Chapter Twenty-Six: Painstaking Loneliness

【1】

The crop fields of Makinohua Village are the most standardized farmland in the county. This is because there is a strict Zhang branch secretary. He asked the cadres of each squad to achieve soil fertilizer, flat ground, straight ridges, and strong seedlings.

Zhang Zhishu personally went to Heze County, Shandong Province, and bought all kinds of grain and cotton seeds that he had carefully cultivated there before, with the strongest straw, the largest fruits, and the strongest disease resistance. There are corn, peanuts, cotton, soybeans, sesame......

The mules of each squad pulled the horses and walked forward as hard as they could, and the seeds in the slab flowed down the holes in the scarf. After all kinds of good varieties are finished, they are finally carved into straight vertical ridges with iron rakes to separate pieces of farmland into furrows, which look both standard and pleasing to the eye.

Makino Flower Village has become a well-deserved model for learning in the county. This also saved a little bit of face for the village.

Zhang Zhishu sold the "delicate babies" in the big pond in the south of the village. He went to Zaoshu Village again, bought a new batch of ducklings and geese, as well as aquatic small animal seedlings, and put them into the village's big pond again. Under the careful feeding of Zhang Zhishu, the careful management of timely oxygenation and timely disinfection, this new batch of "delicate babies" is growing healthily day by day.

On this morning, the sun hung high in the blue sky, and the crowd saw the delicate lotus flowers in the pond and smiled at the people of the village.

"Look at how beautiful the lotus flowers in that pond are!"

"Look at the surrounding flowers and trees, emerald green leaves, colorful flowers, make people feel happy, it is really unforgettable!"

Zhang Zhishu led the villagers to cultivate a variety of herbal seeds on the ruins of a large collapsed temple in the village, according to the list opened by Dean Wang.

As soon as the work of planting seeds here is over, it will rain lightly, so the seedlings of each block will definitely be more than one piece.

Zhang Zhishu went to the big pond before dawn every day to work for a while, and then went to various farmlands to check the growth.

Every time he saw the soil surface of a crop field, revealing tender pale green buds, it would make the branch secretary's heart happy.

After only a few days, the buds revealed their emerald green buds like babies, shaking their heads to people with joy, which was very cute.

On this day, Zhang Zhishu explained to the cadres of all large and small teams: "All kinds of seedlings have come out of the brush, so we must carefully manage the autumn crops." It is not as lax as in the spring, not only are the rivers blocked, the fields are overgrown with weeds, but also cause a flood of pests and diseases. The problem of food and clothing for the villagers has caused extraordinary difficulties and irreparable situations. Therefore, we must dredge the river in time and pay attention to various management in autumn: hoeing, top dressing, insect control, and disease prevention. All of them must be carefully cared for by the cadres and the masses to grow up of all kinds of seedlings! There is also a series of management such as pruning and threshing cotton, and nothing can be sloppy!" The cadres of the large and small teams nodded one after another, and they no longer dared to be careless. They also realized that due to their respective dereliction of duty in the spring, the villagers had suffered serious consequences of reducing grain and cotton production. Each of them does have a responsibility, and it is a great responsibility!

The summer rains are diligent, and the weeds and herbs that grow in the fields grow quickly, which are the best fodder for poultry and livestock. So Zhang Zhishu asked every household to engage in poultry and livestock breeding. He told the crowd: "Pigs love purslane and young grass the most, sheep love stick grass and dog tail grass the most, and chickens, ducks and geese love to eat wild vegetables with flowers and leaves." For example: gray cabbage, amaranth...... Livestock are not very particular about what kind of young grass they like to eat.

Zhang Zhishu and the masses respectively gathered all kinds of green and green weeds and wild vegetables and scattered them for the livestock and poultry to eat.

Zhang Guangming chopped up the weeds with a guillotine, added some mulberry leaves, dandelions, purslane, wolfberry seedlings, and so on, and fed the animals with more than a dozen kinds of wild vegetables and grain bran; he fed the birds with wild vegetables such as cauliflower, noodle vegetables, and rice and artemisia, as well as more than a dozen kinds of traditional Chinese medicine seedlings, such as white artemisia seedlings, artemisia annua seedlings, mugwort seedlings, and bupleurum seedlings; after Zhang Zhishu experimented again and again, he found that if they were fed in a certain proportion, they were very strong and not easily susceptible to disease. The fur on the animals is smooth and smooth, and the feathers on the poultry are plump and shiny.

Zhang Zhishu told the villagers about this new method, and after feeding them for a period of time according to the new formula developed by Zhang Guangming in their own homes, they found that they grew fast and strong, and had a strong ability to resist diseases. Eh, the villagers of Muyeka couldn't close their mouths happily.

【2】

Once the vegetables and melons in the north are sold, it's time to plant vegetables suitable for summer. As the old saying goes, "The first is a turnip, and the second is a cabbage." ”

During this period, the people of Muyehua Village were busy working for the seedlings of the crops.

Zhang Zhishu asked each squad leader to divide corn and cotton into two seedlings.

The first time is when the seedlings are about three inches long, the first seedlings are started, and the strong ones should be left to be weak.

The second time, when four leaves grow, a stout seedling is left uninfestation with pests and diseases.

