Rebirth 78, marry Qingmei as my wife

Chapter 290 Harvesting Wild Honey

As an unmarried young man, he is always in high spirits every morning. After drinking the tonic wine, he is like a fire burning in his heart at night.

"You have put in a lot of effort today, drink some medicinal wine to make up for it.

Don't drink too much, it'll be okay! Liu Hongjun understood why Dashan had this expression and said with a smile.

"Oh!" Dashan took a sip and then handed the small iron pot to Shi Shi.

Although Liu Hongjun said it was okay, he still did not dare to drink more.

Liu Hongjun ignored him and started eating the barbecue. ‘

He was very hungry and felt that today's barbecue was delicious.

Qian Shengli was busy grilling meat. Not long after the roasting was finished, Liu Hongjun and the other three had finished eating. Qian Shengli could only continue to bake.

Qian Shengli didn't start eating until Liu Hongjun was full.

Holding a handful of barbecue skewers and a small iron wine flask, eating a skewer of barbecue and sipping a sip of wine is called free and easy.

After eating and resting for a while, Liu Hongjun got up and walked into the linden forest with the mountains and stones.

Liu Hongjun didn't take the dogs with him, so he left them all in the carriage.

When he was approaching the hive, Liu Hongjun took out an iron box from his backpack.

It contained ointment. Liu Hongjun dug out some and applied the ointment on all exposed parts of his face, head, neck, and hands.

Then he handed the iron box to Dashan and said, "Put this on your body, all exposed parts."

"Brother Red Army, what is this? Why does it smell like alcohol?"

"This is an ointment that can repel and prevent bees from being stung." Liu Hongjun explained.

The smells that bees hate most are the smell of alcohol, garlic, and gasoline, especially gasoline, which is simply poison to bees.

You can avoid being stung by bees by smearing yourself with gasoline before digging out a beehive.

However, Liu Hongjun was not using gasoline. He was using wine and some medicines to prepare an ointment that could repel and treat bee stings.

"Oh!" Dashan nodded, followed Liu Hongjun's example, applied the ointment on his body, and then handed it to Shi Shi.

After Liu Hongjun waited for both of them to apply it, he led them to the location of the beehive.

Liu Hongjun looked inside and saw that it was already densely covered with bees.

What surprised Liu Hongjun was that there was actually a queen bee inside.

Good guy, I actually attracted the queen bee.

Quickly close the lid of the beehive.

Then I looked at another beehive, and there was actually a queen bee in it.

This made Liu Hongjun feel a little incredible, and he was so lucky.

You know, there can only be one queen bee in a hive.

Now, there is a queen bee in each of the two hives, what does that mean?

Meaning there are two hives nearby.

Cover the other beehive, and then wave away the bees lying on the wooden box.

There is no need to worry that after taking away the queen bee, the original hive will decline because there is no queen bee.

When a hive loses its queen, a new queen is quickly bred.

Then he brought the mountains and stones to the hive.

The two-meter-thick linden tree that Liu Hongjun discovered before had two holes the size of basketballs one meter above the ground. There were many bees lying on top of the holes. From time to time, bees flew into and out of the holes. come out.

Under the lime tree, there is still some spilled honey, and there are many bees lying on it.

This bee colony is a honey bee, and its scientific name is Apis cerana, also called a bumble bee.

In this era, hives found in the wild are basically made of this type of bee.

Liu Hongjun looked inside, but it was so dark that he couldn't see anything.

He took out his flashlight and looked inside.

It's really troublesome. This tree hole is from the entrance of the hole. There is no tree hole downwards.

"Shitou, climb up the tree and see if there is a hole in it." Liu Hongjun ordered Shitou.

"Got it!" Shitou agreed, climbed up the lime tree, and looked for the hole above.

"Brother Hongjun, there is also a hole up there, it's so big!" Shitou gestured to Liu Hongjun on the big tree.

Liu Hongjun's face turned bitter. It was a bit difficult to harvest honey from this hive.

The easiest way is to cut the lime tree directly and bring back the section with the tree hole.

However, this linden tree is more than two meters thick, and cutting it down is a big job.

The lower hole is about the size of two basketballs, and the upper hole is smaller, just a little bigger than a basketball.

You can put your head in there to see what's going on, but you can't go in with your body, so it's inconvenient to harvest the spleen from the nest.

If you harvest from above, you also need to use a destructive method, tie a spoon to a bamboo pole and scoop out the honey.

This is similar to a blind bear digging out honey. He directly destroys the nest and pulls out the honey.

Liu Hongjun and the others brought all the tools such as spoons, bamboo poles, hooks, and sickles, but until the end, Liu Hongjun really didn't want to collect honey in such a destructive way.

"You come down, I'll go up and take a look!" Liu Hongjun thought for a while before deciding to go up and take a look at the situation.

Liu Hongjun climbed up the tree and looked at the hole Shitou mentioned.

I took a flashlight and looked inside. I saw that this hive was really not small. The layers inside were all spleens, and I couldn't see the hole below at all.

"Mountains and stones, go back to the carriage and get two more boxes." Liu Hongjun finally decided to use a destructive method to harvest the nest spleen. He sat on a tree branch and shouted to the stones under the tree.

Dashan and Shitou responded and turned around to get the wooden box.

Liu Hongjun came down from the tree and started looking for another beehive nearby.

He knew that there was a beehive nearby.

Observe the surrounding environment carefully, looking for traces of the beehive.

After walking about three hundred meters, Liu Hongjun came to the bottom of a cliff.

Liu Hongjun just tracked the bees all the way here.

There is a cave on the cliff, and there are many bees going in and out of the cave entrance.

To say it is a cave is actually not very accurate, but a crack in the rocks.

From the cracks in the mountain, you can see that there are densely packed bees inside.

After finding the beehive, Liu Hongjun did not rush up to harvest it, but turned back to the location of the beehive in the tree hole.

After waiting for a while, Dashan and Shitou came over carrying wooden boxes. Liu Hongjun climbed up the tree and asked Dashan to hand him the wooden box, followed by the hook and honey cutter.

Liu Hongjun sat on a tree branch, reached in and began to divide the nest spleen with a honey cutter, and then used a hook to pull out the nest spleen.

Because the nest spleen was damaged, honey was dripping from the taken out nest spleen.

There are also angry bees circling around the nest.

If he hadn't been smeared with ointment to repel bees, he would probably have turned into a pig's head.

Put the nest spleen into the wooden box, and the bees will fly into the wooden box.

Liu Hongjun ignored the bees and continued to lean over, reaching in to cut the spleen of the nest.