My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 370 Lure bees

   Half a month has passed since the third month of the lunar calendar, and Chen Ling's scalper has finally arrived. When the old bus came to Chenwangzhuang Reservoir to burn incense and worship the turtle king, he personally brought it for him.

   There were three heads in total, one male and two females, and the average price was only a little over a thousand. Chen Ling happily gave the money to Lao Ba, and left him to drink at the farm at noon before letting him go.

  You can bring the cattle to the house without paying money, which means that Lao Ba, the mule and horse broker, has such a reputation.

  Of course, he dared to be the master for the master's family because he knew Chen Ling's temper, and knew that Chen Ling would not bargain for the price like some people did.

  As long as it is something he wants to buy, it is very happy to give money. This is what the old bus saw when he took him to Erwazi's house to buy sheep.

  So I found a cow for Chen Ling, and Lao Ba didn't even confiscate the brokerage fee. After eating and drinking at the farm, he went back to his hometown satisfied.

  When I didn't know Chen Ling well before, I just thought it was a young man who didn't know how to play around with animals.

  It was an eye-opener to visit the farm this time. The poultry and livestock are really well-raised. They are all tall and fat, with smooth hair. Even a layman can know that they are well-raised.

  Chen Ling recently had a new understanding of the effects of Lingshui.

  He realized that his farm and orchard had formed a small food chain, capable of a complete ecological cycle.

  Plants absorb aura from the soil and water, grow luxuriantly, and then are eaten by animals to obtain aura, and the feces excreted by animals are decomposed and integrated into the soil, making the soil more fertile.

   This is a virtuous ecological cycle.

  In addition, the wind blowing all year round and bees and butterflies will spread the pollen seeds.

  This is more far-reaching than the leaked spiritual water.

   It is foreseeable that this virtuous circle will not be limited to small circles of farms and orchards in the future.

   This small circle will continue to expand.

  From the farm, it radiates to the village, and then continues outward, spreading to the vast mountains, and beyond the mountains...

   "Well, although this process will be very slow, it is better to be safe, and the environmental pollution will increase in the future, so it can be alleviated... Anyway, it can be regarded as a benefit."

   Chen Ling settled the three cattle in the barn, thinking silently in his heart.

  The afternoon sun was just right, and he wandered back to the farm, intending to go to the mountain to check whether there were bees nesting in the empty beehives that lured bees.

  In spring, bees that have just overwintered in early spring are relatively weak, and it will take a while for the bee colony to grow slowly.

  Up to now, more than half of the third month of the lunar calendar has passed, and the native bees have gradually begun to segregate.

  It is a good time to put beehives to lure bees.

  Chen Ling didn't care when the bees started to segregate, and didn't try to calculate the time. He just put some honey from Dongtian in several beehives and placed them on the mountain to attract wild bees to build their nests.

Chen Sangui built ten beehives this year. Chen Ling didn't want to raise so many beehives in the first year. He can raise five hives at most. If the bee colonies in the future also start to divide bees, that's another matter. Prepare new hives for them in advance.

   Keep bees at home, you can eat honey at any time, and it is also convenient when making mead at home.

  Walking towards Beishan.

  The sun was warming, and chickens in twos and threes were looking for food everywhere in the forest. Xiao Jin and a few foxes were lazily lying on a rock to bask in the warmth. When they saw Chen Linglai on the mountain, they wagged their tails and greeted them cheerfully.

  The foxes were also bouncing around, with the same expression as Xiao Jin, squinting their eyes, swinging their big tails, jumping left and right, rubbing against Chen Ling's legs, feeling extremely excited.

   "Okay, stop making trouble and rub my hair."

  Chen Ling pushed them away helplessly. The four members of the fox family were also very fat now, and they threw themselves on his lap with Xiao Jin and acted like a baby. He couldn't even move forward.

   "Look at you guys, if you weren't here, you would have been caught and eaten by wild beasts in the mountains."

There are a lot of birds near the farm. They have no shortage of food, and they don’t need people to take care of them. They can hunt and eat every day until their stomachs are swollen. Especially the three little foxes, who are only half a year old, are full of meat. , the fur is smooth and smooth.

  They have no shortage of food, and they play with Xiao Jin all day long, and now they often follow Xiao Jin up and down the mountain to guard the flocks of chickens and ducks.

   It can be regarded as a few free laborers who do not need to feed and take care of themselves.

