"Good heavens! Everyone else is trying to avoid this, and you actually go and poke it down!"

"You're probably trying to tear a hole in the sky!"

Lu Shi never expected that Lu Qiqi would be so unreliable, actually wanting to stir up a hornet's nest. Is that something a normal person would think of?

Absolutely not!

Lu Qiqi didn't expect Madam Lu to react so strongly. She laughed and said, "Aunt, I'm not Sun Wukong, I can't break the sky with my golden cudgel."

"I think you're not far from being a monkey yourself. You're too wild. Those things don't know their place and will sting you all over!" Madam Lu continued to scare Lu Qiqi, hoping she would give up the idea of ​​stirring up a hornet's nest.

Lu Qiqi didn't respond to what Madam Lu said. She knew Madam Lu meant well, but she was really craving the honey.

Lu Qiqi urged, "Don't you want revenge?"

"Yes!" Thursday was the first to speak. He was the one who had been bitten the worst, with four or five big bumps on his head and another on his butt.

Hearing Lu Qiqi's confident words, Li Qingshan asked, "What good idea do you have?"

Lu Qiqi smiled mysteriously and said, "Uncle, just put on a cotton-padded coat and come up the mountain with me."

Li Qingshan covered his stinging face, went inside to find a cotton-padded coat, and then followed Lu Qiqi up the mountain to disturb the beehive.

Seeing that she couldn't stop her, Mrs. Lu kept stamping her feet in the kitchen. Finally, she ate a bowl of noodles on Saturday to relieve her frustration.

Poor Saturday, I was fed two big bowls of noodles, and my belly was so full that I lay on the bed without moving to digest.

Lu Qiqi followed Li Qingshan up the mountain, cutting grass and collecting pine branches along the way.

Li Qingshan didn't rush her, and the group strolled leisurely, as if on a spring outing, until they finally arrived at the place where the bees had attacked.

Li Qingshan picked up the machete he had dropped while fleeing, pointed to a tree in front of him, and said, "That's the tree. The big bundle on the tree is Fengzi."

Following Li Qingshan's directions, Lu Qiqi saw a tree trunk as thick as a plate, with countless bees working around the hive.

In Lu Qiqi's eyes, these were all delicacies. Just thinking about how she could turn them into all sorts of delicious food made her mouth water.

Lu Qiqi immediately asked Zhou Er to bundle the leaves that had been cut down from the mountain earlier into a bundle.

Then, Lu Qiqi stuffed the pine branch into the center of the leaves and lit it with a tinderbox.

The pine branches were set ablaze, and thick smoke billowed from the leaves, choking Li Qingshan until he coughed and tears streamed down his face.

Lu Qiqi put cotton gloves on Li Qingshan, then put the basket on Li Qingshan's back, who was wearing a cotton coat, and finally handed him the branch stick that was emitting thick smoke.

“Uncle, go and smoke the bees away, then cut off the bee nest with a knife.”

Lu Qiqi patted Li Qingshan on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Go on!"

Li Qingshan was still in a daze when Lu Qiqi arranged everything perfectly. The Zhou brothers stared at Li Qingshan with great interest, as if they were looking at some great hero.

With the arrow already on the bowstring, there was no choice but to release it. Li Qingshan had no choice but to grit his teeth, take the smoking branch, and walk step by step toward the beehive.

As Li Qingshan approached the honeycomb covered with densely packed bees, he felt his back was covered in sweat, as if he had been pulled out of the water.

He glanced back at Lu Qiqi, received a reassuring look from her, swallowed hard, mustered his courage, stepped forward, closed his eyes, and shoved the cigarette directly into the beehive.

Li Qingshan had long been prepared to be carried away by the bees, but that moment was never coming.

Li Qingshan then opened his eyes and saw that the bees that he had smoked were long gone, with only a few scattered bees still holding their ground.

After smoking away the last few bees, Li Qingshan picked up the basin that Lu Qiqi had prepared in advance, caught the beehive, and used a knife to cut off the beehive one by one and put it into the basin.

Lu Qiqi looked at Li Qingshan, who was returning with a full load of goods, and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work, Uncle!"

Li Qingshan put the basket on the ground for Lu Qiqi to see.

The basket on his back was full of honeycomb, which Li Qingshan had risked his life to retrieve. Lu Qiqi gave Li Qingshan a thumbs up and said, "Uncle, you're awesome!"

"Uncle is amazing!"

"My uncle is incredibly strong!"

Li Qingshan was completely captivated by the praise from Lu Qiqi and the Zhou brothers, unable to extricate himself.

Forgetting the moment when his back was drenched in sweat, he carried the beehive down the mountain with a silly grin.

"You really went to disturb the hornet's nest?" As soon as Lu Dahai got home, he heard from Madam Lu that Lu Qiqi had taken people to disturb the hornet's nest, and he became extremely anxious.

Lu Dahai looked at Lu Qiqi and her group and was relieved to see that none of them had been carried back.

Li Qingshan placed the spoils on the table, and Lu Qiqi lifted the gauze covering the beehive, instantly filling the entire room with a sweet and sticky smell.

Whether children or adults, their eyes sparkled as they stared at the basket of honeycomb.

The honeycomb was stored in a basin. Lu Qiqi planned to extract the beeswax from the honeycomb after squeezing out the honey, which could then be used to make lipsticks and honey soaps in the future.

The honeycomb was covered with a thin white film, and there were bee pupae inside.

Lu Qiqi planned to pick them all out and deep-fry them until crispy; the taste would definitely make all the children in the house drool.

So Lu Qiqi asked Lu Shi and Li Shi to help take care of the bee pupae in the beehive.

Lu wiped some honey off the basket with her hand, tasted its sweetness, and smiled so broadly that her eyes disappeared. She did whatever Lu Qiqi told her to do.

Lu Dahai was surrounded by the Zhou brothers, who were telling him how Li Qingshan had bravely helped them avenge themselves that day.

"My uncle is amazing! He chased all the Fengzi away with just a puff of smoke!"

"He's not afraid at all! He's a great hero!"

The Zhou brothers kept praising Li Qingshan, calling him amazing and a great hero, until he couldn't take it anymore and quickly took off his cotton-padded coat to help in the kitchen.

Lu Qiqi took out all the honey and sealed it in a ceramic jar.

The beehive that Li Qingshan brought back weighed at least fifty jin, and maybe more. Lu Qiqi got a large jar of honey, which was estimated to weigh more than ten jin.

Lu Qiqi took a bite of the pure, natural honey, squinting her eyes in enjoyment. It was the taste she had been longing for.

With the help of the Lu family, the Li family, and the Zhou brothers, they quickly picked out all the bee pupae, filling a whole basin!

Madam Lu carried a large basin of bee pupae and walked up to Lu Qiqi, saying, "Seventh Girl, these things look like insects. What do you want with them?"

Lu Qiqi took the basin, looked at the plump white bee pupae, and smiled, "Use them to eat. Auntie, help me start the fire, and I'll make you something delicious."

When Lu Qiqi wanted to cook delicious food, Madam Lu was the most enthusiastic. She had long been won over by Lu Qiqi's excellent cooking skills, which had already satisfied her poor stomach.

Soon, Madam Lu had the fire lit, and Lu Qiqi poured in a large basin of lard.

Once the fire was hot, before Lu Shi could even feel sorry for her, Lu Qiqi poured all the bee pupae into the oil.

With a "whoosh" sound.

A mouthwatering aroma instantly filled the kitchen.