While the construction site of the hydropower station in front of us is in full swing, a group of people are also working seriously on the agricultural development land on the east bank of the Tiandu River. The main force of these people is more than a dozen people under the Ministry of Agriculture, because of the current shortage of labor, even the old couple Yuan Ruoxiu and Zhu Ping rolled up their trousers and went to the field. In addition, there are some women who stayed at Base 1, before the crossing, these people's agricultural knowledge was probably at the level of being able to recognize the fruits and vegetables sold in the supermarket, and many of them had not even seen the rice growing in the field, but now they must work with the Ministry of Agriculture to sow the rice seedlings that have been cultivated in the field two or three days before the rain comes.

Zhao Xiaoruo took off her shoes and carefully put her feet into the muddy mud pool, the cold touch made her subconsciously retract her feet at the same time, there was a strange sense of excitement. Zhao Xiaoruo was born in a medical family, from childhood to adulthood, her family education is to pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene, spotless, not to mention like entering this kind of mud pond, even if there is nothing to do, she has to wash her hands at least ten times a day. After graduating from the first medical school with a major in nursing, her living habits have developed from "hygiene" to "cleanliness", and she couldn't even imagine that she would one day stand barefoot in the rice field and plant seedlings.

When Zhao Xiaoruo was still in a daze, a hand reached out next to her and gently pulled her arm, and she involuntarily stepped into the paddy field.

"Ahh......h Wu Qiao grew up with her and studied together, entered the same university to study the same major, and after graduation, she entered the same hospital as a nurse, and finally even signed up for the crossing operation together behind her family's back, which is as iron as a sister. It's just that Wu Qiao's personality is different from her, her feelings are more cheerful, and she won't hide anything in her heart.

Wu Qiao smiled: "Okay, Miss, no one will come to help you today, you better do it yourself!"

Zhao Xiaoruo said angrily: "Miss Ben has hands and feet, and she doesn't need help!"

The two little girls are young and beautiful, and they are single, and the nurse duo they formed has been enthusiastically sought after by the majority of single young men since they joined the crossing operation, and some people have even set up a fan group on the forum, and they have the posture of praising the two as entertainment stars. And during this period of time after the crossing, the two of them were also taken care of in all aspects, and there were definitely people rushing to do the work for them, and there was absolutely no need to queue up for dinner, and the work arranged was definitely easy and safe. Wu Qiao said more than once that this crossing was the right one, every day is sunshine, beach, waves, drinking coconut juice and dozing off in the shade, this kind of life is much stronger than being a nurse in a tertiary hospital and being tired like a dog every day.

But if Zhao Xiao wants to think more than the simple-minded Wu Qiao, a group organization like the Crossing Group is actually not fundamentally different from the hospital where he worked before in terms of organizational structure, the same division of departments according to functions, and the same distinction between the leader and the led. Moreover, the members who dare to participate in the crossing often have a skill in professional skills and can play an indispensable role in some key projects. If the members of this group do not work hard to improve and highlight their role, they will sooner or later be marginalized and gradually reduced to mediocrity.

People like her and Wu Qiao, who have certain professional skills, but do not belong to the top level in the group, are actually in an awkward position in the corresponding department. For example, the current medical team must be two foreign doctors who are the main force, and they can only do some "rough work" such as physical examination or wound dressing at most. In the long run, the role and status in the group will become lower and lower, and with the gradual spread of the cause of traversal, it may begin to be slowly forgotten one day.

Of course, girls like them may have one more way out, that is, to find a capable partner among the people to marry, and at least enjoy the treatment of Mrs. Kuo under the service of Yahuan's wife in the future, but that result is not what Zhao Xiaoruo wants. According to her plan, she will become a representative or leader of at least one medical discipline in the future, such as maternal and child health care, or clinical nursing, and wait for a few years after the executive committee will open an institution such as a medical school.

Zhao Xiaoruo didn't take the initiative to talk about these long-term career plans, and even Wu Qiao didn't tell him. She knew that Wu Qiao's mind was not in her career, and it might not be useful to talk to her about these words. As long as he can get ahead in the future, then it will not be difficult to pull his good sister and appoint her as a deputy when the time comes.

