"Legend has it that there was a king of the Song Kingdom who was very lustful, and he especially liked the married woman, and once again he toured his own country, and saw a woman who picked mulberry was particularly beautiful, so he wanted to take it for himself, but the king of Song was afraid that the forced marriage would be blamed by the people, so he designed to kill the woman's husband, and spent a lot of people's financial resources to build a high platform to declare his prestige, but on the day of the marriage, the woman would rather die than jump off the high platform and commit suicide, and also hid a silk book in the clothes, I hoped that someone would be able to bury her with her husband after her death, but the silk book fell into the hands of the king of Song, who was furious and ordered the graves of the woman and her husband to be buried ten zhang apart, but not long after the burial, a tree grew from each of the two tombs, and both trees grew a long branch close to each other, and after a few days they became entangled with each other......"

When this matter reached the ears of the king of Song, the king of Song was even more angry, and ordered the branches to be cut off, and a few days later the branches grew together again, and this was the case several times, so the king of Song ordered the two trees to be sawn off, but soon not only did the branches of the two trees grow together, but also a large number of roots grew out of the two tombs and intertwined with each other, and they could not be cut by digging continuously, and there were two birds crying sadly on the tree, and the sound was poignant and touching, and all who heard it were sad. And the two intertwined branches later bloomed beautiful flowers, which attracted dense butterflies every spring, and later people called these two trees acacia trees, and people called the branches that grew together Lianli branches, in memory of the unswerving loyal love between the dead mulberry woman and her husband......

"King Song is a big badass!" Xing'er, as always, began to express her simple values.

"That's it, King Song is so bad!" Yu Ji followed to mend the knife.

"The King of Song is lustful and vicious, if it is not for the Ming Jun, the Song Kingdom deserves to be destroyed by the Three Kingdoms of Qi, Chu and Wei!" Meng Wan also muttered angrily.

"Husband, I seem to have heard of this story, could it be that Song Kang Wang Hu?" Ying Shiyan is old in the end, and she likes to read on weekdays, she belongs to an intellectual woman who is knowledgeable and reasonable, and she looks at Chen Xu gently with a pair of beautiful big eyes.

Chen Xu nodded slightly and said, "Probably, this is just a folk legend!" ”

"But what does that have to do with grafting?" Ying Shiyan's attention turned back to the topic at the beginning.

"The principle of grafting is actually derived from the branches, the branches of two big trees grow together, and then bloom different beautiful flowers, and also attract a large number of butterflies, which shows that two different trees can grow together and survive, and there will be some unexpected changes, in fact, not only the tree, but also the melon and fruit vines, many entanglements grow together to blossom and bear fruit, and then will get a new variety, this is the idea of our experiment with melon and fruit grafting......"

"Husband, is this story true or false, is there really an acacia tree in the world? I'd love to go to the former Song Kingdom! "The little girl is still interested in this poignant love story.

"It's okay to go and have a look, when I'm free, I'll take you to find that acacia tree, and I can also take you to Hangzhou to see the willow embankment and West Lake!" Chen Xu smiled and nodded.

"Okay, okay, let's go together!" Apricot and Yu Ji jumped up for joy.

"Husband, don't lie to me!" Meng Wan happily hugged Chen Xu's arm and shook it.

"No, no, I wish to be a winged bird in heaven, and I am willing to be a branch on earth. People use the acacia tree and the branch to describe the unswerving loyal love between men and women, and I would also like to see if the acacia tree is real or fake! Chen Xu was panicked by the two Wangzi small steamed buns, so he could only nod vigorously.

"In heaven I wish to be a winged bird, and on earth I wish to be a branch...... Sure enough, it's a poignant love story, husband, I want to write this story, adapt it into a script like Sister Shui, and then send it to the Qinghe Theater for rehearsal, okay? Ying Shiyan looked at Chen Xu quietly.

"This is the best, in addition to writing the script, you can also publish this story in the Xianyang Metropolis Daily!" Chen Xu nodded.

"Really?!" Infinite surprise appeared on Ying Shiyan's beautiful cheeks.

"Naturally it's true, these stories originally came from the folk, and they were all recorded in some bamboo and wood slips in the past, and now the Faculty of Literature Bookstore is sorting out a large number of these slips, you go back and write it down completely, and publish it in the newspaper, then everyone in the world will soon know this story, and it is also a disguised publicity for the Qinghe Theater to do some publicity, and when the time comes, more people will come to see, won't our family be able to make more money?"

Ying Shiyan looked at Chen Xu speechlessly.

"Hehe, don't blame the lady, our family is now a big business, and we need money everywhere!" Chen Xu touched his nose awkwardly and stood up and said with a smile, "Let's go play elsewhere after resting!" ”

At the foot of the hill where the orchard is located, several wooden sheds have been built with bees.

