Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 156 Honeycomb
Li Hongbing sees a doctor very quickly.

By basic diagnosis and pulse feeling, one or two symptoms can be known.

Many patients’ illnesses are actually not serious ones, and they can be cured easily by going to the hospital, but they just don’t want to spend money, procrastinate, carry, and abruptly turn minor illnesses into serious ones.

One morning.

Acupuncture and moxibustion five times, massage three times, and [-] prescriptions were issued.

Li Hongbing was exhausted, but seeing the patient's sincere thank you smile made me feel very comfortable.

For more than 20 patients, none of their money was confiscated. On the contrary, because several patients were really in difficulty, several medicinal materials in the prescription were not produced in forest areas, and the price was relatively expensive. Li Hongbing paid a lot of money.

Send away the last patient.

Lock the door of the infirmary, ride the black wind all the way to the house rented by Sister Cui.

When I entered the yard, I saw Anna sitting pitifully at the table. On the table was a plate of dark dishes that couldn't be seen.

Li Hongbing's heart skipped a beat.

After all calculations, how can I forget that Sister Cui is the king of the dark cooking world.

Why don't you go to Dakui's house for a meal.

As for the daughter, saving her life is the most important thing.

When Anna heard the movement, she turned her head immediately, and when she saw Li Hongbing, it was like seeing a savior, and rushed over with her short legs.

"Papa, I'm not hungry, let's go out and play!"

Good girl.

Not in vain distressed.

go!
Li Hongbing was secretly moved, picked up his daughter and was about to cross the threshold.

"Where are you going? Come back for dinner."

Sister Cui was standing under the eaves with a basket of white flour steamed buns, her charming face was still covered with flour.

The father and daughter looked at each other, seeing the horror in each other's eyes.

"Sister Cui, I'm not very hungry. When I first saw the doctor, a patient gave me some sweet potatoes, and my stomach is still full after eating them. Why don't I let Anna eat first?"

When Anna heard her father's words, her eyes were full of astonishment, her little hands tightly clutching Li Hongbing's clothes.

seems to say,

If you want to eat together, no one can run away.

"Get out of here, my cooking is so unpalatable, I must eat it today, and no one will leave if I don't eat it." Sister Cui raised her eyebrows upside down, and put the bamboo basket in her hand on the table with a bang.

Li Hongbing returned to the table with his daughter in his arms, looking at the plate of fried dishes, he swallowed.

And Sister Cui also noticed that Li Hongbing's gaze was not right, and hurriedly picked up the plate in shame, "I forgot to watch the fire when I just fried potato chips. Let's have some steamed buns for lunch today, and pickles to deal with it."

Li Hongbing and Anna nodded their heads like chickens pecking at rice.

Steamed buns are good, steamed buns are healthy.

Anna was afraid that Sister Cui would repent, so she grabbed a steamed bun and bit down hard.

Click!

Anna stared blankly at the undamaged steamed bun in her hand, opened her mouth and spit out two bloody teeth.

Wow!
Suddenly burst into tears.

Li Hongbing and Sister Cui were so frightened that they checked quickly. Fortunately, it was two front teeth that had been loosened due to tooth replacement.

But this aroused Li Hongbing's curiosity, what kind of steamed buns can lose teeth.

Picking up a steamed bun from the bamboo basket, the feel is obviously different from other steamed buns, it is heavy and heavy.

Throw it on the table a few times.

Dangdang!
The sound is crisp and loud.

This is steamed buns? ? ?

Li Hongbing didn't believe in evil, he looked around randomly, and suddenly found a bag of hickory nuts beside the door of the main room, grabbed a handful and put them on the table, lined up.

Hold the steamed bun in your hand and smash it down.

Without exception, the pecans showed their delicious flesh, while the steamed buns in my hand only peeled off a little.

Is this still a steamed bun? ? ?
Li Hongbing held up the steamed bun with a blank expression on his face.

"Sister, you can't be steamed buns baked in the brick kiln of the kiln factory!"

Sister Cui's face flushed, and she also took out a steamed bun from the bamboo basket, but she couldn't break it apart even if she tried hard.

"No, it's still soft when you take it out of the pot. How could it be like this?"

"When did you send your face?" Li Hongbing asked curiously.

"I made the noodles last night. After making the noodles, I grabbed a handful of dry flour and then started to leaven the noodles. When steaming at noon today, I waited for the water to boil and took them out."

No wonder.

Li Hongbing sighed, and finally knew the reason.

It was a wrong step, a wrong step.

"My sister, don't add flour after kneading the noodles, and don't let the dough rise for too long. At the end of steaming the steamed buns, don't let the water boil, and don't rush to take out the steamed buns. You have to use a steamer to suffocate them for a while before you can eat them."

"Ah! Why didn't sister-in-law Guizhi tell me?" Sister Cui looked surprised, looking at the pile of bricks... steamed buns in bamboo baskets, "Forget it, let's eat dumplings, this morning sister-in-law Guizhi made leek and egg stuffing Dumplings, send me some."

