Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Sunshine Farm

"Xu Damao, did you use some despicable means to get rid of my brother's canteen director?" He Yuyu stood up and looked at Xu Damao coldly and angrily.

"Hey, you little girl, why are you speaking so harshly? What a despicable method. If you don't know how to speak, then don't speak." Lin Pandi immediately replied.

You must know that the Qin family now relies on Xu Damao, so the protection of Xu Damao comes from the heart.

"Yu Yu, Sister Qin, tell you, you can eat this food randomly, but you can't talk nonsense. Everyone knows how Deputy Director Xu is, how could he use any despicable means, but your own eldest brother used to like to steal food from the factory. I don’t know if I was used to taking food, but someone caught me, and that’s why I lost my position as canteen director.”

After saying that, Qin Huairu smiled coldly.

"Qin Huairu, are you speaking human language? Your family eats the most of the food my brother brought back, and now you are raking it up." He Yuyu's little face turned red with anger.

You must know that He Yuzhu was very clear about how kind He Yuzhu was to Qin Huairu's family in the past. As everyone knows, Qin Huairu's husband died young, and he left Qin Huairu with three young and ignorant children and a mother. Qin Huairu works in a factory and receives a meager salary.

In the past, when she was barely clothed, she relied on loans and food every month to survive.

He Yuzhu and Qin Huairu live together in a courtyard and work in the same factory. As a chef, Silly Zhu has the ability to put leftover food into a lunch box and take it home to enjoy himself.

However, Qin Huairu would stop Si Zhu every time. At this time, He Yuzhu would give Qin Huairu everything he ate.

What everyone doesn’t know is that in addition to robbing the food that He Yuzhu brought back from the steel rolling mill, Qin Huairu also robbed He Yuzhu’s salary and vouchers, food stamps, oil stamps, and cloth stamps, all of which were the targets of Qin Huairu’s robbery.

Then there is He Yuzhu's salary. If He Yuzhu's salary was thirty-seven and five yuan back then, at least half of it would have been defrauded by Qin Huairu. There are many, many reasons. The children need nutrition, the mother-in-law needs medicine, and the children are sick. When a relative at home is sick, he borrows money from He Yuzhu for various reasons. After the money is borrowed, he will not return a penny.

He Yuzhu treats the children of Qin Huairu's family as well as his own children. Others don't know it, but He Yuzhu is the one who has experienced it. She sees everything. He Yuzhu had a crush on Qin Huairu before, but now Seeing Qin Huairu slandering her brother like this, how could He Yuyu not be angry?

He Yuzhu looked at his sister who was angry, with a smile on his face, and then carefully patted his sister on the shoulder and said with a smile: "It's nothing, don't be sad, it's just a canteen director's hat, if you don't wear it, I won't wear it." , As long as you are good, brother, it doesn’t matter anything."

"Yeah.?"

At this time, Xu Damao showed a faint smile and said: "Well, there is one more thing I want to inform you about the He family. According to the temporary decision of our factory, He Yuyu wants He Yuyu to go to Dagang Village to enter the village."

As soon as these words came out, He Yuzhu's eyes changed slightly. Now he finally knew Xu Damao's true purpose, which was to get his sister to go to the countryside.

This made He Yuzhu a little unbearable. He Yuzhu stood up and looked at Xu Damao and asked: "Deputy Director Xu, my sister is now twenty-seven years old. She has passed her age. Why do she still go to the village?"

"Entering the village is what all our young people should take the initiative to do. Although Yu Yu is a little older, it doesn't mean that she can't enter the village. I proposed it at the meeting yesterday and everyone agreed. Unless Yu Yu is physically disabled, or It is because they are unwilling to obey the decision from above.

If that's the case, we should talk about it carefully. "

It’s really hard to go to the village at this time.

Many people don't understand this kind of suffering, but there are young people in Siheyuan who go to the village from below to visit relatives. Grandma Xia's grandson in Zhongyuan is one of the young people who came to the village.

When he came back, he told He Yuzhu, He Yuzhu and others that at noon on the first day he went to the countryside, a car took a dozen young men and women from Sijiu City to the livestock farm, and he was arranged to live in the second dormitory in the second row. .

The farm gave him farm tools, brown clothes and a bamboo hat. He followed the example of the young people who came to the village before and tied a thin hemp rope in the bamboo hat, adjusted the length and then tied it on his head. This begins.

