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Chapter 65 You can never think of 12-(Xue Feng)

Collected Works of Lu Yao 路遥 4009Words 2018-03-20
Don't think that the desert climate is always so unpleasant.The desert also has refreshing wind, refreshing fine rain, and fresh air and clean ground that are not found in other places.Now, after a rain, the desert looks completely different.In some places with water or humidity, green life has grown tenaciously.All the trees and shrubs have also begun to be decorated with fresh green leaves, giving people a scene full of vitality.The boundless desert in the distance suddenly froze like a huge and turbulent sea.really interesting!Those sand soldiers who rolled in the strong wind in early spring are now lying on the ground like countless tired oxen, but they still retain their posture when they are in motion.The curves of the dunes are indescribable; the whole desert is made up of these countless wonderful parabolas that connect to each other.

The surroundings of the farm have become an indescribable joy.Because there are many trees here, it is already green from a distance.Some nameless small yellow flowers are dotted among the vegetation like broken gold.In cities and fertile plains, these plants and flowers may not be so rare, but this is a desert!According to reports, our farm is just a low-lying beach, because the distant desert has no time to suck its water after the heavy rain, and then overflows and gathers here.After a long period of time, a large pool of water was formed.People in the desert love water like life, and seeing nature send them such a large piece of water, they love it very much.On hot days, the surrounding farmers and herdsmen come here to bathe and swim in groups, and as a result, many of them drowned one after another.The superstitious farmers thought that there were goblins in the water, so they manually drained the water into the distant Wave River.

After the water flowed away, a layer of vegetation gradually appeared on the ground.Later a farm was built here.After more than ten years of construction, a large area of ​​farmland and forests and grasses have appeared here... Now I am here, just trying to expand this green color. Sadly, the current leaders of the farm don't seem to be keen on my job.However, no matter what the management is, since he is here, he must make a name for himself! After a period of intense preparations, the planting of flower sticks began. The commune organized nine production teams with hundreds of people, and planned to sow more than 4,000 catties of flower stick seeds on nearly 10,000 mu of sand dunes.

On this day, farmers and herdsmen from far and near, some on foot, some on horseback, and some on tractors, gathered on the grassy beach to the west of the farm. I suddenly became the commander-in-chief of a big battle, and I was so busy running back and forth. Wu Youxiong acted as my assistant, and I explained the sowing techniques to the leaders of each team separately.Yuxiong is very smart and loves to study. I only told him once, and he memorized the relevant technical requirements. Field Manager Cao refrained from his foreword, saying that the farm work was busy and he only sent me a few workers.But I am not depressed, because Secretary Zhao of the commune also personally came to help me.

The sowing work was quite chaotic. Some people deliberately did not sow according to the technical requirements in order to finish the work early.I, Yuxiong, Secretary Zhao, ran around on dozens of large sand beams from time to time to take care of them. After two days of busy work, the sowing work is basically done. When all the troops had withdrawn, I couldn't help but walk around on these sand beams alone, feeling like a general commanding soldiers to win a battle, inspecting the battlefield after a fierce battle.I am extremely happy to think that in a few years, these places where there has been no grass for many years will be dominated by dense flower sticks.The pink flowers that grow out of the purple and blue will bloom all over this barren desert...

After I planted my seeds, I ran up these dunes every day. Half a month later, I finally saw the first flower stick seedling with joy. I was so excited I didn't know what to do.Lying in the sand, I looked at this little life that had just emerged from the ground, and my heart was full of sweet feelings—just like a mother looking at her newborn child.For some reason, at this time, I thought of all the unfortunate life experiences I have had since graduation; I also thought of the hardships I have endured here alone... I lay on the sand dunes beside my "child", watching the white clouds flow in the blue sky, and there was no sound in the wild.On the far side of the farm, the occasional neighing of a horse broke the dreamlike silence.Yes, how quiet... When people are quiet, it is easy to think of those colorful life scenes.At this moment, I couldn't help thinking of the time I spent with Xue Feng in the provincial capital... Now, the pomegranate flowers there must be blooming like fire again, right?Do you remember the song we sang together, dear? "Why are the flowers so red? It's as red as a burning flame. It symbolizes pure friendship and love..." The wheat fields on the outskirts of the city must now be a sea of ​​green.In the "old place" that the two of us often went to, the willows on both sides of the canal must have grown like two green walls, and the clear canal water was rushing through it... everything is in the past.Dear "Old Place"!I will never go to your place again, but I will always remember those sweet times I spent with him at your place... Yes, it's all over.But my infinite affection still leads to there-there are people I love.Even though we already do.I still love him.I can never imagine what the final result of this love will be... But what about him?Does he still love me now like I love him?I have not heard from him for a long time.Maybe he's busy, maybe he's on a business trip...

In the next few days, I forgot everything again.I just ran from one dashaliang to another with a kind of crazy excitement.I saw that large pieces of my flower sticks had emerged from the sand—countless lives were born in this hairy place for the first time!However, there is a situation on a sand dune that makes me very sad: the sowers here actually buried a lot of seeds in the ground, and now there are big clumps coming out from a long distance, and there is not a single seedling in most places.This is the bad consequence of cheating.This means that the dune will be as sparse as a bald man's hair in the future - no sand fixation effect at all!

Let me go back and limit myself, this sand queen was planted by our farm workers.My joy was gone at the moment.I almost ran back to the farm to find Director Cao. Field Manager Cao was shirtless, sitting outside the dormitory with Accountant Hou.Judging from that numb expression and all aspects, these two had just finished drinking again. Even though he was bare-chested, it was extremely unsightly.But I still walked up to him in spite of everything and said: "Master Cao, our farm workers are sowing flower sticks and cheating. The sand dunes they are in charge of bury seeds in the ground. Now..." "Why? ?” He stared at me with a pair of drunken eyes.

