Chapter 2 The World Magic Rice

Section 1 Chinese and Western production teams

Ma Linxi is located in this small village, called Gaoling.

However, before liberation, it was not called a village, and the settlement of three or five households was called "house", such as the north house, the south house, and the middle house. The settlement with a large number of households is called "dunzi", like Fan's dunzi and Tang's dunzi. The original name of the Gaoling area was "Northwest Tip", which was later changed to "Gaoling". The Gaoling Brigade is located in the southwest of Nandun Commune, and there are 123 miles of dirt road from Nandun Town, where the commune is located.

On July 15, 1974, after graduating from Nandun Middle School and High School, Ma Linxi returned to Gaoling, the land where he was born and raised, and officially joined the labor of the production team the next day and became a veritable farmer.

After graduating from high school, Ma Linxi did not have any lofty ideals and ambitions, but he felt that it was good to be a farmer. His junior high school classmates, except for a few who became soldiers, and those who did not go to high school, all became farmers in advance. Most of those who are in high school are the same as him, and they have also carried hoes and dealt with dirt, and they did not think of any unfair fate, or hard fate, and bad opportunities. The mind is very simple, he does not complain about heaven and earth, does not complain about his father and mother, and is a farmer with peace of mind, earning work and living.

On the first day of work on the production team, it was to accumulate grass and mud ponds.

The accumulation of grass and mud ponds is a key farm work between summer and autumn, when the team could not afford to buy chemical fertilizers, grass and mud ponds are organic fertilizers, which are long-term fertilizer and good for improving the soil. From the region to the county, the community, to the production brigade and the production team, there are specific indicators of the total number of grass and mud ponds and the number of cubic meters. Because it is heavy physical work, it is also the farm work of men.

The Chinese and Western production teams are medium-sized production teams, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, school students, and children under school age, there are only 100 labor forces in total. According to the Dazhai style of 10 work, the team divides all the labor force into several groups.

The male labor group is also managed by Liu Yunfu, the deputy team leader, and is divided into two groups, east and west, with the north and south central rivers in the west of the production team's field as the boundary. The eastern group worked in Hedong, and the western group worked in Hexi. The leader of the east group is Yang Yuegen, and the leader of the west group is Shen Demin. Heavy physical work such as picking mud, digging ditches, working on the river, digging mud, raising the field, digging mounds, planting seedlings, picking wheat, and picking rice are all the work of men.

There are about 40 people in the women's labor group, and they are also divided into the east group and the west group with the small river in the west of the field as the boundary, and the scope of work is relatively fixed, and the labor force works nearby, which is convenient for housework, especially the women who can take care of the breastfeeding in the middle of the way, and the members of the society who have no one to look after the house, can take care of the safety of the home during work, and prevent fire and theft. House fires and thefts, while rare, are not completely avoidable. Unless there is a surprise farm work, such as harvesting wheat and rice, snatching cotton, or rushing to sow and plant, and other seasonal farm work that is particularly strong, it will generally not operate across regions. Older and frail and younger semi-labour or children are generally also included in the women's group. The leader of Hedong is Sun Xiuying, and the leader of Hexi is Qin Yuling, the women's captain and Ma Linxi's mother. The production team leader is not only a worker, but also a part-time team keeper, responsible for the examination and recording of labor results.

The rest of the labor force is skilled labor and handymen. There are six or seven people in the pest control group, male and female, there is a certain seasonality, all of them are drawn from each group, although the work is not high, but it also belongs to Yahuo, and there must be some back doors to get this job. The leader of the group is militia platoon leader Cheng Yuegui and Jian. There are four people in the sideline group, who are responsible for the tofu mill, the flour mill and pig raising, and the team leader is Zhang Fuyu, the leader of the poor and middle peasant association and a party member. The rest are the giants of the production team.

