Wang Mingyuan returned to Zhang Hui and watched Xu Zhiqiang's bus leave.

"I've seen that fat man glance at me several times, what are you talking about me?" Zhang Hui came closer and asked in a low voice.

"No, he came to talk to me about things, saying that he was going to open a store, and asked me to help provide supplies when the time comes." Wang Mingyuan thought for a while, and then said: "It's not that he didn't talk about you completely, he said, you are too wild." ”

"This is said, wild or not, that is also a division of people." Zhang Hui was noncommittal.

"He also said, you are very good, let me take advantage of it!" Wang Mingyuan smiled: "What is there to be sure of?" ”

His gaze swept over Zhang Hui.

Zhang Hui couldn't help but roll her eyes: "Get out!" ”

The weather is getting hot, in this kind of place, it is indeed easy to suffer from heat stroke, Wang Mingyuan is going to go to the pharmacy to buy some ten drops of water and wind oil essence and the like, by the way, let Zhang Hui go to the snack bar to cook a bowl of dumplings and wait, eat early and then return to Zhangjiaao.

When he arrived at the pharmacy and saw the boss who collected the locusts, he suddenly remembered that this time there were all kinds of troubles, and when he returned to 2023, he didn't have time to collect the remaining grasshoppers from Zhangjiaao's family and Chen Jiawang's seven militia families.

He could only say hello to the owner of the pharmacy, saying that something was delayed, and that the things would be delivered in seven or eight days.

When they bought the medicine and returned to the snack bar, the dumplings had already been cooked and waited, and after the two of them ate unhurriedly, Wang Mingyuan spent 100 yuan to find a van and directly asked the owner to send them to Chenjiagou.

This made Wang Mingyuan secretly scold Xu Zhiqiang a few words, knowing that he was not going to stay, he should come on a motorcycle, which also saved all kinds of waiting for the car.

There is no mistake

Originally, there was nothing urgent about the bee farm, but Wang Mingyuan felt that it was too grinding to take a car in this small town.

I asked the owner when he was leaving, and he was sure to tell you to wait a few minutes before leaving.

And these few minutes, often waiting, will be half an hour, or even more than an hour.

Sometimes, the car is already full, and the owner often wants to insert a few more people into it.

It's very uncomfortable!

He didn't have much money before, so he couldn't choose, so he could only choose to tolerate it.

It's different now, and there are people who have twenty or thirty million savings in their pockets.

Wang Mingyuan began to think that when the cement road into Zhangjiaao started, it would be necessary for him to get a trolley.

It took more than half an hour for the car to arrive at Chenjiaao, and it took more than 40 minutes to walk from Chenjiagou to Zhangjiaao, which was really enough to choke.

When he arrived at Zhangjiaao Bee Farm, Wang Mingyuan rested for a while before he recovered.

The inspection of the apiary is necessary every day, so as to understand the situation of the apiary, and after a while, Wang Mingyuan saw a large swarm of bees on a salt-skinned tree on the edge of the apiary, and the ground was full of bee corpses.

Looking at this situation, Wang Mingyuan knew that during the time he left, two swarms of bees rushed to the swarm.

Moreover, the fighting situation is fierce.

There were not a thousand but eight hundred bee carcasses on the ground, many of which were torn together and never let go when they died.

The two species of bees that bite are completely different in color.

One is hemp and the other is golden.

The color of bees often varies slightly depending on the location of the bee, often in hotter places, the color is more yellow, and in colder places, the color will appear darker.

Many people believe that the more golden the bee, the better, and that such bees have a stronger ability to collect. The hemp bees are not good, they seem to be strong, but often when it comes to cutting honey, there is no gain, but the queen bee lays eggs well.

Therefore, many people try their best to breed the so-called bicolor queen bee, trying to combine the advantages of the two, not only to lay eggs well, so that the colony can become larger, but also have a strong collection ability.

The bicolor queen bee has indeed been bred, and the worker bees that hatch are half hemp and the other half are golden, but in fact, they are really powerful without seeing it.

There are indeed two extreme development directions for the performance of bee colonies, but this is still related to external conditions, and it is not possible to generalize which is better or worse.

At this time, there are still a lot of bees flying around the swarm, although it is a little chaotic, but it has basically completed the fusion and stabilized.

