After chatting and resting for a while, the group of people started cooking. After eating, seeing that it was still early, Lu Lu decided to go up the mountain to see where Lao Zhao was.
If today's location is accurate and Laozhao is found, and if it has not been touched, maybe there is still a mallet to carry.
Judging from the shacks left behind, the shacks built at that time were not small, and there must have been many people here. Now they have collapsed and rotted into piles, and are overgrown with dense weeds, but they are many years old.
Chen Xiuqing was left guarding the tent, while Zhang Shaofeng and three others followed Lu Lu up the mountain.
You have to be more careful when walking in the inaccessible mountains and forests.
The area of this mountainous area is not large, and the terrain is much steeper than before on Guokui Mountain. Large trees as thick as two people hugging each other can be seen everywhere. There are many rocks mixed in the forest, and the rotten dead trees are covered with overgrown trees.
of moss.
Blocked by the lush branches and leaves, the forest looks a little dark. In the dull and humid environment, there are especially many grass crawlers and nibblers. The most annoying thing is the nibbler. They fly around in front of people at any time. If they find an opportunity, they will immediately jump to it.
The bites forced Lu Lu and others to wave away them at any time.
The low buzzing sound of poisonous bees hunting in the forest can be heard everywhere, making people have to be vigilant.
Every time he walked for a while, Lu Lu took the lead and roared several times to drive away the wild beasts lurking nearby. Everyone in his hand used a picket stick to poke the grass and leaves in front of the tree to scare away the hidden money strings, poisonous insects and the like, so be careful at all times.
If there are any wild animals in the surrounding area, you should also pay attention to the trees above you to see if there are any hanging ghosts.
Of course, Lu Lu had more important things to do. He was observing the vegetation in the forest, and he would kick the soil under his feet at any time to check its composition.
Undoubtedly, this is the growth environment that the shade-loving Bangchui likes.
Thinking of the mountain ridges with the same orientation and similar vegetation, there are several along the way down Daocogou. Lu Lu planned to go to the top of the mountain early tomorrow to take a look at the mountain scenery and choose a suitable place for this place.
Do a good search.
When I came all the way this morning, the Shagou I passed was very similar to Daocogou in all aspects, but the vegetation was lacking. This is because the soil on the ground is mostly gravel, which makes it look very barren. The trees are also sparse and there are fewer broadleaf trees.
, mostly pine trees.
But in a place like that, I also saw a group of people setting up poles in the ditch. It looked like they had just arrived.
Listening to the sound of shouting, there must be more than ten people.
Lu Lu also deliberately led a few people around and did not interfere.
In the current situation, more and more people are able to enter the deep mountains. Going forward, the chances of finding a good stick will only become smaller and smaller. It is common to even go into the mountains for months and find nothing.
Son.
You have to hurry up.
It took more than half an hour for Lu Lu to reach the halfway slope of Weizi Mountain. He felt that the height was almost the same. He asked a few people to stop temporarily and found a tall linden tree to climb to the top of the tree. He held the trunk to steady himself and looked around.
The surroundings confirm the location marked in the animal skin book in my mind.
After getting off the tree, Lu Lu led a few people and walked up for a short distance, then walked a hundred meters to the left and stopped.
"It's probably in this area. We each chose a large red pine tree to see if there are signs of old age. We stood at a person's height above the ground and turned around to look carefully!"
Lu Lu gave an order, and Zhang Shaofeng, Zhao Yongke and Liang Kangbo immediately dispersed and followed the surrounding red pine trees to find them.
The omens were cut on the red pine trees near the place where the mallet was produced, at a height of one person from the ground, and the omens were burned with fire to prevent them from being covered with pine oil and to prevent the wounds left from healing and to remain there for decades.
The animal skin book is quite old, and the tree where the omen was cut down may have grown a lot, but the marks are still not easy to erase. Moreover, the book itself is alive and soaked with pine oil, so the wood is not easy to rot.
