Chapter 306: Bee Hornet
"I said Brother Junqi, do you know that it's been almost half an hour, and you haven't found the location yet." Liu Junhao wiped the sweat from his forehead, then sat on the big stone and complained.
"My daughter-in-law said that it was on this mountain, why can't I find it when I come" Liu Junqi was also quite confused, he looked up and down the hillside just now, but he couldn't find where the honeycomb was. There are many big trees on the mountain, but there are not many suitable for bees to nest. The location of the hive is very demanding, that is, it needs to be properly sheltered from the sun and ventilated. Therefore, beehives are generally not built on those leafy lyctic trees, but on sparse neem or willow trees. This honeycomb looks easy to spot at a glance.
"Found it, I found it, the honeycomb is under the leaves of the wolfberry tree, you come and see it." At this time, Zhao Guangming suddenly stood under a wolfberry tree and shouted.
Really on the hairy wolf tree, the two suddenly felt a strange thing, when did this bee learn to hide and seek.
Several people quickly rushed to Zhao Guangming's side, but they didn't find where the honeycomb was for a minute.
"What do you look at, do you see that bent branch, sticking to the main trunk." Zhao Guangming pointed to the hairy wolf tree.
"I saw it too, it's so long, it's so ......big," Sun Yutao couldn't help but exclaim. Hearing him say the second half of the sentence in amazement, Xu Dongfang almost laughed. If this is heard on a different occasion, it will be misunderstood as something that is contrary to harmony.
Liu Junhao found the location of the honeycomb from a different angle: it was really hidden, the branches of the wolfberry tree happened to form a bow, and the leaves of the wolfberry tree were wide, like palms. In addition, the place is so leafy that it is really difficult to spot if you don't look closely.
However, seeing the beehive clearly, he also sighed like Sun Yutao: "This is too big"
The hive was four or five meters above the ground, and the honeycomb was grayish-brown and looked very long, about a meter long. It looks like an inverted stalactite, the widest part of the top the size of a washbasin. However, what is a little strange is that there is also an earthy yellow protective film on the honeycomb, which is rare on wild honeycombs.
"Well, buddy, just say it's good for me to keep up, otherwise you won't be able to find it in an hour's work. Okay, let's get some honey later, how about I get some of it? "It's the first time that Liu Junhao has discovered that this thing is purely long-winded, and it talks like a machine gun.
"Don't worry, you'll definitely be indispensable, wait a minute, I'll bring in the bee honey and give you half of it." Liu Junqi is also smiling from ear to ear now, this hive is completely beyond his expectations. Look at it, there are 100,000 bees in it. With so many bees collecting honey, how much honey should there be in the hive? It is estimated that one or twenty catties is underestimated. According to the eighty yuan per pound of wild honey, that is more than 1,000 yuan. And then there's this bee...... Catching it home is a constant source of money.
The honeycomb was discovered by Zhao Guangming first, and it was purely normal to give him some.
"It's really rare to see such a big beehive...... Xu Dongfang couldn't help but admire.
"Dodge the point, I go up the tree to pick the honeycomb" all say that Lao Tzu is a hero, and the hairy child is as sharp as a monkey when he goes up the tree, and he naturally does not give in. Liu Junqi tied the window gauze bag around his waist. Then holding the trunk with both hands, a few vertical jumps have already jumped onto the branches.
The few people below held their breath, for fear of accidentally scaring the bees away. Seeing that Liu Junqi had already reached the halfway point of the tree, he was only one meter away from the beehive. He suddenly shouted, "Oh my mother......" and then clung to the trunk of the tree with both hands, motionless, as if his soul had gone.
"What's wrong, why don't you climb up?" Zhao Guangming asked urgently.
"......" Liu Junqi couldn't speak at all, and his hands trembled and hugged the trunk and slid down. When he was two meters away from the hive, his movements returned to normal, and he slipped down the tree.
"Mom......" The man squatted on the ground as soon as he got off the tree, as if all his strength had been exhausted just now.
"Brother Junqi, what's wrong with the honeycomb?" Liu Junhao had already vaguely guessed that the honeycomb was strange.
"Such a big hornet's nest...... If I had alarmed them just now, I would have been stunted. Liu Junqi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and then said with palpitations.
"Hornet's nest? How can there be such a large hornet's nest, which is obviously a wild honeycomb? Zhao Guangming turned his head to look at the tree again, but this time he still didn't see any difference.
