Chapter Seventy-Five: Finding the Hive
"Did I think wrong" Tang Xiaoqi walked along the long path from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and did not see a bee wandering along the way, and turned around the mountain twice, but still did not find any trace of the bee, Tang Xiaoqi was tired at the end of this day, she had to give up and finally returned home before dark.
"Mother, have you ever seen a bee in the mountains" Tang Xiaoqi gulped down the food cooked by his mother, and after thinking about it, he still had to ask the Li family. After all, he hadn't been here for a long time, and the number of times he had been to the back mountain was only a handful, and the memories in the original owner's mind had not found any useful clues after his own search.
"Xiao Qi, eat slowly, don't choke. What is a bee? Li Shi looked at Tang Xiaoqi's gobbling up and knew that going up the mountain today must have exhausted her, but when she heard the noun Tang Xiaoqi said, she couldn't understand it for a while.
"It's a kind of little insect that can fly, yellow, and sting" Tang Xiaoqi also reacted, honey is so rare here, Tang Fu and Tang Mu have never seen or eaten it, not to mention the bees that can produce honey, it is estimated that they have never heard of it.
"Oh, you're talking about Huang Huzi, yes, there are a lot of them in the wild locust forest on the west side of the mountain. But now that it's getting colder, they come out less." Hearing Tang Xiaoqi's explanation, Tang's father understood what a bee was, so he told Xiaoqi what he thought was the same insect as she described.
"I see. Mother, how are you packing up, when can you move? Knowing the specific direction of the bees, Tang Xiaoqi didn't want to seal it, so he turned around and began to ask the Li family about moving.
"Almost, the situation of our family, you are not unclear, there is nothing to take away" Speaking of this, Tang Fu and Tang Mu were a little embarrassed, the two of them had worked hard for most of their lives, but there was nothing valuable to take away.
"Okay, then wait for me to go back, and then find a few carriages to pick up your second elder." Tang Xiaoqi suddenly realized when he heard Tang's mother's words, it was already a poor environment, and there was really nothing to clean up. It's better to wait for Tang's father and mother to move into the city and then make good arrangements, you can prepare more cloth and cotton wool to make a few more clothes for everyone, looking at Li's coiled hair, Xiao Qi felt that she should buy her some more good-looking jewelry.
Early the next morning, Tang Xiaoqi went up the mountain again, this time she was fully prepared, she must find the nest of bees. Thinking that yesterday Father Tang said to himself that bees often move on the west side of the mountain, and yesterday he only looked along the route that everyone often walks, so today he will take the road that no one has walked.
"Ah" The wild grass in the mountains was overgrown with vines spreading, and there were some places where everyone had never set foot before, Tang Xiaoqi could only sort out the dense weeds and branches by himself while walking, but Tang Xiaoqi was not paying attention to his feet, and he slipped directly, and rolled down the hillside to a big tree before stopping. Tang Xiaoqi stood up and shook the dirt on her body, and before she had taken a few steps, the heart-piercing pain from her ankle reminded her that her ankle was injured, and she couldn't take care of her dirty clothes, Tang Xiaoqi sat on the ground and rubbed her injured ankle.
"It's really not appropriate to go out today" Tang Xiaoqi found a wrist-thick branch as a crutch, and limped down the mountain. Today's teacher is not good, the bee didn't find it and let himself stumble.
"Where did the flies come from, it's really annoying" was already very irritable, when two insects flew over his head and buzzed, and he was really annoyed. Just when Tang Xiaoqi used her hands to drive away the insects, she looked up inadvertently and found that it was not the bee she was thinking about.
Sure enough, it is another village, and the emperor lives up to his wishes, and he has been looking for bees that he hasn't found for a long time, and he actually sent them to the door. Thinking that these two bees are here, and there are no flowers or plants around, then this place should not be far from their nest. Tang Xiaoqi didn't care about the injuries on his feet, and hurriedly followed the two bees to find their habitat as soon as possible.
Sure enough, after following the bees for a short time, I found myself in the middle of the locust tree in the west and looked up. There is a beehive the size of a stone pier under the branch three meters above the ground, not only on the trees next to this tree, but also on the trees next to this tree. Just now, I only looked around the periphery of the locust forest, and I didn't go in to look for it, if it weren't for the two little bees themselves, I am afraid that they would have passed by the hive.
"Great, it's earned now," Tang Xiaoqi was overjoyed when he saw these hives, as if a stack of gold was waving to him. Now the beehive has been found, the next is to find a way to collect honey, see the beehive is built above the big tree, the lowest distance from the ground is more than two meters, I haven't climbed the tree for a long time, I have forgotten how to climb. But Tang Xiaoqi thought about it, the weather has been getting cooler and cooler recently, there is no pollen to collect for the time being, and there is definitely not much honey.
After thinking about it for a long time, Tang Xiaoqi finally decided to go back first, the matter of honey can be discussed in the long run, and when you go back, you have to recall how modern people keep bees and collect honey.
"Yo, isn't this Tang Xiaoqi, where did you come from with a limp, don't people want you anymore" Tang Xiaoqi didn't expect that he would meet Tang Xiaowu, originally thought that she would be able to settle down after Mo Junze's warning to her last time, but she didn't expect that after this encounter, she couldn't change her bitter temper.
"Hey, how do you say that you just left, did I say it?" Tang Xiaoqi didn't want to pay attention to this kind of person at all, and directly ignored Tang Xiaowu and walked straight over. Tang Xiaowu saw that she was silent, thinking that she had guessed correctly, and even more inches, stepped forward and continued to taunt Tang Xiaoqi.
"Get out...."Tang Xiaoqi climbed the mountain and tossed for a long time today, his mouth was already dry and he didn't want to say a word, so he directly hit Tang Xiaowu's arm with the crutches in his hand, and expressed his attitude with actions.
"Ah, it hurts. Tang Xiaoqi, you wait. Tang Xiaowu screamed when he was beaten, looking at Tang Xiaoqi's angry eyes, he knew that he couldn't provoke her now, so he scolded and warned and walked away.
"Xiao Qi, how are you" Hearing the movement outside the door, Tang Fu and Tang Mu hurriedly came out to check, only to see Tang Xiaoqi standing at the door, the clean and neat clothes she wore in the morning were already stained with mud, she limped towards the door with a crutch, and the couple immediately stepped forward to help her into the house.
"It's okay, mother, I just fell when I was going down the mountain, it's okay, you see." Saying that, Tang Xiaoqi didn't forget to turn around twice, but the pain in her ankle made her grin. This expression made Li laugh and cry. Seeing that Tang Xiaoqi was fine except for a little injury to his ankle, Li relieved his heart.