Rebirth in 1984, starting from beekeeping in the mountains

Chapter 114 Playing tricks on Xie Sanla! Prepare to make royal jelly!
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After Liao San calmed down and responded with a smile.

Xie Qiangbin also stopped his arrogance.

He leaned forward and said, "Hey! You came up here to collect honey from Fang Hongan, right?"

After hearing Xie Qiangbin's question, Liao San knew that Fang Hongan and his friends must have known about digging honey.

But when you think about it, it seems normal. He was curious the last time he entered the village.

Even though Fang Hongan and his team dug so much honey, the people in this village were completely unaware of it.

"Yeah!"

Nodding, Liao San simply agreed.

The guy in front of him could even call out his nickname, which meant he must have carefully inquired about his identity. There was nothing for him, a small fry, to pretend.

"Brother! Let's discuss this!"

Xie Qiangbin smiled and said something close, and took out the box of filter-tipped Hongmei cigarettes that he rarely took out, took out a cigarette and handed it to Liao San:
"We're going to dig honey too. How about you buy my honey instead of Fang Hongan's? Don't worry, the price we sell it to you will definitely be lower than what Fang Hongan gives you!"

"I can't smoke! Thank you!"

Liao San first bowed and politely declined Xie Qiangbin's cigarette, then squinted at Xie Qiangbin, then looked at Xie Qiangwu behind Xie Qiangbin, his eyes flickering, making it impossible for Xie Qiangbin to tell what he was thinking.

After a while, he spoke calmly: "If you want to cooperate, that's fine! But...how many kilograms of honey can you give us in a month? How many kilograms of ghost bee wine?"

"This one……"

When asked this question, Xie Qiangbin couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

At this time, Xie Qiangwu behind him immediately stood up and said, "We have three brothers! And our cousins, it is not a problem to lead a team of more than ten people to go up the mountain to dig honey. For example, Hongan and his three people have more people, so you don't have to worry about the quantity!!!"

"Is that so?" Liao San couldn't help but grin. As a gangster, he knew that the two brothers were trying to smooth things over. He blinked and looked at Xie Qiangwu, "Brother! Don't worry, how much is it? You have to give me a number so that I can compare it!"

"This one……"

Seeing that Liao San asked carefully, Xie Qiangwu and Xie Qiangbin looked at each other and realized that they couldn't get away with this sloppy answer.

After a pause, Xie Qingwu gritted his teeth and made up a number that he thought was exaggerated: "As for honey! One hundred kilograms a month! As for Kito Bee Wine, it may be a little less at first, but once we stabilize, one hundred kilograms a month will not be a problem at all!"

"Like This?"

After hearing the answer, Liao San smiled and suddenly extended his hand towards Xie Qiangbin.

Xie Qiangbin's right hand was originally grasping the rearview mirror of the truck. Seeing Liao San extending his hand towards him, he thought that Liao San was moved by his brothers' plan and agreed to shake hands with them.

He quickly pulled his hand out and with a flattering smile, he reached out to meet Liao San's hand.

Unexpectedly, Liao San's half-stretched hand suddenly stopped in mid-air, and then patted the back of his hand: "Okay! Let go! Be careful, don't hold on anymore!"

After saying that, he turned around and said to the driver, "Let's go."

And then……

"Rumble..."

With the sound of the engine starting, the truck continued to move forward.

"No...what do you mean? Liao Sanmazi!"

After standing there for a while, Xie Qiangbin finally reacted and chased after him unwillingly: "Hey! Let's talk! Let's talk more! If you think it's too little, we can dig a little more!"

"hehe!"

In the co-pilot cabin, only a faint laugh was heard, and then Liao San waved his hand, stuck out his head, and said coldly: "When you can give me 300 kilograms of honey and 300 kilograms of ghost head bee wine a month, come and talk to me!"

Three hundred kilograms of honey!
Three hundred kilograms of Kitobee wine!
Xie Qiangbin's steps faltered, and he suddenly lost the strength to continue chasing forward.

This month...where can I get so much?

……

……

The Jiefang brand truck went directly to Carpenter Yang’s wooden house.

