Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 356
As soon as the tractor stopped on the side of the road in Niuweiling, two big dogs quickly greeted it.

The dog got close to its owner and kept circling Gao Mingcheng.

Gao Mingcheng licked them both and strode towards the house.

It was past ten o'clock in the morning, and the sun was a bit strong, but Duomi still wore a straw hat and worked in the vegetable field in front of the house.

This is the time when all kinds of vegetables are growing luxuriantly. On the cucumber stand, the vines are growing gratifyingly, and the green cucumbers are hidden under the wide leaves.

The cowpea rack next to it is also growing very well, it is already blooming and growing cowpeas, and the long cowpeas are hanging down like the green silk of a girl in green.

Cowpeas grow in abundance and fast. If you plant a lot, you won't be able to eat them. In many cases, you have to eat cowpeas every now and then, otherwise the cowpeas will become old if they are delayed in the field for two more days.

Many beauty is taking care of these vegetables, pulling out the newly grown weeds by the way, but she has a big belly, and she works slowly.

"How beautiful, don't squat to work. The sun is so big, it's so hot, you go back to the house!" Gao Mingcheng walked over quickly, and told Duomei to go back to the house to rest.

Duomei stood up slowly, and said with a smile: "I have not been out for a long time, and I plan to pick some food to go back to eat. I saw that there were weeds, so I just pulled them out."

In the era when there were no herbicides, farmers often had to deal with weeds when farming. There is a poem that says: Wild fires are endless, and spring breeze blows and regenerates.

This is enough to prove how tenacious the vitality of weeds is. On a carefully cultivated land, you can see weeds popping up in the ground as long as you don't pull the weeds for two or three days.

Weeds will rob crops of fertilizer and water, so they should not be left in excess.

"Go and rest, I'll do this." Gao Mingcheng said, picked up the hoe on one side, and weeded the grass easily. As soon as the hoe went down, the weeds turned up with roots and soil.

"You pile these grasses together to dry them. After drying, you have to use them to cover the watermelons. The weather is getting hotter and hotter. It is not good for the watermelons to be left in the sun for a long time. I went to the watermelon field today to see a lot of them. It’s a little watermelon.” Duo Mei said.

The watermelon could have been covered with straw to provide shade, but their family cultivated too few fields, and even the little straw was not enough.

"Okay." Gao Mingcheng responded, while working, he talked about Xiao Yuanyuan's situation, and finally he said that he was going out to drive a sports car.

"Duomei, I may be delayed on the road for a few days when I go out this time. Do you stay in the village or go to the county? If you stay in the village, I'm not so relieved."

Gao Mingcheng hopes that Duomi can go to the county. If he lives in the old village and has neighbors around, that’s fine too. But his house is built in Niuwei Ridge, a distance from the old village. Duomi is now pregnant again. If there is something, no one will help me if I want to ask for help.

Many beauty also considered this, so she said: "I'll go back to the county, don't worry about going out to do errands, I'm fine. Do you plan to go back to the county this afternoon, or tomorrow morning?"

Gao Mingcheng said: "Tomorrow morning, I will go to the mountain to shake the honey later. I saw that the honey was already full last time, so it's time to shake it."

"Okay, I'll cook now. In the evening, I'll pick some vegetables so that I can take them to the county to eat tomorrow." Many beautiful people had plans in mind, and their eyes swept over a large vegetable field.

There are quite a lot of edible vegetables in the vegetable fields now, including cucumbers, cowpeas, eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, loofah, bitter gourd, sweet potato leaves and sweet potato stems, etc., all of which can be eaten.

In addition, if you go to the slope to look for it, you can pick tender pumpkins to eat.And the wax gourd is also growing vigorously, and over time, it can grow into a giant weighing dozens of catties.

The husband and wife worked together in a division of labor. Duomei went back to the house to cook, while Gao Mingcheng stayed in the vegetable field to work. While weeding, he observed the growth of the vegetables to see if they were short of water or fertilizer.

Then we strolled all the way to the watermelon patch.

Watermelons cannot be grown continuously, so they have to change a piece of land every year. Fortunately, the watermelons they grow are mainly for their own food, so they only plant one mu of land at a time. The land was allocated for growing pears and melons.

Pear melon is what they call it here, and cantaloupe is also called cantaloupe in other places.

The taste of this melon is also very good, but you can’t eat too much, or you will have diarrhea if you eat too much, so most people don’t grow much, and they often grow it together with watermelon.

In the melon field, not only small watermelons grew, but small pear melons also grew. Under the broad green leaves, small fruits grew on the vines.

