Chapter 294 Stinky Honey, Durian in Honey

Chapter 294 Stinky Honey, Durian in Honey

Chen Ling felt that the matter of changing the baby’s name was quite unreliable at first glance.

Coincidentally, Wang Susu and her mother-in-law came out at this moment. When they came over and heard the reason, they were very convinced.

Because I know this old man Gao Xiulan, he has done calculations for the family before, and he also explained the situation of the family clearly. Wang Cunye broke his leg and he was right. He is considered a minor in this area of ​​Yaowang Temple. of celebrities.

The one who is as famous as this old man is a little blind man from Linxian County who is good at fortune-telling by touching bones.

Every year, the King of Medicine will come carrying flags and bamboo sticks.

The old man is very accurate in predicting family affairs, and the little blind man is very accurate in predicting marriage and wealth.

So when the old man said that the baby's name "Chen Rui" was not good and he wanted to change it, Gao Xiulan was very cautious.

Wang Susu also quickly asked how to change the name.

Seeing that the mother and daughter respected him so much, the fortune-telling old man suddenly puffed up his chest, spoke quite proudly about heaven, earth, luck, and started talking nonsense.

In the end, Chen Ling paid and the family took a small note and left.

On the note, naturally it was the name given to the baby with money.

“What word did you add to Ruirui?”

“I don’t know, let’s open it when we get home.”

“Don’t worry about this. This brat is sound asleep.”

Chen Ling glanced at the little guy sleeping soundly in his arms and smiled helplessly.

This baby has been different from other dolls since he was a child.

Most other dolls like to sleep when they are on the road. No matter what kind of car the car is, it will make them sleepy when it is shaking on the road, and they will wake up when they get off the car.

He was completely the other way around.

While on the road, I happily looked around at the scenery. When I got to the place, I took him out of the car. He felt sleepy and dozed off. After a while, he fell into a deep sleep.

No matter how I scream, I won't wake up.

"Let him sleep. I went out today and probably slept together in the morning."

Wang Susu carefully adjusted her son's clothes and said.

"Come on, it's already past twelve o'clock now. I think he even fell asleep in the afternoon." Chen Ling shook his head, and the three of them went to eat behind the temple.

At this time, it was already past noon, and there was lunch in the temple. You could eat it if you paid for it.

Had a quick lunch.

When they were going down the mountain, Gao Xiulan pointed to the river at the foot of the mountain and said to him: "There are a lot of flower handkerchiefs in the shallow part of the river here. You can come over and fish them out later. Take them back and keep them. Qiu Then find someone to sell it for money.”

When we discussed this matter before, Gao Xiulan had said it, so Chen Ling specially brought the bucket.

"No, mother, it's not that easy to sell it after autumn. You will definitely have to raise it a few times to get it back. Only the good-looking ones will be picked out. Otherwise, if they don't look good and cannot be eaten, people will Why buy it?"

Chen Ling pouted, "It will take at least until next year to grow fish roe five or six times and grow beautiful flower handkerchiefs."

Wang Susu said: "Then let's see where it is first. We're not in a hurry to go back anyway."

"Okay, let's go and have a look first."

This is the trip. I came here to play, and it was to take Wang Susu out to play.

If she wants to go and see it, then she will go.

Chen Ling took a look, found a place with shallow water, found a branch, picked up grass and looked into the water carefully.

Only then did I realize that there are indeed many fork-tailed betta fish here.

The small fish are in groups, and they run around when hit with a stick.

As for whether the colors are beautiful, this is normal. Finding top-quality fish like ornamental fish in the wild is like picking out jade from a pile of rocks. It is not an easy task.

And the little fish hasn’t developed color yet, so it doesn’t look good.

"Hey, is this a thin-scaled fish like ours?" Wang Susu suddenly pointed to the left side and said.

The river water here is quite clear, and you can clearly see schools of fish in the shallow water on the shore.

"No, the fine-scaled fish must be on the mountain. These are a group of little cocksuckers." Chen Ling glanced at it and shook his head.

They were looking for fish by the water. At this time, a group of people came from the other side of the river in the northeast direction. They were mainly young and strong, and they were in small groups. They saw them gathering grass here and again. The one who was stirring up the water came over to take a look.

"What are you doing?" A red-faced man asked curiously.

“Looking at the fish, I want to catch some flower handkerchiefs.”

Chen Ling turned around and took a look at this group of people, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Have you just come back from collecting herbs from the mountain?"

I saw this group of people, all holding a stick in their hands. From a distance, It looks like a cane, but when you look closer you realize it's a hoe.

In addition, everyone also has ropes tied around their waists, wood knives and other objects, and a snakeskin bag wrapped around their body.

This snakeskin bag can be used as a raincoat when it rains. It can also be used to collect medicinal herbs and store medicinal materials.

This is the standard attire of local herb collectors.

"Yes, I just came back from collecting herbs."

The red-faced man looked about forty years old, with a short and lean build. He rolled up his trouser legs and said with a charming smile: "There is nothing to harvest from flower handkerchiefs. You can go north." Take a walk, there are mountain loaches in the river on the mountain, they are very delicious.”

