He personally went to the garage to ask the driver for a 17-19 plum blossom board, solved the problem of fixing the screws in the blade of the straw machine, and pushed the electric switch but there was no electricity. It was drizzling in the sky, Lao Zhao ordered 8 workers to set up a ladder with ropes, Dapeng wore high-waisted boots to work at high altitude, risked his life and finally connected the electricity, the problem of the haymaker was solved, and the forage for eighteen cows was prepared.

Dapeng became the boss of the car, and the son of Lao Chi followed the car, not only with big feet as a cow, but also the other three slightly sub-cows of the lapse were also specially selected. It is not easy to be a good car owner, when setting the car, we should pay attention to whether the package under the cow splint is appropriate, the inner set of cattle must listen to the command, the middle of the full set of cattle must jump on the set of the car, and the jacket cow can not be lazy and slippery. All the tools and ropes are carried by the followers, who are only responsible for loading and auxiliary work. Four sets of ox carts drove the road in front of him, whipped and shouted commands, and headed for the designated wheat meadow.

Ox cart loading wheat straw is a technical job, Combein grass box to throw down the wheat straw stack, the wheat straw dried by the sun is very slippery, if you want to load a big car to look good, you must first launch four corners, from the outside to the inside layer of the heart, as long as the bottom is laid according to the regulations to load the car and step on the foundation, other cars can be loaded with four stacks of wheat straw, Dapeng is loaded with four and a half stacks or even five stacks. After the wheat straw truck is capped, it not only brakes with a stirring rope, but also pulls the side rope like a bundle of luggage, and finally cleans the floating wheat straw with a fork. More than 3 meters high and more than 4 meters wide wheat straw cart, ox cart like pulling a grass house walking on the road, encounter a car wheat straw truck must pull over, otherwise it is difficult to pass.

Pull the wheat straw to the designated places of each family, open the rope and unload the tripe belt along the edge, let the car pull the rope, and then drive the ox cart forward, a large cart of wheat straw stacks fell squarely to the ground, you can see the satisfied smiling faces of the family, and the task is completed.

The Corps has vast land, and in August, when the wheat harvest season is in place, each cart can complete two carts of wheat straw a day, and four carts can pull eight carts a day. The road is farther, four cars a day to complete a trip, as long as you come back early, after eating, everyone will go to the machine camp stock cowshed collective grass together. If you go to the farther company to pull wheat straw, then each ox cart has only one task. As long as the business is proficient and helps each other, the work is also accustomed to completing the task.

One day, the big convoy of four empty cars was walking on the road, and a few female intellectuals behind them carried forks and shouted: "Old ox cart! Stop!" "Old ox cart! Stand down!" Dapeng seemed to be hurt by his pride, and he fought back and shouted: "Fork! I can't hear it!" The female intellectuals stopped shouting. In fact, if the ox cart stops, they just want to take a ride, first, they have no common language, second, something is not easy to explain, more is better than less, that is, if they scold in the back, then they don't hear it.

In the cold winter, when the earth is frozen, whether it is windy or snowy, or more than minus 30 degrees, the workers have to go to the mountains to pull the oak trees, as well as white birch trees, black birch trees, and the larger trees have to be cut down in two or three sections. When loading the car, pay attention to the rolling bar on the car plate, the tree in winter is also slippery, put on a few layers to play oblique insertion or then put the horizontal bar, especially pay attention to the balance of the weight of the wheel, otherwise the ox is unbearable, if the tree is long to avoid the ox body to probe forward, in the middle to put a short tree can not touch the butt of the cow, more than the height of the cow all the tree head neatly probed forward, the body of the cow butt surrounded, the car with a stirring bar brake two horizontal thick ropes, the task can only be considered half completed.

Because in the morning, before dawn to eat the car, at noon is on the mountain to light a fire to roast the steamed bread that has been frozen, half of the roasted steamed bread is eaten with pickles, frozen solid steamed bread has to continue to roast, so hungry that people sometimes have to swallow with ice stubble. When you are thirsty, you can only endure it. Only the old cow's belly is big, the old Li head in Henan at two o'clock in the middle of the night gets up to feed the forage, before the departure to drink the cow water has filled the belly, load the car on the mountain and then feed them the forage, the livestock is not fed well it is not to work.

Going down the mountain is very dangerous every step, it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down the mountain, that is, the slope is small and the weight of the thousand catties is pressed on the back of the ox, if once the hoof falls down, the inertia of thousands of catties of the trunk will undoubtedly hurt the ox. Therefore, the three cows in front must also cooperate well, and the cow can't stand it, and if the rope is stepped on by the cow, it will trip, and the four cows have to go down moderately.

If the road with a steep slope is only under the slope, in order to fear rolling over the side of the car, or dragging it with a rope, as long as the four cars go down the mountain safely and walk on the road, the hanging heart can be considered calm. When I unloaded the truck at home and saw the satisfied smiling faces of my family, I felt particularly relieved in my heart. After unloading the car, Lao Li Tou was responsible for the raising of cattle, Lao Chi Tou and Cai Baozhi went home, and the single workers easily went to the canteen to buy steamed buns and vegetables, and went back to the dormitory to eat and drink, which was a day's work and pursuit.

Speaking of coming, it's very easy, and in the bitter winter, not only is it cold more than 30 degrees below zero, even if the sky is smoky and snowy, you are very cold when you sit in the empty car, not only to take care of the four oxen to go forward, but also to change the direction of your body. Sometimes I light a cigarette and smoke it, which can be regarded as a sustenance for spiritual warmth.

People and cattle have a deep relationship, although Lao Li Tou gets up at two o'clock in the middle of the night every day to feed and drink, and the bosses are not at ease, and even let the cow drink water again, until the tube is full and no longer drink, that is to say, it doesn't matter if the cow is a little hungry, and if it is thirsty, it will be sick, and it may even fall ill and die in the long run.

Dapeng has established a relationship with his four oxen, especially the big foot of the ox, which has the largest foot in the entire herd, walks steadily, and calmly controls the absolute safety of driving. There are two semicircular horns on the head of the big-footed ox, and the big eyes set off the big face, showing such a majestic and magnificent, from head to tail, the black fur of the whole body is dark and shiny, and the belly is also extraordinarily large. However, although this cow made great achievements, it finally died at the hands of Dapeng.

Every nightfall, Dapeng's thoughts are always nostalgic, nostalgic for Yaqin after parting, she doesn't know how her life is now? Has she forgotten all the memories of crying and complaining to her in the past? Is her mother really against this family business? Is she even threatening to divorce Cai Baozhi? Could it be that Sheng Yaqin has been persuaded that she will never dare to meet Dapeng again? Dapeng is completely drowning in confusion.

See Chapter 29: Annual Family Leave.