Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 497 Comparing people to each other makes people angry
When everyone heard this, they suddenly became alert and hurriedly looked in the direction Li Guoqiang pointed.

Soon, they saw a tree hole as thick as a fist, and wild bees were flying around at the entrance of the hole. It was obvious that this was a nest of wild bees.

However, this tree hole is located at the fork of the trunk of the big tree, at least four or five meters above the ground. If you want to go up and dig a beehive, you first have to get a ladder.

"Everyone has seen it, right? There is a nest of wild mountain magpies in that tree hole. Follow my instructions and cut down some trees as thick as your arms to make a ladder. I'll go get some fumigants."

After saying that, Li Guoqiang turned and walked into a bush.

When the others heard the instructions, they did not dare to waste time and began to act according to what they had learned before.

Because there is strength in numbers, it didn't take long for them to use several arm-grouped trees to make a simple ladder, and then lean it against the big tree.

At the same time, Li Guoqiang also came back with a few bundles of mixed herbs and asked everyone to identify them.

Then he pulled a match from his pocket and lit a bundle of mixed herbs.

In an instant, the bundle of mixed herbs emitted a thick gray smoke with a faint pungent smell.

"Watch my movements carefully later to see how I use these herbs to fumigate the wild mountain peaks."

Hearing this, everyone turned their attention to Li Guoqiang.

The next moment, Li Guoqiang was seen holding the ladder with one hand and the burning herbs in the other, and slowly climbing up.

As he got closer, the wild bees flying around the tree hole began to become restless, as if they had sensed some dangerous signals.

However, before they could identify the source of danger, Li Guoqiang raised the herbs in his hand high, letting the thick smoke drift toward the entrance of the tree hole.

After a while, the entrance of the tree hole was covered by thick smoke, and the movements of the wild peaks became slow and clumsy at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if they were drunk.

Seeing this situation, everyone standing under the tree showed a look of surprise on their faces.

You know, this time when you go into the mountains to dig wild beehives, in addition to paying attention to the dangers on the road, the most important thing is to prevent being stung by wild beehives.

Originally they were all prepared to be beaten black and blue, but they never expected that Li Guoqiang could make those wild peaks lose their attack power just by picking up some herbs and lighting them.

In this way, digging a beehive becomes much easier. You just need to find a way to catch the queen bee, and then you can use the queen bee's appeal to kill all the worker bees and drones at once.

Therefore, everyone's faces soon showed an eager look.

Even when Li Guoqiang came down from the ladder, someone couldn't wait to come forward and ask to play as a forward.

Li Guoqiang did not refuse this, but nodded in agreement and gave up his seat.

Soon, the most active woman followed Li Guoqiang's example and climbed up the ladder in no time. Then, while fumigating the entrance of the tree hole with herbs, she put her head up to observe the situation inside the tree hole, trying to find the queen bee.

However, what she didn't expect was that the inside of the tree hole was not horizontal, but vertical downwards.

Therefore, she only saw some wild bees lying on the wall of the tree hole and crawling slowly, but she did not see any beehive, let alone the queen bee.

Fortunately, Li Guoqiang had already told them about this situation when he was training them.

So she didn't panic, but directly put the herbs in her hand into the tree hole, and then kept blowing air into the tree hole, allowing the thick smoke to spread in the tree hole.

This can not only reduce the activity of wild peaks, but also check whether there are other exits in the tree hole.

After working for a while, she soon discovered through the direction of the thick smoke that there was an exit on the back of a big tree more than one meter below the tree hole. Then she hurriedly turned around and told Li Guoqiang who was standing under the tree about the situation.

"Then you come down first!"

When Li Guoqiang heard that there was a second exit, he immediately asked someone to come down, and then placed a second simple ladder behind the big tree.

Then he took out a second bundle of herbs and asked the woman to go up to the entrance of the tree hole, light them and blow smoke in. He then asked another person to climb up behind the big tree with a net bag and guard the second exit, waiting to catch the queen bee.

