At this moment, Zhou Daqing was telling Zhou Yiding that he had encountered several groups of illegal loggers in the few days he had been at the forest farm, and he warned Zhou Yiding not to confront them head-on when he met them in the mountains.

Zhou Yiding said with a grin: "Don't worry, I'm not a fool. If I see the situation is not right, I will pretend I didn't see it and let him chop it down!" They are all going to be sold for money, so it doesn't matter who sells it!

"Don't take it lightly!" Zhou Daqing looked at him seriously. "Someone from the forest farm came to me yesterday and told me that Lao Ge from the Xinshan forest farm was almost beaten to death by illegal loggers. He is still in the hospital!"

This year, there are obviously more people building new houses and making furniture than last year. The price of timber has been rising, and it is difficult to approve the quotas. More and more people are going up the mountain to cut down trees illegally.

The risks facing forest rangers are getting bigger and bigger. He only has one son. If something happens to him...

Zhou Daqing thought about this and said to him, "You get so much dividends a year now, plus the hotel's dividends, the income from the medicinal field, and I get a pension of more than 30 yuan a month. You and the youngest brother also make a lot of money from finding mountain products. Why don't you just quit your job?"

Zhou Yiding looked at him with some surprise, "You always told me to do my job well after I took over and not to embarrass you. I've only been working for half a year and you want me to quit my job. Aren't you afraid of being embarrassed?"

Zhou Daqing laughed and said, "I said those things before because you don't know how to do anything. You can't even grow crops properly. What else can you do besides work? Now you are more capable than me, and you own such a big hotel in the city. You have made me proud."

"Old man, have you told your old friends about our hotel?" Zhou Yiding was very happy after hearing this. He patted Zhou Huaian who was dozing off in the chair. "Did you hear that? The old man said I made him proud."

Zhou Huaian opened his eyes, "Uncle Daqing, Ding Dingmao got a promotion?"

"You haven't even graduated from junior high school, how can you get promoted? Even if you work until your age, you can only be a team leader of a logging team without any education."

Zhou Daqing patted the two of them and said, "I told you to study hard, but none of you listened. Every day you either went to the river to fish or went to the mountain to rob bird nests. Now you feel miserable! You can't even move up without an education."

Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding said dissatisfiedly: "It's not that we don't want to study hard. There are not even teachers in the school. Do you blame us?"

Zhou Daqing sighed, "It's not your fault. It's the old guys who retired with me who showed off as soon as they saw me, saying that their son got promoted after only two years of work.

He even said that his current monthly salary was twice his, and he even said hypocritically that Yiding was not stupid, and if he had been well managed at that time, he would have also passed the examination and obtained a diploma. I was so angry that I told them about your opening of a hotel. "

Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Do they envy you?"

"I'm envious. After all, he earns more in a month than his father and his mother combined." Zhou Daqing changed the subject, "No matter how hard we work, we can only be team leaders at best. No matter how much money we make, we're just small bosses. But his job is respectable!"

Zhou Yiding spread his hands, "There's nothing I can do about this, unless you reinvent me."

"Damn it, your words stink worse than shit!" Zhou Daqing glared at him. "What I mean is, since it's already like this, you should just quit your job and go back to take care of the medicinal fields peacefully. You can live together as a family and avoid all the hassles."

Zhou Yiding thought about how Wan Xuejiao had asked him to quit his job, and now the old man was asking him to quit too. He hesitated and said, "Let me think about it."

Zhou Daqing: "Okay, think about it carefully. You and the youngest brother have leased such a large piece of land now. You can't rely on Huairong and the others to help take care of it, right?"

After hearing this, Zhou Huaian said, "Uncle Daqing, do you have any chainsaws for sale in the forest farm? If you do, buy two and take them home to saw off those useless trees so that we can plant honeysuckle flowers next spring."

Zhou Daqing smiled and said, "That's easy. I'll go find two broken ones tomorrow and fix them up so they can be used."

The three of them talked for a while, then washed up and went to bed.

The next morning, Zhou Daqing went down the mountain with the chainsaw, while Zhou Huaian and his friend took the dog to their old den to dig honey and herbs.

It was much colder on the mountain than at the foot of the mountain, so the two of them put on a lapel spring-autumn shirt and followed Dahei and Dahuang who were running happily in the woods.

Zhou Huaian put out his cigarette and nodded to Zhou Yiding, "Why did Uncle Daqing ask you to resign again?"

"The price of timber has gone up, and more and more people are cutting down timber illegally. In the past, they only stole valuable timber, but now they are also stealing straight pine and fir trees. Some people have even been beaten up in the forest farm."

Zhou Yiding took a long puff of his cigarette. "I originally thought that if I worked hard, I could move up, but now it's different. People like me who don't have a diploma will just be lumberjacks until they die. The most important thing is that I'm an old man and I'm afraid I'll get into trouble with illegal logging."

"You can't climb up, and you're taking such a big risk. What the hell are you doing?" Zhou Huaian put his arm around his neck. "Quit your job early. Autumn is the time to harvest herbs. We'll go down the mountain the day after tomorrow to harvest herbs. After two months, we'll rent a purchasing station and start harvesting truffles."

