Chapter 856: Strange Prairie (Part II)

I helped the depressed Granny Zhou into the container, comforted me a few words, and then walked out. {Novels}

Zhou Zhiting stood at the door of the carriage, her face was very bad, and she gritted her teeth and sneered.

"Have you had breakfast?" Women usually don't touch their heads when they're in a bad mood. I tried to distract her with hunger.

"Hmph, I'm not hungry. Today's incident must have been done by Yaxin. She paced hard.

"Who is Yaxin?" I asked.

"It's the stinky woman who invited you to a cup of noodles last night." At the mention of the name Yaxin, Zhou Zhiting was even more angry.

"No, she doesn't look like a villain." I can't believe it.

"You don't know her. Since she was a child, she has been virtuous and likes to play pranks. She looked at me, "Don't blame me for not reminding you, don't get too close to the woman." She doesn't care what the consequences will be or who she will hurt. As long as she's happy. An out-and-out witch! ”

"Well, I really can't see it." I smiled a little forcefully. Regardless of how much truth there is in Zhou Zhiting's words, with my relationship with that elegant side, I am a small staff member who can't be smaller, and I shouldn't be able to prank my head. What's more, the convoy is about to set off, and the place where the bees are planted is hundreds of kilometers away from here. Last night, I'm afraid it was the last time I met Na Yaxin.

After breakfast, the convoy began to drive out of the parking lot one after another. The president of the Zhou Group didn't seem to mind his mother's embarrassing situation this morning, and he didn't mention punishing the onlookers at all, or even mentioning the morning's events.

This situation always feels a little abnormal.

If according to Zhou Zhiting, the incident was created by the girl Yaxin, who was always smiling. Then the identity of this Yaxin is probably not simple. Not only did she and Zhou Zhiting know each other since childhood, but they also made the president of the Zhou department not complain after her mother was teased. What kind of background will she have?

Relationships are often much more complex than humans can imagine. But for now, the situation is still very good, and many of the things that have happened to me are much better. After all, no matter how complicated the interpersonal relationship is, it can't be more complicated than a terrorist incident. I feel like I'm cursed by bad luck all the time, and maybe my luck has started to get better lately.

Maybe this case is really a simple dive work, relaxed and elegant. Not only can you see the scenery, experience the romantic life of a beekeeper, but also bubble a little beauty.

But can it really be that simple? When I thought of Granny Zhou's table of eight immortals, the food that mysteriously disappeared, and the white rice that was pitted like insects, my good mood was discounted.

The Zhou family really has some inside information.

The car opened the national highway, and after walking for more than half an hour, it finally ran all the mountain roads. Zhou Zhiting gave up the driver's seat to me, and sat alone in the co-pilot's seat to read the English reference book. When I turned the last corner, my vision suddenly opened up. Large areas of plateau meadows appear in front of you, and in the distance of the vast grassland, a series of not too high mountains are impressively presented. Beautiful scenery.

The road stretched straight across the prairie, and the speed of the convoy soon rose to eighty yards. From Songpan to Ruoergai, there is a straight and flat road, like a highway. Even a novice like me can drive a truck smoothly.

By four o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was on the westerly side, the end of our trip had arrived!

The prairie is beautiful, and the feeling of emptiness at a glance is something I've never seen before. The sky in May was blue and impoverished, the sun shining on my face did not feel hot, and the cold wind unique to the plateau kept blowing, which made my head clear a lot.

The meadows of the land are full of endless wildflowers, and many of them are unknown to those who have studied botany. The round dandelions bear fluffy white plantings, which are blown by the wind and flutter into the distance.

The convoy stopped at the side of the road where Hongyuan and Ruoergai intersected, and I checked the map, and there was a small village called Gesang more than ten kilometers ahead.

The cars in front of them took steel plates from their containers and set them up on the edge of the road, building a bridge large enough for trucks to drive into the roadside grassland. The car's walkie-talkie busily instructed all vehicles to drive into the grassland and drive away from the road.

I drove forward with the car in front of me, and I used to see people driving on the grassland, and I actually longed for it deep down. I think it's a very chic and romantic thing. But now when I really realized my wish, I realized that it was not easy to drive on the grassland.

Although the chassis of the truck is high, the grass is not deep, and the ground is considered straight. But the car is shaking when driving on the grass, and it is difficult to control as if it has entered quicksand.

"Well, do you still think beekeeping is a happy and romantic thing?" Zhou Zhiting looked at me with a smile.

