Chapter Forty-Nine: Learning to Do Farm Work
Zhang Wenya brought her two younger sisters to the guests while dancing and singing.
The cadres and educated youths of the garrison saw the little girls, their immature and thin little faces were shy, and they were all bright with thick eyebrows and big eyes.
It was only at this time that everyone had a deep understanding of the extent of food scarcity in the rural areas.
Li Yue, who was emaciated, said to several educated youths embarrassedly: "I don't have enough food here, and I haven't made any good food for you, I only stewed a chicken, and there is no other meat at all, this is really no way!"
This is a difficult time, so I ask for your understanding. ”
The guests all said: This is already very rich!
The children twinkled their eyes with curiosity, took their aunt's hand, and politely invited the guests to sit down and talk.
Several educated youths affectionately praised them for their brightness and cuteness.
The children smiled embarrassedly.
Guests let the children sit down for breakfast together.
The children all waved their hands and said, "Thank you, let's go to the yard to eat." ”
With that, they ran out of the house.
Li Yue'e saw that everyone had finished eating a basket of steamed buns after a while, so she immediately brought a steaming basket of steamed vegetable buns to the dining table.
Zhang Guangming saw a few vegetables at the bottom of the plate, so he quickly added some mixed vegetables to the plate.
Immediately afterward, he added half a spoonful of polenta to everyone's bowls.
This delicious meal was fragrant, which greatly increased the appetite of the cadres and educated youths in the garrison.
Zhang Zhishu and his wife immediately warmly beckoned everyone to eat more food and work in the fields to have strength.
Zhang Zhishu said a little embarrassedly: "I only have coarse tea and light rice here, don't laugh?" The first meal is at my house, but what about the future?
I'll ask Li Hongyun, who is watching the phone, and his wife to cook for you in the house in the courtyard of the brigade. ”
He concretely said, "Oh, the two houses next door to you serve as your dining room and kitchen.
She knows how to cook for that woman, and I hope you will be able to eat well.
What about this meal?
I'll give you a whole hearty breakfast, which can be regarded as a welcome breakfast for you!
You're welcome, my family is going to eat in the kitchen, you can eat quickly. ”
As soon as the couple stepped out of the threshold, the gang couldn't wait to stretch out their left hands, took another vegetable bun, opened their mouths and ate it with relish, and said, "This bun is so delicious!" ”
The guests held chopsticks in their right hands, stretched out their arms and went to the plate, sandwiching the chicken that tantalized the taste buds to eat, and they were full of praise and said: "This chicken is stewed soft and fragrant, it is so delicious!" It's so delicious! ”
Then everyone stuffed the green vegetables into their mouths, squeaking and eating with taste, but no one went to eat the wild vegetables.
Everyone drank the fragrant polenta again.
They all said with surprise on their faces:
"Huh? How good is this dish? ”
"Huh? Why is this polenta so fragrant? ”
……
Several people were full of incense, and they didn't care about talking anymore, and they all buried their heads in eating and drinking.
Li Zhongqiu saw that everyone only ate chicken and vegetables, but no one tasted a mouthful of wild vegetables, so he tasted a mouthful of wild vegetables, and said in surprise: "Wow, what a green and delicious wild vegetables!"
Taste it, all of you! ”
They hesitated for a moment, and when they saw that Li Zhongqiu was eating so vigorously, they looked at a few wild vegetables with disdain, took a bite with great reluctance, and then opened their eyes and said almost at the same time:
"Ahh
"Huh?! I didn't expect the taste of wild vegetables in the countryside to be really delicious in the world! ”
Li Yue'e only started at this time, letting her children sit around the stone table and sit on the stone bench to prepare for dinner.
The parents brought a few kinds of wild vegetables and vegetable buns to the table for the children, and the children exclaimed: "Eh, so many wild vegetables? Hey, and our favorite vegetable buns! ”
The father said, "Yes, today's meal, but whose family marries a daughter-in-law will make a wedding banquet!" ”
The children couldn't wait to gobble up and eat a hearty breakfast.
"This is a delicious meal that can only be eaten in a dream!" The eldest daughter Zhang Wenya said with a smile.
Zhang Guangming and his wife, however, poured some soup into their respective bowls with polenta, and drank it in a big gulp.
Zhang Wenya hurriedly asked, "Mom and Dad, why don't you eat steamed buns?" It's fragrant! She said as she munched on it.
Dad smiled and said, "I've eaten it." ”
Mom also said: I have eaten it too.
The couple said together, "Eat the children!" ”
In fact, the couple was not willing to eat a bite at all, so they kept it for the guests and children.
The cadres and educated youths stationed in the team ate in large gulps, and ate so much that they slapped their stomachs.
Wu Baoguo said in that sissy tone: "This meal is so delicious, it's about to kill me." ”
Everyone has been exaggerating that the food cooked by the secretary and his lover is more delicious than the food in the hotel in the provincial capital!
One by one, the intellectuals stood up and carefully looked at the paintings on the walls of the room.
After the cadres pressed the money under the plates, they saw that the living room was crowded, so they stepped out of the threshold to admire the flowers in the courtyard.
Xiao Wenya waited for her father to lead the guests away.
She was busy with her sister Wen Hui, as well as Wen Jun, and the servants began to clean up the mess on the dining table and under the dining table in the house.
The mother put her little daughter Wenjie in front of the wooden stroller and let her learn to walk.
She was already able to push a wooden stroller and walk a few steps.
Li Yue'e instructed Wen Hui and said: Wen Hui came to see her sister, don't throw her down.
