I am a farmer
Text/Zhu Haiming
Thinking back then, after five years of middle school life, I learned a lot of knowledge in and out of class, and I finally left school and returned to my hometown as a young intellectual, and returned to my hometown to become a farmer in the No. 2 Village Brigade.
Since the Yanghe Reservoir was built, the ancient city of Zhitouying belonged to the submerged area, and most of the families were demolished to dozens of villages on the south bank of the reservoir or to establish new villages on the loess high slope in the north of the city. The new site of our No. 2 Village Brigade was built in front of the Jiatai in the north of the city, nearly one kilometer away from the city.
In the same year, there were 16 people who returned to their hometowns, and so many educated new farmers came at once, which is rare in the county, so Wang Xingwu, the secretary of the brigade, specially held a symposium with us, and then set up a literary and artistic propaganda team, with me as the captain, which is equivalent to the level of the production team leader.
The programs rehearsed by the propaganda team were very popular with the villagers, and some of the programs I wrote and directed also participated in the commune art show and won awards. Soon, I stepped onto the stage of Funing County again, and I began to become famous, and I also participated in the first rural activist congress in the county, and became the training object of young cadres of the party branch of the brigade.
My family of 9 people only have a labor force for my father, and my father often rushes to the market or goes down to the village to make pole scales, which often delays the attendance of the production team, so the captain and some members look at the red, and the production team asks my father to buy a share of the work, one yuan per worker, which is equal to more than twice the daily value of labor.
I'm back, I've earned a share of work, and I've earned a share of the mobile worker in the brigade, and I've given my father a long face, and the production captain and some members don't dare to talk nonsense anymore, let alone bully my father, that feels so good.
At the end of the year, Wang Xingwu, secretary of the brigade, said that our brigade has been upgraded from a third-class brigade to a second-class brigade, and this is due to the merits of our propaganda team. However, it is a pity that because the deputy secretary of the brigade Ma was rejected for his courtship to the female members of the propaganda team, he used his sister to interfere and disturb the chaos, and the propaganda team was forced to disband, and I also returned to the second production team to participate in labor.
The strong labor of the production team is 10 minutes a day, and the main assessment standard is the land, also known as hoeing, which belongs to the heavy physical labor of "sweat drops under the soil", of course, it also needs skills, and it is not possible to blindly hurt the seedlings.
It is also the longest-lasting agricultural work, and it has to be done all over the land, twice, and three times. It not only removes weeds and loosens soil, but also helps crops grow and mature. I just passed the Nidi level, so I got 10 points at once.
In 1970, I served as a member of the Revolutionary Committee of the brigade, deputy company commander of the militia, and secretary of the regiment branch. Soon after, Secretary Wang of the brigade resigned, and Yang Zhensheng, the commander of the militia company, took over, and I acted as the company commander.