Production team leader, Yang Yuliang. He has been an old production captain for more than ten years, he likes to make his nose, probably because of the more serious sinusitis, he is tall and thin, and he walks and shakes, and everyone calls him "Yao Huangzi" behind his back. Vice captain Yang Yuzhong is tall and big, and people call him "Smiling Tiger". Accountant Cheng Ruizhi, an old junior high school graduate, is a good hand in accounting, known as the "iron abacus". These three people are the "Politburo" in the team, according to the level of their positions there is a certain difference, eat the emperor's grain, usually do not record work points, at the end of the year by the production brigade according to the income of the production team, the overall level of the other production teams of the whole brigade, the principle is that the high is not low. When the income level of the team is higher than the average level of the whole team, the highest work score will be awarded according to the income of the production team. On the contrary, the brigade will coordinate and make up to the average income level of the whole brigade.

Cheng Yuegui, the militia platoon leader, is a bald man, but he always wears a white-washed hat when he grows up, and he is the fifth oldest in the family. After all, no one dares to lift his hat in public, in fact, everyone knows that he doesn't have a hair on his head, but the hat just can't be touched. Whoever moves is sadder than touching an inch of soil on the grave of his ancestors? But he is popular, and everyone is happy to train with him, or to take potions to treat insects.

When Marlinxi graduated from high school, it was the middle of summer.

Section 2 Male labour force with halved remuneration

In July, the sun was blazing, there was no rain for a long time, and in the words of the old farmer, the fields were dry enough to catch fire.

However, the men's farm work cannot be delayed in the slightest, and the season waits for no one. At this time, the farm work was to accumulate grass and mud ponds. In addition to working on the river and repairing water conservancy, accumulating grass and mud ponds is the dirtiest, hardest and most tiring work of the year.

Repairing water conservancy on the river is heavy work, and it is generally in winter when the farm is slack, and the most is the consumption of physical strength. The accumulation of grass and mud ponds is not ordinary, not only heavy work, dirty work, coupled with high temperature and summer days, not to mention labor, people go to the field to stand up, nothing has to be done to sweat. But, like all men, Marlinsi had to face such a difficult and difficult heavy workload.

What kind of heavy work is this? Marlinsi felt that it was no less than the prison service performed by the prisoners. First dig a large pit more than one person deep at the side of the drainage ditch at the head of the rice field, then shovel the turf into the ditch along the edge of the ridge ditch, and then shovel the grass and the silt at the bottom of the ditch into the dung bucket, carry it to the pit dug in advance, sprinkle the crushed cottonseed cake, knead the crushed phosphorus fertilizer, manure and grass, and pour it into it while repeatedly stirring it with a nail rake with thick handles and long teeth. Stirring seemed to be a light job, but when Marlinsi picked up the rake, he felt very heavy, and after only three or five strokes, he could no longer lift it.

Let's go shovel mud. Ma Linxi stood at the bottom of the ditch, he was one meter seven or four heads, he couldn't see the ground, he dug up a shovel of silt, ready to put it into the dung bucket at the mouth of the ditch, and before he touched the dung bucket, it all slipped down on himself, and immediately became a mud man. He hurried to another ditch to take a bath, climbed ashore, and continued to carry the mud, which was the only option.

At first, it was okay to pick a few loads, because it was close to the mouth of the pit, Marinxi bit his teeth, closed his eyes, and muttered: "Damn." With all his strength, he finally stood up.

After that, his strength was gone, and he stood up hard, his eyes black, his feet crooked, and his feet fluttering. Take a few steps, put it down, rest for a while, catch your breath, wipe your sweat, pick it up again and continue to move forward step by step. When I got to the mouth of the pit, I didn't even have the strength to fall. On several occasions, the dung bucket could not be caught, and even the mud bucket rolled into the waist-deep river mud pond, and Ma Linxi had to grit his teeth, go down and drag the dirty dung bucket up, and sat at the mouth of the pit, no longer had the strength to stand up, tears rolling in his eyes.