“Haha, thank you, we just look at them and catch them for fun.”

Chen Ling smiled at the man. He smiled and said, "When I came here in the morning, on the way, I saw people on the top of the mountain on the northeast side active on the cliff. Are you collecting herbs?"

"Ah? Yes, You little brother has such good eyesight that you can see us while walking on the business road?" The red-faced man was stunned for a moment and asked strangely.

"I can see it, but I can't see it clearly. The mountains here are high. The top of the mountain was covered with clouds and mist in the morning. Even if it dangled in front of my eyes for a moment, I thought I saw it wrong."

"Hey, Then your eyesight is amazing. Most people can't see clearly at such a high place on the business road."

This is a very talkative man. Chen Ling stopped to talk with him for a while. , I learned that his surname was Xing, that he was a local, and that he lived in the mountains. Apart from selling medicine and drying medicine, he rarely came down the mountain.

This time I went down the mountain to dry the medicine.

Of course, you can also dry medicine on the mountain, but the process of collecting valuable medicinal materials will be much more complicated and difficult to prepare, so it is easier to go down the mountain.

They also have residences at the foot of the mountain, and most of their children have moved to live down the mountain.

Most of the time I still live in the mountains with my old parents and lead a life of collecting herbs.

But the children moved down the mountain, which also means that the job of collecting herbs has basically been discontinued by their generation.

After Chen Ling got acquainted with him, he called out to Lao Xing and followed them back to the village. He wanted to see if they had picked any special medicinal materials.

If there is one, buy it yourself.

Although people like Lao Xing were quite enthusiastic, they didn't take him seriously because of his youth. They even changed the subject and didn't want to show him the herbs in his pocket.

After all, this is the first time we meet, so it is human nature to be a little defensive.

Chen Ling is not surprised either.

But just when he was too sensible to ask any more questions, Lao Xing and others saw that he was driving a car, but they immediately changed their attitude and were willing to show him the freshly picked herbs.

This left Chen Ling speechless.

I was thinking that I would buy a car next year. This guy was not showing off, I didn’t mean it, but I have to say, sometimes it just works.

Looking at the medicinal materials, the most valuable one was dendrobium. There were several other items at home and in the cave, but there were no new ones that Chen Ling wanted.

I followed Lao Xing and others to their home in Ha Long Kou and found three or four good herbal medicines. Chen Ling planted the herbs and bought them. She told Wang Susu and her mother-in-law that they would buy them and make wine. Don't care about him. After spending money and buying things, Chen Ling proposed to go to the mountains with Lao Xing and the others, and they agreed. It just so happened that after Lao Xing dried the herbs at home, he wanted to take his grandson back to the mountains to stay for two days, so he went there. Lead the way ahead.

“In the past two years, more and more outsiders have come to Yaowang Temple to burn incense. Many people are just like you. When they meet us, they want people from our village to take them Walking around, looking at the mountains and rivers, taking care of a few meals, and letting them stay for one night is a lot of things and it's weird, but I'm willing to pay generously for anything, and even the kids in the village will be greedy for it. Very, my heart is itching, everyone wants to go out and make a lot of money.”

Lao Xing and his young grandson were walking in front, and the voice came from the front.

“Yes, it’s the same over there. Many young people can’t stay at home and want to go out to make money. They started going out to work in groups three or four years ago.”

Chen It was only in 1992 that people in Wangzhuang began to go out to work one after another. People like Wang Lixian were not included. They just worked in two or three nearby counties.

“It’s good to work part-time, much better than collecting herbs. We people are the busiest in the two or three months every year, collecting herbs all over the mountains and plains.”

July and August of the lunar calendar. This is the busiest time for medicinal collectors, including Codonopsis pilosula, Gastrodia elata, Bupleurum, skullcap, Astragalus, Coptis, Phellodendron... Oh, and Polyporus, which is a kind of fungus.

After digging these herbs, there are others waiting for you to dig.

What about Shiwei, Dendrobium, Akebia, an arrow, the Ten Great Merits, Octagonal Lotus... There are thousands of kinds of herbs in the mountains, and it is impossible to dig them all. We have to pick the valuable ones, and the precious ones are precious. Often growing up in dangerous places, one can only take risks.

This is nothing compared to the stability and security of a part-time job.

Chen Ling said that his father-in-law was also a herb farmer who once fell from a mountain and broke his leg.

Lao Xing, a talkative man, was startled after hearing this. He sighed several times and could not say anything.

But after getting along with him, he became obviously more enthusiastic towards Chen Ling.

The mountain where Lao Xing lives is obliquely opposite to the mountain where Yaowang Temple is located, northeast of Yaowang Temple, and the mountain is much higher.

Chen Ling's family followed him. After walking for nearly ten minutes, they saw a waterfall rushing down the mountain wall.

When there is a lot of rain in summer, the waterfall is fat, rumbling, and very powerful. At this time, it was already dripping and thinned into a small white snake.

Further back is a deep valley with colorful autumn leaves and rugged trails, where you can go up the mountain.

The higher you go up, the steeper and tighter the mountain road becomes.