, if it is still there, there is a high chance that you can still see it.
And after so many years, the little twister that was left untouched has grown to the fourth grade.
In the wild mountain, which is one to five years old, there are only three compound leaves and three flowers. It takes five to ten years to grow into a palm with five compound leaves. These can only be regarded as small twisters.
When the sticks grow for fifty years, they will become fourth-grade leaves, commonly known as a bunch. Because there will be many small twists around the fourth-grade leaves, it is worth looking for them around, and there will be many children.
When we arrived at Wupinye, it was over eighty years old, so we used to call it a pile because there were already children and grandchildren who were sixty or seventy years old and grandchildren who were thirty or forty years old around.
Not to mention the six-grade leaf called one piece. The six-grade leaf stick that was carried just the day before yesterday had three five-grade leaf sticks growing directly around it.
The four of them only searched for more than ten minutes. Zhang Shaofeng called out first: "Lao Wu, come here and see if this is a sign!"
Hearing the shouting, Lu Lu, Liang Kangbo and Zhao Yongke all followed.
It was a large red pine tree with a diameter of more than one meter. The trunk was straight and pierced through the broad-leaved forest below, like a sharp sword.
Lu Lu looked at the square black tree trunk that had obviously been cut out and was about the size of two palms. He stood on tiptoe and wiped it with his hand. He could still vaguely see the traces left behind.
"This is a sign. Thirteen people came from the ginseng gang at that time, and what they carried was a tree..."
Lu Lu first touched the thirteen indentations on the left that represented the number of people, and then reached out and touched the marks on the right that represented the grade of the mallet: "It's a sixth-grade leaf...it was a big deal at that time!"
Uncle Jiang was still young and strong when he got this animal skin book, and it has been at least thirty or forty years now.
And this animal skin book is obviously older, which means that the small pieces left behind back then should be a big commodity now.
Lu Lu turned his back to Lao Zhao and looked at the area in front of him. He glanced at it and smiled immediately.
He stretched out his hand and said, "Look, big deal!"
Zhang Shaofeng and others turned their heads and looked in the direction pointed by Lu Lu. Diagonally below, among the grass blades ten meters away, a red hammer swayed slightly, and several people suddenly became ecstatic.
Zhang Shaofeng immediately ran over, pushed aside the blades of grass, took a look, and shouted: "Fifth-grade leaf stick, fifth-grade big product!"
According to the normal operation, one should be looking for the old pit left when the mallet was lifted out - the pit left when the mallet was lifted out.
But usually, the old village will be filled with the original soil, branches will be inserted, and vegetation turf will be laid to restore the landscape, because there is a high possibility that new seedlings will emerge.
If the seeds produced by the sticks are not eaten by birds or other small animals, they will be scattered around.
It is a good rule to remove the mallet and restore the earth mound.
But obviously, after many years, the protective branches that were planted with tree sticks to prevent newcomers from stepping on them have long since rotted into mud, and the vegetation has also changed in all aspects.
It's no longer necessary.
If it is a new settlement, it is very necessary as it serves as an important basis for making early moves in the surrounding areas.
In fact, the current situation has fully demonstrated that the small twist left behind has grown!
Lu Lu was ecstatic in his heart. The signs left behind by the animal skin book had great potential!
Because just when he walked to the stick tree, Zhang Shaofeng and others casually took a look around and found a fifth-grade leaf in the crevices of the rocks.
"Pai stick, let's take a trip. Using this position, we can expand the surrounding area and search carefully!"
Putting bridles on the two fifth-grade leaf sticks, Lu Lu immediately began to call a few people to search the mountain within a radius of 100 meters, and began to search carefully.
After searching the area, they found two more fifth-grade leaves, eight fourth-grade leaves, and more than twenty trees in Dengtaizi and Erjiazi. Some of the ginseng seeds had been eaten.
Well, I'm afraid I'll have to spend a whole day lifting the mallet tomorrow.
