Chapter 166 Chapter 165: The Biggest Harvest in History
Zhou Yiding got some dry grass and bush branches and set them on fire, and the area under the rock was filled with smoke.
Zhou Huaian lit the moxa stick and stuffed it into the crevice of the stone. After about ten breaths, countless bumblebees flew out of the hole.
The two waited for a while, and saw that fewer and fewer bumblebees were flying out. Zhou Huaian walked to the crevice, checked it out, and said:
"Ding Ding Cat, let's clear the mud at the entrance of the cave first, and then pry open the stone stuck on the opening of the hive. We should be able to see the bees inside."
Zhou Yiding leaned forward to take a look and said, "Yes, this is the stone stuck at the entrance of the cave."
Zhou Huaian dug away all the mud around the stone with his bare hands. The hole became a little bigger. He pried the stone apart a few times with force and found that it was somewhat loose. Then he reached his hand in and tried to pry the stone out to see what was inside.
Suddenly, my finger felt painful as if it was pricked by a pin. I quickly pulled my hand back and saw the brown bee sting on the tip of my finger. After pulling it out, I rubbed my finger back and forth in the mud and sand for a few times, "Fuck~ I got stung again."
"Didn't my sister-in-law give you gloves? Why don't you wear them?"
"That's right, how could I forget?" Zhou Huaian said as he took out his work gloves and put them on. "Fuck, let's see how you sting me now."
Zhou Yiding laughed, "Fang Laoke, the car is coming and you can't run away!"
"A three-year-old kid said this, do you still remember it?"
Zhou Huaian glanced back at him, stretched out his hand and tried a few times, slowly picking up a few stones from the cracks in the rocks. After the hole was exposed, he looked inside, and the first thing that caught his eye was a row of beehives as big as badminton rackets:
"Ding Ding Cat, we have the goods, quickly pull the urea bag away." Zhou Huaian said as he took off his work gloves, took out plastic gloves from his pocket, and used the dagger hanging on his belt to cut off the honeycomb.
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding came up to him and untied the urea bag, watching him put a row of golden honeycombs into the bag, "Is it big inside? Are there a lot of honeycombs?"
"There are a lot of them. They are big and deep inside. Cut off the spleen and put it back later. We will come back to collect it next time."
"It will still be yours next time?" Zhou Yiding said as he cut off the dark brown brood comb under the honey comb and placed it on another urea bag.
"There's not many people here, and the hole inside is so big, this will be our honey warehouse in the future!" Zhou Huaian leaned in, cut another row, and handed it to him.
Zhou Yiding was surprised after seeing it and said: "This is a board where honey bees can rest peacefully!"
"That's why I told you to cut off the spleen. There's so much space in here, and the team can double its size."
Zhou Yiding was so excited when he heard this, "Please move aside so I can take a look. How big is it?"
"Come on, come on!" Zhou Huaian handed him a row of honey combs, stepped out, smiled and took off his plastic gloves and handed them to him, "Go take a look and you'll know."
Zhou Yiding put on gloves and crawled in sideways. Seeing the honey combs hanging on the ceiling like soldiers, he exclaimed, "It's so comfortable. I've never seen such a good old beehive."
Zhou Huaian smiled and cut off the spleen, "This is Shanyun, do you understand?"
Zhou Yiding said honestly: "You are indeed lucky. You killed four black goats right after you arrived, and found such a big old honey nest. Hey, I found that since you paid for the plague cow of the old bear family, your luck seems to be better than before!"
Zhou Huaian thought so too, "My grandfather said that even though such a big thing happened in my family, none of my brothers made a fuss. A harmonious family brings prosperity. It's time for our second branch to change its luck."
Zhou Yiding: “That makes sense!”
Zhou Huaian thought for a moment and said, "Cut off some of the honey powder spleen and I'll give it to Huang, the buyer at the guesthouse. We still need help with these mountain products."
Zhou Yiding nodded, "Give me some honey too. I've seen all kinds of good things!"
