Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 118 The Miraculous Reed

Zhang Qian was very serious about her work, and it took her more than an hour to finish knitting the pillowcase.But after compiling it, the more I looked at it, the more I felt that I couldn't do it, and the confidence at the beginning disappeared without a trace.

Helpless, she repeatedly removed the pillowcase.

"What's the point of dismantling the one that took so much effort to weave?" Liu Junhao hurriedly stopped it.

"I was going to give it away, so how can I give it away like this?" Zhang Qian gestured to the pillowcase in frustration and said, "Why don't you make two for me later, and I'll give it away in two days?"

"Two, who are you giving it to?" As soon as he heard that he was going to weave two, Liu Junhao immediately knew that he was being affectionate.

"Give it to my parents. I have been working for more than a year, and I haven't bought them a decent gift. I wanted to knit two pillowcases by myself to express my love, but my hands are too stupid to do anything. I haven't made any progress after studying for a few days."

Hearing what she said, Liu Junhao's heart became balanced.Giving it to my father-in-law and mother-in-law is also filial piety.

"Why are your hands so clever?" Zhang Qian grabbed his big hands and put them together, then clicked her tongue in admiration, "I said my hands are white, but your hands are whiter and tenderer than mine, and they are so slender, playing the piano It must be good."

"Pull it down, I still play the piano with this hand, and there will be no one in our family who can play the piano in eight generations." Liu Junhao took advantage of the situation and held her little hand.In fact, his hands are not considered thin, but their palms are just big. Now that their hands are together, the gap is almost doubled.

After Zhang Qian's gestures, Liu Junhao really found that his hands are much more delicate than before, and a scar on his finger has also become very light, if you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all.

He still remembers the origin of this scar, which was left when he was in the second grade of elementary school.At that age, I used pencils to write. At that time, the quality of the knife was poor, and the back of the knife was very thin, and the pencil would crack after only a few times of sharpening.Therefore, students basically do not buy knives, and generally use sickles or kitchen knives to sharpen.

This thing can be regarded as a murder weapon. At that time, the teacher was afraid of accidents, so he stipulated that the students were not allowed to take the sickle to school.He kept a scythe on the podium himself, handing it out to the students if needed.

Once Liu Junhao and a classmate in the class wanted to sharpen a pencil with a sickle at the same time, but he got it first, and that classmate kept urging him.In desperation, Liu Junhao cut off the pencil with too much force.A large piece was also cut off in the hand, and the bone could be vaguely seen at that time.

The teacher was frightened when he saw that his hands were covered with blood, and hurriedly asked a few students to go outside to gather some herbs to stop the bleeding. It took two large groups of thorn buds to stop the bleeding.

Although the wound healed later, it left a scar that could not be removed.

I didn't expect that the scars would disappear if I didn't pay attention during this period of time. This spring water is really strange.

"Why not, if we have children in the future, I will let..." Zhang Qian blushed suddenly in the middle of speaking, struggling to pull her little hand out.

"What are you afraid of, there are no outsiders?" After Liu Junhao said this, Zhang Qian stopped twitching, but she also lowered her head and did not speak.

"What pattern do you want to weave on the pillowcase after it's finished?" He changed the subject again.

"Hmm... Both of them should be compiled with safety as a blessing. My mother believes in this the most. Every year, she goes to the temple to ask for a safety talisman. At home, she asked someone to write a few such characters." Zhang Qian originally planned to think Some relatively new words, but after thinking about it for a long time, I felt that there was no suitable one. In the end, these four words were appropriate.

A saying that peace is a blessing is the best blessing for the elderly!

"Let's go outside to bask in the sun, it's a pity not to use the good sun." After staying by the computer for a while, Liu Junhao couldn't sit still.So the two talked over and moved to a chair to sit in the yard and bask in the sun.

Zhang Qian was still flipping through a copy of "Reader" in her hand, but under the warmth of the sun, her thoughts slowly drifted away.

Turning his head, he saw Liu Junhao leaning on the back of the chair with his face closed and his eyes closed, in an attitude of enjoying himself.She immediately became interested, closed the book, looked at the high blue sky, and enjoyed the spring that was about to be lost.

Just half lying down like this, doing nothing, it seems that the whole person has become ethereal and dull.

Just as she was wandering in the sky, Zhang Qian suddenly heard a buzzing sound coming from her ears.She turned her head and looked, jumped up from the chair in fright, picked up the book and typed it, yelling "bee, bee"

"It's okay, it must have been attracted by the watermelon seedlings in the backyard."

"Hey, Liu Junhao, look quickly, the morning glory is blooming, it's so big." Zhang Qian's eyes followed the bees, and suddenly found a purple morning glory blooming on the edge of the fence, and she took it excitedly. Pick up your phone to take pictures.

It's only the end of May now, and I didn't expect the morning glory in my yard to bloom. It should be five or six days earlier than the flowering period.Liu Junhao was thinking about it, when Zhang Qian screamed "Wow".

"What's the matter, this surprise?"

"Come here quickly and have a look. There are so many bees, fifty or sixty are crawling on the reeds. There must be a beehive here."

"Honeycomb?!" Liu Junhao couldn't believe it. There were beehives in his yard?
He looked over and saw forty or fifty bees crawling on the sunny side of the reed stacks, and many of them were crawling in and out along the reed tubes.This bee is relatively big, fat and fat, and a little clumsy.Looking at the dark color, you know it belongs to the Scolia.

