Chapter 118 Chapter 1 Einstein and the Bees

My name is Lu Jianxin. I used to be a bastard who lived an ordinary life, but only asked for three meals a day.One day, my life trajectory intersected with the tea man, and everything changed.A person named Mu Qingxiang appeared and showed me the wonders in tea leaves, and life became more and more exciting.Once, I thought that this kind of life would not have an end, at least it would not end so quickly.However, the ensuing massacre of tea fairies and the centuries-old disaster was the moment when everything came to a halt. Simplify and simplify everything, and when the complicated things are clear, that's when I leave.Yes, this is the last story I will tell, a story of how I died, a legend no one knows.

Now things go back to that night in the late autumn of 1995, when Mu Qingxiang and I had a long talk in the room, I wanted to escape from all this, and I didn’t want to continue to get involved with tea people.In order not to let Zhao Shuai, my little cousin and others die in vain, as well as that unexplained disaster, I had no choice but to keep going.The disaster that Mu Qingxiang often mentioned finally narrated to me that night. I didn't interrupt in the middle until I heard the end quietly. It is not a behemoth that dominates the world, nor is it the president of a certain country. Everything is a member of the earth, and each member has an inseparable connection.Sometimes, the destruction of a race can be done with only a tiny life.Einstein once mentioned in an informal occasion: If bees disappear from the world, human beings will only have 4 years left.

Bees are notoriously small insects that seem to be found everywhere, not a rare and rare species. In the early 20th century, bees were gradually disappearing all over the world, but the number of disappearances was too small to attract attention.The rapid disappearance of bees began in 2006. The problem is that the current technology has not found a definite reason until today, and the disappearance continues.Of course, this is all after the funeral, and the story I want to tell is still in 1995. The decrease in the number of bee colonies in the bee farms of many countries around the world suddenly increased, and almost batches of worker bees suddenly disappeared, and no dead bees were found around.The number of wild bees has also been greatly reduced, with the number of missing reaching hundreds of millions at a time, and it is almost on the verge of disappearing completely, and the reason is unknown.Therefore, American scholars use the term "bee sudden disappearance (CCD)" to describe the abnormal phenomenon that the bee colony is greatly reduced.

The full English name of CCD is Colony Collapse Disorder, which translates as "sudden disappearance of bees". It is a phenomenon that causes a large number of worker bees in the hive to suddenly disappear. The reason is still unclear. CCD has three characteristics: all adult bees in the bee colony disappear, and there are few dead bees in or around the bee colony; there are bee larvae in the nest; the bee food stored in the hive is intact and has not been destroyed by others. Bees or predators snatch. The rapid disappearance of bees may seem insignificant, but it has attracted attention abroad.

Of the 1,330 crops that humans depend on for survival, more than 1,000 need bees for pollination. Without bees, the food chain will be broken.In addition to the United States, bees have also disappeared in agriculture in Italy, Poland, Portugal, Central and South America, China and even Taiwan.The rapid disappearance of bees in recent years has forced the United States to purchase supplements from Australia for the first time in 80 years. If the cause and the way to stop it cannot be found, the United States may be completely devoid of bees in 2035. I am a Chinese major, listening to these science news is no different from listening to English.I don't keep bees, and I'm not an entomologist. I can't help if all the bees disappear.How closely bees and tea are related, I don't know, and if it can help, it must be a disservice.

Mu Qingxiang explained unhurriedly that she mentioned to me before that she had seen a man come to look for my aunt in the mansion in the deep mountain, and she fell into a coma after that.That man was Yang Chishan, and my aunt dismissed Mu Qingxiang, but Mu Qingxiang heard a fragment of their conversation.Yang Chishan kept complaining to his aunt, and other tea masters joined forces to deal with him, and his son was killed because of this.Just as tea has spread from China to the whole world, Yang Chishan thought of a way to use the tea that people often drink to make people all over the world pay the price.

My aunt listened without saying a word, until Yang Chishan asked her to borrow something, and she was excited to drive Yang Chishan out of the mansion in the deep mountain.Yangchishan stayed overnight on the grounds that it was late at night and it was inconvenient to go out of the mountain.That night, Mu Qingxiang fell into a coma, and finally woke up at the foot of Qingwu Mountain in Chongqing. She never found her aunt and the mansion again. "That night, Yang Chishan mentioned bees several times, and you can fulfill your wishes through them, but you must rely on something from my aunt." Mu Qingxiang said to me, "I used to hear my aunt say that we don't communicate with the world. Because I have a very dangerous mysterious treasure. I have never seen that thing. I only know that it is related to tea and bees. The more humans rely on tea, the greater its danger. In short, that treasure cannot be casually Use it, otherwise it will easily cause unpredictable damage to the world."

I couldn't figure it out, and I heard it like falling into the clouds, so I asked: "Have you finally succeeded in Yangchi Mountain? Otherwise, you and my aunt will not be separated, and you will not live outside the mountain." Mu Qingxiang frowned slightly, Said that this was what she wanted to know for ten years, but failed to touch the truth.What is the relationship between my aunt and Yang Chishan, whether she is alive or dead, and whether the treasure has been taken away by others, has always been a mystery.The bees kept disappearing, which attracted Mu Qingxiang's attention. It is very likely that Yang Chishan has already got them.As for how he will retaliate against the world, what method he will use, and how to stop him, Mu Qingxiang can't say clearly now.

