Rebirth in 1984, starting from beekeeping in the mountains

Chapter 97: Go to Lanxi and touch the river clams!
"Hongan! You know the job of an electrician!"

The circuit is connected and it is confirmed that there is no abnormality!
Lan Jianjun trotted over, his face showing obvious excitement, and the way he addressed people also became more friendly.

"It's actually in the book when I was studying!"

Fang Hongan made up an excuse: "Besides... we have heard rumors that electricity will be available soon! I have read some books on this subject recently to learn more about it in advance, so that I won't be unable to use it when the time comes!"

"Is that so? Hongan, you are really studious!"

After hearing what Fang Hongan said, everyone was not suspicious.

But he was surprised by Fang Hongan's performance.

After everyone returned to the main room, Fang Hongan took the opportunity to educate them on the precautions when using electrical appliances.

Nowadays, since people don’t know much about electricity, there is also a lack of unified popular science education.

In rural areas, electrical accidents are common.

Circuit damage, short circuit and the like are minor issues.

Serious fires, such as fires caused by electric shock or circuit fires...

That is also a common occurrence.

Many tragedies sound sad.

Necessary popular science education means enhancing safety awareness.

As for the popular science precautions that Fang Hongan mentioned, they are actually very popular in later generations and are basically knowledge points that many first-grade primary school students will understand.

But now, it is enough to make everyone present open their eyes and listen attentively.

By the time Fang Hongan finished speaking, his mother-in-law Luo Dongqing had already made a bowl of noodles and brought it to Fang Hongan.

There were also quite a few dishes that were reheated.

Fang Hongan slept past mealtime. Apart from drinking and eating some vegetables at noon, he didn't have any staple food, so he was feeling a little hungry.

Eating porridge and noodles to sober up is a tradition in the Xiaonan area.

After finishing a bowl of hot noodle soup, Fang Hongan was sweating profusely, but he also felt a lot more relaxed.

"Hongan!"

Outside the house, seeing Fang Hongan coming out after finishing his meal, Lan Jianjun approached him and said, "How is it? Are you sober now?"

After what happened today, he had completely given up the idea of ​​intimidating Fang Hongan.

Especially the toast thing.

He has an average alcohol tolerance.

Provoked by some bad guys in the village, several tables drank too much.

As a result, when we were halfway through the toast, he was already drunk.

I heard from my wife that I have some difficulty speaking.

If Fang Hongan hadn’t stepped forward to help him hold on.

He should be embarrassed after seeing what happened today.

And according to his wife, Fang Hongan's performance throughout the whole game was quite impressive.

When she followed behind me and didn't steal his limelight, she was really trying to set him off.

Although Lan Jianjun has a hot temper, he still has to break up.

Besides, before this, Fang Hongan had already taken the initiative to show his attitude.

He accepted all these favors, so as a brother-in-law, it was only right for him to show some attitude.

"Ok!"

Feeling the blunt but direct attitude of this brother-in-law, Fang Hongan nodded and smiled: "I feel much better!"

"You look sweaty...why don't we go take a bath in the river?"

Lan Jianjun suddenly suggested, "Our Lanxi River has clear and cool water. It would be really comfortable to go there for a bath on a day like this!"

"Bathing in the river?"

While Fang Hongan was pondering, a surprised voice came over immediately: "Okay! Let's go together! When I just came back, I heard Xiaogang from the family at the archway say that they found river clams at the corner of the pond yesterday. Why don't we go over there and take a look!"

Immediately, the figure who was speaking walked to Fang Hongan with a smile, with expectation in his eyes.

It was Lan Jianhui who had just returned after sending someone off.

"it is good!"

On a hot summer night, taking a bath in a pond or river is a unique enjoyment of this season.

There is only one small river in Shiwan Village. Although the water quality is good, when summer comes, many people go to the part of the river that is most suitable for bathing.

When it comes to taking a bath, Fang Hongan still doesn't like crowds of people, so he seldom joins in the fun.

Although Lanxi Village is large, as far as Fang Hongan knows, the Lanxi River that passes by the village has abundant water, clear water, and a clean riverbed. There are many places suitable for swimming and bathing. Generally, when Lan Jianhui and his friends go swimming, they usually choose places that are not crowded.

What's more, you can also touch the river clams.

The Lanxi River in Lanxi Village is famous for its good water. The river seafood produced here, including ordinary small fish and shrimps, is of much better quality than those in ordinary ponds.

Fang Hongan also tasted the clams in this river when he first visited the store.

