After hearing the voices of plants, farming in the countryside exploded

After returning from the lychee field, Zhang Ruoruan finished lunch and took a nice nap.

Get up and continue broadcasting.

Live broadcast room title: "Cut honey."

The hive of bees that Zhang Ruoruan flew into the house has now been divided into two hives, and they are extremely diligent and have already made enough honey.

It won’t work without cutting.

Otherwise, the bees will stop making progress due to excess nectar.

Zhang Ruoruan first went to the back of the house, set up a camera, pointed it at one of the beehives, and started the live broadcast.

Then, she brought a bamboo table that she made herself, and placed the knife, a large stainless steel plate, and a clean storage box on the bamboo table.

When everything was ready, Zhang Ruanruan took another look at the live broadcast room, which had started for about ten minutes.

Number of people online: 1 million.

As expected, it was predicted when it aired in the morning. Ten minutes after it started, there were already 10,000 people waiting for it.

"Good afternoon, let's harvest honey now, and then move the beehives to the lychee field in the evening."

This is what Zhang Ruoruan had thought of when he saw the lychees blooming.

The trees are full of flowers, but if they want to bear fruit, they must be properly pollinated.

Zhang Ruoruan didn't trust those bees who didn't know where they came from.

So we have to do it ourselves, no, we have to take action.

Zhang Ruoruan first harvested the honey, and then moved the beehives to the lychee field. Then the bees, which had suddenly lost a lot of "wealth", naturally started to work. Re-accumulate family wealth.

Well, this is somewhat similar to cutting leeks.

Zhang Ruoruan opened the lid of the first beehive.

After opening the lid, there is still a thin layer of white gauze covering it.

This white gauze is used to isolate the bees from contact with the beehive lid. Otherwise, they will sometimes build a nest randomly and stick the lid and the beehive together. It requires a lot of force to open the lid. Moreover, after the lid is opened, the hive will collapse and be crushed to death. Queen Bee Risk.

But now, all risks are avoided by a small white veil.

Zhang Ruoruan lifted the white gauze.

Pieces of nest frames appeared in sight.

There are generally two methods of raising native bees.

One is the ancient method of beekeeping, which is as simple as catching bees into a beehive or a wooden barrel and letting them roam freely inside.

The second type is the nest frame breeding method like Zhang Ruoruan.

Use fixed-sized nest frames to guide bees to build nests in the nest frames.

This breeding method is generally used by professional beekeepers, because the nest frame can be used with a honey shaker. After shaking out the honey, the nest frame is put back, so that the damage to the hive and bee larvae can be minimized.

As we all know, bees store honey and reproduce in the same hive. The honey is on top and the larvae are on the bottom.

Therefore, if it is farmed according to the ancient method, then when harvesting honey, the entire nest will have to be cut off, including the larvae area, which will undoubtedly cause greater harm to the honey population.

After all, you have cut off the nest. If honey wants to store honey again, it must first rebuild the nest.

Going back and forth like this wastes a lot of time.

Zhang Ruoruan stretched out his hands and lifted a piece of the frame from the beehive.

The size of the nest frame is the size of the nest room.

There are many bees crawling densely on it.

Zhang Ruoruan shook his hands and shook off all the bees crawling on it.

In an instant, some of the bees fell into the bottom of the hive and climbed to the top of other cells. Another part flew up in the air and flew around the beehive, making a buzzing sound.

The headsets in the live broadcast room felt numb instantly.

"I lost it! I lost all my headphones."

"I shivered all over and almost lost my grip on the phone."

For the audience wearing headphones, the sudden buzzing sound is as if they are actually there, and a large number of bees suddenly appear around them.

"A hug, a hug, I forgot to remind you guys about the earphones."

Zhang Ruoruan smiled sheepishly, then took the nest frame and placed it on the large stainless steel plate next to it.

Show it to the audience first.

Because the honeycomb is really beautiful.

It is the most perfect hexagon in the world.

The six sides are exactly the same, and every one in a nest is like this.

It can only be said that bees are indeed the extraordinary architects of nature.

