Chapter 413 The Strange Gourd
Originally, Zhang An thought that he would go to the city in a few days to print out these photos, and then each family would get a point.
But I just went to Wang Hua’s place and found that he had already moved his photo printer.
Of course Zhang An will not be polite to him. When he has time, he will take it to him to print it.
However, he didn’t want to go to Wang Hua’s place often. It would definitely not work if he visited Wang Hua often, so he planned to take some time to buy one and put it at home.
At night, Zhang An finally coaxed Su Ying to fall asleep in his arms before he had a chance to get away.
Since this period of time, Su Ying has become more and more clingy when sleeping at night, and she won't move even if she is still clingy.
Entering the space, Zhang An quickly took out the gourd he received from Zhang Tie today.
Although these gourds are wild, they look more upright and sleek.
It was for this reason that Zhang An thought about getting these gourds from Zhang Tie and taking out the seeds inside to plant them.
You must know that this kind of wild gourd that grows in the corners of the horns usually grows crookedly due to various reasons.
Not to mention that it will look weird, but it is not comparable to Zhou Zheng. Sometimes the upper gourd body is even bigger than the lower gourd body.
There are many gourds on the top of the hillside behind the house. When Zhang An was still in elementary school, he liked to climb up there and play with his classmates at noon.
At that time, he had the same resentment as children today. The gourd was picked by them when it was just about the size of a fist.
So every time he went to the back of the room to look at the gourd but couldn't find it, he couldn't help but think of his naughty self when he was young.
Taking the gourd, Zhang An first sawed open the mouth of the gourd, then found a thin bamboo strip and poked it in.
After a while, many long gourd seeds were poked out.
Still the old rule, soak the gourds in space spring water to induce germination before planting them, so that the gourds will grow better.
When the soaking and germination process is completed, preparations for planting begin.
This time Zhang An did not plan to plant the gourds outside, but opened up a small area in the yard in the space.
After planting all the seeds, Zhang An began to water them.
The gourd seeds that had come into contact with the soil at this time were stimulated by the spring water in the space, and they immediately began to sprout and quickly broke out of the soil.
When you first get the space, no matter what you plant, you still have to wait for a while.
But after the space inexplicably changed several times, no matter what was planted, it would grow immediately as long as it came into contact with the soil and was stimulated by the spring water.
After planting grapes last time, Zhang An was already accustomed to this.
Seeing that many gourd buds had sprouted on the ground, Zhang An quickly chopped some bamboo and wooden sticks, and then built a shelf for the gourd field.
After Zhang An set up the shelf, the gourd vines on the ground seemed to be able to detect the shelf and began to climb up the bamboo poles.
It didn’t take long for the gourd vines to cover the entire shelf, covering it as tightly as a thatched roof.
Seeing this, Zhang An knew that these gourds had changed under the germination of the space spring water.
If it were a normal gourd vine, it would have started blooming before it had grown this long.
But although these gourd flowers are late, they don't seem to want to be absent.
After the gourd vines climbed all over the shelf, Zhang An discovered that the gourd vines, which were very small just now, were as big as a hoe handle at home.
And these main vines are not regular cylindrical vines, they look more like twisted steel wire bars.
While Zhang An was in a daze, buds began to grow one by one on the top of the shelf, like embellishments in the painting, and slowly began to bloom.
But when these flowers bloomed, Zhang An was dumbfounded.
After normal gourd flowers bloom, the petals will be white, and some varieties may be light yellow.
But now he saw a shelf of colorful gourd flowers, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
Zhang An feels a little bad. These gourds will eventually produce a bunch of gourds calling him daddy.
And these gourds not only come in seven colors, they have two more colors than the gourd dolls, white and black.
But no matter what, the flowers have bloomed. Without pollination, they will always bloom like this.
To be honest, Zhang An is really looking forward to the gourd that will grow later.
Immediately summon a swarm of bees in the space to pollinate these blooming gourd flowers.
