Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Sunshine Farm

Chapter 154 Ran’s father wants He Yuzhu to marry Ran Qiuye

The Beidaxun farm in the 60s was really hard. First of all, from the city to the countryside, the entire lifestyle of clothing, food, housing, transportation, eating, drinking, defecation, and diarrhea suddenly changed dramatically, and the living conditions suddenly became "hard." ”, and from a scholar who didn’t do any work, and maybe didn’t even do housework, he suddenly turned into a farmer who repairs the earth every day, fights with the sky and the earth, and engages in heavy manual labor, especially when encountering natural disasters, When the weather is bad, people often fall into trouble and experience tremendous psychological and physical suffering.

The second is Beidaxun Farm, where Ran Qiuye is going.

The wheat fields in Beidaxun are so big that you can't even see them. Thousands of people often work for days to finish harvesting.

Someone who was sent to educate people came back and told everyone what it means to fish for wheat from the water.

He said: At that time, the car took us to the field. We went down to the wheat field to cut in the muddy water, bundled the cut wheat into wheat pieces, carried them to a high place for stacking, and continued cutting until noon when the car delivered meals. , before taking a break from work to eat.The ground was covered with mud and water, and there was no way to rest. After eating, we continued working. There was no chance to be lazy in the middle, because there was no place to sit down.

It's like punishing you to stand and bend down in the water for a day.Some women couldn't hold on any longer, so they just sat down in the muddy water, took a breath, and then stood up to cut.

Some may fall ill as a result.

I worked until dark and went home. When I got to the dormitory, I was so tired that I couldn't move my feet or lift my hands. No matter how muddy I was, I fell down on the bed and caught myself.When you wake up, quickly change out of your dirty clothes and take off your "water socks".

When fishing for wheat in the water, don't wear rain boots, otherwise the rain boots will get stuck in the muddy water and you won't be able to pull them out, which will make you exhausted.

Everyone wears "water socks", which are Jiefang brand rubber shoes with a circle of cloth on the upper. The shoes get wet, but the mud cannot get into the shoes.Brush the wet socks to dry, quickly go to the cafeteria to have some food, and then go to sleep.

I had to get up early the next day and seize the time to sharpen the sickle.

If the sickle is not fast enough, cutting wheat will be even more tiring. The old man warned again and again: sharpening the knife will not make you chop wood.

If you have dry shoes, you should quickly put on a pair of dry shoes. If you don't have dry shoes, you have to put on the wet shoes yesterday and work. You don't care whether you feel uncomfortable or not.

We got on the truck and drove to the wheat field more than ten miles away.

We were always standing in the water cutting wheat, unable to sit or lie down. We were too tired, so we were forced to find a trick and get into the wheat pile next to it to rest for a while, no matter how wet, dirty, and full of bugs it was.

After lunch, I quickly found a pile of wheat, dug a hole in it and lay down for a while.

The wheat harvesting battle that this person participated in took four full days to complete.He said that this was the most difficult wheat harvest. At that time, the men and women were all as tired as bears, and now they can’t remember how they managed to survive.

When the wheat harvest is over, winter comes again. It snows in Beidaxun in October, and the weather suddenly becomes cold when it snows.

The corns all over the mountains and fields are ripe and the leaves have fallen off. Sometimes, before the corns have been harvested, heavy snow covers the boundless cornfields.

At that time, there were no machines to harvest corn, so it was harvested manually.

This engineering company supported the agricultural company to harvest corn.Dozens or hundreds of educated people and old workers lined up into the snow-covered corn fields, broke off the corns, and piled them into piles along the ridges, which were loaded and transported by tractors behind trailers. Walk.

There are so many educated people who sometimes cannot break off all the corn from a field in a morning.At noon, the bus carried the lunch to the field, and after finishing the lunch, we moved forward.By the time the sun went down to call it a day, everyone had walked at least a dozen miles along the corn field.

For more than ten miles, I walked back to the station on two legs.

After a day's work, the clothes all over my body were soaked with sweat repeatedly, and the socks inside the cotton Ula shoes on my feet were also wet.

At this time, the temperature was more than ten degrees below zero, and the cold air quickly froze the cotton-padded clothes and underwear into turtle shells, which were hard and shivering. The shoes also froze hard, turning into ice boots, and the toes gradually lost feeling.

Everyone walked back through the thick snow and faced the cold wind. White frost formed under the brim of their cotton hats and their eyebrows were covered with white frost. Regardless of gender, everyone turned into an old man with a white beard.

