Rebirth in 1984, starting from beekeeping in the mountains

Chapter 118: Failed to steal the chicken! Stung by the ghost-headed bee again!

When Fang Hongan and his colleagues were working hard.

at the same time.

At the foot of a small hill less than three miles away from Gouyaling.

Xie Qiangbin sat down gasping for air.

"How come it's gone!"

"Didn't we dig up a nest yesterday?"

"I saw the traces that Fang Hongan and his team dug at Mashiling and Laoyaling. There are many nests on each hilltop!"

"What kind of shitty luck is this!"

With a look of unwillingness on his face, Xie Qiangbin shouted angrily.

After him, Xie Qiangwen, Xie Qiangwu and others also hung their heads, looking disappointed.

Today, they came here full of excitement and confidence after successfully digging a nest yesterday.

But who would have thought that today they had not only lured the bees, but also used a carpet-style search across the mountains.

After all this operation, we couldn't find another swarm.

"Third cousin! What should I do?"

"Or... let's go back first! I'm so tired! And I'm hungry!"

Two voices rang out in the crowd, and they came from the youngest, Wang Lang and Xie Qiangjun.

The two of them didn't come when we were digging out the beehive yesterday.

I tasted the sweetness of honey last night, so I came here today with full expectations, but who knew what the result would be.

They were lazy and gluttonous at home, and they came here with the sole purpose of collecting honey and selling it for money. After searching the mountain for a while, they didn't get any results, so they immediately backed off.

After they said this, Xie Qiangwu on the side was also moved.

However, he did not say it directly, but turned his head to look at Xie Qiangwen beside him.

Xie Qiangwen, of course, knew what Xie Qiangwu was thinking. He sighed and said to Xie Qiangbin, "Third brother! How about... go back and have a rest first, and then we can try another place in the afternoon?"

"Just go back like this?"

Xie Qiangbin glared and muttered, "Big brother! Second brother! Don't forget, we all spread the word before we left! If we go back empty-handed, we will be laughed at by those people!"

After successfully digging up a large nest of honey yesterday, they spread the word last night that their bee-digging team of three brothers from the Xie family was better than the ragtag team of Fang Hongan and three others.

If I don't bring anything back on the first day, it would be so embarrassing.

After hearing what Xie Qiangbin said, Xie Qiangwen and Xie Qiangwu's faces darkened, and they felt like slapping themselves in the face.

They dug bees yesterday and were so excited that the three of them set up a table and called over some friends, just to show off.

As a result, he got drunk and, after hearing those people flatter him, he shouted that he was better than Fang Hongan and the others.

Those few people were all good at spreading rumors, and it didn't take long for the news to spread throughout the village.

I didn't think much of it at the time. Even when I met Fang Hongan and the others just now, I was determined to compete with them.

But who would have thought that the method of attracting bees that worked so effectively yesterday suddenly became ineffective today.

Now this is neither here nor there...

What a big deal!
Think of a way, you must think of a way!

Xie Qiangwen scratched his head and thought for a while. Suddenly, an idea came to his mind and he clapped his hands to everyone: "Got it!"

"kindness???"

Everyone hurried over.

"Didn't we just run into Fang Hongan and the others? Why don't we just go find them!"

"Looking for them?" Xie Qiangbin shook his head decisively in anger, "I'm not going! If we just go and look for them like this, it would be like admitting defeat!"

"What do you mean by admitting defeat?"

Xie Qiangwen knew that his third son was acting up again, so he quickly tried to persuade him: "I've said before that these mountains don't belong to Fang Hongan's family. If they can go, why can't we go? We can just say that we lured the bees and chased them there. What can they do to us?"

"That's a good idea!"

After hearing this explanation, Xie Qiangwu clapped his hands and agreed: "I heard that Fang Hongan and his men have already explored all the hills in the surrounding area. They know where there are bees and where there are no bees. They know better than us! If we compete with them, we will suffer a loss! It would be better for us to just follow them to find the hills. This way, it will save a lot of trouble!

At worst, we can each lure our own bees. How can Fang Hongan dare to do anything to us? Even if this matter is brought to old man Xiangshun, we are still right!"

