Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 412 Feeding sugar water
Early the next morning, Gao Mingcheng rushed back to Gaojia Village despite the wind and snow.

Even though he was in good physical condition, driving the tractor all the way back to the village in the snowy weather made him choke from the cold.

When passing by Zhang Chengyuan's house, he stopped the car directly and went to find Zhang Chengyuan and Chen Dasong and his son.

Although he is very strong, there are forty boxes of bees. One person has to go back and forth several times, so naturally he has to find a few helpers.

When calling people, Chen Dasong's youngest son also volunteered to help. Gao Mingcheng took a look at him and saw that a 15-year-old boy was not too young, so he agreed.

The four people started to go to the place where the beehives were placed.

Because it was winter, the beehives were not placed deep in the mountains, but moved to the foot of the mountains.

In winter, there are few flowers in the mountains, but at the foot of the mountains there are more nectar plants because the villagers grow vegetables.

After finding the beehive, Gao Mingcheng found that the beehives were covered with a thin layer of snow.

Heavy snow is still falling and the temperature is extremely cold.

Gao Mingcheng immediately said: "Move the beehives to my house, otherwise these bees will freeze to death."

He stacked the two beehives together and took the lead in moving them towards home.

The others followed suit, but Chen Duoxi had less strength and only moved one beehive at a time.

Forty beehives are scattered in two places. Although it is at the foot of the mountain, it is still several hundred meters away from Gao Mingcheng's house.

But fortunately, there are many people and strength, and soon all forty beehives were moved back home.

Gao Mingcheng placed these beehives in the main room and the empty room.

After the wind and snow outside subsided, he opened the lid of a beehive and checked the bees inside.

All the bees are crowded together, layer upon layer, densely packed. This is for warmth and can effectively resist the cold.

Because of the low temperature, the bees were all in the hive and did not go out to look for honey sources.

Gao Mingcheng is not a black-hearted businessman. He has not touched the beehive since the honey shake in late autumn. Therefore, there is still some honey in the beehive. Even if the weather is cold and there is no honey source outside, the honey will not be lost immediately. starve.

But in order to maintain the number of bees, he decided to feed the bees sugar water. In fact, when raising bees on a large scale, when there is no nectar source in winter, sugar water must be fed.

He found some sugar from home and several soda bottles, poked a few small holes in the bottle caps with the tip of a knife, and then began to mix the sugar water.

Put a bottle cap with a hole on it and then stand it upside down. The sugar water in the bottle will slowly drip through the hole. Because the hole is small, the dripping speed is also very slow.

He found ropes, tied the bottles, and hung them on the rafters.

Gao Mingcheng said to Chen Duofu: "From now on, you have to take a look every day. If there is no sugar water in the bottle, you can make another bottle of sugar water like I just did. Do you remember?"

Chen Duofu learned how to manage bees from him. He carefully watched the entire process before. Because it was not complicated, he knew it at a glance.

When Gao Mingcheng asked, he immediately nodded and said, "Brother Mingcheng, don't worry, I have learned it."

Gao Mingcheng added: "Bees are active during the day and go to the hive to rest at night, so you just need to come and take a look every day during the day. You also need to know how much sugar water you need to make."

Gao Mingcheng took out all the sugar at home and put it in a special place so that Chen Duofu could easily access it later.

"In addition to feeding sugar water, you should also observe the situation of the bee colony. If there is any problem, you can call me at the cooperative in Junling and I will reimburse you for the phone bill."

Gao Mingcheng took out a pen and paper, wrote the phone number of his clothing store on the paper, and asked Chen Duofu to take it.

Chen Duofu read it several times, trying to remember it, and then carefully put the paper into his pocket.

Gao Mingcheng came back this time just for the sake of bees.

Now that the bees were taken care of, he was ready to return to the county.

Chen Dasong suddenly said: "It's almost noon. Mingcheng, why don't you go to my house for lunch and try your aunt's cooking?"

Chen Duoxi immediately said: "Brother Mingcheng, my mother's cooking is delicious!"

Seeing their enthusiasm, Gao Mingcheng agreed.

Zhang Chengyuan was not good at socializing with others, and he was stunned for a moment. He felt that he should also invite Gao Mingcheng to his home for dinner, but he rarely said such polite words, and the food at home was cooked by a lot of jade.

