Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 279 - Chapter 279 279. Wasp Scout_1

Chapter 279: 279. Wasp Scout_1 Chapter 279: 279. Wasp Scout_1 He actually knew what was going on, he just wanted to hear more details now.

It’s not good when children grow up. When they were little and felt wronged, they knew to cry to their family, but once they’re older, they just endure it.

They didn’t even dare to speak up about something as big as a car accident. Why not? Song Sancheng knew in his heart: one was fear of worrying the family, and the other was definitely fear of spending too much money in the hospital.

Thinking of this, he realized they needed to earn more money! He glanced at his daughter’s thick, black hair now, and then thought back to when she first returned, with a piece of gauze hiding within her hair…

In an instant, his fighting spirit was high again:

“Tantan, I’m going up the mountain to see how the peach blossoms are being picked.”

“Alright!”

Song Tan agreed casually.

Nowadays, there wasn’t much work in the fields or on the mountain. Occasionally, some watermelons needed topping or the vegetable seedlings on the mountain required care, and Zhang Wang, alone on the mountain, was doing the work more meticulously than anyone else.

The old man was bursting with energy, feeling uneasy without work to do.

However, spending every day in the Peach Forest and being nourished by the subtle Spiritual Energy, he hadn’t even noticed that he looked and felt much better lately.

The pain of his spouse’s passing had also lessened.

Before long, after the period of mourning was over, he could also join Lao Song’s family for meals without worry.

Wu Lan, however, couldn’t bear to leave the tea leaves on the mountain; she and Wang Lifan would find the time to pick tea every day. Grandpa would stay home doing some miscellaneous tasks, and as for Song Sancheng… he would work alongside them.

There wasn’t any specific distribution of tasks at home, nor was there any crucial work, everyone was simply restless.

But speaking of the mountain, Song Tan remembered the big customer introduced by the lifesaver last time, who wanted a lot of honey. However, there wasn’t much available at the time, just 43 pounds in stock, so she gave it all to him.

She wondered if they still wanted more now?

There was no shortage of people wanting to buy honey on the online store.

After such a long time, could they spare some more?

Thinking this, she quickly raised her voice:

“Qiaoqiao, go up the mountain and check on the bees!”

Qiaoqiao immediately rushed out: “I just checked this morning, they’ve given birth to lots of little bees, the boxes are full!”

“Really?” Now that this task was completely in Qiaoqiao’s hands, and there were no major problems that could arise, Song Tan wasn’t overly concerned. But hearing this, she promptly replied, “Wait a couple of days, and I’ll go buy a couple more beehives.”

She could make them herself, but there was no need to, it was better to go to the Beekeeper. He had plenty of these things.

The siblings started walking toward the back mountain.

All along the way, Qiaoqiao shared excitedly:

“Sister, Teacher Xin taught me how to search for study materials online, and now I know our bees are called Apis cerana, they are the… um… national level livestock and poultry… um… that, genetic resource conservation breeds!”

The term was a bit long, he could only spit it out slowly and thoughtfully.

But this was actually new to Song Tan.

When she was cultivating and farming using Spiritual Energy and spells, who looked into these things?

At that moment, she was genuinely surprised, “Really? That important?!”

“Yeah!”

Qiaoqiao nodded vigorously, beginning to count on his fingers: “Because they have a strong gathering ability, a long honey-collecting season, good adaptability, strong disease resistance, and they don’t eat much, they are very suitable for our country.”

The more he talked, the prouder he became, feeling that the bees he raised were simply the best in the world.

“Alright!”

Song Tan was very supportive of his attitude: “Since the bees are entrusted to you, it’s right for you to be responsible. Learn more, in case there are any problems in the future, we’ll rely on you!”

Qiaoqiao solemnly took on the task: “I’ve been studying all along!”

At this moment, he confidently walked up to a row of five beehives, surrounded by buzzing bees. For the siblings, bee stings were the least of their worries, so they felt particularly at ease under the canopy of trees.

Qiaoqiao smoothly opened a beehive and was about to pull out a frame when suddenly, bees inside began to steadily clump together into a ball.

Right under their watch, it had already grown to the size of a ping-pong ball!

“What’s this?”

Song Tan was puzzled, but Qiaoqiao, after a moment of shock, became instantly anxious:

“Sister, it’s wasps!”

Song Tan then realized that it was wasps they were dealing with.

Those creatures were natural enemies of bees, capable of swallowing them whole with a single bite, and they wouldn’t just leave after feeding–they would kill first, then feed!

Their venom was particularly potent, and most people wouldn’t dare provoke them.

The wasp’s sting could be withdrawn and used repeatedly, unlike bees that die after stinging.

Now they were in trouble. With the hive targeted by wasps, they had to think of a discreet way to protect it…

As she was considering what to do, she saw Qiaoqiao already reaching out his hand to grab the clump of bees–

“Be careful!”

Before Song Tan could even issue a warning, she saw Qiaoqiao swiftly running his fingers over the group of bees.

Unexpectedly, even in the urgency of the situation, the bees did not attack him. They simply buzzed around, clustering together until, after a while, they slowly started to disperse one by one.

In the end, only a quail egg-sized cluster remained motionless in his palm.

Qiaoqiao’s eyes reddened.

At that moment, he parted the bees the size of a quail egg, only to find that each bee wrapped around it had died.

In the very center, an enormous wasp lay still, tightly enshrouded in the midst.

“It must have been a wasp that went into the hive to scout. The bees detected it and wrapped it up to prevent it from returning to the nest to alert the others.”

Song Tan didn’t know as much about bees as Qiaoqiao did. She leaned closer, though, stroking the kid’s head with sympathy, “They did this to…”

Qiaoqiao, heartbroken, replied, “Wasps can’t tolerate heat, and they have a lower tolerance than bees by one degree. So to kill them, the bees had to wrap them up and overheat them.”

“But as they encapsulated the wasp, it would sting them, killing those inside.”

At that moment, Song Tan didn’t know quite what to feel.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest–the competition in nature was far more brutal than anything she could describe.

Yet, as long as there’s life, the struggle is always the same.

And then there was Qiaoqiao, with such a tender heart… grieving over blind, newborn mice and the dead bees now as well.

This child…

All she could do was sigh quietly, “Is there only one wasp?”

Qiaoqiao carefully placed the small clump of bees on the ground. After another glance inside the beehive, seeing everything else was normal, he hurriedly closed the hive with a serious expression:

“No, usually there are several wasps that come to scout! Definitely, other wasps have already run back to their nest!”

He made up his mind: “I’m going to stand guard here!”

“When the wasps come, I’ll drive them away!”

Song Tan: …

Just as she thought he had grown up a bit.

“Just you? What will you use to fight the wasps? Wasps are poisonous, a sting from them could hurt much more than Daxiong did!”

“If you go into anaphylactic shock, or something else… I’m not afraid for you, I’m afraid for myself!”

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