Chapter 26: The Hornet (I)

At noon, after lunch, Jia Yi asked Yao Lao for half a day off. He was going to the mountains in the afternoon.

He put the flour he kneaded last night into the rest of the flour and kept it. The sifted bran is boiled in the morning and drunk in porridge, so imagine it as cereal.

Inferior cereal.

Last night's words from his father Gary made Jiayi clearly realize that his family can only be regarded as just getting rid of the food and clothing line, and occasionally has to struggle online.

He seemed to remember hearing someone say that there was a salt mine in the mountains, but it was poisonous and could not be eaten, and that if the salt mine could be used, there would be no need to go out to buy salt to eat.

But he wasn't sure if it was true, maybe someone had said it and he had overheard it, maybe it was just his own auditory hallucination. After all, he himself doesn't even remember who said this.

So, he wanted to go to the mountains behind the forest to find it himself. In fact, the main reason is that he wants to go out to wave.

Jia Yi and Donna together, as well as the yellow-haired Badru, Walker, and Doris, a total of five people set off together, and the remaining two people had something at home and did not come out.

There isn't much work in the field today, so mom Erica didn't go to the field today and took care of the children at home, otherwise it would be impossible for Donna and Jiayi to both come out. Leave at least one to take care of Cargill.

It is said that Jia Yi slept in the cradle when he was an hour, and his mouth and nose were covered by the falling mosquito net, and he was almost suffocated to death, and his face was purple. Fortunately, Donna was already sensible at that time, and she cried outside the door to attract the neighbor's aunt next door, and she was saved.

So when you come to Cargill, someone must watch to avoid any accidents.

When they got out into the wilderness, they walked deeper into the woods as they walked. It's going inside, but it's not going too deep. The forest outside is no longer full of wild beasts due to the frequent activities of the villagers, but it is not necessarily true that they go deeper.

They didn't come out today for any purpose, just to look around casually, and find some wild peaches and other fruits to satisfy their cravings. But wild peaches are really not delicious, not only small, but also very sour.

So, if you touch it, pick it up, and if you can't touch it, forget it.

The best thing is to be able to meet mulberries, which are big, sweet, and have no kernels yet. Some fruits, don't look big, most of them are peels and pits, such as pomegranates and mangosteens.

I remember that when Jia Yi was a child in his last life, there was a mulberry tree by the river. When it comes to fruit, they will deliberately take a long detour to and from class, just to walk under the mulberry tree and pick mulberry fruits to eat. The mouths that eat are purple, and the lips are purple and purple.

However, there are not many cases where you have the opportunity to eat black lips, because you are always in a hurry, so most of the time the fruit is not ripe. Only when the fruit is concentrated and ripe can you have a chance to feast.

But the mulberry fruit ripens quickly, and the bad fruit is also fast, and after the days of concentrated ripening fruit in those few days have passed, we can only continue to rush to pick the remaining ripe slowly.

Unfortunately, today they did not have such good luck, not only mulberry trees, but also wild peaches did not see a single one.

"Donna, Kaichi, come over here, look at this, Honeycomb. Ahead Badru shouted.

As soon as Jia Yi walked over, several other people also arrived.

Looking in the direction Badru was pointing, it was a huge beehive. There are many bees coming in and out.

No, it's not a bee, it's a hornet.

It's really a big beehive, it looks at least as thick as a small bucket, about sixty or seventy centimeters long, and the surface is yellowish-brown. What a big thick and long dick.

If only it were a bee hive, how much honey there would be.

There are several species of wasps, and in his previous life, Jiayi saw at least two of them. He can't distinguish the two from the appearance, both are yellow and black striped, but the nesting habits of the two are different.

The first thing he saw was similar to the current one, building their own nests and many wasps living together. He was stung by this kind of wasp, and he rashly poked the hornet's nest without taking any protective measures.

There is also one that does not seem to build a nest, and when he sees it, it is a single one. He used to use a bamboo rod when he used to fish, and when he wasn't using it, he hung it on the partition at the top of the house.

Once, he saw a wasp fly into the house, fly around his fishing rod, and then fly out again. At the time he didn't find out why. It wasn't until a few days later that he was going out fishing again, and when he took out the fishing rod, he accidentally found that the bottom of the rod was sealed by mud.

After thinking about it, it must not have been done by myself or my own family, because this one didn't look like it was poked into the mud and sealed. The outer seal was so neat, as if it had been repaired, and no one could be so bored. He punctured the earth with a stick, and poured out the contents.

It turned out to be a cabbage worm with rice-like eggs on the surface. The bugs were still alive when they came out, but they didn't move anymore, as if they were paralyzed.

Seeing this, he suddenly figured out that this should be dried by a wasp, and the wasp caught the worm and put it in the bamboo of the fishing rod, and then laid eggs on the worm, and when the hornet eggs surfaced, he ate the worm, and only came out after the obscene development was good.

He had read about this kind of behavior in books, such as Cordyceps, which was just grassy.

In the end, he found an ant nest and fed the ants, which he poured out.

So, in Jiayi's impression, hornets eat meat. Especially when I was a child, I was stung by a wasp, which left a lot of shadows in my heart.

It was when I was about 10 years old, and there was a hornet's nest under the edge of the second floor of the Jia family, which was not very big, the size of an adult's fist.

When the family saw it, they tied it to a bamboo pole with straw, lit it and stretched it out under the hornet's nest. As soon as the hornet escapes from its nest, it is burned without wings, and it cannot sting people. Then the hornet's nest was poked down by a bamboo pole, and there were white bee pupae in it.

After stabbing the hive, he also saw the wasp with its wings burned off on the ground nearby, and learned that the fire did not kill all the wasps, but all the hornet's wings were burned off, and the wasps without wings could only wait to die. Then he stomped the fish to death.

After successfully stabbing the hornet's nest that time, he and his friends saw another hornet's nest under a crooked-necked willow tree in the village. That time, I don't know what he thinks, so I directly found a bamboo pole and went to poke the hornet's nest.

Perhaps, he thinks he can outrun the hornet, or maybe the last time his family easily killed a hornet's nest, he thought that the hornets looked fierce, but it was not a big deal.

Then, it was a tragedy, he didn't run as fast as his companions, he was stung on his forehead with a big bag, and he lay at home humming and chirping all afternoon. I only felt a dizzy and hot stinging pain.

Since then, he has shunned the hornet.

Sometimes, he also thought about finding a new hornet's nest to get revenge (the original one was stabbed out by the adults when they came back), and he felt that this time it was just a brain pump, and as long as he used the right steps, he would definitely be able to poke the hornet's nest.

It's just a pity that since that time, he has never seen a hornet's nest again, only a single hornet, the kind mentioned above that lays its cubs in his fishing rod.