Chapter Eighty-Six: The New Beekeeper

Returning home with Uncle Wen, Zhao Yuan found the tools for carpentry work from the tool room, Uncle Wen looked at it, nodded and said, "It's okay to have these guys, Brother Zhao, you are very well prepared." ”

"I'm just a little interested, and that should be enough. There are also good cedar boards, Uncle Wen, let me tell you about the structure of the beehives, we have to make ten slot frames, as well as the box body, the bottom of the box, and the lid of the box......" Zhao Yuan introduced the structure of the beehive, while drawing on the wooden board with charcoal.

"No problem, I can start doing it now." Uncle Wen nodded when he listened, and asked Zhao Yuan a few words from time to time, but he didn't expect a simple beehive to be so exquisite.

"In this way, Uncle Wen, I will follow you, and you can tell me the specific use of these tools." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Okay, this one is for wood shaving, and we can use this to plane the planks flat, so let's smooth the planing of the outer wall of the beehive, and then draw lines with an ink fountain to make the planks into a falcon structure, so that they can be tightly connected." Uncle Wen was operating the planer and said to Zhao Yuan, who was following along.

"I'll try." Zhao Yuan nodded, and sat up, in fact, Zhao Yuan can do these basic jobs, but he is not familiar with it, and the planks that are planed out are not as smooth as those made by the old man.

It took more than an hour to finally finish the beehive, and Luoluo, who was playing on the side, couldn't wait to see the bees.

"Uncle, is this the home of the bees in the future?" Luoluo was playing with the wooden flowers that Zhao Yuan and Uncle Wen had dug out on the side, and asked.

"Yes, but Luoluo can't play under the beehive in the future, the bees will sting." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

Because it is a dry cedar plank used, the newly made beehive has no peculiar smell, and you can directly go to summon the group of bees on the mountain into the beehive, find a thick clothes to take with you, Zhao Yuan and Uncle Wen carried the beehive towards the mountain.

During the period of making beehives, the freshly baked Huaguo Mountain has been cleared from the foot of the mountain for a long distance, and it seems that the pear saplings can be planted first.

"Got the hive ready so quickly? is so beautiful, Brother Wen, your skills have risen greatly! Wen Jianglang saw Zhao Yuan and a few people carrying the beehive up the mountain, straightened up and said with a smile.

"It's a beehive designed by Brother Zhao, I didn't know that a beehive had so many words before." Uncle Wen said with a smile that he had learned a craft of making beehives from Zhao Yuan.

"Uncle Tao, Uncle Lizheng, where are the bees, let's go and summon the bees to the beehive." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"It's over here, now it's a pot, and the bees are hiding in the hive." Wen Jianglang said with a smile.

The location of the bees is under a stone cliff not far from the foot of the mountain, and the road in the past is very difficult to walk, Zhao Yuan asked Meng Ying and Luoluo to stay here, and he followed Wen Jianglang and a few people with the beehive and walked towards the hive.

According to Zhao Yuan's knowledge about bees in his mind, bees are ectotherms, and their body temperature will change with the change of the environment, and the outside temperature at this time is only about ten degrees, and the bees that are still alive should be in the hive to keep warm, which is just convenient for Zhao Yuan to put the entire bee colony in one nest.

"None of us have summoned bees, Boss Zhao, what are you going to do?" Wen Jianglang asked Zhao Yuan.

"First take down the whole hive and put it in the hive, and when the weather is warm and the bees adapt to the new environment in the hive, then take the next step." Zhao Yuan said with a smile, in order for the bees not to be coldly killed, it is not appropriate to destroy the hive now.

"Owner, I'll go get it, although the bees are not active at all now, you still have to be careful of being stung by the bees." Coming to the bottom of the stone cliff where the bees were, Tao Pu said.

"It's okay, I'll go get it, the bees shouldn't sting much now." Zhao Yuan wrapped his head and neck with thick clothes, and wore the gloves that Meng Ying sewed for him on his hands, so he was about to step forward to get the hive.

Climbing to the bottom of the hive, Zhao Yuan carefully observed the structure of the hive, the number of this group of bees should not be large, there are only four nest spleens, and the area of each nest spleen is relatively small, attached to a dead wood under the stone cliff. Zhao Yuan didn't see the nest and the royal platform, and he didn't know where the hive was. There were some dead bees on the ground, and occasionally a few bees flew around the hive a few times and then returned to the hive.

"Boss, be careful." Tao Pu saw that Zhao Yuan was ready to get started, and couldn't help but remind.

"Be careful, Brother Zhao." Uncle Wen also said.

"It's okay, this is the first time I've been up close to bees." Zhao Yuan said with a smile. Peel off the lid of the hive, then slowly remove the entire hive, place it in the hive, and quickly close the lid.

Several alarmed bees flew around Zhao Yuan, and Zhao Yuan walked away with the beehive, because it was tightly wrapped, and the bees were not active, and they were not stung by the bees.

"I'll have honey to eat later, haha." Handing over the beehive to Tao Pu and a few people to carry, Zhao Yuan said happily.

"I know that there is an old beekeeper in Dongquan Village, and Boss Zhao can take the time to ask him how to raise bees." Wen Jianglang looked at the happy Zhao Yuan and said with a smile.

"No, I know how to keep bees." Zhao Yuan waved his hand and said, there is a lot of this kind of knowledge in his mind, just let himself, a new beekeeper, intern.

"Brother Zhao is familiar with bees, although I have never made a beehive, but I know that Brother Zhao's beehive is very reasonable." Uncle Wen said with a smile on the side.

"In this way, Uncle Lizheng, this mountain has been cleared out of such a large area, so let everyone stop and plant pear saplings in the cleared area first." Zhao Yuan nodded and said with a smile.

"Okay, then let's plant the tree first." Wen Jianglang nodded and said.

"Well, dinner is already cooking, everyone will plant pear saplings in these places cleared out and get ready for dinner, Uncle Wen, you know how to plant pear trees, how much spacing is there, you can help grasp it." Zhao Yuan said to Uncle Wen again.

"Don't worry, Brother Zhao, our village has a little bit of experience in planting pear trees, and we won't make mistakes, but one thing is that it is a little inconvenient to water pear trees on this mountain." Uncle Wen nodded and said.

"Plant the pear saplings first, the ground is still damp now, basically there is no need to water it, wait for the pear saplings to take root and then find a way, everyone go down the mountain with me to move the pear saplings up."

"Okay."

Luoluo looked curiously at the beehive containing the bees, but the lid of the beehive was closed, and only the sound of bees buzzing was heard inside.

"Uncle, have the bees all been caught in this box?"

"Got it, it's in the beehive."

"Brother Yuan, I didn't get stung." Meng Ying looked at Zhao Yuan carefully and asked.

"Don't worry, you haven't been stung."

"That's good, I've been stung by bees before, and I've been in pain for a few days." Meng Ying said with a sigh of relief.

"Auntie, where were you stung by the bees, are the bees still there, let's go and catch them too."

"It's been a long time, and the bee that stung me is not a bee, and I can't catch it."

"Oh."

"Let's go down the hill first, let's go back and put the beehives away." Zhao Yuan listened to the conversation between Meng Ying and Luoluo, and said with a smile.

"Go down the mountain and bring up the pear saplings, put the hoe and sickle here first, and when you go down, you will tie up the thatched bushes and bundle them down in two." Li Zheng heard Jiang Lang and said to everyone.

"Okay, let's go."