Under Uncle Zhong's direction, all of the nearly one hundred beehives in the truck were moved to the woods.
Looking at the densely packed beehives, Jiang Hexi suddenly understood why Yan Jie had given up three-tenths of the profits to the villagers.
Otherwise, how could they possibly fit beehives for 300 acres of rapeseed flowers on their mere one acre of land?
"Sister, come here, I have something good to show you." Chu Yang stood in front of the beehive and waved vigorously at her.
Jiang Hexi walked over and glanced into the beehive.
Chu Yang quickly opened the beehive lid and swiftly closed it again before the swarm of bees could rush out.
He exclaimed excitedly, "Sis, did you see that?"
She nodded calmly, "It's a huge piece of honey, we need to find a way to get it out."
The two of them didn't think there was anything wrong with doing so. After all, as beekeepers, it was perfectly reasonable for them to taste their own honey.
The two of them got right to it.
Chu Yang's single-layer protective suit was not secure enough, so the responsibility of collecting honey fell on Jiang Hexi's shoulders.
Jiang Hexi uncovered the white beehive cover, and after confirming that Chu Yang was standing far away, she opened the top iron sand cover, and a dense swarm of bees immediately poured out from the baffle.
Without any fear, she took out a whole row of honeycomb frames, shook them swiftly to scatter the bees, and then grabbed the frames along with the honey and ran away!
"Phoenix Chick, what are you doing?!"
The loud shout silenced the entire forest.
Uncle Zhong lit his pipe and shouted at Jiang Hexi, who was running around in all directions, "Where are you running to? Come here right now!"
Jiang Hexi realized he was calling her and ran towards him without thinking.
The bees, disturbed by the smoke, stopped swarming forward and automatically dispersed to the side.
Jiang Hexi narrowly escaped a disaster. She was about to ask Uncle Zhong why he addressed her that way when, before she could even utter a word, Uncle Zhong gave her a good scolding:
"Who told you to extract honey like that? Do you know how dangerous your actions were?!"
The village chief stormed over, cursing, and immediately grabbed her, berating her:
"What did I tell you before? I told you not to run, not to run, not to run! Why didn't you listen to a word I said?"
Yan Jie, Yu Xiangwan, and Shen Yingyu had witnessed the two old men's fighting prowess firsthand, and now, seeing Jiang Hexi being "double-teamed," they all felt deep sympathy for her.
Jiang Hexi weakly defended herself, "I wasn't stung."
Village chief: "What's done is done, and it has nothing to do with whether you're injured or not!"
Uncle Zhong: "You're alright now, but you've ruined my beehive. Look at this honey in your hand, it's scattered everywhere. How am I supposed to eat it when I get home!"
Jiang Hexi wisely admitted her mistake, saying, "I'm sorry, Uncle Zhong, I'm sorry, Village Chief, I was wrong."
The village chief and Uncle Zhong didn't buy it and took turns scolding her for ten minutes before she finally shut up.
Director Chen took the microphone from the staff member and sternly demanded an explanation:
"The two guests' unauthorized honey-collecting behavior posed a serious threat to the personal safety of others. The program team has decided to deduct 2,000 points from Jiang Hexi and 1,000 points from Chu Yang."
"Currently, Jiang Hexi has a total of negative 3,000 points, and Chu Yang has a total of negative 2,000 points. Considering that neither of them has the ability to repay, the program team has decided to confiscate Jiang Hexi's fascia gun and Chu Yang's speaker, and use them to offset the debt."
Jiang Hexi was penalized and received the lowest score among all the participants. She asked in utter despair:
"Uncle Zhong, what did you just call me?"
"Phoenix Chick".
She raised her chin and pointed to Chu Yang beside her: "And what about him?"
Uncle Zhong looked at her, puzzled, but still answered truthfully, "Wolong."
Yan Jie sighed inwardly, realizing something was wrong.
Jiang Hexi could guess with her toes who the person who made those rude jokes about them could be but Yan Wang.
She changed her tactics, not criticizing the village chief, Uncle Zhong, or even Director Chen, but directly attacking Yan Jie:
"Yan Wang, explain to Uncle Zhong what the 'Sleeping Dragon and Phoenix Chick' mean."
Yan Jie lifted his eyelids and said with utter indulgence:
"Listen to this, this person has nowhere to vent his anger, so he takes it out on me."
Who says beekeeping is a sweet business? Look at Xi Mei, her net worth plummeted, going from being the richest woman to the most indebted overnight, all thanks to the honey from Canglang Village!
Gently patting Ah Xi's head, I think to myself, "My poor child, how did you end up in such a miserable state?"
[Yan Wang is really subtly showing affection; the line he said after being mentioned by Xi Mei was full of doting helplessness!]
【Yeah, yeah, I totally understand you, only we shippers know how sweet this is.】
[Director Chen, I've switched accounts and started over. Quickly kick out those two CP fans upstairs, or I'll tear this place apart on your turf.]
After dinner that night, Shen Yingyu brought over the account book and solemnly told everyone:
"We're out of money."
Yu Xiangwan vaguely remembered, "Didn't we do some calculations before? The income from peaches and free-range eggs was barely enough to make ends meet."
"The prerequisite is that you only need ten beehives."
Shen Yingyu reminded them, "This time it's 300 mu of rapeseed fields. If we calculate based on 1,000 beehives, just buying the bees will cost 100,000 yuan. And that doesn't include Uncle Zhong's triple salary and the cost of hiring people."
Yan Jie: "Uncle Zhong only has two hundred beehives. With the help of our manpower, beekeeping shouldn't be a problem. We can expand the scale of beekeeping after this project becomes profitable."
After thinking about it, Shen Yingyu realized that this was the only way.
"Don't we still have three ponds?"
Jiang Hexi suddenly thought, "The village chief said that five hundred grass carp were released into each pond. After a year, there should be at least two hundred grass carp alive, right?"
Shen Yingyu did a rough calculation: "An annual grass carp can grow to three to five catties. The wholesale price of one catty is more than six yuan. If we calculate based on six hundred catties, that would be fifteen thousand yuan."
Yan Jie made the decision: "The grass carp can be scooped up now."
After discussing everything, the group continued to gather evidence and report those who were cyberbullying.
Jiang Hexi interrupted, "Wanwan, it's getting late. Let's go upstairs together."
When Yu Xiangwan saw the group sitting on the sofa drinking tea and heard Jiang Hexi urging her to go upstairs, she understood exactly what they wanted to do.
"I have seen all the lawyer's letters you sent, thank you."
She said gratefully, "This is originally my own business. There is no reason for you to be here collecting evidence and checking information while I hide in my room and do nothing. Director Chen, could you please lend me a computer? I will not let any of those who have insulted me get away with it."
Director Chen nodded in agreement and instructed the staff to fetch the computer.
Jiang Hexi protested, "Wanwan, don't look. The words those people used are very vulgar."
Yu Xiangwan persisted despite all advice, saying, "The more they hurl insults, the more I want to expose them to the light of day, to make them all die in the light of day."
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