Chapter 76: Stealing rations, you deserve it
But after a moment, he felt a little swelling and pain in his upper lip, thinking that the bee's stinger was still there.
Zhou Huaian felt that his upper lip must be swollen, "I'm kind enough to leave all my descendants for you, why are you still staring at me?"
Xu Erchun gloated, "You stole all their food rations, and you won't let them sting you to vent their anger!"
Zhou Huaian was too lazy to pay attention to this gloating guy, muttering, "You dare to sting me? Wait until my wife makes the bee hat. Next time I will come fully armed to steal your rations. See how you sting me, Xiao Hei!"
Xu Erchun rolled his eyes when he heard this. "Youngest, hurry up! The black bees that were smoked away are still on that tree over there. They will counterattack at any time when the smoke clears!"
"There's only a little left, pack up your things!"
"Yes!" Xu Erchun put all the medicine hoe, machete and other things into his backpack, stretched his neck to look at him, waiting for him to come down.
Zhou Huaian cut off the last section of honey comb, quickly put it into the urea bag, tied the hemp rope around his waist, and quickly slid down from the tree to the ground. "Go, go, go, run quickly, or you won't be able to escape if you run slower!"
Xu Erchun picked up the backpack, and the two of them ran down the mountain, stopping only after running more than a hundred meters.
The two men sat down on the ground, panting heavily.
"Haha..." Xu Erchun turned his head and looked at Zhou Huaian, "Look at you like this, it will be strange if your sister-in-law recognizes you when you go back!"
"Hiss, hiss!" Zhou Huaian touched his raised upper lip, "Help me pull out the bee sting quickly!"
Xu Erchun suppressed his laughter and took a closer look. He only saw a small brown dot. "Oh no, I can't pull it out."
Zhou Huaian looked around and saw some mountain-dripping whips over there. He went over and plucked a few and said to Xu Erchun proudly, "Do you know that mountain-dripping whips are also herbal medicine? My wife said that this thing has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying."
"Your wife isn't a doctor, how does she know that this thing can clear away heat and detoxify?"
"My wife is not a doctor, but my father-in-law is a barefoot doctor. He even studied with Dr. Wang in the city for two years!"
As Zhou Huaian spoke, he crushed the mountain-driving whip, squeezed out the juice and smeared it on his forehead and lips where he had been stung by the black bee.
"Oh my god, oh haha..." Xu Erchun looked at his green forehead and green lips, holding his belly and rolling on the ground with laughter, "Go back and take a look in the mirror. You have a green lip and a green forehead. You look just like a green frog in the rice field!"
"Get away from me." Zhou Huaian kicked him with a smile, "This is medicine, you know?" After a moment, he said, "You know what, it feels cool and comfortable after applying it!"
Xu Erchun looked at him and felt uncomfortable trying not to laugh. "That's good. It proves that this thing is really useful!"
"Of course you don't want to either, my father-in-law is a barefoot doctor!"
"That's awesome!" Xu Erchun said as he came closer to him, with a flattering look on his face, "Brother, introduce your sister-in-law to me. From now on, we brothers will be the ones to choose!"
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him, "When you miss my sister-in-law, call her brother, and when you don't, call her youngest?"
Xu Erchun looked at him and wanted to laugh but could only hold it back. "For the sake of our friendship in the past when we were wearing open-crotch pants and played in the mud together, and for the sake of our friendship in dealing with the third and youngest bears together since we were young... introduce your sister-in-law to me!"
"I have only met my cousin twice. I heard she is studying in a medical school. It may be difficult for your child to find her."
"What's wrong with studying in a medical school? You still need to find a partner!" Xu Erchun stood up, holding his head high and standing in front of Zhou Huaian, "Look at this young man, he is very talented. Who wouldn't like him?"
Zhou Huaian tilted his head and squinted at him, "Fuck you, you're far inferior to me!"
