Chapter 10 Sowing is like a poem

Section 1 Beware of bile rice seeds

After two days of soaking in water, the rice seeds have absorbed enough water, and the glume shell has become full and bulging from hard, crystal clear, and the bud mouth exposes the white rice, which is high and convex.

Ma Linxi hurriedly fished them into the basket and prepared the rice seeds.

In the rice-producing areas, the highly technical link of farming has always been undertaken by experienced old farmers in this field, and young people will basically not be assigned to this farm work. In the production team of the large collective era, the rice seed is even more deified, if it is a large area and a large number of seeds, some places also hold a simple ceremony, offering pig's head and the like, burning incense, kowtowing, praying for the blessing of the gods.

Therefore, the process of Yan Seed seems simple, but Ma Linxi does not dare to be sloppy at all, if there is a mistake, it will be a big deal.

If the temperature is too high, the seed buds will be burned out, and even a seedling will not grow if the dead buds are sown in the field. When the temperature is low, there will be many dumb seeds, and the soil temperature in the field is low, and the seedlings will not be produced. Even if the seedlings occasionally appear, they are still small seedlings with sandwiched legs, and they will not grow for a few days, and they will be bullied to death by the big seedlings that grow strong around them. At the same time, the uneven bud mouth caused by uneven temperature will also affect the uneven leaf age after transplanting the field, and also affect the unconcentrated flowering in the final heading stage, resulting in low seed yield.

If you want to have full seedlings, complete seedlings, and strong seedlings, you must first have full seeds, dry in the sun, soak thoroughly, and absorb enough water, and the next key is to accurately control the temperature and humidity to ensure that the seeds and sprouts are neat.

The bud mouth is Qi, which means that the length of the seed bud is the same, just breaking the chest to expose the sharp tip of half a grain of rice, and there is neither a dumb seed that does not break the chest (the top breaks the chaff), nor a sprout rice with long hairs and roots. The key to this technology is to control the temperature in a balanced manner.

For the rice seeds, Ma Linxi is also an old master.

From hundreds or thousands of catties of large cellars to two or three grains or even only one grain of artificially hybridized rice seeds, how many times have you passed it in your hands? But for this time, Ma Linxi still felt unsteady in his heart, and even a little worried, not because he was afraid that his skills would not be up to par, but that he was afraid that if he didn't grasp the temperature well, he would miss the overall situation. As a result, Marlinsi had to be careful and careful about every detail and control it accurately.

In the pit of the plant, a spacious drainage ditch was dug in advance, some small branches were placed in the middle, and the dry pine straw was put on the pad, and then, the rice seeds rinsed with clean water were evenly spread on the grass on the straw, and the surrounding was gently plugged, and the surface was gently raked flat with the separated five fingers, and then the thick two-layer straw curtain was covered. Insert a one-foot-long red mercury column thermometer at the top and at each end, and sweep the surroundings clean.

After doing this, Marlinsi checked around the cellar repeatedly, and after making sure that everything was correct, he left with peace of mind.

As a rule of thumb, the temperature of the seeds does not rise suddenly within four or five hours, as long as no additional warming measures are taken.

In the afternoon, the sun was still hot, and the sky was blue without a single cloud. No birds could be heard in the woods, and a big yellow dog's head lay on top of its outstretched paws on the left side of the village entrance, and its eyes were closed and dozing comfortably.

After a while, the wind picked up, and Ma Linxi felt cool. So, he walked to the entrance of the village to see how the seedling pond was prepared.

Section 2 Seven meat and eight vegetables are made of rice plates

The rice pond is made in a field outside the threshing floor, by the canal and by the roadside. Doing rice ponds is also an important farm work, and almost everyone except for the chores comes.

After the work of the breeding team is in full swing, all the team members are scattered during the day except for eating and sleeping, especially the liaison officers, who rarely have the opportunity to get together.

Today is the whole staff assault to sort out the seedling board, ready to plant tomorrow, everyone works together, naturally it is relaxed and happy, and the field is full of laughter.

