Chapter 386 387: A friend who pokes my heart
Zhou Yiding shook his head after hearing this. "It happened so long ago, how can I remember it!"
"When your sister-in-law mentioned it yesterday, I remembered it." Zhou Huaian didn't keep it a secret, "It's about using meat to hang wasps..."
Zhou Yiding suddenly realized, "Oh! I see, wasps love to eat meat, and they often eat honey bees. We can use meat to hang wasps like we did with the honey water just now."
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes, "I haven't even finished talking yet, and you're running away with just a little bit in your mouth."
"Then tell me, what is the solution?"
"While the wasp is concentrating on eating the meat, take a stick and tie a feather on one end, and put the other end around the wasp's waist. When it eats the meat and flies back to find its companions, you can follow it and find its nest."
"That's a good idea!" Zhou Yiding said, and then thought of another problem, "Even if we catch up and find the hive, the sting of a wasp is different from that of a bee, and the beehive hat can't protect it at all.
Also, the sting of a wasp is different from that of a bee. It does not drop its stinger, and it will not kill you even if it stings you several times in a row. If that happens, we will be in trouble.”
The hornet's stinger grows behind the abdomen, is yellow in color, and is about one centimeter long.
Female bees have a long, powerful, retractable stinger at the end of their abdomen, so only female bees sting people. When female bees sting people, they excrete a large amount of venom into the human body, which can cause allergic reactions and toxic reactions.
The stinger of a small bee is composed of a dorsal stinger and two ventral stingers. The back of the stinger is connected to the venom gland and internal organs. The tip of the stinger has a barb. After the bee stings a person, the barb hangs on the person's skin and the stinger cannot be pulled out.
When the little bee exerts force when flying away, the stinger will be torn off along with part of its internal organs. Without its stinger and internal organs, the little bee will soon die. This is a typical suicide attack.
Nine out of ten boys who grew up in the mountains have gone up the mountain to destroy beehives, and another one has just followed the group of people with a stick in his hand.
Zhou Yiding was the one who was running with a stick, and he was also the one who was stung by the wasp. He was stung on the face and screamed in pain.
It took a week for the swelling on his face to heal, and he never ran with the gang again after that. He still gets scared when he thinks about it now.
Zhou Huaian also remembered the time he was stung and nodded, "Yes, your sister-in-law also said that the consequences of a wasp sting are very serious. I didn't expect that we were not allowed to touch the wasp's nest before taking safety precautions!"
Zhou Yiding raised both hands in agreement, "That's right, be careful and take good care of yourself. We need to live a long time and wait to hold our grandchildren!"
"Damn it, now it's not like before, you can have as many children as you want, but with just one, who knows if it will be a grandson or a granddaughter."
"You're right. Who cares? If all else fails, just hide away and have another child."
"You can't beat me. If you have more children than allowed, you'll even lose your job!" Zhou Huaian said as he extinguished his cigarette butt and threw it on the ground, stomping on it a few times. "Go to work, earn money first, and save up the money from the fine."
"That's right, do a good job!" Zhou Yiding handed him the hoe and said, "First, pry off the stone at the entrance of the beehive."
"Um!"
The two men used shovels and pickaxes to pry off the stones and mud at the entrance of the beehive little by little and piled them aside, and the beehive gradually emerged.
Zhou Huaian discovered that the beehive inside was half a person's height and more than a foot wide. The honey combs inside were tightly packed together, and the rich aroma of honey was emanating.
He praised repeatedly, "Not bad, not bad!" Then he put away the medicine hoe and prepared to harvest honey.
"Fuck!" Zhou Yiding came to the beehive and exclaimed at the beehive inside. "I don't know how many years this hive has lived here. Look, the beehive inside is almost black with age."
Zhou Huaian turned his head and said, "Look more carefully. The beehives inside are all crowded together. If we hadn't found this beehive this time, within two years, this nest of wild bees would have gone out to find a new hive."
Zhou Yiding listened and looked carefully. "Yes, it's so crowded inside that there's no place to build a new nest."
Zhou Huaian handed him the bee hat with a smile, "We are here to help them!"
"I admire you!" Zhou Yiding gave a thumbs up. "You stole things so confidently. I admire you so much."
"Brother, don't talk about the second brother, both of them have the same pockmarks!" Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him, put on his bee hat and gloves, "Stop talking nonsense, tie the urea bag, and prepare to collect the honey."
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding opened the opening of the urea bag wide.
Zhou Huaian lay at the entrance of the beehive and cut off a row of honeycombs with a knife. "Tsk tsk, so comfortable, we have broken our record again!"
"It's so shiny and black!"
Zhou Yiding pushed the urea bag forward and took the honey comb he handed to him. When he saw the dark brown old honey that looked like black gold inside, he slurped and swallowed his saliva.
He broke off a little and stuffed it into Zhou Huaian's mouth. He also tasted a piece himself. The taste was very rich and sticky. "Youngest, you have to save some of this honey after you squeeze it out. I don't know if I can find such good honey in the future!"
"Of course we have to save some of the good stuff." Zhou Huaian smacked his lips and said, "Not bad, the taste is much better than the one under the rock last time."
Zhou Yiding nodded, "The price should be raised this time."
Zhou Huaian carefully took out a row of honey combs and put them into the bag. "After working together for a few months, I think Dr. Wang's prices are still fair."
Zhou Yiding: "People who are educated and smart still make money faster. What Dr. Xiao Wang said to you last time made me excited."
"Are you talking about the last time he said he wanted to save money to open a pharmaceutical factory?"
"Yeah, other people save money to go further, but we save money to live a better life and have more money. We are not on the same level at all."
"He has been reading medical books since he could speak, so he is definitely not on the same level as us. To be honest, you are still the envy of most people on our team!"
"Yes, people always think the grass is greener on the other side. Just like when we were little, you envied my family for having enough food and clothing, and I envied you for having brothers and sisters and a lively family."
Zhou Huaian looked back at him and said, "Ding Ding Cat, to be honest, what I envy most is that your mother and husband don't scold or beat you."
"Hehe! Your kid is indeed pitiful. The amount of beatings and scoldings I have received since I was a child is not as much as what you receive in a year."
"Get lost!" Zhou Huaian put down his anger and glared at him, "Why did I end up making a friend like you who pokes my heart out!"
"Hahaha……"
Zhou Huaian ignored him and concentrated on harvesting honey. The honeycombs he harvested were old and black, and each piece was full of capped honey.
Zhou Yiding said happily: "Youngest brother, it seems that the honey source here is good. Send a beehive over here one day."
"I'm going to Ning'an tomorrow, and we'll come together the day after tomorrow to install the beehives."
"Yes, after we finish here, we will go to the pine forest and find the nest of wild bees."
"Hmm!" Zhou Huaian looked inside and saw that there were still three rows of honey combs left. "I really don't want to give up such good honey, but I have to save some for them so that we can have a harvest next year."
"There's something wrong with what you said. You have to give in order to gain!" Zhou Yiding tied the mouth of the bag and hung it on a tree branch. The two of them then blocked the entrance of the beehive little by little.
After carrying the belongings and harvest out, he took Wangcai up the mountain to the pine forest to continue looking for beehives.
(End of this chapter)
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