Ma Linxi is afraid that others will see and scold him for being unproductive, what a man, picking two buckets of mud and crying nose, women, don't have a × face at all. So, he pretended to wipe his sweat, raised his arm, and wiped his mud-covered face with his wrist. In fact, at this time, it was no longer clear whether it was tears or sweat on his face. Looking down, sweat has formed several black streams on his chest.

It was as hot as a steamer, the leaves of the treetops did not move at all, the cries of knowledge came and went, and the sun hung high in the sky, as if it had been held up by something, and it did not move.

Finally got off work, and when I got home, Ma Linxi only felt that the bones in my body were falling apart, a handful of salt cream, my shoulders hurt so much that I couldn't touch them, and I was hot and uncomfortable. After dinner, although the room was stuffy, Marlinsi slept until dawn because she was too tired.

The next day, Marlinsi went to work as usual. I put a towel on my shoulder, and finally one load at a time, day by day, I survived the whole summer, the tender skin that was worn off, grew a thick cocoon, the amount of food increased greatly, and the skin was tanned and shiny. The strength in my body is also much stronger than when I first came back from school. It's tiring and boring, but it's not as hard as it was at the beginning.

Marlinsi worked in the male labor group, and the amount of work he completed was not much less than that of the others, but he could not take as much as others. The normal standard of Dazhai style work recording is that the whole male labor is full attendance, ten points of work are recorded every day, and ten points of work are calculated as one working day. There are two divisions of labor in the morning, four divisions of labor in the morning and four in the afternoon, and the hours of night work are calculated according to the handyman, and two or three points can be added according to the length of time. How much to remember, only when Captain Yao says it counts, and the clerk only records attendance.

Female laborers are in full attendance, and eight points of work are recorded. Half of the labor force. Students who have graduated from junior high school and are under the age of 20, no matter who they are, are considered semi-laborers. The months after returning from school are equivalent to the apprenticeship of new workers entering the factory, and sometimes they do not get the quota of half-labor.

Ma Linxi is nineteen years old, has just graduated from high school, and is counted as half a male laborer, so he should get five points a day, because he has just left school, his qualifications are not enough, so he will be reduced by one point. That is to say, Marlinsi worked all day, and did the same heavy work as other male laborers, and sometimes even did more than others, and it was not his turn to do light work, skillful work, and odd work, but he could only get four points for his work.

Ma Linxi looked at the work division column on the work book full of four points, and he was angry: "Why are you not paid for equal work?" He found Captain Yao to reason.

Captain Yao glared at Ma Linxi, wiped a handful of water snot, rubbed his pants on the back of his buttocks, and said, "That's the rule." After speaking, there was a hula in his nose, and he walked away without looking back.

Zhang Linsheng, a neighbor, gloated and said: "I have been working for three years, and I have taken three miles from three and a half jobs." ”

Marlinsi knew it was useless to reason. I thought to myself, let's boil slowly, damn, after the New Year, I will be twenty years old, not counting the whole labor but also half labor, and I will no longer take four points.

Section 3 Pledge Mobilization Meeting

Soon, the time came to the end of the year. After New Year's Day, when it was supposed to be a time for farming, a notice was issued in the commune, saying that it was engaged in farmland and water conservancy projects, and the task of the Gaoling Production Brigade was to excavate Sanxing Port with the other six production brigades. To this end, the brigade also held a general meeting of all members to mobilize, and the momentum was huge.

For farmers, river work is the most important farm work of the year. Therefore, from the production team to the production team, they attach great importance to it, and the brigade holds a general meeting of all members to carry out the pledge mobilization.

This was the first and most high-level meeting that Marlinsi had attended since returning to his hometown to work as a farmer.

As soon as the day was bright, the tweeter of the brigade headquarters sounded, and the small radio of each household rang out, first playing the record over and over again, those songs and musicians can hum and sing, in addition to the model play "Red Lantern", "Shajiabang", "Outwitting Weihu Mountain" singing segment, there is also the erhu solo "Horse Racing", and the flute solo "Whip Urging Horses to Transport Grain", the rhythm is bright, the melody is high, giving people excitement and strength.

