beekeeping
When Ye Miaomiao rushed to Yunshen Yuanshun, she saw this scene.
Hu Mifeng squatted at the entrance of the post station with his legs spread out, looking worried yet cheerful. It was hard to tell whether he wanted to light a cigarette or open a bottle of wine.
"I'm actually going back to my old job even in this apocalypse." Hu Mifeng walked up with a melancholic look on his face, but he couldn't hide his excitement. He smiled, his two front teeth showing, and introduced, "This is my post station. It's where I get express deliveries."
Ye Miaomiao has never worked as a courier, but she has seen it on the forum and has some impression of it.
After upgrading, Super Couriers gain access to a Post Station, allowing them to transport items between various system stores, clients, and territories. Non-Lord couriers only have access to virtual Post Stations, while Lords gain direct access to the Post Station's building blueprints.
The Post Station can transport a wide variety of items. For example, items sold on the quest board by various territories are actually delivered to the system warehouse by virtual NPC couriers. Intermediate couriers are also qualified to transport items, but...
Intermediate couriers are not like junior couriers who have to wear shoes without shoes. With a post station as their base, if there is any mistake in transportation, they will have to pay the money.
Hu Mifeng introduced Ye Miaomiao, turned on the screen, and came close to her.
"I can take orders from the border ports," Hu Mifeng said, showing Ye Miaomiao the "Little Bee" storefront. It displayed a variety of honey-themed products, including beeswax lip balm, hand cream, honey-infused dried fruit...
Ye Miaomiao flipped through the list and saw the words "honeycomb honey" among the few products - and it was unprocessed!
Ye Miaomiao looked at the price again. "20 points for 100g."
"I took an order from them, and when I inspected the goods, I found that it was really honey." Hu Mifeng said with certainty.
"Unfortunately, I only get discounts at the system store, and they don't sell honey... But 20 points is a good deal! Even though the price on the task board is only 10 points, it's still a commodity with a limited supply."
Ye Miaomiao nodded, it was indeed as Hu Mifeng said. However, she did not mention buying honey.
Instead, he smiled and said, "I thought of something I could sell. Can you help me?"
Seeing Hu Mifeng's surprise and hesitation, he then nodded excitedly.
Ye Miaomiao whispered, "But... before that, we need to stock up on cold-weather supplies."
Before something that was about to cause a sensation happened, Ye Miaomiao and Hu Mifeng went to the border crossing again. Since they both opened shops, the ticket price for entering the border crossing was much lower.
Ye Miaomiao first went to the "Little Bee" store and spent 4,000 points to buy a large bucket of honey.
This is equivalent to pre-ordering one thousand honey cakes. Each 500-gram honey cake can be divided into five portions for consumption. By this calculation, the territory already has ten thousand edible honey cakes.
However, Ye Miaomiao didn't think it was too much. When you need something, you regret not having it. Naturally, the more items with a long shelf life, the better.
However, the honey in the "Little Bee" store has been almost sold out, leaving only some for their own use, no more.
Fortunately, they were short of money, so Ye Miaomiao spent another 2,000 points to buy a box of bees.
Bees don't hibernate, so they need constant feeding in winter and are prone to dying. Although winter is approaching and not a good time to buy bees, Ye Miaomiao still wants to try building a greenhouse, firstly to grow some fresh vegetables and secondly to raise bees.
Two thousand points is not a lot, but not a small amount either. However, if you can successfully raise bees, you will be able to solve the problem once and for all and never have to worry about honey again.
After buying the honey, Ye Miaomiao stood at the intersection waiting for Hu Mifeng to deliver the goods, and the two went to buy cold-proof food together.
Hu Mifeng's territory didn't have the energy to make honey cakes, so he simply didn't buy any. He and Ye Miaomiao stocked up on some warming foods like chili peppers, ginger, red dates, garlic, and longan.
These are not as precious as honey. Almost every territory has some. They are sold cheaply and it is not easy to find fakes.
The two of them wandered from beginning to end, and by the time the sun was about to set, Ye Miaomiao had already stockpiled nearly 10,000 points worth of cold-repellent food. She found several specialized stores selling chili peppers and ginger, stocking up a dozen shelves of each and storing them in the cellar.
Later, they agreed to buy it again when it was available, but...Ye Miaomiao thought about the "business" she was about to do. Even if she bought it later, it wouldn't be this cheap.
This time, Ye Miaomiao not only gained food from visiting the port, but also discovered many good ways to keep warm while walking around.
