After graduation, I went home to keep bees

"What? You said everyone hired a car to go to the second-hand market to buy wood?"

After listening to Jiang Xiaoman's words, the old village chief was so startled that he almost jumped up.

Can it still be so?

Jiang Xiaoman told the old village chief with practical actions, just because he has been picking up waste for many years, cough ~ no!

It is the rich experience of "recyclable garbage reuse". If you want to buy a large amount of cheap wood for the villagers in a short period of time, this second-hand market is really a good way!

As we all know, the bosses in the second-hand market hold almost 90% of the retail phone numbers in one place that collect waste.

Jiang Xiaoman intends to count how much waste wood is needed in his village and Laoshan'aozi, and then go to the second-hand market in the county to send a message to buy second-hand wood.

When the time comes, he will just wait for someone to come to him.

The most important thing is that he doesn’t need a whole piece of good wood to make beehives, and some scattered pieces of wood can also be used. His father used to use the scraps of his own furniture to make two beehives with holes.

Unexpectedly, these two extremely ugly beehives are very popular with the wild bees. They don't need them to lure the bees, and the wild bees are scrambling to build their nests every year...

Moreover, he asked someone to inquire about the price of second-hand wood, if it is not necessary to have a whole piece of good wood, it is almost only one-tenth of the whole piece of good wood on the market!

Take the most commonly used fir boards in their countryside as an example. The cheapest cheap board with double-sided knots costs 150 yuan a piece. In fact, one board can’t make much. You can get a bunch of them for a buck.

Moreover, these second-hand scraps of boards are usually discarded by people in the city for decoration. In the past, those who collected waste products didn't want them. Now that he spends money to buy them, he doesn't believe that those who collect waste products are not tempted!

These people in the village are worrying about buying planks.Hearing that Jiang Xiaoman has a way to get cheaper second-hand wood, the old village head didn't need to go door-to-door to notify him, so he took the initiative to ask Jiang Xiaoman to report the quantity.

However, Jiang Xiaoman also made it clear to them that in addition to the money for buying wood, the money for hiring a car and transporting it in the city should be shared equally by each family.

"That's what it should be! Originally, when we went to the town to buy planks, we had to hire a car and ask someone to help us." Everyone in the village knew that it was a good deal without having to do the math.

After all, they go to buy first-hand boards by themselves, which is expensive, and they have to pay for a car at home.

Ask Jiang Xiaoman to help buy it together. If you hire a car, you can share a car with several companies. Second-hand boards are also cheaper than first-hand ones. Calculated in this way, the cost of making a beehive bucket can be saved by half!

"Hey! In the early years before we closed the mountains for forestation, the bee barrels were made of the thickest tree trunks. The bee barrels made at that time were so strong! One barrel can be passed down for three generations! Now? My family The big trees on the mountain are not allowed to be cut! Wood is expensive! You can only buy second-hand wood!"

Hearing that his son was going to help the villagers go to the second-hand market to find wood and come back to make bee barrels, Jiang Youliang couldn't help but sigh.

The few beehives in his house are simply the "brand of the times" mentioned on TV!

From his grandfather's generation, he used beehive barrels made of old tree stumps in the mountains that are as thick as two people hugging each other.

It was made of planks sawed from solid wood until his father's generation.

In his generation, he used leftover wood scraps from his own furniture to make beehives.

Unexpectedly, in his son's generation, he can't even use the scraps of new wood, so he still has to buy second-hand wood!

well! !

The country's policy is good, but the things made are getting more and more useless!

While muttering, Jiang Youliang dragged out the scraps of wood left over from the family's previous furniture, sawed it, and put it together again, and unexpectedly pieced together three beehives.

This is why Jiang Xiaoman went to the county town to find second-hand wood and came back.

Although no expert argument has been obtained, Jiang Xiaoman always feels that the wild bees in the mountains seem to prefer this kind of beehives nailed with scrap wood boards to build their nests, probably because the gaps left by the splicing of the boards are more convenient for the bees to live in. Nest above?

While Jiang Youliang was beating at home to make beehives, Jiang Xiaoman had already gone to the county town to bring back the first truckload of second-hand timber.

Said to be second-hand wood, it looks exactly like new!

