Chapter 17 You Lied to Me First

Lu Mingchuan was holding the duckling cage in Su Heng's hand. He glanced at her indifferently when he heard the words.

It goes without saying that it was Su Heng who was plotting against him.

Lu Mingchuan went to release the ducklings and geese, while Su Heng took the tools and vegetable seeds to the west room and put them in order. The remaining fruits and vegetables were taken directly to the kitchen.

Speaking of which, she had originally planned to see if there was any food to sell today, but it turned out that the management staff were there, and she didn't see a single bag of rice at the market.

The grain station has a quota, so it seems I have to go to the black market.

After Lu Mingchuan finished cleaning up the poultry in the backyard, he went into the kitchen to help Su Heng light the fire and cook.

Su Heng saw the big bag of sour apricots, rolled her eyes, washed a bowl and handed it to him: "Lu Mingchuan, look at the apricots I brought you, try them!"

The round golden apricots soaked in the white porcelain bowl floated up and down with Su Heng's movements, and they looked really good.

Lu Mingchuan knew she had bad intentions as soon as he saw her expression, but he still picked one up and took a bite.

"How is it?" Su Heng stared at him and asked.

But Lu Mingchuan still had that indifferent expression, and nothing could be seen.

He nodded and ate the apricot without changing his expression.

“It’s quite sweet.”

How could that be? Could it be that Chen Xiang and the others were just unlucky and ended up eating something sour?

Come to think of it, these days there is a crackdown on short-weighting, and people selling things are quite simple and honest. If a whole bag of goods is sour, they probably won’t sell it.

Su Heng bit one without any precautions, and ended up almost making an emoticon out of jealousy.

What the hell is simple!

So sour!

"Lu Mingchuan, you've become a bad person. You've even started to lie to people!"

Su Heng looked at Lu Mingchuan in disbelief with a bitter face.

"You lied to me first."

Su Heng said confidently, "I was just joking. I even brought you a big bag of food. It was so heavy that I had to carry it all the way."

As she spoke, she took out the two large bags of fried dough twists, broke off a piece of sugar-free dough twists and handed it to Lu Mingchuan, and broke off a piece for herself to eat.

She didn’t know if it was because people in this era used more ingredients in their fried dough twists, or if it was simply because she hadn’t eaten good fried dough twists in a long time, but she just felt that they were much more fragrant than those in later generations.

It is crispy and sweet, but not greasy.

She opened the candy-wrapped one and asked Lu Mingchuan, "Would you like to eat the one with candy on it?"

Lu Mingchuan looked at the shiny sugar shell and shook his head silently.

"That one just now was pretty good."

"Well, I'll eat it myself."

Su Heng broke off a piece and ate it. She found it sweet but not greasy. Maybe she liked sweets.

After tasting them one by one, Su Heng asked Lu Mingchuan to put the fried dough twists in the cabinet in the main room and prepared to cook.

The bread I ate in the morning probably didn’t have much oil in it, so I felt hungry after the long journey.

She looked at the eggs she bought and decided to make some simple egg noodles.

By the way, soak the cantaloupe in cold water and ask Lu Mingchuan to help peel and cut it into pieces.

There was no way she could use a big knife to peel the fruit.

By the time the melon was served, two bowls of vegetable and egg noodles were also ready.

Su Heng was a little tired, so she went into the house to take a nap after eating.

Before going to bed, she counted the money she had taken out and found that among all the things she had bought, the biggest expense was actually the duckling, gosling and fried dough twist, which cost her eight yuan.

The rest of the seeds, fruits and vegetables together cost less than two yuan. In this era, the purchasing power of one yuan is still very good.

Looking at his full treasury, Su Heng fell asleep contentedly.

I didn't go out in the afternoon because I had to pull out the old vegetable stems in the backyard vegetable garden and plant new ones.

Plants like cucumbers and cowpeas need to be grown on bamboo racks.

Lu Mingchuan couldn't help with the work in the fields, so he could only use the leftover bamboo to make a rack.

After working hard for an entire afternoon, I finally managed to clean up the vegetable garden.

