Chapter 35: People in the Haze

【1】

Professor Guo officially started sweeping the streets today. He wore big black-rimmed glasses and a white mask under his eyes, and stood in the middle of the road with a big broom starting from the east end and sweeping the right half of the road with a clattering sweep until it reached the west end. Then sweep from west to east, and sweep the left half of the road.

Zhang Guangming walked over quickly with two buckets of water, and saw that Professor Guo was in the dust, and the visibility was only about ten meters. It's like he himself is in the middle of a haze, standing at the crossroads every day, unable to tell where the right direction is, and feeling very lost. He said, "Big brother, sprinkle water first, and then sweep the floor, so that so much dust will not fly." Zhang Guangming said, took a big water scoop, scooped a scoop of water in the bucket, and splashed it on the unswept land. In a short time, a section of the road was spilled wet. Zhang Guangming also said, "Professor Guo asked me to clear the way for you." ”

Professor Guo withdrew the broom to the side and said, "I can't let you sweep it for me, it will affect you." ”

At this time, when the villagers passed by them, they all felt aggrieved by Professor Guo. There is a lot of talking:

"Smack, let's see if you have a returned doctor do this job. ”

"A university scholar, he studied literature all his stomach, but he was sent to our poor village to sweep the floor!

Professor Guo swept the road for two days before he swept the streets and lanes of Muyehua Village.

【2】

On the third day, Professor Guo went to work in the livestock shed of the production team.

Professor Guo Aimin said with a heavy heart, "Clean the streets, feed the livestock, get out of the circle of dung, and pull dung." This is a new job assigned to me by my leader. When he said this, the expression on his face was rather gloomy. Professor Guo asked Yin Daogen breeder for advice on the specific methods of doing these jobs.

Yin grabbed the root and spoke carefully to the boy: "What about feeding the livestock? First of all, you have to learn how to cut the grass." That is, first use a large guillotine, chop the corn stalk with a guillotine, add some broken weeds, add some mulberry leaves, purslane, mix these things well, and then feed the livestock. What about the dung out of the pen? It is the dung pulled by these animals and thrown into the dung pit outside the window of the hole, which is called the dung out of the pen. The manure in the manure pit is also stirred with some broken grass, and then covered with a layer of soil for fermentation. After fermentation, it can be used as top dressing, or base fertilizer for summer and autumn planting.

In the morning, Professor Guo first learned how to cook grass, mix and feed the animals.

Yin grasped the root and taught Professor Guo hand in hand: "Feeding animals is a delicate job. Because each horse, each cow, and each mule eat a different amount of feed, the number of catties they feed is also different. "Animals, like people, have a large amount of food, and some have a small amount of food. Yin grabbed the roots and pointed to the horses one by one and said: "The brown and red horses eat six catties of feed every day and feed them three times, and the black horses eat five catties of feed every day......

In the afternoon, Professor Guo took a shovel, a shovel, and a shovel to push the smelly livestock manure out of the hole window. Even if the feces and urine touched the window, it would splash everywhere, and in a short time, the professor's whole body would be covered in spoop. It was splashed with feces and urine all over his face. Yin Zhaogen really can't bear to gamble. He said: "Going out of the circle is a dirty and tiring job, and this kind of work should not be done by your college teachers." ”

Professor Guo was silent, and he couldn't complain with bitterness.

He walked over to the dung pit again, and he was going to mix the dung with the weeds as Yin Daogen said. He saw countless maggots in the dung pit, crowded and crowded. Suddenly, a foul smell rose and choked out his tears. In an instant, the lunch that the professor ate was like a wave rolling up in his stomach, and he tried hard to endure it, but he still couldn't hold back, and he spit out three mouthfuls of "quack, quack, quack" with a big mouth. I threw up all my lunch. The stench made the returnee almost faint. He put down his shovel and squeezed his eyes, not daring to look at the dung pit again. He squatted on the ground all of a sudden, a sour and miserable feeling in his heart, his nose was sore, and tears flowed down the ground. He wiped away his tears with his sleeve, and felt sad in his heart! The professor thought to himself: "Could it be that I have been wronged by Mo Xue and have been doing this kind of work from now on?

Zhang Guangming knew that it would be unacceptable for anyone to let a returnee doctor do such work. "Brother Guo, I'm coming!" Zhang Zhishu came to the professor, picked up a shovel, and quickly stirred the animal manure and weeds, and then covered it with a layer of soil.

Zhang Guangming said: "Professor Guo, you won't do this kind of work in the future. ”

Professor Guo immediately said, "Let me slowly get used to the work here, this is a new job arranged for me by the above!" The professor said with a solemn face and a low voice. Zhang Guangming looked at the professor very sadly, which made his heart ache.

【3】

From this day on, every night, Zhang Guangming came to be the companion of the professor, and also brought several pots of peonies and orchids to the professor...... He also brought gourd paintings, leaf carving paintings, and bamboo carving paintings to the professor. For each painting, he made a beautifully carved frame. He nailed each painting to the professor on the wall of the living room. Zhang Guangming was in the center of Professor Guo's living room and bought a portrait of Chairman Mao for the professor. He also wrote a couplet: "The Left Union is, wholeheartedly following the party, and the Right Union is, and the ideology will never change." Cross-linking is, never forget. Zhang Guangming also said, "I want to teach you carving and painting, I wonder if Professor Guo is interested?" Professor Guo said with a smile, I am happy to learn.

