On this day, Xu Chenghou brought his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren to Donggang to celebrate Xu Haiyuan's full moon.
By the way, I also brought some yellow smoke seedlings and sweet potato seedlings to Xu Shiyan, so Xu Shiyan didn't need to go back to the big house now.
Everyone had lunch at Xu Shiyan's place and set off back to the big house in the afternoon. Zhou Guilan naturally followed.
Before leaving, Xu Shiyan gave his mother thirty yuan and a few cloth coupons.
"Mom, I should make you a suit of clothes, but I am too busy, not to mention Yingzi.
Take this money and the cloth ticket and go back to the county to buy some nice-looking cloth to make some clothes for you."
My mother came to take care of me for a month and a half, and she took very good care of my wife and children.
Su Anying did not lose weight after confinement, but gained weight instead.
Not to mention Xu Haiyuan, the flesh on his body and his arms are like lotus roots. This is all the work of Zhou Guilan.
Xu Shiyan was grateful to his mother from the bottom of his heart and had nothing to express. He could only give some money and cloth stamps.
Zhou Guilan refused, but Xu Shiyan forcibly stuffed it into his pocket.
"Mom, my eldest sister-in-law and my second sister-in-law are watching over there. We two are tearing it back and forth. It doesn't look good. Just keep it for you."
When Zhou Guilan saw it, she couldn't be stubborn with her son anymore, so she had to accept it, and then followed Xu Chenghou and others to leave Donggang and return to the big house.
As soon as Zhou Guilan left, the house suddenly seemed much emptier.
Fortunately, there is a little guy like Xu Haiyuan. The one-month-old little thing is getting more and more playful. He has less time to sleep during the day, so he lies on the kang and kicks his legs.
Sometimes he can still babbling a few words, and he looks so fat and white, which is very rare for people.
Xu Shiyan kept his word. After a day of searching, he actually went to the Songjianghe Forestry Bureau store and brought back a sewing machine.
On the way, I also bought a complete set of cutting rulers, scissors and other tools for Xu Shiqin.
But Xu Shiqin was so happy that he cut a half-sleeved top for Su Anying that day and made it in the middle of the night.
The next morning, I ironed it and sent it to Su Anying. Su Anying tried it on and found that it was just right.
"Lao Liu, your craftsmanship is very good, and the clothes you make are so beautiful."
Su Anying stood in front of the big mirror and looked left and right. She was very satisfied and even praised Xu Shiqin for her good craftsmanship.
Xu Shiyan looked very happy. Lao Liu was really good at his craftsmanship, so he had to praise him a little.
"Third brother, I have been learning from the master for several months, and I can make most clothes.
My master secretly told me a few days ago that he would let me study for another two months, and then he would find a way to help me establish connections and see if he could keep me working in the tailor shop."
Xu Shiqin is very clever and can know anything at a glance.
In addition, she would bring something to the master from time to time when something happened.
There is nothing else but fresh cabbage, radish and lettuce from the garden, which are changed every day and given to the master.
The master is a worker. He doesn’t have a vegetable garden at home, so he has to buy vegetables. Wouldn’t he be happy if someone would give them to him?
As time went by, Xu Shiqin became more and more caring towards her. No matter what kind of clothes she made, she would always call Xu Shiqin to look at them, and then explain them to her after reading them.
Xu Shiqin is not stupid to begin with. If his master teaches him so carefully, what else can he not learn?
"Hey, your master is a good person and can handle it.
It would be best if you could stay in the store, get a salary and get a red card, that’s not bad.”
The tailor shop is a unit under the Forestry Bureau and is collectively owned. The masters in the tailor shop are all formal workers who receive wages.
If Xu Shiqin could stay, even as an apprentice at the beginning, he would have a salary of more than 20 yuan a month, and he could also eat food, which would be a good thing.
"If you need money or something to do a favor, tell me and he will help you find a way. As long as you can implement the work, everything will be easy."
The Forestry Bureau is a good unit that everyone wants to join. The salary is high and the benefits are good.
If Xu Shiqin could really become a worker, he wouldn't have to worry about it in the future.
Even if he is laid off in a few years, he is not afraid. Xu Shiqin knows the crafts and can open his own shop. When he gets old, he can retire. What a great thing?
Even if it costs a little money, it's still worth it.
In late May, the sticks have grown quite tall, and it’s time to start weeding the ginseng field.
And Xu Shiyan also began to prepare for top dressing of fermented bean cakes.
Yu Shouguang allocated three young men to Xu Shiyan, and set aside a fifty-foot-long frozen stick as a test field.
He also promised to leave another 100 feet of new planting this fall, all of which will be used to test the effect of bean cake fertilizer.
Xu Shiyan accepted the task and led his people to crush the bean cakes.
The bean cakes of these days are pressed by a machine into a large, solid disk, and it is not easy to crush them.
Steam the bean cakes in a pot for a period of time until the bean cakes are softened by the steam, then chop them into pieces with a guillotine.
Those who make base fertilizer soak the bean cakes, add pesticides, and pile them in a spare room for fermentation.
After fermentation reaches a certain level, take it out to dry in the sun, put it away after drying, and use it when planting ginseng in autumn.
The bean cake water for top dressing can be fermented in a large vat or pool, but the simplest way is to dig a deep pit in the horse track, and then add water and bean cake powder for retting.
The advantage of this is that it is close to the ginseng planting ground and it is convenient to fertilize.
The disadvantage is that there is no agricultural plastic film in these days, so there must be yellow mud in the temporary pit, and the bean cake water is mixed with yellow mud water.
But it doesn’t matter. It has to be poured into the ground anyway. Yellow mud water is just yellow mud water.
In this way, Xu Shiyan and his men first crushed the bean cakes, then went to the ginseng field, dug several holes in the 50-foot Chi Chuan Horse Road, and began to fertilize the bean cakes.
"Hey? Why do I feel that the temperature has been a little low these past two days?"
On the evening of May 24th, after finishing work, Xu Shiyan and three other young men walked outside the venue together. Xu Shiyan suddenly felt something was wrong.
It's almost June and summer is about to begin. Why is the temperature so low in the evening?
"But really, if you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed it. It's chilly.
The weather this year is terrible. It didn't rain at the beginning of spring, and it rained continuously in the past few days. The ground temperature doesn't rise, and I don't know what the crops will grow like."
The people together raised their hands to rub their arms and quickly put on their coats.
"I feel so cold, which is not a good thing. I'm just afraid of late frost."
Xu Shiyan vaguely remembers that in late May or early June in 1978, there were consecutive late frosts in Daying, Songjiang, Xinglong, Donggang, Quanyang, Beigang and other areas, affecting an area of more than 40,000 acres.
At that time, Xu Shiyan was working in Da'an Coal Mine and listened to your broadcast on the radio. He couldn't remember exactly what time it was.
But Xu Shiyan knew one thing. This side of the No. 2 Bridge is the frost road. Whenever there is frost, he will definitely go here.
Nowadays, all the seedlings of Bangchui are very high. If there is a late frost and the sticks are frozen to death, the consequences will be very serious.
"Let's go home quickly." Xu Shiyan felt a little anxious when he thought of this.
He quickly left the venue, found the carriage of the brigade, and got on the carriage with everyone to return to Donggang.
After getting off the carriage, Xu Shiyan didn't even return home, but went straight to Yu Shouguang's house. "Secretary Yu, I have something to tell you."