Liao San was about to get off the car, so he asked for directions and went straight to Fang Hongan's house.

But then, he unexpectedly saw Fang Hongan coming out with the old carpenter.

For a moment, it was so exciting.

He opened the passenger door and jumped out.

After shaking hands with Fang Hongan with a big laugh, this guy also stuffed a bag into Fang Hongan's hands.

In addition to some special foods that can only be bought in the county town, the bag also contained several magazines called "English World" and two original English novels.

Seeing Fang Hongan focusing his eyes on the book, Liao San showed a little pride at the corner of his mouth: "Last time I saw you bought a foreign book like this in the ghost market, saying it would be useful. During this period of time, I asked my friends who collect old books to help me find some. If you can use it, use it. If not, just burn it as firewood. It's not worth much anyway!"

"It's useful! Thank you!" Fang Hongan smiled and said thank you solemnly.

"That's good! That's good!"

Liao San smiled happily.

After saying this, he leaned close to Fang Hongan's ear and whispered again about what happened to Xie Qiangbin just now.

Fang Hongan heard that he not only took the initiative to tell him about this, but also focused his description on how Xie Qiangbin tried to win him over and how he deliberately and ruthlessly played tricks on Xie Qiangbin.

Considering the behavior of giving gifts to please him right from the start, it is clear that this guy is trying to show goodwill to me right from the start.

He smiled again and patted the guy on the shoulder: "That's thoughtful! Don't worry! As long as you keep your word, we brothers are not people who go back on our word.

This time, 300 kilograms of honey and 500 kilograms of Kitobee wine! I guarantee it will be given to you! The price will be the same as the one I quoted you in the letter before, absolutely not a penny more! "

"Five... five hundred kilograms of Kitobee wine?"

Hearing this number, Liao San's eyes widened: "Didn't the letter say 300 kilograms?"

"When I wrote the letter, it was 300 kilograms! But didn't they add 200 kilograms later? How come... you only want 300 kilograms? Then it's 300 kilograms!"

"No! No! Five hundred kilograms! Exactly five hundred kilograms! The price is as stated in the letter!"

"can!"

"Thank you! Thank you, Brother Fang!"

Liao San excitedly grabbed Fang Hongan and expressed his gratitude first.

Then, he vowed again: "Brother Fang! Don't worry, although I, Liao San, am a bad boy, I also have my own rules! If I cooperate with you, I will cooperate with you wholeheartedly, unlike that clown Xie Sanlaba..."

His chest thumped as he uttered these eloquent words of loyalty.

When he saw Fang Hongan nodding and smiling, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, feeling a sense of satisfaction that he had finally gotten what he wanted!
I saw Fang Hongan turn around and help unload the wood from the cart.

He also hurriedly followed and started moving the things.

After moving a few times back and forth, when he calmed down a little, Liao San was suddenly stunned.

This... isn't right!

This deal is done at the price of writing a letter, isn't that as it should be?
The quantity of 500 kilograms was also proposed by Fang Hongan.

Why am I acting like a fool and being grateful and fawning here?

Didn’t I make up my mind on the way here that I would definitely lower the price this time?

I was stunned.

Liao San scratched his head and convinced himself: "Maybe... this is the charm of personality!"

"Or maybe it's a wise choice not to bargain down! Think about the last time..."

……

Helped unload the lumber from the truck bed.

Fang Hongan led Liao San to the earthen house to inspect the goods.

Liao San simply took a quick look at the color and consistency of the honey and didn’t look at it any further!
He focused his inspection on the Kitobee wine.

"The wine is our homemade sweet potato liquor! The alcohol content may vary slightly from one brewery to another!"

"We use 20 bees for every kilogram of wine, and all the bees are alive."

"The time for bees to soak in wine is written on the jar. From left to right, the further to the right, the later the time..."

Fang Hongan gave a brief introduction.

He immediately took out a glass and a wine glass and handed them to Liao San.

"Brother Fang! It's not that I don't trust you! I just want to take a look so I can feel more confident!"

When receiving the things, Liao San felt somewhat embarrassed.

