Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"What is it?"

Lin Heng showed a trace of curiosity. Seeing his elder brother's excited expression, this thing must be worth at least five dollars.

Lin Wei asked with a grouse in his hand: "Dad, is it a wild boar muntjac?"

Lin Yue shook his head: "It's not prey. I found a nest of bees. I can cut a lot of honey."

"Bees, this is not bad." Lin Heng nodded. Wild honey is expensive and it is really worth being happy.

"Brother, help me. Let's go and cut the honey. If we are lucky, it is possible to get six or seven kilograms of honey. This bee colony is very large."

Lin Yue looked at Lin Heng and said that finding a nest of wild bees was really exciting for him. It was more profitable than digging various medicinal herbs for a week.

"Okay."

Lin Heng nodded, and the three of them set off together. The distance was not far. They arrived after walking seven or eight hundred meters.

"Lin Wei, don't come over. Let's go get it." Lin Yue just warned and walked with Lin Heng.

Lin Heng held a bunch of dry pine needles, and the eldest brother Lin Yue held some wet leaves to make smoke.

Originally, Lin Yue was going to burn the bees to death directly, because it was the safest way and they would not be stung.

Many people who don't know how to harvest honey usually deal with wild beehives in this way.

But Lin Heng thought it was unnecessary. He could keep them for next year. He had experienced the last time he harvested bees and the time he harvested wild honey with his uncle, and he had summed up some experience.

"Brother, look, the beehive is in that crack of the stone. It's not easy to deal with it. Why don't we burn it to death?"

Lin Yue pointed to a pile of stones in the distance and said.

"I'll try it. If it doesn't work, I'll burn it to death."

Lin Heng looked at it. It was raining today, and with the smoke, it shouldn't be too dangerous.

If it really doesn't work, then we can only send them to the west. After all, human life is the most important.

Slowly walked to the bottom of the entrance of the beehive, added pine needles and dry firewood to light a fire, and after the fire was lit, covered it with wet leaves, and bursts of green smoke rushed out.

He took a piece of dry bark and fanned it into the beehive, and soon a group of bees buzzed out.

Lin Heng covered his mouth and nose with his clothes and squatted under the smoke. When he felt that the fire was about right, he began to remove the stones.

After removing the stones, Lin Heng was a little dumbfounded. This beehive was actually underground. After removing the stones, he could only see two brood combs that bred bees, but no honey combs.

Looking at the surging bees, he added more fire, smoked it again, turned around and ran out.

"What's wrong, are you okay?" Lin Yue saw Lin Heng coming out and hurriedly asked with concern.

"It's nothing, give me your small hoe for digging herbs, the beehive is underground, we have to dig it."

Lin Heng shook his head and said.

"Okay, be careful, cut it half for each of us." Lin Yue handed over the hoe and said with a smile.

Holding the hoe, Lin Heng came to the smoke and dug gently, not daring to move too much.

It took ten minutes, and finally dug out a hole and saw the situation inside.

This is really a big and strong colony, bigger than the one he and his uncle-in-law Li Baiquan collected last time.

The brood combs are in a row, and he saw five honey combs alone, all of which were capped.

Looking at the dense bees next to him, Lin Heng did not dare to be careless. Fortunately, there was not much honey on the honeycomb.

Putting the plastic bag on the ground, Lin Heng went out to lengthen the knife and tied a wooden handle.

"Bees, bees, please don't sting me."

Lin Heng prayed quietly while extending the knife to cut the honey from a distance.

With a click, a honeycomb was cut off by him. With a buzzing sound, a group of bees flew up instantly, and Lin Heng was scared and hid in the smoke.

He made the fire bigger and the smoke thicker, and he cut off another honeycomb.

Repeated several times, all the honeycombs were cut off by him.

He hooked out the plastic bag and ran with it. He felt like he was being chased by a ghost, and his adrenaline surged.

"I got it. Are you okay?"

Lin Yue came over and smiled at the honey in Lin Heng's hand.

"It's okay. I was stung three times. It's okay." Lin Heng shook his head.

No matter how careful you are, you will still get stung. If you walk by the river, you will get your feet wet. He accepted the stings for stealing honey.

"I'll squeeze out the poison for you." Lin Yue said hurriedly. He felt a little guilty and thought he should insist on burning the bees to death.

"Okay." Lin Heng stretched out his hand.

He was stung once behind his palm and twice on his arm, both of which were already red and swollen.

The pain was excruciating, but it was still bearable, much better than being stung by a bee.

After squeezing out the bee venom, Lin Heng turned back and sealed the beehive with stones and loess, and then covered it with some leaves. He could come back to harvest it in autumn or next year.

