surnamed Wang

Chapter 215 Honey
Looking at the green bamboo forest in front of them, everyone planned to camp here and spend the night.

Several people went their separate ways, Wang Gangquan and Pu Wen were in charge of food, Yan Rongrong and Moon Cake were in charge of firewood.

Originally, Wang Gingquan wanted Ah Cha to help collect firewood, but thinking of the other party's weird and unpredictable skills, he felt blind again.

So he asked the other party to catch the cunning bamboo rat. He picked up the hoe and was responsible for digging the bamboo shoots. As for Pu Wen, he did whatever he could get.

Wang Bingquan has a lot of luck in digging bamboo shoots. Now it is autumn, and he has only heard about spring bamboo shoots and winter bamboo shoots, but autumn bamboo shoots are rarely mentioned. So Wang Gangquan didn't have much hope.

After searching for a long time, they found a few that were passable, better than nothing, Wang Bingquan still raised a hoe to dig them out, but it was not realistic for a group of five people to point to these few bamboo shoots to feed their hunger, so we still hoped for the other two. people.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Wang Gangquan returned to the carriage with only three bamboo shoots.

At the carriage, Ah Cha had already been waiting here, and there was a simple bamboo cage at his feet, four or five fat bamboo rats were neighing in it, some of them were still gnawing on the bamboo cage, as expected, it was still necessary for experts to take action.

Wang Bingquan walked forward with a smile, wanting to say a few words. Ah Cha has already learned some basic words after being taught by Moon Cake these days, but his speech is not fluent enough, and some polysemous words are also difficult to understand for a while, so sometimes he can't help but be confused. Duck speaks.

"Miss Acha, you caught this?"

The girl who covered half of her face with her hair nodded.

"Have you ever seen a source of water along the way?"

The girl shook her head again.

Wang Gangquan knew that the other party was a quiet person, so he didn't bother him, and planned to find the water source by himself.

When they were about to leave, Yan Rongrong and Moon Cake came back from the east, each holding a bundle of dry bamboo branches in their arms.

It was obviously the first time for Moon Cake to see bamboo rats. As soon as she came back, she squatted in front of the bamboo cage to tease them, and she liked them very much.

When she learned that this was most likely to be dinner tonight, the little girl's face instantly became uncomfortable, but after all, she was an older child, and she accepted it after some psychological struggle.

But the price was that Wang Bingquan dug back those few bamboo shoots, and all of them fell into the belly of the bamboo rat. The little girl euphemistically called it "the last full meal before death".

Wang Gingquan felt that it was a waste, perhaps before the bamboo shoots had time to digest, a few fat bamboo rats were disembowelled, but seeing the little girl's expression, he didn't say anything.

Just when Wang Gangquan was about to go out to look for water, he saw Pu Wen wandering back from the west.

Pu Wen carried a bamboo pole on his shoulder, and at the other end of the bamboo pole was a yellow object, Wang Bingquan couldn't see clearly, only saw that the other party was gnawing on something in his hand.

"Look what I found?"

Pu Wen came close and inserted the bamboo pole on his shoulder directly into the ground, only then did everyone see clearly that the thing on the top of the bamboo pole was actually a honeycomb.

The honeycomb was about the size of three fists, and a piece of it was cut off with a sharp knife. Obviously, this is what Pu Wen ate just now.

The three women all showed joy when they saw the honeycomb. The little girl didn't want to eat bamboo rats at first, but now she can rely on honey to satisfy her hunger. As for the other two, they thought of the deliciousness of honey barbecue.

Only Wang Gangquan frowned, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Where did you get this hive?"

"Of course it's in the woods. It took me a lot of effort to drive the bees away."

Park asked proudly.

"Are there other trees around there?"

"I didn't look at it, there are bamboos all around."

Pu Wen still answered seriously, not noticing Wang Gangquan's strange expression at all.

"Oh, don't talk about that, let's try the honey first, it's very sweet."

As Pu Wen said, he was about to take out his dagger to divide the hive, at this moment, Wang Gingquan reached out his hand to stop him.

"I have good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

"..."

Pu Wen didn't understand why the other party would say such a sentence suddenly, but he still said honestly:

"Bad news."

"The bad news is that bamboo doesn't bloom."

When Wang Gangquan said this, everyone was shocked, where did the honey come from when the bamboo doesn't bloom, and why is this bad news?
"That……"

Pu Wen, who was the first to eat a piece of honeycomb, obviously wanted to ask why, and Wang Bingquan also expected him to ask, and said directly:
"Forget about that, the good news is that we don't have to sleep in the wild tonight, there must be people around here."

The crowd didn't ask too much. Among them, the king's authority had long been the leader. It goes without saying that Yan Rongrong's husband and wife sing as they please. Servants don't even have the right to speak.

Wang Gingquan analyzed the direction of travel of the few people in the bamboo forest just now, and finally set the target in the southwest direction.

Several people packed up and boarded the carriage again. After all, Pu Wen was not willing to part with the beehive, so he brought it into the carriage together.

After walking southwest for about a stick of incense, a bamboo hut appeared in the sight of several people.

The rest of the people thought it was miraculous, but Wang Gangquan looked confident.

Wang Gangquan and Pu Wen went up to call the door. When passing by the door, Pu Wen found a few bees sitting on a bucket at the door, besides, there were some insects like flies and ants.

While wondering, the door opened.

The person who opened the door was an old man who was nearly seventy years old. He squinted his cloudy eyes, looked at the two young people in front of him, and asked:
"What are you two doing?"

Wang Gangquan saluted and said:

"Old man, I'm coming from the capital and going to Zhongzhou, passing by here, seeing that it's getting late, I want to stay overnight.

If it is convenient for the elderly, the younger generation is willing to give some money, and I would like to express my gratitude. "

The old man is also a simple and hospitable host, directly speaking:
"So that's it, you don't need money or anything, you don't think the humble houses are simple, just live in it."

"Then thank the old man in advance."

Wang Gangquan gave another salute.

Just when he was about to turn around and leave, Pu Wen still couldn't hold back his curiosity, and asked:

"Old man, may I ask what is in the bucket at your door and why it attracts so many bees?"

While the few people were talking, many bees had already arrived and left one after another.

"Oh, don't be afraid of your jokes. I am old and suffer from diabetes. This wooden bucket is my toilet."

Pu Wen's face turned livid instantly when he heard the words. He glanced at Wang Gangquan beside him, and saw that the other party was holding back a smile at this time, obviously he had expected it.

Diabetes, that is, diabetes, the bamboo does not bloom but the bamboo forest has honey, just think about it and you will know what's going on.

On the way back, Pu Wen had a gloomy expression on his face. He never expected that what he ate was actually that thing.

Wang Quanquan, who had seen through everything long ago, could not help comforting him:
"Being able to bend and stretch is a real man. Han Xin was humiliated in the crotch, and only then did the Han Dynasty come into being. Junior brother, just a little honey, eat as you please."

Pu Wen didn't sound like consoling words, but his face finally softened a little, and he said solemnly:

"Brother, don't tell anyone about this."

Wang Gangquan nodded with a smile, "It should be so."

After a while, the five people came to the bamboo house, and Moon Cake saw the wooden barrel full of bees at the door at a glance. After thinking for a while, he immediately turned pale with shock, and looked at Pu Wen in disbelief.

The latter obviously didn't expect the other party to be so smart, and resisted not to look at the other party, trying to suppress the urge to commit suicide.

(End of this chapter)