It is said that sour and spicy girls, although the bayberry is still very sour, Gao Mingcheng still picked two red bayberry and went back, he plans to share sweet and sour with many beauties.

It's just that when a woman is pregnant, her appetite has changed, if it was before, many beauties would definitely be the same as him, and their facial features would be sour to deformation, but now, many beauties are eating sour bayberry, which means that it is quite good.

"If you like, I'll pick it up for you." Gao Mingcheng said immediately.

"Yangmei is not in a hurry, you have to buy rice in the afternoon, there is not much rice at home, and there are insects!" Many Mei won't say how shocked she was when she opened the lid of the rice jar and saw the jar full of rice worms.

However, rice worms are harmless, as long as the rice does not become moldy, the insects will not delay eating.

When washing rice, you only need to soak it in water for a while, and the rice worms will float on the surface of the water, just pour the water away.

However, some of the rice was eaten by insects, and naturally it also lost some of its nutrients, and the taste was also a little bad.

It's easy to get insects when it's hot, and when Gao Mingcheng came back last time, he didn't eat a single meal at home, and after so long, the rice is naturally prone to insects.

"Okay." Gao Mingcheng responded, planning to buy rice after eating.

In the afternoon, he went to the cooperative to buy 20 catties of rice, and bought some pastries and biscuits to keep at home, so that if he was hungry, he could eat two bites immediately.

After putting the things home, Gao Mingcheng led the two dogs into the mountain.

This time he's going to check on the beehive. The hard-working little bees contribute a lot of honey to him a year, so it is natural to pay more attention to it.

Last time, there was a box of honey that was sick, and he bought medicine and sprinkled it near the beehive, and now he is going to see if there is anything new.

Although the honey he raised was obtained from the local mountains, the bee species was not endemic to the local area, but Italian honey, referred to as Italian bee.

The introduction of Italian bees into China can be traced back to 1895 at the earliest, and from 1928 to 1932 a great climax was formed.

In the many mountains of Gaojia Village, there are naturally Chinese bees, but when Gao Mingcheng decided to breed honey, he decided to raise Italian bees, because Italian bees are active in collecting honey and can cut honey several times a year.

But Italian bees also have a disadvantage, that is, the disease resistance is not as good as that of medium bees.

Once a swarm is weak, it is susceptible to illness and attacks from external enemies.

A box of bees is a colony, a colony has only one queen bee and a dozen drones, and the rest are worker bees.

But the drones are also quite miserable, they are the queen bee's reproductive tools, because after mating with the queen bee, the drones' organs will remain in the queen bee's body, and even its internal organs will be torn out, at this time, the drones will die quickly, even if they don't die for a while, they will be driven out of the nest by the worker bees.

And the most interesting thing is that the queen bee only needs to mate with many drones for a short time to absorb the reproductive genes in the drones, after which it no longer needs to mate, but can lay eggs all the time.

Gao Mingcheng checked the beehives one by one, it was daytime, the bees were actively collecting honey, most of the bees were outside collecting honey, and only when the honey sacs in their bodies were full, they would fly back to the beehive.

After returning to the hive, the bees will feed the nectar in the honey sac to other bees, and the nectar will be converted by invertase in each bee's mouth, and then fed to the next bee to continue the transformation, and after all the transformation, it can be injected into the honeycomb in the bee spleen for storage.

Under normal circumstances, it only takes about a week for bees to fill the honeycomb spleen, and after it is filled, it can be brewed with wax caps.

The brewing time is about ten days, that is, if the nectar source is sufficient, you can shake the honey once in about twenty days.

Gao Mingcheng lifted the lid of the beehive and saw that there were quite a few bees lying there on each bee's spleen, flapping their wings and making a buzzing sound, as if they were busy.

In fact, they are really busy, because the bees evaporate the water of the honey in the honey spleen by flapping their wings, increase the Baumé concentration of the honey, and use digestive enzymes to break down sucrose into glucose, fructose and other simple sugars.

When the honey is thoroughly brewed, it will have a unique sweet taste and is also very nutritious.

Gao Mingcheng tried not to disturb this group of hard-working little bees, but just checked the situation of Zi Spleen.

Because of the short lifespan of bees, in order to maintain the bee momentum of the colony, the queen bee often lays eggs, as for whether the queen bee is produced or the male peak or the worker bee, it actually depends on the size and number of neutron spleens in the bee spleen.

Gao Mingcheng planned to come out in two boxes of honey, one box for himself, and one box for him to be asked by the villagers, and he promised to give it if he had it.

It has been 20 days since the last time the honey was shaken, and the honey in the honey spleen looks full, and the color is very good, which means that it has been brewed.

That being the case, Gao Mingcheng plans to come tomorrow to shake honey.

He stared at several bee colonies for a while, and found three new queen bees, two of which were already mature queen bees, and one was still a queen bee cocoon, and he still needed to wait to break out of the cocoon.

Gao Mingcheng immediately took the empty beehive, he first moved the original beehive with two queens to the side a little, the new beehive was placed next to the original beehive, the nest door was opposite, and then the spleen, honeycomb and bees of the old beehive were evenly placed in the two boxes.

The old beehive naturally puts the old queen bee, and the new beehive puts the new queen bee, so that the bees who come back from collecting honey will fly into the beehives on the left and right sides, and over time, it will be divided into two bee colonies, and the number of bees on both sides is about the same, at this time you can distance the two beehives.

This job is very clever and familiar, after all, he did it before.

There was no other beehive left in the house, so he brought an old wooden barrel and opened a nest door underneath, and covered it with a wooden board to protect it from the sun and rain.

Such a simple wooden barrel can also be used for beekeeping, and when this box of bees is separated, it will be taken away and given away.

He also wanted to know if the other people could keep the bees well.

Gaojia Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and he monopolizes this side of Niuweiling, even if the people in the village keep bees, they also put the bees in other mountains, and it will not affect his side.

If other people can raise honey, it can also be a means to make a fortune.

Gao Mingcheng's first day back to the village was to divide the bee colony, the second day was to shake the honey and check the growth of Poria cocos, and on the third day, it was finally the turn to cut the rice.

Last time he came back alone, he didn't want to cook, so he could only go to his grandmother's house to eat and drink, but now that many beauties have come back with him, he doesn't need to worry about the hygiene of the house, the food and the feeding of poultry and livestock.

Although many beauties have big bellies, they are no worse than before when they work, but they can't stand for a long time, otherwise their stomachs will have a sense of falling.

Gao Mingcheng felt the benefits of having a wife, and when he was cutting rice in the rice field, he met Gao Liang and others who were of the same age but were still single, so he began to urge marriage.

"Gao Liang, my son is about to be born, you don't even have a wife, you have to work hard!"

"Gao Yong, you have to work harder, in the future, your children will have to call me my son brother!"

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Gao Liang and others are very sour, do we not want to please our wives? It's not that I don't have money to get a wife!

However, in the end, the days are getting better day by day, and the family's money is getting more and more day by day, so Gao Liang said: "Gao Mingcheng, when will you start collecting medicinal materials this year?" After selling this year's medicinal herbs, I will be able to see each other at the end of the year. ”

When it came to the matter of collecting medicinal materials, Gao Mingcheng pondered in his heart.

Collecting medicinal materials is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and he is afraid that he will not have so much time, so he has to find someone to help, and as for the candidates, he also has a number in his heart.

I read a book "The Beekeeper of the Wizarding World", and suddenly found that although I have been writing about beekeeping, I haven't written it carefully, so this chapter is considered a popular science of beekeeping. After that, I won't go into details.

(End of chapter)