Chapter 386 Blood-sucking Leeches

The morning breeze of early September blew from the hills, and Gao Mingcheng's hair was blown back by the wind as he drove on the national highway.

The tractor made a sound of movement and took Gao Mingcheng to Gaojia Village.

Due to time constraints, Gao Mingcheng only harvested two boxes of honey, so now he has to go back to the village and harvest all the honey from the remaining beehives.

After this harvest, there are fewer nectar plants in the mountains, and the honey-making speed will slow down. During the nectar flow period, the honey can be shaken once every twenty days at the fastest, and once a month if it is slower.

But in winter, if the situation is good, the bees need to be fed once every two months. If the situation is bad, the bees have to be fed with sugar water so that they can survive the winter.

However, generally speaking, bees in the North need to be fed sugar water, or when the beekeeper has taken away all the honey in the beehive and left no honey, they need to be fed sugar water.

In a terrain like Gaojia Village, even in autumn and winter, there are various flowers blooming in the mountains, enough to support the bees' natural honey collection and storage.

Furthermore, at this time, Gao Mingcheng would not take away all the honey in the beehive.

When the tractor passed through the Greater Khingan Range, he stopped at Gao Shouwang's clothing workshop.

He found Gao Shouwang and told him that when he returned to the county in three days, he would take away a batch of autumn clothes.

Although the weather is still a bit hot, those who run clothing stores need to put out autumn clothes in advance.

Gao Shouwang said, "Don't worry, we are the first to prepare the goods you want, and there will be no mistakes! The clothes have been packed, and when you leave, you can just load them into the car."

After Gao Shouwang finished speaking, he pointed to the warehouse, where there were indeed some goods piled up, all of which were made of the best materials and had the best workmanship.

In the workshop, winter clothes have already been produced.

Dong Feixia's growth and progress were very fast. She was already able to cut clothes independently. Now, after receiving so many magazines and the latest samples, she was like a seedling getting nutrition, and she grew up healthily.

Not only does she copy the latest fashions, she also designs her own clothes so that different fabrics can appear more harmonious.

Gao Mingcheng was naturally confident in them. The two sides had been cooperating for a long time and nothing had gone wrong.

After staying here for a while and chatting with Gao Shouwang for a while, Gao Mingcheng said goodbye and left. There were still a lot of things waiting for him to do at home.

In addition to shaking honey, there is also rice in the fields and vegetables in the fields that need to be managed.

When passing by the old village, he stopped the car again and decided to find Gao Zhuang to ask how many medicinal herbs he had harvested. He also went to the fields to take a look. The fields were all close to the old village.

It just so happened that Gao Zhuang was weeding in the field, and he was carrying a bucket with him, which he was going to use to hold eels, loaches and snails.

They have two kinds of snails here. One is the field snail, which is relatively large, but most of them are solitary.

Another kind is the stone snail, which grows on the stone walls of some small ditches. They grow together in densely packed groups. That's not called picking snails, that's clearly digging snails, and you dig up a lot of them!

"Gao Zhuang." Gao Mingcheng stood on the edge of the field and shouted loudly.

Gao Zhuang was pulling out a piece of grass. When he heard the shout, he stood up and looked towards Gao Mingcheng.

Before he spoke, a smile appeared on his face.

But Gao Mingcheng spoke again: "There are leeches on your calves!"

Gao Zhuang looked down and saw a leech on his calf. The leech was tightly attached to his foot and must have sucked his blood.

Gao Zhuang cursed under his breath and reached out to pull out the leech.

If you can pull it out, then pull it out. If you can't pull it out, it means the leech has sucked very deeply. At this time, you can't pull it out forcefully, otherwise the leech's mouthparts will remain in the wound.

But humans are wise. At this time, we just need to sprinkle a little salt on the leeches, and the leeches will automatically loosen themselves and escape from the place where the salt is.

This is because they have no skin, their tissues are very hydrated, and salt has a dehydrating effect.

