The next day Lu Lu woke up, got dressed and got off the kang. The first thing he did was open the door. He saw a rare sight of a blue sky with a few white clouds floating in the sky and a sun that was not strong enough to melt the ice and snow even at the strongest time of the day.
It had been hazy for several days, and finally it cleared up.
As if the continuous depression was suddenly released, Lu Lu felt that his whole person felt much more relaxed.
Chen Xiuyu was busy making breakfast, but Lu Lu couldn't wait any longer.
"I have to gather people quickly to prepare straw to keep the beehive warm. I won't eat breakfast and won't come back at noon. I'll eat at Raymond's place. Don't wait for me!"
He was somewhat anxious, fearing that another heavy snowfall would delay hunting.
After all, a beehive is just a beehive. The thickness of the wooden boards of two to three centimeters is too thin compared to the hole in the tree. It is really difficult for the little honey in the box to withstand the increasingly lower temperature.
After these few days of adaptation, it is time for the bee colonies that are sensitive to temperature to enter the official overwintering period. Insulation work must be done as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too easy to suffer frost damage and be wiped out.
The income from a small bee farm is greater than that from two thousand acres of corn, and it can be managed by only one or two people.
But we can't let the wind and snow ruin us.
"There's no rush, we still have to eat!"
Chen Xiuyu held Lu Lu back and maintained her attitude.
Lu Lu looked at her concerned expression and finally nodded slightly.
In fact, it feels really good to be cared for. He enjoys the warmth that only exists at home.
When Chen Xiuyu went to the kitchen to continue cooking, Lu Luze went to the bedroom and saw that the infant child had woken up, blinking his big and lively eyes, and kept moving. Seeing him like this, he knew that the little kid should
Convenient.
He quickly took the child out of the thick swaddling clothes and dragged the child to a gray basin prepared in the room to pee.
As soon as the whistle blew, the child seemed to have received an order and peed far away, completely out of the ash basin without any control. Fortunately, Dad caught it.
Three minutes later, Lu Lu wiped the child's butt, changed the diaper, wrapped it up again, and kissed him on the forehead. The familiar milky smell was still there.
After being poked by the stubble, the little guy laughed and stretched out his little hand to scratch Lu Lu's face. His nails were so sharp that it stung Lu Lu's face.
Lu Lu quickly found small cotton gloves and put them on for him, then held him and walked around the house.
"Lao Wu..."
At this moment, Liang Kangbo's shout came from outside.
Lu Lu held the child in his arms and went out to welcome him. He saw Liang Kangbo driving a sledge with loads of straw in the cart.
"I heard you talk about keeping the beehives warm a few days ago. Seeing as the weather is sunny today, are you going to do this?" Liang Kangbo said with a smile: "I brought all the straw from home."
Unexpectedly, Liang Kangbo, who lives farthest away, is actually the most positive.
"Yes, yes, we will do this today. I was just thinking about calling you, but unexpectedly, you came first."
Lu Lu greeted him into the room: "Xiuyu is making breakfast, let's have some together."
"We ate at home... You go and eat quickly. I'll go to the third child's house and call him to save you from running away."
Liang Kangbo tied the horse's reins to the fence, and climbed up the ridge along the fence to Zhao Yongke's house.
Chen Xiuyu went out and took a look, smiled at Lu Lu and said, "See, I told you not to rush."
Lu Lu smiled and returned to the house with the child in his arms.
Breakfast was simple. Chen Xiuyu steamed some steamed buns and fried two side dishes.
One side dish is stir-fried pork sent by each family when they slaughtered the New Year pig last year. There was so much pork to eat that Lu Lu smoked it using the Oroqen method, then rubbed it with Sichuan peppercorns, chili peppers and other spices, dried it and left it.
When it becomes bacon, it has a different flavor.
The other one is soup made with pickled cabbage.
The two items looked simple, but Lu Lu enjoyed eating them.
Not long after eating, Zhao Yongke followed Liang Kangbo to Lu Lu's house.