Dumplings are good.

Just eat dumplings.

As the saying goes, dumplings are not as delicious as they are fun... Bah bah bah bah.

Li Hongbing raised his hands in favor of eating dumplings.

When Sister Cui put a large soup pot on the square table, her expression was extremely calm, "Let's have leek and egg noodle soup for lunch today."

Leek egg noodle soup?
Don't lie to me that I read less.

This is so obvious that the dumplings were boiled.

Li Hongbing was speechless.

With the care of the iron spoon in Sister Cui's hand, she happily ate three bowls of noodle soup.

Very full.

Hiccup, leek leaves can fly out of the mouth.

As for Anna, the little traitor abandoned her father while cooking dumplings and ran to Tie Dan's house by herself.

Deserved to break two front teeth.

Being a traitor doesn't end well.

.........

It's afternoon school time.

Li Hongbing picked up the steamed buns and struck hard on the iron plate hanging at the door.

Dangdang Dangdang!
As the sound sounded, there were yelling, scolding, and crying again in the sky above Caogou Village, and the sound was pleasant.

One after another, the villagers escorted the children to appear, and from time to time they even kicked and slapped them, expressing their deep care and love for the children.

Anna pursed her lips tightly and walked into the main room with Tie Dan.

What does it mean to smile without showing your teeth? Anna is now, her front teeth are all broken, and she won't show her teeth no matter how she smiles.

When all the children were present, Teacher Cui was nowhere to be seen.

Li Hongbing cleared his throat and put his hands behind his back.

"Physical education class this afternoon, I am your physical education teacher."

Whoa!
Finally, there is no need to study, and the children suddenly cheered.

"Don't make noise, class has started." Li Hongbing put on a teacher's posture.

"Master, what are you doing in PE class?" Tie Dan looked excited.

"How about jumping rubber bands?"

Li Hongbing is holding a pair of rubber bands. It was only last night that he took apart his sports pants and made a pair.

Shhh!
The children let out a contemptuous sound.

"Master, rubber band jumping is for girls, we don't play it." The boys headed by Tie Dan strongly objected.

"Then kick the shuttlecock." Li Hongbing took out some feather shuttlecocks from his pocket,

I would like to express my gratitude to the ephedra chicken at home for its selfless support of education.

Ephedra Chicken: I thank you uncle, thank you whole family!

Shhh!
The boys headed by Tie Dan expressed their dissatisfaction again.

"Grandpa, whoever still kicks shuttlecock now, even dogs don't."

If you don't play this, you don't play that.

It's so hard to have kids these days.

Li Hongbing stepped forward, and blurted out, "If you don't go, you'll stab the hornet's nest."

This proposal was instantly agreed by all the children, and even a few girls headed by Anna raised their hands in favor.

Rural children, there are only a few girls who have never stabbed a hornet's nest, and stabbing a hornet's nest is like a coming-of-age ceremony for African tribes. Only through the hornet's nest can one be considered a man.

Of course, there are also unlucky ones with bad luck, whose eyelids are swollen into cat ears, their faces are swollen into sausages, and their arms are swollen into big radishes.

But there are fifteen or six children in front of him, it's a little dangerous, if they get stung, it's no wonder the adults don't make trouble.

Li Hongbing secretly regretted it.

It's okay to poke a hornet's nest.

Okay now!
"Grandpa, Grandpa." Tie Dan moved to his side.

Li Hongbing replied angrily, "What's the matter, tell me."

"There is a gourd bag in the old locust tree on the northern hillside, which is so big." Tie Dan said while gesticulating, with his arms outstretched.

so big?
Judging by Tie Dan's gestures, the hornet's nest is almost one meter long.

Li Hongbing was aroused, "It's really so big, don't lie to me."

"I'm not going to lie to you. I saw it when I went to play on the North Slope two days ago. If you can't, you can ask the little one."

Seeing that the grandfather didn't believe him, Tie Dan pulled a short child with two snot hanging from his nose.

Slip!

The little boy sucked his nose first, sucking the snot back into his nasal cavity, and then said, "Grandfather, there is really a big gourd bag."

Gourd bag, called Hu Feng, wasp, because the shape of the built nest looks like a big-bellied gourd, it is also called gourd bag bee.

This kind of bee lives by taking resin, insects, and mountain flowers. It generally builds nests in spring, lays eggs in summer, and sleeps in winter.

Especially in summer, it is the most ferocious and aggressive. If people or livestock accidentally touch its nest, they will be dispatched immediately to attack people and animals frantically.

If you are stung more than three times by a gourd-packed bee, it will pose a threat to life and must be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.

Otherwise, there will be danger to life!

"Grandpa, do you want to do it?" Tie Dan was eager to try.

Haven't poked a beehive in a long time.

I haven't eaten bee kernels for a long time.

I remember when I was a child, I took out the bee kernels after stabbing the hornet's nest, fried them with lard, and added some red pepper.

