Chapter 39 39 Being Stung

Chapter 39 39. Being stung

Qiaoqiao's wish to touch the bees failed to come true. At this moment, she squatted there and watched eagerly:

"Why can't I?"

The beekeeper was familiar with Song Sancheng. If he had known about Qiao Qiao's situation, he would have been coaxing him like a child:

"Because you are not familiar with them yet, if you reach out, the bees will think you are going to hit them, and they will sting."

He closed the beehive again and then reminded: "Don't touch it randomly. A bee sting will hurt you, but it will kill you if it stings you. This little thing is pitiful."

"Besides," he stretched out his hand for everyone to see, and saw that it was covered with calluses and the joints were thick: "I have rough skin and thick flesh, and I have long been used to it."

Qiaoqiao looked at his hand and stretched out her palm - Wulan loved to be clean and had kept him clean since childhood. Now this hand is also delicate and white, with clear joints.

If the farm work hadn't become a little rough during this period, I might still be like a pampered young man.

He let out a long, frustrated sigh, turned around and looked elsewhere.

Here, Song Sancheng and Song Tan looked at the beehives one by one, and then asked about the price - in short, 560 per box must not be less!

Song Sancheng hesitated: "Are there any other flowers after we finish the milkvetch? If there aren't so many flowers later, there won't be so many beehives."

But Song Tan thought: Come here, the beehives are not expensive, at least she can use spiritual energy to raise them! Honey is a good thing!

So he took stock with his fingers: "In the past two months, milkvetch and chestnut will also bloom. The pink peaches and white pears in our village are enough for them. After June and July, the weather gets hot, and the bees take a rest. Come on, there are vegetables in the garden, and I’m going to plant a field of sunflowers..."

With this calculation, he can afford it anyway.

Song Sancheng was shocked to hear this - if his daughter talks, her father will break his legs!

Both chestnuts and sunflowers, his endless farm work this year!

"Okay, okay, you have the final say!"

Song Tan then decided: "I want five boxes!"

The beekeeper laughed—this time, a small amount of three thousand yuan was credited to his account.

However, he still warned: "Keeping bees is easy. Just put the hives in place. If you have any problems, don't mess around. Call me and I'll come and take a look."

Just as we finished settling the bill, we heard a sudden howl!

"Ouch..."

I saw Qiao Qiao running out of the woods with tears streaming down her originally fair face. She was crying and wiping her tears.

One of his hands was clenched into a fist, and the base of his palm was red, swollen and shiny, obviously from a bee sting.

Song Tan couldn't laugh or cry: "Didn't I tell you not to touch bees?"

Qiao Qiao felt wronged and cried even louder:

"I picked up a very fat one..."

"This fat one can work, the queen bee..."

Apparently he remembered the handful of bees that the beekeeper had caught just now.

The beekeeper was stunned: "Impossible, how could the queen come out of the box..."

He murmured and poked his head over.

I saw Qiaoqiao carefully clasping her other hand and slowly opening her swollen fist——

In the palm of his hand, a chubby bee as big as a thumbnail was lying there cautiously. It has yellow and black stripes on its body and is indeed big, round and fat.

It's actually a little cute.

…

The beekeeper let out a laugh and said, "Oh, it's okay! This is a bumble bee, and its temper is as good as our bees. As long as you don't catch it, it usually won't sting people, and it'll be fine if you touch it occasionally. "

Qiao Qiao half understood what he said, and now he stretched his red palm forward.

The beekeeper smiled again: "The pain will definitely hurt for a while. I will have some medicine for you to apply later - this should be the newly unearthed queen bee, she is quite big."

"The average bumble bee is a little bit smaller than that."

Song Tan was also quite interested.

She flicked a bit of spiritual energy on her fingertips. The queen bee was fluttering its wings and was about to fly, but now it staggered and grabbed her finger.

Song Sancheng was startled: "Ouch!"

Song Tan quickly comforted: "Dad, it's okay! Look, it didn't sting me - how cute it is!"

The fluffy and chubby ball is really cute when it is pulled back and forth on her fingers.

Qiao Qiao couldn't take his eyes off it, and now he had forgotten about his revenge.

The beekeeper brought the medicine from the house, and while applying it to Qiao Qiao, he took another look at the bumble bee and said:

"You can play with it for a while and let it go. The queen is waiting to lay eggs and hatch."

Song Tan thought for a while: "Can this be raised? Does it produce a lot of honey?"

The beekeeper laughed: "It must be possible to raise it. This queen can give birth to more than a hundred. She can endure hardships and is more diligent than bees!"

"The only thing is, they earn more and eat more. You have to feed them. All year round, you can't get even one or two honeys out of its mouth - it's not enough for them to eat!"

"If they can't eat pollen and nectar for an hour, they will faint. It's just like hypoglycemia. If they can't eat anymore, they will die."

Having said this, even Song Sancheng's eyes showed traces of smile:

"This is not a bumblebee. Isn't it just like the piglet?"

But Qiaoqiao had already heard this sentence.

Although he didn't fully understand it yet, it didn't stop him from blinking and looking over pitifully:

"Sister, I want to raise..."

He watched the bumblebee crawling on Song Tan's finger, it was very cute, now that the scar had healed and he had forgotten the pain, he stretched out his hand again.

However, the smell of the medicinal oil on his hand was too strong, and the bumblebee flew up with a "buzz".

After circling twice, it was still reluctant to give up the little bit of spiritual energy, so it lay back down again.

The beekeeper was also happy--

"If you want to raise it, just raise it. When the time comes, find a small box and prepare some sugar water for it. Don't worry about anything else."

"This queen bee will lay eggs as soon as it emerges from the ground. At that time, beeswax will be secreted in the box, and it will be made into a small jar little by little. The eggs are all in that small jar."

"Then sit on it and keep shaking it. When the temperature rises, the worker bees will hatch. It's also interesting to raise them."

But in the end, he added: "But it's really not profitable. They eat too much."

"And it's not as stable as bees. You can't say for sure if it will fly away."

Song Tan moved his fingers and saw that the bumblebee was firmly clinging to his fingers. Now he smiled confidently:

"Does it still hurt, Qiao Qiao."

Qiao Qiao looked at the bumblebee, then at his palm, and sniffed: "It hurts."

"Will you grab things next time?"

Qiao Qiao sobbed and cried again out of grievance.

Song Sancheng's heart melted when he saw it, and he hurriedly coaxed him: "I won't catch it next time, I won't catch it next time."

Song Tan snorted and laughed, then asked the beekeeper for a small wooden box and put the bumblebee in it. Then he stuffed the box into Qiao Qiao's hand:

"Hold it, don't open it, or it will run away if you scare it."

Well... today, how about three more updates?

This bumblebee is really super cute and has a good personality (but I still don't recommend touching it, I'm not responsible if it stings you). It's Qiao Qiao's friend I mentioned last time!