Chapter 51 Farm work is full of fun
Educated young Ma Xiaomei said to Zhang Zhishu: Why do my grapes bear so few grapes, and why are Zhang Zhishu's grapes countless?
Look at this pout, how enviable it is to hang strings on the tree!
"That's because you don't prune." Zhang Zhishu said the reason in one sentence.
During this time, he also taught the cadres and intellectuals how to prune fruit tree branches, as well as pruning grape branches, etc., and he taught everyone all the techniques that needed to be pruned.
He also told them the truth.
He said: For example, if you prune the grape branches, in the winter or early spring, only two or three of the bones of the grapes are left, and the rest should be cut off.
Otherwise, the nutritional supply will be insufficient, and if the grapes do not grow with branches and leaves, the grapes will fall to the ground even if they are fruited.
Therefore, only by reducing such excess grape branches and letting those two or three buds absorb more nutrients, will the grapes produce more and bigger! ”
Zhang Zhishu also taught the cadres and educated youths in the team how to pull weeds in the peanut field, cultivate soil for corn trees, and eliminate pests......
In short, he taught everyone all kinds of farming management techniques.
Zhang Guangming led everyone, after several months of labor in the breeding base, and now everyone has basically mastered a lot of management knowledge of agriculture.
After several months of hard work and exercise, the educated youths who came with foreign air and fair skin are now also wheat-colored, and they can no longer distinguish that they are the children of high-ranking officials from the provincial capital.
One morning in the summer, Zhang Zhishu led the educated youths to a large cotton field and broke the cotton forks together.
Professor Guo came to Zhang Zhishu and said: I have a lot of dung in this field, so it looks very good, right?
Zhang Zhishu nodded affirmatively and said, "It's really good!" ”
Professor Guo squeezed out a small smile.
Zhang Guangming said again: "You are here today with us cotton forks." ”
Zhang Zhishu taught Professor Guo to break a cotton fork.
Professor Guo was a quick learner, and he bent down on the left side of Zhang Guangming and began to break the cotton stems to grow excess branches and leaves.
Zhang Guangming is an expert in managing cotton, so he didn't have much effort, and he was far beyond Professor Guo, the educated youth, and the cadres stationed in the team transferred by his superiors.
The scorching sun in the sky scorched everyone to the core, and they were tormented like Sun Wukong being locked in an alchemy furnace.
The higher-level cadres stationed in the team were flushed with tan when they broke the cotton sticks.
Although they have some complaints in their hearts, they can't say half a word of complaint in their mouths.
There are a few educated youths here who can't bear it like this, so they began to complain one after another:
"How many of us came to this poor village, did we come to accept the baking of the sun?
The boring and complicated farm work in the countryside makes us tired all day long, with backache and sweat, which is simply torment for us city people! Wu Baoguo muttered with a displeased face.
"None of this farm work is easy work, not even a Sunday!" Li Xuehua muttered dissatisfiedly with a gloomy face.
"Isn't it, this farm work is so hard and tiring that it's really unbearable!" Sun Yong hung his shoulders with a bitter face and said, "But what? If we can't stand it, we have to grit our teeth and persevere! ”
"Coming to the countryside is a sin! Look at us now, just like the croppers, we have all become black old hats!
Zhang Zhishu asked us to do this hard farm work every day, which is true.
What about this food?
Every day, it is a canned pot of green vegetable porridge with a big belly, sorghum corn nest head and green vegetables and radish strips.
There is not even a speck of eggs, there is no meat, is this a human meal?
I think we eat it like pig food!
What about this one?
Wear dusty and dirty clothes every day, if you want to take a shower, right?
Hey, just wash it with dry water, then it will be cloudy, so you have to measure the potholes and uneven dirt roads for one or two miles with two feet, and go to the county seat to wash.
And it's a big pool for collective use, and there is not even a shower, which is really disgusting!
This is lived, right?
There are electric lights in the house, but the calls are infrequent, and at night, it is a black hole.
Not to mention, I have to "share the same bed" with rats, cockroaches, fleas, and lice every day, and I am bitten by mosquitoes, lice, and mosquitoes every day.
When I think about it, I don't want to spend a day here! Hum! Ma Xiaomei muttered in sharp language.
Zhang Guangming hurriedly apologized and said, "I'm sorry it's all my negligence, I'll eliminate these pests in your house tomorrow." ”
Everyone is so tired these days, and when the rape harvest is over, I will call on the whole village to destroy these bad things.
Every day, I study and experiment with biogas power generation.
I'm exploring ways to make the villagers feel able to press out the well water by hand at home, and I'm almost successful, so you intellectuals will wait patiently.
I think it won't be long before we can get electricity and water. ”
Ma Xiaomei turned her mouth to the branch secretary Zhang and the farmers not far away, and whispered dissatisfiedly: "Look at the group of peasants who are not chirping, and then look at the dusty Zhang branch secretary, they have long suffered the life of sin!"
They are destined to face the black soil with their backs to the sky and spend their lives with this soil!
Huh? I wondered that they were sparse every day, and they lived in a leaky earthen house.
If you look at those young men and women the same size as us, why don't they have great ambitions?
Do you want to dedicate your blood and blood willingly to the black land of the countryside?
And so willingly, doing monotonous and tiring farm work every day.
You see, they are still doing a lot of work quietly, and those lowly peasants really have no interest at all! Ma Xiaomei looked cynical, and said indignantly endlessly.
Qin Chun was a little unaccustomed to their backward thinking, and he complained vigorously, saying some negative and slack words.
Isn't that what shakes people's hearts?
