Infrastructure masters in the red building

Indeed, as the villager said, the honey was taken out of the hive that night and collected in honeypots.

An ingenious woman in Xinyu Village kneaded pancakes with flour exchanged from the market, filled them with honey, and baked them into fragrant honey pot helmets in a large pot on her stove, and distributed them to neighbors and villagers. child.

I don't know how many children slept with such honey cakes in their arms that night, and they must have sweet dreams.

Jia Fang came back to Taoyuanzhai the next day, and went to meet the villager who was holding a hatchet and dividing the hive, and another villager who was holding a torch to drive the bees away for his companions.

After Jia Fang asked his name, he found out that the first one was surnamed "Mi", because when he came from Yujiang, all his possessions were three knives, a hatchet, a kitchen knife, and a small knife. After cooked, it got a nickname, called "Misandao".

Jia Fang: ...Call it "Misan Knife" ①, can't it be enough?

"Have you ever raised bees before?" Jia Fang saw that Mi Sandao's technique yesterday, cutting beehives is as proficient as cutting watermelons. He wanted to know if this person had any experience in beekeeping. "

"That's not true, but if I find a wild bee nest in the wild, everyone will ask me to cut it." Mi Sandao said.

"Have you ever been stung by a bee before?" Jia Fang asked him.

Mi Sandao smiled immediately: "Why haven't I been stung before? Once I was stung like a pig's head. When I returned to the village, no one recognized me. I was almost beaten out as an outsider."

"Are you interested in beekeeping?" Jia Fang asked.

Mi Sandao said loudly: "Yes!"

Jia Fang couldn't help asking: "Why don't you ask me, what is the future of beekeeping? Can you make a living by beekeeping alone?"

Mi Sandao laughed when he heard this: "I, Mi Sandao, have nothing else to do all day long. I don't know how to do anything other than chop wood. I can make a living by chopping firewood. No relatives, no reasons, no restrictions, since you Mr. Jia mentioned it, so I'll take a look at it by the way."

As he spoke, he leaned back on the chair of the China Merchants Office, raised his hands, and hugged the back of his head, and said, "Third Lord, I quite like bees when they talk about them. After all, there are always such a large group of bees coming and going. I am a lonely ghost."

Speaking of this, Jia Fang remembered that Mi Sandao was one of the few "single households" among the new immigrants, that is, "individual households".Maybe because he always walks alone, so when he sees the bees that live in groups, and the bees that can be consistent with the outside world, Mi Sandao has a little liking for him.

Jia Fang remained calm, and then asked the name of the person next to him, whom he knew was Tian Youming.Tian Youming and Mi Sandao didn't know each other at first, but they got to know each other when they arrived in Taoyuan Village, were mixed into a village, and the homesteads were next to each other.Tian Youming has a large family to take care of, and Mi Sandao sometimes lends a helping hand and sends some firewood.

This Tian Youming also advised Mi Sandao to find a companion and live with others.But Mi Sandao never thought that anyone would look up to him, so he ignored it.

Now that Mi Sandao agreed, Jia Fang allocated a small piece of land on the other side of the Qingfang River to Mi Sandao as a "bee farm". The status of the group, when can honey be harvested, and when honey needs to be fed.

After listening to this for a long time, Mi Sandao exclaimed: "I didn't expect that there are so many ways to raise a bee."

Jia Fang laughed and said, "What's the matter? Afraid of trouble?"

Mi Sandao still looked shocked, but he shook his head decisively, and said, "It's not that I'm afraid of trouble, I just think this bee is so magical, it's like a human..."

In fact, the beekeeping tips that Jia Fang mentioned just now are equivalent to introducing the habits of bees.Honey bees are also a social creature, and even in a small bee colony, they perform their own duties. The queen bee, drone, and worker bees each have their own characteristics and the same goal, for the survival and reproduction of the population.

Jia felt relieved: It is more effective to explain the habits of bees thoroughly.

He immediately said: "Actually, this is just a generalization. If you really get started with beekeeping, what you observe with your own eyes will naturally be more detailed than what I heard."

