The hardships of rural parents are far heavier than you think.

Because of my own reasons, I mainly didn't keep my promise to my father, and I pushed it from April to May, and then from May to June. It's going to be July again, and there is no turning point and no hope. My last will and patience are slowly being swallowed up by repeated disappointments, and I am close to the edge of nothing. I feel humiliated and the whole person is wrapped in a feeling of guilt and regret. /kloc-I haven't spoken to my parents for 0/4 days. Faced with all kinds of difficulties, I forced myself to dial my father's phone. It's not that I don't want to call my parents, but that I really have no courage.

As soon as I got on the phone, I heard my mother's tired voice. This is a voice I can't be more familiar with. That's the voice after being tortured by the hard work of farm work for a day It was that voice that made me sad, shed tears and deeply blamed myself. Just after the phone was connected, my mother asked her how she was doing before I came and how to say it. The feeling of caring is nearly 100 kilometers away, slowly flowing out of the voice that I will never forget. This sound will be remembered for a lifetime. There are no parents who don't care about their children and no children who don't care about their parents. Whether you are an innocent and carefree child or an experienced and sophisticated old child, you will always be a treasure in the eyes of your parents. No matter whether this treasure is radiant or plain, their eternal love has never wavered or changed. Compared with what they have done for their children and families, what they have done is really eclipsed and ashamed.

I haven't been home for more than three months now. I can only learn about my parents' recent physical condition and the general progress of various farm work from my chat with my mother. I talked with my mother for nearly half an hour. From her words of disappointment, helplessness and sadness, I can know for sure that this year's peach harvest will be extremely bleak and even difficult to break even. To outsiders, they are unknown so, but for the people in the core area of Yimeng Mountain, their hopes and expectations for the whole year are almost 100% pinned on these peaches, apples and other fruits. If the harvest is not good, it means that the annual income is hopeless, and the later days will also face a tight or even difficult situation. Ordinary people's confidence and dependence on life comes from these agricultural products that condense their hard work, tears and sweat. This is alive and cold.

Daigu Town, located in the south of Shandong Province, is mountainous, with extremely inconvenient transportation and poor soil. Especially the land on the mountain is mostly small shale particles, and there is no soil fertility at all. Daigu is densely populated and there are not many relatively flat basins, so most of the land of each household is concentrated in mountainous areas, which increases the difficulty of agricultural production. In summer, the weather is hot, the evaporation is fast, and there is little rain, which is basically equivalent to relying on the weather to eat. I am deeply touched by this, and that hard memory is indelible. Our family has several acres of peach orchards, all of which are halfway up the mountain where roads and irrigation are extremely inconvenient. Watering the orchard every time is an extremely difficult task, comparable to running a half marathon. On the flat and open ground at the foot of the mountain, it is easy to water the orchard halfway up the mountain, but it is really a very laborious process. Before 20 14, there was no water source on the mountain, so parents needed to pump the river water at the foot of the mountain to the reservoir halfway up the mountain with a diesel engine, and then pump it to the orchard with a submersible pump. The vertical distance from the foot of the mountain to the halfway up the mountain was nearly 800 meters. It is difficult for domestic diesel engines with average power to directly pump the water at the foot of the mountain to the orchard halfway up the mountain, so a motor relay is needed to send the water to the orchard halfway. This is still under the condition that there is water in the river. If there is not enough water in the river, it will be even more laborious, and we must go further to find water. In 20 14, my parents were cruel and spent 10,000 yuan to drill a well nearly 100 meters behind the house, which finally solved the water source problem and slightly eased the hardships of life. Pumping the orchard is only the first step, and the next step can only be said to be worse and more torturous, because the orchard is located on the slope halfway up the mountain and distributed in a terraced way. Coupled with the small plot and low crown, parents can only bow under the tree. In some places, you can only squat and move forward bit by bit, because the space is too narrow, cramped and cramped. The clear and cheerful river water pumped up will not flow smoothly in the orchard as you wish. On the potholed ground, the current is fast and slow, so my parents need to level the place with a shovel for a while, then plug the gap and go back and forth, which is cumbersome and helpless. The diesel engine at the foot of the mountain and the submersible pump halfway up the mountain are not very worry-free Occasionally there will be an emergency stop during running. Just in case, my father will go down the mountain from time to time to look after two machines to ensure that they work normally, plus laying water pipes along the way at the beginning and winding them at the end. Going back and forth, watering the orchard once, I don't know how many times I have to toss it back and forth, and all this is to make the summer heat. Fruit trees that have been thirsty for a long time can have a hearty drink, so that the withered leaves can be propped up again and some withered fruits can become watery and huge as soon as possible. If irrigation can achieve the expected effect, then the effort is worthwhile, but I am afraid it is in vain. As mentioned earlier, the soil on the mountain is mostly granular shale, which is relatively dispersed, with large gaps and not too sticky. Therefore, the pumped water can't stay for a long time at all, and soon it will easily seep to the bottom and flow out. A funny and helpless phenomenon is that the land above has just been watered for a long time. Ten meters away from the corner of the plot, fine water has seeped out, so that the roots of fruit trees can not enjoy the slow moisture and care of the river. Many times, I wonder, can these fruit trees be as big as big mouths? When I meet water, I will take the opportunity to drink a big cup and make my stomach swell. I hope that the recent large-scale rainfall can alleviate the severe drought in my hometown, let those fruit trees drink enough at a time, let my parents have a good rest, and also hope to bring a little coolness to the villagers who are suffering from high temperature.

