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Chapter 22: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones
After the entire bee colony had been collected, Wang Manyin realized that he had overlooked the most important thing: he was too excited just now, and forgot to check where the queen bee was.

As the core of the entire bee colony, the queen bee is mainly responsible for the reproduction of offspring, and can also control the order of the bee colony through the "queen pheromone" secreted by itself.

In short, if there is no queen bee, the entire bee colony will soon decline and die.

This guy is related to the success or failure of beekeeping in the future, of course he must not be sloppy.

Wang Manyin quickly widened his eyes and looked into the hole carefully. At this moment, except for the sporadic flying bees, there was no queen bee around.

Then, he entered the space again.

It turned out that a large group of bees had gathered on the dry locust tree that had just been put into the space.

One was obviously different from the other bumblebees, it was a size bigger, and it should be the legendary queen bee.

Seeing this situation, Wang Manyin breathed a sigh of relief, broke off a piece of honeycomb and tasted the spoils.

The sweetness is slightly sour, and it is hard to bite. It tastes very different from the honey I have eaten in later generations.

But for those who don't eat sweets very much, it will definitely detonate the taste buds.

After eating a piece of honeycomb, Wang Manyin dug out the roots of several acacia trees outside.Then cut off the firewood on the platform.

The whole process took two to three hours.

Seeing that it was getting late, he began to think about how to climb up.

Finally, use an ax to chop a few sticks as thick as eggs, each [-] centimeters long, with one end sharpened.

After finishing the preparations, Wang Manyin climbed up by the roots of the bushes.

When encountering a place where strength cannot be borrowed, he picked up the ax and wedged the wooden stick into the loess.

Fortunately, this piece of cliff wall is not straight up and down, but has a certain slope.Moreover, most of the locations he chose were near the grass roots, which had a good fixing effect, and the surrounding loess did not collapse.

Just like this, it took more than ten minutes to step on it with hands and feet, and finally returned to the top of the cliff.

He looked down again, still feeling a little terrified.

If he hadn't reacted in time before and fell directly to the bottom of the 60-meter ditch, he might have died.

In the future, we should try our best to avoid such dangerous actions...

Halfway up the cliff, I feel that the sky is about to get dark.

When he returned to the mountain ridge, he realized that it was too early for the sun to set.

At this moment, the surrounding Yuanlianggou Miao was covered with yellowish yellow by the sun, and a kite hovered proudly in the sky, and soon disappeared into the distance.

The blue sky is a bit outrageous, like a piece of pure blue glass without any impurities.

A word immediately popped up in his mind-Lang Yingying's day.

Such a sky is hard to see in future generations.

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When it was getting dark, Wang Manyin appeared at the entrance of the village with a bundle of firewood dangling on his back.In the other hand, he was holding a twig basket with two honeycombs in it.

It is cold in the evening, and the honeycomb is relatively hard, so it is not afraid of it flowing away.

The reason for doing this is that he intends to create a false impression for the villagers: he often goes to the mountains to cut firewood.

Otherwise, there will be a lot of firewood inexplicably in front of the house, which will definitely make people suspicious after a long time.

As soon as I walked to the three forks of the dirt road, I happened to meet Wang Guifa, a shepherd in the village, returning with his flock of sheep.

"Man Yin, last time I heard what Lian Shun said, I still didn't believe it, you coward finally changed your style. Where did you get such a big bundle of good firewood?"

"Langwo Mountain," Wang Manyin replied after taking a breath.

Although he was empty-handed all the way, he didn't carry firewood until he reached the entrance of the village.However, after thirty miles back and forth, I was still a little out of breath.

"You don't want to die, what will you do if you meet a wolf? I heard from people in Shuangshui Village earlier that there are wolves howling on Langwo Mountain." Wang Guifa was startled.

"It's okay, I don't have an ax here." Wang Manyin replied indifferently.The wolves on the Loess Plateau are generally lone wolves, and with rhubarb beside them, they are not afraid even if they do encounter one.

"It's your fate, you can't go anymore," Wang Guifa said Wang Manyin's father's generation according to his seniority, and he was also a good old man.

"Understood, Lord Guifa, I'll give you something rare, take it back and give it to the broken children at home to taste." Wang Manyin said, opened the wick basket, and tore off a piece of honeycomb weighing half a catty.