It was the golden group that won.

He squatted on the ground and took a closer look, and found a fist-sized mass of bees, Wang Mingyuan picked up a small branch from the ground to pick up the bee cluster, and saw that it was a black queen bee that had completely stopped moving.

This queen bee is not very large, and it looks like a scrap, and it was defeated in this rush.

And this method of trapping the enemy to life and death is commonly used by bees to deal with enemies, especially when dealing with hornets and the like, which is the most common.

Now the thing to be sure of is whether the queen bee in this colony is still there, and if so, whether there is any damage.

Normally, after the bee colony is grouped, the queen bee is generally in the center of the colony, which is convenient for the protection of the bee colony, and the bee colony will also leave a special air hole for gas circulation for the queen bee, generally on the neat side of the cluster.

But the bee colony in front of you is not small, and it is not easy to find the queen bee.

Therefore, Wang Mingyuan plans to change another method: let the bee colony mess up again.

He went back to the hut, put on the bee bee and brought an empty beehive, lifted the lid, removed the guide strip from it, and then held the beehive in one hand, and came to the bottom of the salt-skinned wood, reached out and grabbed the branch of the bee colony, pressed it to the mouth of the beehive, and shook it violently, shaking the whole bee colony out of the box.

For a while, the bee colony was in chaos, and countless bees rushed up and began to fly wildly.

Wang Mingyuan put the beehive on the ground at this moment, and the people also squatted down, carefully looking at the bees crawling around in the beehive.

Disturbed by this, bees kept flying, bees falling, and of course, queen bees crawling around.

All he had to do was find the biggest and most conspicuous queen bee among the thousands of bees.

Luckily, Wang Mingyuan quickly saw the queen bee with a dark red belly that was more than half of an ordinary bee, and was immediately relieved to see that it was not damaged in all aspects.

He trotted back, retrieved the guide strip and cover, rammed the beehive on, and closed the lid.

The queen bee was in the box, and it didn't take long for the bees to quickly flood into the box, and it took more than ten minutes before and after.

Seeing that the bees were almost all in the box, Wang Mingyuan moved the beehive back to its original place and placed it.

The last time she was stung, when she encountered this even crazier situation, Zhang Hui didn't dare to get close to it, even if she put on a bee suit, she still felt scared, so she just watched from aside.

At noon, he simply made boiled mutton, and after eating, Wang Mingyuan decided to go into the mountains to have a look.

Except for the day when he came to Zhangjiaao to see the bees and flower resources, Wang Mingyuan went into the mountains once, and then went to the mountains with Zhang Hui to catch acid ants once, and was busy with various trivial matters or weather problems at other times, and never went in.

It's mainly wild animals that appear in the depths of headaches.

In fact, he couldn't get to the sinkhole right now.

Those boundaries now have several names, rare animal and plant reserves, national forest parks, etc., and there are special personnel around them all year round.

This is also the reason why Wang Mingyuan has never thought of going deep since he knew that there was a sinkhole in this primeval forest.

Just in this Zhangjiaao, the edge of the primeval forest, just rub the resources inside.

Because, if you go in, you are asking for trouble.

The reason why he chose to enter the mountain is entirely because of the black honey mentioned by Xu Zhiqiang today.

He had forgotten that between February and May, it was the time when the rice balls bloomed.

Black honey is made from the nectar of rice balls collected by bees.

It is said to contain anthocyanins, which are the reason why this honey turns black.

In fact, this kind of honey is usually thinner, and it does not necessarily have many more special nutrients than other honeys, but it is even more expensive than ordinary honey by one or two hundred, and it is still very popular.

This can't help but make Wang Mingyuan think of the hundreds of rock bees hanging on the cliff wall of the Tiankeng in 80 years, and when he goes back this time, he has to hurry up and harvest it.

You must know that there are many bee species that collect nectar from rice balls, and rock bees are one of them.

If you bring this honey back, it will also be a big harvest, and it can fully meet Xu Zhiqiang's needs.

Rock bees are usually on cliffs, and harvesting will be more thrilling and difficult, and it is common for people to die, and the rice ball flower itself is a good herb, so it has created its high price.

