Chapter 953
: Picking Honey
Chapter 953: Picking Honey
After taking the bear bile, the three men began to cut the meat to feed the dogs.
Just after feeding the dogs some meat, Wang Li suddenly asked Wang An:
"Fourth brother, this black bear is obviously not the man-bear. Should we continue to wander around here looking for it after noon?"
Wang An thought for a moment and said:
"We've already gone into the mountains, so we might as well wander around. It won't be much different when we return anyway."
Mu Xueli immediately asked when he heard this:
"Then feed the dogs half full, brother-in-law."
Wang An nodded and said:
"Well, just feed them half full. If we run into that guy before noon, the dogs can still fight him."
"Siba Siba" is a local dialect with several meanings, but here it means to tear and fight.
In fact, it is the same for all animals. When they are full, their sensitivity will drop very low.
And because there is too much food in the stomach, strenuous exercise can also damage the stomach and intestines.
Raw meat is difficult to digest, and dogs don't chew their food much, so if a dog is full and then exercises vigorously, in severe cases, it may even cause gastrointestinal rupture and death.
Just like that, even though the dogs were barking and getting impatient, Wang An and his two companions stopped cutting meat for them.
Hearing the dogs barking, Wang An said to Dahei:
"We still have to work in the afternoon. We'll feed you guys well in the evening. Tell them to stop barking."
After hearing what Wang An said, Dahei snorted a few times, obviously expressing his dissatisfaction on behalf of all the dogs.
It is actually normal for dogs to behave like this.
Mainly in this season, the dogs' food, apart from cornmeal, can only be eaten as a snack, with dried meat that has been dried in the sun, or bones that have been accumulated before.
Therefore, the dogs would definitely be dissatisfied as they finally had a chance to eat meat but couldn't even eat their fill.
In desperation, Wang An stroked Dahei's head a few times, then explained in a gentle voice:
"We still have to work in the afternoon. If you all have bloated stomachs, how can we work in the afternoon?"
After Wang An's persuasion and assurance, the dog Dahei finally barked a few times at the other dogs.
After Dahei finished barking, the other dogs finally stopped barking.
Wang An touched Dahei's head again to show his approval, then turned to Wang Li and Mu Xueli who were unloading the meat and said:
"Put the meat directly into sacks and hang them on the tree. Then come back and get them before we go down the mountain."
As soon as Wang An finished speaking, Mu Xueli and Wang Li responded at the same time:
"Yeah, brother-in-law."
"Understood the fourth brother."
Wang An ignored the two men and started wandering around.
Of course, Wang An was not just wandering around aimlessly, but he wanted to pick some wild onions and pick some big melons and wild vegetables.
Since I'm going to eat pancakes later, I have to prepare some dishes to go with them.
While picking wild vegetables, Wang An was thinking about where to find the man-bear. Thinking about the man-bear, he couldn't help but think of the black bear that had just fallen to death.
The reason why this black blind dog fell from the tree must be because Dahei and other dogs surrounded the tree and barked at it.
In other words, the black bear was frightened by the sudden barking of the dog, causing it to get excited and fall from the tree.
But the question is, why would this black bear climb a tree when it has nothing to do? Although the black bear is an omnivorous animal, almost everyone knows that its favorite food is honey.
So, after all this random thinking, Wang An finally confirmed one thing, that is, there is a hive of bees above the big lime tree that people cannot see, and there is enough honey in the hive.
Because a black bear will not climb a tree for no reason. If it climbs a tree, it must be for food.
Thinking of honey, Wang An's eyes suddenly lit up.
It’s mainly honey, which can be said to be a very delicious thing. Besides being delicious, it is also very expensive.
For example, for linden honey, the supply and marketing cooperative's purchase price is as high as 2 yuan per catty, and the selling price exceeds 2.5 yuan.
Of course, mixed honey like multi-flower honey, which is a mixture of many kinds of nectar, is slightly cheaper.
Thinking of this, Wang An dug enough wild vegetables for three people to eat, and then returned to the big lime tree where Mu Xueli and Wang Li were.
At this time, Mu Xueli and his companion had already unloaded the entire black bear and were hanging the sack on the fork of a very thick tree.
Wang An stepped forward to help tie the rope, then pointed to the linden tree where the black bear fell, and said to the two of them with a smile:
"I'm standing on this tree. There must be a beehive there. Which of you two will go up and dig out the honey?"
In fact, Wang An was just asking. If the two of them couldn't do the job, Wang An would climb the tree himself.
Although Wang An had never done any hunting in the mountains in his previous life, he had done a lot of mining work. Although he had not dug honey many times, he had done it a few times after all.
But to be honest, picking honey is not an easy job.
On the one hand, most beehives are in tree holes above big trees, or in rock cracks on steep walls. In any case, most of them are in very high places.
There is basically no need to consider honey on steep walls, because first of all it is quite difficult for people to climb up, and it is too dangerous to pick honey in such circumstances.
Only those on trees are relatively safe and are frequented by miners.
Since most people in the mountains can climb trees, you just need to be careful not to fall from the tree and not to get stung by the beetles.
When Mu Xueli and Wang Li heard this, they subconsciously stared at the tree with their eyes wide open.
Then, Mu Xueli said eagerly:
"Yeah, this black bear climbed up the tree, most likely to eat honey. How could I have forgotten this? I have experience in digging honey. Hehehehe, let me climb up."
As he spoke, Mu Xueli looked around.
Wang An knew that Mu Xueli was looking for old beef briquettes because in order to avoid being stung by bees, using burning old beef briquettes to smoke the bees was very effective. This was also a common method used by mountain miners.
Wang An said:
"You want to find Lao Niu to do it, Xueli? Forget it. You can't light that thing with matches. Don't we have wormwood ropes with us? Lao Wu, go get one for your brother Mu."
Wang An suddenly realized that he should buy a few lighters, as matches were sometimes not very useful.
While Wang Li went to the horse to cut mugwort ropes, Wang An walked to a not-too-thick basswood tree, peeled off a piece of basswood bark with a sharp knife, and then made a bark bag with a handle in a few seconds.
Everything was ready. Mu Xueli handed the 56 to Wang An and climbed up the tree like a monkey.
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(End of this chapter)