Chapter 39 39. Being stung
Qiaoqiao’s wish to touch a bee failed to come true. At this moment, she squatted there and watched eagerly:
“Why can’t I?”
The beekeeper is familiar with Song Sancheng. If he had known about Qiao Qiao's situation, he would be coaxing him like a child:
“Because you are not familiar with them yet, if you reach out your hand, the bees will think you are going to hit them, and they will sting you.”
He closed the beehive again and then reminded: "Don't touch it randomly. It will hurt you if the bee stings you, but it will kill you if it stings you. This little thing is pitiful."
"Besides," he stretched out his hand for everyone to see, and saw that it was covered with calluses and the joints were thick: "I have rough skin and thick flesh, and I have long been used to it."
Qiaoqiao looked at his hand and stretched out his palm - Wulan loved to be clean and had kept him clean since he was a child. Now this hand is also delicate and white, with clear joints.
If the farm work hadn't become a little rough during this period, I would still be like a pampered young man.
He let out a long sigh of frustration, turned his head and looked elsewhere.
Here, Song Sancheng and Song Tan looked at the beehives one by one, and then asked about the price - in short, 560 per box must not be less!
Song Sancheng hesitated: "Are there any other flowers after we finish the milkvetch? If there aren't so many flowers later, there won't be so many beehives."
Song Tan was thinking: Come on, beehives are not expensive, at least she can use spiritual energy to raise them! Honey is a good thing!
So he took stock with his fingers: "In the past two months, milkvetch and chestnut will also bloom. The pink peaches and white pears in our village are enough for them. After June and July, the weather is hot, and the bees take a rest. Come on, there are vegetables in the vegetable garden, and I’m going to plant a field of sunflowers…”
With this calculation, we can afford it anyway.
Song Sancheng was shocked to hear this - if his daughter talks, her father will break his legs!
It is both chestnut and sunflower. His endless farm work this year!
“Okay, okay, you have the final say!”
Song Tan then decided: "I want five boxes!"
The beekeeper laughed—this time, a small amount of three thousand yuan was credited to his account.
However, he still warned: "Keeping bees is simple. You just need to put the hives in place. If you have any problems, don't mess around. Call me and I will come to check on you."
Just after settling the bill here, a sudden howl was heard over there!
…
I saw Qiao Qiao running out of the woods with tears streaming down her originally fair face. She was crying and wiping away her tears.
His hand was clenched into a fist. The base of his palm was red, swollen and shiny, obviously from a bee sting.
Song Tan couldn't laugh or cry: "Didn't I tell you not to touch bees?"
Qiaoqiao felt wronged and cried even louder:
“I picked up a very fat person...”
“This fat one can work, the queen bee...”
Evidently he remembered the handful of bees that the beekeeper caught just now.
The beekeeper was stunned: "It's impossible, how could the queen come out of the box..."
He muttered and poked his head over.
I saw Qiaoqiao carefully clasping her other hand and slowly opening her swollen fist——
In the palm of his hand, a chubby bee as big as a thumbnail was lying there cautiously. It has yellow and black stripes on its body and is indeed big, round and fat.
It's actually a little cute.
…
The beekeeper said happily: "Oh, this is nothing! This is a bumble bee, and its temper is as good as our bees. As long as you don't catch it, it usually won't sting people, and it'll be fine if you touch it occasionally. ”
The beekeeper smiled again: "The pain will definitely hurt for a while. I'll have some medicine for you to apply it later - this should be the newly unearthed queen bee, she's big." "General bumblebees are smaller than this." Dot."
Song Tan is also very interested.
She flicked a bit of spiritual energy on her fingertips. The queen bee was fluttering its wings and was about to fly, but now it staggered and grabbed her finger.
Song Sancheng was startled: "Ouch!"
Song Tan quickly comforted: "Dad, it's okay! Look, it didn't sting me - how cute it is!"
The fluffy and chubby ball is really cute when it is played around on her fingers.
Qiao Qiao was looking at it intently, and now she had forgotten about her grudge against the sting.
The beekeeper brought the medicine from the house, and while applying it to Qiaoqiao, he took another look at the bumble bee and said:
"You can let it go after you play for a while. The queen is waiting to lay eggs and hatch."
Song Tan thought for a while: "Can this be grown? Does it produce a lot of honey?"
The beekeeper laughed: "It must be possible to raise it. This queen can give birth to more than a hundred. She can endure hardships and is more diligent than bees!"
"The only thing is, they earn more and eat more. You have to feed them. All year round, they can't get even one or two nectar out of its mouth - it's not enough for them to eat!"
“If they can’t eat pollen and nectar for an hour, they will faint. It’s like hypoglycemia. If they can’t eat anymore, they will die.”
With these words, even Song Sancheng's eyes showed traces of smile:
"This is not a bumble bee. Isn't it just like the piglet?"
But Qiaoqiao has already finished listening to this sentence.
Even though he didn’t fully understand it, it didn’t stop him from blinking and looking over pitifully:
“Sister, I want to raise...”
He looked at the bumblebee crawling around on Song Tan's fingers. It was very cute. Now that the scar was healed and he forgot about the pain, he stretched out his hand again.
However, the smell of the medicinal oil on his hand was too strong, and the bumblebee flew up with a "buzz" sound.
Hirled around twice, still reluctant to let go of the little bit of spiritual energy, and lay down again.
Beekeepers are also happy -
“You can raise it if you want. When the time comes, find a small box and prepare some sugar water for it. Don’t worry about anything else.”
"This queen bee will lay eggs as soon as she is born. Beeswax will be secreted in the box, and it will be made into a small jar bit by bit. All the eggs she lays will be in that small jar."
“Then I sit on it again, and it keeps shaking and shaking. When the temperature rises, the worker bees hatch. It’s quite interesting to raise it.”
But I added another sentence at the end: "But it really doesn't make any money, they are too good to eat."
“And it’s not as stable as a bee. There’s no telling if it will fly away.”
Song Tan moved his fingers and saw that the bumblebee was firmly on his fingers. He smiled confidently:
“Does it still hurt? Qiaoqiao.”
Qiaoqiao looked at Bumblebee, then at his palm, and sniffed: "It hurts."
“Will you still grab things randomly next time?”
Qiaoqiao sobbed and shed tears of grievance.
Song Sancheng's heart melted when he saw it, and he quickly coaxed him: "I won't arrest him next time, I won't arrest him next time."
Song Tan chuckled, then asked the beekeeper for a small wooden box and put the bumblebee in it. Then he put the box into Qiaoqiao's hands:
“Take it, don’t open it and look at it, otherwise it will run away if you get scared.”
Hmm... Today, how about three more updates?
This bumble bee is really cute and has a good personality (but it is still not recommended to touch it. I will not be responsible for any stings). It’s Qiaoqiao’s little friend I mentioned last time!
(End of this chapter)