"Luo Yufu, isn't your wife very beautiful?" Fan Guangjie, an agricultural technician from the Baidang Brigade of Anhu Commune, put a shovel of mud in the middle of the seedling board, which was a bit hollow. He straightened up and said to Luo Yufu, who was kicking his butt and adjusting the rope.

"What about being pretty. Luo Yufu, an agricultural technician from the Yongmin Brigade of Yongfeng Commune, did not look up.

"Let's enjoy it, too. Qi Moxiang, an agricultural technician from the Wuxi Brigade of Wuyou Commune, said, spit in the palm of his hand, and dug a shovel of soil vigorously.

"People are stealing fun. You can't even smell × fish. Hu Longbiao, a small man in Dazonghu Commune, said that he had been familiar with Qi Moxiang before. Qi Moxiang once went to Hu Longbiao's Dazong Lake Commune to transfer seeds.

"If you can't smell it, it's okay to show us. Jiang Sigui, a technician at the Agricultural Science Station of Beijiang Commune, took a sentence. He was arranging the rope with Luo Yufu, one person and one head, and made a sideline for Fan Guangjie's rice board. Seeing that Luo Yufu didn't say anything, he dragged the rope head into his arms and asked, "Did you say that?"

When he said "look", he meant looking at the photos of Luo Yufu's wife. After going to bed the night before, someone found Luo Yufu secretly looking at his wife's photos in the bed.

After the news spread, it became a joke among everyone, and some people ridiculed him: "You should bring your wife and tie it to your trouser belt." ”

"Look at your wife, not at other people's big girls!" Luo Yufu replied.

This is to ridicule Jiang Sigui and a few of them, staring at the liaison officer in the village all day long.

After the grouping, the people in the production team, together with a few female liaisons, almost every day, contacted the opposite place to arrange farm work, in fact, this is also work. Jiang Sigui is connected with Ke Ruiying, the most beautiful public lover, and everyone can't help but feel a little jealous. The whole production team is such a Peugeot girl, but she was taken away by this kid.

"I'm public, it's work. Is that like you sneaking around, you can't see anyone?" Jiang Sigui replied.

"What the hell. I think my wife is stealing, you fucking see that other people's yellow flower girls are working, aren't you red?" Luo Yufu sneered.

"Don't be so serious, I'm organizationally assigned. You, such a beautiful lady is not afraid that someone will be greedy?" Jiang Sigui smiled evilly.

"I need you to this idleness. The father-in-law and daughter-in-law are getting along. Xing Yiyou quipped. Xing Yiyou's Da Zong Lake Commune is separated from Luo Yufu's Yongfeng Commune across the river, so he pretended to be familiar.

"That's fine, anyway, the meat is rotten in the soup pot at home. Fan Guangjie followed.

"My father-in-law is also a cuckold when he picks up ashes. Hu Longbiao said coldly.

Everyone laughed and flipped back.

"What are you laughing at, Xing Yiyou's father is still young. Luo Yufu said.

"Oh, my old man has a high heart, and he can't look down on my yellow-faced mother-in-law. It's almost the same as your young wife. Xing Yiyou laughed first.

"You are really empty-minded, and it is a waste of resources to put it at home, and the daughter-in-law is good, which is conducive to the stability of the rear, but what should be done in front of you. Xu Feng, a technician at the county agricultural science institute, said that he was not married, and he didn't even have a partner.

"Hey, you have to ask Ma Linxi about this, he is the groom's official. Luo Yufu suddenly seemed to have discovered a new continent, and shifted his gaze to Ma Linxi's head.

"Yes, yes, yes, please talk about the groom's opinion. Jiang Sigui said.

"I don't know. The groom has a way to solve it, and it can be solved by holding his hands tightly and rubbing the work. What about the bride? Xing Yiyou laughed.

"Oops. You are really empty-minded, the bride is the father-in-law's favorite, this is the opportunity. Qi Moxiang took over the conversation.

