Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 21: Digging for Honey

The terrain of the Loess Plateau is roughly divided into Mao, Yuan, Liang and Sichuan.

Among them, "Chuan" refers to a large flat depression sandwiched between two hills. The soil is moist and fertile, which is most suitable for growing crops.

"Yuan" corresponds to "Chuan", which belongs to a flat mountain top, also called Taiyuan.This kind of place is also suitable for growing crops, but the harvest depends on the sky.

In the dry season, manpower must be used to carry water to the plateau for irrigation.

As for Shanmao, in layman's terms, they are relatively short hills and hills, which can be surrounded by terraced fields to grow crops.

"Liang" is a strip of loess mounds, generally easy to form a steep earth cliff, which is what people usually call a cliff.

The terrain of the Loess Plateau is so strange that sometimes two villages seem to be very close to each other, separated by a deep ditch beside a cliff.

You can chat and shout face to face, but if you want to go there, you have to go around more than 30 miles.

This kind of terrain is mostly not suitable for crops, and coupled with the steep terrain, farmers generally avoid it automatically when collecting firewood.However, there are often a lot of good firewood growing in places that humans cannot reach.

Wang Manyin was also foolish and bold, prepared a rope, sickle and axe, and left with rhubarb.The place he went to was called Wolf's Nest Mountain, and it was said that there had been wild wolves there before.

After Rhubarb left the village, he seemed particularly excited and kept running around.The skylarks were frightened and flew up to the clouds in an instant, hovering in the sky.

This kind of bird is very common on the Loess Plateau. It is about the size of a sparrow and likes to make nests in wheat fields.

Their calls are melodious and pleasant, so they are also called "Calling the Son of Heaven".

One person and one dog dangle, and they don't feel lonely.

After an hour, Wang Manyin climbed over two mountain ridges one after another, and the village on the opposite side was completely invisible.

After walking for about ten miles, I finally came to the wolf den.

This area is a typical mountain ridge landform, and it is farther away from the river, which makes it appear more desolate, and there are many traces of human activities.

Sparse trees and shrubs grow on the surrounding Geliang beams.

Wang Manyin took a breath, took out the earthen pot from the space and drank a few sips of warm water, then ate two boiled eggs and a corn nest.

Of course, he didn't forget the earth dog, and he also made half a corn nest for this guy and got some water.

After eating and drinking, Wang Manyin officially started to get busy.

To deal with those twigs and vines, serve directly with the sickle.When encountering relatively thick shrub branches, swing the ax and slash.

In less than two hours, the firewood piled up into a hill in the space.

After resting for a while, Wang Manyin tied one end of the rope around his waist and the other end to the root of the jujube tree, and began to slowly climb down the cliff.

He could see clearly from the top just now that there is a flat land at a height of more than 20 meters on the edge of the cliff. There are a few fallen dead trees growing on it. They should be acacia.

The cave dwellings built by themselves need to be made of doors and windows, and taking them home can save a lot of wood money.

Wang Manyin did it as soon as his brain got hot, and he didn't know how dangerous such behavior was.

Just halfway down, the rope above the head suddenly loosened, and the body fell rapidly.

"My mother, the rope is broken..." He frantically waved his hands, scratching at the roots of the weeds and trees around him, taking the opportunity to slow down his fall.

The last one rolled over and landed on the platform.

Looking down the cliff, Wang Manyin was overjoyed.

It's too hanging, if you fell directly just now, you will be seriously injured if you don't die.

Especially in this place where no one is seen for several miles, even if you ask for help, it is "calling every day not to respond, calling the earth to be ineffective".

After he collected himself, he felt the pain on his face.Wipe the blood with your hand, it should be scratched by the jujube thorn.

It's okay to wear gloves on both hands.

Then, he pulled the rope, only to find that it wasn't broken in two.But the other end was not tied properly, and it came off from the root of the jujube tree.

Wang Manyin originally wanted to use dead trees as wood, but after peeling off the bark and taking a look, he was very disappointed.

No wonder such a large tree dies.The large hole and small eyes drilled in the trunk part are surrounded by a lot of insect excrement, which should be left by longhorn beetle larvae.

It is definitely not possible to make wood, so you can only take it home and use it as firewood. It is still possible to steam a few pots.

