Chapter 502: Honey Extraction
Bian Rui carefully drove away the bees, stretched out his hand and gently twisted a piece of bamboo tube out of the adobe wall, put it in the basket, and inserted a new bamboo tube back into its place.
Zhou Zheng curiously took out a bamboo tube filled with honey from Bian Rui's basket, and was about to say something, when he suddenly found that his eyes were dark, and his ears were buzzing.
"I'll go, this bee is so wild?!"
Hu Shuo's voice rang in his ears.
Zhou Zheng stretched out his hand to catch the bees, but Bian Rui immediately said: "Don't rush, the more you chase these bees like this, the more you just don't have anything, otherwise these bees can chase you out of the village."
Zhou Zheng said anxiously: "I can't see anything, I can't see anything."
"Then what are you still holding the bamboo tube tightly in your hand, put this thing back in my basket," Bian Rui said, reaching out and taking the bamboo tube and putting it back in the basket.
As soon as his hand left the bamboo tube, Zhou Zheng soon returned to the appearance he had when he could see things.
Zhou Zheng observed, looked at Bian Rui and said, "This thing is really weird, why don't you sting?"
Bian Rui said: "If you stay for a long time, I don't think I will sting you, we have two or three families here, and so many bees have not stung a single person in the village, on the contrary, people from outside have been stung."
"I've been here for a short time, I've been living here for two months, right?" Zhou Zheng doubted the authenticity of Bian Rui's words.
Bian Rui said: "If Hu Shuo is not afraid of pain, you can let Hu Shuo take this bamboo tube to take a look, this bee can directly use the tail thorn as an arrow to shoot."
Zhou Zheng listened and put his arm against Hu Shuo: "Why don't you try it?"
Where is Hu Shuo willing to fall for this, and said directly: "I don't try, Bian Rui can't lie about dangerous things, I choose to believe him."
"Why are you so cowardly?" Zhou Zheng said after making fun of Hu Shuo.
Where did Hu Shuo fall into this, Hu Shuo had already understood this thing: "Timid is timid, it's better than when the sun is still full of sun when you come out in the morning, and when you go back, your daughter-in-law thinks that there is a humanoid pig at home." Look at the appearance of the mouse, now I will do whatever Bian Rui says."
Hu Shuo understood Bian Rui's temperament and knew that Bian Rui would not exaggerate at this time, even if Bian Rui exaggerated, Hu Shuo was not ready to let Zhou Zheng get his way, he wanted to go by himself, anyway, Hu Shuo would not touch the bamboo tube.
"By the way, does a bee sting a dog?" Zhou Zheng asked.
Bian Rui thought for a while and said: "I really don't know, anyway, the big gray hasn't been stung, as for the other dogs in the village, I have to ask others."
"What did you say you were doing in the village all day, I don't know this, I don't know that, dare you to cultivate immortals here, don't you?" Zhou Zheng stretched out his head and looked at Bian Rui taking the bamboo tube, and at the same time absentmindedly counted Bian Rui.
Bian Rui didn't hear it, turned the bamboo tubes one by one, took off the honey filled with them, and inserted the empty new bamboo tubes back into place. In the adobe nest, the more up the bamboo tube is fuller honey, the lower it may be that the temperature is higher, the less honey in the tube, Bian Rui only took the fullest, and the remaining one-third was left for the bees, so Bian Rui couldn't take all the honey, so what should the bees do?
I took all the nests in my house and filled them with a basket of bamboo tubes.
"By the way, what's the big gray in your house?" Zhou Zheng entered the courtyard and suddenly asked Bian Rui.
Bian Rui was asked by Zhou Zheng before he remembered that Da Ash seemed to be rarely at home during the day now, and Bian Rui had seen it at night and in the morning.
"Hey, I really forgot what you said, where did the big gray run during the day?" Bian Rui said.
This thought just flashed in his mind, and he was forgotten by Bian Rui, the main task of the big gray is to take care of the house, and now the home can't be lost, so Bian Rui doesn't care where the big gray plays, anyway, he has work to do now.
Carrying the basket into the kitchen, Bian Rui motioned to Zhou Zheng and Hu Shuo to close the door, and he took off the gauze cover, took off his gloves and sat down, and began to pry the bamboo tube with a knife to extract honey.
After taking two honey cones, Bian Rui looked up and found that Zhou Zheng and Hu Shuo were still wearing protective clothing like fools, squatting next to him and looking at himself to take honey.
"I said, are you two stupid? I told you to close the door, you don't know how to take off this thick clothes. Why are you used to wearing it and are reluctant to take it off, or are other people's things worthless, you must wear them?" Bian Rui scolded the two of them.
Zhou Zhengdao: "You said it earlier, this thing is uncomfortable to wear!"
Hu Shuo began to take off without saying a word, and after a while, he took off his protective clothing, threw it on the chair next to him, and gasped: "I'm dripping a mother!
Zhou Zheng also took off his protective clothing at this time and inhaled the air outside.
Bian Rui ignored the two of them and continued to take honey.
The honey taken out of the bamboo tube is like a stick, with a layer of white propolis on the outside and a hexagonal network honeycomb on the inside, the white propolis is translucent, and the golden honey inside is full of an attractive fragrance.
"Can this thing be eaten directly?" asked Hu Shuo.
