After graduation, I went home to keep bees

Jiang Xiaoman hasn't come to school for quite a while, and he didn't expect that the house rented by the school has changed a lot——

In the originally slightly empty yard, mobile prefabricated houses were installed on the left and right sides!

This was specially built by Jiang Baichuan to apply for a temporary construction.

After the two new teachers arrived, the rented private house really couldn't fit in. If they scattered to the villagers' homes to borrow, I was worried that something might happen.

Thinking of staying here for another year, Jiang Baichuan made a report to his superiors, approved an additional amount of funds, and built several prefab houses in the yard.

This kind of house is easy to disassemble and assemble, and the cost is not high. The key is that the rented yard will not be damaged if it is dismantled in the future.

Now Jiang Baichuan and his two teachers live in three prefabricated houses on the east side and three on the west side, one has been converted into a reading room, and the remaining two have been opened up as a temporary canteen.

Jiang Baichuan arranged Lang Ying, mother and daughter in the reading room next to the cafeteria.

"It's not good for the two children to break the school books. Let's go to the classroom and sleep."

Looking at the neat bookshelves in the room, Lang Ying held the two children awkwardly.

"What are you afraid of? Aren't books just meant to be flipped through? Do they still have to be put on the shelf to pretend? It's a good thing for children to like flipping through books. It's good to read the book. Just put it back after reading it."

Jiang Baichuan pointed to the two temporary wooden boards in the corner——

"There is no extra bed in the school. These two boards were brought from the previous move, and the floor can also prevent moisture. This is the library. According to the regulations, open flames and electrical appliances are not allowed. Neither braziers nor electric blankets can be used. I have wronged you."

"Don't be wronged! It's us who caused trouble for the school."

Lang Ying didn't expect that their mother and daughter could find such a good place to stay. The library was very clean, and the room was full of books!

She has grown up so much, and she has never seen so many books.

The two new teachers heard that Principal Jiang rescued the orphans and widows who were abandoned by scumbags, and they also came to have a look. Not long after, Yao Tiantian brought Lang Ying several warm babies and a fully charged battery. Electric hot water bottle.

Gu Qingsong also contributed his electric hot water bottle.

The night in the mountains is really too cold. It is better for them to have thick quilts. Lang Ying has two children, and the children cannot catch a cold.

After setting up Langying's mother and daughter, Jiang Xiaoman hurried back to Shanyan's house.

Shan Yan's apprentices and their families have not left yet.

There was a stove burning in the room, a large pot of tea cakes was boiled on the stove, the air was filled with the smell of inferior tobacco, seeing Jiang Xiaoman came back, Shan Yan coughed, and officially got to the point.

To make the beekeeping business bigger and stronger, it is absolutely impossible to rely on the two of them alone.

According to what Jiang Xiaoman said before, it would be too slow to attract other villagers to join after they made money. Shanyan discussed with Jiang Xiaoman and planned to develop the first batch of "franchisees" from the people around him.

In fact, compared with Langshan Village, which is close to the road, Laoshan'aozi is more suitable for beekeeping.The mountains are rich in nectar, and bees can find nectar almost all year round, and the mountains are sparsely populated, sometimes a few families occupy several hills!

If more than 100 boxes of bee barrels are placed on a mountain, the annual output will be incredible.

In the past, it was because there was no market and it was not cost-effective to sell to hawkers, so no one thought about making money from beekeeping.

But it's different now.

Jiang Xiaoman's local honey is in short supply, and every time it is put on the shelves, it is the rhythm of seconds.

Shan Yan first asked a few apprentices to go home and tell the family about the situation. As for whether to do it or not, it was all voluntary, and he did not force it.

If Shan Yan used the title of master and apprentice to force everyone to come and raise bees with him, the families of these apprentices would really be embarrassed.

But his current appearance of "love to do it or not to do it" has actually made the family members more confident that beekeeping can make money.

Especially a few young people in the family who often watch videos online, studied Jiang Xiaoman's delivery performance, and sold thousands of bottles of honey in an hour. If they also followed beekeeping, wouldn't it be a safe profit? No compensation?

Shan Yan announced on the spot the "Preliminary Cooperation Plan for Beekeeping Cooperatives" that he had discussed with Jiang Xiaoman——

The first and most important thing is naturally the quality of the honey.

Now why are those who sell honey online so much complained about?

In the final analysis, it is because there are too many adulterations!

Obviously only purchased a hundred catties of honey, wishing to mix a thousand catties of fake honey into it!

This kind of thing is absolutely not allowed to happen in their cooperative!

The ancestors of the Shanyan family all went to the mountains to harvest honey, and he couldn't understand how to do things in this line of work.

