Return to 1983: Starting from hunting in the mountains

Chapter 119 Honeycomb in the Tree Hole

For example, frying eggs with badger seeds can treat gastric ulcers and uterine prolapse in women.

Another example is using badger seed oil, water tofu, and frying water tofu with badger seeds. Taking it two to three times a day can treat stroke and hemiplegia.

And in addition to so many functions, badger seed oil itself is delicious, and adding some to cooking will make the dishes more delicious.

In fact, badger seed oil is also worth some money. When sold in some pharmacies, a pound of badger seed oil can be sold for three or four yuan.

A badger weighing fifteen or six pounds can produce about one and a half pounds of badger oil. In other words, apart from the meat, a badger is worth about ten yuan.

If you have a way, you can get a dozen of them a day and make a lot of money. However, Lu Jiansheng is not good at catching badger seeds, so he should keep these pure badger seed oil for himself.

After a while, Lu Jiansheng and Bai Ruoxi worked hard for half a morning and almost made a small jar of pure badger seed oil.

The smaller half of the jar was filled with borneol. Lu Jiansheng planned to give some of this half to his eldest sister and keep some at home for later use.

Immediately after, Lu Jiansheng and Bai Ruoxi were busy with the leftover pickled badger meat. Lu Jiansheng was planning to build a rack outside the yard to dry the pickled badger meat, when Liu Shengli ran over.

But Liu Shengli was a little strange and kept covering his face, which puzzled Lu Jiansheng.

"What's wrong with Shengli? Are you scratched by snowflakes? You don't dare to see anyone anymore?"

Liu Shengli ran away, and a swarm of bumblebees suddenly swarmed from the tree. Even though he ran very fast, he was hit twice on the face and his butt was also patronized.

Can you feel the feeling of being bitten by a mountain bee? Especially for this relatively large bumblebee, Liu Shengli cried out in pain, and had no intention of hunting anymore, so he pulled Lu Erniu down the mountain. Not long after he came down the mountain, his face became swollen, and his buttocks were even more swollen now. It's like a ball.

There is no shortage of badgers in this mountain, and the species will not be extinct just because they dug out a nest of badgers and left no roots.

Honey is also a valuable thing.

Liu Shengli, who had found nothing all morning, was now thinking about the big nest of badgers.

Liu Shengli reluctantly persuaded him.

Liu Shengli had a mournful look on his face. When Lu Jiansheng didn't come back this morning, Liu Shengli called Lu Erniu to go up the mountain. He had walked a long way up the mountain. Before he could even think of leaning on a tree to rest for a while,

But then he heard a buzzing sound behind him,

Liu Shengli immediately knew that he had arrived at the door of the bees. You must know that in order to survive the winter, the wasps in the mountains found tree holes, ground holes, and stone holes. They were all good places for the wasps to build their nests. .

Lu Jiansheng doesn't expect how much money honey can sell for, but he can get it for his wife and children to drink, which is good for the body.

"Brother Jiansheng, Er Niu and I didn't catch a single pheasant in the morning. Let's go dig out the badgers we didn't finish yesterday in the afternoon? But the hole looks very deep, so it's not that easy to dig."

Lu Jiansheng was stunned and saw that Liu Shengli's face was swollen. At this time, his nose was not a nose or an eye, so he asked a little funny:

"Shengli, why is your face so swollen?"

"Brother Jiansheng, don't mention it. Erniu and I went hunting in the mountains this morning. We walked a long way up the mountain road. Before we even wanted to take a rest, we unexpectedly encountered a honeycomb. It was so damn unlucky."

"Hivecomb? I wonder if there is any honey."

"Damn it, that kid Lu Erniu, even though he usually runs so innocently, he is really not sloppy at all."

Lu Jiansheng joked that Xuehua was Liu Shengli's daughter-in-law, whose real name was Wang Xuehua. Previously, Liu Shengli fooled around with Wang Xuehua and ran back to her parents' home in anger. A while ago, Liu Shengli felt that she was now successful, so she was taken back.

If there is a honeycomb, there might be honey.

"Brother Jiansheng, according to what you said, if there is a badger king in that nest of badgers, it will definitely weigh no less than thirty pounds."

However, Lu Jiansheng couldn't help but sympathize with Liu Shengli at this time, because when Liu Shengli mentioned the honeycomb, his eyes lit up.

In this age of scarcity, honey is definitely a top nutritional product, and the efficacy of honey goes without saying.

"Badger King? Victory, the Badger King you mentioned, I thought of a way to save trouble by digging out the badger."

Liu Shengli complained to Lu Jiansheng that Lu Erniu ran fast and nothing happened, so Fengzi chased him.

''Brother Jiansheng, that girl in my family is treating me well now! Liu Shengli said, and then he put down his hand.

"I've heard people in the village talk about such a big badger, but I haven't seen it yet. It would be a pity if Brother Jiansheng let this badger king escape."

"Brother Jiansheng, what can I do?" Liu Shengli suddenly became interested.

"Let's find an iron hook as thick as our little finger, put the iron hook on the stick, find the badger's hole, dig out part of it, and then put the iron hook in.

