Fortunately, this year's winter sowing still did not have anything to do with Yang Xiaobei. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 But next year, as long as she is still on this land, she will inevitably have to go to work in the field - whether you are a worker, a farmer, a teacher, a doctor, as long as you are not far away from the place where you can't come back, you will have to go home to help the farm. Later, the two aunts had already moved out of the countryside and lived in the city. But every year when the farm is busy, I still come back to help.

Until one summer, my aunt packed up her parcel and came back to help, and my mother asked with a blank face what are you doing here - no one planted rice in the morning and evening, and everyone reluctantly planted the paddy fields in the last season of rice. The sisters also sighed, and the double robbery from childhood to old disappeared. When I was busy, I sighed at the hard work of the farmers, but after I really didn't, I felt lost.

After the end of winter sowing, the field is busy for the year. The field management of winter crops is also relatively simple, and there are fewer pests and diseases, so you can basically take care of it. In the long winter months that followed, everyone's job was to gather firewood - to prepare firewood for the coming year. Water conservancy construction - maintenance and new construction of dams, irrigation, etc. The villagers call this construction. Every year after the flood season, flood control facilities. Dams and other dikes require a lot of manpower and material resources to maintain, as well as the repair of ditches in farmland, reservoirs and ponds that store water.

From the 50s to the 70s of the last century, China has built more than 80,000 large, medium and small reservoirs. There are many famous water conservancy projects and reservoirs, all of which were completed by wheelbarrows and shoulder-to-shoulder without any large-scale equipment. The predecessors planted trees and the later people enjoyed the shade, and now they have not engaged in much "large-scale construction". However, every few years, a lot of manual work such as road and bridge construction will be apportioned.

Speaking of which, this is a bit like conscription in ancient times, but the advantage is that it is counted as a share of work, and it also includes food and shelter. The places they went to were often very far away, and everyone carried a flat pole and a basket, and the men had to carry grain and vegetables -- yes, no matter how far they went, they would bring their own grain and burn it themselves. These projects often engage in "general battles" at every turn, and the scene is crowded with peasants from several nearby counties, and it is impossible for the government to prepare food for so many people.

There is not a single father who has not participated in such construction. Every time I talk about it, I don't complain about the distance, who in the countryside is afraid of walking? Isn't it just a walk for two or three days? No one talks about the fatigue of work, although it is not their hometown, and they have not benefited from the projects they have participated in, but the country says that we need people, so we will go. The place to live is to stay at the local villager's house, and it is really impossible to arrange that there will be a tent, which is also a novel experience. Rural people are not afraid of hardship or tiredness. But the most complained about is actually transporting grain from afar.

Hundreds of kilometers away, even if you only carry luggage, it is enough to choke, not to mention you have to pick up food? Uncle is still laughing and talking about the fact that he was arranged to pick a load of pumpkins when he is old, and he really can't pick it up after a day of walking, and he is reluctant to throw it away, so he has to cook it all halfway, which makes everyone choke enough. When they arrived, they found that there was not enough food to eat, so they had to be cheeky to borrow food from the army that also participated in the construction......

In short, everyone is full of joy when they talk about it. At that time, no one would go far if there was nothing to do, and without these opportunities for construction, everyone might not be able to get out of the Baiyun Line for the rest of their lives. And everyone is acting together as a whole village, calling friends and friendliness. Hard work aside, listening to my parents feel like going on an outing. The women would bring the soles of their shoes in the basket, take a break in the middle of the road, and when they were "square" at work, they would keep threading needles and threads in their hands, and at the same time gossip and laugh loudly. At this time, the men will know each other and go farther, otherwise if they get up, no one will be able to bear it if they go into battle together.

But this is all in the past, my mother was still 15 years old and went with her, and there have been no major projects in the past few years, and everyone is building ditches in the fields or something. This tradition has continued for a long time, even after the division of land to households, in addition to agricultural retention, there are also "two jobs", that is, farmers in the agricultural slack time to "volunteer labor" and "accumulation labor", that is to say, every year to build water conservancy in winter, people who do not go have to make up according to the working hours.

But by the late nineties, the two jobs were abolished, and with it, the agricultural tax was abolished. In the first few years, everyone was quite happy, and finally they didn't have to work every year. However, it didn't take long for problems to arise -- the water conservancy facilities were unmaintained, and the irrigation ditches were blocked and collapsed for many years. But because the government has no money or manpower, it can only let it go. At one point, the problem reached a very serious point.

Ponds and irrigation systems that were once clear and well-maintained in rural areas have fallen into disrepair and become foul ditches or completely dry up because they are unorganized and single-family farmers are unable to repair their ponds and irrigation systems. Take Han Jiachong as an example, the reservoir can't store water, and the culverts are all blocked. There was no longer easy irrigation, and everyone had to use the stupid method of pumping water all the water for irrigation.

In the years before Yang Xiaobei came back, due to the successive droughts and harvest failures in the five southwestern provinces, this problem was put on the table. The state began to allocate funds and restarted water conservancy construction. By this time, most of the reservoir ditches were no longer in service and had to be torn down and rebuilt. Therefore, the government is too hasty in making certain decisions, and the one-size-fits-all and the Great Leap Forward abound, and it will not wake up until there is a serious problem. The abolition of agricultural taxes was also a double-edged sword, and while reducing the peasants' burdens, he also abandoned the management of grassroots organizations.

In this era, the majesty of village cadres cannot be provoked. They are the brains of the whole village, and they are the same beings. However, the village cadres in the future will be more embarrassed, except for using the power in their hands to make some money, they are really useless, so they make a situation where everyone shouts and beats. In the world's largest agricultural community, the ability to build organizations has been weakened to an all-time low, and no one else.

This winter's construction is still very joyful, and when Yang Xiaobei went home, he passed by the villagers of Hanjiachong who were beating the rammed earth. A square bluestone slightly larger than the top at the bottom, with a thick hemp rope tied to each of the four corner holes, and a wooden handle of the garden in the center. The men pulled the rope together and pulled the stone up violently and let it fall freely.

Tamping requires the same pace and joint force. So everyone will shout the trumpet, which is usually called "tamping song". It is generally started by a capable person, who is responsible for directing the wooden handle, and as soon as he sings, the others will respond. The scene was very lively, everyone shouted the trumpet, amused themselves, and enjoyed the joy of labor in a relaxed and happy way.

Yang Xiaobei got out of the car and asked Zhou Pinzheng to go back first. They are all the daughters-in-law of the village, and the women have a natural consciousness, if they see a clue, there will be no place for her old face today. It's not that you can't see people, you haven't seen the power of these women, and everyone who is ridiculous and has no door to guard has to flee.