Chapter 954
: It only takes 3 seconds
Chapter 954 It only takes three seconds
The bark bag made by Wang An is used to store honey.
Because this pure wild honey is not liquid, but stored in the beehive, it is considered a semi-liquid substance. Of course, there are very few solid honey.
The reason why there are very few solid honeys is that solid honey is nothing more than liquid honey that has been naturally dried over a long period of time. Simply put, it is honey that is relatively old.
However, it is very difficult to preserve such solid honey and keep it from deteriorating.
So to collect wild honey, you just need to dig out the entire honeycomb in the tree hole.
After wild honey is collected, it is inedible unless it is eaten together with the beehive.
Therefore, the liquid honey that people commonly see becomes that way after being processed.
Of course, processing wild honey is also very simple, that is to use the "barbaric pressing method".
To put it simply, it means squeezing the honeycomb as hard as you can, no matter how hard you squeeze it, as long as you can get the honey out.
If you have strong enough hands, there's nothing wrong with just squeezing it out with your hands.
The commonly used method locally is to place the beehive on a wooden board with holes, then place another wooden board on top of the beehive, and finally place a large stone on the wooden board.
Basically, it only takes one night to squeeze out all the honey in the honeycomb.
Finally, filter this honey that contains a lot of honeycomb debris or other impurities with cotton cloth or gauze.
This kind of honey is so delicious. It’s so yummy.
After Mu Xueli climbed up the tree, he quickly found the small tree hole where the bees were. After careful observation, Mu Xueli stood on a big branch and took out the piece of mugwort rope.
He cut off a piece of the wormwood rope, lit it, and threw it into the tree hole. While waiting for the smoke to drive the bees away, Mu Xueli shouted to the people under the tree:
"Brother-in-law, I found a beehive. It's quite big."
Upon hearing this, Wang An raised his head and shouted:
"Can you do it yourself? Do you want me to help you do it?"
I only heard Mu Xueli shouting from above:
"You don't have to come up, I can do it myself. It's just that this bark bag I'm holding is definitely not enough. If you fill two more bags, it will probably be enough."
Without Wang An's request, Wang Li took out his knife and walked towards a lime tree.
The bark of the basswood tree is known as the thousand-layer bark. It is soft and tender, just like thick leather.
The main thing is that it is very simple to peel the bark of this thing, and the basswood tree has another special feature, which is that after peeling off a piece of bark, you don't have to worry about the tree dying.
After a few minutes, Mu Xueli found that there were no bees flying out of the tree hole, but the bees around the tree hole were reluctant to leave and kept hovering around the tree hole.
So Mu Xueli lit the remaining piece of mugwort rope.
After holding the smoking wormwood rope for a long time, the bees that had been lingering around the entrance of the tree hole were finally smoked away.
It was not until then that Mu Xueli clamped the mugwort rope in his hand onto a small "Y"-shaped tree branch and let it burn and continue to smoke.
Holding a dagger in his hand, Mu Xueli reached into the smoking tree hole and quickly picked out a sticky piece of honeycomb from the wall of the tree hole.
Looking at the golden honeycomb in his hand, Mu Xueli grinned and put it into the bark bag hanging on his waist.
When he withdrew his hand, he felt the sticky honey on his hand and Mu Xueli subconsciously put his fingers into his mouth.
After smacking his lips a few times, Mu Xueli couldn't help but sigh softly:
"Oh my god, this honey is so damn sweet!" It has to be said that the linden honey in this season is definitely the freshest, mellowest and best tasting in the year.
Because July every year is the time when lime trees bloom, and after honey is spit out from the bee's mouth, it will become more viscous only after a period of natural fermentation and air-drying. Of course, this is also the time when it tastes the best.
The same is true for the honey sold on the market. You will find that the honey sold in some shops is more viscous.
However, the honey sold in some shops is like rice soup, which is a bit sticky but definitely not thick.
This is the difference between honey that has been stored for a long time in the beehive and honey that the bees have just spit out.
The former must be expensive, while the latter must be relatively cheap.
After licking his hand again, Mu Xueli put his hand into the tree hole again.
Soon, the bark bag on Mu Xueli's lower back was full. Mu Xueli looked at the branches crisscrossing below and gave up the idea of lowering the bark bag with a rope. Instead, he chose to climb down from the tree.
As soon as Mu Xueli landed, Wang An and Wang Li came over.
Looking at the beehive filled with bark bags, Wang An said with a smile on his face:
"Oh my god, this is a serious one. If you squeeze it all out, there must be three or four pounds of honey. Is there any more inside?"
Mu Xueli heard this and said happily:
"Yes, there are quite a few. I only scratched a small area in the corner."
When Wang An heard this, he said without hesitation:
"Okay, you two, just stand aside, I'll come up and dig out the rest."
As he spoke, Wang An climbed up the tree faster than Mu Xueli.
Seeing Wang An quickly climbing to the dense part of the tree fork, Mu Xueli couldn't help but sigh to Wang Li:
"Is my brother-in-law a monkey? How can he climb trees faster than me?"
When Wang Li heard this, he smiled evilly and said:
"Have you seen the big tree in the old yard of my fourth brother's house? It's the tallest one."
Mu Xueli nodded in confusion and said:
"Well, I'm not blind. I must have seen it after going there so many times. What's wrong?"
Wang Li stretched out his hand and pinched his index finger with his right thumb, making a "3" gesture, and then said in a very pretentious manner:
"Three seconds. It only takes my fourth brother three seconds to climb that tree."
When Mu Xueli heard this, he was very surprised and said:
"The bark of that tree is very smooth, but it's not easy to climb."
Wang Li said calmly:
"Really? That time my uncle wanted to beat up my fourth brother, and I saw with my own eyes that as soon as my fourth brother came out of the house, he jumped up the tree."
After a pause, Wang Li shook his head and said:
"Eighty percent of the time it took less than three seconds. Anyway, my uncle chased him out of the house and just didn't hit him."
Mu Xueli squinted his eyes very quickly and was completely stunned.
Wang An, who had already started digging the beehive out of the tree hole, could vaguely hear voices below, but he couldn't hear them clearly.
If Wang An knew that Wang Li had told such an embarrassing thing about him, Wang An would definitely come down and beat him up.
(End of this chapter)