big sister headed home

Chapter 19

"Just know it's wrong. What are you doing with this honeycomb? Want to eat honey?" Dou Hua asked.

"Sister, you're right, there's honey in this beehive. It's so sweet." I took a bite just now." Dou Lin said happily, with an unsatisfactory expression on his face.

"Sister, I think Lin'er and the others like to eat sweets. I just saw a beehive. Someone in the village made a beehive to eat honey. I saw it. I thought about knocking down the beehive and making honey for them to eat." Dou Qing said Wan lowered his head as if admitting his mistake.

"Eldest sister' it's my fault' don't blame elder brother 'I asked for it' because elder brother helped me." Dou Lin said.

"Now I know I was wrong. I am not afraid of eating honey. What I am afraid of is that you will be stung by bees. You think bees are easy to mess with." Sigh, don't do such things in the future, you two come here, let me see, what does it look like to be bitten?" Dou Hua said, pulled Dou Qing over, checked the injury on his head, pushed aside his hair, and found that he was stung. After being stung for four or five bumps, those bumps were all swollen, Dou Hua touched it lightly, Dou Qing took a deep breath in pain, and hid for a while, you could tell it was very painful.

"Don't move, let me take a good look for bee stings?" Dou Hua checked Dou Qing's head by herself, found broken thorns on three swollen bumps, and asked Dou Cui to take out a needle, be careful pick out.

After that, Dou Hua looked at Dou Lin's hand again. There was only one sting wound on the finger. The finger was red and swollen, but there was no broken thorn on it. Dou Hua touched it lightly and said, "Does it hurt?"

"Well, hiss~ it hurts a little." Dou Lin hid for a while.

"As long as you know it hurts, you are not allowed to make this honeycomb in the future." After finishing speaking, Dou Hua took some warm water and added some salt, and used warm salt water to help the two of them clean the wound. Now that the conditions at home are limited, Dou Hua can That was all that came to mind. After cleaning, Dou Hua was still a little worried.

"Let's go, I'll take you to Uncle Lin's house and ask for some medicine, otherwise the swelling won't go away so well." Dou Hua said.

"Elder sister, don't worry, the bee stings have been picked out, and it will be fine in a few days. I think other people's homes in the village have done it like this." Dou Qing didn't want to go, thinking that the elder sister was making a big fuss, although the sting was a bit painful, this time A little injury, he still doesn't pay attention to it. He was stung when he was playing in the past. He kept it secret and didn't tell it.

"No, I have to go, you have been stung several times on the head, it's not so easy." Dou Hua said sternly, she didn't want any accidents for Dou Qing and the others.

Seeing this, Dou Qing couldn't help but nodded in agreement, and obediently followed to Uncle Lin's house.

"Sister, what about the beehive?" Dou Lin was still thinking about the beehive.

"Leave it in the yard first, and we'll talk about it when we come back." Dou Hua took out some copper plates from the house involuntarily, and took her two younger brothers by the hand to go to Uncle Lin's house. Uncle Lin is a local doctor in the village. Anyone who suffers from a headache will go to see a doctor at his place.

"Uncle Lin, are you home?" Dou Hua led Dou Lin and Dou Qing to the gate of a courtyard and called at the door.

"Here, who is it? Come into the yard." There was an old answer from inside the room, and then a hunched old man walked into the yard. This person was Uncle Lin.

"Hey, we're coming in." Dou Hua agreed crisply, led Dou Qing and the two into the courtyard, met with Uncle Lin who came out, and called out, "Uncle Lin~"

"Oh, it's a girl from the Dou family, what can I do for you?" Uncle Lin stroked his beard and smiled.

"There is something wrong. My two younger brothers are naughty. They made beehives. They got stung by bees and they swelled badly. I came to ask you for some medicine." Dou Hua said.

"Well, that's it, come here, come here, let me take a look first." Uncle Lin waved his hands at Dou Qing and let them pass, Dou Qing led Dou Lin to the front and asked him to check the sting wound.

"Oh, this sting is not light. I have been stung in several places, and they are all swollen~" Uncle Lin first glanced at Dou Qing's head, then at Dou Lin's hand, and shook his head while looking at it, "It's really Too naughty, that beehive is so easy to beat, fortunately the bees you encountered are not poisonous bees, otherwise you will suffer."

"This? I think the wounds of the two of them have been treated. I didn't find a bee sting." Uncle Lin asked suspiciously.

"Yes, Uncle Lin, just now I picked out the bee stings for them, and washed them with warm salt water, I don't know if it will work or not," Dou Hua said.

"Well, it's well done and it works. It's just the right way to do it. There's nothing to worry about after picking out the bee stinger. The swelling will go away naturally in a few days." Uncle Lin stroked his beard and said.

"Uncle Lin, do you still need to apply medicine to Dou Qing's wound? He has been stung in several places." Dou Hua said, she felt sorry for the two little ones, and she didn't want to make them suffer.

"No, this little wound will heal in a few days. If you're worried, just pick two horse-tooth vegetables, smash them and rub them on the wound. The swelling will go down faster." Uncle Lin said.

"It's so simple." Dou Hua sighed.

"Yeah, it's nothing, don't worry about it, it will be fine in a few days." Uncle Lin said with a smile.

"That's really troublesome for you, I'll go pick a few horse-tooth vegetables and put them on." Dou Hua thanked.

"No trouble, people from a village don't need to look outside like this." Uncle Lin waved his hand.

