It took five people three trips to carry the meat from the two bears, and finally they were finished.
Returning to the place where the potatoes were roasted, Chen Xiuqing looked at the oiled paper bag still hanging on the fire and was a little confused: "Brother Lu, just use this thing to boil water... This oiled paper bag shrinks into a ball when exposed to fire.
How can we still boil water?"
To him, what he saw seemed incredible.
Not only Chen Xiuqing, but also Zhang Shaofeng, Meng Zhaohua and Zhao Yongke looked over with some confusion.
"There's nothing strange about this. It's different if there's water in it. If you don't believe me, try it yourself!"
Lu Lu was too lazy to tell him the burning thing. Instead of explaining it for a long time, he might as well let them try it for themselves. They didn't know the specific reasons, as long as they knew what was going on.
Chen Xiuqing unbelievingly took a match, rubbed one, and put it under the oil paper bag to burn. As a result, she only saw a small black circle smoked out by the match at the bottom of the oil paper bag, but the oil paper bag was not burned through. She was surprised for a moment.
Speechless.
"Please reply to the letter this time... stop doing it and hurry up and get to work!" Lu Lu urged.
Chen Xiuqing put the match back into his pocket angrily, looked around the fire, and swallowed: "My roasted forest frog..."
"I just want to eat it. Why don't I bake it when I get home?"
Lu Lu smiled and stretched out his hand to rub his head.
"Save some of your sauce for me!" Chen Xiuqing was still thinking about Lu Lu's sauce.
He really couldn't figure it out, he just felt that the condiments prepared by Lu Lu tasted surprisingly good.
"No problem!" Lu Lu nodded and accepted the matter.
Next, the five people carried buckets and continued to search the river. It was not until evening that they each carried frog eggs and captured forest frogs, returned to the road, and asked Meng Zhaohua to drive to Lannigou.
Lu Lu placed the forest frog eggs in the buckets in different incubation pools according to their colors. By the time the work was completed, it was already completely dark.
Of the bear meat, Lu Lu only kept some leg meat and fed it to the dogs, and the rest was divided among the families working on the farm.
In the next four days, Liang Kangbo led his people along the area mentioned by Lu Lu and began to build an anti-escape fence for forest frogs by driving piles around the mud ditch.
Considering that it would take a long time, Lu Lu simply asked Meng Zhaohua to go to the district and pull a lot of asbestos tiles back.
Using gauze, sacks and the like for protection would not last long. If wooden boards were used to surround a large area, it would be too labor-intensive and time-consuming. He simply chose to use it on the roof to keep out wind and rain these days.
Very good material asbestos tiles.
As for whether it causes cancer or not, I can’t control that much right now, let’s use it first and then talk about it.
In a few years, when protective materials such as steel mesh become more common and easier to obtain, they will be replaced.
If things go well, the farm area will be expanded, and it will be a good time to do it together.
Drive wooden stakes on the ground, cut the asbestos tile into two sections, bury it about ten centimeters into the soil, use hammers and nails to drill holes in it, tie wires to the wooden stakes to fix them, build them one after another, at such a speed
, which is much less troublesome than building a wooden fence.
The key is the quality of asbestos tiles these days. They are really good and can be used for 20 to 30 years without any problem.
In the next few days, Meng Zhaohua was busy pulling asbestos tiles, while Liang Kangbo organized manpower to carry the asbestos tiles up the mountain for a few men to bundle on the mountain.
In one day, you can create a long section.
Enclosing an area of hundreds of hectares sounds huge, but according to their schedule, it can be completed well in advance of planting.
Lu Lu, Zhang Shaofeng and others searched for forest frog eggs in different places every day, asking Meng Zhaohua to send them into the mountain in the morning and pick them up in the evening.
In just four or five days, densely packed frog eggs were placed in the wooden frame gauze placed in the incubation pond of Lannigou.
Lu Lu estimated that the density was almost there, so he stopped the matter, and several people also participated in the construction of the anti-escape guardrail.
The bird-catching net placed above the hatching pond almost every day has some birds crashing into the net, which naturally become a delicacy cooked in the fire.
In the future protection process, there will be more troublesome things, such as yellow skins, foxes, rats, snakes, etc., and some birds that need to be guarded. At that time, various traps will have to be set up for protection. There are quite a lot of things.
Of course, necessary personnel patrols are also indispensable.
Now that the matter was done, he had to take good care of it. He didn't want to get so many frog eggs in three years later and end up with not a few frogs, so it would be meaningless.
Time flies to the end of April.
During this period of time, it snowed once, which was not a big one. It snowed one day and melted away the next day. It also rained twice, so there was no delay.
Chen Xiuqing's complete replica of Lu Lu's wooden house was built in the past month with sufficient manpower.
After the house was built, the furniture that had been kept in Zuo Songling's home was moved into the house.
On the day he helped move the house, Lu Lu also stopped by Zuo Songling's house to take a look. Dozens of thick beehives had been made and placed in the yard to let the wind and rain wash away them to eliminate the special smell in the wood and make it easier for the bees.
Group check-in.
Seeing the temperature getting higher and higher, Lu Lu knew that it was time to plant.
He asked Zhang Shaofeng and Meng Zhaohua to drive out the agricultural machinery, then drove his car to the district and bought seeds and fertilizer with the list he got from Nie Jingguo.
