Speaking of bees, he hadn't eaten honey in years.

That sweet taste has become the best memory of his childhood.

Ye Xiaochen smiled and immediately walked down.

A few minutes later, he came to the bottom of the tree and saw some bees coming in and out.

Since it was evening, the temperature was starting to drop, and although there was still sun, the number of bees attending was greatly reduced, and even so, the bees were still coming in and out frequently.

As a rule of thumb, this must be a strong swarm of bees.

He pushed aside the thatch and bushes under the tree, and saw that there were some jumbled stones inside, and the bees had come out of the stones, and there must have been a hole in them.

Ye Xiaochen didn't do it for the time being, but went home first.

He was going to get the swarm of bees out before it was dark.

And, he wondered if he should keep a swarm of bees?

It's good to have honey to eat.

Anyway, he had seen his grandfather raise a few groups before, all of which were raised by the soil, not by standard beehives, and a wooden box could raise bees.

Basically, you don't have to take care of it, it's very convenient, and you can take honey once a year.

When he was a child, what he looked forward to most was to be able to cut honey early, so he waited early.

After returning home, Ye Xiaochen said to his aunt, "Auntie, do you have a firewood knife, hoe and straw hat?"

"Yes, what are you going to do?"

The eldest aunt asked curiously.

"I just saw a honeycomb and wanted to dig it out. See if there's honey!"

Ye Xiaochen said with a smile.

"Bees, during the Qingming Festival this year, a group of bees flew under the grapefruit tree, and were finally taken away by the beekeeper in Longtang. ”

The eldest aunt laughed.

As she spoke, she took out the hoe, firewood, knife, and straw hat.

This is the old mother and Ye Xi also came out.

"Found the bees?"

My mother was a little surprised and said, "Xiaoxi, help your brother dig bees." ”

"Okay, Auntie. ”

Ye Xi nodded softly.

Ye Xiaochen glanced at her and didn't say anything.

"By the way, Mom, are there any beehives left from my grandfather's old time?"

Ye Xiaochen asked his mother again.

"No, it's rotten a long time ago. ”

Liu Cuiyu said.

"Oh. ”

Ye Xiaochen nodded, it seems that he has to make a beehive.

If you don't have beehives, you can't keep bees.

However, he still planned to take the bees back first, otherwise it would be difficult to get rid of it when it got dark.

Soon, Ye Xiaochen and Ye Xi came to the big tree.

"Stand far away, don't let the bees sting. ”

Ye Xiaochen said.

"I'm not afraid...."

Ye Xi shook his head and said, "I'll help you." ”

As she spoke, she took the hatchet and was going to see the bushes and thatch.

"Put on your gloves. ”

Ye Xiaochen threw over a pair of gloves.

Ye Xi took the gloves, put them on his hands, and then began to get busy.

Ye Xiaochen watched from the sidelines.

It can be seen that Ye Xi should often do farm work, and his movements are very neat, and it didn't take much time to clean up the place where the honeycomb outlet is located.

Ye Xiaochen picked up the hoe and began to clean up the pile of rubble.

After more than ten minutes of busy work, the beehive was finally revealed, densely packed with bees, buzzing very loudly, and some bees flew out of it and flew around Ye Xiaochen.

Suddenly, he felt a pain in his neck, and then subconsciously touched it with his hand, and immediately touched a bee.

Suddenly he knew he had been stung.

This bee is really fierce.

"What's wrong?"

Ye Xi hurriedly asked.

"It's okay, I was just stung. ”

Ye Xiaochen said.

"Did you pull out the poison needle?"

Ye Xi stepped forward to take a closer look and said, "There is still a poisonous needle on it, I'll pull it out for you..."

As she spoke, she began to carefully pull out the tiny poisonous needle for Ye Xiaochen.

"Well, go away a little, lest you be stung too. ”

Ye Xiaochen said.

Then he's going to go ahead and dig the honeycomb.

"Why don't you smoke a cigarette so the bees don't sting." ”

Ye Xi suggested.

Ye Xiaochen remembered that when his grandfather dug the honeycomb in the past, there was indeed smoke, and he didn't even need to wear bee-proof clothing, and he didn't see bees stinging.

So, he took out a pack of Chinese cigarettes from his pocket, then took out one, and after taking a puff, he gently blew it into the hive, and suddenly the bee sound became louder.

Then he got to work.

He first cut off a piece of spleen on the outside, which was quite large, and half of it was covered with honey, which was golden and yellow, and it was very beautiful.

"Take a bag and put it in the spleen, and use two. ”

Ye Xiaochen said to Ye Xi.

"Oh. ”

Ye Xi hurriedly stretched open the two plastic bags he brought.

After Ye Xiaochen blew off the bees on the spleen, he then used a knife to separate the honey from the pollen and seeds, put the honeycomb spleen in a bag, and the pollen and spleen in a bag.

Then he began to cut the others.

The second piece of capping honey is more and already occupies two-thirds of the spleen.

It's winter now, and the bees have already begun to store honey for the winter, and this honeycomb is very old, and it is estimated that it is not this year's hive, so there is a lot of honey.

Then came the third, the fourth.... There's more honey in it.

Ye Xiaochen was in a good mood, it seems that there is a lot of honey in this nest, and it is estimated that there are more than ten or twenty catties, which should not be a problem.

Once all the hives have been cut off, the next step is to harvest the bees.

Ye Xiaochen recalled the process of his grandfather's bee harvesting.

Catch the bees directly with your hands, and the movements should be light, otherwise, the bees will attack people.

He blew two more puffs of his cigarette in, then began to slowly reach in, grabbed a handful of the gathered bees, and put them in his hanging straw hat.

This bee has a habit of crawling towards dark places and clumping.

Soon, all the bees in the palms of their hands climbed into the straw hats.

But there are more bees flying in the air.

"Brother, did you see the queen bee?

Ye Xi said suddenly.

"Uh? I didn't pay attention just now. ”

Ye Xiaochen hurriedly went to look at the bee in the straw hat again, looked for it carefully, and did not see the queen bee.

The queen bee is still in the hole.

He went ahead and got up.

Fortunately, this nest is not particularly difficult to collect, because there is no fork in it, otherwise, the bees hide in the fork, and it will be even more troublesome to catch.

And when he caught the fifth, he saw the queen bee, much larger than the worker bee, with a long tail and a swollen tail.

He put the queen bee in the straw hat, and the queen climbed in and disappeared.

It took more than an hour for Ye Xiaochen to put away all the bees.

He re-sealed the hole again, so that next spring there would probably be another bee colony.

Back home.

"So much honey?"

The eldest aunt was surprised to see a big bag full of honey.

"By the way, it's a lot, it's estimated that there are seventeen or eighteen pounds. ”

Ye Xiaochen said with a smile.

He found a place and hung up his straw hat with a black cloth so that the bees would not fly around because of the light.

Then, he was ready to make a beehive.

Uncle has some carpentry tools in his hands, and as for wood, it is ready-made.

He didn't plan to make a bee standard box, so he had to manage it, which was very troublesome.

So he's going to get a clay box.

In the past, my grandfather was raised in the soil, which was very convenient, except for the occasional cleaning, there was no need to manage it diligently.

"By the way, how about I make a beehive with carpentry and add attributes?"

Ye Xiaochen's heart suddenly moved.

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