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 was familiar with Song Sancheng. If he had known about Qiao Qiao's situation, he would have been coaxing him like a child:
"Because you are not familiar with them yet, if you reach out, 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. A bee sting will hurt 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 her 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 might still be like a pampered young man.
He let out a long, frustrated sigh, turned around and looked elsewhere.
Here, Song Sancheng and Song Tan looked at the beehives one by one and asked about the price - in short, 560 per box must not be less!
Song Sancheng hesitated: "Are there any other flowers after our milkvetch is over? If there aren't so many flowers later, there won't be so many beehives."
But Song Tan thought: Come on, beehives are not expensive, at least she can use spiritual energy to raise them! Honey is a good thing!
So I took stock with my 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 gets hot, and the bees take a rest.
Come on, there are vegetables in the garden, and I’m going to plant a field of sunflowers..."
With this calculation, I can afford it anyway.
Song Sancheng was shocked when he heard this - if his daughter talks, her father will break his leg!
Both chestnuts and sunflowers, 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 easy. Just put the hives in place. If you have any problems, don't mess around. Call me and I'll come and take a look."
Just as we finished settling the bill, we heard a sudden howl!
"Ouch..."
I saw Qiao Qiao running out of the woods with tears streaming down her originally fair face. She was crying and wiping her tears.
One of his hands was clenched into a fist, and 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?"
Qiao Qiao felt wronged and cried even louder:
"I picked up a very fat one..."
"This fat one can work, the queen bee..."
Apparently he remembered the handful of bees that the beekeeper caught just now.
The beekeeper was stunned: "Impossible, how could the queen come out of the box..."
He murmured and poked his head over.
I saw Qiao Qiao 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 had yellow and black stripes on its body and was 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.
."
Qiao Qiao half understood what he said, and now he stretched his red palm forward.
The beekeeper smiled again: "The pain will definitely hurt for a while. I will have some medicine for you to apply later - this should be the newly unearthed queen bee, she is quite big."
"The average bumble bee is a little smaller than this."
Song Tan was also quite 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 was being pushed around on her fingers. It was really cute.
Qiao Qiao couldn't take his eyes away from it, and now he forgot about his revenge.
The beekeeper brought the medicine from the house, and while applying it to Qiao Qiao, he took another look at the bumble bee and said:
"You can play with it for a while and let it go. 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. If you have to feed them, you won't be able to get one or two nectar out of its mouth all year round - it's not enough for them to eat!"
"If they can't eat pollen and nectar for an hour, they will faint. It's just like hypoglycemia. If they can't eat anymore, they will die."
Having said this, even Song Sancheng's eyes showed traces of smile:
"This is not a bumblebee. Isn't it just like the piglet?"
But Qiaoqiao had already finished hearing this sentence.
Although he didn't fully understand it yet, 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 finger. 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.
After circling twice, still reluctant to let go of the little bit of spiritual energy, he lay down again.
The 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."
"The queen bee will lay eggs as soon as she emerges from the ground. At that time, 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 vibrating and shaking. When the temperature rises, the worker bees hatch. It's quite interesting to raise it."
But he 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? Qiao Qiao."
Qiaoqiao looked at Bumblebee, then at his palm, and sniffed: "It hurts."
"Are you still grabbing things next time?"
Qiao Qiao 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. Then he put the box into Qiao Qiao's hand:
"Take it, don't open it and look at it. If you get scared, it will run away."