Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 348 Cure bee disease, hunt wild rabbits

When he came back from the market with a full harvest, Duomei had already woken up, looked at the steamed buns and fried sticks he brought back, and said with a smile, "I'm just about to eat this."

"I know you want to eat. Every market day from now on, I will buy some food and come back. Oh, I also bought some meat and tofu. These tomatoes and eggplants were given by Huang Dazhi's mother. Scramble eggs and tomatoes at noon. It's gone." Gao Mingcheng said as he took out everything, the breakfast was on the table, and the meat dishes were in the cupboard.

Then I went to order two bowls of porridge, and a hearty breakfast was ready.

After breakfast, Gao Mingcheng was about to go into the mountains to check the situation of the beehives. Yesterday when he was taking a bath in the reservoir, he promised others that he would divide his nest of queen bees.

After talking to Duomi, Gao Mingcheng led the two dogs into the mountain.

It’s been a while since I checked the beehive, but when I opened it, I found that there was actually a lot of honey inside. Also, now is the season when the honey source is the most abundant in the four seasons of the year, and at this time, the lifespan of bees It will be shortened because of the busy honey harvesting.

He picked up a piece of honeycomb and exposed it to the sun, and found that the honey inside was still relatively thin. This was just honey, but it had not been fully fermented. This kind of honey had a high water content, and the sweetness was not so strong. The key Yes, the shelf life will be much shorter.

Some beekeepers will shake honey at this time in order to make more money, so that they can shake honey once or twice a year.

Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry to make money, so he decided to wait. In a few days, the honey in the beehive would be completely brewed.

After checking one box after another, most of the beehives were in good condition, but something happened to two beehives. One box was suffering from an unknown disease, and the bees inside seemed to be in bad condition.

In another box, a new queen may have hatched and then split. There were only a small number of bees in it and almost no honey.

Gao Mingcheng carefully observed the box of sick bees, and saw that they moved slowly, their bodies twitched and trembled, and they lost the ability to fly. With their wings and feet stretched out, they could only flap their wings weakly and crawl feebly.

Some of these bees have swollen abdomens, some have thin bodies, and some have blackened body surfaces, faded fluff, and contracted abdomens, as if they had been fried.

Seeing this situation, Gao Mingcheng had a bad feeling.

"Could it be bee paralysis? No matter what the disease is, kill the sick bees first, and don't let them infect other healthy bees." Gao Mingcheng muttered to himself, and then started to kill the sick bees bee up.

Not only do the bees need to be killed, but the beehive has to be cleaned and disinfected, and all the honeycombs inside must be discarded.

In addition, he had to buy some sublimated sulfur back.

Sublimated sulfur is a medicine extracted from sulfur. It has high sulfur content and can prevent common bee diseases. It can also treat skin diseases and hemorrhoids. It has many uses.

He piled the comb and the dead bees together, then took a matchbox from his pocket and lit it.

High temperature can kill many viruses and effectively prevent virus infection.

In the process of burning the fire, Gao Mingcheng cannot walk away. He must ensure that the fire is completely extinguished before he can leave, otherwise he will set fire to the mountain and sit in prison!
While burning the fire, Gao Mingcheng observed the surrounding environment to see if there were any polluted honey sources.

But everything in the mountains is very clean, and there are no chemical plants nearby, so external pollution can be ignored.

Then the reason why bees get sick may be related to too much rain and too much humidity in the beehive.

It's the rainy season, and it's rainy in the mountains.

He checked the lid of the beehive and sure enough he saw some tiny cracks on it.

It seems that the beehive needs to be covered with a tile or a plastic sheet to protect it from rain.

The cover of the beehive is not for the bees to enter and exit, but for the convenience of people to manage the beehive and get honey. Usually it is completely covered. As for the entrance and exit of the bees, there is a small hole at the bottom.

The person at the entrance of the cave looks small, but the bees are small enough to get in and out.And the small hole can prevent the larger wasps from getting in.

After all the corpses of the dead bees were burned, Gao Mingcheng completely trampled the remaining ashes with his feet before leaving with the empty beehive.

All over the mountains and plains are his territory, so he puts each beehive far away, and it is precisely because of this that if a box of bees gets sick, other bees will not be infected in a short period of time.

But since there is a disease, other beehives should not be taken lightly. Bee paralysis can be prevented in the early stage, which can reduce the loss of bees.

Otherwise, when the disease reaches the later stage, it can only be killed and cannot be kept.