Half an hour later, the voice of blowing the microphone came from the speaker: "Husband——, husband——。 Hey, hey. This is Cheng Wanyu, the communicator of the brigade, shouting: "All families pay attention, hurry up to the production team to gather at the head of the field, and go to the brigade headquarters for a meeting." Xijie, Xinling, you hurry up, some production teams have arrived......" brigade communication officer is a position with a lot of work and low pay. Cheng Wanyu was a worker who responded to the government's call to return to his hometown in the late 50s from the provincial and urban construction departments. In addition to sending verbal notices to various production teams or written notices from the commune, he wore many hats, worked as a cook, slept at the team headquarters every day, and also managed and used the brigade's amplification equipment part-time.

The two production teams of Xijie and Xinling are the farthest away from the team headquarters, one is in the west of the team headquarters, and the other is in the southeast of the team headquarters, which are four or five miles away. As for the arrival of some production teams, that is a lie, and no one will believe it.

After shouting, Cheng Wanyu continued to play his favorite model play.

After Ma Linxi washed his face, he just picked up the small bench and was about to go out, when he heard Captain Yao shouting at the top of his voice: "Hey——, hurry up to the door of Ruizhi's house and gather!"

In the early morning, the fields were silent, except for the wind and grass, only the whispering of insects. Therefore, through the amplification of the horn, Captain Yao's voice gradually disappeared from the farm to the farm.

Ruizhi's house is more than 100 steps behind the team headquarters, and when the members arrive at the door of Ruizhi's house, it is equivalent to arriving at the team headquarters. When the members of the Chinese and Western production team lined up to come to the team headquarters, the small square by the river was already black.

The venue was set up in the narrow square from the entrance of the brigade department to the small river.

The seats are sorted according to the habits of the production team, from west to east, the first is the western production team, followed by Xigang, Xiling, Xinxi, Xinzhong, Xinling, and the center, and the end is the Chinese and Western production team. Each production team has two north-south columns, with women sitting at the front of the line, men at the back, and the production team leader being the first in line, which is a sign of status and identity.

The rostrum was backed by the south wall of the brigade headquarters, and there was a square table with four legs and six supports without paint. Cheng Yunhan, secretary of the party branch of the brigade, sat in the north and faced south. Yang Longfa, deputy secretary of the party branch, sits on the right side of the west side, facing east. Facing west on the left are Cai Ronggui, the deputy captain of the brigade, and Cai Rongdong, the accounting counselor, who are the four giants of the brigade, cadres appointed by the commune party committee under the direct management and whose year-end income is also determined by the commune. The members privately called them "imperial food".

On the back wall, under the eaves, is a monogram written with a brush on big red paper: "Winter Water Conservancy Project Pledge Mobilization Meeting!".

Yang Longfa announced the opening of the conference. Cheng Yunhan put on reading glasses, opened his notebook to make a mobilization report, and looked slow and methodical, and he also looked full of energy. Between the induciness and impassionedness, he slowly glanced at the venue from the top of the frame from time to time to see if the members were listening carefully to his speech.

The speech in which direction of the venue was louder, Yang Longfa grabbed the microphone in front of Secretary Cheng Yunhan and said loudly: "How many words can not be finished? If you want to say something, come to the stage and say yes." ”

Every now and then, Secretary Cheng Yunhan would put down his notebook, take a sip of the white enamel teapot with a handle, scan the venue, and then bury his head in continuing to make his mobilization report.

After the mobilization report made by Secretary Cheng Yunhan, Zhao Zhengdong, the captain of the Xigang production team, Zhou Yulin, the captain of the Xinling production team, and Zhao Rusong, the captain of the central production team, successively took the stage to make speeches.

Xigang and Xinling are two production teams with large populations and heavier water conservancy tasks this time, and the central team expressed their encouragement because of the small number of laborers and the heavy tasks. After the statement, Yang Longfa, deputy branch secretary, made a few simple summaries and dismissed the meeting, and the production teams went back to continue the specific mobilization and distribution tasks.

