Rebirth in 1984, starting from beekeeping in the mountains

Chapter 16 A Good Harvest

Wait for Fang Hongan to stand up.

The bamboo basket is already half filled with honeycombs.

Overall, this hive is not as big as yesterday's, with only 6 honeycombs in total. Fang Hongan chose to cut off 4 of them. Based on yesterday's experience, he estimated that it would be no problem to squeeze out 6 kilograms of honey.

Shaking off the dirt on his body, Fang Hongan was ready to ask him to help refill the entrance, but Wang Tong's eyes were fixed on the bamboo basket and he didn't notice his movements at all.

Fang Hongan saw his Adam's apple moving up and down, and he was obviously unable to hold back swallowing his saliva.

I know this guy must be greedy.

Yes, these days, looking at the honeycomb flowing with honey, how can you not be tempted?

Wang Tong knew that honey could be sold for money, but his family was in urgent need of money, so he didn't dare to ask.

"You're the only one being polite! Just eat it if you want." Fang Hongan smiled and cut a piece of honeycomb with a knife and handed it over.

"Hehe!" Wang Tong took it with a grin, looking a little embarrassed.

When I took it in my hand, I felt a little confused: "Eat it directly?

Wang Tong stared at the honey comb in his hand and was a little afraid to eat it.

In his entire life, he has eaten honey no more than three times, and all of them were eaten with water.

A bee had just crawled over the honeycomb, and he really didn't dare to eat it.

"Yeah! Don't worry, it's very clean!"

After getting a positive answer, he took off the bee hat, grabbed the honeycomb, carefully put it in through the opening, and put the whole piece into his mouth.

Before he even chewed, his face already showed an intoxicated look.

As soon as he chewed it lightly, he immediately squinted his eyes in intoxication, pursed his lips, and let out sighs of incomparable satisfaction.

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Coming out from the thorny moss.

Fang Hongan led Wang Tong to continue climbing and reached the other side of Mashiling.

This time Fang Hongan took a shortcut. When he saw traces of bees on the way, he took out the bee-attracting water and sprinkled it on the spot.

Not long after the water was poured, the targeted bees were immediately lured over.

Less than two minutes later, a steady stream of bees arrived.

In about ten minutes, a clear bee path was formed.

"go!"

Fang Hongan waved his hand, and two groups of people, one in front and one behind, followed the bee's trail and chased after it.

Wait until the location of the hive is located.

This time, Fang Hongan didn't need to say much. Wang Tong swung his hatchet and chopped at the thorny moss and trees that blocked the way.

With the experience of the first nest, Wang Tong is now as excited as a chicken with blood injected when facing the upcoming second nest of beehives.

The hatchet maniac is extremely ferocious.

Before Fang Hongan had even made any move, all the obstacles on the road had been cleared.

This time, the entrance to the hive was in a pile of rocks weighing hundreds of pounds.

After struggling for nearly an hour, the two finally pried open one of the door stones.

Seeing Wang Tong's eager look, Fang Hongan simply gave him the task of cutting the honeycomb.

Wang Tong was delighted when he heard this.

Although it is a bit scary to look at the dense swarms of bees, honey is more tempting.

He followed Fang Hongan's example and made a cigarette holder out of wet and dry straw. He let some smoke into the cave before crawling in and starting to dig.

This time the hole was opened very wide, so the fine steel knife at his waist really came in handy, and he could cut off pieces from the top of the nest intact.

The appearance of the cut pieces is even better than what Fang Hongan had taken out with his bare hands before.

Unfortunately, this hive is even smaller than the previous one, with only 5 honeycombs.

I estimate it to be about 5 kilograms of honey.

Seeing that Wang Tong was cutting vigorously, he had already extended the knife to the last piece of spleen.

Fang Hongan hurriedly called him, and Wang Tong stopped what he was doing belatedly. He followed Fang Hongan's example and picked up some stones, branches and straw to seal the entrance of the cave again, leaving only a small exit.

Then, he turned around and looked at the amber honeycombs in his backpack, his mouth showing his white teeth unable to close.

At the third bee-luring point, Fang Hongan and Wang Tong had already left Mashiling and climbed over to a nearby barren mountain called Laoyaling.

