The apiary plant born in Qiantang is on the edge of a valley near the outer edge of the linden tree group. The valley here is very steep, as if it was a hole that the Shushan Sword Immortal cut through the boundary with a flying sword. The slope is bare and no grass grows.

Just as Nan Yi was exploring his imagination in a bizarre direction, Qian Tangsheng directly pulled his fantasy back.

"Have you seen something that reflects on the slope, and a petal like glass?"

"See it."

"That is pyrite, also called stinky scallion. When the sun is strong in summer, it will smell garlic when it shines on it. I have also seen this inclined surface without fire. It should be that the phosphorus content here is also very high. When it is washed by the rain on rainy days, the phosphorus will be exposed and encountered air ignition."

"Brother Qian, you'll be bored by saying this. You should say that there is an ancient tomb below, and some big figures are buried. Every night of the full moon, it will spit out ghost fires, and there will be ghost soldiers in the valley below."

"Nan Yi, how can a firm materialist believe in these dirty things? We must believe in science."

"I don't know whether the end of science is theology, but the end of top scientists must be the charlatan. In his later years, Newton found that there were more and more phenomena that he could not explain, let alone summarize a set of formulas and principles.

So he firmly believed that there must be God in this world, and he classified all unexplained phenomena as miracles created by God.”

"This can only be said that manpower is poor, he can't explain it. There must be later generations who can explain it. Every era has its limitations. Scientists are also human beings, and they can't break through some shackles."

"Brother Qian, you speak very philosophically. Why haven't you thought about taking the exam for 77 years?"

"I like this place, I want to live here forever in my life. People are too complicated. I still like the simplicity of animals. It's good to deal with bees and animals in Changbai Mountain.

I have encountered wolves in the mountains, but they did not attack me; I have also encountered Siberian tigers, but they did not eat me either.

There are often black blind men who come to steal honey, which will destroy the beehive at the beginning. Over time, I have a tacit understanding with them.

They will come once every half a month, and I will put a pound of honey under the tree. They will eat it separately and will not destroy the beehives. They will leave after eating. After half a month, they will come again, and this will be repeated.

Before hibernation, I will prepare them a little more to make them winter."

"Brother Qian, don't you hunt, are you?"

"I don't have a shotgun or a condom. If I want to eat meat, I will buy it with a hunter. I only eat wild boar meat, and I don't eat other wild beasts' meat."

"Why?"

"I have seen lively people jumping around and can't eat them. Pigs are different. Perhaps they have formed a subconscious mind that eating pork is natural since childhood. Eating pork will not make me feel guilty."

"Haha, poor pig."

After chatting, Qian Tangsheng walked to the beehive, opened a beehive, pulled out a partition from it, pulled down a piece of beehive from it, and slapped off a piece of beehive spleen from it, slapped off the bee on it with his hands, broke off a piece and handed it to Nan Yi.

Nan Yi put it in his mouth and took a small bite. A natural and fragrant sweetness exploded in his mouth. He hurriedly gave Qian Tangsheng a thumbs up, and then took out a lunch box from his backpack and put the remaining honey beehive in the spleen.

Qian Tangsheng saw it and handed over what he had in his hand, and Nan Yi put it all together.

After packing his backpack, he walked closer to the beehive and leaned over to look at the world in the beehive.

The hexagonal bee hives of bees and the complex routes of ants are all things that Nan Yi was very curious about when he was a child. He once fantasized about becoming a bee or an ant and going to their nests to take a look.

Qian Tangsheng saw that Nan Yi was interested, so he introduced the functions and principles of the various components in the beehive to Nan Yi, and also told Nan Yi about the rights structure of the bee pyramid.

"The swarm consists of three types of bees, namely queen bees, drone, and worker bees, each performs its own duties and cooperates with each other. The queen bees mainly plays egg-laying and reproductive offspring, and the main function of drone is to mating with the queen;

Worker bees must experience four ages: young bees, young bees, middle-aged bees and elderly bees.