However, before achieving his personal career goals, Zhao Xiaoruo still has many practical difficulties to overcome, such as the current spring plowing and spring planting. In fact, the spring ploughing had already ended a few days ago, and under the arrangement of the Executive Committee, hundreds of laborers went into battle to urgently cultivate nearly 500 acres of wasteland that had been reclaimed in three days, and then all these laborers were transferred to the construction site of the hydropower station in the upper reaches of the Tiandu River. After spring ploughing, the spring planting, which was relatively easy, was handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture by the Executive Committee and the non-labor personnel who stayed at the No. 1 base to solve the problem, which was also forced to do so. Some people may be a little dissatisfied in their hearts, but this arrangement is to solve the problem of food, which is the basis of survival, at least on the surface, no one will stand up against the arrangement of the Executive Committee, and even the famous feminist Ressa obediently shut her mouth this time and did not express any objection to it.

The participants in the spring planting were divided into several groups, each of which contracted a certain area of land. Today, the duo of Zhao Xiaoruo and Wu Qiao got a rice field with an area of five acres. However, before starting farming, everyone has to stand in the field to watch the demonstration operation of the technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture, which can be regarded as one of the temporary measures.

Considering that the professionalism of the participants in the spring planting was generally miserable, the Executive Committee took precautions and ordered several manpower rice transplanters as early as before the crossing in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture. Rice transplanting with tools has existed in ancient times, and Su Shi in the Song Dynasty also wrote the "Song of Rice Horses", which describes the scene of Hubei farmers using tools such as rice horses and rice seedlings. These primitive agricultural tools were even used in the countryside until the 50s after liberation, and later specialized in the development of more scientific and efficient modern rice transplanters.

The Ministry of Agriculture procures this kind of manpower step-down hand-cranked rice transplanter is light in weight, small in size, strong in adaptability and easy to maintain, the user grasps the direction with one hand, rotates the shaker in the other hand, drags the rice transplanter in the paddy field at a uniform speed and straight backwards, and the seedlings can be steadily inserted into the field according to a certain spacing. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's prior trial, even if you are a beginner, you can use this rice transplanting machine to grow 60 to 70 trees per minute, and it is not a big problem for a single rice transplanter to complete one acre of land in two hours, and this speed can be increased by at least one-third if you are a skilled hand.

After the demonstration, the Ministry of Agriculture emphasized "stability" and asked the rice transplanting to be as successful as possible, because the Ministry of Agriculture has put a lot of effort into the cultivation of these seedlings.

Because the time of the crossing action was set early, so in order to be able to plant a wave of spring rice after the crossing, the Ministry of Agriculture specially adopted the rice dry seedling technology with a short seedling age, but even then there is a seedling raising period of about 30 days, so when the Ministry of Agriculture loaded the last batch of agricultural materials in Yingzhou, these seedlings were moved to the ship together with the soil and seedlings, and in the next few days to maintain the temperature and humidity of the environment and enough sunshine time, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Executive Committee have spent great manpower and material resources. If the seedlings are damaged due to improper operation in the final transplanting process, it is indeed a very heart-wrenching thing.

Because of this, the Ministry of Agriculture was unable to carry out large-scale seedling cultivation before the crossing, and the final seedlings were only enough to plant 200 acres of land, and the remaining arable land would be planted with corn, soybeans, potatoes and other miscellaneous grain crops as a supplement to food. However, the Ministry of Agriculture is still relatively optimistic about grain production, and these excellent varieties brought from later generations are not comparable to the almost wild mountain barn rice planted by the Li people, and as long as there are no large-scale natural disasters, the Ministry of Agriculture believes that by the time of this season's rice harvest, no matter how bad it is, it will reach a total output of more than 50 tons. Combined with other coarse grain crops and existing food reserves, the Ministry of Agriculture does not expect a significant food deficit within a year. And with the gradual increase in the labor force that crosses the crowd control, the cultivated land area and grain planting area will also increase correspondingly, and the food will definitely be enough to eat without the explosive expansion of the local population.

It is said that they are treated equally in difficult times, but when the Ministry of Agriculture arranges jobs for the little nurse sisters, they still take care of the two of them sharing a single-person rice transplanter, so that they can actually take turns to rest. Of course, the two sisters, who had never been in a rice field, would not complete the task so smoothly, in fact, less than two minutes after starting to operate independently, Zhao Xiaoruo slipped under his feet and sat down in the mud pond. And Wu Qiao was not spared, and he also became a loach spirit in the process of transplanting rice. The difference is that Zhao Xiaoruo secretly wiped away her tears with her hands, while Wu Qiao sat in the mud pond and laughed, as if she had picked up a treasure. A whole morning passed, and the two people took turns to work in the field, and the rice planting work was completed on less than two acres of land. It wasn't until noon that someone brought the food, and the two mud monkeys stopped, you look at me, I look at you, and suddenly they laughed out loud.