Chapter 385: Earth Dragon Trapped in Farmland [Part 2]
I returned home at noon, had a simple meal, and then went to the bamboo house in the mountain lake, trimmed the fence outside the house, and scattered some flower seeds.
These are not rare flowers and plants planted by Chen Ling. They are ordinary. They are mainly used to decorate the bamboo house. They are just planted casually.
There have been a lot of people visiting the mountain recently, and some of them wandered here to enjoy the bamboo forest and lake scenery, but he did not use the spiritual water to induce birth.
Go around the bamboo house, draw a few small ditches, scatter the seeds, carry half a bucket of lake water and water it, then go down the mountain and forget about it.
The sun was warming up in the afternoon. In the woods on the hillside, countless wild bees were flying in and out around several beehives, collecting fresh nectar. Chen Ling walked over with a bucket and saw five beehives scattered in the forest. There are bees settled in all.
I couldn’t help but smile with satisfaction.
After careful calculation, it has been almost a month since I put the beehive.
So I put down the bucket and carefully dispersed a beehive with the largest bee colony.
I opened it and took a look. Inside the beehive, the honeycombs were in continuous pieces, stained with a thick layer of pollen, and densely packed bees were crawling around on the pollen.
At this moment, they noticed that humans were invading the territory, and they all flew up with a loud buzzing sound, and rained down on Chen Ling like raindrops.
“Go, go, go.”
Chen Ling gently drove the beehive away twice and repositioned the beehive carelessly.
Most people are afraid of these wild bees, but he is not afraid. As long as they fall on him, they will be taken into the cave and cannot be stung at all.
Just release it when you are done.
"Flowers are in full bloom at this time. These bees collect a lot of pollen, but you can't tell whether the honey production is high or low."
Chen Ling pondered for a moment and tried to use the method taught by his father-in-law. Squat in front of the beehive and tap the outside from top to bottom a few times to test the sound.
A dull voice means there is a layer of honey.
Empty sound means no honey.
The light sound between dull and empty sound is the spleen of the honeycomb that breeds young bees.
I tapped a few times tentatively.
Chen Ling shook his head and stood up: "No, it's just a lot of pollen, and there's no honey in it."
This is not just because these swarms of wild bees have been building their nests here for a long time. short.
It’s also because of bee species.
After all, this is the virtue of Bumblebee.
If you are interested in bees, in this season when flowers are blooming all over the mountains and fields, you can get honey every two or three days without any problem.
This is no exaggeration.
If you switch to bumblebees, you can cut them twice a year in the north, which is too much. With normal local methods, you can only cut them once, and there are no nectar sources in winter.
“The bees in my cave, guarding the flowers and plants in the cave, have not yet reached the level of harvesting honey every two days. There is a big gap between them and Italian bees.”
This There is no way, after the Dongtian mutation, the amount of honey produced has indeed increased, but they themselves also consume more.
If you want to cultivate an excellent bumble bee species comparable to Italian bees, even with the help of Dongtian, it will not be achieved overnight.
There is still a long way to go.
“However, there have been frequent blooms in the past two months. Not to mention there are so many wild flowers in the mountains, sophora flowers and rapeseed flowers are also in full bloom, so there is no shortage of honey sources. I guess, around the Dragon Boat Festival, You can harvest honey once."
Chen Ling pondered for a moment and looked at all five beehives, considering that there have been fewer and fewer visitors to the farm recently.
He moved all the beehives down and placed them one by one among the flowers in the orchard.
After doing this, I went back with the bucket.
At this time, Ruirui was still taking a nap, and the two sisters Wang Susu and their parents had nothing to do, and the four of them were pickling salted eggs in the yard.
Hearing that Chen Ling had moved the beehive down, he didn’t say anything.
Wang Susu just asked Chen Ling: "Now that the grape trellis is set up, should we plant gourds? It would be nice to put up a gourd trellis."
"Okay, then I'll plant it in the backyard. Come on, just have a grape trellis here in the front yard.”
The young couple discussed and planned to plant the gourds in the kitchen in the backyard, together with the doghouse, and then set up a shelf for the gourds to climb on. It would provide shade for the dogs in the summer, and it would be covered with beautiful gourds in the fall. Not only does it look good, it can also be eaten as a vegetable.
I ordered two gourds.
The two thought for a while and planted a few pumpkins and loofahs on the edge of the farm near the snake box.
