Chapter 121 Discovering a Wild Beehive
Follow the cats and dogs across the grass and run straight to the back mountain.
Ye Zhen hasn't been here for a while, and the wolfberries at the foot of the mountain are all bearing fruit.
The slightly reddish fruits grew among the branches and leaves. Ye Zhen walked over to take a look. The unripe fruits were as thick as a little finger and had slender stems.
Ye Zhen turned over the seeds and found a bright red fruit. Perhaps due to sufficient sunlight, this fruit occupied a small branch alone and had enough nutrition, so it matured first.
Throw it into your mouth, it tastes sweet with a fruity aroma.
Very delicious!
The dog running in front looked back and didn't see anyone, so he stopped and looked for him.
"Woof! Woof!" Shit shoveler, why are you hesitating?
Da Huang stood on the slope, looking down at Ye Zhen, as if he was disgusted by his slow movements. He dug the soil with his claws and looked at Ye Zhen with his big double-lidded eyes with tears in his eyes.
Heyyo!
This big yellow dog has become bolder and even impatient.
They are both role models for the two cats!
Ye Zhen waved away the mud and ash that Gouzi had dug out. Seeing that Gouzi was about to run over, he quickly told him to stop:
"Okay, okay, I got it, I'll go now."
"Woof! Woof!" Hurry up!
He quickly picked a handful of red wolfberries and threw them into his mouth as he walked. The dog was running fast in front of him, with his fat round belly swinging. Ye Zhen, who was walking behind, could still see its fat butt, with its hair fluttering in the wind.
After a while, I went around the path leading to the mountain where pigs and sheep were raised, and followed the dog and the cat into a small passage among a clump of wild bamboo. Before I could even tear off the bamboo leaves and branches above my head, the dog started barking in front of me again.
"Don't rush me, it's hard to drill!"
Ye Zhen wanted to extravagantly use his spiritual power to transform into a small animal and follow him, but that would drain all his spiritual energy.
It’s not easy for her to accumulate some spiritual energy. She still has to plant rice later to release the spiritual energy to the rice!
With a long sigh, Ye Zhen's face was grim. He gritted his teeth and waved away the branches that were blocking his way.
I have to see what wants her to come today!
Following the dog, we walked around tree after tree and into clumps of grass. The insects and birds on the mountain were chirping cheerfully. It was cool and comfortable with gusts of breeze. It was a good place to cool off.
They crossed another mountain stream, and had no idea how the cats and dogs got here, but they finally stopped in front of a big tree.
Fortunately, Ye Zhen practiced Taoism and had a very strong body, otherwise he would not have been able to climb the mountain as it was so steep and thorny.
Stab someone to death!
This was a place that Ye Zhen's family had never been to. Ye Zhen estimated the location and found that it was in the depression in the back mountain that connected to other large mountain ranges.
On one side of the high and steep cliff, unknown vines occupied the entire cliff, with small yellow flowers the size of rice grains blooming on them.
A big tree is rooted at the foot of the mountain, with lush branches and leaves and a strong trunk, like a giant open umbrella, and it is also a natural gathering place for animals.
Ye Zhen didn't know what the tree in front of him was called. The leaves were broad and green, and the trunk was wrapped with vines, which were covered with green fruits that looked like small lanterns.
All kinds of birds built nests in the trees. As I dodged another pile of bird droppings that fell from the trees, I could only feel my ears buzzing.
As he looked over, Ye Zhen's heart was pounding!
Where a tree trunk was leaning towards the cliff, from a distance, one could see several large pieces of light yellowish and whitish objects hanging under the trunk. They were big and thick!
Thousands of bees were flying around and crawling densely on it.
People with trypophobia would faint on the spot.
Ye Zhen's brows were beaming with joy, and his eyes were as bright as light bulbs.
Praise the cat and dog squatting next to you:
"Good job, you guys, you actually found a wild beehive!"
Several cats and dogs held their heads high with their chests puffed out, looking very proud.
"Woof!"
"Meow!"
Shit shovelers, come on! Help us get revenge.
Ye Zhen had an expression as if to see what was going on. It turned out that several cats and dogs were stung here!
Ye Zhen was not pretentious. He noted the location and, without any tools on hand, took the cats and dogs and went back first.
"No rush. Wait until my uncle collects it, then we'll go back and call for help." Ye Zhen couldn't do it alone.
They climbed the slope and went through the grass when they came, so it would be very quick to go back. Ye Zhen picked up a big stick and smashed the grass when he saw it, and swung at the thorns when he saw them. If he encountered wild bamboo that blocked the way when he came, Ye Zhen would pick up the stick and hit it a few times.
Just treat it as clearing the way.
