Chapter 255: Recruiting Bees
"Let's go, we'll go back right away!" Liu Yi weighed it in his heart and said to the fourth brother.
"Go back? We don't want these bees, such a large nest of bees has a great effect on our orchard, so it would be a pity to put them outside in case someone else gets them. The fourth brother was very puzzled by Liu Yi's actions.
Liu Yi pointed to what the two of them were wearing and said, "Look at what we're all dressed like this now, how will we attract bees." If you accidentally get a few hits, it won't be cost-effective. ”
Seeing that the fourth brother was still a little hesitant, Liu Yi understood a little, and now the value of a nest of bees is still relatively high, is he still worried that these bees will be taken away by others. So he continued: "Don't worry, this is still a relatively hidden place, and no one usually comes." ”
The facts are really as Liu Yi guessed, the fourth brother said openly: "Now a nest of bees can be bought outside for thousands, and it is more than enough for these 5 bees to sell for 10,000 yuan, let's hurry back and change into thick clothes and rush over immediately." ”
When Liu Yi returned home, the uncle also returned home slowly, and it happened that Liu Yi told the big guys about the bees.
In the hearts of the older generation, if a family can prosper, other animals will take the initiative to come to his house in a unique way, such as meeting a dog who takes the initiative to surrender, a swallow under the eaves of a family, and animals with auspicious meanings such as bats and bees, all of which can show that the family will prosper and prosper.
On this side of the mountain city, even a cauliflower snake appears at home, and the master's family will not drive it away. In the eyes of the older generation, this is the house snake, they are the embodiment of some gods to bless the family with good weather.
Liu Yi changed into a thick cotton coat, and even his cheeks were tightly covered with a windshield hat. He didn't want to pretend to be like this, thinking that using his spiritual consciousness to communicate with the queen bee might be better than the market, but he was afraid that everyone would find out that it was abnormal, so he deliberately dressed up like this, this ability to communicate with animals and those "Shennong Sutras" will be the deepest secret in Liu Yi's heart.
There is no trace of the fourth brother in the courtyard dam, and I may still not worry that the honeycomb on the mountain wall will be taken first!
However, the things prepared by the uncle and his family made Liu Yi a little stunned, and he couldn't cry or laugh.
A few large wooden boxes, which are not needed after moving to a new house, may still be the dowry of the eldest aunt when she was married. A long ladder, a long bamboo pole, a large bag of sugar, a bowl of dissolved sugar water, and a few sickles. They seem to be experienced people, and they may have attracted bees before.
With all the equipment, everyone followed to the stone wall next to the orchard, and the fourth brother was engrossed in observing the situation of the bees, and all the family members came over. When the uncle saw the situation, he also looked the same as the fourth brother at the beginning:
"It's a big honeycomb. This is the first time I've seen this. I'm afraid these things we bring will not work! ”
The fifth uncle was in charge of the orchard, and at this time he also proposed: "Why don't you try those smaller honeycombs first?" ”
Liu Yi and the fourth brother also immediately agreed to this plan, but in the matter of going up to cut the honeycomb. Liu Yi fought with his fourth brother.
The fourth brother is dedicated to Liu Yi's sake, there is a certain risk in going up, and he is ready to carry the risk on his shoulders, so he asks Liu Yi to take charge of the wooden ladder below.
But Liu Yi didn't go up and was far away, so how could he communicate with the queen bee in the bee colony, so he and his fourth brother were arguing about this matter.
The uncle was still relieved to see that the two brothers were taking the most dangerous things on themselves, but after thinking about it for a while, he said to Liu Yi: "You just let your fourth brother go up, he mined stones in his early years, he is full of strength, his body should be better than yours, I am more relieved to go down there when he goes up." ”
Hearing what the uncle said, what else could Liu Yi say, his heart was surrounded by strong family affection, so he directly took off his windshield hat and put it on the fourth brother's young and somewhat bald head, and patted him on the shoulder: "Go up and be careful, we just can't get it, let's think of other ways!" ”
The fourth brother didn't say much, wearing the wind hat given to him by Liu Yi, not to mention the thick shabby cotton clothes and cotton pants, and the last one was also put on the clothes that the villagers were draped on their bodies when it rained heavily, and he held a sickle in his hand, and he got rid of a samurai who was about to go on an expedition in ancient times.
Because he thought that he would help the fourth brother to take off the honeycomb smoothly below, Liu Yi even handed over the task of holding the wooden ladder to the fifth uncle, and ran to the wooden box placement area alone, and made sure that once the honeycomb was cut off, he would immediately get the queen bee into the wooden box.
In fact, as long as it goes well, it is not difficult to take care of the bees, that is, prepare a wooden box, put a small dish of sugar water in it, and grab the queen bee directly to the side of the dish of sugar water, and other worker bees will naturally follow over to the sugar water in the wooden box and the queen bee, and give the sugar water to the queen bee to eat, as long as this step is not unexpected, then you will be successful.