However, this leech might have just started sucking blood when Gao Zhuang pulled it out.

Tall and strong fingers quickly rubbed the leech into a ball!

But even so, the leeches are still alive unless they are completely dried. If they are dried, they are no longer the annoying blood-sucking leeches but a kind of Chinese medicinal material.

Traditional Chinese medicine is so magical. Rabbit feces can be used as medicine, called Wangyuesha. Bat feces can also be used as medicine, called Yemingsha. Even chicken manure can be used as medicine, called Jishibai, and the white part of the chicken manure is used.

This leech can naturally be used as medicine, which has the effect of breaking blood, promoting menstruation, removing blood stasis and eliminating symptoms. It is mainly used for blood stasis, amenorrhea, addiction, hemiplegia, stroke, and injuries caused by falls.

Gao Mingcheng remembers that there was a program about farmers getting rich, and one episode focused on someone who got rich by raising leeches.

In addition to leeches, people also raise centipedes, scorpions, snakes and other animals. The more bizarre and terrifying they are, the better, so as to break people's inherent impressions and create a contrast.

Later, relevant departments joined hands with some breeding companies to promote the business in the countryside, saying that they would guarantee to teach the farmers and purchase the products. This did trigger a wave of enthusiasm, but in the end, only a very small number of people were able to persist and make money.

But what is even more frightening is that some people's farms are not standardized enough, which leads to the animals in the farms running away. Those centipedes, scorpions and snakes are all poisonous. Once they run away, they are bound to cause fear among the local villagers.

Later, fewer and fewer people raised these things.

Gao Mingcheng's thoughts wandered away. Seeing Gao Zhuang rubbing the leech to vent his anger, he said, "You can dry it in the sun. This thing can also be a medicine after being dried."

"Medicine?" Gao Zhuang was stunned and looked down at the small ball of flesh in his hand.

Leeches are not big and they are not heavy when they are alive, and they are even lighter when they are dried.

Gao Zhuang felt that there was nothing to do at first, but then he thought that if he accumulated little by little, he could still do it. Brother Ming Cheng had reminded him, so he had to do it!

So he took out a plastic bag from his trouser pocket and put the half-dead leech into it.

"Gao Zhuang, how many medicinal materials have you received recently? You must ensure the quality of the medicinal materials." Gao Mingcheng said.

Gao Zhuang immediately said, "I've received some, Brother Mingcheng, don't worry, I will definitely check it!"

Gao Zhuang was very concerned about this matter. In addition, when Gao Mingcheng first collected medicinal herbs to sell, he was living in Gao Zhuang's house.

So Gao Zhuang has followed Gao Mingcheng all the way here and knows what kind of medicinal materials are of good quality.

"Okay, I'm just asking. You go ahead and do your work. I'll go take a look at my fields." Gao Mingcheng said as he walked towards his fields.

In the rice fields, the seedlings planted in late July have grown very tall, and the green seedlings are swaying in the wind.

This is the seed of hybrid rice. The rice plants are shorter than the old varieties and are not easily blown down by the wind.

If it is an old variety, when the rice ears are ripe, if they encounter wind and rain, it will easily cause a large reduction in yield.

In the fields, because no one takes care of them, not only the rice is growing well, but the weeds are growing even more vigorously.

However, it can be seen that there are still signs that it has been pulled out.

Gao Mingcheng took off his plastic sandals, walked down, and when he stepped into the rice field, his foot sank slightly.

He bent down and pulled out the weeds. He quickly finished weeding an acre of field and picked up a few large snails in the process.

Before leaving, he threw the big snails into the bucket that Gao Zhuang had placed on the edge of the field, and then prepared to leave.

Gao Zhuang said, "Brother Mingcheng, come to my house for lunch!"

"Okay, I'll go back and pack up first and go over there at noon." Gao Mingcheng agreed and walked out along the ridge of the field.

(End of this chapter)