After graduation, I went home to keep bees

There are many people and strength, and after having enough wet firewood, after lunch at noon, Shanyan will lead the people to hang the wet firewood up, and throw the lit firewood piles into the cracks of the rock wall.

At the foot of the mountain, Jiang Yu took Jiang Xiaoman and hid in a simple bunker made of wet firewood.

It wasn't until this moment that Jiang Xiaoman understood why Shanyan and the others had deliberately arranged them in a circle when they came back from chopping firewood——

This is equivalent to forming a thick four-sided wall. After the wild bees are smoked out, you only need to cover the top with a rain cloth and hide inside without being stung by the wild bees.

This scene was also filmed by Jiang Xiaoman, and later it was played very high on the short video platform!

Hearing the faint buzzing sound coming from outside, Jiang Yu secretly sighed, and winked at Jiang Xiaoman: "We are lucky this time, listening to the sound, there should be old beehives inside the rock wall. Not many bees."

Sure enough, in the evening, Shanyan and the others returned safely, and brought two large barrels full of wild bee nests, filled with golden honey!

"Brother Yan, shall we eat fried bee chrysalis tonight? It's been a long time!" another young man named Qingshan said impatiently.

Fresh bee chrysalis is a good thing, and it can be sold for dozens of yuan a catty when you get it down the mountain!

But this time they have to stay in the mountains for a long time, these bee pupae cannot be kept, and there is no place to freeze them, so they can only eat them by themselves.Bee chrysalis is rich in protein and various vitamins, and it is an excellent food supplement for nutrition in the wild.

"Leave me here! I brought chili powder and pepper powder. If there are too many, let's make two flavors."

When Jiang Xiaoman heard the word bee pupa, his saliva almost flowed out.

It is rare to eat this thing twice a year, even though his family also has beehive buckets, but in order to ensure the normal reproduction of the bees, they wait for the hive to fully mature and the bee pupae to hatch before starting to collect honey every year, so it is rare to be able to Eat a few "fish that slipped through the net".

This thing is also sold in the market, but most of them are wild bee nests picked in the mountains. After the honey is taken out, there are usually many bee pupae that are too late to hatch.

Anyway, Jiang Youliang never ate it. Although the older generation of mountain people lived on hunting, they were in awe of new life. Eating bee pupae seemed to them to be a prodigal act...

This season is the season when wild bees collect a lot of honey and reproduce. Two plastic buckets actually picked up three bowls of bee pupae. I don’t know where there are so many honey sources nearby. The bee pupae are all white and fat. It makes people drool.

Jiang Xiaoman rolled up his sleeves and prepared to make dinner.

The small crabs processed in the morning have been marinated, deep-fried in the pan until golden and crispy, fished out and sprinkled with salt and pepper made by Jiang Xiaoman himself, it smells delicious!

There were a lot of bee chrysalis, but there were so many of them that they would definitely be able to eat them all. Jiang Xiaoman fried them all. Half of them were made with salt and pepper flavors, and the other half were made with spicy and spicy flavors.

This thing has to be eaten after it is fried, and there is nothing to be particular about in the woods. A few people put the bee pupae in the middle with big banana leaves, and take chopsticks made of branches. It is fragrant and crispy and delicious.

For the small fish and shrimp caught in the morning, Jiang Xiaoman took shredded ginger and fried the oil pan, then poured the fish and shrimp into it and stir-fried until it changed color, then added half a pot of water, and poured in the hot and spicy soup base that he brought, Jiang Yu didn’t know They came back from touching a dozen or so eggs, and now they can finally see egg flowers in their hot and spicy soup.

In fact, no small fish and shrimps are added to the authentic Hu spicy soup, but they eat it by themselves, and they don’t pay much attention to it, as long as it is delicious.Unexpectedly, Jiang Xiaoman's own innovative "Spicy Hu Hot Soup" was very popular, especially Jiangyu. He grew up by the river and liked to eat all kinds of fish and shrimp. It's so delicious!

"Xiao Man, I'll go fishing with you tomorrow, this is not enough for our teeth."

Jiang Xiaoman originally planned to catch some fish and shrimps to enjoy the umami taste, but he didn't catch much, so everyone was given a bowl, and everyone said they didn't enjoy it.Jiang Yu even directly stated that he would go fishing for shrimps together tomorrow, and catching fish and shrimps is his family's ancestral craft!