Ma Linxi was about to refute, when suddenly a thick throat shouted: "It's only been a few days since I left home, and I don't leave my ×mouth all day long!"

The one who shouted loudly was the head of the seed station, Cheng Houbo.

Stationmaster Cheng's education level is not high, he has been a soldier in the army for more than ten years and transferred to the local area, he is five big and three thick, tall and tall, with a black face, a bit like an African brother, straightforward and fast-talking, and his popularity is particularly good. He had just come back from running errands outside, and when he passed by, everyone was just immersed in work and talking nonsense, but they didn't expect him to appear at this time. So they all grinned and continued to work. The breeding team is a temporary organization, and they are usually familiar with each other at home, and the relationship between superiors and subordinates is not so serious.

"It's fun, otherwise it's boring. Hey. Xing Yiyou saw that everyone didn't dare to say anything, and said a little boringly. He is an old qualification among the commune's agricultural technicians, and the Dazhonghu Commune is also the breeding base of the county's seed station.

"Then you can do what you have in hand. Oh, here, what about Qi Moxiang, and then shovel mud. Amuse. Over there, a little further on, there are some depressions, I can't see it? Go, scrape again. Slightly lighter. Stationmaster Cheng was not really angry, standing on the ridge and directing everyone to work, he took out a cigarette and prepared to smoke.

"That's okay, is it? Jiang Sigui said with a smile.

"You talk a lot. Stationmaster Cheng smiled, put the cigarette he smoked in his mouth with his right hand, took out the lighter with his left hand, and did not light the cigarette, but continued to command with the left hand holding the lighter: "What about Xiaohu? Why is there so much mud in the ditch over there? The ditch is about to be flattened." Hurry up and go fishing again. This way, this way, little Fan. Xiao Fan, the top board is a little high, don't you see it? Use a rake to rake two more rakes. ”

"Good. Fan Guangjie quickly went to get the slightly high board and pressed it down with a shovel.

"Funny, go down, press again. All right. Stationmaster Cheng lit a cigarette, took a puff, and said, "You can't die like that, how can the seeds take root when they fall?!"

"Where's the ponies? Stationmaster Cheng asked.

"It's all right. Malinsi said.

"Don't be careless!" stationmaster Cheng advised.

"Uh-huh. Ma Linxi replied while helping Qi Moxiang scrape the surface mud of the seedling board with a wooden board.

The so-called scraping of the seedling board, this is the last process to check whether the finished seedling board is horizontal with water, and it is not sloppy at all.

The seedling board of the fallen buds is a furrow, all of which are rectangular strips about one meter wide and five that are level with the water surface, and the ditch in the middle is straight, if it is uneven, it can be remedied now, and as soon as the water is drained, there is no way to remedy it.

Ma Linxi didn't dare to raise his head in his heart, so he just bent his waist and followed the ditch, grabbing one end of the long plank with both hands like Qi Moxiang, and pushing it smoothly and smoothly from one end of the seedling board to the other. The slightly higher place is pressed harder, and the slightly lower place is suspended in the air, and the grasp between the pressure and suspension all depends on the understanding of each person. When he got to the end, he straightened up and said, "I'll go down to the cellar at three o'clock." ”

"I'm going to be on duty at night!" said Stationmaster Cheng again.

"It's arranged, I'll be in the second half of the night, and Lao Wang will be in the first half of the night. Marlinsi said as she went barefoot up the ridge.

"Where's Xing Yiyou?" asked Stationmaster Cheng.

"Hey. Xing Yiyou looked up at the stationmaster.

"You take everyone to find miscellaneous and miscellaneous rice ponds again, and they must be flat. If you're done, call it a day early. Stationmaster Cheng said, and turned to Ma Linxi: "What about the pony." Walk. Home go look at the seeds. ”

"Oh. Ma Linxi hurriedly picked up the plastic sandals, jumped into the canal next to him, hastily washed the mud off his legs and arms, and followed Stationmaster Cheng back to the dormitory.