"It's okay! Now that we've made sure everyone can rest assured!"

Fang Hongan smiled, stepped aside, and handed the stage to Liao San.

Liao San first opened the jar that Fang Hongan had brewed the earliest. After taking it out, he looked at its color and the posture of the ghost bee.

After making sure there were no problems, he naturally picked it up and brought it to his mouth.

Just as I was about to bring it to my mouth, I suddenly remembered that it had only been brewed for less than a month, so I quickly put it down.

Then, he looked at the last few jars one by one.

After confirming that there was no problem, he nodded: "Okay! No problem!"

"Then... weigh it?"

"Let's go! This truck is in a hurry to go back! If it's delayed for one more day, we have to pay the truck driver 20 yuan more! It's too damn expensive!" Liao San complained a few words. When the truck arrived at the scale, Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao heard the news and rushed over.

It took the three of them an hour to complete the weighing.

This time, Liao San not only brought plastic bags but also several large wine barrels.

Honey and bee wine are put into the wine barrel using a funnel.

It took more than an hour to complete the work.

I had a simple lunch at Fang Hongan’s house.

Liao San called the driver and the two of them got into the car in a hurry.

Then, with a series of rumbling sounds, the gray-green Jiefang truck slowly drove away from Shiwan Village.

……

……

After Liao San left.

Encouraged by the income of more than a thousand yuan.

After a short rest.

Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao immediately went up the mountain.

Fang Hongan also returned to Carpenter Yang's workshop again.

Just like that, another two days passed.

It can be seen that the accumulated beehives are sufficient to supply the first stage of beekeeping scale of the apiary.

Fang Hongan never went to the old carpenter's house again.

This morning.

Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao, who had arrived early in the morning, were also left in the earthen house.

He took the two of them to the earthen stove in the backyard of the earthen house, moved out the honeycombs that had been accumulated after shaking the honey during the previous period, and began to boil beeswax.

Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao have already mastered this skill, so just leave it to them.

After they started the fire, Fang Hongan also started to get busy.

First, I found the paint can that I brought back from the old carpenter's house.

The jar is cylindrical, about thirty centimeters high and twenty centimeters in diameter.

These days, no one comes to collect waste to exchange for sugar, small groceries, or something like that.

Most old carpenters just throw away these paint cans.

Many children in the village like to pick them up and take them home.

Use a hammer and nails to create some small holes on the bottom and sides.

Use wire to pass through holes on both sides to make a handle.

When your hands and feet are frozen in winter, pick up some coal stones and charcoal and put them in. Once the fire is lit, a simple portable stove is made.

When going to school in winter, take it directly into the classroom.

It is a heating tool that makes others envious.

During class, I would secretly warm my hands and feet.

After class, I would go find some charcoal and throw it in, then spin it a few times by the handle like a Hot Wheels. By the time class started, the fire was burning brightly again.

When Fang Hongan was in elementary school, his family was poor and his winter clothes were thin. He survived many winters in that leaky classroom relying on such a simple little stove.

At this moment, holes had already been drilled in the bottom and sides of Fang Hongan's paint bucket.

There are even ready-made wire handles on the hands.

Put the iron hooks at both ends into the holes on the upper side of the paint bucket and tighten them with pliers.

He then took some red-hot charcoal from the earthen stove and put it in, and the familiar little stove from his childhood was in place again.

"Brother! What are you going to do?!"

Wang Tong, who was standing by, couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw this scene.

He had made the same small stove when he was a child, but it was summer now, and even if it was a reminisce about his childhood, it seemed like the wrong time.

“Make something new!”

Fang Hongan blinked and smiled mysteriously.

"New stuff?"

This sentence aroused the curiosity of Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao.

Seeing that the beeswax had boiled, the two of them added more fire to the stove, making sure that the fire was strong enough to boil the beeswax. Then they turned around and watched Fang Hongan's operation intently.

At this time, Fang Hongan took a few more pieces of coal and threw them in, then he carried the small stove and did a few Hot Wheels loops.

Whoosh whoosh…

When Fang Hongan stopped, a blazing flame came out of the small stove, and the coal that had just been thrown in was completely ignited.