Now Liu Yi only saw the fourth brother Liu Yong slowly stepping on the wooden ladder and climbing up step by step, and the other end of the wooden ladder touched a position slightly below the honeycomb, and when the fourth brother went up to find a good person, he just reached the honeycomb, and his wrist was so strong.
When the fourth brother gradually approached the honeycomb, those bees also seemed to sense that the arrivals were not good and were a great threat to them, so a large group of "buzzing" around the fourth brother was almost surrounded by water.
Fortunately, the preparation in the house is very perfect, although there is no professional honey picking equipment, but the mother thought of a way, it turned out that there was a leftover screen in Liu Yi's house, and the mother took it out and made a cover for the head, and the edge was wrapped in a towel, and the bees could not fly in at all.
Fearless of the bees flying around, the fourth brother raised the sickle in his hand and slowly cut it to the smallest honeycomb among the five, and the other hand with several layers of thick cotton gloves clumsily connected to the bottom of the honeycomb, and after a while, a complete honeycomb was successfully cut off by the fourth brother.
At this time, Liu Yi came out, Liu Yi also prepared a sickle in his hand, and when his fourth brother put down the honeycomb with a rope, Liu Yi first took the honeycomb with his hand and sent out a trace of goodwill spiritual consciousness.
However, after Liu Yi let go of his spiritual consciousness, he received too much faint consciousness, and there were at least hundreds or thousands of bees in a whole honeycomb, and they were like points of light escaping randomly in Liu Yi's spiritual consciousness.
After a moment of distraction, Liu Yi was simply confused by the chaotic stream of consciousness, but fortunately he found a slightly stronger consciousness fluctuation in it, so he slowly released his kindness again, preparing to establish a good relationship with the queen bee.
However, it may be that the thinking of the bee queen is too simple or the individual is too weak, Liu Yi's spiritual power exuded is very little after being perceived by it, and the spiritual consciousness that has been restored is very small, if it is not for the recent increase in Liu Yi's skills, it has really been mistakenly missed.
However, this weak spiritual consciousness was passed on to Liu Yi, who learned that these bees had actually migrated here from far away, and that there was a period of time when they were invaded by alien bees, and if they hadn't found this place and multiplied quickly, I am afraid that the entire race would be wiped out.
Could it be that these bees are still native Chinese bees, since the introduction of bees from other regions in China, such as European black bees, Caucasian bees, and Italian bees, it is a disaster for local Chinese bees.
The introduced bee species are indeed better than the Chinese bees in the collection of certain pollen in the unique environment and temperature, but they are also quite aggressive, because they are larger than the Chinese bees, they will generally chase after the Chinese bees after encountering them, and some will also invade the nests of the Chinese bees.
People often ignore the advantages of Chinese bees when pursuing the ultimate benefits, they are widely distributed in China, they are the main pollinators of the forest community and traditional agriculture based on miscellaneous trees, and have the advantages of using sporadic nectar source plants, strong collection power, high utilization rate, long honey collection period and adaptability, strong mite resistance and disease resistance, and less feed consumption, which are very suitable for fixed land breeding in the mountainous areas of China.
However, their advantages and disadvantages are very obvious, they have strong resistance to bee mites and American larval rot disease, but they are susceptible to bee cyst larval disease and are susceptible to wax borer; Like to fly, especially easy to abandon the nest and move when there is a lack of honey or the threat of disease and predators; It is easy to occur natural bee separation and robber bees; If the gum is not picked, the ability to secrete royal jelly is poor; The queen bee lays fewer eggs per day than the western honey bee, and the colony is small.
In addition to preventing their diseases, Liu Yi does not care about their migration and other conditions, he has the ability to communicate with them, and the fruit trees here have been fertilized with "special fertilizers", and the allure of these flowers should not be underestimated.
It was also in a very short time to communicate with the queen bee, and after Liu Yi inquired about some things, he also asked for its consent, carefully grabbed it out of the hive, and gently put it into the wooden box brought by the uncle, and the attraction of a honeycomb was completed.
Next, Liu Yi and his fourth brother brewed them one by one, and successively took down 4 of the smallest honeycombs out of the 5, and the family members watching on the side were also very happy, pure honey is quite a tonic, and there is no problem with these nests of bees to eat some bee sugar water in the future.
However, when moving the last beehive, I encountered a little problem, that is, the hive above is too big, and the fourth brother is not good at moving such a huge honeycomb with one hand or both hands, it seems that this is the main hive that has migrated.
However, this has been quietly dealt with by Liu Yi a long time ago, he slowly communicated with these nests when the fourth brother Liu Yong picked the first few bee hives, and all the queen bees agreed with Liu Yi to move them to a wooden box to live in through simple spiritual consciousness, and collect pollen from this orchard all year round.
Inadvertently, a group of dense worker bees wrapped into a black shape began to fly out of the largest honeycomb, and looking at the direction or thinking about flying on the ground, what is going on? (To be continued......)