After coming down from the mountains, he drove the tractor and prepared to go to the city to buy sublimated sulfur.The health of bees still needs to be taken into consideration.

In addition to buying medicine and new honeycomb, he also bought a pack of cigarettes. He promised everyone to smoke yesterday. Packed.

Anyway, the cigarettes he bought were not very expensive, just the kind of cheap ones that everyone in the village usually smoked.

After running back and forth, it was already noon when I returned to the village.

The tractor stopped at the old village, and Gao Mingcheng went to deliver the cigarettes to Gao Liang and the others first. He didn't deliver the cigarettes to everyone, but entrusted Gao Liang to let him deliver. By the way, he told the person who asked him for the queen bee. , just say that there is no new queen bee in his beehive recently, and he has to wait.

Gao Mingcheng died of a hive of bees himself, and even lost half of the hive of bees. He needs a new queen bee to make up for it, so naturally he can't give it to others first.

Going all the way back to Niuweiling's home, Duomei was working in the vegetable field. When he saw him come back, he said, "The food is warming up in the pot, you should hurry up and eat it."

"Hey." Gao Mingcheng responded and walked towards the kitchen.

When I lifted the lid of the pot, I saw two bowls inside, one with rice and vegetables, and the other with bone soup.

He took it out and ate it voraciously, while the black tiger and the elf squatted by the dining table, waiting for him to feed the bones.

He gnawed the meat on the bone a few times, and then threw it on the ground, and the two dogs came forward to eat it. The bone was stewed rather badly. Even Gao Mingcheng, if he bit hard, it could be crushed. , not to mention that it was a dog who came to bite, only heard the sound of "click", the bone was crushed by the two dogs, and then eaten little by little.

Looking at their figures, Gao Mingcheng felt a little thin and their coats were not shiny enough, so he said, "I'll take you into the mountains to hunt rabbits in the afternoon, and let you have a good meal of meat!"

The two dogs seemed to understand, and their expressions were visibly excited. The elf was young and impatient, and was already wandering around Gao Mingcheng, barking incessantly.

Gao Mingcheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to cook the rice faster and then threw the bowl and chopsticks into the basin.

He took the sublimated sulfur he just bought, and took a few small knives, and said in a high-spirited manner: "Let's go!"

The two dogs barked in response, followed behind him, and walked quickly towards the mountains.

In the vegetable field, Duomei could only smile helplessly when she saw him go into the mountains again, but she didn't think about stopping it, she just did what she could, and if she was free, she would go to her second sister's house to sit and sit. The two sisters talked and teased the little nephew again.

After entering the mountain, Gao Mingcheng first dealt with the problem of the beehives. He poured out a little sublimated sulfur and evenly sprinkled it on the frame beams of each beehive, the door of the nest and the door of the box.

When sick bees are stained with sublimated sulfur, a series of changes will occur to cure the sick bees.

After finishing this matter, Gao Mingcheng said to the two dogs: "It's time to hunt! Go find the rabbit!"

The two dogs understood, and immediately sniffed the smell in the air, and went to look for the rabbit.

Rabbits are used to coming out to look for food early in the morning, so they are called Maotu.But if there are two dogs, they will find the rabbit hole. The movements and threats they make will frighten the rabbits. Some rabbits will feel unsafe when they hide in the cave, and will run away in fright.

At this time, the two dogs will chase, and Gao Mingcheng can also shoot the rabbit to death with a throwing knife.

Last year, there was a severe drought in the mountains, which affected vegetation and animals to some extent. However, rabbits have a particularly strong reproductive ability. A female rabbit can conceive once a month, and can reproduce with blood relatives. One litter can produce several rabbits.

In the first half of the year, the vegetation is lush, and the hares in the mountains have no shortage of food. It is a good time for a large number of reproduction.

The first rabbits that Black Tiger and the others found were a group of small rabbits. The two dogs were not picky about size, so they had to open their mouths to bite them.

But Gao Mingcheng is still very picky about size. After all, those rabbits are too small, only one or two months old at most, and they don't have much meat.

"Heihu, Elf, go find the big rabbit." Gao Mingcheng ordered.

Heihu slightly raised his head to look at Gao Mingcheng, then gave up the rabbit meat that was in his mouth.

The whole afternoon, Gao Mingcheng led two dogs in the mountains looking for traces of hares.

Except for him, few people set foot on this mountain. There are many wild animals in the mountain. Even if Gao Mingcheng picked and picked, he finally got more than a dozen adult hares.

