Not long after, 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 did not appear to be damaged, but when you got closer, you could still see the wasps.
Gao Mingcheng skillfully picked up the wooden stick on the ground. When he lifted the stick and dropped it, the wasps were knocked to the ground. Some were cut off immediately, and some even struggled in vain for a few times.
As a qualified beekeeper, Gao Mingcheng is very protective of his bees.
After killing all the wasps lingering around the beehive, Gao Mingcheng opened the lid of the beehive and looked at the honeycomb inside.
A honeycomb is often divided into two parts, one for storing honey and the other for hatching bee pupae. In a bee colony, there are three types: queen bee, drone bee and worker bee. The life span of each bee is different. The queen bee can live four to five years, the drone bee about three months, and the life span of the worker bee is the shortest. When the honey is busy, The lifespan is only one and a half months, which extends to three months in winter.
The queen bee chooses different nests to house different eggs. It will lay fertilized eggs in ordinary hexagonal nests and platform bases, and the fertilized eggs will develop into worker bees or queen bees; in larger hexagonal nests, unfertilized eggs will be laid. The fertilized eggs can only develop into drones in the future.
The egg stage of all three types of bees lasts 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 then the situation will change and only the queen bee larvae can continue. They eat royal jelly until they pupate, while drones and worker bee larvae begin to eat bee food. What is bee food? It is a food mixed with honey and pollen.
After the larvae molt five times in the capped room, they can pupate. During this period, different bee species require different times. After pupation, the bee pupae emerge in the capped house and bite through the roof. , climb out of the hive, officially become a so-called bee, and start a life of different responsibilities.
Therefore, Gao Mingcheng can know the situation of this batch of bee pupae by observing the cells on the honeycomb. Although the queen bee can live for several years, her fertility will decrease later on, so in beekeeping, there are often They are manually eliminated, and in order to increase production and control the spread of bee diseases, the queen bee will be replaced every 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 inspects each beehive one by one, keeping the situation of the bee colony in mind.
By the time the beehives were inspected, it was getting dark.
Gao Mingcheng was in a good mood and went down the mountain while whistling. During the process, he was accompanied by birdsong, the wind shook the trees, and the sounds of nature were very harmonious.
After returning home, Black Tiger and Elf immediately came forward and circled around him excitedly.
Duo Mei had already cooked the meal, but she didn't eat it first. Instead, she held a fashion magazine and read it.
Seeing that Gao Mingcheng was back, he put down his book and said, "Wash your hands and eat."
So they washed their hands and sat down to eat.
The food is simple but tastes good. The family is not short of money, so they can naturally afford various seasonings. The main flavor characteristics of Jiangxi cuisine are: original flavor, thick oil but not greasy, rich taste, salty, fresh and spicy. And many beauties can now achieve the last two sentences - strong taste, salty and spicy.
Maybe I ate too much clear soup in the past. Many delicious dishes like to add seasonings, and they are willing to add seasonings. As long as you are willing to add seasonings to any dish, the taste will not be too bad.
During the meal, Gao Mingcheng talked about his plans for tomorrow. He planned to go to the fields to cut back the acre of rice.
When he entered the village, he saw that most of the fields were empty, with only a few fields still growing rice, including his family's field.
"After the autumn harvest, we have to pay public grain and inheritance. With the production reduced this year, I don't know if the public grain can be reduced." Duo Mei said, with some worry in his voice.
His family is not short of money now, but for ordinary families, paying public food is also a heavy task.
There is also Jili. The money for Jili is collected by the village committee, and it will increase every year.
"It will be less." Gao Mingcheng comforted him, and decided to buy some rice after harvesting it.
There is no hope for the rice produced in our own county, and production has been reduced in large areas, but rice from other places will be sold in at an opportunity, because the price will be higher than in previous years.
Counting the days, the day after tomorrow is the market day in the county, so you can go to the county to buy.
The couple talked and talked about what they were going to do next. Duo Mei was busy making clothes recently. Now Dong Feixia has taken them to make winter clothes.
The next day, after Gao Mingcheng had breakfast, he went to the fields with his sickle and pole.
Standing on the ridge and looking out, I saw that the rice was all yellow and eye-catching. However, if I looked closely, I saw that most of the low-hanging ears of rice were empty and only a few were full.
Sparrows flew high and low, pecking at the rice grains wantonly.
"Hey!" Gao Mingcheng waved his hand, causing the sparrow to fly up in fright. After the sound of flapping wings, there was a brief silence.
There were no weeds in the rice fields. Although there was a lack of water and production was destined to be reduced, Gao Mingcheng still pulled out the weeds in the fields, and then watered them as many times as possible during the grouting process. After that, he could only let it go.
There was only one acre of land, and Gao Mingcheng did not call Duo Meilai. He bent down alone and began to cut the rice.
Hold a handful of rice in one hand, and hold a sickle against the ground to cut it.
He had good physical strength. When he bent down to work, he hardly straightened up to rest. In a short time, he had harvested all the rice in an acre of land.
He bundled the rice together and carried it home on a pole. Along the way, he met people from other villages who talked to him and asked about selling medicinal materials.
Regarding what happened at the drug fair, Gao Mingcheng told Gao Mingli and asked him not to talk nonsense outside.
Although he collects medicinal materials in the village and sells them, he must make money, otherwise who would do this?
But the mentality is still different between being known to make money and being known to know exactly how much money you have made.
Everyone has a different concept of making money. Some people think they may earn a few hundred or at most a thousand. This is because their income is only that much a year and their daily expenses are not much, so they don’t know at all. What does it feel like to make thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars.
But if you knew it, you would definitely be envious and jealous.
Gao Mingcheng laughed and said what he could, but he was vague about how much he earned. If asked again, he would tell people about the cost of renting a truck, the cost of gas, and the cost of renting a stall. Money, money for hotel stays and food.
After all the calculations, people are confused, and they may even think that Gao Mingcheng is not easy. Although they make money, they are also very busy and tiring, and the expenses along the way are also high.
In this way, people will think that it is not easy for Gao Mingcheng to earn this money, so they will not envy Gao Mingcheng so much.
Talking to people all the way, I picked the rice home. I went back and forth several times, and then I picked all the rice home and piled it on the clean cement floor.
Gao Mingcheng ran into the kitchen and drank a large bowl of tea before continuing to work. He had to shake off the millet from the ears of rice and then collect and dry them.
It took him a long time to finish this matter. In the evening, he went to his parents' house.
There will be a market in the county tomorrow and he is going to buy rice. He has to ask Gao Mingli if he has figured out where to work and take him to see Gao Guobing.
(End of chapter)