For the next two days, the two were busy growing vegetables. Su Heng bought several kinds of melon seeds. She also wanted to grow watermelons, so the area of ​​the vegetable garden was expanded a little bit.

After finishing work in the vegetable garden, Su Heng, who had some free time, started thinking about the wild honey in the mountains.

She knew she could use smoke to smoke out the bees, but the hive was at the entrance of the cave. If the smoke drifted in and couldn't dissipate, even if the bees were driven away, people still wouldn't be able to get in.

Su Heng had read in books before that it was easy to collect wild honey by just smoking it and then cutting it with bare hands.

But when I actually saw with my own eyes the huge black swarm of bees in the cave, the scene was far beyond what a small hive could compare to.

The beehive was at least half a man's height. There was no place in the mountain where no one had ever set foot, so the bee colony was very large.

If she went like this, she might be buried by the swarm of bees if she wasn't careful.

I thought about it for a long time but couldn't come up with a good solution.

Suddenly, she thought of something. In the original book, the heroine Song Wan also went to collect wild honey, although it should not be the same one she saw because there was no mention of the peach forest.

But there is a brief description of the heroine's method of cutting honey.

Because her grandfather came from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, she studied medicine since she was a child. She not only knew the unique secret techniques of acupuncture, but also knew how to prescribe medicine.

So the heroine prescribed a few medicines at that time, which directly led the swarm of bees out of the nest and drove them away, allowing her to collect honey painlessly.

So the question is, the prescriptions for those medicines are not written in the book?

Even if Su Heng wanted to copy the homework, she couldn't.

After much hesitation, she decided to go find Song Wan.

Anyway, it’s such a big beehive that one person can’t move it down or carry it all.

It would be better to get the heroine to join in and share some of the profits than to just sit there and watch without getting any.

Thinking of this, Su Heng took a melon and went to the educated youth site to find Song Wan.

There were a few male educated youth chopping firewood in the yard, and they were stunned when they saw her.

Seeing this, another female educated youth asked with a sinister smile, "Are you here to see Cheng Zhiqing? He's not here today."

Those male educated youth couldn't help but secretly peek.

But Su Heng also smiled: "Am I familiar with you?"

After saying that, he turned to the other male educated youths who were eating melons and asked, "Is Song Wan here?"

The educated youth who was just eating melons nodded and enthusiastically helped to call Song Wan out.

The female educated youth was completely ignored and was so angry that her face turned blue and white.

Song Wan was planting vegetables in the backyard. When she saw Su Heng, a hint of confusion appeared on her face. She didn't understand what she wanted to see him about.

Su Heng handed her the melon and invited her out to talk.

Song Wantui couldn't refuse, so he had to accept the melon and followed him out of the yard, leaving behind a group of curious melon-eating people.

"Tell me, what do you want from me?"

The two came to an empty place with no one around, and Su Heng didn't keep them in suspense.

He leaned over and whispered, "I smelled the scent of a medicine sachet on you last time. Can you make medicine?"

"A little bit. Are you sick?"

"No, I found a wild beehive in the mountains a few days ago. What do you think? Are you interested?"

Hearing this, Song Wan's eyes flashed, "Then what do you want me to do?"

Su Heng curled her lips and said, "That place is a closed cave, so it's not easy to fumigate it. So I wanted to ask you if there is any way to stun or drive away the bees."

Song Wan thought for a moment, but didn't say anything too confident. She just said, "I can try."

Hearing her say this, Su Heng knew that this matter was definitely possible.

So I said, "Then I'll prepare two sets of bee-sting-proof overalls and wait for your good news at home. Then you can come directly to me."

Song Wan nodded: "Okay."

After returning home, Su Heng found a set of useless old mosquito nets from a wooden box in the warehouse. This was very suitable for use as protective clothing and was very breathable.

However, I still need to find a bamboo hat to wear on my head, and fortunately I have one at home.

So Su Heng took the needle and thread and started to work.

Song Wan didn't let her wait too long. Early the next morning, she heard a knock on the door outside the yard.