Chapter 94 people who work like bees

During the grand festival celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, green trees and flowers were planted everywhere in our brand-new capital, making the tall buildings and wide streets more beautiful.At the same time, as we bring colorful and fragrant bouquets to the hands of our dear leaders, to the hands of distinguished guests from all over the world, to the heroes who have done their best for the construction of the motherland We will always be grateful for the hard work of those who worked hard to cultivate these flowers. I myself have long been eager to visit the flower farmers in the suburbs of Beijing.

Once, in a report by Comrade Gu Weichen, the president of Huangtugang People's Commune in Fengtai District, I heard him mention that there is a horticultural team in the commune, which grows flowers and seedlings to supply the needs of the capital.Fengtai has a history of hundreds of years of planting flowers. Since Beijing became the capital of China, Fengtai has a group of flower farmers who serve to beautify the emperor's palace and the gardens of princes and ministers. Now these flower farmers have also received Liberation, they are full of willingness and enthusiasm to serve the beautification and greening of the people's capital.

Recently, I lived in the flower team of Fanjia Village for a few days, and I lived the most unforgettable life of "like entering the room of Zhilan" in the past few days! How should I describe the life of this gardening team?My memory is like a clear spring, overflowing everywhere!I can only say: this place is full of flowers, and the members of the horticultural team are like bees, working hard and lively in the flowers! Several flower teams, most of them are on the No. 51 bus line, and this bus passes through the commune.On both sides of the road, in addition to neat green trees, there are also two rows of bright red cockscombs, proudly telling the passing guests the characteristics of this section of the road.

All in all, these flower teams cover an area of ​​more than 1,700 mu, with more than 500,000 pots of flowers, more than 300 kinds (the Huangtugang flower team specializes in jasmine, with more than 17,000 pots). The saplings in the nursery, as Captain Tong of the Zhengwangfen Nursery Team said, "there are too many to count!" After it is removed, a hundred or more new branches will grow from the original roots in the pit. On the 600-acre nursery land of King Zheng’s Tomb, there are probably millions of them. What an amazing number! On the day I arrived at the headquarter of the flower team in Fanjia Village, there was a lot of noise in the courtyard outside. Many carpenters were making window frames for the flower caves. A large piece of glass shipped from other places.Inside and outside the open flower cave, people come and go, two people carry a large pot of flowers, one person holds one pot of flowers, one person picks two pots of flowers, two people push and pull a cart of flowers, and one person pushes a cart of flowers The... fragrant and trembling are all sent to the flower cave.During those two days, the team members listened closely to Frost’s broadcast, the flower-making holes for flower-making holes, the matting for weaving mats, the windows for installing windows, the flower-carrying for flower-carrying...they were busier than bees.

As for me, I picked the easiest and cheapest job, and I can chat with the "veteran" while working, which is to "wipe" and "garrison" the tigers with them. Shanhuzi is a potted, orange-red small round fruit. During the Spring Festival, it is very eye-catching when placed in the house. The fruit is red and the leaves are green.In early winter, take it out of the pot, "wipe" off the branches that go to the top, leaving a round circle of short branches, then dip the root soil in water, and plant them tightly next to each other. The land is buried in the ground of the flower hole with soil.After a few months, its green leaves and red fruits will grow round and round. At that time, they can be moved into pots and sent to the flower market.

In those two days, from morning to night, we "wipeed" thousands of chrysanthemums. The short wall on the south side of this flower cave has not yet been built, and the windows have not been installed. When the sun is not strong in the morning and evening, it is still a bit cold. At the same time, I am not skilled in technology, and the flower scissors have worn off a piece of skin on my fingers, but the environment and companions I work in are so lovely!In front of the flower cave is a field of roses. In addition to the native species, there are also German, Japanese, and American species... There are more than 20 kinds of roses in total.The colors are bright red, light red, yellow, white, and there is a kind called "color-changing yellow"

Yes, the outside of the petals is red and the inside is yellow, very bright.At noon, under the strong sunlight, there was a strong fragrance of flowers. The children after school walked by our seat in twos and threes. When they saw the red dandan fruits on the cut branches, they rushed to pick them up and put them in their schoolbags. Here, it's midnight now, and we're going to eat. When pruning, I always sit next to the old man Zhang Lin. He gave me a pair of small flower scissors and taught me how to cut them.He picked up a lizard tree, looked at it like a sculptor examining his material, and then cut it into a bald round ball quickly and then put it aside. , Immediately picked up the second one, his movements were quick, but it did not hinder his fluent eloquence.Old man Zhang Lin is seventy-four years old this year, and he knows a lot about the story of planting flowers in Fengtai!While cutting, he said: "Now our team's grass and flower fields are used to treat shellfish. At that time, they took the land of the common people casually, and only gave a few taels of silver for a large piece of land. The common people suffered. People like us, at the beginning They all work as gardeners in the gates of mansions in Beijing, and my father stayed in Prince Qing’s Mansion. I myself went to a private school before the age of fifteen, and then I learned how to grow flowers when I couldn’t afford it. Before the Japanese came, the business of the greenhouse had already It gradually declined, and the Japanese came, and the money for selling flowers was not enough to buy food, so everyone simply stopped planting flowers, and planted all the flower fields with vegetables.” At this point, he shook his head, “Fengtai Eighteen Villages There are wells in every village, and the water and soil here are suitable for planting flowers. There is also a flower temple on the other side of the Jijia Temple, which was probably built during the Daoguang period. The front hall is dedicated to the flower god, and there are flower books hanging on the hatchback When the Japanese came, they said that there were machine guns hidden by the militia in the wing room, and they set a torch on the wing room, and the flower books were gone... After the liberation, the land was divided, and the flower farmers grew flowers again. It was not until 1955 There are more than 200 households planting flowers in four years; after the people's communes were established, they developed greatly, such as the two nursery teams at Zhangjialukou and Zhengwangfen, which were expanded and established last autumn."