The labor behaviors of worker bees generally include: raising, making honey, picking powder, collecting honey, guarding, etc.; young bees, worker bees that leave the house for 1-5 days; young bees, worker bees that leave the house for 6-18 days; since young bees and young bees mainly move in the nest, they are also collectively called internal bees.

Worker bees after 18 days are middle-aged bees, mainly engaged in the collection of outside the nest of bee colony living substances, including nectar, pollen, water, salt, etc.

Worker bees entering the elderly have mostly worn hairs on the surface, darker body color, and appear thin. They are mainly engaged in water collection, salt collection and nest guards.

In the period when nectar is lacking, the elderly bee will form a stealing team to steal nectar from other bee swarms. If it is discovered, it will trigger an armed fight between the two bee swarms. Therefore, the elderly bee rarely live to live and will basically die in an armed fight.

Bees have a tacit understanding, and the ones rushing on the front line must be the elderly bees. The two armies confront each other. They play the role of suicide squads, usually hurting the enemy by one thousand and hurting themselves by eight hundred.

The nectar here is definitely enough, but before winter comes, there will still be a fight between the beehive and the beehive. I think it may be similar to an allusion I saw in a miscellaneous book.”

"What allusion? The grave-sealing bricks?"

"You've seen it too?"

"I haven't seen it, I heard from others that in some ancient areas, when an elderly person reaches a certain age, he will be sent to a pre-made grave. His family will deliver him food, eat a meal and seal a brick until it is completely sealed.

This statement is rather absurd. Even if you put aside ethics and morality, just from the perspective of labor, when you were in your hometown of Qiantang, how many elderly people could work without moving?

As long as it is not on the bed, which old man can't make rations to fill his own food?"

"Yes, in our village, if the old man refuses to go to the field one day, his family will know that his life is coming soon. Otherwise, as long as he can still move, the elderly man is not working hard, doing more and doing less, and it is still OK to make himself full."

"Yes." Nan Yi sighed and said, "Brother Qian, do you think this linden forest, and the ice flowers and holly you mentioned, how many bees can you raise if you have full load?"

"It's okay to feed 2 billion bees, but if you really raise so many, the quality of honey is definitely not as good as it is now."

"For 2 billion bees, the annual production of honey is more than 1,800 tons. This is too much. Scarcity is expensive. If you really have so much, your honey will not be sold at the price.

Brother Qian, I will not only send your honey for inspection, but also send it to foreigners to find someone to try the taste. If foreigners like it very much, we should not talk about whether to acquire or not.

I'll invest money, you'll manage it, expand the beeyard, and add 5,000 beehives. You'll be responsible for raising it, I'll be responsible for selling it, and we'll be half of the money we earn."

"Okay, I like to raise bees. If you want to raise more, just find a few more helpers. This beekeeping doesn't require a lot of work. It won't be too tired to take care of 50 beehives by one person."

"Well, there are some things I have to say first. If you want to sell honey to increase the price, you have to build a brand. For example, this West Lake brand is also a big sign in Qiantang. If you are not a good product, you can't be qualified to be a West Lake brand.

To make a good brand, the quality of honey must be good. There are many aspects to pay attention to, such as the honey cannot flow outside easily. Some people who cannot stop it will give it as soon as they should, but others cannot do so.

At that time, we can help us beekeepers to give them benefits and money, and they can also give them meat and fish, but they can't send them honey.

If everyone can eat our honey, then those who spend a lot of money to eat it will feel that our honey is not so rare, and the value will drop and we will not be able to sell it.

Our honey must be like the snow clams and Dongzhu in the past, and it is a tribute that only nobles in the palace can enjoy."

"Sold to a few people only?"

"Yes, it's sold to a few people, only available in a few places."

Nanyi plans to make honey produced in Qiantang into top-quality luxury ingredients and cooperate with Samsung Michelin restaurants, such as pan-fried honey lamb chops, steaks, and chicken chops. As long as they use their honey, they can be sold at sky-high prices.

It’s free to place it in the vegetable market. If you buy a pound of honey, you not only have to bargain, but you also have to let you spare two bee pupas. After you try it, you will eat half a pound of pounds. If you dare to whisper, people will say to you: “Why are you, a rural person so stingy…”
Chapter completed!