Druid's Country Retirement

Staring at the palm-sized Qingbei Mountain Crab with its teeth and claws splaying, Brother Dalang and Hou San subconsciously trembled.

"Is this thing edible?"

"Of course it's edible. Wash it, wrap it in flour and fry it in a pan. It's fragrant and crispy. It's called fresh food."

Li Hongbing rolled his eyes again and threw the mountain crab to the ground. The free mountain crab raised its claws in demonstration, retreated and disappeared into the fallen leaves.

"Why did you let it go!" Brother Dalang asked.

"It's not easy to grow so big, and red-eyed mountain crabs are even rarer. There's no need to just talk about it. What I'm looking for is another kind of mountain crab." Li Hongbing picked up the branch and continued to rummage among the dead leaves.

I found a stone again, and after opening it, a crab as big as half a hand and with an orange-red body quickly crawled out of it.

Li Hongbing stepped on it lightly, leaned over and grabbed it.

Compared with the mountain crab with green shell and red eyes, this one looks much more beautiful, especially the crab cover, which is orange-red and translucent in color, like a ripe persimmon on a branch.

"Did you see it? This is what we are looking for. It is not big in size and has a crispy shell and thin flesh."

"Why are the colors different? Isn't it poisonous?" Hou San interjected and asked.

Li Hongbing put down the basket on his back, took out a small bamboo basket with a lid, threw the mountain crabs in, and looked at Hou San with disdain.

"Fudu, where did you go to school? I didn't know that the body color of crabs will be similar to the color of their habitat and food. If these mountain crabs eat persimmons, their shells will change color."

After being choked, Hou San complained secretly.

Who the hell goes to school to learn this?

I am an elite graduate of Cambridge University. Even though I got my degree through donations, I don't have to imitate others.

I turned around to look for Brother Dalang for comfort, but I saw Brother Dalang poking his butt, pulling at dead leaves with a branch, then reaching out to grab an orange-red mountain crab and shouting excitedly.

"Hey, I found one too, oops!"

With a scream, Brother Dalang's arm grabbing the mountain crab was swung like a windmill, and the crab in his hand was thrown away. Only the claws of the crab were still clamped on the skin, and blood flowed out from the claws.

"It hurts so much." Brother Dalang shouted, raising his hand to show the murder weapon on the wound to the two of them.

"That's right! I'll let you play."

Li Hongbing took a look, lowered his head and continued to search.

But after working for a long time, I could only harvest three or four crabs. Looking for a crab in a vast persimmon forest is no less than finding a needle in a haystack.

Seeing that the sun was gradually rising above our heads, we had to go back to the mountain with just a few crabs, which was not enough to fill our teeth.

Li Hongbing looked at the two city wastes holding crabs, and secretly used his perception ability.

I haven't used perception for a long time, and the environment within 200 meters suddenly appeared in my mind, and I was still a little uncomfortable.

However, through perception.

Mountain crabs, protected by leaves and rocks, all appeared, waiting for you to pick them.

Don't use it if it's too small, don't want it if it's too big.

With brisk steps, Li Hongbing used a branch to pry open dead leaves, grabbed an orange-red mountain crab as big as a teacup, and threw it into a bamboo basket.

As Li Hongbing harvested one after another, Dalang Ge and Hou San were depressed. Except for the blind cat who encountered a dead mouse and found a crab claw, they had nothing to gain in the following time. This gap made them feel so incompetent.

True to what Li Hongbing said, there is nothing you can’t do and nothing you can eat will leave you with nothing.

Brother Dalang who gave up sat down on the ground, looked at the red persimmon trees all over the mountains and fields, and whispered.

"Hou San, I plan to return to Mingzhu this time. It's time to deal with some things."

"Brother, get ready to go out."

Hou San's eyes lit up. The man in front of him was once known as the new generation leader of the pearl business world. The most classic battle was the hostile merger war with tens of billions of funds against the Kangaroo Country's Aquila Resources Company.