Several students majoring in agriculture and some officials of the Shaofu Bee Husbandry Department are in charge of taking care of the bees, and they are observing the living habits of the bees on weekdays, and this is already spring, the young bees and the new queen bees have begun to hatch, and after waiting for two or three months, they can implement artificial cages, and it can be expected that the number of beehives here will at least double next year.

Dense bees flew around in the woods, and the closer they got to the wooden shed, the more they did, and Ying Shiyan and Meng Wan didn't dare to get closer, so Chen Xu could only let them continue to enjoy the flowers on the hillside and wait.

Two officials from the Bee Husbandry Bureau and several students from the College of Agriculture greeted Chen Xu and saluted him, put on a gauze hat for Chen Xu, and then accompanied him into the wooden shed where the beehives were placed to check the situation.

In the center of the wooden shed is a row of wooden shelves, on which more than a dozen cages of bees are placed.

Some of these bees were brought by Chen Xu from Xiaohe Village last spring, and most of the remaining bees were wild bees found by officials of the Bee Husbandry Agency in various places, and collected by Chen Xu's methods.

It is the middle of spring now, which is the peak season for all kinds of melons, fruits, flowers and plants to bloom, and there are flowers everywhere in the mountains, which is the best time for bees to collect flowers and make nectar.

Therefore, he was already in the wooden shed, and Chen Xu felt like he was caught in the ocean of bees, and the buzzing sound was so noisy that he could hardly hear what he could not say.

"Open a beehive and see how it goes?" Chen Xu said with great interest after looking at all the beehives next to the wooden frame.

"Yes, Master Hou!" Two officials from the Bee Husbandry Department immediately walked to a beehive, lifted the lid of the beehive, and saw that it was densely packed with bees, and the people crawling around to see it were terrified.

But after more than half a year of contact with bees, officials from the Apiculture and students from the College of Agriculture seemed to be very familiar with them, and one official reached out and brought out a wooden lattice from the inside of the beehive, only to see that the hive was completely full.

"Master Hou, look, the honey of this hive is full!" The official said excitedly.

"Master Hou, do you want your subordinates to cut some down, you can take it back and taste it fresh!" Another official from the Bee Shepherd Department hastened to pat himself on the back.

"No, no, if you cut off the spleen of this bee, all the young bees will die, and you can't cut the hive directly?" Chen Xu hurriedly shook his head.

"Master Hou, this bee is a better tonic than honey, and it is best to take it down and eat it even from the nest!" The steward of the beeshed said with a smile.

"Taking away the hive is tantamount to killing chickens and taking eggs, leaving the bees to expand next year, and now it is only in the middle of spring when the flowering period is in full bloom, you can use the method of shaking honey to take out the honey without hurting the bee spleen, so that you can also force the worker bees to continue to collect honey to fill the hive spleen, so that the young bees have enough food to hatch successfully, first shake these bees carefully into the beehive, and then take a new wooden frame and put it into the beehive to cover it." Chen Xu commanded.

"Yes, Master Hou!" The official who took out the bee spleen shook it lightly a few times, shaking most of the bees on the bee spleen into the hive, and gently brushing the rest with a wool brush a few times, and then quickly put in a new wooden frame and close the beehive when the bees began to fly around.

"Master Hou, what do you do next?" A group of people all looked at Chen Xu.

"Did you make the tool you used to shake the honey last time?" Chen Xu took this piece of bee spleen and observed it carefully, and asked.

"It's done, but I don't know how to use it yet!" The steward replied cautiously.

"Let's go, take it out first, go get that honey-shaking tool too!"

"Yes, Master Hou!" A group of people gathered around Chen Xu to come out of the bee shed, and soon a student brought a wooden barrel with a crank on it, and a hole blocked with a wooden plug under the barrel.

Chen Xu has seen the honey shake, but he has not played it, in fact, the tool for shaking the honey is very simple, it is similar to a blender, a handle, and a lattice of the same size as the wooden frame of the beehive, put the bee spleen into the grid, and then gently turn the handle, the bee spleen rotates in the wooden barrel, relying on the effect of centrifugal force to throw the honey out, but this strength and speed must be mastered, not too fast, otherwise it is easy to shake the young bees inside to faint, but it can't be too slow, too slow The honey can't be thrown out.

Of course, before you start shaking the honey, you need to use a knife to hang up the layer of beeswax covering the bee's spleen.

Chen Xu has seen half of these steps, and half of them are guessed by himself, he can't do it and hasn't done it, but it doesn't prevent him from knowing the principle, so under his command, an official of the bee herding department scraped the beeswax with a bamboo knife, and he saw the golden viscous honey inside, and a honey smell with a rich floral fragrance emanated.

"Goo Dong~" A circle of people couldn't help but stir their Adam's apples.

