Rebirth in 1984, starting from beekeeping in the mountains

Chapter 65 Another good harvest! Honey extractor (please read later)

"Brother! You are amazing! You can find it right away!"

"I thought this place was hopeless before!"

Wang Tong grinned and exclaimed in admiration.

Obviously, he was surprised by the effect of the bee-luring device.

Fang Hongan, seeing that the bee path was not yet obvious, patiently explained his theory to him.

If we want to train Hei Zai to be someone who can stand on his own feet, we can't let him think in a one-track mind all the time.

He must be encouraged to think and explore, so that he can truly learn skills and have the ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Sure enough, after listening to Fang Hongan’s explanation, Wang Tong immediately fell into deep thought.

He is impatient, but not stupid. He knows that Fang Hongan said these things deliberately to give him some advice.

These are all real experiences and skills. If you listen carefully and learn them, they will definitely be beneficial to you in the future.

While pondering Fang Hongan's words, he gradually followed Fang Hongan's train of thought and understood it all.

"So...that's it!"

The admiration on his face grew even stronger.

The eyes staring at Fang Hongan were full of worship.

Seeing that this fellow was about to say something noisy again, Fang Hongan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go and get down to business!"

Wang Tong raised his head and saw that the bees that had sucked the honey water had begun to return to the hive.

There is already a clear bee path in the air.

"Okay! Brother! Let me practice with this swarm of bees first!"

Wang Tong clapped his legs and stood up, quickly following the bee path.

Digging this beehive went smoothly. Although there were fewer honey combs, it was much easier than yesterday's hard work at Goubeiling, when I was sweating profusely after digging a beehive.

In terms of efficiency, it is also much higher.

With this good start, the rhythm seemed to return to the time at Mashiling and Laoyaling.

Around noon, the two people's backpacks were filled with harvested honey combs.

Because it is the junction of two villages, it is only five miles away from Shiwan Village.

For this distance, a round trip is quite cost-effective.

Fang Hongan and Wang Tong put on their bamboo hats and returned to the hut carrying two full bamboo baskets.

We set out again after 2 or 3 in the afternoon when it was the hottest.

When it was completely dark, the two returned home.

Two large bamboo baskets of honey combs were poured into a large jar. Fang Hongan calculated that today's harvest in Wugonggou was at least twice as much as yesterday's harvest in Goubeiling.

In terms of experience, both of them felt a lot more relaxed.

Unfortunately, the bees in Centipede Valley are scattered and the colony density is not high.

Today, we have basically finished digging.

The next day.

The two moved to a hill called Zhugongling.

The situation on this hill is very similar to that in Wugonggou. Although it took a little longer to lure the bees than in Wugonggou, we still succeeded in luring the bees.

After a whole day's hard work, the harvest was a little less than that in Wugonggou. I made two trips back and forth and carried back more than 100 kilograms of honey combs. According to the previous honey yield rate, there should be at least 60 kilograms of honey.

The next day, the two of them moved to another hill.

However, this day was not so smooth.

After trying for a long time, no bees were attracted. Finally, a few ghost bees came.

After searching nearby for a while, we found traces of a bee hive near a crack in a rock.

The two had to move to another hill immediately.

In this way, we changed three hills before we finally lured the first swarm of bees.

After digging two nests on that hill, I couldn’t lure them anymore.

The two had no choice but to change hills again...

Just like that, we walked around and changed things, and the situation was somewhat similar to the first day. By nightfall, we had barely gathered enough food for two bamboo baskets.

When Wang Tong returned home, his face was full of disappointment. When he first scouted the site, he was full of confidence and prepared to do a great job on the mountain in their village.

After all, their village is bigger than Shiwan Village.

There are also many more hills.

I never thought that what I gained from these four days would not be as good as what I gained from those three days in Shiwan Village.

……

When the two returned home and were about to deal with the honeycombs after dinner, there was a knock on the door.

When I opened the door, Carpenter Yang and Aunt Hong were standing there.

As expected, he brought a newly made honey extractor.

After welcoming the two people in, Fang Hongan and Wang Tong were immediately attracted by the wooden honey extractor.

Fang Hongan walked closer and took a closer look, confirming that the style was exactly the same as what was drawn on Fang Hongan's drawing.

Only some optimizations have been made to the details that are not on the drawings.

"Brother! How do you use this? Let me try it first?"

Wang Tong shook the handle and found that it was easy to shake, and his heart suddenly began to itch.

"Open the lid first!"

"Open the card on the turn page and put the honeycomb in..."

"Oh! Use a scraper to scrape off the sealed honey shake cap!"

"Then just shake it by hand... Remember not to shake it too hard or too fast, just keep shaking it at a steady speed..."

Fang Hongan guided Wang Tong and started shaking the honey according to the steps.

Although I didn't try it myself, I could tell from the sound when Wang Tong shook the handle that it was quite smooth and easy.

After Wang Tong shook the barrel for about fifteen minutes, Fang Hongan stopped him and asked him to open the lid of the barrel again.

I first looked at the bottom of the barrel, and soon there was a layer of amber honey.

When the honeycombs were taken out again, the cells of the honeycombs that were originally full of honey were now empty, just like newly built cells.

"So...clean!"

Wang Tong widened his eyes, somewhat unable to believe that just by shaking it gently for a while, he could achieve such an amazing effect.

This time, Fang Hongan didn't explain to him again.

As for the centrifugal force, Fang Hongan only had a general understanding of the principle, and it was quite difficult for him to explain it.

Afterwards, Fang Hongan also tried it himself.

The overall feeling is that although it is made of wood, it is not much different from the stainless steel honey shaker of later generations.

Then, after several hours of hard work of shaking the honey.

All the honey combs accumulated over four days have been processed.

Although the harvest from these four days was not as good as that from the three days in Shiwan Village, the amount of honey shaken out also reached nearly 200 kilograms.

According to Fang Hongan's calculations, the honey yield this time is obviously much higher than last time.

The reason for this difference is not because the honey combs produced by Shanmuling Village have a higher honey yield.

After all, Fang Hongan had checked when the honey combs were being processed, and the fullness of the honey combs was basically the same as the previous batch.

The main reason is the change in the way honey is collected.

Extracting honey with a honey shaker is more thorough than extracting honey by physical squeezing.

This time it was nearly two hundred kilograms, plus the honey left over from the previous batch.

Nowadays, the honey stored in several large jars in Fang Hongan’s home has reached more than 260 kilograms.

Look at those big jars filled with honey.

Fang Hongan couldn't help but start to miss Liao San.

This calculating rat...

Logically, the more than 40 kilograms of honey he has in his hands should have produced about the same amount.

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