The greatly damaged Aquila Resources Company hated Brother Dalang so much that it even used its connections to put Brother Dalang on the Kangaroo Country's banned list, permanently banning him from entering the country.

He was originally a rising star, but after experiencing that accident, he became depressed and indulged in drunkenness and debauchery.

Brother Dalang nodded.

He turned to look at the faintly visible Dragon's Back Peak in the distance and said in a deep voice.

"The moment I lost my footing on the cliff, I thought of many things. In the past 20 years, have I failed in my life?"

failure!

Hou San shook his head and smiled bitterly.

In this circle, there is no such thing as failure.

If you have the ability, go to work and inherit the family business. If you don't have the ability, you won't starve to death. You will still have good food and clothing. It is nothing more than a tool to pass on the family line.

Originally, I was prepared to be a tool, but by chance, I teamed up with the queen to buy two of the doctor's secret recipes. By an unexpected combination of circumstances, I actually started the business of Fuxing Pharmaceuticals. It was considered an unintentional way to achieve a successful career and gain a good status in the family. It has also been upgraded from a tool to a promising one.

"I want to do vegetable import and export trade." Brother Dalang looked at Li Hongbing who was busy catching mountain crabs.

Hou San was keenly aware of the meaning of this sentence.

"Cooperate with the doctor?"

"Yeah!" Brother Dalang nodded.

Hou San said in confusion.

"Doctor, we have Oak Technology. As long as we develop step by step, we will get out of the export stage sooner or later. Why let you earn the money you have?"

"Because he is lazy!!" Brother Dalang had already seen through Li Hongbing's true nature.

This guy can lie down but never sit down, sit down and never stand up. He has a bomb card in his hand, and he has to play three cards with one card. The question that Oak Tree was about to send out a few days ago, although there is no rumor in the market, it can be In Brother Dalang’s circle, don’t be too relaxed if you want to know the inside story.

I almost lost my life because I was just too lazy to get into this situation.

Hou San was speechless.

It is true that Brother Dalang said it bluntly, but it is also true.

Dr. Li is really lazy, he doesn't even bother to earn money, he would rather guard this three-acre land in Caogou Village.

Brother Dalang stood up, patted the leaves on the ground, and showed a complicated smile on his face.

"Although I feel unwilling to work for him in the future, I just want to slap him in the face."

"Whoever works for him, even the queen, becomes the doctor's niece. It makes me angry just thinking about it." Hou San was indignant, but there was nothing he could do about it.

"Stop playing, go home!"

Brother Dalang walked up to Li Hongbing.

"What, you two are going back to the village?" Li Hongbing frowned and looked at the two of them.

After struggling for a long time, climbing over mountains and forests, we finally reached Rentou Mountain.

If you don’t want to play, don’t play.

You're making fun of me!

Brother Dalang pretended to be worried, "I just received an emergency call. I have something to go back to Mingzhu to handle."

Since there was an emergency, Li Hongbing couldn't say anything. Anyway, the bamboo basket was full of crabs.

"Okay, don't come here empty-handed. Fill the bamboo basket with persimmons and we'll go back."

Picking persimmons is easy!
Brother Dalang and Hou San quickly turned around and looked for the fallen persimmons on the ground.

"Hey, wait, what are you doing?" Li Hongbing quickly stopped the two of them.

"Pick up persimmons."

"I don't want the ones on the ground, I want the ones on the trees. If they fall on the ground, they might be eaten by insects. I have to check if there are any insect holes when I eat them." Li Hongbing pointed to the persimmon tree above his head.

"!!!" Brother Dalang and Hou San were speechless, their stomachs churning.

Mom sells batches!
Why didn't you say it when we just ate?

Li Hongbing, who is a dog, is so bad!

While talking, Li Hongbing took out a cloth bag from his backpack and found a long branch. He opened the cloth bag with a wooden stick and tied it to the top of the branch. He carried the branch to the foot of the persimmon tree and used a net bag to cover the slightly colored part of the branch. The light persimmon, with a gentle push, the persimmon fell into the cloth pocket.

