"Big brother, the honey is gone this year. Wu Cuimei said, "However, there are also some August taro and sweet potatoes, if you want, then bring some back." ”

August taro is actually a small taro.

Small taro is planted in the mountains, dug and harvested in August, and as long as it is properly preserved, it can be stored until the next year when the taro is planted.

Although there is no honey at home this year, there are still a lot of crops such as taro and sweet potatoes.

When the uncle heard that there was no honey and sweet potato taro, he was also very happy, and hurriedly followed Wu Cuimei to pick up most of the bags of taro and sweet potato.

The eldest uncle picked it up, and the second uncle had to pick it up.

After the two of them each picked up a bag of taro and a bag of sweet potatoes, they hurriedly called their son to carry it.

The uncle only had one son to follow, so Liu Qingshan had to take a hand and help deliver the sweet potatoes to the car.

Because there is a ramp dozens of meters long from the cement village road to the yard. The ramp is narrow and cannot be used by four-wheeled vehicles, so the car driven by the uncle and others can only be parked on the flat ground at the end of the cement village road.

The car that came today was my second cousin's car, a brand new white BMW.

Oh no, it's Baojun.

As long as you are willing to work hard, the car and the house will come sooner or later. The uncle patted the white van quite proudly and said, "Look at your second cousin, who has to raise three or four children, and now he has not only built a house, but also bought a car, you have to learn more from your second cousin, do you know?"

Liu Qingshan nodded and didn't smile.

After all, I don't even have a car wheel now, so I can't really laugh.

Moreover, what the uncle said is right, the second cousin raised three children and one grandson, built a new house, and bought a new car, so he was really a very hard-working person.

No wonder he was so picky, he came to the house for the festival today and came empty-handed, and brought a box of eight-treasure porridge to his second uncle's house. If you don't cut the door to the extreme, how can you save so much money?

Seeing that Liu Qingshan didn't speak, the uncle continued to boast: "This car costs fifty or sixty thousand, Qingshan, if you work hard, work hard for four or five years, you will definitely be able to afford it." ”

Liu Qingshan: ......

After sending off his uncle and others, Liu Qingshan returned home and told his parents about his uncle's smug look just now.

My mother smiled and said, "Your uncle is this virtue, don't be like him." ”

"I know. Liu Qingshan nodded, "But, then again, if there is honey at home, Mom, will you give it to my uncle?"

Wu Cuimei said without thinking: "If there is one, what if you give him one or two catties." ”

"Alas. Liu Qingshan sighed, "Fortunately, there is no one at home." ”

"No, it's a good thing I didn't look for honey this year, otherwise I would have lost your mother again. Liu Yuanhe also expressed his dissatisfaction, "Honey is so expensive, if you sell it, it will be money, and it will be given to them for nothing, what can they get except for saying two good words to you?"

Wu Cuimei snorted disapprerovingly: "Hmph, what do you know? No matter how expensive honey is, it's not for people to eat, and if you eat it, it's gone, but family affection is for a lifetime, if you have it at home, what's wrong with giving them a little." ”

Forget it, reasoning with women won't work.

However, then again, it's the winter solstice, and there should be a lot of wild honey after a year of accumulation.

Although the mountains and forests around the village have been largely cleared by mountain people, it is difficult to find wild honeycombs, but as long as you go to a place a little deeper in the mountains, it is estimated that you can still find wild honey.

The village chief's honey is also wild. Because it is not only the wild bees that come to build the nests, but also the wild bees that collect nectar.

However, his beehives are placed in the mountains around the village, with limited plant species, limited flowers, and lack of natural accumulation and precipitation, and their value is much lower than that of wild honey that is actually native to the deep mountains and old forests.

Therefore, if even the village chief's honey can be sold for 200 yuan a catty, then the truly wild deep mountain honey is estimated to be sold for 300 yuan a catty.

Thinking about it like this, Liu Qingshan lay on the bed and couldn't sleep.

It's not that I can't sleep because I think about the deliciousness of wild honey, but because I can't sleep because I think about the value of wild honey.

Just imagine, in the endless deep mountains and old forests behind Xishan Village, how much honey must be stored. If he can find this honey and exchange it for money, let alone buy a car, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to buy a house in the city.

Of course, it would be too far to boast about going to the county seat to buy a new house or something.

After all, he hasn't even achieved the small goal of buying a car yet.

However, Liu Qingshan is not worried. Because now he has thought of another way to find money - honey.

Early in the morning, Liu Qingshan was cleaning plastic buckets in the patio.

Wu Cuimei got up, followed the sound of the water, and saw her son squatting in the patio washing the plastic bucket with a water hose while scrubbing it with a brush, and couldn't help but wonder: "Qingshan, what are you doing early in the morning?"

The day had not yet dawned, and the light of the energy-saving lamps in the hall was scattered in the patio, hazy, as if everything had not yet woken up from sleep, except for the silly and smiling man, and the tireless stream of water in his hand separated the quiet and exhaustion of the night from the sobriety of an outsider.

Liu Qingshan looked at his mother with a smile, and said with some excitement: "Mom, I have thought about it, I won't dig the three forks first, I will go into the mountains to find honey today." ”

"Huh?" Wu Cuimei didn't expect her son to want to come out one by one, and she couldn't help but be a little worried and surprised, "Qingshan, why do you have so many things?" I dug the three forks before, saying that I wanted to sell them for the New Year's Festival, and I won't talk about you, but now, your three forks haven't been sold yet, why did you think of looking for honey again?"

"Mom, it's not in the way to find honey. ”

"However, you can't do things so half-heartedly, you have to be serious. ”

"Mom, I'm not serious. The three forks are New Year's flowers, and they can only be sold when the Chinese New Year is approaching. Moreover, I have now dug up a lot and come back, enough to sell. In a small place like ours, it would be nice to be able to sell the big three-prongs that I dug up. So I think it's okay if you don't dig it yet, anyway, there are no barefoot doctors digging medicine now, and it's safe for them to grow deep in the mountains. ”

Liu Qingshan's explanation made Wu Cuimei frown slightly: "But, Qingshan, there shouldn't be any wild honey in the mountains now." ”

However, the mountains around the village have been seriously cultivated in recent years, many large trees and mountains have been damaged, and the original wild bees have also been lured into artificial beehives, and it is really difficult to find wild honey around the village.

"Mom, don't worry, I don't plan to look around the village, I plan to look for it from a distance. Liu Qingshan recalled, "When I went into the mountains to look for wild boars and three forks before, I was optimistic about the route, in the deeper mountains, there are still many wild forests, and the deeper you go, the more wild forests there are, the denser they are, and there must be a lot of wild honey in those places." ”

"Deep Mountain?" Wu Cuimei was immediately startled, "Qingshan, are you still planning to go to Deep Mountain?"

Liu Qingshan had a black face: "Mom, don't keep talking about my ass, is it okay? Besides, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get a tiger?"

Wu Cuimei: "Ah, what? are you going to fight tigers?"

Liu Qingshan: ......