"Okay, then teach me how to catch shrimps. I see that there are many small shrimps in the river, but they are too difficult to catch."

The two of them were talking and their heads were almost together. Shanyan couldn't bear it anymore, so he picked up the river fish and went to the river to take a bath.

Jiang Xiaoman was very embarrassed when he touched his nose.

He kept accidentally forgetting that Big Brother Jiang Yu was a brother of You Qi, so it seemed that he really had to pay attention in the future.

Even if Brother Qi is not legally guaranteed, according to local customs, such a couple enjoys the same treatment as husband and wife, and hooking up with Brother Qi can be regarded as cuckolding someone. If you are beaten to death, no one will sympathize ... Thinking of Brother Shanyan's strong biceps, Jiang Xiaoman resolutely hesitated.

The next day, Shanyan and the others brought enough dry food and water to climb up the rock wall. Today they will stay on it for a whole day. While the wild bees were smoked outside, they quickly removed the outer layer The hives are cut down.

Jiang Xiaoman was taking pictures below with his mobile phone. From a distance, he could barely see a few figures. Qingshan was holding the hemp rope below, catching plastic buckets hanging from above from time to time. honeycomb.

Jiang Xiaoman was also helping. Qingshan took down the plastic bucket full of rock honey, and he tied another empty bucket to it. The two of them cooperated tacitly, and within a day they filled up all the plastic buckets they brought. .

"Call someone to pick it up!" Jiang Yu turned on the phone, and called the porter who often cooperates with him to bring someone over to pick it up. He made an appointment, and Ah Hu would go outside the forest to pick him up.

Laoshan'aozi also has clumsy hands and feet who are not good at rock climbing, so they follow those who go into the mountains to collect honey to earn hard money, and they have regular cooperative porters.

Make a phone call, report a place, ask someone to come in with a pole and an empty bucket, and then pick up the plastic bucket full of rock honey down the mountain.

In the past, Shanyan and the others used to find a good buyer and let them take away the harvested rock honey. Everyone knows what happened later. With the popularization of mobile phones, information from all walks of life is basically transparent. I heard that buyers buy their hive honey for 40 yuan a catty, and sell it for at least [-] catties, not counting the money for selling the honeycomb. Now everyone quits!

Shan Yan did not do it either!A few years ago, he found strong people from several nearby villages and formed a mountain-picking team. He usually took on scattered jobs, and in the season of rock honey mining, he helped people pick honey everywhere, so that at least the money was their own. earned.

They will shake out the honeycomb honey shipped home, and they will shake it out and seal it for preservation. The wild honeycomb can also be sold for a sum of money. The processed rock honey can be sold for [-] to [-] yuan per catty according to its quality, although It is more troublesome to sell slowly, but the money earned is much more than before.

Besides, for them, time is the least valuable thing. Pure wild rock honey has a long shelf life when sealed, and it will not go bad for several years. They are not in a hurry, just sit at home and wait for old customers to come to their door.

The porters still had half a day to go into the mountain. The next morning, Shanyan and the others went to cut firewood to make firewood piles, and kept throwing the lit wet firewood into the crevices of the rock wall to ensure that there would be no wild bees during the two days when they cut honey. will fly back.

Looking at the wild bees buzzing and circling outside, Jiang Xiaoman was extremely envious: his family also made a lot of new bee barrels this year, if they brought them all, they would be able to lure many wild bees back without any trouble.

But he just thought about it, the two families are so far away, they can't carry the more than 100 bee buckets at home here, attract wild bees and then carry them back?

At this time, he was particularly envious of those beekeepers in the documentary who drove a big car and ran around chasing flowers all over the world, basically going to places that cars can drive.

Unlike their place, you have to spend money to find a porter to transport honey.

Only locals like Shanyan can find it. If you change it to a foreigner, even if you want to find a porter, you don’t know where to find it in this vast mountain!

The porters who picked the mountain not only brought a lot of empty plastic buckets, but also brought them a lot of supplies.

Fresh corn sticks, home-grown vegetables, eggs, and yams are not worth much, but for those of them who live in the mountains, they can be called timely rain.

At noon that day, Jiang Xiaoman fried delicious bacon and potato chips for everyone. He also made a pot of delicious river prawn egg drop soup with fresh vegetables. He also baked corn sticks with skins directly in the charcoal fire. It was delicious. It's very delicious.

