"The family, idle month less, people twice as busy in May. At night, the south wind rises and the wheat turns yellow. " In the big-character poster class, when Mr. Zhang in primary school assigned us to write something similar, it meant that the wheat harvest season had arrived. Several hot southwest winds blew one after another, and the original green ears of wheat turned yellow day by day like magic until the whole field turned golden. It seems that overnight, the empty threshing floor has been built like a pile of wheat.
Gold paves the floor, and the old and the young bend over. Wheat harvest is one of the most important seasons in rural areas. If we don't seize every moment to harvest and thresh, once we are hit by heavy rain, the annual harvest will basically be finished, which is the worst nightmare for farmers. Therefore, cultivators call the wheat harvest season "wheat mouth", which means that wheat is the most important ration in a year. Later, in order to improve saline-alkali land, turn drought into water and promote irrigation, rice became an important food for people, so the rice harvest season was called "rice thing".
In the wheat harvest season, it is customary for all schools to have a wheat holiday to show their support for agricultural production. But what can we primary school students do? At that time, there was a classic old song called "I am a small member of the commune", which sang: "I am a small member of the commune ..... mowing grass and accumulating fertilizer to collect wheat ears, and the more I work, the more I like it ..." Senior students will naturally help adults cut wheat, pull carts and turn fields, while our junior students, who are young and weak, can only do some auxiliary work, just like the song says-
Cutting, pulling, threshing and drying are essential links in wheat harvest and a race with God. Therefore, in the wheat harvest season, people basically have no rest time, and they all rotate day and night. Even after midnight, the threshing floor was still crowded and the sound of machines rumbled. When wheat reaches the field, it will be threshed. At that time, there were no combine harvesters or even ordinary threshers. Wheat threshing depends entirely on cattle pulling stones or tractors pulling stones. A stone scorpion weighs nearly five or six hundred, and a strong yak can only pull one; But walking tractors can pull two. The old cow can only wander slowly, and it is not urgent to walk fast. If the whip is tight and hurried, the old cow will simply stop and go on strike. In contrast, the superiority of machinery is greatly revealed, not only pulling much, but also running fast. The driver only needs to step on the tractor's right handle with his right foot, raise the nose, then kill the handle to the right to the maximum angle, and release the clutch. The tractor will turn quickly according to a fixed trajectory, which looks awesome, but it doesn't have much scientific and technological content.
When we were young, we especially envied our brothers who drove tractors around the threshing floor. Watching the thick wheat straw gradually thin and flatten under the rolling wheels and stones, we have a great sense of accomplishment and are also very chic. I have a faint impulse to follow the tractor, but I was severely warned by my family not to go near those stone scorpions. That stupid guy who weighs several hundred pounds, under the strong inertia, once he flies out of the wooden frame, it is a great event to be rubbed, ranging from broken bones to broken bones, or even losing his life.
When a piece of wheat straw is leveled, we will immediately grab the iron fork and rush up, shake the wheat straw loose, let the wheat fall, and turn it over at the same time, ready for the tractor to hit it on the back. Generally speaking, after two rounds, we will leave the field, that is, we will collect wheat stalks and pile them up. Then put a new field and let the tractor or the old cow run it over again, and so on.
After threshing, it is dried; Keep it dry. Catgut is to remove wheat fish (wheat awn, wheat skin, broken wheat straw, etc.). ) mixed in wheat grains for easy storage. Chang Yang seems simple, and the rest is technical work. First of all, we should observe the wind direction, determine our position and the falling point of the wheat, and constantly adjust the position according to the change of the wind direction to ensure that the wheat falls in one place; The second is that you can borrow money. It is said that "the good wind sent me to Qingyun with its strength." It is necessary to use the moment when the wind blows to accurately send wheat, wheat and fish to the tuyere, let the wheat fall by gravity, and blow the wheat and fish away by the wind.
Teacher Yu is the most famous trick in the village. Watching him perform is like watching a famous painter draw and an athlete throw a hammer. His movements flow freely like running water. When a gust of wind came, he grabbed the shovel, his arm was strong, and his muscles jumped up and down like a little mouse, but he couldn't lift it. A shovel full of wheat grains and fish drew a beautiful arc and were sent high to the tuyere. Under the action of gravity, wheat grains fall vertically like raindrops, while wheat fish float out of the distance like catkins. He has another unique skill that no one in the village can match. The general handle can only be played when there is wind, and he can also play when there is no wind. He will use his strong arm to send the heavier wheat grains to far places, while the lighter wheat fish will fall from far to near according to the weight of shells, grass and awns, thus forming a long wheat fish road on the ground. At this time, even the plowman who is also an excellent soldier will sincerely send out a series of exclamations.
In the wheat harvest season, the most intense activity is grabbing fields. They all say, "June day, crying your face, I don't know how many things have changed in one day." No, it was sunny just now, and in a blink of an eye, it was already a storm and dust, and the rolling dark clouds rolled into a battle, and the disease flew like a meteor. Red dragonflies and yellow dragonflies, which are driven by the wind in the wheat field, are flying about, and any broom can throw them off. The bell of the railing under the old willow tree is depressing and moving, and the shouts of "grabbing the field, grabbing the field" come one after another.
Everyone grabbed baskets, baskets and other appliances and ran to the ground, without mobilizing at all. Because as we all know, this battle is directly related to the quality of life in the coming year, specifically the question of eating cake or drinking porridge. At this time, the production team leader is of course the commander-in-chief. He will orderly command this one to make a passbook in the warehouse, and that one will be responsible for transporting the grain to the warehouse. Who else will prepare for the emergency of plastic film ... Many farmers have experienced this scene many times, so there are many people in the field, but the division of labor is clear and they are very busy.
The scene of robbery is the most common theme in our primary school composition. According to the principle of "Three Highlights" in a specific period at that time, the production team leader was of course the most important core figure, who kept calm in times of crisis and had the demeanor of a general. Of course, the backbone of the game grab is the hero among the positive figures. They are all heavy-eyed, squatting, carrying a hundred kilograms of wheat on their shoulders in one hand, and then walking like flies; Of course, the rest are ordinary people who eat melons, but they also do their jobs and show their magical powers. In view of the scene at that time, I made up a jingle in my composition to describe it: "shovel shovel shows its ability, and palladium broom shakes magnificently." Two arms waving lightning, feet running like flying. "Teacher Zhang, who teaches Chinese, enjoyed it very much and felt very creative. He drew a red circle under each word and read it as a model essay in the class.
The ending of the article is naturally a great victory, and everyone is happy. "The wind stopped, the rain stopped, white clouds, shoot colorful light. The captain and the masses saw all the food in the warehouse, and their tired faces showed a gratified smile. " But in fact, it is often counterproductive, and the speed of grabbing the field can't keep up with the speed of the storm. Often less than half of the wheat is grabbed, and the wind is wrapped in rain particles and whipped like a whip. Wheat grains flow around helplessly with the rain, and people use brooms, ponchos, firewood and folded books in vain to stop the escaped wheat grains. A few days after the rain, green wheat seedlings grew in the low-lying areas around the wheat fields. Wheat soaked in rain is distributed to families, made into cakes that stick like rubber, and cooked into porridge that sticks like paste.
The ideal is full, but the reality is often very skinny. We always like to do things perfectly in articles, but no matter how beautifully packaged, we can't help but tap the cruel reality. Every year, a small pile of wheat is soaked in rain, so we have to experience unpalatable food that sticks like rubber every year. Alas, we learned to cover up the reality when we were primary school students. It is conceivable that how many articles written by adults are true?