Chapter 244: Looking for a Beekeeper

On the second day, Guan Wen packed his baggage and waited for Li Xin to go out early. "Ya-Wen * Yan + Love $ First @ Hair"

The old man told him: "I still know a few old guys in Xiahe Village, but they haven't met in years." It's better for you two to go out and come back sooner. ”

Li Xin asked Lao Guantou if he could keep bees, and Lao Guantou only shook his head and said that he wouldn't.

Generally speaking, beekeepers tend to be older, and older people are more experienced. Otherwise, how can it be said that those who have experience are "old farmers"? It's the same with beekeepers. However, there are almost no people who make this business on a scale in Yizhou, and there will be some beekeepers scattered to raise some bees to produce honey, that is, they are produced to eat by themselves, and few are sold out.

Li Xin wanted to use the large area of the stone field to make honey for a living.

There are a lot of wild flowers and fruit trees on the mountain of Guanjia, and when spring comes, the mountain flowers are splendid. If you have bees and you pick the nectar from them, it will definitely be enough. If the bees can't collect nectar, they can also put sugar and let them pick it, but they won't be hungry - honey is worth more than sugar.

Guan Wen responded to the words of the old juncture, and while putting on a blanket, Li Xin carried a small bag made by himself.

Guan Wendao: "Grandpa, then Xin'er and I will go." ”

The old man waved his hand and said, "Go, go early and come back early." ”

Xiahe Village is not too far from Lotus Village. Lotus Village, Lijia Village, and Xiahe Village are basically lined up in a north-south direction, but the geographical scope of Xiahe Village is much narrower and longer, and it is also connected to Lotus Village. Guan Wen and Li Xin walked on a small road, bypassing a mountain in Lotus Village.

Turning over a hill and descending, Xiahe Village was neatly displayed in front of them.

Compared to Lotus Village. The land in Xiahe Village is more flat, one piece at a time, and the cutting ground is very regular.

Guan Wen and Li Xin ate dry food with water, and the two inquired along the road if there was any home-grown honey to sell.

The people of Xiahe Village live in a very quiet place. They are not very repulsive to outsiders. Hearing Guan Wen's question, he was not embarrassed, he asked him who he was and what he wanted to do, and he answered him happily. After asking all the way down, they didn't know much about who had made such a living.

Li Xin looked very disappointed, sighed lightly and said, "It seems that there is no one in Xiahe Village who knows how to keep bees...... I'll find another way. I just know that if you want to keep bees, you only need to catch the queen bee to raise them. The other worker bees themselves know to follow the queen bee. Help the queen bee collect honey ......"

Guan Wen knew about the queen bee, but he didn't understand Li Xin's description of the "worker bee", and asked softly: "What kind of bee is the worker bee?" ”

Li Xin said lightly and said, "It's a bee that is busy collecting honey." Don't you think they're a lot like the queen bee's laborers? I didn't see the queen bee collecting honey, it was all worker bees collecting honey. ”

Guan Wen smiled: "Your metaphor is novel. ”

Li Xin sneered, still feeling a little regretful in her heart.

Guan Wen didn't seem to want to give up just like that, so he continued to walk on the country road. When he saw the man carrying the hoe, he called the uncle, the uncle, and the brother, and the woman with the belt around her waist called the aunt and sister, and politely continued to ask all the way.

Li Xin is not a person who can't go out, but when Guan Wen asked in front, she was happy to be idle, and only echoed two sentences when Guan Wen was talking to others.

Xiahe Village is over, and it will take a while to get through, and they are not familiar with the land, so Li Xin pulled Guan Wen and said: "Forget it, don't continue walking, if you want to come to Xiahe Village, there are still no beekeepers, forget it." ”

Guan Wen sighed, looked at her and said, "I'm afraid you'll be disappointed." ”

"It's okay, if you really don't have it, you can figure it out by yourself, it's a big deal to make a bee bucket by yourself, but it's more troublesome to catch the queen bee." Li Xin smiled and said, "I'm just afraid of being stung." ”

Guan Wen smiled silently, squeezed Li Xin's hand and said, "It's a big deal, I'll come when I catch the queen bee." ”

Li Xin responded with a smile: "Okay, what you said, you can't rely on it." ”

"Not bad."