"You come to pick persimmons. Remember to pick the light-colored ones, the ones that are not yet ripe and can be used as persimmons. Yamaxing likes to eat persimmons."

Li Hongbing handed the persimmon bag to the two of them, took the bamboo basket himself, put a layer of leaves on the bottom, and put the picked persimmons in the basket.

Brother Dalang is responsible for finding the target, and Hou Sanju is responsible for hooking the persimmon with the persimmon pocket.

Three people divide the work and set up an assembly line operation.soon.

The bamboo basket is filled with fresh red persimmons.

When they couldn't pretend anymore, Li Hongbing called the two of them to stop.

Seeing the basket full of persimmons, Brother Dalang was curious and prepared to carry it on his back to experience rural life. Li Hongbing raised his lips with disdain.

It's not that I look down on him, it's that I really haven't looked down on him.

This basket of persimmons weighs at least a hundred kilograms. Even with Brother Dalang's fifth-level physical strength, if he can carry it, he will win.

Facts have proved that Brother Dalang is really not a farmer.

Not to mention carrying it, even standing up almost sprained my waist.

"You can starve to death in the countryside with your skills. Get out of the way!"

Li Hongbing scorned him with disgust, drove away the ashamed-faced Dalang brother, squatted with the bamboo basket on his back, and stood up effortlessly, as if he was not carrying hundreds of kilograms of persimmons, but a basket of cotton.

"I rely on my brain to make a living!" Brother Dalang explained aggrievedly.

"Do you have my brain?"

Li Hongbing was too lazy to pay attention to him and whistled. The wolf dogs chasing birds in the persimmon forest heard the whistle and rushed back.

The three of them embarked on the return journey.

"Doctor, let's go back the way we came. How are you going to climb the mountain with such a heavy thing on your back?" Hou San looked at the heavy bamboo basket and thought of how dangerous the ridge was.

"Instead of walking from the mountain, I know a small path that is easy to walk on!" Li Hongbing replied casually. After finishing speaking, he realized that he had made a mistake and quickly quickened his pace.

There are trails! ! !
Climbing Half Tianshan Mountain together was Li Hongbing’s intention.

The two of them were stunned. Brother Dalang immediately reacted, grabbed a branch on the ground, and chased the figure in the distance, cursing as he ran.

"Li Hongbing, a dog got in and almost caused me to fall to death. Are you even a human being?"

"Nonsense, you two said it was exciting."

"Stab your uncle. If you want to kill me, just tell me."

"Don't hit anyone, oh, if you still hit me, I'm going to fall out!!"

"If you look through it, I'll beat it. A dog got it in."

Watching the two gentlemen playing around, Hou San smiled silently.

Although Dr. Li deliberately led the dangerous mountain road, it was a good thing for himself and Brother Dalang. If he had not experienced a near-death escape, Brother Dalang would still have continued to degenerate, and he would not have overcome his fear of heights. .

It is not a blessing to know that Sai Weng loses his horse!

"Hey, you two wait for me!"

There is indeed a path from Caogou Village to Rentou Mountain. Compared with climbing the dangerous and steep ridge, this path is simply a flat road.

Brother Dalang walked and scolded him all the way. When he got thirsty, he took a persimmon from the bamboo basket to eat, and continued to scold him after eating. Li Hongbing also knew that he was in the wrong, so he just covered his head and hurried on.

It was already 2pm when we returned to Caogou Village.

The tourists who went into the mountains have not returned yet, and no budgerigars have reported, indicating that this trip into the mountains was safe and there were no unexpected incidents.

Let Li Hongbing feel relieved.

Half of the tourists have entered the mountain, and the village is much empty. The stall owners in the small square gather together and chat in boredom.

Brother Dalang and Hou San were planning to return tonight. Li Hongbing made an appointment to have a farewell meal at his old house in the evening, and the three of them parted ways at the entrance of the village.

After running around for a day, the wolfdogs were already hungry and had no interest in the wild animals in the mountains. When they returned to the village, they abandoned Li Hongbing and plunged into the meadow.

