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【118】Honey

In spring and summer, it is the time when wild honey is abundant, and it is the time when wild honey is harvested. Others in the village will go up the mountain to collect honey at this time. If possible, they will pick honey and bring the wild honey back to raise it themselves.

Everyone has made money like this over the years, and Chen Lieyang and the others also have to go up the mountain to collect honey for money. This year, their brothers and others have also gone up the mountain to collect honey with other people in the village.

"Alie, your family has a lot of investment this year, right? Do you want to go up the mountain with us to collect honey this year?" The three men of Chen Lieyang, Chen Chaoyang and Chen Xunyang were wearing shabby but very wear-resistant clothes, and also had bamboo baskets, hatches, and straw hats on their heads. Others couldn't help but tease.

"Can you still think that the money is too much?" Chen Lieyang glanced at the other brother teased them and said, "And we brothers are growing up, going to school, marrying a wife, and saving dowry for my sister. Who doesn't need money? Who can still think that the money is too much?"

Others couldn't help but nodded when they heard Chen Lieyang say this. This is indeed the truth. No one would think that there is too much money, especially poor people, who are even more worthy of money. Moreover, Chen Lieyang's words are very heart-wrenching. They also have to save money for school. Even if they don't get married after school, they don't need money to build a house, etc.?

Do you also think that you don’t need to spend money after building a house and getting married? You need money for firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. There are more places for money when you have children in the future.

Of course, the 14 or 15-year-old boys are not thinking too much about it now, but a few of Chen Lieyang's friends have already been engaged. Their family plans to provide them with them until they graduate from junior high school and let them go home to get married and have children, but they really don't plan to provide their children to college or other things.

Moreover, some families can't afford to support college students, right? Apart from Chen Lieyang's friends, few of them are still continuing to go to school, and a few have dropped out of school and come home to help their home work.

In fact, life is already hopeful now. After all, the country needs to develop now. After the country has settled, everything is in trouble and there are many places to make money. Especially after Chen Tiezheng said that he could build fishing boats, the people in Qianwan Village had hope.

After having a fishing boat, they can make a lot of money like Chen Tiezheng every time they go out, so that their lives will be a little easier. Isn’t they making money so hard now that they can make money by chance for the fifteen dollars of tung oil and nails to make the fishing boat for Chen Tiezheng in the future?

"Let's go, hurry up the mountain, otherwise it will be too late for a while before you find the beehive, and we will be in vain today." Chen Geming reminded next to him that he also needs to make more money to save his tuition and his younger brother and sister's tuition. He is already a young man who is almost fifteen years old and cannot rely on his family.

Even though he was still studying, his parents said that if he could get into college, he would continue to support him in college. However, Chen Geming could not accept his parents' support with peace of mind but did not help the family at all.

Of course, the sons who can go to school, and who can go to junior high school or even high school will be favored by many people, so they will not let any work be done, and they will not let the so-called scholars go to the fields to work to dirty themselves. Those families will devote their whole family to the school alone, and they will not let that person participate in anything at home and outside the family.

When Chen Geming was discovered to be very good at studying, he has always had the best grades over the years. In other words, when he was second in Chen Lieyang, his parents and even his grandparents made him do nothing, and he just needed to study wholeheartedly.

It is also because Chen Geming and Chen Lieyang and his brothers have a good relationship. Since childhood, they have been very good at playing with Chen Lieyang and his brothers. So after seeing Chen Lieyang and his family being able to help their family subsidize their family income while studying and doing anything they can do, Chen Geming also learned it.

Just like what Chen Chaoyang and the others said, even if you can read, you won’t do anything except study. What’s the use of reading even if you can read a book?

You have indeed learned the things in the books, but you are not willing to start with it at all. What's the use of learning it?

Chen Geming was influenced by Chen Lieyang and Chen Chaoyang and his brothers while studying hard while following Chen Lieyang and his friends to make money. After all, he could still afford his tuition.

Chen Geming's father Chen Tiechui was always cousins ​​with Chen Tiezheng who had not yet had the fifth cousin, and his relationship was quite good. Chen Geming and Chen Lieyang got along well, so of course it was very good.

This year, Chen Geming brought his younger brother Chen Zhanguo to accompany Chen Lieyang and his brothers, and others. In fact, one or two people also disliked Chen Lieyang and the others. The half-aged young man had a strong self-esteem and was second-rate, so seeing that Chen Lieyang and the others were so outstanding, of course, others disliked him.

It’s a pity that Chen Lieyang’s combat power is too strong. Even Chen Chaoyang, a guy who is very good at studying, has a very powerful force, so others dare not really provoke Chen Lieyang and his brothers.

However, it is okay to say a few words of sour words occasionally. Now, when you look for an opportunity to go up the mountain with Chen Lieyang and the others, you will certainly be sad. However, Chen Lieyang didn't care about it, and just shifted the center of gravity in one or two words.

