Chapter Forty-Eight: Peach Blossoms Bloom
At night, Li Youran entered the space with the pruning shears, wanting to give the peach trees and jujube saplings a whole branch. Ang Ang greeted him and called out happily.
"I'm so happy today, Aung Aung." Li Youran smiled and touched Ang'ang's dragon head, feeling that its mood was very excited.
Aung Ang cried twice more and ran to the brook.
Li leisurely looked up and was pleasantly surprised to find that the row of peach trees had bloomed.
The peach sapling, which is only more than two meters high, shows vigorous vitality, clusters of pink peach blossoms, hanging full of skills, the breeze blows, the peach blossoms sway gently, and the fresh and elegant fragrance ripples with the wind.
Li leisurely walked to the side of the stream, the clear stream, the gorgeous peach blossoms in different postures, and the overflowing fragrance of flowers, is this the legendary peach paradise?
For example, in Chapter 48, the peach blossoms are accompanied by a pot of wine and a bamboo-backed recliner.
Tang Yin's "Song of the Peach Blossom Temple" immediately came to mind:
Peach blossom nunnery in Taohuawu, peach blossom fairy in peach blossom nunnery;
The peach blossom fairy planted peach trees and picked peach blossoms for wine money.
When you wake up, you only sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, you come to sleep with the flowers;
Half-awake and half-drunk, day after day, flowers fall and bloom year after year.
I hope that the old man will die in the wine room, and he will not bow in front of the carriage and horse;
The dust of the car and the horse are full of the noble, and the wine cup and the flower branch are poor.
If you compare the rich with the poor, one on the flat earth and the other in the heavens;
If he is poor ** chariot and horse, he has to drive me to be idle.
Others laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it;
I don't see the tomb of Wuling heroes, and there are no flowers and no wine hoeing fields.
Hehehe, Li Youran laughed, picking chrysanthemums, drunk and lying on peach blossoms, the indifferent realm of life does not seem to match his age.
He shook his head and began to work with his pruning shears. Peach blossoms are a good thing, in the hometown of those who love beauty of the big girls and little daughters-in-law, every spring, like to pick peach blossoms, and then pound into juice, smeared on the face, it is said to nourish the face.
According to past experience, the medicinal properties of the peach blossoms in the space must be better than the peach blossoms in Chapter 48 outside, and after a few days of thinning the flowers, you can make the collected peach blossoms into beauty and skin care creams, which are pure natural and do not add any chemicals. By the way, I can let Xiaoying and Gu Weiwei try it first.
Also, Ling Wanru?
"The peach blossoms on the human face are red", such a sentence suddenly popped up in my heart, and the delicate peach blossoms in front of me seemed to turn into Ling Wan's bright smile.
Li Youran stayed for a long time before he woke up.
What's going on today, it's about to become a sour show? He laughed at himself a few words, gathered his thoughts, and continued to prune the peach branches.
Aung Ang also seemed very merry, jumping along the side of the stream, not gently rubbing on the trunk of the peach tree, the space was full of business and flowers, and the little fellow seemed to be enjoying it.
So many plants are blooming in the space, but what else seems to be missing? That's right, bees. These industrious little things not only pollinate crops, but also make high-quality natural nutrients - honey.
Thinking of the taste of honey, Li Youran couldn't help swallowing his saliva, when he was in Lijiagou before, because he was greedy, he couldn't afford sugar, so he took his younger brother Li Fangcheng to the back mountain to find a wild honeycomb, and after finding it, he lit a fire with a branch and smoked it, and took advantage of the fact that the wild bees were smoked and dizzy, took off his shirt and covered his head, and don't put a sickle on his waist. Climb up a tree and cut off a large piece of beehive, throw it into the prepared bucket, and run with it. For this reason, I don't know how many times I have been stung, and I was scolded by the second aunt, but the sweet and mellow taste always made the little brothers forget the threat of bee needles, and they started again and again, which is the so-called pain and happiness.
Fortunately, Li Youran knew the word "dry and fishing" at that time, which was also taught by Teacher Yang in the town elementary school. Therefore, only one piece of the hive is cut each time, so that the wild bees will not be angry to the point of emigrating, and they can rebuild their homes while being sad, and with the hard work of these master builders, the honeycomb will not take long to recover.
This is also one of the happy memories of Li Youran's childhood. After entering the city, I have also tasted the honey sold in those shops and supermarkets, compared with the wild honey in the mountains, it is completely different, and the taste will be found in the greasy sweetness, mixed with a faint bitterness and sourness, as for the natural honey should have the floral fragrance is not at all.
Later, I learned that most of the so-called honey on the market is actually a vendor who adds water with sugar, and then mixes it with a small amount of sulfuric acid for boiling, the longer it boils, the darker the color, which looks a little similar to the color of honey, and finally adds some flavor, so that Li Ghost will become Li Kui's debut.
The high-end products are made with natural honey mixed with white sugar water, syrup, etc., which is considered to have a great conscience in today's society, and is enough to be qualified to receive the medal of moral model.
As for real natural honey, it is basically rare in the market, and it is difficult to find it, and I am afraid that it can only be purchased directly from beekeepers, and it may not be completely reliable.
As there are more and more governing bodies, things are becoming more and more unmanaged. This can be regarded as a strange circle, Li Youran sighed helplessly.
This society is like this, it's useless to think too much, let's figure out where you can get bees.
Spring hasn't come yet, and wild bees are hard to find. It seems that only a professional beekeeper can be asked to get a box of house bees that are wintering indoors.
I pruned the branches and went to the pergola to comb again. Li Youran lifted the bamboo mat and palm mat rolled up at the edge of the space to the stream, found a place to spread it out and lay down, and slept here tonight.
Seeing that Li was resting leisurely, Ang Ang stopped playing, and ran over and lay down next to him.
With the gurgling water and the quiet fragrance of flowers, he relaxed and slowly fell asleep.
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Early the next morning, Li Youran found Feng Daniu and asked him to inquire about the beekeeper.
"Boss, I haven't been in contact with this before, I'll immediately mobilize my fellow villagers to inquire." Feng Daniu in a gray uniform
Said. He has also been promoted now, the logistics director, it sounds like a thing, and he is still in charge of two subordinates, so he is envied by many fellow villagers.
"This matter should be done quickly, not only to find fellow villagers, but also to check on the Internet, I want beehives and bees to buy together. There are also related supporting tools or something, just ask the beekeeper for advice. Li Youran nodded, every time he asked Feng Daniu to buy something, he never asked about the specific purpose, which was a good habit.
Li Youran thought for a while, and then said:
"That's right, Da Niu, now that the stall is bigger, there are more and more things that need to be purchased, it seems that your logistics department needs to be equipped with a van, you go to the driving school to register for a name, learn a book. I went back and said to Finance. ”
When Feng Daniu heard this, he nodded happily, he had long wanted to play with the steering wheel, but he had never had a chance, but now he got his wish.
After Feng Daniu left, Li Youran suddenly remembered that not only the logistics department, but also seemed to be supposed to buy a car, and now he was still riding the old Erba bicycle when he went out, the benefits in the store were quite good, and he didn't need to be too provincial, so he should consider changing his means of transportation. It's a bit troublesome to learn to drive, the time is too long, and if you can't do it, you can learn an automatic car book, I heard that the learning time is nearly half, and it's easy to get started. And with the current level of urban traffic congestion, driving a manual transmission car is a bit of a crime!!