Chapter 122 Three-Headed Dog
The snow kept falling, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. Under the same greenhouse, I gradually felt that my lungs were changing...
Sofia received a course of treatment and half a After the consolidation course of treatment, I found that I no longer cough. The medicine I had been taking for many years finally stopped, and I feel more energetic when walking. I walked up to the fifth floor in one breath last night, and now my husband still walks a little unsteadily.
It’s the end of the year, and Philip, as a diplomat, has to go home to celebrate the New Year. Last time he came back, he only knew that his wife’s illness was cured. But this time when he came back, everyone kept it secret at first, but the result... Richard Turner this morning You looked at him with a joking look on your face.
Maria's family will be going back in a few days. The landlord's family is still very busy at the end of the year. They have to take stock of the year's income and arrange work for next year.
There was a sumptuous family dinner almost every day these days, and everyone came to the greenhouse to pick some vegetables themselves. This was also a new entertainment activity for the senior leaders of Weisen in the snowy weather.
It’s just that Frederick’s mistake of clicking on the technology tree happened again.
“It turns out that this is how bees are raised.”
After coming here, the landlord has eaten honey for so many years. Today is the first time I saw how the beekeepers keep bees.
In the past, it was very troublesome for bees to survive the winter. Now that there are greenhouses, beekeepers move their beehives into the greenhouse. On the one hand, they don’t have to worry about the bees freezing to death. On the other hand, the bees that originally rested in winter also have to work overtime in the greenhouse. flowers inside for pollination.
Bees these days are kept in containers such as waste wine barrels. Every time they take honey, the entire hive must be destroyed. The honey stored in the hive must be crushed and squeezed out. It takes a long time for the bee colony to destroy the hive. In order to be able to rebuild and produce honey again, a box of bees can only collect honey once a year, with less than 10 kilograms of honey and nearly 1 kilogram of beeswax.
Honey is a luxury product. Whether the bees in the territory are artificially bred or wild, they belong to the landlord. Improving the efficiency of honey production is beneficial to the landlord.
Frederick had eaten honey and been stung by bees in his previous life. He thought beehives had a long history. Little did he know that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was still there when beehives were invented, so he was surprised when he saw this kind of wooden barrel beehives.
The carpenter from the manor was called in and spent a day making a beehive according to the master's instructions.
On this day, everyone was picking tomatoes at one end of the greenhouse, and Frederick led people wearing anti-bee suits to move the bees at the other end.
Maria was holding the little three-headed dog bought by her father and looking at it curiously. The bees did not fly near her at all.
The beehive is divided into two parts. The bottom is the base box, where the queen bee lives and lays eggs; the upper part is the successor box, where the bees build their nests and make honey; between the two parts is the queen partition. The gaps in the board allow small worker bees to pass through, but the large queen bee cannot pass through, so the honey-producing space will not be affected.
The beekeeper gently picks up the queen bee and a piece of surrounding honeycomb and puts them into the bottom box, then carefully puts the other bees inside, and then covers the queen bee.
The next step is to put down the nest frame. There is a gap between the nest frame and the inner wall of the beehive for worker bees to pass through; there are several thin iron wires in the frame to make the frame, and the iron wire is the nest foundation. It is the "foundation" of the honeycomb. It is a thin sheet made of melted beeswax and pressed with two wooden boards with grooves and hexagonal patterns.
Finally, cover it with a partition to prevent worker bees from flying out from above and a cover with ventilation holes.
Nowadays, there are not so many flowers for bees to collect honey. Beekeepers place a shallow dish next to the entrance and exit of the beehive, pour honey water into it, and put some small branches or hay to prevent the bees from falling into the water and drowning.
“Is that enough?” Phillip came over to watch the excitement at some point.
"That's it." Frederick took off his anti-bee hat when he saw that the bees were not violent and hurt anyone. "I will make a machine that uses centrifugal force to extract honey later. It will be very convenient to extract honey in the future. It won’t hurt the bee’s house. As long as there are enough flowers, you can get honey several times a year.”
Philip couldn’t help but sigh: “How did your head grow? Did it really hit the stone?” Does it make people smarter?"
Maria nodded and said: "Frederick is so smart!"
The three-headed dog in her arms also purred three times, seeming to agree with its owner.
Frederick stretched out his hand to touch the little guy, but all three heads avoided it.
He has a black line on his head. This guy is obedient when feeding him meat and usually avoids him. While it was unable to run away in Maria's arms, Frederick quickly touched the three-headed dog's little head.
After petting the dog, Frederick asked Philip: "What is it about hitting a stone?"
Philip said strangely: "You don't know? It is said in many places now that you only became smart after hitting your head on a stone last year."
Frederick was stunned for half a minute, and his gloves He was bitten on the head or finger by the three-headed dog without noticing it. Finally, he said angrily: "I'm very smart to begin with, okay, but I don't mind you trying it yourself."
"Someone has tried it. "Philip shrugged, "Everyone thinks we have to use the same stone."
Frederick was speechless for a moment. He fainted and fell from crying at his mother's funeral, and hoped that no one else would do it. In the end, I want to kill my mother in the right way.
He changed the topic, and while teasing the three-headed dog with his fingers, asked: "Where did you buy this dog?"
There are records in books about three-headed dogs, and the illustrations all look fierce.
But the one in front of me is clearly a three-headed Bichon Frize. The white curly hair on its head is carefully trimmed into a ball shape. Its cuteness level is ×3. Not only Maria likes it very much, but others are also envious of it.
Philip replied: "I bought it with Count Reichenstein. I also bought another one from her, intending to give it to the great-grandson of the Grand Duke. If you want to give it to you, that's no problem. "
"Really?" Frederick's eyes lit up, "Can you really give it to me?"
He knew yesterday that Philip had brought back two cages, one with this in it. There were only three Bichon Frize dogs, and the other one was covered with a thick cloth, so I couldn't see what was inside.
The three-headed dog is a rare magical beast. Once it is well-raised and brought out, it will definitely turn heads.
Philip replied: "Of course, just think of it as a thank you gift for curing Sophia."
In his opinion, Frederick cured his wife and gave her a threesome. It’s not a problem for alpha dogs to make gifts.
Just as Frederick expected, there was another three-headed dog in the cage. As soon as the thick cloth was opened, it wagged its tail and ran and jumped happily in the cage. It was very lively. .
However, Frederick immediately gave up and said to Philip with a serious face: "I have thought about it seriously. This is too expensive. You should give it to the Grand Duke."
"Really don't want it?" Philip wondered why he changed his mind, "If you want it, just have it, it doesn't matter."
"No more." Frederick immediately shook his head, "You'd better give it to the Grand Duke. "
"You have been out a lot this year. I am afraid that someone in the Grand Duke's court is not good for you. You need a precious gift to strengthen your relationship with the Grand Duke's family."
Philip sighed again: " Does hitting your head against a stone really make you smarter?"
What he was thinking was answered by Frederick. He was fully responsible for diplomatic affairs in the palace of the Principality of Mainz. With high authority, naturally some people want to replace it.
"Okay." Philip said, "If you need my help in the future, let me know."
Frederick was polite to him and thought to himself, how hard it was for him to raise a three-headed dog. Husky, do you think your castle at home is too old and you want to replace it with a new one?
(End of this chapter)