He then threw out an olive branch: "I have assigned this bee farm to you. You don't need to pay land rent for the first five years. You can keep bees. In the first three years of the bee farm, every time you add a beehive, I will give you a subsidy of [-] Wen..."

The condition Jia Fang gave was so generous that Mi Sandao opened his eyes wide in surprise, while Tian Youming was overjoyed and kept reaching out to pat his friend's shoulder.

But Jia Fang has his own plan: raising bees in Taoyuanzhai is not just for the little profit of honey.Now Taoyuan Village has begun to promote many economic crops, such as tomatoes and peppers. Artificial pollination of these crops is very troublesome, but the little bees flying around are good helpers for pollination.

Therefore, breeding bees here not only harvests honey, but also improves the ecological environment of the entire Taoyuan Village.As long as someone is willing to raise it, Jia Fang is willing to give various discounts.

Of course, Mi Sandao agreed in a hurry, and Jia Fang did not forget to tell: "Be careful when taking care of the bees and take good precautions. Be gentle when taking care of them, and treat them with a little honey water from time to time, and they will know you no offence."

"Observe more. After observing for a long time, you will naturally know how to take care of them." Jia Fang earnestly instructed, he was actually relaying all the experience of the old beekeeper who guarded a bee farm alone in another time and space to the young man in front of him.

After asking Mi Sandao, Jia Fang turned to Tian Youming again: "How are you?"

Tian Youming asked in surprise: "Me?" This guy originally thought he was an accompanying guest, but who would have thought that Jia Fang would actually ask him the question.

He thought for a while, scratched the back of his head, and said, "Actually... I originally wanted to ask Mr. Jia if I could apply for a piece of land to plant sugar cane..."

Growing sugar cane? —— Jia reassuredly thought: Good guy, I have been exhausted by this "sweet" taste in the past few days.

"My family used to have a small sugar workshop in Yujiang. Later, someone in the family fell ill, so the workshop was sold out. Later... I moved to your place." Tian Youming was a kind-hearted young man, but Jia Fang heard about it, saying that his family was very tired.

Jia Fang couldn't help asking curiously: "Sugar workshop? Do you have sugarcane fields?"

Tian Youming replied: "The family has a field of their own and has planted sugar cane for a while. But the climate in our area is cold, and the sugar cane grown is not very good. Therefore, most of the time, sugar cane is harvested from the south and sugar cane is produced at home. "

That's right - Jia Fang nodded.

"So you still want to return to your old business when you come here?" He asked Tian Youming, "Or do you just want to grow sugar cane?"

Tian Youming immediately shook his hand and said, "Third Master is really hitting the nail on the head—little man...I, I still want to start the sugar workshop at home. After all, there should be no shortage of materials here."

Jia Fang laughed immediately: "Since you know this, I'll just say it straight. Rather than asking me to grant you a piece of land to grow sugar cane, it's better to let me grant you a piece of land to build a sugar workshop for you."

"Now that we have a market and a food street, we just want to release the news that our Taoyuan village is going to collect the sugarcane. Someone will definitely bring it." Jia Fang meant that sugarcane doesn't have to be planted first before the establishment can be established. Sugar factory——Tian Youming's family has experience in sugar production, so he went straight to the horse, collected raw materials from surrounding towns, and processed them.

In Taoyuan Village, there is a consumer market for sugar, which can be produced and sold by itself.

Tian Youming was overjoyed: "The third master is so decisive!"

Jia Fang: "Don't rush to be happy, I want to see your plan."

Tian Youming and Mi Sandao glanced at each other, neither of them knew what "planning" was.

"Just write down, how much space, how much labor, what materials do you need to build this workshop, do you need a big iron pot, or if I give you a biogas stove from a biogas pit, it will save you time and trouble... "

"How much sugar cane can you collect from here, how much sugar can you produce, and how much can you sell it for? After deducting labor and other costs, how much net profit can you make each season..."

Jia Fang's last sentence is the most important, "Calculate all the investments so that I can give you a loan!"

