"Lychee Honey" Yang Shuo
When I was a child, I once went up to a tree to pick flowers. Unexpectedly, I was stung by a bee. The pain was so painful that I almost fell down. The adults told me: bees don’t sting easily because they think you are going to hurt them; once they sting you, they will not live long. After hearing this, I felt that the bee was also very pitiful, so I forgave it. But from then on, whenever I saw bees, I always felt a little wary.
In April this year, I stayed at Conghua Hot Spring in Guangdong for a few days. Surrounded by mountains and surrounded by a lake, it looks like a landscape painting. There are as many lychee trees in Conghua as the vast ocean. When the flowers bloom, the mountains and fields are buzzing. The bees are so busy that they forget about morning and evening. Sometimes they even take advantage of the moonlight to collect flowers and make nectar.
Lychee honey is characterized by pure color, beautiful color and high nutrition. Most people who live in hot springs like to eat this honey to nourish their spirit. A friend gave me two bottles. As soon as I opened the bottle cap, I smelled a sweet aroma. I scooped two teaspoons into a cup, added water, stirred it well, and drank it. It smelled like fresh lychee. I was always greedy, so I drank another large glass, and I became emotional and wanted to see bees, which I never liked very much.
Deep in the lychee forest, a corner of the white house is faintly revealed, which is the apiary. At that time, the spring scenery was in full bloom and the flowers were blooming. As soon as I walked into the apiary, I saw swarms of bees coming in and out, flying around, and it was a bustling scene.
Beekeeper Lao Liang carefully opened a wooden beehive. The box was separated by a row of boards, and each board was full of bees, crawling squirmingly. The queen bee is dark brown and has a particularly slender body. Every bee is willing to feed her with the flower essence collected.
Lao Liang said with admiration: "Look at these little things, how obedient they are."
I asked him: "How much honey can such a swarm of bees harvest in a year?"< /p>
Lao Liang said: "It can harvest dozens of kilograms. Bees love working the most. The weather in Guangdong is good and there are many flowers. Bees are not idle all year round. They make a lot of honey, but they can only eat so much. . Just leave a little bit of sugar for them every time you collect honey. They never fight or care about anything, and they just keep working." I thought of a question and asked: "But what can a bee do? How long do you live?"
Lao Liang replied: "The queen bee can live for three years, and the worker bee can only live for six months at most."
I said, "It turns out that your life span is so short." Do you often go outside the hive to clean up dead bees? "
Lao Liang shook his head and said, "Bees are very sensible. When the time comes, they will die quietly outside and never come back."
My heart couldn't help but tremble: What a cute little life, asking for nothing from others, but giving wonderful things to others. Bees are brewing honey, and they are brewing life; they are brewing the sweetest life not for themselves, but for human beings. Bees are humble, yet so noble!
Through the lychee forest, I looked thoughtfully at the fields in the distance, where farmers were planting rice in the paddy fields. They are using labor to create their own lives, which is equivalent to brewing honey - brewing the honey of life for themselves, others, and future generations.
That night, I had a strange dream. I dreamed that I turned into a little bee.