After the eldest and second in command said this, Xie Qiangjun and Wang Lang, who had previously backed out, also followed suit and cheered.

After Xie Qiangbin licked his lips for a while, his eyes lit up and he muttered, "That's it! Good...it seems to work!"

"That's fine!" Xie Qiangwen clapped his hands, "Then let's not rest, let's go find them now!"

"Now?"

"Where can I find it?"

From Xie Qiangwu to Xie Qiangjun, and then to Wang Lang, several people were a little confused.

"Look, they are going that way! They should be on that hilltop! If we look for them one by one, we will find them eventually!" Xie Qiangwen said confidently.

"Oh my big brother!" Xie Qiangwu was so scared when he heard that they were going to look for it this way that his legs went limp. He muttered, "Is there no other way to look for it? I just ran over a few hills and my feet are about to get blisters! If we keep looking like this, even if we find it later, we won't have the strength to dig!"

"This……"

After hearing what he said, Xie Qiangwen realized that he had taken it for granted. He stood there in a daze and couldn't help scratching his scalp wildly.

At this time, Xie Qiangbin suddenly stood up.

"I remember!" He said to everyone excitedly, "Niuti Ridge! Niuti Ridge! Let's go to Niuti Ridge first!"

"Niuti Ridge?"

After hearing this, several people couldn't help but mutter something inexplicably.

After all, the first impression is that the name sounds very familiar.

Then, after thinking for a while, he immediately remembered that this was not the place Fang Hongan had mentioned before.

"I know!" Xie Qiangwu clapped his hands excitedly. "Old Third, what you mean is that this is the place Fang Hongan and the others wanted to go before. There must be a beehive here?"

"Not bad!"

Xie Qiangbin smiled confidently and said, "Fang Hongan let it slip earlier! And... you all have no impression, the conditions of Niutialing and that place are almost exactly the same as Mashiling!

On Mashiling, I counted the places where Fang Hongan and his men had dug one by one, and I could find ten places, which means they dug at least ten nests! What about Niutiling?"

Having said that, Xie Qiangbin winked at everyone.

"Yes! Mashiling and Niutiling! They are indeed very similar!"

"There are bees in Mashiling! There must be bees in Niutiling too!"

"Fang Hongan and the others must have investigated it! That's why they said that!"

"Let's go to Niuti Ridge! It's not far anyway!"

……

After a few discussions, we soon decided to go to Niutialing.

In order to boost morale, Xie Qiangbin quickly took out a bag, took out a few buckwheat balls and distributed them to the two groups of people.

A few people sat down, ate their buckwheat dumplings, took a rest, and then walked towards Niutialing one by one as if they were injected with chicken blood.

In fact, Niutialing is more than a mile away from them.

At first, Xie Qiangbin didn't want to follow Fang Hongan and the others' wishes, so he just lied and said that they were also nearby.

Now that I think about it, this unintentional act actually left them a way out.

The group worked hard and in less than ten minutes, they arrived at the foot of Niutialing.

"I'm going to spread honey water to attract bees!"

Xie Qiangbin couldn't wait to take out a jar of honey water, and started pouring it on the thatch, imitating the method he had secretly learned from Wang Tong and Fang Chengtao not long ago.

This operation was proven to be effective when they dug out the beehive yesterday.

After a thorough search, they determined that the reason they had not been able to attract bees today was not a problem with the bee-attracting water or the operation, but simply because there were no beehives on those hills!

After the honey water was sprinkled, the five people sat under the shade of a tree and waited with anticipation.

The mountain breeze is blowing, and it’s very cool under the shade of the trees!
And the hearts of the five of them also gradually grew cold.

"This... why is there still nothing?"

After waiting for more than half an hour and still not seeing any trace of a bee.

Finally, a few people couldn't sit still anymore.

"Change to another place!"

Xie Qiangbin gritted his teeth, stood up, and started climbing up the mountain!
……

Another half hour later.

"There don't seem to be any bees here!"

"Impossible!" Xie Qiangbin gritted his teeth again, "Try one last time!"