Seeing the foxes being pushed away by him, and still circling around him coquettishly, Chen Ling put a smile on his face unconsciously, thinking: "No wonder I can play with Xiao Jin and Xiao Bai Niu. That is to say, there is reproductive isolation with the dog, otherwise it will not be too good to raise it as a dog and match it with Hei Wa."

  He waved his hands and continued walking up the mountain with a dog and four foxes to check what happened to the beehives scattered in several places.

  The beehive was only released yesterday afternoon.

  One day and one night passed, and all the five beehives had bees starting to build their nests.

   "The honey from the cave is still powerful, the attraction is too strong."

Chen Ling turned around and saw bees buzzing around every beehive. When he was satisfied, he thought to himself: "Put these five beehives first, and when the bees finish building their nests, I'll put them in the cave. The bees slowly take it out..."

  Some of the bees in the cave are breeding new varieties.

   Some were originally intended to be raised.

  For example, the nests that Chen Ling built nests in abandoned iron barrels.

   Chen Ling was often taken out with a bucket to release bees.

   After the bees in these five beehives are raised, it is not too late to take them out and raise them in the farm.

   After walking around the mountain, there were only a group of puppies outside the farm, running around with stones in their mouths, scrambling and playing.

  In the afternoon, Wang Susu took her son to the pharmacy in the village for consultation. Hei Wa went to play with Ruirui.

  Chen Ling went back to lie in the yard and read magazines for a while, and suddenly saw that the flowers and plants in the house were growing vigorously, but they just kept growing wildly, messy, too chaotic.

  He took out the scissors and squatted in the yard to trim the branches and leaves for those flowers and plants.

  Aesthetics is one aspect.

   In addition, if there were too many small flower buds bulging between the branches and leaves of some flowers and plants, Chen Ling would pinch them off.

   It's like topping a crop.

   Pinch off some small flower buds, the flowers will bloom better.

  Chen Ling was tending the flowers and plants. After a while, talking and barking of dogs came from outside the farm.

  Yu Qi'an came in, whistled and went straight to the corridor, toward the two rows of birdcages he hung.

  The men and women of the crew, Zhou Weijun, and Ma Wei walked up to Chen Ling, watched him pruning flowers and plants, and smiled and said, "Why is Fugui so leisurely and elegant today?"

   "Hahaha, I just saw that these flowers are about to bloom. Clean them up and make them bloom better."

  At this time, Yu Qi'an picked a birdcage and came over whistling, "Oh, it's well trimmed. Are you rich if you know how to arrange flowers? No, I'll teach you. I'll set it up in the living room for you. It's very beautiful."

   "Okay, teach me."

  Chen Ling stood up slowly, and nodded to the people behind Zhou Weijun with a smile, as a greeting.

   Then everyone walked to the living room.

  The film crew rarely went to the living room of Chen Ling's house. They usually went back to the wooden building to wash and rest, and they ate in the village.

  It happened that I had nothing to do today, so I came back earlier, and went to the living room with Chen Ling, the master, to rest, drink some tea, and watch TV for a while.

   "Hey, this bird's nest is really built into a gourd."

  As soon as he entered the living room, Yu Qi'an first exclaimed at the upper beam in the center of the living room.

  Zhou Weijun and Ma Wei also stared with surprise, "Good guy, it's really a gourd nest."

  Originally they listened to it as a story, but they didn’t expect that there was a gourd on the table in the living room. The swallow really made the bird’s nest into a gourd shape.

  Chen Ling also looked up and said, "Yes, it has been built a long time ago, and the eggs are probably hatched inside, and it is warm now."

  The other people listened to their chat with confused faces, and the fat director quickly asked what was going on.

  Yu Qi'an pointed at the bird's nest and the gourd and yelled, telling him about the swallow and the bird's nest.

  These people were also amazed after hearing it, and they looked up and looked at it non-stop.

An actress stepped on her feet and looked into the bird's nest to see if the eggs were hatching, but unfortunately she couldn't see clearly, and finally said disappointedly: "The hole of the bird's nest is the same as the mouth of a gourd. It's too thin and too small to see." to the situation inside."

Chen Ling turned on the TV, poured tea and water for them, and laughed when he heard the words: "This kind of nest is to protect the newly hatched swallows from falling out, and the grass swallow's nest is half a bowl, with a big opening, and it is easy to get out of the shell." The little swallow is the easiest to fall out."

   "Oh, I also learned the lesson about swallows building nests." The actress sat down and smiled at Chen Ling, revealing two shallow dimples, and said a little playfully.

  After seeing the tea Chen Ling poured for them, he said strangely, "Brother Chen, what kind of tea is this? It's so thick after brewing."

