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Come bee memories | Zou Bangping (Linshui, Sichuan)

Come bee memories | Zou Bangping (Linshui, Sichuan)

Come bee notes

Ordinary people are afraid of bees because they sting people also. When Yu was young, he walked through the grass and suffered from it. Yu's grandfather went out one day and was besieged by wasps. And home, Yu Wei pulled out three or four tail thorns on his forehead, and the stings were red and swollen, and they began to disperse on the seventh or eighth day, and the pain was difficult to say.

Yu Bucai, in May 2016, was removed from the deputy post of Xitian Township in Linshui County, when Chinese New Year's Eve was six years old. In 2018, he was stationed in Houshan Village. Its village is adjacent to Shuicheng for more than ten miles, at the eastern foot of Huaying Mountain. Mountain people keep more bees, only in the Mid-Autumn Festival to cut honey once, the price is too much, and it is quickly exhausted. There is an old man surnamed Zhu, the name is Fang, beekeeping for more than fifty years, now eighty years old, raising bee colonies more than one hundred. Running between the mountains and wilderness all year round, thirsty drink mountain springs, hungry eat honey, walk like flying, ordinary people can not reach. Yu San will come to his home in two days, gradually become acquainted, buy ten bee buckets, and hang them in the old mansion of Zhu Xiangming.

On the day of the hanging barrel, the big year is not over, and Yu's father, wife, father, and brother-in-law are all busy. Wire is made of wire, beeswax is painted on the wall, cow dung is plugged, and the method of the mountain people is used. After noon, he ate at Zhu Xiangshun's house, and it was difficult to be generous. After that, whenever Yu visits the villagers, he will go to see them on a sunny day, hoping that the bees will come early.

New Year's Eve has gone, the cauliflowers are gradually blooming, and the mountains and rivers are divided into green and yellow. Spring melts, through the cauliflower bushes, Yu sees bees flying and collecting powder, focusing on one thing, tossing and turning, and being moved by it. I have been watching it for a long time, and I don't feel that the gold powder is full of it. The mountain people say that when the cauliflower is in full bloom, the bees are flourishing, and the remaining mountain villages will go to the octagonal mouth, but the mountain wind is still the same, everywhere is silent, and ten barrels of no bees come in and out. There are dialects that have come to bees for thirty or forty years, and they will beekeeping in their seventies next year, and they will taste the beekeeping and see what they have seen, and they will see that they have no merit, and they also have the intention of losing. Yu did not give up, hoping endlessly, and comforted Xiangming and relieved.

Before and after the Qingming Dynasty, spring flourished the most, and no bees came. Zhu Xiankun, a Yudeshan man, purchased a pound of beeswax from Gandi, made a fire on the spot, and covered it with a bee barrel to remove the new wood smell, and then burned the wax to coat it, smeared with new cow dung, and moved from the sunny wall to the eaves. The eldest son, Shuo Shuo, was around Yu and ran to help. Seeing each other clearly, even sighing at the remaining labor. Yu Shi knew that it was not easy to create, and he was ashamed of his regrets. The value change was stationed in zouma village, because it was clear: "After that, I don't come often, and I don't have any intention of bees coming and going." ”

On May 17, Yu went to Shijia Village, and suddenly received a call from Xiangming, and a group of bees had arrived. Yu was overjoyed, told his peers, and everyone congratulated him. Taste of the mountain people moon clearly said: "Stay in May and June, the bees are full of walls." Later, on June 14, Xiangming informed that another group would come.

Diary of May 18, 2019.