After a few meetings, Lin Lan could rest for a few days, and Han Qingsong didn't go to the meeting, and the cat started to work at home for the autumn harvest. At the moment, the production team is busy breaking up corn and shaving corn stalks. Generally speaking, it is still very busy.
On this day, Lin Lan brought wheat ears to cook dinner at home. Sanwang and Xiaowang brought back some immature tender corn from the field. This was distributed by the production team at the top of the field, and each family brought it back to cook and eat.
Yanyan ran over, "Mr. Lin, the brigade said they were looking for our girls to pick up beans, and they would also give work points."
Lin Lan asked them to go, "Daughter, you have dinner at home, I'll just deliver it."
Mai Sui and Yanyan went to the courtyard, and San Wang pulled Xiao Wang to go, "Let's go pick up beans too."
Now the yards are full of various grains, some are drying and waiting for threshing, and some are threshing. Right now, I'm beating soybeans. It's too tiring to beat with a flail.
The donkey put on a blindfold and walked around in circles, and the scorched bean pods cracked open. The commune used a wooden fork to pick up the bean stalks, and then put the soybean grains at the bottom into a sack with a dusting sack.
The public grain task of soybean is not small, so plant more.
When handing in public grain, the requirements are very strict, the moisture content must be removed, and the shriveled seeds must be removed. If the sun is not dry or there are sagging seeds, the rating level is low, and the price of soybeans is also very low, which is not cost-effective. So the brigade gathered a bunch of old people and children to pick out the shriveled ones inside. Although it is possible to use a dust scoop, the soybeans are too large and heavy, so they are not easy to handle, and they may not be picked up quickly. However, picking up beans is also tiring. It is really unbearable to pick up and pick up beans with your head down all day.
Sanwang and Xiaowang picked it up for a while and then ran away. They thought it would be more appropriate to mow grass, break sticks, and pick up cotton.
Mai Sui couldn't stand it either, "Yanyan, let's go break the corn, I'm dizzy when I pick up the beans, so I don't know how to count."
Yanyan laughed, "Me too, you two are swaying around. So what should I do? There are so many more."
It happened that Erwang and Shen Yu came back with the corn in the truck.
Erwang saw that Mai Sui's face was pale and her eyes were slack, and she wondered if she was sick, "What's wrong?"
Yanyan smiled and said, "We are tired of picking up beans."
Erwang ran to discuss with Shen Yu who was unloading the truck: "Brother Shen Yu, my sister and the others are so tired from picking up beans that they are dizzy. Let's find a way to save them trouble."
Shen Yu didn't know much about farming tools, but he went to see it with Erwang.
At this time, Yanyan accidentally spilled a dusty soy bean on the ground, and the round beans ran around, so embarrassed that she hurriedly took a broom to sweep it.
Erwang watched the plump soybeans roll around, but the shriveled ones stayed where they were. He had an idea: "If we do something, get the plump ones out and the shriveled ones back..." He pointed to the ground for everyone to see, Sure enough, the plump soybeans rolled away, but the shriveled ones couldn't.
Shen Yu was also inspired, "Let's make a simple gadget, let the plump soybeans roll down, and the deflated ones stay on top." He gestured, and Erwang and Maisui immediately understood.
Yanyan was also very interested, a few people brainstormed, and soon came up with various methods, after screening to determine the more convenient one, they went to the production team leader in charge of this piece for advice.
When the production team leader saw Erwang, the secretary's celebrity would naturally not refuse, and just let them fiddle with it.
Soon, they made a prototype, but the soybeans still squeezed together and didn't roll.
Mai Sui: "Let the cloth move at an inclined angle, turn it like a bicycle, and you can drive the soybeans to roll down."
Shen Yu smiled, "Yes, we only need to make a crank or pedal, so that it keeps turning with the cloth belt."
There is a carpenter in the village, just say something, the carpenter will find a ready-made small wooden gear and press it on them, knock it ding ding dong, and start picking soybeans after it is done.
One end is high and the other is low. Gently pour the soybeans on the higher end, turn the belt to start conveying, the plump soybeans are rolled down and removed into the big basket, and the shriveled ones are left there and pulled directly. Dropped into the bag on the other end.
so repeatedly.
"Wow, it worked!" Everyone was very happy.
Shen Yu and Erwang high-five, "The cooperation is good."
Erwang is also very happy, because they use knowledge to solve problems in production and life. This shows that knowledge is really useful, "If it wasn't for Brother Shen Yu who knew a lot, we would never have imagined it."