Chen Lieyang and the others were delayed for a while at the beginning, but soon went up the mountain again. They were lucky and spent an hour or two to find two or three nests of honeycombs. The storage of honeycombs was still very good.

"Axun, hurry up and find some dry grass, then ignite them and smoke the bees and run away." After finding two or three nests of beehives, Chen Geming quickly directed people to start driving the bees away. They were about to start collecting honey.

"Have you brought a match?"

"Take it."

"Then hurry up, go and see two bamboos turn into bamboo baskets, and then cut a few banana leaves to spread them on it." Chen Lieyang also nodded and instructed his second brother to ask him to help cut the things. They have no tools to put honey at this moment, so they can only use local materials to put banana leaves in the bamboo basket woven with bamboo, and then stitch the cut honey into it.

"Okay." Chen Chaoyang did not waste time, so he quickly cut two or three wild bamboos on the mountain, and then cut the bamboo into bamboo strips. Chen Lieyang picked up the bamboo strips and quickly started weaving bamboo baskets, while the others were preparing to find hay and other people planned to smoke the bees away.

Chen Geming led Chen Xunyang Huang Jinbao and others to find some semi-dried weeds. Although the semi-dried weeds could be burned, the smoke was very large, which was just enough to be used to fumigate bees. Everyone worked together to find a lot of hay, then tied the hay into bundles and lit it with matches to ignite it.

After a while, the thick smoke rose and everyone else ran to the other side. Chen Geming tied a long stick with a hay bale to the bottom of the beehive, and then the thick smoke began to smoke the bees away.

Of course, it took a long time to smoke the bees. Everyone spent a lot of time. Chen Lieyang had already weaved the bamboo baskets. He also cut a few more banana leaves with Chen Chaoyang to lay out all the bamboo baskets, ensuring that there would be no water leakage and no honey leaked while the honey was put on, and the bees finally ran away.

Everyone started to harvest honey. The bumblebees had quite a lot of honey, and the nest looked like a dozen pounds. Of course, when harvesting honey, they took away the bees' cubs and prepared to take them back for food.

Honey cubs are very nutritious, and the country people will bring back the honeycombs of honey cubs, then boil hot water and put the honeycombs down and melt the beeswax, and then collect the molten beeswax bit by bit. The remaining ones are cleaner bees.

The collected beeswax is very swimming, and it is very good for making batik, and it can also be used as medicine. It is very useful.

Chen Lieyang and the others did not take away all the bees, but left most of the bees for others, and a honeycomb was also left. This is sustainable development. Perhaps next time the bees do not move their positions or nests, they can still collect honey here next time.

On this day, Chen Lieyang and his friends picked three nests of honey in a row, and a total of forty or fifty kilograms of honey.

Everyone is very happy with so much honey, because if there is too much honey, they can transfer a lot of money. The honey was brought back by Chen Lieyang and the others. Next time they will go to the county town to sell the honey and exchange it for money.

Chen Lieyang and his friends still need to go to school, that is, they will go up the mountain to collect honey during the holidays, and they can still make some money during the holidays. The Chen family has left a little wild honey for Nuannuan to save, and it is also used for snacks or barbecue. Most of the remaining honey is sold.

Chen Lieyang and the others have found a lot of honey this year, about 200 kilograms, which are found one after another during the whole spring and summer period. This is because Chen Lieyang and the others don’t have much time to go to the mountain, and most of them go while the holidays are on, so even if Nuannuan is there, they only picked two or three hundred kilograms.

Chen Lieyang and the others left more than ten kilograms of food at home, and then all the rest were sold. In the past, they made money like this. During the years when Chen Tiezheng went out to fight, Chen Lieyang and the others grew up a little and often went up the mountain to find honey and then sell it to make some money, just to think that it was to earn tuition for themselves or to earn some living expenses for their family.

However, the country was still quite chaotic in the years when Chen Tiezheng went out to fight, and of course, it was quite chaotic in Leizhou, so Chen Lieyang and the others did not make a lot of money in those years.

Moreover, there were no golden fingers like Nuannuan at that time. Nuannuan could not only control plants, but also animals, so it was also Nuannuan who was able to find so much honey.

Now that everyone's life has settled down, the country will be getting better and better, so there are many people who are willing to spend money to buy good things. In addition, with a golden doll like Nuannuan, they went up the mountain to collect honey this year and also picked more than 200 kilograms of honey, and this year they made some money by selling honey.

The honey left by Chen Lieyang and the others also made Su Qiao make snacks and delicacies for her.

Honey jerky, honey roasted wings, honey fire recipe, etc., as well as various sweet soups and snacks.

In fact, these things are not even eaten by Nuannuan. Who made her not have teeth yet?
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