My 1995 Small Farm.

"Damn it, I wasn't the one who stole your honey, what does it have to do with me!"

Chen Ling was originally enjoying the show from the treetop, complaining about the bear, when the bees, seeing the black bear disappear into the pond, angrily shifted their target.

The swarm of bees charged directly at Chen Ling in the tree.

It emits a series of piercing buzzing sounds that are quite frightening.

This startled Chen Ling.

There was no way around it; Chen Ling, a grown man, was simply too conspicuous.

When bees are enraged and lose their senses, it is common for them to sting anyone they see.

Although Chen Ling was startled, he didn't panic much. He was least afraid of poisonous insects and wild bees in the mountains.

If anything dares to land on him, it will be instantly "reclaimed" and stored in the cave.

Not afraid at all.

In just one encounter, a large swarm of wild bees was wiped out.

However, bees, like ants, are not very intelligent or rational. Once they are considered enemies, they will fight to the death.

Even if their comrades suffer heavy losses, they will still fearlessly continue to charge forward.

Continue attacking Chen Ling.

Chen Ling accepted all of them without hesitation and took them all into his cave.

At this point now.

Once these wild bees enter the cave, they will only become food for some of the cave's bees unless Chen Ling intervenes.

Yes.

They will all be bitten to death and eaten.

"Is it time again?"

After dealing with the bees, look up at the sun. After 3 p.m., no more wild animals will come to the pond.

Chen Ling didn't want to stay any longer. "Anyway, I've caught quite a few live wild sheep and deer these past two days. I'll go home early today and go check out the next sinkhole tomorrow."

He jumped down from the tree and whistled.

Hearing the whistle, Heiwa and the others will soon catch up.

He doesn't need to wait deliberately.

"Wow--"

The black bear, which had been hiding in the water, poked its head out, its big, wet, black face looking at Chen Ling from afar.

Seeing that Chen Ling was completely unharmed, it was very puzzled.

So he walked out of the pond and quietly followed Chen Ling.

Bears walk silently.

Similar to other felines such as tigers and leopards.

And bears are also very intelligent.

Don't let his simple and honest appearance fool you; he's actually quite cunning.

Also, encountering this thing during this season can be quite dangerous.

Because bears hibernate.

In late autumn, people start to eat a lot to gain weight for the winter.

At this point, you start to pay attention to what you eat.

Let's not even talk about honey and such. No matter what season it is, if a bear encounters them, almost no one can resist or let them go.

Besides honey, some foods high in fat, such as nuts like chestnuts, and animal fats from meat, can also be high in fat.

These are all their current favorite things.

In other words, they won't easily let people go once they see them.

Especially when you see a single person in the vast wilderness.

It must be said that wild animals are sometimes just like humans.

They enjoy bullying the weak and taking advantage of others.

Seeing someone weaker than yourself.

Feeling they have an absolute advantage, they become fearless.

And so evil thoughts began to arise.

That means you can eat or put things as you please, entirely up to your own mood.

The black bear that followed Chen Ling probably didn't have any ulterior motives at first.

After being chased by the swarm of bees, he saw the bees attacking Chen Ling, but Chen Ling remained unharmed, which puzzled him.

But as time went on, the bear's ideas kept changing.

Black bears have a nickname, also known as Black Bear.

In other words, this thing has poor eyesight, but its hearing and sense of smell are excellent.

Following behind Chen Ling, she sniffed his scent as she walked.

Indeed... the more you smell it, the more irresistible it becomes.

Add to that Chen Ling's 'humanity,' and he's far more 'delicious' than anyone else.

The black bear was drooling.

So the bear's tracking speed increased, and it even started running, trying to catch up with Chen Ling and pounce on him as quickly as possible.

Chen Ling also realized that something was wrong at this point.

He had just crossed a ravine overgrown with vegetation when he heard a rustling sound behind him, and thought it was Heiwa and the others chasing after him.

But when I turned around, I was immediately startled.

He saw a burly black bear, its body soaking wet, staring at him from the opposite bank of the ditch. When he turned around, the bear roared fiercely, leaped into the ditch, and charged towards him on all fours.

This fierce aura, and its undisguised ferocity and malice.

Chen Ling was almost stunned, and at the same time, he was furious: "Damn it, I was so craving bear paws, and I refrained from shooting you, and you still want to eat me?"

Without saying a word, he pulled out several oversized honeycomb beehives from the cave and threw them at the thieving bear.

With a 'buzz'.

In an instant, the ravine seemed to explode, with clusters of black 'tornadoes' and 'dark clouds' appearing out of thin air.

