"I know, Grandpa, don't always treat me like a three-year-old." Yun Duo said to Yun Dazheng in a coquettish tone, her head covered by a sheet.
Yun Da shook his head with a smile and looked at Yun Duo, saying, "Alright, alright, I won't treat you like a child anymore. Grandpa knows you're three years old, right? You're eight." After saying that, the grandfather and granddaughter laughed together.
After laughing, Yun Da tightened his sleeves and belt, put on the gauze hat that Yun Qi had specially sewn for him, and carefully lifted the cloth off the top of the beehive.
With a buzzing sound, countless bees took flight, hovering low in the air. To avoid arousing Yun Dazheng's suspicion, some bees circled around Yun Dazheng and Yun Duo, but none landed on them.
Even so, Yun Dazheng felt a chill run down his spine. There were still some bees in the hive. Yun Dazheng mentally prepared himself for a while before steeling himself, mustering all his strength, and carefully reaching into the wooden frame filled with combs.
There were still quite a few bees crawling around on the wooden frame and outside the comb.
Yun Dazheng carried the wooden frame in one hand and picked up the pheasant tail feathers that Yun Qishi had specially kept and trimmed in the other, using them to brush the bees off the wooden frame.
Before Yun Dazheng had finished brushing the bees off the wooden frame, Xiao Jiu started yelling in Yun Duo's mind: "Master, Master, your grandpa took the wrong one. He took the comb with larvae inside."
Upon hearing Xiao Jiu's words, Yun Duo deliberately moved closer to look at the spleen nest.
"Be careful, don't get too close, you might get stung." Seeing Yun Duo approach, Yun Dazheng instinctively reminded her. However, since he himself hadn't been stung while brushing the bees down with the comb, his tone wasn't as tense as before.
Yun Duo didn't respond to Yun Dazheng's words, but instead asked in a curious tone, "Grandpa, why do I feel like there are bugs in this beehive? Are they baby bees that haven't grown up yet?" As she spoke, she peeked her little hand out from under the sheet and pointed to several places where there were obviously larvae.
Yun Dazheng sighed and said, "Alas, how can you harvest honey without accidentally harvesting young bees? There's nothing you can do about it." This was what a beekeeper he had met earlier had told him, and he didn't know if it was right or wrong. He just figured that since the beekeeper was a professional beekeeper, what he said was mostly based on experience, so it shouldn't be wrong.
It was precisely because he himself did not fully believe that everything the beekeeper said was true that he gave Yun Duo the space to 'deceive' him.
"No, Grandpa, I see a lot of larvae in here. Wouldn't it be a waste to just cut them off like this? Besides, if there are a lot of larvae, there will be much less honey than other honey. Why don't you check if the others are like this too?"
Yun Dazheng thought that what Yun Duo said made some sense, so he nodded and said, "That seems to make sense. Then Grandpa will take another look. But are there really a lot of larvae? I don't see any." As he spoke, he lifted the comb frame and examined it carefully against the light.
"Grandpa, look, there are so many larvae! Let's change the frame and take another look." Yun Duo said, opening up the sheet covering her head and standing on tiptoe to show Yun Dazheng the larvae.
Although Yun Dazheng is getting old and his eyesight isn't as good as Yun Duo's, he can still see things more clearly when looking at them in the light, especially since there are already many young bees that can be identified as bees on the comb.
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