The third day after the scout left, it was the second day of the month of Momotsuki.

Since it is a peach moon, there are naturally peaches.

The tribesmen looked at the sky and the mountains in the distance, but finally decided to take half a day off and spend the morning picking peaches.

Because Yu Qian'er arranged the time within ten years according to what Chen Jian said, and he couldn't change it at ordinary times, so he had to use the rest time.

At this time, picking peaches has long formed a habit. Chen Jian broke this habit, and he didn't need to live on peaches for a whole month. But the people of the tribe always feel distressed when they see the messy peaches that have fallen to the ground and been gnawed by insects and ants.

The peach and plum are self-explanatory, the grass is trampled on the ground and wailing, but the barefoot tribesmen can't hear it at all, but just giggle and laugh, comparing who picks the peaches bigger and redder.

Peaches that are not artificially cultivated are not large, and occasionally there are slightly larger ones. In the past, there were no wicker baskets, and peaches were carried in animal skins, but now you can put peaches in the basket with peace of mind and boldness. I'm not afraid of more, I'm just afraid that you don't have the strength to carry it.

Originally, peaches were used as the main food of Momotsuki because peaches were difficult to store. It's just that the tribesmen thought that since apricots can be stored like that, peaches can of course be so, so they don't care about spoiling, anyway, there are many clay pots, and there are more than 20 men and women who are responsible for burning pottery.

Chen Jian wiped the hair on the peach and took a bite, it was a little sour, and it was very hard, and it needed to be softened before it could be delicious.

He was originally going to make wine from peaches, but the sugar content was too low, and it was not at all the same as the peaches he had seen and thought in his previous life, and it was only by breeding from generation to generation that it was possible to have such big and sweet peaches.

Yu Qian'er found a big one in the basket, and also followed the example of Chen Jian, and wiped it casually and took a bite. Xu was caught in Chen Jianyang's mouth these days, spit it out, and said with a twisted brow: "Sour, why is it not as delicious as eating in Taohe?" ”

People laughed, and a few people took a few bites and said: "Where is it not as delicious as Taohe, it is that these days I eat maple syrup and honey, which makes Yu Qian'er's mouth sweet, and this peach is naturally sour." ”

It's true, the peaches here are actually much bigger than those near the Tao River. However, before you had to eat it as food, otherwise you would go hungry; Now that Jian Chen has brought them something else to eat, the taste of this peach is not as good as before.

Jian Chen said with a smile: "If you want to eat sweet, you have to suffer first." If you eat the honey of other people's bees, they will come and sting you. You eat someone else's peach doll, and the peach will inevitably cry a few tears, of course, sour and astringent. ”

Yu Qian'er looked at the broken places on the peach trees, and some translucent peach gum flowed out, she really thought it was the tears of the peaches, and said in her heart Why are the tears of the peaches so sticky? He dipped a little of his hand in his mouth and quickly spit it out and said, "I'm not afraid of bee stings, and besides, brother, you teach me to smoke, and those bees won't sting." We haven't eaten honey for a long time, so let's go find some honey to eat in the afternoon. ”

The wolf skin came over, found the reddest peach and handed it to Yu Qian'er and said, "I got the honey in the neighborhood back, didn't you eat bee worms a few days ago?" So, try this, this one is big, red, maybe sweet. ”

Yu Qian'er pinched the peach, and Jian Chen smiled: "Are you really not afraid of stinging?" If you're not afraid, I'll make you eat honey every day. But you are not allowed to be stung and cry. ”

She tilted her head, pinched her braid with her hand, thought about the taste of honey, and remembered the pain of being stung, but nodded.

The pain of a bee sting forgets quickly, and what I am most afraid of is when I buzz around me and I don't know what to do, if it really stung, that's it. It is the taste of honey, but it is unforgettable, especially now that the mountains are full of flowers, and even the wind carries a drunken fragrance.

When Yu Qian'er said this, it was also a coincidence, and a gust of wind blew the fragrance of the flowers of the linden trees that bloomed in the distance. The tribesmen stopped picking peaches, closed their eyes and sniffed the fragrance of linden flowers, and swallowed their saliva.