"If you don't believe it, you can go up and have a look, then you can definitely see it clearly. Oh my god, it's full of wasps, estimated to be tens of thousands. Liu Junqi's expression finally recovered.
"It's really a hornet's nest" Liu Junhao felt a little strange just now, and now he stared wide-eyed and saw that the honeycomb was not connected at all, but was distributed in layers, and the layers were densely connected with each other, like an upside-down Lingling pagoda. What's more, it's not bees that are clearly flying up there.
"I don't believe it. Seeing is believing. Zhao Guangming made a gesture of not believing at all, and set up a shelf to climb the tree, but he found that no one dissuaded him after waiting for a long time.
"Forget it" This thing really doesn't have the courage to go up, so I can only find steps for myself.
"That's what my sister-in-law saw last time, right?" Liu Junhao asked. This honeycomb has a unique shape, and it will definitely attract people's eyes when they are taken off and hung in the yard. But now is not the time, only to wait for winter or early spring to do it, when the Houma hornet's nest is generally empty and there is no danger in the slightest.
"No, she said it looked like it was on a neem tree." When his spirit fully recovered, Liu Junqi remembered his daughter-in-law's advice.
"Then let's look for ...... again," Liu Junhao finished speaking, and several people dispersed again.
Within a minute, Zhao Guangming shouted again: "I found another one, you all come over ......"
"It's not a hornet's nest, is it?" Liu Junhao asked suspiciously.
"Damn, it's a honeycomb, I've seen bees." Zhao Guangming said with an oath.
This time it's true, but this honeycomb is a little smaller, only the size of a basketball, and it is too far from the hornet's nest just now. Bees come and go and flutter between the branches, looking busy.
"I have the impression that bees and wasps are natural predators, and they can't coexist. These two honeycombs are so close. Why didn't you see a fight? ”
"How is it possible, hornets only eat bees, this nest of bees must have been eaten a lot by wasps, but we didn't notice it." Liu Junhao deliberately checked the Internet when he collected bees a few days ago, so he just knew this information, "Bees are not completely without resistance, they will surround them in groups when they encounter wasps, use crowd tactics to wrap the hornets in the middle, and then continuously generate heat by flapping their wings, and then steam the hornets to death."
". It's still steaming to death, it's not 100 degrees, and it is estimated that the bees themselves can't stand it...... You say suffocation is pretty much the same. Zhao Guangming, this kid, made it clear that he didn't believe it.
"This is true, and I've seen similar sources. It is said that after the bee wraps the wasp, the temperature in the center can reach about 45 degrees in a short time, which is enough to steam the wasp to death, and the heat-resistant temperature of the bee is as high as 50 degrees. Sun Yutao interjected.
He is considered half an expert, and the same words came out of his mouth, Zhao Guangming couldn't help but believe it.
"Don't talk about it, hurry up and pick the honeycomb" Liu Junqi couldn't wait when he heard a few people chirping crookedly.
With the experience of the last time, he was very careful when he went up the tree this time. Wait until you climb to the edge of the hive and slowly unfold the window gauze bag, and then put the hive in little by little.
"Bees don't sting?" At this time, Zhao Guangming asked another question.
"It's okay, as long as you move slowly and don't make the bees feel hostile, then they won't attack." Liu Junhao has picked honey, so he knows a lot about the situation.
After removing the hive, Liu Junqi carefully climbed down the tree with a cloth bag.
"I can't get the honey at this time, I'm afraid that the bees will run away as soon as the mouth opens, so when you come back, will you come to my house and get it?" He was still thinking about the honey given to Zhao Guangming, and as soon as he stood firmly on the ground, he opened his mouth to explain.
"Yes" Zhao Guangming is a free and easy person, so he naturally doesn't care.
After collecting the hive, a few people remembered that they still had something to do. Liu Junqi rushed home with the hive. A few people continued along the mountain stream.
It is said that it is looking for the crested ibis, but this aimless way is more suitable for play. Xu Dongfang and Sun Yutao's eyes were completely focused on the surrounding trees, and the crested ibis usually perched on tall trees, and only flew to the mountain stream to find food when they were foraging, so the direction of their attention could not be said to be wrong.
On the contrary, Zhao Guangming's eyes were looking around, one moment in the sky and one time in the ground.
"Wow, big fish," he exclaimed. Seeing that several people ignored him, the goods suddenly grabbed Liu Junhao and said, "Really, under that stone, I saw it." It seems to be still with four legs. ”
"Four-legged that's a toad," Liu Junhao replied as he spoke, but he was quite surprised in his heart, he wouldn't have touched the baby fish.
