Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 121 Black Bear Wins Honey
Early the next morning, Mr. Zhang, the well-driller, came over with his son. His son was about 20 years old. He looked about the same age as Gao Mingcheng, but he was also extremely silent, without the vigor of a young man at all. .

He stood behind Lao Zhang the whole time without saying a word.

Gao Mingcheng warmly received them, first led them to walk around the yard, and then led them to walk up the mountain again, standing on a hill, looking at the yard from top to bottom.

Lao Zhang and his son didn't take any utensils such as geomantic omen, but relied on their eyesight and experience to judge where a well could be drilled based on the topography.

Back in the yard, Lao Zhang thrust a shovel into a place forcefully, and said in a hoarse voice: "The well is drilled here, and there is a spring below."

Gao Mingcheng didn't question it. Professionals do professional things, so he let Lao Zhang and the others start to do it.

The location that Lao Zhang chose is on the right side of the gate of the yard, and it happens to be very close to the kitchen, so the kitchen will be very convenient to use water.

Lao Zhang and his son are taciturn people, so Gao Mingcheng doesn't chat with them, but just watches them do things.

The father and son had an extremely tacit understanding. They dug a hole together, and then turned the hole into a round hole. The soil clods produced in it were carried to the location designated by Gao Mingcheng with a load.

Although there were only two people, the work was very quick. After a day passed, there was some seepage at the bottom of the well, and there were stones mixed in it.

But this is not enough, we have to keep digging down.

The wells in Gaojia Village are generally about 15 meters high, so the quality of the well water will be much better.

However, there is an old well in Gaojia Village, which is only seven or eight meters deep at most. The water in that old well is particularly large. In spring and summer, the well water even almost overflows, flowing out from the surrounding gaps, forming A small ditch, and the small ditch leads directly to the pond at the head of the village.

Lao Zhang and his son came here with cotton quilts on their backs, and temporarily lived in the vacant room of Gao Mingcheng's house. However, when building the house, Gao Mingcheng didn't ask the carpenter to build two beds, so they were the only ones in the whole family to sleep. the bed.

But the problem can always be solved. Gao Mingcheng got a lot of clean straw from Grandma Xi's house, and spread it on the ground like this, with a thick layer, and slept for a few days temporarily, so it wouldn't be too cold.

The next day, Lao Zhang and his son continued to dig the well. Today is not as easy as yesterday. The shovel can no longer be used for digging, so it has to be replaced with a steel drill. Not only must the soil be transported, but also the muddy water that seeps out must be continuously transported. .

The father and the son took turns to work. One dug the soil at the bottom of the well and filled it with water, and the other used a rope to lift up the soil and muddy water from the well mouth, and took them out of the yard to be dumped.

On the top of the wellhead, a simple bracket was built with wood, and a pulley was installed to transport the soil inside, which would save manpower.

Gao Mingcheng saw that they were working hard, so he specially asked Duomei to cook the food better, so as not to lose others.

All the meat at home was eaten up on the day of the wedding banquet, so Gao Mingcheng had no choice but to go hunting in the mountains.

With the beginning of spring, the fresh and tender weeds grow in the wind, which has changed the withered and yellow land into new clothes, and the hares are much more active than in winter, often appearing in the woods.

Rabbits are plentiful and the easiest prey to hit.

Gao Mingcheng didn't go out with the blunderbuss, he just took the dagger with him. He was very accurate and powerful in throwing. As long as he found a trace of a hare, he would always be able to hit it.

Now that they are all in the mountains, Gao Mingcheng is not satisfied with just shooting a few rabbits, so he decides to check the situation of the beehives again.

Since I got married, I have been busy with various things, and I haven't checked the situation for nearly half a month.

As soon as he walked to the place where the beehive was placed, Gao Mingcheng couldn't help shaking his face. In front of him, a beehive fell to the ground, and the wooden cover was lifted, revealing the beehive inside, and the beehive had been destroyed!
At first Gao Mingcheng suspected that someone had come to steal honey, but after a closer look, he knew that it was not done by humans.

On the side of the beehive, there are several huge footprints.

Staring at the footprints, Gao Mingcheng was heartbroken.

If he guessed correctly, it should be the footprint of a black bear.

Gao Mingcheng bent down to pick up the beehives that had fallen on the ground. The beehives made of fir were quite strong and not broken. The black bear also had a certain amount of wisdom. He lifted the wooden cover on the beehives and ate honey from inside.

Just being manipulated by it like this, the beehive suffered a heavy loss!

Originally, there were still some bees sticking to their homes, but the exposed sweet honey attracted wasps and hornets, who not only robbed the honey to eat, but also killed the bees.

Gao Mingcheng was heartbroken.

He placed the beehives deep in the mountains to avoid being stolen by the villagers, and also to have more honey sources, but it turned out to be the black bear's palm!
Misfortune had already happened to the first hive, and it made him worry about the others.

So he didn't bother to look for the trace of the hare, and continued to move towards the place where the second beehive was placed.

He usually puts the beehives on dry stones, or under big trees, and one of them is placed in a groove similar to a cave, so as to avoid rain.

After continuous inspection, five or six beehives have already suffered!

This is a big loss!
Just waiting for April to cut honey and sell it for money, but what happened? ?

Gao Mingcheng gritted his teeth angrily, but he suddenly noticed something, his body instinctively remained motionless, and his eyes slowly looked in one direction.

There is a bamboo forest in front, the bamboo shadows are shaking, and there is a sound coming from inside. Through the gaps in the bamboo shadows, a big black bear can be seen pulling bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, pulling them out and putting them in its mouth to chew.

Black bears are omnivorous animals, eating all kinds of plants and small animals, but basically they will not attack humans actively, only when they feel threatened and protect their cubs, they will attack humans.

But despite this, it is best for humans not to provoke them, because they are powerful, and ordinary people are by no means their opponents.

Even if you shoot them with a gun, ordinary bullets can hardly kill them.

Therefore, when he found a black bear, Gao Mingcheng instinctively chose to remain still, trying not to attract the black bear's attention.

But the black bear, which has been living in the wild all year round, still found Gao Mingcheng, but it was startled when it suddenly found Gao Mingcheng, and instinctively ran away towards the distance, making a great noise.

Looking at the back of the black bear leaving, Gao Mingcheng also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he was in good physical condition, he didn't plan to fight the black bear, or he might get injured.

He frowned, somewhat confused.

In his previous life, he had never heard of black bears in the mountains. Last year, when he wandered around the mountains, he didn't find any traces of black bears. Why did he encounter black bears in the beginning of spring this year?

He looked at the beehive stolen by the black bear not far away, wondering if it was because of this?
Black bears like to eat honey. After waking up from hibernation, there are not many things to eat in the mountains, but his beehives are relatively concentrated here. The sweet taste of honey must have attracted the hungry black bears.

Now Gao Mingcheng was melancholy. Should he continue to put the beehive in the deep mountain, or move it to the foot of the mountain?What if the black bear is provoked down the mountain because of this?
How sad!
(End of this chapter)