Chapter 239: Good Output
In the blink of an eye, it was the next morning.

Li Guoqiang woke up early in the morning and went to the apiary with Qu Yinfeng, Xu Yuping and others to prepare for the first honey harvest of the year.

Since there were no suitable containers to store the honey, and there were also problems with transportation, after discussing with Xu Guangfu, he decided to cut the honey combs first, and then transport them to Sijiu City for honey shaking.

In this way, not only the transportation problem is solved, but also suitable containers for honey can be found in the city of Sijiu according to customer needs and market changes.

Although doing so will not let the villagers know the specific amount of honey production, don't forget that the apiary is carrying out planned production tasks. As long as the planned production can be achieved, no one can gossip.

The original production plan was that 80 beehives would produce a total of 3000 kilograms of honey.

For Li Guoqiang, this output is not worth mentioning at all. Even if this output is not reached, he can just make up for it.

Soon, brigade cadres including Xu Guangfu, Sun Maocai, Ma Changshun, workers from the second apiary, and members of the two production teams all gathered in the first apiary, ready to witness the first honey harvest.

After all, this is a major matter that concerns whether their village can live a good life.

If it weren't for the special period, they would probably want to organize everyone to do a yangko dance, set off a bunch of firecrackers, and set up a buffet for a few days.

Under the gaze of everyone, Li Guoqiang first put on a mesh protective suit, then took the honey-cutting knife, turned around and walked towards the honey-growing area.

Bee farm workers such as Qu Yinfeng, Xu Yuping, and Li Xiuqin followed behind, carrying baskets covered with oil paper, learning how to harvest honey while receiving the honey combs that Li Guoqiang had cut from the beehives.

Upon seeing this, everyone hurriedly followed, then stood not far away, craning their necks and watching with wide eyes.

Although Li Guoqiang, Xu Guangfu and others had told the villagers about the situation of the apiary before, most people had never seen the situation inside the beehives with their own eyes, and they always had a trace of doubt in their hearts.

This time, they can see it clearly.

Li Guoqiang walked up to a beehive, took off the lid very skillfully, then drove away the bees with one hand and cut the honey comb back and forth with the other hand with a honey knife. After a while, he took out a honey comb the size of two palms, bright yellow in color, and like jelly from the beehive.

Especially the honey that slowly seeps out from the broken cross section like quicksand, which makes people swallow their saliva.

[This honey is so tempting! ]

[Yes! No wonder those blind bears in the mountains are like Secretary Sun seeing your wife when they see a beehive. They can't even walk! ]

[Go to hell! If you keep talking nonsense, I'll beat you up, believe it or not? ]

[Don't! I just said that casually, don't take it to heart! ]

【Humph! 】

[But speaking of which, your wife's big ass, after all these years, why hasn't she sat on you to death yet? ]

【Fuck you! 】

[Ouch! How could you slap someone in the face? ]

[I hit you, what can you do about it? ]

[I just want to ask, ask]

Li Guoqiang was naturally unaware of the farce happening in the crowd.

As he continued to collect the bee honeycombs, Father Jin kept reminding him that he could receive an additional tenfold reward. That feeling was like picking up money, and he couldn't stop at all.

They collected one after another, and gradually, the baskets in Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping's hands were full. Seeing this, the others hurriedly took over.

Before long, two more people's baskets were full.

Everyone looked at the basket full of honeycombs and couldn't help feeling happy.

You know, those are their purses!
"Captain, how much honey do you think is in that basket?"

As they were watching, someone suddenly caught up with Xu Guangfu and asked him a question, with a tone full of anticipation.

"This is it!"

Xu Guangfu paused for a moment, then replied softly, "I estimate it should be at least five or six kilograms!"

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up, and then they began to silently count in their minds how many baskets were filled in total.

In this way, they can roughly estimate how much money each person can get from this honey harvest.

Although this money will not be distributed until the end of the year as dividends, it does not stop them from counting it for fun first.

