Chapter 42: The Great Professor's Dry Pickling Work

Zhang Guangming asked his wife: Do you process the scraps of those work clothes and make a bed circumference for our brother Guo?

"Good! I'll start working on it tonight, and when I'm done, wouldn't it be better to embroider a picture of flowers, birds, insects, and fish? ”

Li Yue'e generously agreed while picking up wild vegetables in the yard.

Li Yue'e picked up some wild vegetables such as rice artemisia, dandelion, purslane, and white grass root.

She said again: I picked up the old paper on the floor in the house and took it to the yard to use it to burn the pot.

The plasterers plastered a layer of white putty on the walls of each of the houses they had built.

In every room, it was as if a swarthy face had been smeared with a layer of white pearls, and it immediately looked fair and beautiful.

The room immediately looked clean, bright and classy.

Guo Changgen, he asked his wife Song Yufang to pull the flatbed truck, and he and Guo Aimin removed the bricks and ash on the ground cleanly.

The elderly all helped Professor Guo with all hands and feet, cleaning the cobwebs and dust on the upper floor of the main house.

The old people cleaned Professor Guo's house until mid-afternoon, and it was finished.

The cadres of the brigade cut down the professor's barren trees to nothing, and then sawed the trunks and branches into sections with a saw, pinched them to the corners of the wall, and dried them to burn the pot for cooking.

The members of the team also cleaned up the weeds and were reluctant to throw them away, so they picked them up and put them next to the branches to feed the poultry and dairy sheep.

Li Yue'e first poured a bucket of hand washing water into the washbasin and prepared it for everyone, and then arranged the table and stools with the old man and the old lady, and then began to serve food on the table and take dishes and chopsticks.

She put a jar of sorghum wine brewed by Guo Changgen on the table where each man was sitting.

Then she placed a jar of wine on the table where the women were sitting.

She also brought a jar of sorghum wine from her house for her own use, and she knew that the jar on the table would not be enough for them to drink.

After everyone finished, they quickly washed off the dirt on their hands and faces, and then they couldn't wait to sit on the board in front of the dining table, looking at the delicious meat and vegetables on the table, which was really eye-catching!

Professor Guo poured a bowl of white wine into the small porcelain bowl in front of each man.

He poured a glass of wine into the glasses in front of each of the women.

With a grateful look on his face, he picked up his glass and said sincerely: "Everyone has come to help me Lao Guo today, I am really grateful to the villagers!"

Here, cheers, everyone! "Everyone drank it all.

The men were so hungry that they picked up chopsticks and quickly ate various dishes and duck meat.

Even on New Year's Day, they can't eat so many kinds of dishes!

The women were also hungry, so they picked up their chopsticks and ate quickly.

Zhang Donggua looked at the village women's director, and said jokingly: "Eh, Sister Meihua, you have become a big fat cat, beware that my brother Guo Tiedan doesn't want you anymore." ”

Guo Tiedan was a shy person, his face turned red when he brushed the ground, and he said: "Don't be nonsense, just eat, where is so much nonsense!" ”

Zhang Donggua stuck out his tongue mischievously.

"Hehe, I'm making egg and wild vegetable fried noodles for everyone! Everyone has worked hard today, so eat more! ”

When everyone heard Li Yue'e say this, they were all very excited, why were they unhappy?

What a rare food this noodle is now!

Sweating profusely, Li Yue'e flattened the rolled and well-proportioned noodles on the lid of a pot made of sorghum stalks.

Afraid that the noodles would stick together, she used her hands to unwrap the pinches of noodles.

"Let's take a look, in order to make everyone taste, I not only pounded some garlic, but also fried some sesame peanut chili sauce.

Let's eat it later! ”

Professor Guo poured another glass of wine for everyone, picked up the wine glass and said affectionately: "Yes, yes, Brother and Sister Yue'e are right, wait for a while to eat and drink, and eat noodles hard!"

Professor Guo is so grateful to all of you! Then I will use a poem to express my heart at this moment:

"Xie Chen"

Jun is in trouble today, and all relatives help the poor.

Give you a glass of wine, a little expression of my heart.

Zhang Guangming smiled and said, "Brother Guo said it well! We all raised our glasses and toasted the wine! ”

Everyone picked up the wine glass and drank it out.

Professor Guo also said to everyone, "I am grateful for your help today.

Come, everyone, grab your glasses, let's do it again! ”

Everyone held their glasses together and said, "! ”

Everyone stopped drinking, Zhang Guangming and the professor, as well as Li Yue'e, scooped up the noodles cooked in the pot for everyone.

Zhang Guangming said: "Yes, yes, Wen Yaniang is right, if you like garlic, use a small spoon to mash garlic juice, and if you like spicy food, you can eat some chili peppers."

Eat these spicy sauces to eat. ”

Professor Guo hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, I've been working for most of the day, and I must eat to my heart's content!" ”

Everyone was full of wine and food, and with the happy mood of helping others, they each had to say goodbye to Professor Guo.

Before leaving, Professor Guo sent the cadres and the masses to the gate of the street, clasped his fists with both hands, and said several times with a grateful expression: "Thank you!" Thank you, ......."

