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Without his home, Du Heng encountered obstacles in his daily practice of being beaten. He really couldn't find another bamboo forest to practice in. When he left home, he only dug out the small bamboo planted in the yard and planted it in a wooden barrel.
Looking at the tender yellow bamboo in the barrel, Du Heng touched the bamboo leaves sadly: "What should I do? You are so small and trapped in the barrel. Can you still grow up?"
And he didn't know if it was Du Heng's illusion, but he felt that this bamboo had remained like this since it was moved out of the bamboo forest. If it weren't for the lively wood aura that had always been entangled on the bamboo branches, Du Heng would have thought it was dead.
Watching Du Heng talking to the bamboo in the barrel, Jing Nan laughed out loud: "Of course it can grow, this is Pei bamboo."
Du Heng turned around and saw Jing Nan squatting beside him with his hands in his pockets: "Do you know what kind of soil is used to grow bamboo?" Du Heng shook his head: "I don't know, Xiaoyu dug the soil from outside."
Jing Nan narrowed his eyes and introduced: "Bamboo is a rather overbearing plant. If you plant it in front of or behind a house, the new shoots can easily overturn the foundation and push through the house. Pei bamboo is even more overbearing. As long as there is enough spiritual energy, it can multiply all over the mountains and plains. In order to prevent me from being pushed up to the sky by bamboo shoots in my sleep, when we planted Pei bamboo, we divided it into areas. The soil for planting Pei bamboo is called Xiran. As long as there is a small piece of Xiran, countless spiritual plants can be planted on it."
Xirang? The legendary Xirang? It actually exists?!
Jing Nan said, "Du Heng, have you ever thought about planting a bamboo field yourself?" Du Heng muttered, "I'm planting it right now, aren't I?" But the bamboo he planted was pretending to be dead, and it had been like this for more than half a year.
Jing Nan smiled and said, "What I mean is that if you use your own spiritual energy to nourish a bamboo forest, the bamboo that grows there will be stronger and more docile than those grown in nature."
Du Heng understood Jing Nan's meaning. When he chose his own spiritual plant and knew how to use it, Du Heng had this idea. He really wanted to grow a bamboo forest of his own. In the future, when he was fighting, he could just wave his hand and a bamboo forest would emerge from the ground. How spectacular that would be!
Jing Nan patted Du Heng on the shoulder and said, "Put your consciousness into the bamboo and use your spiritual energy to cultivate new bamboo shoots. With your current cultivation level, you can really cultivate them well. Perhaps by the time you reach the Nascent Soul stage, you will own a large bamboo forest."
Jing Nan stopped there, and the rest depended on Du Heng's own perception. After Jing Nan left, Du Heng sat in front of the wooden barrel and invested his consciousness into the bamboo in the barrel. Strangely enough, after Du Heng invested his consciousness into the bamboo, he felt that his consciousness was like a drop of water merging into the sea. It was just a small piece of bamboo, but it was more powerful than other spiritual plants that Du Heng had invested his consciousness into.
Du Heng felt like he had turned into a bamboo. Perhaps it was because his natal spiritual plant was Peibamboo. After his consciousness was invested in Peibamboo, he felt that his body became light and his mood was extremely comfortable.
His spiritual energy was injected into the Pei bamboo, and gradually, the bamboo whips of the Pei bamboo began to move. A new bamboo whip extended from the broken bamboo whip. The bamboo whips spread out to the side. Unlike ordinary plants, bamboo whips would not penetrate deeply into the soil. They prefer to grow and sprout in the shallow soil.
As the spiritual energy was injected, Du Heng began to practice his mental method. His golden elixir started to rotate rapidly in his dantian. There were many plants in Dongji Mountain, and where there were many plants, there was more wood spiritual energy. The warm wood spiritual energy was absorbed into Du Heng's body, and the spiritual energy was stored in the golden elixir, and then accumulated by the mental method.
Every time he practiced the mental method, Du Heng's Dantian would feel warm. After forming the Dan, Du Heng found that he was not so picky about other spiritual energies. If he really couldn't absorb the spiritual energy, Du Heng could only let it overflow from his body.
