A few people got excited, gritted their teeth, and worked hard. Finally, they were so tired that they sat on the ground and rested for a while.
After resting, he came to Uncle Chen's side again and didn't say anything. He just looked at him with expectant eyes.
Uncle Chen also saw what these children meant. He didn't want to agree at first, but couldn't stand the looks of this group of students. In the end, he had no choice but to say: "Forget it, let you try, you think it's too much?"
It’s easy, you’ll know once you try it, but be careful not to hurt yourself when you try it.”
"I'll come first, I'll come first." Lu Zhen was the first to run forward and took the reins and whip from Uncle Chen's hand.
Then he imitated Uncle Chen's behavior just now, holding the reins with his left hand, raising the whip with his right hand, and shouting in a decent manner from his mouth.
It was fine at the beginning. The oxen pulling the plow moved normally. Lu Zhen even smiled proudly at the people next to him and said, "It's not difficult to plow this field. I thought it was so difficult."
Well, isn’t this quite easy? Look at me, I can plow quite well. It’s so enjoyable!”
The others who were watching were all excited at this moment and wanted to reach out and grab it for him and try it themselves.
But as the old saying goes, people should not be too complacent as it is easy to become extremely happy and sad. When Lu Zhen was smiling proudly, the old ox pulling the plow suddenly stopped and refused to go forward. No matter how much he yelled or raised his whip, he could not move forward.
In the end, he tried all methods, but the cow still refused to move forward. The few people watching with envy at the side had figured it out and started laughing.
Lu Zhen, who was a little embarrassed for a moment, raised his whip and whipped it hard, and then shouted loudly, and the old cow suddenly used force and rushed forward.
Lu Zhen was completely unprepared. He staggered off the plow handle and fell to the ground. He rolled several times before he stopped and was covered in dirt.
Finally seeing that something was wrong, Uncle Chen yelled "Oh!", then ran forward two steps before pulling on the rope again, and stopped the cow.
Zhang Yu and the others who were watching from the side also stopped smiling and gathered around Lu Zhen, wanting to reach out and help him up.
Just as he stretched out his hand, he retracted his hand because he was afraid that he would be injured somewhere and if he lifted him up suddenly, the injury would be more serious.
He could only stand aside and ask eagerly: "Lu Zhen, are you okay? Lu Zhen, how do you feel now? Didn't you fall? Where does it hurt on your body?"
Lu Zhen tried to get up from the ground, stretched his muscles and bones, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, I just fell a little bit and got blinded. There are no injuries on my body."
"That's good." Everyone who knew that he was fine also breathed a sigh of relief, but seeing that his body was covered with mud and even his face was covered with mud, they couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Lu Zhen was a little embarrassed when he laughed, but he rolled his eyes and thought that he couldn't make the joke alone, right? He had to get two people to keep him company, and then he started to fool around: "Do you want to
Give it a try, it will be fun."
"I won't try. I'll just watch from the side. I don't know how."
"It's not difficult, not difficult at all. Plowing is not difficult at all. It's very easy. I was not careful just now. You just need to be more careful. Do you want to try it? It will be fun." Lu Zhen kept talking.
He tried to persuade him, hoping that one of them could make a fool of himself again so that he could be his companion and make him less embarrassed.
A few people were really tempted and thought about giving it a try, but they saw the dirt on Lu Zhen's body and face, and thought of the big horse he fell on just now, and their thoughts about giving it a try calmed down again.
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Forget it, let’s not try. There are girls here, and they still need to leave a good impression in front of them.
They are all fifteen or sixteen years old. After high school, they will be married at home. If they make a joke at this time, how many people may laugh at them then.
Seeing that he had not deceived everyone, Lu Zhen was a little downcast. It seemed that he could only bear everything on his own.
At this time, Uncle Chen had already driven the plow again and plowed the ground. As he walked forward, he said: "I tell you, this plowing is not a simple job. You have to do it well."
It is not an easy task, it requires not only physical strength, but also skills.
If the plowshare is inserted shallowly, the land plowed out will naturally be shallow as well, and the purpose of plowing will not be achieved."
"Wouldn't it be enough to make it deeper?" At this time, a girl next to me interjected.
Uncle Chen smiled and shook his head, and continued: "Of course it won't work. If the plowshare is inserted deeply, it will easily damage the plow and possibly harm the cattle."
Then looking at the vaguely understanding expressions on the faces of a group of students, Uncle Chen continued: "When we go here and there, we must leave no dead ends and pay attention to the stones in the field. People who plow the fields must react quickly.
The decision must be accurate.”
As he spoke, Uncle Chen pulled out the plow, then pointed to a little stone exposed on the ground and said: "Did you see it? That is a dark stone. When you hit it, if you don't pull out the plow in time,
If it comes out, it will be damaged."
When Uncle Chen plowed the land, a member of the commune came over with a rake.
Uncle Chen took advantage of the fact that the soil lumps raised by the plow had not been dried and hardened by the wind, and put a rake on the old ox. He stood on the rake, holding the reins in one hand and raising the whip with the other, rake the soil lumps into pieces, and then rake the ground.
flat.
After the land was prepared, a large number of commune members came over with a shout. They spread the farmyard manure prepared in advance evenly on the prepared land. After finishing everything, they were waiting for sowing.
Zhang Yu here looked at it for a while and then went back. He was also busy. The area of the land they were allocated today was not small. In addition, they had just gone to see the plowing for a while, and the sun had already risen.
I'm so old.
Although they didn't shut up for a moment after they came back, they just kept working, but they haven't done much yet. I don't know if they can finish working on the land they were assigned before the sun goes down today.
Especially because of the lack of farm tools, the 12 of them were assigned four hoes. They could only use them in turns. When it was not their turn, they could only pull them out by hand. How slowly they pulled out!
But of the only four hoes, two were occupied by those two people. They just insisted that they had grabbed the two hoes and refused to separate them and use them together.
As if they were afraid that they would take advantage, they wanted to separate the work to be done today and let everyone do their own thing.