  The tea leaves in the cup are like leaves, and the tea is black and very thick.

   "This is not considered tea. It belongs to medicinal materials. It is the leaves of Eucommia. It was dried a lot years ago. My family usually drinks it as tea."

  Chen Ling's words made Yu Qi'an and the others pick up their cups and look in: "Is this the leaves of Eucommia? I said that the last time I drank your tea, I felt that the leaves were very steep. Is it okay to drink too much?"

   "It's okay, it nourishes the liver and kidney." Chen Ling smiled.

   Upon hearing his words, several **** men immediately drank their teacups.

   After drinking, I only feel that the tea made from Eucommia leaves is slightly bitter in the mouth, and it does have a taste of tea, but after drinking it, I feel a refreshing feeling.

   "Not bad, the taste is very good."

   "Fugui, do you still have any at home? Let's buy some when we leave."

   "Why do you buy this thing? You can go to the mountains to pick it when you are free. After you pick it up and dry it yourself, you can make tea and drink it."

  Chen Ling didn't perfunctory them, this eucommia leaf was very easy to deal with, but they didn't drink it much before, and only after the old father-in-law and mother-in-law came, they started to drink it as tea.

  The local villagers still mostly use wild tea, such as dandelion root, prunella vulgaris, and old thorn buds.

  Generally, it clears heat and removes internal heat.

   "Okay, that's fine too."

   "We have been waiting for the boat to be completed in the past two days. The small bamboo house has already been built. There is nothing else to do before the filming starts. We will go to the mountains to pick some tea to dry and make tea."

  Everyone nodded.

  Yu Qi'an pulled Chen Ling and asked him when he would let the dog go hunting again.

   Let everyone laugh out loud.

   This guy can't forget about it when he's idle.

   Really echoed the old saying: "Once you learn how to chase a rabbit, you will never return."

   Hunting is addictive.

  Especially if you have a good dog at home, if you don’t go into the mountains for a while, you will feel itchy and uncomfortable.

"It's really not good these days. Tonight, my salted eggs should be taken away. After the salted eggs are finished, there are still fish to be taken away. In these few days, a brother from our city will also come to us to plant telephone poles for replacement. Transformer, I have to entertain him."

  Chen Ling smiled at Yu Qi'an: "But don't worry, my brother also likes this, and even has a dog. When he finishes his business, we can play."

  Yu Qi'an's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he patted his thigh and said hello repeatedly.

  That night, the few of them really had nothing to do, especially Zhou Weijun and the three of them also looked around for a while, and played everything that needed to be played.

  So when the little sheep drove over to pull salted eggs.

   Several people helped Chen Ling, putting thatch on the car, carrying eggs, etc., and they were very busy.

  Little Sheep goes to the city, and it takes two days at the fastest to go back and forth.

  I still need to rest when I come back.

   When I go again, it will be four or five days later.

   At that time, shouldn't Chen Ling's family's ornamental fish be sold?

  As for Chen Ling saying that he had to be busy, he was not lying.

  He has to go to the village to go to the market, buy some chickens and ducks, and expand the size of the family.

  The main reason is that more dogs are raised, and now chickens and ducks are a piece of cake for them, and it is a bit overkill for them to guard them.

   Then raise some more.

  …

  In the morning, Wang Cunye heard that Chen Ling was going to the market to buy chickens and ducks, so he asked Chen Ling to give Wang Zhenzhen a gift, and then gave him the money he had sold in the past few days to buy chickens and ducks.

  How could Chen Ling want this money, and hurriedly pushed it away: "Father, don't give me this money. Save the money you make yourself for Zhenzhen to buy food."

Seeing that the old man wanted to hand it over to him, Chen Ling said: "The people from the film crew have renewed their stay at our house again, and they will stay for more than a month. The accommodation fee has been paid a lot, and the family is not short of money. I don’t honor you guys, father, don’t give us any more money.”

   "Hey, you, your mother and I don't have any place to spend money. It's true that you pay for food, clothing and tuition..." Wang Cunye said with a wry smile.

   "Father, what are you talking about all the time, take the money back quickly." Wang Susu frowned, not caring about feeding her son.

  Susu has always been soft-tempered, so it's rare to talk to him like this.

   Seeing that the eldest daughter was upset, the old man quickly put the money in his hand into his pocket, and said in a loud voice: "Oh, okay, I'll take it back, take it back."

  Let Wang Zhenzhen watch from the side and keep laughing.

  Chen Ling glared at her, then went to drive the tractor in the backyard of the farm.

  (end of this chapter)