Peach Blossom Land On Longyin Island Chapter 34

honey and serum

Thanks to An Xiaojin’s intuition about beasts, An’s father and his team’s search on the second day was very fruitful. Not only did they catch another bungara snake, An Xiaojin even found a wild beehive.

The beehive was discovered on the way back. It was in a thick, hollow tree hole, not too high from the ground, and there were branches beside the tree hole.

An Le couldn’t help but drag An Xiaoyu to steal the honey. She was afraid that the bees would hurt An’s father and others, so she asked them to go back to the boat and wait.

However, An Linmian, An Mai, and Anshun still stayed: An Linmian was also interested in stealing honey, so he just chatted with An Le and discussed how to get the honey with great interest; An Mai also insisted on staying, and took ointment with him to deal with various insect bites, in case several people were stung too seriously and delayed the treatment time; As for Anshun, for no reason, An Linmian and An Mai stayed behind and did not leave.

After some discussion, several people finally chose to smoke with fire.

The five people took off their coats and wrapped their heads tightly. Anle, An Linmian, and Anmai lit a fire and fanned smoke under the hive. The thick white smoke rising from the ground slowly blew towards the hive. The fat bees who received the fire warning flew out of the hive one after another and ran away in a daze.

An Xiaoyu and Anshun climbed onto the thick branches next to the hive.An Xiaoyu reached into the honey nest with a long piece of bamboo to get honey, while Anshun waved the branches and leaves of shrubs to drive away the small amount of honey that was protecting his home.

The plan went very smoothly, except that they lost the protection of the smoke during the evacuation. The five thieves, who had a strong smell of sweet dirt on their bodies, were pursued mercilessly by the bees.

Fortunately, the five people and one dog escaped quickly. They rushed towards the seaside pier without resting, and as soon as they jumped on the boat, they immediately asked An Bei to drive away.

The ship sailed several nautical miles before five people and one dog dared to come out of the cabin.

The sea wind was fierce, pushing the boat towards Longyin Village at high speed, leaving the sunset far behind.The sea breeze is crisp and clear, the hair of the young people is flying freely, and the sweetness of honey fills the entire ocean.

“Sugar can be added to milk tea from now on!” An Le held up a large bulging cowhide bag filled with honey and beamed: “How about I filter out the impurities and then distribute them to you tomorrow?”

Anshun shrugged and said indifferently: “I don’t like sweets, so you can share it.”

Anmai smiled and shook his head: “I don’t want the honey. Leave the beeswax to me to make ointment.”

“Tsk,” Anle touched his chin. He was just about to say what a shame this was, when An Linmian said first, “Give it to me, I want it to be divided! Let’s divide it between the two of us, no, between the three of us.”

The three in An Linmian’s mouth refer to her, An Le, and An Xiaoyu.

An Xiaoyu said, “No, you two can split up.”

“Okay!” An Linmian shook his head up and down, decisively agreed, and said to Anle, “Let’s split up.”

“Okay!” Anle smiled and nodded, “Give the beeswax to the wheat, and share the honey between us. Come to my house tomorrow and make milk tea for you.”

“There is also serum.” Anmai remembered the serum, “Tell me tomorrow what the serum is.”

Anle didn’t know much about serums. He had only watched a popular video about antivenom and knew that antivenom is actually injecting snake venom that has been processed and weakened in toxicity into animals to stimulate the animals to produce corresponding antibodies.These antibodies are then extracted from animal blood, purified and made into serum, which is injected into patients bitten by snakes to achieve detoxification.

The popular science video used two rabbits to demonstrate a simple experiment: inject a small amount of snake venom with reduced toxicity into a white rabbit multiple times, and then inject the antibodies extracted from the blood of the white rabbit into the body of a black rabbit bitten by a venomous snake… Anle told Anmai about the rabbit experiment and everything he could remember in detail, but it was still difficult for him to explain to Anmai what antibodies were and how to extract them, because he did not understand how this process was done.

At this time, Anle had just finished explaining the serum to Anmai, and stood up tremblingly while rubbing his numb legs.

The two rabbits painted on the ground with branches are lively and cute. Anmai is still squatting on the ground, looking at the two rabbits thoughtfully.

“Can’t the blood that produces antibodies be directly transfused into the patient’s body?” After listening to the explanation, Anmai frowned and thought for a long time and asked.

“No, even if blood is transfused between people, the same blood type must be considered before transfusion.” Although Anle didn’t know how to purify the antibodies, he at least knew one thing – direct blood transfusion would cause rejection. After Anle finished speaking, he felt that what he said was of little help. It was impossible to make serum with the technology here, so he scratched his head and said embarrassedly: “That’s all I know. It doesn’t seem to be of any help in making an antidote.”

Anmai relaxed his brows, raised his head and smiled at Anle: “Thank you, Anle, it’s very useful. It may not be possible to extract antibodies and make serum, but the experiment on the rabbit is very interesting, I want to try it.”

A group of people gathered in the courtyard of Anle’s house: Anmai, who was thirsty for knowledge, dragged Anlinmian to Anle early in the morning. Antu heard that there was milk tea and immediately ran over with Anshun.

Antu was very curious. Although he didn’t know any medical skills, he squatted on the ground and listened carefully. Seeing that the two of them had finished talking about the business, he stood up and shook his stiff legs, and asked his doubts: “Hey, Lele, isn’t the serum something from Brother Xiaoyu’s hometown? Why are you talking about it?”