After the team meeting, the members of the Chinese and Western production team came to the threshing floor at the door of Ruizhi's house, where the original concentration was concentrated, and the captain Yao of the production team said a few words briefly, and finally summed it up very simply: "In the final analysis, one word, pull!"

Don't underestimate the word "pull", the connotation it condenses is really broad and profound, which is the meaning of hard work, hard work, skillful work, and hard work.

Section 4 Sanxing Port River Picker

Three days later, all the male laborers of the Chinese and Western production teams were stationed at the Sanxinggang water conservancy site with shovels, shovels, mud pockets with straw knots, and other tools, clothes and bedding.

The construction site is not far from Marinxi's house, only a little more than two miles. In order to ensure a good rest, everyone must eat and live on the construction site.

Sanxinggang was originally a small natural river that flowed from west to east behind the house of Marinxi's house, and it stopped in winter. The river is very narrow and the slope is very small, the slope is overgrown with thatch, artemisia salt, and Marlinsi used to pick pigweed by the river when he was a child. In autumn, in the shallow water, the dam is dold, and the water catches fish. In winter, the river freezes, and Marlinsi and her friends like to walk on the ice and play games. I once skated on the ice after school, wore out a new pair of wool shoes in the morning, and was scolded by my grandmother when I came back.

The current excavation project is actually cutting, straightening, widening, and then digging deep.

The construction site of the Gaoling Brigade is lined up from east to west, at least two kilometers, spread to each laborer, with an average section of two or three meters per person, and a construction period of 30 days, which is tight enough.

The renovation of Sanxinggang is the largest water conservancy project in the whole commune this year, and on a front of more than 10 kilometers from east to west, tens of thousands of people and workers are crowded with people, full of red flags, and the voices of the people are boiling, and the scene is very spectacular and exciting.

The section of the Zhongxi production team is at the easternmost end of the brigade, because the Zhongxi team is at the end of the natural order of the whole brigade, and the specific boundary site is close to the mouth of the Yuejin River in the north-south direction.

The male laborers of the river workers were divided into several groups, one of which was called a shovel, and each shovel had five people. Ma Linxi and Shen Demin, Zhang Linsheng, Yang Yusheng, and Zhang Jinshan are in the file. Two of them were responsible for dredging, and three specialized in picking mud. There are also rotational breaks, and the people who dig with shovels are a little harder.

The newly excavated riverbed is a freshly harvested paddy field, and one or two "arrays" of the topsoil cultivation layer are relatively easy to excavate. "Array" is the meaning of "layer", and the depth of digging a shovel is called a "array". The deepest part of the river center, generally five or six "arrays". At that time, the dredging man will be the most hard, not only to have considerable physical strength, but also to have superb skills, otherwise, it will be impossible to dig seventy or eighty pounds of mud on a shovel, and then lift it above his head, steadily, impartially placed on the mud burden.

In addition to physical strength, if you talk about skills, it is really just a feeling, and it can even be said to be a talent with understanding. This kind of work is a sign of whether a man is really good. Otherwise, no matter how strong the strength is, the mud dug will not fall into the burden, and in addition to being laughed at, you will have to carry the burden to death forever, which is not pleasant.

This technique of dredging is similar to the heavy weapons played by the ancient Hercules, in addition to having enough strength, but also mastering the skill of strength, using the so-called "ingenuity". Some bad men, sometimes it seems that they only have a shovel of mud, but they can calm the man and make him unable to stand upright.

Fortunately, Shen Demin remembered that Ma Linxi was a little cultured, and always tried to take care of him, starting from the first "array", he arranged for Ma Linxi to have enough opportunities to dig the mud, and until the fifth "array", that is, the deepest place in the center of the river, "Tulong Ditch", Ma Linxi successfully survived. But people were still tired, and after dinner, after a hasty wash, they lay down in a makeshift shed.