As everyone knows, not only rock bees can collect nectar from rice balls, but also earth bees, small hanging bees and large hanging bees.

For honey, in the 80s, supply and marketing cooperatives also bought it from time to time, but the price and quantity of the purchase were not very stable.

Usually, the price of the purchase in the commune is very low, but it is not more than a dollar.

Part of it is used for export, part of it is used for domestic demand, and when it is sold in the big city, the price has reached seven yuan a catty, which is not something that ordinary people can afford.

In many places, there is a special team on the production team, which is also a kind of sideline income generation by chasing flowers and nectar all year round.

In an era when even chickens were reluctant to slaughter and keep their eggs, and meat could not be eaten several times a year, honey was undoubtedly the top nutritional product available to the public.

Especially for many pregnant women or those who have given birth to a child who does not have enough milk, honey is a good supplement.

It is very difficult to get it in the urban areas of the mainland, and the price is very high, so many people often have to go over the mountains and mountains into the mountains to find farmers to buy, and they are overjoyed to get one or two catties at a lower price.

Of course, in the mountains and countryside, there is a lot of honey that can be found, and even many people directly raise it, but either they can't get it, or after cutting the honey, it is mixed with a large number of impurities such as bee corpses, dust, dirt, etc., and it looks very bad and becomes worthless.

There is a more important reason, honey is not hungry, in the eyes of many people, it is most practical to earn more work and get more food, they are busy with work, and they do not have the time and energy to do this.

Zhang Shouzhong is the most typical example, he raised so many groups by himself, but he didn't have the ability to get them, and he lost a lot of income.

The point is that the commune only collects a little occasionally, and does not collect much.

It's not worth it to be stung by a bee for half of your life in order to get some honey.

After Wang Mingyuan and Zhang Hui simply packed up, they began to enter the mountain.

On the one hand, he looks at the resources and environment in the mountains, and on the other hand, he also needs some video materials.

When Xu Zhiqiang's store opened, the provision of honey became a sales channel that had to be maintained, and he always had to give others a proof and a gesture.

At least, when others ask, they can confidently tell others that this honey is harvested in the deep mountains and is pristine.

Moreover, these in themselves are some of the best material about the mountains.

Two things that are not wrong.

Shoot some videos of wandering around the bee farm all day long, the area is just that, and the things are just like that, so people have to watch something different.

"This time into the mountain, you shoot more materials, I have to go back to Mingcheng tomorrow." Wang Mingyuan admonished.

"What are you doing back to Mingcheng?" Zhang Hui, who was following behind, stopped and asked, "Could it be that you are going on a blind date again?" ”

"What kind of blind date, my home is in Mingcheng, isn't it normal to go back?" Wang Mingyuan also stopped, he looked back at Zhang Hui: "I'm a person who is going to go back at the end of the year and wants to pull you to be a fake girlfriend, and you even suspect me of going on a blind date...... Something is wrong with you! ”

"What's wrong?"

"I'll have a friend, you have to ask if it's a man or a woman, go home, and you suspect me of going on a blind date...... Tell me the truth, are you trying to do anything wrong with me? ”

"I've seen shameless, I've never seen someone as shameless as you, it's just you...... A person who is nothing in the ravine all day long is also worthy of my plots? ”

"How can you belittle yourself so much? Anyway, I'm the one who pays you! ”

"I can fry you fish at any time!"

Wang Mingyuan lost his temper for a while: "You have a point...... Anyway, I'll have two or three days to go back, and I'll be back here before the fans get to the apiary, and the apiary will be taken care of by you for a few days. The bee colony doesn't have to worry, the key is the food of the two earth dogs. ”

"Just this little thing, this girl agreed!"

The two continued their walk into the mountains.

Along the way, Wang Mingyuan walked around and soon found the location of several beehives.

These things, he didn't plan to dig now.

For him, a few dozen boxes of bees in the apiary were enough, and he didn't want to go deep into the mountains and forests to add new breeding grounds.

There is only one reason, the raw things in the wild are always considered better than those that come out of the beehives.

Honey from the same place, honey from wild nests can always be sold for more than beehives.

A lot of people are chasing that bit of wildness.

In fact, this has a lot to do with the current environment, the vigorous development of industry, the extensive use of pesticides on land crops, so that a lot of honey that should be of good quality has become a pile of waste products.

