"Sigh, Duo'er, maybe we should just give up. Look how many days it's been, and we haven't been able to keep a single bee. These bees are wild creatures, used to flying around outside. How could our little box possibly keep them here..."
After yet another hard-earned harvest of bees flew away, leaving only an empty beehive, Yun Dazheng was finally disappointed. He didn't know why, even though he had wrapped the bees in his clothes and placed them in the beehive together, they still flew away... He just didn't know why.
Although Yun Dazheng had spent a few days with beekeepers, and they even taught him what herbal remedies to apply to prevent bees from stinging him, they would never teach him how to keep bees. Beekeeping is a skill for making a living; who would teach someone something haphazardly?
Seeing the disappointed look on Yun Dazheng's face, Yun Duo felt a little guilty.
Although Yun Dazheng had been using the wrong methods to 'trap' the bee swarm, he was only trying to get the bees because Yun Duo had suggested it. Moreover, due to the advanced information available in her previous life, Yun Duo knew that a bee swarm without a queen was destined not to stay obediently in the hive. However, the time Yun Dazheng directly attacked the hive, it was Xiao Jiu who had removed the queen beforehand and suppressed the swarm, preventing them from all flying away following the queen's scent. This allowed Yun Dazheng to successfully harvest the hive and bees. Once the suppression was lifted, the bees naturally went to find their queen.
If it weren't for his own ulterior motives, Grandpa wouldn't have worked so hard for over a week doing useless work.
As it turned out, Yun Dazheng misinterpreted the guilt on Yun Duo's face, thinking that she was disappointed and unhappy like him. So he patted Yun Duo's head and comforted her, "It's okay, Duo'er. Look, we still have a beehive. We can sell it for a few dollars. Before, Grandpa didn't come up the slope to look for beehives, so he didn't know that there were several wild bee colonies on the slopes around here. But now that Grandpa knows, we can come and look for beehives every few months. Maybe we can find one or two beehives and sell them for a few dollars."
Speaking of this, recalling the time he saw his little granddaughter touching the photo in the newspaper with a look of longing (not really), Yun Dazheng smiled again, a hint of longing on his face: "When Grandpa has saved up enough money, I'll send our Duo'er to school, so that Duo'er will know what's written in the newspaper."
No, Grandpa, what did you say?
Did I hear that right?
Yun Duo was immediately startled; she didn't know what kind of expression to make.
The world now is very different from the world she used to live in. There is no compulsory education at all, and the government has never paid attention to education. Compared to the past, where villages had village schools, townships had central primary and junior high schools, and towns had high schools, the entire Changle Town only has one primary school and one middle school. Other places, even Yong'an Township, have no schools.
However, it is said that there used to be a private school in the village, but Yun Duo did not dare to ask too obviously, so she does not know whether it still exists now.
But Yun Duo knew that studying here was very expensive, especially in the newer schools. She didn't know exactly how expensive, but she had heard that attending first grade here would cost a farming family an entire year's income. And the higher the grade, the more expensive the tuition.
In the past, people would occasionally send their children to school for a year or two, but in recent years, taxes have become increasingly heavy, the weather has been uncooperative, and the harvests have been poor, so no family has the extra money to send their children to school.
Therefore, Yun Duo was completely dumbfounded when she heard Yun Dazheng's words.
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