On the tenth year of the natural disaster, I went to farm with me

"Hui Liu is quite sincere and sent two boxes of Chinese bees. Take a look."

Yang Jin sent the video to Xia Qing and asked her to check the bees' condition. In name, this batch of supplies was Hui Liu's compensation to the Qinglong team. In order to conceal the truth, the bees had to be kept in Territory No. 1 first, and then "traded" to Xia Qing after the bees were divided into boxes, so Xia Qing could only watch the video now.

In the video, a person in protective clothing opens a beehive. Inside are two boards with neatly arranged hexagonal honeycombs on both sides, hanging from the top to the bottom of the beehive. Xia Qing has taken time to learn about beekeeping during this period and knows that this kind of board is called a nest basket.

After seeing the people in the video take out two nest baskets to show them, Xia Qing asked, "There are only two nest baskets in one box, and it looks like there are about 3000 bees. Is this a medium colony?"

Hearing Xia Qing asking such a professional question, Yang Jin secretly congratulated himself for having done enough homework. "After bees evolved, their aggressiveness and mobility became stronger. This number was considered a weak colony before the disaster, but it is indeed a medium colony after the disaster. Most of Huiliu's beehives are of this size. No one dares to raise a strong colony now, because once the queen bee evolves, a strong colony or an extremely strong colony with more than 5000 bees may attack humans under the urging of the queen bee. Look, this is the queen bee, and it is said to be twice as large as the queen bee before the disaster."

Xia Qing leaned forward to take a closer look.

If you only look at the nest frame and the hive, you can't tell the size of the queen bee. Because bees have evolved and grown, the hive has naturally become larger. But compared with the human hand holding the nest frame, you can see that the queen bee slowly crawling on the nest frame is longer than a human middle finger!

This head is bigger than the worker bee in the chestnut forest on Hill 49.

Xia Qing's eyes lit up. "The bees have grown bigger, and their ability to produce honey has also increased. This is a good thing."

Yang Jin smiled, "Yes, the honey production capacity has increased, but the breeding cost has also increased, so edible honey is still very expensive."

After saying that, Yang Jin took out four jars of honey from his backpack, two of which were darker and two were lighter.

He opened the light-colored can first, "This is honeysuckle honey. It's sold at Huiliu Base for 3000 points per can. It's the real thing and very hard to find on the market."

A faint fragrance emanated from the pale yellow honey. Xia Qing took a sniff and said, "This fragrance is very refreshing."

Xia Qing smelled the scent of honeysuckle, but Yang Jin smelled a faint medicinal scent on her body. This medicinal scent was very special. Yang Jin confirmed that it was the first time he smelled it. "The scent of honeysuckle is fresh and rich, and it really has a refreshing effect. Huiliu has two air filters that have honeysuckle extract added to improve air quality. Among the six cans of honey that Huiliu compensated us, two are honeysuckle honey and four are rapeseed honey. All of them have the green light. Should I keep two cans of rapeseed honey?"

According to the terms agreed upon between Xia Qing and Yang Jin at the time, Yang Jin helped her get six cans of honey from Huiliu, four of which went to Xia Qing and two went to Yang Jin.

Xia Qing opened the rapeseed honey and smelled it again. Because she had grown rapeseed flowers before, she was more familiar with the smell of this honey.

Although the two kinds of nectar have their own advantages, honeysuckle honey has one more function than rapeseed honey: detoxification, so honeysuckle honey of the same quality is more expensive.

If it weren't for Yang Jin, Xia Qing would not have been able to get this batch of supplies. She was not such a stingy person, so she directly gave Yang Jin a can of honeysuckle honey and a can of rapeseed honey.

Yang Jin had guessed her choice long ago, so he happily accepted it and talked about Yanlong's recent situation, "Yanlong's special forces were sent to Guiwu Base."

Xia Qing asked, "Is the nature of the mission similar to the Zheng Chen team that Red Eleven sent to the Third Brother's territory?" Yang Jin shook his head, "Zheng Chen's team's mission is to protect Zhang San and the laboratory, and they will not go out to fight; Yanlong's team is a combat mission, responsible for destroying the evolution-killing sea beasts that attack Guiwu. This mission was chosen by Yanlong himself."

The geological conditions of Guiwu Base are very similar to those of Guisan, which has been swallowed by the sea. It is very suitable for Yanlong. If she can return safely, she will definitely become more powerful.

Yang Jin looked at the worried expression on Xia Qing's face and knew what she was thinking, but he didn't say anything to comfort her. Instead, he diverted her attention and said, "Brother Luo will fly the helicopter over tomorrow. He will stay in the territory for a few days and teach you aerial sniping skills."

The Azure Dragon Team got two helicopters, one at the Azure Dragon Team headquarters in the safe zone, and one at Territory No. 1. In order to make the helicopter in Territory No. 1 more legitimate, Yang Jin and Xia Qing discussed letting the Hu Zifeng team take on the task of regularly patrolling the northern evolution forest.

As Hu Zifeng's "girlfriend", Xia Qing can of course take a flight to the northern Evolution Forest in her free time to learn how to fly, parachute, and learn aerial sniping skills.

Xia Qing was very happy to hear that Luo Pei was coming, which made Yang Jin feel jealous. He coughed and asked, "If you raise bees, what plants do you plan to grow?"

Xia Qing understood immediately, "Team Yang got some flowers that can be used for beekeeping from Huiliu?"

Yang Jin smiled shrewdly, "Well, I bought honeysuckle, wild dam seedlings and Bidens pilosa seeds, all of which have green lights. Do you want to buy some?"

It really is true that great minds think alike.

After Kuang Qingwei and Qi Fu proposed beekeeping last year, Xia Qing's allies had been discussing in the Lord Channel what plants to plant for bees to collect nectar when the rapeseed flowers were not in bloom. Among the plants everyone selected, there were also the three mentioned by Yang Jin.

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During years of natural disasters, the red, yellow and green lights of plants in the wild are mixed, and it is difficult to control the quality of honey collected by free-range bees. Therefore, the edible honey at each base is collected by bees from the flowers of greenhouse plants.

Since it is grown in a greenhouse, you cannot choose tall woody plants. You can only choose short herbs, shrubs, or vines that can control the height of the plants whose flowers are rich in nectar and have a long flowering period, and they must be green light plants.

Because in order to produce green light honey, green light plants must be planted, and the bees that collect nectar to make honey must also be green light. Once there is yellow light quality in the plants and bees, the honey produced will be yellow light or even red light, which is also the main reason why edible honey is expensive during natural disasters.

Honeysuckle is a vine that blooms from May to October; wild shrubs are semi-shrubs that can grow to more than one meter high and bloom from September to January; Bidens pilosa is a herbaceous plant that blooms from August to September. These three plants, plus the rapeseed flowers planted in the territory that bloom from February to April, can ensure that there are flowers in the territory for bees to collect nectar all year round.

There are green lantern honeysuckle in Xin Yu's greenhouse. When the territory alliance team went out to collect, they had already found green lantern wild dam and Bidens pilosa, so Xia Qing now has all three plants.

Moreover, Xia Qing had already sown a large area of ​​Bidens pilosa seeds and planted more than 40 green lantern wild basil plants in the breeding greenhouse where the rice seedlings were grown.

But of course, the more green light plants, the better. Xia Qing perked up and asked the Broken Waist Wolf's brother, who was sitting opposite him, for the price, "I really need these three plants. What price do you plan to sell them for?" (End of this chapter)