Chapter 307 The Fruit Ripened
"You mean to recruit fifty more people this time?" Oswin thought, stroking his chin.
"That's fine. There are enough people and everyone's experience will be better." Oswin also thought it was a good idea and nodded in agreement.
"Okay, then I'll recruit as many people as possible. With more people, you don't have to do everything yourself. Otherwise, why would we hire so many people?"
"Okay, I understand."
As the number of employees continued to increase, management became more difficult. Oswin no longer gave his approval before letting his subordinates do things as he did before. Instead, he assigned different management levels and he only needed to take charge of the overall situation.
The fine-leaved locust trees have grown more luxuriantly than last year. Clusters of white bell-like flowers hang on the branches, attracting many wild bees in the dim light of the forest. For this reason, the white-velvet bumblebees have often fought with them.
However, the bumblebees were numerous and powerful, and most of the invading little bees did not gain any advantage. They were beaten by them and fled into the woods.
But the thriving bee colony attracted some other "bad things", the double-stinged hornets and giant-jawed wasps that Josh had always been afraid of encountering.
I don’t know if these bad guys were too cunning or the brown-headed vulture was too busy to notice, but in any case, Josh discovered it when she saw the corpses of some white-velvet bumblebees scattered under the locust tree.
Faced with her anxious inquiries, the bumblebees passing by were not afraid. They believed that dying to defend their homes was an honor and there was nothing to be afraid of.
“Buzz buzz buzz” Josh, look, they were torn into pieces by us too.
A bumblebee led Josh to a hidden location at the root of a tree, with the corpses of several white-velvet bumblebees scattered around. Josh couldn't bear to take a closer look, and only then did he discover that in the gaps between the tree roots, there was a double-stinged hornet that was bitten tightly by several white-velvet bumblebees.
At the first sight, Josh's tears flowed uncontrollably. These little white fat guys didn't have any powerful means of attack. They didn't even have the most basic stinger of a bee.
Faced with such a ferocious enemy insect, they actually pounced on it. Josh saw several bumblebees whose bodies were bitten in half.
It took Josh a while to calm down.
"Next time you encounter an enemy insect that you can't defeat, just hide, okay? You have me and the Brown-headed Vulture. I don't want you to get hurt, and I don't need you to risk your life to defend these acacia flowers, okay?"
Josh's sadness attracted many white velvet bumblebees to gather around him. They were a little overwhelmed, as it was their nature to defend their homes against enemy insects. Although these fat little guys were smart, they still did not understand the rich emotions of humans.
But they know what Josh said, they will listen, and next time they meet them, they will protect themselves and seek revenge on the Brown-headed Vulture.
The Brown-headed Vulture, who learned the news at noon, flew directly into the Glimmering Forest, locked onto the wasp nest that was harming the white-velvet bumblebees, and strangled all the wasps from top to bottom with wind blades.
As for those giant-jawed poisonous bees that were eager to try but had no chance to provoke the white-velvet bumblebees, the brown-headed vultures took the lead in destroying their beehives, causing them to suffer heavy losses.
"Quack~" Sorry Josh, sorry little bees.
As a forest ranger, the brown-headed vulture felt for the first time that it had not fulfilled its duties and was very sorry.
"Don't blame you. This happened because I told you to visit the Weiguang Commercial District more often. It's not your fault." Qiao Xi also felt very guilty.
However, the Brown-headed Vulture still kept this matter in mind, and found its follower, the Pink-feathered Pelican, and gave it the task of patrolling the Twilight Commercial District. It then focused on guarding the Magic Fruit Forest and didn't want to leave at all.
While Josh and the Brown-headed Vulture were silent and sad, the white-velvet bumblebees had already been working as hard as the normal bees. They were not sad. At least dying for the bee colony was not a sad thing.
Of course, Josh is not the kind of person who would get depressed by the slightest thing. After a few days, Josh cheered up. The farm was surrounded by lush forests and dim light. It was only a matter of time before he encountered such a thing. The sooner it happened, the sooner it would be solved. It would be okay.
It just so happened that the emerald lychees were ripe, which diverted Qiao Xi's attention and she no longer bothered about the matter.
The emerald lychees, with emerald green flesh like jade, were bought from teacher Luman’s garden last year and planted. After one year, the tree does not seem to have grown very tall, but the fruits have indeed grown a lot.
The branches were so heavy with emerald lychees that Qiao Xi was afraid they would break.
The first time he harvested the emerald lychees, Qiao Xi couldn’t tell whether they were ripe or not, because the skin was the same color whether they were ripe or not.
Fortunately, the big leaf ants can distinguish the maturity of the emerald lychees. When the emerald lychees are ripe, they will use their powerful mandibles to cut off the branches and then carry them to the basket that Josh has placed in advance.
Apart from the fact that the arrangement was not neat and needed the help of the golden macaque, Qiao Xi didn't need to worry about anything else.
The mature emerald lychees are high-end fruits in themselves, and with Josh's careful management, each fruit is plump, with a small core and thick flesh. When you bite into it, it is full of juice.
Qiao Xi divided these emerald lychees into three grades. He poured the worst loose fruits into the sales boxes, and kept the inferior fruits on the farm to be used to make canned lychees. The best quality ones were of course sent to the Weiguang specialty store for passing vendors to choose from.
Thanks to the powerful ice-cooling technology of the big-tailed yak, there is no need to worry about the spoilage of the picked emerald lychees within half a month, and the best taste will not be affected within seven days, so Qiao Xi can sell them with confidence.
Since its opening, the Weiguang store has been selling processed farm products and has rarely sold unprocessed fruits, so the Emerald Lychees were snapped up as soon as they were put on the market.
Therefore, I received a lot of criticism.
Fortunately, the emerald lychees that Qiao Xi sells in the store are of the best appearance, the best taste, and the right maturity. No matter how much they find fault, they can only judge based on the price and the packaging, but not on the taste and quality. This can be regarded as a promotion for the farm's emerald lychees.
The next fruits to ripen after the Emerald Lychee are the Yellow Apples, which are as big as small light bulbs. When you throw away the pits, what remains is the delicate flesh.
Chaoyang City has a tradition of eating butter apples, but those ordinary butter apples have a bland smell, contain a lot of residue, and are not smooth and delicate enough to eat.
The butter apples on the farm are high-quality varieties improved by Teacher Luman. They are incomparable to the ordinary wild varieties. Once they are on the market, they are instantly sold out by passers-by.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that all the products in the Weiguang store are so easy to sell. After operating for a period of time, the public is not so curious about the Weiguang commercial district anymore, and they tend to regard it as a higher-end free market.
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