The few little kids at the foot of the mountain who thought they had gotten into trouble were so panicked that their faces were swollen into pig heads. Naturally, they couldn't explain why a perfectly good honeycomb fell down.
At this moment, Gu Mingdong looked at the stone and had an answer in his heart.
This is a nest of bees that has made its home in a tree hole. It has taken root here for several years. The honeycomb is getting bigger and bigger, and part of it is exposed to the outside.
What fell to the ground now was the exposed part of the honeycomb.
Because the queen bee is still in her original home, most of the bees have calmed down and returned to the tree hole.
Except for the bees that lost their hives and kept buzzing, the mountain was quiet, and it seemed that no one else existed.
But all this is just an appearance. If you are in a city with many people and confused breathing, it is still possible to hide it.
But now in the mountains, nothing can be hidden from Gu Mingdong. It is no exaggeration to say that he is a god-like existence in the mountains and forests. No bird, insect, or tree can escape his mental power, let alone larger people. .
Qian Zhiyi thought he was hiding it well, but he didn't know that all of this was suddenly revealed under Gu Mingdong's eyes.
In his perception, under a bush not far away, a man was lying on the ground, covering his head with his coat in a strange and twisted way to avoid the stings of bees.
At this moment, there were several bees lying on Qian Zhiyi's back, and they stung him without fear of death. The bee stings penetrated directly through his clothes and into his flesh.
The twins' faces were swollen like pig heads after just one sting. You can imagine Qian Zhiyi's fate.
Qian Zhiyi was also a tolerant person, and he bit his mouth tightly without making a sound.
Gu Mingdong glanced at the honeycomb, connected back and forth, and his eyes showed a cold light.
Before this, Gu Mingdong had disapproved of the heroine and heroine of period novels, and even disliked Wu Mengting more in comparison. After all, she jumped up and down to make her presence felt in front of him.
Since Lin Aiguo's death, Wu Mengting seems to have been frightened. Now she bows her head and walks away when she encounters him, not daring to disturb him at all.
If they don't come out to play, Gu Mingdong is happy and relaxed. He is too lazy to take care of them, let alone target them specifically.
Unexpectedly, Qian Zhiyi, who usually kept silent and hid his hostility and disgust towards him, shamelessly attacked a group of children with clumsy methods that made people despise him.
Gu Mingdong looked in the direction where Qian Zhiyi was hiding and narrowed his eyes.
After the incense burner incident, he and the Qian family were destined to be in a hostile position. If Qian Zhiyi knew the inside story and confronted him head-on, Gu Mingdong would respect him as a man.
But he just pretends to be pretentious at ordinary times and stumbling upon the children.
Bullying children is nothing!
Gu Mingdong sneered and flicked his fingertips. The bees surrounding him suddenly paused for a moment, and the next moment they quickly swept towards Qian Zhiyi.
The needle that stung a child must be returned to him a hundred times a thousand times! Let him know what it means to reap the consequences.
"Hmm!" Qian Zhiyi lay firmly in the bushes, thinking that he must not be discovered, otherwise he would not be able to explain clearly.
He didn't know what was going on just now. The more he looked at the Gu twins, the more disgusted he became. When he came to his senses, he threw the stone.
Having done everything, Qian Zhi didn't regret it at all. Hearing the children's screams actually made him feel much happier.
As long as the old Gu family is unlucky, Qian Zhiyi will feel secretly happy in his heart, as if the more unlucky their family is, the better off he will be.
Even if he suffered a few bee stings, Qian Zhiyi felt it was worth it.
As long as Gu Mingdong leaves, he can slowly go down the mountain without anyone noticing, and no one will know that he did it.
Qian Zhiyi's abacus was beating loudly in his heart. When he heard Gu Mingdong's leaving footsteps, he couldn't restrain the smile on his lips.
It wasn't until the footsteps could no longer be heard that Qian Zhiyi carefully pulled down his clothes and planned to get up and go down the mountain.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, Qian Zhi burst out with a scream, and saw countless bees surrounding him, swarming him while he was pulling down his clothes.
The screams coming from behind made Gu Mingdong's steps become more brisk.
He carried the half-sized honeycomb and walked down the mountain, and soon saw a group of pig-headed cubs.
"Honeycomb!" Gu Liangxing shouted in surprise.
