It is very painful to be caught by your parents to do farm work in the fields. As long as they are doing farm work, they have to squat and bend over, and they are all hard work, and they are very tired at the end of the day. Especially for cutting grass and transplanting seedlings, I can't straighten my waist, I really "face the loess with my back to the sky", and bend over for a long time, which is not only particularly tiring, but also particularly monotonous and boring.

Whenever I was told by my parents to go to the field, I felt very reluctant, looking at my friends of the same age, some of whom were still playing, and I felt particularly aggrieved. Grinding and procrastinating, fortunately, at the age, the parents rarely scolded, at most a few urges.

No matter how much you procrastinate, the outcome of bending over to cut rice and planting rice cannot be changed. It's hard to get to Shimoda, and I'll think about being lazy again. When cutting the rice, the waist will be bent very low, and the small rice is easy to cover, and it seems that it is cutting the rice, but in fact, it is possible to squat there and scratch the mud with a sickle.

When planting seedlings, one hand is propped on the knee to support the tired and boring, and the supporting hand holds a handful of seedlings, and the other hand breaks out two or three seedlings and slowly inserts them into the soil. Rural people call this kind of laziness "grinding and feints", which means pretending to be working, but in fact they are passing the time.

My sister would not do this, and at a very young age, she mastered the skills of cutting rice and transplanting rice, and her movements were as skilled as her mother's. No matter what she does, she has never been seen to have a "grinding feint".

Regardless of cutting rice or transplanting seedlings, if you want to hurry, your waist must be deeply lowered and rise and fall quickly, because seedlings are planted one by one, and rice grows independently one by one, and every time you harvest or plant one, you have to bend over and rise and fall once.

When cutting rice, it is necessary to harvest continuously, grasp continuously, and when one hand can not hold it, the hand holding the sickle takes out a few long leaves on the rice, wraps it around the cut handful of rice, and puts it behind him with a little restraint, and then harvests forward.

Bound rice should not be thrown away casually, but should be neatly crossed into stacks. Because after the rice is harvested, the grain must be removed by a threshing machine. Stacked into stacks to be carried to the threshing machine, slightly restrained to pick up the threshing.

The leaves of rice, the edges are like "scarred grass", and they are also barbed, and when harvesting rice, they need to grasp and wrap around, often hurting their hands, and when they lean down, they often hurt their faces. The damage caused by this, although mild, can also be tingling.

In the dense rice, there are also countless tiny insects that will bite people, and we call them "midges", which means smaller than ants. I don't know if it's because I'm frightened, or if I need to suck blood, but whenever I harvest rice, I will be attacked by them, and although the "midge" is small, the pain of biting on the body is very strong.

Being stabbed by a leaf and bitten by a "midge" is not only a real tiredness, but also a real suffering. For many years, the palms of the mountain people are thick calluses, and after a harvest, their faces are often covered with red spots left by leaf strokes and "midge" bites.

Threshing machine uses the principle of lever, a lever is connected to the pedal at one end, and a large gear is connected to the other end, and the gear fits a small pinion, which is fixed on a bearing, and the bearing is equipped with a big runner, and the runner is equipped with bent wires, which are used for threshing.

A row of wooden planks is also installed in front of the pedal, which is connected to the base of the threshing machine, which not only prevents the threshing machine from getting stuck in the mud, but also makes it easy for people to stand on. Rely on manual stepping on the pedal, connected by bearings, and repeatedly drive the runner to rotate rapidly.

At the back of the threshing machine, a bucket is made of wood or iron sheet, the bottom is flat, the four edges are very high, the front end is vertical, the rear end is tilted, the size is just enough to be embedded in the base, and there is a hook to hook with the base.

Such a design is light and labor-saving, which is conducive to not subsidence in the paddy field, is conducive to dragging forward in the paddy field, is conducive to holding the grains that have been taken off, and is conducive to pulling out the grains and putting them into baskets or snakeskin bags.

