Chapter 239: Checking the Beehives and Harvesting the Rice
After a short time, Gao Mingcheng came to the place where the beehive was, since there were no black bears in the mountains, the beehive was quite safe, from the outside, it was not damaged, but after approaching, it was still possible to see the figure of the wasp.
Gao Mingcheng picked up the wooden stick on the ground with a familiar hand, and when the stick fell, the wasp was knocked to the ground, some directly cut off their vitality, and some would struggle in vain.
As a qualified beekeeper, Gao Mingcheng is quite protective of his bees.
After killing all the wasps that were haunting the beehives, Gao Mingcheng opened the lid of the beehive and checked the bee spleen inside.
A bee spleen is often divided into two parts, one for honey and one for hatching pupae. In a bee colony, there are three kinds of queen bees, drones and worker bees, and the lifespan of each type of bee is different, the queen bee can live for four or five years, the drone is about three months, and the worker bee has the shortest lifespan, only one and a half months of life during the busy honey collection, and it will be extended to three months in winter.
The queen bee chooses different nests to have different eggs, it will lay fertilized eggs in the ordinary hexagonal nest and the base, and the fertilized eggs will develop into worker bees or queen bees; In larger hexagonal nests house unfertilized eggs, which can only develop into drones in the future.
The egg period of the three bees is three days, after three days, they will hatch into larvae and start sucking royal jelly, in the first three days, all the larvae eat royal jelly, but after that the situation will change, only the queen bee larvae can continue to eat the royal jelly until they pupate, while the drone and worker bee larvae begin to eat bee food, what is bee food, it is a food made of honey and pollen.
After the larvae molt five times in the capping room, they can pupate, during this period, the time required for different bee species is also different, after pupation, the bee pupae feathers in the capping room, and bites through the cover, crawls out of the hive, and officially becomes the so-called bee, starting different responsibilities of life.
Therefore, Gao Mingcheng can know the situation of this batch of bee pupae by observing the nest on the bee spleen, although the queen bee can live for several years, but in the future, its fertility will be reduced, so it will often be artificially eliminated in the beekeeping industry, and in order to improve the yield and control the spread of bee diseases, the queen bee will be changed once a year.
The queen bees in Gao Mingcheng's beehives are still very young and have good reproductive ability, so he has no intention of changing the queen bees for the time being, he checks each beehive one by one, and keeps the situation of the bee colony in mind.
By the time the beehives were checked, it was getting dark.
Gao Mingcheng was in a good mood, whistling down the mountain, accompanied by birdsong, the wind shook the trees, and the sound of nature was very harmonious.
When he returned home, the black tiger and the elf immediately came forward and circled around him excitedly.
Many beauties had already cooked the meal, but instead of eating it first, they were holding a fashion magazine book and looking at it.
Seeing that Gao Mingcheng was back, he put down the book and said, "Wash your hands and eat." ”
So the two washed their hands and sat down to eat.
The meals are simple but taste good. The main flavor characteristics of Jiangxi cuisine are: original, thick oil but not greasy, thick taste, salty and spicy. And many beauties are now able to do the latter two sentences - the taste is strong, salty and spicy.
Xu used to eat a lot of clear soup and little water, many beautiful boiled dishes are very fond of seasoning, and very willing to put any dish, as long as you are willing to put seasoning, then the taste will not be too bad.
During the meal, Gao Mingcheng said that he would arrange for tomorrow, and he planned to go to the field to cut back the acre of rice.
When he entered the village, he saw that most of the fields were empty, and only a few fields still had rice growing in them, including his family's fields.
"After the autumn harvest, we have to pay the public grain and follow the example, and this year's output will be reduced, and I don't know if the public grain can be less." Tatsumi said, a little worried in her voice.
His family is not short of money now, but for ordinary people, paying public food is also a heavy task.
There is also a succession, and the money for the succession is collected by the village committee, and it will rise a little every year.
"There will be less." Gao Mingcheng reassured, and decided in his heart that after harvesting the rice, he would go to buy some rice and come back.
The crops produced in their own counties are no longer expected, and the output has been reduced in a large area, but the rice from other places will take the opportunity to sell in, because the price will be higher than in previous years.
Count the days, the day after tomorrow is the county market day, you can go to the county to buy.
The husband and wife talked and talked about what they were going to do in the future, and many beauties have been busy making clothes recently, and now Dong Feixia has taken them to start making winter clothes.
The next day, after Gao Mingcheng had breakfast, he went to the field with a sickle and a flat pole.
Standing on the ridge of the field, I saw that the rice was yellow and bright, and it was eye-catching to look at, but if I looked closely, the low-hanging rice ears were mostly empty, and only a few were full.
Sparrows flew high and low, pecking at the rice grains.
"Hey!" Gao Mingcheng waved his hand, frightened the sparrow and flew up, and after the sound of flapping wings, there was a brief silence.
There are no weeds in the paddy field, although there is a lack of water, and the yield reduction is doomed, but Gao Mingcheng still pulls out the weeds in the field, and then when filling the grain, he tries to water it a few times, and then he can only follow the fate.
There was only one acre of land, and Gao Mingcheng didn't shout a lot of beauty, he bent down alone and began to cut rice.
Hold a handful of rice in one hand and cut it with a sickle against the ground in the other.
He had good physical strength, and when he bent over to work, he hardly straightened up to rest, and in a short time, he harvested all the rice in an acre of land.
He tied the rice together and carried it home with a flat pole, and along the way, he met people from other villages, who talked to him and asked about the sale of medicinal herbs.
Regarding the matter at the drug fair, Gao Mingcheng said to Gao Mingli and asked him not to talk nonsense outside.
Although he collects medicinal herbs in the village and sells them, it must be to make money, otherwise who will do this?
But being known to make money is still different from being known to know how much money you have made.
Everyone's concept of making money is different, some people think that they may earn a hundred, at most a thousand, this is because their annual income is so much, and the usual expenses are not much, so they don't know what it is like to earn thousands of dollars at a time, or even tens of thousands of dollars.
But if you know, you will definitely be envious, jealous and hateful.
Gao Mingcheng said what he could say, but he was vague about how much he earned, and if he asked again, he would talk to people about the money for renting a truck, the money for refueling, the money for renting a stall, the money for staying in a hotel and the money for eating.
After this account is calculated, it will make people dizzy, and even think that Gao Mingcheng is not easy, although he has made money, he is also very busy, and the expenses along the way are also large.
In this way, they will think that it is not easy for Gao Mingcheng to make this money, so they are not so envious of Gao Mingcheng.
Talking to people all the way, carrying the rice all the way home, back and forth several times, then all the rice was picked up at home and stacked on a clean concrete floor.
Gao Mingcheng ran into the kitchen, first gurgling and drinking a large bowl of tea, and then began to work, he had to shake off the grain from the ears of rice, and then collect and dry.
It took him most of the day to finish it, and in the evening, he went to his parents' house.
Tomorrow in the county to catch the market, he is going to buy rice, he has to ask Gao Mingli if he wants to work somewhere, and he can take it to see Gao Guobing together.
(End of chapter)