"But why are there so many covered up?" Danmaku asked.

The side of the nest shown by Zhang Ruoruan was covered with a white cover except for some holes in the lower part that allowed the inside to be seen.

"Because the honey inside has matured, the bees will spit out a layer of beeswax film to cover the honey. Well, it is also commonly known as capped honey."

Zhang Ruoruan explained.

Then he swung his knife and cut off all the nest rooms in the upper part of the nest frame.

The lower part is not required.

Because about 30% of the lower area is filled with bee larvae. The covered parts of these areas are not covered with mature honey, but with bee larvae that are about to emerge. When they emerge successfully, they will chew through this covering and crawl out, becoming excellent honey collectors.

Zhang Ruoruan put the nest frame back in place.

Because the three sides of the nest frame are still attached, the larvae's nest remains motionless. After Zhang Ruoruan puts the frame back, the bees only need to repair the upper part of the nest.

This is the cutting method without a honey shaker.

"Show everyone the honey."

Zhang Ruoruan returned to the table and scratched the cut nest with a knife.

Suddenly, golden honey flowed down along the cutting edge, dyeing the blade golden yellow.

"WC! Golden Legend!"

"This is so sweet."

"Please, lick the knife for me."

"It feels so sticky. Is this real honey? It's really different from the 19.9 bottle I bought online."

"Agreed, I also bought it online, but it's very thin and definitely not as sticky as the soft ones."

After seeing many comments about being deceived when buying honey, Zhang Ruoruan said: "Is it just not sticky enough? Then you may not have bought fake honey, but just water honey."

"Water honey? What is this?"

Zhang Ruoruan: "It's hard to explain with empty words. Just wait for me to find out."

Zhang Ruoruan went to get the second nest frame. This time, she selected it and found a nest that was very suitable for explanation.

The bees were shaken off from the hive in the same rough way, and Zhang Ruoruan displayed the hive in front of the audience.

"Everyone just needs to read the above part."

Zhang Ruoruan gestured with the knife.

A bee's hive is like a hexagonal well put together.

Now, half of these "wells" are covered with white lids, and half are not.

Therefore, everyone can see the honey in these "wells" that are not covered.

"Do you feel that these uncapped ones are a bit thin? They are not as sticky as the ones that were opened just now." Zhang Ruoruan asked.

The barrage expressed their agreement.

"It's not as sticky as before."

"If what you had just now was thickened, what you have now is like boiled water."

Zhang Ruoruan smiled and said, "This is water honey."

"The brewing of honey takes time. I won't talk about those complicated chemical changes. I will only talk about the simplest thing, the moisture contained in honey."

"Everyone should know that honey also contains water."

"So one of the processes of honey brewing is the evaporation of water. It is not complete evaporation, but reducing the water content to a value. Generally speaking, about 23% is a good value. Only when it reaches this value can it be called honey Ripe honey.”

"Anything lower than this value is usually water honey, and the bees will not cover it, but will flap their wings next to it to accelerate the evaporation of water."

"So you understand, water honey is honey with a high water content. If you harvest the honey before it matures, you can harvest it once in a few days. Then the yield of honey will naturally be high and the price will be relatively cheap."

"Now you know why so many honey sellers on the Internet dare to say that fake honey will compensate you ten for every fake honey, and even sell fake honey to kill the whole family and lose their household registration book, right?"

"It's actually the simplest word game."

"What they sell is water honey, unripe honey, so it cannot be regarded as fraud, because although water honey is water honey, it is indeed genuine bees. Naturally, there is no need to pay ten for one, and the family members on the household registration book can also be safe. .”

Listening to Zhang Ruoruan's series of industry decryptions, the audience in the live broadcast room was filled with silence.

All stunned.

It turns out that there are so many tricks for buying honey?

As expected, there is no evil and no business!

……

(I asked for leave in advance, it’s Saturday night. It’s the night of the Lantern Festival. I have traditional projects here and I’m too busy. You can also search for “annual examples”. I plan to write about this next year or the year after in the novel’s timeline. Let everyone see the different customs and customs.)