Gu Liangchen looked at his father worriedly: "Dad, have you been stung?"
"Don't worry, I didn't get stung." Gu Mingdong looked at the eldest son of the birthday boy and the youngest son of Pinocchio, feeling funny and pitiful for a moment.
He reached out and touched the little heads of the two children: "Let's go home and treat your wounds first, and then divide the honey."
After saying that, he looked at the other three children: "You guys come together too."
So the five children all returned to Lao Gu's house together.
"What's going on?" Gu Simei was shocked when she saw their miserable state.
Gu Yun was even more worried as she circled around the twins, looking at their wounds with distress.
"The troublemaker on the mountain was stung by a bee." Gu Mingdong explained.
Gu Simei looked helpless, stared at her eldest nephew and asked, "Gu Liangxing, was it your idea?"
Gu Liangxing said aggrievedly: "I didn't expect this."
Gu Mingdong washed his hands and carefully inspected the children's wounds. He found that some of the wounds were so deep that they could not be removed by squeezing them with his hands, so he had to find a sewing needle.
First, pick out the poisonous needles from the skin of several children, then add soapy water, and have several children line up at the door to wash the wounds. Bees in autumn are also poisonous, but the alkaline substances in the soap can neutralize bee venom. of acidity.
Fortunately, these bees are the most common wild bees, not wasps or poisonous bees, otherwise a single injection would be enough for these children.
As for the local methods of applying honey to kill bees, it has no other effect except psychological comfort.
Gu Liangchen directly immersed his head in the soapy water. After a while, he raised his head and asked, "Dad, are you okay?"
Gu Mingdong pressed the forehead of his birthday boy and said against his will: "It's a little better."
Gu Liangchen touched his swollen nose and said with a grimace, "My nose still hurts."
"I feel pain too."
"My back hurts."
"My legs hurt."
The most unlucky child was stung five or six times, all on the back, and was now sobbing and sniffling.
Seeing his unfortunate appearance, Gu Simei felt sympathy and reached out to help him rub soapy water on his back. The child gritted his teeth and persisted, holding back from crying, but bubbles of snot fell from his nose.
Seeing that this was not an option, Gu Mingdong turned around and went into the backyard. When he came out again, he had a few mints in his hand. With the blessing of the supernatural power, the mint leaves in this season were already green and tender, and they gave off a refreshing feeling after being crushed. the taste of.
In summer, Gu Mingdong occasionally picks some mint and soaks it in water to drink. The unique fragrance can make people's mouth feel refreshed for the first day, and the effect is evident.
After mashing it now, the taste will be more intense, and the effect will definitely be very good.
Gu Mingdong waved and applied mint leaf mud to them one by one.
"Don't wash it off in a hurry, leave it on for a while."
Gu Liangxing touched his forehead and said, "It's so cold, but it's a bit stinging."
After saying that, he stretched out the corner of his mouth and licked it, making him gush at the special taste.
Gu Mingdong slapped his son on the head angrily: "Have you learned your lesson this time? Will you dare to do it again in the future?"
He was so lively, so it was obvious that there was no big problem. With his forehead swollen like this, Gu Mingdong was afraid that his son would be stung by a bee.
Gu Liangxing sniffed and said aggrievedly: "I didn't know that the bee nest would fall when it said it would fall. I originally wanted to wait until Dad was done with his work before going up the mountain to get honey."
The other children also cried out.
Liu Xiaozhu didn't dare to speak. He knew deep down his family affairs. In the past, his dead eldest brother and Gu Mingdong didn't deal with each other. Now he stood timidly at the end, for fear that Uncle A Dong wouldn't like him and wouldn't let the twins play with him.
Gu Mingdong knew who the culprit was, so he didn't punish the children. Instead, he found a bowl and broke the honeycomb into five equal parts. Each of the five children had a portion, so no one suffered.
"Eat it, this is the honey you got in exchange for your injuries." He teased.
Gu Liangxing stretched out his fingers and scooped out a spoonful, put it in his mouth and licked it. His eyes were so squeezed that they almost bent: "It's so delicious."
He didn't eat enough for himself, so he dragged Gu Yun to eat: "Sister Xiaoyun, you can eat too, the honey is so sweet."