"How many pounds are there?" Lin Heng asked after he finished making the beehive.

"The beehive is ten pounds, and if it produces honey, it will probably be about six or seven pounds."

Lin Yue said with a smile, his face full of joy.

"I have twenty yuan." Lin Heng smiled.

"So many, Dad let me try one." Lin Wei saw the two people coming, his eyes lit up.

"Don't eat too much." Lin Yue gave him a piece, and Lin Wei ate it with the honeycomb.

"Sweet, too sweet!!" After taking a bite, Lin Wei's eyes were fascinated with happiness.

"Let's each have a piece." Lin Yue said with a smile.

Lin Heng did not refuse, broke off a piece and put it in his mouth. The honey was sweet but not choking, and it also had the fragrance of flowers.

Compared with the honey from the last beehive, the honey here is more moist and has the fragrance of locust flowers.

"It seems that this bee has collected a lot of locust flowers, and locust flower honey is more valuable." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Generally, honey is light yellow, while locust flower honey is moist and transparent.

This honey is light yellow and translucent, and has a strong aroma of locust flowers. It is obvious that a lot of locust flowers have been picked.

"Yes, that's why I said I made a profit." Lin Yue smiled.

Taibai Mountain wild honey is well-known, and locust flower honey is even more popular.

Holding the things, the three happily returned to the camp.

"Let's stew the grouse, otherwise it's too small, and three people will finish it in one bite. There are taro and yam."

Lin Heng said while making a fire. Although honey roasted chicken is a must, this grouse is only seven or eight taels after killing, which is too small.

"Stew it." Lin Yue also thinks it's better to stew the grouse. It's a bit cold after the rain, and it can be replenished.

"But let's cook some noodles first. Brother, go get this stream grouper."

Lin Heng smiled and said, eat noodles first, otherwise people will be hungry when the chicken soup is cooked.

Bring the fire to a boil, pour oil into the pot, put in ten killed river groupers and fry until both sides are golden brown, then pour in cold water, and after boiling, you will have a pot of milky white fish soup.

Add some noodles, some wild vegetables, and finally season with salt, then you can pick it up and eat it.

With the garlic and chili brought from home, even without vinegar, it has a unique flavor.

The noodle soup is fresh and fragrant, the fish meat is tender, and the garlic and chili add a fresh and spicy taste. The three of them not only finished the noodles, but also drank the soup together.

"What do you think, if we make a fish soup to stew grouse, will it taste a little special?"

Lin Heng asked curiously.

"You can try it, it will definitely not be bad, I'll go catch fish." Lin Yue's eyes lit up and said with a smile.

Lin Heng processed the grouse and other ingredients, and Lin Wei also looked for firewood everywhere.

Time seemed to have returned to childhood. At that time, they rural children liked to play the "cooking rice" game, which was similar to playing house, but more focused on cooking.

Make a fire and cook all kinds of things in a pot, all kinds of grass, all kinds of grass, stewed together, although they couldn't eat it, everyone was very happy.

In fact, they also wanted to cook their own food in the wild at that time, but they didn't dare to steal the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at home, or they would be hung up and beaten. At most, they could only cook a crab and roast two stream groupers to eat.

It's different now. They are all grown up. They have oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. The ingredients have become high-end, and they have come to this deep mountain forest.

The environment is beautiful and the air is fresh. Except for the absence of his wife and children, the joy of childhood seems to have returned again.

A man is a teenager until he dies. If he can't play when he is a child, he will definitely do everything possible to play when he grows up.

This kind of camping and wilderness survival feeling is not available in big cities. Just like a genetic imprint, Lin Heng has obviously been to big cities and seen the prosperity of the city, but he still likes outdoor activities such as fishing and camping.

"Bang!"

After the grouse offal was cooked, Xiongba ate it with a bang.

Clean the pot, add a little oil and fry the fish until both sides are golden brown, pour in boiling water, and when the soup boils white, throw the grouse in, add yam, taro, codonopsis, ginseng, and gastrodia, the main point is nutrition and health.

It is not worth selling it, so I can only cook a grouse to eat and maintain my life.

It rained a little harder at noon, and it became moderate rain. The three of them did not go out and stayed in the camp.

Fearing that the water would rise and they could not catch fish, the three of them caught all the fish in the maze fishing trap and kept them in the small pool beside the riverbed.

"It's over, the rain is getting heavier." Lin Yue looked at the sky helplessly.

"I hope it won't be continuous rain." Lin Heng has been a little anxious these two days because he hasn't seen the prey for a long time.

It's even more difficult to go out when it rains.

The words I said in the morning to comfort my father not to worry were all fake. How can a fisherman not be anxious when he can't catch any fish? He just pretends to be calm on the surface.