"Everyone has to work hard for another two days, cut off the remaining rock honey and the old beehive inside, and then we can go home!"

Shanyan was very happy, this time it was a bumper harvest, just the previous batch of rock honey was enough for them to eat for three months, plus the rest and the old beehive inside, that was all money!

In addition to food supplies, the porters also brought them replacement batteries and dry firewood carried from outside the mountain—the firewood in the forest is almost all wet firewood, which smokes when it burns, and it cannot be cooked at all.

Jiang Xiaoman watched them move things out of the empty plastic bucket little by little, it was really an eye-opener!

He used to think that harvesting honey in the mountains was a one-day round-trip, and he could just find the hive and pick it off. He didn't expect there to be so many complicated things. It seems that every line is not easy. He still has a lot to learn... …

When he was free, Jiang Xiaoman couldn't help but ask Shanyan, it's so hard to harvest honey, why don't you make your own bee buckets and raise bees?The area of ​​Laoshan'aozi can support so many wild bees. It can be seen that there are many sources of honey in the mountain forest. It doesn't take much effort to raise bees by yourself, and it is not as dangerous as climbing rocks to harvest honey.

"It's not difficult to keep bees, but it's expensive to pick them out." Shan Yan lifted his chin, and nodded the beehives they just cut today, "The porters will go to the mountains, and each person will cost 100 yuan. We raise bees by ourselves. Hire people to pick it down the mountain, and then sell it to collectors, if the price is too high, they don’t want it, if it’s too low, we can’t make any money, what do you think?”

Jiang Xiaoman opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer.

He thought of the so-called "honey" he saw on the shelves when he was working in a supermarket. Almost [-]% of them were artificial honey that was adulterated or simply made from white sugar, and the price was not high.

The pure local honey spends money to hire people to pick it down the mountain, and then flows to the factory through middlemen. In the end, it is estimated that only the middleman and the factory actually make money. Money, no wonder Shanyan and the others don't want to keep bees by themselves.

Without beekeeping, although going to the mountains to harvest honey is hard work and dangerous, real regular customers know that what they buy from them is the real wild honey cut from the depths of the mountains.

And because of its rarity and preciousness, the rock honey in Shanyan's hands can be sold at a high price. In this way, if you are lucky, your annual income may actually be a little higher than that of professional beekeepers who carry beehives and chase flowers everywhere.

"Xiao Man, do you want to attract bees and raise them yourself? Then I will bring you some residual honey from my house later. It's the leftovers from shaking the honey. Don't look at the appearance, it's a good thing to use to attract bees! It's better than bee syrup. It's much easier to use." Jiang Yu rolled his eyes and knew what Jiang Xiaoman was thinking.

"Okay, then I won't be polite, and I'll bring you chocolates next time!" Jiang Xiaoman also let go of this, knowing that beekeeping is not suitable for Lao Shan'aozi and his group.

However, neither he nor Shanyan expected that after this video was released, more than 40 people in the comment area strongly urged Shanyan to make their own bee buckets for beekeeping—

"Rock honey is really unaffordable, but soil honey grown in deep mountains is also good!"

"That's right! My grandma used to buy it for me when I was in school. It's completely different from the honey in the supermarket. It's really delicious!"

"Xiao Man, tell this handsome guy to keep bees! It doesn't matter if it's expensive, we'll buy it!"

"Do you have to make me kneel down and beg you? Well, I'll kneel down, little brother Qiuqiu Shanyan, hurry up and raise bees! Save the babies who are poisoned by fake honey!"

"Everyone wants honey, but I am different. I want little brother Shanyan..."

"No, didn't you find another little brother named Jiang Yu is more handsome? He looks so good! I want to sleep~"

"Shut up! The little brother belongs to another little brother! If you don't understand, go to the previous video of Brother Xiaoman, thank you~"

Netizens are worthy of Sherlock Holmes per capita. They all have a pair of piercing eyes. After watching two videos, they turned from a bunch of beekeeping terms to the sugar of Shanyan and Jiangyu CP... Regarding this, Jiang Xiaoman can only say, well done pretty!

If Shan Yan saw the tiger and wolf words in the comment area, he would probably be on the visitor blacklist of Shan Yan's house.