Irrigation is only one aspect of a lot of work before harvest, and there is still a lot of work to be done by tireless parents. With the development of society and the improvement of price level, the costs of pesticides, fertilizers, fruit bags, diesel oil, irrigation and labor are increasing year by year. The most obvious is the rising speed of the labor cost of fruit bags. One or two years ago, the daily cost of a person was about 100 yuan, but now it has risen to 135 yuan. For ordinary rural people, this is not a small expense. You know, with people's requirements and standards for the quality of agricultural products, as well as the improvement of safety and health awareness, it is the general trend and imperative for fruit farmers to put protective bags on their fruits in order to make them look better in color, shape and taste, so as to sell them at a better price. After all, this is a common practice of fruit farmers in other regions. For fruit farmers with a slightly larger planting scale, they must catch up before the end of the best time. It is not enough to put all peaches and apples in fruit bags by ourselves, so it is inevitable to hire someone to help. The more people there are, the daily cost will be nearly 1000 yuan. In order to save money as much as possible, parents often only hire people to help for two or three days, and the rest are still determined by themselves as much as possible. In the busiest period of fruit bagging, parents will get up at about 4: 30 in the morning, work in the orchard until about 7: 30, and go home for breakfast when the weather is cool. In the afternoon, they won't go home until dark. The degree of hardship can be imagined. I used to do this job when I was at home during the summer vacation. I really remember the feeling of touching my skin. In hot weather, I shuttled through the stuffy and hot peach garden, and my hands kept swimming on every fruit tree. I first took out the fruit bag from the cloth bag hanging on my chest, and my right hand was soaked with water with a sponge to open the paper fruit bag conveniently. Then I chose a suitable position on the branch and put the peach into the fruit bag completely. The inside is tied tightly with thin wire. This process is repeated by my parents thousands of times every day. Secondly, the most maddening thing is that you have to put up with that itchy, painful and extremely uncomfortable feeling. This feeling of being tortured by peach hair in summer really makes people feel the urge to pick all the peaches and throw them away. In less than one morning, their ten fingers were dyed black by the fruit bag, which was caused by repeated bagging.

