Chapter 412 Feeding Sugar Water
The next morning, Gao Mingcheng rushed back to Gaojia Village in the snow and wind.
Even though he was in good physical condition, he was still very cold driving the tractor back to the village in the wind and snow.
When passing by Zhang Chengyuan's house, he stopped the car and went to find Zhang Chengyuan and Chen Dasong, father and son.
Although he is very strong, he has forty boxes of bees and he has to go back and forth several times by himself, so naturally he needs some helpers.
When calling for help, Chen Dasong's youngest son also volunteered to help. Gao Mingcheng took a look at him and thought that a fifteen-year-old boy was not too young, so he agreed.
The four people started to walk towards where the beehives were placed.
Because it was winter, the beehives were not placed deep in the mountains, but moved to the foot of the mountain.
In winter, there are few flowers in the mountains, but there are more nectar-producing plants at the foot of the mountain because the villagers grow vegetables.
After finding the beehives, Gao Mingcheng discovered that they were covered with a thin layer of snow.
The heavy snow is still falling and the temperature is extremely cold.
Gao Mingcheng immediately said: "Move the beehive to my house, otherwise the bees will freeze to death."
He stacked the two beehives together, took the lead in carrying them and walked towards home.
The others followed suit, but Chen Duoxi was less strong and only moved one beehive at a time.
Forty beehives are scattered in two places. Although they are at the foot of the mountain, they are still several hundred meters away from Gao Mingcheng's home.
But fortunately, there is strength in numbers, and soon all forty beehives were moved back home.
Gao Mingcheng placed the beehives in the main room and the empty room.
After the wind and snow outside stopped, he opened the lid of a beehive and checked the condition of the bees inside.
All the bees are huddled together, layer upon layer, densely packed, to keep warm and effectively resist the cold.
Because of the low temperature, the bees are all in the hive and have not gone out to look for nectar sources.
Gao Mingcheng is not an unscrupulous businessman. He has not touched the beehive since the honey shaking in late autumn. Therefore, there is still some honey in the beehive. Even if the weather is cold and there is no nectar source outside, the bees will not starve to death immediately.
But in order to maintain the number of bee colonies, he decided to feed the bees with sugar water. In fact, when raising bees on a large scale, it is necessary to feed them sugar water when there is no nectar source in winter.
He found some sugar at home and a few soda bottles, poked a few small holes in the bottle caps with the tip of a knife, and then began to prepare sugar water.
Put the bottle cap with a hole on it, then turn it upside down. The sugar water in the bottle will slowly drip through the small hole. Since the hole is small, the dripping speed is also very slow.
He found some ropes, tied the bottles together, and hung them on the beams.
Gao Mingcheng said to Chen Duofu, "From now on, you have to come and take a look every day. If there is no sugar water in the bottle, you can mix a bottle of sugar water according to what I just did. Remember it?"
Chen Duofu followed him specifically to learn how to manage bees. He watched the whole process carefully before. Since it was not complicated, he learned it at a glance.
When Gao Mingcheng asked, he immediately nodded and said, "Brother Mingcheng, don't worry, I have learned it."
Gao Mingcheng added: "Bees are active during the day and rest in the hive at night, so you only need to come and check during the day. You should also know how much sugar water to prepare."
Gao Mingcheng took out all the sugar in the house and put it in a place so that Chen Duofu could take it easily later.
"In addition to feeding them sugar water, you also need to observe the condition of the bee colony. If there is any problem, go to the cooperative in Junling and call me. I will reimburse you for the phone fee."
Gao Mingcheng took out a pen and paper, wrote the phone number of his clothing store on the paper, and asked Chen Duofu to keep it.
Chen Duofu read it several times, trying to remember it, and then carefully put the paper into his pocket.
Gao Mingcheng came back this time just for the bees.
Now that the bees have been taken care of, he is ready to return to the county.
Chen Dasong suddenly said, "It's almost noon, Mingcheng, why don't you come to my house for lunch before leaving? You can also try your aunt's cooking."
Chen Duoxi immediately said, "Brother Mingcheng, my mother's cooking is delicious!"
Seeing their enthusiastic attitude, Gao Mingcheng agreed.
Zhang Chengyuan was not good at socializing, and was stunned for a moment. He felt that he should also invite Gao Mingcheng to his home for dinner, but he seldom said such polite words, and the meals at home were cooked by Duoyu.