However, Murphy's Law tells you that the more you don't want something to happen, the more likely it is to happen. The rain didn't stop for an afternoon.

The chicken soup had been stewed for more than three hours, and the fragrance had overflowed.

"Forget it, let's drink the soup!" Shaking his head, Lin Heng came over with salt.

After adding salt, he tasted it. It was sweet and delicious, with a strong chicken aroma. If you savor it carefully, you can still feel the freshness of the stream grouper.

"It's amazing." Lin Heng shook his head and sighed. The taste was so delicious.

After adding a little more salt, he took out the grouse. The grouse had been thoroughly stewed and it would rot if you touched it lightly. It took a lot of effort to fish it out.

"It's really delicious, much better than the broth my mother stewed." Lin Wei praised.

"Of course." Lin Heng smiled.

In this era, when adults stew soup, they are reluctant to scoop out even the dirty oil foam on the surface.

They don't even have the heart to clean the pot that has been fried with meat, but add some pickled cabbage or something to stir-fry, and it counts only when the oil is cleaned.

This causes the soup to always have a fishy smell, and if it is cured pork ribs, the smell is even stronger.

There is no way, this is the thrifty spirit created by the difficult times, which has been engraved in the bones and is difficult to change.

"It is also very good to dip grouse meat in garlic and chili, you can try it." Lin Heng said with a smile, this stewed meat dipped in garlic and chili is also a delicacy.

"It is better to stew it, you can eat meat and drink soup to warm your body, and your stewing skills are really good, brother." Lin Yue praised, even in summer on the mountain, as long as it rains, the temperature will drop rapidly.

The three people were not wearing thick clothes, so they were naturally a little cold.

"Yes, let's finish the dry food, and the remaining soup can be eaten in the evening." Lin Heng nodded.

After drinking some soup, eating chicken and stewed taro and yam, the three of them were full. It was a good time to go out hunting to digest the food, but the annoying rain made it impossible to go out.

Light rain was okay, but moderate rain could not be covered even with film.

Fortunately, the shelter was built firmly, with film and pine needles on the top, so there was no need to worry about getting wet in the rain.

"Forget it, cut down a paulownia tree to get two bowls."

Lin Heng looked at a paulownia tree with a diameter of 30 cm not far away, and cut it down with film.

Paulownia trees are not only light but also soft. Such a thick tree was knocked down by Lin Heng in five minutes, and he sawed two sections with a small hand saw and took them back to the shelter.

The small hand saw was brought by his father, but he didn't take it with him when he left.

"I'll saw it for you." Lin Yue came over and took the saw.

"Thirty centimeters long is good." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After sawing it down and peeling the outer bark, Lin Heng took charcoal to draw a picture, and then took his knife to start cutting the shape.

It took half an hour to finally cut the outside, but it turned out to be crooked. After taking out the inside, Lin Heng was speechless for a long time looking at this ugly thing.

Let's call it a bowl, but it's too crooked. Some places are thick and some places are too thin.

Shaking his head, he started making the second wooden bowl. In his previous life, he saw that it seemed very simple to cut it in the video, but it was completely different when he did it himself.

Being stung by a bee, it was itchy and painful. He failed to cut a bowl. Lin Heng didn't want to do anything. He lay on the hammock, closed his eyes, listened to the sound of rain, listened to the stream, emptied himself, and adjusted the depression caused by the air force.

Lin Yue took his son to play Gobang on the ground. Naturally, there was no chessboard and chess pieces. The chessboard was randomly drawn on the ground, and the chess pieces were randomly found white and black pebbles.

In the evening, noodles were cooked with chicken soup. After eating, the three of them cut branches and surrounded the door of the shelter to prevent people from freezing in the cold wind at night.

Even so, it was still a bit cold at night. Lin Wei slept with his father, and Lin Heng called Xiongba to sleep with him, and they immediately felt much warmer.

The next morning, you don’t need to go out to see the three people to know that the moderate rain has not stopped. It rained all night last night.

Remove the branches in front of the gate, everything is soaked in the rain, the water level of the mountain stream has risen by 1.5 meters, and the originally calm and clear stream has now turned into a yellow angry dragon.

"Why is God so disrespectful!" Lin Yue shook his head helplessly. He finally went up the mountain once, but it rained continuously.

"Let's cook." Lin Heng shook his head. He cooked rice in the morning, but there were no vegetables. He mixed it with fermented bean curd and ate it.

The water rose too much, and all the stream groupers raised on the shore were washed away.

"I regret not bringing an extra piece of clothes, otherwise I could go out and take a look." Lin Yue shook his head and said.