In the past, when Du Heng was practicing, he always kept the original and guarded the unity, but this time he regarded Peizhu as a part of himself and began to practice. This feeling was quite split. Sometimes he felt that he was Du Heng, who was practicing. Sometimes he felt that he was a bamboo, born and raised by nature, and he was content with whatever happened.
Du Heng's spiritual energy gathered at the bamboo whip, and he felt the results of his practice! A small bamboo shoot grew on the new bamboo whip!
When Du Heng opened his eyes, he looked into the wooden barrel anxiously. To be honest, the bamboo in the wooden barrel did not seem to have changed, but Du Heng knew clearly that in the dark soil, a new bamboo shoot was waiting for the right time to sprout!
When Du Heng's consciousness was still in the bamboo, he saw that the new bamboo shoots were particularly large, but when he opened his eyes, he did not see any changes on the soil surface. He put his consciousness into the soil to take a look, and was discouraged at the first sight.
The newly grown bamboo shoots were only as big as Du Heng's little finger! Du Heng scratched his hair in confusion. The bamboo shoots he wanted were as big as those produced in the Pei bamboo forest behind Jing Nan's house! Even if such a small bamboo shoot grew into a bamboo, how strong would it be?
Am I really too weak? Du Heng sighed while holding the wooden barrel. However, he had a good attitude and soon thought of Wen Qiong's words. Cultivation is not a process that can be achieved overnight, but requires gradual and continuous accumulation to achieve great success.
Thinking of this, Du Heng comforted himself that at least he had seen bamboo shoots during today's practice, which was a great progress!
To praise himself, Du Heng prepared to cook stewed mutton, a dish he hadn't made since arriving in the demon world. Fortunately, the temperature in Dongji Mountain was much lower than in the village, and it felt like a clear and crisp autumn day. If he could eat a bowl of hot stewed mutton at this time, he would feel warm when he went to bed at night.
Du Heng put Peizhu outside the platform. He looked at the sky and it was time to cook dinner. He didn't know where Xuanyu and the others went in the afternoon. Du Heng looked around but didn't even see Xiaoxiao.
But don't worry, they will be back once Du Heng finishes preparing dinner.
Du Heng took out a sheep from the storage bag and skillfully cut the whole sheep into pieces according to the parts. The bright red lamb meat was neatly spread on the wooden table. Du Heng thought of Xiaoxiao and her friends who loved to eat the original roasted lamb chops, so he planned to roast another lamb chops for everyone in the evening.
Just as Du Heng was concentrating on processing the lamb chops, a bee landed on the cut lamb leg in front of him. To be more precise, this was not a bee, bees are hairy, this bee looked like a wasp. But it was a lot bigger than the wasps Du Heng knew, it had two big cute eyes, and the pattern on its body was black and yellow. It had a thin waist, and its big belly bulged under its slightly transparent wings.
The bee was as big as Du Heng's thumb. It landed clumsily on the mutton, then lowered its head and began to gnaw on the mutton with big mouthfuls.
It was the first time that Du Heng saw a meat-eating bee. Although he knew that wasps would eat meat when he was in his hometown, he had never seen it with his own eyes. He had only seen the furry little bees collecting honey in flowers. Du Heng stopped what he was doing and quietly watched the wasps eat mutton.
The wasp gnawed a fingernail-sized hole in the mutton, and Du Heng thought it was full and left. But after it finished eating, it began to gnaw on a piece of meat the size of a fingernail. In Du Heng's shocked eyes, this guy actually flew away with a piece of meat bigger than his head!
Du Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "They even packed up the food while eating it?"
Just when Du Heng had cut the lamb chops and put them in the wooden basin, the wasp came back again. Du Heng was not sure if it was the same one as before. In his opinion, the three wasps that came this time all looked similar. The wasp went straight to the lamb in the wooden basin. Du Heng waved his hand and said, "Hey, you can't eat the meat in here. You guys eat..."
It would have been fine if Du Heng didn't wave his hand, but as soon as he waved his hand, three wasps came towards him. Du Heng felt a burning pain on his right index finger, and when he looked closely, he saw that a wasp had stung him!
