Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 113 Beekeeping No.1

Ever since Luo Tiandu told Jiang Xia about keeping bees, Jiang Xia took it to heart.He is also very dexterous, and Luo Tian spent the whole day thinking about it at home, and he even came up with a simple beehive bucket.

Because only three or four mu of rapeseed is planted in the Luo family's field, and other crops such as potatoes and peas are planted, and the rest is more than ten mu of paddy fields, so spring plowing is later than usual.

Luo Tiandu and Jiang Xia agreed to go to the mountains to catch wild bees.

Wild bees are no better than the domesticated domesticated bees. Some are poisonous, and when they sting people, it can be fatal.

For this reason, Luo Tian has done enough preparations, and brought enough gauze hats, scissors, ropes and so on.When Jiang Xia went to catch wild bees, Luo Tiandu originally wanted to go with him, but was violently suppressed by Uncle Gu and the Fang family.Luo Tian couldn't help but wait at home for good news from Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia helped with the housework every day, and went to the mountains all day long. After Jiang Xia was stung countless times by wild bees and got a full head, he actually got a queen bee back.When the queen bee was caught, half of the wings were cut off by Jiang Xia. The queen bee has no wings and cannot fly, so she can only stay in the beehive.

With the queen bee and worker bees, how to domesticate these wild bees into domestic bees, Luo Tian completely left this problem to Jiang Xia to solve.When Jiang Xia was at home, he often went with his father to cut wild honey in the mountains. He knew the habits of wild bees better, so it was most suitable for him.

Since then, Jiang Xia's whole mind has been put on the bucket of wild bees.Because he was afraid of being stinged by wild bees, Jiang Xia specially built a small shed in the mountain to store the bee barrels. When the weather was fine, he carried the bee barrels to the mountain and hung them up for ventilation, so the wild bees could go out to gather honey.

At that time, the rape blossoms were blooming, and the mountains and plains were full of golden rapeseed flowers. The wild bee nest in Jiangxia also covered the entire bee barrel from the original small half barrel.Every four or five days, I can still pick a small pot of honey. A pot of honey is three or four catties. A catty of honey can be sold for more than 200 renminbi. The immature honey is better in cold weather now, but it is not easy to preserve it in summer.

Even so, Luo Tiandu was already very satisfied.It was the first time in the Daqing Dynasty to raise wild bees artificially for honey.Luo Tiandu's eyes lit up, and he immediately felt that this was really a good way to get money.It's already late spring, it's not yet summer, and the honey source is abundant, why not take advantage of this opportunity to breed a few more boxes of bees, or raise them specifically for honey harvesting.

She told Fang Shi and Gu Bo about this idea, and Fang Shi said: "I think it's okay. Didn't you and Jiang Xia make a box of wild bees? Now there are cloud flowers everywhere, and I'm not afraid that these wild bees will die." For food, wait until the cloud sprouts wither, and the pear and plum trees will also bloom, there are many pear and plum trees in our mountain, but these fruit trees bloom for a short period of time, so I’m afraid we won’t be able to pick them for two days.”

Luo Tian laughed and said: "Don't be afraid, even if those flowers are gone, there are still Sophora japonica and Vitex flowers, and there are more flowers that can gather honey, so we won't raise any more. We will only raise a few boxes for the wild bees to eat." If you don’t get enough, you can afford it even if you have a winter break.”

Fang thought about it, and said: "You can figure it out, just be careful, those wild bees sting people is not fun, you didn't see that Jiang Xia's face was swollen for more than half a month before it disappeared."

Luo Tiandu then happily ran to find Jiang Xia, and gave him a few catties of newly harvested honey, and asked him to keep it and smear it on the bee bucket to fool the wild bees.

Jiang Xia originally liked to dig out beehives, but now with Luo Tiandu's support, she became more energetic and spent all day looking for beehives outside.

Luo Tiandu thought it was fresh at first, but after watching it twice, he watched it too much and lost interest, so he let go and let Jiangxia go.

By the time the rape blossoms withered, Jiang Xia's wild bees had grown from one bucket to five buckets, and she had accumulated tens of catties of honey. Jiang Xia devoted her whole heart to beekeeping.

Seeing that the two of them were tossing and tossing, they actually cut a lot of honey, so she completely ignored the matter and let them toss and toss, but Luo Tiandu was not allowed to follow into the mountain.

Luo Tiandu kept a catty of freshly cut honey at home for the family to drink every day, and sold the rest for more than thirteen tang.When Luo Tiandu got the money, he smiled so much that his eyes were crescent-shaped.If this were placed in modern times, Jiang Xia would probably be a model of getting rich by relying on his own hands without being disabled.

Jiang Xia went to raise bees by herself, but Fang's side was about to start spring plowing.It wasn't until this time that Fang finally felt that it was the right thing to add a few people to his family.

In particular, the two brothers Cheng Qing came from the south, and they are really good at planting paddy fields. They told Fang when to plant seeds and when to raise seedlings. They were much better than Luo Tiandu, a half-toned farmer. Not to mention the work of plowing the land, Cheng Qing and Cheng Sheng did it all by themselves.