After washing it clean, use the clam meat to make a braised soup, which tastes very delicious.

Hearing Fang Hongan agree.

Lan Jianhui excitedly got his things and went to prepare.

Lan Guihai and Yang Huaping, who were originally not very interested, suddenly became interested when they heard that Fang Hongan was going.

that's it.

Including Lan Jianjun who proposed the idea at the beginning, the group now consisted of five people. Each of them took some spare clothes and towels, and carried a few bamboo baskets, and walked towards the direction of Tangjiaokou that Lan Jianhui mentioned.

Lanxi Village is named after the Lanxi River. The whole village is built along the Lanxi River. At first glance, the Lanxi River looks like a jade belt, winding around the village and connecting the entire village together.

It didn't take long before we arrived at the Lanxi River.

Just as Fang Hongan thought, there were quite a few people bathing and swimming in the river at night, but they were also very scattered.

According to Lan Jianjun, in this river, for a long time, different families and people have bathed in different areas, and this has basically formed a fixed habit.

Of course, this is just a tacit understanding of habit.

If you want, you can go to places that other people often go.

What’s even more interesting is that there is a section of the Lanxi River where only women can go for bathing and swimming.

Only women can cross this section of the river.

If a man with dirty thoughts wants to get closer, he will be thrown pebbles and beaten back.

At both ends of this section of the river reserved for women, there are people guarding it during the peak bathing hours.

The Tangjiaokou we are going to this time is actually the river section upstream of the village.

It takes about fifteen minutes to walk there.

Above Tangjiaokou is a turbulent river section with a large drop in height. When the rapids rush down, they wash out a bay in the flat area here.

As the terrain gradually became flat, silt began to settle, making the water surface in this area wide and the water depth very uniform. It looked like a large pond, so it was called Tangjiaokou.

This section of river is also the area where river clams like to live.

Along the way, Lan Jianjun was also enthusiastically telling stories about how they touched river clams and caught river fish.

He said that about ten years ago, he touched a super-large river clam near the corner of the pond.

The length of the clam shell is about the same as the diameter of the millstone.

It weighs almost ten kilograms.

At Lan Jianjun's age, it is very common for him to like to artistically exaggerate some of his experiences.

As for some of the words, Fang Hongan wasn't sure whether they were true or not.

But Fang Hongan had actually seen a clam shell that was almost as big as the diameter of a millstone.

It is hung in the main hall of this large tiled house as a record of “outstanding military achievement”.

Lan Jianjun's words immediately aroused Lan Guihai and Yang Huajun's desire to tell a story.

They immediately started talking about the glorious battles they had achieved in this river.

Lan Guihai was talking about fishing in it, and he once caught a ten-jin carp.

The carp roe in the belly alone weighed more than two kilograms. We cooked a whole pot of soup, and ate it in a basin during meals. The family couldn't finish it in two days.

Although Yang Huajun lives in the next village, he is actually facing the same river.

It’s just that it’s upstream of Lanxi Village, and the water conditions in Lanxi Village are so good.

Yang Huajun said that there is an abundance of a small river fish called Chengdian fish in their area. It has few bones and fresh meat, but it is only found in streams with fast-flowing water. It is difficult to catch it by throwing a hook. If you want to catch it, you can only dive into the river and grab it with your hands in the cracks of the rocks.

And he had mastered the skill of catching this kind of fish.

The most that one person caught at one time was more than ten kilograms.

In their village, no one has broken this record so far.

The three of them became more and more excited as they talked.

Yang Huajun glanced at Fang Hongan and saw that he hadn't said anything but was just listening with a smile, so he asked a question.

As soon as he asked this question, he felt a little regretful.

They were more or less aware of the situation in Shiwan Village.

It’s not like here at the foot of the mountain, where there are many big rivers and streams.

Isn't this just deliberately looking for other people's shortcomings to ask about them?

At that moment, he quickly tried to make amends and said, "I'm not just talking about the ones in the river, I can also say the ones in the mountains. I heard that there are a lot of wild animals in your mountains."

When he asked this, Lan Jianjun and Lan Guihai on the side immediately pricked up their ears.

They also inquired about the reason why Fang Hongan became rich.

Although Lan Zhenshan did not say it explicitly, he tacitly agreed that it was similar to what they guessed.

It is the harvest from hunting wild animals in the mountains.

At this moment, Yang Huajun asked the question subconsciously.

But it was a lucky coincidence as they happened to ask about the place they had always wanted to find out.

