Rebirth 84, starting from fish farming

Chapter 2 Home is a lifelong memory

Lu Changhua takes over.

He followed the canteen's food truck back to the family area.

He jumped out of the car and said, "Dad, I'm going home first. I'm a little tired today."

"You should go back first, I have something to do in the cafeteria."

Lu Zaigao looked at his son, pointed his finger at his hair, with a look of disgust on his face, said nothing, and led the people in the canteen to get busy.

Han Ying held on to the railing of the trailer and shouted to him: "I'm here to play with you tonight..."

Lu Changhua glanced at her and waved.

As the wheeled tractor drove away suddenly, the surroundings were full of life.

On both sides of the road inside the site, which is paved with river sand, one-meter-deep drainage ditches are dug, and willow trees as thick as a bowl are planted beside the ditch.

Behind the clucking old hen were followed by a dozen fluffy chicks, calling anxiously for their mother.

In the ditch, several ducks swam back and forth in the sewage, looking for what they thought was delicious food.

A few little kids were shouting slogans, "Charge the duck~Kill the duck~"

Whooshing and kicking, he rushed past Lu Changhua and ran into the wormwood bushes beside the ditch.

It didn't take much, and a howling cry came from the grass.

This gravel road runs through the entire family area from east to west.

Lu Changhua's house is at the east end of this road. It's the first bungalow at the east end of the road.

In the Northeast in April, the snow has melted, and the strong spring breeze blows the loose soil from the ground into the sky.

He walked along the road and greeted several family members of employees.

Four families lived in the Lu family's bungalow this time, the Lu family in the east, the Hu family in the west, and the He family and Mao family in the middle.

Not far from Hu's house in Xitou, there is a huge wooden watchtower with a height of more than [-] meters. The stairs underneath have been demolished, and half of the stairs are suspended in the air, swinging with the wind, making creaking noises.

Changshui Farm was once a labor camp, but later changed its nature and became a state-owned farm. This watchtower is a testimony of the times.

"Hey, Changhua is off work?"

Aunt Hu was standing in the yard scattering grass seeds, while a few old hens were clucking and pecking around the middle-aged woman.

Looking at the much younger Aunt Hu, Lu Changhua felt emotional in his heart, it's great to be young!

"Uncle Mao, are you going to work?"

The courtyard door next to Hu's house was pushed open, and a small, dark-skinned, middle-aged man walked out with a military green coat on his arm.

"Ah, work, are you back?"

"Hey, I'm back."

Uncle Mao is said to be a veteran who participated in the Korean War. No one has said anything about his specific circumstances. Lu Changhua only heard it mentioned occasionally.

No one in the He family was at home, and the courtyard door was locked.

The road in front of Lu Changhua's house stretches far to the east and is connected to the mechanical farming road.

200 meters away to the east, there are two large fields, one in the south and one in the north. These are the vegetable fields for the three-point field.

On the south side of the mechanical farming road, there is a row of adobe houses, which are used for the management of vegetable gardens. The pesticides, fertilizers and seeds needed for growing vegetables are all here, as well as hoes, sickles and other agricultural tools.

The entire three-point field staff’s daily meals are provided here.

All employees' family members are required to work in the vegetable garden, and they are paid 1 yuan a day. If they persist, the salary is higher than that of first-level workers.

The south side of the vegetable garden management room is a seedling base, where seedlings of various vegetables are cultivated and then transplanted to the fields on the north and south sides of the mechanized farming road.

There are willow trees planted on both sides of this tractor-taught road.There are more than 20 dedicated areas for vegetable gardens on both sides. This is the busiest place in summer and autumn. After get off work every day, family members gather in the vegetable garden to buy vegetables and prepare meals when they go home. It becomes a disguised vegetable market.

Passing through the nearly 400-meter vegetable garden mechanized farming road, further east is the small reservoir that Lu Changhua has always cherished.

In fact, the original purpose was not to build a reservoir, but to make it easier to transfer farm machinery.

There is a north-south ditch with a width of more than 400 meters, which separates the family area from the east plot.

There is a stream flowing through the ditch all year round.

A wetland has also formed nearby.

This has caused great troubles to agricultural production and life.

