June, the hive on the mountain is harvesting the first batch of honey this year.
Uncle Bangzi habitually fills five honey jars and places them on a stone platform not far away.
After placing them down, he stands at the edge of the platform, silently looking at the mountain gully.
The hive is a collective industry of the village. After graduating from junior high school, he didn't continue studying and learned to manage the hive with his granduncle.
The first time he went to the back mountain to lure the queen bee, he was almost blocked by a wild boar. It was the young female bear who saved him. Several times afterward, on the mountain, the young female bear quietly protected him.
From sixteen years old to now, it's been about ten years.
In these ten years, the street rat has brought the young female bear to the hive every year to eat honey, without skipping a single year. Each time they come, he gives them the best quality honey.
