Rebirth in 1984, starting from beekeeping in the mountains

Chapter 117 You have to kowtow!
Get rid of Xie Qiangbin and his group.

Fang Hongan and the other two walked along this road for about another ten minutes.

After climbing over a small hill, it took about half an hour.

Finally, I saw the jagged stone bee on the ridge that looked like dog teeth.

"Wait a minute, go all the way up from the right side! If we divide the work, I'll lure the bees and locate the hive, while you two will be responsible for digging out the hive and collecting the honey!
Let’s catch up on our progress today and move more quickly!
Only the honey comb part is left of the nesting comb, so that more can be stored!
Today, let’s not worry about whether we have to return at noon, let’s just dig with all our might!
If we dig too much and the bamboo baskets can't hold it all, after lunch, Heizi, you can make another trip! This place is closer to your home, go home and find three pairs of baskets, and we'll exchange baskets and carry them back!"

Standing at the foot of the mountain, Fang Hongan first turned around and stopped Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao, and then made some arrangements.

After both of them nodded, Fang Hongan turned around again, quickened his pace, found a route from the right side of Gouyaling, and walked up quickly.

behind him.

Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao both clearly felt Fang Hongan's more urgent pace today.

Without thinking too much, you will understand why.

During this period of time, they have actually explored most of the nearby hills.

Except for this area of ​​Gouyaling, the conditions for attracting bees in other places are not very ideal. Even if there are some beehives, they will be very scattered.

Xie Qiangbin and his team said they dug it up yesterday, so it’s possible that they were not talking nonsense.

But judging from their appearance, they probably didn't come to Gouyaling. In that case, even if they did dig it up, they could only find one or two nests at most.

If I go there again today, I probably won’t see it.

As for the Niutialing that Fang Hongan deliberately mentioned to Xie Qiangbin.

They have a better understanding of the situation on this ridge!

Although this mountain is full of rocks, thorny mosses, wild trees, and various flowers...

At first glance, it is very similar to Mashiling.

Judging from these conditions, it should indeed be an ideal nesting environment for bees.

At the beginning, they also went to explore with great hope.

But the result was that after trying to lure bees for most of the day, no one was able to attract any.

Afterwards, they found out the reason why they couldn't lure the bees.

The situation at Niutialing is exactly the same as that at Goubeiling.

After less than two hours of wandering on the mountain, they found three hives of black bees.

Moreover, the hives of these ghost wasps are basically built in the cracks of large rocks.

It was impossible to pry it open, and even if it was hammered open with a stone chisel or a sledgehammer, it would still take at least two or three days.

When Fang Hongan deliberately mentioned this mountain.

The two guessed that Fang Hongan was deliberately luring Xie Qiangbin and his group to the mountain.

The purpose should be to confuse them.

Judging from Xie Qiangbin’s performance, this guy has obviously taken the bait.

However, even if this is the case, it can only tempt them for one day at most.

After today, Xie Qiangbin and the others will eventually react.

By then, according to the nature of that group of people, even if they search every hilltop tomorrow, they will find Gouyaling.

And once they come...

It will be difficult to dig honey on this hill without being disturbed!
and so.

Today, for the three of them, can be said to be the last golden time.

It is reasonable to speed up the pace.

Thinking back to Fang Hongan's words that they needed three pairs of baskets to carry the goods, Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao couldn't help but feel their blood boiling and their whole bodies filled with energy.

This situation today.

It's bound to be a big deal!

The two of them were cheered up and quickly followed.

Halfway up the mountain, Fang Hongan found a spot and began to sprinkle bee-attracting water.

The entire process and operation of luring bees has basically not changed compared to what has been repeated many times before.

But when there was an obvious change, when the bees that had eaten enough food just started to return to the nest, Fang Hongan waved to Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao and said, "Let's go!"

"what!"

Wang Tong was fine. He was just slightly stunned and quickly nodded.

But Fang Chengtao couldn't help but exclaimed, and just as he stretched out his hand to remind Fang Hongan, Wang Tong, who was standing next to him, put his hand directly on his shoulder and said to him with a smile:

"You mean to say that we have to wait a little longer before we can see the bee path clearly, right?"

"That's right!" Fang Chengtao nodded hesitantly. "Didn't you teach me that before? This bee trail is only easy to find when worker bees return to the nest in large numbers! We're just getting started now!"

“Haha!” Wang Tong smiled, “Yes! It is indeed difficult to find worker bees when they don’t return to the nest in large numbers! But Taozi! Don’t forget, my brother is talking about us being hard to find! For my brother… this may be enough!”

"hiss!"

Hearing Netcom's words, Fang Chengtao took a deep breath as if he had suddenly been enlightened.

There was shock in his eyes: "Just a few bees! Can we track them down?"

"Can you track him down?"

"Haha!" Wang Tong sneered, "During this period of time, when have you ever seen my brother fight a battle that he was not sure of winning?"

"Don't be surprised! Don't doubt! Let's go and follow my brother to watch his show!"