"Find one and see what they are doing?" Zhang Qian's curiosity also continued to grow.

The stacks of reeds were cut from the river beach with Professor Zhao last time. After they dried in the sun a few days ago, he piled up a lot of reeds at the base of the wall and prepared to burn them when there was a shortage of firewood.

What the hell is going on, is it true that there are beehives?Liu Junhao carefully looked at the reed stacks, but after looking at them for a long time, he didn't find the beehive. He only saw that bees kept getting into the reed tubes, and came out again after a while.

"What are they doing, aren't they building nests?" Zhang Qian looked confused.

It was also the first time Liu Junhao saw the phenomenon of "unclear".What made him even more strange was that there was a bee spitting out something on the reed at the moment, but when he looked carefully, he sealed the hole with wet mud.

After Liu Junhao waited for the bee to fly away, he immediately broke off the reed tube.

The two men took the reed tube away like thieves, and then broke the reed tube after reaching a safe distance.

"Hey...this is honey!" The two were stunned again.

A unique fragrance of honey emanates from the cross-section of the reed tube. The empty reed tube is filled with grains slightly larger than soybeans. The grains are neatly arranged and glow in the sun.After a rough count, there are more than 20 grains.

"Can this be eaten?" Zhang Qian asked rather excitedly.

"I'll try it..." Liu Junhao squeezed one and put it in his mouth.

It becomes sticky immediately after entering the mouth, and then a burst of sweetness rages on the tongue, even sweeter than wild bee honey.

"It's delicious, try it." He also asked Zhang Qian to pinch one.

Zhang Qian was also full of praise after eating, and even asked Liu Junhao to get some more.

"What are the two secretly eating?" Just as they were talking, Teacher Wang's voice came from the door.It's noon now, and she's coming to pick vegetables.

"Aunt Wang, try it. This is the native honey we just discovered. It tastes very sweet." Liu Junhao hurriedly passed the reed tube over.

"Is this honey? I don't think it looks like it?" Teacher Wang pinched one in confusion, and then praised it again and again.

But when Zhang Qian asked what kind of honey it was, Teacher Wang didn't even know, and called her husband over through the courtyard wall.Professor Zhao has been dealing with things related to fruit trees, so he may know the origin of this bee.

Unexpectedly, this is the first time Professor Zhao has seen such a situation.In his words, there are 1000 to [-] species of bees known in the world, and there are more than [-] species in China alone. He doesn't know what kind of bee it is.

Although the type of bee cannot be determined, it does not hinder everyone's enthusiasm for eating honey.Under the instigation of the three of them, Liu Junhao broke some reeds at the risk of being stung.

Not surprisingly, it was filled with yellow honey.Like peeling broad beans, they poured them into the bowl one by one, and finally got half of the bowl. Of course, they also collected a lot of milky white bee chrysalis.

At the suggestion of Professor Zhao, Liu Junhao made a small cup of honey for each of them. After the light yellow honey was placed in the water, it dripped quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye, coating the teacup with some light yellow.

Take a sip.The sweet aroma of honey, mixed with the fragrance of reeds and flowers penetrates into the heart and lungs.Can't help but make people's teeth and cheeks fragrant, enchanted...

The small half bowl of bee chrysalis was naturally taken home by Mr. Wang, because Liu Junhao was a little chilled when he saw the thing wriggling in it, and he dared not eat anything.

Professor Zhao only said that he would not enjoy it. This honey is a high-grade tonic.Said that it will be finished later and sent some to taste, it will definitely make them want to eat it again.

Liu Junhao originally thought that he was just talking, but who knew that at noon, he really brought over half a bowl.

Looking at the golden bee pupae, neither of them dared to taste them at first. It was not until Professor Zhao demonstrated that Liu Junhao picked up a few with chopsticks and put them in his mouth.

Crisp and fragrant, absolutely delicious.

After he nodded, Zhang Qian also tried to pick it up with chopsticks.

They originally thought that the bees would definitely leave without the honey, but they saw hundreds of bees crawling around on the reed pile in the afternoon, obviously transporting honey into it.

After looking at it carefully, there are really many bees crawling around the reed pile.This is all right, I can often have honey to eat in the future.Liu Junhao moved his mind again: In fact, it is also very good to raise some bees by yourself.That stone lock is a confined space, perfect for raising Scolia.

When he thought of this, he secretly looked at the stone lock again. Only one day later, the dozen or so bees thrown in at the beginning actually built a hive, and they were busy on the hive the size of a quail egg.

This discovery made Liu Junhao even more excited. He didn't expect Shi Suo to realize what he had in mind immediately.It seems that the bee doesn't need to be kept in the stone lock anymore, it would be nice to raise bees directly.

However, there are too few flowers in this space, and I don't know if they can meet the needs of these bees.After all, when they build a hive, they will produce pupae. When the number of bees increases, they will plant more flowers and plants.

Bumble bees and bees are kept together, and then I can eat two kinds of honey at the same time.

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The bees in the stone lock are worker bees. Worker bees can lay eggs without a queen bee, but only drones are hatched.Drones are not good enough to collect honey.

I found out this information yesterday after someone mentioned it in a book review. I used to only know about catching bees and eating honey, but I didn’t pay attention to this common sense, haha.

What I wrote in this article is what I took for granted when I was a child. At that time, I thought that I could raise bees by getting some worker bees, but I failed every time. I only know the reason today.

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