Du Heng heard that bees and wasps can only sting people once in their lifetime. The barbs on their buttocks are connected to their internal organs and have barbs. After stinging people, the barbs are deeply embedded in the flesh because of the barbs. If the bees want to fly away, they can only leave the barbs behind, and then their internal organs will be taken out, and the bees will die miserably after stinging people.
It was the first time that Du Heng was stung by a wasp, but he found that these wasps were different from the wasps he knew! He watched the wasp sting his index finger and then flap its wings and fly away. This time the wasps went straight to Du Heng's face. Du Heng panicked and ran into the cave with a cry: "Xuan Yu! Xuan Yu!"
At this time, Du Heng was still relatively calm. He used his spiritual energy to form an egg-like barrier in front of him. He thought that when the bees encountered the spiritual energy shield, they would not be able to do anything to him, right? However, after the bees saw the spiritual energy shield, they became even crazier, and Du Heng's spiritual energy shield was easily broken by the bees.
That would be fine. Just now there were only three bees chasing Du Heng madly, but now dozens of them came from nowhere. Du Heng's ears were buzzing, and he ran to the room. But he was not familiar with Yun Zheng's cave, and there was no window in his room!
Du Heng didn't know how many times he was stung. He only knew that his two arms that were covering his face felt burning with pain, and soon his vision began to blur.
Du Heng cried out in pain. These bees were too unreasonable. It wasn't like he was not allowed to eat meat. Why did he keep chasing and stinging him?
It was embarrassing to say that Du Heng was a Jindan cultivator, but he was chased by a few bees and lost his armor. He had survived the Jindan thunder tribulation and could move freely among the monsters, but when faced with a small wasp, he could only run away.
He rushed out of the room, followed by countless buzzing wasps. Du Heng felt his limbs begin to go numb, and suddenly, his feet were empty. His consciousness was gradually peeling away, and the last thing he saw was the rotating stairs and the ground, and then everything returned to darkness.
When he woke up again, he felt that the world had become very small. He thought his eyes must be swollen. When he was a child, he had a stye. At that time, his eyelids were swollen to a slit. However, this time, it was not just his eyes that were swollen.
Du Heng groaned twice. He was in so much pain, it was more painful than being beaten by Pei Zhu and becoming paralyzed. His body felt like it was on fire, and as soon as he regained consciousness, he couldn't help but shed tears.
Xiaoxiao squatted beside Du Heng's head and chirped. Voices from all around came: "Wake up, wake up!"
Du Heng felt someone wiping his tears. He said shamelessly, "Don't get me wrong... These are physiological tears. I didn't want to cry..."
Xuan Yu looked at Du Heng, who was swollen twice, with heartache. He could hardly recognize Du Heng. He didn't dare to hug him. After hearing Du Heng's words, Xuan Yu felt so guilty that he couldn't even raise his head: "I'm sorry, it's all my fault."
Du Heng felt that his words were a little distorted, and he raised his hand with difficulty to look at it. His tears flowed even more violently. His hand was swollen beyond recognition, and his fingers were swollen and blue and purple like carrots.
Du Heng burst into tears: "I...what's wrong with me?"
Jing Nan stuffed a pill into Du Heng's mouth. His expression was the same as Xuan Yu's: "You were stung by a man-eating bee."
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The bees that attacked Du Heng are called man-eating bees. Just hearing the name, you know that they are not easy to mess with. They carry very aggressive bee venom, which feels like burning when it enters the body. They like to move in groups, have an impatient temper and will actively attack other creatures. People and animals dare not approach the area where they move.
When a group of man-eating bees are active, even a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage can be stung to death by them, let alone a cultivator like Du Heng who has just formed a Dan. They are particularly sensitive to the fluctuations of spiritual energy, and Du Heng's spiritual energy barrier is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire. Every year, cultivators in the cultivation world will mistakenly enter their territory, and when they are found, they are no longer in human form.
Du Heng was lucky. Yun Zheng and the others came back after he fainted, which prevented a greater tragedy from happening.
Yun Zheng knelt down in front of the bed and said, "Mr. Du, it's all my fault for being too careless and causing you to suffer."