Professor Guo turned home, and looked at the courtyard to be clean, wide and wide.

Walking into the house, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Oh, every room is brand new!"

With infinite gratitude to the people of his hometown, he thought: In the future, how can I repay the love of my hometown fathers and elders for me?

Professor Guo officially started sweeping the streets today.

He wore big black-rimmed glasses and a white mask under his eyes, and stood in the middle of the road with a big broom starting from the east end and sweeping the right half of the road with a clattering sweep until it reached the west end.

Then sweep from west to east, and sweep the left half of the road.

Zhang Guangming walked over quickly with two buckets of water, and when he saw it, Professor Guo was in the dust, and the visibility was only about ten meters.

It was as if he himself was in the middle of a haze.

Zhang Guangming said: "Brother Guo, sprinkle water first, and then sweep the floor, so you won't fly so much dust." ”

As he spoke, he took a large scoop of water, scooped it into the bucket, and threw it on the unswept land.

In a short time, a section of the road was spilled wet.

Zhang Guangming said, "Professor Guo asked me to clear the way for you." ”

Professor Guo withdrew the broom to the side, and he refused, saying, "I can't let you sweep for me, it will affect you."

At this time, when the villagers passed by them, they all felt aggrieved by Professor Guo.

There is a lot of talking:

"Smack, look at the dirty work of letting a returned doctor do the cleaner's dirty job."

"A university scholar, he studied literature all his stomach, but he was sent to our poor village to sweep the floor! Hey, what a pity! ”

Professor Guo swept the road for two days before he swept the streets and alleys of Muyehua Village.

On the third day, Professor Guo went to work in the livestock shed of the production team.

Yin was feeding the livestock forage, and Professor Guo hurriedly said, "Hello Master Yin! ”

Lao Yin hurried to greet him.

Professor Guo said again with a heavy heart, "Cleaning the streets, feeding the livestock, getting out of the pen, pulling manure."

This is a new job assigned to me by my leader. When he said this, the expression on his face was rather gloomy.

Professor Guo asked Yin Daogen breeder for advice on the specific methods of doing these jobs.

Yin grabbed the root and talked carefully about it to the boy: the secret of feeding the livestock:

First of all, you have to learn how to do it.

You first use a large guillotine, cut the corn stalk with a guillotine, add some chopped weeds, add some mulberry leaves, purslane, mix these things well, and then feed the livestock.

Professor Guo remembered it attentively.

Yin grabbed the root and then said: "What about this out of the circle of dung?

You have to take the manure that the animals pull and throw it into the dung pit outside the hole window, which is called pen dung.

You also have to mix the manure in the manure pit with some crushed grass, and then cover it with a layer of mud to let it ferment.

After fermentation, it can be used as top dressing, or as a base fertilizer for summer and autumn seeds. ”

This morning, Professor Guo first humbly followed Yin to learn how to make grass, mix materials, and feed livestock.

Yin grasped the root and taught Professor Guo hand in hand: "Feeding animals is a delicate job.

Because each horse, each cow, and each mule eats a different amount of feed, the number of catties fed cannot be different. ”

Animals, like people, have a large amount of food, while others have a small amount of food.

Yin Graogen pointed to the horses one by one and said, "For example, this brown and red horse eats six catties of feed every day and feeds it four times, and the black horse eats five catties of feed every day......

In the afternoon, Professor Guo took a shovel, a shovel, and a shovel to throw the smelly animal manure out of the hole window.

Even the feces and urine touched the window, and it would splash everywhere, and in a short time, Professor Guo's whole body would be covered with spoop.

It was so splashed that Professor Guo's face was full of feces and urine.

Yin Zhaogen really can't bear to gamble.

He said: "Going out of the circle is a dirty and tiring job, and this kind of work should not be done by your college teachers."

Professor Guo was silent, and he couldn't complain with bitterness.

He thought to himself: Could it be that I am wronged by Mo Xue, and my belly of learning is not in vain? Oops, helpless, helpless.

"Brother Guo, I'll come!" Yin came to the professor, picked up a shovel, and quickly stirred the animal manure and weeds, and then covered it with a layer of soil.

He also said: "Professor Guo, you will not do this kind of rough and pickled work in the future. ”

Professor Guo said with a smile: "Let me slowly adapt to the work here, this is a new job arranged for me by the above!" He bowed his head and looked solemn.

Yin Zhuogen looked at the big professor very sadly, which made his heart ache.

From this day on, every night, Zhang Guangming came to be Professor Guo's companion, and also brought Professor Guo several pots of peonies and orchids......

He used it to add some color to the dilapidated environment of Professor Guo's house.

He also brought Professor Guo gourd paintings, leaf carving paintings, and bamboo carving paintings. I made a beautifully carved frame for each painting.

Zhang Guangming hung each of these beautifully carved paintings on the wall of his living room with nails.

In the center of Professor Guo's living room, he also hung a portrait of Chairman Mao.

Zhang Guangming also wrote a couplet.

The Left League is: follow the party wholeheartedly.

The right link is: the mind will never change.

The cross-link is: never forget.

He also said to Professor Guo: I want to teach you carving and painting, I wonder if Professor Guo is interested?