That taste is really fragrant.

Li Hongbing's childlike innocence, which had been suppressed by life for a long time, emerged.

I saw the children looking forward to each other.

done.

"Walk."

Oh!
There was cheering in the yard.

Li Hongbing hurriedly pressed his hands guilty, "Hush your voice, don't let Teacher Cui hear you."

The children quickly covered their mouths, and Li Hongbing shouted into the main room, "Sister Cui, I will take the students to the meadow to observe nature."

"Don't go to dangerous places." A word drifted out from the main room.

"understood."

Li Hongbing responded perfunctorily, and said to the students, "Line in a line in order from tallest to shortest."

Whoa!
More than a dozen children lined up in a row from short to tall, and unexpectedly Anna became the vanguard.

"Forget it, Tie Dan, you lead the team at the front, and Scarlet, you are in charge of the rear."

Mangy Tou is another child king in the village, because he grew moss on his head when he was a child, which left moss scars here and there on his scalp.

Poke... No... The observation team officially set off.

With a big wave of Li Hongbing's hand, the students walked out of the school in neat steps. It may be the first time to participate in a group activity, with excited expressions on their faces.

Walking away on the road, the villagers also held their heads high when they met, and pretended not to hear the greetings of parents and grandparents.

"Uncle Red Soldier, where are you going?"

"Go and observe nature."

"What do you observe? Nature is that? I'll take a look too."

The inquiries from the villagers on the road are almost always asking who is nature?
Male or female?

Male and female?

Li Hongbing could only shake his head and smile wryly at this.

However, it is also understandable that the villagers are surrounded by firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea all day long. How can they squeeze out the limited time to go into nature like in the city? Water, I'm tired of looking at it.

The team walked out of the village and came to the woods on the north slope.

The trees growing on the north slope are mostly miscellaneous trees, most of which are pine trees, mixed with some mulberry trees, locust trees, gourd thorns, hickory trees, flower willows and so on.

Usually, there are few people in the village who come to the north slope, and there is a thick layer of dead leaves on the ground, which can cover the calf with one foot.

"Be careful and follow the footsteps of the people in front."

Li Hongbing suddenly felt that it was not a good idea to poke a hornet's nest. There were too many children, and he couldn't take care of them at all.

Turn on the perception and keep an eye on the movement around the team.

When there are more people, there will be fewer animals. On the contrary, when there are fewer people, there will be more animals.

Now at the end of May, wild animals have reached their active period, especially snakes, which are more likely to appear in remote places.

I should have brought the big flower with me.

Li Hongbing, who had just pulled a fallen child out of the dead leaves, regretted secretly.

"Master, we're here." Tie Dan shouted under his throat.

"I saw it a long time ago."

Li Hongbing waved his hand angrily, and found a gourd bag hanging from the branch of an old locust tree in his perception.

It's really big.

Almost as big as the water tank.

Swarms of wasps came in and out of the hive.

Most people's hairs stand on end when they see it.

This doesn't work.

Too dangerous.

Li Hongbing made sure to bring the children out first, and then he would come and poke him alone later.

"Go, get out of the woods first."

"Grandpa, come on, why don't you poke it." Tie Dan asked puzzled.

poke a fart.

Such a big gourd bag, in case the hornets are so anxious that they can run away by themselves, what will the children do?

Hornets are no better than other bees. They sting two or three times, and they might sting people to death.

Angrily, he patted Tie Dan's head.

The front team changed to the back team, and walked out of the woods on the north slope cautiously.

Wait till you get back to a safe place.

Tiedan is still brooding over not stabbing into a gourd bun.

Li Hongbing called Tiedan and Mantou to the front, "That gourd bag is too big, and there are too many of us, so I'll poke it alone, and you two will bring your classmates here and wait for me to come back, and I will give you two more bee kernels later." Bundle."

Tie Dan's eyes lit up, "Master, I'll go with you, I'm running fast."

Scarlet looked at Li Hongbing, who was empty-handed, "Grandpa, you didn't bring a bamboo pole or slingshot, just poking around?"

The guy is already ready.

Li Hongbing took out a few steamed buns from his pocket, and before he could speak, Tiedan Xiaohei grabbed one, "Master, how do you know I'm hungry."

After speaking, without waiting for Li Hongbing to stop him, he opened his mouth and bit down hard.

Click!

Tie Dan only felt a pain in the toothbrush.

He lowered his head and spat out a front tooth in his hand, with a piece of steamed bun still hanging on the front tooth.

"Grandfather, whoever steamed these steamed buns must have been baked in a brick kiln!"

puff!

Anna finally showed her mouth and smiled, and Suoyazi found a partner.

"It's your fault, who is not good to imitate, imitate Uncle Hongqi, did I let you eat?"

Li Hongbing angrily took out the paper and threw it to Tie Dan, picked up the peeled steamed bun from the ground, and weighed it to feel it.

"Wait here, don't run around."

……

(End of this chapter)