It took a group of people no more than six days to plant corn on all two thousand acres of land. It took another day to plant the crops in the fields that could be reached by agricultural machinery from several families in the village who participated in the construction of the farm.
Plant it too.
As for those that cannot be reached by agricultural machinery, they can only rely on their own horses and oxen to cultivate the land.
After this busy period, they took a short rest for four days, which was also the time set aside for them to farm. After the work was done, Wang Dalong began to lead the people to continue the construction of deer houses and fences in the deer farm, and also divided some people to start building the deer farm.
Driving piles in the wetland and building a fence for raising wild geese.
The area to be enclosed by the fence is larger, and it would take at least two months to set up the deer farm, even if all the people were involved.
On the contrary, it was much faster to fence the hundreds of acres of wild goose breeding farm.
It was also during this time that Lu Lu's Caodianzi welcomed the birth of its first sika deer calf.
The very next day, Lu Lu invited Zhao Yongke to help. When feeding the night before, he locked up the sika deer that had become accustomed to wandering around in Caodianzi during the day and returned to the Caodianzi deer house to eat corn in the evening, and gave them to the only one.
The older sika deer had their antlers cut off, and three of the young sika deer caught last year, which were male, were also held down forcibly while their newborn antlers were cut off.
After these velvet antlers are cut off, it does not affect the growth of the sika deer, but can prevent the male deer from hurting each other when fighting together.
After finishing the work, Lu Lu breathed a sigh of relief.
The next day, Lu Lu went to see the bee swarm.
Under his constant feeding with pollen, the dozens of swarms of bees developed very quickly. The weakest group had already reached the level of eight spleens. Seeing that a male peak nest had begun to be built on the beehives, Lu Lu knew
, you can consider raising the king and prepare for artificial bee breeding.
On the same day, Lu Lu went to the nearby forest to find a small piece of fire-glazed branch, peeled it, whittled it, and polished it into a small piece of wood that was slightly thicker than chopsticks and with a rounded tip. He then went to the warehouse to find the Yuwang that Sun Hanwei had left behind.
Liang Kuang and insect removal needles are required.
Find some beeswax that was melted before, burn charcoal in the house, add an iron pot to boil water, put the beeswax in a bowl and put it in the water to melt.
Lu Lu whittled some more thin wood chips and prepared a bowl of cold water and some honey.
Chen Xiuyu held her belly up and kept following Lu Lu around. When she heard Lu Lu said that he wanted to cultivate a black bee queen, she was always curious and watched Lu Lu making various preparations.
In her opinion, this is undoubtedly a very magical thing.
It is said that the queen bee is produced by her own queen bee. When will it be possible to cultivate it artificially?
Lu Lu had been teaching her about beekeeping. In the future, when the farm's apiary is built, she will inevitably need to manage it.
Although she thought it was a bit unbelievable to raise the king of the black bee, she knew that since Lu Lu did this, he must have his reasons.
She didn't say much about this kind of thing, she just watched it carefully.
Of course, she didn't need to ask, Lu Lu was also teaching seriously, explaining the operation and the reasons why he did it while doing it.
After everything was ready, Lu Lu found a wooden bench, picked up the small wooden stick that he had cut, dipped it in cold water first, and then dipped it into the bowl of melted beeswax, which was only about seven or eight millimeters deep.
After it cools down slightly, dip it again to increase the thickness, take it out to cool, and apply a little force to form a smooth small wax bowl.
He kept repeating, and in one morning, he made more than a hundred wax bowls, and then used beeswax to stick these wax bowls on the thin slices of wood. Each wax bowl was spaced at a certain distance.
After finishing his work, he used scissors to cut off the pieces of wood stained with the wax bowl, and then glued the fingernail-sized wood pieces stained with the wax bowl to the Yoking frame.
Taking advantage of the favorable weather temperature, Lu Lu added these King-nurturing frames to the hives of the most powerful groups of black bees that had been selected.
The wax bowl made must be cleaned by the bees before it can be used.
Just today, Lu Lu took several swarms of bees that were going to be used to raise the queen and locked up the queen bee in a queen cage.
The queen bee does not have a poisonous stinger and will not sting. After finding it, gently put the queen bee into the queen cage, tie it with a wire and hang it outside the bee colony partition. This will help to stabilize the bee colony and encourage the bee colony to
Actively build the royal platform.
On the second day, Lu Lu took out the Yuwang frame and found the best spleen.
He first used an insect removal needle to put some honey at the bottom of these royal cups (wax bowls) cleaned by bees, and then used an insect removal needle to copy the bottom of the smallest larvae curled up in the royal jelly in the hive, with gentle movements.
Gently pick out the larvae and place them at the bottom of the king cup.
With honey, the larvae are easily stuck.
The movement must be very gentle, otherwise it will damage the larvae and cause it to die.
Repeating this, Lu Lu made a king-raising frame and immediately sent it to the bee colony, until all the prepared king cups were removed and the insects were sent to the beehive.
It's a simple thing, but it requires considerable meticulousness and patience.
Let’s see the effect next.
It was on this day that when Lu Lu led Chen Xiuyu for a walk in the meadow, he saw three stumbling little deer led by a female deer.
Giving birth to three cubs in one litter is much more productive than one sika deer giving birth to one cub, and a few individuals giving birth to two cubs.
In addition, he also saw a doe who was far away from the deer also gave birth to a fawn.
Today is truly a double blessing.
Everything in the meadow is developing in a prosperous direction, which is so gratifying.