Here, Gao Mingcheng's eyesight was brought into play. He had to look along the vines. It is best to only leave one or two watermelons on a vine, because if there are too many, the vines will not deliver enough nutrients and the watermelons will not grow big enough. Not sweet enough either.

As the saying goes, if you eat too much, you can't chew it. This kind of melon grows fruit, and it also needs to thin the fruit in order to keep improving.

After Gao Mingcheng thinned all the watermelons on the one-acre field, he went back to the house. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he drank a spoonful of well water first.

The well water in summer is cold and delicious, and it tastes sweet when you drink it.

The raw water in the mountains should not be drunk indiscriminately, but country people usually drink the well water directly, especially in summer, the freshly dug well water is cool and delicious, who can resist drinking a few sips?

Duomei was already cooking, and Gao Mingcheng went to help with the fire, but Duomei's cooking skills are very good, so there is no need to add firewood for the time being.

Seeing that the sweet potato leaves in the pot were almost ripe, Gao Mingcheng went to do other things.

After shaking the honey every time, it is necessary to clean the honey shaker, filter the water, and cover it with a large plastic cloth to prevent dust from entering.

When you use it next time, it will be clean and dry inside.

Now he moved things out of the corner of the warehouse and put them under the eaves for ventilation. After lunch, he went to shake honey in the mountains.

The lunch meal was quite ordinary, including stir-fried green peppers, steamed eggplant, and mashed sweet potato leaves with garlic. Gao Mingcheng shook his head at the first sight. This food was too vegetarian.

Just about to talk about Duoduomei, Duoduomei brought another bowl of steamed eggs over.

This egg is steamed on top of rice. After steaming, it turns golden in color and melts in your mouth. It is a favorite dish among the elderly and children.

There is a key technique for steaming eggs, which is to mix the egg liquid with warm water. If it is cold water, the steamed eggs will not be so tender and refreshing, and there will be many honeycombs.

"I ate a lot of greasy dishes yesterday, so I want to eat something light today." Many Mei said first.

The sky is big, and the pregnant woman is the biggest. Gao Mingcheng naturally shut up silently, and began to eat in big mouthfuls. He ate very fast, and he finished two bowls of rice in a short time.

After putting down the bowls and chopsticks, Gao Mingcheng said: "I went to the mountains to shake the honey. You will wash the honey bottle and filter the water later."

"Understood." Duomei responded, planning to wash the bottles after washing the dishes and chopsticks and tidying up the kitchen.

I don’t know if the plastic bottle I bought is clean or not, so it’s best to wash it yourself and then place it upside down on a wooden board to drain out the moisture inside.This kind of bottle is used to store honey, so you can eat it with confidence.

Gao Mingcheng took the honey shaker and went into the mountain, followed by the two dogs who had eaten a vegetarian meal and followed him step by step.

Countryside people are more casual about raising dogs. Generally speaking, local dogs eat leftovers from home and can only chew some bones during festivals.

Gao Mingcheng raises black tigers and elves. Although he runs a small stove for them from time to time, most of the time they eat leftovers. Especially when Gao Mingcheng is not at home, their food is provided by Zhang Chengyuan, and their food is even worse. .

But they have some skills. When they are lucky, they can also catch rabbits and voles.

All the way into the mountain, we soon came to the place where the beehives were placed.

There are six spleens in a beehive, and there are more than 3000 bees in one spleen. In addition to those who are busy collecting honey outside, there are many bees in the beehive. If you look carefully, you can also distinguish which are worker bees, which are drones, and which are are newly hatched or unhatched bee eggs.

Because the lifespan of worker bees is not long, the queen bee often lays eggs. Through the size and location of the eggs, you can know in advance what kind of bee species are in these eggs.

If you don't want to keep a new queen bee, you can artificially prevent the new queen bee from hatching.

Gao Mingcheng checked the condition of the honeycomb. The color of the honey inside was already darker, so it looked okay.Originally, the honey could be shaken a few days later, but this time he went to Yangcheng, he didn't know how long it would be delayed, so the honey was shaken first to make people feel more at ease.

He brushed off the bees that stayed on the honeycomb with a soft brush that he carried with him, and then took out a long knife to cut off the bee cover lightly. When entering the honey shaker, through continuous rotation, under the action of centrifugal force, the honey will gather at the bottom of the honey shaker.

Gao Mingcheng kept turning the handle of the honey shaker. With his experience, he already knew how long it took to shake the honey in the honeycomb.

He kept shaking honey in the mountains, and the unique fragrance of honey permeated the air, attracting uninvited guests—hornets.