In order to distract him, Liu Junhao could only think of another trick and asked Zhao Guangming to find a bird's nest to identify him.
Like Pang Xu, this product was also very suspicious of Liu Junhao's ability, and kept pointing to the bird's nest in the tree for him to guess.
"No, Liu Junhao, you are too good After more than a dozen bird's nests, Zhao Guangming has to admit that he is indeed tall.
Only then did Xu Dongfang and the others know why Liu Wuye recommended Liu Junhao to be their guide, and there was really something in the belly of the emotional family.
It wasn't until twelve o'clock that a few people stopped. Liu Junhao's stunt of catching fish once again shocked everyone, and Zhao Guangming was so envious that he had to follow him to apprentice.
Sprinkled the fish with condiments and roasted it on the fire, Liu Junhao patted Xiaopi's head again and asked him to lead the panther to catch rabbits in the forest.
"I'm keeping up with it, and I've had no chance to show it all morning with a crossbow." As soon as he heard that he was going to hunt, Zhao Guangming became interested.
"Save it, your crossbow arrow will be hard to get back if it misses. When the time comes, there will be no crossbow arrows, and this thing will become an ornament. If we really encounter a wild boar, do we expect it to help......" Liu Junhao hurriedly admonished.
"Don't worry, buddy has practiced countless times at home, and the poplar tree with a thick hand and neck ten meters away has a hit rate of more than 90 percent, and he is definitely a marksman." He explained smugly.
"The poplar with the thick neck of the shooter is still called the marksman, don't disgust me." Liu Junhao almost didn't laugh off his big teeth, his face was really not red when he said this.
"Damn, you can play and try it, and tell you that this quasi-head is already very powerful." Zhao Guangming said unconvinced.
"I'm not used to high-tech things, a slingshot is enough." Liu Junhao said and took out the slingshot pinned to his waist, took out a slingshot and pointed at a branch about ten meters away and said, "I can see it clearly, it's that branch." ”
The "pop" is not bad at all, and the branch that is slightly thicker than the thumb snaps with a click. This slingshot was specially made last time, with four rubber bands, and it is quite powerful.
"Try your luck, you hit this plastic sheet." Liu Junhao said, clipped a small piece of plastic sheeting in his hand to a tree branch.
"Pop" Zhao Guangming just turned around, and the plastic sheet had been knocked off.
"This is the real marksman," Sun Yutao couldn't help but applaud. Although he doesn't play with slingshots, he also knows how difficult it is to train to be like this.
"I don't dare to call it that way, there are people in the village who have a higher slingshot level than me." Liu Junhao shook his head and put away the slingshot.
"The sun." Ji Shengyu He Shengliang 'I knew that if I didn't come with you, the blow would be too big, and now I don't have self-confidence......" Zhao Guangming sighed very much, and then honestly put away the crossbow.
"If you want to play or play this, there are so many stones in the mountains."
"Try it," he gritted his teeth and pulled the slingshot away, shooting at the poplars not far away, and the result was ...... Hit the pine tree next to it.
In less than half an hour, Pippy and Panther each came back with a hare.
This time, Liu Junhao brought a short blade, and it was just right to use it to peel rabbits. In ten minutes, the two rabbits were peeled clean, washed with clean water, and hung on a branch.
The fat rabbit legs soon squeaked under the barbecue of the fire. Wait until it is half-cooked, then sprinkle it with its own seasoning, and a fragrance will rush to your nose.
"I didn't expect you kid to have this hand," Zhao Guangming couldn't help but suck and shouted.
"Haven't you heard the saying, 'You can't be like a guest in the big forest, you should be like a host,' just like you, if you are thrown into the mountains for a week, you will starve to death." Liu Junhao glanced at him and handed over the roasted rabbit leg, "How about tasting it?" ”
"Shhh...... It's hot, fragrant, slippery, and chewy...... To my taste. Zhao Guangming couldn't wait to take a big bite, and then jumped up in place hotly. Finally swallowed the rabbit meat, he stepped forward again and shouted: "I didn't say it, Brother Liu, I love you so much"
"Don't disgust me, get out of the way" Liu Junhao kicked the man's ass, and then gave the remaining rabbit leg to Xu Dongfang and the two of them.
Four people have exactly four hind legs, plus those grilled fish, they can eat completely. The rest of the rabbit meat was divided between Xiaopi and Black Panther by Liu Junhao, after all, the two of them contributed the most