At that time, it was the most tense time of the rice "double rush" (rush to harvest and plant). After having lunch and taking a short break, we followed everyone to "go to work" to "pulling out seedlings" in the rice seedling field next to the road in the direction of the Bukeng Brigade.

The sun was extremely hot that afternoon. The young people who came to the village were all tanned. He was very envious of their healthy "chestnut color". On a whim, he took off his vest and worked bare-chested. His whole back was turned red in the afternoon. By the time it was time to finish work and have dinner , and then took a shower at the nearby well. After returning to the dormitory, my whole back was burning.

A few days later, the skin on Grandma Xia's grandson's back peeled off in patches, and he seemed to be "reborn". From then on, he became tanned like everyone else, and he was no longer afraid of how cruel the sun was.

But if you think this is the end, you are totally wrong, this is just the beginning.

As soon as I went to the countryside, I happened to encounter a "double robbery". This is the most important and hardest farm work of the year. All the power that the whole field can mobilize pounced on it.

The most difficult job in Grandma Xia's grandson's field is the "Double Robbery" in Shangguanshan.

There are about 30 acres of rice fields in the mountain valley of Guanshan. Due to the cold water, the rice matures later than outside the mountains.

After arriving, they, the young people who entered the village, unloaded the threshing machine from the tractor parked halfway up the mountain and dragged it into the field, spreading their arms and cutting. At this time, the sun has risen, and it feels hot even before working. The young people who enter the village have to work until 11 o'clock when it is not the hottest time. After lunch, they walk to the waterman's house on the Guanshan Reservoir dam. , resting under the big tree next to the house, avoiding the hottest time at noon and afternoon, and continuing to work until after 3 o'clock in the afternoon until it gets dark.

The work in Guanshan has to be done every day, and it takes two or three days to finish it all.

There are two mud fields in Guanshan. The largest one is in the rice field below. There are several mountain springs under the fields. The mud water is filled with white slurry. When you step in, the whole mud will move. The young people who came into the village took Grandma Xia's grandson and a few new "lujiaozai" (egret feet, which means long legs in Zhangzhou dialect) to the mud fields.

The young people who came to the village threw the poles horizontally into the fields, and pressed their hands on the poles to go down to the fields. This can increase the resistance, and then spread some straw on top. People can work by kneeling on the straw as much as possible, but soon the straw was used by others. The weight sank.

When I first got in, the mud reached my knees. The deeper I cut, the deeper it reached my thighs. The muddy field was like thick paste with a huge suction force. My legs were sucked inside and it was very difficult to pull them out. I had to lean my upper body forward as much as possible. , first pull out one leg, kneel down, and then pull out the other leg. It is very strenuous to move forward like this.

After cutting the muddy fields, the young people who came to the village asked the newbies to wash the mud in the nearby ditch.

At this time, novices will be shocked to find that their legs have been stung by several black leeches.

The young men who came to the village were fine. They imitated the young men who came to the village. They pulled a straw stick, thrust it from the leech's head into its belly, then pushed it over and turned it over, and then stuck the straw stick on the ridge of the field to expose it to the sun. To relieve the hatred in your heart is to "annihilate an enemy."

Soon, a row of eliminated "enemies" were planted on the field ridge, and when the leech was pulled out, a blood mark was left on the leg.

However, many young women who came to the village were so frightened that their beauty turned pale. At this time, another group of older young women who came to the village would scold these newcomers. Such scolding would make a lot of people cry.

But there is no point in crying until you are done crying.

They still have to go to the muddy fields, and they still have to compete and not to be outdone.

After saying that, Grandma Xia’s grandson Xia Jun sighed and said that it was not a place for girls, and it was easy to miss home there. I remember it was during the autumn harvest that year, and Xia Jun and others were harvesting rice in Guanshan that day. A young man who came to the village was stuck in a muddy field harvesting late rice. At this time, a tractor suddenly came from the mountain road in the distance. There was a person sitting in the truck. Just when everyone was guessing who it was, a sharp-eyed woman came into the village and shouted. : "Captain Lin! Your mother is here to see you!"

The young man who had entered the village suddenly looked back for a moment, and suddenly shouted "Mom!" Unexpectedly, he got so much strength from nowhere, and pulled his legs out of the muddy field in the way of track and field athletes "raising their legs high". Taking three steps and two steps at a time, he rushed through the rice fields and ran towards the mountain. The valley echoed with the echoes of the young man who came to the village calling "Mom".