There are not many things, it's a thought.

"Honey, have you found a honeycomb in Wolf's Nest Mountain?"

Wang Guifa asked in surprise.

Without any excuse, he broke open the honeycomb and took a sip, then wrapped the rest with a dirty white towel.

These days, sweets are expensive.

"What about the swarm bees, are they still in the original place? I'll go with you tomorrow, and I'll collect the bees and keep them in my house. Next year we'll cut honey and we'll each have half."

Now, Wang Guifa is no longer afraid of wolves.

"They're all gone. I've already destroyed the Scolia hole."

"You old bastard, why don't you know how to call the master to go with you tomorrow." Hearing the swarming bees, Wang Guifa slapped his thigh depressedly, feeling like he missed a lot of tickets.

After putting away the firewood at home, Wang Manyin immediately entered the space to check the swarm of bumble bees.It turned out that the dead tree was empty and disappeared.

The space is closed, and it is impossible for them to escape.

With doubts, Wang Manyin searched around, and when he came to the deep pit where the chickens were raised, he heard the buzzing sound again.

He just noticed that the voice came from a deep pit next to him.

It turned out that the deep pit where the chickens were raised was full of chicken manure, which gave off an unpleasant smell, and it was easy to breed bacteria after a long time.

Wang Manyin planned to dig another deep pit and move a few hens to a new place, but he didn't expect to be occupied by Scolia.

There are several earthen kilns dug on the soil wall of the deep pit, which are reserved for hens to lay eggs.

This group of guys settled down inside, and it seems that they have completely stabilized, and the bee colony is no longer flying around.

Although there are many wildflowers blooming in the space, it is not the season after all.Wang Manyin was afraid that the bee colony would starve to death without food, so for the sake of safety, he made two honeycombs and put them in the kiln.

After the inspection, he started thinking about other honeycombs.

During the day, I was still thinking about what gift to send to Director Guo's family of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and these honey came in handy.

It's just that he doesn't have a beehive shaker at hand, and he lacks materials if he wants to make his own.

After a little thought, Wang Manyin decided to use the most traditional local method to extract honey.

This method is very simple, smash the honeycomb and heat it to melt, then cool it down.Beeswax is light and honey is heavy, and the two will separate after cooling.

The only thing to pay attention to is to control the temperature of the fire.

As soon as he thought of it, he took a crock and washed it, smashed the honeycomb and poured it into it.

Then put the crock pot into the iron pot with water and heat it slowly over low heat.

In order to prevent the plant ash from falling inside, the pot was also covered specially.

Wang Manyin was also crossing the river by feeling the stones, not knowing if he could succeed, so he didn't dare to put all the honeycombs in one go.

After a while, the honey in the crock began to bubble and melt, and finally turned into a liquid completely.

Feeling almost done, he simply stopped the fire and took the crock outside to cool down.

It was just dark at this moment, and the outside temperature had dropped below zero.

In less than ten minutes, the crock was completely cooled.

Wang Manyin held the earthen pot and checked it under the kerosene lamp, and found that a thick layer of beeswax had condensed on the surface.

Uncover it, and the bottom is full of pure honey.

He picked a ball with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. It was sweet, and a faint fragrance of flowers came to his nostrils.

I felt nothing strange, so I was relieved.

Then, Wang Manyin poured the honey into a glass jar and covered it.

He locked the door again, and walked towards Shigejie Commune with rhubarb.

Although the moon above the head is very bright, it is no better than during the day.Wang Manyin's walking speed was much slower, and it took about four to five or 10 minutes before he could barely reach the street.

These days, the commune still has militia patrols at night.So he didn't wander around, first brought the rhubarb into the space, then packed the prepared two native chickens and a jar of honey in a cloth bag, and walked towards the director's house of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Director Guo was also a little surprised by Wang Manyin's arrival.

After seeing what he took out, he even refused again and again.

Seeing all kinds of things in later generations, Wang Manyin naturally said "sincerely": "Director Guo, these are all my own, not valuable things... If you need anything in the future, you continue to speak. It's not too early, I won't bother you .”

After speaking, quickly open the door and leave.

Guo Chaowang yelled twice behind, but nothing happened.

(End of this chapter)