Chapter 460 I Like It
Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengsen both turned their heads to look at the person who appeared at the gate.
Zhou Chenglei said calmly: "Second sister-in-law."
Jiang Xia also shouted: "Second sister-in-law is back."
Zhou Chengsen said nothing, just looked at his daughter.
Zhou Ying ran into the yard and lay directly on Zhou Chengsen's back: "Dad, are you better now? Does your head still hurt?"
She missed her dad so much and her mom was always swearing at home.
I tore up all her homework books.
Her mother was so fierce that she was scared to death! Zhou Chengsen steadied himself, reached back to catch his daughter, and said with a smile, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt anymore."
Li Xiuxian turned around with a gloomy face, pushed her bicycle away, and went straight back to the old house.
Even after she recovered from her illness, she stayed in the village and didn't go home. What did that mean? She was alone in the town, working, taking care of her daughter's meals, and helping her with her homework. Do you know how hard it was? If the weather wasn't good and she could go out to sea tomorrow, she would have gone back to the town directly!
Zhou Chengsen ignored Li Xiuxian and said to his daughter, "Go play with your sister. Your sister is out in the fields looking for tadpoles. Daddy needs to nail this box shut."
Zhou Ying responded, climbed up from his back and ran out.
Just at this time, Zhou Zhou, Zhou Wenzu and Zhou Jie brought back a dozen tadpoles in a broken enamel cup, and then poured it into a wooden basin to keep them.
Four children were standing there with their butts sticking out, watching them swim around.
Chirping and guessing how long it would take for them to grow legs and turn into frogs.
The beehives have been nailed down, three of them. Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Xia took the beehives to the old house and carbonized them.
Zhou Chengsen was too lazy to go over and look at Li Xiuxian with disgust, so he simply stayed here and cooked.
Zhou Chenglei took some straw and firewood, as well as some honeycomb fragments, from the kitchen of the old house.
He asked the beekeeper from the production team next door for the honeycomb fragments when he went to buy honey and beeswax.
Zhou Chenglei lit the straw and firewood and threw them into the beehive.
Li Xiuxian saw them making a fire in the yard and was furious. "Why are you making a fire here? Go make a fire in the fields! You won't have to clean up later! If you stay here, won't you make the yard dirty?"
Zhou Chenglei didn't even look at her: "Did I make your yard dirty?"
Jiang Xia didn't even look at her: "I just like to light a fire in my yard. Does Second Sister-in-law think that's not okay?"
Li Xiuxian: “…”
Were these two husband and wife teaming up to bully her? She turned and walked back into the house.
When the fire was burning, Zhou Chenglei held out his hand to Jiang Xia and said, "Give me the honeycomb."
Jiang Xia: "Throw it into the fire?"
"Um."
Jiang Xia threw the fragments into the fire himself, and thick smoke came out.
After the fire and thick smoke filled the box for a while and the surface of the wood turned black, Zhou Chenglei turned the wooden box over and poured out the firewood inside.
Then he used fire to blacken the outside of the wooden box.
To put it simply, carbonization treatment is to use fire to blacken the surface of the wooden box.
Bees like black, and carbonized wooden boxes are more appealing to them.
Moreover, carbonization can remove odor from wooden boxes and disinfect and sterilize them.
Carbonized beehives are more durable.
After the charcoal fire was finished, Zhou Chenglei applied some salt water inside the beehive.
Jiang Xia went to melt the beeswax that Zhou Chenglei had bought to attract bees.
There are many bees in the fields at this time of year, and the loquat tree in the backyard of my great-grandmother's house is also in bloom. Recently, bees have been collecting nectar every day.
Jiang Xia also planted flowers in the yard, and bees would come over from time to time.
So Jiang Xia boiled the beeswax for a while, and attracted two bees to fly over.
Zhou Chenglei smeared the melted beeswax inside the wooden box.
There is relatively more paint on the lid and near the nest door.
It's cold today and the beeswax solidified quickly.
After painting, Zhou Chenglei filled the holes and cracks in the beehive with yellow mud.
Zhou Chenglei had seen others use cow dung to fill the gaps, but he used yellow mud.