Gu Yun took a mouthful from him, and the sweet taste immediately made her smile.
Gu Liangchen was much more polite. He divided his bowl into several pieces: "One for me, one for my father, one for my fourth aunt, and one for my second uncle and third aunt."
When Gu Liangxing heard this, he started to follow suit.
Gu Mingdong smiled and touched his filial son's head, and looked at the other three children who were standing still without daring.
He knew Liu Xiaozhu, and he also remembered the other two. One was Li Xiaohu, Li Tiezhu's youngest son, and the other was Zhang Xiaobao.
Li Xiaohu is very similar to his biological father Li Tiezhu, with a tiger-like head and a tiger-like brain. He is obviously very greedy at the moment, but he can't bear to eat it.
Zhang Xiaobao even sucked his fingers, but didn't dare.
Gu Mingdong raised his eyebrows and thought to himself that in the eyes of the children in the production team, he might be a tiger.
"Why are you standing there? Eat quickly."
"Can we really eat it?" Li Xiaohu became more courageous and asked.
Gu Liangxing was very happy eating every bite. When he heard this, he asked: "Why not?"
Gu Simei smiled and handed each of them a spoon: "Eat with a spoon, don't use your fingers, it's dirty."
Li Xiaohu then took a big spoonful and stuffed it into his mouth. He took a sip and the sweet taste made the child squint his eyes.
Zhang Xiaobao took a bite and said, "It's so delicious and sweet."
For the children in the production team, candy is something they can only eat during holidays. Usually, they can only drink a bowl of brown sugar water when they are sick. Honey is naturally even more rare.
Liu Xiaozhu also tasted it cautiously. It was so sweet that he couldn't help but lick the corners of his mouth and refused to pull it down at all.
Soon, Liu Xiaozhu stopped talking, raised his head and asked cautiously: "Uncle A Dong, can I take it back to eat?"
Probably because he was afraid that Gu Mingdong would not agree, he whispered: "I want to share it with my sister."
Gu Mingdong saw him lowering his head and looking embarrassed, but he smiled a little: "Of course, it's yours to share. It's up to you to do with it what you want."
Liu Xiaozhu hugged the bowl, pursed his lips and promised, "I will return the bowl right away."
After speaking, she carefully held the bowl and ran towards the house next door.
Gu Simei glanced at him and said with a smile: "Aihua's love for this brother is not in vain. If you have delicious food, you will always remember her."
Li Xiaohu and Zhang Xiaobao bit their spoons and said, "Uncle A Dong, can we take it back too?"
"Anything is fine." Gu Mingdong smiled.
So the two children gathered together and went back holding the bowls.
"Don't drop my bowl. Return it early, otherwise my family won't have a bowl to eat." Gu Liangxing reminded.
"I know." The two children replied.
Even Gu Simei couldn't hold back her laughter and said, "Our family, Ah Xing and Ah Chen, are filial. Even the friends we play with know that we care about our family members."
Gu Liangxing raised his head proudly: "No, I won't play with bad children."
"Dad, take a bite." Gu Liangchen held the spoon high and handed it to Gu Mingdong's mouth.
Gu Mingdong lowered his head and took a sip. The wild honey was full of flavor, not sweeter than the semi-finished products of later generations, and had a different taste.
However, after his son stuffed him with two mouthfuls, Gu Mingdong shook his head and refused: "You can eat it yourself, dad doesn't like sweet things."
"Dad, you're so weird that you don't even like eating something so sweet." Gu Liangxing said with a smile.
Then he asked again: "Are you pretending not to like it so that we can eat more, like the teacher said?"
Gu Simei was overjoyed when she heard this. She didn't know anything else, but his eldest brother definitely didn't have such a character.
Gu Mingdong really didn't like too sweet food. Hearing this, he smiled and hit his son on the head: "You talk a lot. Take a snapshot of your own head. Are you embarrassed to say that your father and I are weird?"
After hearing this, Gu Liangxing was indeed so weak that even the honey no longer smelled good.
Gu Yun gestured beside her and said: "The brain is not ugly either, it is very blessed." 】
"You see, dad doesn't like it, but sister Xiaoyun likes it." Gu Liangxing took a look and immediately became jealous again.
Gu Mingdong didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He looked like a birthday man. How could he not be blessed?