After finishing work every day and walking back, it was like Lin Chong walking up Liangshan Mountain on a snowy night. It was really cold and tiring. The further we walked, the darker it became and the more difficult we walked.After finally reaching the resident dormitory, I couldn't rest immediately. The first thing I did was to take a washbasin outside and fill a large basin of snow. First, I rubbed my frozen feet with the snow until they were red to prevent frostbite.Some companies did not emphasize this principle. Some people's feet were frozen and they took a basin of hot water to wash them. As a result, the toe muscles became necrotic and became disabled.

During the slack season in winter, the farm needs to prepare some materials for building a house next year.

At that time, houses were built without ceilings. Instead, thin tree strips from the mountains were densely arranged on the beams, and then smoothed with lime paste to form a ceiling.

These thin tree strips are called shed strips. In one winter, the farm will send educated people to the mountains to cut down many of them, then load them into trucks and bring them back.

To cut down strips of houses and sheds, you have to go up the mountain in the middle of the night. It is said that the temperature is the lowest in the middle of the night, and the small tree strips are frozen and stiff. With just one drop of the ax, one tree strip can be cut down. It is clean and efficient.

But this person told everyone that he still doubts this statement anyway. In the harsh winter, tree branches should be brittle during the day. He doesn't understand why the farm lets educated people like them go into the mountains to cut tree branches in the middle of the night?

These people are often woken up in the middle of the night. They dress tightly, put on scarves, cover their noses, carry long-handled axes and follow the rubber-wheeled tractor "Youtu" up the mountain.

Cut enough tree branches, load a cart, and follow the cart down the mountain. The "Youtu" cab can only accommodate the driver, and at most one more person can be squeezed in.

The people at the back had no choice but to climb into the car and lie on the tall tree branches, holding on to the ropes tightly. The tractor pulled the trailer, spinning in circles on the dark and rugged mountain road and bumping down the mountain.

You must know that this is actually a very dangerous thing, but they have no choice. At this time, our sweat-soaked clothes were frozen into ice shells, and our hands and feet were frozen. Our feelings were already very slow and we couldn't think about the mountain road. of danger.

Fortunately, this man went into the mountains several times in the middle of the night to cut down strips of houses and sheds without any accidents.

But the most difficult thing was that they were exposed to the cold night of minus [-] to [-] degrees Celsius. By the time the tractor rushed back to the farm, these people were almost frozen and could not unload the truck. They had to wait until dawn to find someone. Unloaded, because we couldn't even pee at this time, and the peeing areas of several of us were frozen.

These are not sensational, these are real. Tell me, what should Ran Qiuye do when she is in such an environment?

He Yuzhu was afraid that something like this would happen, so he kept telling Ran Qiuye not to go to her father and mother for the time being, but Ran Qiuye just didn't listen. It's fine now. The matter has become a big deal. Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant will no longer stay, so she will They can only be sent to the farm by the streets.

Even though He Yuzhu had many connections, it still didn't work.

"Brother, is there nothing you can do?"

At the family dinner to bid farewell to Ran Qiuye, He Yuzhu looked at He Yuzhu with some regret and asked.

At this time, He Yuzhu shook his head helplessly and said: "I have thought of all the ways I can think of, and I have begged everyone I can. Even Grandma Li also begged countless people. But if it doesn't work, it won't work.

So I really have no choice this time. "

After He Yuzhu finished speaking, everyone at the table sighed slightly, while Ran Qiuye looked at the atmosphere at the table and smiled quickly: "It's okay, don't worry, I will come back safely.

I really want to say sorry to Brother Zhuzhu about what happened this time. You have told me everything, but I didn't listen to you. It's all my own fault.

For asking you to beg so many people, Brother Zhuzhu, I will give you tea instead of wine, thank you. "

Having said this, Ran Qiuye picked up the tea cup in front of her and drank it all in one gulp. He Yuzhu nodded and picked up his own wine glass and took a sip. At this time, Grandma Li on the side smiled and said: "Don't do this, everyone. Although Beidaxun is difficult, it is also a place where people can be trained. I believe that as long as Xiaoran trains there for a few more years, he will definitely grow into a qualified pillar of the country.

At that time, no matter how hard we work to bring Xiao Ran back, we will definitely be able to do it! "

"Correct!"

He Yuzhu also laughed: "And even if I go to Beidaxun, I can still get news about Qiuye, and I won't just ignore Qiuye, so don't worry too much.

Today we are bidding farewell to Qiuye. Don't show such expressions. Please be happy. We are not sending you to jail. It will be fine. Everything will be fine. "

When He Yuzhu finished saying this, everyone stopped feeling sad and started talking and laughing together. This farewell banquet was not spent in sadness.

And just when the farewell banquet was about to end, Director Zhang Yan came in a hurry.

