The life of the crops is the best experience, and we are going to plant early rice. Although we are prepared, when I followed the army to the vast area of ​​rice fields that have been cultivated and filled with water, I looked at the mirror-like paddy fields and felt panic.

The squad leader saw through my thoughts and said to me: "You are responsible for pulling and transporting seedlings into the seedling fields." I don't know what this life is. Anyway, the squad leader is taking care of me, so I understand this.

The third squad leader is responsible for the work of pulling seedlings in the seedling fields. I came to the edge of the seedling fields to report to the third squad leader. The third squad leader smiled helplessly and said, "It's fun now, and I have become a refugee shelter."

I was stunned when I saw it. It turned out that all squads sent city soldiers like me who could not do farm work here. No wonder the third squad leader said this. I sighed and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't want me. I'll go back to the barracks to feed the pigs."

The third squad leader laughed and said, "Boy, did I say I don't want you anymore? Take off my shoes and start working."

Just as I was about to take off my shoes, the old God, who had been gloomy, suddenly started to drizzle in spring. I took off my rubber shoes and socks and put them in a temporary tent. I put them under the sign of Class 5. After putting on my raincoat, I went out to roll up my trousers and squatted to the edge of the field. I tried to put my feet in the paddy fields. As soon as my toes touched the water, a biting cold suddenly came. I couldn't help but tremble, remembering the past when the recruits washed their feet in the ice water. Now it's in the wild on heavy rainy days, and I have to soak my feet in the cold paddy fields for a long time. It's really afflictive.

I gritted my teeth and went down into the water, but I saw a green seedling in front of me, which looked so soft in the breeze and drizzle, like a soft green carpet, looking so comfortable.

The third squad leader stood in the field wearing a raincoat and squinted his eyes to us and said loudly: "Everyone goes to the tent to get a small stool, sit on the stool in a row, go quickly!"

We quickly climbed ashore and returned to the tent. After each person put the stool from left to right, the third squad leader squad down and skillfully pulled the seedlings with his left and right hands and said, "Remember, try to lean against the roots of the lower end and close to the soil. You must pull the roots gently. You cannot quickly grab the tender leaves on it. Can such seedlings be planted alive?"

When we sat on the small stool and started to pull the seedlings according to the squad leader's request, we saw the third squad leader squad on the ground and quickly pulling the seedlings. I asked in confusion: "Squad leader, you asked us to make a stool, why don't you sit on it?"

The third squad leader said without raising his head: "At that time, in order to take care of you recruits who did not work farm work, they had numb legs after squatting for a long time. I don't need this thing, it's in the way."

All our recruits were silent and bowed their heads to pull out seedlings.

After pulling a large handful, I tied the roots tightly with a rope, put them behind me, and then continued to pull the seedlings forward. After a while, the bound seedlings behind me had fallen to the ground and scattered everywhere in the seedling fields.

The third squad leader stood up and looked around looking for something. I hurriedly got up and asked, "Squad leader, what do you need to do? Let me go."

The third squad leader looked at me and said, "I need someone to gather the seedlings in the fields and use baskets to carry them to the rice fields. Can you do it?"

I raised my chest and said, "Let me try it. At worst, I can throw a few mouths and eat mud."

The third squad leader showed a satisfied look and said, "Good boy, I have a strong body. I like it. Go and be careful not to fall."

I mischievously stuck out my tongue to the third squad leader, waded into the seedlings, collected the strapped seedlings, carefully placed them in the basket on the shore, and then returned to the seedlings to collect them. After running back and forth for more than a dozen times, the baskets were full, I also went to get the seedlings greedily. The third squad leader said in a hurry: "Hi, boy, decorate less. The paths in the fields are slippery on rainy days, and it is easy to slide when they are heavy, which will also affect the quality of the seedlings."

When I heard it, I took off some of the seedlings in the basket, and then carefully bent down to carry the load. Hey, it seems to be okay, it's not heavy. So I barefoot, and moved forward step by step. Behind me, the teasing of my comrades: "Hey, boy, let's see how many dogs fell and ate shit, hahahaha..."

I didn't dare to breathe. I lowered my head and feet and grabbed it into the muddy mud, maintaining the balance between the front and back baskets. Finally, I came to the rice fields of the company's large army. I put down my burden and rolled my hands up like a trumpet and shouted loudly: "Squad leader, I'm sending seedlings."

