised. It was his first time collecting bees and he was not injured. The first time he collected bees, he was stung several times.

"Do you want to sell the bees to me? I'll take one yuan. It's hard to feed yourself anyway, so there's some skill involved." Wang Jin added.

"Then if I buy your bees for one dollar, will you sell them?" Lin Heng glanced at this man, did he really want to take advantage?

He thought about it carefully, no wonder the Wang family never got rich in his previous life. In the [-]s, it was a household worth a thousand yuan, and in the [-]s, it was still the same.

Shaking his head, he hugged his bees and went home.

"Let's put it a little higher for now. If it's lower, it might sting Xiaoxia." Xiulan said after returning home.

"it is good."

Lin Heng looked in both the front yard and the backyard, and finally came to the backyard with the beehive in his arms. I built a wooden ladder to climb up, built a board on the pillow protruding from the wall on the second floor of the house, and placed the beehive on it.

"Is this place okay? It's more than five meters above the ground." Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and asked.

Xiulan nodded: "This place is fine. When the grapes are planted, they can also pollinate the grapes."

Lin Heng put the beehive in place and walked down. He could not open the small holes to let the bees in and out for the time being. He had to wait for half a day to ensure that they would not fly away again.

"Daddy, sugar!"

Seeing Lin Heng coming down, Xiaoxia pointed to the honey in the basket and whispered that she didn't dare to look at her mother because her mother wouldn't let her eat honey.

"Eat, my dear, you can eat today!" Lin Heng kissed his lucky star. If it weren't for Xiaoxia, he really wouldn't have found this nest of bees.

Speaking of which, I found the bee at a good time. On a rainy morning, the activity of the bees was low, so the risk of collecting it was low.

"Let's make white flour buns in the morning, and I'll make her a honey-filled bun. Don't feed her too much." Xiulan said quickly.

"Okay." Lin Heng dipped his chopsticks in the food and fed it to his daughter. Her happy eyes turned into two small crescent moons.

Xiulan asked Lin Heng to feed her another mouthful, then left with the honey. Xiaoxia opened her mouth, but did not dare to object.

It wasn't until Xiulan disappeared that she dared to whisper: "Spank mom!"

Lin Heng found it funny and took her to play with the swing chair, while he sat next to it and picked honeysuckle. When the swing chair stopped moving, he pushed it with his hand.

Xiongba lay in the pavilion and took a nap. When the sun came out and shone on his body, his ears moved, proving that he was still alive.

Time passed slowly, Xiulan made the white flour steamed buns, took the steamed buns and soup, took the bowls and chopsticks and went to the pavilion in the backyard, where a family of three sat together, and a silly dog ​​rolled and coquettishly under the table. Begging for food.

“It’s delicious, the oily steamed buns are so delicious.”

Lin Heng took a bite and couldn't help but be intoxicated by the aroma of the oil residue. The wonderful taste also made him unable to help but open his mouth and eat wildly.

Because there is no baking powder, sweet wine is used to make the dough. There is also a faint aroma of rice wine in the buns, which adds a unique flavor.

Lin Heng, who often eats steamed buns, feels that the oily steamed buns are delicious.

"If it's delicious, eat more. I've made a lot." Xiulan said with a smile, and she also took a steamed bun and ate it.

Xiaoxia lowered her head to nibble on her honey buns, her eyes curved into a crescent shape.

After breakfast, Lin Heng and Xiulan took their daughter up the mountain non-stop, sometimes leisurely, sometimes very busy.

Just after the rain in summer, it is a prime time to go up the mountain to pick up fungi. During this time, there are particularly many porcini and chanterelles on the mountain, and other inedible fungi also explode.

"Husband, does your hand still hurt?" Xiulan asked again with concern when they were on the mountain.

Lin Heng shook his head: "It doesn't hurt anymore, it's just itchy."

Xiulan walked over and took a look. Her little finger was a little swollen and there was a red spot where the bee stung her. It was nothing serious.

"I can only endure it so that you don't notice." Xiulan looked at him and said sarcastically.