Therefore, he made a rule for those who are willing to join the beekeeping cooperative: from now on, when the cooperative buys honey, don't shake it, that kind is too easy to adulterate, and he only needs the whole honeycomb that has not been dismantled!

"In the past, when everyone followed me to the mountains, what they were most afraid of was that something happened to their own family members in the mountains. To be honest, I was also afraid!"

Speaking of this, Shanyan shook his head with a wry smile, and pointed to Shanhua who was hugged by Jiang Yu and patted him to sleep, "You also know that I am not alone now, with Shancha and the three of them, I am now I also started to fear death."

"So, I'm planning to set up a running group in the cooperative to buy honey from the mountains in the future, and let a few of them follow me around the mountains to collect honey, and we will take the guys to the beekeeper's house to unpack the honey."

"This job is not like rock climbing to cut honey, where you have to sacrifice your life for money, and it's not that hard. The most important thing is that before going to the mountains to cut honey, that's what you eat when you're young. You see, in our line of work, after 40 years old, but how many of them can climb rock walls?"

"If you just go to the mountains to collect honey, then you don't have to eat youth food! As long as our beekeeping cooperative does not disband, you guys will be able to hold a lifetime of iron jobs in the future."

This is Shan Yan's trump card with confidence in persuading the family members to follow him and Jiang Xiaoman to raise bees together!

Their ancestors relied on rock climbing to make a living, who wouldn't want to make money safely and securely?

Even if you earn a little less, it is much better than worrying about it year after year.

He and these apprentices have the skills, and Jiang Xiaoman has the sales channels. If the two join forces, maybe this beekeeping cooperative can really be established?

At that time, he will not go climbing in the deep mountains and old forests to find honey, but will take his apprentices to collect honey!

Although this is a bit cumbersome, it can guarantee that what they take back is authentic and original honey.

As long as it is not adulterated and the customers are satisfied, a group of loyal customers can always be accumulated year after year.

Once the sales channels are stable, and their cooperatives and beekeepers can make money, then this business will be a gold mine that will never be exhausted!

The family members of this group of apprentices have already been brainwashed once at home, and now they have heard Shan Yan and Jiang Xiaoman personally promise that as long as this cooperative is established, there will be disciples who follow Shan Yan in the future. With an iron rice bowl, I don't have to exchange my life for money like before, so I can't help being a little bit excited.

However, they also have their own concerns.

The first one is the cost of making beehives.

Laoshan'aozi has long closed the mountain for forestation, and they are not allowed to cut down big trees. Although they each planted some on the top of their own hills, even if they all cut them down, they would only be enough to make [-] or [-] bee barrels at most. What is the barrel enough for?

If you want to make money from beekeeping to support your family, each household must make at least one hundred more beehives!

Buying the wood yourself, plus all kinds of auxiliary materials and labor, will cost more than 2 yuan just to make the beehive!

To be honest, people in the mountains like them, if they can spend 2 yuan at a time, they will not let their children follow the mountains to run in the mountains and exchange their lives for money.

Perhaps in the eyes of many urban people, 2 yuan is only two or three months' salary, but in Langshan, some people grow yams and corn every year, and the annual income of a whole family is less than 1 yuan. Woolen cloth!

After excluding the family expenses, if you can save two to three thousand yuan a year, you are considered to be very good at living.

More than 2 yuan, that is almost ten years of savings of a family in the mountains...

"There's no rush, and we didn't ask everyone to release more than 100 beehives at once in the first year." Jiang Xiaoman quickly explained, "Everyone will do what they can, and release as many beehives as possible this year. We also need to see how much honey a beehive can produce, if the output is too little, maybe we need to find a way to grow some honey plants.”

Everyone froze for a moment, then burst out laughing.

Even Shan Yan and Jiang Yu couldn't help but laugh.

They don't have anything else in Laoshan'aozi. Do they need to grow honey plants by themselves?

The only thing to worry about is that the beehives are placed too far away, and the honey is stolen by the gluttonous beasts in the mountains, right?

However, what Jiang Xiaoman said next stopped everyone from laughing.

"There is one more thing I want to tell my uncles and aunts, that, cough~ I am from Langshan Village after all, if I set up a beekeeping cooperative with Brother Shanyan, I will only help you sell honey here in Laoshan'aozi, no Selling honey for the people in this village, when the time comes, my father and I will be scolded to death in Langshan Village."

"So I discussed it with Brother Shanyan. Don't be in a hurry to make so many beehives. How much money do you have to make as many as you can? The rest will be done when you earn money next year~"

"In this case, if there are people in our village who want to raise bees with us, I will ask them to make a dozen bee buckets and put them out for a try."

Jiang Xiaoman explained embarrassingly.