The black bear was completely terrified and instantly lost all thought.

The fiercer they were just now, the more pathetic they are now.

It cried out in a panic, exhaling loud breaths, and turned to run away.

Although the black bear had just hidden in the pond, the scent of honey on its body had not yet dissipated, and the swarms of bees that Chen Ling threw out immediately found their target.

It rained down on the black bear like raindrops.

The bees in the cave were exceptionally fierce. When they landed on the black bear, they stung the big guy so badly that he was in excruciating pain and his cries changed.

They were just running around aimlessly.

It surged upwards through the ravine several times before finally breaking free.

It's a long story, but actually only took a blink of an eye. After throwing away the beehive, Chen Ling pulled out a gun from the cave and fired at the thieving bear.

Three shots were fired in quick succession, and none of them missed.

Despite its panic and desperate escape route, the black bear, surrounded by the swarm of bees, still moved much faster than anyone could have imagined.

Chen Ling's three shots only landed on its thick rump and tail.

It missed a vital spot, but instead made it run faster and faster.

Chen Ling wanted to chase after them, but just as he was about to set off, he heard a dog barking. It was Heiwa and Xiaojin who had returned.

A good dog will protect its owner.

Not to mention Heiwa and his companion. They rushed over, intending to charge at the black bear and teach it a lesson.

But today is different from usual.

This black bear was being chased by too many bees.

Heiwa and his companion rushed forward, only to be met with indiscriminate attacks from several swarms of bees.

Even the weasel family on Heiwa's back was innocently implicated.

Moreover, the venom of the cave bee is highly poisonous.

It's much more formidable than wild bees in the mountains.

Unable to withstand the pressure, Heiwa and his gang could only quickly run back to Chen Ling's side.

When it ran back, it brought some bees with it.

Chen Ling quickly retrieved it into his cave.

Looking at the group of them, whether it was the two dogs or the weasel, they all had round faces.

When Chen Ling saw this, he was immediately heartbroken.

Bring them back quickly.

Back home, only Er Tu Zi, who had caught up with them later, was unharmed.

It even went to its injured companion with a silly look on its face, shaking its head and looking left and right, just like a sly big parrot.

"Why go to the mountains to raid beehives? We have beehives in our orchard, we can just cut some honey... Look at how Blackie and Little Gold got stung, and even Little Yellow and Little Fatty's eyes are swollen up."

Well, Wang Susu also complained after seeing it.

Chen Ling felt helpless. He wanted to tell her about the bear encounter, but he couldn't, otherwise his wife and family would definitely not let him go to the mountains again.

They encountered the stings while gathering herbs in the sinkhole. They didn't notice that they couldn't escape the sinkhole, so Heiwa and the others got stung.

"Be careful next time. It's good that you weren't stung. Didn't your parents say that people in the village used to die from being stung by wild bees when they were collecting herbs? There were beehives on the cliff."

Hearing Wang Susu's harsh tone as she scolded Chen Ling, Heiwa and his brother quickly got up, their swollen faces puffed up, and came over, wagging their tails vigorously to please her, circling around her.

Wang Susu burst out laughing: "You two, look at yourselves, why are you still bothering with him?"

He glanced at Chen Ling as he spoke: "Look at the good dog you've raised, it thinks I'm bullying you and is pleading for you."

Chen Ling laughed and squatted down to apply medicine to the two dogs.

Heiwa and Xiaojin look imposing and intimidating, but in reality, they're just like little kids in front of us. They felt embarrassed by what Wang Susu said and started licking her hand guiltily.

Even when Chen Ling applied the medicine, he couldn't do it properly; he had to chase after the plants and move them around step by step.

"Stop licking, stop licking! My hands are covered in cornmeal from feeding the muntjacs, and I haven't washed them yet. You've licked them all clean."

Wang Susu pressed down the two creatures' big heads to make them behave.

Chen Ling then applied the medicine to them. The weasels were easy to treat; they were small, so a quick application was all it took.

“Our dogs are better raised than other people’s. Erhei and the others are especially good, and the puppies are also very good. If we didn’t have too many dogs at home… not to mention Dad, I wouldn’t be willing to let anyone take them away.”

Wang Susu stroked the fur of the two dogs and sighed.

Chen Ling smiled and said, "The child is growing up and will have to go out and be independent sooner or later."

He paused, then exclaimed, "They took our dog today?"

"Yes, they came to take it away at noon today. They said they'd be going back the day after tomorrow. The wives of those shop owners really like our puppy. They used to come every day. They said they wanted to take it away sooner so it could get used to her."

