Legless brother lived a "sweet" life of self-reliance, beekeeping and becoming rich.

Zhou Jianchun is taking care of his bee farm

Compared with many post-80s generation, Beibei Longfengqiao Street Longche Village 33-year-old villager Zhou Jianchun's life, Full of twists and turns: Born suffering from brittle bone disease, So that legs seriously deformed atrophy, Can't walk, By skateboard travel... Although fate treated him unfair, But he never complained, Because "Death to face", He learned to read, Learn beekeeping, Now become the local famous beekeeper. Yesterday, Zhou Jianchun, who had just finished flowering in the wild, returned home with bees. This year is another bumper harvest year, with beekeeping income of nearly 60,000 yuan.

Beekeeping on skateboards

One day in September this year, reporters in Beibei Jialing River side a place called Bai Miaozi, the first time to see Zhou Jianchun. He was less than half a meter tall and sat on the scooter, holding a simple wooden stool in each hand and pushing back hard. The scooter slid forward slowly. Here is more than 10 kilometers away from his home, because the mountain of Luanshu large-scale flowering, in early August, he moved the hive here, let bees collect new honey sources.

Zhou Jianchun sat on his scooter, cleaning the hive and checking the bee colony situation. Speaking of bees, Zhou Jianchun gushed: "Although the Chinese bees I raise are smaller than Italian bees (also known as Western bees) and produce less honey than each other, they are native, have strong adaptability, and have better cold resistance and disease resistance than Italian bees." Moreover, the Chinese bees are particularly diligent and are not picky about food. They pick flowers, so the honey they pick is especially good…"

Nearly 60,000 yuan a year

Inventory this year's harvest, Zhou Jianchun said, This year's weather is good, Plus small bees diligent, Collect more than 600 catties of honey, Every time cut honey, Be named after the people snap up empty, Each catty price 80 yuan. In addition to the income from selling bee colonies, nearly 60,000 yuan has been earned throughout the year, which has become the main source of income for the family.

In the wild bees, Zhou Jianchun often listened to music alone, watching flowers and flying bees all over the mountains, occasionally someone came, he took out honey to taste for free, see others thumbs up, Zhou Jianchun's heart is as sweet as honey. Zhou Jianchun said, beekeeping process, met a lot of good friends, every day harvest sweet and happy, he likes to live such carefree days.

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Beekeepers are trained like this.

Zhou Jianchun is a first-degree disability, if changed to others, may have been at home rest, but Zhou Jianchun does not want to live such a day. According to him, before driving a tricycle to solicit passengers, but also ready to go to the streets to polish shoes, the result was stopped by parents.

At the age of 20, my father picked up a swarm of bees from the wild and gave them to him to take care of. In order to keep bees well, Zhou Jianchun borrowed a beekeeping book from a friend. "At that time, the book had two or three hundred pages, and I took notes at home every day." Zhou Jianchun said that since then, he has applied theory to practice, a few years later, has accumulated rich beekeeping experience. In 2009, Zhou Jianchun bought back 12 boxes of Chinese bees with more than 10,000 yuan earned from part-time work. After several years of breeding, it has now developed to more than 100 boxes, becoming a famous local beekeeper.

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"Self-reliance, life will always pay off."

"I'm trying to save face and suffer. I'm most afraid that others will look down on me, a disabled person." Zhou Jianchun said that he would rather be bitter and tired, but also to support his own "face", life will always have a return.

Due to physical limitations, Zhou Jianchun has not been married yet. But wherever he went, Zhang Yongxiu, his mother in her late sixties, was always with him. Today's Zhou Jianchun, also let Zhang Yongxiu look at, she thinks her son is very strong, more capable than some normal people.