Ge Jinhua covered her head with her coat, stretched out the sleeves to cover her hands, and fully armed herself, lit the wet wood and walked to the lychee tree. She cleared a space and lit the mixed wet and dry leaves with the wood.
After it was lit, she quickly hid as well.
A cloud of smoke rose up, stinging people's eyes. The bees in the hive buzzed around the hive after smelling the smoke, but couldn't stand it any longer and flew away.
When Sun Yu and Su Meihua arrived with two clean enamel basins, most of the hive had been smoke-smokeed away, and only a few bees were still flying around it.
"All three of you step back, or you might get stung and leave scars."
Ge Jinhua took the cotton gloves from Su Meihua's hand, covered her head, and went to harvest honey.
Despite taking precautions, the bees were still quite fierce; Ge Jinhua was stung even though she was wearing gloves.
Fortunately, after some hard work, they finally managed to cut down all the honeycomb, and the two enamel basins were almost full.
Ge Jinhua didn't cut down all the beehives; she left a portion on the tree so the bees wouldn't leave and could harvest honey again next time they came.
Amber-colored honey flowed from the honeycomb in the enamel basin, and it smelled faintly of lychee; it was top-quality lychee honey.
All four were very happy and returned home laden with honey. They went straight down the mountain to Su Meihua's house to share the honey.
The honey was divided into three portions: one portion for Aunt Ge and Sister-in-law Sun Yu, and one portion each for Yu Yao and Su Meihua.
At first, they were going to split the honey equally, but Su Meihua disagreed: "I've already gotten a great deal by getting the honey, how can we split it equally? The honey was discovered by Shiliu, and Aunt Ge found a way to harvest it, so both of you should get a larger share. Just give me the smaller portion."
Seeing that she insisted, Yu Yao and Aunt Ge didn't say anything more and each took their share.
The trip up the mountain was very fruitful, and all four of them were very happy.
Just as Sister-in-law Sun Yu and the others were about to leave, Yu Yao remembered something and quickly called out to them, "Sister-in-law Sun Yu, Sister-in-law Meihua, you've been staying in the family compound for a long time. Are there any people in the army who speak German?"
“German?” Sun Yu paused. “I do think of someone.”
"who?"
"The capitalist's daughter, Yin Susu, the lover of Deputy Commander Zhou."
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