When Lu Lu returned to Xiushantun, he stopped by and told Zhang Shaofeng about the idea of building the next beehive near Linxi Village and letting Tuo Dezhang guard it.
This was actually Lu Lu's temporary idea.
Honey has always been a relatively valuable consumable. This year's two honey harvests, the income is no worse than the two thousand acres of corn. If Wu Wangang of the Dayan Breeding Farm had not followed suit and raised the price of the wild geese and provided feedback, it would have been even better than that of the wild goose breeding farm.
Net income is still high.
Such high income makes it necessary to expand the bee farm next year.
Lu Lu also suddenly learned that Tuo Dezhang was from Linxi Village, and he made the decision considering that the distance was appropriate.
In this case, Tuo Dezhang will have enough time to deal with his own affairs while taking care of the bee farm, which is equivalent to working at home, so that he will not have to run around and work too hard. Moreover, there will be much less infringement of wild animals near the village.
, easy to manage.
This was mutual benefit, and it was Lu Lu's care for a traumatized veteran who had been on the battlefield.
After hearing what Lu Lu said about Tuo Dezhang, Zhang Shaofeng nodded in agreement without thinking too much.
He himself had been a soldier and was a descendant of an old hero. He took this aspect more seriously than Lu Lu.
The next morning, Lu Lu rode Zhuifeng and went to find Liang Kangbo and Zhao Yongke. He went all the way to Xiushantun and called Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing. Then he went to Meizigou and called Lei Meng. The six of them rode horses and headed to Linxi Village together.
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Along the way, I also looked at the surrounding vegetation environment, water sources and mountains. Probably due to the terrain location, there are not many red pine and birch trees. The vegetation here is even better preserved than that in Xiushantun. Build a bee farm
, no problem at all.
When they arrived at Linxi Village, they saw Tuo Dezhang already waiting on the road. His lingering footprints were everywhere on the snow. It looked like he had been waiting for a long time.
"Come on, come on, come home with me... You must have a meal at my home today. I have asked my wife to stew the chicken!" Tuo Dezhang greeted warmly.
Lu Lu and others were not polite to him and followed Tuo Dezhang directly to his house.
Tuo Dezhang's house is an old house on the west side of Linxi Village. It is crooked and looks like it will fall down at any time.
The sheds and other things in the yard are all made of simple pieces of wood and planks. They are very rough. More than ten stupid chickens are rummaging in the yard, leaving three-pointed footprints everywhere on the snow. In the pen on the side, there are many chickens.
There are four pigs, each one weighs about two hundred pounds and is very fat.
Seeing Lu Lu and others looking at his old house, Tuo Dezhang said with an embarrassed look: "My family is a bit shabby. I was a soldier when I was young. There are three brothers in the family. My two elder brothers have always taken care of me. Waiting for me
After they came back from demobilization, they had already built their own houses and divided their homes, leaving their old house to me. The second elder, who was in pain, also lived with me.
Over the years, I have married a wife, my two elders have passed away, and I have children... I have been working hard to make money as much as possible, but until now, I have not been able to renovate the house."
The words are full of vicissitudes and helplessness.
Raymond patted him on the shoulder: "It will be fine!"
"When the bee farm is built, a special guard house will be built to store some tools, beehives and so on. You can move there when the time comes. It will be better than the old house." Zhang Shaofeng smiled slightly and turned to Lu Lu and said
: "When the time comes, build the house bigger."
"Okay!" Lu Lu nodded.
A group of people entered the house. The outside looked old and shabby, but the inside was well taken care of, at least clean. Tuo Dezhang led his wife to meet and greet a few people, and invited a few people to go to the kang to drink water.
After chatting for more than half an hour, the food was served, and there was nothing else. It was just a big pot of chicken stewed with mushrooms. It was very oily and very real. The meat in the pot was as much as two big stupid chickens.
Then there is a pot of ordinary sorghum wine.
"There's nothing good to entertain you, so just make do with it and eat more meat!"
Tuo Dezhang was busy pouring wine, picking up food, and greeting several people. His wife, a very simple and down-to-earth woman, was standing by. When she was bringing the pot to the Kang table, Lu Lu looked at him.
Her hands were criss-crossed with deep cracks, which were rough and sad to see.
At this time, several people would not be polite, and they couldn't be polite. Being polite would make people feel uncomfortable. Therefore, they ate lively, even if it was just an ordinary taste, they were not stingy with the pot of chicken.
Stewed mushrooms appreciated.
The couple was happy to see several people eating, and a rare smile appeared on their somewhat restrained faces.
"Brother, the place for beekeeping should be leeward and sunny, with clean water nearby. It is best to be some distance away from the countryside and with convenient roads. Are there any better places to recommend?"
While eating, Lu Lu also mentioned the location requirements.
Tuo Dezhang thought for a while and said: "There are several places like this. After dinner, I will show you. One of them in particular is in a mountain col, surrounded by mountains on three sides. There is a spring there. From
It flows out from under a big green poplar tree. The water flow is not big. Except for freezing in winter, the water in that place has never stopped since I can remember."
After the group had eaten, they did not stay too much and let Tuo Dezhang lead the way towards the place he said.
To the west of Linxi Village, four miles away from the village, Lu Lu was full of praise when he saw the mountain col. All the conditions were met, and he immediately chose this bright and warm mountain col.
