The happy little days of the Ye family

The sky is clear and there is not even a cloud in the sky. This kind of good weather is perfect for harvesting honey.

Knowing that honey would be harvested this morning, Ye Qingqing was so happy that he couldn't sleep last night. After breakfast, he quickly took his father to the backyard to harvest honey.

The beehive was placed between two jujube trees. Father Ye specially built a shelf to place the beehive, and there was a small rain shelter above the beehive.

Ye Fu has built small sheds for several beehives in Xiaohoushan, so that he is not afraid of getting wet from the rain.

The jujube flowers on the jujube tree have formed small jujubes one by one, and the nectar on the jujube flowers has long turned into sweet honey.

Father Ye asked Ye Qingqing to go back to the house first, then took a pair of old clothes and wrapped them up.

Father Ye put half-dried straw under the beehive, and then lit the straw. The thick smoke drove out the bees inside the beehive.

Father Ye made sure that the exposed skin on his body was tightly packed, and carefully opened the beehive. There was quite a lot of honey inside.

Ever since this group of industrious little bees settled down in Ye's house, they have not rested for a day, going in and out to collect nectar all day long. In just two months, they already have half a hive of honey.

Every household in the village likes to plant fruit trees in the yard. Summer is when the fruit flowers bloom, and this is all thanks to the efforts of the villagers.

Father Ye did not cut all the honey, but left one-third as food for the bees.

Father Ye put the heavy honeycomb into a clean bucket and filtered it. There was at least three kilograms of honey.

Father Ye carefully restored the beehive to its original state, and then called Ye Qingqing over.

Hearing Ye's father's call, Ye Qingqing jumped up and ran over.

"This hive is really big and has a fruity smell. It must be delicious."

Looking at the sweet and fruity honey, Ye Qingqing wanted to break off a piece and put it in his mouth to eat.

Seeing Ye Qingqing's eagerness to eat, Ye Fujia smiled, broke off a small piece of honeycomb, and stuffed it into Ye Qingqing's mouth.

"It's delicious! Dad, you are so awesome."

While eating the sweet honey, Ye Qingqing did not forget to say sweet words to make her father happy.

Father Ye carried the honeycomb into the kitchen. Mother Ye had already prepared clean clay pots and gauze.

Father Ye handed the honeycomb to Mother Ye for filtering, and then went to Xiaohoushan with one or two clean buckets and a knife.

Father Ye first came to the honeysuckle field. At this time, the honeysuckle had already withered, but there were many wild chrysanthemums blooming on the mountain. The industrious little bees circled around the wild chrysanthemums, collected nectar and then flew back to the beehive.

The sweet-scented osmanthus and duck's foot tree are covered with buds, and they should be in full bloom in a few days. By then, these hard-working little guys will not have to worry about running out of nectar.

There was not as much honey in the honeysuckle field as at home. Father Ye cut off two-thirds of the combs from the three beehives. The total of the three hives only weighed about 8 pounds.

This year's honeysuckle is still small and not many flowers bloom. When the honeysuckle grows well next year, there will be more flower buds.

However, the honeysuckle has to be picked and sold, and there is not much nectar to collect. Father Ye plans to plant some sunflowers near the honeysuckle field.

Hundreds of flowers bloom in spring, including honeysuckle, sunflower and various fruit trees in summer, chrysanthemums, osmanthus, duckfoot trees and rapeseed flowers in autumn and winter. There are flowers blooming all year round.

Harvesting honey once every season means harvesting honey four times a year.

The beehive on the top of the mountain is between two huge jujube trees. In addition to the jujube trees, there are also several fruit trees nearby. The more flowers there are, the more honey will naturally come from them.

The beehives on the top of the mountain are full of honey, more than the honey in your backyard.

Father Ye used thick smoke to drive out the bees, carefully opened the beehive, and carefully took out the hive.

Father Ye only took two-thirds of the hive. The hive was large and heavy, weighing an estimated five kilograms.

Ye Mu broke off a small piece of sweet honey to Ye Qingqing and sent the little guy away. Then fold the clean gauze in half, place the honeycomb on top of the gauze, and filter the honey from the honeycomb along the gauze into the earthen jar at the bottom.

When the honey in the hive was almost gone, the leaf mother directly crushed the hive to pieces, then held the gauze tightly and squeezed out all the remaining honey.

When Father Ye returned home with two buckets of honey, Mother Ye had just finished filtering the honey. Filtered honey is clean and translucent, with a rich floral and fruity aroma.

Father Ye saw that Mother Ye had already filtered the honey, so he went back to the house and took out the weighing rod.

The total of the clay pot and honey is four kilograms and six taels, and the clay pot is estimated to weigh one kilogram, which means that the beehives in the honey backyard took three kilograms and six taels of honey.

The couple quickly filtered the honey brought back from Xiaohoushan. A total of 11 kilograms of honey was obtained from the four beehives in Xiaohoushan.

Including the sealed boxes in the backyard plus the sealed boxes in the backyard, the family got a total of fourteen pounds and six taels of honey.

Father Ye sent a pound of honey to his father-in-law's house, and kept more than a pound of honey to drink at home. The remaining 13 pounds of honey were packed in clay pots, and he planned to stop by the drug store when he went to the county to pick up the goods in two days. Sold.

Ye Qiushi knew that Ye's father had harvested honey, and planned to go to the mountain to harvest honey tomorrow.

The village chief bought more mountain fruit trees, and the mountain is larger, so there is probably a lot of honey.

The village chief and Ye Qiushi worked hard all morning before harvesting all ten beehives in the two mountains. A total of 28 kilograms of honey was harvested from the ten beehives.

Ye Qiushi was so happy to get so much honey at once that she took her father straight to the county pharmacy early the next morning.

The honey from both of them has been filtered and is clean and translucent. The shopkeeper's eyes lit up when he saw the honey.

Knowing that the two of them were beekeepers, the medicine shop owner paid 39 yuan a pound for all the honey, and said that he could get as much honey as he wanted for such quality.

Father Ye brought 13 kilograms of honey and earned 507 Wen. Ye Qiushi brought 28 kilograms of honey and earned a total of 1092 Wen.

The two of them came out of the drug store, unable to suppress the smiles on their faces, smiling like two fools.

My cousin once said that honey can be harvested from beehives all year round. After only one summer, there are more than ten kilograms of honey. If rapeseed flowers and sunflowers are planted on the mountain, then every season will be harvested. Can receive more honey.

The more they thought about it, the happier they became. They took the money they had just earned from selling honey and went straight to the seed shop. They both bought a large bag of rapeseed seeds and half of sunflower seeds.

There are still ten acres of land in Xiaohoushan that have not yet been planted. Originally, Ye's father planned to plant five acres of rapeseed in a few days, and then plant the remaining five acres of rapeseed in two or three months, so that the flowering period can be staggered.

But now Father Ye plans to plant rapeseed on all ten acres of land after he returns.

The five acres of corn planted earlier can be harvested in late autumn. The same goes for planting another crop of rapeseed after harvesting the corn. In this way, the time can be staggered and more rapeseed can be planted.