Before six o'clock in the morning, Li Yueshan and Zhao Xiaoli got up, and the new day began in the sound of Li Yueshan's door opening, Yuedi vaguely heard the sound in the room, she tried to open her eyes, and found that her sister-in-law had gotten up and started to get busy, Yuedi turned on the light, rubbed her sleepy eyes, got up, and asked:

"Sister-in-law, I got up so early, it's only six o'clock now, which is equivalent to four o'clock in my hometown."

Zhao Xiaoli said: "Little sister, why don't you get up, go and sleep for a while, from today, you have to prepare for spring sowing, you have to hurry, catch up with the season, you miss it, the harvest of the year is poor, so you have to get up early."

"It's too early, it's not dawn, what can you do?"

"First of all, you have to finish the things at home, after you finish the things at home, you will almost go to the field, if it is late, others will not wait for you, today my field is spring irrigation, if it is late, the company commander will distribute water to other people's families, then it will be at least a week late for our turn, sowing will be late, the time for crops to grow is not enough, and the harvest can not be guaranteed."

"Oh, that's right, big brother."

"Serving those pigs and sheep outside, Li Lichun has to go to school, and we have to go to the fields, so we must prepare food for them in advance."

"Sister-in-law, you are really capable, you serve people, my brother serves animals, you cooperate so well."

"If you don't deserve it, how can you make so many things."

"Sister-in-law, you should be busy first, I'll go see what my brother is doing."

It was very cold outside, just stepped out of the door, Yue Di clearly felt the huge temperature difference between the inside and outside of the house, the house was more than 20 degrees, and the outside of the house was almost only 0 °, she came to her brother and asked her brother, why is it so cold outside, my brother told him that the room was heated, you just came and didn't get used to it, now this season is like this, the coldest time in the morning is about 0 °, the hottest time at noon is 30 °, isn't there a saying:" Wearing a leather jacket in the morning, wearing yarn in the afternoon, and eating watermelon around the stove are talking about the climatic characteristics of Xinjiang."

While helping out, Yuedi asked, "Is the watermelon in Xinjiang delicious, is it expensive?"

Yueshan said: " Of course delicious, Xinjiang is the hometown of melons and fruits, when the watermelon is ripe, many people don't eat, just eat watermelon, Xinjiang people buy melons are not like the old family, we are all a sack of sacks to buy, no one buys, you say buy a melon, the melon seller will send you a directly, no money, a bag of watermelon is about 10 yuan, it is a dime or two a kilogram, a sack of watermelon, we almost ate it in a day, when there is a watermelon, we basically don't drink water, eat melons directly, of course, when the watermelon just came down, it is still very expensive, at least three or four dimes a kilogram, then eat less。 Sister, when you arrive in Xinjiang, you will let go of eating, meat, melons and fruits, very rich, you see the workers in this company, the money is not much, but if you want to talk about food, it is really incomparable to my hometown, you see my family of four people, fifty or sixty rabbits, more than 100 chickens and ducks, a few sheep, and three pigs, they can't sell much, basically they eat by themselves."

"Oh my God, eat so much meat."

"Of course, four people in my family can't eat, I have so much land, I need to hire people to work, don't I hire people to give meat to eat, I don't have much of this thing, some people have more than me."

"There are so many things to eat, and my sister-in-law is quite hard to cook."

"How can your sister-in-law have time to cook, when it's too busy, she hires someone to cook."

"Hire someone to cook"?

"Of course, if you think about more than 200 acres of land, if you don't work, how long it will take to run around the field, not to mention, when you hire more people, nearly forty or fifty, it is not easy to manage these dozens of people well, not to be lazy, and to ensure quality."

"Brother, you earn a lot of money a year."

"It's still possible, at least 100,000."

"100,000 yuan! at least? I only pay 320 yuan a month for substitute teaching in Mingyue Township, less than 4,000 yuan a year, you actually have 100,000 yuan!

"The second brother can't do it, he hasn't been here for a long time, no more than 100,000 a year, he has a maximum of 100,000, and I have a minimum of 100,000, basically that's it, you open your mouth, what are your eyes, don't believe it, the peasants and workers here are basically like this."

"Brother, if you didn't say it earlier, I can also come to farm."