In order to solve this problem, the branch site asked the farm to build an earth-built mechanized plowing road across the east and west sides, so as to avoid detours and save a lot of time and fuel.

In this way, the farm water conservancy team planned and constructed this mechanized farming road, and placed a cement culvert in the middle of the road as a channel for the stream to flow.

Speaking of which, this road has been reinforced and widened many times, and now it has formed an earth dam with a length of more than 400 meters and a width of 8 meters.

After the 80s, a sluice was added to the culvert, forming a small reservoir covering an area of ​​nearly 20 acres on the south side of the dam.

This reservoir has always been a source of water for farmland irrigation.

It’s not that no one has thought of using it to raise fish, but they have.

As the actual manager, the three-point field certainly wants to make use of this reservoir.

But at that time, the reservoir had just been built, and the water body was very thin. Tens of thousands of fry were put in, but either the fish ran away because of the flood, or the fish were kept thin and had no meat, so the effect was not great.

Another important reason is that there are several small rivers near the three-point field, which are rich in wild fish. Many employees go fishing and fishing, so the field leaders have stopped thinking about raising fish.

Looking at the reservoir in the east where there was still some ice and snow, Lu Changhua smiled.

When I walked to the door of my courtyard, I whined for a while, and a big yellow dog rushed over with its head wagging its tail.

"Xiong Bao?"

Lu Changhua felt excited. This was his former playmate, whom he had raised since childhood. He never thought that he would be able to meet it if he could go back in time.

He remembered that Xiong Bao was shot with a small-caliber gun during the dog hunting activity next year.

This matter has always been a pain in Lu Changhua's heart.

Opening the courtyard door, Xiong Bao rushed over and clung to his body with both claws, unwilling to let go.

Lu Changhua couldn't help but choke up as he looked at Xiong Bao's watery eyes. He held its head with both hands and rubbed his face against the dog's face. Xiong Bao's big tongue licked Lu Changhua's face again and again.

"Son is off work?"

A very familiar voice sounded. Lu Changhua looked up and saw a small woman in her 40s opening the door and looking at him.

"Mom, I, I'm back."

"Wash your face quickly and get ready to eat."

"Eh."

Lu Changhua responded with his mouth, but his eyes were as red as if there was sand in them.

As soon as you enter the door, you will see a kitchen, with two iron pots placed on the stove.

The bite inside was made from boiled pig food, with a faint flavor of wild vegetables.

The pot outside is the rice pot for the whole family. It is used for cooking, steaming steamed buns and noodles.

Steam is coming from the pot lid, and a scent of vegetables floats into the air with the heat.

Lu Changhua sniffed.

"Mom, the food is so delicious. What delicious food have you made?!"

"Where is there anything delicious? Eat whatever you can."

Mother Lu said cheerfully.

Xiong Bao surrounded Lu Changhua, circling back and forth.

"Go and wash your face."

"Eh."

Turn to the left and push open a wooden door. This is where the Lu family's living room, dining room and bedroom are located.Next to the window on the south side, there is an iron washstand. A basin of hot water is placed on the shelf, emitting a faint steam.

Lu Changhua took off his work clothes and washed his face.

Soon the basin of water turned black.

He walked to the yard with the water, poured it on the ground, went to the water tank next to the pot, scooped up a few ladles of cold water, and washed it again.

After washing, he opened the side dining table at home, set the table on the edge of the Kang, took the bowls and chopsticks and set them up.

Mother Lu put the steamed buns in the pot into a basin and shoveled the vegetables into the plate with a spatula.

"Mom, your craftsmanship is so good, the cabbage and potatoes are so delicious!"

"There's no food now, so we'll just make do with it. It will be fine in June or July, when the food will arrive."

"It's okay, it's fine."

Lu Changhua sat on the stool, and his mother sat on the edge of the Kang. The two of them had a particularly delicious dinner.

"It's not okay to have your hair like this. Shave it off sometime."

Although my mother dotes on Lu Changhua, such a dress is too shocking, and Lu's mother can't bear it.

"Okay, I'll shave it tomorrow."

"That's right. Don't make your dad angry."

"Your brother wrote a letter this morning, saying that he was doing well at the radio station and asked us not to worry about him."

Mother Lu looked proud when she mentioned her eldest son.

