Rebirth in 1984, starting from beekeeping in the mountains

Chapter 60 The next target! Shanmuling Village!
After lunch.

Fang Hongan took a short rest.

Around two o'clock, Fang Hongan washed his face and was about to go out to the small ditch again.

There were cheerful footsteps outside the door.

Fang Hongan had heard this sound of footsteps so many times that he knew who was coming without even looking.

As expected, a moment later, Wang Tong's voice came from outside the door: "Brother! I'm here!"

When Wang Tong walked in, Fang Hongan realized that he was sweating all over, with his hair, clothes, and even his pants all wet.

If it weren't for the beads of sweat still dripping down his forehead, Fang Hongan would have thought that he had fallen into the water and had just climbed out.

"Hu! Hu! Hu!"

Wang Tong gasped for air and wiped the sweat off his forehead with his hand. He looked into the house again and found that Lan Wenxiu was not at home, so he simply took off his shirt, scooped a full bucket of water, lowered his head and prepared to pour it on himself.

"I'm blind!"

"Aren't you afraid of getting sick?"

Fang Hongan snatched the ladle from his hand, pointed at the ventilation area at the back door, and rolled his eyes unhappily: "Go sit there and get some fresh air first. When you stop sweating, fetch some water and take a shower!"

As he spoke, Fang Hongan found another towel and threw it to him.

Wang Tong was scolded and grinned awkwardly. He took the towel and found it was a new one. It should have been bought yesterday. How could he bear to throw it away? He quickly shook his head and said, "Brother! I don't need it! I'm in good health, it doesn't matter if I just wash it!"

"Bullshit!" Fang Hongan curled his lips in disdain, his expression becoming serious, "When you are healthy, work hard on important things, and when you are free, take good care of your body!"

"Yeah! Yeah!" Wang Tong saw Fang Hongan's serious face and quickly nodded with a grin, "Okay! Brother, I remember! I will never do this again!"

As he spoke, he remembered what Fang Hongan had said, and quickly said, "Brother! I did as you said and went to the mountain near our village to scout out the area this morning!"

"I see it!"

On the way back yesterday, Fang Hongan explained the follow-up plans to Wang Tong.

In addition to collecting bees, setting up beehives and raising bees, the previous practice of digging wild honey must also continue.

However, digging near their Shiwan Village may not be very efficient.

After thinking about it, Fang Hongan thought of Wang Tong’s Shanmuling Village.

Shanmuling Village and Shiwan Village are adjacent to each other, both backed by mountains, not to mention the vegetation and climate, which are almost the same.

If there are wild bee colonies in Shiwan Village, then there must be some in Shanmuling Village as well.

Therefore, Fang Hongan asked Wang Tong to go check out the place when he was free.

When Wang Tong came, Fang Hongan expected that he could not sit still this morning and went to check out the place. He should have gained something after checking out the place, and came back to tell him without stopping.

So, this is how it looked like before.

"How about it?"

Fang Hongan found a palm-leaf fan and threw it to Wang Tong, then went back into the fire room.

"Yes, there are some! There are some!" Wang Tong sat in the shade of the back door, leaning forward with an excited look on his face. "This morning, I ran all over the hills to the south and east of our village. I followed the method you taught me, and I really saw a lot of bees! There must be some!"

"That's fine! We'll go to your village to dig tomorrow!"

In the fire room, Fang Hongan was not at all surprised by Wang Tong's answer.

His hands moved without stopping. In a few seconds, he had lit the fire again and started boiling water to prepare for the next step.

Fang Hongan specially made some extra noodles for lunch, intending to eat them in the evening.

But seeing the look on Hei Zai's face, and considering his character, I guess he must have just eaten two buckwheat dumplings to get by at noon.

This idiot ran all over the mountains near both ends of the village in the whole morning. He basically treated himself like an ox. Fang Hongan would feel bad if he didn't reward him.

Under the boiling water, Fang Hongan took out the eel slices that he had fried at noon.

I heated up another pot, added oil, ginger slices, garlic, and simmered the eel slices...

After a while, the fragrance wafted out of the fire room again.

This is Wang Tong.

Hearing Fang Hongan in the fire room say that he would go to the mountain in their village to dig honey tomorrow, he was so excited that he picked up a palm leaf fan and fanned himself wildly, and he didn't feel hot anymore. He sat on the bench, hooked his fingers, and muttered to himself.

"Let's go to Goubei Ridge first. It's similar to Mashi Ridge. There must be a lot of people there..."

"After digging at Goubei Ridge, we will go to Wunipo, where there are also Chinese tallow trees..."

"And then……"

……

He followed Fang Hongan's example and sorted out the honey-digging plan near their village in an organized and gradual manner.

The serious and absorbed look on his face was completely different from his previous silly grin.

After sorting it out for a while, Wang Tong suddenly realized something was wrong.

I seemed to smell an extremely tempting fragrance in my nose.

Suck-suck-

Wang Tong took two deep sniffs and confirmed that the fragrance was coming from the fire room on the side.

Gudong!

He swallowed, stood up and walked towards the fire room.

As soon as I walked into the kitchen, Fang Hongan came out with a bowl of noodles.

Looking at the steaming and fragrant noodles, Wang Tong's eyes widened: "Brother! What kind of noodles are you making?"

"Here! Eat it!" Fang Hongan pushed the bowl of noodles into his hands, "There's more in the pot after you finish it!"

"Go get it yourself!"

"This..." Wang Tong wanted to say something, but he couldn't resist the temptation of the bowl of eel noodles in front of him, so he took the chopsticks and took a slurp.

"Brother! You made this! It's so delicious!"

"Chuck!"

"Eel! This is an eel! Eels can do this!"

"Chuck!"

"It's so fragrant!"

"Chiliu——"

Amidst waves of excited and intoxicated exclamations, Comrade Wang Tong quickly completed the glorious feat of eating two bowls of noodles in a row within ten minutes.

Reluctantly putting down the bowl and stirring the last few pieces of eel in his mouth, Wang Tong walked towards Fang Hongan with excitement on his face and shining eyes.

Seeing his behavior, Fang Hongan knew what he wanted to say. He raised his hand and said directly: "Rest first! After resting, I will take you to dig!"

"it is good"

Wang Tong grinned and laughed as happily as a child.

……

About an hour and a half later.

Fang Hongan carried a bamboo basket and led Wang Tong to the small ditch where they had dug eels before!

When it comes to digging eels, Wang Tong can be considered an expert.

As soon as he saw the situation in the ditch, White Fang grinned immediately.

The two men swept the ditch, and by the time the sun was setting in the sky, the bamboo basket was almost half full of eels.

All together, it weighs at least ten kilograms.

After an inspection, I saw that this area had basically been dug out.

Fang Hongan stopped Wang Tong, handed him the bamboo basket containing the eels, and asked him to go back to the earthen house first.

He carried his bamboo basket containing bee hat, sleeves and beehive bags on his back and turned to climb up the Mashi Ridge.

(End of this chapter)