Since they couldn't find a beekeeper, Guan Wen and Li Xin decided to go back. In Xiahe Village, they are unfamiliar with the place, and it is not interesting to stay all the time. When the two walked back, Li Xin suddenly thought of something, paused and said, "It's all here, and by the way, let's go to Feng's house to have a look." ”

Guan Wen was stunned at first, thought for a while, and said, "Feng family...... That's what my mother-in-law told Ah Xiu, which one in Xiahe Village? ”

Li Xin nodded and said: "I still think that the Feng family is good, but their family situation is also bumpy, his filial piety has been delayed for three years, and it will be difficult for him to marry a daughter-in-law after three years." ”

Guan Wen sighed: "Since you can't be a family member, you can't afford to come to the door to disturb you." ”

"It's always right to say hello, but our two families know each other, I also quietly visited Xing'er when I first talked about Axiu's family affairs......," Li Xin paused and said: "It's certain that the family is poor, but it won't be a bowl of water to entertain guests." We just passed by and took a look, although the two families didn't have much friendship, we could let people know that we didn't greet them when we arrived in Xiahe Village, and we couldn't talk about it. It's kind of a courtesy. ”

Guan Wen thinks about it, it's not bad to know a friend, Xiahe Village and Lotus Village are not far apart, many acquaintances, and it is easy to inquire about the news between villages in the future.

So Li Xin took Guan Wen to Feng's house.

The last time I went to Feng's house, she found someone to lead the way, and she just sat at Feng's house and didn't say anything to the Feng family. In my impression, I only think that Feng Defa's mother is an honest rural woman, and her speech is a little wooden; His sister-in-law is a medicine jar and coughs all the time; The two younger sisters are very delicate and upright, but they don't talk much, and when they see her looking at people, they only purse their lips and smile at her.

Although the Feng family is indeed quite poor.

From the courtyard wall, you can see that the mud on the outside is a little mottled, and the pillars supporting the beams of the house are a little cracked and have long thin openings, and I don't know how long this house has not been repaired. He also said that he was going to marry a daughter-in-law to Feng Defa, but Feng Defa and his grandmother passed away suddenly, and the family turned over the family to hold a funeral for the old man. I met Feng Defa's sister-in-law's illness worsened, and I went to see the doctor and grabbed a lot of expensive medicines - this is even worse for the Feng family, and I don't know how their family will live in the future.

Li Xin, who was standing at the door of the Feng family's house again, was in a much heavier mood than last time, she and Guan Wen had bought ten eggs and a chicken at another farmer's house before they came, which could be regarded as a gift to the Feng family. Meaning meaning. Standing in front of the Feng family. Li Xin was a little hesitant to go in again, after all, he came to the door without saying hello with something like this...... After all, it was too abrupt for the Feng family - she hadn't had contact with the Feng family for a long time.

However, before she could discuss with Guan Wen, or she still didn't go in, she heard a little girl's voice sounding timidly behind her: "Yes...... Is the Guan family sister-in-law? ”

Li Xin looked back and suddenly smiled: "Do you still recognize me?" ”

The little girl standing in front of her carried a basket in her hand. The skin is slightly darker. It has been working and drying since childhood, with a small nose, a delicate face, and a pair of eyes that are a crescent moon when he smiles. It is Feng Defa's eldest sister. Thirteen-year-old Feng Zhizhi.

"The sister-in-law of the Guan family is beautiful, and Zhizhi remembers." Feng Zhizhi smiled at Li Xin delicately, and then looked at Guan Wen curiously. Li Xin introduced: "This is your big brother of the Guan family." ”

Feng Zhizhi immediately shouted again: "Brother Guan is good." ”

Guan Wen replied with some embarrassment.

He is the age of a boy and girl like Feng Zhizhi. You can call him uncle. But because it was to say goodbye to Ah Xiu at that time, he and Feng Defa are the same generation, and the same Feng Zhizhi is also his sister of the same generation.

Li Xin smiled and said to Feng Zhizhi: "I came to Xiahe Village with your eldest brother Guan to do some business, thinking that I would know your family here, so I came to your house to disturb it." Your father and brother are all at home, right? ”

Feng Zhizhi hurriedly said: "My mother and sister-in-law, as well as Yu Yu, my father and my eldest brother and second brother are married to the field." He raised the basket of wild vegetables in his hand and said, "I just went to dig wild vegetables and came back." ”

Li Xin sighed secretly and praised her: "Zhizhi is so good." Feng Zhizhi smiled shyly, and then invited Guan Wen and Li Xin into the room to talk.

Although in the future, wild vegetables can be encountered but not sought, and rich people have to spend a lot of money to get them to eat, saying that they are ecological and green, but in ancient times, unless the pot could not be opened at home, it was impossible to dig up wild vegetables to eat.

Feng Zhizhi put the basket down when she entered the house, and called her mother and sister-in-law, saying that the eldest brother and sister-in-law of the Guan family were here and asked them to greet them.

Aunt Feng is an honest woman, Li Xin nodded to her after seeing her, pointed to Guan Wen and said, "This is my family." He asked Guan Wen to hand her the chicken and a basket of eggs.