The more they counted, the more excited they felt, as if they saw countless banknotes growing wings and flying towards them.

In fact, in this era, honey and banknotes are actually no different. Many people cannot even buy honey with banknotes.

If they hadn't already run a apiary, they probably wouldn't be willing to exchange the honey for money.

After all, as long as it is well sealed and stored, honey will not go bad and has a wide range of uses, so it is certainly more valuable than money.

Not to mention anything else, just giving guests a cup of honey water when they come to your house will make you feel very proud.

Thinking of the good days in the future, everyone's hearts became more and more excited.

Finally, after more than an hour of hard work, Li Guoqiang successfully collected the last beehive and then led everyone back to the yard of the apiary.

As soon as you walk into the gate of the courtyard, the first thing that catches your eye is the thirty large baskets placed in the middle of the courtyard.

At this time, each of these large baskets was filled with half a basket of honey combs, which looked like baskets of soft gold.

Li Guoqiang just glanced at it indifferently, and then asked someone to bring out the wooden scale for weighing.

Everyone seemed very concerned about this and rushed into the yard, almost breaking down the gate.

Finally, after being scolded by brigade cadres such as Xu Guangfu and Sun Maocai, they calmed down a little.

Then, Xu Guangfu, Sun Maocai and others did not keep people in suspense and immediately arranged for people to weigh the weight. The result came out very quickly and immediately surprised everyone present.

Originally they thought that 2000 kilograms of honey combs would be enough this time, but after weighing they found that the total amount actually exceeded 3000 kilograms, reaching 3128 kilograms.

In this way, according to the calculation that 1 kilogram of honey comb can produce a maximum of 0.65 kilograms of honey, doesn't that mean they have received 2000 kilograms of honey this time?

You know, it's still midsummer now, and there are still three or four months before winter. With this output, in addition to the 3000 kilograms of honey that needs to be handed over to the team, it is estimated that there will be at least to kilograms more!
With so much honey, if you sell it casually, you can get three to four thousand yuan, which is equivalent to ten years' salary of an ordinary city worker.

Thinking of this, everyone felt jealous unconsciously, and then stared at Li Guoqiang, hoping to get a reasonable explanation.

At this time, Xu Guangfu also hurriedly pulled Li Guoqiang, and then lowered his voice and asked: "Qiangzi, what's going on? Why are there so many honeycombs cut this time? Did you plan to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune?"

"Ouch!"

Li Guoqiang frowned when he heard this, and then said unhappily, "Uncle Fu, do you think I, Li Guoqiang, am the kind of person who cheats and deceives people and forgets his principles when he sees profit?"

"In fact, I have already told the team about this matter, but you just forgot."

"Have it?"

Xu Guangfu was slightly stunned, then asked with some confusion.

"okay!"

Seeing this, Li Guoqiang waved his hand and said, "Since you have forgotten, I will take this opportunity to explain the matter to everyone so that no one will think that I am deliberately deceiving everyone."

As he said this, he turned around and walked in front of everyone, then stretched out his hands and pressed them down, and shouted loudly: "Well, everyone, be quiet and listen to me. There is a scientific reason why we can harvest so much honey this time."

"Everyone should know that bees need flowers to collect nectar, and the first two or three months is when most plants bloom, so it will be much easier for bees to collect nectar."

"As time goes by, there will be fewer and fewer flowers in the mountains. In addition, the bees themselves need to eat honey, so their production will naturally decrease significantly."

"According to my estimation, it's not certain whether we can harvest half of the honey we harvested this time before winter."

"Therefore, whether the First Bee Farm can achieve the goal of producing 3000 kilograms of honey per year depends on everyone's support."

"In addition, everyone does not need to feel anxious or disappointed, because the development speed of our bee farm is faster than expected. Now we have opened a second bee farm. Although the output will decrease, the two bee farms together should be able to successfully complete the planned task of 3000 kilograms."

After hearing these words, everyone felt suddenly enlightened.

