Chapter 172: Digging out the honeycomb

The next day, Liang Chuan met Brother Zhao and asked him, "Brother Zhao, do you like to eat honey?" Liang Chuan was stung by a wasp, but instead of being afraid, he was also worried about this delicacy. In the era when sugar was so expensive, if you could make honey, it would be just as valuable.

Needless to say, in this era, that is, in later generations, a pound of soil honey will cost as fast as 200 yuan, and it is not a matter of money, the key is that there is no market, and all the adulterated honey on the market is mixed with water and sugar, and the real honey is only easy to get by acquaintances.

Liang Chuan believes that if these strong bees make honey, they will definitely be first-class honey, and they will definitely make a lot of money by selling them to rich people.

Brother Zhao's eyes glowed green when he heard what he was eating, especially honey, and his ears pricked up as soon as he heard it, "Third brother, do you have honey?" ”

"Nope." Liang Chuan said seriously.

Brother Zhao looked stupid, "It's not as energetic as you say, and it's hanging my appetite again." ”

"Is this honey expensive?"

"It's expensive, and you can't buy it."

"How about we raise some bees to make honey?"

"I don't, I used to steal the honey of the bees, but I was stung by the bees, and the black nose followed me and suffered a lot of bee needles, which was not pleasant. Third brother, don't your face hurt? ”

Liang Chuan's mind was completely on the honey, where could he still take care of the pain, besides, wealth and wealth are sought in danger, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger.

"Brother Zhao, I promise to let you eat honey, but you have to have some strength, let's work together." Liang Chuan is like a wolf grandmother, seducing her younger brother.

Brother Zhao looked at the eccentric Liang Chuan, "You... What do you want me to do? "Brother Zhao had an intuition that Liang Chuan was going to sell him, but the honey was still very tempting, and he was a little shaken.

Liang Chuan collected the scraps for making the sand table, called Zhao Jinyu, and asked him to hand over the wood to Zhao Jinyu and ask him to help planing it. The texture of shirt wood is light, strong and durable, not easy to deform or crack, and the material is also everywhere, this kind of wood is most suitable for beehives.

This is also very fast, Zhao Jinyu thought that he was going to do something big, so he planed a few boards, and he called a little apprentice to help Liang Chuan get it.

This little apprentice was afraid that the wall of the box made for Liang Chuan was not strong enough, so he deliberately staggered the seams on the adjacent two walls up and down when the side walls and the front and rear walls were connected, and the two seams could not be connected at the same level, so as to ensure the firmness of the box, and a dovetail tenon was made at the place of the seam to fix. In order to reassure Liang Chuan, this little apprentice also deliberately asked Liang Chuan to break it, and he didn't move at all, and it was really strong.

"Owner, are you making wooden boxes, why do you still have so many openings, reptiles will get into these openings."

"These openings are left to breathe." Liang Chuan wouldn't tell him that these were beehives, this was his way to make money, and there were more people who knew it, so he would have no advantage, and at first he was worried that Zhao Jinyu would learn his own skills if he had experience, so he sent a little apprentice, and he was relieved.

At that time, in the school, the beekeeping professionals in the yard carried beehives to their professional vegetable garden every day to release bees, they collected honey, we were pollinated, and everyone wished that they would come every day during the flowering period. After coming and going, the two groups of people became familiar with each other, and they professionally taught them the flowering period of cauliflower, and they discussed with us some things about these flying thorns, and everyone's learning made progress with each other in practice.

Liang Chuan also learned a lot of beekeeping knowledge in the daily business blowing, although it is half a bucket of water, but it is much stronger than no water in the bucket, he tried beekeeping at home, but every time he went home, it was either winter or summer vacation, and he missed the best season to put beehives, and he didn't have the opportunity to try, and he didn't want to come to this world, and this craft will come in handy.

Liang Chuan instructed this little apprentice to make a few vents on both sides of the hive door, lid and beehive, not to underestimate these vents, these vents can adjust the temperature of the beehive, in the next few seasons, the bees are active frequently, and a large amount of fresh air needs to come in from these vents.

But in winter, this part of the stomata must be blocked, because when the cold air enters, the bees will die, and if there are more dead bees, the production of the hives will be affected in the next year. Fortunately, the temperature in Xinghua in winter is not too low, and if you pay a little attention, the impact is still not big.

Three inclined vents need to be reserved at the diagonal top of the beehive cover, and these three vents are kept unobstructed from the outside world throughout the year. The existence of these three energy stomata is conducive to the discharge of hot and humid gases from beehives, and is also a key presence to increase the production of bee products.

The little apprentice became more and more confused, this good box was chiseled like a hornet's nest, and he couldn't put anything, how would he know that this box was used to put bees.

The outer beehive is ready, and the inner nest is the nest frame. Between the nest frames of the beehive, there should be space for bees to pass and circulate air, and this gap is generally called the bee road, and the bee road does not need to be too large, because our native bees will be relatively small.

The nest frame is simpler, it is composed of the upper beam, the lower beam and the side strip, and the nest spleen will be built by bees, if it is an artificial honeycomb, many bees will not use it, it is necessary to use their own to make bees to be comfortable.