Section 3 Cellar Night

Stationmaster Cheng came to the breeding cellar to take a look, and left without expressing any opinions.

Marlinsi jumped off the cellar, pulled out the thermometer and looked at it, and the three points were less than thirty degrees Celsius, which was early. He went back to his dormitory, took a basin and a change of dirty clothes, and went to the west to bathe in the sand river. At this time, the brigade of the rice pond also returned, and everyone was busy walking towards the river.

After dinner, Marlinsi went to bed first. It wasn't until half past twelve in the middle of the night that Ma Linxi got up again and changed to Wang Changsong, who was on night shift.

"Ahh Mosquitoes are mostly dead. Wang Changsong stretched.

"Then go back to sleep. Get up early and change me. Malinsi said.

"Uh-huh. Wang Changsong walked away in a daze.

Marlinthi turned on a flashlight and carefully checked the temperature, and the three points were the same as thirty-two degrees Celsius, indicating that the temperature was uniform. The hand reached in, it was warm inside, took out a handful of seeds, the flashlight had begun to break the chest, and the mouth of the seed valley had been broken by the seed buds that had absorbed enough water, revealing the snow-white bud tips, bulging and swollen, and Ma Linxi felt a burst of joy in his heart.

Lu Bai is also ten neat, which is a precursor to the neatness of the buds. Marlinsi carefully put the seeds back, raked them flat with his hands, and gently covered the straw curtain.

The seeds are often turned and the surface temperature decreases, which can lead to uneven temperatures and affect the bud mouth. Next, just pay close attention to the temperature, check it every half an hour, control it within 37 degrees Celsius, and you can finish it at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, in that case, you can completely catch up with the morning and afternoon valley. As long as you don't doze off and check the temperature in time, there will be absolutely no problems.

In the past, when Marlinxi was breeding at home, some production teams did not have good seeds, because they did not have a good grasp of this temperature. At the time of germination, the temperature in the grain pile rises very quickly due to the sudden increase in the permeability of the cell protoplasm, and if you are not careful to observe and control it in time, it will exceed 40 degrees Celsius. This high-temperature process, which is accompanied by a particularly rapid multiplication of microorganisms, is called "fermentation", which takes only twenty or thirty minutes, and if measures are not taken in time, the seed buds in the cellar will be burned to death. If the temperature is always below 35 degrees Celsius after the seeds are broken, then many seeds will not sprout and become dumb.

This time period is often the early morning, and it is also the time when people are most sleepy. Marlinthi knew what was at stake, so she insisted on coming to the midnight shift.

Except for checking the temperature every half an hour, turning the seeds with the camera, and drenching them with a small amount of water to ensure ventilation and normal temperature and humidity, there was nothing else to do, but to wait by the cellar and wait for the long night to pass.

The moon had risen and was creeping up the treetops.

The tall coconut trees stand quietly in the moonlight, leaving a long shadow on the ground, and there are spots of light sieving down from the sky and swaying on the ground.

The night breeze blew, and the dew-soaked leaves shimmered with silver. From time to time, there was a "hula-la" sound in the sugar cane field, which should have been a gust of wind blowing through. Unknown insects hummed happily, and the world was full of music. It's a little cold outside, and the mosquitoes are so tired that they can't see a shadow.

Marlinsi moved a small stool and sat on the edge of the cellar. After a while, take a look at the three thermometers inserted into the heap.

Some people are sleepy, but they don't dare to doze off, for fear that if they fall asleep, something will happen. He simply got up again and dangled around. You can't go too far. Ma Linxi doesn't believe in superstition, and he is not afraid of so-called demons and monsters, but after all, he is not familiar with life, and there are green yarn tents everywhere, so he is still a little frightened psychologically. Besides, his first priority now is to look at the seeds.

Marlinsi walked to the pond.