"You can't do it!"

"How is that possible?"

"Look at it today, your sister-in-law can't do it, don't talk about you"

At seven o'clock in the morning, Yue Di and her brother and sister-in-law came to their own cotton field, saying that it was a cotton field, in fact, there was no planting at all, today is a spring irrigation before planting, Yue Di got off the car in a large group of waiting crowds, everyone saw this, they all gathered around, you praise Yue Di a word.

"Yueshan, this is your sister, she looks so beautiful."

"It doesn't look like you, alas, the dimples look like it."

"It's a pity that such a beautiful sister gets to work in the field, she should be raised in the deep boudoir, marry an official, marry a nobleman."

"I didn't plan to let her work, she wanted to come and see."

"Look at it, it's not easy to be a peasant worker."

"Okay, let's not talk about my sister first, now arrange today's work for everyone, today a day, this one hundred and fifty acres to be watered, everyone in a group of three, a pipe is laid out, and the water will begin, everyone should move faster, the company commander only gave 10 hours of water time, two hours less than last year, thank you, there is no limit to the braised pork at noon, let's start." ”

Yuedi waited for everyone to leave, only to see what the condition of her brother's 150 acres of land was, this land from this end can hardly see the tree at that end, it is a kilometer long, more than 100 meters wide, in the center of the land, there is a path about one meter wide, there is a water supply pile every 20 meters along the road, it is pre-buried in the ground when the flood irrigation was changed to sprinkler irrigation in the previous two years, today's work is to divert the water from the water supply pile to each sprinkler head ten meters apart, and it needs to be transported from the branch pipe from the well house. Erection to the ground, three branch pipes are erected, you can start to water, the whole land, to erect 50 pipes, to complete the watering in 10 hours, at most 20 minutes must erect a pipeline, each branch line needs 24 medium pipes, 48 capillaries, 24 spray racks, 24 sprinklers, everyone in a group of three, skillfully install each component, less than 15 minutes, the front three pipes are installed, Yueshan to the well room to make a phone call, the water is sent immediately, more than 100 sprinklers bloom one after another, forming a magnificent rainbow-like water arc, rotating, spraying, suddenly near, suddenly far away, the land instantly becomes wetAfter a while, it was muddy, everyone began to erect the second wave of pipes, the second wave of water opened, the third wave, the fourth wave was erected, the third and fourth waves were not on the water, there was no usable pipe on the ground, everyone worked at high intensity for nearly 2 hours, sat down to rest, Yueshan gave each fellow a pack of 8 yuan of Honghe cigarettes, and those who did not smoke also collected and took it back to their families to enjoy.

Yue Di thinks that she can do this kind of work, it is very simple, the water pipe is not heavy, a five-meter aluminum pipe is only two kilograms, there is no problem with five bars at a time, those shelves are very heavy, it is more difficult to move, you can move less, and there should be no problem. The next work was something she could never have imagined. After less than 20 minutes of rest, the third and fourth waves of pipelines began to spray water, and the first two waves of watering lasted for two hours. According to the custom of the villagers, the women left the dry place where there was no water spray to set up the pipes, and the men took the pipes of the first or two waves that had just been laid out from the ground and erected them in the two waves below.

"Brother, I'll help remove the pipes too."

"You don't have to go, just take a look."

"I'm not good at being idle, everyone is working, I'm sorry."

"It's okay, just take a look, or go help your sister-in-law."

"Sister-in-law, just send a water, check the installed joints, you don't need my help, I'll help you go."

Yueshan was a little angry, and said loudly: "You can't help, that job is not fun at all, you are not allowed to go."

"Try it, how do you know you can't do it if you don't try?"

"Okay, you try it, if you move a pipe in the middle of the ground today, you can eat a big bowl of braised pork at noon today" Yueshan knows his sister very well, and he doesn't hit the south wall and doesn't look back, it's useless to persuade her, let her suffer a little loss.