"Okay, let's go back." Dou Hua led the two young ones home, and picked two purslane plants on the way. Dou Hua knew these purslane plants. A kind of wild vegetable, which can be seen everywhere in the fields and roadsides. It is not a rare thing in rural areas.

Before entering her own yard, Dou Hua noticed something unusual in the house, and there were bursts of buzzing sounds in her ears, which sounded like the sound of a swarm of bees, and she couldn't help but heighten her vigilance.

"Sister, don't go into the yard, there is a swarm of bees coming in the yard." Dou Cui, who was squatting at the base of the wall, shouted when Dou Hua and the others came back.

"A bee came to our house? When did it come?" Dou Hua asked.

"You came here as soon as you left. As soon as the swarm of bees came, they kept circling around the beehive. They were afraid of being stung. Dou Hong closed the doors and windows and entered the house. I will wait for you here and tell you to avoid entering the yard." I was stung by a bee." Dou Cui said.

"How could there be bees? We obviously got rid of all the bees." Dou Qing was puzzled.

Dou Hua paused after listening, and suddenly thought of the characteristics of the bee colony. She thought that the reason why the bee colony would follow was very likely to be related to the queen bee. The duty of honey is to serve the queen bee. Thinking of the queen bee Dou Hua came up with the idea of ​​beekeeping, because she had seen the local method of beekeeping on TV shows, it didn't seem too difficult, just find a wooden barrel or an empty tree trunk or something.The only troublesome thing is to find the bee colony to catch the queen bee. Of course, the most important thing is to let the queen bee stay willingly and not run away.

As soon as the idea of ​​beekeeping came up, Dou Hua turned her thoughts a few times, and she felt good. It is spring, and the wild flowers in the mountains are in full bloom. Sophora japonica will bloom in a few days. The one they went to pick mushrooms Most of the forests are pagoda trees, which are full of lush pagoda flowers every year. These are sources of honey. If you can raise bees, you don’t have to worry about the bees having nowhere to gather honey.

Dou Hua thinks that beekeeping is also to satisfy the greed of a few small children, and it is not realistic to sell it for money. She knows that the local method of beekeeping can only harvest honey once or twice a year, and the yield is too low, but it is still okay to eat by herself.

"You guys stay here and don't move, I'll go in and take a look first." Dou Hua instructed.

"Sister, be careful." Dou Qing said.

"It's okay, I know, I'm prepared." Dou Hua took off her coat and put it on her head to protect her head and neck, only her eyes were exposed, and she entered the yard with her hands tucked into her sleeves. The beehive in the yard was surrounded by a swarm of bees, dense and dense, buzzing non-stop. There are quite a few bees in this swarm.

Dou Hua didn't cross the yard rashly, but walked along the corner, entered the side of the yard, searched there, and finally found a wooden barrel and a cover. Dou Hua planned to use this wooden barrel to keep bees. There is no suitable container now, so I can only make use of this one first.

Afterwards, Dou Hua entered the house, took another piece of clothing to wrap her whole body, and then came out with a hatchet and basins one by one, and went straight to the beehive with the wooden barrels she found earlier.

"Look, Eldest Sister, what is she going to do? There are so many bees~ Will they sting Eldest Sister?" Dou Lin exclaimed when he saw Dou Hua's actions.

"Eldest sister, she is going to get honey." Dou Qing guessed, "She is so tight that she should be fine."

Dou Hua came to the beehive, ignoring the numerous bees, quickly cut open the beehive with a hatchet, poured out most of the honey paste inside, then stuffed the entire beehive into a wooden barrel, and closed the lid. When the bees saw someone hurting the hive, they all rushed to attack Dou Hua. Dou Hua felt her ears were buzzing.

Regardless of driving away the bees, Dou Hua hugged the barrel and ran quickly to the corner of the wall several meters away from the back of the house. There was a shady place. She put the barrel there and pressed a stone on the lid. The wooden barrel has been old for a long time, and it is cracked in several places. There are cracks, and it has long been abandoned. However, the existence of these cracks can make it easier for these bees to get in and out.

After putting the barrel away, Dou Hua shook off the bees on her body, and then ran away. Fortunately, she had taken precautions beforehand, otherwise she would have been stung. Just like that, one or two small bees got in Under the clothes, Zhe bit two red envelopes.The bees that were shaken off felt the queen bee's breath, so they ignored Dou Hua and went to look for the queen bee.

"Sister, are you okay?" Dou Qing shouted outside the courtyard, thinking about rushing into the courtyard.

"It's okay, okay, you all come out, those bees are not here anymore." Dou Hua pulled off the clothes that were covering her body one by one, showing a slightly reddened face, and took a few breaths ,breathe the fresh air.

"Elder Sister, as long as you are fine, what are you doing behind the house with those bees? Did you throw them away?" Dou Lin asked curiously.

"No, I keep them under the corner of the back wall. That place is remote and people don't often go there. It's just right to keep them there. When you guys are free, don't go to provoke them. As long as you don't provoke them, they won't sting. Bite you." Dou Hua said.

"Sister, what are you raising them for? Can you keep them? They can fly, and they fly away in a while." Dou Qing said.

"The purpose of raising them is to eat honey. I don't know if I can keep them. Let's try." Dou Hua didn't have much confidence in this either.

"Sister, have you been stung?" Dou Cui asked carefully.

Dou Hua frowned slightly, and said, "I seem to have been stung in two places, and it hurts a little. Let's go, go into the house, and wash it with salt water. There is also this horse tooth vegetable, which is rotten. Let's wipe it off. OK, hurry up."

(End of this chapter)