"We were lucky this time. The waste collector said that they just recently contracted the garbage removal of a new community. That community is being renovated, and every day they throw out a lot of wooden boards left over from making furniture, just some composite boards. The quality is not good, so you have to choose it before giving it to us." Jiang Xiaoman's trip was really a surprise!

He felt that he could add another article to his "Records of Gathering Trash".

It turns out that those new communities that haven't been lived in yet have rubbish to pick up?

Useful knowledge added a little more!

The wooden boards cut out for decoration and furniture were not very flat, and there was no way to calculate the money by square meter. In the end, Jiang Xiaoman simply calculated the money for them by weight.

So, this winter, every household in the whole Langshan village is knocking on nails, sawing wood, and busy making bee barrels.

There are also some technologies that are not up to standard, or to save trouble, they are directly made into square beehives just like Jiang Youliang.

The finished beehives and beehives do not need to be painted or tung oiled. Just choose a place, put a few stones or bricks under it to prevent the beehive from getting damp, and use broken tiles on the top to block the rainwater casually. Some people If the technology of attracting bees is not good, they even went to Jiang Yu's house and asked Shanyan to help them guide them.

Because of this, Mrs. Shanyan and the villagers quickly became acquainted, and now it can be said that they have completely integrated into Langshan Village.

Lang Ying also moved back to the renovated old house with her two daughters.

Jiang Xiaoman went to the county town for more than a week, and brought back enough second-hand wood for two villages. Now the reputation in the village is rising!

After all, his operation cut the villagers' cost of making beehive buckets by more than half!

In this way, at the same cost, only [-] beehives could be made, but now [-] can be made.

According to Jiang Xiaoman's calculations for the old village chief, a good beehive can earn 1000 yuan a year, and ten is [-] yuan!

Sixty beehives, isn't that 6 yuan?

Nothing!

The thought of sitting at home without doing anything, just going to take care of it from time to time, and then waiting for Shan Yan and the others to come to collect honey, can make a net profit of 6 yuan a year. The bees are attracted to make money for them!

It’s just that their bee barrels are made too late this year, and they have already missed the best season for attracting bees. They can only wait for the spring of next year, when the flowers are in full bloom, and if there is a large bee colony, they can take the opportunity to pick up the leaks. .

When the whole village was concentrating on making bee buckets, Jiang Xiaoman started to take an unusual path, taking Jiang Yu and Lang Ying to the market every two days to pick up leaks, trying to sell them at the lowest price. All the fish are rounded, and then brought back to make smoked fish.

Originally, Jiang Yu wanted someone to deliver the goods to his door, but he didn't expect that the people fishing on the river are so lazy!

He refused to run even a little way, insisting that it was not worthwhile to run for a few fish.

Jiang Yu couldn't help it, his face wasn't enough for someone to make a special trip for him, so he could only ride a borrowed tricycle with Jiang Xiaoman, going back and forth between the town and the village.

Fortunately, the price of live fish this year is really cheap!

There were a few times when the market was over, Jiang Xiaoman personally went to the battle to bargain, and he cut the price of the fish that hadn't died down to the price of a dead fish, three yuan a catty, regardless of the species!

In fact, this kind of fresh fish that was caught just the day before, even if it died due to lack of oxygen, is taken home and immediately cut open for processing. The taste of the fish meat is not much different from that of fresh live fish.

That day, their whole family, including Lang Ying's mother and daughter, ate delicious stewed tofu in fish ponds and braised fish in braised water, that is, fish tail.

The rest were cut into pieces and made into smoked fish.

Jiang Xiaoman's smoked fish is different from the whole marinated fish in the countryside. It is first cut into pieces and marinated, then spread on bamboo mats, and smoked slowly with pine needles and bamboo charcoal.

The finished smoked fish is golden in color, and when you open it, the belly of the fish is still bright red, and because ginger and pepper are added to the marinade, it doesn't smell too fishy, ​​but it has a A unique aroma of smoked wax.

It is no exaggeration to say that the smoked fish has not yet been cooked in the pan, just the smell makes the mouth water.

Jiang Xiaoman specially cooked a few dishes for them with smoked small fish.

When they collected fish in the town before, in order to keep the price down, they agreed with the stall owner that the price would be full, big fish and small fish!

Therefore, in addition to the big fish suitable for sale, they also bought back a lot of small fish and shrimp.