The shed is set up in the rice stubble field outside the river pile, and several long-haired bamboos are built in the shape of a slope tower, and the reed foil for drying cotton is pulled on both sides, and a thick layer of straw is spread on the outside. Inside, a thick layer of dry straw is also spread on the damp rice stubble, and the house is full of the fragrance of straw. As soon as the grass is laid, it is a big bed.

In the past ten days, Ma Linxi's amount of rice has increased greatly, and at noon on the most day, he ate two catties and two taels of white rice (eating white rice is a special treatment for Shanghe workers, and each household can only eat coarse rice with grains), one pound of braised pork, a bowl of green vegetable and tofu soup, and a bowl of fried noodles, which is enough to eat more than five catties. When I came back and told my mother, the family listened to it one by one. With the strong calories of food, there is also strength, and carrying two or three hundred pounds of mud burden all day long is not a joke. No matter how strong a man is, no one will buy your account if he has never worked on the river. The size and number of river workers who have experienced it are often the capital of men.

River work can be measured at the brigade, commune, county, district, or even provincial level. The further you go up, the bigger the project. For example, in the excavation of the Longjiang Pumping Station Project, a provincial water conservancy hub in which Shen Demin participated, it is said that the culvert is so large that five large trucks can drive side by side, and a load of mud is carried from the center of the riverbed to the outside of the riverbed, two miles away. That kind of experience, what a wonderful experience. Because, only four people in the whole brigade have participated in such a large water conservancy project. Later, I learned that it was an important control lock on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal connecting the Yangtze River. Although this was seven or eight years ago, when it comes to that experience, Shen Demin's face will glow with a strange brilliance. It was excitement, glory, pride, and the listener, but also full of reverent envy. The elite of the male labor force will be selected, and that is the real one in a hundred.

In the evening, Shen Demin often told the migrant workers what they had seen and heard about that experience. He felt that everyone was tired of listening to it, and when they were absent-minded, they made up jokes about the former and the latter, which were almost all inappropriate for children.

Section 5 Immediately appointing agricultural technicians

In a flash, the river work was over.

The team held a summary and commendation meeting, and Ma Linxi also received a certificate of merit. The gold content of this certificate is indeed extraordinary, and when he began to get work points after the Spring Festival, Ma Linxi was not four points, nor five points of semi-labor, but ten points of whole labor. In addition to his outstanding performance in river work, there is also an important factor, after the New Year, Ma Linxi is a twenty-year-old adult man.

People's luck is often like this, once luck comes, it really can't be stopped by the door panel. Good things have befallen me one after another.

In April, the party branch of the brigade decided that Ma Linxi would serve as the agricultural technician of the brigade.

Agricultural technicians are no ordinary job. The most direct thing is that this means that from now on, Ma Linxi will no longer belong to the ordinary male laborers in the production team, but will be the person in charge of the team. The brigade starts work, no need to engage in heavy physical work, no need to work early like ordinary members on time and on time, watch the signal flags in the production team on the field, do not need to complete the labor quota, but eat the "imperial grain" of the brigade, eat with technology, and have more free space for activities.

Although the agricultural technician is not as good as the production captain and is a prince, he can also be regarded as a decent minister in the brigade. What makes Ma Linxi feel the most existential is that there are no activities in the team, no need to sit in the team like ordinary members, and even need to ask the captain for leave to relieve a pee, but can run freely in front of the stage and behind the scenes, and go around the fields of the production teams all day long, look at the seedlings, check the insect situation, and even give orders to the production team leaders.

That spirit, that kind of scenery, no matter how tired and bitter it is, my heart is also happy. People, sometimes it's just a matter of dignity. A dignified life is the real life. Marlinsi sometimes had such thoughts in her mind.

A few years ago, when I was in junior high school, I had to go to Xiling, Xigang, and Xinling production teams to pick pig vegetables after school and during holidays in the afternoon. Especially when the rain is clear, the field is very damp and can not get down, step on a deep pit, the production team cadres see the children who pick pig vegetables and throw them to death, especially the children of the outer team, if they catch it, they will throw your sickle, small shovel or something into the ditch river, and even the basket containing the pig vegetables will be destroyed. Ma Linxi and his brother have been chased, arrested, and trained by the cadres of Xiling and Xigang. At that time, as soon as I heard the names of the captains, I was terrified, as long as I picked pigs and vegetables, I ran away when I saw their shadows.