Several clansmen shouted: "Jian, you said it, you will definitely be able to do it, we are really not afraid of stinging." ”

Matsuya said: "Yes, last time you wrapped honey in the wound, we will fight the enemies of the birch in the future, and we will also fight with the Meteorite tribe, so we must always prepare something fresh." ”

Yu Qian'er pulled his hand and begged him. Yu Qian'er knew that as long as she begged her brother, she would definitely agree.

Jian Chen said with a smile: "Then we won't be able to take a break this decade, and Yu Qian'er will arrange all the work in the next decade." ”

These days, I am either digging or moving bricks, and I am indeed a little tired. But I thought that if I could drink a jar of honey and cold spring water on the hottest afternoon day in the hoe, it would be really pleasant.

After weighing it, I feel that this time it will be endless, and there will be next time, anyway, there is no need to queue up this evening, no need to listen to the drums to run up the mountain, and wash at night, and I am not afraid of many mosquitoes by the water.

"Then let's get it in the afternoon, it won't delay tomorrow's work."

The men carried baskets into the house and piled them in a room, covered them with fur and blades of grass, and softened the sour and hard peaches.

Chen Jian pondered the possibility of beekeeping and found that the feasibility was relatively high. The topic raised by these peaches gave him a wake-up call.

Bees don't need to be taken care of much, and they are all available in the family. Honey is secondary, beeswax is the main thing.

There are no ash poles here, so there is no way to raise ash worms, and if you want to get enough wax, you can only use beeswax. In the future, although other methods can be used to smelt bronzes, but the lost wax method is better. It's too late to prepare when it's time to use it, and everything has to be arranged in advance.

It's easy to do things when there are more people, the only thing that is less is the saw, and you don't have to think about this thing before there is no metal. A few saws from broken river shells can cut maple sugar, but large wood cannot.

Let a few people resist a few dry trees, and without a saw, you have to rely on people to cut them with stones little by little. There is no need to cut into plates, just make a flat surface that is easy to glue into a beehive.

The uncle took a few young men who often made mortises and tenons there, and the rest of the men were cutting wood, which was not tiring, and it didn't need to be too flat, and the stones could be done.

From the beginning of eating fish to the present, the fish bubbles in the belly of the fish are piled together, which is more than the fish eaten in the Taohe cave in a year.

These swim bladders have long been dried, not the best of the Huangyu, just all kinds of miscellaneous fish, but the fish maw glue used to boil the glue of the wood is still no problem.

Fish maw glue is the binder of traditional carpenters, which has been used for thousands of years, and it was not until the advent of chemical synthetic glue that it withdrew from the stage of history. In the previous life, the treasure ship of the Three Treasure Eunuchs was glued with fish maw glue in many places, which was extremely tough and waterproof.

After crushing the dried fish maw and putting it in a clay bowl and pot, Jian Chen went to get wood.

After lunch, the swim bladders were slightly soaked, and they were originally miscellaneous fish, far less superior than sturgeon and sturgeon, and the soaking time did not take a whole day.

By the help of a bonfire, a few logs are placed horizontally in a large clay pot, high above the water.

Place the clay pot with the swim bladder on top, close the lid, and start steaming over the fire.

The tribesmen looked at it curiously, and their hearts said what is this going to do? Chen Jian never let them throw away these strange things, he didn't throw away the pig urine bubbles last time, he didn't throw these fish bubbles, and those fish bones and the like.

But since it's a good thing to get, it must be a very useful good thing, and it's something they haven't seen before, so they're full of curiosity.

The white gas was steaming for a long time, and the clansmen gradually lost interest, and their hearts said that they didn't have to wait long. At the beginning, Jian said that he would dig toilets, and later he would show them the power of thunder and lightning, but now he hasn't seen it for so long.

Jian Chen lifted the lid, twisted the spoon a little, and found that it was almost enough, took it out and plucked the water inside, continued to steam for a while, took out several bowls of steamed slimy fish maw, and touched his ears directly.

The wood of those people was also finished, and they looked at these slimy things curiously, but they were no strangers, and there were a few times when the pigskin ran out of water, and it was also so slimy.