There was no paddy field in his family, and all he planted this year was corn, so he came directly on an Oroqen horse. When he arrived at Lu Lu's house, he saw the steamed buns being steamed. He climbed onto the kang directly, took a steamed bun and ate it without hesitation.
After getting up, Chen Xiuyu hurriedly went to get a pair of bowls and chopsticks for him and Liang Kangbo.
"Last night I was roasting fire-tanned roe deer hides until midnight, and I couldn't get up this morning... I didn't expect the sky to suddenly clear up." Zhao Yongke's eyes were still red, as if he hadn't slept enough.
There was an unpleasant smell on his body, which was left behind when the roe deer skin was treated by boiling water with roe deer liver. It was difficult to wash off after it stained his body, and it remained there for several days.
The Oroqen people's skill in making soun has become less and less popular in later generations, largely because many people can't stand the taste.
Both Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu had been exposed to this matter and knew the reason, so they didn't mind.
Unakan, who often processes roe deer skins, also has such a strong smell. Probably Unakan also knows the unpleasant smell. She is rarely seen walking around. Even Chen Xiuyu rarely comes here. She spends most of her time in her home.
At home, I manage my corn field, vegetables, and continue to deal with the fur on hand.
Of course, I also work on the farm when I have free time, but if I can usually do it independently, I do it alone as much as possible.
For this matter, Lu Lu went out of his way to explain the situation to the people on the farm behind the backs of Zhao Tuanqing and his family, so as to prevent them from making irresponsible remarks and showing disgust when they smelled the smell. The group of people can understand and get along with them.
Harmony.
In fact, there are too many people in the wilderness who don't take a shower all winter, and the clothes they wear become sour and smelly, and no one is much better.
Zhao Yongke sat down and ate. Lu Lu glanced at Liang Kangbo, who was sitting on the edge of the Kang, and stuffed him with a steamed bun with a smile. Liang Kangbo was stunned for a moment, and then started eating too.
After finishing the meal, Lu Lu put a sledge on the sledge placed under the barn, called the two of them, and walked to Xiushan Village together.
There are more than 60 peaks growing on the meadow, and the straw at Lu Lu's house is barely enough. He drives the sledge to get the straw from Zhou Fangjing and Big Nose's house in Xiushan Tunla.
When I went to the village, I called Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing. They helped load the straw onto the sledge, and then hurried to Meizigou.
When I got there, I saw Wu Wangang coming again, Lei Meng was calling Meng Zhaohua, Zhou Fangjing and Big Nose were catching wild geese in the wild goose breeding farm, loading yarn frames and loading cars.
The few people didn't bother them, and went directly into the bee farm. In the open space in front of the three huts guarded by the bee farm, they used shovels to clear away the snow, then found the prepared wooden poles to raise them up, and laid a layer on them.
Thick straw, and then moved down the bee colonies set up on Shilizi Mountain, and placed them neatly on the laid straw in rows.
The gaps between the beehives are filled with straw, and the top is covered with a thick layer of straw, and the straw is used to wrap the front and back of the beehive with long ropes.
At the entrance of the beehive, there is only a vent large enough for one or two bees to enter and exit. A windshield is added to prevent the entrance of the hive from being blocked by wind and snow, and an asbestos tile is added on top to block the snow.
This approach is to gather the bee colonies together, so that many bee colonies can stay together for warmth. It is simple and quick, and saves the tedious task of insulating each beehive individually.
In the coming year, when the weather gets warmer, the bee colonies can be relocated to the Shilizi hill. Before that, they can be cleaned and disinfected first, and the residue and nest insects cleaned out of the beehives can be burned and killed.
It can also prevent some future troubles.
After explaining the operation method clearly, Lu Lu led several people to proceed in an orderly manner.
After more than half an hour, Raymond and others also loaded the geese they needed into the car. When Meng Zhaohua helped transport them, they stopped on the road next to the bee farm and came over to say hello.
This time, he took away four hundred geese.
