It's autumn, and although the rice paddies are starting to glow golden and the leaves on the mountains are starting to turn yellow, it's still hot.

Early in the morning, Li Chuanlin, who was working in the county town, came back, and the carpenter work on the construction site was finished, and he received 450 yuan, and hurriedly came back to pay off the remaining debts of his third cousin. It's not easy for people in the mountains to make money, and it's better not to owe money to others for such a big event as marrying a daughter.

When Li Chuanlin rode away on Uncle Chuan's bicycle, Mao Tong came to Li Jiaming with a thin dog and invited him to go chestnut hunting together. Seeing that he didn't go, the two of them sneaked away with his schoolbag, leaving him alone in the room while playing with the test papers, and slandering: 'Uncle PLA's line is really long, and the heralds have to ride horses to deliver letters from the end of the team to the head of the team'......'

When the slander is over, no, it should be said that it is done, Li Jiaming also deliberately marked out two questions that have already involved the content of junior high school, and then stared at the test paper in black and white 'XX year XX county county primary school fifth grade mathematics competition test paper' and continued to slander: Dear teacher, are these contents from the fifth grade of primary school? Are you sure, have you read the mathematics textbook of the fifth grade of primary school?

After sorting out the test papers, Li Jiaming looked at the sun outside before going downstairs, the time was not early, it was time to go to wash rice and cook. As soon as she came out of the hall, Li Jiaming saw the eldest sister's pigweed under the eaves of the kitchen, and she must have heard the fourth brother say that she had to do math competition problems in the morning, so she came over to help her cook and stir-fry.

"How's it going?"

"It's okay"

Seeing that the eldest sister who chose vegetables stopped, Li Jiaming said in a low voice: "The full score of the year before last, the year before and last year's each are not absolutely sure, and it should be beyond the scope of the content of primary school." ”

"That's good, that's good, I'll call Jiade, you stir-fry yourself!"

Li Jiaming hurriedly grabbed the eldest sister who wanted to leave, and whispered: "Eldest sister, do you want to be scolded by your aunt again? Anyway, the fourth brother will come over after lunch, why bother with these ten or twenty minutes!"

The eldest sister immediately stopped, the aunt is not easy to mess with, and it is not good to always quarrel with her, so don't touch her moldy head.

"Are you sure?"

"Eldest sister, whether you can do it or not, I don't know in my own heart? You don't know me, people who will check twice after doing their homework, they won't do it wrong!"

"Well, the toad is here, you go and skin it yourself. ”

"Oh", Li Jiaming took out four fat frogs from the small cloth bag hidden behind the door and disposed of them, put them in the rice retort with rice soup and shredded potato rice to steam, and went to the rice field to throw frog heads, bones and other garbage, only then did he suddenly remember: It's already autumn, when winter comes, where can I find frogs?

Xiaomei has eaten frog porridge for more than two months, although her hair is still a little yellow, but her face is no longer yellow and thin, and she has grown a lot whiter. If there is no frog meat, where can I go to supplement her nutrition? My father can now go out to make money to pay off his debts, and he will also put some money for himself at the second aunt's, but the money is almost the same for daily expenses, and if he wants to buy meat and eggs for his little sister to eat every day, it is simply not enough.

Standing under the scorching sun, Li Jiaming had the idea of raising chickens and ducks for the first time, if there were chickens and ducks at home, he would have eggs every day, and he would be able to continue to supplement protein to his little sister, instead of relying on the second aunt or Aunt Cha Ju to give a few occasionally. But looking at his little hands and those little short legs, Li Jiaming smiled bitterly.

"Crackling", a small stone hit in front of Li Jiaming who was in a daze, looked up left and right, and saw Mao Tong and the thin dog under the kitchen of Uncle Chuanzu's house, squeezing his eyebrows at himself.

When a good thing came, Li Jiaming immediately threw down his worries and trotted over, and whispered, "Picked it up?"

"Hmm", the three children slipped to the back of Uncle Chuan's kitchen, where no one could see, and Mao Tong and the fine dog opened the three full schoolbags, which were full of brown and black boss chestnuts, and whispered: "This is just to hit a tree, we will fight again in the afternoon." Let me tell you, the chestnut balls are cracked, and if you shake them, the chestnuts will fall down on their own. ”

"So much?"