Du Heng said proudly with tears in his eyes: "It has nothing to do with you. I just chased them away. If I had known that they loved to eat meat, I would have let them eat it."
Du Heng looked at Xuan Yu aggrievedly: "Xuan Yu, do you think I can be saved in this state?" After Jing Nan's pill entered his stomach, Du Heng felt that the pain was slightly relieved, but there was still a burning sensation on his body. Du Heng felt that he was about to die.
Xuan Yu gritted his teeth: "You will be fine." God knows how he felt when he saw the unconscious Du Heng. At that moment, his heart almost stopped.
Jing Nan's tone was quite cheerful, but his face looked very bad: "Don't worry, your poisoning is relatively mild. Take the medicine on time every day, and you will be fine in two or three days."
Du Heng groaned: "I said I was going to make stewed mutton..."
Xuan Yu reached out to touch Du Heng's face, but seeing the purple skin that was almost translucent, he retracted his hand: "Don't think about cooking, you should take good care of yourself these few days. Remember not to circulate your spiritual energy, otherwise the fire poison will follow the spiritual energy into the golden elixir."
Du Heng felt pain and grievance: "Why are the man-eating bees so unreasonable?!" This is too much. He just waved his hand and it swelled up like this. Dongji Mountain is really too dangerous!
Xiaoxiao didn't dare to get close to Du Heng. When his fur brushed against Du Heng's body, Du Heng felt a burning pain on his skin. However, Du Heng was still thinking about the ingredients on the platform. He said to Xuan Yu, "The sheep is still on the table..."
Xuan Yu said slowly: "Don't worry, I've packed it up. Have a good sleep, and you'll be well when you wake up."
However, it was not a good sleep, and Du Heng was groggy all night. He only knew that there was always someone watching over him, and Xuan Yu's spiritual energy slid over his skin again and again to clean up the cold sweat that flowed out of him. When he opened his eyes and looked over, he saw Xuan Yu's worried and self-blaming eyes.
At dawn, Du Heng was sweating a lot and felt that his swelling had subsided a little. Although his fingers were still not very flexible, they were much better than yesterday.
Xuan Yu and the others' voices came from the platform, and Du Heng got off the bed with a rustle. He looked at his feet and shed tears of sorrow, thinking that he must look very ugly now. Because his feet were not stung by the bees, they were also swollen and purple.
Du Heng felt sore with every step he took, but the pain was not unbearable. Seeing him get out of bed, Xiao Xiao ran over with a chirp. Apparently the elders had reminded Xiao Xiao not to touch Du Heng now. Xiao Xiao stood in front of Du Heng, tilting his head and looking at Du Heng with concern: "Chirp?"
Du Heng's face was still a little wooden, and he forced a smile, or maybe it wasn't a smile. Du Heng felt that his expression must be more ferocious, otherwise Xiaoxiao wouldn't look so terrified.
Xuan Yu used his gentle spiritual energy to lift Du Heng to the platform. He let Du Heng lie flat on the recliner on the platform: "You came just in time. We have caught the culprit who caused you to be like this."
Du Heng pretended to look over his shoulder. He saw Feng Gui and the others with gloomy faces. On the ground in front of the group of people was a fiery red barrier, and there was a shadow in the barrier. Looking closely, it was a beehive!
There should be a shrinking formation in the barrier. Du Heng saw many small black dots flying next to the beehive. Looking closely, those small black dots were the man-eating bees that stung him yesterday! There were too many man-eating bees. If they hadn't flown in groups like black smoke, Du Heng probably wouldn't have been able to find them.
Comparing the size of the man-eating bee swarm and the beehive, Du Heng was shocked. If the beehive in the barrier returned to its normal size, it might be bigger than his home in the village!
Feng Gui's calm voice concealed deep anger and guilt: "They stung you, I think you should decide how to deal with them."
Yun Zheng said with shame: "I raised this group of man-eating bees when I was stationed in Dongji Mountain. I originally wanted to have another kind of vicious creature to threaten the monks. I never thought that they would grow stronger and stronger without any rivals in the mountain over the years. Now they have hurt Mr. Du. I am to blame for this."
