Chapter 419 Colorful Carp
“Hey Mom, our family is making something delicious again today. I haven’t even gotten home yet, and my greedy mind has been aroused.”
Noon , Su Ying was after school, and before she even entered the house, she was attracted to the kitchen by the aroma of braised pork wafting from the pot.
"Don't you want to eat beef? I'll braise it in a pot if I have time today, but it's not done yet, so I can't eat it until evening."
If you want braised beef to be delicious, No matter what, it has to be marinated for two or three hours.
This marinade has been in the refrigerator for such a long time, and it didn’t take long to melt when I took it out.
So it has just been boiled and the beef has just been put in. If you want to eat it, you have to wait until the next meal.
This is the advantage of old braised food. When you boil the braised food now, you can smell the strong braised food aroma.
If it is a newly prepared marinade, it will take a long time for such a fragrant smell to come out.
“Thank you, Mom. Actually, there’s no need to bother. I just wanted to talk to Zhang An.”
Although she said this, Su Ying was actually very happy. With her parents-in-law and husband who doted on her so much, what woman would be unhappy.
"What's the trouble? Just tell mom what you want to eat. I can find something to do when I'm free all day. Besides, maybe my eldest grandson wants to eat. He's hungry. I can’t make my grandson hungry without anyone else.”
Wang Fang had already prepared lunch before Su Ying got off work.
The beef has been braised on the stove, so all the dishes are placed on the stove to keep warm.
"Xiao An, come here and take the dishes out. We are ready to eat."
Although the beef that was braised at noon was not yet ready to eat, Wang Fang made stir-fried beef and stir-fried green onions. beef.
So Zhang An, the cook, couldn't help but eat a few more bowls at noon.
As a result, Wang Fang's steamed rice was much less at noon. Xiaohu and the others didn't have much rations left, so they could only fill their stomachs.
"Hey, hurry up and hurry up, I'm still late. I also said that I would come to your house for lunch. Now I only have water for washing."
While putting away the dishes, Zhang Jianwen He brought several villagers to Zhang An's house.
But Zhang Jianwen's words were just words and a joke.
If you really wanted to go to someone else’s house for dinner, you would definitely not come so late.
After all, there is nothing much to do in the countryside, and you basically won’t go to other people’s homes to eat. This is a very particular place.
"It's okay, it's okay. I can't make it for this meal, so come early for the next meal."
This is a joke that the village often plays on each other. Anyway, everyone is going back and forth, talking and laughing. .
"Zhang An, didn't you divide the bees some time ago? Today I will bring everyone here to move the bees."
Zhang Jianwen made a few jokes with Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo, and then He told Zhang An about the reason for his visit.
“I have been waiting for it for a long time. Look, there are many boxes of bees behind my house. Now the yard is so densely packed with bees that I am afraid they will fight.”
Zhang An didn't hesitate and took everyone to the backyard.
As soon as I walked from the house to the backyard, I heard a very noisy "buzzing" sound.
These are all emitted by bees. Now the sky in the backyard is full of bees as far as you can see.
Although Zhang An’s backyard is not small, the banquet can accommodate many people at the table.
But there are too many bees separated now, and there are more than a dozen boxes in the entire yard.
After the bees were divided, the new queen crawled out of the queen's nest and began to lay a large number of eggs, hatching a lot of bees.
The past two days have been better because the cherry and peach blossoms on the mountain behind Zhang An's house have withered and grown fruits.
So many bees have to fly farther away if they want to collect honey.
When the flowers were in full bloom a few days ago, this group of bees didn't even have to go out.
As long as they got out of the beehive and flew around for a while, they could reach the orchard.
In those few days, the yard was filled with bees, and there was no room for anyone to sit there.
Even Wang Fang, who usually likes to be in the backyard the most, doesn’t want to stay here anymore.
It was not because he was afraid of being stung by bees, but because it was too noisy, so Zhang An really wanted them to carry the bees away quickly.
“I wanted them to come and take them away a long time ago, but they were still learning from Lao Qian a few days ago. I just finished learning today, so I brought them here.”
It’s not that Zhang Jianwen wants to drag him away, the main reason is that if these people don’t learn well, they won’t be able to support them even if they are brought back.
And now is the season for honey production. It’s okay to leave so many boxes of bees here in Zhang An for a few days.
