After graduation, I went home to keep bees

"Go to Jiang Cancan's house to give condolences? All right! Then let's go to the market to buy something? When will we go?" Fang Xingchen agreed immediately after receiving the call.

"Tomorrow morning, you go to the town in the afternoon to buy two bags of rice, two bags of the wholesale bundle of noodles, and a box of salt, and two bags of the big bag of chicken essence used in our school cafeteria."

Jiang Xiaoman reported what Jiang Cancan's family lacked the most, and told them——

"Don't be stupid and carry it up the mountain by yourself. Isn't there a zipline from my house to the village? Go buy a pack of cigarettes for the person on duty in the village and ask him to help you carry them to my house. I will wait for you at home tomorrow morning. After delivering the things, Come to my house for lunch!"

"Great!" Fang Xingchen cheered immediately, he was willing to go to brother Xiaoman's house for a meal, and he was willing to climb a mountain.

"Buy some more packs of sorghum syrup and corn candy? I see that people in the village like to eat this." Chu Mengluan echoed beside him.

"Bring the equipment too, didn't we promise Cancan's fans to take more pictures of their daily life?" Fang Xingchen suddenly remembered that many people in the comment area recently said that they wanted to see the place where Jiang Cancan lived and studied. I'm interested, but I haven't had any good material lately.

After school was over at three o'clock in the afternoon, Fang Xingchen borrowed a three-wheeled electric scooter from a fellow villager, and went shopping in town with Chu Mengluan.

"Old Fang, I never dreamed in my life that I would like to buy such an electric tricycle. It's so convenient!" Chu Mengluan sat on the small bench behind the tricycle, his voice echoing the bumps of the tricycle. becomes a vibrato.

"Then don't think about it, our provincial capital banned this kind of electric tricycle on the road several years ago, and you can't drive it even if you buy it!"

"Then I'll buy one and put it in the school! Seriously, Lao Fang, I like this place! I like Principal Baichuan, Brother Xiaoman, and the children here. I plan to apply to teach here next summer."

"Then let's continue to work together haha, I have already agreed with Principal Baichuan that next summer I will make a syllabus in advance based on the compulsory subjects for junior high school."

"Okay~ If I don't tell you today, don't you plan to take me with you?"

"How can it be? I originally planned to ask you after the end of the supporting teaching. By the way, I remember that your music department and art department have a good relationship? Our school doesn't even have an art teacher. If we can bring another art department over alright."

"Leave it to me! You don't need to look for it from our school. The art department of our school doesn't seem to be very good." Chu Mengluan quite disliked the art department of his alma mater, and then proudly flaunted, "I asked me to send him a child. He is a high-achieving student in the Academy of Fine Arts. With him here, why bother to look far away?"

The two of them discussed the plan of supporting education for next summer vacation, and they arrived in the town after a while.

The township of Langshan Township is very deserted when it is not time to go to the market, only the shops on both sides of the street are still open, and there are no people there.This is already the most prosperous CBD in the entire township. If you go to the mountains, you may not be able to find a single family after walking for half an hour. In some villages, there are only a few scattered families left. Young people go out to work. Well, if the children are still staying at school in the town, there will only be a few old people left in the village, and the silence is terrifying...

When they first followed Jiang Baichuan to visit their homes, both of them were a little scared. This was completely different from the peaceful and peaceful mountain village life they had imagined before they came here!

In the lifeless and lifeless villages, the only living things are those children. It is no wonder that Principal Baichuan has been sticking to this rural primary school with only more than 30 students.

If there is no school, the only remaining villages and households in the mountains will really disappear completely.

However, because of the small number of people, the owner of the grocery store easily recognized the two college students as teachers who went to the mountains to teach in the summer vacation, and received them very warmly. A bag of freshly made rice cracker candies.

When Chu Mengluan and the others were shopping, Jiang Xiaoman was not idle. He brought the hatchet and snake medicine to the mountain, and was going to buy some rock honey at Laoshan'aozi.

Laoshan'aozi is not the name of a village, but a collective name for a scattered village.He is also the ancestor of the head of Shanrong Village in Chestnut Valley.

I heard that the mountain people in their area fled to the mountains hundreds of years ago to escape wars, plagues, and famines, and then settled down here. I heard that in ancient times, ordinary people who escaped military service were severely punished. Therefore, people who fled into the mountains would not use their original names, but would re-name themselves. It is not uncommon for people to refer to mountains as their surnames and waters as their names.

The people living in Laoshan'aozi are all people with the surname of Shan or Mu. The Shan family is very good at hunting and rock climbing. They are all included in the nature reserve, and all kinds of precious wild Chinese herbal medicines are also included in the protection list. If you are caught stealing and digging, you will be jailed, so these old people in Shan'aozi rely on rock climbing to harvest rock honey for a living.

Langshan is full of countless mountain flowers and weeds throughout the year, and the source of honey is abundant. Wild bees build huge hives on the cliffs.

This kind of wild rock honey is of good quality, and it is also expensive to sell. It costs 100 yuan a catty to cut it.

If it weren't for the great favor owed to Ma Yuenan and Wei Sheng, even if Jiang Xiaoman was killed, he wouldn't be willing to buy such expensive rock honey. Anyway, he couldn't taste the difference between rock honey and the honey they cut from the beehive barrels at the foot of the mountain. .