Du Heng waved his hand and said, "Don't say that. It's not your fault. But there are so many bees and they eat meat. The small animals in the forest must have been harmed by them."
Feng Gui said: "Anyway, we can't keep this nest of man-eating bees. If we allow them to grow stronger, Dongji Mountain will become their world."
Jing Nan said slowly, "I want bee venom and beehives for medicine. Just leave some for me when you burn them."
The demon gods have already made their decision, and Du Heng has nothing to say.
At this time, Xiaoxiao started chirping and expressing his opinions. He kept chirping in the direction of Du Heng for a long time, but Du Heng didn't understand what he meant.
Xuan Yu translated, "Xiao Xiao said that the man-eating bees in this season have delicious bee pupae. Xiao Xiao asked if you want to try the pupae. He can help you get some out."
Du Heng became excited: "Bee pupae, I eat them." When he was a child, he had eaten bee pupae fried in oil by Du's mother. The texture was crispy and soft, and Du Heng still felt it was delicious.
After hearing what Du Heng said, Jing Nan and the others looked at each other. It seemed that they would have to choose bee pupae next.
Feng Gui opened a hole in the barrier, and the man-eating bees rushed out as if they had found an outlet, but they all rushed into Jing Nan's alchemy furnace. There was only a buzzing sound in the alchemy furnace, and when the spiritual fire in the alchemy furnace began to operate, there was a bang in the furnace, and then there was no movement.
After a while, Jing Nan extracted a fist-sized ball of fiery red liquid. He carefully placed the liquid in a jade bottle: "This bee venom is thousands of years old. Whoever touches it will be unlucky."
Seeing the sinister smile on Jing Nan's face, Du Heng couldn't help but shudder. Yesterday, a few bees knocked Du Heng down, and today the entire hive fell into the hands of Jing Nan and his friends. This is the law of the jungle in nature, right?
Xuan Yu turned the spiritual energy in his hand, and a group of bee pupae flew out of the beehive. The pupae fell into the wooden basin that had been placed beside them. Some of these pupae were still white and tender, some were milky white and curled up bees, and some had grown colors and were no different from adult bees.
Soon, five large basins of bee pupae appeared beside Xuan Yu. He said to Jing Nan, "The bottom layer has been dealt with."
Jing Nan nodded and moved his fingers. Du Heng saw a hole in the honeycomb in the barrier, and the bottom layer of honeycomb was put into Jing Nan's storage bag.
Du Heng was shocked. Just one layer of honeycomb produced so many pupae. A whole honeycomb was so big, how many pupae could be packed in it? How long would they have to eat?
Du Heng subconsciously looked towards the wooden basin, only to see Feng Gui and Xiao Xiao squatting beside a wooden basin and eating bee pupae. Feng Gui grabbed a handful and threw them into his mouth, while Xiao Xiao lowered his head and was no slower than his uncle. After a while, the uncle and nephew finished most of the basin of bee pupae.
Seeing Du Heng staring at the two of them in amazement, Feng Gui scratched his hair suspiciously: "Why are you looking at me? Do you want to try it? It's a little sweet when eaten raw."
As he spoke, Feng Gui put a handful of live bee pupae in Du Heng's hand. Du Heng almost exploded: "Take it away! Take it away!!"
In fact, Du Heng is a bit afraid of insects, which was already evident when he fried caterpillars. Every time he helped Xiaoxiao fry insects, he only dared to pick up the insects with chopsticks. Before the pupae of the man-eating bee turned into bees, they looked like giant maggots.
Du Heng watched them wriggling in his hands. Through their slightly transparent skin, he could see their internal organs moving. Du Heng almost died on the spot! It was so scary.
Feng Gui stood beside Jing Nan holding a handful of bee pupae. He pinched a larva and handed it to Jing Nan: "This is good. It can burst into liquid." Jing Nan actually turned his head and took the food from Feng Gui. The scene was so beautiful that Du Heng almost vomited.
The bee pupae that Du Heng could accept were those that were fried in oil. The fried bee pupae were golden in color, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Of course, they would also feel like bursting, but at least the insects were already dead when they burst.