The pond is probably dug by hand, in a north-south rectangular shape, and it seems to have been many years old, and the coconut trees on the edge of the pond are as tall as three or four storey houses, and are overgrown with weeds and shrubs, like a thick scarf around the pond, and the wide bald water line is like a belt. The water in the pond is shallow, and the moon and stars in the sky are clearly reflected. The toilet on the water also looks more elegant and mysterious, and the reflection in the water is like a beautiful pavilion at the head of the nine-curved bridge.

Ma Linxi stood by the pond for a long time, very bored to find a small stone fragment, held it on the middle finger of the index finger, gently pressed it with his thumb, took a few steps back, and after turning his right arm in the air a few times, he suddenly floated up to the water. The small stone flakes jumped a few times on the calm water, stirred up a few circles of large and small ripples, and then sank, and after the round ripples quickly spread around, the water surface quickly returned to calm.

This is a game that Marlinsi used to play with his friends in his childhood on the edge of the pond behind the production team's mill. It is not a stone flake, but a hard and light mud. The kind of mud is generally formed after the water in the small puddles in the field or the ditch recedes, curly and brittle, like a porcelain piece of uniform thickness. With this kind of mud and rough work, with proper skills, he can jump seven or eight times in a row on the calm water and win the applause of everyone.

As Marlinsi returned to the cellar and passed by the dormitory, snoring could be heard from the window. After a tiring day, everyone was immersed in a wonderful dreamland. Now, they are far away from their hometowns, away from their loved ones, and every time they close their eyes, it is as if they are back with their loved ones.

Section 4 Silent Night Thoughts

This is the first time that Marlinsi has been away from home for so long, and it is also the first time that she has been away from home for so long. According to the plan, they will stay here for half a year. When I was in high school, I was away from home for a week at most, and even if it was a week, it was sometimes a long time. Now it's been half a year, in addition to missing and worrying about his family, Ma Linxi still has a trace of worry in his heart from time to time.

Marlinsi's first concern was her grandmother. Ma Linxi grew up next to her grandmother, and from the time she can remember until she was about ten years old, Ma Linxi and her brother almost slept in a big bed with her grandmother. At night, it was the grandmother who urged them to sleep, in the morning, it was the grandmother who urged them to get up, and at night, it was the grandmother who called them to get up and relieve themselves.

At that time, Marlinsi and her brother were very annoying to her, and often talked back to her in order to have more fun and do less housework. Later, as they grew older, and Grandma grew older, she stopped supporting them to do this and that, and felt that Grandma was much kinder and kinder than before.

In the past few years, Ma Linxi suddenly felt that her grandmother was really old, she didn't talk much, and she no longer cared about what they were doing, and her actions were not so neat, and she was a little old. He remembered the morning when he left home for Hainan, and his grandmother secretly stuffed money to Ma Linxi. He was really worried about whether she would be able to wait until he went back in good health.

The younger brother is also a person that Malinsi is worried about. He had just graduated from high school, and he was a bit playful and liked to mess around with a few monkeys. Working in the production team, from time to time looking for the stubble of the captain of the production team, has become a headache for everyone.

Ma Linxi's manure bucket is twice the capacity of ordinary people's homes, and his younger brother went to the team to pick up dung and asked others to fill half a bucket, which was known to Captain Yao, and educated him: "Young people, doing more things is also exercise." ”

The younger brother said, "Why should I exercise? ”

Captain Yao is unreasonable, he is the person in the team who is full of words: "Who called your bucket so big?"

The younger brother didn't give an inch, "I just need to pick no fewer than others." ”

Captain Yao provoked him: "Then your family will go and see off the dung bucket." ”

Saw, saw, what's the big deal. really sawed a big hole in the good cedar barrel, and Captain Yao couldn't cry or laugh when he saw it. After coming and going, the younger brother became a famous thorn in the team.

Ma Linxi is at home, in case something happens, he can resist it, and now that they are on their own side, they are really a little worried.

When my brother is in a hurry, he can do anything.

