"Grandpa, look, all the holes on this frame of honeycomb seem to be sealed up, and the color looks a little darker than the previous frames. Do you think this might be the bees' food storage? They're storing up the good honey so they can enjoy it when they run out of honey. Grandpa, am I right?" Yun Duo, having received guidance from Xiao Jiu, pointed to a frame of honeycomb that was clearly filled with ripe honey and said to Yun Dazheng.
Yun Dazheng examined it carefully and said, "It seems so." Then, he tried to recall, and said somewhat uncertainly, "I remember some beekeepers I met before mentioning that these completely sealed honeycombs are filled with ripe honey?"
"Ripe honey? What's ripe honey?" Yun Duo tilted her head, deliberately feigning confusion.
"Hehe, well, even Grandpa isn't sure. It probably just means mature honey, right?" Yun Dazheng said somewhat uncertainly. He paused, then added, "Anyway, it means this kind of honey is better than unsealed honey."
Yun Duo's eyes lit up and she said, "Then let's sell this honey, Grandpa, what do you say?"
Yun Dazheng nodded and said, "Okay, if we're going to sell, we should sell the best ones. But Duo'er, come and help Grandpa take another look. Are there many bee larvae in this beehive? Grandpa's eyesight isn't as good as yours, so I can't see clearly."
Yun Dazheng's words were exactly what Yun Duo wanted to hear. She immediately nodded and said, "Yes, let Duo'er take a look." As she spoke, she held the comb up to the light and examined it closely with Yun Dazheng's hand. Then she said to Yun Dazheng, "Grandpa, Duo'er didn't see a single insect. This must be a special food storage for these bees, where they don't raise baby bees."
"That's good." Yun Dazheng breathed a sigh of relief. He had just taken several baskets, and they were mostly larvae with little honey. He was a little worried that he wouldn't be able to harvest any honey this time. But to his surprise, this time the whole basket he took was full of honey, without a single larva. He was overjoyed.
Yun Dazheng carefully cut the honey along the wooden frame with a small knife. The cut honey was rectangular, six square pieces of roughly the same size, which was pleasing to the eye. The key was that, under Xiao Jiu's control, the outermost ring of these honeycombs did not store any honey, so after Yun Dazheng cut a frame, there wasn't a single piece of honey on the knife, it was completely clean.
“This is good. We can sell them piece by piece like this. It will definitely sell better than a whole honeycomb. Our Duo’er is so clever. She made the honeycomb frame into individual compartments like this. It’s really convenient to divide it like this.” Yun Dazheng looked at the honeycomb he had cut off, which were almost the same size, and said happily to Yun Duo.
Yun Duo chuckled and shook her head, saying, "Hehe, we're just lucky. I just had this wild idea. If Grandpa hadn't listened to me, we wouldn't have this convenience now. It's mainly because Grandpa spoils me. He's willing to try anything, whether it's just wishful thinking or not."
As soon as Yun Duo finished speaking, Xiao Jiu started whimpering. Yun Duo quickly comforted it, "Of course, the most important thing is that we have Xiao Jiu here. If it weren't for Xiao Jiu, how could we have kept bees so smoothly? Xiao Jiu is the biggest contributor."
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