Chapter 14 Honeycomb Harvesting
The two small ones knelt down and apologized, and the page was turned like this, and the second room of the big room where the lord of Liu ate dinner was brought back to the house to eat, and the table that could not be sat down in the past was unprecedentedly spacious, and Fu Linshu took three small ones to the table in the third room. Liu Ah Mo was angry when he thought of the afternoon's events, and when he looked at the unhappiness at this table, he was even more angry. "Eat, eat, eat! The starving ghost is reincarnated, right?! "Look at the joy of the three-room family, Liu Ah Mo is even more angry.
Lou Yuzhu opened her mouth and wanted to pout back, but Lou Hua pulled her and shut up silently, only to write down silently in her heart. A shrew bears with you for the time being! Wait for the family to see how the master treats you!
Before dawn on the second day, Lou Chengzu took care of the ox cart and went back to the town to teach, and the old man Lou sent two steps to see his son leave. Let the son come back to the long-tongued daughter-in-law in the village of Zhenzhen, this trick is right; But this time he came back and pulled out the third child to break up, although he pressed the two juniors to apologize and barely lifted the page, but this crack was never sewn. For a while, Mr. Lou didn't know whether it was right or wrong to let his son come back, and when he remembered the honest and honest third man crying at him, Mr. Lou couldn't help but say that he was a little touched in his heart. But when I thought of the eldest grandson who was expected to take a scientific expedition, my heart was a little touched and my heart was cold, and I only silently wanted to wait for the big house to compensate for the third room, and then he would not lose the third room!
Old man Lou thought so but never thought that people's hearts were fickle, and when the big house really started, with the selfish nature of the big house, the first thing was not to get rid of these burdens? At that time, even if he moves out of his identity as a family member, I am afraid that he will not be able to support the big house.
So people don't be self-righteous, especially like Mr. Lou!
In the next few days, the solemn breath of the Lou family never dissipated, and Lou Yinzhu of the big house was even more angry and sick, and he asked a good doctor to take medicine and did not show up for seven or eight days. Lou Yuzhu is quiet, laughing and laughing with Lou Ming all over the yard every day, and deliberately dangling in Liu Ah, who is angry, beats his chest every day and shouts that his heart hurts.
At this time, the two brothers hid in the corner and had fun. Lou Hua looked at the angry everyone who knocked on the popcorn.
"I know that Ah Mo doesn't like to dangle in front of his eyes, and he scolds him!"
Lou Yuzhu pursed her lips: "Brother, you don't know, we just want to provoke Ah Mo to be unhappy until he hates it, and so much so that he voluntarily doesn't want to see us again!" In this way, we don't need to mention it, he wants to break up by himself! ”
Lou Hua shook his head. "Every day, he was scolded by Ah Mo like this, and outsiders said that we made him angry."
"The eyes of the masses are bright. Brother, don't worry, what kind of people are we, what kind of people are like Ah Mu, the people in the village are very clear, and they will only say that Ah Mo doesn't like Sanfang to see the sky and scold Sanfang, and will not say that we are not. "Liu Ah Mo has been doing it for so many years, and he has already killed his reputation! Fortunately, there are more than 100 households in Yanjia Village, otherwise one person can drown Liu Ah Mo with a mouthful of foam!
Not wanting to waste time on these things, Lou Yuzhu opened the topic. "By the way, brother, how much money do we have?"
Speaking of silver money, Lou Hua was upright, and secretly looked at no one around before he whispered: "I bought a new fishing hook the day before yesterday and spent four wen, and now we have three hundred and seventy-one wen." ”
Five hundred wen is one tael of silver, and there is a difference of one hundred and twenty-nine wen. At the rate at which they are earning money, they can save up to a tael of silver in four days. That's a little faster than a strong worker! As far as the current price is concerned, one tael of silver is enough for a family of five for two months!
The reason why Lou Hua is getting tougher and tougher is because he has money in his hand and has a way to make money, otherwise he would not dare to support the separation of the family so reasonably. You must know that the two elders of the Lou family are eccentric, and if the three rooms are to be separated, they may not be able to divide anything! "A few days ago, my grandfather said something heavy, and I don't know what my father thinks in his heart."
"Since Dad asked to split up, he must have had the idea of splitting up the family at that time, although he was temporarily appeased by Grandpa, but as long as this kind of thing happens again, Dad will definitely remember it again." Lou Yuzhu is not worried that this family will not be separated, after all, like Liu Am's temperament and Lou's face-heavy character, as long as they are upset and their face is gone, this family will naturally be divided. "It's a pity that my father couldn't hold his breath and said the word separation first, if this separation was from someone else's mouth, our life would be much better in the future."
"As long as we can split up, we will work hard in the future." Lou Hua thought about it.
"That's right. The reputation of our three rooms is there, even if we mention the separation of the family, others will say that we are forced to be helpless. "As long as their behavior goes away after the separation, I believe that others will not pay close attention to this matter.
Lou Ming hid his eyes, pulled Lou Hua's clothes and asked, "Brother, is it possible for us to eat eggs every day after we are separated?" ”
Lou Hua was stunned, touched Lou Ming and said in a doting tone: "Yes, I can eat eggs and meat every day!" ”
"Really?"
"Hmmm! Brother assures you! ”
"Then I hope to break up soon!"
