Chapter 49: Honey Harvesting

Kaichi and Donna send their brother to play with Badru's brother, and then beckon Badru to go with him to find honey. Badru's younger brother was born later, a little over three years old this year, a little younger than Cargill.

Badru crossed the bridge with the two men and entered the forest again. This forest can be regarded as the treasure of Tagi Village, providing wild vegetables and mushrooms in spring and summer, and wild fruits and game in autumn and winter.

Badru led them eastward, a long way over, over a small hill, to the bottom of a cliff.

"Badru, did you run this far alone? Jiayi said worriedly, this place is quite far from the village, if you encounter a wild beast, it will be called the heavens and the earth.

"How can it be dangerous, I know this place very well, and I have been here many times. Badru began to brag, forgetting about the beating of his father when he went out hunting.

Seeing that Jia Yi and Donna had been staring at him with contempt, he admitted: "I saw a honey bird yesterday, and I followed him to this place without knowing it, and found these bees. I've been looking for you early this morning, and we're going to get honey. ”

As its name suggests, the Honey Bird is a honey-eating bird, which is about the same size as the oriole, but not as brightly colored as the oriole, covered with gray-brown feathers, and looks similar to the falcon, but is much smaller. The honeybird has sharp claws and hard feathers, and it likes to eat honey, and when it finds a hive, it will tear open the hive with its claws and peck at honey. Although they eat honey, they also protect the hive from other animals, such as honey badgers.

In fact, there are honey birds on the earth, but they are not as strong as here, and they find the hive to find a helper to tear open the hive, leaving a little honey for themselves. Unlike the honey birds here, they regard the hives they find as their property.

Kayi looked at the cliff and asked Badru, "Where is the honeycomb? Is it here?"

"Over there. Badru pointed to the cliff on the left and said, "Come, walk a little outside and you'll see it." He took Kaichi and Donna 10 steps to the left, looking up and pointing upwards.

"Look, honey!" he said, "Honey!" He had already regarded the honeycomb as a thing in his bag, and when he saw the honeycomb, he thought it was honey.

Jia Yi looked up and saw that this cliff was recessed here, producing a protrusion that could cover the top of his head, and there were three beehives under this protrusion, densely packed with holes, which were bees' houses, and many bees could be seen going in and out on the hive, which should be working hard to collect honey.

The protrusion at the top of the cliff is good for the bees to shelter from the wind and rain, the cliff is not too high, about 10 meters, but the average honey-eating creature can not get it, such as bears and honey badgers. Only honey birds and humans can plunder the honey of bees.

It's just that, looking at this beehive on the cliff, Jia Yi made a difficulty, and he said to Badru: "Badru, you didn't say that the honey is in such a high place, how can we collect honey? ”

"Can you climb up then?" asked Badru, weakly.

"You're crazy, you're so tall, if you get stung by a bee, your life will be gone. Besides, there are honey birds, which will definitely come to peck at us when they see us collecting honey. Kaichi said.

"yes, it's so high, we can't climb it. Why don't we get an adult? Donna spoke.

"No, if you look for an adult, it won't be our business. Think of a way again, Jiayi, you're so smart. Badru said.

If you ask an adult to help, you won't be able to use the honey you pick up, and you will definitely have to taste it a little bit. If you pick it yourself, you can eat it first and then leave some for your family. Jiayi actually prefers to solve it himself, this is honey, there is no beekeeper as a profession yet, honey is a luxury.

Jiayi's family is now a well-off family, and he is reluctant to buy honey to eat by himself. I tried to buy honey to make bread, and it was really delicious, but it was a cost, and it was a cost.

Jiayi thought for a moment and said, "Let's go back and get ready to come back." Find a long stick and tie a scythe to it, and cut off the hive. ”

"Will it work?" Donna skeptical, "Why don't we hang a rope from above?"

Bayeru listened to Donna's words and agreed: "Yes, Nana is right, we will hang a rope from above to collect honey." ”

Jia Yi thought about it for a moment and refused: "No, the rope is not safe from above, in case that raised stone platform collapses, won't all the honey fall off?

The two thought about it, and it was indeed safer to stand on the ground than to hang in the air, so they agreed.

"Let's look again and see if there are any other honeycombs, if only there were more. Before leaving, Badru said to everyone.

"Didn't you look for it when you came yesterday?" asked Kaichi curiously.

"Of course not, it was quite late when I found this place yesterday, and if I don't go back, my dad will beat me, so how can I have time to find it. No, did I come to you early in the morning? ”

This reason is simply unassailable, and Kaichi can't say God anymore. Everyone began to search along the cliffs, left and right.

"Why don't we go back and prepare first, bring the tools and look for them, and cut them off as soon as we find them. ”

"We came back and cut the honey directly, and then ate it, how can we find the honeycomb again. ”

Hold the grass, what you said makes so much sense, I was speechless, Jia Yi only had this feeling in his heart now.

"Come on with you two, look what I've found. At this point, Donna beckoned them over, as if something had been discovered.

The two hurriedly survived, only to see Donna lying on top of a small cliff, with her left hand picking up a vine, revealing a cave. The cave is more than a man tall from the ground, about 2 meters. But there are many places below the cave that resemble stairs, and it was from here that Donna climbed up.

"Nana, come down quickly, what if there's a beast inside. Jia Yi said angrily that many of the caves in this kind of jungle are occupied by wild beasts.

"How is it possible, so high, how can the beast climb up? Donna said unhappily, but she put down the vine in her hand and climbed down.

"Even if there are no wild beasts, what if there are snakes? If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, you will die if you can't go back." ”

"Didn't you study medicine with the medicine elder?

"I'm a pharmacist, not a doctor, so it's different, and I don't have any medicine. ”

Seeing that the two of them were arguing, Badru said, "Okay, okay, isn't it okay now? Don't you quarrel, Nana, what's in there?"

Seeing that nothing happened, Jia Yi stopped talking, and heard Donna say, "I didn't see anything, I found the hole and called you." ”

"Then let's go in and see, there may be some treasure hidden by the bandits. Badru said excitedly.

"How can there be bandits here, think too much. "Ka hit them to.

"Then you don't want to go. ”

"Go. ”

Although Kayi said no, he was indeed curious about the adventure. Although his soul is no longer small, in fact, he was not a mature and stable person in his previous life, and he likes this kind of fun of exploring the unknown very much.