"It's not a problem. Compared with collecting a bucket of bees, it's nothing." Lin Heng chuckled.

While chatting, the two walked towards the back mountain, and soon they came to the mountain ridge where they picked pine milk mushrooms for the first time.

"Xiongba, it's up to you to find the fungi today." Lin Heng rubbed the Xiongba dog's head and looked at it and said.

"Ow~"

Xiongba circled happily.

Xiulan took her daughter to pick up porcini mushrooms that could be found everywhere in the forest, while Lin Heng took Xiongba to the depths of the forest to look for better green-headed fungi, egg fungi, and the like.

Recently, Lin Heng didn't even carry a bow or arrow in places like his home, but only brought a slingshot with him.

Sometimes I don’t even want to bring a slingshot because I really can’t find the prey.

He planned to rest for a while and then visit Sanchagou Canyon. I still couldn't forget the forest musk deer I saw there. I could sell a musk deer for one thousand and fifty if I shot one. It was so tempting.

Finding fungi in the forest is easy. Each type of fungus has its own nest. If you find it, you will gain something.

It’s hard to say that you can’t find the fungus nest, and you can’t find a few in a day if you don’t find the right woods.

However, Lin Heng You Xiongba, a four-legged beast plug-in, is easy to find whether it is rare or not.

After walking a few steps, he saw a lot of chanterelles. Unfortunately, when he broke them open, they were full of small bugs.

In summer, chanterelles produce worms too quickly, especially when it rains continuously. Lin Hengbu shook his head, picked it up and threw it into a bag. It was also a good choice to take it back and feed it to chickens and pigs and badger cubs.

"I don't know how delicious this pig badger is during the Chinese New Year." Lin Heng was a little greedy. Pig badger meat is still much more delicious than wild boar meat. When fed with fungi, the taste is unimaginable.

"Wang Wang!!"

As he was savoring the pork and badger meat, the bully called from afar.

Lin Heng heard the sound and quickly picked the remaining chanterelles. He walked over and saw a slim orange-yellow egg mushroom.

"As expected of a tyrant, he's awesome." Lin Heng carefully removed the egg fungus. It was an absolutely good fungus and didn't breed many insects. With Xiong Ba’s guidance, Lin Heng harvested good fungi much faster than a normal person would search for them one by one. He found several green-headed fungi and egg fungi in a row.

"Hey, I wish I wasn't in Yunnan, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get rich with such a dog." Lin Heng shook his head. Due to climate restrictions, the mushroom resources in Qinling are still far behind those in Yunnan.

"Wang!"

At this time Xiongba called again.

Lin Heng came over and his eyes lit up when he saw it: "It's actually a tree fungus."

Fungus is one of his and Xiulan's favorite dishes. Stir-fried bacon with fungus is a great addition to rice.

This fungus has absorbed too much water due to the rain. The meat is tender and weighs more than a pound, but it may not be worth even one pound if it is dried in the sun.

"Hey, why is there such a big wild grapevine here?"

Just as Lin Heng was about to leave, he found a vine wrapped around the tree.

This is a wild grapevine with a diameter slightly thicker than your thumb, but it does not bear wild grapes.

After looking at the root system first, Lin Heng found that the wild grapes were not deeply rooted, so he decisively cut off the grapevines with a knife.

He cut another wooden stick and used it to dig up the grape roots. After digging out part of the lateral roots, Lin Heng took the initiative to cut off the main root.

Naturally, the grape vines were taken back and planted. Wild grape vines have strong vitality and are easy to plant.

There are no grapes at home now, so it’s okay to plant some wild grapes first.

Wild grapes grow quickly. Once you buy grape seedlings, you can directly graft a scion onto them. With the roots of wild grapes, they will grow very quickly after grafting.

Throwing the grapevine into the basket, Lin Heng continued to collect mushrooms.

The forest is fresh and quiet after the rain. It is definitely a pleasure to walk in it and look for fungi.

There is no need to think about anything, only the fungi are in my mind. Sometimes you can’t find two in a forest, and sometimes you can pick a lot in a small area.