The old Shan'aozi villagers who were still hesitating whether to make a few less beehives first felt a sense of crisis!

What?The people in Langshan Village also want to keep bees with them?

Then how much money can they make?The conditions under the mountain are much better than those in the mountain!Some families have two strong laborers who go out to work. In what year will they not bring back tens of thousands of dollars during the Chinese New Year?

Who doesn't have a deposit of tens of thousands of yuan?

With venture capital, wouldn't it be possible to make more than 100 beehive barrels immediately?

The only thing to be thankful for is that there are not as many honey sources under the mountain as there are in the mountain.

But there are so many people!

And Jiang Xiaoman also said that they plan to plant some nectar plants on the idle wasteland, so wouldn't their Laoshan'aozi lose any advantage at all?

Everyone's thoughts suddenly floated.

Those with flexible minds have already silently sorted out their relatives in their minds to see if there is any place to borrow [-] to [-] yuan first.

Anyway, in the matter of beekeeping, losing money is not likely to lose money. The worst result is that the bee bucket placed in the mountain is taken out by a blind bear, and at most one season's honey will be lost. The nest of wild bees will continue to produce honey next year...

Thinking about it this way, it seems that making a few more beehives is not a loss-making business, is it?

Jiang Xiaoman didn't deliberately trick the folks at Laoshan'aozi into making more bee buckets to support his beekeeping business.

In fact, early the next morning, he ran to the village, Changjiang Arita, and told him that he and Shanyan would start a beekeeping cooperative in their hometown.

"Brother Shanyan said that the ancestors of Laoshan'aozi would go to the mountains to harvest honey, so I asked them to try to raise a crop first. I thought that there are many people in our village who have beehive barrels at home. ? Anyway, I take back the local honey that I sell from Laoshan’aozi, so why can’t we take the honey from our own village?”

"Look, Uncle, do you want to make some beehives for your family to release? It's not troublesome to keep them. You just need to visit them often, so that the beehives won't be taken out by wild animals."

"I've done the math. According to the size of the bee barrels here, a barrel of bees can produce about a dozen catties of honey a year. According to this year's purchase price, a catty of raw honey is 23 yuan, and ten catties is 230 yuan. It can produce 2-3 stubbles of raw honey a year, and that one honeycomb can earn at least five or six hundred a year, and ten is five or six thousand... This is much more profitable than planting yams."

"And beekeeping isn't just about selling honey, it's also about selling hives and bee pupae! Calculated in this way, a beehive barrel can earn at least 1000 yuan a year."

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After hearing Jiang Xiaoman's calculation, Jiang Youtian couldn't sit still.

Of course he knew that beekeeping could make money.

Jiang Youtian's family now has a few beehive buckets, but they are all raised for their own family to eat or give away to others, and they never thought about it as a serious business.

But from what Jiang Xiaoman said, if each family in Langshan Village could make 1 or [-] beehive barrels, wouldn't they be able to earn more than [-] yuan a year when the harvest was good?

And this income, just like what Jiang Xiaoman said, really seems to be for nothing.

People in the mountains keep bees, and in fact, they only need to spend some money to make bee buckets. To attract bees, you can ask the beekeepers for some bee sugar base. For the winter, people in the mountains are used to keeping a little honey in the beehives, and there is no need to spend extra money. Money to buy sugar to feed.

The most important thing is that Jiang Xiaoman has solved the two most critical links in the mountain people's beekeeping industry: acquisition and sales.

According to him, if he joins their beekeeping cooperative, the farmers only need to take care of the bees in the future. When the honeycomb in the beehive is full, they will call the cooperative and Shanyan will bring a professional honey cutting team to buy , measure the quality of raw honey on site, and purchase according to weight and grade.

In this case, this beekeeping really doesn't need to spend too much energy?

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Even a spirit like Jiang Youtian was moved, let alone other families in the village.

Even Lang Ying, whose old house hadn't been repaired, planned to make twenty beehive barrels and put them on the mountain that Jiang's family gave her.

That mountain is not far from the river, and there is a locust forest, and there are mountain peaches, cherry blossoms, apricots, and wild chrysanthemums on the nearby mountains, all of which are natural sources of honey.

At that time, she will learn from Jiang Xiaoman again, and open half a meter wide on the edge of her own mountain, planting honeysuckle all along the edge!

This will not affect the original harvest of the land. The honeysuckle can also collect honey for the bees, and the flower buds can be plucked and dried to sell. The accumulation of small amounts will make the two girls eat more meat.

All of a sudden, every household took action.

Those who have wood at home are already sawing wood in the yard.

If there is no wood, call around to find someone to buy ready-made.

At this moment, Jiang Xiaoman brought another piece of good news to everyone...