The so-called interlacing is like a mountain, the little apprentice is confused from the end of the day, he can't figure out what Liang Chuan made on a whim, he doesn't dare to talk more, his master Zhao Jinyu confessed, you can do what the owner wants, and if you are annoyed, the owner will send you back to Luocheng.

The little apprentice did a very quick job, and he finished the beehive that Liang Chuan wanted in half a day. This is also a simple carpentry job, Liang Chuan praised a few words, and the little apprentice was embarrassed to be modest.

After making the beehives, Liang Chuan asked Zhaodi to go to Fengshan to buy some tung oil, and the tung oil was brushed on the surface so that the beehives would be more durable and would not be afraid of water. A little bit of smell in the beehive, put it in the sun for a while, and it won't be there.

Brother Zhao saw that Liang Chuan had made a boxy wooden box, and he couldn't understand what Liang Chuan wanted to do, "Third brother, what is this for?" ”

"You don't want to eat honey, honey is made out of it." Liang Chuan smiled, the next accident was more troublesome.

"Recruit brother, go pick some mugwort and come back."

"Third brother, the Dragon Boat Festival is still early, what are you doing with this?"

"I found that you have a lot of questions today, don't ask why, just go quickly." Liang Chuan blasted his brother away and went to pick mugwort leaves. Then he went into the house, took out all the winter clothes that the artist had put away, wrapped it in a wrap, carried it on his back, and then went to the kitchen to get a fire fold.

After Brother Zhao came back, Liang Chuan brought two sets of clothes, carried the beehive, and the two of them went to the mountain.

"Brother Zhao, you bring the black nose on, and we'll have to find something later."

"Looking for something?"

Liang Chuan glared at him, there are really a lot of problems today, Brother Zhao now has a faint feeling that he is about to fall out of favor, the black nose seems to be closer to Li Chuyi, and now he is half dead every day, and he has little time to play with the black nose, and the black nose is all taken by Li Chuyi.

The black nose now has a moist life, and he no longer has to worry about the problem of eating enough every day, let alone following the useless master of Zhao Di, who is all over the mountain to run away from the beast farmers.

When the younger brother asked it to go up the mountain, he reluctantly asked it to work hard. Liang Chuan looked at it and shook his head, it was really that sentence, one person attained the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascended to heaven.

Liang Chuan led Brother Zhao and Black Nose back to the place where they met the earth bee yesterday. Liang Chuan took a set of clothes for Zhao Brother to change into, and he also changed into that thick winter coat, the wildflowers all over the mountain, Liang Chuan began to play with the flowers, and finally found a soil bee after a long time, but this soil bee was full of wine and food, and he was not in the mood to consume with Liang Chuan, so he shook his wings and flew back with a buzz.

"Blacknose Chase!" Liang Chuan pointed to the earth bee and ordered the black nose to chase after it.

The black nose ignores the recruiting brother, but he understands Liang Chuan's goodness, it is full of spirituality, and as soon as he says it, he will spread his legs and chase the earth bee.

"Blacknose is coming back! That's a wasp, and it hurts to be stung! "Brother Zhao finally found out that something was wrong, Liang Chuan took him to find the honeycomb, and he would go to the honeycomb when he was crazy, a bee sting was fine, but a group of earth bees would die if they stung.

"Don't listen to the recruit brother with a black nose, chase it!" Liang Chuan carried the beehive and followed behind the black nose, scurrying and jumping on the ground, chasing behind the earth bee, the black nose ignored the younger brother, and the younger brother had no choice but to follow with the mugwort.

Blacknose chased the wasp until he reached an old pine, and when he looked at it from a distance, there was a black hive on the branches, the size of a man's head, and the wasp buzzed back into the nest.

Liang Chuan took out the wrap and covered his face, and wrapped it around his head, revealing only a pair of eyes. "Brother Zhao, quickly light up the mugwort."

Brother Zhao took Liang Chuan's fire fold, pulled a few sticks of dry grass, raised a fire, put the mugwort on the fire and smoked it, and a special aroma wafted out, drifting straight towards the honeycomb. The smell of wormwood itself has the effect of repelling mosquitoes, and after burning with fire, the smell of smoke and the special taste of mugwort make a nest of earth bees unbearable.

A swarm of earth bees blew up the camp and flew out, a black earth bee, like a mosquito on the head in summer, a scary group, at this time, the earth bees, buzzing, very aggressive. But they couldn't stand the smell of mugwort, and the fire burned more and more, and the smoke became thicker and stronger, and the bees could only fly away with hatred.

"Recruit brother now! Go up and take that honeycomb down for me! Where did Brother Zhao dare to go up, Liang Chuan kicked him, and Brother Zhao reluctantly climbed up.

Not to mention, Brother Zhao's hands and feet are as nimble as an ape, and his movements on the tree are like going back to his own home, so casual and flexible, flickering and moving, and after a while, he will break the black honeycomb and take it down.

Liang Chuan quickly opened the new beehive below, Zhao Di took down the honeycomb, jumped down from the tree, and quickly put the honeycomb into the beehive. Liang Chuan decisively covered the beehive, picked up the big guy, and shouted at his younger brother: "Run." ”

The two of them ran like outlaws, and when they looked back, they saw that an army of earth bees behind them had been taken away, and they were chasing Liang Chuan with bee needles and flashing cold light.