In the summer of the year before last, Zhao Zhengdong and a few men surrounded the two of them, if they hadn't jumped into the river and swam over, I really couldn't imagine what would have happened if they were caught. Now, Marlincy can swagger around in the fields where he was chased and fled like a turtle grandson, check insects, command, and even give orders. Now he is facing the people who had desperately arrested him back then, and now the country needs to meet together for work, not to mention how comfortable it is.

Of course, Ma Linxi also showed generosity, neither mentioning the old sesame rotten grain in the past, let alone going to heart, people were also responsible for defending the land back then.

Marlinsi's mind was spent on the study of agricultural technology. At this time, my brother was already a plant protection technician at the commune's agricultural science station. On the one hand, Ma Linxi learned directly from him, and on the other hand, Ma Linxi bought a large number of agricultural books and learned by doing. By the end of the year, Ma Linxi's technical level had emerged among the agricultural technicians of the 37 brigades of the commune, and he had become famous.

Nominally, Marlinsi is an agricultural technician, but in reality his business is mainly plant protection, and he is even known as a pest controlr. Regardless of whether he is an insect control or an agricultural technician, Ma Linxi is not satisfied, but is committed to exploring all cultivation techniques related to agricultural production, from plant protection to crop cultivation and breeding, from rice, cotton, to three wheat and corn, all of which are widely involved, studied hard, carried out a large number of various agricultural science experiments, and has completed a series of valuable popular science projects. For example, the successful trial production of ultra-low volume sprayers, the test of new varieties of rice and wheat, the technology of cotton seed rejuvenation, the transfer of cotton nutrient bowls, and so on.

When conducting these agricultural science and technology experiments, Ma Linxi first carried them out in his own land, and then carried them out in his contact point, the Xinzhong production team. From the county rice and wheat seed farm, he also introduced more than 10 new varieties of rice and wheat at once. The following year, his point of contact was changed to the central team, and while carrying out unprecedented wheat transplanting, he also established the first agricultural science and technology team in the whole commune. Not only was the brigade selected three full-time agricultural team members, Liu Jianing, Cheng Wenwu, and Zhou Chengxue, but also set aside more than a dozen acres of special experimental fields.

There are special people and special experimental fields, and the science and technology promotion experiment has been an instant hit this year and has achieved unexpected success.

The following year, Ma Linxi wanted to take advantage of the wind to expand the agricultural experimental field, which coincided with the idea of Zhou Yulin, the head of the center's production team.

He encouraged Ma Linxi: "As long as you plant the experimental field into a high-yield field, I will fully support you, and you want people, things, and land." ”

With Zhou Yulin's support, Ma Linxi was more courageous and confident, and he patted his chest: "I promise to plant the experimental field into a high-yield field and a demonstration field." ”

Zhou Yulin said on the spot: "I'll give you someone, whoever you want, let you order." ”

Ma Linxi said: "This year, I will carry out hybrid rice demonstration planting, and I will also do hybrid rice seed production demonstration. ”

Zhou Yulin said: "Then I don't care, as long as the yield is high, who do you want?" In this way, in addition to the original personnel, the personnel of the agricultural science team increased by eight people, and handed over the most conspicuous more than 10 acres of good land in the team to Ma Linxi with full command of cultivation.

Ma Linxi also learned about the latest agricultural technology information about the advantages of hybrid rice, rice seed production, and Nanyou No. 2 from books and newspapers.

In Nandun Commune, few people have heard of such agricultural information similar to the Arabian Nights. However, due to the support of his brother and Ma Linxi's own direct contact with the experts of the county agricultural science institute and seed station, he went into battle with excitement and apprehension.