If you leave it for a while, after a lot of honey has accumulated inside, they will be embarrassed to come and lift it away directly.
"It's okay, you can see for yourselves. All the bees are here. Lift whichever box you care about."
Zhang An didn't want to give it to them, because he didn't care Whether it is a new bee or an old bee, it is actually the same.
Although generally old bee colonies have more bees and produce more honey.
But this year Zhang An divided the bees too hard, and not much of the old bee colony was left, which was very different from the re-separated bees.
However, some time has passed since the bees were separated, and many bees have hatched out of any box.
So no matter whether it is new or old, every box is actually the same.
And let them choose by themselves, so that no one will have anything to say in the future.
Otherwise, if he can’t take care of her well in the future, he might privately blame Zhang An for giving him the bad ones.
According to Zhang An's words, the villagers brought by Zhang Jianwen went up to pick bees themselves.
After so many days of learning beekeeping knowledge from Lao Qiantou in Xiahewan, they also knew that Zhang An was not needed to help if the bees were relocated.
This year Zhang An China distributed more than ten boxes of new bees, but this time Zhang Jianwen only brought ten people.
So after each person carries away one box, there will still be several boxes left.
But if there are too many, then there are too many. Just leave them in the courtyard. Zhang An doesn’t want to give anyone an extra box.
After all, we are not worried about scarcity but inequality. There is not enough for everyone to take one more box, so just don’t give it away to avoid complaints from others.
When they finally left, everyone gave Wang Fang a hundred yuan. Wang Fang was very happy when she received the money.
"Uncle, didn't we agree on fifty? Why did it become one hundred?"
One hundred yuan is not a small amount for an ordinary family. If it is divided equally, it would take a month of farming at home. OK.
“Because your bee is worth a hundred, how can you do it with less? By the way, the old money man asked me to bring this to you, because he said that your bee is too good. , gave him fifty yuan, and he felt guilty for taking it.”
Others couldn’t see the quality of the bees, but the old money man who had been raising bees for more than ten years still had a look.
Not long after raising the box of bees he took back from Zhang An's house, he could feel the obvious difference.
It has started producing honey in the past two days. How much honey will it produce in a year?
Such a good bee, taking fifty yuan is like getting it for free. Although he didn't need to come over specifically to replenish Zhang An's remaining money, he was determined to make good friends with Zhang An.
So this time, while the people in the village were raising bees, Zhang Jianwen asked Zhang Jianwen to bring him the money.
Whether Zhang An wants it or not is Zhang An’s business, but whether he gives it or not is his attitude.
As a result, the people in Changqing Village watched the old money man make up the money again, so they were embarrassed to only give fifty, so they decided to give everyone one hundred before coming today.
Zhang An was not polite and accepted all the money. After all, one is one and two is two. You can calculate it how you want.
“It’s finally much quieter, otherwise my ears would be buzzing every day, which would make my head hurt.”
After sending away the villagers, the backyard is finally quiet. Although there are still some bees left in the yard, it is much better than the previous few days.
Wang Fang really didn't want to come to the backyard except for going to the vegetable garden a few days ago.
Not to mention the annoying thing, the key point is that those bees still carry pollen on them.
Especially now that there are so many rapeseed flowers. After being hit by them on your clothes, it’s like going around in a rapeseed field.
"Mom, if you still don't like the noise, I will send a few more boxes to the old house."
Anyway, there have been no flowers on the cherry and peach trees in the past two days. The bees are placed here just a little closer to the rapeseed field, so moving them to the old house won't have any impact.
No, just put the rest here. If I get them here and forget to collect them when it snows like last year, I will feel bad for so many of them freezing to death. ”
No matter what, Wang Fang still likes these bees at home.
I can provide my family with so much honey every year. Not only can I sell it for money, my family can also eat it.
Putting it over to the old house, although it is much quieter, is still inconvenient in terms of care.
So many people froze to death in the big snowstorm last year, and she was heartbroken.
"Zhang An, come and see, our little fish finally has color."
Zhang An was cleaning the bricks for beehives in the yard when he heard Su in the house. Ying shouted.
Su Ying's belly is getting bigger and bigger now, and she walks around after meals every day.