Because Cheng Qing only had one arm, he was pulling the oxen in front, and Cheng Sheng was holding the plow behind. Both of them had suffered hardships, and the master treated them generously, and they worked extraordinarily hard.Especially Cheng Sheng, the Fang family and Gu Berg were kind enough to not buy out his contract of sale, but only treat him as a hired worker and a free agent.Cheng Sheng was especially grateful. He was penniless and lived in Luo's house. His brother's deed of prostitution was still in Fang's hands, so he worked very hard.

This year's spring plowing is much easier than in previous years because of the presence of Brother Cheng Qing.

Only Luo Tiandu deeply felt that his family was exploiting child labor, so he was particularly guilty.

Uncle Gu seemed to have seen through her thoughts, and took an opportunity to enlighten him: "Don't feel sorry for her. If it was this side that suffered the disaster at that time, it would be you two sisters who sold themselves to other people's homes as slaves and handmaids. They wouldn't Because you are young, I have been very kind to you. It is not easy to live these days. The two of them are in our house. They have something to eat and a place to sleep. Your parents are both good-natured. This is already heaven It's a great blessing, meeting that cruel and ruthless master, how could he be as generous as your family. Even the Gu family was famous for their kindness back then, but there is no such master as your family."

Uncle Gu's words meant more than what he said, but he blamed Fang for being too soft-hearted and being too lenient to these new servants.

This difference in concept cannot be changed overnight, Luo Tian can only adjust by himself and get used to it slowly.

The spring farming was all over, so Luo Baisu had time to go home, and by the way, completed the household registration documents for Cheng Qing and the others. Since then, Cheng Qing and the other three have officially settled in Luo Tiandu's house, because Cheng Sheng did not buy out Luo Baisu let him set up his own household after selling his body.

When Cheng Sheng was holding his household registration certificate, the eyes of this stubborn young man couldn't help but turn red.

Luo Baisu listened to Fang's talk about these people at home, and had no opinion on the servants Fang had chosen, and because Cheng Qingnian was old and stable and reliable, Luo Baisu specially invited them He must take care of several people in the family.

It was only now that Cheng Qing and the others knew that the man from the master's family was actually a well-known scholar, and now he was working in the yamen, so he became more respectful for a while.

When Luo Baisu came home, there was actually one more thing to do.It turned out that Mustache from Shangjing had sent him a letter, in which he repeatedly emphasized that Master Zuo Qingzhi wanted him to go to Beijing and study in the Jingshi Academy.

Regarding this matter, Gu Bo naturally strongly agreed with it, wishing that Luo Baisu could follow him to Beijing right away.In his eyes, living in a small country like Luojia Village is bound to have no great potential. Many of Gu Ziqian's students in the past are now officials in Beijing, and they are taking care of them. Luo Baisu went to Beijing Closed the door and studied for a few years, the knowledge and insight are naturally not comparable to those in Luojia Village.

Luo Tiandu actually agreed with it from the bottom of his heart.The whole family has made up their minds, to make Luo Baisu stand out, going to Shangjing is definitely better than staying in Luojia Village.

Only Luo Baisu was a little hesitant. Firstly, it was a long way to go to Beijing, and it was inconvenient to go back and forth, and it would take several years before he could go home. It is already very difficult to provide for him to study in Qiushui Town, and he doesn't want to add an extra burden to this family that is about to get better.

"You just go, you don't have to worry about money. Back then, the Gu family was a famous family anyway, and the family saved some money. I kept it in my hands and stored it in the homes of some of the old master's students. Now I go to Beijing. Withdrawing that money is enough for you to study in Shangjing for a few years with peace of mind."

Luo Baisu said seriously: "Uncle Gu, I am grateful to you for taking care of me, but although my mother is the eldest lady of the Gu family, my surname is Luo, and the property of the Gu family should be used by the Gu family. I am not easy to use as an outsider." That’s right. Even if you go to Beijing, you have to pay your own money.”

Uncle Gu hated iron and steel: "What nonsense are you talking about?! The master only has you as a grandson, and if he doesn't keep the money he left to keep you, why should he still spend it with those wolf-like Gu family? Don't worry, since Uncle Gu If you can keep that money until now, it is yours, no one can touch it, if you want to talk about who in this world is closest to the master besides you."

Fang also persuaded at last: "Father, you should go to Beijing. At least you can get a good reputation, and the two children will have hope in the future. You don't have to worry about money. Your daughter may be earning money now. In the past two months , You earned more than a dozen dollars just selling honey, you just follow Uncle Gu, we will earn money for you at home."

When he mentioned his two children, Luo Baisu fell silent. His greatest hope in life was nothing but to take good care of his family. At the beginning, he insisted on separating the family to support Fang and his two children. Now going to other places to study is also for the two children to have someone to rely on in the future.

"Master Tang's term of office has also expired, and the superiors don't know whether to transfer him or let him stay in office. I will wait until Mr. Tang's appointment order is issued before leaving. This is also a good time to hand over the errands in hand."

Gu Bo then nodded: "Yes."

(End of this chapter)