Chapter 191 Planning of the Bee Farm
"Qiangzi, Qiangzi, what's wrong with you? Why don't you speak?"

Seeing that Li Guoqiang had remained silent, Xu Yuping felt nervous and asked hurriedly with some trepidation.

Hearing this, Li Guoqiang gently raised his eyelids and glanced at Xu Yuping, then shook his head silently.

After some reflection, he now understands that he was limited by the inherent impression of this era in his previous life.

In addition, when he was in the Siheyuan before, Xu Damao almost destroyed his family, so he always felt that there were bad guys trying to harm him.

This made him a little timid and he was not at all cool when doing things.

On the surface, he seems to be quite enthusiastic towards people, but in reality, he has always been somewhat distant.

To put it simply, it is being too polite and not sincere at all.

Even after he had tens of thousands of yuan in money and had completely achieved material freedom in life, he still had a vague sense of detachment from the world, as if he was a god high above.

To put it nicely, it means being untainted by the worldly world; to put it bluntly, it means being self-admiring.

If he had not suddenly woken up, and continued in this situation, he would have become a lonely man sooner or later, and had lived his life in vain.

As the saying goes, when a wild goose passes by, it leaves a sound; when a wind blows by, it leaves a trace.

He had finally managed to live a second life, so no matter what, he had to leave something for the world!

As he was thinking, he suddenly realized that his thoughts seemed to have drifted too far away, and he quickly brought his attention back to the present.

At this moment, what he saw was Xu Yuping's tearful face, which made people feel distressed.

His eyes narrowed slightly, then he reached out his hand, gently embraced Xu Yuping in his arms, and coaxed her softly, "Sister Yuping, I'm sorry for making you feel wronged recently. I promise I won't do this to you again in the future."

"really?"

Xu Yuping's body trembled, then she raised her head suddenly and asked hesitantly, "Are you serious? You really won't be angry with me again in the future?"

"will not!"

Li Guoqiang shook his head, and then said seriously: "As long as you don't hide anything from me behind my back, how can I be angry with you?"

"I was wrong!"

Xu Yuping's heart tightened, and she quickly admitted her mistake, "I really know I was wrong, and I promise I will never do it again."

"Ok!"

Li Guoqiang smiled slightly, then nodded and said, "I believe you!"

After saying this, he reached forward.
"Hmm~"

Upon seeing this, Xu Yuping immediately opened her heart and returned the favor.

Not long after, when Li Guoqiang gave her an advantage, Xu Yuping finally put her heart at ease and a rosy smile appeared on her face.

When Qu Yinfeng saw Xu Yuping's smug look, she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then she felt overjoyed.

Ever since the last incident, she didn't know how long it had been since she saw Li Guoqiang and Xu Yuping in broad daylight.

Now that she has seen the light of day again, she can finally put her mind at ease.

In her joy, she hurried forward and, together with Xu Yuping, brought the prepared food to the kang table, and then enthusiastically invited Li Guoqiang to eat.

This time, Li Guoqiang neither deliberately put on a cold face as before, nor acted overly polite as before. Instead, he picked up Xu Dani, sat her in the main seat, and then began to eat with a satisfied look on his face.

When Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping saw Li Guoqiang like this, they were stunned for a moment, and then they soon smiled happily.

Only the little girl Zhu Caixia stared at Xu Dani with an indignant look on her face, as if she was jealous that she could eat while sitting in Li Guoqiang's arms.

"Xiaoxia, why are you looking at Dani all the time? Do you want to be held in someone's arms while eating like her?"

After a while, Li Guoqiang noticed something strange about Zhu Caixia. He felt a little happy in his heart, then laughed and joked.

"I"

When Zhu Caixia heard this, two rosy clouds suddenly appeared on her face, and then she said stubbornly: "I'm not a child, I don't want it!"

After saying that, she hurriedly picked up the rice bowl, picked up the chopsticks, lowered her head and kept shoveling rice into her mouth.

"Ah!"