Xuanyue has a problem, which is that she is not very efficient. She eats much later than other people. For example, most people have dinner around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, but she has to go to the restaurant at least after 2 o'clock.
Xuanyuemei hated her second sister's procrastination and nagging the most, so before Xuanyuemei got married, it was Xuanyuemei who cooked for her.
Zhang Chengyuan lost the opportunity, so he kept silent.
Gao Mingcheng closed the door and only opened the window a crack for ventilation.
After the house became warm, the bees began to move out of the hive. The doors of the rooms and the main room were open, and bottles of sugar water were hung in both places to facilitate the bees' activities in the house.
Bees are very sensitive to sweet smells, so they flew towards the hanging soda bottles and sucked the sugar water from the bottle mouths.
Gao Mingcheng looked at the house full of beehives and thought to himself that he would have to build a shed at the foot of Xiaofu Mountain after the spring of next year. This shed could provide shade and store farm tools and fruits in spring, autumn and summer.
When winter comes, you can use plastic sheeting to surround the shed and move the beehives there to spend the winter.
Otherwise, it would be really inconvenient to keep so many beehives at home.
Gao Mingcheng followed Chen Dasong and his two sons to the Chen family.
Chen Dasong's wife's surname is Liu, so Gao Mingcheng calls her Aunt Liu.
Aunt Liu was very welcome to know that Gao Mingcheng would have lunch at home.
Gao Mingcheng asked her husband and son to work, which gave the family two more sources of income. She was very grateful in her heart. She began to think about what dishes she had at home so that she could cook a sumptuous table of dishes.
"Duoxi, go to the field and pick some garlic and onions." Aunt Liu began to assign tasks to her youngest son.
"Duofu, go catch a chicken and kill it!"
When Gao Mingcheng heard that they were going to kill a chicken, he immediately stopped them: "Aunt Liu, there's no need to kill a chicken, just eat whatever you want!"
Aunt Liu insisted on killing a chicken to entertain the guests, saying, "The chicken we want to kill is an old one and has stopped laying eggs. We should kill it now and eat it, and then hatch chicks to raise next spring."
"Duofu, we need to catch the black-feathered chicken, do you understand?"
"I know!" Chen Duofu responded and went to the chicken coop.
Because of the snow, the chickens were not as active as usual and stayed in the chicken coop. Chen Duofu slowly approached and after locking onto the target, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the defenseless black chicken.
The black chicken tried to escape hastily, but it was already unable to do so and could only make helpless cries.
The other chickens were frightened and moved away.
Gao Mingcheng looked at this scene and couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
"Duofu, that's good! Very impressive!"
Chen Duofu smiled, his eyes full of pride.
It is often difficult for others to catch chickens, but Chen Duofu has been very good at catching chickens since he was a child. He found that when he wanted to catch a chicken, he could not reveal his intention at first, but had to pretend nothing happened, slowly approach the target chicken, and then catch the target chicken in a flash.
Of course, today's success is also related to the weather. If the weather is too cold, the chickens will not be so active.
After he caught the chicken, he began to kill and pluck its feathers with the same skill as when he caught the chicken.
Gao Mingcheng watched him plucking the hair while talking to Chen Dasong.
Chen Dasong took out a cigarette and offered it to Gao Mingcheng, but Gao Mingcheng refused.
The two began to talk about things in the fields and things in the village.
Chen Dasong reminded Gao Mingcheng in a subtle way, telling him that his reputation in the village was not very good. He also said that after his parents bought a TV, they became very popular in the village, and now there are people watching TV at his parents' house day and night.
Moreover, those who were watching TV had already handed over the task money issued by the village committee to Gao Mingpeng.
After hearing this, Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but laugh. As expected, the world of martial arts is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships and worldly wisdom.
Everyone in the village was eager to watch TV, and Gao Mingpeng had the task of collecting money, so he took this opportunity to ask people to pay the money they owed early.
Of course, it is impossible for everyone in Gaojia Village to go to Gao Yuanjian's house to watch TV and be willing to pay for it. There are always a few families who are too poor to afford the money.
Zhang Chengyuan's family and Chen Dasong's family did pay the money, but they did not go to Gao Yuanjian's house to watch TV because it was far away and because they were from different families, they did not get along well with the villagers.
Gao Mingcheng listened to this but didn't take it to heart.
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