Shen Yanming chuckled: "How can you be so sure that I can handle something that seven or eight of you couldn't?"
Ding Rongquan smiled slyly: "It's not that I'm certain, I just think you're lucky, so I'm asking. If we can get it, that would be great; if not, we'll find someone else. It'll just be a waste of time, no big deal."
Shen Yanming thought for a moment and said, "Alright, I'll give it a try. But it won't work today; I need to go home and prepare some things."
Ding Rongquan slapped his thigh and said happily, "Okay, okay, see you at seven tomorrow morning?"
Shen Yanming nodded: "Okay."
"By the way, are you bringing your child?" Ding Rongquan asked.
"Yeah, we should bring them along to join in the fun."
"Then you'd better wrap them up tightly, otherwise getting stung by a wild bee can be very painful."
"I know." Shen Yanming smiled, not minding it.
The two parted ways, and Shen Yanming took Bi Qiaoan, An'an, and Nuannuan home.
As soon as he entered the house, he asked his wife to put him into her spatial storage. He needed to prepare some medicine, mainly the kind used for fumigation.
I still feel lingering fear when I think about my previous experience of harvesting wild honey in Rongbai Mountain, so I'd better be prepared this time.
Outside the space, Bi Qiaoan was also preparing things. Since the four of them would be traveling with others, they wouldn't be as free as before.
She needs to make sure An'an and Nuannuan are fully prepared, so that things don't turn out like before, where one got bitten on the eyelid and the other on the mouth.
After thinking for a moment, she found a white scarf in her spatial storage. It was a style from many years ago, and Bi Qiaoan had worn it many times.
She held it up in front of her eyes and found that although her vision was obstructed, she could still make out the general shape. So she snapped her fingers with her left hand, "This is it."
Bi Qiaoan didn't do anything else but cut the scarf in half and tried it on the two children's heads. The scarf was wide enough to completely cover their heads.
But would that really stop the wild bees from attacking? She vaguely remembered that those protective suits weren't supposed to be attached to the skin.
After thinking about it, I decided to prepare the protective suits according to what others had done. After all, they were the culmination of countless experiences from our predecessors.
She pulled out a bunch of willow branches from her spatial storage, and with nimble fingers, she wove a wide-brimmed straw hat under An An and Nuan Nuan's astonished gaze.
Then, sew the scarf onto the straw hat with needle and thread. The light gauze will hang down, just enough to cover your head and face. Later, you can stick the bottom of the scarf to your clothes, and you can rest easy.
Once the veil was finished, Bi Qiaoan had An'an try it on.
The young man looked out through the gauze curtain, finding the view blurry but still quite interesting. Nuannuan, seeing this, also clamored for it.
Bi Qiaoan took the veil off An'an's head and put it on the little girl, saying, "Try it out first, and Mom will make you one in a little while."
Nuannuan thanked her happily, not wanting to return the mitten to An'an. But when she saw her mother weaving straw hats again, she took the mitten down, picked up a few willow twigs from the coffee table, and started weaving like her mother.
Seeing this, Bi Qiaoan slowed down her movements and instructed Nuannuan on how to knit. She had learned this during special training, and it had proven quite useful.
Before long, another veil was finished. Now the little brother and sister each had one, and neither of them had to envy the other.
When Shen Yanming came out, he saw two little ones playing around, wearing somewhat rough veils. Bi Qiaoan looked at them with a doting smile, but her fingers were flying across the keyboard.
"What, are you still not done?" Shen Yanming asked.
Bi Qiaoan rolled her eyes at him and said, "Don't you need to wear one?"
Shen Yanming thought to himself that he was well-prepared this time, and the fumigation would keep the wild bees away from him, so he would hardly be stung. But seeing how concerned his wife was, he touched his nose and said nothing more.
An hour later, the three of them, father and sons, were wearing matching veils. Bi Qiaoan was extremely satisfied and asked Shen Yanming, "Is my old one still there?"
"Here." Shen Yanming used his consciousness to search the storage area, and soon he took out the shield that Bi Qiaoan had used during the sunlight mutation.
"Alright, with this tomorrow, we won't be afraid."
Shen Yanming smiled and said, "No need to worry too much. I specially prepared incense to repel wild bees this time."
Bi Qiaoan: "Don't forget about Rong Baishan. I hope you won't be embarrassed this time."
Shen Yanming: "......" Thank you! I'm so angry! What am I going to do if my wife doesn't love me anymore?
The next morning, the family of four had breakfast and left the base. As expected, they ran into Ding Rongquan and his group at the base gate.
Seeing Shen Yanming carrying large and small bags, Ding Rongquan asked, "Are you ready?"
Shen Yanming raised an eyebrow and showed him the matching veils worn by the family of four.
Of course, there are still some differences, after all, Joan's was made before the tsunami. Resources weren't so scarce back then, so hers is quite beautiful.
But he ignored all of these things.
"There's also a small storage box and a small plastic bucket. I don't know how much honey there is. If there's a lot, the storage box will fit perfectly. If not, we'll use this plastic bucket."
Ding Rongquan gave him a thumbs up before saying, "We don't have as many supplies as you do, but we're not bad either. We've prepared seven or eight plastic bottles and two pieces of gauze. If we can get some honeycomb, we can filter it while we're at it."
Shen Yanming nodded: "You're not bad either."
The group didn't say anything more and headed towards the spot where they had found the tree hole honey.
Two hours later, they finally arrived at their destination. Shen Yanming followed Ding Rongquan's finger and saw a hole the size of an American football in a large tree about half a meter in diameter. Bees were busily going in and out of the hole.
"Have you checked? There's a lot of honey inside?" Shen Yanming shuddered, as if he were having a physiological reaction to being stung.
Ding Rongquan nodded: "I took a risk and checked it out a couple of days ago. There's a lot of honey in it, but it's not easy to get it."
Upon seeing this, Shen Yanming took out four veils from the storage box and put them on, then used tape to firmly stick the veils to their clothes.
He had Bi Qiaoan and An An Nuan Nuan stand at a distance, then put on rubber gloves, lit the incense he had prepared beforehand, and slowly approached the tree hole.
Buzz buzz buzz~
The wild bees began to riot, rushing out in all directions. They launched indiscriminate attacks on any people they encountered, except for Shen Yanming, who perfectly dodged them.
Because An'an and Nuannuan had mosquito repellent on them, not many wild bees flew towards them. However, Ding Rongquan and the others were stung terribly.
The group seemed surprised that the wild bees would attack them, so they instinctively ran away. However, because their hands weren't covered, they were stung without warning.
"Ouch, it hurts!" they cried out.
Upon seeing this, Bi Qiaoan threw the scented ball from her waist: "Catch!" Then she leaned against An An Nuan Nuan.
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