Nowadays, people in Liujiagou rarely go to the mountains to collect wild honey, mainly because it is not cost-effective. Collecting wild honey is a matter of luck. Sometimes you won't find one for a long time, which is a complete waste of time. Even if a beehive is found, it may be a newly divided bee colony that year, and there will be very little honey in it.
Liu Jun quickly caught a bee, then took out a white silkworm cocoon from his pocket, took out a piece of white silk and wrapped it around the bee's leg, and then let go.
"Brother Junqi, you carry this thing with you wherever you go." Liu Junhao praised it when he saw the cocoon in his hand.
"Hey, who knows when we will encounter bees? How can we do it without bringing them with us?" Liu Junqi responded and quickened his steps.
The piece of white silk was conspicuous and swaying behind the queen bee, so they followed it without much effort.
Before walking too far, Liu Junhao saw yellow spots on the leaves beside him and hurriedly shouted: "It's not far away. Look, that's bee poop."
When bees fly away from the hive, they will excrete a lot of feces nearby. Experienced bee collectors all know this. Bee droppings are larger on one end and smaller on the other, usually with the larger end facing towards the hive. As long as you look in this direction, if you find that the peak feces are getting denser and denser, it means you are very close to the hive.
Sure enough, we hadn¡¯t gone too far when we saw the water-gathering bee getting into a crevice in the stone.
"Xiao Hao, hold the plastic bag for me later." Liu Junqi really took everything with him, and in the blink of an eye he took out another thick plastic bag.
"You don't have any tools. How are you going to pick it? What if you get stuck?" Mr. Wang asked as Liu Junqi turned around and walked toward the crack in the stone.
"Bees have poor mobility in autumn and winter. As long as they move slowly, they generally won't sting people casually. Besides, there is nothing to fear from stinging. This thing is less toxic." Liu Junqi responded casually. Reach out and break a stone apart.
Buzzing Dozens of bees were immediately alarmed and flew out with their wings fluttering.
Without leaning to either side, one of them actually flew towards Liu Junhao behind him and landed on the back of his hand. Liu Junhao's arms suddenly stiffened and he did not dare to move. The thing crawled on my hand for a few seconds, then flapped its wings and flew away.
"X, I almost got stung." He breathed a sigh of relief and then opened the bag.
from this angle. I can already see clearly the situation inside the stone cracks. The hive the size of a washbasin is full of dark brown bees, layer upon layer, which is very scary.
Liu Junqi pulled it casually, as if cleaning glass. Wipe that clump of bees away. Liu Junhao was also amazed at his courage. It seems that in the past two years, I have been collecting honey in the mountains and have perfected my skills.
As the bee swarm dispersed, the orange-yellow and dark-brown honey inside was also revealed. This mixed color is normal and wild honey is different from domestic honey. The nectar they collect is very mixed. Various nectars are mixed together, and the colors are naturally different.
Liu Junqi carefully cut open the hive and cut off the shiny and heavy pieces of honey.
He was not cut off. Instead, half of it was left untouched. This is also the rule of bee collectors in Daqingshan. You cannot take away all the wild honey. Leave half of it to sustain the bees through the winter. This way you can harvest honey next year. If all the bees are exhausted, then the nest of bees will be completely destroyed.
"Not bad, not bad, three pounds and four taels." Liu Junhao picked it up with his hands and said.
At this time, Mr. Wang stretched his head and took a few glances, and said, "Junqi, sell these to me. From Xiaohao's place, I waited several times before I got half a catty, which is too little."
"Old man, I don't want to either. The key is that the yield of local honey is only so small." After hearing what the other party said, Liu Junhao immediately started to feel aggrieved for himself. Nowadays, tourists who come to Liujiagou know that local honey is a good thing, and they come to buy it one after another. However, the production of this stuff is limited, and he can't make it no matter how much he makes.
"Old man, if you want it, I can give you half a catty, no matter how much you pay." Liu Junqi was very cheerful, "Xiao Hao won't tell me, his family is not short of this stuff, I will get half a catty for each of you later."
With all this fuss, it¡¯s almost noon. A few people did not stop in the mountains and wandered all the way down the mountain.
When he got home, Liu Junhao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the eldest and the second child were not crying.
While Professor Zhao was helping to take care of it, he quickly steamed the rice in the rice cooker and waited for Zhang Qian to come back before cooking.
Eating, washing dishes, coaxing the childrenthe couple's life is so simple. It was relatively early to eat at noon, and there was still nearly an hour before afternoon class. Zhang Qian was not in a hurry to go to school, and started playing games on her mobile phone.
Liu Junhao was busy uploading the photos he took in the morning to the Internet. At the same time, he sent a message to Wang Junfeng of the Lingya Cat Lovers Association to tell him about the presence of deer in Liujiagou.
Before the photo was uploaded, Zhang Qian held her hand happilyThe mobile phone said: "Husband, I just received a text message. The mobile business office on the street is holding an event. Recharge the phone bill, give me a mobile phone and an electric car, only for today. You can go to town quickly in the afternoon and help me. Recharge your phone bill."
"Is there such a good thing? An electric car costs two to three thousand yuan, so how much phone bill does it cost?" Liu Junhao asked dubiously.