Wang Susu agreed.

"No wonder I came back. The house wasn't as lively as before. Turns out, all the puppies were taken away."

Chen Ling didn't seem to care much.

It's already been sold.

Besides, there are just too many to manage.

The lynx's dog farm is already quite good; it can't function without human intervention at all.

"Yes, now we don't even have a single dog left in our family."

Ever since Wang Lixian took the little yellow dog away and started training it using the methods for training hunting dogs...

Wang Jusheng, Sun Yanhong, and Xiao Mianyang also took the dog away.

The rest were taken away by his brother-in-law, Wang Qingwen.

It was originally intended for Wang Qingzhong to raise.

But now both children are with Wang Qingwen and his wife, and have just started primary school in Fenglei Town. They also have a small dog as a playmate.

"By the way, what's wrong with Er Tu Zi? Why does he always come back with this half-eaten, bloody stuff? It's disgusting to look at."

"Haha, who knows where it picked it up from? Besides, it can't even lift a whole one."

Chen Ling smiled and said that these past few days, Er Tu Zi would bring back a portion of prey every day when he went into the mountains.

That's exactly what Wang Susu said.

They were all half-eaten, bloody prey, either deer, muntjac, or wild goat, with bones gnawed off and the internal organs completely removed.

This looks quite uncomfortable.

Chen Ling pointed to the hawk dozing on the hawk's crest: "Look at it, the more you raise it, the more foolish and cunning it becomes. As soon as it comes home, it reveals its true colors. It's not as majestic as it is when it's flying in the sky."

"Second brother, where is second sister-in-law?"

"Go to the village and tidy up our yard. We'll build another kang (heated brick bed). It's getting cold, and the kangs in our village can only heat up our two rooms and the living room."

They said that since winter is approaching, if Daddy, Mommy, and Zhenzhen can't go back this year, they'll have to move back to the village.

"Then I'll go to the village to take a look. You stay home with Mom."

Chen Ling knew his mother-in-law was upstairs in the bedroom watching over the two children. He had originally wanted Wang Susu to come out with him, but then he thought about the two little ones…

just forget it.

He went out the door, and neither Heiwa nor the other two followed. They had been stung by bees, and their faces were swollen like buns; they were too ashamed to face anyone.

The sun was about to set.

The village children were also out of school, and the hillside was bustling with activity.

Chen Ling saw his flock of sheep there, Little Blue Horse leading a large group of packhorses grazing, and Little White Cattle and five yellow cattle being led over from the old river bend...

He thought to himself: His father-in-law must be here with Rui Rui.

When they got to the top of the slope, they saw that it was true. Not only were his father-in-law and his son there, but also his brother-in-law and his wife, as well as Old Zhou and his large group of people, leading a bunch of puppies that they had just taken from Chen Ling's house to play around.

The Chen and Wu families were digging holes near their yards with shovels. Although they had done a lot of physical work during this time, they were still sweating profusely.

However, blocked by the crowd, Chen Ling couldn't see whether they were digging a vegetable cellar or a sweet potato well.

In the middle of the crowd were Rui Rui, Chen Daxu, and a group of village children wearing open-crotch pants, crawling on the ground, their little hands fiddling with digging in the dirt.

A group of puppies nearby wagged their tails and frolicked around. Some even ran up to Rui Rui and the others and started digging holes with their little paws.

"Wow, it's so lively! What are you all doing?"

Chen Ling walked over with a smile.

As soon as Rui Rui heard his voice, he jumped up and ran towards him, covered in mud, shouting, "Daddy, Daddy~"

She ran over, grabbed his trouser leg, and pulled him towards her.

"Haha, Fugui, you're finally back! When Teacher Wu and his family were digging their vegetable cellars, Rui Rui dug up some treasures. We adults wouldn't let him get close enough to handle them."

When Zhou Weijun saw Chen Ling return, he burst into laughter. "You'd better take care of this. Your son doesn't even listen to Uncle Cunye and Qingzhong anymore."

“Yes, Lingzi, don’t let him wear down his nails.” Wang Qingzhong and Guo Xinping followed over.

Listening to everyone's teasing, Chen Ling was dragged to the pit by the brat who was called the mud monkey again, and presented his treasure: "Dad, dig some dirt."

What are we digging for?

Chen Ling glanced at it and said, "Oh dear, I thought you'd really struck gold. A little Jerusalem artichoke, and you're treating it like a treasure."

(End of this chapter)