In addition to the wasps, Gao Mingcheng also found a few bumblebees. The bumblebees are chubby and cute. They can work and eat. There are almost no leftovers throughout the year, so no one wants to keep them.

Gao Mingcheng concentrated on shaking the honey, but if a wasp flew in front of him, he would not be soft, and he would drop the stick with his hand, and a wasp would be killed.

There is too much honey in summer. After Gao Mingcheng shakes a few beehives, there is a lot of honey in the honey shaker. He cannot continue to shake honey. He can only choose to go down the mountain and pour the honey from the honey shaker into a In a clean large earthen pot with no water and no oil, and then continue to go into the mountains to shake the honey.

After the honey in the clay pot has settled, the upper layer of honey can be taken for canning. This step is taken care of by many beauties.

After three hours of busy work, Gao Mingcheng shook all the honey. When he took the heavy honey shaker home, he saw that Duomei had already contained a lot of honey.

Glancing at the remaining plastic bottles, he also took out the cans at home. After the cans were eaten, the bottles were cleaned and dried. There are many uses for them, but most of them are used to hold chili powder.

"There's quite a lot of honey here. You can put the rest in cans and bottles. Then give some to my parents. Your second sister's family will also send a catty."

"Yeah." Duo Mei responded with a smile, seeing that he was about to go out again, she asked, "Where are you going?"

"I'll go to the mountains to see how Poria looks." As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Mingcheng's back was no longer visible.

Gao Mingcheng led the two dogs into the mountain again, this time heading straight for Fuling.

The weather has been good in the first half of this year, and the Poria cocos planted a month ago has sprouted, but it still looks small.

Gao Mingcheng inspected the slopes one by one, pulled out some dead poria cocos seedlings, and had to observe whether there were insects and ants in the place where the poria cocos was planted.

Insects and ants are very harmful to Poria cocos, so when planting Poria cocos, you must use anti-insect drugs, but sometimes the drugs are not that effective. Even if you use the drugs, there may still be insects and ants.

But Gao Mingcheng was lucky. He looked all the way, but he didn't find any insects and ants.

He planted a batch last year, and another batch this year, so that the tuckahoe in the mountains can grow sustainably.

It's just that after the well-grown Poria cocos is dug out, the Poria cocos can no longer be planted in that place, and it has to be planted in another place.

The mountains of Niuweiling are endless, and he is not afraid of high mountains and long roads. Even if there are steep peaks, he can still climb them, so this is no problem.

After managing the Fuling Land, the west side is full of clouds and clouds.

The clouds are rolling and the clouds are relaxing, and the sun is shining on the mountains and forests with a layer of gold. Everywhere is a scene, but this scene, in the eyes of the villagers who are used to it, is not worth a few more glances.

Gao Mingcheng was leaving again tomorrow, so he decided to get some delicious food for Hei Hu and Elf.

"Let's go hunting. You are responsible for driving out the prey." Gao Mingcheng took out the throwing knife from his waist and decided that the two dogs were in the light and he was in the dark.

Last touch up in secret.

The two dogs had hunting experience, and after receiving the order, they immediately became excited. The silly dog ​​Elf even circled around, as if wanting to bite his own tail to celebrate.

It's just that it's evening now, not the active time for birds and beasts, such as hares and pheasants, have already returned to a safe shelter to stay, and the bird's nest on the treetops has also ushered in the tired returning birds, waiting for tomorrow morning. Wake up and go hunt for bugs.

However, the sense of smell of the black tiger and the elves is not vegetarian. They searched for a while in the mountains, and then rushed towards a place, and Gao Mingcheng naturally followed closely behind.

But soon, thick bushes blocked the way ahead.

Relying on their agility, the two dogs passed directly through the bottom of the bushes, only to hear a rustling sound.

Gao Mingcheng could only take a detour and followed the two dogs for a while. He heard the sound of a pheasant trying to escape in panic.

But creatures like chickens cannot see at night, so when it gets dark, they return to a safe place to spend the night.

If it is a chicken raised at home, if you plan to kill the chicken to eat tomorrow, it is best to catch the chicken at night and tie it up with a rope, so that the chicken will not run away the next day.

Otherwise, catching chickens during the day would take a lot of effort.

With their excellent sense of smell, the two dogs accurately found a nest of pheasants. In the end, several pheasants ran away, one was bitten to death by each dog, and one was stabbed by Gao Mingcheng with a flying knife.

In addition to the harvest of three chickens, Gao Mingcheng also picked up a nest of wild eggs.

Wuhu has gained a lot!
(End of this chapter)