Tian Youming originally planned to use his family's savings to build a small-scale workshop first, and then expand it slowly after making money.Who would have thought that Jia Fang would actually promise him that if the "plan" was done well, he would be able to get a business loan from Taoyuanzhai, so that he could build a decent-sized sugar factory right away.

Tian Youming couldn't sit still here, he wanted to rush back to his home almost immediately, call Lao Tzu and his sisters, and let's discuss together and figure out how to plan this workshop.

Who knew that Jia Fang asked him: "What was the name of your previous workshop?"

Tian Youming replied honestly: "Back to the third master, our family used to specialize in making brown sugar, and it was very fragrant when it was boiled. You can smell the sweet fragrance for ten miles around. So the home workshop was named 'Red Sugar'. Sugar Shop'."

Jia Fang: ... I knew it!

When he first planned to build a bee farm, he vaguely felt that it had something to do with the "Red Fragrance Garden".

What is "Red Fragrant Garden"?That's where the famous scene of "Xiangyun Mian Shao" happened—according to the book, Xiangyun was drunk and fell asleep on a rock in a daze. The fragrant dream is deep, "the peony flowers are flying all around, the fan in my hand is on the ground, and it is half buried by the fallen flowers, surrounded by a group of bees and butterflies clamoring" ②—isn't it related to the bees and butterflies?

Right now, besides beekeeping to produce honey, there is another sugar workshop that finds me, and it is called "Red Fragrance Sugar Workshop".

What else can't explain everything?

But Jia Fang was gratified: he was still lamenting that the children in Taoyuan village had never had the opportunity to taste sweet food, and then Taoyuan village ushered in a sweet opportunity - it seems that toothbrushes will be quickly promoted here in the future up.

Immediately, Mi Sandao and Tian Youming got up and said goodbye.Jia Fang sent them out of the Investment Promotion Office, asking the two of them about their actual situation.

"They're all in their twenties, but they're still single?" Jia Fang asked: Obviously the ratio of men to women in his village isn't so unbalanced, there shouldn't be so many older single youths!

Tian Youming blushed immediately, but Mi Sandao said openly, "I'm an orphan, I'm used to being alone. If Mr. Jia wants to worry, he should worry about Tian Youming."

Jia Fang smiled "haha" and said, "I don't have the heart to worry about you, but the marriage is destined, maybe the marriage will come to you if you leave this door?"

As soon as the words fell, a row of girls on the opposite side suddenly blocked the way of the three of them.

"What is this going to do?" Mi Sandao and Tian Youming were inexplicably nervous.Jia Fang had seen this situation before, and immediately said with a smile, "Whatever you say."

These girls are all native girls from Taoyuan Village. The biggest difference between them and girls from Xinyu Village is that they have the courage to show their faces on weekdays, and when they go out, they wear those shiny and heavy silver ornaments on their heads.When they see a man they like, they will often sing and answer with each other.

Sure enough, one of the young girls sang loudly: "Folk songs are like spring river water. They sing here and there. The bees forget to nest. Beekeepers, come to the village."

Here is the old custom of "dialogue" in Taoyuan Village.Young men and women, if they have a good impression of each other, they will answer each other in the form of singing folk songs.Most of these folk songs have routines. For example, when they first met, they sang "Song of First Meeting" and "Song of Exploration". When getting married, the bride has to cry for marriage, so there are "Crying Marriage Songs" and the like, which have many names, but they all express their true feelings and express their feelings directly.Young people rely on these folk songs to get closer and form a relationship.

But the situation here in Taoyuan Village is quite special.

The aborigines in Taoyuan Village have a population of about one thousand and only four surnames. After several generations, their bloodlines are very close.Therefore, most of the daughters in Taoyuan Village marry outside, and the granddaughter of Village Chief Tao is an example.As for young people in the village who marry their wives, they have recently tended to hire outsiders.Taoyuan Village tries to avoid "self-produced and sold" as much as possible, which can be regarded as a "eugenic" measure to prevent close relatives from marrying.