Aunt Feng still couldn't understand it, until Li Xin said that this was a door-to-door ceremony, and Aunt Feng hurriedly pushed it, while saying: "I can't help it, this is too precious......"

Now Li Xin has a lot of money in his hands, and the oiliness can be seen every day on the table of their new house, and they can eat rice every other day, and the meat and vegetables are gradually increasing. Li Xin doesn't like to eat eggs very much, and the eggs at home are all saved for Ah Mei Yang'er and Lao Guan to eat, and she drinks some egg custard at most. And the family also built a chicken shed to raise chickens. So in her opinion, chickens and eggs are really not very valuable.

But looking at the Feng family's current attitude towards chickens and eggs, there is no doubt that their family really feels a little at the end of the road.

Aunt Feng was pushing, Feng Defa's sister-in-law Song came out with the door, leaned on the door and coughed, smiled when she saw Li Xin, and said, "It's the sister-in-law of the Guan family." ”

Because Feng Defa's eldest brother is not as old as Guan Wen, the Song family also calls Li Xin a sister-in-law.

Li Xin responded, pushed the chicken and eggs to Aunt Feng and said, "Auntie, don't push with me, if the egg is spilled, it will be a pity." Keep it for a good meal, and make up for your younger siblings and branches. ”

Aunt Feng finally took the gift, and she had a "thousand thanks" attitude towards Li Xin.

Feng Defa is really an honest person.

Li Xin only sighed in his heart, and several people sat down in the hall together, Li Xin smiled and said: "I don't have anything to do here, just come to do something, thinking that since they are all here, it is better to come to your house to have a look." As he spoke, he asked Aunt Feng, "Auntie, how are you doing at home recently?" I was busy some time ago, and I heard about the old lady, but I didn't have time to make a trip, but I lost some reason. ”

Aunt Feng hurriedly waved her hand and said, "How do you say this, it's hard for you to worry about ......"

Li Xin comforted Aunt Feng, and Aunt Feng sighed: "...... I emptied all of my family in a flash, and now I have no problem eating, so I pointed to that little bit of land, hoping to produce more, otherwise I am afraid that it will be sad this year......"

Song Shi gasped lightly twice and said, "It's also me who is not good and has dragged down the Feng family." ”

"What do you say, don't say that, no one in the family blames you, and it's not that you are willing to get sick." Aunt Feng hurriedly comforted Song and said, "It's good when the illness is cured, don't talk about it." ”

Li Xin saw it in her eyes, but thought in her heart that the relationship between Aunt Feng and Song's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was not bad, and the last time I came to see Aunt Feng shushing the Song family, it shouldn't be pretending. As he was talking, Feng Zhizhi pulled a smaller girl over. It looks very similar to Feng Zhizhi, except that this little girl's eyes are slightly rounder.

Aunt Feng saw the two of them and hurriedly beckoned them to come over.

Feng Zhizhi smiled and said to the little girl beside him: "Do you still remember Sister-in-law Guan?" ”

Aunt Feng also touched the little girl's head pityingly and said, "Do you still recognize people?" ”

"Recognize ......" Feng Yan's eyes were round and watery, "The big sister who came to the house last time brought delicious snacks." ”

"Call your sister-in-law."

"It's fine." Li Xin hurriedly smiled: "It's not bad to call my sister, it seems that there are no girls who call me sister." ”

Li Xin smiled, bent down slightly and said to Feng Huan, "I'm sorry, my sister didn't bring delicious pastries this time, will I give them to you next time?" ”

Feng Yiyan nodded happily, and Aunt Feng hurriedly said to her: "You are not allowed to eat with others!" ”

"Auntie is fine." Li Xin pulled Feng Yanyan and asked her to sit with her, and said: "It's still a little baby, girls have to be spoiled when they are not married, otherwise they will marry out and become a person from another family, it is not necessary to be spoiled by their in-laws, it is better to spoil her more when they are in their parents' house." ”

Aunt Feng sighed, shook her head and said, "How can there be any good conditions in the family to spoil her, if you don't sell her, my father and I are worthy of her......"

Li Xin suddenly trembled slightly, looked at Aunt Feng, Aunt Feng sighed: "It is said that girls are useless at home, and they can't work in the fields, and they have to spend money to eat well before they get married, and when they are old, they prepare a dowry for her like splashing water and splash people out, and from then on, the girl is someone else's family...... "Aunt Feng" sighed: "When I can't get by, I want to save a bite to eat, and let my daughter have a bite to eat, and I want to sell my daughter, which is also a good way out, but my father and I are reluctant to ......"

Feng Yanyan is beautiful, and it is not surprising that she is reluctant to sell her.

It's just that when it comes to selling her daughter, she can always gently involve a scar in Li Xin's heart.

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