"Given the situation today...I feel like my brother is about to show off his true abilities!"

"Let's...don't say anything more, just follow and learn!"

After saying this, Wang Tong's eyes were already filled with excitement.

He took a deep breath and trotted along to catch up.

"Yeah! Got it!"

Fang Chengtao's eyes also lit up, and he quickly chased after him with excited anticipation.

The two followed behind Fang Hongan, and saw Fang Hongan sometimes looking up at the sky, and sometimes lowering his head to look around.

It seemed that he was trying to do two things at once, but his steps did not slow down at all and he always maintained a fast tracking speed.

Although the two of them quickly caught up with Fang Hongan, they were imitating Fang Hongan's rhythm and could not catch the shadow of the bee flying in the air.

Just like that, after tracking for several minutes, Fang Hongan suddenly stopped.

Then, he pointed to a patch of thorn moss and said, "The first nest! It's in the rocks under the thorn moss! You guys go dig it up while I lure the next nest of bees! When I find the next nest, I'll stick a topped tree on the nest as a mark! You guys just look over there and dig it up!"

As he spoke, Fang Hongan picked up a sickle, found a wild tree, cut it down, and then chopped off the top of the tree with the sickle. He waved it towards Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao, and after making sure that both of them had seen it clearly, he quickly left!
Seeing this, Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao quickly put the bee-proof gauze on the hat.

Holding the sickle, he walked quickly towards the pair of thorny mosses.

When the two of them approached to about five meters away from the thorny moss, a buzzing sound was heard in the air.

The two looked up and found that several bees were flying in the air.

Looking at the plump abdomens of these bees, it is obvious that they are the ones that have been drinking the bee water.

Following the figures of these bees, I soon found that they flew into the thorny moss one after another.

This scene completely dispelled the last bit of worry of the two.

At the same time, the two of them couldn't help but be amazed!

"Wow! This speed... If it were us, we would have to wait for at least several more minutes for that large wave of worker bees to return to the nest before we could catch up!" Wang Tong was full of admiration.

Fang Chengtao's face was also full of admiration, but compared to Wang Tong, he was a little stunned: "So... this is Hong An's true strength! He was deliberately going so slow before... in order to teach us!"

……

The two couldn't help but sigh.

As a gust of mountain breeze blew, I suddenly remembered that I still had urgent work to do.

He took a deep breath, picked up the sickle, and rushed towards the bush of thorny moss.

This kind of beehive in the thorny moss is also the most common beehive the two have ever dug.

Familiar with the route, the two men worked at full speed and cleared the prickly moss near the entrance and exit of the beehive as quickly as possible.

As for the digging, prying, and smoking that follows...

After this period of training and cooperation, the two have become quite proficient. In order to quickly catch up with Fang Hongan's pace, they both put in their utmost effort.

Just when the two men finished smoking and were about to start digging.

"call out!"

The mountain breeze blowing across the mountains suddenly brought a familiar whistle.

The two looked in the direction of the whistle and saw Fang Hongan shaking the cut-topped tree in his hand towards them on a mountain about three or four hundred meters away.

Probably because he saw both of them looking over, Fang Hongan finally inserted the wild tree in his hand next to him. Then he waved to the two of them, turned around and rushed to the next bee-luring spot.

"So fast!"

The two of them couldn't help but exclaimed in unison.

"Taozi! Looks like... we have to speed up too!"

"Yeah! But...you also have to be careful!"

The two of them put in some effort, Wang Tong lay down and started to take out the honeycomb!

Fang Chengtao waited outside and waited for Wang Tong to take out a honeycomb. After borrowing it, he picked up a knife and cut off all the unexpected areas of the honeycomb as quickly as possible according to Fang Hongan's instructions. Finally, he threw the cut honeycombs into the bamboo basket.

Just like that, one takes out and the other cuts!

The movements of their hands were obviously much faster than usual.

But that's the case.

Before Wang Tong could take out the last piece of honeycomb!
"call out!"

The familiar whistle sounded again.

Looking at it again, the scene was almost exactly the same as before.

The only difference was that this time Fang Hongan was farther away from them than the first time.

"How... it's faster than the last time!"

Wang Tong couldn't help but sigh, and immediately crawled down and struggled to take out the last piece of honeycomb.

"It is indeed... fast!"

"I feel like our previous speed chasing Feng Lu is like a snail compared to this!"

Fang Chengtao also sighed, and as he admired it, the movement of his hands to cut the honey became faster.

Finish digging out this first nest of honey.

The two packed up their luggage as quickly as possible and rushed to the second location at full speed.

By the time they arrived at the entrance to the second beehive, they hadn't started yet.

The pleasant whistle sounded in my ears again.

This time, the two of them looked in the direction of the whistle and determined the approximate location. Without any unnecessary sighs, they picked up their sickles and hoes and started digging the second honey beehive as quickly as possible...

that's it……

After digging the second nest, the two immediately rushed to the third nest.

Then... the fourth nest...

……

With all their efforts, the two of them made obvious progress in both digging speed and coordination.

