Fourth, spring harvest

 Fourth, spring harvest

to where we are no longer children at home, everyone is an individual, must accept the supervision and education by poor peasants. Four o'clock every morning to get up the word loyalty in front of the house jumping dance, this is the attitude of Chairman Mao and his old, no one would dare not go. The force of the Shenyang company commander whistle sounds, and us kids would get up in the city, the U.S. dance to work in the fields, the day it was quite daylight, we follow the half-open eyes to the ground around the farmer leader.

days off every morning, beep sound whistle sound, the word loyalty first hop dance segment, and then start doing manual busy. Do not think about

accept the reality and transform the ideology is not a loss, and good young and not afraid of hardship, suffering and then to discuss his years.



March and April for the spring is the season of spring in rural areas for paddy field farming is the pick this time black, to the fertile land, is said to be transported from the north to the black, by the carriage transported to the edge of a farm, then we pick the educated youth to the basket with soil every piece of ground. Used at home, few people had something to pick pole, one by one weak shoulders carry the burden given to us by the times, too tired to steal a lot of girls cry, to weep, what is the use? So be it.

Kwan team littered with little people, while the old peasant children one by one, students, labor mostly children and teenagers, the election of a young man named Guo took us to work every day this conditions, except for a few years younger than the small farmer, the educated youth has become the main labor force.

points where the ground is to count, one to 800 meters long, 33 meters wide, and each to have up and down the middle of the ditch, this time not in Sheung Shui, back and forth through time to cross over the ditch . Tractor turned over after the way we take the challenges black basket basket to the ground, the male students responsible for the black soil with a spade to spread our fallen, we will come and go in the delivery. One day down, as the bulk of the aircraft-like, a lot of girls go back to crying. I sat there, tears followed suit, so rooted in a lifetime? Spring wind chapped hands and face, and it seems like a few years as the rural children.

lug black to unload busy all day walking in the fields, desolately unsparing spring, our direct scraping rock.

・ nursery

April, started nursery, the boys dug bed, about ten meters wide and one meter long for a seat into the ditch water, we girls wore big black boots, station to the water, first in sowing seeds sprinkled on top of black, left hand basket, right hand grasping a hand, smoothing evenly sprinkled a little bit of rice, followed by a man holding a broom to shoot into the front of the seed sown soil, followed by a person but also sprinkled a thin layer of black soil, followed by a man holding a cane while children look at two curved edge of the frame were inserted into the seedbed; behind, two people pulled plastic sheeting (plastic greenhouses We call special nylon) covering the last two rice with a wooden sub-Sheng as the plastic sheeting to tuck into the soil, and then board the mud homeopathic smooth, so a mini-greenhouses to become a skeleton.

seedlings warm bed to sleep in plastic greenhouses as small rooms, warm spring, what a lovely, really want to be a seedling seedlings.

・ breeding ground

when girls, boys to the ground, because it is paddy field, must be leveling because as tractors turn the need for leveling the ground, first dry the ground is dry flat, spade the visual areas of high to the low-lying areas of soil Young, and so let the water level later, the children according to location, and areas between high and low of a Dam Embankment with soil Dachu (retaining use), low water to the local some discharge, when the boys standing in the water horizontally, the same is to place a high visual thrown into low-lying land where the big boys are dressed in heavy boots, but they are fighting each other,UGG boots clearance, one piece of land, digging spade a piece of land, arm swing fling to throw a low place to start is not dry, toss shovels, who waddled into the water to sit. This according to a piece of land lying under the high and low divided into several plots, separated by ridge Dam, Dam winding ridge with the terrain, with high and low, water is discharged according to the terrain, everything is ready for planting.

Yimapingchuan Panjin, there is no shelter against the wind barrier, so the wind can be blowing arbitrary scrape, local farmer there is a saying: without any spring, while wearing boots, standing crop of water with ice, cold feet like a cat bite, boots, stupid, easy to pull up hard to step down, stand unstable sitting in freezing water is common. We can not stand wind of instability, and good young and fit, and thus survive.

shoveling the lower height Yang, Arm stretch to smooth, accidentally fell tumble, completely covered in mud soup.

