Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 386 Vampire Leeches
The morning breeze in early September blew from the mountains. Gao Mingcheng, who was driving on the national highway, was blown back by the wind.

The tractor made a driving sound and took Gao Mingcheng towards Gaojiacun.

Due to time constraints, Gao Mingcheng only harvested two boxes of honey before, so now he has to go back to the village and harvest all the honey from the remaining beehives.

After this harvest, there will be fewer nectar plants in the mountains, and the speed of honey production will also slow down. During the honey flow period, the honey can be shaken once in about 20 days at the fastest, or once a month if it is slower.

But in winter, if the situation is good, you have to feed the bees once every two months. If the situation is bad, you have to feed the bees sugar water so that they can survive the winter.

However, it is generally necessary to feed white sugar water in the north, or when beekeepers remove all the honey from the hives and leave no food for honey.

In a terrain environment like Gaojia Village, even in autumn and winter, various flowers bloom in the mountains, which is enough to support the natural nectar collection of bees.

Furthermore, at this time, Gao Mingcheng will not take away all the honey from the beehive.

When the tractor passed through Xing'anling, he stopped at Gao Shouwang's clothing workshop.

He found Gao Shouwang and told him that when he returned to the county in three days, he would take away a batch of autumn clothes.

Although the weather is still a bit hot, those who open clothing stores need to put out their autumn clothes in advance.

Gao Shouwang said: "Don't worry, we will be the first to prepare the goods you want, and there will never be any mistakes! The clothes have been packed. Just load them into the car when you leave."

After Gao Shouwang finished speaking, he pointed to the location of the warehouse. There were indeed some goods piled there, all of which were made from the best materials and workmanship.

In the workshop, production of winter clothes has already begun.

Dong Feixia's growth has progressed rapidly. She was able to cut clothes independently. Now after getting so many magazines and the latest models, she is like a seedling that has received nutrition and thrived.

Not only does she copy the latest clothes, she also designs her own clothes so that different fabrics can appear more harmonious.

Gao Mingcheng was naturally at ease with them. The two parties had cooperated for a long time and there had never been any problems.

After staying here for a while and chatting with Gao Shouwang, Gao Mingcheng said goodbye and left. There were still a lot of things waiting for him to do at home.

In addition to shaking honey, there are also rice and vegetables in the fields that need to be managed.

When passing by the old village, he stopped the car again and decided to ask Gao Zhuang how many medicinal materials had been collected. He also went to the fields to take a look. The fields were all close to the old village.

It happened that Gao Zhuang was pulling weeds in the field, and he also brought a bucket, which was intended to contain eels, loaches and snails.

They have two kinds of screws here, one is the snail, which is relatively large, but most of them are lone rangers.

There is also a kind of stone snail, which grows on the stone walls of some small ditches. They are densely packed and grow together in large groups. It is not called picking up screws, but it is clearly digging for screws. There are a lot of them!

"Gao Zhuang." Gao Mingcheng stood on the ridge of the field and shouted loudly.

Gao Zhuang was pulling out a piece of grass. After hearing the shout, he straightened up and looked at Gao Mingcheng.

Before he spoke, a smile broke out on his face.

But Gao Mingcheng spoke again: "There's a leech on your calf!"

Gao Zhuang looked down and saw a leech on his calf. The leech was tightly attached to his foot and must have sucked blood.

Gao Zhuang cursed in a low voice and stretched out his hand to pluck out the leech.

If it can be pulled out, then pull it out. If it cannot be pulled out, it means that the leech has sucked it very deeply. You cannot forcefully pull it out at this time, otherwise the leech's mouthparts will remain in the wound.

But people are wise. At this time, you only need to sprinkle a little salt on the leech, and the leech will take the initiative to let go and escape from the place with salt.

This is because they have no skin, their tissues are very hydrated, and salt has a dehydrating effect.However, this leech may have just started sucking blood and was pulled out by Gao Zhuang.

The tall and strong fingers quickly kneaded the leech into a meat ball!
But even so, the leeches are still alive unless they are completely dried, and if they are dried, they are not annoying blood-sucking leeches but a kind of Chinese medicinal material.

Chinese medicine is so magical. Rabbit droppings can be used as medicine, called Wangyue Sand. Bat droppings can also be used as medicine, called Yeming Sand. Even chicken droppings can be used as medicine, called Jiyabai, and the white parts of chicken droppings are used.

Naturally, this leech can also be used as medicine. It has the effects of breaking blood, dredging menstruation, removing blood stasis and eliminating diseases.It is mainly used for blood stasis, amenorrhea, addiction, hemiplegia due to stroke, and injuries caused by falls.

Gao Mingcheng remembers a program about farmers getting rich. One episode focused on someone getting rich by raising leeches.

In addition to leeches, there are also animals such as centipedes, scorpions, and snakes that are raised. The more exotic and scary the better, so as to break people's inherent impression and create a contrast.

Later, relevant departments teamed up with some breeding companies and went to the countryside to promote the business, saying that they would cover the church and the acquisition. This caused a wave of craze, but in the end, there were only a handful of people who could persevere and make money.

But what's even more frightening is that some people's breeding farms are not standardized enough, causing the animals in the breeding farms to escape. Those centipedes, scorpions and snakes are all poisonous. Once they escape, they will inevitably cause fear among the local villagers.

Later, fewer and fewer people farmed these things.

His thoughts wandered away. Gao Mingcheng watched Gao Zhuang rubbing the leech to vent his anger, so he said, "Dry it in the sun. This thing can also be used as medicine after drying."

"Medicine?" Gao Zhuang was stunned, then lowered his head to look at the little meat ball in his hand.

Leeches are not big, they are not heavy when alive, and they are even lighter when dried.

At first, Gao Zhuang felt that there was nothing to do, but then he thought that if you add up a little, you can still do it. Brother Mingcheng reminded him, so he has to do it!
So he took out a plastic bag from his trouser pocket and put the leech that he had half killed into it.

"Gao Zhuang, how many medicinal materials have you received recently? You must check the quality of the medicinal materials." Gao Mingcheng said.

Gao Zhuang immediately said: "I have received some. Brother Mingcheng, don't worry, I will definitely lock them up!"

Gao Zhuang was very concerned about this matter. In addition, when Gao Mingcheng first collected medicinal materials to sell, he was still living in Gao Zhuang's house.

Therefore, Gao Zhuang has followed Gao Mingcheng all the way here and knows what kind of medicinal materials are of good quality.

"Okay, I'm just asking. You go ahead and I'll go take a look at my field." Gao Mingcheng said as he walked towards his field.

In the rice fields, the seedlings planted in late July have grown very tall, and the green seedlings are swaying in the wind.

This is a hybrid rice seed. The rice plants are shorter than the old varieties and are less likely to be blown down by the wind.

If it is an old variety, when the rice ears mature, once it encounters wind and rain, it will easily cause a large amount of production loss.

In the fields, because no one was taking care of them, in addition to the rice growing well, the weeds grew even more vigorously.

However, it can be seen that there are still traces of being pulled out.

Gao Mingcheng took off his plastic sandals and walked down. When he stepped on the rice field, his feet sank slightly.

He bent down to pull up grass, and quickly finished pulling out an acre of grass. He also picked up a few large field snails by the way.

Before leaving, he threw the big snail into the bucket that Gao Zhuang placed on the ridge of the field, and then prepared to leave.

Gao Zhuang said: "Brother Mingcheng, come to my house for dinner at noon!"

"Okay, I'll go back and clean up first, and then go there at noon." Gao Mingcheng agreed and walked out along the field ridge.

(End of this chapter)