After several meetings, Lin Lan could rest for a few days. Han Qingsong didn't go to the meeting, and the cat was busy harvesting at home. At the moment, the production team is busy breaking corn and ploughing corn stalks. Generally speaking, it is still very busy.
This day Lin Lan is cooking lunch at home with ears of wheat. Sanwang and Xiaowang send some immature tender corn back from the field, which is distributed by the production team in the field for each family to take back and cook.
Yan Yan ran over, "Mr. Lin, the brigade said to find our girls to pick up beans and give them work points."
Lin Lan let them go, "daughter, you have lunch at home, I'll send the meal."
Maisui and Yanyan went to the yard. Sanwang took Xiaowang to the yard. "Let's go to pick up beans, too."
Now the yard is full of all kinds of grain, some are waiting for threshing, some are threshing. Now I'm beating soybeans. I'm too tired with flail. I put on my donkey and pull him around.
The donkey put on the blindfold and rolled around in a circle. The scorched pods would crack open. Members use wooden forks to pick up the straw and scoop the beans into the sack.
Soybeans are not a small public food task, so they are planted more.
When handing in public grain, the requirements are very strict. To remove the moisture content, we have to remove shrivels and so on. If the sun is not dry or there are shrivels, the score is low, and the price of soybeans is also very low, which is not cost-effective. So the brigade called together a group of old people and children to pick up the shrivels inside. Although it can be bumped with a dicranopter, the soybeans are too big and heavy for easy operation and may not be picked up fast. But it's tiring to pick up beans. I can't bear to pick them up with my head down.
Sanwang and Xiaowang ran away after a while. They think it's better to cut grass, break sticks and pick up cotton. It's too stupid to pick up beans.
Wheat ear also can't stand, "Yanyan, let's go to break corn, pick beans dizzy, make me can't count."
Yan Yan laughs, "me too. Look at you two. What can we do? There's so much more. "
At the same time, Erwang and Shenyu came back with corn.
Erwang saw that maisui's face turned white and her eyes were lax. He thought that she was ill. "What's the matter?"
Yan Yan said with a smile: "we are tired of picking up beans."
Erwang ran to discuss with Shen Yu, who was unloading the truck: "brother Shen Yu, my elder sister, they are so tired of picking up beans that they feel dizzy. Let's find a way to make it easier for them."
Shen Yu didn't know much about farm tools, but he and Erwang went to have a look.
At this time, Yanyan accidentally sprinkles a bowl of yellow beans on the ground, and the round beans run around. She is so embarrassed that she quickly takes a broom to sweep.
Erwang watched the plump soybeans rolling around, but the shriveled ones stayed in the same place. He had an idea: "if we get something, roll these plump soybeans out, and the shriveled ones stay..." he pointed to the ground for everyone to see. Sure enough, the plump soybeans rolled away, but the shriveled ones couldn't roll.
Shen Yu was also inspired, "let's make a simple tool to let the full soybeans roll down and the shriveled ones stay on it." When he made a comparison, Erwang and maisui understood immediately.
Yan Yan was also very interested. Several people gathered their wisdom and quickly came up with various methods. After screening, they decided on the more convenient one. They went to the production team leader in charge of this area to give advice.
When the production team leader saw Er Wang, the red man of the Secretary naturally did not refuse, so he went along with them.
Soon, they made a prototype, but the soybeans would still squeeze together and not roll.
Wheat ear: "let the cloth move at an inclined angle. Turn it like a bicycle, and you can drive the soybeans to roll down."
Shen Yu said with a smile, "yes, we just need to make a handle or pedal, so that we can rotate with the cloth belt all the time."
There is a carpenter in the village. Just say that, the carpenter will find the small wooden gear to press on them, and knock them, and then start to pick soybeans.
One end is high and the other is low. Gently pour the soybeans on the high end, rotate the handle cloth belt and start to transport them. The full soybeans roll down and fall into the big basket, while the shriveled ones stay there and directly fall into the bag at the other end.
So again and again.
"Wow, it worked!" Everyone is very happy.
Shen Yu and ER Wang clapped, "cooperation is good."
Erwang is also very happy that they use knowledge to solve problems in production and life. This shows that knowledge is really useful. "If brother Shen didn't know more, we wouldn't have thought of it."
Shen Yu said with a smile, "don't be modest. This is the idea you came up with."
