Chapter 18 Cut honey to make the list, please click
After passing the main trunk, there were more branches on the pine tree, and the beehive was approached by a few steps from Yushan.
This place is already covered with thick smoke, so while driving away the bees, it also makes Yu Shan feel uncomfortable.
He didn't have much time, so Yushan was very fast, but when the mountain approached the beehive, several rows of bees flew out of the beehive and flew towards Yushan like arrows.
Yu Shan was ready, so he waved his sleeves and fanned the bees away.
More than a dozen bees flew away in succession, and no more bees flew out of the beehive.
The smell of mosquito grass poses a great threat to the beebees, so not many soldier bees remain in the beehive. Even the beebees that were fanned by Yu Shan did not come back to attack Yu Shan again.
Without interference, Yu Shan took out a dagger from his backpack, cut off the hive, held the hive with his other hand, and jumped out of the pine tree.
With the help of the branches of pine trees several times, Yushan fell to the ground very smoothly.
After landing, Yu Shan put away his dagger, carefully held the huge honeycomb with both hands, and immediately ran to the distance.
When he ran to the straw rope, he stepped on the straw rope and didn't even care about picking up the straw rope. Yu Shan ran away again.
Yu Shan knew that the dozen soldiers just now would soon bring the bee swarm. If he was a little slower, he might get caught up in the bee swarm.
He ran out of the forest in one breath, looked behind, and listened carefully. Sure enough, waves of beeping came from not far away, and the sound became louder and louder.
Yu Shan ran for a while again and felt that there was no abnormal noise behind him, so he felt relieved.
At this time, looking at the huge beehive in his arms, Yu Shan started to laugh.
How many bees are there in this big and complete hive, even the beeway above?
The place where bee colonies live and reproduce offspring is composed of nest spleens, which are bee colonies. The spaces in each nest spleen hang parallel to each other and are perpendicular to the ground. The spacing between nest spleens is 7~10 mm, which is called the bee road.
Each nest is composed of thousands of nests connected together and is built by worker bees with beeswax secreted by their own wax glands.
Although Yu Shan brought the entire beehive, he never thought about taking it all back.
He carefully found the nest board and the king platform. The nest board should be kept, and the king platform would not be destroyed. However, he would take away most of the royal jelly inside, and of course he would also leave some honey and pollen.
Large and small hexagonal nests are cultivated by drone and worker bees, and the base is three diamond-shaped surfaces are very easy to recognize.
The nest used to cultivate queen bees is called the king platform. It looks like drooping peanuts. It is temporarily built by bees before dividing bees. It is mostly located on the lower part of the spleen and the edges of the nest.
There are irregular transitional nests between the drone and the worker hive, and at the connection between the nest spleen and the nest frame, which are used to store honey and strengthen the nest spleen. This part will be cut off from the mountain.
The beehives on the "nest board" cannot be used to hatch bee larvae, so they will keep their bright colors, which is very easy to recognize. This part of them will be taken away from the mountain.
Everyone who picks honey knows that the place where honey is stored in the nest of bee is very distinct and obvious.
When collecting honey, only the part that contains honey is collected, and not all of them will be collected. Some of them will be left behind for this nest of bees to feed bee pupa.
If the beehive's nest has been harvested once, the beehive will not continue to produce pupa. They will hatch the existing beehive pupa, fly away, and move to other places to continue to build nests, so the beehive will not collect one nest and one nest is missing.
From the cross section of the nest, you can see the pollen and watery honey on it.
This nest is full of pollen, and Yu Shan is preparing to take it home to make rice wine. This rice wine is very nourishing, Yu Shan’s grandfather likes it very much.
Most of the pollen in the honeycomb collected in Yushan now should be pine pollen. Such pine pollen is most suitable for brewing pine wine.
When Yu Shan’s grandfather was young, he spent many years in the south, where he learned to brew pineapple wine.
Songhua wine is made of pine pollen and refined white glutinous rice as the main raw materials, supplemented by wolfberry, mulberry, etc., which are both medicinal and food-based. It uses traditional fermentation technology to craft the functions of pine pollen. It scientifically and organically combines the functions of rice wine and qi nourishing blood, warming the stomach and repelling cold, etc.
Songhua wine is very effective in treating rheumatism, which is definitely a good thing for the elderly.
Rheumatism is mainly caused by insufficient positive energy, unclean pores, and insecurity of external guards, and the feeling of wind, cold, dampness and heat.
The treatment method should focus on dispelling cold, relieving wind and dampness, replenishing blood, and promoting blood circulation.
Pine pollen has a sweet taste and warm nature. It can eliminate wind and stop bleeding and drive away cold and go out.
After brewing wine, we must promote qi and promote blood circulation. The so-called cure blood first when treating wind, and blood flows through wind and destroys it by itself. This is the mechanism of Songhua Wine to regulate rheumatism.
The main effects of Songhua wine are to help yang and benefit yin, warm yang and dispel cold.
Songhua wine is dominated by pine pollen, and it is combined with cinnamon to enhance the warmth of yang.
