The happy little days of the Ye family

Father Ye drove the donkey cart and the family of seven went to Xiaohoushan to put beehives and attract bees.

Mr. Ye: "I went to weed the honeysuckle field yesterday. Some of the first batch of honeysuckle planted have already bloomed, but there are not many buds and they are scattered here and there."

Ye Xilin was very happy, "The first batch of honeysuckle was planted on 20 acres. Even if the flowers are scattered, there are still many flowers. Can they be turned into a lot of honey?"

No one can refuse sweet honey, and the greedy cat Ye Xilin seems to have seen a lot of honey.

Father Ye: "Let's go and take a look first. In summer, there are also many fruit tree flowers, such as jujube flowers, pomegranate flowers, chestnut flowers, persimmon flowers, etc."

A group of people came to the honeysuckle field. The honeysuckle that had only grown to Ye's waist had indeed bloomed, but there were not many buds. After all, it had not grown up yet.

A honeysuckle tree only has a few scattered flowers. Father Ye and Mr. Ye don't plan to pick and sell it. It's just right for beekeeping.

The production of honeysuckle will increase next year. Then the honeysuckle will be picked, dried, and sold in drug stores.

But there is definitely no way to pick all the fifty acres of honeysuckle in time. These industrious little bees are expected to collect a lot of honeysuckle nectar.

The first batch of honeysuckle planted covers 20 acres, and Ye’s father plans to place three beehives on the honeysuckle field.

In the honeysuckle field, Father Ye found at least ten duckweed trees and several wild osmanthus trees.

Father Ye was very happy. There were probably a lot of duck palm trees and wild osmanthus on the mountain, so there was no need to worry about no flowers in autumn and winter.

At the same time, I did not forget to explain to my family: "The duck's foot tree and wild osmanthus bloom in autumn and winter, and there are many flowers."

"Especially the flowers of the duck's foot tree, which start blooming in early autumn and continue to bloom until the end of winter."

Hearing this, a group of people were very happy and started chattering.

Ye Donglin: "There are a lot of wild osmanthus in the back mountains. Let's dig some and plant them here."

Old Mrs. Ye: "This is called duck palm tree, isn't it just a goose palm leaf? There are many of them in the nearby mountains."

Mr. Ye: "The most abundant places in the countryside are mountains. There are all kinds of flowers on the mountains all year round. Will the bees we keep in Xiaohoushan fly to other distant mountains to collect nectar?"

Father Ye: "I heard from Cousin Lin that bees can fly to very far places to collect nectar. If there are a lot of flowers in the nearby mountains, they should be able to fly there to collect nectar."

"Dad, will we be able to eat the honey we raised soon?" Ye Qingqing looked at Father Ye expectantly with her big, watery eyes.

"You can harvest honey in autumn." Father Ye said with a smile, very happy.

After some inspection, Father Ye finally decided on the locations of the three beehives.

Mr. Ye, Mrs. Ye and Ye Donglin looked at Father Ye expectantly, all wanting to use beeswax to attract the bees themselves.

The inside of the beehive has already been smeared with beeswax and honey, so it's almost time to put the beeswax on it to attract the bees' attention.

It doesn’t take any skills to light the beeswax. Father Ye directly gave the beeswax to three people and asked them to each be responsible for a beehive.

Old Mrs. Ye: "There are really bees coming, go in, go in!"

Ye Donglin: "Come, come, a lot of honey, 1, 2, 3..., a lot of honey has entered the beehive."

"Hahaha..." Even the calm Mr. Ye burst into laughter.

Father Ye observed each beehive and found that there were many bees in the beehives, and the bees were successfully attracted.

"There is also a beehive, let me come later." Ye Xilin was a little scared at first, but when he saw that the three of them had successfully attracted bees, he couldn't help but want to try it.

"Xiuxiu, do you want to try it?" Ye's father did not respond to Ye Xilin, but turned to ask Ye's mother.

"No need, I'm a little scared." Mother Ye's scalp went numb just thinking about the bees, let alone attracting the bees herself.

Seeing that Ye's mother was not interested, Ye's father looked at Ye Qingqing again, and Ye Qingqing quickly said no.

There is no need to argue, Ye Xilin is responsible for attracting the bees for the last beehive.

Father Ye followed Mr. Ye's suggestion and placed the remaining beehive between two wild jujube trees.

The two jujube trees are several meters high. It takes two hands to hug the trunks. The jujube flowers of these two trees alone are enough to support a hive of bees.

And not far away there are chestnut flowers and persimmon flowers to pick.

After attracting the bees, Father Ye led the family around the mountains and explained which flowers bloomed at what time.

"All flowers bloom in spring, so you don't have to worry about this. In summer, there are large areas of jujube flowers, honeysuckle, and flowers of various fruit trees. If that's not enough, you can also plant some sunflowers, which are the sunflower seeds we usually eat."

"In autumn, there are duck-foot trees, osmanthus, chrysanthemums and locust flowers. There are many of these types of flowers on the mountain. In winter, we can only rely on duck-foot trees and sweet-scented osmanthus."

Father Ye suddenly remembered the slope at the foot of the mountain. "When the beans and corn are harvested at the foot of the mountain, we will plant rapeseed. This way, the bees can collect rapeseed nectar in winter, and the rapeseed can be used to make rapeseed oil."

Mr. Ye thinks growing rapeseed is a good idea, "Yes, the land will be empty after the autumn harvest anyway. You can continue to grow food after harvesting rapeseed."

Ye Mu: "My mother's family planted rapeseed last year. When it blooms, it is a sea of ​​flowers, and it blooms for a long time. I will go back to my mother to get some seeds."

Father Ye: "You can plant more sunflowers."

Old Mrs. Ye thinks that growing sunflowers is also a good idea. “Sunflowers don’t have to be picked on the ground. Just scatter some seeds on the mountain and plant them. You can also collect some melon seeds for snacks.”

Mainly because everyone in the Ye family likes to eat melon seeds.

Old Mrs. Ye: "This goose palm leaf is the duck palm tree you mentioned. There are many of them on the mountain, and wild chrysanthemums are all over the mountain. It seems that this small back mountain is quite suitable for beekeeping."

A group of people walked to the foot of the mountain talking and laughing, and happened to see the village chief and Ye Qiushi coming down from the nearby mountain.

Father Ye drove the donkey cart to the foot of the mountain where the village chief and Ye Qiushi were, and waited for the father and son to come down.

When the village chief and his son went down to the foot of the mountain, Ye's father couldn't wait to discuss the location of the beehive with Ye Qiushi.

Ye Qiushi chose the same location as Ye's father. He placed three beehives on the honeysuckle field planted first, and the other two were placed at the entrance of the mountain top.

Ye Qiushi: "There are many fruit trees in this mountain. There are several blooming jujube and persimmon trees in front of the cave, and there are also some chestnut trees not far away."

Father Ye: "I chose the same location as you, except that I also placed a beehive at home."

Ye Qiushi: "Originally, I wanted to put a beehive in the backyard, but my mother was afraid and refused to do so."

There are three jujube trees planted in the backyard of my home. They are all old trees for many years. It is a pity that the jujube flowers in these three trees are not used for beekeeping.

Father Ye said coquettishly: "It's okay, your home is not far from my home, my bees can go to your home to collect nectar!"

When Ye Qiushi saw Ye's father's despicable appearance, he was so angry that he wanted to go back and tell his mother that he could not take advantage of Ye Fengshou.

Ye Qiushi drove the donkey cart and the village chief in front, and the two hurried back to make beehives. There were no beehives placed in the mountain next door to attract bees.