Bian Rui nodded: "Of course you can!"
As he spoke, Bian Rui took out a honey stick, gently cut it with the knife in his hand, and divided it into two sections from the middle and handed them to Zhou Zheng and Hu Shuo respectively.
Both of them have eaten honey, and Bian Rui used to give it to the two when he was picking wild honey, so Bian Rui said that he could eat it, and after the two took the honey stick, he pinched it and sent it directly to his mouth.
"I'll go, it's delicious, it's better than going to a piece of wild honey!" Hu Shuo took a bite and began to praise.
Bian Rui said with a smile: "The flowers of wild honey are more miscellaneous, the flowers here are relatively single, mainly pear blossoms, and a small number of miscellaneous flowers, if the pure pear blossoms are not this taste, it is the pear blossoms that are mainly mixed with mixed flowers to have this honey!"
As he spoke, Bian Rui cut one himself, put it in his mouth, and chewed it deliciously.
The three of them were hiding in the kitchen and secretly tasting honey, when they suddenly heard a voice from the courtyard outside.
"Where has this man gone?"
Bian Rui heard that this was the voice of the fourth uncle, that is, the seventeenth brother's old son, so he immediately said: "Fourth uncle, at home, I have collected honey here!"
The fourth uncle heard it and came to the kitchen door and gently pushed the door, and saw that Bian Rui and the three of them were sitting in the kitchen with a basket of bamboo tubes.
Si Bo also raises honey in his own family, he is now as long as Bian Rui does it, he will plug in a lever if the cost is small, like beekeeping, he is the first in the whole village to ask Bian Rui for bee nests, don't care if you make money or not, Si Bo just recognizes Bian Rui, the little guy is fiddling with things, even if it doesn't make money, it can satisfy his appetite.
"Honey harvested so late?" said the fourth uncle.
"I just remembered, Fourth Uncle, come and taste my honey" Bian Rui handed the half-cut honey stick to Fourth Uncle.
The fourth uncle did not take it all, but signaled Bian Rui to cut half more, and he could ask for half of it.
Taking the honey stick sent by Bian Rui, the fourth uncle tasted it, and after tasting it, he said: "Little Nineteen, your honey is too light, I mean the taste." The honey is so dense, it looks like it can be drawn directly, and it is thick enough, but the taste is not good, it is too light, it is not as sweet as the honey raised by me and your tenth brother!"
"We take different flower plots," Bian Rui said with a smile.
The honey of the fourth uncle's family and the tenth brother's family Bian Rui have tasted it, and it is indeed very sweet, such as the honey of the tenth brother's family is close to the sweetness, and the honey of the fourth uncle's family is slightly better, but it is also very sweet, that is because the land chosen by the two families is a fruit and vegetable field with a lot of sugar, and Bian Rui is only a pear blossom here, so the honey produced is naturally different.
I can't say that Bian Rui's family is good, people's tastes are not necessarily, some people like a bowl of dishes, some people hate them, this kind of competition for who is good and who is bad is not of much significance.
"By the way, this spring honey is cut, what do you say about Xia Mi? Your tenth brother and I are planning to divide a few more nests here and get them up the slope over there, what do you think?" asked the fourth uncle.
Bian Rui thought for a while and said, "Then you go, I'll just move around my home, and I'm not going to split the nest."
Bian Rui wants to get some to eat for himself, now these are enough, a jar of honey can be eaten for a month, waiting for the honey here to finish eating and there is new honey over there, if there is more, it is really difficult to get, because Bian Rui has to sell honey, otherwise the bees will not be allowed to eat fat.
The fourth uncle came here to explore Bian Rui's tone, he discussed it with his nephew Bian Xiaoshi, and waited for the flowers here to be almost there, so he moved the bees to the south slope over there, where there are many wild flowers, and few people go to let the bees collect honey quietly, but the open space on the south slope is not big, and it is already the ultimate to accommodate two families, plus Bian Rui is not perfect.
But Bian Rui is the leader of the two, so he can't eat the well water and forget about the well digger, so the fourth uncle came over to ask about it, as a ventilator. Who knew this question that Bian Rui had no intention of expanding this business at all, and people just made some honey to suck it at home, and it seemed that he had no intention of making money.
Originally, he was worried when he came, but now the fourth uncle felt that this nephew was too lazy, so he opened his mouth and said: "Don't just get these nests, your bees are strong, divide a few more nests, not to mention that every time you cut honey, you can pay a tuition fee or something for your child, I know that you young people look down on this little money, but big money comes from small money."
"I know, Uncle Si," Bian Rui smiled.
The fourth uncle knew at a glance that this person didn't listen at all, so he didn't say much.
Watching the fourth uncle leave, Zhou Zheng said to Bian Rui: "Bring me two jars!"
"Yes, the honey is divided into eight, and each family can separate three glass jars!" Bian Rui said.
Hu Shuo asked while instigating the honey in his hand, "Really not for sale?"
"This is a hair, this is the first year, wait for the next batch to move more land, cut two more times can increase the amount by half, and our family's honey for a year will be guaranteed," Bian Rui said.
Zhou Zhengdao: "Then I'm welcome!"
Hu Shuo also followed: "Shameful, ashamed!"
said so, but his hands and mouths didn't stop for a moment, and he continued to suck the honey.
(End of chapter)