养蜂人的日子
2019-08-16赵涵
赵涵
五月,正是槐花盛開的季节,也是放蜂人开始忙碌的季节。 这个时节,麦子还没有成熟,不冷也不太热。老方和老张照例拉着他们的蜂箱,来到一处开满槐花的山野里安顿下来。这里离他们的家乡并不太远,蜂箱也拉来不多,先来试试产量。
老方和老张是好朋友,两人相隔不远,都是养蜂人,脾气又合得来,所以成了好朋友,放蜂多是两人搭伴儿一起。放蜂人一年有半年的时间在外面跑,从四月份开始一直到八月份,是放蜂的最佳季节,每年收六到七茬蜂蜜,洋槐花一到两茬,苹果花一茬,枣花一茬,山荆花三茬。用他们自己的话说:是出来游山玩水呢,干的可是世界上最甜蜜的事业。
在外面跑的生活比较艰苦、寂寞,但两人都习惯了这种野外的生活,年轻的时候跑南方,现在上了年纪,不再远跑了,儿女都大了,也不那么拼了,钱,有多多花,没多就少花,图个自由自在,养蜂放蜂,对他们来说,更多的已经成了一种生活习惯,离不开了。
两人脾气相投,都喜欢喝酒,但都喝不多,每人一次一盅酒,老方的酒量大一点。 春天少雨,放蜂也不那么累,干完一天的活儿,吃完晚饭,老张说:去溜达溜达吧?城里人吃了晚饭都出去溜达。
老方说:把画眉带上,溜达溜达。
May is the season when flowers blossom and beekeepers begin to get busy.In May, the wheat is not ripe yet and the temperature is neither too coldnor too hot. As usual, Mr. Fang and Mr. Zhang carried their beehives aroundand settled in a field full of flowers of pagoda trees. They are good friends and for most of thebeekeeping time they work together as partners. As beekeepers, every year they stay outdoorsfor nearly half a year. Their life is hard and lonely, but they have become used to the migratorylife of beekeeping.