Fantasy world

17. Accompany Michelle to pick pigweed.

People who have never been in the countryside will definitely not know it, and people under a certain age will definitely have no idea. Looking for pigweed, a long time ago in the countryside, it was an extremely important project for every family.

During the people's commune period, rural areas were all large collectives, and large collectives were socialist, while family side businesses were all capitalist. At that time, when production conditions were extremely difficult and living conditions were extremely poor, country people were very hard-working in order to survive and live a basic life. They would try their best to raise a few pigs and chickens if they had the conditions or not. Eggs can be exchanged for some oil and salt, and raising a pig until it is ready for slaughter can almost earn a strong laborer a year's work points.

However, raising pigs and chickens are both family side jobs and also belong to capitalism. After going through the countryside, they took turns"chopping off the head and tail""、"After"cutting off the tail of capitalism", on the premise that family raising pigs and chickens cannot be completely eliminated, we can only limit the number of chickens raised. Setting the number of chickens raised by each family is socialism, and exceeding the number is capitalism. One year for slaughter One pig is socialism, and both pigs are capitalist. Thinking about this now, I think it’s funny, but at the time, who dared to laugh? Anyone who dared to laugh was a counterrevolutionary! In the past, chickens and pigs were raised in the countryside, and that was the real green Food. There is not enough food for people to eat. It is absolutely impossible to feed animals. As for special feeds and additives, that is unheard of. If you raise chickens, you have to rely on the chickens to peck the insects on their own. , forage for food; the best feed for raising pigs is bran and bran.

However, in those days, a family only had so much food rations. Of course, the amount of bran and bran was also limited. Even a family with several people would have to raise A pig cannot live without a pig. Therefore, as long as a pig is raised at home, the whole family has to look for pigweed all year round, so that a pig can be sent out of the slaughter.

At that time, in the countryside, after school and work every day, the whole family would look for pigweed in the corners of the fields. The scene is even more spectacular than the scene of collective work at work. Only adults work together, but in Pigweed, there is no distinction between men and women, and no distinction between young and old. From children of a few years old to elderly people in their decades, Looking for pigweed is their main job in their spare time.

Of course, the main responsibility of looking for pigweed is still the children. The task of looking for pigweed for Uncle Mi's family naturally falls on Michelle, as expected. Xiaoqiang He was still too young. Every time Michelle went to look for hogweed, he would follow her, but the effect was very limited. Looking for hogweed also requires a certain amount of technology. In addition to the dealers in the field, there are weeds. The collective dealers are They will never dare to move, and pigs will not eat all the weeds in the field. This requires skill. After finding a basket full of pigweed, you still have to have the strength to twist the basket of pigweed home. This is not easy.

In this regard, I am finally a little better than Xiaoqiang. Pigweed, then I was really blind. At that time, I was good at distinguishing crops from weeds. Most of the time , I always waited until Michelle found a basket full of pigweed and Xiao Qiang ran home to report, and then I ran to help Michelle go home. There is no fixed rest in the countryside, and rest is temporary. The captain informed me that sometimes it depends on the weather, and sometimes it depends on the solar terms. That day, the whole team happened to have a break, and the school also happened to be a weekday. Michelle had already retrieved a basket of pigweed in the morning, and she was probably not in a hurry for the afternoon task. She also saw me. She was bored at home, so she forced me to go looking for hogweed with her.

I couldn't resist her, so I had to take a basket and a small shovel and follow her slowly into the vast field of crops.

Entering the field, she First of all, she was very patient and meticulous. She taught me how to identify pigweed on the spot, and also taught me how to judge where there is more pigweed. I was also very humbly learning from her. But this job is really only suitable for children, and it is more tiring for adults than for children. There were more. She had been squatting in the crop field, digging while searching, and she dug a lot in a while. But I couldn't see it while standing, and I couldn't stand it, and after struggling for a long time, I couldn't dig out a few trees. I was still tired and my back and legs were sore. It hurts.

Seeing my embarrassment, Michelle couldn't help but show a bit of pride in front of me. She pulled me and asked me to lie down on the ridge of the field. She then stepped on my back and rubbed my shoulders.

"alright! You will carry the basket for me in a while, I don’t want you to suffer anymore"

"Cher! Before I was sent to the countryside, I really didn’t know how miserable and difficult the countryside was."

"That’s right! People in your city have good lives and riches, so how can you live in the countryside? elder brother! You still have to find a way, find connections, and try to get back to the city as soon as possible"

"Cher! The decentralization of educated youth is a major national policy and movement, and we can only follow the trend. You can't control your own destiny at all. Brother can only accept his fate!"

"elder brother! If you can't find a way to return to the city as soon as possible, then find a way to teach in a school. Then you don't have to work so hard. Several teachers in our school are also educated youths."

"Who doesn’t want to be a teacher? There is only one school like this in the whole brigade, and if people who want to go to it are not crowded, how can I have such a good life?"

"elder brother! How about we ask my cousin to see if she can help you?"

"cousin? She is just a regiment secretary and has little power. We can't make things difficult for her"

"My cousin is not an outsider. If she can help, she can help. If she can’t, just forget it. We won’t embarrass her."

"That's right! Needless to say, what can my cousin do to help? If we talk about things we can't help, aren't we just making things difficult for her?"

"elder brother! My cousin is so beautiful, smart and capable, but it's a pity that she can only stay in the country. She will get married in a few years, and this will be the end of her life."

"what did you say! My cousin’s partner has just been hooked up, and then my cousin will be able to join the army!"

"elder brother! The good things you mentioned will not be like a dream when the day comes. Didn't you see your cousin that day? Maybe the man has changed his mind a long time ago. My cousin loves face, so she won’t make any trouble for the time being!"

"Making trouble? What's the fuss about?"

"oops! You city dwellers just can’t understand this country thing."

"I don’t understand, that’s why I’m asking you!"

"ask me? Why don't you just ask your cousin! Your cousin is so kind to you, but you don't care about her at all! How heartless!"

I was choked by Xue'er and had nothing to say, with an embarrassed look on my face. Despite her young age, she really knows a lot more about the people and sophistication of the countryside than I do. She also has a quick mind and a quick mouth.

Ask my cousin, this kind of thing Do I dare to ask about things? It’s not my place to ask about things, good or bad. I’m asking for trouble, good or bad. Michelle is obviously making fools hit the wall. I’m not stupid! However, there seems to be something in Xue’er’s words. Could it be that Zhang Xiaolian The emotional relationship with my partner is really not good? But you can’t tell anything from her usual appearance? I don’t know why, what Michelle just said just seemed to hit the most sensitive and vulnerable part of my heart. Place. Zhang Xiaolian, the first dream goddess in my life who let me get so close to her and made me blush and my heart skip a beat when I saw her. Could she really be so unlucky? What kind of garbage is her partner? Such a fairy, such a perfect woman Don’t you know how to cherish it? What the hell are you talking about?