"Nanyou No. 2" uses the advantage of distant hybridization to achieve high yield, and theoretically harvests 30 or 40 percent more than conventional rice. And the use of seeds is very small, is one-tenth of the amount of conventional rice seeds, so there are only a few seedlings in the seedling pond, and the seedlings are sparse when they are transferred to the field, after planting the seedlings, the field is still watery. Not only did others find it incredible, but even Ma Linxi was sweating in his heart. I wandered around the fields all day long, memorized everything I saw, and went home at night to compare and study books under the kerosene lamp, for fear that something would go wrong.

The most mysterious is the seed production of hybrid rice.

Section 6 Oriental Magic Rice - Hybrid Rice

The male and female parents of the hybrid rice "Dwarf You No. 3" were transferred according to one to eight, and the male parent "International 661" was planted more than 30 days earlier than the female parent "29 Dwarf No. 4".

That scene is really worrying, in a paddy field, there are only a few rows of seedlings. Not only Ma Linxi was worried, but even Zhou Yulin was shaken. Ask him, "Is that okay?"

Ma Linxi cheered herself up, patted her chest and said, "That's what it looks like, don't worry!"

The common people, who have been accustomed to ordinary rice planting for generations, do not have the insight and patience of Captain Zhou, and they have seen the cultivation of small seedlings and transplanting from their births to the green of the seedlings. Moreover, raising seedlings is the most sacred event in all farm work, and how have I seen such a sparse seedling for generations, and it is almost a large white paddy field without seedlings?

In addition to cynicism, the most important thing is that the majority of members, that is, the revolutionary masses, jointly asked Zhou Yulin again and again to pull out the seed rice and replant the conventional rice as soon as possible. Otherwise, it is not only the season that will be delayed, but who can be responsible for the lack of harvest in these dozen acres of high-quality fields? Ma Linxi is a member of the foreign team, and if there is no harvest in the field, he can slap people away with his ass, and we will suffer the loss. A few people with stubborn ideas even went to the brigade headquarters to petition.

Cheng Yunhan, secretary of the party branch, is a veteran of farming, and is also an enthusiastic person in scientific farming. Although he had never seen what hybrid rice and hybrid rice seed production were like, he had heard the leaders of the commune and the county three cadres meeting introduce him. Although he has no bottom in his heart, he believes in science. So he packed up the tickets for the neighbors who petitioned, and took a resolute attitude: "You have to believe in science, believe in horses!"

In this way, it was carried by Ma Linxi.

Soon after entering the middle of summer, the hybrid advantage of hybrid rice and seed rice began to become more and more apparent.

In the scorching waiting, they are like athletes sprinting 100 meters on the field, growing like crazy, day by day, people's worries, doubts, rumors are dissipated with the rippling blue waves, and then it is amazing, cast to this farmland, is incredible admiration and expectation.

Hard work pays off, and it can be regarded as the sky has eyes.

In the autumn, the hybrid rice "Nanyou No. 2" achieved a good harvest of 1,200 catties per mu, creating the highest rice yield record in the history of the whole brigade, and the yield of ordinary rice never exceeded 1,000 catties. The yield of hybrid rice seed production has also reached 300 catties and 6 taels, which is equivalent to a yield of 3,000 catties according to the standard conversion ratio of 1 to 10 at that time, not including the additional paternal rice yield, ranking in the forefront of hybrid rice seed production in the county.

It is indisputable that the science and technology demonstration field of the agricultural science team is an instant hit!

Just when Ma Linxi was immersed in the joy of the harvest, the county decided to ask him to participate in breeding in southern Guangdong this winter and next spring.

Because of the successful trial planting of hybrid rice in a large area throughout the country, it has become a major measure to increase grain production in the coming year, and there is a serious shortage of seeds in the field, and all localities have decided to take advantage of the climatic characteristics of the warm winter in the south that can be planted with one season of rice, and send technical backbones to form a special team to carry out the southern breeding of hybrid rice, so as to meet the needs of large-scale popularization and planting in next spring.