Chapter 88 Resend Little Reader Newsletter 18

Dear children: Happy New Year!I think that among the 650 million Chinese people who have marched into 1960, you are the happiest, right?The faster time passes, the closer the time when you actually participate in the socialist construction of the motherland is getting closer. Don't you feel excited? What are you doing today?Are you playing table tennis?Are you reading a new book?Or did you visit some people's communes or factories? Speaking of visiting the People’s Commune, at the end of October this year, I visited the horticultural team of the Huangtugang People’s Commune in the suburbs of Beijing. (This horticultural team includes two nursery teams and three potted flower teams. There are more than 1,700 mu, there are more than 300 kinds of flowers, 500,000 pots, and countless saplings!) I have wanted to visit them for a long time, because the gardening team of this commune supplies most of the greening and beautifying our capital trees and flowers.When we see the green trees and dazzling flowers on both sides of the streets on the outskirts of the capital, or when we present bouquets of beautiful and fragrant flowers to our leaders, heroes, role models, advanced workers and distinguished guests from foreign countries, When we are here, we always thank the commune gardening team members who have worked so hard to cultivate flowers and trees for us all the year round.

I said "hard work all year round", because before I went to visit, I only knew that spring and summer are the seasons when flowers and trees sprout and bloom, and they need pruning and irrigation the most, but I didn't know that autumn and winter are the busiest seasons for flower farmers. When we see the trees full of buds, When the branches are full of fragrant flowers, it is already an exhibition of their hard work in autumn and winter! At the end of October in Beijing, young people hadn’t put on their padded jackets yet. When I went to the flower production team of Fanjia Village in the commune, they were already busy making window frames for flower holes, installing glass, building walls, and weaving mats... I am going to move all the flowers in the pots and on the ground to the flower hole for the winter.This job is really not easy!Especially in those few days, there may be a "frost" warning every day, and the team members are working hard in the misty morning fog and under the condensed moonlight, as if rushing to repair some project.The boys and girls were talking and laughing happily, while they were hotly carrying large flower pots and small flower pots into the flower hole, and they also picked up flowers one by one from the ground, piled them on the cart, and pushed them to the ground. Send it to the flower cave...

I lived in this commune for a few days and toured all five production teams. Among them, the Huangtugang jasmine production team left the deepest impression on me. Uncle Liu, the vice-captain of the production team, had the most detailed and moving talk to me. I might as well say it again to the children. I found Uncle Liu in a smoke room. He was tending hundreds of pots of jasmine that were about to bloom.The fragrance in the smoke room was overflowing, and the heat was steaming. He was wearing only single clothes and pants, and he was still covered in sweat, his face was covered with sweat!Jasmine is originally a plant in southern China. It is not cultivated in such a high temperature. It cannot bloom in early winter in the north, but how hard it is for the people who grow flowers!

Uncle Liu received us with a smile on his face. He pointed to the green jasmine branches dotted with thousands of silver stars, and his eyes were filled with infinite enthusiasm and joy.He told us: The production team has more than 300 smoke rooms, more than 17,000 pots of jasmine, and the roots of the jasmine are all grown in Guangdong.Every year after the Spring Festival, they are packed with straw and transported from the train. After they arrive, they are planted in pots. They are first placed in a cold cave, and then they are slowly sent to the smoker in batches. First, they are placed on the fire pit. After the flowers bloom, move them from the pit to the sunlight under the glass shed on the shelf, pick off the flowers, and then move them back to the cold cave in batches.It is naturally placed outside the house in summer.In this way, flowers can be picked five times a year-twice inside the house and three times outside the house.These flowers are all sent to the tea company, where the tea-baking workers spread a layer of tea leaves in an oven, and a layer of jasmine flowers on top of it, so that they are laid layer by layer and baked on a low fire.After baking, use a sieve to sift out the jasmine, and there will be a scent of jasmine in the tea. This is our favorite drink and a famous product of the motherland: jasmine tea.

Uncle Liu said: "Cultivating flowers is just like raising children. You can't be careless at all! Flowers are the most delicate. They can't be too cold, too hot, too dry, or too wet. Warm sunshine and fresh air... So we flower growers have to stay by the side of the flowers day and night. I said: "You are working too hard. He smiled and shook his head and said, "It's not hard!"For the flowers that have been raised for many years, once you enter the fumigation room, you don’t need to look at the temperature and temperature meter. You can know how hot the room is just by the feeling of your skin. You can know whether the potted flowers are short of water by flicking the clay pot with your fingers.Looking at the large expanse of flowers, blooming well, picking more, creating wealth for the country, and providing fragrant tea to the people, the happiness of the flower growers is endless! "

After coming out of the smoking room, Uncle Liu invited us to drink some boiled water in his office—that is, at one end of the smoking room. past.It turned out that he was from Gunan, Hebei. When he was six years old, his father ran away from the famine, and a picker picked him to come to Huangtugang. Since he was twelve or thirteen years old, he worked as a flower in the flower factory of Zhao Quan, a local bully landlord. The craftsman, who worked hard all year round, only received a monthly salary of 50 cents. He said: "At that time, I have suffered so much. In 1949, Huangtugang was liberated, and I was also liberated!"

The bully Zhao Quan was shot, and I was allocated three tile-roofed houses and 30 acres of land. From now on, our eight poor peasant households will organize cooperatives... After the People's Commune was established last year, we specially developed jasmine houses because of the suitable soil quality. .Originally, we now have people and land. Everyone is used to doing this job, and now they are doing it for themselves and for the collective, not to mention the high motivation.Our team members used to manage 600 pots of flowers each, but now they each manage more than 800 pots.As for our life, compared with the past, it is really heaven and earth.How could there be bicycles in Huangtugang in the past?There are more now.

Chairman Mao said that everyone should eat, only we know that this sentence is not simple. " Coming out of the Jasmine Team, I thought carefully about what Uncle Liu said along the way. He mentioned that cultivating flowers is like cultivating children, which reminded me of the party’s cultivation of children. under.He said: "Anyone who says 'life is not good now' is talking nonsense with their eyes closed!" When children go out to visit factories and communes, they must not miss the opportunity to receive a profound education. Say "Happy New Year" to you again, and wish you continuous progress.

Your friend Bing Xin December 13, 1959.