Chapter 473: The Source of Bees and the Current Situation of Blue Starfish
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Jiang Yichen and Su Xiaojia left Dr. Tang's consultation room and went to the pharmacy on the first floor to pick up medicine and settle the bill.
Subsequently, the two walked out of the Chinese Medical Center with the medicine bag, boarded the car and returned to the original road.
Jiang Yichen held the steering wheel in his hand, staring ahead without squinting, and his mind kept echoing what Dr. Tang had said just now.
Su Xiaojia sat quietly in the passenger seat, holding the medicine bag in her arms, her face was a little pale.
The way back was really smooth, and I caught up with the green light after three intersections in a row, and there was no traffic jam.
"Xiaojia, what do you think, should we try it?" After about ten minutes, Jiang Yichen broke the silence in the car with a gentle tone.
Su Xiaojia, who was next to her, bit her lip when she heard this, and then nodded, as if she had made a great determination.
"Actually, little things like bees aren't that scary. Think about it, how privileged their living environment is, they spend their lives flying in the world of sunshine and flowers, collecting pollen and brewing sweet honey. Oh, how romantic and poetic, compared to those filthy bugs who live in the garbage heap and gutter all day long, it is almost like an aristocracy. God takes care of them so well. ”
Jiang Yichen said with a smile, trying to create a relaxed atmosphere to alleviate the girl's fear of bee stings.
Su Xiaojia's imagination is undoubtedly quite rich, and a beautiful picture of nature immediately appeared in her mind, with warm sunshine, warm spring flowers, green everywhere, butterflies and bees happily dancing among the flowers. The originally nervous and depressed mood also relaxed.
"Again. In just a few decades of human life, it is inevitable that we will encounter a lot of difficulties, and even if we can't solve anything in the end, as long as we do our best at that time, we will do everything we can. In retrospect, I will not leave any regrets. You're right? He continued to enlighten.
Su Xiaojia nodded again and made another gesture, indicating that she had figured it out and decided to accept this treatment.
Sister Xiaojia is really empathetic, just a little through. Jiang Yichen's heart was deeply gratified.
Catching up with the gap of parking at the intersection, Su Xiaojia wrote two lines of words on a small notebook she carried with her and handed it to Jiang Yichen.
That's asking a new question, which is that it's almost autumn. Where to find bees?
"Well, I have my own way, you can rest assured." Jiang Yichen looked confident.
With that, he stretched out his finger and clicked the play button on the control platform, and a quiet and soothing music floated out of the speakers, hovering around the carriage.
Out of trust in him, Su Xiaojia didn't ask anything more. Then he turned his gaze out the window.
Regarding the source of bees, in fact, Jiang Yichen had already thought about it in the medical hall just now. There is no need to look elsewhere at all, there are ready-made ones on Yunsha Island.
It was at the beginning of April this year, led by Kiko, who took the lead in removing a large nest of wild bees on the island and recruiting An, and since then he has been serving the islanders exclusively. Like the honey I brought with me when I went back to the city this time. It is the fruit of their labor.
The bee's house, located on the hillside between the orchard and the vegetable patch, is said to be a large pine 16-framed beehive, made by a stone carpenter.
Later after some time, this nest of bees again split bees, as needed. The stone carpenter made a smaller beehive and placed it at the other end of the south side of the orchard. With two nests of bees, honey production has also increased a lot.
Generally speaking, at this time of year, when the nectar source is depleted, the bees have basically stopped working, staying in the honeycomb for vacation, living on stock, waiting for the next spring.
But Yunsha Island is different, those two nests of bees are still working hard and have no leisure. The reason is also very clear, although the flowers of other plants on the island have long been gone, but those vegetable plots and seasoning fields enjoy special treatment, under the action of space ice mixed with water, various crops are still repeating the cycle of flowering and fruiting. It won't stop until the actual winter.
In addition, chemical fertilizers and pesticides are never used in vegetable and seasoning fields, there is no pollution, the quality of pollen is high, and the quality of honey is naturally first-class under chain conduction. And living in such an environment, wild bees are all strong and large.
According to Kiko, these wild bees stinged people more than the mountain behind the village of Mopanzi, where the stone carpenter had personally learned the consequence that he was still reluctant to go near the beehive.
In this case, the potency of bee venom should be very powerful. In addition, the conditions of the bees in normal work are obviously more suitable for therapeutic use than those who rest in the nest, the internal circulation is slowed down, and the conditions are in a semi-dormant state.
I hope that these little guys, who are born to make sweet products, can create a miracle for themselves and Xiaojia's sisters. Jiang Yichen secretly prayed in his heart.
Half an hour later, the car arrived at the Blue Sea Star handicraft store on Hongguang South Street, stopped on the side of the road, and the two pushed the door and got out of the car.
I haven't been here for a long time, Jiang Yichen stood on the edge of the sidewalk, looking up and down at this small shop that has been open for more than half a year.
It was lunchtime, and there were people coming and going at the door, and looking through the glass window, Qiu Xinyi, dressed in a crisp work uniform, was talking to a few customers.
Blue Starfish is in a pretty good situation now, and it seems that the situation has already opened. Jiang Yichen thought.
Su Xiaojia approached, pushed open the glass door, and beckoned to him, and the two entered the store with their front and back feet.
"It's cheaper, four hundred and eight. It's not the first time we've come back to you to buy something, and we're old customers, so we have to give some discounts. ”
Next to the display shelf, a middle-aged fat aunt with curly hair opened her mouth to lower the price, while her carrot-like thick fingers gently rubbed on a shell carving ornament more than ten centimeters high, bright color and exquisite workmanship. Although he tries his best to be careless on the surface, the affection in his eyes can be captured by paying close attention.