・ planting

May after the start of the planting, transplanting is the most tired of living a year, the local adult farmer not see the water (upper and lower water needs manual control, when you open Sheung Shui gap filled with water, plug, you need to change the water when discharged into the water, watching the water all day holding a shovel full of view, be regarded as mild to life) is the coachman, when all of the transport tasks are completed by the coach, then there are what horse , the ground and the main activities are the educated youth to complete.

this time in the seedling beds has grown to a high bar to start seedlings are still very small, can not pull, you need to transfer, farmer for us to prepare a special flat shovel, left in the rhizosphere at about 5 cm soil, the seedlings with the shovel down onto the Daini box, boys pick into the ground and handed planting of the girls, girls break apart piece by piece by hand into the paddy fields. Wait until the seedlings grow to a certain time, you can pull seedlings, and pull the seedlings need the seedlings into the index and middle fingers in the mud, this is the real planting.

May Day, the city people are at home for the holidays, we come down to earth planting, and the icy paddy fields, you need to roll up their trouser legs barefoot, standing water, began to not meet, one by one porcelain teeth grin's. I'm spoiled at home, stop into the ice water, cold from the bottom of my heart, there are a lot of water, reed root, bar foot raw so, my tall, bent, but most suffer the live, stuck in seedling out with tears, how can this day too Oh!

male spade lug the Miao, with a thick layer of soil becomes mud in the water, need to Satisfy up, break apart piece by piece, into the water, I really had enough of this day, when the head is it?

all of a sudden such a big piece of land to be completed by the educated youth, has never done farm work, it really is a problem. Military representatives to come forward at this time, the company convened a meeting of cadres, ready to launch Shenyang requested and I swallow a pair of children, she worked smart, and his kind and patient to teach me, enlighten me, though she is the countryside last year, but had no plug seedling, but she was tired and afraid of the spirit of fearing neither hardship I moved slowly, I try to change myself, I think I am not less than anyone else, nose, eyes missing, why let people joke?

planting is two people a frame, two rope, tie rod ends, straighten out into the water, from the start along the edge of the rope insertion, two rope pulled up a stick studded with about a ridge width and then plug in, and then inserted along the rope until the piece of land was filled up. After a period of exercise, I have some adaptation, though back pain, but the habit slowly. And swallow with good work, and she younger than me, but like I care I care about me, like Lao Dajie. Slowly admit defeat I was not convinced a good start and strong character of the outcrop, and swallows both encourage each other and help each other, in the end, even the local small farmer, but we are inserted, although tired, but felt very proud.

paddy fields most educated youth especially girls headache is: paddy fields, there are leeches, the smallest has five centimeters long, black with a yellow body is also something in the water when swimming like a snake Like, it will follow the waves of people walking, people go where it will appear. Many frightened girls are afraid to work every day under the paddy fields have bare legs, its tail has a suction cup will stick into your lap sucking, pulling by hand is not down, a soft, sticky, and only hand-rearing pat to fall. Fortunately, I am not afraid of these things, so for me this off without any problems.

other seedlings grew up, you can plug seedlings, and pull the seedlings are strapped with straw, picked by the boys to the ground, standing on the embankment into the water to throw on the ridge, spreading our planting The as used with the check. A boy can stand for two is four planting, because the beds some distance away from the rice fields, rice fields each are on the water between the ditch, the ditch is a large salt mound earthworks Dam, and back and forth to pick seedlings ticking confused the Dam net water wet slippery mound, the boys pick seedlings to be careful, otherwise it will slide into the ditch. If the vaccine can be available, and sometimes to help girls with the planting, but the relative freedom of boys more,cheap UGG boots, you can not do it.

we were most troublesome is the toilet, a paddy field is 800 meters to the toilet in the head with a reed in a circle ring, even if the ground is to dig a pit toilet, standing in the water cool , while on the go to the bathroom, so went to the toilet is often too late, the urine of the pants have to replace it back a little youth pants, we were limited living conditions, not like now a lot of finish wear clothes, plus each of us out on the home up to five sets of outer wear underwear, swallow those days, children like there is some kidney problems, always go to the bathroom, went to the urine the pants too late, go back and change it back, just the water they want to go there One day she even urine, five pants, and then got back not to change, afraid of being seen, simply to sit in the water the pants all wet. I was thinking: If there is afterlife must be a man, who would bother?

