Chapter 51: Honey Harvesting
With two sticks and ropes on their backs, and Donna and Badru with a basket and a basket on their backs, the three of them set off again, heading towards Honey. As for why there are two sticks, it is mainly because one stick is not long enough, and two are tied up to be enough.
The three of them came to the cliff with honey again, and ran several times, and they were a little tired. Especially the long stick, which is particularly troublesome to carry in the forest.
Jia Yi first tied the two sticks with a rope and tied them tightly, otherwise the sticks on them would tremble and could not be controlled. After tying it up, he tried it on the hive, and it was just right. If that's not enough, you'll have to find a stick in the woods to make do with it.
Then he tied a newly broken green branch at the very front, and tied some dry weeds and leaves with green vines on it, and mixed some fresh branches and leaves in it. Although it is spring, there is a lot of weeds left on the ground last winter. This one is for smoking, smoking bees. You can't tie it directly to your own stick, and if it burns out, it's not good.
"Are you all ready for the fire?" tied the "cigarette handles", and Kaichi asked the other two. If the one that is on fire is called a torch, and the one that is smoking is called a "cigarette torch", there should be no problem.
He once watched a video of glutinous rice balls dyed with red dye to make cherry blossom color, wrapped in cherry blossom leaves, called cherry blossom cake, you at least add some cherry blossoms to it. It is boiled in a bamboo tube and called bamboo rice, isn't it better to pour the cooked rice into the bamboo tube and call it bamboo rice?
"Of course, it's as simple as starting a fire. Donna was heard replying.
When Jia Yi heard this, he walked over and said, "You have to be careful, pay attention to fire prevention, if we accidentally set the forest on fire, we will be killed even if we run out." ”
"You stop talking nonsense, hurry up and get started, we know how to do it. Donna said impatiently.
Following Jiayi's gaze, I saw that a clearing had been cleared out of the place where there was not much grass under the cliff, and the edge was surrounded by stones, and a fire was raised in the middle, and it was burning vigorously.
"Alright, almost, Nana go add some grass and leaves or something, and raise the smoke to protect us. Kaichi lifted the "cigarette handle" in his hand and said, "Badru, let's light this together and raise it to smoke the bees." ”
"Call me sister. Donna said dissatisfied.
"Okay, okay, let's get the cigarette out first, and don't you want to eat honey yet. Jia Yi has to wonder if Donna has seen 100,000 bad jokes, so persistent.
He didn't want to think about it, didn't he also insist on not calling Donna his sister. For peers who are slightly older than him, Jia Yi rarely calls his brother and sister, perhaps because he feels more mature than them, but he has no resistance to calling his parents his parents.
After lighting the "cigarette handle", Kaichi and Badru lifted it up and stretched it out to smoke the bees farther away from the honeycomb. Smoked bees are not the same as flaminated wasps, although they look similar.
The smoke bee is to drive the bees away, after the smoke, the bees are disturbed by the smoke, the bee colony will think that the fire needs to escape urgently and the stress reaction occurs, and all the honey is ready to fly away, because the honey sucking causes the bee's abdomen to swell, and the needle cannot sting out. Therefore, it is necessary to be careful not to put the fire source too close, it is not good to burn the bees, and it is necessary to pay attention to keeping the bees intact so that they can continue to collect honey in the future.
But the hornet is different, the main purpose is to kill the hornet, just put the fire source directly under the hornet's nest and burn the hornet. When they encountered smoke, the wasps flew out of the honeycomb and were directly burned to death by the fire.
After the smoke was over, the bees flew out of the nest, some flew into the distance, and a few stopped nearby, but they did not give them a beating. Seeing that it was almost smoked, Jia took off the cigarette handle, put out the fire on the stick with his foot, and removed the small stick at the front. Then tie the sickle cross-shaped horizontally to the front, and tie a basket under the sickle to the next beehive.
To be honest, this set of equipment is not light, if it is carried directly in the hand, it is nothing, but it is more difficult to pick it up with a stick to cut honey, because of the principle of leverage, the effort required is far greater than that of carrying it in the hand. Jiayi can't operate it alone, and he must cooperate with Badru.
The two of them worked hard together, lifted the stick, stretched it under the honeycomb, and Jia Yi said, "Nana, you look at it, we can't see clearly when we are blocked by the basket." ”
"I see, call sister. A little to the right, you touch the honeycomb, and a little bit higher, you're at the bottom. ”
"Don't reach to the bottom, leave a little for the bees, and come back to collect honey later. Kaichi reminded Donna.
"Got it~~~ Okay, to the left, it's okay, to the left you can cut the honeycomb. Donna said.
Hearing Donna's words, Kaichi and Badru moved the pole to the left, cutting the hive was more difficult than Kaichi imagined, and it was not easy to cut in. Because the scythe in front of their pole is not very able to withstand force.
"Did you cut it in?" asked Kaichi.
"Just go in a little bit, you can't do it. ”
"How could it not be. Badrew, let's stop. Hearing Donna say that she couldn't do it, Kaichi became excited. said silently in my heart - how can a man say no. Why don't you say it, because they can't catch it.
Badru stopped his efforts and said to Kaichi, "Why don't we climb up to it and hang it down with a rope, you brought a rope anyway." ”
"No, let's move it back and forth so that the sickle can cut it, not all the time. After talking to Badru, he said to Donna, "You can help me take a look." ”
After the order, the two began to cut the hive again.
"Come, gently, front, back, front, oops, slide out, come, go up, okay, go in, go in, come again, front, back, front, front..."
"Alright, alright, slowly, the honeycomb is going to fall, basket, basket to the right, my right, okay, go in, keep cutting. ”
With Donna's command, only the sound of "pia" is heard, and the hive is cut off and falls in the basket.
The two hurriedly put the pole down and came to the pole to look at the honey in the basket. I saw that there was a honeycomb in the shape of a curved triangle in the basket, and the honey in it was already golden and flowed out of the hive. There are still some bees on the hive that did not fly away and remained on the hive.
All three of them reached for honey and stuffed it in their mouths, well, it was so sweet.
"Well, it's delicious, it feels better than anything I've ever eaten before. Badru sighed.
"Alright, let's cut off the rest first, and don't wait for the bees to fly back and sting us. "Kaichi doesn't know how long it will take for the smoked bees to come back, so he can only collect honey as soon as possible.
He tore a few pieces of the hive, one by one, threw it into his mouth, chewed it like chewing gum, and placed the rest of the honey in another box underneath a large clean leaf. They continued to cut the honey while chewing. It tastes even better.
"Nana, take the frame, in case we don't catch you, use the frame to catch the honeycomb, don't fall to the ground. ”
"Got it, hurry up. Donna nodded as she chewed on the hive, not even caring if Jia Yi didn't call her sister.
The three of them worked together to cut down the remaining two beehives. It's just that the last hive was more excited when it was cut, and the hive accidentally fell, but fortunately, Donna was agile and caught it, but a small piece fell to the ground.
Jia Yi went over and picked it up, blew the dust, and threw it directly into his mouth, if it was in his previous life, he would not be like this. I've been in the Otherworld for a long time, and I don't care about this kind of thing anymore. It's not dry, it's not clean, and it's not sick after eating.