However, in the past hundred years, the world has indeed experienced unprecedented chaos, and strange diseases continue to appear, especially for people who drink tea for a long time.For example, Lao Yan suffered from a very rare Huming lump, my father's sudden death, my second uncle's strange disease, and more hidden illnesses, all of which may be related to Yangchishan's revenge. I felt that the words became more and more absurd, and I finally couldn't help but interrupt: "This is too exaggerated. Drinking tea will cause the root cause of the disease. This is common sense since ancient times. Tea is cold in nature, so drinking too much is not good. Some If people drink tea in the wrong way, they will also get sick because of it, so we can’t generalize it.”

Mu Qingxiang opened her mouth and replied: "In Fohai, the old king wants to blow up the whole village; in Mingling, those three young people are pregnant with ghosts; in Xiamen Island, your relatives are vicious; this is part of human nature. , but don’t you think it’s all over the top? Especially Lao Yan’s Humingmai, it must be the largest one in 5,000 years. There are still many things we don’t know, frequent epidemics in various places, and crazy behaviors continue , It seems calm, but when you think about it in depth, it is actually already surging." "Human nature is both good and evil, and there are many people who do bad things, and it's not something that happened in the past hundred years." I still couldn't believe it.

"Now the disappearance of bees is an example. They disappeared in large numbers and their bodies could not be found. The United States has not found the reason and the bodies of bees with the most advanced technology. Hundreds of millions of bees disappeared at a time, not just one or two. If they disappeared normally , will they not find the dead bees? The hives are all intact, leaving a lot of young as the queen bee, and they all seem to come back when they leave the hive, but none of them come back. Also, is it Is the disappearance of a large number of bees a common occurrence in five thousand years?" Mu Qingxiang asked the question with a single brain. I was still thinking about how to refute, but Mu Qingxiang continued: "This matter has not attracted people's attention. If it continues, the number of bees will disappear in the next century." "But tea leaves have little to do with bees. How did they become Yangchishan's killing tools?" I still couldn't figure it out. Mu Qingxiang bluntly said that this is what needs to be investigated, after all tea leaves and bees are not completely unrelated.Now tea is spread all over the world, if one can manipulate the tea leaves all over the world, it is indeed possible to control the life and death of people.It is absolutely impossible to do it all over the world in a day, and it would not be an exaggeration to need a hundred years.Over the years, the world has become more and more developed, but there are also more and more weird diseases, which advanced technology cannot cope with. For many years, Mu Qingxiang has been looking for her way home. Only by returning to the mansion in the deep mountain can she determine how Yangchishan's conspiracy was accomplished.Mu Qingxiang remembered that my aunt had always locked the backyard of the mansion, where the fog was floating, it was probably the place where the treasure was hidden.The mansion may have recorded the origin of the mysterious treasure, knowing oneself and the enemy, so that Yang Chishan's evil method can be deciphered. "Are you sure you didn't lie to me?" I asked. "I know you won't believe it, so I haven't said it all the time. You should understand by now. There are too many things that you will only believe after seeing them with your own eyes. Saying anything now is futile." Mu Qingxiang didn't answer directly. I sighed: "This is no joke, just talk about it casually, can I believe it?" Mu Qingxiang changed the topic and asked: "You want to know why the Tiancha Stone made you dizzy in the Tengger Desert, but will Zhao Shuai and I be fine?" I wanted to ask a long time ago, so I nodded, and Mu Qingxiang said to me: "I haven't had tea in the past ten years since I woke up in front of the grave. Although I didn't hear all the quarrel between my aunt and Yangchishan that night , but after so many things happened, even if Yangchishan didn’t do it, it has quietly changed all the tea leaves. Zhao Shuai didn’t like to drink tea at first, but he didn’t drink it again after hearing me mention it.” "You haven't had tea for ten years?" I was surprised. Mu Qingxiang said frankly: "Unless I was with you, I drank a sip or two, but I really haven't drank it in ten years. Don't you realize that I always smell it instead of drinking it." Who would have thought that Mu Qingxiang, who was so familiar with tea, hadn't drunk tea for ten years, just because she suspected that tea had been tampered with by Yangchishan.In that mysterious mansion deep in the mountains, famous teas from all over the world were collected, and Mu Qingxiang practiced tea knowledge and tea tasting skills all over there.I complained that Mu Qingxiang didn't say it earlier, if the tea really had a problem, then I drank so much in the past two years, what should I do if something happened.However, Mu Qingxiang said that if the tea can kill people immediately, Yangchishan's revenge will not be achieved, so the changes in tea are carried out quietly and for a long time under the eyes of the world. However, I seriously recalled that in Fohai, Mingling, and Xiamen Island, the human nature of those people was indeed very distorted.Lin Chachi also vomited blood on the spot because the dirt in the teapot was washed off. Could it be that the tea is behind the scenes.However, there are so many masters in the world, it is not easy to hide the truth. Haven't others suspected that the tea is not a variety from a hundred years ago? Mu Qingxiang admitted: "This matter is really unconvincing. If you can go back to the mansion in the deep mountain and learn about the origin of the treasure from there, you may be able to know how Yangchishan did it. Now, the most important thing in the whole thing is The most important thing is what is the use of what Yang Chishan asks for from my aunt."