Snakeskin bags are not made of snakeskin, but are made of plastic strips, and mountain people buy fertilizer, and bags of fertilizer are packed in bags made of this plastic, and when the fertilizer is used up, the bags are left just to hold rice.

Snakeskin bags are lighter and stronger than baskets, and they are not damaged by soaking in water, and each bag is collected by mountain people and used to hold grains in paddy fields. The effect of the plastic strip weaving looks like snakeskin, and it is also tough like snakeskin, so it is called snakeskin bag.

Compared to sacks, snakeskin bags are much smaller and used to hold rice, which is just enough to bear, and gradually replaced sacks as the main container for transporting grain.

On sunny days, he wears a straw hat against the scorching sun, and on a rainy day, he wears a hat and a plastic film to protect him from the wind and rain. There are many thunderstorms in spring and summer, and when the thunderstorms come, they are fierce and fierce, and when you go home a little slowly, the lightning seems to be split under your feet.

When I was a child, I once climbed to the side of the road, an acquaintance of my parents, without my parents knowing, took me to my grandmother's house, there was a thunderstorm halfway, lightning and thunder and the wind was raging, he actually took me to shelter from the rain under an abrupt camphor tree, and my father knew that he was lucky.

For as long as I can remember, my father has always had a radio, and no matter what he does, he always likes to put it on the side, listening and doing it. More or less eliminate some of the fatigue of farm work and reduce some monotonous irritability.

The radio was small, boxy and elongated, about the size of a brick used in a rural house, and a horn occupied almost the entire plane, and a row of scales above the horn were used to mark the frequency, representing the radio station.

A black leather case wrap with a shoulder strap on top that can be carried in the hand or carried over the shoulder. Corresponding to the position of the speaker, some small holes were drilled to ensure that the volume would not be blocked, and a window was opened to vacate the channel, leaving a twist on both sides to adjust the volume and channel.

At that time, there were too few electrical appliances in the countryside, and in addition to flashlights, all you could see was radios. But it's rare, not only because it's expensive and unaffordable, but also because it consumes batteries and adds extra expenses.

After the seedlings are planted, there are often weeds growing, affecting the growth of rice, encroaching on the fertilizer that is spread, before the seedlings grow, it is necessary to clear the field, the seedlings grow quickly, after a seedling planting, verdant and dense, completely covering the rice field, it is not afraid of the influence of weeds.

Everyone has a stick, some made of stout bamboo, some made of strong and straight wooden sticks, we call it "Yunhe stick", which is used to support the body when cultivating the field.

Holding the "Yunhe stick", one foot supports, one foot stirs into rows of seedlings in the gap of the soil, alternately moving forward, not only can remove weeds, step into the soil, but also can mix the fertilizer with the soil well, and fertilize the rice field, which is generally carried out when the grass is grown.

Yunhe does not have to bend down, one person and several lines walk side by side, the radio is generally carried by the father, and several sisters chase and follow with the "Yunhe stick", just to listen to the fairy tales or novels told on the radio.

More often than not, he had to bend over to carry the radio, sometimes on a nearby field stalk, sometimes on a straw stack, and a straw hat on it to block the scorching sun.

The first time I heard the children's program on the radio, I was fascinated, "Da Di Da, the little horn began to broadcast", the beautiful melody accompanied the whole childhood, whenever this time, rain or shine, will definitely gather around the radio.

In addition to children's programs, my favorite is a novel, or a long story, a paragraph a day, after listening to a novel or storytelling, I don't know how many days. The most familiar announcer is Shan Tianfang, and the deepest memory is that after he finished speaking, he left behind "I want to know what happened next, and listen to the next decomposition".

There are many commentaries on Shan Tianfang's broadcast, such as "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", "White Eyebrow Heroes", and some of them can't remember their names, they were all listened to when they were working in the fields, and they were too vivid and too appealing, and the time of the daily broadcast was firmly remembered by us, and we listened to it on time the next day.