A Single Mother's Farm of the Gods-Chapter 382: Rebuilding the Colony
Chapter 382: Rebuilding the Colony
Learning about Royal Jelly and Honey made from the nectar collected by Regal Honey Bees, Elaina went to the market with Julia that day to do some grocery shopping. She did this to satisfy her curiosity and to also replenish the groceries she had left at home.
"I didn’t expect that you would be asking me to join you in grocery shopping, Sis. But you just wanted to determine how much the honey was in the local market, yes? I can tell after that huge tree and the bees you attached to that tree appeared on the field that it is something you are trying to do right now."
"Can’t hide anything from you, Julia. Yes, but not only Honey but also the Royal Jelly as well. If we are planning to sell these products in the future, we need to know how much profit we will get if we can keep the supply of these rare things."
"I knew it. However, I am not blaming you and more on commending you to know how things have been doing in the market. But if you plan to supply it, I would suggest selling only a few bits and not selling a lot in the process. Considering that they are going to be expensive due to the low supply, if you decided to flood the market with it, you will end up deflating the price and making the rare honey expensive become cheaper and that means less profit."
"True. Which is why I wanted to learn about it. If it turns out to be expensive, I will do some minimal supply and take advantage of that to also accept orders from the clients and use my new business to send them the orders and probably gain bigger profit for sending them honey or royal jelly." ƒree𝑤ebnσvel-com
Julia nodded. "Good to know Sis. Looks like you still have your business mind intact even though you have not done much that is related to business for quite some time."
"Of course. I might have stopped dealing with regular business but that doesn’t mean I lost my touch to it."
When the two arrived at the market, they immediately started buying their groceries and getting them. Elaina is not entirely loaded right now, but money is not a problem. And the two went wild in shopping. In the middle of their shopping, they soon arrived at the shelves where the honey and royal jelly were located.
"Royal jelly is 100 gold for this small amount?! Damn, this is indeed very expensive!" Elaina couldn’t believe her eyes seeing the price of a very small circular container that was as big as a gold coin in her hand. That’s how rare and expensive a Royal Jelly is.
"Considering that this type of Royal Jelly is expensive and so rare to see, I don’t think this is an exaggeration. Look, the regular honey is only prized 100 gold as well but the regular-size honey that comes from the monster bees is much more expensive. 300 gold is already too expensive."
"Indeed. And considering that it should be expensive, people are still buying it more than the regular honey."
Elaina looked at the side and a maid who seemed to be working for a noble picked up the Royal Jelly container and the honey from the Regal Honey bees and put it on her cart before moving away without even batting an eye.
"Nobles love it to the point that if there is supply, they will buy it but for regular civilians, this is something just a pipe dream and not something they will be able to buy."
"Right?"
With the supply low, demand is high for the nobles, which makes it expensive. It might be bad to capitalize on it when she can now supply the honey and Royal Jelly, but she didn’t want to disrupt the market just because of that. After all, she is not the only person who is selling Royal Jelly and Regal Honey. She didn’t want to break their business either. Now that she knows how the product is being supplied and currently priced in the market, she will carefully make sure she will not break the market.
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Three days after the last taming project that Elaina had done with the new monsters she had tamed, the bees started to build their beehive into the tree itself. Even the Queen Bee vacated the regular beehive they had and instead chose to make a stable beehive inside the tree. Elaina didn’t explore the tree before when she upgraded it once but when she got to explore it, she soon discovered that the tree currently has a hollow interior and is currently growing without much underneath it. It was like there was a small cave inside the tree’s trunk, allowing the bees to secure and create their beehive inside.
There is also a small opening on the tree trunk that looks like a tube. There are two of them and when Elaina traced it down, it turned out it looked like a wooden hose that seemed to connect to the beehive. Elaina believed that these two holes are actually what makes harvesting honey and royal jelly easy. She does not know how it works considering they are not hoses to begin with. But once the honey and Royal Jelly are ready, she will observe the thing in the future.
As for the bees, the Queen Bee has returned to laying her eggs and rebuilding her colony once more. Elaina also freed the Worker bee and reintroduced it to the colony once more, giving the colony one functional work for now. It wasn’t as great back then but at least, the drone bees can focus on their work while the Worker Bee can work regularly now.
Of course, Elaina observed the worker bee and as expected, the lone worker bee didn’t stray too far from the new colony and instead, started gathering nectar in the nearest flowers around the farm. It seems that Elaina’s plan was a success since she managed to make the worker bee harvest nectar for the flowers growing on the back of the Planting Pot-Shelled Crabs. She didn’t know how much nectar the worker bee was getting from those flowers but at least, it doesn’t need to stray too far to gather stuff.
As for the crabs themselves, it seems that they are content underneath the apple tree as none of them have moved from the spot and remained there, basking under the sunlight. She could see them move around for a bit especially if the shade under the apple tree covers the place but they seemed to like the place and would return to that spot afterwards.
Whenever the worker bee gathers nectar on their flowers, Elaina observes them, trying to discern whether the worker bee is getting honey or not, and if the crabs are uncomfortable by the action of the bee. She couldn’t afford to let go of those crabs if they started clashing with the bees in the process. After all, with their plants, they make the farm a bit decorated and have more flowers for a bit. It might not look as pleasant as a regular flower garden but at least, the farm has flowers now.
While the situation has been progressing well, Elaina noticed Yona seemed to be going near the bees and seemingly staying there. She even saw the lone Worker bee interact with her a few times while she was farming making her curious about what she was doing. Like the spirits and her twins, she also liked to stay on that huge tree and stay underneath it. Seeing how she seemed to be doing something there, Elaina decided to check on Yona and see what she was doing one day.
As she approached the tree, Elaina noticed that the slimes that Yona had tamed had been spotted on the tree. It seems that they are also playing with the fairies which she didn’t expect to see. After all, she has not seen an interaction between these two creatures before the tree.
"Yona? What are you doing here?" Elaina asked as she approached Yona who seemed to be scribbling a few notes on her notebook.
"Hmm? Oh, it’s you, Miss Elaina. You need something?" Yona didn’t stand up and only looked up at Elaina who was standing before her.
"Oh, it’s nothing. I was just curious as to why you seemed to be staying underneath the tree frequently. Usually, I always see you inside your house and doing some rituals or study there but these past few days, I have been seeing you staying underneath the tree and scribbling something on your notes. I couldn’t help but be curious about what you are up to these days."
Hearing this, Yona chuckled and put down the notebook on her side and pat the grass beside her. "Sit down for a bit, Miss Elaina, it’s a bit long and I don’t want you to tire yourself standing there.
She didn’t decline Yona’s invitation and also sat down beside her. For the first time, Elaina felt quite refreshed sitting underneath the tree. She hadn’t gotten the time trying it out back then so now that she tried it out just now, she suddenly felt the urge to remain there for quite some time.
"Refreshing, isn’t it? I don’t know if it was due to the sweet smell of honey in the air or due to the presence of the fairies flying around the tree, but this allowed me to think about what to do right now, now that I have returned to civilization."
"Don’t rush about it, Miss Yona. It’s not like I am rushing you. You are free to do what you want after all."
"Nah, I thought about it for the past few days I was here. Sitting here allowed me to think about what I have to do."
A slime approaches Yona and she holds her hand to the slime, allowing the bouncy ball of slime to jump on her hand and rest there.
"Miss Elaina, considering that you are going to be taming more monsters in the future, could I help you in becoming the caretaker of these monsters?"
Yona’s question made Elaina startled. Who wouldn’t be startled by the sudden proposition from a witch who seemed to be uninterested in these monsters and more focused on her own experiments?
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