"Pillar. Pillar!"

He Yuzhu recognized Director Zhang Yan's voice as soon as he heard it. At this time, Director Zhang Yan came over and there must be some big news, so He Yuzhu quickly stood up and said: "Grandma, it's Director Zhang. It's not Qiuye. What's the matter?" Is the situation turning around?"

After saying that, He Yuzhu went to open the door.

"Director Zhang, why are you here now?" He Yuzhu laughed quickly when he opened the door and saw Director Zhang Yan.

"It's not because of what you asked for!" Director Zhang smiled slightly.

"Ah." He Yuzhu felt happy and quickly invited Director Zhang into the room.

"Xiao Zhang, do you have good news for us?" Grandma Li asked with a smile!

"Ouch. If Grandma Li doesn't have good news, I won't dare to come. Qiuye is really lucky this time. Originally, it was certain that Qiuye would go to the farm in Beidaxun, but who knew that Qiuye would be sent to Beidaxun this time? There are just too many people.

It happened that there was a place in Nanyun that I wanted people to go to, so I immediately removed Qiuye's name from Beidaxun Farm and sent it directly to Nanyun. You must know that Nanyun is not very far from Sijiu City. You can take a public bus. The car arrived in one day and one night.

Although it is also bitter there, compared with Beidaxun, it is really much better.

More importantly, Qiuye used to be a teacher. When he goes to Nagumo, he can let Qiuye become a teacher as well, so that Qiuye will be much more relaxed. "

"Ah, this is good news." Grandma Li nodded and smiled.

He Yuyu also said: "One day and one night, we can also see the autumn leaves if we have time."

"Yes, we can bring the things from Sijiucheng there. It's much better than the farm in Beidaxun. It's a place we can't go to!" Yu Haitang also became happy.

At this time, the hanging heart in He Yuzhu's heart can be regarded as officially settled. Although they both left Sijiu City, there is a huge difference between going to Beidaxun and going to Nanyun. Beidaxun is a farm, stretching as far as the eye can see. Ran Qiuye cannot withstand the wild fields.

Going to Nanyun is different. Ran Qiuye may not be used to it at first, but there is no high-intensity work there, so it will be much easier.

"Thank you, Director Zhang. I really shouldn't say thank you." He Yuzhu kept thanking Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan looked at He Yuzhu and said, "This is nothing. There are not many people in Qiuye, and my parents will definitely be clarified in the future. Also, Qiuye is also out of filial piety this time. My busyness is nothing."

"Thank you, Director Zhang." Ran Qiuye also came over to thank him.

Just like that. Ran Qiuye went to Nanyun three days later. At the bus station that day, there were many parents who came to see him off, and there were also many young men and women going to Nanyun. Most of them were students, and they were girls. Almost every girl There were tears on their faces, and they beat their chests and feet crazily, hugged each other, and wiped each other's tears.

Seeing this scene, He Yuyu and Yu Haitang couldn't control themselves, and tears blurred their eyes.

Ran Qiuye also cried while hugging the two girls.

He Yuzhu watched all this quietly, and soon the car horn sounded and the wheels started slowly. At this time, the tragic scene reached its climax. The bodies and outstretched arms in the car filled the gap of the car window. The people waving their arms, old and young, male and female, were all shouting heartbreakingly, and some even kept running after the car.

This kind of scene is not limited to today. Soon after entering the 70s, a large number of students will leave Sijiu City and go to rural areas in various places. At that time, there will only be many more people leaving than today.

Although Nanyun is a little poor, fortunately the journey is not very far, so you can still see him if you want. The place where the students from Sijiucheng will go in the future will be even more distant and difficult.

But these are all meaningful, and it has truly trained a group of people, who will become the most important pillars of the country in the future.

On the third day after Ran Qiuye left, He Yuzhu went to Red Star Farm to meet Ran's father and Ran's mother. The two old people also suffered a lot on this farm. After all, this was not a place for fun.

He Yuzhu brought a lot of things to the two of them, and also talked about Ran Qiuye's current situation.

However, just when He Yuzhu was about to leave, Ran's father and Ran's mother asked He Yuzhu for one thing, that is, they hoped that He Yuzhu could marry Ran Qiuye. Ran's father told He Yuzhu that he felt that he and Ran's mother would not be able to leave alive. It's time here.

So Ran's father hoped that He Yuzhu and Ran Qiuye could get married, and He Yuzhu would take care of Ran Qiuye in the future. Only in this way would the two of them feel at ease. For a moment, He Yuzhu didn't know what to do, because at this time He Yuzhu had already had a relationship with Yu Haitang. .

(End of this chapter)