Chapter 258 246: What Luck
The leaves of snow primrose also have certain medicinal value. The fresh grass can be dried and soaked in water to drink, which can cure colds, sore throats, coughs and phlegm. You can pick some snow primrose, wash it, chop it into pieces, mix it with eggs, and stir-fry it, which also has a certain effect.
For those who have hemorrhoids, you can also use it to boil water for sitz bath or fumigation, which has miraculous effects.
Snow primrose is too cold, so people with weak constitution and weak spleen and stomach should not eat it, otherwise it will cause various adverse reactions. In addition, snow primrose contains some toxins, and excessive consumption will also harm human health.
Yang Chunyan and two others collected some snow primrose seeds and dug up some tender leaves that had grown not long ago. They dug up those that had bloomed and produced seeds and were particularly strong and collected the tubers.
The three of them stayed on the slope for half an hour, and then continued to walk towards the place where Zhou Yiding discovered the big hanging honey.
After walking for about ten minutes, the three of them heard the buzzing sound of bees.
Zhou Huaian turned his head and looked at Zhou Yiding, "Are we there yet?"
"Look!" Zhou Yiding pointed ahead, "That hawthorn tree. I took a look yesterday and there were at least a dozen big honey bees hanging on it."
Yang Chunyan saw a large hawthorn tree full of white hawthorn flowers. There were countless little bees on it, diligently collecting pollen from the petals. "What a big hawthorn tree!"
"Oh my god!" Zhou Huaian exclaimed, "This is the first time I've seen such a big hawthorn tree in my life."
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "Yes, I was stunned yesterday as well."
Zhou Huaian took two steps forward and looked at the white flowers on the tree. "They are just blooming here, but they are already bearing fruit down the mountain."
"The temperature in the mountains is lower." Zhou Yiding pointed at the bees and said, "Look, are they giant bees?"
"It's a giant bee!" Zhou Huaian turned around and looked at Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, take out the bee hat and put it on."
Yang Chunyan took out the beehive hats from the bag and gave one to each person.
Zhou Yiding patted Da Huang's head and said, "Just wait here, or you'll get stung like a pig."
"Woof woof!" Da Huangshun called out to the two of them, then lay down and looked at the three of them.
The three of them put on bee hats and walked closer to see that this hawthorn tree was at least a hundred years old. It took an adult to hug the trunk, and it was covered with green moss.
Looking up, I saw two or three feet long hanging honeycombs on the tree branches.
Zhou Huaian bared his teeth when he saw it, grinning so hard that his teeth were visible and his eyes were invisible. He rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "It's so good, it's really good!"
Zhou Yiding pointed at the large honey bees hanging on the tree and said, "It's really nice. It's easy to cut the ones below, but the ones above are a bit dangerous."
Yang Chunyan counted them and found a total of twelve beehives, half of which were small and large with honey hanging on the tree trunks below, and most of which were high up.
"Huaian, it's too dangerous up high. Let's not go to the top of the tree to pick the big honey bees. Let's cut the ones below, and the harvest should be good."
"Don't worry, I've already thought of a solution." Zhou Huaian said as he took out a thick hemp rope from his backpack. "Tie one end to your waist and the other end to the trunk. Even if you fall, you won't die!"
Yang Chunyan looked up for a while, and still felt it was not safe. "Even if you tie a rope, you still have to climb up! The beehives above are at least 20 to 30 meters high. I think it's better not to take risks."
Zhou Yiding agreed, "Sister-in-law is right. We are not earning money to save our lives. There is no need to work so hard!"
"Okay! Then take down the ones at the bottom, and when I think of a solution, I'll work on the ones at the top." Seeing that neither of them agreed, Zhou Huaian had to agree.
The two men cut a long wooden stick, cut some old wormwood and tied them together, and held it up to smoke the small black bees on the tree.
Yang Chunyan found some dead branches and old wormwood and piled them under the tree and lit them. Thick smoke billowed up the tree.
The aged mugwort held by Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding was filled with smoke, and as they attacked from above and below, the "buzzing" sound on the tree became louder and louder.
It didn't take long before the guardian bees on the large honeycombs on the branches below fled from the hives.
Zhou Huaian and the other man tied the urea bag around their waists and put the long knife used for cutting honey on their backs. "Yan'er, put some old mugwort on it, otherwise when they come back, we will become bee people."
"Yes! Put on your gloves first, and remember to tie the rope after you climb up the tree." Yang Chunyan handed the gloves to the two people, "Be careful, if you can get it down, take it, if you can't take it down, forget it."
Zhou Huaian looked at her with a smile and nodded, "I see, it's just like reciting a tongue twister!"
Zhou Yiding threw the rope up and hung it on the tree trunk, and Zhou Huaian took a machete and chopped the trunk a few times. The two of them pulled the rope and stepped on the chopped position and climbed up the first big branch.
Zhou Huaian took a rope and handed it to Zhou Yiding, "Listen to your sister-in-law, it's safer to tie it with a rope."
"Yes!" The two men first tied one end of the rope to the main trunk above, and the other end to the armpit.
Zhou Huaian pointed to a large honey bee hanging on a branch on the right, "I'll cut that one."
"Yes!" Zhou Yiding climbed over carefully holding onto the branch.
Zhou Huaian climbed up the upper fork, untied the urea bag and took out the mugwort leaves inside, gently brushed off the remaining black bees on the honeycombs, pulled out the long knife from his waist, cut the honeycombs and put them into the urea bag.
Yang Chunyan stood under the tree and looked at him. He saw him lying on the branch like a monkey, cutting the honeycombs with skillful movements. After cutting a piece, he climbed up again.
More than half an hour later, Zhou Huaian climbed to the last branch and began to harvest honey.
"Youngest, I only have one piece left to cut." Zhou Yiding yelled at him.
"Yes, I have one more piece."
Yang Chunyan stood under a tree and kept adding old mugwort to the pile of mugwort. Suddenly, she saw Dahuang rushing over, making a humming roar towards the forest in front.
She remembered the last time she encountered a cobra, and hurriedly picked up a gun. She looked into the sparse woods, and faintly heard the painful screams of a wild boar, "Jie... Jie..." coming from the woods.
"Huaian, there are wild boars roaring in the woods!"
Zhou Yiding looked under the tree and said, "Sister-in-law, there might be a wild boar and some other wild animal fighting in the forest. The thing that made the wild boar howl must be a big one. Hurry up and pull the rope up."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan hurriedly put the gun and bag in the backpack on her back, grabbed the rope and climbed up the tree.
Da Huang followed her prudently, retreated under a tree and looked tensely at the sparse woods.
"Ding Ding Cat, go down and help her." After Zhou Huaian said that, he didn't even bother to cut the honey and hurriedly slid down.
"It's okay, I can get up!" Yang Chunyan grabbed the rope, put one foot on the tree trunk, climbed up along the rope, and soon reached the first branch.
Zhou Yiding grabbed the rope and pulled her up, then he looked at Da Huang under the tree, "It's right there, don't move!"
Dahuang barked twice and lay down under the roots of the tree.
Zhou Huaian came down and helped her sit on a tree branch. "You're quite smart! You even remembered to bring your gun with you."
"Yiding said there are big guys. If we don't bring guns with us, how are we going to get down if they come?"
(End of this chapter)
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