Rebirth 78, marry Qingmei as my wife

Chapter 291 Returning from gathering honey, money wins at Versailles

Liu Hongjun dug a box full of nest spleens, with countless bees in it, and sent the wooden box to the tree. Liu Hongjun also jumped down from the tree.

There are still many spleens of the beehive in the tree hole. Liu Hongjun cut off a box, but only cut less than one third.

However, harvesting honey cannot make up for the loss. If one third of the honey is harvested, the bee colonies will not move. They will only work harder to collect honey to make up for the loss.

If you cut too hard at one time, the colony will move.

A box of nest spleens cut here weighs at least one hundred kilograms.

There is also a stone crevice over there, and the honeycomb inside is not small, and can weigh a hundred kilograms.

That one is a very precious and rare Yami in future generations.

Yami, also known as rock honey! It is named after the wild bees that build honey on the cliff rocks. The flowers collected are mainly wild flowers in the original forest. They are generally hung on cliffs of more than ten meters to tens of meters.

In the past, honey was extremely precious because it was difficult to harvest.

However, what Liu Hongjun discovered was not very difficult to harvest. It was not very high from the ground and could be harvested easily.

More than one meter up from the bottom of the cliff, there is a long stone crevice, which almost reaches the top of the cliff. Such a long stone crevice is full of yellow honeycombs, with dense bees crawling on it.

You don't need to climb the bottom part of the rock. You can harvest it directly by standing at the bottom of the cliff.

However, this part has been troubled by blind bears or other animals, such as honey badgers.

On the other hand, the area above two meters is very well preserved.

The most important thing is that these honeycombs that are more than two meters tall are all old nests for several years. They are the kind that have no beeswax protection and the honey inside has completely solidified.

Holding the hook, reach in and pry off the old nest piece by piece.

These lairds don't need to be packed in boxes, but put directly into sacks.

Liu Hongjun was not polite and pried off all these old nests and filled them with two sacks.

Five meters above the ground, there are relatively new hives, and bees are still active on them.

Liu Hongjun took the wooden box, climbed up, and cut another wooden box of fresh nest spleen.

Seeing that it was already getting late, I returned home satisfied.

Back in the carriage, we set off for home.

"Haha, the four of us can't eat the honey we just harvested in a year." Qian Shengli drove the carriage and laughed happily as he looked at the harvest full of the carriage.

“Haha, the family kept some and took the rest down the mountain to sell them for money!

Next year, if we raise our own bees, we will no longer be short of honey. "Liu Hongjun laughed.

The biggest harvest this time was the two boxes of bees.

With two boxes of bees, there will be four boxes, eight boxes, sixteen boxes, thirty-two boxes in the future...

There was laughter and laughter along the way.

Finally, we rushed back to Yushutun before dinner in the evening.

At this time, there were still many people on the village street. It was not yet the busy time for farming, so everyone was very leisurely. Many people were sitting outside in the shade of the trees, chatting and gossiping.

Seeing Liu Hongjun and four others driving the carriage back, they all gathered around to say hello.

"Red Army, are you back from going into the mountains to encircle us?"

"Victory, good fellow, these four wild boars and a blind bear are really quite big."

"It has to be you! Once you go into the mountains, you will gain more than others who go into the mountains several times."

"Nothing, I went into the mountains to collect some honey, and I killed four wild boars and one blind bear." Qian Shengli said very Versailles.

"These four boxes are all honey?"

"Where! Just two boxes of honey, and the other two boxes are bees.

Isn’t the Red Army preparing to keep bees? I just grabbed two boxes of bumble bee seeds. "Money wins more and more in the Circuit de Versailles."

Talking all the way, surrounded by villagers, the carriage arrived at Liu Hongjun's house.

Without the help of Liu Hongjun and the other four, a group of villagers stepped forward to help and unloaded the things.

"Brother Red Army, you are back!" Yang Qiuyan was already standing at the door waiting for Liu Hongjun.

The dogs had just returned home early and were already running to the backyard to play.

"Well, I'm back!" Liu Hongjun nodded to Yang Qiuyan.

Qian Shengli, Dashan, and Shitou had already hung up four wild boars and blind bears and started skinning them.

It was summer and meat was not easy to preserve, so Liu Hongjun simply took out part of the wild boar meat and shared it with everyone.

To thank everyone for helping me when I was building a house.

The Xiong Xiazi meat was not shared among the four families. The fat meat was boiled into Xiong Xiazi oil and divided among the four families.

The remaining fat was boiled into oil and divided among four families.

Others were placed in the cellar to be used to entertain guests during the move.

This time there was no extra share, and one family only shared two kilograms of pork. Even so, everyone was very happy.

Anyway, just say a few nice words, and nice words cost nothing, almost like giving them for free.

Don’t take the things that are given to you for free.

After dividing the meat, the villagers gradually left.

Liu Hongjun is preparing to cook dinner.

Qian Shengli was responsible for cooking bear fat and lard.

Liu Hongjun simply stewed a pot of pork and cabbage vermicelli. Everyone had a meal and took the pork home.

As for the bear fat and lard, we will wait until tomorrow to divide them.

After sending Qian Shengli and the others away, Liu Hongjun asked about another thing, "Did Uncle Yang ask for help? When is the right time to move?"

"I asked, and they said the day after tomorrow would be a good day to move." Yang Qiuyan said.

"The day after tomorrow, the time is just right. I will call my eldest brother tomorrow and ask our father and others to come over the day after tomorrow to participate in our housewarming." Liu Hongjun said with a smile.

"Yeah!" Yang Qiuyan had no objections to these things.

After talking again, the two of them washed up and went to sleep on the kang.

The next day came in a blink of an eye. Liu Hongjun moved the bee box to the hill behind the new house and opened the cover of the beehive to let the bees come out for air.

I also took a few pieces of the spleen that was cut off yesterday and put it in the beehive. I can't collect honey for the time being, and the bees also need to eat.

Then start working on those fresh nest spleens.

The spleen is the warehouse where bees store honey. The honey juice in the spleen needs to be extracted first and then processed before it can become the honey we consume every day.

Honey juice is natural honey.

To extract honey from the comb spleen, the comb spleen must be cleaned first to remove impurities and bee corpses.

The cleaned honeycomb spleen is then cut into small pieces to facilitate subsequent extraction operations.

Then, just like squeezing juice, squeeze out the honey juice from the nest, and then pour the squeezed honey juice into the filter to remove impurities and residues.

Finally, pour the filtered honey juice into the pot, heat it over low heat, and stir continuously to concentrate it into honey.

The last step is to wait for the honey to cool down, put it in the prepared utensils, and store it.

The four of them, Liu Hongjun, worked hard for a day, boiling all the nest spleen, including the old nest spleen, into honey.

The steps for extracting honey from Laochapi are similar to those from Laochapi, that is, boiling the cleaned Laochapi with water, then filtering, squeezing out the honey, and filtering again.