bookcurios Chapter 175 Bee
Chapter 175 Bee
After the New Year holiday, everyone starts to get busy again.
Yun Xi had to prepare for the opening of two new stores, a restaurant and a dim sum shop, and there were many things to do. Although Mu Sheng had helped her find a store, she still had to worry about the decoration, the establishment of business rules, and the training of chefs and waiters.
Fortunately, she has a lot of available people under her command, and she can also deploy Mu Sheng's people at will. All she really needs to do is to use her brain and sort things out.
In March, Yun Xi's restaurant and dim sum shop opened on the same day. The two shops were right next to each other and became popular immediately after opening.
The aroma of baking snacks filled the air, attracting people to come and see what was so fragrant. The closer you got, the more fragrant it was.
However, apart from egg cakes which are slightly cheaper, most people cannot afford those snacks that look so exquisite and mouth-watering.
However, this does not stop people from praising it.
There are also restaurants whose menus are thick, beautifully bound books with pictures of every dish, and each dish has a corresponding story.
Both of these shops are high-end and make money from wealthy people.
Yun Xi visited the restaurant two days before its opening and found that there were quite a lot of wealthy people in the capital. The restaurant was full every day, and the dim sum shop closed half a day. Limited quantities were sold while stocks lasted.
While doing her work, Yun Xi did not give up on improving the environment. She also brought over all kinds of flowers she could find and planted them all over the yard of the general's mansion.
Just as the shop opened, the flowers she planted began to bloom one after another, and the entire general's mansion was full of vitality.
Even the old general and the old lady liked to stroll around the mansion when they had nothing to do, looking here and there, and finding everything new.
The old lady said to the old general, "I almost don't recognize my own family anymore."
The old general stroked his beard but smiled without saying anything. He didn't recognize her anymore. Their general's mansion had always been cold and hard. Who could have thought that one day it would become so bright and beautiful?
Just looking at it makes people happy.
What he didn't expect was that a grown man like him actually loved to look at flowers. He was too embarrassed to even say it.
Mu Jinyan was even happier, as children have a natural love for beauty. Every morning and afternoon after finishing his homework, he would stroll around the yard to see which flowers were blooming and which were withering, and then run to Yunxi and chatter non-stop.
The blooming flowers also attracted bees and butterflies. The children were extremely happy watching them flying among the flowers.
He chased the butterfly and wanted to chase the bee, but Yun Xi caught him back.
"Bees can sting you. There is a stinger on its tail. If you chase it, it will sense danger and stick out its stinger to sting you. It hurts a lot."
Mu Jinyan asked, "Has mother ever been stung?"
Yun Xi nodded, "I was stung when I was a child."
"I'll blow on it for you, and it won't hurt anymore."
Yun Xi stroked his head with a smile and said, "That was a long time ago. It doesn't hurt anymore."
“Bees are good and bad.”
Yun Xi: "...That's not the case. As long as you don't chase it, it won't sting you if it can't sense the danger."
"But I'm not dangerous. I was just chasing it for fun."
"It doesn't know. It's just a brainless little bee. It can't judge whether a person chasing it has bad intentions or not. As long as someone is chasing it, it is dangerous to it. Moreover, if it stings a person, the person will only feel pain for a moment, but it will pay the price with its life."
"what?"
"A bee has a stinger that is connected to its internal organs. When it stings someone, the stinger enters the body. When the bee flies away, the stinger left in the body will pull out its internal organs, and the bee will die. So it won't sting you easily. But you can't guarantee it, so you must not chase it. The same goes for wasps."
"Mom, have you ever been stung by a wasp?"
Yun Xi nodded again, looking worried, "Yeah, I was stung when I was a kid."
A hornet's nest is not necessarily on a tree or under the eaves. It may also be in the grass. If you accidentally touch a hornet's nest when you pass by, it will be terrible.
This is the original owner's lesson learned through blood and tears.
Mu Jinyan's face was full of sympathy, "Mom is so pitiful."
Yun Xi: "..."
