Chapter 52: Complaints
Where would that little lovesick bird be the opponent of this big magpie?
It hid around and refused to leave "his beloved wife".
A flock of large magpies fluttered and flew to besiege the lovesick pair.
After a while, the male lovesick bird was pecked by a group of magpies and was covered in scales.
This mother-lovesick bird, looking at her husband from afar, wailed and cried.
The flock of pigeons flew to another tree and witnessed the scene with their own eyes, and they all looked at the wounded lovesick bird with sympathetic eyes, and cooed in a low voice.
Even the poplars, willows, and elm money were sprinkled one after another, as if they had turned into some tears of compassion.
Zhang Zhishu and the two intellectuals looked at everything that happened in front of them, and their hearts were extremely heavy.
Zhang Zhishu chanted a poem with profound artistic conception:
"The Pigeon Knows Mercy"
The doves kick the branches and sing mournfully,
Bullying the weak and lacking love.
Remembering the previous tense and rhyme,
Yang Liu wept and wept all over the sky.
Zhang Guangming seemed to see Professor Guo being besieged, and he thought sadly: Could it be Professor Guo's grievances that moved the heavens and the earth to cry ghosts and gods?
The birds "weep" and the trees "weep".
Li Zhongqiu asked Zhang Zhishu to evaluate which of the three wrote better poems, Zhang Zhishu said: People have different understandings of the same thing, so the poetry expressed is also different.
There is no distinction between good and bad between the three of us.
Under the shade of the trees on the ground, a few educated youths only think about the future when they are cool, and they are not aware of what is happening here.
Zhang Zhishu and a few people had already taken a tuft of ground, and turned around again, he asked a few educated youths if they had rested enough?
Then they slowly walked to the ground and bent down, casually pulling from place to place, without picking up the roots of the weeds.
Zhang Zhishu told them to work hard, and they must uproot the grass to prevent future troubles.
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By the end of the evening, Ma Xiaomei and Li Xuehua complained that they were so tired that they couldn't lift their arms and couldn't straighten their waists.
Zhang Zhishu was embarrassed for a moment, and then said: Then tomorrow I will let you go with me to water the wheat!
The next day, Zhang Guangming really led the cadres and educated youths to go to the well to draw water and carry water to water the wheat field for a day.
But Wu Baoguo muttered again: "Zhang Zhishu, we really can't stand it, our shoulders are swollen, and we are so tired that we can't drag our legs a little!" ”
The cadres stationed in the team felt the same way, but they didn't dare to say it.
Zhang Zhishu scratched his head and thought for a while, and said, "Then you will go and watch the birds for the rice tomorrow!" This is the lightest farm work, right? ”
The educated youths happily agreed: "Yes, yes, yes! ”
The educated youths only gave the rice fields of the breeding base and watched the birds for three days.
Ma Xiaomei said: "Zhang Zhishu, you let us shout all day long, "Oh go, oh go." We've got our voices hoarse! ”
"Huh? Tell me, if there is no hard labor, where will the harvest come from? ”
She was speechless when asked by Zhang Zhishu.
She didn't say anything more, but she secretly glared at Zhang Zhishu's back with her eyes to vent her anger......
The educated youths were also harvesting rape in the experimental field, and they heard the sound of singing and singing not far away.
Li Zhongqiu smiled and said: "Look, this year's wheat, rape, and spring corn have been harvested, not only food is eaten, but also oil is eaten, can the villagers not be happy?" ”
Qin Chun was also busy saying: "Yes, yes, the workers are looking forward to high yields, and the farmers are looking forward to a bumper harvest!" ”
Ma Xiaomei said very dissatisfied: "This scorching sun is shining in the sky, and the body is going to be scorched."
Those peasants are not afraid of the sun, and they are happy to sing and sing. ”
Li Zhongqiu said: "How can you talk like this? ”
She cut a handful of them impatiently and threw them on the ground, glaring and saying, "Am I not right?" ”
Li Zhongqiu couldn't get used to her wantonly trampling of crops, and seriously criticized Ma Xiaomei: "For farmers, what is more joyful than a bumper harvest?