this way, we completed the task of planting the first time ever, watching the seedlings all over the floor and tidy, and my heart has been comforted.

the most bitter of the most tired is planting, in order to avoid can not even think about, to get up before dawn, the food is delivered to the head.

rice, cabbage soup, do not eat no work force, the true thin soup can, a spoon down unobstructed.

paddy fields which support leech, where it is to catch up with you, young legs child and tender meat, drink your blood top university.

edge of a farm to have eight hundred long, which drive on trips to the bathroom trips? Do men have a next life, where the where the choke. Flexible summer

seedling seedling

plugged and need loose soil, so seeding flexible girls, male fertilization, but this time raising boys uncle live, import of urea, a person holding a bowl , fitted with urea, to stand in the water to sprinkle the ground each, can be arbitrary, ah, they are next to the ground, intentionally gas girls singing laugh, looking at the way their arrogance, the envy of dead girls . Girls at this time no better than planting where to go, each of a ridge, like the hands and side scratch as walking side forward, from time to time be flexible to the reed stubble, it is miserable, and the hands will cut a big hole, the blood Zhi Tang. June, with no shade where we Juezhepigu, four limbs of the crawl, it can not describe the taste of Oh, the sun unrelenting sun of the people was swimming, I have low blood pressure low blood sugar problems began guilty (outside the way you say this is not the spirit of it? Why, when the countryside had not checked out? fall ill at this time who cares? from the coccyx under the Township had no pain, dizzy!), while climbing to take Golden eyes , dizzy, can be whatever you captain farmer how the body, see who stood up to yell.

limbs toward the sun to the back, in order to tickle seedlings, seedlings are happy than people, how can not grow strong?

・ weeding

seedlings began to flex finished weeding, rice fields lost a lot of long grass, deep roots, like flowers opening up, like a wanton whir cha cha, the nutrients in rice have grabbed it, it grows very fast, large, and some can be overshadowed by the two ridge, encountered such a failure grass, to be two people or several people to pull it together. I remember one time, I met a big defeat grass, do not try to pull their move to the next called, the glory, she is very awkward, both of us to pull out or not, just a sprinkle of fertilizer guy came up, it is estimated desert walk out, and I let him help pull together three, suddenly lost the grass off and took him a shake down sitting in the water, and confused covered in water, we were happy to have forgotten their own standing water, the results all three of us sat down the water. The laugh,UGG boots, provoke the captain, and also of our meal that we stupid, hum! Come before you is the educated youth leisure, and without our educated youth, are you afraid to Hexibeifeng it!

defeated the grass is too crazy, claws bully rice seedlings, in order to unplug is not easy, a few people to help.

・

National Day just after the harvest, they begin to harvest rice, and each made a scythe, to sharpen their battle was. On working hours in a row, stand to the edge of a farm, six ridges per person, a place filled to the next.

began to cut the rice,UGGs, look at how cutting Guo, and then we Zhaomaohuahu do. As we girls are not the Brothers, that what is now the sickle-like slow, Guo taught only the essentials, things did not really teach. I got to the first knife to cut fixed, the more fixed cut more backward, more backward the more pain the waist, seeing all went to the front, I was pulled very far. Planting of vigor gone? But this is totally different and transplanting, this knife is refuses to write, watching the people stand up, stretch, I was not too embarrassed, already behind, and still standing? I'm anxious tears come down again, how should we do? Why did they cut so long detained? I like and I Ouqi sickle, the more anxious, it is more difficult to use, finally, I began to cut down or not. At this time the people come back to pick me up instructor, has been, and I meet after he stood up, I find it strange, and will not fall so much, right?

But no matter how hard I tried to no avail, I could make the cut the rice Chousi it! Really can not stand, stand up and stretch, stretch it, the captain in that shout: This difference Where is it?

frost, and rice covered with white frost, the beginning did not think how, and other finger belly to change the next day, the swelling layer of crust, gently pinch the inside just like the water as raw so raw so, such as rice in a grasping, discrepancies in the actual of the pain.

an entire harvest, and I are left behind, I think next year and then harvest how can I do? Also busy harvesting rice, sickle gloves to wear, one each of six dry ridge, only I finale at the rear.

doing all they can not keep up, his eyes tearing my heart hurt, I am Shashi Hou so stupid? The coming year, to fight a!