Lu Changzhong is the eldest son of the Lu family and Lu Changhua's eldest brother, two years older than him.

Intern at a farm radio station.

Since graduating from the electromechanical class of a vocational high school, he has gone to a radio station. He has been an intern for a year and has not yet become a full-time employee.

Lu Changhua knew that his eldest brother was having a hard time at the radio station.

It is said that there are many demons in the temple but there are many bastards in the pool.In that kind of government unit, the personnel struggle is quite fierce, and if you don't succeed, you will be squeezed out.

"I'll go see my eldest brother when I get the chance. It's definitely not easy for him in the agency."

"It's good to know. You should also work hard and learn from your brother."

"I know mom."

After dinner, Lu Changhua rushed to wash the dishes. Mother Lu couldn't compete with her son, so she scooped up a bucket of pig food, mixed it with a scoop of wheat bran, and carried it to the pig pen to feed her two piglets.

Lu Changhua boiled two ladles of water in the rice pot. When it started to steam, he stopped burning the fire and put the dishes and chopsticks into the pot to wash them.

You can hear the howl of the piglet across the gable wall. It's so wilful. I don't know if it's because it's hungry or because it's being coquettish with Mother Lu.

The clock on the wall has already pointed to seven o'clock, and Dad hasn't come back yet.

Lu's mother had already finished cleaning inside and outside the house. At this time, the light was extremely dark. When Lu Changhua pulled down the light cord, the only light bulb in the house did not turn on.

"Oh, the power went out again."

Mom said to herself.

The room was lit with dim candlelight.

Turn a can upside down and stick a candle to the bottom of the bottle to create a simple candle holder.

Today's Lu family can be described as barren.

There are only three electrical appliances in the house, lights, radios and flashlights.

The radio requires batteries and is generally reluctant to be used. If it can be listened to ten or eight times a month, it is considered a high frequency.

Unless necessary, don't use electric lights if you can, which costs money.

As for flashlights, they are generally not used and cost money.

Such families are very common on farms.

Of course, a very few cadre families already have black and white TV sets.

The price of four 500 yuan is daunting.

Lu Changhua remembers that it was only after 88 that his family bought a black and white TV.

Looking at such a living environment, he secretly made up his mind to get rich and be among the first to get rich!

Yes, contracting a reservoir will make you money quickly, and it’s reasonable and legal.

It's just that the brother surnamed Yu is afraid that he will be cut off by him.

Lu Changhua remembered that there was a flood in the summer and autumn this year, and the farm was severely affected. The cadres and soldiers from the nearby artillery regiment came to support. This year's grain production must have been reduced.

But the small reservoir at the branch site has benefited from it. There is enough water for fish farming.

Detailed employee family farm policies will be communicated to the branches at the end of the year. This is the best time to contract small reservoirs.

While he was thinking about it, Bao Xiong in the courtyard barked wildly.

Someone shouted Lu Changhua's name outside the courtyard gate.

"Who is it?"

"Lu Changhua, watch the dog quickly, I'm afraid of it."

"It's okay, come in."

Lu Changhua recognized Han Ying's voice and tied Xiong Bao with a rope.

When Xiong Bao saw Lu Changhua coming, he shook his head, so affectionate.

"Who is it?"

"Han Ying."

"The girl from Director Han's family?"

My mother muttered, then got up and moved a stool over.

As soon as she entered the room, Han Ying took Lu's mother and talked non-stop. I don't know where so many topics came from between the women.

Lu Changhua poured Han Ying a glass of boiled water.

"Sorry, I don't have good tea at home."

"I don't drink tea, boiled water is good."

Han Ying looked at Lu Changhua with shining eyes.

"Ahem, Han Ying, do you have anything to do with me?"

"Oh, you said you won't wear bell-bottoms today, is that true?"

"Oh, it's true. By the way, I'm going to the city tomorrow to shave my head."

"Huh? Isn't that a waste of time?"

"This hairstyle doesn't suit me."

"Oh. Can I go with you tomorrow?"

"You? Don't go to work?"

"I take a leave."

"Then you have to get up early, otherwise you won't be able to catch the bus."

"Let's leave at five o'clock. It's better to leave early."

Han Ying's eyes were full of energy.

"Okay, let's meet at the team headquarters."

(End of this chapter)