Reborn in the 60s, I hunt to support my family and even seduce the village beauty.

Is eating snake good for your skin?

Everyone was stunned.

Hou Jun was overjoyed and laughed, "Eating snake didn't improve your skin at all. Did you eat too much snake skin?"

Lu Jiawei grunted twice but didn't say anything. People in the office usually joked about the pimples on his face, and he was immune to it.

He lifted the sack in his hand, counted them silently, and exclaimed with delight, "Eight snakes in total! Except for one small one, there are plenty of the others. We can eat our fill!"

The others grinned as well. Xiao Yu stroked his chin and said, "We've had so much to gain today, how about we go down the mountain and find a place to eat?"

Hou Jun said with a hint of disdain, "Xiao Yu, you're so pathetic. I'd like to catch a wild boar or a goat or something."

Xiao Yu gave an awkward smile and didn't say much. Catching so many snakes in the grove was making him a little uneasy.

"Monkey King is right. We've finally made it into the mountains, so we should definitely see if we can catch a few big ones. Let's walk a little further, then find a place to eat something, and continue this afternoon."

Chang Kun led everyone to continue north, slightly off course, toward the location where they had sensed the beehive earlier.

As soon as we approached the hive, more wild bees began to appear around it.

Lei Guohong and Lao Zeng are both shrewd old men who used to raid beehives when they were young.

They exchanged a glance, then exclaimed in surprise, "A beehive?!"

Hou Jun, Xiao Lü, and Xiao Yu looked on in surprise: "A beehive? Is there honey?"

Lei Guohong laughed heartily: "We've really come at the right time! At this time of year, there's a good chance there'll be honey in the hive!"

These days, sugar production is very low, making honey especially precious.

If you can eat a spoonful of honey during the Chinese New Year, that's what makes life wonderful.

Thinking there might be honey, the group hurried towards the bee colony.

Upon arriving, Hou Jun saw a huge beehive hanging below the stone wall and excitedly slapped his thigh: "This beehive is built right here, perfect for us to harvest honey!"

How happy I would be if I could bring back some honey for my little girl!

He couldn't wait a moment longer, so he rushed forward and reached out to grab the beehive.

"Wait a minute..."

Before Lei Guohong could finish speaking, Hou Jun cried out in pain, "Ouch!"

"Ouch, that hurts!"

He rushed forward quickly, and retreated even faster, blowing air with his little finger.

Everyone watched as his little finger swelled up like it was being inflated, slowly swelling to the thickness of his thumb.

"Hiss... hiss..."

Hou Jun kept drawing in the cold air, and large beads of sweat poured down his face.

Lei Guohong scolded irritably, "You deserve it! Why did you rush in so fast... Luckily it was just an ordinary wild bee. If it had been a hornet, hehe, that would have been real trouble!"

Hou Jun, enduring the pain, said tremblingly, "Master, please stop scolding me. What should we do?"

Old Zeng chuckled and said, "Getting stung by these wild bees won't hurt, at worst it'll just hurt for a few days..."

Hou Jun gave a wry smile: "Uncle Zeng, do you have any good ideas? My wife will nag me if I go home with my body swollen like this."

Old Zeng pointed to Hou Jun's swollen little finger and said, "I'll teach you a trick today. If you get stung by a bee and there aren't any suitable places to urinate on the wound, do it quickly."

"what?"

Not only was Hou Jun dumbfounded, but Xiao Yu and Xiao Lü also stared wide-eyed.

What kind of method is this?

Lu Jiawei's eyes darted around a few times, he pulled up his pants, and pretended to be serious: "Brother Monkey, I have some genuine boy's urine here, do you need my help?"

Hou Jun kicked Lü Jiawei, saying, "Knowing you is my bad luck!"

He looked at Lao Zeng and, seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, ran behind a bush and started to unzip his pants.

Everyone was trying to suppress their laughter. Chang Kun covered Xiao Xiu'er's eyes to stop her from looking around curiously.

"Master, Uncle Zeng, judging from this, you've raided the beehive before?"

Lei Guohong nodded: "Those were difficult times. Our troops lacked food and clothing on the march. If we had found such a large beehive, how many comrades' lives could have been saved!"

Old Zeng chimed in, "Yes, honey and bee pupae. This stuff is especially good for the recovery of wounded soldiers. I remember once when I was injured, the medic gave me..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lei Guohong interrupted him: "Give me a break. You've told this medic story a hundred times. In the end, it's just because you're jealous of how good-looking the parents are..."

"Damn it! Lao Lei, what the hell are you talking about in front of the kids? I just wanted to thank them for saving my life."

Lei Guohong chuckled and said, "Right, right, you're thanking someone for saving your life, so you want to repay them with your body..."

There's a story behind this, isn't there?

Chang Kun, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Lü all stared wide-eyed, waiting to hear the gossip, but the two old guys stopped talking and wouldn't say another word.

Old Zeng cleared his throat: "It's all in the past, why bring it up again... Xiao Yu and Xiao Lü, go gather some firewood, let's smoke some bees, and find some sweet potato leaves while we're at it."

"Okay!"

The two of them were very eager to have honey to eat right away.

Chang Kun pulled Xiao Xiu'er aside and whispered, "Xiu'er, when we light the firewood later, shall we roast some grasshoppers for our uncles and cousins?"

Xiuer quickly hid the strings of grasshoppers behind her back, shaking her head vigorously: "I want to take them home to show my mother, I caught them all."

Chang Kun: ...

These were mostly caught by myself, but once they fell into the little girl's hands, they became the ones she caught.

This little kid is already guarding his food.

After waiting for a while, Xiao Yu and Xiao Lü returned with two small bundles of dry grass.

"Master, it's your turn to show your skills."

Lei Guohong and Lao Zeng took the initiative, lit some dry grass, and gathered around the beehive to smoke it.

Hou Jun raised his swollen little finger and cried out in regret. If he had known it was this simple, he wouldn't have had to suffer like this.

The bees, after being smoked, flew into the air, buzzing as if trying to protect their nest, but dared not land.

Lei Guohong lit a pile of dry grass and had the men hold it to help drive away the bees.

He and Lao Zeng gently pried open the honeycomb and saw the golden honey inside, making them swallow hard.

"Wow, there's a lot of honey here!"

"Enough to last for months!"

"Hurry up and peel them, Xiao Lü, get me some sweet potato leaves."

They carefully wrapped the honey and beeswax in sweet potato leaves, not daring to waste a single drop.

Lu Jiawei held the sweet potato leaves, his face beaming with joy.

Seeing Xiuer's eager expression, he broke off a piece of beeswax with honey from the sweet potato leaves: "Hey, Xiuer, can you taste it for us and tell us how it tastes?"

"Thank you, Brother Lü!"

Xiuer hopped over to Lü Jiawei, stuffed the beeswax into her mouth, and chewed it vigorously.

Chang Kun quickly reminded her, "Xiuer can just chew it; don't swallow the beeswax."

Lu Jiawei curled his lip: "Chang Kun, it's only because you're like this. If someone else said beeswax is inedible, they would definitely get scolded."

"Xiao Lü, you don't know, beeswax is hard to swallow, and eating too much can cause bloating. Children in the family should never eat too much of it."

Hou Jun stared wide-eyed: "Is that even a thing? I was thinking of saving them all for my daughter!"

Chang Kun nodded: "Little girl, a little honey every day is fine. Too much will easily cause diarrhea."

A doting father like Monkey King always saves the best food for his daughter.

But eating too much good food isn't necessarily a good thing.