0219 Cutting beans
Xu Yi returned to the tent with the soft cord, ready to put it up, turned his head and saw the filter barrel placed on the ground, Xu Yi couldn't help but light up in front of him.
I just want to grow vegetables quickly, how can I forget this thing, or this can be tried.
Xu Yi poured out all the scum on the filter screen, and then poured all the remaining scum on the filter screen and filtered it.
In order to confirm his idea, Xu Yi made a small pinch of filtered dregs and sprinkled it on a small wooden board, and held it and placed it under the tree next to the beehive.
A few bees soon spotted the target on the board, landed directly on the board, got on top of the pile of dregs and ate it, and flew back in a short time, and the large swarm of bees flew straight towards the board.
However, there was not much dregs on the board, and the bees were busy on the board for a while before they scattered to find other food.
Seeing that there were no bees on the board, Xu Yi walked over and picked it up.
Fiddling with the dregs on the board, Xu Yi found that there was only a small pile of very dry beeswax crumbs left on it, and the pollen particles mixed in it and the honey attached to the beeswax were gone.
Obviously, my idea really worked!
Although Xu Yi filtered these scum again, in fact, there would still be a lot of honey left in them.
However, these honeys are attached to the beeswax, Xu Yi can't clean it up at all, and there is a lot of pollen mixed in it, which melts into beeswax, which must be too wasteful.
Since bees can eat this, it's a good time to find some work for those chicks and let the bees dispose of the scum.
This can both satisfy the bees' temporary rations. Being able to let yourself do other things first can be described as the best of both worlds.
Xu Yi excitedly moved a few planks. Sawed out pieces of boards one meter square, and then sawed out one by one one meter long. The small two-inch tall wooden strips, after they were all planed, were assembled with nails and made into some shallow wooden boxes.
Then, Xu Yi took a box and filled it with filtered dregs, spread it into a thin layer in the middle, and walked towards the outside of the tent.
In order to prevent mutual theft and reduce the risk of being attacked by bees when changing boxes, Xu Yi put the box at a distance from the two beehives before putting it down.
This distance is not a problem at all. Soon Xu Yi heard the buzzing sound around him, and after a while, a layer of bees fell on top of the wooden box.
Seeing that there was no problem in this way, Xu Yi moved out the remaining boxes, carried a bucket of scum to the vicinity, and then placed all the boxes on the ground at a distance of different points, and each box was filled with some dregs.
When the bees have cleaned up all these things, they can also get relatively pure beeswax, and they can also save a lot of time to remove impurities when melting the wax.
Of course, some honey and pollen will end up sticking to the board. However, this loss is nothing compared to the bargain gained.
Anyway, I put all my wood there, as long as I wait for them to dry, will I still lack wood to use?
There are hundreds of thousands of bees in a box, so how much more can it take to dispose of these things?
After watching it for a while, there was nothing surprising to me. Xu Yi was satisfied and put the steel bucket aside.
Just come over regularly and collect the beeswax that has been cleaned inside, add a little bit of dregs to them and let them process slowly, is there a simpler way to separate them?
Xu Yi looked around. Then he thought about it and went straight out of the space.
Didn't get into the space for a few days. All the things I planted before have matured and can be harvested or picked.
It's a harvest season!
Harvesting nature is a gratifying thing. After all, the harvest means that the previous hard work was not in vain.
But before that, Xu Yi still has to make some necessary preparations.
Now that there is still time to go out, Xu Yi rode straight to the food market.
After a round in the market, Xu Yi bought a large bag of woven bags, a small electric sewing machine and several axes of stitches, and went to the labor protection store to buy a few dozen labor protection gloves.
Seeing that there was no shortage of things for the time being, Xu Yi sent the things to the warehouse and put them into the space, and then rode home on a bicycle.
After dinner, Xu Yi entered the space again.
Xu Yi found another steel bucket and walked directly to the wooden boxes.
Sure enough, after the pollen honey in the box was eaten, there was not a single bee left, but on the bucket containing the dregs, probably because of the smell seeping out, a bee lay on the bucket and crawled around the lid for a while before flying away again.
Xu Yi picked up a box, the beeswax inside was white in color, and there were basically no impurities.
Xu Yi poured the beeswax into the empty bucket, filled each box with some dregs, and then went on to make the final preparations before harvesting.
Xu Yi looked around and found that only the land vacated after digging up the lime trees was more suitable for the next work, so he took the soft wire and the cable reel in his hand and walked there.
Walking not far from those tea trees, the cable was also put on his head, Xu Yi put the cable reel on the ground, then plugged the soft wire on it, and then walked forward.
The soft line had also come to an end, and Xu Yi had already left the center of the space almost a hundred meters away.
Xu Yi walked out of the space directly, entered the warehouse, moved the bamboo plaques and shelves out of the space, and then sent them to the open space next to the row plugs one by one.