Li Hongbing walked alone on the mountain road carrying a bamboo basket.

According to previous years at this time, the weeds have begun to wither, but the meadows below the hillside are still lush and green, which is naturally due to the power of the source.

Drip!

Suddenly a trumpet sounded from behind.

Li Hongbing turned around and saw a blue and white van slowly driving towards him.

Forest police car.

As long as this car comes to Caogou Village, nothing good will happen.

The van came to a stop and rolled down the window, revealing Captain Xu's smiling face.

"Village Chief Li of Tangtang Forest District also went into the mountains to pick winter fruits."

"Look what you said, the village chief should just lie at home and wait for someone to send him off." Li Hongbing replied with a smile.

"Get in the car and give you a kick!" Captain Xu got out of the car, opened the door, and helped unload the bamboo basket, "Hey, it's so heavy, so I picked a lot!"

"About a hundred kilograms, ready to make persimmons." Li Hongbing stuffed the bamboo basket into the car. Two young forest policemen in the car helped hold the bamboo basket and greeted him with a smile.

Woo~woo!

As soon as I sat down, I heard an urgent rat-like noise coming from the cage in the back of the van, and there were quite a few sounds.

"Old Xu, what did you bring this time? It can't be a squirrel, right?" Li Hongbing asked with a smile. Usually Captain Xu doesn't come to Caogou Village. If he comes, it must be related to animals.

Captain Xu turned his head and smiled mysteriously.

"It's not a squirrel. A few days ago, the city opened an unlicensed breeding base. All the animals in it were given away. I left you some good things as an apology for not coming to your wedding."

I thank you!
If the thing is not hot, you will definitely not think of me.

Li Hongbing looked at you with a look that had already seen through you, and curled his lips in disdain.

The van drove to the door of the old house.

Captain Xu followed two of his men and took out three cardboard boxes from the car. Li Hongbing walked into the courtyard with the bamboo basket on his back and shouted.

"Myolie, I'm back!"

Shan Xing, who was busy making pickles, heard the cry, wiped his hands on his apron, got up and walked to the side of the rice field.

Seeing Li Hongbing carrying a heavy bamboo basket, he hurried forward and said, "What are you going to pick? There are so many."

"I went to Rentou Mountain. The persimmons are growing so densely this year. If you like to eat persimmons, I will pick more." Li Hongbing put down the basket on his back and opened the leaves covering the mouth of the basket. The red persimmons were pleasant to see.

"How tired!"

Shan Xing showed a happy and sweet smile, picked up a towel and wiped the sweat from Li Hongbing's forehead.

"Stop showing off your affection! There are two old bachelors beside me!"

A discordant sound sounded, disturbing the sweet moment between Li Hongbing and Shan Xing.

Shan Xing quickly pushed his man away and looked in the direction of the shout.

Captain Xu stood behind with a smile, and there were two blushing juniors next to him.

After getting married, Shan Xing took the position of the Li family's daughter-in-law. She was no longer as shy as before and greeted her openly and openly.

"Captain Xu is here, sit down quickly!"

"I'm sorry, Shan Xing, I happened to be studying abroad when you got married, so I didn't catch up with the wedding banquet."

Captain Xu apologized apologetically. Next to him, Li Hongbing deliberately made a scene and said, "It's okay. I haven't corrected the accounting book yet. It's still too late to give me a gift!"

Shan Xing scolded Li Hongbing and said with a smile, "It's okay. Don't leave later. I'll cook two dishes and let Hongbing have a drink with you."

"No, I still have a mission. I have to give the things to the red soldiers and then go back to the city." Captain Xu waved his hand quickly.

In rural areas, it is not a polite thing to say that people are served with fried dishes.

As he spoke, Captain Xu led the people to the old oak tree, placed the cardboard box on the ground, and opened the box.

"Red Soldier, see if it's a good thing!"

A mouse head with dark circles carefully poked its head out of the cardboard box and looked out.

Li Hongbing was immediately dumbfounded.

Let it go!

How could there be such a thing in Dongfeng City!
(End of this chapter)