Although Li Wu and Xu Hongbing were not bad, they were still a little behind. I didn't dare to take them to far places to collect the goods. Unlike me and Yiding, we could tell what the other party was going to do and what they meant with just one look!

Zhou Yiding was also somewhat tempted after hearing this. Thinking of the tens of thousands of dollars he earned from selling herbs last time, he shook his head and said, "I will definitely go to rent a purchasing station to collect truffles, but I can't go to collect herbs. If I go, I will just be taking advantage of you..."

Zhou Huaian stopped and glanced at him, "When I had no money before, you always subsidized me. Did you think I was taking advantage of you then?"

"God is my conscience..." Zhou Yiding looked at him and swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue. "I can go with you to collect herbs, but I only want 10% of the profit from you. Otherwise, you can pay me according to Li Wu and Xu Hongbing's salary, which is more than what I can get in the forest farm."

Zhou Huaian punched him and said, "One success is one success. If you want more, I won't give it to you!"

Zhou Yiding also punched him and said, "I will resign the next day when I get down the mountain."

The two of them made an agreement and followed Dahei forward, chatting and laughing, and reached the big rock before the sun came out.

He stuck his head out to look at the burned forest below, but saw no sign of wild animals. He then walked down the rock and came to the beehive, where he saw little bees bustling in and out of the cave.

"I came here last time to harvest winter honey. There must be a lot of capped honey stored in it." Zhou Huaian put down the backpack and took out the moxa sticks, urea bags and knife.

"That's it!" Zhou Yiding dug out the mud and moved the stones that were blocking the entrance of the cave. The buzzing sound in his ears suddenly became louder.

Zhou Huaian handed him the lit moxa sticks and said, "I originally planned to sell the moxa I collected last year. Chunyan has ground them to make moxa sticks for me."

Zhou Yiding picked up the moxa stick and placed it at the entrance of the cave. The two of them leaned against the rock, smoking while waiting for the bees in the hive to fly out.

Suddenly, with a "wool", the dog lying beside started barking wildly at the crevice of the rock next to it.

Zhou Huaian and the other man turned around and saw a bamboo shoot with its head raised and its tongue sticking out, confronting Dahei in the crevice of the rock next to the beehive.

The two men took the opportunity to move away, picked up the guns on their backpacks, and said to Gouzi, "Get out of the way."

After hearing this, Gou Zi watched the snake retreat vigilantly. Then, Sun Ke Ban shot towards Da Hei like lightning. In a flash, two gunshots were heard, and Sun Ke Ban's head and body were broken into two.

"Fuck~" Zhou Huaian looked at the twisting and rolling snake on the ground with a disgusted look on his face, then looked at the distance between the two and the crack in the rock, and said thankfully, "If I had leaned against the crack just now, today would have been a lot of fun."

"The flesh on your butt is thick, so I'm not afraid of it being bitten. What I'm afraid of is biting the little dick down there!" Zhou Yiding said while pointing at him with a sly smile.

"Damn it, it's really possible!" Zhou Huaian laughed and used a stick to knock out the dead snake's head, then picked up the snake's body. "I'll try to catch two pheasants, so I can drink dragon and phoenix soup when I go back."

Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "There are plenty of pheasants. When we go to the woods later, Dahei will be able to catch two."

When Dahei heard his name, he looked up at him and then lay down again.

Zhou Huaian looked at the crack in the stone and suddenly remembered something, "Ding Ding Cat, how come this damn thing has built a nest next to the beehive? Maybe it has laid eggs in there!"

Zhou Yiding thought for a moment and said, "Who knows! These two months are the time when the bamboo shoots are laying eggs. Maybe there is already a nest of baby snakes inside!"

"Shit~ One egg scares me half to death, let alone a nest of eggs." Zhou Huaian said as he picked up a bamboo pole and poked it into the crevice of the rock. He slid it up and down a few times, and after taking it out, he found that there was still yellow-white egg liquid hanging on the bamboo pole.

"Damn it! Luckily I messed around a few times, otherwise it would be troublesome next year."

Zhou Yiding looked at the bamboo pole and gave him a thumbs up. "Look, there will be a whole nest in no time."

"Damn it, I'm going to pound it a few more times to crush all the egg yolks!" Zhou Huaian used the bamboo pole to pound back and forth in the cracks of the rock a few more times. When he felt that all the snake eggs inside were crushed, he threw away the bamboo pole.

At this time, the little bees in the hive had already flown to the tree and formed a bee swarm. Zhou Yiding handed him the gloves and said, "It's still the same old rule. You harvest the honey and I'll pack it."

"Great!" Zhou Huaian bent his body and got busy, taking out capped honey from the hive one by one. The honey combs were almost filling up the urea bags.

Zhou Yiding was so happy that his mouth stretched to his ears. "It's still more fun to dig out this beehive. One is worth several others."

"This is the most exciting thing!" Zhou Huaian looked inside the hive, "There are still four honey combs left for them, and the pollen combs and bee pupae are all left in the hole."

Zhou Yiding looked at the bee group not far away and said, "Little bee, do you still need to say thank you?"

"That's right. Compared to those who took away the pots and pans, we are already civilized thieves." Zhou Huaian cleaned up the place and walked out. "After we finish this, let's go check the woods over there by the ditch."

"Okay!" The two sealed the beehive and walked towards the ditch in the south. (End of this chapter)