When Yanni saw the bees, she kept thinking about honey in her heart, and after eating, she called the family together and told her parents what she thought.

"Dad, mother, I have an idea, let's raise bees at home!"

"Xiao Yan! That honey is very expensive, but no one in our family will serve it! Beekeeping should pay attention to feng shui, haven't there been people in the housing village a few years ago? In less than a year, the bees were gone, and I don't know if they flew or died. "These are the words of the Niang Li family.

Dad Chen Xiaocai pondered for a while and said, "It is indeed a good way to succeed in beekeeping, but we can't ask someone to teach us, and that is also the ability of other people's families, and it will not be passed on." ”

"Dad, those bees can live in the mountains for so long, why don't we go to the mountains and see what its home is like, let's build a better one than it, and the bees can live obediently."

This is what her six-year-old sister Xiaoyu said, Yanni has some differences, and an authentic six-year-old village girl can say this, which can be regarded as a little clever.

My sister is really powerful, and I have to work hard to convince my father.

"Yes! Daddy, beekeeping doesn't cost money, let's think of a way, we don't have to worry about money in the future."

"But that bee will sting people, and if you don't get it right, it will kill people." The old lady is timid, so she has more worries.

Yanni pretended to think for a while, "Why don't we make a cover on the mosquito net, so that we can see if the bees can't pierce people, and then make a glove to put the glove on, and it will be safe." ”

This method was recognized by everyone, that is, the elder brother did not speak, and since he came back, he was a little silent, asking his opinion, and everything was up to his father.

Yanni knew that her family was very short of money now, because of her brother's business, it would cost money to invite people into the mountain, and it was even more ridiculously expensive to invite the dart master, without ten taels of silver, no one should be, so she spent all the family's savings and borrowed a lot of money from relatives.

Therefore, Yanni proposed to go to the honeycomb to cut some honey to sell to see if the honey could make money, and if it could be sold for money, it could also alleviate the shortage at home. Because of this sentence, Chen Xiaocai, who was still a little hesitant, immediately made up his mind to do it.

Just do it, Li turned out the old clothes and old mosquito nets and cut them, and there was no need to pay attention to these needlework, and a few girls helped to sew them quickly.

In my memory, the Li family didn't know how to embroider, and it was no problem to sew and mend clothes, that is, although their family used to have new clothes every year, there was not a single flower on them.

Although my mother doesn't know how to embroider, she will also embroider and spin some work on the soles of shoes, and my father can also help when he wants to make furniture.

The sky was still bright, Yanni got up, because she couldn't find a suitable clay pot, so she washed the big bucket of water that Chen Xiaocai carried at home, and scalded it with boiling water again.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, Yanni set off with her parents, her brother was not with her, and the younger two had to follow her parents and didn't let them, so she couldn't go by herself, so she took her things and ran to the mountain pass to wait.

Chen Xiaocai said that when he was looking for timber in the mountains, he saw several places with honeycombs, and there were honeycombs at the foot of the top of the stones, but they had been destroyed, so there should be nothing.

The mother and daughter followed him for more than an hour in the mountains before they came to a big tree that could only be hugged by several people.

Before she could see the honeycomb, she heard a loud buzzing sound, Yanni ran over to take a look, and was surprised by the scene in front of her, she saw not the honeycomb first, but the world of flowers. I didn't expect that there would be such a large sea of flowers in this kind of place, a fairyland on earth!

"You kid, what's so nice about the flowers, the honeycomb is over there." Li said, pointing to the honeycomb on the mountain wall not far away.

Yanni: "Mother, the sea of flowers! Have you seen it? Why doesn't it look good. ”

Li: "The flowers are what your little girl likes, and in the eyes of my mother, flowers are no different from grass." ”

The mother and daughter were talking here, and Chen Xiaocai had already put on gloves and hats to check the honeycomb, which was built on the mountain wall not far away, and if it wasn't for the buzzing sound, people would not have found that there was such a big honeycomb in the groove of the mountain.

Chen Xiaocai came back and said that he wanted to build two long ladders, and Li went to help, cutting down trees was a manual job, and Yanni couldn't help, so she just sat there to shoot mosquitoes.

After more than an hour had passed since his parents had made the ladder, they sat down to rest and drink water, and Chen Xiaocai took a machete to open the way.

When he came back, he drank a saliva and told him to put on his gloves and hat, and then he stood up the ladder and walked in front, Li Shi walked in the middle with an empty bucket, and Yanni followed behind.

When he arrived at the place, he put a ladder on it, and Chen Xiaocai pointed to a flat place above and said, "Put a ladder there to cut the honey, let's move quickly, and we can go back early." ”

"Dad, when you cut the honey, cut off the few bee eggs and leave the many bee eggs." Yanni was afraid that Chen Xiaocai would cut the honey when she saw it, so she told her uneasily.

"Yes."

After finishing speaking, they climbed up the ladder, Chen Xiaocai reached the flat ground, and the mother and daughter worked together to lift another ladder, and Chen Xiaocai pulled on it.

Set up a ladder and the father went up to cut the honey, the mother and daughter answered on the flat ground, at first Chen Xiao saw that the honeycomb was densely packed with bees, and he didn't know how to start, Yanni proposed to take the leaves to drive away the bees to cut.

It should be that there are many flowers here and there is a rich source of honey, so Chen Xiaocai quickly cut off the honey piece by piece and filled two buckets.

In fact, these two buckets of bee spleen can't take out much honey! I can have twenty pounds to be satisfied.

Alas! I don't know how much this honey can sell for, and my family is very poor now!

Picking the bucket under the big tree, the parents hid the ladder again, everyone picked the leaves and sat on the ground, Chen Xiaocai cut two pieces of honey for the mother and daughter to eat.

"Come, let's also taste what the rich and noble eat."

"This honey is always valuable, you can sell it for more money if you eat less" Li was a little reluctant.

"Mother, it's very sweet, eat it quickly, don't be reluctant, Dad tells us to eat, we will eat, if you eat less, let Dad cut it again."

Li glanced at her and tasted it carefully.

When I got home, it was already four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and most of the hard-working people were still busy in the fields, and the time of departure and return should have been calculated by Chen Xiaocai, and no one else was met on the way.

When people in the countryside have nothing to do, they eat relatively early, and they come back, and the diligent fourth sister washes rice and cooks.

The fourth sister is called Xiaole, seven years old this year, with a strong temperament, she is a hard-mouthed and soft-hearted little girl, and the ranking of the family is according to the same grandfather.

Li brought a wooden basin, a bamboo basket, and an arm-thick piece of bamboo.

Yanni asked curiously, "What are you doing here?" ”

Lee said it was used to squeeze honey.

Yanni was taken aback, can you eat the honey taken like this? She used to know a friend who had bees at home, and she was curious to go and get honey.

People use a honey bucket to shake the honey out of the honey, the color is good, the taste is fragrant. The pressed honey not only has the corpse of the larvae, but also contains a lot of pollen and pupal juice royal jelly, etc., the texture is turbid and viscous, the taste is not good, and the honey yield is low.

"Mother, you see that there are larvae on the honeycomb, don't you squeeze the larvae like this, and the contents of the larvae will be mixed with honey? Then it doesn't taste good. ”

Li looked at the honeycomb, "Eh! Thanks to what you said, otherwise I would have made a mistake, and I would have to find a way to pick out the larvae. ”

Oooh! My expression is not right! Li only thought about picking out the larvae, but this was not good.

"Mother, let's go to my dad and ask my dad to make an object that can throw out the honey, and then we will use gauze to filter out the impurities, so that the honey will be good in color and fragrant."