In addition to all kinds of unfavorable natural conditions faced by agricultural production and the rapid rise of agricultural materials costs, farmers have to be alert to all kinds of unknown natural disasters. Sometimes I think that in the face of all kinds of ruthless and tyrannical natural disasters, honest farmers are really unfortunate and miserable, and the world on which they live and have high hopes will add some hardships to them, making their already extremely unsatisfactory life worse, seriously failing their trust and attachment to heaven and earth, and seriously hurting their single and simple feelings. What simple and honest peasant brothers expect is nothing more than good weather, good harvest and good price. Besides, they really don't want too much. Just a few days before I called my father, yinan county, which belongs to Linyi City, was hit by heavy rainfall, gale and hail. The county's direct economic loss17.8 million yuan. Many fruits and fruits that are about to be harvested are devastated, like a sudden disaster. Many people's efforts for a year suddenly went up in smoke, the building of hope collapsed in an instant, and all kinds of beautiful dreams were completely shattered. Think of the devastated scene. This is a kind of luck. According to my father, the loss of my orchard in this round of disasters is very small, which can be comforted, but who can guarantee that it will escape the next round of disasters and be safe and sound? I still clearly remember that in 20 15, my home in Taoyuan, a contracted land by the river, experienced a long-lasting gale, and many peach trees were destroyed by violent shaking. After the wind stopped, my father looked anxiously at the damaged situation and the peaches that were blown to the ground. Father's sad and angry expression is still fresh in my mind. Even if it is sold smoothly when it is mature, it is safe. I can't help but think of the scene that my parents sometimes have to wear raincoats and brush the rain to pick peaches in the orchard in order to catch up with the loading on time. Parents wearing wet clothes, struggling to push a small iron car on the rugged and muddy road, struggling to carry peaches; Parents don't have time to eat, so they stay up all night carefully selecting, grading, packing, weighing and washing. As long as I can get a good price in the end and meet my psychological expectations, I feel that I have not been busy in vain. Even if I am tired, my parents who are not demanding will be happy and willing. What I am afraid of is that the fruit will hurt farmers, and the price is too low, even the capital is barely broken. It's a heartbreaking feeling after a busy day. From my mother on the other end of the phone, I learned that the price of early peaches is not very optimistic this year. According to the convention, whenever the boxed peaches are no longer priced by the catty, they are priced directly by the box, which is the performance of the complete decline in peach prices. At this time, a box of 30-40 Jin peaches was basically priced around 20 yuan, which became a veritable chicken rib, and the hard work of the day was in vain.

The parents of farmers all over the world are really tired and hard, and life is really not easy. Of course, every era, every region, every nation and even everyone has frustrations, setbacks and blows unknown to outsiders. They all have their own difficulties. When the emotional and rational factors such as fate, life, ideal and struggle are intertwined, it also shows all kinds of human beings and different generations. The countryside and farmers are typical of their sufferings. Now, there are such a group of people, who tell their yearning for the past rural life and field labor scenes from time to time, but in fact, this is their nostalgia for the past years and the recollection of rural feelings. When they really see through the real state and specific content of rural life, I think few people will have such wishful thinking. I am a native of the countryside, and I know the great hardships that farmers have to pay to maintain their lives. If I were you, I would never want to go back to my old hometown, because I prefer the city life now. When you are complaining about the interpersonal relationship of intrigue, monotonous day after day, endless overtime, and the boss who is difficult to serve, have you ever thought about the working environment of farmers' parents and all kinds of heavy physical labor they undertake? In a sense, compared with them, you are undoubtedly lucky. At least you won't get out of the sun, get caught in the rain or blow. There is air conditioning in summer and heating in winter, which also determines that you have to carry it.

For many farmers' parents, besides their own children, I think land is the most haunting thing for them, and they love them all their lives. They shouted and fought all their lives in the vast yellow land, silently fighting against fate. Whether you succeed or fail, you will eventually turn into a handful of white ashes and return to the place where you have fought all your life. No one will doubt the broad, generous, inclusive and selfless character of this land, because it is the ultimate destination of all people.