Shen Yu smiled and said, "Don't be humble, this is the idea you came up with."
Yanyan looked at them enviously.
They are all literate people. Shen Yu has graduated from high school. At this time, high school is at a very high level. In the words of the old man, it is like a talented person. After all, most people don't go to school, or at most two or three years of primary school, and not many can go to junior high school. Erwang and Mai Sui can also continue to study, as long as they want to study, Captain Lin will supply them. They are really happy.
Mai Sui looked at Shang Yanyan with envious and somewhat sad eyes, and encouraged her: "As long as you want to study, you can ask us anytime. Studying is not in school."
Yanyan smiled gratefully at her, "Thank you."
Mai Sui pointed to Shen Yu: "You can ask brother Shen Yu for advice."
Shen Yu smiled, "Of course you can. Mai Sui is right, learning is not limited to school. Chairman Mao said that you can learn to live until you are old. Captain Lin is self-taught, so you can do it."
Yanyan smiled happily, her eyes full of hope.
Because Erwang Shen met a few people who made a simple device to solve the trouble of picking up soybeans, the cadres of the brigade were surprised and happy, and came to visit one after another.
Han Yongfang rarely smiled so happily, "This year we will go to hand over soybeans, it must be a first-class, the children are good." Before, we had to arrange for some people to pick up beans day and night, but now, two or three children are all It can be done, saving labor and time.
"Here you..." Han Yongfang looked at them and said to the captain, "Do we have this charter and what are the rewards?"
The team leader said in a rare and generous manner: "I see that I can reward 100 work points and let a few of them share it." With this tool, it will be done once and for all, and there will be no trouble in the future.
What about reward points? The children are very happy.
In the end, Shen Yu and Erwang were rewarded 30 points each, and Mai Sui and Yanyan were rewarded 20 points each.
The two girls were very happy, "What about us? Haha."
Erwang: "Should we give it to the carpenter?"
The captain said: "The carpenter doesn't need to, he should have done this."
The children felt at ease, Mai Sui and Erwang hurried home to announce the good news to Lin Lan, and they got 50 work points all at once.
After hearing what they said, Lin Lan was also honored.
"Brother Shen Yu is all powerful, as soon as the second brother says he can do it." Mai Sui grinned.
Lin Lan glanced at her, "Shen Zhiqing is amazing, you are also great, and you will be even better in the future." Her praise made Mai Sui and Erwang very happy.
Lin Lan: "It's almost two o'clock. The two of you haven't eaten yet, so hurry up." She brought the meal back and went to the venue to have a look. Knowing that the children were busy, she didn't bother, just warmed the food in the pot. Just now let them eat.
Mai Sui: "Yanyan and Shen Yuge didn't eat either. I'll ask them to eat together."
Lin Lan: "...Okay."
After a while, Shen Yu and Yanyan followed Mai Sui, and Lin Lan had already packed up and let them eat together.
Shen Yu brought a vase of flowers. The vase was an ordinary canned bottle with daisies, red polygonum, several rose flowers and unknown herbs in it. The color was delicate and fragrant.
"Captain Lin likes to put flowers, this is for you." He saw that there were seasonal flowers and plants planted on the walls of Lin Lan's house and in front of the house, and there were flowers in jars and earthenware pots on the north windowsill of the main room, thinking that she must like flowers, It happened that yesterday he inserted a bottle and brought it over. Although it was not popular to arrange flowers at this time, the wild flowers in the countryside were socialist grass, and there was no problem.
Lin Lan took it, "It's beautiful, thank you Shen Zhiqing."
Mai Sui smiled and said, "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 there was no embarrassment. He smiled and said: "Xu Dongxing has been unhappy recently. When I was with him to relax, I saw the beautiful driving on the slope over there, so I couldn't help but pick two."
Lin Lan took out the flower and put it in her vase, and asked Shen Yu to take the bottle back. At this time, a glass bottle is also a good thing.
After dinner, everyone continued to work, Mai Sui and Er Wang also went to the field to find Han Qingsong and the others.
In the evening, when Han Qingsong and the children came back from work for dinner, Xiaowang took out a straw hat made of bowls of flowers and various wild flowers, and put it on Lin Lan on tiptoe: "Mother, the flower hat my father gave you."
Lin Lan quickly squatted down and asked Xiaowang to put it on. Xiaowang: "Mother, you are wearing Kejun." She looked at Han Qingsong, he nodded, "Jun."