Duoyu has a problem, that is, she is not so efficient in doing things. Her family will eat much later than other people. For example, most people have food around one o'clock at noon, but his family has to go there at least after two o'clock. .

Duomei disliked her second sister's procrastination and nagging, so when Duomei was not married, Duomei did the cooking.

Zhang Chengyuan lost the opportunity, so he kept silent.Gao Mingcheng closed the door and only opened the window a crack for ventilation.

After the room warmed up, the bees began to move out of the hive. The doors of the room and the main room were open, and sugar water bottles were hung in both places to facilitate the bees' activities in the house.

Bees are very sensitive to sweet smells, so they fly towards the hanging soda bottles one after another and suck the sugar water at the mouth of the bottle.

Gao Mingcheng looked at the house full of beehives and thought that after next spring, he would have to build a shed at the foot of Xiaofu Mountain. This shed can provide shade and place farm tools and fruits in spring, autumn and summer.

When winter comes, you can surround the shed with plastic sheeting and move the beehives there for the winter.

Otherwise, it would be really inconvenient to have so many beehives at home.

Gao Mingcheng followed Chen Dasong and his son to Chen's house.

Chen Dasong's wife's surname was Liu, so Gao Mingcheng called her Aunt Liu.

Aunt Liu knew that Gao Mingcheng would have lunch at home, and she felt very welcome.

Gao Mingcheng hired her husband and son to work, and the family had two more incomes. She was always very grateful. She began to think about what kind of dishes at home she could make a sumptuous table of dishes.

"Duoxi, go and pull some garlic and onions from the fields." Aunt Liu began to arrange tasks for her youngest son.

"Duofu, go catch a chicken and kill it!"

When Gao Mingcheng heard that the chicken was about to be killed, he immediately stopped him: "Aunt Liu, there is no need to kill the chicken, just eat some!"

However, Aunt Liu insisted on killing the chicken to entertain the guests, and said: "The chicken to be killed is an old chicken. It has stopped laying eggs for a long time. Kill it now and eat it, and wait until next spring to hatch the chicks and raise them."

"Duofu, you want to catch that black-feathered chicken, you know?"

"I know!" Chen Duofu responded and went to the chicken pen.

Because of the snow, the chickens were not as active as usual and stayed in the chicken pen. Chen Duofu slowly approached. After locking the target, he suddenly reached out and caught the unsuspecting black chicken.

The black chicken hurriedly tried to escape, but could no longer escape and could only make helpless cries.

The other chickens were frightened and fled away.

Looking at this scene, Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but reach out and give a thumbs up.

"Duofu, it's not bad! It's pretty awesome!"

Chen Duofu smiled, his eyes filled with pride.

When others catch chickens, it is often difficult to catch them, but Chen Duofu has been very good at catching chickens since he was a child. He found that when he wanted to catch chickens, he should not show his intentions at the beginning and pretend that nothing happened. Get close to the target chicken, and then catch the target chicken with lightning speed.

Of course, the success of today is also related to the weather. The weather was too cold, and the chickens were not so active.

After he caught the chicken, he began to kill the chicken and pluck its feathers as quickly as he did when catching the chicken.

Gao Mingcheng watched him plucking his hair while talking to Chen Dasong.

Chen Dasong took out a cigarette and asked Gao Mingcheng to smoke it, but Gao Mingcheng refused.

The two began to talk about things in the fields and in the village.

Chen Dasong vaguely reminded Gao Mingcheng, telling him that his current reputation in the village is not very good.He also said that after his parents bought a TV at their house, it became very popular in the village. Now, people watch TV at his parents’ house during the day and night.

Moreover, those watching TV have already handed over the task money issued by the village committee to Gao Mingpeng.

After hearing this, Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but laugh. Sure enough, the world is not about fighting and killing, but about the world's wisdom.

People in the village were eager to watch TV, and Gao Mingpeng had the task of collecting money, so he took this opportunity to make people pay all the money they should pay earlier.

Of course, it is impossible for everyone in Gaojia Village to go to Gao Yuan's house to watch TV and be willing to pay for it. There are always a few families who are too poor to pay.

Zhang Chengyuan's family and Chen Dasong's family paid money, but they didn't go to Gao Yuan's house to watch TV because they were far away and because they had foreign surnames, they didn't get along so well with the villagers.

Gao Mingcheng listened to this but didn't take it seriously.

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