Gourds are plants with dioecious flowers. With these bees helping with pollination, Zhang An doesn’t have to do it himself.
As we all know, bees are hard-working animals and have always enjoyed the title of "laborers" in nature.
The bees that Zhang An keeps in the space are even more diligent than those outside.
It didn’t take long for them to pollinate all the gourd flowers on this shelf.
Under Zhang An's gaze, the flowers that had been pollinated began to slowly wither, and hairy gadgets began to appear from the buttocks of the flowers.
This is the little gourd that has just grown up, but at this time they only have one gourd ball.
Only when they grow slowly will another gourd ball grow.
As Zhang An guessed just now, these gourds are not like the ones outside, with green skin.
After these gourds bear fruit, their skins remain the same color as their previous flowers.
As the breeze blew in the space, the small gourds hanging on the gourd vine began to sway in the wind.
Zhang An made mental preparations to avoid being frightened by the inexplicable screams later.
It’s just that sometimes the greater people’s expectations, the greater their disappointment.
Zhang An waited expectantly for these gourds to grow up and then start talking like the gourd babies on TV.
But when he watched these gourds grow up slowly, the strange changes he thought in his heart were not at all.
When the gourd grows up, its appearance is no different from ordinary gourds outside, but its skin color is inherently different.
And when the gourd grows up, its outer wall is no longer a solid color, but has a layer of patterns, as if it were carved on it.
But this is not surprising. After all, those are ordinary gourds, and these grow in space. They must be of a higher level, so it is not surprising to be born with a phantom skin. .
At this time, Zhang An also felt relieved. The world has not changed. It is still the scientific world in his mind.
The gourd had been knotted, and when Zhang An was about to unscrew one, he found that the connection between the mouth of the gourd and the rattan was very strong, and he could not twist it off no matter how hard he tried.
Zhang An was a little surprised. There were many species in the space now, but this was the first thing that went against his thoughts.
However, he did not give up, thinking that since he could not twist it anymore, he would try to pull up the entire gourd vine.
As soon as he thought about it, the gourd tree he chose in his heart immediately rose from the ground.
Unexpectedly, the gourd vine has been pulled up, but the gourd vine and gourd leaves that were green just now turned yellow in an instant.
The various gourds on the vines also lost their color in an instant and became withered and yellow, as if they were dead. Zhang An tried his hand and found that he could pick these gourds from the withered vines without any effort.
It’s just that this gourd is obviously useless.
Break it open and find that the gourd is full of pulp, and there is no shaped gourd seed.
Break the other gourds one by one, and the situation is exactly the same as the first one.
Only then did Zhang An realize that these gourds might not have grown yet.
Only in this way can he explain why he couldn't unscrew the gourds that were still hanging on the vines.
Then I stared at them for a long time, but there was still no change at all.
So Zhang An did not continue to spend his energy on them, because he did not know when these gourds would grow well.
It’s all in space anyway and can’t fly anywhere, so just let it stay there slowly.
Early the next morning, Zhang An, who had just woken up, immediately immersed his mind in the space.
He was still thinking about those strange gourds, which caused him to not sleep well last night.
This is normal. After all, if you don’t understand it clearly, it will be like a swarm of ants crawling around in your heart, making people feel itchy.
You can observe again, there are still some gourds, but the color is much darker than last night.
Now Zhang An had given up and stopped staring at it.
After lunch, Zhang An found that several boxes of bees in the backyard had become restless.
When I opened the beehive, I found that a new queen bee was about to come out.
No wonder they are so restless, it’s time to separate.
At this moment, the old queen bee no longer stays on the throne all day like before, she has climbed out of it.
The new queen bee and the old queen bee are just like the general and the handsome in chess, they will not meet.
Basically, before the new queen comes out, the old queen will separate first, and may take away more than half of the bees in the hive, or even more.
Today is the time for Zhang An’s bees to separate. If he doesn’t care, maybe tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, some of the bees in this box will fly away with the old queen.
