Chapter 42 Cutting the Weeds and Eradicating the Roots

This Li Chengming was a little angry when he looked at the two vegetable fields he smoked, thinking to himself why he was so unlucky, even more than a dozen vegetable fields, only these two were not very good, but he still let himself be pumped.

Zhu Xiangjun looked at Li Chengming's annoyed look and said with relief: "Squad leader! If you want to start a little bit, the more difficult the work is, if we do it well, then it can show that you have leadership skills. The soldiers in our squad can also do it. ”

"Damn! It's easy to say, and it makes sense to listen to. You may not be aware of the seriousness of the problem of these two vegetable patches. It's not just loosening the soil. These two vegetable plots may have never been fertilized. Look how barren the soil is. If you want to plant these two vegetable fields well, you need to apply a lot of fertilizer! Li Chengming seems to have a headache about fertilization.

Zhu Xiangjun said: "Isn't it just to apply more fertilizer!" What's so hard about that? ”

"Fertilizer! Do you pay for it yourself! Li Chengming said with a smile.

"That! What kind of fertilizer to apply! ”

"What fertilizer! Apply 'human fertilizer'! Go to the toilet and pick up the! Li Chengming frowned as he spoke, as if he had smelled the stench of dung.

In fact, Zhu Xiangjun himself also knew that the vegetables planted in the army were all poured with dung. It's just that as a recruit, he doesn't want the squad leader to wonder how he knows everything. That's why I asked this on purpose.

"What! Monitor! To pick up a lot of, that's -- that's very uncomfortable. Zhu Xiangjun was surprised.

"What do you think the army is! How can you grow vegetables and use chemical fertilizers! Of course, our green barracks has to grow 'green vegetables'. Li Chengming also joked with Zhu Xiangjun.

Here, Luo Xiaowei and Chen Darong also looked left and right, very curious. After all, as recruits, they only know that the Dao troops want to grow vegetables. But in the past three months, I have not been to the vegetable field in person.

"Chen Darong! Have you ever grown vegetables at home? Luo Xiaowei looked at the weeds in these vegetable fields and said.

"Damn! Who planted this thing. What age is it, and there are still families who grow vegetables. "Although Chen Darong is rural. However, the coastal countryside is also relatively wealthy. Not everyone grows self-sufficient vegetables.

"Hey! I'm the same, I've only eaten food, that kind of food! I've only eaten pork, and I've seen pigs go! Luo Xiaowei also smiled.

Although this Luo Xiaowei is only a person from a small county, he is the only son in the family, since he was a child, let alone growing vegetables, he has even experienced buying vegetables.

At the moment, the two recruits were looking around in the vegetable field, feeling quite fresh.

Li Chengming came over to everyone at this time and said, "Okay! Don't even stand. It's time to get to work. This morning, weeds will be pulled out of here. In the afternoon, loosen the soil and fertilize and water. ”

Everyone listened and got to work.

"Zhu Xiangjun, Luo Xiaowei and I pull out this one, and the rest of us pull out the other." Li Chengming made a simple arrangement.

Luo Xiaowei and Zhu Xiangjun are now squatting side by side to pull weeds.

Zhu Xiangjun was born in the countryside and has a vegetable patch at home. When he was at home, he often helped his mother take care of the vegetable patch. So he has some experience with this kind of dish. Now the grass is pulling out quite quickly.

But Luo Xiaowei is different. He's "the first big girl to sit in a sedan chair." "Now he is asked to pull the weeds, but he only pulls the grass off, and he does not pull out the roots at all.

Zhu Xiangjun looked at Luo Xiaowei's movements, and knew that this was also a city man who had only eaten pork and had never seen a pig run.

"Hey! Luo Xiaowei! You can't just pull the grass off, you have to pull it up by the roots. Otherwise, it won't grow again every three or five days. Zhu Xiangjun saw that Luo Xiaowei didn't understand anything, so he had to teach him.

"Ahh What's the matter, pull them off, won't they die! Do you still need to pull up all the roots? Luo Xiaowei was still not convinced.

"Oops! Oh my mother! I'm convinced. That's grass! You think that if you cut off your head, you will die! This is a little grass with strong vitality that 'wildfires can't burn, and the spring breeze blows and grows' by poets! Zhu Xiangjun looked at Luo Xiaowei, his 'innocent' appearance was very funny.

"Hey! Since this little grass has been 'Acura to Acura Go' by the poet, then why do we have to pull people up! Luo Xiaowei wanted to make Zhu Xiangjun angry to death.

"That's because it doesn't look like a place. If it grows in the cracks of the rocks in the cliffs, then 'eulogize' it, but if it grows in our vegetable patch, sorry we have to 'sneer' it. Zhu Xiangjun laughed and 'saluted' Luo Xiaowei. ,

"Good! I listen to you, who told you to look not the place. I'm going to 'kill you!' you! Luo Xiaowei suddenly smiled and sped up the speed of pulling weeds.

But this Luo Xiaowei did not master the essentials of pulling weeds. He just held it on the top of the grass, and it turned out that he was not pulling weeds, but rather 'gnawing' the grass.

"Hey! Luo Xiaowei! How can you do that! Hold the bottom and the roots of the grass, so that you can uproot the grass! Zhu Xiangjun had no choice but to teach him hand-in-hand.

Only then did Luo Xiaowei hold the root of the grass with his hand, and then he really uprooted it with a force.

"Oh! I know the way, this is called 'cutting the grass and eradicating the roots'. Luo Xiaowei looked at the handful of weeds with fresh soil roots in his hand, and laughed.

"That's right, to do things, you have to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, so as not to leave future troubles." Zhu Xiangjun said something profound.

"The deputy squad leader said it well. It seems that this kind of dish is really knowledgeable! No wonder the troops want to grow vegetables! "Luo Xiaowei continued to chat with Zhu Xiangjun while 'cutting the grass and eradicating the roots'.

"Of course. Our People's Liberation Army has combat effectiveness for what it wants, and what it can use millet and rifles to defeat the Kuomintang planes and artillery. It's because our team has a fine tradition. "Zhu Xiangjun is getting farther and farther away.

"A fine tradition, what a tradition!" Luo Xiaowei seemed to be a little puzzled.

"This is all known as the Tao, that is, 'self-reliance and hard work'!" Zhu Xiangjun also said while pulling weeds.

"Self-reliance, hard work is to grow vegetables" Luo Xiaowei said unconvinced.

"Hey! Of course, you can't say all of them, but at least this dish is the main embodiment. From digging wild vegetables to satisfy hunger at the beginning of the Long March to large-scale labor production after Yan'an, our team came out of the vegetable field. "Zhu Xiangjun now seems to be both idle and boasting.

"Hey! Zhu Xiangjun! But I know that our ancient soldiers also wanted to farm! If you want to say that this is the tradition of the PLA, then it may not be! Luo Xiaowei seems to know a lot.

"You are right, the army in history was half peasant and half soldier before the Song Dynasty. Fighting wartime and farming in peacetime. Luo Xiaowei's remark reminded Zhu Xiangjun of some military service systems in history.