Although they were not well educated, they could still easily understand what Li Guoqiang said.

Just like there is no way to go to the wild to collect grass to feed pigs in winter. By the time autumn comes, the flowers of most plants in the mountains have turned into fruits, and naturally it is impossible for bees to collect nectar. They can't just put the blame on Li Guoqiang without any discrimination!

However, even though they understood it, they still couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

As the beneficiaries of the apiary, they certainly wish the bees could work 24 hours a day, collect nectar from all the flowers in the mountains, and produce more honey for them.

If the bees knew what they were thinking, they would probably accuse them of being Huang Shiren.

After explaining the problem, Li Guoqiang did not say much. He directly pulled Xu Guangfu, Sun Maocai and other brigade cadres to discuss the issue of transporting honey combs.

Because honey combs are agricultural products and are only packed in baskets, they obviously cannot be transported by train.

Moreover, there were only four of them, including him, Shang Xiuzhen, Shen Fengxia, and Pan Qiaoyan, and there was no way they could take care of so many honey combs, so they had to add some more manpower.

After some discussion, Xu Guangfu, Sun Maocai and other brigade cadres unanimously decided to select six more people by drawing lots to accompany Li Guoqiang, Shang Xiuzhen and others to Beijing.

Anyway, Li Guoqiang has already said that these expenses can be earned back in the future, so just consider it as a benefit for the villagers and let them go to Beijing to broaden their horizons.

In addition, there is another unspoken reason, which is to have someone follow Li Guoqiang to Beijing to see whether he really wants to run this office well, or just wants to take advantage of this opportunity to return to the city to enjoy life.

Li Guoqiang was naturally well aware of this. He knew that although Xu Guangfu and others believed in him very much, for many things, it was not enough for them to believe him just because they said so. There must be real evidence.

Otherwise, it would be a disregard for the various rules of this age.

Soon, under the shouting of Xu Guangfu and others, everyone prepared to go down to work.

They also told everyone about the lottery, and asked everyone to go to the threshing ground in the evening to sign up for the lottery if they were interested.

Upon hearing the news, everyone was immediately surprised, and then they began to rub their hands, ready to give it a good try.

If they succeed, they can brag about it for the rest of their lives.

After everyone left, Li Guoqiang first carefully instructed Xu Yuping and asked her to take people to look after the honey combs. Then he found an excuse to leave the apiary, and then used teleportation to go into the mountains, preparing to collect all the honey from the private apiary.

Thanks to the help of the small world, it took him less than ten minutes to collect all 153 beehives, and he also separated the honey and placed it in several large clay jars.

After calculation, he received a total of over 3500 kilograms of honey this time, and then added the 2000 kilograms from the Jinshanbao Bee Farm, a total of 55000 kilograms of honey.

As for the beeswax, a by-product of honey, he stored it temporarily and would take it out and use it when needed in the future.

Next, he found Erniu and Sanwazi and told them about his business trip to Beijing. Then he went to examine Liang Xianglian's body, performed acupuncture on her, and prescribed some new Chinese medicine.

He estimated that by the time Liang Xianglian finished taking the medicine, her illness would be completely cured.

However, what he didn't expect was that although Liang Xianglian's physical illness was cured, she suffered from a mental illness.

Ever since she was injected with needles by Li Guoqiang several times, the shadow of Li Guoqiang was inevitably left in her heart.

It was just because of the age gap and the close relationship between Erniu and Li Guoqiang that she kept it to herself.

As she kept holding it in, she naturally developed some problems. Sometimes in the dead of night, she couldn't help but hold the headlights and whisper Li Guoqiang's name in the gurgling valley. She was almost discovered by Erniu and Sanwazi several times.

Therefore, when she heard Li Guoqiang say that she would no longer need acupuncture, a look of disappointment instantly appeared on her face, which made Li Guoqiang very puzzled.

[Could it be that she is addicted to piercing? ]

(End of this chapter)