She accompanied Mu Jinyan to watch the bees collecting honey for a while. Seeing the bees moving their thin legs to put pollen into the pollen basket, Mu Jinyan asked her, "What is it doing?"
"Collecting honey. The sweet honey we eat is collected by bees."
“Is it called honey because it’s collected by bees?”
"Yes!"
Yun Xi clapped her hands and said, "Let's raise bees. Raise a lot of bees and let them collect honey. This way we will have plenty of honey to eat."
She owns a mountain! The wild flowers on the mountain are in full bloom now, and there are different flowers blooming all year round. She can definitely raise bees on the mountain!
Yun Xi thought about it carefully again and felt that it was feasible.
She first drew the blueprint of the beehive and sent someone to find craftsmen to make a dozen beehives for backup.
Another person was sent to the Yun family's farm, asking the farmhands to look for wild beehives in the mountains. Once they found one, they were not to move it, but to mark the location.
There is no artificial beekeeping now, so she can't find anyone to buy bees from, so she has to domesticate the wild ones.
A few days later, Yun Xi went to the farm in person and directed the farmhands to capture wild bee colonies.
Catching wild bees is both troublesome and dangerous. Yun Xi repeatedly emphasized the precautions and had the farmhands fully armed, from head to toe, to ensure that no one would be stung by bees.
They worked from morning till night, and they caught six bee colonies in the mountains, which were transferred to six beehives. Yun Xi placed the six sealed beehives in different locations on the mountain, and asked people to check them from time to time.
In order to ensure sufficient nectar sources, Yun Xi scattered some rapeseed and chrysanthemum seeds on the mountain. I hope the bees can help, because the realization of honey freedom depends entirely on them.
In April, Yun Xi took Mu Sheng and Mu Jinyan for an outing.
It was spring and the scenery in the mountains was very beautiful. Yun Xi and his group first went to the Yun family's small farm.
After a period of renovation, the Yun family's small farm has changed a lot. Not only has a small courtyard been built to accommodate Yun Xi and the other two, but the crops grown on the farm are also very different. In addition to the conventional wheat planting, a piece of land has been specially designated to grow various vegetables, which greatly enriches Yun Xi's dining table, and the surplus can also be supplied to the restaurant.
Yun Zhen is still moving forward on the road of breeding, raising pigs, chickens and ducks, all of which are in full swing.
There was a fenced area at the foot of the mountain, where many free-range chickens were raised, clucking happily. Little Mu Jinyan looked at them with great curiosity.
The wild flowers on the mountain were in full bloom, colorful and beautiful. The family walked slowly up the mountain, and Yun Xi found that many of the seeds she had sown before had grown. But there was no rush, just let them grow first. There was no place to transplant them now, and Yun Xi didn't want to arrange things too tightly.
Following the path made by the farmhands, the three of them came to one of the beehives, and Yun Xi found that it was ready to harvest honey. It was indeed more than a month since she caught the wild bees.
There is an abundance of nectar here, so the intervals between collecting nectar can be shorter.
Yun Xi called the farmhands and taught them how to open the beehives to collect the honey and what to do with it after collecting it.
The farmhands worked for most of the day and had a good harvest. One beehive produced about 10 kilograms of honey. There were six beehives in total, which produced about 60 kilograms of honey. The group was very happy, and even Mu Sheng was very excited. Yun Xi felt that this yield was too little. When the bee colony expanded in the future, she could build more beehives and harvest more honey.
After getting the harvest, Yun Xi was not stingy. She left the harvest for three beehives and distributed some to the manager and farmhands on the farm. She gave one-third of the remaining harvest to her father Yun and only took about 3 kilograms back to the general's mansion.
Natural wild honey is a good nourishing product, especially for the middle-aged and elderly. Get up early every day and mix a cup with warm water. Drink it regularly, it will be very beneficial.
Yun Xi also gave a can to the old lady and Mu Xuan, and kept the rest in her own yard. This honey is endless at least during the flowering period, and she has instructed the farmhands to collect honey every half a month. With a constant supply of honey, she can make a lot of delicious food!