Gu Liangchen took a few bites and then put it away. He also said, "Fourth aunt, help me put it on the top of the cabinet to prevent it from being eaten by ants. When the second uncle and the others come back, we can make honey water and drink it."
"Put mine together too." Gu Liangxing said after all, there was nothing that should be kept.
Liu Xiaozhu ran home with the porcelain bowl in his arms. Before he entered the door, he saw Widow Liu sitting in the hall with a sad face, choosing wild vegetables. Liu Xiaozhu paused, bent over like a wild cat, and sneaked to the backyard.
He slipped in quietly through the back door. The back door of Lao Liu's house was connected to the kitchen. As soon as Liu Xiaozhu entered, he saw his sister busy in the kitchen.
Seeing his mysterious posture, Liu Aihua asked subconsciously: "What are you doing, a thief?"
"Shh!" Liu Xiaozhu said with suppressed excitement on his face, holding the bowl: "Sister, look at what this is!"
Liu Aihua looked down and said in surprise: "Honey?"
"Where did it come from?"
"Gu Liangxing took us up the mountain to dig out bird eggs, but..." Liu Xiaozhu told what happened on the mountain, and then said, "Sister, please try to see if it's sweet or not."
Upon hearing that her brother had been stung by a bee, Liu Aihua quickly checked and found that the redness and swelling of the wound had begun to fade away. She was relieved: "Don't be so naughty in the future. Fortunately, it was a bee today. If it had been a wasp, it would have killed someone."
Liu Xiaozhu said with a smile: "Uncle A Dong wiped it with soapy water for us. The soap smells so good. It smells good to me now."
Liu Aihua lowered her head and smelled it. She did smell the smell of soap, and then she felt completely relieved.
In fact, she knew in her heart that in the production team, except for the twins who did not dislike Liu Xiaozhu, the children from other families were unwilling to play with him. Who allowed them to have an eldest brother who was a psychotic murderer.
"Sister, you should eat quickly."
Liu Aihua lowered her head and could see the joy and concern in her brother's eyes. She also forgot about those troubles and was in a good mood. She lowered her head with a smile and took a sip: "It's so sweet."
"Yeah, I also think it's very sweet and delicious. It's as delicious as the candies during the Chinese New Year." Liu Xiaozhu said with a smile, "Sister, if you want to eat more, I've already eaten it, so I'll give it to you."
In fact, after Liu Dazhu's death, their life became much easier. They could live at home and had enough food to eat when they were given food in the middle of the year. However, Widow Liu was used to being stingy. In addition to her dead eldest brother, she was also stingy with her two remaining children. I will never let them eat more.
Wang Mazi was thinking about his son, but he had no money and would have enough food to eat, so even his heartache was extremely limited.
Liu Aihua smiled and touched her brother's head: "Sister, you don't like sweets, so you can eat them."
"Who doesn't like sweets? If my sister doesn't eat it, then I won't eat it either." Liu Xiaozhu said with a serious face.
At this moment, Liu Aihua suddenly felt that all these years of hard work had paid off. The two of them finished less than half a bowl of honey in one bite, not even spitting out the bad part. The sweet taste was refreshing.
The two children just sat at the back door, not mentioning their mother who was folding vegetables in front.
On the other side, Li Xiaohu and Zhang Xiaobao returned home holding honey, which also attracted shouts and screams from their parents.
The little cub who is usually the most protective of food actually remembered to bring honey home for them to eat.
Li Tiezhu happily slapped his son on the back of the head: "You brat has grown up and is filial. He still cares about your parents."
After all, you can tell by looking at his grinning mouth that he is happy in his heart.
"What are you doing? If you don't see the child, you will slap him on the ground." Qian Jinhua glared at her husband, hugged the child and kissed her with rare kindness.
"Our little tiger is a filial child. His parents don't like sweets, so you can eat them."
But Li Xiaohu said: "You two must be lying. Gu Liangchen said that adults will always pretend that they don't like to eat, don't want to eat, and leave the delicious food to their children."
After saying that, he put the bowl on the table: "I've eaten all, you can keep it to eat."
Seeing his stinking fart, Li Tiezhu and his wife were overjoyed.
Later, the couple finally tasted it, and the sweet taste was sweet to their hearts. In the evening, they soaked honey in honey water, and the whole family tasted it.
