Rebirth 78, marry Qingmei as my wife

The northern hillside is now the back hill of Liu Hongjun’s family.

On the back mountain, there were no towering trees, but there was no shortage of vegetation. The mountain was covered with shrubs, some small trees, and weeds.

Liu Hongjun led more than a dozen strong laborers from the village, wielding a machete under the scorching sun, and chopped down bushes and trees, then tied them up and dragged them down the mountain.

After being dragged down the mountain to dry, these shrubs and trees are also good firewood.

Then, dig out the roots of shrubs and trees.

After the shrubs, trees, and weeds were cleared away, solid soil or rocks were exposed, and the back mountain gradually turned from green to dark and yellow.

It can be said that the back mountain changes every day.

The dark and yellow color slowly spreads from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain.

In fact, the simplest and most effective method of clearing wasteland is to burn the wasteland. Set a fire on the entire hill, and after the fire is extinguished, people will go up and clean it up.

However, Liu Hongjun did not dare to use this method. Although there were no large trees in the back mountain, there was a patch of larch in the valley not far from the back mountain.

He came from later generations, but he understood the horror of forest fires. If a forest fire is accidentally caused, more than one mountain may be burned, and the entire Yushutun may be buried in the fire.

In the blink of an eye, within a week, Liu Hongjun led his people to clear out the entire back mountain. Except for hundreds of wild jujube trees, everything else on the mountain became bare.

Unfortunately, it is not the transplanting season now, otherwise Liu Hongjun could directly arrange to transplant these jujube trees to the location of the fence.

After clearing the vegetation, the next step is to clear the hillside of rocks.

Stones scattered on the hillside and gravel in the soil need to be cleared.

The reason why there are no big trees on the north hillside, but only shrubs and small trees, is probably because the soil contains a lot of gravel.

More than a dozen people took hoes to dig up the soil and uncovered gravel. This was a very laborious and time-consuming task.

Fortunately, labor is cheap in this day and age, and everyone works hard.

Seeing that the dozen or so people were working too slowly, Liu Hongjun simply found dozens more people, both men and women. The male laborers were paid two yuan a day, and the female laborers were one yuan and a half a day, regardless of food.

Fifty or sixty people lined up in two rows, starting from the foot of the mountain. The people in the front were responsible for digging the soil, and the people behind were responsible for picking up stones.

These stones were not wasted. They can be used later when building a pool on the top of the mountain.

The northern slope is not a mountain of earth, but a serious mountain of stone, but the soil layer is relatively thick.

But there are also many places where large areas of stone are directly exposed, and there is even a large area of ​​exposed stone on the top of the mountain.

It is naturally unrealistic to dig a pond on the top of a mountain. This is not the future. There are various tools for digging mountains. With a little effort, you can dig out a large pond.

Therefore, a relatively flat surface was directly cut out of the stone on the top of the mountain, and then a large pool was built with stones.

Fortunately, there is still a lot of cement and sand left to build the house.

The busy month of September has arrived.

After nearly a month of busy work, the back mountain was finally cleared and a 100-square-meter, 1.5-meter-high pool was built on the top of the mountain.

In addition, Liu Hongjun also had many criss-crossing drainage ditches built on the hillside.

These drainage ditches were improved by Liu Hongjun by learning from later highway slope protection methods.

Drainage ditches are used to divide the entire mountain into countless pieces, each of which is about more than a hundred square meters.

This can greatly protect the soil on the back hill from being lost due to heavy rain.

Next, you only need to dig a well at the bottom of the mountain, use a high-power water pump to pump the water to the pool on the top of the mountain, and then draw water from the pool to irrigate the future orchard.

At this point, more than half of the construction of Liu Hongjun's new home has been completed.

The main body is completed, and all that remains is to plant fruit trees and plant jujube walls.

As Liu Hongjun's side came to an end, Qian Shengli, Dashan, and Shitou came to Liu Hongjun's house.

"Red Army, when do you plan to move to your new home?" Qian Shengli asked with a smile.

"Tomorrow I will go find someone to check the date, and I will move when I find a good day." Liu Hongjun said.

The home on the north hillside has been roasted with fire pots and fire pits for a month. In addition, it is summer, the temperature is high and the weather is dry. Therefore, the new home on the north hillside is now completely dry and can be moved there at any time.

"You should look for a better day. After you find a good day, say something and we will come and help you move." Qian Shengli said.

"Don't worry, I can't run away from you!" Liu Hongjun laughed.

After talking about moving, they started talking about going into the mountains again. Qian Shengli and the other three came to see Liu Hongjun today to discuss going into the mountains.

Since the beginning of spring, Liu Hongjun has been busy building a house, and they have not entered the mountains for several months.

Liu Hongjun talked about tomorrow's arrangements, "Tomorrow we will go into the mountains early to collect honey, and we will go back the same day."

“There’s no problem if you go and come back the same day, but several beehives near the village have been cut down by people from the village.

Two days ago, I saw four people, Goudan and Erniu, harvesting more than 20 kilograms of honey. "Qian Shengli felt quite regretful when he said this.

"The nearby beehives are not interesting. Let's go deep into the mountains and find the linden forest." Liu Hongjun said with a smile.

The most famous thing in Changbai Mountain is linden tree honey. Linden tree honey has the effects of harmoniously nourishing the body, nourishing the kidneys, nourishing the stomach and replenishing deficiency, clearing away heat and replenishing the heart, clearing the liver and brightening the blood, detoxifying and moisturizing, and can treat swelling of the whole body and relieve fatigue.

The honey listed as one of the three treasures of New Northeast China refers to linden honey.

"Brother Red Army, the linden forest is easy to find, but how can you find a beehive in the vast forest?" Dashan asked.

"Haha! It's naturally more troublesome to find the beehive directly, but we can look for traces of honey dogs and black bears. As long as we find honey dogs and black bears, there must be a honeycomb within the scope of their activities." Qian Shengli answered with a smile without Liu Hongjun having to say anything. The problem of mountains.

“There’s also a skill involved in finding a hive.

Finding beehives in the mountains requires some skill and experience, here are some suggestions:

Experienced honey collectors can find hives by observing the flight of bees. In mountainous areas, bees usually fly around from morning to night, looking for food and defending their territory.

We can observe the flight path and height of bees to find their flight patterns.

If bees are seen flying frequently in a particular area, there may be a hive in that area.

You can also look for traces of honeycombs. You may find some traces of honeycombs on trees or rocks in mountainous areas, such as small holes built by bees out of bark or soil.

These traces may be clues to the beehive, and you can follow these clues to find the beehive.

Therefore, as long as you look carefully, it is not that difficult to find the hive. Liu Hongjun added with a smile.