A feast began. Du Heng, with a bruised face, set up a big pot on the platform. Xuan Yu was cleaning bee pupae beside him. When the washed bee pupae were still twisting their buttocks in the colander, Du Heng ruthlessly threw them into the oil pot.
Although his movements were still slow, he had to admit that being able to throw the man-eating bee larvae into the oil pan with his own hands gave Du Heng a sense of revenge. Du Heng used a colander to push the bee pupae in the pan while spitting on himself. He was indeed still an ordinary person who could not forgive the things that hurt him.
The fried bee pupae were piled up in the plate in golden color. Just sprinkled with a little fine salt, the aroma would make the generals salivate.
Zhou Xiyue and the others rubbed their hands together: "It smells so good, so fried insects smell so good?"
Feng Gui smiled and said, "You are half-feathered, how can you have never eaten insects? Come on, don't be polite!" Xuan Yu said, "The Zhou brothers have not yet completely transformed into Peng, and are still in the form of fish."
Feng Gui proudly scooped two spoonfuls of fried bee pupae from the Zhou brothers' bowls. The Zhou brothers looked at the various bee pupae in the bowls and bowed respectfully: "Thank you, Mr. Feng."
Xuan Yu scooped a spoonful of fried bee pupae from Du Heng's bowl. He asked with concern, "Are you feeling a lot of pain? Can you eat the bee pupae?"
Du Heng angrily took a spoonful of bee pupae and stuffed it into his mouth: "Of course!"
The bee pupa tasted delicious, just like what Du Heng remembered, and the shell of the man-eating bee pupa was also crispy. After taking a bite, the taste in Du Heng's mouth was magical. There was fine salt on the shell of the bee pupa, but the inside of the bee pupa was sweet. Some larvae would burst in the mouth when bitten, while the larvae that were close to adulthood were indeed crispy.
This is a delicious dish that you can't stop eating. If you have some wine...
Du Heng suddenly remembered his green plum wine. He turned his head to Xuan Yu and said, "Xiao Yu, shall we try the green plum wine?"
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The temperature was neither too hot nor too cold during the time when the green plum wine was brewed, so Du Heng placed the green plum wine on the terrace for a while. Compared with the naturally brewed green plum wine, the current green plum wine should be drinkable.
Xuan Yu quickly took out a jar of green plum wine, opened the lid and seal, and a faint aroma of wine wafted out. Feng Gui and Jing Nan's eyes immediately lit up: "Hey~"
Du Heng took out a teapot and explained, "If you drink green plum wine directly, it may not suit your appetite. Besides, this wine has not been sealed for long enough. It usually needs to be sealed for more than a year. I will take it out first and let everyone taste it. If everyone likes it, you can share the remaining wine."
The green plum wine had not been brewed for long enough, and when it was poured out, it had a slightly amber color. The fragrance of green plums spread faintly, and Feng Gui took a sip from the cup. He frowned slightly, "It's a bit strong."
The taste of the wine was different from what he thought. If it was wine, it had a sweet and sour taste. If it was juice, it had a wine taste.
Du Heng smiled and said, "I told you, it doesn't taste good if you drink it directly, you need to mix it a little bit."
Du Heng used two kinds of materials to blend green plum wine. One was the white wine he brewed himself. He took two spoons of green plum wine and added one spoon of white wine to it. After a slight shake, the color of the wine turned light yellow.
Feng Gui took another sip this time and raised his eyebrows: "Well, it tastes right!" It's more than just the taste that's right. After the green plum wine is blended with the white wine, the white wine has a fruity aroma, and the sour and sweet taste of the green plum wine is diluted and becomes mellow.
Jing Nan gave high praise: "It tastes much better than the fruit wine made by Jiu Zhongxian!"
Du Heng said cheerfully: "Not only you can drink it, Xiaoxiao can drink it too."
When Xiaoxiao heard that she could drink it, her eyes sparkled like light bulbs. Du Heng said to Xuan Yu, "Let Xiaoxiao mix the peach juice I made earlier into the green plum wine."
Xuan Yu asked, "How much should be added?" Du Heng looked at Xiao Xiao and said, "One spoonful of green plum wine and two spoonfuls of peach juice."