“Ah…he…is making milk tea, so he has no time.” Anle rubbed her nose and glanced at An Xiaoyu, who was making milk tea with Anshun in the kitchen, and said guiltily.

“Oh, I’ll ask Brother Xiaoyu later. Brother Xiaoyu may know better—Hey!” Before he could finish the two words, a pearl-sized, sweet-smelling, tawny, semi-soft object suddenly hit Antu’s forehead.In the middle, although it didn’t hurt, Antu still screamed subconsciously, rubbed his forehead and looked angrily at the culprit – An Linmian, who was separating honey with a linen cloth at the table, and said aggrievedly: “Why did you hit me?”

An Linmian rolled his eyes and said, “What are you asking? If you understand, just ask? Come and help me share the honey.”

Antu rubbed his forehead, walked over slowly, and said angrily: “Ask what’s wrong, I don’t understand, but Maizi understands.”

At this time, Anmai also stood up, walked towards the two of them with a smile, and said, “I think Xiaoyu is not good at giving lectures, so I let Lele do it. Lele made it very clear.”

“That’s right.” Antu nodded in agreement, seeming to be convinced.”But, Sister Mianmian, why do you use such a cute jar when it’s just for honey?” An Tu said, pointing to a round clay pot with colorful paintings on the table.

“It’s so cute. I painted it all night.” An Linmian raised his eyebrows proudly and poured the newly filtered honey into the fat jar. He didn’t care if it was half full, just filled the fat jar, carefully closed the lid with two cat ears, picked it up and left.

“Hey, you don’t want to drink milk tea?” An Le looked at An Linmian who was hurried out and shouted.

An Linmian shouted from outside the hospital without looking back: “Drink! Come back later! Give me seven cents of sweetness!”

“…” Anle was speechless for a moment, thinking that this was a milk tea shop, and started ordering it.

When stealing bees, you do not steal everything in the hive. Firstly, it is late autumn. If you steal all the bees’ winter food, it will be difficult for the bee colony to survive the winter. Secondly, it is rare to find a large and easy-to-find hive. For the sake of sustainable development, even if you eat and steal again, a few thieves who are a little greedy and have no lack of conscience only steal half of it.

Anle picked up the remaining honey and took a look. One-third was left. Although it wasn’t much, it was enough to last for a while.Honey in late autumn has low water content, high honey concentration, and a thicker and more fragrant aroma.

Sweet and rich honey is added to freshly squeezed milk and mixed with Anmu’s treasured tea leaves to brew milk tea. The fragrant heat rises from the bamboo cup, dispelling the early winter chill in the air.

When An Linmian appeared at the gate of the fence with an expression as if he had saved the world, An Le, An Mai, and An Tu were sitting around the square table, squinting their eyes and drinking milk tea contentedly.But for some reason, An Xiaoyu and Anshun suddenly began to compete in archery, and opened their bows at the flying geese in the sky.

As soon as the two appeared holding hands, they immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the courtyard.

An Le blinked several times, and after confirming that the smile on his sister’s face was sincere, he was surprised: “What’s going on? Is this still Su Su? She’s not angry with you anymore?”

An Tu discovered the mystery first, pointed at the fancy fat jar in Su Su’s arms, and suddenly said: “It turned out to be for sister Su Su. I asked you how could you like such a cute jar.”

An Linmian raised his eyebrows proudly again, pulled An Susu over and strode over, saying, “Where’s my milk tea?”

“Let it warm in the pot, fill it yourself, and add the sugar yourself.” An Le pointed to the kitchen and said.

After a while, An Linmian came back and sat down with two cups of milk tea with bamboo straws inserted, and handed a cup of honey to An Susu.

“Thank you, sister Mianmian~” An Susu’s eyes were crooked and her voice was sweet. An Linmian’s lips were grinning to the sky, and she held An Susu on her lap and rubbed her for a while.

An Le was amazed: “I didn’t expect that all it takes to coax An Susu is a jar of honey.”

“It’s a fancy and cute jar and a jar of honey,” Antu corrected, “I guess it must have been Maizi’s idea.”

Anmai rolled his eyes again and smiled without saying a word.

An Susu looked at An Xiaoyu and Anshun who were fighting back and forth in the courtyard, and asked, “Why did Sister-in-law Xiaoyu start fighting with Brother Ashun?”

“It’s okay, it’s a competition, otherwise I won’t be able to call him.” An Tu said casually, took another sip of milk tea, and continued, “Brother Ashun brought a bow and spear when he came here. Brother Ashun and Brother Xiaoyu are really strange. They don’t talk much, but they had a tacit understanding when they were hunting before.”

“Is this so?” Anle looked at the two people who were fighting fiercely and murmured: “I thought they couldn’t deal with it.”

An Xiaoyu talked less, and Anshun talked even less. He rarely saw An Xiaoyu and Anshun talking to each other, and he even felt that there was a vague hostility between the two.

Speaking of which, he knew the least about Anshun among these people.He has been in Longyin Village for more than half a year. He seems to remember that Anshun only came to see him a few times when he first woke up. At that time, he received him very politely and said nothing. After that, he never saw Anshun alone again.

“Anshun’s parents seem to be gone.” Although he didn’t know much about Anshun, he still knew the basic situation. Both his parents were dead and his grandparents were all here, but Anshun seemed to live by himself. Thinking of this, Anle murmured to himself.

“How did Anshun’s parents pass away?”