"Go and see." I said. "Don't you see I'm drunk?" He said very ridiculously. "You have to go even if you're drunk!" I said forcefully. At this time, the shameless accountant Hou said, "Oh, you are so good! Even the wife of Director Cao dare not say that about Director Cao..." I couldn't help cursing: "Shut your dung mouth!" "Fengzui! I'm Yuzui..." "Donkey's mouth!" Field Chief Cao said drunkenly to another drunk. He reluctantly got up now, went back to the dormitory, put on some clothes, and said, "Just look at it, it's already like that, so what can I do?"

Anyway, I'm going to have to let this drunk lead take a look. I saw that we were a little staggered when he left, so I had no choice but to call Yuxio. Youxiong supported Field Chief Cao, and the three of us came to this sand soldier together. Although Director Cao was drunk, he also saw what the man he sent was doing for a living, and his drunken face showed embarrassment. "How?" he asked me. "Replant." I said. "Replanting?" "Yeah." Youxiong next to him said to Field Chief Cao, "I won't be driving for the next two days, so leave this to me. You just assign me the number of people, and I'll find the specific person. Director Cao, no matter what you say, you are the leader of the field. If we engage in production like this, I’m afraid it must be a bad bag. In fact, it’s already a bad bag now!”

Director Cao seemed to have sobered up a bit, and said with shame on his face: "It's really a mess...Damn it! I think it's better to disband this farm! Turtle children and grandchildren, just busy going home and taking responsibility for the field. Well, who cares about the farm?" "What about you?" Youxiong asked him bluntly. "Me? I said I'm messing around here! I'll retire and return to the city in two years! I won't bury this bone in the yellow sand!! It would be great if I could come to be the director of this lousy field. I don't know where to stay The units in the city enjoy the blessings?" He plausibly said that he seemed to have some credit for it.I don't care about talking to him, I only care about my flower stick.I said to Cao Chang’s workers: “We must replant.” Cao Chang had no choice but to say: “Replenish as long as you can, and let Youxiong be responsible for finding someone…” The next day, Yuxiong and I replanted the dune with some workers.These workers are honest and friends of Yuxiong, so they work seriously and responsibly.Well, although the work at the beginning was difficult, I finally got through it... In a blink of an eye, three months have passed. Needless to say, my flower sticks have taken root in the desert. From morning to night, I patrolled these dozens of large sand beams every day, in case the flocks and sex mouths of the nearby production team invaded.I sweated a lot on these sand dunes, but I also got indescribable joy-the joy of labor and harvest, the skin is dark, and the hands are rough; the clothes are often sloppy, and the hair is messy like a tree. Sapon, and often go barefoot like men...but my mind has never been so full. I have basically adapted to life at this time, and my house has become like a lesbian dormitory.Ario has already helped me paste a ceiling with wicker and waste newspapers to cover up the "boa constrictors" on the roof.He even brought some white ash from the city to paint my walls white. I had already taken Yuxiong's tractor back to the office in the city, and moved my bedding and most of my daily necessities here.I used pictorials to paste around the kang, and the house suddenly became clean and lively.I also planted some morning glory in front of the door - now its vines have been stretched, and often in the morning or evening, it will fill my window with bright and mutual flowers... Summer in the desert is the best season of the year.The sky is high and the earth is wide.The air is fresh and even has a slightly sweet smell.Of course, the sun is hot, but the desert soaks up the heat with its soft skin.As soon as the sun goes down, it cools down quickly.The wind is slight, eating on people's bare arms and legs, like a child's palm gently stroking.The crops around the farm are not growing well due to poor management, but they are still lovely.Some millet has begun to ear; large areas of sunflowers are blooming golden - those blazing flowers often arouse people's passion. The buckwheat was also in bloom, pink and falling over the fields like a soft cloud.The dark green Artemisia annua outside the farmland, light yellow Salix willow, and light red Misty willow are all thriving.The howling grass spread over the hollow like a thick gray fog.The bald buttongrass with small red flowers, the sheep's ear root with fat head and big ears, cotton wool, grass, horseshoe grass, cocklebur, bitter herbs, dandelions, water ash strips, dry ash strips, dotted in the bushes middle.On both sides of the path and on the land in front of and behind the house, an extremely lively world of plants has been formed.Who would have thought that such a world existed in the desert? In fact, as long as human footsteps can reach, there will be grass, flowers and other life. In fact, even those big cities now full of flowers and brocades may have been desolate in the past; generations of people in the past have spent the price of sweat, blood and lives to develop them--have the people living there now crossed the border? In this bustling area, how about using your own eyes to see the past pages of human labor and creation history?Yes, happiness belongs to the people of the present, but glory belongs to the pioneers of the past.We are entitled to the happiness created by those who came before us, but we also have a responsibility to continue to pioneer it for future generations...don't overthink it - it's common sense. Why not?What we tend to ignore in our lives is common sense—and that's often important.You know, no matter how I know it all, the world I live in now brings me indescribable joy. For my pleasure, I would like to thank a person deeply, and you will guess whom I mean without my telling you.Yes, I'm talking about Wu Youxiong.You have seen how he helped me.Recently, the vicious accountant Hou has been spreading rumors about me and Yuxiong.I don't avoid Aruo because of this.I trust him like a big brother.Besides, everyone here knows that I already have a boyfriend who works in the provincial capital—in order to live in such an environment full of men, I have already let everyone know this.
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