Shrimp is easy to deal with. They can’t finish it. They took it out and dried it in the sun that day. This stuff is not cheap in local restaurants. When Jiang Yu went to the river ditch to cast nets, he had already saved it one after another. A lot of prawns were dried up, Shanyan said, and when there were more, he would take them to the urban area and find a few restaurants that specialize in local dishes to sell.

In local restaurants, a small handful of dried wild river prawns can be sold for 40 yuan or 40 yuan a plate when they are used to stir-fry leeks.

For the remaining small fish, crucian carp is cut from the back, and the internal organs are removed. After marinating, use a small bamboo stick to prop it up and dry it in the sun. You can also save it for later eating dried fish.

However, fresh wild crucian carp is also a good thing. Jiang Xiaoman’s method is to first cut open and remove the internal organs, wash and drain the water, and then use it to cook in a pot after frying. Pour in the crucian carp and simmer slowly over low heat. The more stewed, the more fragrant it will be.

There is also a kind of fish called Huang La Ding. To be honest, if it is not dead due to lack of oxygen, this kind of fish can be sold for more than ten yuan a catty.It's a pity, just like it's hard for an outdated star to get back the resources at their peak when they cut prices and lose money, so the dead Huang Lading can only be packaged and cleared for three yuan a catty...

But Jiang Xiaoman doesn't dislike it!

After buying it, dissect it, wash it, and cook it with shredded radish. This season’s radish is delicious, crisp, tender and sweet. Cut it into shreds and stew it with diced yellow pepper. It’s so fresh!

When Jiang Xiaoman made this dish, he didn't put chili on purpose, and the children ate it without raising their heads, and took a big spoon to eat fish soup and shredded radish mixed with rice.

"Xiao Man, I have never lived such a good life since I was born. No wonder everyone in our village said that the old witch priest praised you as our little lucky star in Langshan!"

"I see, since I met you, my good luck has come!" Lang Ying said with a smile.

In just half a month, sister Lang Ying seemed to have been completely reborn, and she was no longer the same as before, always hunched over, with a bitter face.

Without the enslavement and training of her parents-in-law, Lang Ying is a diligent person. In addition to taking good care of her two daughters, she can even spare time to tidy herself up every day.

Although the clothes on her body are still old, they are washed clean every day. For convenience, she cut her short hair to the ears, revealing a smooth and full forehead and a pair of bright big eyes. If two people!

However, she didn't mean to flatter Jiang Xiaoman by saying this.

Lang Ying now really believes in the words of the old witch priest.

Because, ever since she met Jiang Xiaoman, she has been hanging out for more than a month!

First, he divorced Jiang Erming, that wolf-hearted thing, and got an old house, two pieces of land, and 2 yuan in cash.With these things to rely on, Lang Ying is fully confident that she can raise two daughters!

After all, when Jiang Erming didn't care about her life, didn't she support a family of five by farming the land and raising pigs?Now those two lazy old things are missing!

Then, thanks to Jiang Xiaoman's blessing, she found two new jobs——

One is to help Jiang Yu and Jiang Xiaoman make smoked fish together. It costs 100 yuan a day, and the expenses in the countryside are not big. She can save at least 2000 yuan!For the rest, I can occasionally buy some meat for my two daughters.

Another one is to help the rocks install beehives at night.

Ever since they discovered that old beehives could be sold for money, the disciples of Shanyan found the "wealth code" and drilled into the mountains almost every day, sending them down the mountain when they accumulated too much and throwing it directly to their master.

Anyway, Shanyan has always been kind to them, he cut the hive back and gave it to Master, and after selling the money, Master will give them a lot of money.

Probably poor Lang Ying, a woman with two children, life is not easy, Shan Yan gave Lang Ying a new job: to help them pack the hive.

The great thing about this job is that it can be done at home.

Shan Yan prepared a whole barrel of old beehives and custom-made glass bottles for her, so that after Lang Ying settled her two children in the evening, she could still install beehives at home. By the way, you can earn dozens of dollars by doing it.

It doesn't look like much, but for a single mother who can't live without her children, it is a job that is especially suitable for her.

With these two jobs with stable income, Lang Ying seems to have hope and motivation for life all at once. Now she is full of energy, not afraid of too much work, but afraid of not having work to do!

And all of this was brought to her by Jiang Xiaoman...

The old witch priest is right, Xiaoman is indeed their lucky star of Langshan! !