Didi was tragic, and along with other two- and three-year-old children in the village, he was ordered "Huahua" by the doctor from the commune health center, that is, to plant cowpox. After checking on the Internet, the state did not end the epidemic prevention of cowpox until 1983.

After two days of low-grade fever, Didi was sluggish all day long and had no energy, which is a normal reaction to vaccinating cowpox. I don't go there anymore, I play with him at home, and secretly take out all kinds of rare toys to coax him.

Grandma went to Zhangji to catch up with the market on the sixth day of the first month, and specially bought honey as a "hair thing", in fact, it was to eat something good, increase nutrition, and sent some to Zhiyong of the second uncle's family, and he also planted cowpox.

Didi was sick and hadn't forgotten her sister, so she took a sip of honey water and gave it to Youyou: "Sister, sweet, you drink." "It moved Yoyo to a mess.

You tasted it, the honey is sweet and sweet, this is the real honey, not to mention the various blended honey in later generations, even if you buy thousands of yuan a pound of pure honey, it can't be compared with the current one.

Yoyo asked grandma where she bought it, and grandma said that in the past few days, children have "dotted flowers", and there are sales on the set. Honey is a "hair thing", a dime a tael, and people who have "flowery" children at home will buy it for two cents.

In order to let grandma buy more, Yoyo popularized the nutrition and value of honey to grandma. Grandma smiled when she heard it: "Grandma knows, it's not a hard life, I didn't think about it for a while, I will buy you more in the next episode." ”

"Grandma, don't buy it for me, everyone in our family drinks it. "Yoyo corrected.

"Drink it all, your parents are reluctant, take your time, it's much stronger than before. Grandma said contentedly.

Shuikeng Commune is the market day on the third eighth day of the lunar calendar, and you can't wait for the eleventh to go to Zhangji, and let your grandmother take it to Shuikeng on the eighth day of the new year.

The watering hole is seven miles away from Hantun and is east of Hantun. Over the Yellow River embankment, all the way to Meizhuang, more than two miles in the middle, are spring land. There are a piece of saline-alkali white flowers everywhere, and there is not even a tree on the road, and grandma said that the saline is too large to be planted.

Grandma told Yoyo that in the villages outside the beach next to the embankment of the Yellow River, the cultivated land is saline-alkali land, and only salinity-resistant cotton can be grown. If it weren't for the fact that there was some arable land in the beach, it would be impossible to live. As a result, villages are also quite scarce.

After Meizhuang, it is a puddle, and there is no village in the middle. However, the arable land seems to be much better, and with large wheat fields, wheat is not growing well, but at least it can be planted.

Shuikengji is much smaller than Zhangji, more than 1,000 people, just a supply and marketing cooperative, non-staple food, agricultural materials, bookstores are all together, opposite the restaurant and the purchase station.

The honey seller was an old man in his sixties, and the honey was packed in a ceramic jar of about ten catties. The people who buy honey bring their own clean rice bowls, and no one asks the price, most of them cost two cents. Weigh the rice bowl first, and then use a drain to put honey into the bowl. The old man grasped the amount quite accurately, and it was basically just right.

It seems that the price is now the same not only for public goods, but also for private goods. Youyou heard the old man count: "It's enough for two taels." ”

Yoyo and Grandma walked around the market for a while, and when the people were almost done, Grandma asked the old man: "Old man, what kind of honey are you?"

"Miscellaneous nectar, now and not the same as before, you can't go out to put honey, but you can only cut some miscellaneous nectar, and the acacia nectar and jujube nectar in the later days are still pure. "The old man is quite down-to-earth.

"Do you have anything at home?" asked him.

"There are still ten pounds, how many do you want?"

Grandma told him that he went to the city to visit relatives, and wanted to bring some rare things, so he was ready to buy more, ten catties and twenty catties.

"Then you buy a jar at the supply and marketing cooperative, clean it, and buy it at my house. My family is in Caozhuang, just go to the embankment house to find me. I sell it for a dollar and a pound, and I have to fold (she) scales. You want more, eight cents a pound. "The old man is simply.

Grandma bought two jars that could hold ten catties, let Youyou put them into the space and wash them, and took Youyou to Caozhuang.

Cao Zhuang is in the north of Shuikeng Commune, two miles away from Shuikeng Road, and is also close to the embankment. The old man who sold honey and his wife lived in the embankment house. Outside, there are four beehives, and swarms of bees fly in and out.

The old man had already returned, and when he saw his grandmother coming, he hurriedly moved out of the jar containing the honey. After weighing, there are still fourteen catties, and grandma has to come down.

Grandma asked him, "Brother, how many catties of honey can you harvest in a year with these four boxes of bees?"

"It's not much, one box can cut thirty catties a year, and these four boxes of bees are enough for my old couple to spend money. The old man said contentedly.

"Okay, I sell 100 yuan of honey a year, and I can feed two pigs. ”

"I can't sell it for this money, and every year the price of the worst miscellaneous nectar of the season is high, and it happens that the children 'order flowers'. Acacia nectar and jujube nectar are sold to the county's purchasing station for only five or six cents a catty. The old man explained.

"Brother, I didn't explain it to you at the set, my relatives will make pastries, ask me to buy honey, you cut the honey for me to keep in the future, do I still want to do it at this price?"

"That's great, don't worry, I'll keep it for you. The old man was overjoyed.

"Do you know there are beekeepers there?"

"If you want to find a beekeeper, you look for it along the embankment, and you usually raise it on the embankment. Yoyo looked at the locust trees planted under the embankment, and figured out that this is the biggest source of honey.

In the afternoon, my grandmother rode a bicycle and walked more than 20 miles along the embankment, and really found two beekeepers, but they were both two boxes, and they only bought less than 20 catties of honey in total. Fortunately, I told them that I would have honey for my grandmother to keep in the future.

Grandma was right, my parents and Haohao said that they didn't drink honey at all, saying that they didn't like sweets, but they were actually afraid of spending money. There are only four of them, and they drink a glass of honey every morning.