Qian Jinhua felt that although the old Gu twins had no mother, their upbringing was slow and they were more sensible than ordinary children.
In her heart, she was sure that her children would play well with the twins, so when she returned the bowl, she generously put two eggs in it.
How could Gu Simei accept this? The two of them pushed it back and forth. In the end, Gu Mingdong couldn't stand it anymore and asked Gu Simei to keep the egg, but he picked a big pumpkin from the backyard for her.
After a while, Zhang Xiaobao's mother came over to return the bowl and put a few tomatoes in the bowl. Gu Simei didn't need to remind her this time and gave her a small pumpkin.
Even when Liu Aihua came with cucumbers, Gu Simei stuffed her with a bagful of tomatoes and asked her to take them back and share them.
Qian Jinhua went back holding a big pumpkin and said to Li Tiezhu: "Some people in the production team said that Adong was unreasonable and even beat up his own uncle. I looked at the entire production team and there was no one more generous than him. "
Li Tiezhu sneered: "Those words didn't come from the old Liu family."
"Huh, what's the use of a few gossips? The captain is doing real things. He can make everyone eat well. I don't believe anyone dares to do that."
After hearing this, Li Tiezhu also said: "The autumn harvest is about to begin. How much food can we harvest this time? Will our family be able to eat white rice this year?"
Not only Li Tiezhu is looking forward to this, but the rest of the production team are also looking forward to this day.
In the joyful and lively atmosphere, no one noticed that Qian educated youth asked for leave again.
However, when Gu Jianguo saw Wu Mengting come to help ask for leave and said that Qian Zhi had injured his leg and went to the county seat again, he became very angry. He had never seen such a man. He would find excuses to be lazy whenever he had to work. .
No one believed that Qian Zhiyi really had an old injury. After all, his leg had been healed for a long time, so it could not really affect his work.
Little did they know that Qian Zhiyi also complained endlessly. Unlike those children, he was only stung five times at most.
Under Gu Mingdong's instruction, the bees stung him, the culprit who destroyed the hive, and got revenge.
Qian Zhiyi was in severe pain all over his body. Although it was not fatal, it was not comfortable either.
He didn't know how he persisted in climbing down the mountain. How could he dare to be discovered by people from the production team with such a ghostly appearance, otherwise they would know the problem of the honeycomb as soon as they think about it.
Qian Zhiyi had something on his mind, so he naturally thought of ways to fool him, so he found an excuse to go to the county seat as a last resort. The bee-tail stings all over his body really needed to be dealt with properly.
Gu Jianguo was cruel and decided to wait for Qian's educated youth to come back and tell him directly that if he didn't work hard, he would not be able to get any more food this time.
After all, why are the members working so hard to take advantage of the educated youth from outside?
You must know that during the harvest season in previous years, the production team members were the most tired and frightened. They had to do hard physical work even if they didn't have enough to eat, and several of them fell down every year.
But this year, as the rice turns from green to yellow, the golden color does not scare people, but makes people jump with joy.
Gu Jianguo insisted that the decision to distribute grain after the first round of summer harvest was correct. With so much grain thrown in, even the most stingy people would be willing to eat a few full meals.
When a person is full, his energy suddenly rises and he is full of energy to work.
When the autumn harvest began, Gu Mingdong stood in the field and looked around. He could see that the members of the Shanghe Village production team no longer looked as skinny as they had in the previous two years.
Their faces became rosy, and although none of them were fat because they worked a lot, they all had muscles on their bodies, which made them look strong, not skinny.
The four people who were transferred together with them were given more food because of their "merit", and they were no longer able to run away if the wind blows.
Gu Mingdong also had a smile in his eyes. Compared to the lifeless and complaining production team, he still liked the vibrant world.
He bent down and harvested crops of rice.
What makes the members feel relieved and excited is that this round of late rice is as full as early rice.
The twins followed Gu Mingdong to help bundle the rice. They were young, but they were very skilled at doing this. Together, the two of them were as fast as an adult.
Gu Yun was carrying a small basket and followed them to pick up rice ears. She was careful and never missed an edible grain.
Suddenly, a gray shadow flashed across the rice field.
Before the twins could react, they saw their father stepping forward, faster than the gray shadow.