Wolfberry and mulberry enhance the yin nourishing effect, help yang and benefit yin, and warm but not dry.
Just like the warm sun in spring, it is like a layer of loess covered with charcoal fire, so that the effect of warming sun continues to spread.
It can be said that Songhua wine will replenish the root of the innate and acquired nature. It will nourish the body with sufficient energy and sufficient blood to strengthen the body. If the acquired nature is strong, the positive energy will be sufficient and life will be prolonged.
Yu Shan naturally cannot let go of such a good thing.
Collect pollen and store it separately. The next step is to harvest honey. It is equivalent to processing the mountain. A total of eight and a half kilograms of honey were harvested, and a dozen bottles were all filled with them.
The capping rate of this honeycomb reaches about 70%, which is really rare and valuable.
Among the honey, you can see that the two bottles in the lower right corner are darker in color, which is the honey in the old nest.
Because the bee-piercing hive is relatively large this time and there is a lot of honey, Yushan divides the old nest and the new nest to squeeze the honey.
The honey in the old nest is mixed with more pollen, and the color is darker, while the pollen in the new nest is less, the color is lighter, and the light transmittance is better.
Among these bottles, in addition to the royal jelly inside, there are also a few bottles with a lot of foam on them, because there is a lot of pollen mixed in it.
If there is too much pollen mixed with honey, it is easy to have foam on the surface, but there is no sour or wine smell.
Yu Shan had cleaned pollen once before, so the foam this time didn't seem to be much. If it was not processed, it would directly cover the entire bottle mouth.
After having enough fun, Yu Shan carefully put seventeen bottles into his backpack. He felt that the honey should have left at this time, so Yu Shan carefully touched it back again.
He tied a rope to the hive, which was to hang the hive on the tree again.
When I returned to that place, sure enough, the group of bees had no idea where they flew.
Yu Shan quickly climbed up the tree and hung the beehive again in its original position. After coming down, he packed up the unused straw ropes, and Yu Shan slowly walked out of the woods.
At this time, Yu Shan did not leave, but was waiting. It was not until he heard a familiar buzzing sound coming from behind that Yu Shan accelerated his pace.
The group of bees will definitely not leave for such a short time, so after their beehives return, they will be able to receive the news and rush back in a short time.
After returning to the old house of Landlord Bian and putting the honey down, Yu Shan came down easily.
There are eight and a half kilograms of honey, of which the old nest honey accounts for more than five kilograms, and the new nest honey is less than three kilograms, and half a kilogram of royal jelly and half a kilogram of nectar. This time, I have gained a lot.
Yu Shan was even happier when he thought that the bee colony would build a nest again.
By next spring, he will have so many gains, and such gains will be at least twice a year.
Of course, if Yushan could feed these bees, the harvest might be greater.
However, Yu Shan doesn’t have that much effort now, and it doesn’t seem like he has to spend that effort. Honey now can bring him a lot of benefits.
You should know that the honey Yu Shan gave to Zhang Jingya was not for free. Such wild local honey costs more than 300 yuan per catty, while those in Yu Shan cost 180 yuan, but it is very expensive.
If you know the goods, you can buy them as expensive as you know the goods. Even if you don’t know the goods, you won’t buy them even if you give them a cheap one.
So sometimes sellers are very confused. They are afraid that they are considered fake when they are cheap, and they cannot be sold when they are expensive.
And Yushan’s honey pads are sold for 361 pounds, and no one is rushing to buy them!
So it is not realistic to make money by relying on this, but it is still very easy to make some extra money. Of course, you have to find the right buyer and make people realize that this kind of honey is really good, otherwise it will definitely not be sold.
Of course, when Yu Shan got the money for the first time from Zhang Jingya, he had thought about selling local honey.
At that time, he searched a lot of information online, but there were disappointment with Chinese honey everywhere on the Internet.
It is difficult to tell whether the honey on the market is authentic or fake. Most buyers spend money to buy parallel products. They say that the pure natural local honey I ate in my hometown when I was a child has a different taste, but I am also struggling to find the real local honey.
Whenever Yu Shan saw this, he would sigh because there were people in their village to keep bees and they would go into the mountains to release bees every year.
Every time a beekeeper goes into the mountain to release bees, Yushan will join in the fun and go into the mountain for a few days to camp. When you have nothing to do, you will also help manage the bee swarm.
After a long time, Yu Shan is familiar with beekeeping.
So Yu Shan knew that when those buyers were confused, it was even more sad to beekeepers who raised real bumblebees.
Those people can’t buy genuine products at a high price, while beekeepers can’t make money by raising local bees or lose money.
Raising rusty bees is really not easy.
Wild bubbles live in the mountains, and only farmers who live in the mountains have the opportunity to raise them. Most of them are traditionally fed and rarely managed. Bees work from sunrise and rest from sunset.
Only in early winter every year do I unbox the honey. A box of bees a year can I get about 20 kilograms of honey. If the weather is good that year, I will get about 30 kilograms!
Chapter completed!