Xiaoxiao soon drank the blended green plum wine. To be honest, he felt that he liked peach juice more. Chonghua unexpectedly liked the taste: "Ah, it tastes so good~"
Du Heng said: "There are many ways to drink green plum wine. In winter, you can add water to green plum wine and cook it slowly on a clay stove, while chatting with three or two friends. In summer, you can add ice cubes to green plum wine, and the taste is different. This wine can be drunk all year round. Do you think it tastes good?"
Zhou Lianhua was extremely regretful: "Mr. Du, if I had known earlier that you had this skill, our Zhou family shop would have sold nothing else but the wine you brewed, and we would have made a lot of money."
Xuan Yu said calmly: "Du Heng's craftsmanship is not to be passed on to others, it's good enough for our own people to know about it."
Feng Gui placed his hands on the wine jar and asked Du Heng, "You just said that green plum wine needs to be brewed for at least a year to have a strong flavor?" Du Heng nodded, "Yes, if it can be brewed for two or three years, the taste will be even better."
As soon as he finished speaking, the spiritual light in Feng Gui's hands flowed, and the fiery red spiritual light jumped around the jar, blinding people in an instant. After Feng Gui put down his hands, he said to Xuan Yu: "I accelerated time, now let's take a look at what the green plum wine looks like."
Xuan Yu scooped a spoonful of green plum wine into the wine pot. This time everyone could clearly see the change of the wine. The green plum wine Xuan Yu scooped out before was amber in color, but now it was brownish red. The change in color is only one aspect, the most important thing is the change in taste. The brownish red green plum wine has a stronger aroma and a mellower taste.
After adding the liquor, the aroma of the liquor and the plum blossoms blended more perfectly. At this time, the sourness of the plums had been precipitated by time, and the fragrance lingered in Min's mouth. Feng Gui felt that he had used the time acceleration technique perfectly!
Jing Nan was very happy: "Fortunately, we picked the plums from those trees on Nanshan Mountain. I remember you made 18 jars of green plum wine?"
Du Heng ate the bee pupae and nodded. He felt a little regretful: "I don't know if the peach forest is still there."
If the peach forest was still there, when they finished their wandering and returned to the village, he could make green plum wine again when the flowers bloomed and plums were ripe. If the peach forest was gone, then...
Jing Nan smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll plant some plum trees after we get back."
Du Heng looked at Jing Nan. Yes, Jing Nan and Feng Gui didn't have time to pack anything when they escaped this time. What else could he say?
Du Heng said with a smile: "Everyone should take two jars of plum wine home later, and you can take them out and drink them in winter. Oh, and don't waste the plums in them, you can eat them directly or save them to cook pork ribs."
Xuan Yu took out a few plums from the jar. The wrinkled plums were grayish yellow in color. Although they didn't look very good, they tasted surprisingly good. A bite of them was full of the aroma of wine.
After eating bee pupae and drinking green plum wine, everyone was in a very good mood. A group of people took out the beehive and put the pupae into the storage bag of living things. Du Heng had never seen so many bee pupae. He felt that if they only used bee pupae for cooking, everyone would have to eat for ten days or half a month.
After dinner, Du Heng felt that the bee venom in his body was fading and his numbness was easing. He raised his hand and saw that his fingers were not so swollen anymore. Maybe in the evening, he would be able to make stewed mutton for everyone.
When Du Heng was lying on the recliner basking in the autumn sunshine, he heard the sound of flapping wings. He thought it was Xiaoxiao jumping onto the armrest to play with him, but when he opened his eyes, he saw Niannian Suisui jumping onto the armrest from the left and right.
Nianniansuisui had been releasing goslings recently. They watched the dozen goslings together with Xiaowonton. Two half-grown chicks, one holding a large loach and the other holding a large crab. When they saw Du Heng open his eyes, they considerately threw the loach and crab onto Du Heng's chest.
The loach and crabs twisted and slithered away from Du Heng, and the chicks chased them back and threw them on Du Heng's chest. After a few attempts, Du Heng understood the meaning of "nianniansuisui". They were imitating the kitten to give Du Heng something!