Lou Ming is a child, his soul is the purest, and the family affection that he has not enjoyed since birth is not sad to be separated now, it cannot be said that Lou Ming is weak, it can only be said that those people in the Lou family have never let Lou Ming feel family affection! After all, blood and family are only abstract, and what really maintains family affection is the bits and pieces of daily life.
"Fifth brother, don't worry, we will be able to separate it soon." Lou Yuzhu's self-confidence comes from understanding the Lou family. Old Man Lou seems to be shrewd but is actually confused, his excessive fancy for the big house has been strictly injured in the second and third rooms, and the Taiping with the third room as the cornerstone also seems to be solid but is actually fragile; Liu Ah Mo is not to mention, he is short-sighted and only sees a little bit of small profit in front of him, he is weak and unsympathetic, and he is too partial to the big house, as long as he is divided into these weaknesses, I am afraid that he will have to be a god to help; The manager of the second room building and Ji Xiaorong only care about their own interests, as long as the idea makes them think that not separating their families will hurt their interests, I am afraid that the first one will raise their hands in favor of the separation of the third room; Xu Chunting, the big house, thinks too highly of himself as a talented daughter-in-law, and it is estimated that he doesn't pay attention to the third room, as for Lou Chengzu, although he is a little clever and knowledgeable, but he only comes back twice a month when he lives in the town, and he can't reach it; As for the other juniors, the only thing to worry about is that Lou Wen can't ask for leave at will when he studies in the town, and the rest don't have to worry at all, but can help. With her eyes rolling, Lou Yuzhu sorted things out and found that as long as she continued with this momentum, it would be a matter of time before she split up, and what matters now is to prepare for the survival of the family after the separation! "Brother, didn't you say you found a honeycomb on the mountain last time?"
"There's a honeycomb, on the other side of the mountain." There are wild flowers and grasses in the mountains and forests for the bees to survive, but the bees sting people and poisonous, and there have been rumors of stinging people to death.
"Let's go take a look~" Lou Yuzhu grinded hard bubbles and made Lou Ming, Lou Hua was grinding and had no choice, so he had to take the two small ones to the vicinity of the honeycomb. The honeycomb hung high on the branches, Lou Yuzhu put his hand on his forehead and looked at it, the honeycomb was big enough to have a big face, surrounded by some bee guards, and the size of the bee guards looked the same as the modern Chinese earth bee.
The Chinese native bee is a unique bee species in Asia, it is weak and the tail needle is small, it is generally stinged as long as the tail needle is picked out and then wiped with some heat-clearing mint, unlike the wasp, a large, toxic, the tail needle is renewable, it is uncomfortable to be stung by a sting, and it is enough to kill a person by being stung by a certain number of wasps. The villagers are stupid, and they should confuse the Chinese earth bee with the hornet.
Honey has been a rare health product since ancient times, and it is a rare luxury in ancient times when sugar was lacking! Although honeycomb harvesting is dangerous, its value is also considerable!
"Brother," Lou Yuzhu withdrew her gaze from the honeycomb. "I've heard from caravans from the north say that they have people who specialize in collecting wild honeycombs, and they take the smoke away the bees and then collect the honeycombs, and the method is simple, we can try it."
"No way!" When Lou Hua heard this, he subconsciously refused. Adults have been warned to stay away from honeycombs since childhood, and now being able to take them to see it is already the limit, let alone picking?
"Brother, not all bees sting people to death. Besides, we are short of money now, so we can take out a honeycomb and take out the honey bee chrysalis and sell it for at least one or two silver in the town. This is still at least enough for us to sell fish for more than half a month, and the business must be good, if it sells well, two taels of silver is not a problem! ”
Two taels of silver? Lou Ming's eyes widened.
Lou Hua was also a little tempted. On one side is money, and on the other hand, there is a warning from adults to mention their lives, and it is really difficult to choose for a while.
Lou Yuzhu bent her eyes: "If my brother is not at ease, we will go back and bring the yarn account to cover our heads, so that even if there are bees, they will not be able to sting people." ”
Hold up the bold and starve the faint-hearted! Lou Hua hesitated again and again and decided to fight for at least one or two to maybe two taels of silver!
"Then don't get close to find some wet firewood, and I'll go back and get the yarn account!" If you decide to do it, hurry up, and change the money as soon as you pick it early!
"Good!" Lou Yuzhu was relieved when he got the approval, and when he saw Lou Hua running away, he led Lou Ming to find some dry firewood and fresh vegetation to bundle it into a bundle and then tied it to the bamboo pole, tying three long bamboo poles, thinking about it and making a short one.
After tying the bamboo pole, Lou Hua also came back with the yarn account used by his brothers in the summer. The yarn account is not a real yarn but a twine made of twine that is only a little thicker than the hair, of course, it is not as delicate as the real yarn, but it is durable, and the village that cherishes things can use a yarn account for more than ten years, and Lou Hua is holding the dowry of Xu Chunting for ten years, which was given to the third room as a favor a few years ago. Fu Linshu, who received the things, didn't say anything, and used needles and threads to patch up several holes to keep mosquitoes out of his brother in the summer. Although the yarn tent has made up several places and can no longer be hung on the bed seriously, it is still good to cover the head and face.