"What did you get from hunting in the mountains?"

Fang Hongan saw that the eyes of these people were focused on him. Of course, he knew what they were paying attention to. He also remembered that at the birthday party at noon, they had been eager to see him go up the mountain to hunt in the wild. He smiled and said simply:

"Are you free tomorrow? If so... why don't we go up to that mountain together to take a look!" Fang Hongan pointed to the mountain on the opposite bank.

This time I came here.

Knowing that Lan Wenxiu wanted to stay longer at her parents' home, Fang Hongan took the initiative to suggest staying for two more days.

However, in addition to satisfying his wife, Fang Hongan also had his own considerations when making this proposal.

In Lanxi Village, although there are not as many mountains and forests as in Shiwan Village, there is more arable land.

There are no fewer nectar-producing plants such as Chinese tallow tree, rapeseed, sweet clover, vitex, and acacia than those in Shiwan Village.

Judging from the distribution characteristics of wild bees, there is probably a lot of wild honey to be dug here.

Anyway, as a son-in-law, he stayed at his father-in-law's house for two days. Apart from visiting relatives in the village, there was probably nothing much to do.

When Fang Hongan came, he had already decided to go to the nearby mountains to take a look at the situation.

So, when we set out, we also brought things like bee hat nets and bee attractant water with us.

This evening, my second brother-in-law Yang Huajun brought up this matter, so I decided to take them up there to have a look tomorrow.

Firstly, it will provide more helpers when digging bees.

Secondly, if conditions here permit, Fang Hongan also wants to expand his beekeeping business here.

After all, my father-in-law’s family is also my family.

Fang Hongan had no intention of hiding the matter of digging honey and raising bees from them.

There is even an intention to get people like Lan Guihai and Yang Huajun to join in.

It has really boosted the bee breeding industry in Dongling, which will be extremely beneficial for us to continue to expand into the downstream industries of bee breeding in the future.

Just as Fang Hongan had thought before, the practice of simply raising bees and selling honey would only have the next few years as a bonus period.

With the experience of his previous life, Fang Hongan knew very well that in this era of change, the material needs of the entire society would grow explosively in the next ten, twenty, or even thirty years.

With his ability alone, even if he hired more than a hundred people and raised thousands of beehives, it would be just a drop in the ocean compared to the huge market demand.

As for beekeeping, it does involve some technical skills.

But in the final analysis, if someone is determined to learn, you can't prevent it no matter how hard you try.

It would be better to make full use of the window bonus in the early stage and quickly gain the leading advantage.

Then he used his influence to spread the beekeeping industry in Dongling and even the entire Tianmang Mountain, forming a cluster effect.

In this way, we can promote Tianmang Mountain's high mountain honey more efficiently and create a brand effect.

As for Fang Hongan, they can also rely on this mountain and build a complete industry based on bee breeding.

When that time comes, it will be as simple as selling honey, beeswax and royal jelly.

In the upstream, we can sell bee colonies and provide breeding teaching services through bee breeding...

Downstream, we can expand deep-processed products such as honey and beeswax.

For the basic ones, you can eat foods like honey cakes and sesame and walnut balls.

When the time is right, we can expand...

In short, since I have lived this life again.

With the advantage of foresight, although Fang Hongan likes to stay in this mountain area, he does not want to limit his vision to just these mountains.

The suffering and poverty of the people in the mountains.

You will only know if you experience it.

Let’s not talk about their Shiwan Village.

Take Lanxi Village for example. In this era dominated by agriculture, they can probably be considered a wealthy village that is envied by many places.

But with the advancement of industrialization, villages like this will begin to decline within ten years.

When the new century begins, most of the young and middle-aged labor force in the village will leave their hometown and flock to Guangdong Province in the south.

Eventually, it will become a poor mountain village with only the elderly and children left behind.

In this life, taking advantage of the advantages of being reborn, he might be able to live a leisurely and comfortable life in the mountains.

But the reality that must be considered is that his first child will be born in a few months.

He could stay in these mountains all his life, but as a father, he still hopes that his children can get out of these mountains and see the wider world outside.

Based on the above, when Fang Hongan asked Lan Wenxiu to explain, he asked her to tell her father-in-law and mother-in-law directly about her way of making money.

As for the elder brother-in-law, younger brother-in-law, and the two brothers-in-law, Lan Guihai and Yang Huajun, they were not planning to hide it.

On the contrary, my father-in-law and mother-in-law were too cautious. After listening to Lan Wenxiu's advice not to tell outsiders casually, they also included these things.