……

Another hour passed!
"Forget it! I see... there is nothing here!"

After waiting in vain for almost an hour again.

Xie Qiangwen couldn't help but stand up and patted Xie Qiangbin on the shoulder: "Third brother! I think it's getting late, let's stop looking! Just find a place, take a rest, and go back when it's getting dark! When someone smells it, just say they dug it up!
Tomorrow, we will keep an eye on Fang Hongan and his men early in the morning and follow them up the mountain!"

"Yes!" Xie Qiangwu immediately agreed, "I think there are no bees on Niuti Ridge! Fang Hongan and the others were wrong!"

"Did I make a mistake?" Xie Qiangbin had a look of disbelief on his face.

"I'll look for it again! I just don't believe it! This place looks almost the same as Mashiling, so why are there no bees here?"

He picked up a sickle unwillingly, and decided not to use it to lure the bee water. He chopped with the sickle and looked around to find it.

In his mind, he kept thinking about the places that Fang Hongan and his team had dug on Mashiling.

Thorny moss, piles of rocks, caves in the rocks...

These became the focus of his search.

Behind him, Xie Qiangwen and Xie Qiangwu used the excuse that their shoes were not good and their legs were hurting and they couldn't keep up, so they sent Wang Lang and Xie Qiangjun to follow.

After searching for a while without finding anything, Xie Qiangjun and Wang Lang began to complain and try to persuade Xie Qiangbin.

At the beginning, Xie Qiangbin gritted his teeth and insisted on looking for it.

But after searching for a while, Xie Qiangbin couldn't hold on any longer.

"Fuck! Damn it!"

Xie Qiangbin picked up a few stones and started throwing them around to vent his anger.

After smashing things around and venting his anger for a while, he clapped his hands in frustration and said, "Let's go! Let's go back!"

The three of them had just taken two steps when a faint buzzing sound suddenly came from over them.

Xie Qiangbin suddenly stopped and listened with his ears perked up.

"What's wrong? Third cousin?"

Wang Lang looked puzzled.

"You guys... listen over there! Listen quickly!"

Xie Qiangbin was worried that he had heard it wrong, so he called out to Wang Lang and Xie Qiangjun.

At the same time, he pointed in a direction with his finger.

Seeing this, Xie Qiangjun and Wang Lang quickly leaned forward to listen.

After hearing this for a moment, both of them suddenly showed joy on their faces.

"Buzzing sound!"

"Bees! It's the sound of bees!"

"Right over there!"

Wang Lang stamped his feet and excitedly pointed in the direction Xie Qiangbin pointed!
"Yes! It's right there! I heard it too!" Xie Qiangjun also responded.

Immediately, he thought of something and excitedly hugged Xie Qiangbin's shoulders: "Third brother! Stone! It must be the stone you threw just now that hit the beehive!"

"That's it!"

Xie Qiangbin recalled and suddenly remembered that he had indeed thrown a stone in that direction.

What a coincidence!
Could it be...

The luck is finally changing!

Thinking of this, Xie Qiangbin's blood boiled with excitement.

"I'll go take a look! Hurry up and call my eldest brother and second brother to come!"

After saying that, he jumped down to the thatched grass below.

Holding a sickle, he chopped away the thorny moss and trees that blocked the way and walked in the direction where the buzzing sound was getting louder and louder.

The closer you get, the louder the buzzing becomes.

The more excited Xie Qiangbin became.

When he turned here just now, he didn't come down to take a look because there was a depression below, which was covered with thatch and thorny moss.

But he didn't expect that the stone he smashed out would actually knock out the thing he almost missed.

In the mountains, there was this dense buzzing sound, and Xie Qiangbin could not think of any other explanation except honey.

Soon, Xie Qiangbin arrived near the large patch of thatched grass.

Probably because the soil in this depression is deep and water easily accumulates, the thatch here grows particularly lushly.

The most lush area is taller than Xie Qiangbin’s hand.

It was so densely packed that you couldn't see what was behind the thatch.

