My experience (35) Feed the cow and the weed
I graduated from junior high school in 1975, when I graduated from junior high school during the Cultural Revolution, there was no high school entrance examination, and the classmates who were not of high class and had a certain relationship went to high school, and the number of students who went to high school accounted for about 1 3 of the number of junior high school graduates, they went to high school, I was born as a landlord, I lost the opportunity to go to school, I was very disappointed, very helpless! I'm not convinced! But there was no way to fight.
When I was 16 years old and couldn't go to school, I returned to the 9th Production Team of the Suyaqiao Brigade of Phu Quoc People's Commune and began to participate in agricultural labor. It wasn't until September 1978 that I was admitted to high school and transportation school, and I worked at home as a farm worker for three years.
At that time, the work was recorded at night after the work, and the work points were recorded in the team's breeding place, that is, in the livestock pen, on one side was the livestock, and on the other side was the kang where the breeder lived, and there was a table that was the desk, and the captain, accountant, and laborer all came to score and receive the work at night, and there was a pestle for the captain or accountant to sit, and the laborer sat on a stool or kang. Tired, technical work (e.g., the ground) is worth 10 points, and the easier work is worth about 8 points. After the score is described, the captain or vice-captain of the night will then assign tomorrow's work.
In the three years in the countryside, what kind of work have I done and experienced? Let's talk about feeding cattle and grass.
1. Cattle in the production team.
At that time, each production team fed several cows, and I remember that we fed three cows in the ninth production team, one black top cow (bull), two yellow cows, and used them to pinch the ground, plow the ground, etc. Sometimes a big cow gives birth to a calf.
Second, the grass eaten by cattle comes from **.
Cattle survive and work to eat grass, cattle eat grass **: one is to buy reed grass in spring, the second is wheat bran, sorghum leaves, cob leaves and cherry seeds, etc., the third is to buy dried grass, and the fourth is to go to the old fourth team to open up the depression (in the north of my village, 100 miles away from my village) in the autumn to grass. I have cut the reeds, the sorghum leaves, the cob leaves, and the cherry blossoms, and I have threshed the grass in the depression at home.
3. Guillotine. When the grass grows, the ox has to eat hard, so the grass must be cut short with a guillotine. My house is separated by a wall from the breeding place (my family's old house), and the breeder's name is Zhao Yingmin, who is one of my big brothers (who lives to more than ninety), and he is willing to call me when I am a straw, so I have a lot of straw.
When the grass is weed, the British brother first tears off some grass from the haystack with a rake or tears it off by hand to dry. Lay the guillotine steadily, and when the guillotine is not fast, he will sharpen it on the stone in advance. He picked up some grass next to the guillotine with a stick, and he tied a cloth around his leg to prevent it from wearing out his trousers.
When I was grass, I pressed the knife, and Brother Yingmin entered the grass. When I raised the guillotine, he went into the grass and pinched the grass tightly, because when the grass was loose, it would not be easy to squeeze. When I pressed the guillotine down with all my might, I cut it down in a small section, and when there was more grass down, I had to kick it with my foot or pick it with a fork, and if the grass was stuffed with the guillotine, I had to tear it off with my hand. I raise my knife, he goes into the grass, I press the knife, and so on, and so on, and I finish the grass that I have taken or torn off.
After the grass is finished, the grass in sections should be carried into the reed basket into the place where the grass is stored in the breeding place, the grass on the guillotine should be cleaned, the guillotine should be put into the house, and the ground should be swept again, and it is completed.
The grass is not a light and unhygienic work, and the whole body is covered with dirt, and the nostrils and throat are covered with dirt.
There were some grass seeds in the grass field, which attracted a lot of sparrows, and in those difficult days, the flying of sparrows was a beautiful sight.