Chapter 585 - Chapter 585: The Season to Gather Honey
Chapter 585: The Season to Gather Honey
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Nio Ruyue looked at the beekeepers who kept chasing people away. They were really tired. Not only did they have to keep an eye on the field, but they also had to pay close attention to the newly attracted bees. They also had to make sure that the Chinese milk vetch in the field was not ruined by tourists.
“Let’s go back.”
After returning to the village, MO Ruyue went straight to Wang Tiezhu.
“Big Brother, Sister-in-law.”
Wang Tiezhu was helping the villagers settle accounts and sell vegetables. In fact, he was just watching the elderly in the village from the side, not to be deceived by the vegetable sellers.
“There are quite a lot of people who come to our village to play. I see that they all like to go to the flower fields. Why don’t you discuss with the villagers and specially approve a piece of flower field for those tourists to play?”
“But you can play, but you have to pay money. It’s not something you can come and go as you please. That’s the fertilizer we’ve worked hard to plant.” Upon hearing MO Ruyue’s words, Tiezhu immediately understood that this was indeed a good thing.
In fact, many people often came to the flower field last year. Some even stole flowers. Those flowers would not live for two days if they were brought back. However, those people said that they were useless. Someone had to watch over them.
“Alright, I’ll do it now.”
“Wait, since we have already approved a place for those people to play, then
we should make it better. It’s only natural that we can collect the fees.”
Throughout the whole process, Gu Ying had been watching his capable wife from the side. She was glowing. His wife was just so smart and capable!
After Wang Tiezhu left MO Ruyue’s side, he immediately called a few idle young adults from the village to go up the mountain to chop wood. He wanted to make a few flower swings for the flower field and also saw some original wooden stakes to make stools.
These tasks were not difficult for the villagers at all. In a few days, a row of five swings was erected in the most barren flower field, surrounding the edge of the field. There were many wooden stakes that were as high as the crook of their legs for the tired tourists to sit down and rest.
This flower field was almost combined with the land of several families in the village. It was originally grown on barren land. After two years of cultivation, it was still relatively barren. It became a special place for tourists to play. This time, it might be of use.
Of course, the money earned from this piece of land wasn’t all from the few families who had opened up the land.
MO Ruyue asked them to buy the large piece of land at twice the price of the low- grade land. MO Ruyue paid the bulk of the money, and the village paid the rest. If they were unwilling, they could solve their own problems.
For example, those who came to play and caused trouble needed someone to maintain them.
MO Ruyue had paid the bulk of the money, but there wasn’t much left. Each family only paid a few dozen copper coins.
The money given by those people who came to visit was all handed over to the village for the repair of the ancestral hall. In addition, it was paid to the people who patrolled the village every day.
Although this village belonged to everyone, and it was only right for every household to contribute some manpower, free work would not last long. After a long time, there would be people who wanted to cheat. If they were paid, the nature would be different. If they did not do well, they would not be required to work, and they would not be paid.
It could be considered as a restraint for everyone, but it could also be considered as a guarantee for everyone.
Everyone in the village had benefited from this, and no one disagreed, especially those who sold the land. Even if they planted the most unpicky soybeans on those plots of land every year, they would not be able to harvest much. It seemed that they would have to raise them for a few more years. It was better to exchange them for money now. Moreover, there were also people from their families on patrol, so they could continue to benefit in the future.
Every farm had a few bee buckets. After taking away the bee buckets that were used for tourists, there were still many bees lingering around, which added a lot of wild fun.
Of course, the place with the most bee buckets was still MO Ruyue’s house. The number of bee buckets in her house had doubled this year. In the past two years, there were more than a hundred bee buckets in her house.
It was the season to gather honey again.
Their family had opened an inn in the village, and the business of the tourists was quite good. The fried chicken and sauced duck needed by the nursing home all required honey, so MO Ruyue did not plan to sell the honey at all. She felt that no matter how much she had, it would not be enough.
He also bought all the honey produced in the village and only gave a few jars to those he was familiar with.
On the other hand, when those who came to play saw the scene of honey coming out, they clamored to buy some to try. In the end, they got a hundred small porcelain jars that were half a catty. The price was twice as expensive as the clothes in town. They were sold to them, and each person was limited to half a catty.
Even so, MO Ruyue still told those people that the honey was not much better than the ones sold in town. It was just that the Yunying Nectar tasted a little different, but those people were still fighting to buy it.
On the other hand, there were quite a number of people in the village who took out some of their savings and sold them. They all thought that they would raise them well next year. If they raised more, they could earn dozens of taels of silver.
Those who came to visit wanted to buy something to take home when they left. Without honey, they went to every household in the village to ask if it was good to buy vegetables.
As for the fried chicken and duck in the sanatorium, there was no need to mention the skewers. The sanatorium had already started to hire helpers. The wages were not low, but the work was tiring. It was the kind that could not be stopped for an entire day. Business was really good.
The livestock in the village, especially the chickens and ducks, were basically all sent to the sanatorium. There was no need to sell them at all. Just the sanatorium and inn in the village could buy all the livestock in their village. Sometimes, they had to buy them from other villages.
As more people bought it, the reputation of West River Village’s fried chicken, sauced duck and skewers became even more famous. The news spread like wildfire. Even people from Lianshan County came to buy it every day. Now that Lianshan County and West River Village were connected, they were willing to run around if they wanted to eat it within an hour’s journey.
Because there were more people coming and going, the stalls on both sides of the mountain tunnel from the entrance of West River Village to Reliance Town were doing well. The inn was basically full every day.
Previously, Mo Ruyue’s suggestions for the vendors, whether they were selling small things or snacks, were more novel and attractive than the usual ones. According to MO Ruyue, these stalls were set up by people from their village.
Seeing West River Village develop in the direction that MO Ruyue had originally imagined, she was especially satisfied.
On this day, MO Ruyue came back from the medical school and met Xiong Qiu on the way.
“Has your parents’ reply arrived?”
Xiong Qiu didn’t expect that the princess would still remember the matter of a small character like him!
“Yes, Princess.”
Xiong Qiu immediately opened the letter from his parents and presented it to MO Ruyue.
“Chun Hua, bring him to the house. You can help him with the procedures for selling the house.” “Be careful.’
“Yes.
Xiong Qiu followed Chun Hua to see his house.
“Have you prepared the money?”
Chun Hua wanted to settle the matter in one go so that she wouldn’t have to go back and forth.
“Alright, alright, I brought them all.”
Xiong Qiu knew this in his heart.
Half a day later, he got the deed to the house and looked at the house. He was extremely happy.
The servant boy had already gone into the house to clean up. When he had his day off, he would be able to return to his own residence. Just thinking about it made him happy. He immediately went to the Civil and Martial Arts Institute to show off to his classmates..