"That's true. If you're going to give a gift, give the whole set, so that people won't think we're stingy!"
Yang Chunyan stood on the rock and watched the wild bees fly and land on a tree fork not far away. After a while, they gathered into a big black bee ball.
She turned her head to look at Dahuang and Dahei, who were lying on the rock with their ears pricked up and staring at the big black ball. She thought it would be a good idea to raise a mountain chasing dog like this, and they would be much braver when going up the mountain in the future.
Zhou Yiding stopped when he cut the last two rows of honey combs. Zhou Huaian gave him the brood combs and the powder combs and put them back in the cave. "Dingding cat, the honey combs have filled up the urea bags. This is the biggest harvest in history! The two of us can share at least a hundred this time."
Zhou Yiding came out to see what was going on, grinning happily, "What do you think of Cai Ermei and the others' search for cliff honey going in the old forest?"
Zhou Huaian tied the urea bag with a hemp rope and said, "I don't know. I haven't had any contact with Cai Ermei since I beat him last time. After Erchun asked me about going into the mountains, he didn't tell me about it."
"It's fun to go to the old forest to look for cliff honey, but it's too dangerous."
After the spleen was placed, the two began to seal the entrance of the cave.
Zhou Huaian glanced at the rock and said, "Chunyan is afraid that I will go into the old forest. She keeps talking about it every other day, as if something bad will happen to me if I go in."
"My younger sister said this is called women's intuition. I don't know where she gets all these weird ideas."
"He is a high school student, unlike us illiterate people."
The two men sealed the entrance of the cave, divided the honey combs in the urea bag into two bags, and climbed up together carrying the honey combs.
"Using urea bags is better than using buckets. Do you remember that time when we finally found some honey combs, but Dakuan knocked them all down?"
Dahuang and Dahei stood up and greeted them, wagging their tails.
Seeing that both of them were carrying urea bags, Yang Chunyan asked in surprise, "Are they all honeycombs?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and nodded, "Yes! There is a big beehive below. This will be our honey storehouse from now on."
Yang Chunyan gave him a reproachful look, "It seems like you are the only one who can find this mountain you are talking about."
Zhou Huaian patted Zhou Yiding and said, "He can come to the mountain often to check on him to prevent others from stealing the honey!"
"Yes!" Zhou Yiding said readily.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding put the urea bag, beehive cap and gloves into the backpack, and tied the black goat horizontally on the backpack.
Yang Chunyan looked at the forest to the south and asked, "Should we go back first, or go to the forest to the south of the rock first?"
Zhou Huaian looked at Zhou Yiding, "You are familiar with this area, how do you say we should get there?"
Zhou Yiding looked around and said, "Let's go through the forest in the south and then go back from there. The roads on both sides are almost the same."
"Then let's go!"
The two men carried the backpack full of things away. Yang Chunyan had no choice but to follow the two men, carrying the empty backpack full of household items, and got down from the rock and walked towards the woods in the south.
Walking past the burnt forest, I saw a shallow ditch with a few blooming magnolias growing beside it.
This flower is white on the outside and purple on the inside. If you smell it up close, you'll find that its fragrance is as special as honey.
Viburnum can detoxify and relieve itching: In folk culture, people often use the branches, leaves and fruits of Viburnum as medicine, which has the effects of clearing meridians, detoxifying and relieving itching. It is usually picked in spring and summer and can be used dried or fresh.
Yang Chunyan stood by the ditch and took a look. She saw Rhus chinensis, Polygonatum sibiricum, Polygonatum odoratum and Lobelia odoratum growing on the ditch. She felt that it was a treasure land!
I took out the medicine hoe from the backpack, and suddenly remembered that I had to go down the mountain and go home in the afternoon, so I could only come back to collect medicine next time.
Zhou Huaian looked back at her and said, "Yan'er, hurry up, it's almost noon, go look for it, if we can't find Houpo, we'll go home."
"Here they come!" Yang Chunyan waded across the ditch and followed the two people inside, and saw a few more araceae.
(End of this chapter)
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