The prosperous era of courtyard houses

Chapter 135, Honey and Tea

At around nine o'clock, after coming out of the hospital, Li Weiguo rode directly home.

Over at the hospital, Zhao Guobing has a nurse and two brothers Zhou Can taking care of him, so he doesn't need to worry too much. Although he is seriously injured, he can still take care of himself, as long as Li Weiguo and Zhou Can take turns bringing him a meal these two days. become.

Returning to the courtyard, the courtyard feels much deserted than usual.

Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year. Many neighbors will go out to visit relatives starting today, so there are fewer people in the courtyard.

Like the third uncle's family across the door, I don't know which family they are relatives of. Anyway, the whole family has gone out at this time, and none of the neighbors are here. Li Weiguo is the only one in the front yard, which is deserted.

The Silly Zhu brother and sister in the middle courtyard are not here either, only the first man and his wife and Jia Dongxu's family are at home.

Back at his house, Li Weiguo lit the stove and sat at home drinking tea for a while, feeling really bored.

A person who is in a daze at home might as well enter a space to farm, and then sneak into the secret space in a flash.

After entering the space, Li Weiguo took a rough look at the development of the space and was quite satisfied.

Wheat, corn, sweet potatoes and half an acre of vegetables grown in the farmland can be harvested and sown automatically on a regular basis.

The farmed chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep and rabbits are now being farmed at full capacity. They can automatically breed, feed, slaughter and store. They are basically on the right track. He does not need to worry about it at all, which is very convenient.

After looking around at the development of poultry, livestock and farmland, Li Wei looked at the half-acre medicinal field and one-acre orchard.

The orchard was created by looking for fruit seedlings from Wang Mancang of the commune when I traveled here last year. At first, there were only twelve seedlings. After more than half a year of planting and cultivation, one acre of orchard has been filled with fruit trees, with a total of 180 trees.

Apples, peaches, dates, cherries, walnuts, chestnuts, thirty trees of each of the six types.

The ones that have been planted the longest now are seven years old based on the time in the space, and the ones that were planted the latest are three or four years ago. They were all planted by Li Weiguo after the first batch of fruit trees were harvested.

Nowadays, according to the planting conditions of the orchard, there is a harvest every other month, and the six kinds of fruits can be harvested for several thousand kilograms, which is too much to eat. Except for a small amount left for self-eating or giving as gifts, most of them are used for feeding. Animals, there is no other way, they can't be left in the warehouse to eat ashes.

After looking at the fruit trees, Li Weiguo looked at the twelve-frame beehive placed in the center of the orchard.

After five or six years of reproduction in the space, the number of bees in the space has grown to 80,000 to 90,000 bees, and the twelve-frame beehive has almost reached its breeding limit.

This twelve-frame beehive was specially made by Li Weiguo. Ever since he moved the bees in, he has not taken any honey. Now, after the bees have multiplied, another layer of successor boxes has been added to the original twelve-frame beehive, for a total of two Fourteen nest boxes.

This large swarm of bees has been breeding for so long, so there must be a lot of honey.

Today he is going to open the box and see how much stock is stored in it.

Just do it.

Li Weiguo walked straight to the beehive. As soon as he got close, hundreds of bees in the beehive spotted him, and a large "buzzing" bee flew out, flying densely around Li Weiguo, which was very spectacular.

Without stopping, Li Weiguo continued to approach the beehive. He could control everything in space with his thoughts, and it was easy to isolate the bees from approaching, and he was not too worried about being stung by the bees.

Walking to the beehive, Li Weiguo used his mind to move the bees flying around him two meters away from him, and then began to open the lid.

Open the top layer of the box cover, and the twelve nest frames in the upper layer of the box are exposed, and the honeycombs above are still clinging to the densely clinging bees.

Take out the honey spleen, use your mind to gently push away the bees clinging to it, and gently peel off the cocoon skin on it, and the honey on the honey spleen will be revealed.

Brown-yellow honey, crystal clear, thick and viscous, with a fragrant sweetness that penetrates your nostrils.

Li Weiguo was also greedy when he saw it. He gently picked up a little honey with his hand, put it in his mouth and took a sip.

Hmm. Sweet, very sweet, cloying kind.

This is good stuff, nutritious and delicious. It’s great whether you keep it for yourself or give it as a gift.

I glanced at the honey in the beehive with my mind. It was almost more than a hundred kilograms. There was a lot of honey stored and it was ready to be taken.

So Li Weiguo took out a large pottery jar from the static warehouse and started filling it with honey.

This large pottery jar was used to hold pickles at home. It had not been used for a long time. After cleaning it, Li Weiguo kept it in the static warehouse. It came in handy now.

A full pottery jar can hold almost one hundred kilograms, which is enough to collect the honey.

However, Li Weiguo did not collect it all at once. He only bought 80 kilograms and then stopped. He did not plan to take the remaining 20 kilograms of honey. He had to leave some for the bees. After all, the bees also had to reproduce and consume.

Anyway, with the speed of space, no matter how hard he eats, he can't keep up with the speed of bees making honey. He can just get it when he needs it.

After taking the honey, Li Weiguo looked at the half-acre medicinal field in the space.

After getting the seeds of tea trees and medicinal herbs from the seed shop in October, Li Weiguo buried the seeds and didn't take much care of them, letting them grow freely.

Fortunately, the land in the space is very fertile, and most of the medicinal materials planted have survived.

Medicinal materials such as ginseng, Codonopsis pilosula, and dendrobium officinale are growing very well, and are green and full of vitality.

What is even more surprising is that the twenty tea trees planted by Li Weiguo have now grown up. They have been planted outside for three months and have been planted in the space for three years. They are now ready for picking in small quantities.

Looking at the green leaves and fresh buds on the tea trees, Li Weiguo immediately had an idea and directly picked some tea leaves from twenty tea trees and packed them in a small dustpan.

Considering that the tea trees had just formed the tea shed not long ago, we did not harvest too much for fear of affecting the subsequent development of the tea trees. A total of half a kilogram of young leaves were taken from the twenty tea trees.

After waiting another month or two, the tea tree will grow to four or five years old and enter the maturity stage, and he will be able to fully realize the freedom of tea leaves.

It feels beautiful just thinking about it

Looking at the half a catty of young leaves in the dustpan in his hand, Li Weiguo was in a very good mood.

Tea is a rare commodity these days, and even high-ranking cadres don't get much of the ration each year.

When ordinary people come to visit, it is considered a high standard to offer some "high-quality tea" to entertain guests, not to mention the tea as good as the one in his hand, which is properly displayed on the cards.

Just as Li Weiguo was thinking about how to fry these tea leaves, suddenly, the secret space alerted him.

There was a knock on the door outside the house.

Li Weiguo looked solemn and did not dare to delay. He immediately took the tea back to the static warehouse and thought about it later.

Then he dodged and was outside.