Now that I have settled down, I have become a farmer in this remote village.

The era when the educated youth were decentralized was the period of great development of people's communes. The people's commune system was based on the production team as the basic labor unit and the production brigade as the basic accounting unit. The entire labor force is divided into work groups by the production team, points are recorded according to work points, and remuneration is distributed according to work points.

I am an educated youth who has just been transferred from the city. Logically speaking, I should belong to the young and middle-aged male labor force. If I were assigned to such a group, I should be responsible for the most painful and tiring heavy physical work on the production team. However, Captain Qingyuan is really a good person. He knew that I, a young boy who came from the city, could not bear such a crime all of a sudden. On my first day at work, he asked me to follow Uncle Mi during this period and learn to do basic farm work. Now, I feel much more at ease.

Considering my studies, Captain Qingyuan also made special tasks for Uncle Mi. They were separated from the main force and did odd jobs alone.

The first farm work Uncle Mi taught me was plowing. Plow? Now it's very simple. Once the tractor starts, the plow is hooked up, and the ground is ready after a few huffing circles. How could it be like this in those days and months? To plow, you first need to be able to harness an ox. Most of the water towns are populated by buffaloes. The temper of the buffalo is originally more violent and stubborn than that of the ox. People say he is as stubborn as a cow! This refers to the buffalo. In particular, buffalo have a pair of sharp and long horns. That thing makes people tremble just looking at it. Also, buffaloes are very bully and are quite honest when meeting acquaintances. If you meet a stranger, you will be greeted by two big horns.

My first day's work was to learn plowing from Uncle Mi. The first step in plowing is to put the lasso on the assigned buffalo to pull the plow. This really stumps me. First of all, I would like to have a good relationship with this cow, but the cow doesn't recognize me. Before I get close, it stares at me with its two big eyes. If I get closer, its two horns won't show up. Turn me upside down?

That! It's not easy to have a good relationship with this beast. These beasts are actually similar to humans. Most of them bully the weak and fear the strong. If it is ruthless, then you must be more ruthless than it is. If he doesn't obey orders, he'll be whipped hard with a whip. This is the first move of the Eighteen Niu Subduing Palms that Uncle Mi taught me. Of course, give it a try and touch it. Give it something sweet to taste, such as taking it to the river to drink water! Come and take a shower in the water! etc! snort! Fucking beasts do this too!

Don't tell me, I haven't fully mastered the art of dealing with animals until the end. Especially those stubborn bulls, my legs feel weak when I see them. So much so that after staying in the countryside for so long, the most I used was cows that looked very docile.

On the first day, Uncle Mi actually didn’t ask me to do anything. He just introduced me to a lot of work experience and let me watch him do it first. the following few days. Captain Qingyuan still arranged it this way. I couldn't hide and be lazy all the time, so I started to study little by little.

With Uncle Mi's care and personal manipulation, the plow rope was finally put on the cow. Harness the oxen and start plowing. The iron plows in the water towns have a very weird shape. They look a bit like a triangle, with a pointed front and a fan-shaped back, but at the same time it is concave in the middle to form an arc. This thing is not something I can boast of. Among the young people in the countryside now, I am afraid that not many of them can still do it.

You have managed to maneuver the plow, but when the whip is waved or the ox moves, the plow tip suddenly snaps or goes astray. Your cow is focused on plowing, but that cow doesn't follow the rules and runs around. Also, if this section of the field is not plowed well, you have to ask the ox to move back, but the ox will run forward and move back as if it kills it. This is also something that can kill you. From then on, I thought, is there any animal in the world that is dumber than a cow? Cows are the stupidest, even stupider than pigs.

After learning to plow, learn to harrow again. This harrowing skill is also very profound. A rake is about the same length and width as a door, but has only a few centimeters of frame, and a ring of iron teeth nailed on top, that's it. Rake the ground, that is, use this thing to crush the large clods of soil that have been plowed in the ground. When raking the ground, the oxen pulls the rake in front, and your people must step on the rake with both feet, because underneath there are some uneven and large pieces of yellow mud. You have to stand motionless on it, which is much more technical than those athletes on the balance beam.

If these farm work were just techniques, that would be fine. The most terrible thing is that these things require a lot of physical strength, and they must be exposed to the scorching sun, wind and rain. No wonder many people would rather do dirtier and more tiring work in factories than farm work. And here’s the key.

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