"Of course." I made a determined appearance. Nonsense, I've only been working for two days, how can I feel hard. What's more, the more dangerous roads are all driven by the girl in front of me, and I'm not tired at all.

"Don't worry, wait a minute, there is your hard work." She held her chin and looked at the prairie landscape.

I moved my mouth and didn't speak. This little girl doesn't know which tendon is wrong in her head, and she has been instilling in me the disadvantages of beekeeping all day, as if she wants me to retreat.

The convoy drove through the grassland until it was a full kilometer away from the road before stopping. In front of me, several people in Tibetan costumes were waiting not far away. I stuck my head out the window and saw a young woman jumping out of the No. 1 carriage and walking up to the five Tibetans and saying something.

"That's the president of the company." Zhou Zhiting looked at the woman that year, and did not call her mother, but slightly sarcastically used the title of 'President'. It seems that the relationship between the two is not very good.

"What are those five Tibetans doing, and are they the local reception?" I'm okay to ask.

"It's okay to say it's a reception, but it's not cheap. It costs 300,000 yuan for a reception. ”

"What do you mean?" I don't understand.

"Meaning, these receptions are the landlords of the land under our feet. From the highway to the foot of the mountain in the distance, it is all his home. Our company spent 300,000 yuan to rent this place as a camp, and rented it for half a year. Zhou Zhiting explained absent-mindedly.

I was shocked, and my doubts intensified. It is really unreasonable to rent it for half a year. In general, the flowering period of the grassland is from March, and by the end of August, it is almost all withered. After September, when the grass begins to turn yellow, the beekeepers leave to rush to the next place where the flowers bloom in a pleasant climate.

It was surprising that the Zhou Group came to the grassland in May to keep bees, and now they are ready to stay until the end of November. It's simply incomprehensible. The value of the grasslands is less than three months for beekeepers. The extra three months are basically not beekeeping, and you also need to spend money to maintain the necessary sugar for the bees. What exactly does the company want to do? Could it be that this extra time, which other beekeepers can't use, is the secret of the Zhou Group's persistence for more than 100 years?

"It's time to unload and set up camp, cut, I'm going to live in this ghost place where birds don't for half a year......" Zhou Zhiting muttered in a low voice, ignored me, opened the co-pilot's door and jumped in.

Fauber was in charge of the liaison for each car, and he instructed me to drive the car to the designated location, and then handed me a plastic suit.

"Bee-proof suits?" I was dumbfounded, and there was no mention in the job description that truck drivers were also obliged to unload beehives.

The wooden beehives weren't ordinarily heavy, and I didn't carry a few of them. All the employees were busy, and it took more than three hours, when it was almost dark, to finish moving the beehives of the fourteen carriages.

My whole body was like I was in prostration, like a walking corpse holding a lunch box, numbly eating all the food. Then she took two meals from Zhou Zhiting with dull eyes and sent them to Granny Zhou's container.

After I finally recovered and felt a little better, I had time to look at the whole camp.

Nineteen trucks were arranged in a circle around the endless grassland. Inside the circle are tents made of military canvas and containers. There are more than 40 roofs, one for every two people.

Many steel cables and drills were thrown on the ground, depending on the situation, in preparation for the erection of a separation zone further outer.

It was already night, and the beehives were placed directly behind the truck circle, stacked on top of each other, and piled up a huge volume. I roughly calculated that there are at least tens of thousands of beehives in fourteen containers. Such a number is very staggering, no wonder the Zhou Group has become the leading group beekeeping family in China. The amount of beekeeping alone is oppressive enough!

Blowing the cold wind, looking at these neatly arranged beehives, I touched my chin, and my heart was very full of doubts. It seems that the environment here does not meet the general conditions of beekeeping.

As mentioned at the beginning, beekeeping is the business of raising bees and taking their products honey and beeswax, including livestock in a broad sense, so bees are also domestic animals in a broad sense.

The environmental conditions of beekeeping sites are closely related to the success or failure of beekeeping and the production of bee products, so beekeepers choose places with abundant nectar sources and suitable environment to establish apiaries. Around the beekeeping grounds2. Within a radius of 5 km, there should be at least one or two large areas of major nectar source plants throughout the year. This is not lacking in the grasslands.

The key is that the beekeeping site needs to be leeward and sunny, the terrain is high and dry, there is no water accumulation, and the microclimate is suitable. It is best to have a courtyard wall or dense forest in the northwest, and the mountainous area should choose the slope at the foot of the mountain or the southward direction of the mountainside, with a wind barrier on the back, the front terrain is open, the sun is abundant, and there are sparse small trees between the sites.

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