Jian Chen gave a little bit to one person and said, "Give you a tiring job, find a stone, and smash this thing." ”

More than 100 people, each of whom was divided into a small point, and a few people looked at something that was not as big as a peach, and said with a smile: "What kind of tiring work is this?" ”

However, for about two hours, they were all tired and flicked their wrists. In a simple pestle mortar of concave stones and stones, these slimy fish bubbles seem to sink deeper and heavier.

When it first smashed up, it didn't take much effort at all. But the longer the time to smash, the greater the viscosity of the fish bubbles, every time it seems to stick two stones together, the arm seems to be on fire, and it is like the arm has drunk something called vinegar stuffed with apricots, and the palm-sized stone now seems to weigh more than ten catties.

Someone pondered that he could eat two catties of rice set by Yu Qian'er for a meal, but this broken stone is now heavier than ten catties.

Jian Chen looked at the tired grinning clansmen, and said in his heart that a good man can't beat two or two bladders, this thing is getting more and more sticky, and there will be more words to describe people's strength in the future.

I estimated that the viscosity was about the same, and I collected all these fish floats, and everyone's was in a ball.

Remove the wood from the large clay pot, fill the small clay pot with hot water, sit directly in the pot, find a piece of fiber cloth and wrap the swim bladder, put it in it and let two people work together with a stick to squeeze the gum dissolved in the fiber cloth by boiling water into the water.

The white turbid water looks quite like some kind of indecent liquid, and it also has a strong fishy smell, which is full of color and taste, and it is even more slimy.

A few men didn't know what they thought, staring at the clay pot and laughing there, Chen Jian took out the clay pot speechlessly, and said in his heart, you guys are laughing at a fart, I have to touch it with my hands in a while!

The frame of the honeycomb had been made, and every dozen people were divided into one, and Chen Jian got some fur as a small brush, and dipped some fish maw glue brushes on the scraped wood, and glued them together from top to bottom.

"Will this hold up?"

Jian Chen smiled: "Do you think that the strength of the smashing just now is not as heavy as this piece of wood?" ”

Thinking of the horror of smashing the swim bladder just now, the man subconsciously shook his wrist and didn't ask any more questions.

The heavy beehives were glued together with fish maw glue, there were no planers and saws, many places were uneven, there were gaps everywhere, and some small pieces of wood were found to glue these gaps like patches.

A coffin-like thing nearly a meter long and half a meter wide and tall stuck out like this. The inside is covered with a fiber cloth, and there are two holes in the front for the bees to enter and exit, and the top cover is movable and can be removed to see if the bees are sick and to prey on the bees' food.

All that's left is to wait a few days for the gel to dry naturally. The boat can stick to it, but this little beehive?

To put it simply, find an opportunity to get the wild bees in, cover the lid and sprinkle a little wine, so that the bees temporarily lose their pheromone sensitivity, as long as the queen bee is in the honeycomb, the bees will make their home here. At that time, you can pinch the male peak who only mates and does not work, cut off the queen bee who is about to be born, and keep the bee population growing instead of dividing the nest, at least in the summer, you can ensure that there is enough honey.

To make a few frames, pull a few thin lines inside, make the melted beeswax into a wax board and stick it in the frame, fix it with thin wires, and the bees will embroider the hive on the wax board naturally.

When the time comes, take out the wax plate and make a simple centrifuge with a leather and potter's wheel drive, and throw the honey out of the hive like a dry bucket, so that the hive can be reused and the bees can have more time to collect honey instead of building a house.

After thinking about the materials needed, it is basically feasible.

The tribesmen stared at the hive and asked, "When will there be honey in it?" ”

Jian Chen looked at the fish maw glue that was still wet, and knew that it would be strong as if it had grown together after natural air drying, so he said confidently: "Next time I take a break in the middle of the month." ”

The tribesmen thought for a moment, and felt that ten days was not a long time, so they looked at the beehive like a treasure, and guessed to each other how this thing could have honey.

Jian Chen stared at those fish maw glues, and said in his heart that there was another simple and easy-to-use thing in the clan. With fish bladder glue, recurve bows, wooden boats, simple furniture, doors, window lattices, wooden barrels, ...... These can appear as long as there is enough time.

Presumably, when he made the first piece of furniture made of fish maw glue, the clansmen's holiday days would probably have one more "relaxation" that they seemed to be interesting.