And looking at the current news, there will definitely be very few bees left in this box.
It's early rather than late. Zhang An took advantage of the fact that he had nothing to do at the moment, so he might as well help them separate their families, so as to prevent them from being so restless all the time.
And now they have no intention of going out to collect honey. They have been buzzing in the yard, and Zhang An is annoyed by it.
Some time ago, Zhang An was going to make a few beehives, but before he started, Carpenter Lin sent seven or eight of them.
This was not something Lin Carpenter did on his own initiative, but Zhang Jianwen asked him to help him in private.
After all, he had distributed the bees to the villagers before talking to Zhang An. This was somewhat unreasonable behavior.
Although he later explained to Zhang An, he still felt a little ashamed of Zhang An.
So he didn’t want Zhang An to do it himself for the beehive matter, and went to find Carpenter Lin.
It just so happened that Carpenter Lin had been helping the village to do door and window work during this period. There was still some wood left, which was easy to make and saved Zhang An from having to look for wood everywhere.
As for Lin Carpenter, he is also honest. As long as you give him money, anything is easy.
So he used the remaining wood in the village to make seven or eight beehives and sent them to Zhang An.
It is said that Zhang Jianwen asked him to do more than that, and he would continue to work hard after it was delivered.
Zhang An felt that the old uncle really planned to settle the matter of beekeeping this time.
Move the new beehives out from home, burn a pot of firewood in the yard, and roast all the beehives.
Because these beehives are newly made, the smell inside is very strong, and it is not very clean for the bees.
Roasting them with fire is equivalent to disinfecting these beehives.
And the smell of the new beehives that have been roasted is not as bad as before. Not to mention the bees, even Zhang An feels that the newly roasted beehives exude a scent.
After all the beehives were disinfected with fire, Zhang An began to separate the bees at home.
Bee separation is very simple. You only need to take out the honeycomb where the new queen's crown is located and put it into the new beehive.
Then shake the bees gathered outside the old beehive into the new box, so that when the new queen comes out, these bees will follow the new queen to form a new bee colony.
These bees are particularly strange this year. There are several new thrones in each box.
So when dividing the bees, it is a little troublesome.
If it hadn't been for the old uncle speaking up, those unborn queen bees still nestling in the throne room might have been killed by Zhang An.
When Zhang An divided the bees, he did so selectively. Not every queen bee would divide them.
Zhang An did not give them a chance to stand alone for some queen bees whose thrones were relatively weak.
But despite this, after dividing the second box, all the beehives sent by Carpenter Lin had been used up.
Zhang An didn’t know how many people Zhang Jianwen had arranged to come over to ask for bee seeds, so he could only give out as many as possible.
After using up the beehives, Zhang An went directly to Carpenter Lin.
"Uncle Carpenter, didn't you say you would continue to make beehives before? Give me as much as you have made."
Carpenter Lin is very idle now and is welding in the yard. cigarette.
Anyway, after finishing all the work in the village, he was free.
A few years ago, he would still have to find work everywhere.
But this year, he did so much work for the village and made a lot of money.
If he wanted to, he probably wouldn't have to worry about taking jobs this year.
"Why, those bees in your family are starting to break up?"
Carpenter Lin put out the cigarette butt, put down the stem, and took Zhang An to the main room.
His beehives have been finished and placed upstairs in the main room.
Leaving it like this is for drying in the shade, and it also prevents it from getting damp.
“Yes, the commotion started today. The yard was buzzing at noon, and it was really noisy. In fact, it could last for a day or two, but I happened to have nothing to do today, so I might as well just Let’s just deal with them, so as not to forget them, they will all fly away.”
When we arrived upstairs at Lin Carpenter’s house, there were more than a dozen new beehives placed neatly, which was really a bit of a mess. Quite a few, there should be enough here to divide the remaining boxes of bees.
(End of this chapter)