From the chats with the members, I deeply realized that planting flowers and raising seedlings is not only knowledgeable, but also extremely meticulous and hard work. The talk of Captain Liu Zhenhai of the Huangtugang Jasmine Team gave me the deepest feeling! We met him in the smokehouse: a man in his forties, in a yellow shirt with the sleeves rolled up, with a fervent expression on his sweaty face.He took us through the densely packed jasmine stands.In the sun, the tiny leaves glow green.Thousands of budding flowers are filled with a strong fragrance.He smiled and said, "Is this smokehouse hot?

We need the same 90-degree climate as Guangdong.These flowers, wrapped in straw after the Spring Festival, were transported from Guangdong, and when they arrived at our place, they entered the cold cave. He pointed to a row of flower holes in front of the smoking room, "slowly move to the kang in the smoking room, there is a fire under the kang, smoke the flowers, pick off the flowers, and then move forward slowly, Move to the sun on the shelf, and then go back to the cold cave.In this way, flowers can be picked five times a year—twice inside the house, three times outside the house, and they are sent to the tea company continuously..."

We said: "You have worked hard all year round, this job is really not easy." He smiled: "The most important things in growing flowers are water, fire, and wind. Watering must be timely, too dry is not good, It’s too damp.” He flicked the flower pot with his fingers, “Listen to the sound of the flower pot, if the sound is heavy, there is water in the soil, if the sound is hollow, the soil is dry, and it needs to be watered immediately Water. When it comes to the heat in the room, we are used to it, and we know how high the temperature is as soon as we enter the door. And the circulation of air is also very important..." He said, leading us outside the door, in the cold In the air, I felt suddenly cool.

We stopped him and said, "It's cold outside, you should put on your clothes first." He shook his head and smiled and said, "I'm used to it, I've been a gardener since I was a child, and I don't take it seriously when I go in and out." He took us through several He said: "These are all newly built after the commune. The original ones are the flower factory of Zhao Quan, a well-known bully landlord in Huangtugang. I used to work in his flower factory." Be a long-term worker. After the land reform, we confiscated his flower factory.We were still growing vegetables at that time, and after we got the flower factory, we said: We have people and a factory, so let’s start doing it..." As we said that, we had already walked to his office, which was located in a smoked garden. In the corner of the room outside the room. At this time, two little girls in flowered clothes called their father to rush to his side from the door. He asked us to drink water and said with a smile: "These two are my nieces. The older one is only five years old. When manpower is scarce, they will help pick flowers." We were a little thirsty from the heat, and we greedily drank the sweet hot water while asking about his condition. Family, his face lit up with excitement. "I am not a local. When I was six years old, my father fled from Gu'an County. I was picked by a picker. I have been a long-term worker for Zhao Quan since I was thirteen. I worked in the smokehouse from morning to night for a year. He only got six yuan. Of course he has nothing to wear, and food, which smells rotten. He has to eat whatever he gives. Let’s quit, where are we going? Zhao Quan has this ability, and he yelled All the flower factories here pay the same wages as him. His son is the chief security officer, with straight eyebrows and a pistol in his waist. The common people don’t hate him... In 1949, Huangtugang was liberated, and we Liberated too!" The word "liberate" sounded like spring thunder from his joyful voice. "After the land reform, Zhao Quan was brought to justice. I was allocated three tile-roofed houses and three or four acres of land. I and our president Yin Weichen, a member of eight households, established the Huangtugang Cooperative. I only got married in 1954. I was 41 years old when I was married..." He fondly touched his daughter's head: "How do they know what it means to endure hardship? If you want to talk about today's life, do you think it is good? Didn't Chairman Mao say that the whole world Everyone eats? Take me as an example, now I have an annual income of five or six hundred yuan, which is much better than before. Which of our team members is not very motivated? In the past, we only cared about six hundred potted flowers. Now we can manage up to 800 pots. Now we have more than 300 smokehouses and cold caves, more than 17,000 pots of flowers, and more than 30 team members... What about the future?" He smiled boldly when he said this smile.Need to say in the future?The People's Commune is a rising sun! Recalling the life of those few days, in my mind, Captain Liu Zhenhai is by no means the only person shining with silver light like a distant sail in the sky. Moreover, those people did not appear alone, their background was Fields of flowers, rows of greenhouses, and these bee-like hardworking people are looming among the thousands of unknown flowers! Now, I have lived in their houses, eaten their meals, and I have recognized their portals.Didn't Captain Tong of Zhengwangfen already invite me?He said: "Before and after Qingming, when the fruit trees on the 600 mu of land bloomed, it was really a colorful cloud. You want to come!" When I left Fanjia Village, I didn't say goodbye to anyone. I don't like the sentiment of "one step at a time", and I know that I will go back before the Qingming Festival! great". )