In the woods, Gao Mingcheng sensed that there was no swarm of bees chasing and killing, so he gradually slowed down.

He wandered through the woods, looking left and right, looking for his next target.

Whenever he finds his target, a swarm of bees will lose their home, and their anger will ignite the colony, but in the end, they will only reluctantly retreat.

If there is communication between the bee colonies, these bees will definitely complain about the unscrupulous humans who have come to steal the honey when they encounter each other.

And Gao Mingcheng's murderous name will spread all over the bee colonies in the mountains.

On this day, the bee colony suffered heavy losses!

It was almost noon, Gao Mingcheng carried a bucket full of beehives and walked to Grandma Xi's house.

Grandma Xi was stir-frying in the kitchen, and the air was filled with the smell of chili peppers.

"Grandma Xi, do you have any clean cans and bottles at home?" Gao Mingcheng asked.

Eating canned food, for country people, is a luxury. Whenever the canned food is finished, the canned bottle will not be thrown away, but will be kept for further use.

Or it is used to hold some rice wine, or it is used to hold some oil, salt, dried chilies, etc.

"Yes, there are several empty bottles in the room where I sleep, you wait, I'll bring them to you." Grandma quickly shoveled out the fried chili peppers in the big iron pot, and then poured half a scoop of water into the pot, making a sizzling sound in the pot.

She walked into her room, and after a while, she took out several empty bottles from inside, all of which were canned yellow peaches and canned lychees.

Grandma Xi has a daughter who married into the next village, but every year during the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, she will come back and send a little money and things to Grandma Xi.

Every time I come back, I will buy two bottles of canned food.

Over time, there are a lot of useless empty cans and bottles left in Grandma's house.

Seeing these empty bottles, Gao Mingcheng was happy in his heart.

Honey is susceptible to insects and ants, and if you don't seal it, insects will crawl into the honey and spoil the good stuff.

"Grandma Xi, you stir-fry, I'll wash these bottles." Gao Mingcheng put all the empty bottles into a basin, first washed off the dust on their surfaces, then opened the lid, cleaned the bottles inside, and then poured the bottles down on a clean stone slab.

When the water in the bottle is dry, it can be used to hold honey.

Taking advantage of this, Gao Mingcheng began to clean up the hive he brought back again.

The honey was hidden in the hive, and he didn't have a honey shaker at this time, so he had to rely on primitive methods to make honey.

First, the honeycomb was cut a few times with a knife and the honey flowed out.

Then take a piece of clean gauze, wrap the hive, pinch and squeeze hard, and squeeze out the honey that still accumulates in the hive.

The reason why it is wrapped in gauze is to prevent crumbs from falling into the honey.

But even so, at the bottom of the bucket, there is some debris.

This is also unavoidable, even with a honey shaker, there will be some debris left, but it only needs to settle for a while, and the crumbs will sink to the bottom of the barrel.

As soon as he had done these things, Gao Zhuang came back with a rabbit.

Seeing the rabbit in his hand, Gao Mingcheng raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect Gao Zhuang's luck in catching fish was not good, but he had the luck of catching rabbits.

"Grandma, Brother Mingcheng! Look, I've caught another rabbit! As soon as Gao Zhuang came back, he picked up the rabbit and proudly displayed it.

I caught one yesterday, I got two more this morning, and with this one, there are four rabbits in the house!

Gao Zhuang was already hungry for meat, and said to Grandma Xi: "Grandma, you will kill two rabbits later, and we will have a good meal of rabbit meat at night!" ”

He was afraid that one rabbit would not be able to eat it, and with four rabbits, he felt that he was very wealthy and could afford to eat two rabbits at a meal.

"Okay." Grandma Xi smiled and nodded, not disagreeing with this. He urged Gao Zhuang to wash his hands again and prepare for lunch.

The lunch meal is simple, nothing more than a plate of stir-fried chili peppers and a bowl of loofah soup. This made Gao Zhuang look forward to the rabbit meat in the evening even more.

Summer is hot, and noon is the hottest time, the sun is scorching, the heat is steaming, at this time, even the most industrious people in the village will stay at home and rest for an hour or two, and then go out to do things.

Gao Mingcheng and Gao Zhuang also stayed at home, but they didn't take a nap.

The canned bottles that had been cleaned before had been drained, and Gao Mingcheng sat under the eaves, holding an iron spoon, and began to scoop up the honey in the bucket and fill it into the bottle.

Gao Zhuang sat on a low stool made of tree pockets, watching Gao Mingcheng do things, but he was not very greedy, after all, Gao Mingcheng had already divided some of his hives to eat yesterday.

Gao Mingcheng's hands are very steady, and the mouth of the can is not small, so not a drop of honey is wasted, all of them are put into the bottle, and when all eight bottles are filled, there is still a bottom left in the barrel.

There are some residual residues in the remaining honey, which is not easy to sell, but it is no problem for your own family to eat.

"Get me a clean bowl."

As soon as Gao Mingcheng gave an order, Gao Zhuang immediately jumped up, ran to the kitchen in three or two clicks, took a bowl out, and put the bowl on the flat ground.

Gao Mingcheng first scooped the honey at the bottom of the bucket into the bowl with a spoon, and finally the rest really couldn't be scooped out, and all of it stuck to the wooden barrel.

Seeing this, Gao Zhuang immediately stretched out his hand and rubbed his fingers on the inner wall of the barrel, bringing out some sticky honey.

Gao Mingcheng didn't pay attention to it, so he ate some of it, and washed the rest with water, and then poured it into the trough in the pigsty in the backyard, which was regarded as a sweet drink for the pigs at home.

"I'll send this bowl of honey to my house, you can rest first, and then we'll go to the mountains together." Gao Mingcheng was talking while picking up a bowl full of honey.

A bowl full of honey, those broken beehive dregs, has settled at the bottom of the bowl.

Gao Zhuang's house is not far behind his house, and if his family speaks loudly, they can be heard here.

When I went out, I turned a corner, followed a road, and walked to the back door of his house.

Gao Mingcheng's family also raises pigs, a total of two, mainly eating pigweed, his sister is the main force in the pigweed, of course, their brothers will occasionally help to fight pigweed.

Entering through the back door, there is a very simple small courtyard, with some pigweed piled up in the corner, and a large iron pot for boiling pigweed next to it.

The inside of the large iron pot was empty, but there was still residual warmth.

"Fourth brother, are these spicy dried radishes and pickles enough to eat for a week?" Gao Shufang's voice came out of a room, Gao Mingcheng followed the prestige, and through the open window, he saw that Gao Mingli and Gao Shufang were both in the house, Gao Mingli was packing up his things and stuffing clean clothes into an old canvas bag.

He bowed his head and replied to his sister's words, "It's definitely not enough, it's too hot now, and I can't save too much, so my dad gave me an extra dollar and asked me to buy some vegetarian dishes to eat." ”

Gao Mingli still had a wad of money in his hand, all of which were small bills, and he counted them carefully, and there were eighteen yuan.

The tuition fee is seventeen yuan, and the extra dollar is the one that Gao Yuanyuan asked him to buy vegetables to eat.