Chapter 274 The Princess in the Giant Pit (24)
Looking at the bald honey-seeking team wearing raincoats and straw hats, Mrs. You couldn't help laughing: "If you want to cover up, you should cover your whole body. Aren't your face and arms still exposed?"

Brother You didn't care about his sister's ridicule: "How can I get honey without getting stung? As long as I don't get stung, it's fine on the top of my head and on my back."

Mrs. Zhao and her eldest aunt were not worried at all. The honey-seeking team included their second and third brothers, and three of their uncle's cousins ​​also came.

Looking at their immature eyes and rough equipment, Mrs. You muttered: Without an experienced person to take the lead, is this reliable?

She really underestimated them. These teenagers who grew up in the virgin forest, although they were not allowed to go to the deep mountains at their age, they should not be too familiar with the outside of the forest.

Yousandi, who inherited your father's good eyesight, squinted his eyes to observe the bee line (the flight line of bees collecting) as soon as he entered the forest. While watching, he also raised his ears to listen to the sound of bees (bees collect nectar from flowers or near the hive). sound during flight).

Cousin Zhao, who has a keen sense of smell, followed You Sandi's direction and carefully smelled the bee smell in the air (the smell emitted by broken spleens, dead bees, honey, etc. that fell off the hive).

The boys who didn't have special skills were not idle, they were all scattered on the ground looking for ants.

If the wild bees build their hives high in the trees, and the hives are damaged by extreme weather or forest animals, the honey in the hives will drop to the ground.

For ants and some sugar-loving insects, this is a rare delicacy, and it can be found from far away with the smell of honey.

Looking at the division of labor among a group of people, you can tell that hunting for honey has been done a lot in the past.

Everyone has their own things to do!
Today's task for the young ladies is to continue to learn how to dig edible wild vegetable rhizomes from the soil in autumn.

They had only been in the field class for less than half an hour when good news came from the honey hunting team.

The small team did not find the beehive hidden on the top of the big tree, but found a small number of wild bees in and out of two relatively hidden stone crevices on the hillside.

There are only a few holes the size of eggs in the gap between two huge rocks.

It's easier said than done to open it up and see the structure inside?

When the little ladies arrived, the boys had already picked up their hammers recklessly, and began to chisel the rocks at the entrance of the cave.

After dozens of heavy hammer blows, a hole the size of a football was carved into the rock.

The young ladies were eager to give it a try and said they could take turns wheeling the hammer for their brothers.

Tiger, so tiger!
How can you be so reckless in doing things?
Mrs. You, who is dedicated to mental work, observed the rocks for a long time and found that half of the two rocks were embedded in the soil of the mountain.

It would be faster to cut it into pieces than to hollow out the soil on the left and right sides of the rock and underneath it!

The younger brothers, who had already switched to two people swinging the hammer, happily accepted the elder sister's (cousin) suggestion without much thought.

It is really tiring to chisel stone, and the effect is not obvious!

The job of poking out soil was relatively easy, and the five boys worked on it from morning to afternoon.

Finally, when the ladies got impatient, two large rocks weighing about one ton and the soil on the left and right were cleared away.

Without the support of the soil, you only need to use the principle of leverage to push the stone away without much effort.

Brothers cheer!
"Sister is amazing!"

"My sister's method is good!"

"Wow! So much honey!"

"God!"

Mrs. Zhao and her eldest aunt and other elderly women were shocked when the rocks rolled away, leaving behind a cave about the height of one person.

Not to mention, the little ladies who had no chance to enter the forest all stared wide-eyed in shock.

No one has ever seen such a large swarm of wild bees!

No one has ever seen such a large hive!
Pieces of honeycombs are like fish scales as big as a washbasin, one next to another, extending from the entrance of the hole to the inside.

The color of the honeycomb ranges from golden to brown, and the color becomes darker the further away from the hole. It is estimated that there are hundreds of honeycombs!
The wild bees were so densely packed on the hive at the entrance of the cave that if someone with trypophobia saw it, they would probably faint on the spot.The teenagers who had worked hard for several hours quickly lit up the fire, regardless of their hunger and exhaustion.

Perhaps sensing the approaching danger, the wild bees, exposed to the public's sight, began to stir uneasily.

Second brother You became the commander-in-chief and whispered to the team members: "Look for the queen bee, find the queen bee quickly!"

The members, dressed in raincoats and straw hats, lit torches and entered the depths of the cave.

Why don't you smoke all the wild bees out of their nests, and why do you still need people to go in?
Mrs. You was puzzled, so she asked: "Aniang, what are the third brothers doing to capture the queen bee?"

"In order to drive wild bees out of the hive, apart from using smoke, the safest way is to catch the queen bee and take their leader outside, and they will move with the queen bee."

"There are so many wild bees, how can you tell which one is the queen bee?"

"The biggest one is the only one in a swarm of bees!"

As soon as Zhao finished speaking, responses came one after another from inside the cave.

"Second brother, I caught a queen bee!"

"Second cousin, I also caught one."

"..."

With seven queen bees gathered, I don’t know if I want to summon the bee fairy!

There are seven queen bees. My aunt guessed that there might be seven nests of wild bees living in this cave.

Maybe they are still relatives.

After catching the queen of another bee colony, the male bees and the worker bees were all panicked.

For a time, the cave was full of "buzzing" sounds.

Except for the little ladies who hid far away, the boys who took the honey received at least ten injections on average!
To get honey, there is a custom of "liing in a huge pit".

Four out of ten, more than half of the winter rations must be left for the wild bees.

Even if they only take half of it, each kid has one, and the cowhide bag that can hold a hundred catties of honey can't fit it.

This was the result of their sister smuggling fifty pounds of honey.

If there weren't so many people still present, Mrs. You would be so happy that she would jump three feet high.

She had just received a piece of fresh, palm-sized black honeycomb.

This color, I really dare not stutter!

I just used the grocery store code scanner and scanned it once.

Oops, that's incredible.

[Honey from wild flower nests that are more than two years old and less than three years old, commonly known as "honeycomb", is honey that is matured by bees and sealed with wax.It is also a kind of mature honey composed of two parts: honeycomb and honey.

It is rich in biological enzymes, vitamins, and a variety of trace elements. It also integrates propolis, pollen, and honey.

It can be antiseptic and antibacterial, protect the liver, regulate nerves and relieve insomnia. 】

[Laochao honey, excellent quality, recommended retail price: 500g, 500 village coins! 】

[Will the honey extraction process be filmed into a product video and put on the shelves? 】

(End of this chapter)

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