Yueshan asked her sister to wear high-waisted rain boots, usually no woman to do this work, so the shoes are only men's, the shoes are relatively large, they don't fit at all, Yuedi's feet are in the shoes, everything is ready, and everyone does their own work. Yueshan took her sister to the ground, Yuedi seemed more excited, walking in front of the eldest brother, the land has been watered, from the surface, there is no water in the ground, the first step into the wetland, there is this extraordinary feeling. One of her feet was instantly sunk into a knee-high depth, Yue Di jumped, thinking that she had fallen into the swamp, she continued to walk forward, trying to pull out one of her legs, the foot was pulled out of the shoe, too hard, she almost fell into the mud, waving her hands, and finally found her balance, the shoes fell deep into the mud, Yue Di put the pulled foot back into the shoe, tried to pull it out after wearing it, and continued to move forward, the shoe was adhered to by muddy water, Yue Di used up her strength to feed, and tried to pull out the leg and shoe again and again, but the shoe seemed to be sucked by a suction cup, and with one force, the shoe loosened a little, and then returned to the original position, tossed back and forth more than a dozen times, but only pulled out one of her feet, Yue Di simply did not wear shoes, stepped barefoot in the mud, pulled out the two shoes, threw them to the ground, rolled up his trouser leg to continue to walk forward, Yue Shan hurriedly pulled, did not let him continue to walk in the middle of the ground, Yue Di did not listen, continued to walk barefoot inside, Yue Shan stopped again, said no shoes, there are cotton poles in the ground, will cut the feet, Yue Di did not believe it, barefoot, wasted the strength of nine cows and two tigers, came to the middle of the ground, she took off a tube, felt very light, took two or three more, tied it, put it on her shoulder, turned around and walked to the ground, Her rolled trouser leg fell off at some point, swept in the mud, three times and two times, the trouser leg was already covered with mud, every time she moved a step forward, the mud on the pants combined with the wet mud in the ground again, and firmly bonded once, Yue Di felt that her pants were about to be pulled off, he put down the aluminum tube, lifted his pants, fortunately Yue Di's pants wore a belt, if it was an elastic band, she would have already exposed her belly, walked out five or six steps, Yue Di was stuck in the ground again, she wanted to pull out her feet, no matter how she got it, she couldn't pull it out, just like playing glutinous rice cakes, the more she tinkered, the more sticky it was, Yue Di used all her strength to pull out the stuck leg, she finally couldn't balance her body, "Bang" Suddenly, smashed into the mud, the posture is just like backstroke, Yue Di danced her hands, her sleeves were instantly covered with mud all over her body, her eyes and nose were covered with mud, Yue Shan hurriedly came over and pulled Yue Di up, touched her sister's face with her hand, wiped off the mud on Yue Di's face, he picked up her sister, fell on her back, and carried a mud girl out, Yue Di couldn't cry or laugh, and it was too late to regret her recklessness.

Zhao Xiaoli saw Yuedi's embarrassed appearance, and found a stick to chase Yueshan to fight, Yueshan ran fast, Zhao Xiaoli grabbed the lump on the ground and smashed it at Yueshan. After playing for a while, she pulled Yuedi to the waterside to wash, pulled her to the car, took out the change of clothes she usually prepared for work in the car, and asked Yuedi to change into it, and the mud girl suddenly became a village woman. Yue Di looked at her image in the rearview mirror, she was simply a rural sister-in-law, she stroked her sister-in-law and laughed.

Seeing the men walking on the ground easily put the bundle of pipes out, Yue Di was already admiring, people who had not done this work, how could they not think of the uncomfortable taste, the mud still overflowed their calves, but those people easily pulled out, no need to pull back and forth in the muddy water, maybe as the saying goes, do a line of way, they may be born to walk in this leg-high muddy water. It's no wonder that my brother wants to give these people such a good treatment, a pack of cigarettes is eight yuan, and their wages must be a lot!

The lunch was delivered to the field, pork stewed potatoes, rice porridge, and steamed buns, everyone swarmed around, served themselves rice, sat on the ground under the shade of the tree and ate it, Yue Di and her sister-in-law and brother gathered together, and also sat down on a relatively clean ground, Yue Di originally had paper on her body, which could be spread on the ground, and saw that everyone was not like this, so she simply sat on the ground like everyone. I don't know who delivered the meal, there was a set of utensils missing, Yueshan finally served the rice, there was no rice bowl, the sister-in-law asked her to share it with herself, Yueshan didn't listen, picked up her own shovel, washed it on the water, put the potato braised pork directly on the shovel, and went to fold a dry reed, made a pair of chopsticks, wiped it, and directly used the pair of reed sticks to eat on the shovel, Yuedi thought, maybe she was not in the plan, she looked at the surrounding villagers, and no one felt a little new about it, this situation has long been the norm of their lives。

I don't know who made the rice, the braised pork may be the most delicious dish Yuedi has ever eaten in her life, and the rice porridge, that taste, it is really a must in her life.

