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Chapter 190 The Wild Beehive

Seeing Liu Lei chattering about Li Jun, Zhang Xiang couldn't help laughing, why now seeing this cousin getting married, he is getting more and more nagging, he used to be a pure foodie, but now he has become a mother-in-law!

"If he's not free, I'll cut off all the honey in Taolinzi today, just because I'm worried that the bees will hurt people!"

Zhang Xiang was a little hesitant. It seemed easy to see Lao Xiao cutting honey that day, but he didn't know if he would be stung by bees if he did it himself!

"Cutting honey? It's okay, you forgot that when we were young, we made wild beehives in the woods of my house, and we ate the honey in the same way!"

Liu Lei smiled and talked about wild beehives, which reminded Zhang Xiang of more than ten years ago, when he and Liu Lei were still in elementary school!

At that time, Liu Lei told him mysteriously that there was a big wild beehive on a muzi tree behind his house, there were a lot of bees in it, and there must be a lot of honey!

At that time, the family was very poor and hungry, and when they heard about the honey, their mouthful of saliva could flow half a foot long. After looking forward to it for several days, they finally waited until Saturday without going to school.

Early that morning, he was about to run to Liu Lei's house, but his younger sister Zhang Yun followed him. At that time, Zhang Yun was only five or six years old, and he was like a little tail all day long, and he couldn't shake it off no matter what.

In order to avoid her telling the truth, he had to bring this little tail with him. Liu Lei called Li Jun, plus him and his sister, a total of four children, secretly carrying a bag of things and ran away without telling the adults!

It was the end of spring and the beginning of summer, when the muzi tree bloomed.Clusters of light green flocculent flowers are hidden among the thick leaves, which are not conspicuous at all. Thousands of bees are buzzing under the flowers.

It was a very tall muzi tree. On a branch three or four meters away, where the leaves covered it, there was indeed a gourd-sized beehive, and bees flew around it from time to time.

Just listen to the buzzing here and the buzzing there. This muzi tree is a kingdom of bees.

"Brother Xiangzi. You can see that there is a huge honeycomb on the tree. I have been observing it for a long time. There must be a lot of honey in it!"

Liu Lei pointed to the honeycombs on the tree, thinking that there would be honey to eat later, he was eager to try, ready to climb the tree!

"Hurry up and get the matches. Let's gather firewood first. Let's use the smoke below. Liu Lei, you come to climb the tree, and I will collect the honeycombs. After a while, I will go to the rice field to share the honey!"

"And Li Jun, watch my sister, you go to the rice field and wait for me, everyone will have a share of the honeycomb!"

Zhang wanted to be older and saw that adults used smoke to cut wild beehives, so they also planned to use this method.But Zhang Yun was young, so he asked Li Jun to watch it for him!

"Brother, I want to follow you and collect beehives together!" Zhang Yun heard that Zhang Xiang was responsible for collecting beehives, but she wanted to follow others, of course she was not happy!

"Hey, if you follow brother Li Jun, you will have candy for a while. If you follow me, you will be bitten by a big tiger! If you don't listen to brother, you won't be able to eat candy!"

Zhang Yun is still young, and she doesn't quite know that honey can sting people, so Zhang wanted to imitate his mother and scare her with a big tiger on the mountain. No one has ever seen it!

In my memory, Zhang Yun was very timid, and when she was intimidated by herself, she didn't say a word, and asked Li Jun to lead her to follow behind her brother, and also helped pick up branches.

The children worked for a long time before lighting up the fire under the muzi tree. As the smoke rose, the number of bees around the muzi tree gradually decreased, and the buzzing sound was no longer heard!

"Brother Zhang Xiang, do you think this is a good thing? You get one too, I think adults come here like this!"

Liu Lei took out a broken cigarette case from his bosom showing off, and took out a cigarette from it, the kind with a mouth.He lit a cigarette on the fire, and winked at Zhang Xiang to make faces!

Zhang wanted to take a cigarette. He had also seen adults holding a cigarette in their mouth when picking honey, probably to prevent being stung by bees!

"Li Jun, take my sister to the rice field, or you won't be able to run away if the bees come after you!"

Zhang Xiang has not forgotten Zhang Yun at this time, if she is stung by a bee, his mother will reward him with a meal of roast meat on a bamboo board!When he was talking, Liu Lei was already climbing up the Muzi tree like a monkey!

The boys in the countryside are very skinny, and almost all of them can climb trees and dig out bird nests. These muzi trees a few meters high are really not difficult for Liu Lei!

"Brother Xiangzi, pass me the stick!"

Liu Lei yelled from a fork of the tree that the honeycomb was more than one meter away from him. Besides, he didn't dare to touch it with his hands directly. It's better to use a wooden stick to be sure!

Holding the wooden stick that Zhang wanted to hand over, he tried a few times, because there was smoke below, so there were not many bees in the hive, only a few occasionally crawling on the hive!

Zhang Xiang also lit a cigarette and held it in his mouth. He nervously watched Liu Lei's movements on the tree, holding a nylon rice bag in one hand and a wooden stick in the other!