Sesame seeds only need to be planted once, while peanuts and beans do not need to be seeded.

Melons and sweet potatoes do not occupy the land area, usually these kinds are planted on the sandy land of the river slope, with enough dung, and then often turn over the soil to break the fork, it will produce large, sandy and sweet fruits that are delicious.

After the seedlings are set, it is necessary to pay close attention to the crops. For example, special attention should be paid to the reproduction of moths.

Zhang Zhishu said on the loudspeaker: "Hey, folks, let's have a big operation to eliminate moth pests in the whole village! So men, women, and children all went into battle to eliminate pests!" The villagers were very active in exterminating pests, and people from one after another came to the field with a bottle and caught and caught moths when they saw them. People catch moths, put them in bottles, and take them home to feed chickens, ducks and geese. It's a good thing to kill two birds with one stone, so everybody is happy to do it.

After catching moths, you have to prevent spider spiders, aphids, and field lice...... These field pests attacked the crops. Therefore, Zhang Zhishu carefully observed the situation of crops and seedlings in each field every day, and immediately let the members eliminate them in the germination period when they saw pests and diseases.

Before the new branch secretary took office, the villagers were laymen in the management of cotton, and the management was usually not in place, so the yield was very low, and not much lint could be harvested per acre. This year, the branch secretary is an expert in managing crops, and he taught the members of each production team a series of pruning and forking management techniques such as breaking excess branches, breaking off excess leaves, and cutting inch tips.

Summer is a test of the farmers' will. See if the peasants can withstand the scorching test of the strong sun, and see if the peasants can withstand the blows of the storm. Under the strong leadership of the village party secretary, the cadres and masses of Muyehua Village are not afraid of any difficulties and move forward bravely.

It is also not easy to manage farmland in early autumn. When people are in the corn field, or when they are dung, or when they plow the soil, the leaves will scratch and make people itch and feel very uncomfortable. The scorching sun baked the villagers working in the fields, making them so hot that their faces were tanned and black, their heads would feel like they were bursting with excitement, and their arms and legs were sunburned with a layer of white skin like ringworm, and even more were sunburned with maroon spots. And everyone was sweating profusely. The villagers didn't care, they still worked tirelessly against the hot sun, facing the black soil with their backs to the sky.

Peanuts hoe the grass only once, because after its flowers bloom, they grow thin tips like needles, and they drill straight into the soil, and as long as they get into the soil, they start to grow peanuts. So people stood in the ridges, and they had to bend down, stretch out their hands, and pull out the weeds.

This autumn has had plenty of rain, which has saved people from watering the fields, so the crops are growing well.

【3】

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the peanuts are about to ripen. On this day, a peanut was washed by the rain to expose its roots, and the white and fat peanut horns were long and big, lying on the ground as if looking at Zhang Zhishu. He couldn't help but walk over and bend down, drag one, and break it to see that the light red peanut skin was wrapped in white, fat peanut seeds, big and full. It looks like it's about eight years old. This made Zhang Zhishu's happy eyes narrow into a slit. He hurriedly covered the exposed part with soil to prevent the rats from stealing peanuts. He hurried back to the village, shouted on the loudspeaker, and asked the cadres of the brigade and the cadres of each squad to come to the brigade for a meeting in the evening.

At the meeting, the branch secretary said to the team leaders, you should quickly dig out the peanuts and dry them, break the tender corn cobs and dry them, and process them into small foods like last time, and pull them to the vegetable market in the county town to sell them.

The team leaders did what Zhang Zhishu said, these small foods were delicious and cheap, and there was also a phenomenon of crazy robbery. In this way, everyone can see the light of hope for the development of the village.

The villagers were worried that the crops would be cut off in the early spring, but who would have thought that there would be a bumper harvest of grain, vegetables, and Chinese medicinal herbs in the autumn? This greatly encouraged the enthusiasm of the masses.

"Let's take advantage of the rainy days to plant vegetable seeds suitable for autumn growth: spinach, coriander, rape, cabbage, ......."

Zhang Zhishu said in a loud voice, "Let's plant lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, garlic ......."

The team leaders hurriedly led the members to the vegetable field to plant the seeds that Zhang Zhishu said.

Gui Xiaobao smiled happily and said: "Brother Guangming, do you want to harvest these vegetables and other vegetables and bring them to the county seat in exchange for some money?

The branch secretary replied with a smile, that's what I thought. The one who knows me, Xiao Bao Geye!hehe......

In this way, they talked and laughed, and worked until dark, when they finished planting all the vegetable seeds.

Zhang Guangming thought again on this day: one hand to manage farmland, the other hand to grasp the management of side business. I must make the engraving and weaving factories keep improving. I also want to innovate and add new varieties. For example, the engraving factory can engrave paintings suitable for living rooms and bedrooms. For example: all kinds of beautiful landscape carvings of different sizes, flowers, birds, insects and fishes, flowers and trees......

And what about the weaving factory? You can produce all kinds of crafts. For example, you can use bamboo to weave bird cages, tea trays, bamboo umbrellas, bamboo fans, and bamboo curtains......

When Zhang Zhishu thought of this, he was almost rushing to the carving factory and the weaving factory......