"Brother, sister-in-law, you are all in the field, who cooks the food, it tastes so good"

Yueshan "Yes, it seems that you are really hungry, the company has people who specialize in cooking in the busy farming season, we put some meat, vegetables, rice, and noodles in his place, and just make a phone call when you want to use it, today's meal has already been reserved, and you are not taken into account, so when people deliver meals, there is one less set of utensils, and I can't let you use a shovel to serve food, so I used it."

A fellow asked loudly: "Yueshan, what is your sister doing here, how about marrying my son?"

Another said: "You dream, your son, isn't your son just a deputy company commander, is he qualified to marry such a beautiful girl, if you want to find my mother-in-law's family, my son is a high school teacher, and my little sister is the teacher's family."

Yueshan: "Don't think about it, my sister has a boyfriend, he is a graduate student of Harvard University, his name is Sun Ce, has your son attended Harvard University in the United States, don't think about it if you don't have it."

A fellow "That's the case, my sister's life is good, I can marry a regimental cadre if I want to, it seems that I am a little underestimated."

A fellow: "Your vision is like a mouse, you can see an inch away, and you can look at this and that."

A fellow "Yueshan, your sister is so beautiful, you get him to the field and work with us, aren't you a bad person."

A fellow: "It's just that it's so distressed."

Yueshan: "Don't let me come, I have to come, my sister, die, don't listen to persuasion, don't talk about her, how to do the work below, everyone think."

A fellow "What do you have to think about how to do the work below, just do the same, Yueshan, do you want your sister to go to school to teach?"

Yuedi stood up excitedly and said, "Yes, willing"!

"Okay, I'll ask you, what course can you teach"

Yue Di said: "Any course in junior high school is fine, preferably music class, high school can only be Chinese and music, and I don't want to go to primary school."

"The school seems to have a special need for English teachers, how is English?"

Yuedi: "English, forget about English, English is not good......"

"It's okay, I'll help you ask, you can also go to the school and try it yourself......."

Yueshan: "Thank you, I'll take her to the school later."

Fellows: "That's it, this is what it is like to be a brother, you can go in the afternoon, we promise to finish the water."

Yueshan said to his wife, "Lili, work hard in the afternoon, I will take my sister to the school to have a look, and by the way, I will go to the child's homeroom teacher to understand the children's learning."

Zhao Xiaoli: "Don't worry, without you, the earth will still turn, don't just care about your son, patriarchy, you must ask Li Yuqian's teacher, the girl has just gone to school, you have to keep an eye on ......."

Yueshan drove his farm cart home, let Yuedi rest, change clothes, Yuedi couldn't find water at home, Yueshan told him that he needed to use the well, Yuedi "Bang Bang Bang" After pressing for a long time, I didn't see a drop of water coming out, Yueshan came over, poured half a scoop of water into the pressed water tung, and then pressed, the water immediately flowed out in large strands, and a few times it filled a trough, Yuedi felt that this pressure well was particularly magical, a bit like fishing, and also needed a little bait to lure, Yueshan told her that her yard was going to be watered, and she used this pressure well, not to press it manually, but to pump water with an electric motor. Yueshan was busy serving his animals, those animals, seeing Yueshan, had long been unable to hold back their excitement, immediately surrounded up, Yueshan poured the feed into the trough, plus some water, the animals were extremely happy and crazy to eat, in the process of competing for food, the animals were so selfless, human intervention was all in vain. Yuedi was doing laundry while admiring the scene of animals snatching food, she thought, in fact, people and animals are exactly the same in terms of snatching food, isn't it good to say the old saying: "Thousands of miles to be an official, for food and clothing; If you don't get rich as an official, you won't invite me to come." Brother Sun Ce went to school in the United States for food and clothing, and his second brother and eldest brother went to Xinjiang to make a living, aren't they all competing for survival, but the competition of human beings seems to be gentle, and they don't need to be like animals, they need direct physical confrontation, they don't need to grab food directly from the mouths of others, and there are still indirect physical confrontations, for example, today's labor in the fields is not a competition to see whose body is better, there is no good body, like yourself, you can't even take out a water pipe, in such a food competition, you are an obvious weakling, but you also have a competitive advantage that those of them do not have, people, can not be their own weakness, to compare the strength of others, otherwise will always be a loser, must be their own strengths to stand in the world, so as to occupy the favorable terrain of life, of course, this favorable terrain is not what you want to have, often need to move forward in twists and turns, any idea of wanting to be in place in one step, is unrealistic.