When Li Guoqiang saw Zhu Caixia like this, he couldn't help but chuckled. Then he didn't tease this little girl who said one thing but acted honestly. Instead, he turned around and told Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping about his next arrangements.

"Auntie, Sister Yuping, you know that I proposed to the brigade to set up a bee farm, and this morning, I took people to the back mountain to check out the site. After dinner, I have to go there to get busy."

"So from now on, I may not have much time to stay at home. If there is anything you need me to do, please go to the back mountain to find me."

"Also, I see that the rice, flour, meat, eggs, and other things at home are almost finished. Wait a few days, and I will find time to go to the county town to buy some back. I won't let you go hungry."

"Also, although we had a rather unpleasant quarrel some time ago, as the saying goes, there is no family without quarrels. It's over now. I won't mention it again in the future, and you don't have to take it to heart."

"As long as we can think and work together, our future will be better and better."

After hearing this, Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping looked at each other, then hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Soon, Li Guoqiang finished his meal and left home, taking a hoe, shovel, dustpan and other tools, and walked towards the small valley in the back mountain.

When he arrived at the mouth of the valley, he happened to meet Xu Yuchang, Sun Jinda, Ma Hongying and others.

They were all sent by the production team to help clear weeds and cut down trees to build wooden houses.

Since the apiary belonged to the production brigade, Li Guoqiang did not hesitate to assign the tasks directly. Then he took a hoe and dug trenches in the small valley to divide the areas.

In his plan, most of the area in the valley was used to house beehives, and the remaining small area, a small flat area near the exit of the valley, was used to build temporary wooden houses and warehouses.

By the time the apiary was on track and profitability was seen, it was also the slack season for farming.

At that time, the production team will build an adobe yard next to the wooden house according to the labor needs of the apiary, which will be used for the apiary workers to live in and for the bees to overwinter.

In this way, the risk of beekeeping failure can be reduced and the development needs of the apiary can be better met. From this point of view, it can be seen that Xu Guangfu, Sun Maocai and others were able to become brigade cadres because they were quite capable.

Soon, Li Guoqiang marked out the corresponding areas, and then while waiting for Xu Yuchang and others to come back from cutting trees, he led the rest of the people to clear the weeds.

Due to the rising temperature, the snow in the small valley has already melted.

After a cold winter, the weeds have withered, leaving only the roots with the most tenacious vitality, still firmly rooted in the soil.

In order to prevent these weeds from taking root and sprouting, and then covering and blocking the beehives, thereby causing diseases and inconveniences, the weeds must be pulled out by the roots in every area where the beehives are planned to be placed.

Fortunately, at the beginning, Li Guoqiang only planned to place 30 beehives. One beehive occupies about 10 square meters, which means that they only need to clear out an area of ​​300 square meters for the time being.

Given the villagers' experience of working in the fields all year round, this is just child's play.

In the end, it only took more than three hours to clean up all the places that needed to be cleaned.

The weeds that were cleared were not wasted. The villagers piled them next to the land where the wooden houses were built to dry, and they could be used as firewood later.

At the same time, the people who went to the mountains to cut wood also came back, bringing back a total of more than fifty logs and tens of thousands of pounds of branches.

This is because we have enough manpower. Otherwise, it would be quite tiring to bring back so many logs and branches at one time.

When Li Guoqiang saw that the timber had been brought back, he immediately directed the villagers to start working.

Since the wooden house is only used as a temporary transition, the requirements don't need to be too high. It just needs to be windproof and rainproof.

As we were busy, the sky gradually darkened.

Xu Guangfu and Sun Maocai brought the accountants of the two production teams to check the progress of the project, registered the villagers for work, and then asked everyone to go back and come back the next morning to continue working.

In the evening, Xu Yuping thought that Li Guoqiang had been busy outside for most of the day and was already tired enough, so she didn't want to lock him up by force.

But she didn't expect that Li Guoqiang would actually pull her and unlock the big water tank scene, which made her feel her heart beating fast and her mind was beating wildly, as if she had returned to the time when she was newlyweds again.

The next day arrived in a blink of an eye.