"Auntie, I'm sorry, I really can't drop it anymore, five hundred and three is already very discounted, and only old customers in the store can get this price. The raw materials used for this shell carving are all the finest natural tabby shells and snails. It's hard to find someone in such good condition. In addition, the cost of fishing transportation and the cost of production and labor have risen sharply, and our profits are actually very low. Qiu Xinyi politely refused, looking at ease.
Her gaze shifted to see the boss enter the room and be about to step forward. The other party waved his hand and signaled her to work first.
The host and guest reached a stalemate on the price for another five minutes, and the fat aunt finally compromised, and the shell eagle was sold at a price of 520 yuan.
Packing, billing, and collecting money, Qiu Xinyi completed the whole set of procedures with her hands and feet, and then sent the fat aunt and her companion out.
"Boss Jiang, it's been a long time, so I'm only free to come over today." Qiu Xinyi had time to say hello to the boss.
"You female generals are so capable, and the place is small. I'm in the way here, so I might as well be the shopkeeper. Jiang Yichen smiled. Then he sat down on a wooden chair against the wall, and reached out to take the paper water cup handed by Su Xiaojia.
"The boss is really joking." Qiu Xinyi pursed her lips and set her eyes on Su Xiaojia again.
Su Xiaojia gestured to her again and again, indicating that Brother Chenzi accompanied her to the hospital in the morning, and asked the employee where Wu Dongmei was?
Jiang Yichen looked at Xiaojia's sister's fast and complex sign language, carefully pondering and distinguishing, but it was still foggy. I don't understand.
Since I met Xiaojia's sister, the two still mainly rely on words to communicate. Methods include handwriting, keyboard, SMS and network penguin communication.
As for sign language, he had learned a little bit along with it, but only in the simplest part, which was about the same level as the lower grades of primary school. Of course, whenever Xiaojia meets him face-to-face, in order to take care of his comprehension ability. Only the appropriate level of sign language will be presented.
Qiu Xinyi is different, when she was transferred from Dingxiangyuan to Blue Starfish, in order to be a good assistant to Su Xiaojia, she once went to a professional training class to learn standard sign language, and her level was naturally not above Jiang Yichen.
"Dongmei went to Dingxiangyuan to get lunch. Yo. By the way, the boss is here, so I have to let her bring an extra one. When Qiu Xinyi said this, she quickly took out her mobile phone and walked to the window to dial Wu Dongmei's number.
Half an hour later, employee Wu Dongmei returned on an electric bicycle with four fast food in the aluminum alloy storage box in the back seat.
Jiang Yichen was not particular, like the clerks, he sat on a chair and opened a lunch box with his hand, and began to draw with chopsticks. By the way, let's talk to a few people about the recent situation in the store.
Since its opening, through everyone's concerted efforts and strict management, Blue Sea Star has created a brand effect both online and in physical stores.
In order to win the trust of customers, a special preferential policy was formulated. That is, the valuable goods purchased in the store can be appraised at the jewelry appraisal center under the Municipal Tourism Bureau, and the cost is paid by the store. Those who fail to pass the appraisal will be refunded in full.
This proved to be a pretty good tactic at the time, much more effective than ordinary price competition. In today's handicrafts and jewelry market, fakes and fakes are rampant, and consumers who have not yet trained a pair of sharp eyes are often frightened and walking on thin ice. As soon as this move came out, most of the customers' worries were immediately dispelled, and the difficult situation in the early days of the store was also smoothly passed.
However, today, in view of the good reputation of Blue Starfish, there are basically very few customers who buy things and run to the appraisal center, which is troublesome.
Moreover, the power of the network has exceeded expectations, since the "Golden Conch" marine crafts folk enthusiasts forum has gained a foothold, e-commerce has developed rapidly, and the current turnover has even reached about three times that of physical stores. There are also some netizens in the same city and netizens who come to travel to the river from other places also often visit.
In addition, due to the acceleration of the flow of goods, the area of the two upper and lower floors of the store, a total of 40 square meters, has become more and more tight, and it is not enough.
Speaking of which, Qiu Xinyi communicated with Su Xiaojia for a while, and then told Jiang Yichen, saying that the neighbor to the south next door was a small clothing store, and the boss was about to withdraw, so could he consider taking over to expand the store of Blue Starfish.
"Cheng, you can discuss this matter with Manager Su, and if you think it's necessary, take it down." Jiang Yichen didn't want to bother with this kind of thing, so he simply delegated power.
After lunch, he went upstairs to the studio for a while.
The studio was even more lively, and he saw that the walls were full of all kinds of design drawings, shell paintings, shell carvings, pearl ornaments, etc., all kinds of things, which dazzled him.
Su Xiaojia told him that now the store is taking a personalized boutique route, only selling high-grade and medium-grade products, and large-scale goods and low-grade goods have long been completely eliminated.
As for the source of the goods, most of them are provided by her to the processing factory, and then the factory is equipped with relevant materials according to the quality standards and processed into zuò.
After receiving the goods, she uses special nutrient water to clean and nourish the surface of the handicrafts, which lasts about half a month, and finally enters the display cabinet shelves in the hall downstairs with a stable and bright image, and officially meets the customers.
Jiang Yichen looked around, and sighed in his heart, Xiaojia sister really didn't know how much thought she had spent for this blue starfish. However, it is better to pay attention to the combination of work and rest.
At this time, he suddenly slapped his head, and this small talk almost forgot about business.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly took out his mobile phone and walked to the window, dialed Lai Shun'er's number, and explained to him like this, asking them to hurry up and send things over. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)