With a dissatisfied tone, Qin Chun interrupted Ma Xiaomei's words and asked, "Although our life is hard, it has trained us to be strong, isn't it?"
Are you flowers in a greenhouse?
Can't stand the rigors of the harsh environment?
Why are the peasant friends lowly?
There are many celebrities, all of whom are farmers!
Are you saying he didn't have a dream to pursue?
You're wrong, and you are very wrong.
Zhang Zhishu and the villagers just want to change the face of poverty, so they work so hard! ”
The cadres stationed in the team are generally not in agreement, because they know that this group of educated youths are all children of high-ranking cadres.
But at this time, they couldn't help it, so they hurriedly persuaded Ma Xiaomei:
"Yes, Qin Chun is right, farmers are not without ambition, I think it is precisely because they want to change the face of embarrassment that they will work so hard and tirelessly!" Li Dali expressed his opinion.
"I think the peasant friends put their ideals in the depths of their hearts, unlike us who are passionate intellectuals, who talk about great ideals all day long, but when they encounter difficulties, they will complain." Wang Xiaoshuang said.
"I think the farmers are more resilient in their bones! And they ......" Sun Dazheng said, he saw that Ma Xiaomei was already impatient, and stopped talking before he finished speaking.
These days, Qiu Weimin has also followed the higher-level cadres to do farm work in Muyehua Village, and at this time he was about to speak, but when he saw Ma Xiaomei's annoyed look, he didn't even dare to say half a word.
Ma Xiaomei covered her ears with her hands and left in a daze.
She walked to the other end of the cotton field.
When she walked up to Professor Guo, she saw him breaking a cotton fork, and said: You said that you are a big professor, don't you feel wronged by such hard and tiring farm work?
Professor Guo did not answer.
He knew that her father was a high-ranking cadre in the province, so it was inconvenient for him to express his inner bitterness and injustice to her.
……
Zhang Zhishu is more skilled, so he left the educated youths far away, and he was bending down to break the branches in front of him, and heard the footsteps coming over.
Zhang Guangming couldn't help but look up, he didn't know what was going on and hurriedly asked, "Eh?" Ma Xiaomei: What's going on with you? ”
She glanced at the branch secretary and didn't know how to answer for a moment.
She thought for a moment and said, "Oh, I, I'm going to go up there and break the cotton fork upside down!" ”
Ma Xiaomei pointed to a row of big trees over there and said, "Ah, it's too hot, there is a big tree there to cool down, can I go there to break the branches?" ”
Zhang Zhishu hurriedly said: Yes, you can go.
Professor Guo sped up and caught up with Zhang Guangming, so he whispered to Zhang Guangming: "It seems that this girl can't be kept!"
I think Qin Chun and Li Zhongqiu can focus on training, they are advanced in thinking and more active in their work, let's observe and observe them to see if they have the excellent quality of hard-working and hard-working.
After a while, if you look at them again, do you have the willingness to stay in the harsh environment of the countryside and learn from you to breed new varieties? ”
Zhang Guangming said with a smile, we just have such a tacit understanding, and I have this intention.
They endured the heat and finally made it to the next day.
Zhang Zhishu covered his dark and red face with his right hand, raised his head to look at the sun, walked up to the educated youths and said, "It's time to go back to the village, let's go!" ”
Professor Guo asked Zhang Zhishu to go first, and he said that he would leave later, in order to avoid suspicion.
When Zhang Zhishu came over, Ma Xiaomei looked at Zhang Guangming and said, "Zhang Zhishu, you let us break the cotton fork and see that our waists are so tired that we can't straighten up!" ”
Zhang Zhishu frowned and said, "Then you will follow me to weed peanuts in the afternoon?"
She nodded her head in agreement with a happy face.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was still like a big heater, and it was difficult for these people to bear it.
Zhang Zhishu led them to the peanut field of the breeding base, and when they were about to go to the field, Ma Xiaomei said: Let's sit in the shade and rest, it's too hot.
Other educated youths also followed her: That's it, it's just that it's too hot.
Zhang Guangming said to the educated youth: Then you can rest for a while, I will go to the grass first.
The cadres stationed there also went over there and began to weed.
Li Zhongqiu and Qin Chunchun also walked to Zhang Zhishu's side and bent down to draft.
They saw willow catkins, poplars, and elm money fluttering in front of them.
People who love poetry can't help but have the idea of improvising poetry.
Li Zhongqiu recited a poem with great interest:
"Birds Regret the Death of Spring"
magpie ascends to stand tall Yang Yu,
The chirp is called the Xia language.
What a pity that spring has passed,
Drag spring crying tears in the sky.
Qin Chun smiled and said: Li Zhongqiu, why are you talking so tragic? Where do you want me to look?
Summer Solstice Bird News
Spring goes to welcome summer Yang Yuxi,
Magpie Standing Urging:
Xia He is fast and don't hesitate,
Fruitful rewards and soothing.
Zhang Guangming saw flocks of pigeons flying again, and they all landed on the big willow tree next to the big poplar tree where the magpie was standing, and they jumped around.
Listening to their cooing, you can hear their joyful mood.
But the magpies felt that they had taken possession of the woods first, and with great preconceived pretenses, they flew from the tree to the willow tree in a daze, and preemptively struck the peace-loving doves.
The pigeon seemed to be telling its grievances as it flew.
It was really a wave of unevenness, and a pair of lovesick birds flew here just now, fluttering and falling on the big elm tree next to the big willow tree and singing gracefully.
At this moment, a big magpie flew in a hurry, and drove away the male lovesick bird, the female lovesick bird screamed fiercely, and she spread her wings to fight to the death with this bullying big magpie.