The happy little days of the Ye family

When Li Orion and his people returned to Dashan Village, the whole village was filled with the aroma of butchered vegetables, and everyone who was already hungry swallowed unconsciously.

Everyone speeded up their pace in a tacit understanding and quickly came to the drying ground.

All the men, women, and children in the village were holding big bowls bigger than their faces and happily eating pig-killing vegetables while standing on the drying ground.

"We're back. There's a pot of pig meat in it, specially reserved for you." The village chief said to Li Orion and the others while holding a big bowl and eating.

Li Orion and the others put the honeysuckle aside, washed their hands casually, and eagerly scooped a large bowl of steaming and fragrant pig-killing vegetables from the pot.

The good meat should be reserved for bacon. The remaining scraps and big bones are used for the butchered pork dish, and a lot of Chinese cabbage is added to it. But even so, the butchered pig dish is still delicious.

After eating the butchered vegetables, the village chief arranged for everyone to start marinating the bacon. The weather is hot now, and the meat will not be fresh tomorrow, so it must be marinated immediately.

The spices for curing bacon are collected by the village chief in the village. There are many hunters in the village, and every household can make bacon. The villagers have a lot of spices at home.

The recipe of spices was figured out by the village chief when he was young. He did not hide his secrets and taught them to the villagers in Dashan Village. Therefore, the spices used for bacon are all the same in the village.

The village chief's wife led the women in the village to rub the chopped wild boar pieces with spices.

The wild boar meat needs to be marinated with spices for several days, then smoked with pine and cypress leaves until it is semi-dry, and finally dried for a few days before the bacon is ready.

Orion Li took several hunters to process the dozen pheasants and rabbits he shot later, then spread them with spices and made them into bacon chickens and rabbits.

All wild boar meat has been made into bacon, and even the big pig heads and ribs have been made into bacon heads and ribs. There are only a lot of big bones and a lot of sewage left on the drying ground.

The village chief gave some to each household, and the villagers worked until late at night before returning home from the sun drying yard, talking and laughing.

Before leaving, the village chief did not forget to remind them that they would go to Dashi Mountain to pick honeysuckle tomorrow.

The weather has been good in recent days, and the village chief wants to quickly pick the honeysuckle and dry it in the sun. After all, the summer rains come as soon as possible, and he can only feel at ease if he can dry them and exchange them for money.

I went back too late last night. Every household got up late today, but there were more people going to pick honeysuckle today, so the village chief didn't say anything.

There were still 42 people entering the mountain today, but today they only picked honeysuckle and did not hunt wild boars.

The number of wild boars is limited, and you cannot hunt too many at once, otherwise there will be no wild boars to hunt next year.

Yesterday, only a small part of the honeysuckles bloomed, and most of them were buds. Today, half of the honeysuckles have bloomed.

Everyone hurried forward to pick honeysuckle. Father Ye reminded that honeysuckle buds have the best effect, so try to pick honeysuckle that is not open.

Hunter Li saw many bees gathering nectar on the honeysuckle. He thought there should be a beehive nearby, so he took two hunters to look around.

The three people searched for a long time and finally found two huge beehives not far from the honeysuckle field.

One is at the entrance of the cave. The cave is one person tall and two meters deep. The beehive is just a little bit further in from the entrance. The beehive is as big as a straw hat.

The three of them took off their coats and covered their entire faces and necks, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.

Li Orion held a large pile of semi-dried weeds and placed them directly under the hive at the entrance of the cave. The other two people lit the semi-dried weeds. A lot of white smoke came out of the semi-dried weeds, which smoked the bees in the hive. out.

When the three of them saw the dense bees flying out of the hive, they hurriedly hid in the grass nearby. They waited until the hay pile was burned and no bees flew out of the hive before the three of them came out of the grass.

A young hunter in gray clothes put a few large leaves in his basket and waited at the entrance of the cave while Hunter Li stepped forward to cut the honey.

Orion Li cut off two-thirds of the hive, leaving a small part of the hive uncut. He will keep it well until autumn, and he will probably be able to harvest honey again.

"There's so much honey, so much that it's all flowing out." The young hunter in gray clothes felt heartbroken when he saw a lot of honey dripping onto the ground.

"It's such a big hive. It can produce at least four or five kilograms of honey." Another young hunter said.

Li Orion held the newly cut hive and put it gently into his backpack. He said in a good mood: "It is larger than the hive sold to Mr. Li last time. I estimate that I can get more than four kilograms of honey."

The other hive was on the trunk of a miscellaneous tree, and it was a bit high. Orion Li and the others could barely reach it with their hands. They probably had to climb up the tree to cut off the hive.

The three of them found some long sticks and made several torches out of half-dried weeds.

The three people skillfully wrapped their faces and necks, and then lit the torch. The torch emitted a lot of white smoke under the hive. The bees in the hive couldn't bear the smoke and flew out one after another.

The three of them lit all the torches and made sure that no bees were flying out of the hive before taking off the coats wrapped around their heads.

Orion Li climbed up the tree skillfully, sat on a thick branch and cut honey leisurely.

Orion Li left some for the hardworking bees to use as rations, but most of the other honey was cruelly taken away by Orion Li.

The hive in the tree is not as big as the one at the entrance of the hole, and it is estimated that it only contains about three kilograms of honey.

"Brother Li, are you going to distribute this honey to the villagers or sell it?" Another young hunter in black clothes looked at the sweet honey and was a little greedy.

"I guess I have to sell it. This little honey isn't enough."

Orion Li licked the honey on his hands clean, and then jumped down from the tree trunk.

"Brother Li is so skilled!"

The young Orion in black clothes looked at Li Orion with admiration. When could he become so powerful?

When the three returned to the honeysuckle field carrying honey, others had already picked the honeysuckle and were about to go find them.

"Where did you find the beehive?" Yang Guo asked happily looking at the beehive.

"One was found at the entrance of the cave, and the other was found on a tree." The young hunter in gray clothes said cheerfully.

"Brother Yang, why don't you talk to the village chief and stop buying this honey? Share it with everyone." The young hunter in black clothes looked at Yang Guo expectantly.

"How to divide this little honey? Half a catty is not enough for each household." A simple and honest middle-aged man said in confusion.

"You can't divide it, but you can make it into honey water, just like eating pig meat. One big bowl for each person, it's enough!"

"Brother Yang is mighty!"

"A brain that has read books is smart!"

"Brother Yang is so awesome!"

A group of young people winked and started to make noises. Li Orion smiled and shook his head.

As soon as everyone entered the village, the whole village was filled with the spicy aroma of spices.

As soon as Yang Guo entered the village, he quickly applied to the village chief to make honey into honey water and distribute it to the villagers.

"You prodigal son, get out of here!" The village chief said with a straight face, waving his hand and asking his enemy to make honey water.

"Okay, I'm going to make honey water." Yang Guo ran back to the sunbathing area happily.

In fact, the village chief has selfish motives. He intends to let his eldest son Yang Guo take over the position of village chief in the future. He also wants to make faces for Yang Guo so that the villagers can convince him.

The villagers happily gathered at the drying ground, each holding a bowl of honey water bigger than their face. They drank the sweet honey water and talked and laughed about how many local products they had left at home that could be exchanged for money. It was even more lively than the Chinese New Year. .

The children in the village were so happy that they wanted to lick the honey water at the bottom of the bowl clean.