Chapter 15 long-nosed bee

Last year, the cherry tree in the small courtyard of Wenyuzhai, my study in the outer suburbs, only produced one cherry.My village friend told me that the young trees, few flowers, and the lack of pollinating bees are the reasons for not producing more cherries.This year, the cherry tree is three years old. In the spring, a few branches are covered with small white flowers. The only ones that can bloom at the same time are winter jasmine and magnolia, and lilacs and elm plums are just bones. Japanese cherry blossoms have even bones. It is also ambiguous, so the small white flowers of the cherry tree are blooming brilliantly, which indeed constitutes a unique style of ode to spring.Will it bear more cherries this year?Even if there are many flowers, but no bees come, it is all in vain.

Just after the Qingming Festival, I loosened the soil for the flower beds and sowed some cosmos and purple impatiens seeds.Stretching my waist under the sunny sun, I couldn't help looking at the cherry blossoms again. Ah, I was delighted to find that a bee flew over and got close to my cherry blossoms.That's not a bee, it's very fat, with a fluffy brown body, and its wings vibrate at a high frequency, but the amplitude is very small. If you don't observe carefully, you may even think that its wings are just spread out.It has a very long beard, which is about twice as long as its body. The first part of the beard is in a straight line with its body, but the latter part is bent at an angle, and the tip of the beard goes straight into the flower center.Apparently, it is sucking pollen or nectar with the tip of its snout, just like we humans suck up drinks or yogurt through a straw.Can this big bee, which is not a bee, also pollinate and make my cherry tree bear fruit?I am like a character in a freeze-frame picture of a film and television, staring at it intently, but it is like a character dancing in a panning picture of a film and television. After sucking this flower, it moves and positions to suck another flower, which is not the same as us humans. Do this in the order of up, down, left, and right that you are used to. It sucks on this branch for a while, and sucks that on that branch for a while, going up and down, left and right, or moving around, or going around It moved quite far, but I took a closer look and found that every time it visits, it is definitely a new flower, and it seems to have vowed to rejoice in every flower on this cherry tree!

Standing in front of the cherry tree with a flower shovel in hand, I was deeply moved by a big bee.At that time, I named it the long-nosed bee.Afterwards, I checked the biology volume of "Ci Hai", but couldn't figure it out. The species I saw didn't seem to be recorded in it, so, in my memory, I used the code of long-nosed bee to embed that lovely life.For me, its significance is beyond biological knowledge, and what it gives me is a Zen understanding of life. I am a tiny being.It is impossible to produce literary classics in Wenyuzhai.But when I typed these words on the computer, I seemed to be in the afternoon just after Qingming again, the spring sun was so gorgeous, the cherry blossoms were so brilliant, and the long-nosed bee was so earnestly sucking the honey in the heart of the flower, It is self-interested, but it is also altruistic-yes, it does play a role in pollination. A few days ago, when I left the small courtyard of Wenyuzhai and returned to the city, I found that there were at least 20 green bean-like sprouts on the cherry tree. Fruit——Life is simple, yet beautiful, and it is so good to be alive, especially to be able to love each other and blend together with all the beautiful things other than yourself!People often ask me why I write. In fact, the most fundamental point is: I like it.If you ask why the long-nosed bee insists on sucking the pollen and nectar of the cherry tree?I think the most fundamental one is probably the three words "I like".Life can be immersed in the realm that one likes, self-interested and altruistic, simple and unrestrained, that is luck, that is happiness.

I told a friend about the long-kissing bee on the phone. He praised me for being as meticulous as silk, but reminded me that the shadow of SARS had already enveloped Beijing around Qingming Festival, and people now have a rope in their hearts. Heavy worries tethered to the formation of the coronavirus.I told him that only in this way, I should get more inspiration from the long-nosed wasp.Measured by the vastness of the universe and the complexity of all things, the long-nosed bee is insignificant. It goes without saying that its natural enemies, big and small, tangible and intangible, must be many, but only the day it came to suck the cherry pollen and honey calmly Calmness has reflected the dignity of life and the courage to survive and develop. At least for me, it has become one of the spiritual nourishments for SARS without chaos.Mo Dao's life is noble but also fragile, the love for life should be reflected in the

Any factor that threatens life - from the shocking evil to the coronavirus, which is invisible to the naked eye - is in the unremitting struggle.I pay attention to the ventilation of the room, moderate disinfection every day, reduce going out, and wash my hands carefully with running water when I return... But I have a more unique way of fighting against SARS, which is to use the long kiss of the soul to suck from ordinary and small things from time to time Confidence and courage in life.