Fortunately, Wang Susu and Gao Xiulan have long been accustomed to walking this way, and they don't feel uncomfortable or tired at all.

After walking another five or six hundred meters, our eyes suddenly opened up to a relatively gentle hillside area.

After passing this point, it becomes smoother and gentler. After walking for dozens of steps, you will see a vegetable garden of about one acre surrounded by a fence. The fence is covered with green vines, covering a lot of trees. Old thorns and dried thorns.

“Oh, such a big place is surrounded by a fence.”

"There are many wild things on the mountain, so we can't do it without surrounding them." Lao Xing smiled at Chen Ling, opened the fence gate, and walked through the vegetable garden. He saw that the vegetable garden was full of all kinds of vegetables, melons, sweet potatoes, radishes, cabbage and the like.

Chen Ling even saw two ridges of buckwheat.

The radish and vegetables are planted in the first volt and the buckwheat is planted in the third volt. The buckwheat has just grown in this season.

After walking through the vegetable garden, in front of the vegetable garden is a small pond with lotus and fish.

Beside the pond is a gourd stand.

Under the gourd stand is a beehive.

Further ahead are several loess tile-roofed houses.

“A place like this, with fields, water, and food, is no worse than our village.” Gao Xiulan looked around and sighed.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, it gets cold early in the mountains, and the lotus leaves in the ponds have withered. The blue platycodon flowers that once bloomed all over the mountain roads and all over the mountains and fields have been submerged by weeds.

The small yard on the mountain does not feel deserted, but more lively. There are large clusters of cockscombs blooming like crazy, like the red-faced Guan Gong. The huge gourd hangs down from the shelf, like Li Yuanba wielding a hammer.

A few people were talking when suddenly there was a sound of "woof, woof, woof" and a group of dogs rushed out from the forest behind the earth-tile house.

Chen Ling laughed when he saw it, "It's a tiger-headed yellow."

Tiger-headed yellow is vicious, easy to get angry, and has a bad temper. If you bite someone, it will kill you. If you enter a home with someone leading you, you may be bitten to death.

So except for the Orion family in Changle Township, most people would not keep such a ferocious dog.

On the contrary, Fenglei Town is located at the junction of three provinces, with deep mountains and deep ravines, a mixture of people, and wild animals frequently appearing. For the sake of safety, the surrounding tiger head yellow is extremely abundant.

There are more than ten yellow tiger heads in the old Xing family.

Chen Ling feels very friendly now that he has seen her.

"Go, let's go." Lao Xing drove away the dogs, and his grandson also followed suit.

Soon, Lao Xing's wife also walked over from behind the house. Only then did Chen Ling and the others discover that there was a piece of land behind the house where corn and buckwheat were planted.

The two families chatted with each other for a few words, and Lao Xing and his mother-in-law invited Chen Ling and his family to sit down.

"Lao Xing, you also keep bees here."

"What you don't keep are the wild bees my son collected from the mountains."

Lao Xing said, and then Ask his mother-in-law to get honey from the room for Chen Ling and others.

Seeing that Chen Ling and the others were being polite, they said, "Try it. This honey is different from other honeys. You will know after you try it." Smiling, his little grandson also laughed.

Chen Ling was immediately curious, and waited for Old Madam Xing to take out the honey and pour it into the tea bowls for them to melt.

Chen Ling took the first taste and frowned: "Why does this honey smell so bad?"

"Little brother, have you never tasted this honey? This is buckwheat honey. , It smells weird." Lao Xing's dark and thin woman grinned at this time.

Then he gave him pure honey to taste.

“Huh? So this is buckwheat honey.”

Chen Ling was slightly stunned, "It tastes really weird. I'll try it again."

After tasting it carefully, I felt that this honey was like fake honey on the market. The graininess was very obvious, but, I licked my tongue carefully. It has a sweetness unique to wild honey.

The aftertaste is particularly strong, the irritating smell is also very strong, and the nasal cavity has a peculiar smell of stinking fumes.

While he was tasting it carefully, Lao Xing and his wife also enthusiastically asked Wang Susu and Wang Susu to taste it.

With Chen Ling in front, the mother and daughter took two sips of honey water and frowned together.

But after taking two sips, I was surprisingly able to adapt to and accept this unusual taste.

“Well, it tastes pretty good.”

“Delicious? Don’t drink the honey water. Try this honey. This guy has a strong taste..."

Chen Ling had already recovered from two spoonfuls of buckwheat honey, "This taste can be called stinky tofu in honey."

After saying that, he felt that this metaphor was not appropriate, maybe it should be It's durian.

Then he asked Lao Xing: "If this honey is turned into mead, will it still taste like this?"

Lao Xing shook his head: "I don't know, this is our third year of beekeeping. I never thought about making wine with honey.”

When Chen Ling heard this, not only was he not disappointed, but his eyes became brighter and brighter.

He is such a person, he loves to play.

If you ask him to make mead and sell it, he might not take it too seriously.

But if he is asked to make this kind of buckwheat mead with a strange smell, there will definitely be a hundred people willing to do it, a thousand people willing.

After you get home, you have to try to see what the brewed wine tastes like.

(End of this chapter)