Lu Lu also stopped Meng Zhaohua as he drove away: "Hua Zi, when you come back, say hello to your brother-in-law. This time we are going to Daxinganling and run to the Nenjiang River. We need a car to take us there."
A few days have passed and we will leave the day after tomorrow."
Meng Zhaohua asked quickly: "How many cars do you want? Three?"
"Yes, you can go and find two more cars then!" Lu Lu had already made plans.
"I will go find my brother-in-law when I come back tomorrow!" Meng Zhaohua responded, and then drove the geese away in his car.
Raymond and others immediately joined in to help keep the beehive warm.
It took half a day to complete the matter.
After meeting at Raymond's house for lunch, Lu Lu called a group of people to bring ice tunnels and went to the mud ditch to dig holes in the ice for the overwintering pond in the forest frog breeding farm to help with ventilation.
By evening, the work on the farm was basically finished.
Considering that Raymond would also go hunting, Lu Lu discussed with Zhang Shaofeng and others and rearranged the family farm affairs.
The ventilation of the forest frog farm was left to Zhou Fangjing.
Lin Yulong, Liu Bao, and the others continued to be responsible for patrolling. The tiger dung placed before could only play a certain role in repelling animals in a short period of time, and it would not last long. The next thing to do is to guard against water dogs.
Go to the forest frog farm to eat forest frogs secretly, and prevent other wild animals from invading the geese in the wild goose farm and the sika deer in the sika deer farm. Of course, you also need to guard against wild animals that like to eat honey, such as wolverines and blind bears.
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For this reason, Lu Lu specifically asked Zhang Shaofeng to leave some extra bullets for them.
If something happens, gunshots will clear the way. If you can't kill them, they can always scare them away.
As for handling the sale of wild geese with Wu Wangang, it was left to Xue Shuqin and Lin Yufeng. Lin Yufeng had graduated from junior high school and had no difficulty in this regard. Moreover, during the time they came to work on the family farm, the two brothers and sister had performed quite reliably.
He works proactively and has many ideas, and has gained the trust of Lu Lu and others.
After things were arranged, Zhang Shaofeng asked aloud: "Lao Wu, how are we going to go this time?"
"We passed through Wudalianchi, reached the Nenjiang River, and then followed the Ganhe River, a tributary of the Nenjiang River, all the way into Ganhe Town. After stopping in Ganhe Town for a short rest, we entered the vast mountains.
The terrain of the Daxingan Mountains is more complex than here, but there are also rich species, including blind bears, brown bears, sables, flying dragons, elk, moose, sika deer, red deer, water dogs and wolves. You can hunt anything and they are all valuable."
Hearing what Lu Lu said, several people became very excited.
However, Lu Lu's expression became serious: "Don't be too happy too early. The wide variety of species also means that it is a real virgin forest. Many places are uninhabited and barbaric lands that no one has ever visited.
Heavy snow has sealed the mountain, and ordinary people dare not go in. The only people they can encounter inside are some forestry logging workers, as well as Ewenki and Oroqen hunters who are hunting inside.
This trip is much more dangerous than the Lesser Khingan Mountains and Changbai Mountains where we are. From now on, we will mainly hunt in the Greater Khingan Mountains. High income also comes with high risks. Sometimes we go in, and it’s really hard to deal with it every day.
It makes the earth inoperable.
Therefore, we must be mentally prepared and make various guarantees to ensure nothing goes wrong. Only by uniting as one can we gain good harvests and break out safely.”
The forest resources in Daxinganling can be called a treasure trove. The number of species in it is second only to Yunnan, which is known as the kingdom of animals and plants. In later generations, it was also closely guarded. If you want to go into the mountains for exploration or inspection, you don’t have a certificate.
They will let you in. At most, you can go to specific scenic spots to play.
This is not a huge treasure trove for Lu Lu and others.
What is needed is courage and ability!
"I heard someone said that there are still savages in the Greater Khingan Mountains. Is it true?" Raymond asked curiously.
Thanks to book friends Shili Peach Blossom and Du Que for the reward!