Although he didn't have a barrel, there was no problem in digging a simple barrel out of giant wooden piles.
After having iron tools such as chisels and hammers, doing this kind of thing is actually very simple. He only needs to control the force and not to crack the giant wooden pile.
It took more than an hour for Yun Buliu to dig a simple wooden barrel with a diameter of more than one meter using a giant wooden stake more than one meter long. The whole thing looked seamless.
The bottom of the barrel is not flat, but conical, to facilitate digging.
He originally wanted to hang this simple wooden barrel upside down on a tree, but if he thought about it, how would he fix the hive with the queen bee in the wooden barrel?
If it can't be fixed, the bees will definitely not follow their king.
Looking at the cauldron that was completely occupied by a swarm of bees, Yun Buliu felt that his scalp was numb. People with trypophobia would faint when they saw this scene!
Yun Buliu looked at the bee swarm, then at the simple large wooden barrel in his hand, and then at the hive that was not visited by wild bees.
From this we can see that the wild bees are not following the honey, but their king. Unfortunately, their king cannot fly.
In other words, the queen bee at this stage may be laying eggs and her belly is too big to fly.
It was also for this reason that when he smoked it before, it did not come out. Fortunately, the fragrant wood powder was not poisonous, otherwise the queen bee would have been poisoned in the hive.
Yun Buliu picked up the piece of honeycomb that he placed in the stone pot. At this time, honey was dripping on the stone pot. Seeing this scene, he remembered that the old man in the village had said that he could use the steaming method to get honey.
But how to steam it? He didn't know very well. But later he heard that when honey is exposed to high temperatures, some of the beneficial molecules inside it will be destroyed, and its nutritional value will plummet.
Therefore, modern people basically do not use the steaming method to obtain honey.
As for what method to use, Yun Buliu was also scratching his head. But seeing the honey flowing down from the incision of the hive, he couldn't help but think of a way.
So, he used a knife to cut open the layer of white wax on the outside of the honeycomb. This layer of white wax was beeswax. The hole in the honeycomb was blocked by this layer, so the honey could not flow out.
After cutting off the layer of beeswax, Yun Buliu placed the honeycomb directly on the stone pot.
But after thinking about it, he replaced the stone pot with the wooden barrel.
It's not because the barrel is cleaner, but because the bottom of the barrel is conical, making it easier for him to get the honey. After all, he scraped the stone pot with tiger teeth. The wall of the pot is not smooth, but has marks.
That way, it will be very difficult to get honey.
The honeycomb hung upside down, above the wooden barrel, and then Yun Buliu saw honey slowly flowing out of the nest. This was due to the fact that the holes in the honeycomb were not small. Because those wild bees were not small, so
This hive is very large, with the holes at least as big as a finger.
However, they flowed very slowly, which made him pick up the honeycomb and gently shake it into the barrel, using this shaking method to shake out the honey from the honeycomb.
What he didn't know was that the way modern people collect bees is this shaking method, which spins the hive at high speed to throw out the honey in the hive.
Yun Buliu can be considered a mistake.
After the honey in the hive was thrown out, Yun Buliu used a wooden spoon to collect the thick honey into a bamboo tube and preserve it.
This is truly pure natural wild honey with crystal clear color.
Of course, there will inevitably be some residue in it, but Yun Buliu can't control that much. After all, there is no other way to filter the honey.
From that hive, he collected two bamboo tubes of honey, which weighed three to four kilograms by visual inspection.
So, Yun Buliu set his sights on the big honeycomb in the cauldron.
Then, he continued to use the smoke method to drive away the bees outside the cauldron. Then the admiral picked up the hive and ran to the edge of the barrel, cutting off a piece of the hive with a knife.
He took the remaining piece that was hiding the queen bee back to the cauldron and placed it in the cauldron.
When the smoke dissipated, the wild bees buzzed back and enveloped the cauldron.
Yun Buliu continued to use the shaking method to shake out the honey from the hive.
In this way, he collected a total of six bamboo tubes of honey, and then no longer harmed the wild bee colony. Although it was summer and some plants were still blooming, who knew that after he robbed so much honey, they would
Will it be difficult to survive?
I heard that bees eat honey during the winter, and if the queen bee wants to lay eggs, she also needs to eat honey.
If all their honey is taken away, it is estimated that the bee colony may become weak in the next period of time and the number of members will continue to decrease.
After collecting the honey, Yun Buliu hung the wooden barrel with honey on its side on a big tree in the grove. The big tree was close to the orchard and located in the northeast corner of the grove.
The wooden barrel hangs on its side and tilts slightly downward to avoid rain.
Then he ran back and used smoke to drive away the wild bees. Then he picked up the piece of hive, ran to the big tree in the barrel, and used a bone drill to fix the hive in the barrel.
Not long after the beehive was fixed in the barrel, the swarm of wild bees buzzed and followed.
Yun Buliu hid and watched from a distance. Almost in the blink of an eye, the large wooden barrel, which had an internal diameter of more than one meter and two meters and a depth of eighty or ninety centimeters, was completely occupied by the swarm.
The dense swarms of wild bees covered the large wooden barrel, making one's scalp numb just by looking at it.
Yun Buliu took a breath, turned and left.
From now on, this swarm of wild bees is considered to be raised by it.
In the deep forest leading to the north of the lake, that is, the large forest in the northeast occupied by the Daroshan family, there must be more than one nest of wild peaks.
Of course, even if there is only such a nest, the Daroushan family would not dare to come to this small forest easily, unless they are as iron-headed as the big black tiger, fearless of heaven and earth.
But based on his understanding of the big meat mountain, it basically wouldn't take risks. Even though it looked ferocious and mighty, it was actually a beast from the heart.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible for it to just take one look at the iron spear shot by Yun Buliu and then turn around and leave.
Back at the small bamboo house by the lake, Little Furball and the little tiger cub had returned. Little Furball seemed a little afraid to face Yun Buliu's "contemptuous" gaze, and slipped to the top of the building.
The little tiger cub was wagging its tail and ran over to him to be cute.
Downstairs on stilts, the doe and her calf, mother and son, were still shivering and feeling frightened.
Yun Buliu raised his foot angrily and gently picked the tiger cub, saying: "Go, go, go!"
As he spoke, he collected the honey, then carried the big tiger skin on his back, and said to the little furball and tiger cub on the roof: "You guys wait at home, I'll go to the Snowy Mountains!"
But soon, the little fur ball appeared on his shoulder.