"As long as the badger bites the iron hook, we can easily pull him out."

Lu Jiansheng described his method.

In fact, this method was not his idea.

Rather, it was a piece of documentary literature read by later generations and learned from it.

That piece of documentary literature is about the Badger King in the mountains. However, this Badger King is different from the Badger King Liu Shengli mentioned.

The Badger King in documentary literature is a person, an old hunter.

Because he is good at digging badger holes, he can catch dozens of badgers every year. As long as the old hunter discovers the badger holes, no one can escape from his grasp.

Therefore, he was honored as the Badger King from all over the country.

It describes the old hunter's method of catching badgers, and among them is the tool Lu Jiansheng just mentioned.

Of course, even when the documentary was published, the entire country had already banned hunting.

In this way, people will reveal their unique skills. In fact, Badger King not only has this method, but also has other tricks to remove badgers, such as using wolf smoke and fire rats.

Just catch a few mice, tie cotton to the mice's tails, pour kerosene into the cotton, light the cotton, and put the mice into the hole.

Then, all the badgers inside will run out, and not a single one will be left.

Because badgers like to spread some leaves and hay into their caves to keep warm during the winter.

As soon as the fire rat entered, all the leaves and hay were ignited, and the badger was either burned to death inside or ran out desperately.

However, this move is a bit desperate.

In the words of an old hunter, if it weren't for the bad years and you couldn't survive, you couldn't use such a trick.

Because this is a desperate move that will damage your moral character.

Wolf smoke is actually similar, and quite unique.

Wolf smoke is made from wolf excrement. After it is lit, the smoke formed is poisonous. If you use wolf smoke in winter, it can kill all the badgers in it. Of course, the old hunter only shared the method of catching badgers, but did not share how to find them. Badger.

After Lu Jiansheng finished talking about the tools for digging out badger holes, Liu Shengli thought about it in his mind for a while, and then clapped his hands.

"Brother Shengli is smarter, so we don't have to work hard to dig holes,"

Wild animals like badgers have a ruthless mouth and will not let go if they bite something. If there was such a tool, wouldn't it be possible to reach it into the badger's hole and pick it out? Liu Shengli shouted excitedly.

"Brother Jiansheng, how about I make a hook and dig out the badger hole after dinner?"

"Forget it! Yesterday, I told my third uncle that we shouldn't keep catching some kind of livestock scourge and leave some roots for the badgers. We'll go today. It's not very authentic. Let's go in two days!" Lu Jiansheng smiled. Rejected Liu Shengli’s proposal,

Maybe badger seed oil is considered a good income for Liu Shengli and the others, but Lu Jiansheng really doesn't like this thing now. He wants to collect honey now.

"Where did you get stung by a bee on your face? After dinner, you can call the two cows. Let's go into the mountains and collect honey."

"Brother Jiansheng, those swarm of bees are killing you."

Liu Shengli was scared when he thought about it now.

"Don't worry! I have another way to deal with them."

Lu Jiansheng smiled and didn't say much.

After a while, we had dinner.

Lu Erniu and Liu Shengli came, carrying guns on their backs and a basin for holding the honeycomb. Then, in addition to Dabao Erbao who was still recovering from his injuries, there were two wolf cubs. Lu Jiansheng took the dogs with him.

Then Lu Jiansheng and the others walked towards the mountains.

Three hours later.

Lu Jiansheng and the other three struggled to climb up a hill and looked down the hill.

"Brother Jiansheng, it's right in front. This place is quite remote."

Liu Shengli looked at the bottom of the hill, which was full of strange-shaped rocks, and said to Lu Jiansheng.

Lu Jiansheng and Li Dazhu had been to this place before, and they knew that this place was called Tiao Shi Tang, which was also called Rock Beach. It got its name because of the many strange-shaped large rocks that were washed down by flash floods.

Therefore, the Tiaoshi Pond under the hill is also a channel for flash floods. It snowed before, and the rocks in it were covered.

It would be very dangerous to go in, so Lu Jiansheng didn't go forward. Now that the snow has melted and the rocks are exposed, he doesn't have to worry anymore.

"Let's go in."

It took more than half an hour to cross the rocky beach.

"Brother Jiansheng, that's where it is!"

Soon, Liu Shengli pointed to a thick lime tree, and saw with the naked eye a tree hole more than one meter above the ground on the trunk. Bumblebees who went out to collect and returned from collecting were intertwined with each other, making a constant buzzing sound. , very lively.

Lu Jiansheng walked over and stopped about three or four meters away from the tree hole. This was a safe distance.

He found that the space formed by the rot inside the lime tree was not small. The hole was not big, only about three or four fingers thick. However, if he looked carefully, he could directly see a large group of wasps guarding the inside. Spleen, it is not a problem to reach the honeycomb with your hand.

"Brother Jiansheng, what should we do now?"

Lu Jiansheng smiled. In fact, if you want to collect honey at this height, you just need to pile some hay under the tree, and then simply smoke the bees to drive them out.

Bees have always been very afraid of fire smoke.

In his previous life, Lu Jiansheng saw someone smoke smoke to drive bees away from the nest.

(End of this chapter)