As a result, Professor Guo followed Zhang Guangming to learn to carve and paint every night.

Zhang Guangming was afraid that Professor Guo would be overly sad because of being degraded, and secondly, he was afraid that he would be driven crazy by the embarrassment of being like Nietzsche and Van Gogh because he had no way to serve the country because of his talents.

As soon as he walked into the barn, he smelled a fishy smell and felt terrible. After a few days, I gradually got used to all the work here.

The April day is starting to get hotter, and the smell of animal manure on Professor Guo's body is getting stronger and stronger. Because he loves cleanliness, he is very particular about hygiene. On a whim, he went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to find a large plastic bag containing things, put it on the roof, first tied one end with a fine hemp rope, then poured a bucket of well water into the end of the opening, and then tied the mouth of the plastic bag tightly. He went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy a plastic pipe for plasterer leveling. He plunged one end into the water and pulled the other down the wall of the house.

In the evening, Zhang Guangming came to Professor Guo's house, and Professor Guo immediately said to him: "I just took a bath at home, but I feel comfortable." ”

Zhang Guangming had never heard of the matter of taking a bath in the countryside, but it was the first time he had heard of it. He hurriedly asked, "What method did Professor Guo use?"

"What about me? Put the water in a plastic bag and then put a plastic pipe in it. It is to make full use of the heat energy of the sun to dry the cold water in the plastic bag into hot water. Finally, using the siphon phenomenon, what about taking a bath for the first time? Suck in the plastic pipe below with all your might, and the hot water above will flow down continuously. This way you can take a bath. ”

"Eh, that's a good idea!"

The next day, Zhang Guangming also went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to find Li Xiaoxiao, and he also asked for a plastic bag for packaging items.

Li Xiaoxiao said: "Professor Guo is smart, and his invention has solved the big problem of bathing for the villagers." In the past, the villagers had to walk a hundred or twenty miles to bathe, so they only took a bath once a year. Who doesn't have lice or fleas on them? Hehe, that's a great idea!"

Zhang Guangming said: "Sister-in-law is right! Professor Guo has come up with this method, which can indeed solve the problem of villagers taking a bath. Then I asked my sister-in-law to bring in a batch of plastic sheets. ”

The professor had to take a bath twice a day with hot water from the sun, come back at noon and wash again at night, and change his clothes twice a day.

Zhang Guangming immediately went to the loudspeaker of the brigade to shout and tell the masses about the bathing method invented by Professor Guo. So the villagers went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy a plastic bag, and took a bath according to the method described by the branch secretary to wash away lice, fleas, and dust on their bodies.

【4】

That night, Zhang Zhishu was carrying a cloth bag with some gourds in it, and he was going to teach Professor Guo to carve gourd paintings today. As soon as I stepped into the door of the professor's room, I saw Professor Guo holding a pen in his hand and writing poems in a notebook.

Zhang Guangming asked, "Are you writing poetry again?" Can I appreciate it?" Both of them loved poetry, so they soon became poetry friends and good friends.

Zhang Guangming turned the first page and read:

Homecoming Thoughts

In the cold spring, he left home and returned to his hometown alone, and the crows crows were sad and sad.

Bitterness overflows with sorrow, and the heart is despised by others.

Professor Guo hurriedly explained: "Oh, that's when I came, I was depressed and improvised a poem that left melancholy. ”

He sat down and said, "When I heard that I was being sent to our village, I was stupefied. At that time, I thought to myself: This is a bad thing, the villagers will definitely think that I should have returned to my hometown in fine clothes, where would they have thought that I, I would actually meet the villagers in such a down-and-out way! Will the villagers despise me? This time I will be ready to return to my hometown, as Mr. Lu Xun said: "Heng Mei coldly pointed at the thousand husbands." All I had to do was sweep the streets, feed the livestock, get out of the pen, and "bow my head and be willing to be a cow for my children"! But what I didn't expect was that so many people came here at once to selflessly help me repair my house and renovate the yard. There are so many people who have generously helped me, and they have given me what they have eaten for the New Year. The most important thing is that the two of you are even more kind to me! He pointed to his heart and said, "The people of my hometown make me feel so warm here!"

"Bright, now I have written another sentimental poem, I will read it to you. He said fondly:

"Homecoming"

Mistakenly resentment of hometown and family, and the more birds migrate to find warmth.

The gift increases affection, and the kindness is hidden in the heart.

Zhang Guangming said seriously: "Yes, the fellows are indeed respectable and respectable!"

The professor said with some excitement: "Come on, come on, you can teach me, and carve the scene of the enthusiastic labor when everyone helped me repair the house and renovate the courtyard on the gourd." Carved into a gourd painting. I want it to be passed down from generation to generation. ”

"Okay, then I'll teach you how to carve. Professor Guo was very serious, carving one knife after another, as if he wanted to carve the deep friendship of the people of his hometown deeply in his heart and never forget.