When he was in high school, his younger brother borrowed Ma Linxi's newly purchased bicycle to ride and accidentally lost the bell. Ma Linxi said him fiercely, but his younger brother was not convinced: "I didn't mean to." Just pay you back. ”

"Then you go and return a new one. Ma Linxi provoked him, the bicycles were all large pieces with the back door opened by the strip, a radish and a pit, and the new bell was lost unless it could be recovered, otherwise it could not be matched.

However, all the impossibilities were made possible with my brother.

The next day, the younger brother held a few new bells in front of him: "Oh, all of them are new and they will be returned to you." Marlinsi couldn't laugh or cry. The younger brother and a few good brothers didn't know how to use to screw all the new bells of the bicycles displayed by the supply and marketing cooperative.

Not only that, but even if it is a lack of morality, for a while, the younger brother and his sworn friends are thriving and can do anything.

The principal of the elementary school couldn't get along with his younger brother, and after graduation, when there was no one in the school during the holidays, the younger brother and Xinxing pulled a bubble of shit into the drawer of the principal's desk. The mechanic of the production team was a little unhappy with his behavior, and he poured a bubble of urine into the fuel tank of someone's diesel engine, and the machine could not start.

In the past six months, Ma Linxi has not been at home, and his younger brother may do something earth-shattering.

The person Ma Linxi is most worried about is still the wife of the newlywed Yan'er. Their family is a big family, although the elder brother is married and has children, he still eats and lives with them, and the family of nine can be counted in the whole brigade. Before they got married, they barely moved around, let alone romance. Now, suddenly getting married and living a strange big family life, no matter what, there is a process of adaptation and running-in. However, in this run-in process, the most dependent newlywed husband is not around. Although Ma Linxi's grandmother and mother are people who have come over, they have all been other people's daughters-in-law, and there have been many bumps between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. Grandma and Mom's tempers are not very good, can they get along?

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Section 5 Sowing is like a poem

Marlinsi was so cranky, sometimes even very yellow and obscene, and finally survived until dawn.

After Wang Changsong took over, Ma Linxi quickly lay down on the bed, too sleepy, too sleepy, and soon fell asleep.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Ma Linxi got up and didn't care about washing, and quickly went to see how the rice seed germination was doing. He estimated that the buds had reached their intended mouth at this time.

Marlinthi lifted the grass and did as expected. Wang Changsong brought two buckets of well water, and they poured cold water on the enamel bowl to cool down, and turned the seed buds lightly. After a while, all the seeds are taken out of the nest and spread out in the shade. After the surface moisture is dried, the valley can be set in the afternoon.

The buds are very well cooked, almost half a grain of rice long beige-white drills, and there are no long hairs and no budding dumb seeds.

Yang Hongru, the deputy county magistrate, was very satisfied after reading it: "The seeds are good. Yes. Yes. ”

Deputy Director Ji Xuebin grabbed a handful of seed buds with his left hand and spread them in the palm of his hand, and the index finger of his right hand flicked the seed buds and looked at them, showing a rare smile on his face in the past few days: "The neatness is quite high." The pony really has two hits. ”

After the lunch break, everyone got up and went to the seedling pond with their tools.

The seedling raising board of the seedling pond has been done, and the people who come are all good at rice cultivation and agricultural technicians, and they will do whatever they get with the tools. The seedling board is a little whitish, so use a shovel to get some mud from the ditch and pour it on it to moisten it, and the people behind immediately push it with a wooden plank, scrape it flat, and just wait for the next planting.

Ma Linxi and Wang Changsong gently put the cool seed buds into the basket, Xu Feng took a few basins, and they took turns to carry the rice seeds to the ridge by the seedling pond.

Falling grain sowing is an important part of hybrid rice seed production, and the technical requirements are relatively high. Although the seed buds are well baked, if the sowing is uneven, or the mud is too heavy, and the board surface is too hard, it will seriously affect the emergence of seedlings and seedlings, seedlings even, and seedlings strong.