Du Heng happily reached out his hand and touched the down feathers of Nian Nian and Sui Sui: "Oh, thank you Nian Nian and Sui Sui, you are so kind!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several large loaches appeared next to Du Heng's recliner. Du Heng saw a kitten in the bushes wagging its thick long tail. He squinted his eyes and smiled, "Thanks to our kitten too! So cute!"
Feng Gui pondered and said, "I've noticed before that Du Heng always likes to imagine things." Jing Nan chuckled and said, "Don't tell him, he's very beautiful."
Du Heng thought that it was a gift, but Jing Nan and the others didn't see it that way. In Jing Nan's view, the reason why he gave him the living animals he raised was because he was afraid that he would starve to death because he couldn't find food. However, seeing how happy Du Heng was, everyone tacitly decided not to tell him.
The huge beehive had thirty-three layers, and the pupae taken out filled two storage bags. Among the pupae were some larvae that were about to turn into adult bees, and the toxicity of these bees was not as strong as that of adult bees. Jing Nan collected several kilograms of them. After thinking about it, he asked Du Heng, "Du Heng, have you ever tried to make wine with poisonous bees?"
Du Heng shook his head: "No." However, when he was in his hometown, he saw some people using snakes, insects, rats and ants to make wine. It was said that the wine made from it was very effective in treating rheumatism and the like. Du Heng had never made it, let alone drunk it.
Jing Nan said, "I think you can try to use this to make wine. These bees are not as toxic as adult bees. If you soak them in wine, there will be a little bee venom in the wine. Take a small drink every day, and you will have some resistance to bee venom in the future."
Just like the caterpillars that Xiaoxiao ate, although changing the way they are eaten will greatly reduce the toxicity of the caterpillars, but a little bit of accumulation will eventually achieve the desired effect.
Jing Nan and the others were scared. There were too many uncontrollable dangers in the world of cultivation. Even under their noses, Du Heng could get hurt. As long as there was a way to make Du Heng safer, Jing Nan and the others would do it.
Feng Gui didn't want to talk at first, but he held back and said, "With Du Heng's alcohol tolerance, aren't you afraid that he will get drunk and crazy after eating?"
Jing Nan looked at Xuan Yu and said, "Xiao Yu, you are responsible for watching him. How about only allowing him to have one drink before going to bed?"
Xuan Yu took the storage bag containing the man-eating bees: "Okay, I will supervise him to drink it."
In the evening, Du Heng's swelling finally subsided, but now he was dark and not as handsome as usual. Du Heng didn't mind, as long as he could run and jump, he was thankful.
A large pot of mutton was cooked in the big pot on the platform. Du Heng needed to use cooked mutton to cook the stewed mutton and boiled meat. The aroma of meat filled the cave, but Du Heng always felt that something was missing.
I remember! He had been eating meat for the past two days, and he had no vegetables. Looking at the mutton bubbling in the pot, Du Heng decided to go out and try his luck.
He said to Xuan Yu, "Xiao Yu, let's go to the mountain and see if there are any fresh vegetables we can pick." At worst, there is a patch of wild leeks near Chonghua's house. It would be nice to pick some tender leek shoots and stir-fry them with eggs!
Xuan Yu agreed to Du Heng's request without saying anything, but he confirmed Du Heng's physical condition again and again: "Do you still feel uncomfortable?"
Du Heng moved his arms and kicked his legs: "It's great! I feel quite relaxed." Du Heng was not lying, he really felt that after being hit by the bee venom, his body felt lighter.
There are some people in his hometown who use bee stings to treat certain diseases. Du Heng wondered, could it be that he turned a disaster into a blessing and inadvertently strengthened his body?
Xuan Yu carried the backpack and pulled Du Heng out of the cave with one hand. Xiaoxiao squatted in the backpack and acted as a light bulb again. After they came out of the cave, he kept urging Xuan Yu to hurry up.
Looking at the backs of the three people leaving, Jing Nan smiled and said, "Xixi, if we don't have the ability to return to the position of demon god, and have to keep wandering like this, would you feel uncomfortable?"
Feng Gui rolled his eyes and said, "Don't call me Xixi." After a while, Feng Gui said, "As long as I can make him happy, I don't care whether I am a demon god or not.
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