It’s full of unknowns and challenges, just like fishing. You don’t know what kind of fish you’re fishing for until you bring it up to the surface.

The difference is that fishing is possible, but collecting mushrooms is difficult.

Even if you can't pick anything edible, you can still pick some inedible things to satisfy your cravings.

"It looks like the tea tree mushroom season is coming soon."

While walking, Lin Heng saw a cluster of tea tree mushrooms on an acorn tree stump not far away.

The cap of the tea tree mushroom is gray-brown, the stipe is white, the flesh is dirty white, and there is no bacterial ring.

The most striking feature is that this kind of mushroom grows in clusters, and it does not grow on the ground, but on rotten wood. It usually grows into a cluster of at least a dozen mushrooms.

One bush weighs more than a pound, and the big ones may weigh two or three pounds. It is easy and quick to pick, and there is no soil.

Lin Heng came over and picked it off. This bush weighed more than a kilogram.

I looked around and picked two more bushes. The tea tree mushrooms were most abundant here at the end of July.

Although the dry goods only cost two or three cents a pound, like honeysuckle, they are plentiful and easy to pick. Many people go up to pick them up every day.

It tastes good after drying, and is most delicious when stir-fried and made into soup. The fresh ones don't taste good. Lin Heng thinks its taste is not as good as that of red mushrooms.

"Wang Wang!!"

As soon as he threw a few tea tree mushrooms into his backpack, Xiongba let out a high-pitched cry.

"What did you find?"

Lin Heng was a little curious. Such a high-pitched cry was usually a good thing.

"It's really a good thing. I finally met two of them today. I thought I couldn't find them."

Lin Heng couldn't help but smile, Xiong Ba found two red Ganoderma lucidum.

Moreover, there are not only red Ganoderma lucidum in this place, but also several Gastrodia elata growing nearby, growing long foils.

After picking the Ganoderma lucidum, Lin Heng looked at the Gastrodia elata again. All the flowers had been removed. He used a hatchet to mark an

Of course, they are not going to sell them, but they are going to dry and stew the pig heads for eating. The pig heads sent by Tian Baishun have not been eaten yet.

The recuperative effect of Gastrodia elata is quite good. It has the functions of calming wind and spasm, calming liver yang, dispelling wind and dredging meridians. It is often used to stew chicken in rural areas.

After picking up mushrooms for a while, Lin Heng looked at the sky and realized it was already four or five o'clock, so he took Xiongba back to find Xiulan.

Not far down the road, I heard people talking.

After walking a few steps, I saw people. Liu Lan, Jin Yan and Li Yan were picking mushrooms in the forest.

There were two young men next to him, one was Liu Chengzhang from the Liu family, who was his classmate, and the other was Lin Hai, the second son of his third father, who was also his cousin.

"Who do I think it is? It turns out to be you, Lin Heng." Liu Lan was the first to greet him.

"Lin Heng, you're really interested in the money you get from picking up mushrooms. I'm afraid you won't earn as much by picking up mushrooms all morning as you do by hunting a rabbit." Jin Yan said with a smile, looking at Lin Heng with a somewhat resentful look.

Lin Heng glanced at a few people and said casually: "You can make money by picking up mushrooms. Even a dime is money. Why don't you pick them up?"

Lin Heng looked at his cousin Lin Hai again: "Lin Hai, have you seen your sister-in-law?"

Once he saw his cousins ​​Lin Hai and Liu Chengzhang, he understood that they both liked Jin Yan and would try to get close to them.

Jin Yan is indeed beautiful, and her figure also has breasts and a butt, and she is deeply loved by rural men.

"I didn't see it, cousin. Maybe I was walking in the wrong direction and missed it."

Lin Hai shook his head and said.

"Then you come with me and help me find him." Lin Heng looked at him and said.

His third father treats him well, and he doesn't want Jin Yan to marry into his family.

Although Lin Heng felt that people like Jin Yan looked down on ordinary families like Lin Hai.