With a "snap", the gourd-sized honeycomb fell down and rolled down not far from the fire!A few more honey flew out of the honeycomb, but not many!

With a cigarette in his mouth, Zhang wanted to put the wild honeycomb into the rice bag he brought with him as quickly as possible, then pinched the mouth of the rice bag and ran wildly, aiming at the rice field!

Those wild bee swarms were smoked far away, but as soon as Zhang Xiang ran away, the smell of honey wafted out, and a group of honeys chased after him vigorously, and the aura frightened everyone to death!

Although Zhang Xiang ran fast and seized the opportunity again, the bee was chasing closely and refused to let go. He was so anxious that he panicked for a moment and didn't know what to do!

I don’t want to throw it away. If I don’t throw it away, the bee will sting me if it catches up with me. What should I do? I only heard Liu Lei shouting, “Pianzi, throw it to me!”

At this time, Zhang Xiangjue thought the cousin was interesting enough, so he threw it to him as fast as he could, and saw him running into a pond with the honeycomb in his arms, and then heard a "plop", and he jumped into the water up!

When Zhang wanted to run to the pond, he couldn't see anything. He only heard the sound of water splashes and a swarm of bees buzzing on the water.

"Liu Lei. You're fine!"

Zhang Xiang was a little anxious, Liu Lei's water skills were good, but he didn't know if he was diving or something happened, but there was no response!

After a minute or two, the number of bees gradually decreased before seeing Liu Lei sticking his head out of the water, exhaling heavily, smiling at Zhang Xiang, seeing if there were any bees scattered on the water, and sneaking in again in fright. in the water.

After going through this for several times, the bees could no longer be seen on the surface of the water, so Liu Lei dragged the bag of rice, naked and ran ashore, shouting to Zhang Xiang happily;

"Brother Xiangzi, go to the rice field!"

As a result, the rice bag in his hand was heavy, and the water in it had a slight sweet smell. I don't know how much honey is still in the honeycomb after such a toss?

On the way, Liu Lei wrung out his clothes, and the two trotted to the rice field. Zhang Yun and Li Jun were looking at them eagerly, especially Zhang Yun, who would rush to look at the honeycomb in his hand when his brother came running!

Zhang Xiang didn't care too much, and handed the bag to Zhang Yun. Anyway, I'm going to give her some honey in a while, and let her take a look. Who knows that Zhang Yun just got the rice bag, and before he opened it, he said "wow" Crying loudly, Zhang Xiang was startled.

"What's the matter, what's the matter?" Now Liu Lei and Li Jun were also frightened, and hurriedly looked at it!

"My hand hurts, it hurts so much!"

Zhang wanted to pull Zhang Yun's hand, and was speechless for a while. At some point, a bee crawled on the outside of the rice bag. Just when Zhang Yun opened it to look, it stung her hard, and then it fell to the ground!

"We took it for a long time and it's all right? Why did you get stung? It's really troublesome. Who told you to have too many hands and feet?"

Liu Lei was a little annoyed, Zhang Yun was originally a child, and the bee stings his hands so painful, when he said this, the tears fell like beads that fell off the thread!

She was crying loudly, and she wanted to go back to find her mother while crying. Anxious Zhang thought it was just stomping her feet. If they go back and tell the adults, everyone will inevitably be beaten up!

"Okay, okay, don't cry, brother, I'll blow it up for you, I'll get you some honey, it's so sweet!"

Zhang Xiang glared at Liu Lei, coaxed his sister carefully, and broke off a small piece of honeycomb wax in the rice bag, pointed to the golden honey flowing inside, and let Zhang Yun look at it!

"Liu Lei, come and share the honey, everyone has a share!"

The honeycomb had been soaked in water, and there was not much honey in it except for the ones that were hidden a little deeper, but the enthusiasm of the few people made them very happy. Liu Lei carefully divided the honeycomb into four parts.

When the honey in the honeycomb was broken apart, Liu Lei's hand flowed, he couldn't bear to throw it away and licked it with his hand, it was so sweet to his heart, seeing Zhang Yun still whimpering and crying, he stretched out his hand in front of her, Said generously:

"What a crying ghost, I scolded you just now, now I'll add some honey to you, it's so sweet!"

Children would never think that they were dirty, Zhang Yun really licked Liu Lei's hand, and all of them laughed at once, Liu Lei wanted to laugh because his palms were itchy!

Zhang Yun was smiling happily while eating the sweet honey, while Zhang Xiang and Li Jun were laughing because Zhang Yun cried and laughed at other times, thinking that children are really ridiculous, but he didn't think that he was not much older!

But then several people couldn't laugh anymore, that Zhang Yun was a child after all, and after a while, his hands hurt again, and he cried and wanted to go home. Zhang Yun was in a hurry, and he took out all the honey that he didn't eat at the end up!

After Li Jun ran home, fetched cooling oil, and rubbed it on Zhang Yun, he realized that everyone had worked hard for a long time, and Zhang Yun had eaten more than half of the honeycombs they got.

Poor Zhang thought it was the last time Li Jun and Liu Lei shared a small sip for him to taste! (to be continued..)

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