Yueshan added feed to the animals, and when she saw that Yuedi didn't speak, she was distracted while doing laundry, and interrupted her: "What do you want?

"Brother, I didn't think about anything, what are you doing with makeup?"

"What are you doing with makeup, I don't know, it's more beautiful, beautiful is to respect others, you respect others, others can respect you."

"I know what it means, I should be, I thought you were going to introduce me to someone."

"Who introduced you to the object? After the object's affairs are found by yourself, your second brother and I can only give you a dowry and a wedding wine."

"It's pretty much the same, brother, why do you still need to water the land in Xinjiang?"

"Fool, aren't you? I haven't studied geography in high school? Think about it myself? What is the climate here, what is the climate in my hometown? What is the frost-free period, what is the growing season, where is the 800 mm precipitation line, where is the 200 mm precipitation line, you can feel it after washing your clothes today, it will dry in two hours, and your hometown may not be able to dry in the sun for two days."

"Yes, yes, yes, I know, I just didn't expect this, I read a dead book, I didn't combine it with you, the cost of farming in Xinjiang is very high, I see that the cigarettes you give to work are 8 yuan of hard red river, so much meat in the dish, how can you get 10 yuan, and the salary is also a lot, right?"

"The salary is 50 yuan a day for men and 40 yuan for women, but we are all au pairs, and he will do it for me today. Tomorrow I will do it for him, if he can't change the job, he will give money, I can't change it for others, only your sister-in-law will go to the au pair, Xinjiang is rich in groundwater resources, I have read "Poplar Praise", there is not a qanats in it, think about it, this shows that there is a lot of groundwater in Xinjiang, so the cost of water resources is very small, except for electricity, there is basically no other cost."

Yue Di: "Is there gender discrimination in wages? Watering is troublesome, if it rains, how good it is not to water."

Yueshan: "What is gender discrimination, how many pipes do I carry, how many pipes do you carry, as for this water problem, each has its own benefits, it rains, can you control the time, no, you just rely on the sky to eat, we water and farm, you don't have to worry about whether it rains, have you heard that Xinjiang has to fight drought, my hometown has to fight drought almost every year."

Yuedi: "There are so many pipes, it's so expensive, it's so annoying to move around"

Yueshan: "Expensive is certain, but we have a high yield, 100 kilograms of cotton per acre in my hometown, more than 400 kilograms here, this cost is not a problem, moving pipes is annoying, you have not seen annoying watering, now this irrigation method is very advanced, the past flooding irrigation is called annoying, I heard that some places have been experimenting with Israeli drip irrigation technology, if it is successful, it will be more trouble-free."

Yue Di: "Why do I always feel that this planting method is still very backward and unscientific"

Yueshan: "Wrong, this method is the most advanced in the world, you see that your sister-in-law and I have more than 200 acres of land, and 100 people in my hometown can't plant 200 acres of land, and the yield is two or three times higher than that of my hometown, isn't this advanced?"

"Brother, what you said seems to make sense."

Yueshan: "It makes sense, hurry up, don't talk about it, go paint and makeup, you little girl."

Yuedi: "Brother, you said that it was very troublesome to flood in the past, you can tell me."

Yueshan: "Let's not talk about it, it's okay when it rains, I'll tell you slowly, I'll take you to the orchard and grape field in the past two days, the sixty acres of land haven't been changed to sprinkler irrigation, you can see it, the benefits of sprinkler irrigation are far more than that, yo! My sister is really beautiful after painting, good-looking, beautiful, let's go, let's go ......."