Chapter 38 Buying a Beehive

Chapter 38 38. Buying beehives

Song Sancheng's view on the weather was indeed correct.

Just as the three of them finished spreading fertilizer on the tea garden, the spring rain began to fall. The father and daughter hurried back, and only Qiao Qiao jumped happily:

"It's raining heavily!"

Fortunately, there were trees on the hillsides all the way, and the rain was not heavy at the beginning, so they didn't get too wet when they got home. Song Tan thought about the tea garden. It was given spiritual energy, so it would be inappropriate if it didn't grow vigorously?

"Dad, I think the tea will be picked in a few days. Anyway, we have to hire people everywhere this year, so we don't need to hire one or two more."

"If there is no time to pick the tea, just hire someone."

"Why do we need to hire someone?" Wu Lan felt that this daughter had to be watched closely, and she didn't know how to spend money.

How much does tea sell for per kilogram? How expensive is it to hire someone! At least one hundred and fifty yuan a day.

But Song Tan felt that her mother had not changed her mind!

"Mom, I can sell wild vegetables for 20 yuan, and I can sell astragalus for 20 yuan, so why do you think I can't sell a pound of tea for 2,000 yuan?"

If it is normal, a skilled worker can only make 3 or 4 pounds of Maojian tea from morning to night when the tea is in full bloom.

Four pounds of tea can produce one pound of dry tea, and one pound of dry tea can only sell for 100 or 200 yuan, which is definitely not cost-effective.

But the problem is that the price is different now.

The best time for spring tea is only more than 20 days, and it will be a little worse after Qingming Festival, so of course we have to hurry up.

Ulan thought about it. Although she had confidence in her daughter, she had no confidence in selling local tea for 2,000 yuan a pound. But we just agreed that my daughter would take care of the farm work...

She hesitated: "Then we don't need to hire anyone. Your dad, your grandparents and I can help. Our tea garden is just one piece, which is enough."

Song Tan began to count his fingers: "When picking tea leaves, you have to worry about breeding and raising seedlings, right? Someone has to take care of the chickens, ducks, geese and pigs at home, right? Don't you need to take care of the black fungus in the chestnut forest? The asparagus needs to be cleaned up every day?"

"Mom, I think our family is not enough now. If you all go to pick tea leaves, I have to learn the art of splitting first."

With the current concentration of spiritual energy, Song Tan thinks he should be able to do this trick after practicing for decades.

The premise is not to scare people.

Ulan:...

She was speechless.

Thinking about the money earned from selling vegetables this year, it should be enough for wages!

So he made up his mind:

"Okay, I'll find two skilled people in the village - do we need to hire a tea roaster when the time comes? Your dad hasn't done this job for many years, don't make it bad."

Song Tan still couldn't remember who in the village could roast tea, and who had a tea roasting machine. But this little job of his family wasn't that expensive -

"Okay, Mom, you discuss the arrangements with my dad."

As he was talking, the phone rang, and Song Sancheng answered the phone and chatted with the person for a while:

"Tan Tan, do you want to go see the bees? It's in Songshu Town."

...

The bee seller is in Songshu Town.

Songshu Town is next to Qingxi Town, not too far from their Yunqiao Village, and it only takes 20 minutes to drive there.

Because there are so many mountains here, the local residents rely on picking tea as their main source of income, and there are naturally many flowers and trees on the hillside.

Therefore, there is a very famous beekeeper in Songshu Town.

Song Tan drove Song Sancheng and Qiao Qiao up the mountain road. When they saw a big cardboard on the side of the road with "Farmer's Honey" written in ink, they knew they had arrived.

Because the beekeepers were on the mountain road, the houses were not as neat as those on the roadside. There was even a simple iron shed next to it.

In the open space halfway up the mountain in front of the door, square wooden boxes were placed regularly. Under the sunlight, the bees' hairy bodies vibrated, and the buzzing sound was particularly obvious.

They kept hovering in the low sky, but the temperature in the mountains was slightly low, and few fruit trees had bloomed so far. In the end, they could only lie in front of a shallow water tray.

"Old Song, you're here!"

A man with messy hair and a black sweater came out. Seeing Song Tan's family of three, he was very enthusiastic:

"This is your son and daughter, right? They look so good - come on, you want bees, right? What kind do you want? I'll show you!"

"But I don't have Italian bees here, they're all Chinese bees, which are our native bees, and they're small. I have five honeycombs in this box, and each honeycomb has about 3,000 bees... It's not easy to raise them in the winter!"

Beekeepers call the place where bees live a honeycomb, and on top are the bee nests, which are hexagonal holes.

Generally, the same size of honeycombs have about the same number of bees living in them. They are like this, a big house won't work, and a small house won't work either.

The other party was honest, and he had already introduced them before he said anything.

Song Tan nodded: "It's okay, uncle, I want our native bees - how much honey can this box produce?"

Speaking of this, the middle-aged man's face was full of pride and smiles: "Don't look at our native bees as small, but they are hardworking, more capable than Italian bees, and not picky. If there are many flowers in this box, 80 kilograms is not a problem."

"It won't work if there are few flowers. If there are few flowers, they probably won't be full."

Speaking of this, the beekeeper also sighed:

"In previous winters, I drove to the south, where there are many flowers and it's warm. The market has been bad in the past two years, and I don't have to run around. I have been worried all winter - you see, aren't they fed with sugar water? Otherwise, they won't survive."

"Old Song, we are all fellow villagers, and I won't hide it from you. The price of bees this spring is already more expensive. I get 600 yuan for this box. If you really want it, 560, I will feed you sugar water without hiding it. You are enough to keep them alive, without honey.”

"But with the flowers, they can adjust immediately - they will definitely not lose money if they buy it."

Song Tan checked it online before and found that the price should be fair. Now she would look at Song Sancheng.

Song Sancheng doesn’t understand bees either!

After thinking about it, he said sincerely: "I have fourteen acres of flower fields. How many of them are suitable for you to buy? Besides, how do you think these bees are good or bad?"

The beekeeper thought for a moment: "It stands to reason that one hive of bees per three acres will produce six or seven kilograms of honey per acre. Now there are few flowers and you don't have much experience, so just get four boxes, or three boxes will do." "

As for whether bees are good or bad...

Under the stunned gaze of the family of three, the other party didn't even wear gloves. He just opened the beehive without fear with a pair of ruthless iron hands and took out a piece of spleen:

"Look, this worker bee is working hard."

As he spoke, he grabbed a handful from the other side and saw a dozen furry bees crawling around in his palm, fluttering their wings and flying low. One of them was particularly big:

"Look, this is the queen bee. Does she look good?"

Qiao Qiao squatted aside with greedy eyes and stretched out her hand:

"Qiaoqiao also wants to touch it..."

The beekeeper got excited and quickly put the bees back:

"You can't touch this! Stinging people will hurt. You always have to wear a gauze and gloves!"

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