Chapter 206 Su Xiaoxiao discovers the "New World"
If she meets this queen bee, doesn't it mean that Su Xiaoxiao can raise bees?
She was in a very excited mood, thinking that it would be a wonderful thing to be able to eat unlimited amounts of honey in the future.
Su Xiaoxiao held a small net and slowly approached the queen bee. Fortunately, she moved quickly enough and did not disturb the surrounding bees. The queen bee was about to be caught in the cage.
Everything went smoothly. Su Xiaoxiao caught the queen bee, but she couldn't take the swarm away with her.
Su Xiaoxiao must prepare several beehives, put the queen bee in the beehive, and then wait for the bees to enter the beehive and join the queen bee.
Su Xiaoxiao decided immediately that she had to go to Brother Wang and ask him to help her customize several beehives.
Su Xiaoxiao asked Pei Yuan to help look after the queen bee, and she quickly ran to Wang Er's home. Wang Er happened to be doing carpentry work in the yard at that time.
"Brother Wang, please help me make some wooden beehives..."
Su Xiaoxiao gestured to the size of the beehive with her hands, "You can put a few more wooden frames inside and let the bees build nests inside."
"Can we also raise bees? Xiaoxiao, it's a bit too dangerous for you. Bee stings are painful, aren't you afraid?"
Su Xiaoxiao smiled and replied: "It's okay, Brother Wang, just help me do it. As long as you don't offend them, it'll be fine. I've caught the queen bee, and now I'm just waiting for the beehive to be used. Brother Wang, do it." hurry up."
The queen bee has now been caught by Su Xiaoxiao, and she is waiting for the beehive. After all, those bees will not wait.
Wang Erna obeyed Su Xiaoxiao's advice. Although he didn't understand it very well, he started sawing the wood immediately.
Su Xiaoxiao was there to help, and Wang Er was responsible for sawing the wood. The two of them worked hard for a long time, and finally the three simple beehives were completed.
Su Xiaoxiao took the beehive and ran towards her rape field.
Su Xiaoxiao ran like a gust of wind and asked Pei Yuan breathlessly.
"How's it going? Still there, those bees."
Pei Yuan nodded, and Su Xiaoxiao saw that Pei Yuan had been staying in place conscientiously, not even daring to move.
Others who wanted to come over to watch the fun were stopped by Su Xiaoxiao.
The emperor shouted to Su Xiaoxiao from a distance: "Boss Su, please take it easy, those bees can bite!"
The other people watching were all talking about it. If the bees drove them away, why bother with them?
Actually, they couldn't figure it out either. Pei Yuan explained to them in a low voice: "For beekeeping."
"What? Isn't Su Xiaoxiao crazy if she keeps them if she doesn't drive them away?"
Pei Yuan glared at them and said to himself, what do you ignorant children know? In fact, he didn't understand either. He was always worried that Su Xiaoxiao would be stung by a bee.
Su Xiaoxiao turned around and said "hiss" to these people, then turned around to catch bees.
At this time, the onlookers were quiet. Some people were worried that Su Xiaoxiao would anger the bees and be attacked, so they stayed away.
Su Xiaoxiao picked up the queen bee from the net and put it into the beehive. Then she placed the beehive next to the buzzing bees and said to everyone: "You all go back to work. Stop watching here."
After driving everyone away, Su Xiaoxiao said to everyone: "Let's go over there to harvest first. Don't hang around here."
When everyone returned here at night, they realized that the two beehives brought by Su Xiaoxiao were already full of bees.
Su Xiaoxiao felt that she was quite lucky this time, at least she no longer had to go into the mountains to find the queen bee. It must be that the rapeseed flowers in the field are in bloom, which attracts these bees here.
Now that they have met, Su Xiaoxiao feels that this is fate.
If you at least eat honey in the future, you don’t have to worry.
Su Xiaoxiao came to this beehive this time, but she came fully armed.
The next day, Su Xiaoxiao tied a scarf on her head, put on long clothes and long sleeves, and covered her head with a cloth bag, leaving only her two eyes exposed.
Pei Yuan led the emperor and Eunuch Liu behind Su Xiaoxiao. They really didn't understand. If they wanted to eat honey, they could just buy it. Why would they go to such trouble?
However, Su Xiaoxiao feels that making honey by herself is both delicious and clean.
If you want to eat honey at any time in the future, it will be much more convenient.
"You all stay away from me for a while, and don't shout too loud, or you may disturb those bees."
Su Xiaoxiao told the people behind her that her outfit was actually funny enough, but she still continued to say such things.
Pei Yuan stood up and said, "Xiaoxiao, leave this matter to me. If you go there by yourself, I'm worried something will go wrong."
Su Xiaoxiao is not that pretentious, but this is also the first time she has done such a thing, and she is actually quite nervous.
Su Xiaoxiao found that this swarm of bees had already filled the three beehives she brought.
There is a vent at the bottom of the beehive, and there is a place for the queen bee to stay inside. This is actually to isolate the queen bee from going to other hives to lay eggs.
Su Xiaoxiao slowly moved the three large beehives to her ox cart. After loading them, she was ready to take them home.
Pei Yuan hurried over to help drive the bullock cart, and the group of people returned to Su Xiaoxiao's home together as carefully as if they were carrying a time bomb.
Su Xiaoxiao placed the three beehives in the backyard. The yard was large enough to accommodate them.
In this case, you can just sit back and wait to collect the honey.
The rapeseed collected by Su Xiaoxiao and the others has now been taken to the drying field to be dried and is now being prepared for threshing.
If Su Xiaoxiao doesn't have time to harvest the rapeseed in this field, it will probably be wasted. After all, rapeseed can be used to squeeze oil.
The group of workers hired by Su Xiaoxiao were cracking the rapeseeds with sticks on the drying field. The rapeseeds slowly popped out of the shells on the rapeseed poles, making a crackling sound. The sound is like firecrackers set off during the New Year.
After the rapeseed poles were dried, they could be used to light the fire. They were thrown aside and stacked high. Looking over, Su Xiaoxiao saw the joy of harvest everywhere.
The black rapeseed is collected by workers, screened clean, and then screened again before being used to make rapeseed oil.
Then the next round of detachment work begins.
When pressing oil, it is common rapeseed oil, which has a relatively low oil point for cooking and is suitable for some cooking methods.
But in this era, everyone still doesn't know that rapeseed can extract oil. In fact, they don't understand the collection of such black rapeseed. What is Su Xiaoxiao doing?
The emperor naturally didn't understand, but Eunuch Liu, who had a little common sense, grabbed a handful of black rapeseeds with wide eyes and curiously asked, "Can this thing be used to squeeze oil? Isn't it just ordinary rapeseeds?"
(End of chapter)