In front of the mountain col is a main road in the forest farm, and there is enough flat land to build a guard house. On the gentle slope of the mountain col, with just a little rest, hundreds of swarms of bees can be placed.
That's how it was decided.
Lu Lu and others immediately took Tuo Dezhang to the forest farm, found Nie Jingguo, and decided on the contracting of the mountain farm.
When Tuo Dezhang was leaving, Lu Lu stopped him: "When you have time, prepare some wood for building fences and houses. We will start construction in the spring of next year..."
In addition, he handed Tuo Dezhang two hundred yuan: "This is your wages for the next four months until spring. At that time, in addition to wages, there will be a tenth dividend on the income of the bee farm."
According to the income from Meizigou, he can get at least more than 2,000 yuan in one year, which is definitely a lot of money.
For a moment, Tuo Dezhang looked at the money in his hand, trembling slightly and not knowing what to say.
It wasn't until Lu Lu and others left that he grabbed the two hundred yuan and hurried home, muttering: "I'll chop wood tomorrow. I won't be able to chop it down...I'm leaving now."
What the hell, you're lucky, you met a great person!"
When Lu Lu and others left the forest farm office, they stopped at the intersection leading to the breeding farm and Xiushan Tun.
"Have you almost rested?" Lu Lu asked several people with a smile.
"That's almost it. All you do at home is lie down and eat. Life is boring." Zhang Shaofeng said with a smile, "Are you planning to leave?"
They all knew about catching sika deer.
"If you're almost rested, let's prepare each other, bring more hunting nets, and bring more axes... I'll help Hua Zi handle his engagement tomorrow, and say hello to him by the way, or call three cars
Car, let’s set off for Guofu Town, Baiquan County!”
Lu Lu made arrangements.
"How many days are you going to go on this trip?" Liang Kangbo asked casually.
"We are not going hunting, we are just catching some sika deer and raising them. As long as we find a herd of deer and use fences to round them up, we can come back in six or seven days at most.
I don’t plan to catch too many, I just need to get another twenty or thirty. In addition to the eighteen that I am raising now, after the Chinese New Year, when it is time to give birth, there will be more deer in the deer farm, otherwise we will have to expand the forest area a lot.
That’s fine, we can’t make it too big right now.”
Any breeding must consider the density and the carrying capacity of the forest. Lu Lu estimated that based on the current forest area of the deer farm, only about 30 more deer can be added. This is still a combination of free-range breeding and artificial supplementary feeding.
According to the model, if it is only free-range, a sika deer will need at least two to three hectares of pasture and woodland area.
Fifty, that’s at least hundreds of hectares. Besides, sika deer mate in August and give birth to calves in the late spring and early summer of the following year. In other words, many of the adult doe deer captured now are pregnant with calves.
In the coming year, many more will be born, and the number can easily reach seventy or eighty.
As far as breeding is concerned, it is enough. Depending on the situation, the breeding farm can be expanded appropriately.
But Liang Kangbo looked very surprised: "Twenty or thirty, are there that many sika deer there?"
This question suddenly stopped Lu Lu.
According to information learned by Lu Lu, the wild sika deer reserve established in Xiandong Mountain in Baiquan County in 2009 was provincial-level. Within two years, it became national-level. There are four to five hundred sika deer active in the reserve.
Only.
But it's now 1983, and he doesn't know if he has carried out protection?
If protected, the sika deer inside may not be allowed to be captured.
If there is no protection, everyone knows that sika deer is a good thing, and in these days when many people have guns and go hunting in the mountains when they have nothing to do, even if there are, there will not be many of them.
He was a little unsure for a moment!
"I only know that there are sika deer living there for a long time. I won't know the specific situation until I go there... I'll take whatever I can get back!" Lu Lu could only think this way now.
"Okay, let's leave the day after tomorrow!"
The only way to know now is to go and see it.
After the discussion was over, everyone went home.
The next day, Meng Zhaohua came very early and sent a lot of tobacco, wine, sugar and tea to Lu Lu's house.
He carried large and small bags of things on his back, and also invited the husband of Huilongtun Village to see the auspicious occasion. Lu Lu was delighted to see such a good thing, and he went there happily.
In fact, he didn't need to say anything. When he arrived at Pu Guiying's house, he just waited for a meal and chatted with his family.
Seeing that Lu Lu did not bring Chen Xiuyu, Pu Guiying gave Lu Lu a hard look, went to Caodianzi in person, and picked up Chen Xiuyu and the child. The couple played at Pu Guiying's house for most of the day.
After Meng Zhaohua's engagement was settled, a group of people came back.
Lu Lu also asked Meng Zhaohua to make arrangements for finding a driver.
He returned home, and after teasing the children for a while, he began to take out his hunting nets one by one, repair the places that needed to be repaired, and take good care of the hunting clothes, tents and other things he had taken away.
Be prepared to travel.
The next morning, a group of people gathered in Lu Lu's meadow and had breakfast. Considering that horses were needed to chase the deer, several of them rode horses. Lu Lu knew that sika deer could run, so he did not choose green onions this time.
It was Zhui Feng who led Yuan Bao and the others into the car.
I hurried all the way and arrived at Guofu Town, Baiquan County, QQHE, that night. I asked someone about the location of Xiandong Mountain, and drove directly to Xiandong Mountain overnight. I camped in the secondary forest outside Guofu Forest Farm.
Who would have known that the next morning, not long after Lu Lu and others entered the mountain, they were surrounded by people.