Yan Yan looks at them with envy.
They are all educated people. Shen Yu has graduated from high school. At this time, high school is a great level. In the old man's words, it's like a scholar. After all, most people do not go to school, or at most two or three years of primary school, can go to junior high school are not many. Erwang and maisui can continue to study. As long as they want to go, Captain Lin will supply them. They are really happy.
Maisui envies Yanyan and has some sad eyes, encouraging her: "as long as you want to learn, you can ask us at any time, learning is not non school."
Yan Yan gratefully toward her smile, "thank you."
Mai Sui pointed to Shen Yu: "you can ask brother Shen Yu for advice."
Shen Yu said with a smile, "of course. Maisui is right. Learning is not limited to schools. Chairman Mao said it's never too late to learn. Captain Lin is self-taught and you can do it. "
Yan Yan smiles happily, her eyes are full of hope.
Because erwangshen met a few people to make a simple small device to solve the problem of picking up soybeans, the cadres of the brigade were surprised and happy and came to visit one after another.
Han Yongfang seldom laughs so happily, "this year we go to hand in the soybean, certainly is a level, the children are good." Before, we had to arrange many people to pick up beans day and night. Now, two or three children can do it, saving labor and time.
"Here you are..." Han Yongfang looked at them and said to the brigade leader, "do we have this Charter? What are the rewards?"
The team leader rarely said generously, "I see that we can award 100 work points to a few of them." With this tool, once and for all, there will be no trouble in the future.
How about bonus points? The children are very happy.
Finally, Shen Yu and Erwang were awarded 30 points, while maisui and Yanyan were awarded 20 points.
The two girls were very happy. "Do we have one, too? Ha ha
Erwang: "shall we give it to the carpenter?"
The brigade leader said, "Carpenter doesn't need to. He should have done this."
The children felt at ease. Maisui and Erwang rushed home to report good news to Lin Lan. They got 50 work points all at once.
After listening to what they said, Lin Lan is also proud of you.
"It's all Shen Yu's brother. As soon as the second brother says it, he has a way." Ears of wheat are smiling.
Lin Lan looked at her, "Shen Zhiqing is powerful, you are also great, you will be better in the future." Her praise made maisui and Erwang very happy.
Lin Lan: "it's almost two o'clock. You two haven't eaten yet. Hurry." She came back to the field to see the meal, and knew that the children were busy, so she didn't disturb them. She only heated the meal in the pot, which was just for them to eat.
Maisui: "Yanyan and Shen Yuge didn't eat either. I'll ask them to eat together."
Lin Lan: "OK."
After a while, Shen Yu and Yan Yan come with Mai Sui. Lin Lan has packed up and let them have dinner together.
Shen Yu brought a vase of flowers. The vase was a common jar with daisies, Polygonum hydropiper, several rose flowers and unknown herbs in it. It was beautiful in color and fragrant in smell.
"Captain Lin likes to display flowers. This is for you." He saw that there were seasonal flowers and plants on the wall and in front of Lin Lan's house, and there were flowers in jars and earthenware jars on the North windowsill of the main room. He thought that she must like flowers. Just yesterday, he put in a bottle and held it. Although it's not popular to plant flowers at this time, the wild flowers in the countryside are socialist grass, no problem.
Lin Lan then said, "it's so beautiful. Thank you, Shen Zhiqing."
Maisui said with a smile, "brother Shen Yu, you still like to pick wild flowers. I thought only girls like to pick them."
At this time, there was no other meaning of wild flowers. Shen Yu naturally didn't know and didn't feel embarrassed. He said with a smile: "Xu Dongxing is not happy recently. When I accompany him to relax, I see that the slope is very beautiful, so I can't help picking two."
Lin Lan took out the flowers and put them in her vase. She let Shen Yu take the bottle back. At this time, the glass bottle is also a good thing.
After dinner, everyone continued to work. Maisui and Erwang also went to the field to find Han Qingsong.
In the evening, when Han Qingsong and the children came back from work for dinner, Xiao Wang took out a straw hat made of bowl flowers and various wild flowers and stood on tiptoe to wear it to Lin Lan: "mother, the flower hat my father gave you."
Lin Lan quickly squats down to let Xiao Wang put it on. Xiao Wang: "Niang, you look pretty with it." She looked at Han Qingsong, he nodded, "Jun."