If it is sunny, it doesn't matter. Just wash and dry it in the sun. It will dry in an hour, and you don't need to change clothes, but it will be very troublesome if it rains.

Lin Heng shook his head and continued to make his own wooden bowls. The wound from the bee sting today was no longer painful, so he decided to continue.

After sawing off two thinner sections of paulownia, Lin Heng started making them again.

After a day of practice, he made five bowls. The last two were very straight and evenly thick. They only needed to be polished with sandpaper before they could be used.

As a rural person, he already had a foundation in woodworking, and he would always succeed after trying a few more times.

With experience, Lin Heng started making larger wooden bowls the next day and small wooden basins the third day.

Later, not satisfied with simple wooden bowls, Lin Heng even made patterns and strange patterns on them.

It rained for four consecutive days, and Lin Heng mastered the skill of making bowls with paulownia. Not counting defective products, he made five wooden bowls in these four days, three round small wooden basins, one rectangular small wooden basin, and one square small wooden basin.

After drying, polish them with sandpaper and take them home for use. Paulownia trees will not crack, so there is no need to worry about this problem.

In a blink of an eye, the three of them have been here for 13 days. It is July 29th in the Gregorian calendar and June 12th in the lunar calendar.

On the night of the 29th, the rain stopped.

"Ah, the rain has finally stopped. We can go out and have a look tomorrow morning."

While eating at night, Lin Yue looked outside and sighed.

"Let the sun shine for a while tomorrow morning, let the water recede, and give the prey some time to be trapped. We will go and have a look in the afternoon."

Lin Heng looked at the turbid stream and analyzed. He had not gone out for a few days and thought about his strategy carefully. He felt that the previous strategy was still problematic.

"Of course, otherwise it would be muddy everywhere and we couldn't walk." Lin Yue nodded.

But it's a good thing that it didn't rain. They didn't have much rice and flour. If they persisted for another day or two, they would be gone.

As long as it doesn't rain, there will be no problem whether they go back to get it or collect it in the wild. People will not starve to death in the Qinling Mountains in summer.

Early in the morning of the 30th, the sun, which had disappeared for almost a week, finally came out. The golden sunlight scattered down, gradually changing from warm to hot.

The cicadas, which had been silent for a long time, began to howl desperately again. It was just that I hadn't heard it for a long time, but I still felt it was somewhat pleasant.

"Let's pick some mushrooms nearby in the morning. There are still a lot of mushrooms in this place. Make some dry-fried mushrooms to eat, and then go to see the traps at noon." Lin Heng said.

"That's what I was thinking. I've only eaten food without vegetables these days, and I'm so tired." Lin Yue nodded, and the two of them took their backpacks to pick mushrooms nearby.

The rain is not without its benefits. After a rain, mushrooms always explode. There are only three of them in the deep mountains, so they can pick as many as they want without worrying about someone snatching them.

"I just went out and picked up three red Ganoderma lucidum. It looks like we will have a good harvest today." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Woof woof!"

Xiongba barked and took a walk around. The rain has obviously made him feel suffocated in the past few days.

"Just find Ganoderma lucidum for me. No need for other mushrooms." Lin Heng looked at the shiitake mushrooms that Xiongba found, took out a Ganoderma lucidum and let it look at it and smell it.

In more than half an hour, Lin Heng picked up more than ten kilograms of mushrooms. Shiitake mushrooms are the most, and this place produces shiitake mushrooms, followed by blue-headed mushrooms and a large number of tea tree mushrooms.

The end of July is the season when tea tree mushrooms explode. When you walk into the forest, almost all rotten tree stumps have clumps of tea tree mushrooms growing on them, and the acorn forest has the most.

Lin Heng estimated that if he and his elder brother pick carefully, it is possible that Lian Yinyu can pick hundreds of tea tree mushrooms in this time.

"Woof woof!!"

Suddenly, Xiongba shouted excitedly from a distance.

Lin Heng looked up and remembered immediately. Wasn't that the direction where he had set the fishhook? Could it be that the fishhook had caught some prey?

He hurried over and when he saw the specific situation, his back teeth couldn't help but show: "Finally I've waited for you!!"

A big pheasant fell to the ground, bleeding from its mouth and twitching. It was obviously caught not long ago.

"Hey, you've finally been fooled." Lin Heng reached out and brushed his hair to the top of his head and combed it into a big back hair. He came over and picked up the pheasant.

It's not big, a female pheasant weighing more than two kilograms, but there is meat to eat today.

"Let's go and check other fishhook, maybe there are more." Lin Heng rubbed Da Huang's dog head and said loudly, and the air force in his chest was swept away.