Originally, there used to be a custom of "looking at the right side of the song fair" in this area, that is, "marriage does not need a matchmaker", and "marriage is married by singing", that is to say, young men and women see each other right at the song fair, and if they like each other, they will do things directly without the need Parents to enrich people.

But for a small village with a population level like Taoyuan Village, this method of marriage is not feasible, because singing a folk song to a school-age young man may be his blood relative within three generations.In neighboring counties and towns, because of the vigorous promotion of "education", it is believed that "seeing the right song fair" is an act of immorality, and this kind of marriage custom has gradually been banned.

At this moment, these brave girls in Taoyuan Village stood in front of Tian Youming and Mi Sandao, and boldly sang the "Testing Song".

This reminded Jia Fang: It is true that he has not cared about the marriage affairs of young people of the right age for a while.

Although Jia Fang is just a 16-year-old boy on the outside, he is an adult in his heart, and he can think about these things with confidence.And he is very aware of the significance of population to his territory.

In the early days, there were only 1000 people in Taoyuan Village, and there was basically nothing to do except planting rice.Later, Jia Fang was honored by the third prince, and he wanted to thank the prince for his inaction, which allowed Taoyuan Village to have so many more people.As a result, the problem of too close bloodlines and difficult marriages in Taoyuan Village was solved at once.

However, the new immigrants have been here for nearly half a year, and Taoyuan Village has not yet held a happy event!

Obviously, there are girls waiting to be married and young bachelors in full swing on both sides, but neither side has taken the crucial step of testing each other.

Of course, there are objective reasons for this—when new immigrants come, they first seek medical treatment, then settle down, divide their land, and try to start a business... In a completely unfamiliar environment, and facing so many challenges, men and women of the right age are all different. The main force of this kind of physical and mental work, of course, can't take care of their life-long events.

But now, half a year later, everything is gradually on the right track, and young men and women finally have the opportunity to be affected by hormones, and the opportunity has come.

The girls in Taoyuan Village over there have always been brave and pungent. Yesterday, someone told me about Misandao's "heroic appearance" of chopping beehives with a knife, and I heard that Jia Fang took a fancy to Misandao and asked him to keep bees.Everyone said that the people Mr. Jia had a crush on had a bright future, and the girl who fell in love with Mi Sandao was even more willing to believe in his ability, so they sang the "Testing Song" face to face.

Facing a group of young girls wearing shiny silverware, Tian Youming couldn't help taking a step back, blushing and daring not to look directly.Mi Sandao imitated the other party's folk songs, and sang loudly in response: "Folk songs are like spring river water, singing here and there. Beekeepers lost their parents when they were young, and there is no one to accompany them..."

Behind the two of them, Jia Fang couldn't help clapping his hands in praise, thinking that Mi Sandao was really good.He has roughly heard about the process of the "song fair" here. Generally, after the men and women start singing to each other, they will inquire about each other to see each other's basic situation, how to make a living, who is in the family, whether they are married, etc.

As for Mi Sandao, he explained it clearly and plainly as soon as he came up, as frank as a basic information sheet.There was a commotion from the girls on the opposite side, apparently they were encouraging the girl who had taken a fancy to Mi Sandao first, to let them "communicate" with singing again.

Tian Youming, the future owner of the sugar shop, is completely reserved.However, Jia Fang knows that Mi Sandao is very rare, and this Tian Youming is a normal "sample" in Xinyu Village.

Jia Fang immediately had an idea, and he immediately asked someone to call five village chiefs to his centralized office for a meeting.

"I have decided to hold a 'blind date meeting' in Taoyuan Village." Jia Fang announced.

"Blind date meeting?" The five village chiefs looked at each other in dismay for this brand new term.

Jia Fang nodded: He has the experience of various social activities in another time and space as the basis for holding a blind date conference, and it is easy to do it.

However, what is more important to Jia Fang is that in Taoyuanzhai, where two different marriage and love cultures collide, how to complete the "transformation" and make this small society move towards a more modern and efficient social model is what he needs to consider the most. The problem.