At daybreak, villagers from Jinshanbao set out in groups of two or three, carrying hoes, hatchets, shovels, ropes and other tools, towards the apiary in the back mountain.

Although most of them had some doubts about whether Li Guoqiang could run the apiary, this did not prevent them from going to work on time and earning work points.

By the time Li Guoqiang finished breakfast and rushed to the apiary with Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping, almost all the members of Jinshanbao had arrived.

Afterwards, Xu Guangfu and Sun Maocai first gave routine speeches to Production Team 1 and Production Team 2 respectively, and then immediately handed over the command to Li Guoqiang.

Seeing this, Li Guoqiang did not hesitate and directly arranged for the young and strong members to go to the mountains to continue cutting wood, and then arranged for the women and the elderly to cut the wood and dig the wooden pile foundation.

As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers.

With the joint efforts of more than two hundred people, three wooden houses were quickly built on the flat ground before noon.

Each wooden house is 5X6 in size and covers a total area of ​​120 square meters.

Because it is public property, no one says it is too big.

In fact, if the apiary can really bring an extra income of fifty or sixty yuan to each of their households every year, then let alone building three 120-square-meter wooden houses, they would definitely not hesitate even if they built a two or three hundred-square-meter adobe house for the apiary in the future.

These days, land is worthless, and labor is even less valuable.

Just like in their village, even if they get enough work points by working in the fields every day, they can only earn one or two cents at most. If they save it for a year, it is only sixty or seventy yuan.

Nowadays, they don’t have to work so hard every day and can earn an extra fifty or sixty yuan.

Who wouldn't be happy about such a good thing?

This is because Li Guoqiang's reputation as a genius and his reputation as a kind and righteous person have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, making the villagers unconsciously hold on to a glimmer of hope.

Otherwise, if someone else were to run the bee farm, unless the villagers saw real honey, they would not be able to believe that there was such a good thing in the world.

In such a hurry, the three wooden houses of the apiary were built at a little after three o'clock in the afternoon. A large kang was also built in the wooden house on the far left in case of emergency.

In addition, Li Guoqiang also had people plane out a lot of wooden boards to be used to make beehives.

Since no one in the village knew how to do carpentry, he had to do this himself.

Then, under his arrangement, some villagers built a simple kitchen in front of the wooden house and enclosed a small yard with a wooden fence.

Another group of villagers were responsible for picking up some stones and then building small platforms where they would place the beehives.

When it gradually darkened, the villagers finished their work, registered their work with the production team accountant, and went back one after another.

In the end, only Li Guoqiang, Li Xiuqin, Ma Guifang and Zhang Mei'e were left cleaning the wooden house.

From now on, except for any larger projects that the production team can send people to help, all matters in the apiary will be handled by the four of them together.

Among them, Li Guoqiang occupies an absolute leadership position, while Li Xiuqin, Ma Guifang and Zhang Mei'e work according to Li Guoqiang's arrangements.

Not long after, seeing that the sanitation was almost done, Li Guoqiang immediately called Li Xiuqin, Ma Guifang, Zhang Mei'e and others over and asked them to go to Xu Guangfu to get some money and cloth coupons in the next few days, and go to the commune to buy some mesh cloth to make protective clothing.

He could use this time to make the beehives and then go to the mountains to search for beehives.

Soon, after Li Xiuqin, Ma Guifang, Zhang Mei'e and others learned about the production requirements of protective clothing, they returned to the village full of enthusiasm.

Li Guoqiang took advantage of the last rays of sunlight in the sky to carefully check the apiary. Finding that there were no mistakes, he left with a relieved mind.

However, what he didn't expect was that before he even got home, he met an "acquaintance" on the way.

"What? It's only been two months since we last met, don't you recognize me anymore?"

Ma Shufen looked at Li Guoqiang, who was becoming more and more handsome and charming, and couldn't help but ask with some resentment.

"Forehead"

Li Guoqiang raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and then said in surprise: "Sister Shufen, you are not waiting here to block me on purpose, are you?"

(End of this chapter)