"Come on! Follow me into the house and get something!"

The two of them were looking carefully when they saw Fang Hongan waving to them.

"Good Le!"

The two of them stood up and waited until they entered the house, only to find that what Fang Hongan asked them to carry were wooden sticks.

They had never seen this piece of wood before, but judging from its size, it should be related to the beehive, so their curiosity grew even more.

By the time the two men had moved out the wooden strips, Fang Hongan had already taken a small kettle and placed it on the small stove. He was now adding the beeswax they had boiled a few days ago into the kettle.

The main advantage of this small stove is that the fire is stable. In fact, the fire is not very strong. After the beeswax is added, it begins to melt slowly due to the heat.

Fang Hongan used a bamboo spoon to stir the beeswax constantly over low heat. After about ten minutes, the beeswax in the pot was finally boiled completely.

Pick up the small kettle and pour out most of the charcoal in the small stove, leaving only a small part to keep warm.

Fang Hongan picked up a small wooden stick, and then took out a small wooden stick from his pocket.

This small wooden stick is about fifteen centimeters long.

At first glance, it looks a bit like chopsticks, but upon closer inspection, it is obviously thicker than chopsticks. The two ends of the stick are not cut vertically like chopsticks, but are ground into neat cone shapes.

On the other hand, from the beginning to the present, Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao were both curious and confused.

When Wang Tong saw the wooden stick, his mind suddenly shivered, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but blurt out, "Brother! Is this the King-raising Stick you mentioned?"

"Ok!"

Seeing Wang Tong's reaction, Fang Hongan nodded with relief.

Wang Tong understood, but Fang Chengtao was still confused and became even more curious: "Hei Zai! What is a king-raising stick?"

"The King Breeding Stick is the stick used to make wax cups!"

"Wangtai wax cup?"

Fang Chengtao was even more confused and couldn't help but continue to ask: "What is this used for?"

After all, he had only joined the group for a short time, and during this period of time, he had been mostly busy digging out the hives of ghost bees.

I still don't know much about the intricacies of beekeeping.

However, his question left Fang Chengtao speechless.

After all, the reason why Wang Tong knew all this was because the last time he went to the county town with Fang Hongan, when they talked about flavored royal jelly, he had heard Fang Hongan talk about the queen breeding stick and the queen cell wax cup.

Looking at Fang Hongan's posture, I guessed that he was preparing to make the candle cup.

Fang Chengtao asked this question. He could still answer it at first, but seeing that Fang Chengtao was determined to get to the bottom of it, he could only turn to look at Fang Hongan: "Brother! You should tell me!"

"it is good!"

Fang Hongan pursed his lips and said: "The wax cup is the nest that lures the bee colony to feed the queen insect!"

"A nest for feeding the queen insects?"

Hearing this, Fang Chengtao's eyes lit up.

During this period, after the bees are collected and moved to the hives.

He would make the nest foundation according to Fang Hongan's requirements using the nest foundation machine made by old carpenter Yang and fix it on the movable frame.

According to Fang Hongan's explanation, these nest foundations are the foundations used by worker bees to build ordinary nesting cells.

Fang Hongan also said that in addition to this ordinary nest cell, there is another type of nest cell on the honeycomb of the bee colony, which is used to feed the queen insects.

Fang Chengtao remembered that Fang Hongan told him that this kind of nest seemed to be called...

"King's throne!" After thinking for a moment, Fang Chengtao blurted out excitedly, "Hong'an! Are you planning to make an artificial king's throne?"

"Ok!"

Fang Hongan nodded: "We have collected so many wild bees. It will not be very efficient to go up the mountain to collect them all day! Next... we have to start breeding queens and multiply bee colonies ourselves!
Moreover... I see that the bee colonies are in very good condition after this batch of bees have been transferred to the hive, and the number of worker bees is quite abundant! Then we can start making royal jelly!"

King breeding!

Make royal jelly!
As soon as Fang Hongan came out with these two key pieces of information, Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao were immediately cheered up and became excited!

(End of this chapter)