Jiang Xiaoman has a high school classmate who came out of Laoshan Col. I heard that his cousin is a well-known expert in finding honey in this area. Jiang Xiaoman asked him for his cousin's phone number, and followed the location given by his cousin to find the village. .

This village is smaller than their Langshan Village, and it is probably because of the inconvenient transportation in the mountains. The houses are not built with red bricks like the ones down the mountain, but are all thick rammed earth walls. Even the windows are very high, probably to prevent The beast climbed in through the window.

"Are you Shanfeng's cousin?" Jiang Xiaoman hurriedly asked when he saw a robust man about 27 or [-] years old sitting at the door.

"I am Shanyan, are you Jiang Xiaoman? Afeng called me, why did you travel so far for Yanmi? I often go down the mountain to go to the market." Shanyan shook his head, as if waiting for him for a long time Not too happy.

"It's my fault that I didn't make it clear to Shanfeng. This is Brother Shanyan. Now that I'm graduating from university, I want to go back to my hometown to start a business. I also want to raise some bumblebees to sell honey. I want to shoot some material about our wild honey. It's just a short video. I listen to Shanfeng. Feng said that you often go to the mountains to harvest honey, can I go with you and take a look? Take some videos?"

"You? Can you run?" Shan Yan glanced at him.

"I climbed the mountain to go to school by myself when I was five years old." Jiang Xiaoman smiled, squatted down, took out two lollipops from the bag behind his back, and handed him one, "Brother, eat candy!"

Apart from going to the mountains to find honey, Shan Yan is also a forest ranger in the village. People in their profession are not allowed to smoke, so he passed the time with sugar in his mouth when he was free. Bring, just bring a backpack of candies of various flavors.

"Afeng will tell you everything." Shan Yan took the lollipop, peeled off the wrapping paper, and twisted the hemp rope while holding the candy in his mouth.

The hemp rope is the most important life-saving weapon for honey hunters like them who climb rocks and harvest honey. Those who do this business, among other things, tie the thick hemp rope around their waists with their own hands. , The frequency of entering the mountain is high, and the loss of the rope is also great, so as long as there is nothing wrong, he has to rub the hemp rope non-stop.

"Hey~ I've been sitting at the front and back tables with Afeng for two years. By the way, brother, I want to buy a few catties of rock honey as a gift. That person helped my family a lot. Do you have any better quality rock honey now? gone?"

Unlike artificial beekeeping, the production and quality of rock honey depends entirely on the weather. The quality and production of rock honey every year and season are all random, but Shan Feng told Guo Jiang Xiaoman that they often collect Honey lovers will keep some good honey, and they can sell it at a good price when they meet local tyrants who are willing to pay.

Jiang Xiaoman is not a rich man, but Wei Sheng gave Jiang Cancan such a good opportunity to get out of the mountains, and helped her get in touch with the most powerful manager in the group; Ma Yuenan sent a scarf and the school's video account increased in just a week A million... This is a big favor, and he would feel bad if he didn't give him something nice.

"I saved some honey, one hundred and fifty pounds. If you don't give it to someone important, you won't be able to tell if you buy 81 pounds." I don't know if he ate Jiang Xiaoman's candy, but Shan Yan's tone was more than that. It was better before, and it actually started to save money for him.

"I want the best rock honey, one hundred and fifty, right? Give me four catties!" Jiang Xiaoman resisted the pain in his heart.

A catty of rock honey is not much, one hundred and fifty catties is equivalent to a few dollars for a spoonful of honey, rounded up, this is simply eating money!

Shan Yan’s family seems to be a relatively wealthy family in the village. I didn’t notice it when I first entered the village. I didn’t expect that it was a house with two entrances. However, the row behind his house was obviously an old house before, and a new house was built in front of it. The one at the back is not disassembled and is usually used to pile up some firewood and food, and there is a room next to it that is specially used to store honey and beeswax - the best wild beeswax can also be sold for money.

Shan Yan opened the door, took out a bucket of honey, and filled him with four bottles of rock honey with a special one-jin spoon. After the lard, the temperature in the mountains is low, and the honey is almost solidified, but it is different from the snow-white linden honey, which is the color similar to the texture of butter.

Jiang Xiaoman has seen this kind of real rock honey. His father used to have a brother who ran mountains. Every year when he passed by their house, he would bring some of this kind of rock honey. The taste of rock honey harvested in different seasons is different. In early summer, there is a hint of medicinal herbs in the fragrance of potpourri, and the taste of rock honey harvested after autumn is more like the fragrance of a variety of wild fruits and wild flowers.

"Brother Shanyan, are you the only one in your family?" After coming in for a long time, I didn't see anyone else in the family. Jiang Xiaoman still had a lot of gifts suitable for different age groups in his backpack, so he felt a little uneasy.

The gift was not sent out, nor was it to please the rest of Shanyan's family, and he didn't know if he would take himself into the mountains to shoot videos.

"My brother Qi and others went into the mountain to pick up fungus." Shan Yan said in a muffled voice.

Jiang Xiaoman silently digested this sentence in his heart, and his eyes widened immediately.