What's wrong with peasant friends being happy?
Ma Xiaomei, look at you, you're going to drop all the rapeseed seeds, those seeds are so small, it's almost impossible to pick them up, don't you spoil the crops like this! ”
Ma Xiaomei pouted with her big eyes and squinted at Li Zhongqiu, she didn't think it was enough to relieve her hatred, so she glanced at her with her eyes with a bitter face and dissatisfaction.
She also said angrily, "As far as you Li Zhongqiu is concerned, you are like those hillbillies, and you have also grown a poor life?"
All day long, I know that I am tired of suffering with my back to the black soil and the sky, and I am stupid all day long! Hum! Look at the poor and sour appearance of their poor clothes and tattered clothes, what are they happy about? ”
At this time, dark clouds covered the sky, and it looked like it was about to rain.
Zhang Zhishu, who was loading rape into the carriage not far away, was very anxious, and he ordered the educated youths in a loud voice: "Everyone, don't cut it anymore, you must quickly carry the harvested rape to the carriage." It's going to rain. ”
Except for Ma Xiaomei, the others hurriedly hugged the rape tree and loaded it into the carriage.
Ma Xiaomei pouted and looked unhappy, she reluctantly picked up the fallen garbled rapeseed one by one, and slowly walked to the car to load.
She pretended to complain and said angrily:
"I still think how good the countryside is, what scenery is good, and the air is good! ! We aspiring young people to come to the countryside are really wrong.
It was a bad decision for us to come to such a poor and remote place! Ma Xiaomei said with a remorseful tone.
Wu Baoguo has long taken a fancy to the powerful position of Ma Xiaomei's family, and he is chasing Ma Xiaomei.
But Ma Xiaomei thinks that his family is the lowest working-class citizen, and she thinks that he is full of sissy when he opens his mouth.
She rejected Wu Baoguo again and again.
But Wu Baoguo is a person who will never give up if he does not achieve his goal, he always bows his head in front of this eldest lady, and he is the first to look forward.
Ma Xiaomei pointed to the east, and he would never dare to go west.
Sometimes it's against your will.
Just like at this time, Wu Baoguo said: "Yes, yes, haven't you seen it, before coming here, Ma Xiaomei's ice muscles and jade bones, red lips and bright teeth, how beautiful and moving!"
But now?
Look, she's almost African, isn't she?
Working under this scorching sun is drying us to dried meat, and if we continue to do this, even I will collapse! ”
Qin Chun couldn't listen to it anymore and said, "If it's not hot on this day, the grains won't bear a mile!" ”
Li Xuehua said: "Ma Xiaomei, when you were in high school, how bad your health was, you would catch a cold and get sick every three or five days, and then look at how long you haven't been sick now?" ”
Zhang Guangming listened to Ma Xiaomei and Wu Baoguo's complaints, and was about to step forward to persuade him, but saw Li Zhongqiu speak first with urgency: "Think about what you two said when you came, right?"
What kind of bold words did you make, 'In order to respond to the party's call, go to the countryside and devote yourself with enthusiasm to serving the people, the countryside is a vast world, and we must make great achievements there!'
If we aspire young people to go there, we will definitely make a difference! 'Have you both forgotten that you both swore to speak loudly at the pledge meeting?' ”
As soon as her words fell, she was ridiculed by Ma Xiaomei: "What kind of high-pitched are you singing here?"
What are you doing here?
Then you'll be here for the rest of your life! ”
Li Zhongqiu was so angry that tears rolled in her eyes, and she choked up and couldn't speak.
"You ......"
"What are you, are you as unambitious as those lowly old hats, and will only be a "arch worm" here? ”
Qin Chun heard Ma Xiaomei say such contemptuous words for the peasants, and came to attack Li Zhongqiu.