Moreover, in order to ensure that nothing could go wrong, he also used the vision of the small world to monitor the cave entrance at all times.

Before long, the bees, unable to bear the smoke, rushed out from the second exit.

Moreover, the queen bee ran very fast and had no intention of living and dying with the hive.

Li Guoqiang was not surprised by this. After all, in terms of the continuation of the population, the queen bee was doing the right thing.

As long as the queen bee is not dead, the bee colony will have a chance to make a comeback.

But if the queen bee dies, then even if all the worker bees survive, it will be of no use and they are doomed to die.

Seeing that the queen bee had already run into the open net bag in a panic, Li Guoqiang hurriedly reminded her, "Sister Xiuqin, please check to see if the queen bee has come out."

"Oh!"

Upon hearing this, Li Xiuqin hurriedly and carefully checked the bees flying around in the net bag, trying to find the queen bee among them.

Since she had worked in the apiary for more than half a year, she was quite familiar with the characteristics of the queen bee.

Soon, she found a bee with darker color and larger body in a corner of the net bag, and it was guarded by some worker bees. She was immediately surprised.

Then, without bothering to inform Li Guoqiang, she hurriedly used a rope to tie up the queen bee's location, trapping the queen bee to death in that corner.

At this point, most of the work of collecting bees has been completed.

The next step is to wait patiently for the worker bees to fall into the trap and preserve this nest of wild mountains as much as possible.

If possible, after all the worker bees have been collected, you can use some tools to dig the tree holes and then collect the beehives in the hive.

However, not only would this take a lot of time and conflict with their mission to go into the mountains, but it would also likely be counterproductive.

After all, this is the time when the bees have just awakened from hibernation, and the honey combs in the hive have basically been consumed by the bee colony, so it is unlikely to collect satisfactory honey.

The only thing that is worthwhile is the larvae in the beehive.

If these honeycombs can be brought back, it will greatly promote the development of the bee colony. Not long after, Li Xiuqin saw that no bees had flown out of the cave for a long time, and she knew that the bees in this nest had been collected almost completely, so she didn't waste any more time, and quickly tied up the net bag and then got down from the ladder.

Then, she walked up to Li Guoqiang with the net bag and said excitedly, "Qiangzi, look, I did it."

"great!"

Upon hearing this, Li Guoqiang immediately smiled and praised, then signaled the other party to quickly transfer the bee colony into a sack to prevent the bee colony's emotions from being overly stimulated.

After Li Xiuqin finished her work, he waved his hand and asked everyone to gather around so that they could study and summarize.

Moreover, in order to improve everyone's work enthusiasm, he also announced publicly that the person who received the most bee colonies would be rewarded with a box of snacks from Daohua Village.

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up instantly and their enthusiasm for work increased. Then, without waiting for Li Guoqiang to give the order to continue, they kept urging them to go.

When Li Guoqiang saw this situation, he was delighted and then he led everyone to the next beehive location very readily.

When he arrived at the place, he first pointed out the location of the hive, and then handed over the work of collecting the bees to others.

Since the previous start was very smooth, everyone was very confident and there was even a situation where they were scrambling to work in order to get the rewards.

If Li Guoqiang hadn't seen the situation was not right and made them take turns working, they would probably have fought.

Soon, with great enthusiasm, the second hive of bees was successfully put into the sack.

Seeing that everyone had gradually become proficient in collecting bees, Li Guoqiang did not continue to watch them all the time.

When he brought everyone to the location of the third hive, he handed over the work of collecting the bees to others, and then took some tools and went to collect another hive of bees nearby under the pretext of collecting them.

In fact, he took advantage of this time and used teleportation to go to the mountains. While searching for the location of the beehive, he used the storage function of the small world to quickly collect the beehives and get the reward from Jin Daddy.

By the time he had collected more than 30 beehives and several hundred kilograms of honey and beehives, Li Xiuqin and others had just collected the third beehive.

Afterwards, they did not continue to rush to the next location, but found a relatively open place, made a fire, ate, and rested.

