Chapter 40: Leisure

【1】

After lunch that day, Zhang Zhishu led the higher-level cadres and six educated youths to pick weeds in a spring peanut field in the experimental base. On the way, Qiu Weimin whispered to the educated youth: "You patronize and enjoy the beautiful flowers on both sides of the road, don't you notice that this village is the poorest village in the county?"

Only then did the educated youths raise their heads and look around, and then looked carefully, and saw that there were still weeds growing on the dilapidated houses, "Yes." The intellectuals said.

Li Dali said loudly: "In order to make young people respond to the party's call, the higher-level leaders will mobilize young people with knowledge and education to go to the mountains and go to the countryside, and they will also require you young people to master all kinds of skills of workers, peasants, and soldiers. These educated youths have already participated in the two-year training in workers' skills, and now they have come to support the large-scale construction of the rural areas and dedicate their youth and enthusiasm! The higher-level leaders have deliberately left you in the poorest place here in order to temper you here for a few years so that you can be tempered into people who are not afraid of any difficulties. But you still have to go to the army, and after a few years of training, you will become a good young man with an iron will. Then they will be able to contribute their own strength to the great construction of the motherland!" Zhang Zhishu took the lead in applauding, and the applause broke out in an instant.

Sun Da, a cadre of the county garrison, said with a smile: "A few of you educated youths, come and introduce your experience in the countryside these days!"

All of them are full of vitality, full of youthful passion, and their faces are full of youthful smiles, and they have said:

I feel that although working in the farm is tiring, it can refine me into a "black diamond" and make me a person with unswerving ambition to contribute to the construction of agriculture. Qin Chun: He spoke first.

"Through doing all kinds of farm work these days, I have experienced the difficulty of hunger and fatigue of my peasant friends, and I have also learned a lot of knowledge about agricultural proverbs, and I am determined to stay in the countryside and fight for the cause of agriculture for the rest of my life!" Li Zhongqiu said with a look of enthusiasm.

Gao Xiaomei said: I learned a poet in the Tang Dynasty through farm work, such as Li Shen's sentence "Who knows that Chinese food is hard work" and Du Xunhe's sentence "Every year, I work hard for silkworms, and I am covered in ramie." There is also Meng Binyu's sentence "I don't know the hard work of farmers, and I am arrogant and trampled on wheat Qingqing." The profound meaning in these verses. In order to change the face of poverty, the peasant friends have worked tirelessly for many years and cultivated in the fields, which really makes me admire!

A few people said and came to their destination. Everyone began to be responsible for the grass in the field of two rows of peanuts. Wu Baoguo, Sun Yong, and Li Xuehua also said words similar to those of several educated youths while picking grass, expressing their respect and admiration for the farmers.

【2】

At the end of the day, Gao Xiaomei said in a pleading tone: "A few of our educated youths heard from Secretary Li of the commune that Muyehua Village is full of flowers and is the most flower-growing village in the county, so why don't you take us to visit the beautiful scenery of the countryside now?" They also said that they really wanted to see the most beautiful place in the village. So, Zhang Guangming was very enthusiastic to lead everyone in the direction of the big pond.

Zhang Guangming led the educated youths on the way, and said earnestly: "It is really a kind of selfless dedication that you have come to this poorest village in the county! On behalf of all the villagers, I would like to express my deep gratitude to you!" He also said to the educated youths, "You have come to the countryside to experience a few years, and it will be easy for you to deal with your life! Your pursuit of a meaningful and valuable life is worthy of praise!" When they heard Zhang Zhishu's praise, their hearts were happy, and they all had proud smiles on their faces.

When Ma Xiaomei first came to the village, under her curved crescent moon eyebrows, a pair of big watery eyes flickered, her melon seed face shaped, and her complexion was very beautiful and white. Now it's a black and red face. However, it looks healthy and sturdy. Ma Xiaomei said in a crisp and pleasant voice: "Ah! The peasants here all use bamboo and sticks as fence walls! Look at it, there are still a lot of flowers and all kinds of vegetables planted in the courtyards!"

【3】

Then Ma Xiaomei said with regret, but, "The sunset is infinitely good, it's just near dusk!"

Zhang Guangming said: "It doesn't matter, let's continue to appreciate it tomorrow." ”

Miss Li Xuehua looked at the flowers in those homes, and couldn't help but say excitedly: "Red, yellow, green and purple flowers, I can't see enough flowers!"

Zhang Guangming watched the two of them walk with light steps, and chanted Tang poems in their mouths. He loves poetry and writing, and immediately came to his senses and said excitedly: "The poems of Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty that Miss Ma Xiaomei said, and the poems of Li Duan of the Tang Dynasty that Miss Li Xuehua said." The two of them immediately looked at Zhang Zhishu with a surprised expression. Zhang Zhishu went on to say, "You young people should study more Tang poetry! Tang poetry has brought China's poetry culture to an unprecedented peak, and Tang poetry can also be called the quintessence of our country's poetry! Zhang Zhishu's words surprised other people.