Wang Mingyuan once helped a senior cut his family's soil to raise honey, he is rural, but there are a lot of chili peppers, flue-cured tobacco, and greenhouses in the surrounding fields...... The results can be imagined.

The honey cut out of the bellows looks very beautiful and sticky, but the remaining honey residue after filtration is placed on the fence of the yard with a plate, and the remaining honey on it will soon be robbed by the bees.

Even the bees themselves don't eat it!

In this era when planting crops, lacking pesticides and fertilizers, and planting nothing, it is really difficult to get something reassuring.

And this is also the reason why many people pursue wildness, because it can make people more assured.

Similarly, this is also Wang Mingyuan's original intention of choosing to breed bees in the mountains, wanting to get some authentic and really good honey.

It's just that everything changed because of the sudden disappearance of the ticket and the extra virtual screen in my mind.

Otherwise, the day he expected, dozens of bees were raised in the bee farm, occasionally going up the mountain to dig out the beehive, the mushroom was lonely to pick up some mushrooms, and at any time to make some mountain grass and wild vegetables, it might be very clear and boring, but it was better to be free, no need to work 9 to 5, black and white rotation.

In a word: mess around!

I don't have any big ambitions, just be ordinary.

But that's no longer the case. The appearance of a virtual small screen in my mind is simply an incomparable plug-in, and there are opportunities everywhere.

And the anchor points of these two time and space are fixed at Zhangjiaao Zhiqing Point.

In this case, it would be necessary for him to grow the apiary, or to grow something else, even if it was a cover, and to keep it up.

In the past few years, the number in my bank card has been rising steadily, why it has risen, and it also needs a reason.

Along the way, Wang Mingyuan also saw a lot of rice balls, a large part of which had already been defeated, and only some of them were in full bloom in relatively shady places.

When looking for those swarms of bees before, Wang Mingyuan relied on rice balls, which are very similar to chestnut flowers, which store a lot of honey, and when the bees come to collect, it doesn't take long to pick enough and then embark on the return trip.

Therefore, on each blooming rice ball flower, the buzzing sound continues, the bees rise and fall, excluding the direction of the apiary, the others are in the mountains, which is simply a natural bee trap, it is easy to judge the approximate location by virtue of the bee's flight trajectory, and it is very simple to find.

Zhang Hui is also quite familiar with rice balls, whenever Wang Mingyuan stands in front of a canopy of rice balls to watch the bees' flight tracks, she will always pick a few and pat them in the palm of her hand.

The nectar stored in the flowers shook off the palms of the hands as they patted, and gathered into a small pool in the palms of the nests, and then turned their backs and licked with their tongues, like a puppy, and their lips were black and black.

This is what Wang Mingyuan often did when he was a child when the rice ball flowers were blooming, and the honey that shook off the rice ball flowers was really sweet.

Seeing that she liked it so much, Wang Mingyuan observed the rice ball in front of him sticking out of the crack in the rock for a while, and found that there was a group of small hanging bees in a small bush a few meters away from him, and immediately led her to find it.

This kind of hanging bee is very small, and among the bee species that collect honey, it is considered to be a very gentle one (the key is that it is almost the same as an ordinary ant bitten by a sting), and usually likes to build a nest in a small bush and only make a bee spleen.

He immediately walked over, took out the scissors used to prune the branches from his backpack, cut off the branches on the branches where the small row of bees built the nest in a few clicks, and then shook it vigorously, and the dense small row of bees on it was immediately shaken clean, and then ran to the side quickly.

The upper part of the bee's spleen stores honey and wraps the branches tightly, the middle part is the pollen snow storage area, and the lower half is the place where the small hanging bee lays eggs and reproduces.

Wang Mingyuan cut off the bee's spleen from the honey pollen junction, found a stick to put on, and put it back in place so that they could continue to build nests and repair.

When Wang Mingyuan was fiddling with the little hanging bee, Zhang Hui jumped to the side early, until Wang Mingyuan handed her the honeycomb like an elbow, she took it excitedly, looked at the black honey that kept dripping, and stuck out her tongue to add another ......

The corners of Wang Mingyuan's mouth couldn't help twitching: I feel more like a puppy!