Lin Lan laughed.
Sanwang: "From now on, I will pick flowers and plant them every day."
Lin Lan wore it for a while, then took it off and hung it on the door frame as a decoration. It was very beautiful.
With the help of the soybean picking device, it is not only convenient for my own brigade to pick up soybeans, but also the nearby brigade to learn from the experience. This year, the soybean communal grains handed in by their brigades are all excellent. Not only have they been praised by the commune, but they have also sold for a lot of money. At the same time, the brigades have also received 500 kilograms of fertilizer tickets.
When other educated youths heard that Shen Yu and Erwang had been rewarded for improving production tools, they also used their brains to offer suggestions, improve existing agricultural tools or develop new agricultural tools, setting off waves of upsurges. Although there are few successful ones and few who can play a bigger role, it makes them have a more harmonious relationship with the brigade cadres and members.
In a blink of an eye, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Because the autumn harvest was not bad on this day, the production team gave the children a holiday to let them rest.
Lin Lan cleaned up the house well, and spent the meat, sugar, and non-staple food tickets that she had accumulated at the supply and marketing agency. She first went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy sugar, moon cakes, and rice noodles, then went to the slaughtering team to buy a pound of pork belly, a piece of pork liver, a piece of pig skin and a pig tail. She plans to make dumplings, and she has to ask her eldest brother to consolidate dumpling wrappers and learn how to make dumplings. In addition, you can fry an onion and pork liver to supplement iron for the children, and you can also stew potatoes and radishes with pig tail and pig skin.
Lin Lan went home and found Sanwang and Xiaowang standing under the pomegranate tree, counting the pomegranates with their heads up.
"Brother Wang, I count six, how do you say five?"
"Little third brother, there are five, and another one was lost just now."
"Ah - so melancholy."
Lin Lan smiled.
At this time, the autumn air is crisp and the blue sky is deep and quiet. Fruits such as dates, persimmons, pomegranates, etc., look particularly moving under the autumn blue sky. The fruit trees that her family planted at the beginning, now only have jujube fruit. Pomegranate blooms bright red in summer. Originally, there were more than a dozen pomegranates, but they fell every day and it seemed that none of them could be kept.
This makes Sanwang feel bad, as if this is his child's attitude.
Sanwang is very melancholy, "Maybe we have seen it too many times and have seen it? Hey."
Xiaowang also looked up, "Maybe your daughter-in-law is really a little shy."
Sanwang: "... I'm so handsome, it should be shy."
Lin Lan: "..." Who will tell me, is there any cross-species sadomasochistic story that I don't know about
Seeing Lin Lan's return, Xiao Wang ran over and took her hand, and said softly, "Mother, the little third brother has lost his love, and I'm feeling melancholy."
Lin Lan: "!"
When Sanwang heard this, he turned back and smiled wryly at Lin Lan, making a gesture of wiping away tears, "Mother, I'm lost in love."
Xu Dongxing didn't know what was wrong recently, and he often used the word melancholy on his lips. Zhao Mingjie said that he must have lost his love. Maybe it was because his secret lover who didn't go to the countryside broke up. Maybe he liked others to be rejected. Anyway, it looks like a broken love. Of course, Zhao Mingjie was also ignorant. He didn't know where he learned the words, so he told Sanwang that he thought it was new.
Sanwang doesn't know what lovelorn is, but he has learned to be melancholy.
Lin Lan smiled and gave him a push, "Don't put gold on your face, how can you be a brokenhearted person without falling in love?"
Xiaowang: "Mother, what is love?"
Lin Lan has also popularized it with children during publicity, and is not afraid of children asking, let them understand what they should understand, "Love is when young men and women who grow up like each other, want to get married and become a family."
Xiaowang: "It's like mother and father."
Lin Lan nodded, "...Almost."
Sanwang snorted, "Isn't that a blind date to find a partner, it's really interesting for people in the city to talk." They are still in love, but they are brokenhearted.
Lin Lan smiled and poked his finger, "Then are you still in love? Don't talk outside, it's a shame."
Sanwang pointed to the few pomegranates that fell, and said melancholy, "Hey, I'm not calling it a lovelorn, my pomegranate doll is gone."
Xiao Wang grinned, "Mother, the third brother wanted to eat pomegranates, and dreamed that the pomegranate tree wanted to be his wife, saying that he would give him pomegranate dolls to eat, hahaha."
Lin Lan: "..."