But listening to the buzzing sound, Xie Qiangbin had already imagined the beautiful scene of a group of bees flying freely at the entrance of the nest.

Although he was excited, Xie Qiangbin still checked his beehive cap and sleeves first.

Make sure the bee cap is worn tightly and the sleeves are put on properly.

Without any worries, he cheered up, used a sickle to pull away a piece of thatch, stepped on the thatch stems, and went straight in.

Once inside, Xie Qiangbin discovered that the thatched grass was even more dense than he had imagined. He dug around for a long time before he took the second and third steps.

Even if I pushed the sickle forward again, I still couldn't see what was behind the thatch.

but……

The steady sound indicated that the beehive should be very close.

"Fuck! Never mind!"

Feeling that it was difficult to use the sickle, Xie Qiangbin simply used his feet to sweep away a piece of thatch with one foot and quickly stepped on it with the other foot.

Just like that, after a few more steps, the buzzing sound felt like it was echoing in my ears.

The thatch had noticeably become sparser, and through the gaps, one could see the rocks behind it. Indistinctly, one could see a black shadow flying quickly by.

"The first nest today! I finally found you!"

With the resentment that had been pent up for a long time today, Xie Qiangbin swept his right foot hard, pushed aside the last piece of thatch, and rushed forward like a wild beast.

However, that was the next moment.

Xie Qiangbin's excited shout came to an abrupt end.

He stared, as if he had seen a ghost, at the rock in front of him. The surface was a familiar wood grain color, and the top was smashed open by a stone, revealing a large oval ball of a white bee pupa.

After standing there in a daze, his body began to tremble involuntarily.

Trembling, he raised his head and looked towards the direction of the buzzing sound.

next moment--

"I'll do it!"

After uttering a curse, Xie Qiangbin lifted his somewhat weak legs and struggled to get towards the thatched roof.

"Buzz!"

As he ran, the black-backed golden bees that had already surrounded him seemed to be stimulated and suddenly flew towards him.

In a hurry, Xie Qiangbin didn't care whether the thatch would cut people or not. He rushed in and ran forward desperately.

But that's the case.

Soon... he felt a stinging pain on his back and hands, as if he were being stabbed by red-hot needles...

"Help... help!"

Ignoring the pain, Xie Qiangbin ran while screaming at the top of his lungs.

the other side.

As soon as I heard that Xie Qiangbin found a beehive.

Xie Qiangwen and Xie Qiangwu immediately rushed over with great interest.

But before they reached the depression where Xie Qiangbin was, they heard Xie Qiangbin's screams.

"problem occurs!"

The smiles on their faces suddenly disappeared out of fear.

He quickly quickened his pace and rushed over without stopping.

As soon as I reached the depression, I saw Xie Qiangbin stumbling and running towards me madly, as if he had seen a ghost.

And behind him, the group of black shadows chasing after him, could they not be the ghost-headed bees that made them feel terrified!
"Quick! Quick!"

Xie Qiangwen was so scared that he was shaking all over. He shouted at Xie Qiangbin a few times. When Xie Qiangbin finally ran over, he quickly called out to the people around him, helped pull Xie Qiangbin up, and then supported Xie Qiangbin and ran forward.

This run was completely panic and without any clue of the direction.

Along the way, I didn’t care about the pain from the thorns and mosses or the bumps on my head on the rocks...

They ran for who knows how far, until they could no longer hear the life-threatening buzzing sound. Then the five of them slowed down, breathing heavily.

"Third brother! Are you okay?"

Xie Qiangwen quickly looked at Xie Qiangbin, walked around his body and examined him carefully.

“I can’t…die!”

Xie Qiangbin cried out weakly, and then, exhausted, he collapsed like a puddle of mud.

And this time...

Xie Qiangwen also realized that a sharp burning pain was coming from his legs.

I stared and saw that there was not only a big hole in the pants.

There was a black needle-like object stuck in the exposed calf. With the black needle as the center, the entire area was swollen and burning, with a piercing and stinging pain!
"Ow!"

"Ouch!"

"Hush-hush-"

at the same time.

The other people also let out miserable cries of pain...

(End of this chapter)