This kind of thing grows very fast and produces a lot of fruits. One or two plants can grow into a large area. These loofahs and pumpkins are very big, especially pumpkins. If you plant two plants per plant, it will be easy to grow. It is enough for a family of three to eat from the end of summer to the beginning of winter. If you don't feed poultry and livestock, there will even be leftover from time to time.
After planting pumpkins and loofahs, I planted two rows of various beans along the base of the wall.
In this way, the young couple quietly planted melons and beans.
A few weasels came out of nowhere, like a group of big yellow rats, swishing up to the two of them, rubbing and sniffing, but the two of them had no time to talk to each other. They, the three little weasels, ran to the kennel and started playing.
Xiao Huang and Xiao Pang were right next to them, with their tails raised, stretching out and basking in the sun.
The whereabouts of these little things can be said to be the most mysterious in the family, except for Er Baldy, the indistinct fool. You can't see them at all on weekdays.
Several times, Chen Ling thought they were running around and caught in traps set by others.
But often inadvertently, we find them emerging from nowhere, and they are excitedly acting coquettishly at their feet.
Anyway, I never go home from a serious place, always unexpectedly.
The situation now is like this, Xiao Huang and Xiao Pang are basking in the warmth, the three little weasels and the cat and dog are running back and forth, chasing each other and playing with each other, and the colorful birds are chirping, The entire farm is full of vitality, and the warm atmosphere of life flows quietly in it.
Really call for a quiet time.
The men and women work together, so the work is not tiring. The young couple Chen Ling and Wang Susu work very quickly. It only took half an hour to plant the two long rows of beans under the wall and water them.
After finishing the work, Chen Ling took advantage of her son to take a nap and the two elders were not around, so he chuckled and asked Wang Susu to sit down in the kitchen. He rubbed her back and shoulders, caressed her belly, and felt the little life growing there.
Wen Cunnui was embarrassed for a while. When Wang Susu saw a pot of hot water boiling, she wanted Chen Ling to help her wash her hair. She took care of her baby all day long and couldn't stay idle after taking care of her baby. Where in the village or farm? Everyone has things to do, and she has a restless temper. She doesn't have time to wash her hair all day long.
Washing hair is simple. Chen Ling has already practiced washing his wife's hair, rubbing her back and so on, and is now a proficient expert.
It's a pity that he hasn't had a mandarin duck bath for a long time, and he still misses it.
While combing her hair, she whispered to Wang Susu. How could Wang Susu hear such words in broad daylight? Her face turned red with embarrassment, and she hit him with her small fist.
"Forget it, I'll do it myself. You can do whatever you need to do. I'm not even showing off my pregnancy now. I'm really afraid that you'll act recklessly."
Wang Susu's face was full of resentment. She reached out to grab the comb from his hand and drive him out.
Chen Ling dodged lightly and combed his wife's hair gently: "Hey, it's okay, don't worry, do I seem to be someone who doesn't know what's important?"
"...Then you said that just now." Wang Susu closed her eyes, enjoying his tenderness, but she snorted slightly, expressing disbelief.
"By the way, what did you say you were going to do when you were planting beans?"
"Oh, just now, I was going to go to the river beach to let the horses go, and I was going to look for wild duck eggs around the river beach. If so, just take it back and let the chickens hatch it.”
Recently, the pheasants in the mountains have frequently mixed with our own chickens. Although they have not settled down, they are still close to each other.
Chen Ling, who has been paying attention to this matter, will naturally not forget his duck matchmaking plan, and it is imperative to find wild duck eggs.
"Is this okay?"
"Okay, even if you can't abduct the pheasants and wild ducks, you have to at least trick them and let them lay eggs here. When the eggshells break, the ducklings will hatch. We can't keep the big ones, and we can't keep the little ones."< br>
Chen Ling said with confidence.
Wang Susu knew that he often sounded like he was talking big words, but in the end he could easily do it, so he smiled after hearing this.
I was also looking forward to it.
After combing his wife's hair and being gentle for a while, Chen Ling put the bamboo basket on his back, called out to the little green horse sleeping in the sun on the grass slope, and headed for Laohewan .
As soon as I climbed over the steep slope and walked a short distance to the edge of Wang Lixian's wheat field, I saw Wang Zhenzhen rushing over on her little bicycle. The one who had never changed in the back seat was Xizi with braids.
At the same time that Chen Ling saw them, they also saw Chen Ling.
Wang Zhenzhen's eyes lit up, and he shouted from afar: "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, the earth dragon has come out and blocked those outsiders in the farmland in the south. Go and see it quickly, I want to go back Call my sister and Ruirui to go home”
(End of this chapter)