After the entire bee colony was collected, Wang Manyin realized that he had overlooked the most important thing: he was so excited just now that he forgot to check where the queen bee was.

As the core of the entire bee colony, the queen bee is mainly responsible for reproducing offspring, and can also control the order of the bee colony through the "queen pheromone" she secretes.

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, so of course you can't be careless.

Wang Manyin hurriedly opened his eyes and looked into the hole carefully. At this moment, except for the scattered bees flying around, he could not find the queen bee.

Then, he entered the space again.

It turned out that a large swarm of bumblebees had gathered on the dead acacia tree that had just been put into the space.

There is one that is obviously different from the other bumble bees. It is one size larger. It should be the legendary queen bee.

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

It's sweet but slightly sour, and it's hard to bite. It tastes very different from the honey I've eaten in later generations.

But for those who don’t eat much sweets, it will definitely excite the taste buds.

After eating a piece of beehive, Wang Manyin dug out all the roots of a few acacia trees outside. Then he cut all the firewood on the platform.

This was very busy and took two or three hours.

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

Finally, use an ax to chop several egg-thick tree sticks, each 20 centimeters long, and sharpen one end.

After preparations were made, Wang Manyin climbed up by the roots of the shrub.

When encountering a place where I can't rely on my strength, I pick up my ax and wedge the wooden stick into the loess.

Fortunately, this cliff is not straight up and down, and has a certain slope. Moreover, most of the locations he chose are near the grass roots, which have a good fixation effect, and the surrounding loess has not collapsed.

Just like this, I spent more than ten minutes and finally returned to the top of the cliff.

He looked down again, still feeling a little frightened.

If I hadn't reacted in time before and fell directly to the bottom of the ditch fifty or sixty meters away, my life might have been lost.

In the future, we should try to avoid such dangerous actions as much as possible...

Halfway up the cliff, it felt like it was going to be dark soon.

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

At this moment, the surrounding plains and valleys were covered in earthy yellow as the sun shone upon them, and a kite circled proudly high in the sky, quickly disappearing into the distance.

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

A word immediately popped into his mind - Lange Yingying's Heaven.

It will be difficult for future generations to see such a sky again.

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When it was getting dark, Wang Manyin appeared at the entrance of the village carrying a bundle of firewood. In his other hand, he was holding a wattle basket with two beehives in it.

It's cold in the evening and the honeycomb is relatively hard, so it's not afraid of leaking.

The main reason why he did this was to create an illusion to the villagers that he often went into the mountains to cut firewood.

Otherwise, there will be a large amount of firewood in front of the house for no reason, which will definitely make people suspicious after a long time.

Just as we reached the three intersections of the dirt road, we happened to meet the village sheepherder Wang Guifa returning with his sheep.

"Man Yin, I didn't believe it last time when I heard Lianshun say that you, a coward, have finally changed your ways. Where can 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 only carried firewood when he was almost at the entrance of the village. However, he was still a little out of breath after going back and forth for thirty miles.

"You don't want your life. What should you do if you encounter a wolf? I heard from people in Shuangshui Village earlier that there are wolves howling in Langwo Mountain." Wang Guifa was startled.

"It's okay, I don't have an ax with me." Wang Manyin replied nonchalantly. Wolves on the Loess Plateau are generally lone wolves. If you have Rhubarb by your side, you won't be afraid even if you encounter one.

"You are destined to be lucky, but you can't go there again," Wang Guifa said. According to Wang Manyin's seniority, he was also considered a good old man.

"I know, Mr. Guifa, I'll give you something rare. Take it back and give it to the broken children at home to try." Wang Manyin said, opening the wattle basket and tearing off a half-kilogram piece of beehive.

There aren't many things, so I just think about it.

"Honey, have you found a honeycomb in Langwo Mountain?"

Wang Guifa asked in surprise.

Without any hesitation, he broke open the honeycomb and took a small bite, then wrapped the rest in a dirty white handkerchief.

These days, sweets are very expensive.

"What about the swarm of bees? Are they still in the same place? Tomorrow I will go with you to collect the local bees and keep them in my house. Next year we will harvest half of the honey."

At this moment, Wang Guifa was no longer afraid of the wolf.

"They're all gone. I've destroyed the bumblebee cave."

"Why don't you know how to ask the Master to go with you tomorrow, you idiot?" Wang Guifa smacked his thigh depressedly when he heard the swarm of bees running away, feeling that he had missed a lot of money.

After putting away the firewood at home, Wang Manyin immediately entered the space to check the swarm of bumblebees. As a result, he found that the dead tree was empty and gone.

The space is closed and they cannot escape.

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

Only then did he notice that the sound was coming from a deep pit nearby.

It turns out that the deep pits where chickens are raised are filled with chicken manure, which emits an unpleasant smell and can easily breed bacteria over time.

Wang Manyin planned to dig a new deep hole and move a few hens to a new place, but he never thought that the hole would be occupied by bumblebees.

There are several earthen kilns dug into the earthen walls of the deep pit, which are reserved for hens to lay eggs.

This group of guys has settled inside, and it seems that it has completely stabilized, and the swarm is no longer turbulent and flying.

Although there were many wild flowers blooming in the space, it was not the season after all. Wang Manyin was afraid that the bees would starve to death without food, so for safety reasons, he made two beehives and put them in the earthen kiln.

After the inspection, he came up with the idea of ​​other beehives.

During the day, I was still thinking about what gift to give to Director Guo’s family of the supply and marketing cooperative, and these honeys came in handy.

It's just that he didn't have a bee horn on hand, and he lacked materials to make his own.

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

This method is very simple. Crush the honeycomb, heat and melt it, and then cool it. Beeswax is lighter than honey, and the two will separate after cooling.

The only thing you need to pay attention to is controlling the fire temperature.

He did it as soon as he thought of it. He directly took an earthen pot, washed it, crushed the beehive and poured it into it.

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

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

Wang Manyin was crossing the river by feeling his way through the stones, not knowing whether he could succeed, so he didn't dare to release all the bee hives at once.

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

Feeling that he was almost done, he simply stopped the fire and took the earthen pot outside to cool down.

It was just dark now and the outside temperature had dropped below freezing.

It only took about ten minutes for the earthen jar to cool down.

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

When you uncover it, you will find pure honey underneath.

He picked a piece of it with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. It was sweet and a faint floral fragrance hit his nostrils.

I felt relieved that there was no strange smell.

Then, Wang Manyin poured the honey into a glass can and capped it.

He locked the door again and walked towards the Shige Festival Commune with Dahuang.

Although the moon above his head was very bright, it was not as bright as during the day. Wang Manyin's walking speed was much slower, and it took almost forty or fifty minutes before he could reach the street.

These days, there are militiamen patrolling the commune at night. So he didn't wander around. He first brought the rhubarb into the space, then packed the two prepared local chickens and a jar of honey in cloth bags, and walked towards the director's house of the supply and marketing cooperative.

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

After seeing what he took out, he refused even more.

Seeing all the strange things in later generations, Wang Manyin naturally said "sincerely": "Director Guo, these are all my own, they are not valuable things... If you need anything in the future, please continue to speak. It's late, so I won't disturb you anymore.

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After saying that, he quickly opened the door and left.
Chapter completed!