"Okay." Although Lin Hai still wanted to talk to Jin Yan, he still agreed to his cousin Lin Heng.

When Liu Chengzhang next to him saw this scene, he thanked Lin Heng for being a good classmate hundreds of times. As soon as Lin Hai left, he could be alone with Jin Yan.

"Lin Hai, go and help us look for it. It's going to be bad if something happens because it just rained."

Liu Chengzhang urged a little anxiously.

Lin Heng glanced at him and thought to himself, you don't even look at your own conditions. You are not good-looking and your family is not good. How dare you touch such a woman?
  They've all been caught in a trap and don't even know it.

But he won't remind them. As long as they are not related to him, he is too lazy to help them change anything.

Just as Lin Heng and Lin Hai were about to leave, Jin Yan smiled and said, "Lin Heng, you seem to be very afraid of your wife. You don't even dare to say a word to us when you see us."

When she said this, Li Yan couldn't help but smile and echoed: "Don't tell me, I really haven't seen Lin Heng talking to several women."

Lin Heng glanced at the three of them, spread his hands and said with a smile: "I am indeed more afraid of my wife, and since I have Xiulan, I don't want to talk to other women."

When faced with provocations from others, the usual approach is to fight back forcefully to prevent them from provoking again.

However, this is usually time-consuming and labor-intensive.

There is a simpler way, and that is to show off. If you say you are afraid of your wife, then I am afraid of my wife, I admit it.

Jin Yan and Li Yan are in such a speechless state now. What else can you do if everyone admits it?
  "Lin Hai, let's go." He smiled, turned around and left.

"Don't leave. Liu Lan said you are very good at picking mushrooms. Let us see your mushrooms."

Jin Yan said again.

"She lied. My skills are rubbish." Lin Heng didn't look back.

The more Lin Heng was so understated, the more unhappy Jin Yan became. She immediately said: "Let's compete. If I lose, I will give you all the mushrooms I picked. I don't believe that your mushroom picking skills are better than mine."

Hearing this, Lin Heng turned around: "Don't regret it."

As he said that, he put the backpack on the ground: "Look, you can look at it as you like."

Several people came over to check, and the most common ones were porcini mushrooms, followed by chanterelles. Although there were a few more, there was nothing surprising about these.

But then they couldn't close their mouths: "Why are there so many green-headed mushrooms, seven or eight egg mushrooms, and two Ganoderma lucidum? How did you collect them?"

Jin Yan's eyes widened. The mushrooms Lin Hengcai collected must be too valuable.

In addition to porcini and chanterelles, she picked three egg mushrooms and some fungus. She felt that she was lucky enough.

How come Lin Heng can pick so many good mushrooms? Is he worshiping the mountain god as his godfather?
  "Thank you. I appreciate your fungi."

Lin Heng smiled, took away the egg mushrooms and fungus from her basket, and poured the other mushrooms into the basket.

"Hey, can't you leave some for me? I was wrong." Jin Yan said aggrievedly when she saw Lin Heng being so cruel.

If Liu Chengzhang heard this voice, he might not be able to help but throw back all his fungi. Lin Heng put the empty basket on the ground expressionlessly: "Who asked you to bet? I don't know that you will lose nine out of ten bets. Next time Keep a longer memory."

Then he took Lin Hai with him, turned around and left without looking back, leaving only Jin Yan and the other four standing there stupidly.

"Is this luck or skill?" Liu Lan was confused again.

"It must be luck. I have some amazing skills in picking mushrooms." Li Yan shook her head and said.

"That's right, I have some shitty skills. I will definitely win back my mushrooms next time we meet." Jin Yan snorted coldly. She gritted her teeth. She was so frustrated that Lin Heng lost a basket of mushrooms. It was really not worth it.

Little did they know that Lin Heng relied on a dog. No matter how lucky he was to have a domineering dog with a sharp nose?

"It's okay Jin Yan, I have some fungi here and I'll give them to you."

Liu Chengzhang hurriedly showed his courtesy and took out his fungus with a smile.

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