Then she quickly brushed the pots and chopsticks.
Then Wen Ya and Wen Jun each picked up a small broom to clean the house, the other to clean the yard, and after the sisters finished sweeping the floor, they wiped the big tables and chairs, and the small tables and chairs were spotless.
After the two of them packed up, they went to the kitchen shed to carry a wicker basket.
Wen Ya said to her mother, "Mom, the two of us are going to weed."
Li Yue'e agreed, fed her little daughter again, kissed her little daughter's ruddy little face, put her little daughter in front of the stroller and walked out of the house.
She turned to Wen Hui uncomfortably and said, "Mom is going to work in the production team, you have to take care of Wen Jie, don't throw her down." ”
Wen Hui agreed, watching her little sister push the wooden stroller, gurgling, and playing in circles in the yard.
Xiao Wenjie looked at his sister and giggled.
When the youngest daughter turned around, Li Yue'e walked out quickly.
She came to the gate and gently plugged in the door, and then hurriedly reported to the production team.
On the first day, Zhang Zhishu let the educated youths know all the crops.
He also told them many agricultural proverbs, and the cadres and intellectuals in the team listened to them and were very interested.
Zhang Guangming also gave lectures on agriculture to the educated youth, which was about the growth process of agriculture.
Finally, he led them to the fish pond and told them about the farming techniques of fishing.
The educated youths saw the three cute black ducks in front of them, quacking and cheering, while paddling forward with their flippers.
The ducks were followed by a flock of three white swaying geese, swimming in the water while stretching their necks, and the geese and geese singing in the sky.
There are also several kinds of ornamental fish, crabs, turtles, big red shrimps, etc. in the water, and some of the educated youths use their hands to catch goldfish with peculiar eyes.
Some of them catch fish and play, and some of them catch shrimp and play, and the fish and shrimp are tossing and jumping in the palm of their hands, and they think it is very fun.
The next day, Zhang Zhishu took two shovels at home, and went to the warehouse of the breeding base to find several shovels and distributed them to the cadres and the educated youths.
Because this was the first time they had watered the seedlings, everyone was very excited.
Qin Chun smiled and said, "Carrying a shovel, we're going to water the crops!" ”
Zhang Zhishu led the way in front, and the cadres and educated youths stationed in the team walked behind Zhang Zhishu with their heads held high.
Along the way, the cadres appreciated that the crops here were cultivated in a very regular manner, and the growth was also quite vigorous, and they praised Zhang Zhishu and the villagers for managing the crops so well.
The intellectuals don't have enough eyes, pointing to what kind of seedlings are here, and pointing to where they are asking what seedlings they are, and they don't argue about crops.
Although Zhang Zhishu had already informed these educated youths yesterday, today he regarded amaranth as sesame, leeks as wheat, and mugwort leaves as cotton.
Zhang Zhishu corrected them one by one.
Although the cadres stationed in the team could not distinguish the crops and seedlings, they absolutely did not dare to ask.
When the educated youths saw the wild cauliflower and wild flowers growing in the ground, they all liked it very much, and the six of them talked non-stop while walking.
After a while, they came to the green rape field, and they were about to officially participate in the labor, how could everyone not be excited?
Zhang Zhishu said to them gently: "When you hold a shovel like this, and you see the water flowing in the small river, you open a hole in the soil along the river, and then when you see that the water of a bunch of grass seedlings cannot walk, you should pull the soil on the high place and let the water flow through."
If this field is full, it is necessary to change the word to another field.
It was also the first time for the cadres stationed in the unit to do farm work to irrigate crops, and they felt that it was not easy.
They didn't have much time with the intellectuals, and they were covered in mud and water.
The next day, Zhang Guangming asked everyone to take a hoe and go to remove the grass in the seedlings.
He demonstrated, saying, "You should have your right hand in front and your left hand behind, and you should push back with your left leg, bow forward with your right leg, and kick the ground with your legs spread apart, and keep your hands steady."
In this way, I saw that the grass was hugging back, and I tried hard not to leave roots.
The educated youth learned the posture of Zhang Zhishu.
"Look, just like I did, push backwards."
Everyone learns his pose.
You also have to remember: "Steady, accurate, ruthless." Zhang Zhishu said that a grass was hoeed up by him.
They were busy learning from Zhang Zhishu's appearance, "Ah! I accidentally hoeed the grass and rape together! Wu Baoguo screamed with a guilty expression.
"That's because you didn't grasp the right sense of proportion, and then you used too much force." Zhang Zhishu said again.
The cadres just got rid of the rape, and they didn't dare to snort.
Zhang Zhishu hurriedly said to everyone, "Learn from me again, take your time, don't panic, the more panicked you are, the more you won't learn."
As the saying goes, 'You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.'" ’”
After only about two or three minutes, Ma Xiaomei said: I also hoeed the rapeseed.
She said with emotion, "When my mother came, she told me that there is an old saying in the countryside: 'You don't need to learn the crops, see what he does, what you do.'" Who knew it wouldn't be that simple. ”
Zhang Zhishu patiently taught these cadres from various places, as well as high school students in provincial capitals, to learn how to hoe.
These people have a very high level of understanding, and they learn his tricks and styles.
It took everyone one morning to master the hoeing technique.
Although everyone was sweaty, they were all happy and had a sense of accomplishment.
The next day, the blue sky was shining, and the bright sun shone on the cadres and educated youths in the garrison, and everyone felt warm.
Today, Zhang Zhishu wants to teach you the management techniques of cotton.
He also let this group of people understand the philosophy of life from labor......