This mountain is a bit like Mashiling, with more rocks and fewer trees, and less thorny moss, but the terrain is higher than Mashiling, and low wild flowers can be seen everywhere as far as the eye can see.

It took a full half hour to lure the bees, and the two took the opportunity to rest for a while.

Because there weren't so many thorny mosses, Wang Tong thought this time would be easier, but after getting up, he found that was not the case at all.

They basically had to climb all the way up Lao Ya Ridge, and by the time they found the entrance to the beehive, both of them were out of breath.

After resting for a quarter of an hour, the two began to dig the beehive.

It took more than an hour to dig out this hive of bees. Fortunately, the harvest was good. It was no problem to get 7 honeycombs and 10 kilograms of honey.

In the next three hours, the two men dug out two more beehives on Laoya Ridge.

The last nest turned out to be a super large hive, with 12 honeycombs cut out of it.

According to conservative estimates, this hive of bees alone can produce 20 kilograms of honey.

After digging out 5 nests of bees, the two men's backpacks were almost full. Seeing that the sun was at its highest point in the sky, Fang Hongan called Wang Tong, and the two men found a hidden small stone cave to hide their bamboo hats, hoes, and crowbars inside. They also pulled some kudzu leaves to cover the bamboo baskets tightly, and went straight down the mountain.

I met a lot of people along the way.

But seeing the vines in the bamboo baskets of the two men, no one doubted them. Instead, some people who had ridiculed them before continued to make sarcastic remarks.

Fang Hongan simply chose to ignore it, but Wang Tong was not so polite.

Just start to fight back directly.

Not only was he full of aura, his words were also aggressive, and there was a knife clearly visible on his waist. Those who were counterattacked by him could only shut up and swallow their loss.

When the two of them arrived at the door of the house, Lan Wenxiu, who heard the noise, was already waiting there.

After helping the two of them unload the bamboo baskets, he immediately bolted the door.

After the kudzu vines were removed from the two large bamboo baskets, even though she was prepared, Lan Wenxiu was still so surprised that she covered her mouth.

These two large bamboo baskets full of honeycombs weigh more than 100 kilograms. Judging from the honey yield of yesterday's nest, there are probably about 40 kilograms of honey!

Suppressing her surprise, Lan Wenxiu brought out the prepared meal and asked the two to eat quickly.

The two men went up the mountain at around 5 o'clock and fought hard on the mountain for more than 7 hours. They were already starving.

He sat down, picked up the bowl and started eating.

Knowing how hard it was for the two people to climb the mountain, Lan Wenxiu did not save any money and cooked a big pot full of white rice without adding even a single shredded sweet potato.

In addition to pickles and green vegetables, I also boiled the remaining 6 pheasant eggs.

Two of them made an egg drop soup, and the remaining four made scrambled eggs with wild onions.

The two of them each had three big bowls of rice and finished the entire pot of rice.

After eating, I took a quick shower and rested for about half an hour.

The two of them immediately went up the mountain again.

After two o'clock, the temperature rises and the bees are much less active than in the morning.

But since they could take a break while luring the bees, they were not in a hurry.

It took us nearly two hours to lure the first swarm of bees in the afternoon, and we changed three luring spots. Fortunately, it turned out to be a rare swarm of bees from the hole of a dead tree.

It’s so easy to dig it out.

When the second nest was dug, the sun had already set in the west.

"walk home!"

The two of them picked up their gear and set out again to return to the city.

Although we only dug two nests this time, the quality was quite good.

The two people's bamboo baskets together contained more than 40 kilograms of honey combs.

After dinner, the earthen house began to get busy.

Because Lan Wenxiu had already cut down all the honey combs she had dug up in the morning by the afternoon, the pace in the evening was quite fast.

By 10 o'clock in the evening, all the honey dug out for the whole day had been processed.

In the main room, the honey collected today alone filled two jars. These jars were not the small 2-jin jars from before, but medium-sized jars holding 15 jin.

Lan Wenxiu went to borrow a scale, and after weighing the jars one by one and removing the tare weight, she estimated the weight of the honey in the two jars was as high as 68 kilograms!
(End of this chapter)