Towards the evening, a few people returned. When Chen Xiuqing heard that another big product was coming out, he was overjoyed. He shouted for more food on the spot, and happily ran to the creek in the valley, bringing one with him when he was bored.
A fishing cage made of hastily woven branches, in which fish of all sizes are still jumping around.
Lu Lu actually saw the flying blue-scaled fish inside, and laughed and said: "There is something to eat tonight..."
At the same time, at the black bee breeding farm in Meizigou, the family farm, Raymond led Pu Guiying and others to finish their busy day.
They took the honey for the second time according to the time specified by Lu Lu.
But they sadly discovered that at the end of the day, what they did was really stretching their hips.
Ming Ming watched as Lu Lu just opened the beehive, took out the honeycomb containing the capped honey, shook off the black bees protecting the spleen, brushed off the remaining black bees with a soft brush, and then sent it back to the farm to take care of the bee colony.
In front of the open space of the hut, use a honey cutter to cut off the cover, use a honey shaker to shake out the honey from the nest, and then add the honeycomb to the beehive.
It was obviously a very simple thing to operate, but when they got started, they discovered that it was a mess.
The beehive, which was usually very orderly, ups and downs, and extremely lively, now turned into a large-scale fight scene.
There are black bees biting and fighting with each other everywhere, flapping their wings wildly and wrestling on the ground. There is a buzzing everywhere, a group of black bees here and a group of black bees there, either fighting or snatching honey.
In front of the more than ten beehives where they had harvested honey, a layer of black bee corpses had fallen on some of them.
Raymond, Pu Guiying, Meng Zhaohua and others looked at this with great anxiety.
I didn't see such a serious situation occur when Lu Lu led others to do it. Why did he do the same thing in his own hands and end up in this miserable image now?
A small bee farm with 120 swarms of black bees can generate an income of more than 10,000 yuan in one harvest. No one dares to underestimate bee farming.
On the contrary, every bee in the beehive is a treasure to them.
The casualties were so heavy, why not rush?
Fortunately, it's getting late now, and the fighting situation is gradually getting weaker...
The key point is that at the end of the day, a group of people only collected more than ten boxes of black bee honey. Not to mention the slow progress of the work, judging from the current situation, if it continues, I don’t know how serious the losses will be.
"Brother Meng, what should I do?"
Pu Guiying, who was a little at a loss and felt like she had made a mistake, lowered her head and looked at Raymond, the current farm manager, hoping that he would come up with an idea: "Should we still cut tomorrow?"
"I only saw Lu Lu cutting honey when I got here. I know it's not as much as you!"
Raymond was helpless. He scratched his head and said: "We must continue to collect honey without delay... We haven't learned enough. There must be something wrong. This matter must be solved. Otherwise, the bee farm will be destroyed by us like this."
If you mess around, the loss will be too great!"
"But we don't know what the problem is!" Meng Zhaohua's head was really big. It was blocked by the bee-proof gauze, but a few bees got in and stung him a few times. The whole head was enlarged.
"How about I go find Sister Yu... She took care of the black bees in Caodianzi by herself last year. My brother-in-law should have taught her, she has experience!" This is probably the only way Pu Guiying can think of.
There are people in Xiushan Village who keep bees locally, but the management of local bees is completely different from that of apiaries, so it is probably in vain to ask.
"But Sister Yu still has so many things to do at home, and she also has Xiao Zhengyang with her..." Meng Zhaohua was a little worried.
Raymond thought for a while: "There is nothing we can do about it. We can only ask her for help now. We can't delay the matter. Huazi, you send Yingzi to Xiuyu now and ask him to come over to us."
If you provide guidance and find out what the problem is, it will only make her worry more!"
"good!"
Meng Zhaohua nodded, called Pu Guiying, and took Zhou Cuifen, Zhao Meiling, Zhou Fangjing and others who were going home, and drove towards Xiushantun.