In addition, many small tips have been summarized.

For example, by observing the direction of the entrance and exit of the beehive, you can determine how to dig down with the first hoe, from which angle, and with what force...

Usually, if the first hoe is dug well, the subsequent digging will be much easier...

Although the speed of the two was not slow at all.

But Fang Hongan was faster than the other two.

The frequency of the whistling sound was always faster than the pace of them digging honey!
At first, both of them were trying hard to keep up with Fang Hongan's pace.

When we dug the third nest, we found that we could not keep up at all.

I had to give up this idea and instead try to maintain the fastest speed and the highest efficiency at my own pace.

And so it goes, one litter after another.

From the early morning when the sun rises.

When the golden sun has not yet risen directly overhead.

The two people's bamboo baskets were already filled with honey combs.

“Hoo-hoo!”

After digging the sixth nest, the two men finally couldn't bear it anymore and found a shady place to sit down. After taking a deep breath, they immediately stood up and stood on a high place. Each of them looked to one side and searched for Fang Hongan's figure on the mountain.

After searching for a while, there was no sign of Fang Hongan.

Wang Tong's expression changed: "It seems... I haven't heard my brother's whistle for a while!"

"It seems... yes!" Fang Chengtao also frowned immediately.

After thinking about it, the two remembered that the last whistle seemed to be sounded during the fourth swarm.

"Oh no! I hope nothing will happen!" Wang Tong's expression changed suddenly!
"No way! Maybe we walked too far and didn't attract any bees over there!" Fang Chengtao said comfortingly, but the expression on his face became obviously nervous.

"Let me try to whistle!"

"If there's no response, we'll look along that side!"

Wang Tong frowned, put his fingers into his mouth, took a deep breath and blew hard!
"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

He blew three times in a row, put down his hand, and immediately tilted his ear to listen with all his might.

But after listening for a long time, there was only the sound of the wind in my ears.

Wang Tong's face turned pale.

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

This time, the one who blew the whistle was Fang Chengtao.

He also took a deep breath and blew hard three times.

Then, both of them put their hands to their ears and listened hard.

After listening for a while, the two of them, who received no response, turned pale and were about to set out to look for it when a weak voice suddenly came over: "Don't... stop blowing! It's right here!"

"Ok?"

The two of them were cheered up and quickly jumped down from the height and ran quickly towards the direction where the sound came from.

After running about twenty meters over there, I suddenly saw Fang Hongan lying on a stone under the shade of a big tree about ten meters ahead in a slumped posture.

His whole body was wet, as if he had just crawled out of the water.

The sweat that flowed out wet the circle of stone outside the outline of the body.

"Brother (Hongan)! Are you okay?"

Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao hurried over and asked with concern.

"Nothing! I'm just so tired!"

"I can't walk anymore!"

"I can't even whistle back at you!"

Fang Hongan responded while gasping for breath.

"This……"

Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao looked at each other.

They knew very well that Fang Hongan was not someone who would easily complain of being tired.

Moreover, the situation is right here.

But logically speaking, it should be more tiring for them to dig up beehives and take out the bees!

Moreover...the two of them dug seven honey nests at full speed in less than one morning. They were really tired, but it didn't feel to this extent!

As for Fang Hongan's physique, it is on par with theirs.

Logically, it shouldn't have come to this.

But this is exactly the situation...

The only explanation is that Fang Hongan has been running, and he has been tracking the bee trail in this mountain range...

Thinking of this, Wang Tong couldn't help but ask, "Brother! How many beehives did you find this time?"

"Fifteen nests, right? That should be it! But... I dug up the last two nests as well!
So…if you have finished digging this nest, there should be seven nests left to dig! Later, I thought you couldn’t keep up anyway, so I just put up the signs and didn’t blow the whistle!

Wait... after lunch, take a break. Heizi goes back to carry the baskets, and Taozi and I will go dig!"

Fang Hongan panted and spoke incoherently.

When these words fell into the ears of Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao, it was like a bolt of thunder out of the blue.

"Ten...fifteen nests!"

"You dug two nests by yourself?"

The two of them stared at the bamboo basket beside Fang Hongan with wide eyes.

Only then did I realize that the bamboo basket was already filled with more than half of the honey combs.

Obviously, Fang Hongan not only dug two nests, but also dug two large nests of strong bee colonies.

"This……"

Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao looked at each other with expressions of shock and admiration on their faces.

He was almost about to kneel down in front of Fang Hongan and kowtow to him on the spot.

……

There was a shock.

After they recovered, Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao simply lay down next to Fang Hongan.

The three of them took a good rest under the shade of the tree. After they had recovered some strength, they got up and finished their lunch of honey cake, buckwheat dumplings and boiled eggs.

After a hearty meal, the three of them rested for about an hour.

Wang Tong carried his bamboo basket full of honeycombs down the mountain and headed towards Shanmuling.

Fang Hongan called Fang Chengtao, and the two of them came to the nearest landmark and started a new round of excavation...

(End of this chapter)