When the valley falls, if the buds do not spread out on the board surface, or if they are uneven, they will form clusters. If the valley is too thin, there will be many tillers per plant and it will be ineffective, which will prolong the flowering period. The mud is heavy, the seed buds are sucked into the soil too deeply, and if the ventilation is poor, it may suffocate, rot the seed buds, and the seedlings will not emerge. If the surface of the board is too hard, the seeds will not be planted if the water absorbed by the sprouts is not sufficient, and they will die of lack of water, and even if they grow roots, they will not be able to take root in the soil.

Anyone who is engaged in rice cultivation understands these basic common senses, and everyone can do it. At home, I always direct others to do it, and there should be no problem in doing it myself. Despite this, the leaders were still not very relieved, and Deputy County Magistrate Yang, Deputy Director Ji, and Station Chief Cheng all came to Tiantou.

"Where's Hu, scrape the third board again. Deputy Director Ji was barefoot, his trousers rolled high, and he glanced at it and said.

"Uh-huh. Hu Longbiao responded, turned to his partner Fan Guangjie, and then said, "Come on, press a little harder." Raise. Raise. Good. Steady, hang a little more. "Two people working with the scraper.

"What about the pony, you sow seeds with Xing Yiyou. Xiao Xu, you weigh the seeds first and see how many kinds are used for a board. Deputy Director Ji Xuebin instructed one by one.

"Forget it, two and a half pounds per board. Xu Feng replied.

"Again, be precise. After Deputy Director Ji finished speaking, he picked up the basin with rice seed sprouts and walked to the top of the first seedling board near the roadside. Then he said, "Come, I'll show you." ”

Ma Linxi and Xing Yiyou picked up the basin and stood in front of him, and the others also gathered around.

Yang Hongru, deputy county magistrate, is of medium height, thin and thin, wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, elegant and gentle, he is a highly talented student of the Provincial Agricultural University, a senior agronomist, and has been promoted step by step from a technician to a deputy county magistrate in charge of agriculture. Although he is the county's leading agricultural expert, he still admires Deputy Director Ji's skills very much. He crossed his waist with one hand and pointed at the other and said, "Let's see what Director Ji does." Study hard. These are the basic essentials, and when you master them, you can go back and teach others. ”

Everyone gathered around the ridge, squatting and standing, holding their breath to watch Deputy Director Ji sow seeds, and his heart was also full of a sense of admiration and worship, after all, he is a foreign-aid rice expert selected by the state, and it is a blessing to see a national-level rice expert demonstrate sowing technology.

Previously, at a county-wide summer rice transplanting site meeting, Ma Linxi met Chen Yongxi, a well-known rice cultivation expert in the country, to demonstrate rice transplanting. Chen Yongxi, a native of Songjiang, Jiangsu, worked in the field at the age of 13 and figured out the "One Spike Chuan" rice seed selection method in the 40s. In 1951, it was the first in the country to produce more than 700 kilograms of rice per mu in a single season, and was rated as a model of rice yield in East China and the whole country. He summed up the systematic experience of "three black and three yellow" rice seedling diagnosis, and the cultivated rice variety "Lao Lai Qing" was introduced by 22 provinces and cities and 15 countries across the country.

What Ma Linxi remembers is still fresh is that Chen Yongxi is not so much a demonstration of rice transplanting, but rather a performance, the precise and fast rice transplanting, like a mechanical rice transplanting machine with full horsepower, the rows are evenly spaced, straight and uncurved, horizontal and vertical rows, and the rice cultivation experts are dumbfounded.

In front of him, it is this national-level foreign-aid rice expert who is sowing seeds like a goddess scattering flowers.

"Oh, the seeds in the hand should be grasped less, half a small handful, the tiger's mouth is facing down, and a side line is scattered first," Deputy Director Ji said with a basin containing seed buds in his left hand, leaning forward slightly, slightly cat's waist, his right hand forward, the tiger's mouth facing down, like a graceful dancer, gently raised forward, and the fallen seeds fell on the edge of three or four inches away from the seedling board like the ink line played by an old carpenter, forming a straight line impartially.

