"What should I do?" At noon, shopkeeper Song and others found a small restaurant to eat. They had no money to go to a better place.
Some people take a sip of beer and feel that they have lost their future and the whole world. Six hundred guan is equivalent to 600,000 yuan.
The key point is that the honey I bought was not worth the money. I lost 300,000 yuan in one fell swoop. No, there are still some jars that I got for free.
"Is it because Old Song talks so much that the people in Xiaqiu Village are angry?" Someone put the blame on Shopkeeper Song.
"The people we buy honey are different from those who sell bees. What's wrong with the people selling honey in Xiaqiu Village? They even took the order for soap! Could it be that the people buying soap have also offended Xiaqiu Village?"
Shopkeeper Song didn't want to be pushed out, so he looked for excuses.
"I finally collected the bees from Zhejiang beekeepers and took a boat across the Rouge River. I thought I could make a fortune, but..."
Shopkeeper Hao grabbed a salted bean in his hand, threw it into his mouth and chewed it: "It's not as delicious as salted edamame."
A man named Lu sighed: "At this time of year, only Xiaqiu Village can sell some edamame to Fuhualou and Qinhuaihe Restaurant, and the price is so high that I can't eat it anymore and I have no money."
"The urgent thing right now is what to do with the collected honey? Ten thousand kilograms! How can Xiaqiu Village have ten thousand kilograms of honey?"
The person who spoke first pinched his eyebrows with his hand, a look of pain on his face.
"Sell the bees first. What is the use of raising so many bees? After selling, look at other businesses.
The convenience store provides a lot of things, some selling things and some buying things. Think about it, what else is there in Zhejiang? What else do you need?
If I had known today, I shouldn't have used convenience stores to set up traps. The convenience store is indeed convenient for the people, with both buying and selling, you can always find something suitable. "
The shopkeeper surnamed Wang wanted to stop his losses immediately and switch to other businesses to get away from honey and bees.
"How can anyone buy bees worth fifty cents per spleen? Can we do it again, harvest honey for sixty cents per catty? Xiaqiu Village will sell it to us again..."
"Lower the price. Now that the flowers are blooming more, I think someone will be willing to keep bees."
"Those who can keep bees have already kept them themselves. We originally wanted to trick other businessmen into buying them."
"Thirty cents per spleen? A box of four spleens and a queen bee sells for a hundred cents?"
"May I ask? Can you withdraw the previous order and replace it with the new one?"
"I still want to eat salted edamame."
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"Hanhan! I sold the honey and am going to collect the bees. I hope I can collect them."
The manager was so busy that he was sweating. He ran back to his room to change clothes, and then wiped his hands with water before arriving at Hanhan's side.
"There are twenty-one villages in Xuancheng, each of which has more than a dozen boxes of bees. Shopkeeper Song and others put up orders for selling bees with 5,000 spleens.
I haven't seen how big their spleen is. Generally speaking, if they are raised stably, they can produce three to four kilograms of honey a year.
If you drive the flowers well, it's no problem to get six or seven pounds. If they don't sell the bees quickly, they will have to hire extra people to collect the honey. "
Zhu Wentian calculated the output based on the beehives sold by the other party. With so much, it was all in his hands. If he was not a professional beekeeper, it would tire him to death.
"They collect them from somewhere else, right? I've seen flower drivers several times. If there are four or five people in a family, there will be thirty or forty boxes of bees.
They carried it with burdens. They carried it once, walked out for a while, came back and carried it again, just like this.
Only by raising bees can we know how much honey we produce. If there are six spleens in a box, they can produce more than 40 kilograms a year.
According to the price of honey, you can get a little more than other jobs, but it's too hard and most people can't bear it. "
The head of the village talked about a situation he had seen before. At that time, he couldn't afford honey, so he just watched others carrying boxes as they passed by.
Now we know that bees in thirty or forty boxes can earn forty or fifty pounds a year.
Not only do you have to choose a beehive, you also have to choose a tent. The kind of tent is made of wood and some oilcloth and canvas.
When it rains heavily and we have to cover the beehives again, we usually look for a place with trees and use the trees to set up the tent.
Judging from this, Shopkeeper Song and the others are not beekeepers. How many manpower are needed to raise so many bees?
"So they will sell honey and bees. When the time comes, we will buy it. If we can afford it, we will hire people. If the people who are hired are willing to raise it themselves in the future, we will sell them the bees."
Zhu Wentian was not anxious at all. Whoever pressed the goods but couldn't sell it would be upset, not to mention those businessmen who didn't have the courage to engage in the bee industry.
"What do we want with all those bees?" The director felt his head hurt when he thought about the buzzing of bees.
"We have a candy store, which sells preserved fruits and candied fruits. We also need royal jelly for health care, for medicinal use, for cooking, and even in pickles.
Honey can sterilize, which is better than adding sugar, and the texture and taste are even better. Or make it into mead.
Do not worry! With me here, no matter how much honey you have, you can use it. You can also eat bee pupae at that time, and beeswax will have more effects. "
Zhu Wentian patiently explained to the village chief, strengthening the village chief’s belief in keeping bees.
Honey can be used in rouge and gouache shops, pastry and dairy shops, delicatessens and luxury goods stores.
"Okay, okay, so good! Then I'll go out and take a look... Hanhan, what are you painting?"
The director was about to do other things when he saw the picture on the table again.
"Shopkeeper Xu said that the scallops and clams would die within a few days of being brought in, so I designed an oxygen delivery device.
Just like smelting steel, the seafood needs to breathe.
Bring the sea fish over and we can make a glass fish tank where you can keep them and keep them fresh when you need to eat them.
They probably put the scallops and clams in the water and soaked them directly. The water was shallow and they couldn't soak all the scallops and clams.
They will pant, and if the soak is deep, they can only pump air in.
In addition to changing the water, if there is no sea water, you can adjust the salinity yourself.
They can be raised in this way for ten days and a half, and the longer they are raised, the thinner they become. If they are not given food, they will also be hungry.
As for normal raising, it is necessary to build a pond and feed food to the scallops and clams. The cost is high and the gain outweighs the loss. "
Zhu Wentian handed the drawings to the head of the village, and if he followed them, he would be able to raise them for a longer period of time. If he had some live and good sea fish, he could bring them over and they would keep them for a long time.
The chief picked up the drawing and said as he walked: "There is no need to tell others about this, we can raise it ourselves."
He didn't plan to tell Shopkeeper Xu this good method. Shopkeeper Xu could keep it for two or three days, which was enough.
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"The flowers are blooming just right now, and bees are sold cheaply. As long as you buy them, you can collect honey. The honey you collect is money."
In the afternoon, businessmen stood at the door of the convenience store and shouted, asking others to take over the bees.
They were all sweating profusely from the heat, and they wanted to sell everyone they saw. Even the shirtless people who came looking for work told others how good honey was.
"Tell the truth! Thirty cents is expensive, and the nests are divided in spring. Who would be willing to buy yours? Just keep it yourself!" Finally, a businessman came over to persuade him kindly.
Everyone realized that those who charge high prices for honey and those who sell bees are in the same group, and they are clearly trying to trick people.
(End of chapter)