Especially when she saw someone holding a hot water bottle with a sewn-on shell, her eyes lit up. Why didn't she think of this!
I went to the shop again and looked around, but there was nothing unusual.
Ye Miaomiao hurried back to the territory, went to the primary factory first, and added a production line for producing "hand warmers".
There are two types of hand warmers. One is a hot water bottle that holds hot water. The hot water bottle needs to be large so that it can hold more hot water and cool down slowly. It is specially used to cover the hand warmer with a blanket at night.
One type is a hand warmer filled with charcoal. It is smaller and, with a cotton cover, is not too hot. It can be carried with you to keep warm while working during the day. Although it is small, it is difficult to make. Fortunately, Ye Miaomiao's tools are made by people of extremely high quality and can be made easily.
The two hand warmers were soon available as daily necessities. After paying points, residents could have hot water and hot coals in their kitchens at any time, and they were eagerly sought after by residents. Of course, that's all for later.
At this moment, Ye Miaomiao had just arranged the production line and released the information for recruiting "beekeepers", "chefs" and "cake makers".
This gives us time to prepare the greenhouse.
The greenhouses that can be built now are three-level iron houses, fully enclosed rooms that use fires for heating and insulation. Only after the development of "Technology: Glass" did iron-framed glass houses become available.
Ye Miaomiao handed the glass to the researchers and Zhang Ya for study. As a chemistry student, Zhang Ya, while never having made glass before, understood its chemical formula. With Zhang Ya's guidance, the researchers should be able to quickly develop a blueprint for the glass.
At this time, Ye Miaomiao has built a greenhouse next to the planting hut.
The greenhouse is about half an acre in size and fits perfectly into this small space, making the entire "river beach" completely full.
The farmers had arrived at their workday early, and after dinner a group of them were taking a walk when they saw an iron house suddenly erected on the farmland. They immediately sent a message to the work group, calling their friends to come and check it out.
News of the village-sized territory spread quickly, and the crowd gathered in conversation and laughter.
A caravan of blond-haired, blue-eyed people had just arrived. Seeing everyone gathering in the north, and their new acquaintance, Apu, also eager to get there, the leader couldn't help but ask curiously, "What's going on?"
He spoke the same language as Apu, and they looked similar, obviously from the same place.
However, this "same place" is only a rough approximation. Apu is from the suburban village of Anano, and this man in front of him, with his elegant gestures and proud expression, could not possibly come from a poor village and hereditary farming position.
"New building, new employees recruited." Apu didn't want to explain too much.
In fact, he didn't want to talk to this person anymore. As the lord said, the recruitment of "bakers" appeared on the task board.
His sister has signed up and will be going for an "interview" tomorrow. She is so nervous that she is staying at home and practicing her skills over and over again!
He also became anxious. He saw in the group that several beekeepers were going to the new building for interviews. He wanted to go and help his sister see how the interview was done!
If this man hadn't insisted on stopping him, and considering that he was a "good friend" doing business with the territory, he would have gone to the new building without looking back.
"Are you a new employee?" The man seemed interested and asked with great interest.
Apu was about to take a step forward, so he had to be patient: "No, I'm just going to take a look."
"Is that so..." Caravan Captain Charles smiled his characteristically elegant smile. "Most of the people here are East Asian, so I'm sure it would be difficult for us to be selected. I completely understand that you're not a new employee, so don't be sad."
Apu: "..." He recently learned a new dialect, get lost.
He might be a country boy, but he was also a college-educated country boy. How could he not hear the provocation in Charles' tone? These nobles loved to speak in high-sounding terms. Apu wanted to refute him, but he remembered that this was a caravan coming for business...
He immediately lowered his head and was about to leave.
Charles stopped him again. "Why don't you come to Margaret? Your accent sounds like you're from Nova Scotia, and you're from Country Y. Can't you tell from the name of the territory? Margaret is the princess of our country. No, she should be the queen now."
“Only in Margaret can you pledge allegiance to the right people and find a true sense of home.”
Apu was becoming increasingly impatient, and was just about to use his "country boy" status to his advantage and act rudely to get Charles to leave on his own.
Charles seemed to have eight hundred thoughts in his mind and immediately laughed and said, "It's okay if you don't come. I think you used to be from San Marco. You trust a capitalist from Country Z. Even if the Queen issued an order, you would not surrender."
"But...what happened in San Marco? Why lately..."
Here we go again, the clichés.
A Pu pretended to be ignorant even though he knew the truth, but after pretending for so long, he finally lost his patience. He was about to turn around and leave when he saw Captain Fang Yan approaching from a distance, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Just leave it to me." Fang Yan nodded to Apu, who nodded gratefully and ran away.
