The man had no choice but to say, "You have to hurry, I'm very anxious, I've been waiting for a long time, and the team will deduct my work." ”

Throughout the afternoon, Mr. Chen Limin was in the field to inspect the situation in the field. According to Captain Yao Shuigen's suggestion, the paddy field should be filled with water first, although this has a particularly high moisture content of the harvested millet and has a great impact on the turning of the sun, but in general, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Because, in this way, as soon as the paddy fields are harvested during this period, the late rice will be planted immediately. Once the paddy field is stocked with water, it can save time for ploughing. More importantly, the water in every field is very precious, and the demand for water consumption in the field is very large for each production team. Once all the water in the field has been released first, and when the water is re-irrigated, it will take time, and second, it will take time to ensure that the waterway is unimpeded. Once the waterway is blocked and intercepted by the production team passing by, it will take as little as one or two days to three or four days, and this delay may delay the sowing time and have serious consequences. Third, it is necessary to pay human resources, and to find water, we need to dredge the waterway, and the production team that is not good at communication will find various reasons not to let the water flow through, although there are not many troubles, but once it happens, it is very easy to cause contradictions and conflicts.

Early in the morning, there was an uproar in the school with fourteen or fifteen junior high school students, and all of them were senior classmates. The Bao family's Bao Zhoutong and Bao Zhouhe brothers all came over. This made Mr. Chen and Principal Yang Zeping feel better. With the addition of so many rural dolls, the rice in these two acres of paddy fields is guaranteed to be harvested today. Early this morning, there were no clouds in the sky and the sky was blue, which was a very good weather.

Before leaving, Mr. Chen gave each student who went to the school field to cut rice a bottle of iced soda to prevent heatstroke and cool down. The school cafeteria was not yet equipped with refrigerators and freezers, so Mr. Chen immersed the whole box of these soda in the open spring well a day in advance, which was warm in winter and cool in summer, cooler than ice in the refrigerator.

In the morning, the rice stalks are mainly cut, and the closer the rice stalks are harvested, the better. After cutting down the stalks of half of the rice in the field, in order to prevent the drying field from being idle in the morning, Mr. Chen suggested that the adults (mainly male teachers) put down their sickles and start to do the work of threshing, so that by the end of the day, they could transport one cart or two carts of rice back, and the drying field could play a role in the early release of the water valley and early safety.

There were five male teachers and Principal Yang Zeping, which was enough to keep the threshing machines running in turns. Principal Yang Zeping suggested that Mr. Chen Limin be responsible for the work of getting the millet out of the Shenggu Rongdou, and he would be responsible for picking the grain from the paddy field and landing it, and arrange for a few students to come over and pass the rice pinch (the process of handing the rice stalks together with the grains on the rice stalks to the person on the threshing machine).

The biggest workload and the most tiring must be these teachers standing on the threshing machine. Because this is a semi-mechanical threshing machine, two people can stand side by side at the same time on the threshing machine. The power source of the rotation of the large disc of the machine mainly comes from the traction driven by the pedal of one foot of the operator, so the person working on it has to step on the transverse plate all the time to drive the rotating power of the gear connecting the large disc.

Throughout the morning, the female teachers, Mr. Chen's lover and two daughters gathered in the school cafeteria to prepare food, their morning work is to wash vegetables and choose vegetables to cook, steamed steamed buns, make flower rolls The work has prepared the ingredients and flour yesterday afternoon, and it has been steamed in the evening, and it is only necessary to reheat it at noon. Therefore, these women were relatively relaxed throughout the morning. The female teachers like to chat and talk, and laughter is constantly coming out of the cafeteria. Chen Limin's two daughters honestly sat in the stove hall and lit the fire, they didn't dare to look up at these female teachers, they looked very shy, so these female teachers preferred to 'open the brush' with them, making them red-faced and nervous.

Towards noon, the first truckload of threshing grains from the field arrived. The cart was pulled by teacher Chen Limin, who was followed by two male students on both sides of the railing behind him to help push the cart.

The car was flowing with muddy water all the way, which was leaking from the sack of Sheng Guzi. Some classmates ran into the cafeteria to call someone, saying that the millet was pulled over, and asked how to spread it? So, Chen Limin's lover and several female teachers came out of it, carrying a multi-toothed bamboo rake on their shoulders, which is a special artifact used to dry millet.

At this time, twelve huge bamboo mats were neatly placed on the drying field. Each bamboo mat has an area of more than ten square meters, and the female teachers arrange them on the yellow mud playground. Because before the water-drenched millet is transported, these bamboo mats do not need to be opened in advance, or placed horizontally on the mud floor of the playground in the shape of a column, which has the advantage of allowing the mud drying field to shine as much as possible for the sun to shine, so that the water vapor in the soil drying field can evaporate to the greatest extent.