There is a difference between bees raised with beehives and wild bees nesting, wild beehives are piled together, very large and thick, and can only be cut off with a knife when taking honey, but because of the thickness limit of the wooden frame in the beehive, these beehives are almost as thick as the wooden frame, and there is a side of beeswax is very thick, and there are young bees inside, this situation has been discovered by Chen Xu as early as last year.

"Put it in carefully!" Under Chen Xu's command, the beeswax hive was carefully put into the lattice inside the wooden barrel by the officials of the Bee Shepherd's Bureau, and then Chen Xu shook the handle himself, and as the wooden frame rotated, you could see that golden honey began to flow out, and at the same time, a more intense and sweet smell spread.

"Master Hou is really clever, he can come up with such an unbelievable method!" A group of people began to shamelessly slap their again.

A certain little marquis was very proud, and he shook it more handily.

Chen Xu didn't know if the young bees inside were dizzy or not, but it was very certain that the honey was shaken out.

After a few minutes, Chen Xu felt that his arm was starting to be sore, so he stopped and took out the bee spleen to take a look, and found that there was already a layer of honey on the inner wall and bottom of the barrel, and the honey was still flowing down the bee spleen, and it could be seen that it had not been shaken clean.

"You come and shake it, remember not to be too fast, don't shake it for too long each time, keep some in the bee spleen as much as possible, because the young bees need to eat, and the worker bees also need to eat, accumulate more experience, try not to hurt the young bees and not destroy the bee spleen!" Chen Xu asked students from a nearby academy to come over and experiment for themselves.

"Yes, Master Hou!" The young student was excited, rolled up his sleeves, held the handle, and began to turn.

"Everyone has read carefully, to take honey steps all written down, these hives are now full of honey, take a close observation after a close observation, and wait until the honey is full can also be taken again, but remember not too often, after the autumn can not take honey, to leave enough food for the bees of the hive to survive the winter, wait until the new queen bee hatches out of the cage, especially pay attention to shake the honey do not destroy the queen bee nest, do not kill the queen bee, every time you take honey do not take too clean, to keep a part of the ......"

For honey, Chen Xu naturally doesn't understand fart, but even if what he says is, these officials and students will be ordered to carry out it as a holy decree, and Chen Xu doesn't care how many young bees are shaken to death, the important thing is to let these people who are specifically responsible for studying beekeeping how to quickly accumulate experience in beekeeping and honey extraction, Chen Xu believes that after a year or two, these people will inevitably become qualified beekeepers, and then they will spread the accumulated mature beekeeping experience.

Half an hour later, Chen Xu left the beeshed with a small jar of honey.

A total of three spleens were shaken, and almost two catties of honey were obtained, in fact, it was only about 500 grams, because one catty of the Qin Dynasty was a bit of a cheat, only half a catty of later generations.

It is very fragrant and sweet, with a strong spring breath, and the sweet taste makes people smell and feel intoxicated.

Chen Xu held the small can, and dipped his fingers in it as he walked, his face full of comfort.

"Husband, what are you taking?" Ying Shiyan and Meng Wan, who were still playing in the orchard, looked at Chen Xu, who couldn't open his eyes with a smile, and curiously brought a few little maids to greet him.

"Come, taste the nectar that my husband just took from the bee shed!" Chen Xu dipped his fingers in some golden honey and came out.

Ying Shiyan opened her small mouth and sucked lightly on her husband's finger.

Chen Xu's body trembled, and he felt that his soul was a little fluttering.

"Husband, this nectar is so sweet, full of fragrance!" Ying Shiyan smiled.

"Husband, I want to taste it too!" Meng Wan's little face blushed and begged.

"Come on, Wan'er also take a bite!" Chen Xuyan obeyed, and hurriedly dipped a finger of honey again.

Meng Wan opened her little mouth and stretched out her little tongue and licked it gently.

"Huh~~" Chen Xu's body trembled, and he felt his soul fly out of the sky, and a small person in his mind began to lie on all fours and look up to the sky and roar.

"Is it delicious?"

"It's so sweet and fragrant!" Meng Wan's little tongue licked again, and Chen Xu shivered again.

"Master Hou, we want to eat too!" A group of little maids gathered around.

"Okay, let's try it all!" Chen Xu dipped his fingers in honey, and a group of little maids sucked Hou Ye's sweet and floral fingers one by one, and then a certain little Hou Ye directly began to be dizzy and almost unstable, raised his eyes to look at the blue sky, and began to think about whether he had to find a place to fight a field battle today to soothe his restless soul.

"Wow, what are you guys stealing? We're going to eat too! Xing'er and Yu Ji's two little girls ran over in a hurry, and Chen Xu twitched a few times and stuffed the honey jar to Xing'er.

He decided that he must not take these two little girls with him next time he went out to play, which was very heartbreaking.

Especially when this kind of comfort is so refreshing that the soul flies.