He excitedly led the cat and dog home. Before he even entered the house, Ye Zhen excitedly shouted:
"Dad! Dad! Quickly prepare a clean bucket, grab some things, and let's go into the mountains to collect wild honey!"
In the yard, Grandma Ye was turning over the dried eggplants that were drying in the sun. She had just sold all the vegetables two days ago. The eggplants, tomatoes, and cucumbers in the vegetable garden were ripe again. The total quantity was not much, and she was too lazy to call someone from Wanmao Supermarket over.
Although the food is delicious, if you eat it every day, you will get tired of it. No one at the table will pick up chopsticks for eggplant or the like.
Ye Ma has sold vegetables several times, but only when they were in large quantities and ripe.
Grandma Ye came on stage and, with her decades of experience in drying vegetables, dried all the beans and eggplants.
If you dry a little bit every day, you will get a big bag.
The cucumbers are local dry cucumbers, not the long and thin cucumbers on the market. They are not suitable for pickling because they have too much pulp inside. They also don’t like tomatoes to make juice here.
There was no other way. The vegetables cooked too quickly and couldn’t be kept for too long. Ye’s mother sold batch after batch in the group, and the courier guys were familiar with the route.
Fortunately, the cucumbers and tomatoes were almost out of season, so I shared the last bit with my familiar neighbors and gave some to Aunt Ye.
Ye Zhen walked in and looked around for her father:
"Mom? Where's my dad?"
Ye's mother poked her head out of the kitchen and said, "Your father should be in the fields."
"Then I'll call him and ask him to come back quickly!"
"How much honey is there? It's time to eat soon. It's okay to go in the afternoon." Seeing Ye Zhen in a hurry, Ye's mother said.
Ye Zhen smiled and gave her mother a look that would scare you:
“It’s a lot. I might need two buckets!”
The buckets at home were brought back by Uncle Ye from work at the construction site. They are all large buckets with bags inside to hold paint.
Because there is inner packaging inside, the bucket is very clean. In addition, it has a large capacity and there are many buckets on the construction site, so Uncle Ye often picks out the clean ones and brings them back for relatives in need.
A bucket is as long as an adult's thigh and has a large diameter, so it is convenient to use it to store soybeans, peanuts, rice, etc. at home.
Ye Ma opened her eyes wide and exclaimed:
"Where is it? There are so many?"
The two buckets together can hold dozens or hundreds of kilograms. Villagers often go to the mountain. The hardworking villagers pick mushrooms, wild fruits, yam, kudzu root and so on. They know exactly what is there on the mountain.
What about wild honey?
Shanbei Village depends on the mountain for its livelihood. It has rich forest resources, vast mountains, and the influence of climate and topography. Although it is not allowed to hunt wild animals, people who can hike in the mountains can still find something to sell and earn some hard-earned money.
It’s also because young people don’t like to go up the mountain, and older people can’t go too deep or too far. There are still many good things on the mountain.
In addition, Ye Zhen has been practicing diligently in the past few months, and the mountain has become much more lively. There is a slight spiritual energy emanating from the area around the Ye family in Shanbei Village, and the plants are growing rapidly.
Plants grow rapidly in spring and summer, and flowers bloom in the mountains and fields. Villagers plant strawberries in the open air, and patch after patch of strawberry flowers bloom. There are even more wolfberry flowers at the foot of the mountain, attracting honey butterflies flying everywhere.
Uncle Ye Wu's family in the village often went to the mountains to look for wild honey, pick some medicinal herbs, find soft-shelled turtles, etc. during the slack season and send them to specialized purchasing places to earn money.
Just this month, Uncle Ye Wu has found several hives of bees. Wild honey has high nutritional value, so it is expensive. In previous years, it was impossible to collect so much honey.
Seeing that Ye Wubo found honey easily, many people in the village went up the mountain to look for it. Logically, the shallower mountains nearby should have been dug up almost all the honey.
"You went to the mountains? That's not right. Didn't you go with Dahei and the others?" Ye's mother muttered over there, not quite believing it.
"It's right behind our house! It's just close to the big mountain range over there. The location is hidden and blocked by the mountain wall, so no one has discovered it."
Ye Zhen called a few cats and dogs, took out some sausages and fed them to the heroes:
"I still need the cats and dogs at home to lead me there, otherwise we wouldn't be able to find it ourselves. Who would run to such a remote place where there is not even a convenient place to step on?"
After saying this, Grandma Ye stopped drying the eggplants and waited for the cats and dogs to finish eating. She hugged the dogs, stroked the cats, and praised them:
"What a good cat and dog we have! Really good at finding things!"
Now, the dogs became even more proud, and their tails were swinging like tops, almost flying into the sky!
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