"It's only five hundred yuan," Zhang Qian said, handing over the phone.
"It's definitely fake, a liar." Liu Junhao didn't believe it at all when he heard about such a small amount of money. How much does a mobile phone cost, plus an electric car, it¡¯s still three thousand yuan. Unless the people at the mobile company get kicked in the head, how can this kind of loss-making business be possible?
"This number belongs to the mobile company" After hearing what her husband said, Zhang Qian became unsure: "I'll call Zhou Yuer and ask her to come over and have a look."
After dialing the phone, she finished talking about the text message in a few words, but Zhou Yue'er burst into laughter over there.
Half a minute later, Zhou Yue'er's voice rang on the phone again: "You also received that text message. Zhao Guangming and I just went to the business office to ask. It was a gift of a mobile phone, but it was a copycat phone. The signal is very poor. It can still be used in the town, but there is no signal outside the town. That electric car it is a toy for children!"
"What, a toy electric car as a gift?" Zhang Qian subconsciously raised her voice, "Isn't this fooling people?"
¡°I¡¯m just saying that there is no such thing as a pie in the sky. I have seen cheaters, but I have never seen such cheaters.¡± Liu Junhao followed his wife and started to denounce her.
Knowing the truth, Zhang Qian gave up the idea of ??charging the phone bill.
Less than five minutes after the post was posted, Liu Junhao refreshed it and there were already several replies.
"Liu Junhao, do you know Yanmi? I just bought a piece two days ago. When I got it home, my wife said I was fooled. Please help me see if it is true" One of the netizens named Qingmei Lanjiu followed. post.
Rock honey? Liu Junhao looked a little confused. He had never heard of this kind of honey. However, since the request came to the door, Liu Junhao would not refuse. He directly sent his QQ number through the site text message to ask the other party to join.
The netizens were probably waiting anxiously. Within two minutes, a QQ prompt sounded. After Liu Junhao added Qingmei Light Wine as a friend, the other party started sending photos.
The photo has very high pixels. It shows a piece of honey shaped like a stone, dark red in color, with some moss on top.
"This is the honey you bought, isn't it a stone?" Liu Junhao stared at the photo for a few times and started typing in confusion. To be honest, with such a big lump, he doesn't look like honey at all. At least to my own knowledge, I have never seen it.
Qingmei Lianjiu quickly replied: "Yes, this is rock honey."
"ThisI'm not sure about this. What does the person who sells your honey say?" Liu Junhao was not modest. He looked at several pictures at this time and still couldn't confirm it. Naturally, one cannot draw arbitrary conclusions about something that is unclear. Of course, it doesn't mean that this thing is necessarily fake, just like our own local honey. After it was posted on the Internet, many netizens were dubious. They didn't believe it until they came to Liujiagou to see it in person.
"The seller said that he is from x state and is working here now. This rock honey was discovered by his family in the deep mountains and old forests of x state. It can treat colds, coughs and bronchitis. It is said that this kind of rock honey is obtained by wild bees after abandoning their nests. The honeycomb remaining in the hive can only be formed through processes such as natural frost and natural air drying. The formation conditions are relatively harsh, so it is quite rare."
"Oh, it's just honey crystallization." When the other party said this, Liu Junhao understood. But he looked at the photo twice more and became more suspicious. Honey crystals can't look like this. Judging from the photo, the hardness is almost as hard as stone. Just like home-made local honey, it is crispy and easy to break.
Thinking of this, he asked again: "Have you ever squeezed it with your hands? Can you crush it?"
"You can't use your hands. This kind of rock honey is very hard. Sellers use hammers to knock it down and sell it. It takes at least a hundred years for this kind of rock honey to form." Qingmei Light Wine followed.
"No wayhow much did you spend to buy it?" Liu Junhao was really shocked this time. Those words sounded like a liar. They were even less reliable than the text messages from the mobile company. He was so stunned that he made honey into cultural relics.
"It's not expensive, twenty yuan per pound."
FakeLiu Junhao is now 70-80% sure. But he didn't see the real thing, so he couldn't make any final conclusions.
After thinking for a while, I carefully typed out: "Let me tell you this, in Liujiagou, a pound of pure wild honey now costs forty or fifty yuan. At your price, you probably can't buy pure wild honey. What's more? You said, this kind of rock honey is extremely rare, is the price so cheap?""The man said that because it was the last few dollars, he planned to go back to his hometown after selling out, so he sold it at a low price."
¡°Well¡Liu Junhao didn¡¯t know what to ask now. But looking at the opened web page, he slapped his head. I am really confused, forget about Baidu, a big killer, and just go online to look up information about Yanmi.
Good guy, Liu Junhao was very surprised when he saw the search results. They are all fake honey websites, and among them, Yanmi has already become a public disgrace, and she is really ignorant. When I think about it, Liu Junhao feels normal. He usually surfs the Internet to read news about national events and pays little attention to other things. Qingmei Light Wine is probably the same.
Emotional rock honey is made by mixing sugar and baking soda. As for the moss on it, it was added later.
Seeing this, Liu Junhao eliminated his last few doubts and directly sent the URL to Qingmei Light Wine. (To be continued)
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