"Qiangzi, how did you find them? How did you find so many beehives so quickly?"

Li Xiuqin sat next to Li Guoqiang and asked with a curious look on her face, not paying any attention to her round butt which was almost sticking close to him.

Not to mention, in order to keep herself cooler, she had already unbuttoned her collar, and she could see the majestic snow-capped mountains with just a quick glance.

Fortunately, Li Guoqiang was not interested in that at all. He just laughed and answered: "In fact, many things are easy to do if you know how to do it. Just like collecting bees, it seems difficult when you don't know how to do it, but after you know how to do it, it's easy."

"That's true!"

When Li Xiuqin heard this, she immediately nodded in agreement.

The faces of the others also showed a thoughtful look.

Then, Li Xiuqin suddenly reacted and gave Li Guoqiang a displeased look.

Anyway, what she asked was not this question at all!
She just wanted to know how Li Guoqiang found these beehives.

As a result, Li Guoqiang gave a long explanation and fooled everyone.

Fortunately, she also knew that this kind of hard technology was not so easy to obtain, so she did not feel disappointed.

What's more, she knew that Li Guoqiang was her brother-in-law, and they were family after all. Even if Li Guoqiang didn't teach her, he would never teach others.

In this way, she had nothing to complain about.

"Sister-in-law, come and share these candies with everyone."

Li Guoqiang was delighted when he saw Li Xiuqin's reaction. He then reached into his bag, took out a small bag of candy and handed it to her.

When Li Xiuqin saw the candy, her eyes lit up slightly, and then she hurriedly took the candy and distributed it to everyone.

Although their lives are much better now than before, due to the restrictions of various tickets and the famine debts from the past, the supplies they can enjoy are not very abundant.

Besides, they had been tired after being in the mountains for most of the day and had only eaten some tasteless dry food, so it was a wonderful thing for them to be able to eat a piece of candy now.

Soon, everyone present put the candies into their mouths with a happy look on their faces, gently holding them, letting the sweetness fill their entire mouths.

After the candy was completely melted, they followed Li Guoqiang's instructions, took various tools and rushed to the next beehive.

Time flies, and it's evening in the blink of an eye.

When Li Xiuqin and others finished digging the sixth hive, they were somewhat surprised to find that they had returned to the back mountain of Jinshan Fort, less than two hills away from the first apiary, not long after they walked away.

Originally they were a little worried that they would not be able to get back to the village before dark, but now they realized that Li Guoqiang had already planned the route.

This miraculous skill immediately made them feel very impressed.

In comparison, the five beehives that Li Guoqiang dug up on his own while they were digging beehives were nothing.

In this way, not long after, they successfully returned to the first apiary before dark, bringing eleven nests of wild bees.

When Xu Yuping and the people who stayed at the apiary saw the harvest of Li Guoqiang, Li Xiuqin and others, they were so shocked that they were speechless.

You know, last year they asked Zheng Kaitao and Sun Maocai to go into the mountains to dig beehives, but after spending several days, they failed to dig up a single nest of wild beehives. However, Li Guoqiang, Li Xiuqin and others only went into the mountains for one day and dug up eleven nests of wild beehives.

The gap here is too big!
Especially when they listened to Li Xiuqin and others talk about their relaxing experiences of the whole day, and then saw Li Guoqiang take out a box of pastries from Sijiucheng Daoxiangcun and give it as a reward to the person who collected the most beehives, they were all filled with emotion.

Otherwise, why do they say that comparing yourself with others will make you feel thwarted?
Compared with Li Guoqiang, Zheng Kaitao is simply a waste!
According to this situation, it may not take long before they can replenish the number of beehives in the first apiary, and it may even be possible to set up a third apiary after supplying the needs of the county.

After realizing this possibility, before Li Guoqiang could arrange for people to settle the eleven nests of wild bees, Xu Yuliang, Sun Maocai and other brigade cadres ran to the first apiary like cats smelling fish.

(End of this chapter)