Then he installed the beehive directly in a shady place under the eaves in the backyard of the old house.
Bees like quietness and are afraid of heat. They prefer an environment that is warm in winter and cool in summer. The eaves behind the house in the backyard can shelter them from wind and rain, and it is cool in summer. There are also fruit trees planted here, which is very suitable for installing beehives.
Zhou Chenglei has nailed three beehives in total, and he will take two of the hives outside to the small hill to lure bees tomorrow morning.
The next day, Zhou Chenglei came back from running and went out with two beehives.
Jiang Xia also wanted to go and see, so he followed them.
There are not many mountains in their village. The small hill is just a slightly higher terrain covered with trees.
In Jiang Xia's opinion, "This shouldn't be called a mountain, it should be called a grove."
Zhou Chenglei pulled her aside and said, "Everyone in the village calls it a mountain. We're used to it. Just like where my grandmother lives, they call the riverside the seaside."
Jiang Xia thought about going to Zhou Chenglei's grandmother's house during the Chinese New Year. Her cousin said he would take them to the beach to catch clams and fish. She was surprised that there was a sea there.
Finally, we climbed over the river bank and walked down the river, and we found the beach that my cousin mentioned. The only similarity was that they both had beaches.
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Even the water is not the same water.
Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei went together to find a suitable place to place the beehives.
Zhou Chenglei asked her: "Are you afraid?"
"No."
This small hillside is also a Feng Shui treasure land in the village. The ancestors of the villagers have lived here for a long time, blessing their descendants.
Nearby are dry lands such as vegetable gardens, sweet potato fields, and peanut fields.
No wonder Tian Caihua said that she didn’t dare come to pick vegetables after dark.
Jiang Xia felt that she would not dare to come over at night.
But during the day, she is not afraid.
Zhou Chenglei found a place under a big tree and nailed the wooden box.
As he hammered the board into the ground, he said, "This is the place where I was injured so badly that I thought I could not be saved, would not survive, and would not wake up. My father found this Feng Shui treasured spot for me after receiving the news."
Jiang Xia: “…”
"You will live a long life." Jiang Xia helped him by holding the beehives and other things.
"Well, live long with you." He wanted to live a hundred years with her.
After the beehive is installed, a board and branches are placed on top to insulate and block water.
When they were done, the couple went to the woods near the field and installed a beehive.
After doing all this, it was already past nine o'clock.
After the two returned home, Zhou Chenglei called Zhou's father, Zhou Yongguo, and Zhou Kangping to go out to sea together.
The boats of the first and second wives went out to sea at around four o'clock in the morning.
It was our first time going out to sea after the Chinese New Year and everyone couldn’t wait.
Some people in the village went out to sea in the rain a long time ago, and some people went out to sea even in the first month of the year.
This is what I do when my family is in urgent need of money and I want to earn more money.
Since Uncle Dong was in the hospital, Zhou Guodong and his two brothers took turns going out to sea even during the first month of the lunar year.
During the Chinese New Year, many people visit relatives and buy seafood to entertain guests, so the price of seafood is much higher than usual.
So in order to earn more money to treat their father's illness and repay the debt, the three brothers did not rest during the New Year and took turns going out to sea every day.
Zhou Guodong was also a very grateful person. Knowing that their family had not gone out to sea, he would bring them some fresh fish and shrimp every day when he came back from going out to sea.
Fortunately, Uncle Dong woke up twenty days after the operation, and was discharged from the hospital the day before yesterday. He is now recuperating at home.
He is not speaking fluently anymore, with a bit of a stutter, and one of his hands and feet is not as flexible, but with some training he is still able to walk. He just can no longer go out to sea to fish or work like before.
Uncle Dong was discharged from the hospital and needed to recuperate slowly, so Zhou's mother introduced a girl to Zhou Guodong.
The two families agreed to meet today.
Jiang Xia thought that they were not going out to sea today to fish, but to go to the island to retrieve the ropes for collecting mussels, so she did not go out to sea with them. She could not help with these things, so as not to hinder their work on the boat.
Jiang Xia stayed at home to help with cooking.