Li Jiaming bit open a large chestnut, peeled off the hard shell and a layer of tender yellow fur inside, revealing the snow-white flesh, threw it into his mouth and chewed it, which was fragrant and sweet.

"Well, this year is more than last year!"

Mao Yan handed over Li Jiaming's schoolbag, and he also took it unceremoniously, this is the benefit of being a child king. As long as these leather boys find something to eat and play, they will not miss his share, from the small fish touched in the river, to the wild fruits in the mountains, and the chestnuts in their hands. And his responsibility is: when there is a conflict with the children of other villages, he must rush to the front, fight the fiercest, and scold the loudest!

However, as long as Li Jiaming can get a prize from the county town in two months, the servants of Huang Niping will only bully others if they face other places. Although the boy in the mountain is skinny, he is not stupid, no one will provoke the treasure in the eyes of the teacher, if the teacher specially visits the home, and after the teacher leaves, he will definitely be beaten to death by the Yaye (Dad) who feels embarrassed!

"Thank you, I'll go back first. ”

Li Jiaming was satisfied with the heavy schoolbag and was about to get up and go home, but Mao Yan hurriedly grabbed him again, and said mysteriously: "Jiaming, we still encountered a good thing, but we can't get it." ”

"Well, let's listen to it", Li Jiaming also became interested, Mao Yan is not serious about reading, but he is very familiar with the things in the mountains. He said it was a good thing, and it would definitely be better than a chestnut!

"Do you remember that there is a ruined temple in Shiji Canal?"

"Well", of course Li Jiaming knows, there is not only a dilapidated Shiji Temple, but also a huge stone, and under the stone is a small cave, and the people in the village say that it is where Shiji Niangniang lives. There were a few lacquer trees growing at the entrance of the cave, and the trees itched when they got wet, so no one, including the big dog, had ever entered them, but had only seen them from a distance.

"Let me tell you, now behind the broken temple, there is a honeycomb on the edge of the Shiji Niangniang Cave, it is so big!"

Looking at Mao Yan's outstretched arms, Li Jiaming was startled, for fear that he would brag, and his eyes looked at the thin dog.

The fine dog thought that Li Jiaming thought they were lying, so he hurriedly pointed to the big red envelope on his forehead and said eagerly: "Really, it's really that big." Look, I've been stung!"

Li Jiaming hadn't noticed it just now, but now he was startled when he saw it, the bag was swollen and red and translucent, so he hurriedly went to the grass next to him and pulled a few purslane, put them on a clean stone and mashed them, and applied them to the big bag with smooth and shiny oil.

"This thing works?"

"I don't know, that's what the book says!"

"Oh", the fine dog agreed, his eyes eagerly staring at Li Jiaming, Brother Jiaming is the smartest among the little guys in this house, he will definitely have a way. It's a big honeycomb, and there's bound to be a lot of wild honey that can't be eaten!

Li Jiaming has a way, and there is more than one, but the tools are not easy to find. There are few beekeepers in the mountains, at least not in the entire Yinzitan Village, let alone borrowing those professional tools for cutting honey, unless it is to dry up and fish, and the entire large honeycomb is wiped out.

After a little silence, Li Jiaming decided to even serve the pot, these two leather men can see it, and the adults who go into the mountains to cut trees can also find it sooner or later. When the adults see it, they have a cup of honey water to drink at most, so it is better to serve it even in a pot!

"Well, when the weather cools down and those wild bees stop flying, we'll go again. ”

Li Jiaming remembered what the fourth brother said about pyrethrum, if that thing has the effect of being written in the book, what bees are you afraid of?

"Mao Yan, you ride to the countryside in the afternoon. I heard my fourth brother say that there is a kind of chrysanthemum-like flower planted in the flower bed in the township, and it should start to wither now.

"Hey"

After instructing the two playmates, Li Jiaming also hurried home, spread the chestnuts on the floor of the attic to dry in the shade (fresh chestnuts can only be dried in the shade and not dried, otherwise they will be as hard as stones), and found two urea bags to get busy. He hadn't seen pyrethrum, but he had heard that if it didn't have that kind of noticeable effect, he would have to use a stupid method.

It's a big honeycomb, and if you're lucky, you'll have to have a dozen catties of honey, and you'll have to have a few catties in your own hands. With a few catties of wild honey, let the eldest sister take her to the countryside to sell it, you can always exchange it for dozens of eggs to last for a while, right?