He couldn't bear it any longer, and he angrily asked, "If there is no farmer who cultivates in the bitterly cold and hot weather; If it weren't for the hard work of the farmers in the bad weather, 'hoeing the day of the harvest, the sweat drops of the soil', where would the people in our city get the food on the plate? ”
His harsh words made Ma Xiaomei want to refute, but she couldn't find the right words to reply to her, so she had to keep silent.
She had a bitter face and lowered her head consciously.
In order to ease the atmosphere, Li Zhongqiu hurriedly said a lot of good things to persuade him: "All those who have lofty aspirations will never flinch when they encounter difficulties; All noble and brilliant gold ornaments can only be quenched into gold after the test of fire! ”
Zhang Guangming made an urgent statement, and he had been forcibly enduring the resentment of the intellectuals.
But in order to keep these educated youths, he quoted Tang Taizong's proverbs while loading rape into the carriage: "Tang Taizong wrote such a warning saying: 'Three meals a day, when thinking about the suffering of the farmer, wearing a wisp, when remembering the work of the weaver girl, a thousand lives, a spoon of rice and a hundred whip......s'
Tang Taizong is right, without the persistence of the peasants for many years, without the hard work of the peasant friends, where would the people in the city get food and clothing?
We are all people of the world, and there is no distinction between high and low.
Ma Xiaomei: You have to learn to respect the hard-working and kind working people!
It is all the more necessary to cherish the fruits of the working people.
Aren't you the most obedient to the words of the great men of the party?
Have you forgotten what the great man and his old man said: 'It is necessary for young intellectuals to go to the countryside and receive re-education from the poor and middle peasants.' ’”
She wanted to refute, but as soon as she heard Zhang Zhishu say this, she immediately shut up.
At this time, Ma Xiaomei's face was dark, she pouted with a bitter face, and felt that her words were exhausted, she lowered her arrogant and arrogant head, and was speechless.
The cadres stationed in the team all know Miss Ma, her father is a big leader in the province, and they don't even dare to say anything about her.
But their task is to "reconcile the contradictions between the intellectuals and the cadres and the masses." ”
The cadres stationed in the team persuaded both sides to stop arguing, "We must be considerate of each other and respect each other." ”
Li Dali saw Ma Xiaomei and Wu Baoguo muttering something and didn't know what to say, and it seemed that the two of them had bad intentions.
He said in an educational tone: I see that you have forgotten the instructions of the great man: "We must practice Marxism, not revisionism; Be united, not divided; Be above board, and don't engage in conspiracy."
As soon as the intellectuals heard him say this, they immediately shut up.
Zhang Guangming loaded the harvested rapeseed into the wagon one by one with the cadres stationed in the team and the educated youth, and then he pulled it to the field of the breeding base and covered it with plastic sheeting.
Due to the tight time, Zhang Zhishu ordered everyone to load and unload quickly.
Ma Xiaomei cried without saying a word, and worked loosely.
In order to lighten the mood, Zhang Guangming told them another joke, and then he talked about the advantages of experiencing hardship in the countryside......
Everyone worked until late in the evening to load all the bundles of rape onto the wagon.
As soon as they returned to the brigade's residence, the educated youths took turns to take a bath and change into clean clothes with the water dried in plastic bags on the roof.
At dinner, Ma Xiaomei's face was pale, and she only ate a few bites of the corn and spinach porridge made by the aunt of Wubaohu, and then poured it into the stone trough where the pigs were fed.
She exclaimed, "Is this a meal for people?" It's clearly pig food! ”
When Li Hongyun and his wife heard this, they walked out of the house with a bowl with a surprised expression.
Li Hongyun hurriedly said: "I know that you are a daughter of a high-ranking cadre, and you are not used to eating the coarse tea and light rice of the countrymen, but now that there is a shortage of food, you have been wronged." ”
Ma Xiaomei snorted angrily and glared at the couple.
Li Hongyun's wife said: "Girl, I think so, you tell me, what kind of food do you want to eat, and I will make it for you again." ”
Ma Xiaomei said angrily, she was full of gas, and she didn't want to eat anything! Besides, the meal you made to feed the pigs?