Chapter 20 Making a Small Fortune
"What's it?" Wang Junyi was still confused and confused.
"Wild honeycombs, there must be wild honeycombs nearby. This ......" Liu Daode pointed to the yellow-brown things around him and explained: "These are the feces of wild bees, they will first excrete the feces before they leave the nest to collect honey, and then fly out. Therefore, a lot of bee droppings can be found on the leaves and weeds around the beehive. You see, these are egg-shaped, one big and the other small. The big head is in the direction of the beehive, as long as we follow these bee droppings, we will definitely find the beehive. ”
"Really?" Hearing that there was a wild honeycomb nearby, Wang Junyi was also excited.
Then he picked up the digital camera and snapped a few photos at the leaves. He plans to film the whole process of discovering the wild beehive, and then spread it to the forum for everyone to envy.
In this place where the two of them are staying now, the bee droppings are quite dense, indicating that they are not far from the wild bee hive, and the distance is only one hundred and ten meters at most.
Most of the mountains near Shannan Town are stone mountains, and crops cannot be grown at all, so few people go up to the mountains to clear the wasteland. This has caused a lot of miscellaneous flowers and wild trees in the mountains, such as wattle, thorn, white remnant flower, and black locust and so on. Because of the abundant flower source, there are naturally many wild bee colonies in the mountains.
There is a harvest of wild honey in the town, fifty yuan a catty.
As long as you find a wild honeycomb, you can generally pick a few catties of honey, which can withstand half a month's work. If you find a big beehive, you can get more than 20 catties at a time, and you will definitely make a small fortune.
Therefore, every autumn and winter, the villagers of several nearby villages will go up the mountain to look for wild beehives in their spare time.
Of course, this depends on personal eyesight and luck, some people have been looking for twenty or thirty days in the mountains, and they have not found a single honeycomb, and some can get back a few catties of honey every three or five days.
Some people also found the hive, directly accepted it, and even brought the nest home to raise.
However, wild bees are very different from the Italian bees raised by ordinary beekeepers, they are not very honest, and they are easy to escape. It often takes great pains to get the wild beehives back and raise them for a few months, but by accident, the queen bee leads the wild bees to fly away, and they are nowhere to be found, leaving only an empty beehive.
For this reason, there are very few people who breed wild bees in Shannan Town.
Liu Daode had followed the villagers up the mountain to collect wild bees before, and he was quite familiar with the basic process. It is known that in spring and summer, half of the wild bee honeycomb is in the open place facing the sun.
When searching, the consciousness is released. This place has been out of the scope of the Land Temple God Domain, and all he can sense is only three or five zhang square. Even so, it helps a lot in finding a hive.
Soon, an anomaly was discovered on a soil slope.
There was a gap more than three feet above the ground, and several bees flew in and out.
This place looks very inconspicuous, and the entrance to the cave is narrow, so it is easy to miss if you are not careful. If Liu Daode hadn't relied on the help of his divine sense, it would have been difficult to find out.
Finding the specific location, and then using his divine sense to sense, Liu Daodao's whole person became a little excited. In the divine sense, the space of this earth cave is quite large, and there are seven or eight long bee spleens inside, which can cut at least ten catties of honey.
It seems that the wild beehives here have been stored for some days, at least two years.
When Liu Daode only showed the location of the hive to Wang Junyi, he was still a little incredulous: "In that place, how is it possible, such a small gap, you can't see the honeycomb?"
"There's a big hole in it, and I'll ......see it when I dig it up," Liu Daode explained to him in detail.
"Oh," Wang Junyi squatted next to him and took a few photos. The feeling was not very clear, and he was about to move forward again, but was pulled by Liu Daodao.
"Don't get too close, wild bees in the mountains are not as toxic as artificially bred bees, and it is absolutely uncomfortable to be stung. By the way, I'm going to take this nest of wild bees back to my house, and now I'm going back to get the hive, will you go back with me, or will you keep it here?" he asked.
"Let's go back together," Wang Junyi replied.
Originally, I came to cut white flowers, but I didn't expect an unexpected harvest.
Liu Daode threw the cart in place and returned to the village with Wang Junyi.
The incident happened suddenly, and his family did not prepare a beehive at all, so he could only go to the village to borrow one temporarily.
Beehives, strictly speaking round wooden bee barrels, are made of hollow trees. At the bottom of the barrel, the lid of the barrel, and the lower edge of the barrel, there is a finger-length nest door for bees to enter and exit.
Liu Daoguo collected two boxes of wild bees a few years ago, and then the wild bees flew away, and the beehives have been idle at home.
Liu Daode borrowed the beehive very smoothly, and called Liu Daodao by the way.
What's that...... Although he was familiar with the process of harvesting wild bees, he had never done it himself. I'm afraid that if I dig a hole in the soil later, it won't be good to scare the wild bees away. Liu Daodao has raised wild bees and is more professional than him.
When borrowing the bee bucket, Wang Junyi shouted among tourists, and many knew that they had found wild bee hives. So, when I returned, I was followed by a dozen or so people watching the excitement.
When he arrived at the hive, Liu Daodao first sealed the hole with a plastic bag to prevent the wild bees from flying out and stinging after being frightened, and then he began to pick up a sickle and carefully dig in the soil.
In just a few minutes, a bee's spleen was revealed in front of everyone. The bee's spleen is golden, and you can clearly see the honey flowing on it.
"Good guy, lazy man, you kid has **** luck, so many bee spleens, you can get more than a dozen catties of honey. Wait a minute, why do you want to give me a catty" Seeing the bee spleen in the soil cave, Liu Daodao couldn't help but praise it.
"No problem," Liu Daode agreed.
Then, Liu Daodao began to make a fire to smoke and drive away bees, which is also particular, generally from the bottom to the top, from left to right, to disperse the wild bees from the bee spleen.
This step is very important, the movement should not be too large, otherwise it is easy to startle the bees or smoke them to death.
Liu Daodao showed his professional level at this time, carefully controlled the fireworks, and slowly drove the wild bees to the side, and from beginning to end, these little guys were hugging each other.
The wild bees leave, and then harvest the bee spleen. Seven or eight bee spleens were cut and most of the barrels were placed.
Then Liu Daodao held the bee cluster, put it in the bee bucket prepared in advance, and covered the barrel.
That wasn't the end of the story, and he pointed the door of the nest at the hole, and the remaining bees in the hole burrowed into it.
At this point, it's finally done.
It is better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone, Liu Daode took out a bee spleen from the bucket and broke it, and tasted it one by one. This bee's spleen is full of honey and can be eaten directly.
Sweet and silky in the mouth, absolutely natural. Several tourists tasted it and ordered it on the spot. Before I got home, this bit of honey was already gone.
When he got home, Liu Daodao helped to settle the bee bucket, and then began to work on squeezing honey.
In fact, this step is quite simple, just mash the bee spleen directly, and then filter the precipitation.
Strictly speaking, this box of wild bees was discovered by Liu Daode and Wang Junyi together, and in line with the principle that those who see it have a share, he originally planned to divide the filtered honey in half.
Wang Junyi waved his hand again and again, saying why not. Although it was the bee dung he found, he didn't know it at all, and he didn't help from beginning to end.
Being able to find the location of the hive is also Liu Daodao's ability.
Later, seeing that the other party was really good, Wang Junyi couldn't refuse, so he accepted a pound of honey as a reward. xh:.74.240.212