Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 240 Checking the Beehive and Cutting the Rice
Not long after, Gao Mingcheng came to the place where the beehives were. Since there were no black bears in the mountains, the beehives were quite safe. From the outside, they were not damaged, but when they got closer, they could still see wasps.

Gao Mingcheng picked up the wooden stick on the ground familiarly, and the wasp was knocked down to the ground. Some of them died directly, and some struggled a few times in vain.

As a qualified beekeeper, Gao Mingcheng is quite protective of his bees.

After killing all the wasps lingering around the beehive, Gao Mingcheng opened the lid of the beehive to check the honeycomb inside.

A honeycomb is often divided into two parts, one for storing honey and one for hatching bee pupae.In a bee colony, there are three types of bees: queen bee, drone bee and worker bee. The life span of each bee is different. The queen bee can live for four to five years, the drone bee is about three months, and the worker bee has the shortest life span. It has a lifespan of only one and a half months, which can be extended to three months in winter.

The queen bee chooses different eggs in different nests, and it will produce fertilized eggs in ordinary hexagonal nests and platform bases, and the fertilized eggs will develop into worker bees or queen bees; unfertilized eggs in larger hexagonal nests, unfertilized eggs Fertilized eggs can only develop into drones in the future.

The egg period of the three types of bees is three days. After three days, they will hatch into larvae and start to suck royal jelly. In the first three days, all larvae eat royal jelly, but the situation will change after that, only the queen bee larvae can continue Eat royal jelly until they pupate, while drones and worker bee larvae start to eat bee food. What is bee food? It is a food made of honey and pollen.

After the larvae have molted five times in the sealing room, they can pupate. During this period, different bee species need different times. After pupation, the bee pupae emerge in the sealing room and bite through the cover After climbing out of the hive, it officially becomes a so-called bee and begins life with different duties.

Therefore, Gao Mingcheng can know the situation of this batch of bee pupae by observing the nests on the honeycomb. Although the queen bee can live for several years, her fertility will decrease later, so in beekeeping, it is often They are artificially eliminated, and in order to increase production and control the spread of bee diseases, the queen bee will be changed every year.

The queen bees in Gao Mingcheng's beehives are still very young and have good reproductive ability, so he has no intention of changing the queen bee for the time being. He checks each beehive one by one, keeping the condition of the bee colony in mind.

By the time the beehives were checked, the sky was getting dark.

Gao Mingcheng was in a good mood and went down the mountain whistling. During the period, he was accompanied by birdsong, the wind shook the trees, and the sounds of nature were very harmonious.

When he got home, Heihu and the elf immediately came forward and circled around him excitedly.

Many beauty had already cooked the meal, but she didn't eat it first, but read it with a fashion magazine.

Seeing that Gao Mingcheng was back, he put down his book and said, "Wash your hands and eat."

So the two washed their hands and sat down to eat.

The meals are simple but taste good.The family is not short of money, so naturally they can afford all kinds of seasonings. The main flavor characteristics of Jiangxi cuisine are: original flavor, thick oil but not greasy, strong taste, salty and spicy.And many beauties can now achieve the last two sentences - strong taste, salty and spicy.

Perhaps I used to eat too much clear soup with little water. Many delicious dishes like to put seasonings very much, and they are very willing to put them. Any dish, as long as you are willing to put seasonings, then the taste will not be too bad.

During the meal, Gao Mingcheng explained the arrangements for tomorrow, and he planned to go to the field to harvest that acre of rice back.

When he entered the village, he saw that most of the fields were empty, and only a few fields were still growing rice, including his family's field.

"After the autumn harvest, we have to pay the public grain and follow the rules. This year's production is reduced, and I don't know if the public grain can be reduced." Duomei said, with some worries in her voice.

His family is not short of money now, but for ordinary people, paying public food is also a heavy task.

There is also the following example, the village committee collects the money for the following example, and it will increase every year.

"It will be less." Gao Mingcheng reassured, and decided in his heart to buy some rice after harvesting the rice.

There is no hope for the rice produced in my own county, and the production has been reduced in a large area, but the rice from other places will take the opportunity to sell in, because the price will be higher than in previous years.

Count the days, the day after tomorrow is market day in the county, you can go to the county to buy.

The husband and wife were talking, talking about the things to be done in the future, Duomei was busy making clothes recently, and now Dong Feixia has taken them to start making winter clothes.

The next day, after breakfast, Gao Mingcheng took his sickle and pole to the field.

Standing on the ridge of the field, one can see that the whole body of the rice is bright yellow, which is eye-catching, but upon closer inspection, most of the low-hanging ears of rice are hollow, and only a small part is full.

The sparrows flew high and low, wantonly pecking at the rice.

"Hey!" Gao Mingcheng frightened the sparrow into the air with a wave of his hand. After the sound of flapping wings, there was a short silence.

There were no weeds in the paddy field. Although there was a lack of water and production was doomed, Gao Mingcheng pulled out the weeds in the field, and then watered as much as possible several times when filling the grout. After that, he could only follow the fate.

There was only one mu of land, and Gao Mingcheng didn't call for many beauties. He bent down alone and began to cut rice.

Hold a handful of rice in one hand, and cut off the ground with a sickle in the other.

He has good physical strength, and when he bends down to work, he seldom straightens up to rest. In a short time, he has harvested all the rice in the one-acre field.

He bundled the rice together and carried it home with a pole. Along the way, he met people from other villages who talked to him and asked about selling medicinal materials.

Gao Mingcheng told Gao Mingli about the matter at the drug fair, telling him not to talk nonsense outside.

Although he collects medicinal materials in the village and sells them, he must make money, otherwise who would do this?
But the mentality of being known to make money and being known how much money you make is still different.

Everyone has a different concept of making money. Some people think that they may earn a few hundred, or a thousand at most. What does it feel like to earn thousands of dollars, or even tens of thousands of dollars.

But if you know, you will definitely envy and hate.

Gao Mingcheng said haha, and said what he could say, but he was vague about how much he earned. If he asked again, he would have to talk about the money for renting a truck, money for gas, and money for renting a booth. Money, hotel money and food money.

After calculating this account, people will be dizzy, and they will even think that Gao Mingcheng is not easy. Although he has made money, he is very busy and tired, and the expenses along the way are also high.

In this way, Gao Mingcheng will think that it is not easy to earn the money, so he will not be so envious of Gao Mingcheng.

Talking with people all the way, picking rice all the way home, going back and forth several times, and then picking all the rice home and stacking it on the clean concrete floor.

Gao Mingcheng ran into the kitchen, drank a large bowl of tea first, and then continued to work. He had to shake off the grains from the ears of rice, and then collected them to dry.

After working for a long time, he finished this matter. In the evening, he went to his parents' house.

Tomorrow there is a county fair, and he is going to buy rice, so he has to ask Gao Mingli if he has decided where to work, so that he can take him to see Gao Guobing together.

(End of this chapter)