・ handling

rice cut well, all code in the ground, piles, waiting for the carriage or tractors to transport. There are the educated youth, and not white do not. We are four or five girls tied and bound with a rope rice, shoulders back to the back, back to the yard, Road near the place good, long road to the local walk miles, Le shoulders out of the two deep purple marks, the next day when the rope will stagger back, or cut with a knife the same as pain. Boys with a pole to pick the rice, I saw many boys pick pick rice, very easily, she had a pole, and I pick out, so you can swap the two shoulders. As early as during the Cultural Revolution, my mother was afraid tomboy, I go to protest, get gun gun dance, take me to aunt house embroidery, but also not to mention, I am also an expert in embroidery:))) family was poor aunt to carry water to eat, I can not cook to be responsible for fetching water, and are barefoot, so many parts of the countryside to spend the future.

pick that kind of rice will be used as long as the effort, it is very easy pole You, unlike the back of rice, that rice Xiang Siren as motionless, farther tired, pick it, it kinda 忽悠fun, which I found under the feeling, no later than the back with a rope.

my influence, many girls told me the same challenge with the pole, the cousin asked me: I did it the day you did enough for three days.

rope ruthless Le shoulders, as pole is strong, and go multi-Come pick, who says girls different?

・

threshing rice are back yard, and need to de-Valley, Yang yards, and finally make public grain.

threshing machine is a motor driven shaft, the outer ring a lot of articles of wood, wood with nails in the V-nails, rapid rotation will separate the grain and straw. Threshing machine left a chopping board, strapped in next to filled with rice, the right also has a chopping board, is bundled off a good straw.

us a few pairs: me and Lao Dong in the threshing machine, Lin is responsible for child unlock the rice bundles, marked with a one handed to the Lao Dong, the president put in the threshing machine light delivery to me, my hands clenched rice threshing machine around in turn two, the basic off the top of the rice grain clean, put the case on the right panel, Mei responsible and bound. Number of bags used for the preparation of grass straw and some burned kang educated youth with us, and some to sell.

threshing Lian Zhouzhuan are generally in the evening to go back after dinner, but also Jiaye Ban, when people are very honest, few people think of lazy, no one calculated how not to make money, basically to work overtime place. Dry until midnight to go back the next day to continue.

are off over rice, but also off the rice goes wrong, that is, threshing machinery fell off the rice hairy, there are rice straw, both above and therefore require further processing. In the evening, on the bustling courtyard, surrounded by several big point of the light bulb, lit yard pass cut-off, like a hill of rice, like lumber, two children and old to catch a cattle farm, cattle tied a rope behind him, side of a cow, a rope around the back over from the rice heaps of girls in close to the ground with a wooden cross on the rope, do not live in a rope, a child drove them forward, this pile of hills to go along.

my folks, very strange, just do not like to do this live, boring, see Laodeng in the chaos machine next to the dry rice sweating sweating, feeling very good play, he ran to talk to fork, I would like to try. He did not look the other way: to you, so you can not take a break?

I spat into his hand, The. toss machine, Really fun! : Than holding a wooden fork to go with the back of the cattle more fun.

second time I will make that kind of awkward, and hard down a fork, squat position, elbows leaning on the thigh, abdomen a force, what would pick up to the high on in one fell swoop, toss the hammer down, Are proud of it, suddenly When he saw me, it would have a great eye for almost fell out: This week the captain to quit: Zhou leader categorically said: Let dry, and this time no longer like to do manual labor, and sticky eyes are simply, I climbed the heap of rice has gone wrong, hiding inside to sleep. Asleep asleep how to move it? They began to move my old to sleep in this heap of rice, and I quickly ran down, too! Do not sleep the sleep.

threshing work most succulent, though overtime it anyway, in full swing lights accompany and feel happy and motivated strong.

finished a year of farm work, to sum up: seeding, transplanting, threshing, picking rice can cross the border, that is, not to cut the rice, how to no good. But then, just when the countryside, do not know can not adapt to rural life, but fortunately, all over, my pampered at home, what will not the little girl, but also withstood the test.

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