Chapter Twenty-Eight: Autumn and Winter Miscellaneous

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When the villagers return to their homes, they can also enjoy all kinds of golden cauliflower flowers in the yard. The winter melon is covered with a long plush white thorn, these thorns that look unwelcome are shining silver and beautiful in the sun. From the palm-shaped green leaf nest stretches out a flower path, the long "body is covered with a silver needle" to protect the body, and the tip of the flower stem is crowned with a small golden yellow flower. The one that blooms first will inevitably not bear fruit, and usually the people of Muyehua Village call it Kuanghua, and the one that bears fruit will definitely bloom later. Watermelons are similar to winter melons and pumpkins. The difference is that watermelons, pumpkins and gourds do not have "silver needle armor" on these fruits. The gourd flowers are presented to people like a small white umbrella. The most beautiful and generous are the orange pumpkin flowers inlaid with velvet lace.

Zhang Guangming saw that there were small and delicate bitter gourd flowers in the courtyard, as well as blue carob flowers, golden cucumber flowers and pale yellow loofah flowers, etc., yellow flowers of different shades, competing for beauty, blooming all over the courtyard. When it comes to the fragrance of these flowers, the bitter gourd flowers are the most fragrant and fragrant. Moreover, the slender and long flower stalk on the bitter gourd vine, with a small pale yellow flower on the top, is the most agile in the breeze. Don't look at the bitter gourd covered with pimples and ugly, and some people give it a bad name called leprosy, but bitter gourd is the first among these cauliflowers, whether it is the effect of dissipating heat and fire, or the aromatic smell. The bitter gourd seems to be an ugly-looking girl. But she is a kind girl with magnanimity and generosity. If you dislike her and disdainfully push her, she will not only not be anxious or annoyed, but will immediately exude a strong body fragrance, as if reminding: "Hey comrade, you deceive me, I will vomit." I want you to know what it means to repay virtue with resentment!" Some of the flowers in this garden grow vines with silk buttons, some lie on high frames, some climb over walls, and some climb the roofs of houses. Entering the courtyard is like wandering in a sea of flowers. Bees stroking the piano among the flowers, birds singing, butterflies and hummingbirds dancing, they seem to be holding a concert together in this beautiful home full of fragrance.

Zhang Zhishu's three daughters shuttled among the flowers, chasing and frolicking, and sang the children's song "Full Garden Fragrance" made up by their father:

Thousands of cauliflower flowers bloom prettyly, and the fragrance welcomes the bees to collect honey.

Wordless nurturing buds are busy, and rain and dew come to nourish day and night.

Diligent results in the competition long, determined to serve the people.

Eliminate the dishes that should be so that the people are healthy and healthy!

【2】

Zhang Guangming saw that the fruit was gradually ripening, and Muyehua Village really became a beautiful village. Look at that: jujube wearing a red robe, persimmon wearing a gold jacket, grape purple shirt cover, plum yellow brocade cover.

He saw that the vegetables were growing even more happily. From the purple stamens, the beans poked out of their small, pointy heads, and grew like a whip beating a spinning top, and the winter melon grew from the size of a mung bean to a bucket as thick as a bucket, and some of them could not hold it.

When Zhang Zhishu saw a yard of melons, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: looking at this watermelon like a doll, his round face was full of green patterns. He seems to be lying leisurely on the soft clay kang, looking at a red sun and flowing clouds rising in the east in the morning, and in the evening, looking at a touch of sunset and magnificent sunset falling in the west. The doll smells the fragrance of flowers during the day, admires the song of bees, dances of butterflies, and quietly looks at the bright starry sky and the full moon at night, sucking the jade dew swayed by Mother Earth. The watermelon seemed to say with a grateful heart: "I want to give back to the earth a big watermelon as big as a football, sandy, floury, and sweet."

The breeze blew, and the weeds made a clattering sound, as if they were mercilessly teasing the watermelon: "You are a little bit, you are simply Zhuang Zhoumeng Butterfly, whimsical!"

The watermelon is motionless and silent, as if it is silently exerting force, pursuing dreams, and trying its best to grow day by day. Gradually, the ideal was realized, and it grew into a big watermelon like a football.

Born only the size of a soybean, the pumpkin looks like a beautiful little umbrella on its head, and the pumpkin looks like a warrior, wearing a camouflage uniform with green and white patterns, riveting and growing. He is chasing a dream - to race a big loofah. Day after day passed, month after month passed. Finally, one day, the pumpkin grew thick and big. They know that if they want to realize their dreams, they must be down-to-earth, take every step steadily, and their dreams will come true one day!

The vegetables and fruits planted in the villagers' yards have been harvested, and the villagers have a comfortable and happy smile on their faces.

Zhang Guangming also went to inspect fruit tree saplings, crop fields, vegetable gardens, Chinese medicinal herbs, and roadside flowers, all of which were growing luxuriantly. When he came to the village again, he saw the crops and was even more joyful, and he couldn't help but write a poem in his heart:

Autumn Scene in the Village

The flowers are gorgeous, and the vegetables are lush and green.