With so many hares, it was enough for Heihu and Elf to have a good meal, and it was also enough for him to have a good meal.

Just as he was preparing to go back, he was lucky enough to encounter a group of pheasants. After the pheasants noticed the sound they made, they tried to escape with flapping wings all the way away. However, Cheng Ming had a sharp eye and the knife in his hand was faster, and he threw it at them. , a pheasant was killed by the knife.

But at this time, other pheasants had quickly hid in the lush bushes.

Gao Mingcheng wasn't greedy either, he carried the trophy and continued down the mountain.

After returning home, seeing that there was still some time before making dinner, Gao Mingcheng decided not to peel the skin, but to remove the hair. In fact, the rabbit skin is also quite delicious, and the rabbit meat with the skin is more refreshing to eat.

In the first half of the year, the fur of rabbits was sparse and easy to lose hair. Even if the skins were peeled, the rabbit skins would not be sold at a high price. However, those who used fur were usually hunted in autumn, and then peeled and tanned.

He boiled a large pot of water and took out two large pots.

Seeing that he had brought back so many rabbits, Duomei didn't look very happy on her face. She hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I heard from the old people in the village that pregnant women should not eat rabbits, otherwise the babies born will be rotten." Harelip."

"Nonsense!" Gao Mingcheng retorted subconsciously.

The harelip is obviously related to heredity. His family's ancestors have not had a harelip for several generations, and Duomei has never heard of having a harelip. What's more, his two sons were fine in his previous life!
However, Duomei is convinced, or she does not dare to take risks, after all, she is now a pregnant woman, and she will not take the initiative to touch anything that is not good for the child in her womb.

So she said, "I don't eat rabbit anyway."

Gao Mingcheng originally wanted to reason with her, but seeing Duomei's determined expression on her face, he thought about it and decided to forget it.

Now the conditions at home are good, and it’s not just rabbit meat.

There are many beauties that you don’t want to eat, so just don’t eat them, which will save her a burden after eating them.

So he smiled, took the pheasant, and said: "Maybe knowing that you don't want to eat rabbits, this pheasant just fell into the trap! Stew this pheasant tonight, you can eat more."

Duo Mei was amused by Gao Mingcheng and responded with a smile.

But she looked at those rabbits and said, "It's hot now, so many rabbits can't be kept. How about sending some to my parents and one to my second sister?"

Gao Mingcheng took a look at the rabbits on the ground. There were indeed a lot of them. It would be troublesome to remove the fur one by one. So he took four rabbits and walked to the old village.

Before leaving, he asked Duomei to help him watch the fire boil the water.

Many beauties agreed. Although she dared not eat rabbits, it was no problem at all to remove hair and stir-fry them.

Gao Mingcheng took the rabbit and walked quickly all the way. First, he arrived at Manyu's home. Zhang Chengyuan was not at home and was still working in the fields outside, while Manyu was at home looking after the children.

Gao Mingcheng first gave her a rabbit, and then continued walking to the old village.

The remaining three rabbits are for his parents, grandma, and Gao Shouwang's family.

After delivering the rabbit, he didn't stay long, and walked back home quickly. At this time, the water in the iron pot boiled, just enough to scald and remove the hair.

Gao Mingcheng cleaned the feathers of the pheasant first, and then gave it to Manymei to stew in the kitchen.

The pheasant is tight and needs to be stewed for a long time.

For the rest of the rabbits, he removed the fur very quickly, but the rabbit fur is very thin and it is difficult to remove it, so in the end he had to light a pile of straw, and then burn the rabbits on the fire. At that time, the fine hairs on the skin will be burned clean, making a sizzling sound, and the skin will become firmer.

After cleaning the hair, the next step is to disembowel him.

He got a total of thirteen wild rabbits, and now he has sent four out, leaving nine at home.

He decided to keep two for the two dogs, stir-fry two tonight, and cook the rest.

Braised food can be left for a day or two without going bad.

In addition, there are also natural refrigerators in the countryside, which put food in bamboo baskets and hang them in the well with a thick hemp rope.

The well water is warm in winter and cool in summer, so the food is hung a few centimeters above the well water so that it cannot touch the water, and the cold air of the well water can be used to keep the food from rotting quickly.

When the watermelon in the field grows well, soak the watermelon in the well water for a while, and the watermelon will become sweet and delicious, which is very refreshing.

(End of this chapter)