The women poured the first cartload of drenched grain out of the sack and spread it evenly on top of several bamboo mats. Now that the bamboo mats are still empty, they try to spread the millet as much as possible, so that the water will evaporate quickly, and by the time the second cart arrives, the millet may be almost dried.

The food in the cafeteria at noon was very generous. These junior high school classmates who came to help harvest the millet, such as Bao Zhoutong, Bao Zhouhe, Xi Shengxue, Qiu Fasheng, Wang Yangyang, Li Zhixue, etc., were very hard working and eating very happily with a lot of physical consumption. Teacher Chen Limin said: "Today, everyone has to work in the fields all day long, roasting under the scorching sun, sweating on their backs, their eyes are so hot that they can't open them, and their feet are either cross-flowing with sewage, or leeches, mosquitoes and flies bites. We only experienced one day, and this is the daily work of the farmers, so the students should not only cherish every grain in the bowl at all times, but also be considerate of the hard work of their parents and sisters. What we are together today is not a relationship between students and teachers, but farmers. But after all, you must eat a little more rice and steamed buns, and reserve more strength, because the temperature will rise higher in the afternoon, and you will need to sweat a little more. But we are many and powerful, and everyone says, do you have the confidence to harvest all the rice? ”

The children shouted, "I promise to finish harvesting the paddy in the field." ”

Mr. Chen Limin had been soaked in sewage for a morning, and by noon his feet had become significantly swollen, and his epidermis began to wrinkle and look unsightly, so everyone persuaded him not to go down to the paddy field in the afternoon. Mr. Chen went to find a pair of jade-colored 'paddy field socks' and put them on his feet.

Paddy field socks are rubber socks used by farmers to protect their feet when the water temperature is low in spring, the weather is relatively cold, and the field will be prone to frostbite under bare feet, and few people wear it at this time. Needless to say, the role of paddy field socks is 'anti-freeze and warmth', its disadvantage is that it is not breathable and easy to smell, at this time to wear it, it will be very stuffy and uncomfortable, the smell of foot sweat can not be brought out, and the feet will emit a peculiar smell. Everyone advised him not to wear it, it would be more uncomfortable. Teacher Chen said, "What's the matter, it's a big deal to wipe more soap." ”

In fact, it is also very uncomfortable to wear paddy field socks, the sweat in the socks cannot seep out, and the already soaked and swollen feet are even more slippery and uncomfortable, and the epidermis will break when touched. Chen Limin gritted his teeth and persisted for more than an hour, he couldn't bear it anymore, he stopped what he was doing, sat on the pole of the trolley and slowly took off the paddy field socks, and from the 'paddy field socks' rushed out a strong foul smell, which sniffed away several classmates standing next to him. The toes had already ground up a lot of blood bubbles, and the entire part of the foot was blood-red, looking like a pig's flesh had been turned open.

Principal Yang Zeping walked out of the rice field and walked to him, by this time the stench had dissipated most of the time, but there was still a strong sour smell in the air. Principal Yang Zeping grabbed the 'paddy field socks' and twisted his nose and said: "Limin, do you smell it yourself, this smell is not lighter than rotten meat, I can't wait to throw it away." ”

Teacher Chen Limin said with a smile: "What is this, which farmer has not experienced such a toss, I remember when I was teaching in the central school, I met a parent, the flesh on the soles of his feet was rotten to the bones of the foot board, he still has to work with the production team, otherwise, the whole family will not have to go hungry." So, stinky is not a sin. ”

Yang Zeping said with a smile: "This is an example, you can't always compare him, besides, you are not an old farmer, there is no need to apply it according to a farmer's standard everywhere." ”

The two chatted for a while, and the classmates carried bags of water millet out of the paddy field and sent them to the trolley, and the two stopped chatting and stacked sacks. The trolley can only hold five sacks of rice at a time, and then the tires can't stand it, the two of them tied up the sacks, Chen Limin went barefoot to pull the car, Yang Zeping pushed him out of the carriage frame this time: "Look at you, what is this rotten foot, are you still a hero?" Go away, go away, get into it with your head down. He said to a few of his classmates, "Go harder, let's go." ”

The last cart of grain was harvested, and there was still a little space on the cart. Everyone persuaded Mr. Chen to sit in the car, and the students all walked around the cart and jogged closely, at this time, the sun was sinking in the west, and the white clouds on the valley in the west were dyed red by the glow of the setting sun.

In the evening, Mr. Chen's lover took the man's clothes to the pond to wash after finishing the kitchen, and when he came back, he complained to him vigorously: "How did you do it today, put a pair of paddy field socks out of this smell, I will pour out half a bowl of water at least, it smells so bad, and the things that I ate in my stomach at night are finally all 'explained'."

In the next few days, male teachers from the school came to help one after another, and it finally took more than a week to replant the late rice seedlings in the two acres of rice fields, until the last late rice seedlings were planted, and tomorrow is the beginning of autumn.