"We were just having a normal conversation."
Charles was annoyed by the man's sudden interruption and was just trying to evade the question when he saw the man walking straight towards him. His dark pupils were not as boundless as the blue ones.
Charles suddenly became alert, as if he was back in his youth hunting, thinking he was a hunter but was surrounded by a pack of gray wolves and almost lost his life. This look in his eyes was exactly the same as the look in those gray wolves' eyes.
He couldn't help but put his hand on the hilt of the sword, and the people behind him also took a vigilant defensive posture when they saw this.
Fang Yan didn't move an inch, but he didn't seem panicked at all: "Are you going to attack us?"
Only then did Charles calm down, feeling that he had lost face as a noble.
"I just want him to lead the way and take us around Hungry Hungry's territory to deepen the friendship between the two territories."
Fang Yan looked at him with a half-smile, whether he believed some of his words or not. He was wearing the same uniform as the security guards at the gate of the territory, making it easy to tell that he was one of them.
Sure enough, Fang Yan waved for several team members to come over: "New law, anyone from other territories entering the hungry hungry hungry area is not allowed to carry weapons."
"You!" Charles glared at him.
However, several team members came over and forcibly surrounded Charles and others, letting Charles know that Fang Yan was most likely a person with extremely high power, almost equivalent to the Grand Duke of Protectorate.
But he is just the Protector of East Asia. Why should we restrict his noble right to bear arms?
Charles was about to explode, but he glanced at the prosperous scene around him. These people were dressed in gorgeous clothes and had bright smiles. Even Apu was willing to stay here...
He couldn't return empty-handed, he had to buy something to make the queen favor him again.
So, under the angry glares of the guards behind him, he unsheathed the sword from his waist with frustration: "Now, you can finally take us for a walk?"
Fang Yan nodded slightly, his eyes becoming more profound. Heng Heng and Margaret were both from the first district, so a meeting was inevitable, sooner or later.
Judging from how he treated Long Guohai and Saint Mark, Ye Miaomiao was no fool. Fang Yan didn't have to worry about Ye Miaomiao suffering a loss in a clash of territories.
His only concern was that man.
Margaret's lord was already the man known as King Arthur. But no one knows what "von Arthur" was called before. Some say he was a pigsty sweeper, others say he rose to power by seducing the queen.
When he ascended the throne, he slaughtered all those who knew his background. Charles... Fang Yan had no impression of this person.
But one thing is certain, Ye Miaomiao will be deceived by King Arthur, and King Arthur could be anyone of Margaret.
Now...
It finally arrived. Fang Yan followed Charles and slowly walked towards the farmland in the north. He was ready.
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Ye Miaomiao just received a private message from Fang Yan, saying that everyone who entered the Hungry Hungry territory would be required to disarm, unless it was a special territory.
With the opening of border ports, there was no longer much need for trade between territories. In contrast, Ye Miaomiao thought of her own unprotected warehouses and residents in the territory. What if someone accidentally...
Therefore, Ye Miaomiao immediately replied in agreement, and lamented that it was a good thing that she left the law to the security team and let them customize it based on their work experience.
When I came to my senses, several new beekeeping trainees were already in place.
There were many people watching nearby, so Ye Miaomiao simply stood outside the building and placed the beehive inside. "You three, can you all keep bees?"
The three of them nodded in unison.
"There are still honeycombs in the beehive. If you can take them out and offer some constructive suggestions on beekeeping in this room, you will be accepted."
So simple?
The people around him widened their eyes.
Of course, this is simple for beekeepers, but extremely difficult for those who have never been exposed to it or have only watched it. One of them immediately smiled awkwardly and was about to leave.
The remaining two people went in one after another. With a scream, the other person was stung and ran out of the room.
Only the last one was left, an old man wearing a homemade bamboo hat.
Not only did he complete all the tasks, he also mentioned that bees need hives to hibernate, and suggested that Ye Miaomiao put the hive back.
"It's you!" Ye Miaomiao decided.
So fast?
Apu's eyes widened more than anyone else's. He finally understood that the lord only looked at ability, and anyone with ability would be chosen no matter what.
So...Apu has complete faith in his sister's abilities.
The heavy stone in his heart was finally put down. Just when he was about to turn around and tell his sister this good news, that annoying voice came from behind him again.
"Apu, I'm worried about you. You're tall and strong, and you look very strong. Why don't you run for election?"
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