Feeding fish is her main activity, especially now she has to feed two tanks of fish, big fish and small fish.
Although the little carps have hatched, Zhang An still did not put Jin Jia and his wife Xiao Hong into the big fish tank to reunite with their children.
After all, carp have the habit of swallowing fry. Jinjia and Xiaohong are so big, but those fry are very small.
Put them in, and maybe you can swallow several of them with just a sip of water.
Sure enough, Zhang An entered the house and went to the fish tank, and found that the small fry that used to be translucent had changed to a new color.
Although they are still relatively small, all about one centimeter in length, at a glance, they are basically colorful carps.
“They have finally grown up, these little guys are growing too slowly.”
Usual carp fry will start to grow from half a month to half a month at most. Transparency slowly becomes solid, growing color.
But the little guy in the tank at home has been hatched for a month, and it just started to change color today.
“Look, they are beautiful, just like their parents, but I always feel that when they grow up, they will definitely be prettier than Jin Jia and Xiao Hong.”
If you look carefully, you can see that among the densely packed small fry in this tank, there are red ones, golden ones, and some mixed with red and gold.
"It is indeed beautiful, much prettier than ordinary carp fry."
Looking at a group of brightly colored fry swimming happily in the fish tank, Zhang An finally felt relieved.
Before hatching, he was worried that the eggs would not hatch.
Later it hatched, and he was worried that the fry that hatched would be the same as before, ordinary carps.
“But what does this white one mean? It has turned into the three primary colors atavistically?”
Zhang An stared at it for a long time and thought that there were more than just red, gold and other mixed colors in the fish tank. of.
Now he has also discovered that some small fish are all white, and they are not transparent.
Finally, I discovered that there is not only white, but also black, and mixed black and white.
The black color is not the bluish-black color of ordinary carp, but pure black.
“I heard from the teacher in the office that a recessive gene that does not appear in the father and mother but may also appear in the offspring may be the dominant gene in Jin Jia and Xiao Hong.”
Su Ying suddenly remembered that the biology teacher in the office had told her about genes before.
“It seems possible, but don’t tell me, I’m really looking forward to what this black and white carp will look like when it grows up.”
Zhang An no longer has any expectations for Golden Carp and Red Carp, as long as they can be bred, after all, he often looks at Xiaohong and Jinjia, which makes his eyesight tired.
But he is really looking forward to the white, black, and mixed black and white ones.
"How long will it take for them to grow up?"
Su Ying asked blankly, she was also looking forward to these little guys growing up.
But these small fish take so long to hatch, and their larval period is longer than that of other carp, so the growth cycle must also be extended.
"It should be pretty fast. Ordinary carp can grow two to three kilograms a year. Even if these little guys grow slowly, one or two kilograms should be enough."
These little guys are mutants. Zhang An couldn't determine their growth cycle.
But that doesn’t matter, they just grow slowly. When the time comes, Zhang An will just put them in the space and stay there for a few days.
After all, it is in space, but it can professionally restrain anything that grows slowly.
“But with so many fish fry, when they grow up, our fish tank will definitely not be able to accommodate them. We might as well dig two small fish ponds in the yard.”
Su Ying's eyes suddenly lit up. If she dug a fish pond in the yard, she could keep these beautiful little guys in it as ornamental fish.
Although there is a big fish pond at home, she knows that there are a lot of carnivorous fish in her fish pond.
She couldn't bear to put these beautiful little guys in there, otherwise they would be digested into fish cakes in a few days.
“We can have this, but we have to dig it. Let’s dig two, one in front and one in the back. It just so happens that there is nothing much to do in the past two days. I will have people pull the sand and cement over tomorrow.”
Since my wife has spoken, there is no reason not to take action.
However, there are a lot of fry in this fish tank, but if you only dig one, it will be too intensive to raise.
Anyway, Zhang An’s front yard and backyard are both large, so digging two small fish ponds won’t have much impact.
And Zhang Jianjun happened to be free these two days, so Zhang An would definitely not let his second uncle go.
Because digging a fish pond must be surrounded by a fence, otherwise it will be unsafe and not good-looking.
Although Zhang An himself can build a little wall, he can only build it, and it can't match the good looks.
For such a job, you still need to find a specialized person, so Zhang An felt that his second uncle was very suitable.
(End of this chapter)