That kind of calm, that kind of calm, crisp and neat, and elegant flute, is a posture performance that comes from the center of the chest and the hand. The so-called one minute on stage, ten years of work off the stage, behind this, I don't know how much hard sweat has been paid.

As he demonstrated, he said, "Then, sprinkle the middle one, don't be too straight, be careful to relax your breath, don't be nervous, relax your arms and fingers, and let the seeds leak evenly out of your hands." Look at it, about 30 grains per square foot. ”

"Thirty-one. Xing Yiyou made a one-foot-square frame with grass stems, rested it on the seedling board that had been sown, and counted it.

Everyone sighed and applauded involuntarily, expressing heartfelt admiration in their hearts.

"Well, it's just over. Deputy Director Ji Xuebin sowed seeds to the other end of the seedling board, there was no seed left in the basin and hand, and what was even more amazing was that there were no mud spots on his strong legs, unlike other breeding team members, who were covered in mud spots, and some people had a three-flower face.

The rice buds that fall on the seedling board really seem to be sifted on it, and they are dense and even. The goose-yellow grain seeds fall on the light brown and translucent seedling board, and the scattered rice white grain buds are set off like a picturesque picture.

Next, Ma Linxi and Xu Feng carefully sowed the seeds, and the others also got busy, some using shovels to collapse the seeds on the seedling boards, and some cleaning up the silt in the furrows. Everyone talked and laughed, and after a while, the whole farm work was over.

Section 6 Study the spirit of the Plenary Session of the Central Committee

Perhaps it was a coincidence that I knew that the great work of the breeding team was over, and the task of political study came.

As early as a few days ago, the news program of the Central People's Radio was broadcast on the loudspeaker, and the Third Plenary Session of the 11 th CPC Central Committee has ended.

The breeding team site informs that every evening they will concentrate on one hour to study the spirit of the plenary meeting.

After dinner, everyone gathered on the threshing floor on time and sat on the floor in a fan-shaped shape centered on the leader's desk.

The sun has just set, the sky is still bright, the evening breeze is blowing, there is no mosquito harassment, and it is very comfortable.

Stationmaster Cheng Houbo presided over the study.

He lit a cigarette, took a sip of tea, and then slowly put on his reading glasses, and then picked up a new "People's Daily" that had been placed on the table a long time ago. Instead of reading the newspaper first, he lowered his head slightly, allowing his gaze to look over the frame and scan the breeding team sitting on the ground in front of him.

He coughed dryly and said, "Although we are here to breed, we also have to care about national affairs." The 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is about to begin, and the day before yesterday, the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee has just ended, and there are important contents to be learned and conveyed at the meeting. I won't explain it specifically, and I don't have a specific explanation at this level, so I will follow the script and learn the original text together. ”

Only then did the stationmaster Cheng Houbo withdraw his gaze from the top of the frame and began to read the newspaper aloud in the vernacular dialect of his family.

Communiqué of the Plenum of the Central Committee. Adopted on 22 December 1978.

The plenary session was held in Beijing from 18 to 22 December 1978. The meeting was attended by 169 members of the Central Committee and 112 alternate members of the Central Committee. Prior to the plenary session, a central work conference was convened to make full preparations for the plenary session.

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Next year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the great People's Republic of China. The Third Plenary Session of the 11 th CPC Central Committee called on all comrades in the party, commanders and fighters of the whole army, workers, peasants, intellectuals, and patriotic democrats of all nationalities throughout the country, and patriotic and democratic personages of all political parties and non-party affiliations: It will be the best gift to the 30 th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China that we will shift the focus of our work to socialist modernization next year and achieve due achievements. Let us unite more closely around the CPC Central Committee and forge ahead courageously to fundamentally change the backward appearance of our country and build our country into a great modern socialist power!

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