“At this time of year, the weather is extremely hot!
When the grains in the fields turn yellow, the countryside begins to get bustling...
Pick up the straw hat, pick up the sickle, and go about cutting and threshing the millet!"
——This is a folk song popular in Bashu Province and Rongwei County.
Its content mainly talks about the scene of rice harvesting.
As soon as it started to dawn, production team leader Peng Zhikun knocked on the section of scrap railway track hanging under the tree at the entrance of the village.
This was his call for everyone to get up quickly and go to the rice field that had been discussed the day before.
Every year during the rice harvest season, the weather is very hot.
There are also thunderstorms and sudden hurricanes from time to time.
Therefore, the production team needs to quickly move the rice from the rice fields to the courtyard dam in a very short period of time.
Otherwise, if there is a heavy rain, a lot of rice will fall down in the rice fields, causing food losses.
What's more, if it rains continuously for three to five days, the mature rice will begin to grow and sprout.
Then it can no longer be eaten by humans.
Therefore, every year when the rice is harvested, the members of the commune need to get up as soon as possible before dawn.
Everyone didn't even bother to eat breakfast, so they went to the fields to collect the last round of rice and came back.
Only then did everyone start to take care of breakfast.
Luo Xuan and Ji Xuyuan also got up early that day.
The two of them hurriedly washed up, then took sand sickles, straw hats, and a large vat of tea, and hurried to the rice fields in the valley.
The strong laborers in the village had already arrived at the rice field in advance carrying two heavy mixing barrels, a threshing machine, and a "grain rack" used to beat rice.
Because among the rice fields in the same production team, some face the sun and some face the sun.
Therefore, the maturity of rice will vary by several days.
The rice that Peng Zhikun arranged to harvest today is located in one of the more than 5 acres of rice fields that were the first to mature in the production team.
actually,
Which production team should start harvesting, and the specific sequence is arranged by the township office.
There is not much autonomy within the production team.
This is mainly because when the production team starts harvesting rice, the township office will send two supervisors.
If all the production teams start working at the same time, the township office will not be able to send so many officials at once.
These officers are nominally here to assist the production team in harvesting rice.
On the surface, they came to see these production teams. If they encounter any difficulties or problems during agricultural production activities, these two officers can help solve them.
actually...
Their real purpose is to supervise how many acres of grain each production team can harvest?
These officers need to check whether each production team has a good harvest or the extent of the disaster.
This is to prevent the production team from causing mischief and concealing grain output from superiors.
In this regard,
The cadres in the production team also know it very well, but they don't want to expose it.
Not only will the brigade cadres not tell the truth, but they will try their best to entertain them, so that these officers will not put their own shoes on them...
There is bound to be a good meal at noon today.
Because on the day of harvesting rice, the main labor force in the production team will have three meals a day provided by the production team.
Mainly because of these strong laborers, they do heavy physical work, which is really too hard.
Moreover, their working hours are really tight, so their meals will be provided by the production team.
It’s not okay to do heavy physical work without a good meal.
In addition, we need to entertain the supervisors sent by the township office, so the standard of lunch today is really not low.
In a rice field with an area of about 3 acres, there are two mixing barrels for the first time: one of them uses the same manual beating method as before.
The other mixing barrel is a threshing machine.
The strong laborers responsible for harvesting rice were divided into two "combat teams" this time.
They will compete among themselves to see whether the threshing machine is more powerful or whether it is faster to beat the rice manually.
"Attention, all the seizure combat teams, get ready!"
Captain Peng Zhikun stood on the field, holding a small red pennant in his hand and a brand-new iron whistle in his mouth, "Today is the day when our Zhengxing 6 production team officially starts harvesting rice! At the same time, it is also
This is the first time we are using a threshing machine. Comrades from the manual team, do you have the confidence to defeat the threshing machine team?"
At the edge of the rice field, among the crowds of people gearing up, a loud voice shook the sky: "Yes! Our manual team can definitely defeat their threshing machine team!"
We are all good players in the production team, who would imitate those girls and use machines to take advantage of others?"
The captain of the labor team is Uncle Zhou. He has left all the matters of feeding pigs and cows to Ye Erniang today.
Because threshing millet is not only about food, but also a labor-intensive job. One day is equal to two days in normal times.
More importantly, as a poor farmer, he had to show his face today in front of the officials sent by the township office and the cadres of the brigade.
Otherwise, as time goes by, Uncle Zhou is worried that he will be forgotten by them...
It doesn't matter if you are forgotten.
If he loses his position as a breeder, Uncle Zhou is not sure that Ye Erniang will let him do whatever he wants...
Unfortunately, the old branch secretary took another threshing machine to other production teams to help harvest rice.
There are only two township office officials left, as well as the brigade captain Liao Xianming. In front of these three cadres, Uncle Zhou does not want to be invisible.
Uncle Zhou just finished speaking.
Before the officer on the field could praise his high morale, he heard the third sister-in-law from the threshing team saying with a sweet smile: "Uncle Zhou, your legs are weak now and your feet are raking, how can you still be so stubborn with your mouth?"
The third sister-in-law said this,
The people in the threshing fleet laughed, "That's right! You hand in the public grain every night and snatch the public grain during the day. How can you stand it? How many handfuls of pig feed you eat, Uncle Zhou, you can't even repair your bones.
deficit."