Then, he cut off the root of the tree neatly and hugged the trunk.

The next moment, the man and the tree disappeared.After going back and forth several times, a few big trees were brought into the space.

As for the tree roots, Wang Manyin did not intend to let them go.

Due to the lack of water, the trees on the Loess Plateau have a characteristic. Although the trunk is not high, the rhizome is not small.

Just such a dead tree, it is estimated that the roots of the tree can make dozens of catties of firewood.

Fortunately, there is still a shovel in the space, and I can try to dig out the roots later.

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard a slight buzzing sound coming from his ears, like bees flying.

At first, I thought I heard it wrong, but when Wang Manyin looked around, he became excited again.

There was a gap about ten centimeters wide on the edge of the cliff in front, about half a person's height, and seven or eight bees were flying in and out.

Although it is early winter, there are still some sporadic wild flowers blooming on the banks of the sunny cliffs in the mountains.Therefore, when the sun is sunny and the weather is warm during the day, you can occasionally see wild honey going out to collect honey.

Seeing those bees, Wang Manyin was almost overjoyed.

There are bees, and there must be hive colonies.They have worked hard to accumulate for more than half a year, and there is also a lot of honey in it.

More importantly, I can receive this swarm of bees into the space.

Although the space area is only more than three acres, the climate inside is suitable and wild flowers are everywhere.If you keep a colony of bees, eating honey in the future will not be a problem.

If you can't finish eating, you can also get it to sell at the supply and marketing agency.

He happened to know about it when he went to the souvenir shop last time.Now the commune allows farmers to raise bees by themselves.Moreover, the supply and marketing cooperatives buy honey all the year round, and it costs one yuan per catty.

Last year, someone from Guanzi Village dug a colony of bumble bees in the mountains, and made a whole bucket of honey alone, which was said to have been sold for more than 20 yuan.

Wang Manyin has never taken out a honeycomb, but he has seen some videos of honey picking and donkey hoof repairing on the Internet of Later Times, so he knows about it.

He knew that there should not be too much movement when picking honey, otherwise it would be easy to blow up the group.

It's just that the weather is cold now, and the activity of bees is relatively low, which saves a lot of trouble.

After carefully looking at the location, he took a sickle and dug the loess at the entrance of the cave bit by bit.The whole movement was careful, and it took about ten minutes to finally dig the hole.

The golden hive inside was revealed, and a large group of black bees crawled back and forth.

Probably because of the cold weather, these guys only flew around the hive a few times after being alarmed, and fell back again.

The hole doesn't look big from the outside, but the space inside is not small. The shape is narrow and long, and it should be a naturally formed gap.

Wang Manyin could see seven or eight honeycombs, almost filling the entire cave.

It seems that this colony of Scolia has been living in the crevice for a long time.

The next step is the most important step - picking the honeycomb.

According to the statement on the Internet, use smoke.

Wang Manyin knew the general steps, but had never operated them.I don't even know how much smoke is needed, and to what extent.I'm afraid that if you don't care about blowing up the nest or killing the bees, it's not good.

After hesitating for a moment, he still decided to act recklessly.

Put on the gloves first, and tie the cuffs tightly with a rope.

Then, Wang Manyin took a piece of ragged clothes from the space and wrapped it around his head, only his eyes were exposed.

The body was wrapped tightly, and he felt that he was ready, so he stretched out his hand and began to break the honeycomb.

As expected, as soon as the honeycomb was broken off, many scumblers were immediately alarmed.

With a buzz, hundreds of them flew up.

But it didn't fly far, and after a circle, it fell back to the honeycomb.

Many bees landed directly on Wang Manyin's body, and one of them just crawled into the crevice of his clothes and pierced the tail needle along his cheek.

Hiss, it hurts.

In fact, the sting of the wasp is much lighter than that of the wasp. It is a bit like an injection. It only hurts a little, but it doesn't feel much.

After getting used to it, Wang Manyin ignored it and directly brought the honeycomb into the space and put it in the jar that he had prepared earlier.

The next moment, continue to return to break the honeycomb.

After going back and forth like this seven or eight times and being stung twice, I finally plucked all the honeycombs.

At this moment, the space became lively, and the bees were completely panicked, buzzing and flying around.

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