At that moment, all the young people who came to the village watched silently, and one young woman who came to the village shed emotional tears.

The progress of harvesting rice is very fast, and the bucket of the thresher is soon full. It needs to be collected in a dustpan and poured into a basket to be carried to the tractor on the mountain road.

The rice was very wet and heavy. It took a lot of effort to step on the slippery field ridges with bare feet. A load of rice weighed a hundred pounds. The young people who entered the village quickly adapted to it and could walk as fast as flying. There are also tips for cutting rice, stepping on a thresher, carrying a load to transplant rice, etc. For example, when cutting rice, you need to "sweep" it one by one with the blade of the knife facing down, like silkworms eating leaves; when stepping on a thresher, put your weight on your standing leg and follow the pedal with your other foot. Click the rhythm to let it bounce and click again. The forearms should be wrapped around and clamp the rice bundle; when carrying the burden, the pole should be moved according to the steps to save effort, etc.; after mastering the essentials, you must also have a "sense of rhythm" , work becomes smoother, as if I have composed a beautiful melody slowly flowing out of my body, and I feel a comfortable sense of creative accomplishment while working.

The rice served at "Shuangqiang" is the "official rice" in the restaurant. You can eat it freely. The vegetables are usually water spinach or cabbage, sometimes with some slices of meat. Since there was a shortage of oil at that time, the water spinach was boiled in the pot and then poured with some soy sauce. It tastes very astringent and will "slip" between the teeth when bitten and make a "squeaking" sound. Huang Weiming once said a very classic description: "It's like eating plastic sheet." After eating water spinach without oil, everyone's teeth were black.

I remember that it was probably after the autumn harvest when everyone got used to the intensity of labor and the simple and hard life. Two rows of calluses began to appear on the two palms. The soles of the feet that were barefooted every day became thicker and the skin also took on a healthy chestnut color.

The living place is very poor. There are three rows of dormitories in the narrow strip between the mountain and the flat rice fields in front. The first row has corridors, and ropes can be tied to the corridor pillars to dry clothes. There are seven or eight dormitories in the big row for young women who have entered the village. , there are three people living in each house, and there are three rooms in the row across the lane, where young men living in the village live.

There is a stone toilet built at the foot of the mountain across the road behind the dormitory. It is a "large cesspit with a stone on top" style that is common in Zhangzhou rural areas. You can see the bottom at a glance. No matter it’s windy or rainy, it’s dark or freezing, it’s “convenient” there.

The food was even worse. In the morning, I took a big enamel basin to the cafeteria and ate porridge. I used my meal ticket to buy rice from the cook. Then I washed it, added water, and steamed it in a basket. After work, I came back to get the rice. The cook gave me a spoonful of vegetables. Dinner was average. It is also porridge, used to make rice during busy farming times.

The main dish is water spinach in summer and cabbage in winter.

And there is no doctor there, so when you get sick, you have to rely on yourself. Fortunately, Xia Jun and the others have a barefoot doctor there.

In the second year, Xia Jun was responsible for planting small peppers. He found that there was a kind of white-core grass on the field ridge that grew very fast. It had just been hoeed down and it grew wildly in a few days. Xia Jun thought it was a bit like the "grass root" of herbal medicine, but it was smaller than The grass roots were thick, so I hoeed them and showed them to the barefoot doctor.

When she saw it, she said "Ouch", which startled Xia Jun and thought it was poisonous. Unexpectedly, she happily said that it was a good thatch root and asked Xia Jun to dig some back every day to boil water for everyone.

This grass root water tastes slightly sweet when you drink it, and it can relieve heat and detoxify.

This is the life of young people who have entered the village. How could He Yuzhu let his sister go to the village? This time Xu Damao really hit He Yuzhu's side.

At this time, He Yuzhu looked at Xu Damao with a ruthless look on his face and said calmly: "Deputy Director Xu, since you want to play with me, then I, He Yuzhu, will play with you. Don't try to use a big hat to suppress me.

I, He Yuzhu, said that my sister will not go to the village, and you should be careful and don't let me catch you. As long as you are caught by me, I will make you suffer and walk away this time. "

"Silly Zhu. What do you think you are? You are just a stinky cook who can cook some food. In fact, you are just a slave. I, Xu Damao, will leave this message to you today. This He Yuyu will definitely go to the village. She If she dares not to go, I will let her enter the transformation farm. There are two places, your family can choose."

Xu Damao didn't hide it, he just started ruthlessly!

(End of this chapter)