Even the bamboo plaque that was left in the warehouse before, Xu Yi moved it into the space.
Anyway, I always have to be busy like this, so naturally I clean it up together, save it again, and take it out of the space before I dry the vegetables.
Subsequently, Xu Yi himself also entered the space. Grab a mask, put it on, and walk over to the shelves with the blower.
Xu Yi narrowed his eyes, turned on the power of the bee blower to the maximum, directly aimed the nozzle of the bee blower at the shelf and the bamboo plaque, and pressed the switch.
The roar of the motor. A high-speed air stream immediately erupted in front of the nozzle, directly blowing up all the floating dust, cobwebs and other debris on the shelves and bamboo plaques. A thick layer of dust covered a large area of the sky.
Xu Yi repeatedly blew all the bamboo plaques clean from all angles before turning off the bee blower.
When the world is quiet again. Xu Yi was pleased to find that his surroundings were quickly restored.
Obviously, the dust in this space settles much faster than expected, and it seems that the dust that is too fine to settle is broken down in the air.
After taking down the bamboo plaque and checking it, and finding that there was no floating dust and gray net, Xu Yi sent the bee blower or something back to the distance, took a shower himself, and then changed his clothes.
Then use the old method to move those shelves back to the tent, Xu Yi fetched a basin of water. Take a brush and rag and wash them thoroughly.
Seeing that the water used to wash the rag could no longer wash the black water, Xu Yicai stopped and put the bamboo plaques back on the shelves to dry.
Xu Yi took a tape measure and measured the size of the bamboo plaques, sawed the wooden boards into wooden squares, made a long shelf more than one meter high and placed it on the edge of the tent, and put all those bamboo plaques on it.
After completion, Xu Yi looked at these neatly erected bamboo plaques and nodded, it will be much more convenient to harvest things to dry in the future.
Xu Yi took a few bags. Leave only a little bit of the seeds piled on the tarpaulin, pack the rest up, roll up the mouth of the bag and sew it, and stack it in the open space next to it.
I don't know what to do with these seeds for the time being. I had to pack it up like this, and I was about to harvest soybeans, and there was no drying ground in this space. This tarpaulin is about to come in handy.
After Xu Yi got up, he went to change some food for the bees. I also cooked my own food and took out the space to feed the two little foxes.
Back into the space. Xu Yi changed into a set of long-sleeved clothes, pulled out a pair of gloves and put them on, carried the sickle he had just bought, and walked towards the soybean field.
The soybeans in the field are fully ripe and have grown to a height of almost one meter, two or three.
The leaves on the bean straw have all fallen off, but there are not many bean leaves on the ground at all, and it is obvious that most of the leaves have been decomposed, and only some dry and curly leaves are scattered on the ground and on the bean straw.
The roots of the bean stalks are the thickness of fingers, and there are several branches growing on them, all of which are covered with dense pods.
Xu Yi reached out and gently touched a bean stalk in front of him, and the beans in the pod on it vibrated with a soft sound, and it was obvious that the beans were dry.
Look at those mung beans and stuff like that.
I can only say that fortunately there is no wind in this space, otherwise I am afraid of a strong wind, and all these things will have to be blown up.
Xu Yi walked to the top of the three ridges on the far left side of the bean field, bent down and began to cut soybeans.
The scythe in his right hand stretched out and hooked the roots of a few beans and gently brought them back, and his left palm held the middle of these bean stalks and pushed them forward against the blade, and with a crisp click, all the beans broke off from the place where the blade was attached to the blade below.
The job of cutting soybeans is not so much cutting as folding.
This is different from rice that is cut with a sickle, soybean straw is easy to dry after frost, and dried soybean straw is very easy to break as long as it is stressed, but this does not mean that it is easy to cut.
If you really use a knife to cut soybean straw, you will find that this product is actually about the same as a branch, if you rely on a sickle to cut, I am afraid that Xu Yi will have to cut these two acres of land for a few days.
The blade of the wheat or something should be sharpened, but when the beans are cut, no one will sharpen the blade, otherwise it is easy to jump the edge.
But those who cut soybeans by hand are generally found to be the most broken at home, and they can't be used to cut wheat and rice at all, otherwise this knife will be used to directly saw wood in a few days.
Xu Yi used a knife to hook up the bean stalks that fell to the ground, then gently pressed them with his left hand to prevent them from falling apart, turned sideways, and piled the bean stalks directly on the open space on the left hand side, piling them into a pile.
After that, he changed to the front of him and the ridge on the right hand, and also cut it down and put it on the bean pile, and so on, and soon this small pile of soybeans became a big hug, which also made Xu Yi full of confidence in the upcoming harvest.
Soon the three ridges were cut to the end, Xu Yi looked back at the bean stubble he had cut, shrugged his shoulders, and smiled self-deprecatingly.
This bean stubble is uneven, and it looks like a raw job. (To be continued......)