Now that they asked, Fang Hongan simply laid out his plan.

And the other side.

After hearing Fang Hongan's words, Lan Jianjun and the others all paused in their steps.

All eyes were focused on Fang Hongan.

"The mountain across the way?"

Lan Jianhui pointed awkwardly and couldn't help but said, "Brother-in-law! There doesn't seem to be much wild stuff on our mountain?"

"Yeah!"

Lan Guihai responded.

"Or, let's go to Lujiao Mountain. I heard you can set traps and catch muntjacs there!"

Lan Jianjun even made direct suggestions.

In their opinion, Fang Hongan went to the mountain to hunt wild animals.

The mountain opposite is the kind of mountain with a lot of miscellaneous trees, thorny mosses and thatch grass.

According to their experience, it seems difficult to hunt any prey when hunting in the wild here.

"Let's go check here first! I'm looking for wild goods, which are usually easier to find in mountains like this!"

Seeing the confusion among the crowd, Fang Hongan smiled and didn't explain further.

"Is that so?"

But seeing that Fang Hongan didn't mean to say it clearly, he thought that he would know it naturally tomorrow, so he didn't ask any more questions.

The group continued to move forward, and soon they arrived at the Tangjiaokou mentioned by Lan Jianhui.

Late in the night, several people quickly took off their clothes and outer pants, and one person, wearing only a pair of shorts, jumped into the river.

Although it was almost June, the nights in the mountains were not hot and muggy.

After getting into the water, Fang Hongan felt a chill in the water and couldn't help but shiver.

After swimming for a while, I finally got used to it.

"Brother-in-law! The water here at the corner of the pond is not deep. The deepest part is over there... It's probably only about one person tall!"

"There are more rocks over there, so if you want to dive in, you have to be careful."

"If you want to touch the clams, let's go over there..."

Seeing that Fang Hongan had adapted, Lan Jianhui also came over, pointed in the direction, and introduced it to Fang Hongan.

"Uh-huh!"

Fang Hongan nodded, then swam to adapt.

They are all men who grew up in the mountains, and they all know basic skills like swimming.

In addition, Fang Hongan has another specialty in swimming, which is diving.

Among a group of people of the same age who grew up near Shiwan Village, Heizi Wang Tong is one of the best swimmers.

But in terms of diving ability, he is inferior to Fang Hongan.

When it comes to jobs like catching river clams, having strong diving skills is a great help.

After swimming for a while, I adapted to the water temperature and warmed up my body.

Fang Hongan swam underwater and came to the area where Lan Jianhui had pointed out there were many clams.

According to Lan Jianhui, the water in this area is quite deep.

The underground riverbed is composed of fine sand and soft mud, which is exactly the favorite habitat for clams.

When Fang Hongan swam over, Lan Jianjun, Lan Guihai and a few others had already arrived at the water area.

Keep diving and then floating up.

Catching clams in a stream is not like diving in the sea to catch abalone, where you have to rely on your eyes to observe after diving.

River clams are usually half-buried in mud and sand, and they like to forage for food at night. Even during the day, it is unlikely to be found by diving down and looking for them with the naked eye.

To find river clams, you just have to step on them with your feet.

Dive down and step on the mud on the riverbed with your feet. Use the feel of your feet to feel whether there are clams.

In a sense, luck plays a big role in whether you can step on a clam in this vast body of water.

However, leaving aside the element of luck, the more you step on and the more places you explore, the higher your chance of finding the right one.

Lan Jianjun and his companions dived down and came up again, that is, they kept stepping on the goods as soon as possible.

Seeing that everyone had quickly gotten into the state, Fang Hongan found a position not too far from them and dived straight in.

The water depth in this area is about two meters.

With a slight dive, Fang Hongan's feet stepped into the mud and sand at the bottom of the stream.

It was indeed muddy and sandy, very fine, and when I stepped on it, my feet sank directly into the ankles.

The feeling from the sole of my foot for the first time was nothing special. There was no foreign object sensation except hardened mud and sand under my feet.

Fang Hongan was not like Lan Jianjun and the others who would rush up immediately after missing the target.

Supported by his excellent diving ability, Fang Hongan easily took the second step.

Fang Hongan actually didn't hold much hope for this kick.

after all.

This is just the beginning!

But then, the touch coming from under his feet made Fang Hongan happy.

This round and hard feeling when stepped on...

Yes...it’s in stock!

(End of this chapter)