Lin Lan began to laugh.
Sanwang: "I'll pick and plant flowers every day."
Lin Lan wears it for a while, takes it off and hangs it on the doorframe as decoration. It's very nice.
With the help of the soybean picking device, it's not only convenient for our own brigade to pick up soybeans, but also convenient for the nearby brigade to learn from them. This year, all the soybeans and public grain delivered by their brigades were excellent. They were not only praised by the commune, but also sold a lot more money. At the same time, the brigades also got 500 Jin more fertilizer tickets.
When other educated youths heard that Shen Yu and Erwang had been rewarded for improving their production tools, they also used their brains to offer suggestions, improve existing farm tools or develop new farm tools, which set off a wave after wave of upsurge. Although few have succeeded and few can play a greater role, they have a more harmonious relationship with the cadres and members of the brigade.
In the twinkling of an eye, it's the Mid Autumn Festival.
Because the autumn harvest was not bad, the production team gave the children a holiday and let them have a rest.
Lin Lan cleaned up the house and spent the accumulated meat tickets, sugar tickets and non-staple food tickets in the supply and marketing cooperatives. She first went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy sugar, moon cakes and rice strips, then went to the slaughtering group to buy a kilo of streaky pork, a piece of pig liver, a piece of pig skin and a pig tail. She planned to make dumplings, so she had to let her elder brother consolidate and roll the dumpling skin and learn how to make dumplings. In addition, you can fry pig liver with onion, supplement iron for children, and stew potato and radish with pigtail and pigskin.
Lin Lan goes home and finds Sanwang and Xiaowang standing under the pomegranate tree, looking up at the pomegranate trees.
"Brother Wang, I count six. How do you say five?"
"Little brother three, there are five. Just now another one has been lost."
"Ah - so melancholy."
Lin Lan smiles.
At this time, the air is clear in autumn, and the blue sky is deep and quiet. Jujube, persimmon, pomegranate and other fruits look very moving under the blue sky in autumn. The fruit trees that her family planted at the beginning now only bear fruit of jujube. Pomegranate blooms red and gorgeous in summer. Originally, there were more than a dozen pomegranates, but it seems that they can't keep any of them.
This can be the three Wang to distressed bad, a pair of this is his child's posture.
Sanwang is very melancholy, "maybe we see it too many times, to see off?"? Well
Xiao Wang also looked up, "maybe your daughter-in-law is really a little shy."
Sanwang: "I am so handsome, it should be shy."
Lin Lan: "who will tell me, is there any cross species sadistic love story that I don't know?
Seeing Lin Lan coming back, Xiao Wang ran over and took her hand and said in a soft voice: "mother, the third brother is lovelorn and melancholy."
Lin Lan: "yes
Hearing this, Sanwang turned back to Lin Lan with a bitter smile and made a gesture of wiping tears, "mother, I'm lovelorn."
Xu Dongxing doesn't know what happened recently. He often talks about melancholy. Zhao Mingjie said that he must be lovelorn. Maybe the secret lover who didn't go to the countryside broke up. Maybe he likes others to be rejected. Anyway, he looks lovelorn. Of course, Zhao Mingjie also muddled, do not know where to learn the words, feel fresh to say to Sanwang.
Sanwang does not know what is lovelorn, but he learned to be melancholy.
Lin Lan pushed him with a smile, "don't put gold on your face. You're not in love. Where did you get lovelorn?"
Xiao Wang: "mother, what is love?"
Lin Lan also popularized it to children when she publicized it. She was not afraid of children's questions. What she should know was to let them know, "love is that young men and women grow up to like each other and want to get married and become a family."
Xiao Wang: "just like mother and father."
Lin Lan nodded, "... Almost."
Sanwang cut a, "that is to find a blind date, it's really interesting for city people to talk." Still in love, lovelorn.
Lin Lan poked his finger with a smile, "are you still lovelorn? Don't say it outside. It's a shame. "
Sanwang pointed to the fallen pomegranates and said, "Oh, I'm not lovelorn. My pomegranate doll is gone."
Xiaowang said with a smile, "mother, the third brother wants to eat pomegranate. He dreams that pomegranate tree will be his daughter-in-law. He says that he will send pomegranate dolls to eat. Ha ha."
Lin Lan