Xu Erchun looked at him and couldn't help laughing again, "Your cousin, your cousin..."
“Look at my fast feet…” Zhou Huaian supported himself with his hands and kicked forward, “I’ll dodge…” Xu Erchun dodged, and Zhou Huaian fell to the ground with a thud. The two looked at each other and laughed, scaring away a group of birds on the branches!
After stopping laughing, Xu Erchun said, "Go back and talk to my sister-in-law. If it works out, it works out. If it doesn't, forget it."
Zhou Huaian patted him on the shoulder and said, "For the sake of our long-term brotherhood, I, your brother, will find a chance to speak for you based on the principle of keeping the wealth within the family!"
"Yes!" Xu Erchun picked up the backpack, and the two of them walked down the mountain laughing.
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Yang Chunyan and Zhou's mother had already made all the mosquito coils. Zhou Xiaolin and Zhou Jiakang stood around the dustpan and looked at it curiously, secretly poking at it with their little fingers.
Zhou's mother reminded him from time to time, "Xiaoyao, don't poke it to pieces, it will get dark and the bugs will get stung!"
Zhou Xiaolin quickly retracted her hand, ran to her mother, pointed at the small red bump, and said, "Grandma, a bug bit my hand!"
"Grandma, blow it!"
"Grandma, I have one too!" Zhou Jiakang said as he ran over.
Yang Chunyan held a section of steel wire, smiling as she watched the wire coils used to hold mosquito coils. She put down the last wire coil and said, "Mom, I'm going to the back hill to help my sister-in-law and the others water the plants."
"Yes! I'll take out the pig intestines and cook the lettuce with them. Is that okay with you?"
"Sure! Everything you cook is delicious!"
After hearing this, Zhou's mother smiled with wrinkles all over her face. She took the youngest child, Zhou Xiaolin, by the hand and said, "Let's go pick lettuce with grandma."
Yang Chunyan went to the backyard, picked up a load of dung buckets, pushed open the back door and walked towards the ditch at the bottom of the hill.
The water source in the ravine where the mountain is located dries up during droughts, and the family has to carry water to irrigate dozens of acres of land.
One year, there was no proper rain from the beginning of the Chinese New Year to May after the Chinese New Year, and all the corn and sorghum in the fields dried up.
Later, people built several reservoirs on the embankment. They filled the reservoirs when there was plenty of water in the rainy season and used them to irrigate the fields during the dry season.
Yang Chunyan thought that she could start building the water tank when she finished renovating her house at the end of the year.
Zhao Huifang came up carrying a load of water, "Chunyan, why don't you take a nap?"
"No need!" Yang Chunyan looked at her, "Is the dung scoop by the ditch?"
There were no plastic products those days, and the dung scoops used by country people were all wooden dung scoops bought from coopers.
After buying it, find a bamboo pole that is just over two meters long and can be held in one hand, and fix it in the two round holes of the dung scoop. Only a dung scoop with such a long handle can scoop out the dung water at the bottom of the dung pit that is more than two meters deep.
"Yes, Xiuxiang is still by the ditch!"
"You go up first." Yang Chunyan stepped aside and waited for Zhao Huifang to go over before she carried the bucket and walked towards the ditch under the edge.
When she got there, she saw that the water in the ditch was also very shallow. "If it doesn't rain again, the water in this ditch will dry up!"
Zhang Xiuxiang looked at the sky and said, "The old man said his knees hurt a little. It might rain in the next two days."
"When it rains, we can go up the mountain to pick mushrooms. Did you find a chicken mushroom nest last year?"
"Yes, there is a large nest of chicken mushrooms in the mountain nest below the first beam."
"I've watered the cornfield. Let's go inside and take a look tomorrow. Maybe there will be some chicken mushrooms there!"
"Yes!" Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and filled the dung bucket that Yang Chunyan had put down with water. The two of them carried the dung bucket up the mountain.
(End of this chapter)
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