The intellectuals saw that every household in this village loved to raise flowers, and they also saw the melons, fruits and vegetables planted in front of and behind the houses of the villagers, all of which grew luxuriantly, and they could see that the farmers in this village were very hardworking. When you see a family, the yard is full of all kinds of beautiful flowers, some of them can recognize what flowers are, and some of them have never seen them at all, so they don't know what they are called.

Ma Xiaomei exclaimed: "Look, the moon trees in this courtyard have bloomed a huge mille-feuille, with rose red, concubine yellow, and dark pink ...... The seasonal flowers in several colors are very beautiful. Look at the peonies in all seasons, how big they are! And so bright! The stamens are different from other flowers, and the red anthers on the long golden yellow flower column are so beautiful! Look at the pink ones over there, and there are apricot-yellow ones. What kind of flowers are they, and what are the little golden flowers and pink flowers called?"

Zhang Guangming introduced: "What about the flowers that bloom here? The people in the village call them hemp silk cauliflower, I think the reason why it is called this is probably because its leaves are as thin as hemp silk." Some people in the village also call them purslane. Some people call them sunflowers. Because it never blooms at night and on dark, cloudy days, it only blooms when the sun shines! "Everyone is very emotional, and being able to give a flower many names shows how much people like this kind of flower!" Zhang Guangming gushed about all kinds of flowers.

"That's a good name!" said the intellectuals and the cadres stationed in the team in unison.

"That tall flower is called cow cake flower in our village, but it's actually called mallow. There is also a flower over there called the soup flower, because it only blooms in the evening when the rice is cooked, so the people in the village call it that. In fact, it is called nightshade, and its flowers have the strongest fragrance at night, so some people in my village also call it nightshade. ”

Ma Xiaomei said: "Why are good flower names so vulgar?"

The young man Sun Yong said: "Look at the Qihua Yao grass blooming on the land in this yard, some of them really can't be named. I wondered, why are all the flowers here bigger than the flowers in the city?"

Zhang Zhishu smiled again and said: "It is because the people in our village put dung next to the flower roots and watered them frequently, so the flower seedlings here will bloom such huge and gorgeous flowers!" This group of people figured out the reason.

【4】

Zhang Guangming pointed to Qin Miaomiao's house and said, The reason why I let the cadres live in this courtyard is ......

Zhang Zhishu said with emotion: "Look at the flowers he planted and the begonia trees, peach trees, and apricot trees that will bloom...... So much, and so beautiful, but my son's family doesn't know where to go!"

"Oh, what's going on?" asked the young man named Sun Yong curiously.

Zhang Guangming sighed with emotion and briefly introduced the situation of the family: "The owner of this family is called Qin Dayu, he used to work in Tancheng, Shandong, he is a more picky person to find a partner, and he only found a suitable partner at the age of twenty-eight. After marriage, she gave birth to a son named Qin Miaomiao. But this child has grown up, and he will not have children after two years of marriage, Qin Miaomiao took his wife Zhao Yalan to seek medical treatment everywhere. Zhao Yalan gave birth to two sons in the third year. However, not long after, a legendary disappearance story occurred. I'll have time to tell you about it. They all looked at him with expectant eyes, and clearly said, then we can just wait for you to talk?

The girl named Li Zhongqiu, looking at the flowers blooming in the garden, said softly: This is really "People don't know where to go, flowers are still smiling at spring!"

Zhang Zhishu said: "You changed the poem of Cui Hu in the Tang Dynasty and used it here, which is not bad." But what about it? I think it would be more appropriate to use the poem in Tang Cen Shen's "Two Songs of Spring in the Mountain House": "The garden tree does not know where the people are gone, and the old flowers will be sent when spring comes." Everyone looked at this grassroots cadre with admiration.

Everyone talked and laughed all the way, and before they knew it, they came to the big pond. What catches the eye is a variety of graceful and luxurious peony flowers, as well as petite and delicate flowers. Look at the charming purple poppies, blood red and baby pink poppies, the handsome begonia flowers with red, yellow, pink and white colors, the fluttering butterfly flowers, all kinds of handsome orchids and five-star flowers...... It's truly beautiful......

"Wow! It's so beautiful here!"

"It's so beautiful here!"

Everyone was amazed. Li Zhongqiu, who was born in Luoyang, said with a smile: "When I see this, I think of my hometown, and our peony flowers in Luoyang are as beautiful as the peonies here!"

Zhang Zhishu jokingly said: "Ah? You were born in the ancient capital of Luoyang? Luoyang peony is known to the world! Then you should have a good dream tonight, "The spring breeze blows incense all night, and the dream of chasing the spring breeze to Los Angeles!" Qin Chun listened to Zhang Guangming talk about a poem in Wu Yuanheng's "Spring Xing" in the Tang Dynasty. He stood stunned, not only him, but the others were even more stunned. What everyone didn't expect was that this old hat secretary was dressed in a coarse cloth coat with patches and patches, and on his feet were old cloth shoes with a mille-feuille bottom. He is so proficient in poetry and writing! This is really "a man cannot be seen, and the sea cannot be measured"! This is simply incredible. They admired and looked at the Zhang branch secretary in front of them with a look of high mountain admiration.