"fart!"
Uncle Zhou used to be a standard asshole, he would use his mouth to speak dirty words, "I can support people with one hand, whip, and work faster than you with one hand! Come on, let's compete!"
In the old society, I worked slowly for those exploiters. It was because I didn't want to be exploited by them, so I was deliberately lazy.
Now, for the sake of our collective honor, I will definitely risk my life and work hard!
I sincerely ask the leaders to supervise and review! Look how hard we poor people will work to build the production team!"
Uncle Zhou opens his mouth and likes to compare the old and new societies.
Everyone knows his intentions.
This guy is implicitly reminding the officers on Tiankan and the brigade cadres: Leaders, you must never forget my difficult background...
From now on, leaders, please take care of me.
Peng Zhikun felt sick to his stomach when he heard this, but he smiled sincerely on his face: "Okay! Well done, we poor peasants are ambitious and worthy of being the mainstay of our production team!
It is the most trustworthy core force in our agricultural production and construction undertaking!
Comrades, are you ready?"
"We're all ready!"
"Open the cutting!"
When harvesting rice, you first need to cut out an area on the edge of the rice field before you can put down the mixing bucket.
The labor team is assigned more manpower, including strong laborers like Luo Tiezhu, Uncle Zhou, and Uncle Zhang.
So in a short time, the labor team cleared a space in the rice field they were responsible for.
immediately,
The mixing bucket was lowered into the rice field, and the bamboo fence was quickly put up.
After the rice racks were set up, the labor team began to beat the rice.
"There was a square city, and two generals came to attack the city. Bang bang bang bang a few cannons, and countless skirmishers entered the city."
In the labor team, the members responsible for holding the rice shouted, "Everyone, come on!
The golden autumn wind blows,
In the field, harvesting rice.
The heavy ears of rice,
The fragrance goes into the hearts of the members!"
In the team using threshing machines, there are more women responsible for cutting rice.
Seeing the show off, the third sister-in-law and the others immediately became angry, "Yang Erwa, I want you to dance! Let's see who rake down first!"
"That's right, even though they are dancing so happily now, I still think I am more capable! I wonder how hot he can be? After a while, the rake's feet will become soft and his hands won't move. Don't be cowardly!"
This is how it is in the countryside: when a mother-in-law talks, she can't do without dirty words.
If there weren't cadres from the countryside on the field, these women would have been even more explicit!
On the field, Peng Zhikun finished arranging the work, rolled up his trouser legs and got out of the field with a sand sickle.
The production team leader is not an off-duty cadre, so he is naturally indispensable for work.
Standing on the ridge of the field, I looked at the scene of rice harvesting, threshing and threshing with mixing buckets in full swing.
Officers Liang and Shi sent by the township office took the cigarettes handed over by Captain Liao and sighed with emotion: "Okay! Look at the enthusiasm of our members!
With the fighting spirit of the masses, our agricultural production will definitely reach a higher level!
The arduous task set by the county for us to catch up with and surpass the yield per mu of our brother provinces will be completed as soon as possible!"
Captain Liao took out matches and lit cigarettes for the two officers, but did not speak to each other the whole time.
"Hey, who is that comrade?"
Officer Liang was smoking a cigarette and pointed at Ji Xuyuan, who was bending over to cut rice, and asked, "Why does he look so unskilled at work?"
Captain Liao said, "He is Comrade Ji Xuyuan, the enlightened revolutionary who actively donated his family's shops and workshops as advertised on the radio in the county."
Director Shi was slightly surprised, "I remember last time, he also participated in the improvement of threshing machines. Doesn't he live in the county? Why did he come to work in your brigade?"
"Donated it. I heard Comrade Ji Xuyuan say that after the busy farming season in the past few days, he will go to the county town to go through the formalities and donate his ancestral home so that a health center can be opened in the street."
Captain Liao said, "Comrade Ji Xuyuan has already asked someone to submit an application to the county. He plans to settle in our Zhengxing Brigade and become an ordinary member of the 6th Production Team."
Officer Liang clapped his hands and applauded, "Okay, great! You can take the initiative to come to the countryside, take root at the grassroots level, take the initiative to accept supervision from the masses, and accept re-education from the members. This kind of thing is very good and worth promoting!"
"Woo-wu-wu-"
Captain Liao and the others were chatting on the field, and the threshing machine in the rice field finally started to operate!
Since a large amount of rice needs to be prepared in advance next to the threshing machine, the official start of work on the threshing machine team is about half an hour later than that on the manual team.
This caused Mr. Zhou and the others to ridicule one after another, "Why do you hit this thing, and it has to be waited on for a long time before it can do its work? Do you think you are the old master?"
"Yes, in our rural areas, millet has been threshed like this for thousands of years. They are so squeamish that they spend so much money to get something back!"
"Look, we've already harvested 30% of the rice, and they haven't moved yet. People watching are anxious!"
"woo woo woo woo--"
The threshing machine sang more and more happily, and Captain Liao was very excited to see it, "Let's go, let me step on it a few times to enjoy it!"
The two officers who came to supervise did not actually have to work in the fields.
But this was also the first time they saw a threshing machine used to thresh rice.
Hearing the sound of grains slapping on the bamboo fence like a shower, the two clerks felt itchy, so they quickly rolled up their trouser legs and ran into the rice fields!
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