Farm educated youth meet grasshoppers by transplanting rice seedlings

the world of mortals in the floating world chapter 12: educated youth in the farm meet with ants when transplanting rice

When cousin Xiaoqin and other educated youth arrive at Hongxing Farm, their main job is to plant rice besides reclaiming land from the sea.

The farm is a big farm. Look at the clear water and green fields, which are divided into pieces by neat ridges. Sometimes several egrets fly in the field, roaming in the field with long thin legs, and chirping crisply from time to time. Going to the paddy field in the field is really like putting some mirrors there, setting off the sky and mountains vividly.

when the trees are budding and the grass is just showing its head shyly, when spring has just broken away from the thick ice, and people just want to take off their heavy cotton-padded clothes, it is the time when it is warm and cold, and it is also the most difficult time to rest. At that time, it was a crucial period for planting rice, and the plan for the year was spring. There are twelve companies on the whole farm, each with more than 2 people. From the farm to the company to the platoon to the class, we started to devote ourselves to the intense rice planting work.

When the spring breeze was chilly, Xiaoqin and other educated youths took off their shoes and socks, rolled up their sleeves, and went to the rice field to make seedbeds. This is a very hard job. At that time, when the water was tried, it was often very cold, not to mention that we went into the water. Girls often want to take off their shoes and socks shyly, but they blush with shame and carry their male workmates on their backs. They pick up the clods and go back to their funny companions. One of them says, "Wow, your calves are so white and your feet are so slim, and the young man over there is a searchlight for you." Haha, my little sister Kobayashi, look at you in the paddy field. Hey, we are walking in this cold paddy field, which is really like a weak willow. "

The girls are talking and laughing, and the gathering of young girls always makes the lonely paddy field lively and cheerful. In the process of picking up, pushing and shoving, we walked down the paddy field one by one, screaming and trembling, and worked in the paddy field. At that time, rice planting was often carried out by Dai Yue, who got up at three o'clock. Lesbians were responsible for rice planting and gay men were responsible for carrying seedlings. The paddy field is very long, and everyone is equally responsible for transplanting six ridges according to the division of labor. Only those who have finished transplanting can eat, otherwise they can only leave themselves in the field to transplant rice. If the transplanting falls behind, it will be more difficult because there are seedlings on both sides.

Xiaoqin is the monitor, so she can only rush to do the dirty work. Although she is not tall and weighs less than 4 kilograms, she doesn't frown in front of people. She always smiles sweetly and says to others, "I am not afraid of the cold since I was a child. Let me try it first." She always takes off her shoes and socks neatly and walks quickly down the paddy field. Although my heart trembled with cold. But she can't frown, can't back down. Then Ben won't dare to go to the fields. The division of labor in Xiaoqin class is like this. Men carry seedlings and women transplant seedlings. Xiaoqin is always quick-footed at ordinary times and always takes the lead in transplanting seedlings in the class. She shouted to the people in the class: "There are men in the class. We are not afraid. " This cry, the male workers who wanted to gloat and point out the embarrassing situation of the little sister's paddy field, was immediately aroused the man's self-esteem. Under the shouting of a male worker: "It's a man's field." So all the male workers went to the fields. The girls also quickly joined the intense collective labor.

and making seedbeds is a delicate job. Almost every piece of mud is pinched, divided into strands, and then leveled with a scraper. We have finished the seedbed. Look at the model of the seedling field here. The seeds soaked in the well should be taken back and soaked in warm water to promote the seedlings. Yellow rice seeds stick out a thin white tooth before they can be thrown into the rice field and covered with film. At that time, when we were working collectively again, all the workers went to the fields to scrape moss and cut grass, and they came back to chop it up and scattered it in the rice field to provide protection temperature for the development of rice seedlings. This is the first season rice. After the seedlings were raised, the educated youth began to transplant rice seedlings. The most bitter thing in the world is planting seedlings.

Red Star Farm is very vast, with thousands of people. The landscape of transplanting rice seedlings is extremely spectacular. At that time, there was no machinery at all. Apart from plows instead of farm animals, there was no way to transplant rice seedlings with the help of machines. In the season of planting seedlings, educated youth usually get up at dawn, tie a bath towel around their waist, go out barefoot, drag a handful of straw on the haystack, stand on tiptoe and walk into the paddy field. They are not afraid of the cold water in the early morning, grab the seedlings, start work with both hands, grab a handful of washed mud, and then tie them into a handful with a few straws and throw them behind them.