The fruit seedlings and green branches are upright, and they are vigorous and delicate.

Stubbornly, this Zhang Zhishu sighed in his heart: "Ah! As long as it takes root in fertile soil, it will prosper!"

The autumn seasonal vegetables grown in the vegetable fields of the production team can now be picked. The team leaders took advantage of the freshness and sold it to the county town for some money and distributed it to the members, who were really happy with the money in their hands.

This autumn, Muyehua Village has achieved an unprecedented bumper harvest of all kinds of crops, and this year there is no need to worry about not being able to drink corn porridge! There are also cotton clothes to wear, and cottonseed oil to eat. Although the problem of food and clothing has not been completely solved, it can be regarded as seeing the light of hope for poverty alleviation.

【3】

In the blink of an eye, it was late autumn, the cold was unexpectedly steep, and the geese crossed the sky with reluctant wails, and the hoarse cry was clearly revealing the feelings of the family.

In the large courtyard of the cave, the fan-shaped ginkgo biloba leaves gradually turned into brilliant gold, as if a small fan was hung on a tree, and the fan dance was played. The palm-shaped maple leaves turned red one by one. It is as if a torch is lit to light the way for the development of the village.

The other leaves are directed by the "West Wind who loves the director", singing and dancing in the sky. Look, they flutter in very different postures. Some of them seem to be dancing ballet - fluttering up and down, some are like somersaulting - jumping left and right and somersaulting, and some are like flying high - flying back and forth. It's a real sight to behold.

If you come to see the flowers in Muye Flower Village in autumn, you will be reminded of a poem written by the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi: "Since ancient times, autumn has been sad and lonely, and I say that autumn is better than spring." "Indeed, look at the huge dahlias, cockscombs, and fairies...... Or small crape myrtle, phalaenopsis, hibiscus...... These flowers are still delicate in the autumn wind. The hazy beauty of flowers in the fog will give people the illusion of being in a fairyland.

【4】

The cold winter is coming, and the golden and silver plums in full bloom in Muyehua Village set off the elegance and elegance of the village. It is the charm of the flowers in this village that has brought disaster to these flowers.

On the morning of this day, Zhang Guangming was in the experimental base with the team members, holding a hoe and hugging the grass in the wheat ridge. Suddenly, he heard Li Hongyun, who was looking at the phone, an urgent call, he hurriedly turned his face, saw Lao Li's bitter gourd face, and hurriedly asked: "Uncle Li, what is the matter with you calling me?" Lao Li said with a crying voice: Bright, go and take a look, Secretary Li sent a group of people to our village, and put the camellias, freesias, and poinsettias on both sides of the road...... Not a single flower was left, not even the plum blossom that bloomed was not spared, and it was all destroyed.

Zhang Guangming saw the originally brilliant flowers, but they were trampled on beyond recognition. It seems that a girl who is in the prime of life, suddenly the jade is broken and the fragrance disappears, how can it not be regretted? Zhang Guangming is angry and fights the bull.

He galloped to the commune compound. He slammed open the door of Secretary Li's house and walked directly into Secretary Li's office. As soon as he saw Secretary Li, he asked loudly: "Secretary Li, is there anything wrong with the flowers and ornamental trees I planted in the village? Why did I cut down all the beautiful flowers and plum trees?"

Secretary Li calmly poured Zhang Guangming a glass of water and handed it to him. He said unhurriedly, "Don't worry, it's an order from above! I don't want to do it." It stands to reason that what is wrong with planting flowers in the village? But it is said that those flowers and tree flowers, with their bells and whistles, will make people flashy and corrupt people's minds. You say this is ridiculous, can you stand it? I'm also helpless, Brother Guangming, you can be considerate and considerate of my difficulties. Zhang Guangming listened to Secretary Li's words, he was very helpless, so he had to wave his hand dejectedly and bid farewell to Secretary Li. Along the way, he returned to the village with a little confusion and a little melancholy.

On the way back to the village, Zhang Guangming thought: This is really absurd and incomprehensible.

After a few days, it seemed that Granny Feng was still feeling sad about the destruction of those "young girls", and she actually let out a cry of sorrow: "Woo, crying...... "After one night, "Grandma Moon" is like dyeing a layer of white everywhere on the tree, on people's hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes. It seems that "Grandma Moon" asked men, women and children to wear filial piety clothes and hats to mourn the dead flowers and plums.

In the morning, it seemed that the "Sun Father" came out and took off the white clothes.

When Zhang Guangming heard the villagers passing by, they all said that both sides of the road used to be full of flowers, but now they are bare, and he couldn't help but feel sad.

Zhang Zhishu persuaded everyone: Have you all forgotten the ancient poem "The spring breeze blows and gives birth again"? Don't be sad anymore, it will grow again next year!

When the village cadres passed by, they were all indignant. Zhang Zhishu used ancient poems to persuade the team members, you have to believe, "The flowers will pass away this autumn, and the buds will come next spring." Isn't there a poem that says, "Dead trees still recur in spring"? The depressed village cadres had an epiphany and immediately became full of energy.