What scares girls most about transplanting rice seedlings is leeches. My feet are soaked in water, and it's cold, and I have to guard against grasshoppers. Xiaoqin is standing up in front, and my companion screams, "Wow, you have something on you." Xiaoqin changed her voice in fear and said, "Get it down for me." Chuchu said quickly, "Don't move." Pinched the things on her body for her. Sogeum thought it was a dead leaf, but it was sticky and full of flesh when it was pinched in her hand. Chuchu held back the annoyance in her heart and put something close to her eyes, only to find that it was a worm with yellow and black patterns on its abdomen, still wriggling in her hand.

sogeum screamed again and threw it out quickly.

"what's the matter? Something. " Wei Gang asked.

"I don't know," Chuchu said trembling. "It's disgusting."

while talking, I suddenly felt a pain in my calf. sogeum bent down and rolled up his trouser legs, only to see the same thing sticking to my snow-white calf.

"It ran on my leg." Chuchu was frightened to disgrace.

Wei Gang bent down and pinched it down: "It's a leech."

Chu Chu was puzzled: "What is a leech?" They have all lived in the city since childhood, but they have heard of this kind of thing, but they have never seen it.

"leeches are leeches," Wei Gang said. "They suck human blood and body fluids, and generally live in water. There must be many such things in our rice fields." Lu Feng and others also heard the sound coming, looked at what Wei Gang had in his hand, and said affirmatively, "It's a leech, sucking human blood, so be careful at home."

"ouch." Weygand eyebrows a wrinkly, stretched out his hand behind the neck, open your hand, unexpectedly is two leeches.

"Look, there is another grasshopper." Next to Xiaolu's finger, she asked for water plants, and sure enough, there was a grasshopper crawling near the water plants. With her loud cry, everyone took a closer look, and the water plants were densely covered with three black grasshoppers, the size of each little finger, like a maggot. From time to time, grasshoppers fell to the ground.

Several people felt pain on their bodies one after another, and each looked for it with sleeves, and found that this kind of thing was actually stained on their arms, calves or calves. The most serious thing was Wei Gang. I don't know when his calves were covered with grasshoppers, but he didn't realize it. One by one, he sucked enough blood, slipped round and clung to his legs. Everyone was in a panic, and Zhang Mai shouted: "Tie the cuffs of the trouser legs tightly, and don't let the leeches get into the clothes."

Everyone in too many cooks caught the leeches, but they couldn't clean them anyway. However, there have been leeches sticking to the body. As long as they stick to the body, they immediately climb to the exposed part of the body and cling to the skin tightly, and they can't pull it off. To everyone's horror, I don't know when, under the seedlings in the paddy field, in the grass, and even on the ridge of the field, grasshoppers were covered. These grasshoppers seemed to obey some kind of call, twisting their black bodies and swimming towards us from all directions. It was soft and sticky, and it took a long time to pull off the sticky hands.

Fortunately, there was an educated youth from Shandong in the class who knew how to prevent grasshoppers. He was very prepared. He prepared a lime bottle in advance, grabbed the grasshoppers and threw them into the lime bottle. When I went to the paddy field on the slope to transplant rice seedlings, grasshoppers came in droves and planted two rows of seedlings, so I had to go to the field to catch grasshoppers once. Because there are so many leeches that you can't finish them, you can only sweep them by hand and get rid of them. There is a saying on the farm: leeches listen to the water. As long as there is a noise in the water, the leeches follow the waves. Educated youth transplanting, generally do not touch.

Transplanting is a tiring job. Insert a row and look at the one that has not been inserted. It is white and dare not be lazy. Keep burying your head, grasping the seedlings with one hand and planting them in the water with the other. Twenty or thirty meters long, they all bowed their heads, their palms were wrinkled by blisters, and they were pale and bloodless. Two points, a butt sitting on the ridge, the male educated youth took out a cigarette to light one, sitting next to a sentence without saying that the scary leeches, sogeum watching the part that was not inserted, and sat still, stood up and went to the rice field to carry seedlings.

The birds on the mountain are buzzing, and the young people are always thinking about happy things. Young men are smoking cigarettes in the fields, talking dirty words to the educated women here, but they don't pay attention to a stumble, and the basket flies away. People also sit down on the wet ridge. Suddenly, there is a burst of laughter from women in the rice fields. After a day's work, my back ached, I couldn't stand up straight, and my eyes were swollen. When it was time for dinner, as soon as we saw the food, we swarmed into it, our chopsticks moved and we enjoyed ourselves.

When the weather is warm, it is necessary to prevent birds from pecking at the second-season rice. Tie it into a human shape with straw, put on a hat, put on clothes, and tie two film straps on your arms, making a loud noise in the wind to drive away birds. If it doesn't work, someone has to stand at the head of the field and knock gongs or shoot guns until the rice seedlings are green. The educated youth on the farm are so busy growing rice year after year. There are joys and sorrows.