The squad leader who was planting rice stood up and said something to a veteran next to him. The veteran waded to the shore and picked up the seedlings from my basket and threw them three or five meters in front of the soldier who were planting rice. I understood, Oh, this is a cannonball for the soldiers who planted rice. I couldn't wait to imitate the veteran to pick up a few handfuls of seedlings from the basket. Just as the veteran was about to throw them, the veteran reminded: "Top evenly to the position in front of each transplanter to ensure that the transplanter has enough seedlings to plant. When throwing them, you must be accurate and don't throw them around casually."

Well, what's the difficulty? I also started to throw seedlings into the paddy fields. The first one was too far away from the transplanted soldiers. The veteran said: "Look closer, people will have to go up to pick them up if they are so far away."

Oh, I aimed and threw the second one. As soon as I took action, I felt bad and it was too close. With a "wow", the seedlings were thrown to a place only one meter away from a veteran. The veteran was splashing with water.

I hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, veteran, I didn't do it on purpose, and the temperature was not well controlled."

The veteran smiled and wiped the mud on his face with his sleeve, jokingly: "It's okay, even if you wash your face for me." After that, he bent down to plant rice seedlings again.

I stared at the veteran blankly, and the seedlings in my hand were clamoring and dared not throw them into the rice fields any more.

The squad leader straightened his waist and said to me, "Don't worry, hurry up, there will be no enough in the front later, go and go back quickly."

I mustered up the courage to throw the seedlings into front of the transplanted soldiers one by one. This is really the case. The one behind is much better than the one in front, and basically stays at two or three meters. The squad leader got up again and gave me a thumbs up, and I smiled comfortably.

On the way back, I was in a good mood and hummed a tune and sang all the way. When I thought of the squad leader saying that he should go and go back quickly, I couldn't help but speed up. I was about to reach the rice fields, but my feet slipped and I suddenly lost my center of gravity and fell into the water of the rice fields.

The third squad leader rushed to pull me up after seeing it. My face was covered in mud and my eyes couldn't be opened. The third squad leader asked me to squat down and wash my eyes with water, and handed me the towel on my waist to wipe it clean.

The comrades who were gloating behind me fell and said muddy when they saw me, they all laughed: "How is this mud smell good, so I'll continue to eat it later."

The third squad leader suddenly got angry: "Shut up, whoever you talk about it anymore will get back to me?"

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became cold to freezing point, and no one dared to say anything. The third squad leader pointed to several soldiers and said, "Don't pull out the seedlings, go with Xiao Huang to deliver the seedlings. You can't keep up with it, move quickly!"

After loading the seedlings with several soldiers, I was about to leave, the third squad leader said to me: "You are responsible for the team that transports the seedlings."

I said to the third squad leader gratefully: "Yes!, obey the orders firmly." After that, I said to several soldiers who picked the rice and said: "Let's go, follow me, hurry!"

After getting my first experience, I was obviously much more experienced and my pace was much faster. I concluded that when the wind and rain were heavy, people walked on narrow rural ridges and carried baskets, and tried to line the load in a row in front and back, so as to minimize the resistance of the wind. If I carried the load horizontally, it was very easy to be blown by the wind, which eventually led to people falling over and overturning.

As I walked, I shouted to my comrades behind me: "Let's go like me."

My comrades all followed me and carried the load, and it was indeed much better.

After arriving at the rice fields, I learned and sold it to other comrades in the past as the veteran taught me. My actions attracted the attention of comrades who were planting rice. Some veterans said to our squad leader: "Squad Leader 5, this young soldier in your class is not lazy, he is very smart, he can learn it once, and he sees that he is in good command."

A veteran in our class scolded loudly: "Hey, if anyone calls him the young master again in the future, our whole class will be anxious about you."

The squad leader also said toughly: "Yes, whoever looks down on him is to challenge the whole class, we will never agree. You may not have his advantages. He has strong comprehension, quick reactions, and organizational leadership skills. I dare say that this kid can be a squad leader next year. If you believe it or not, let's bet."

The words of the veteran and the squad leader reached my ears, and my heart felt warm and my tears couldn't stop flowing down. Fortunately, on a heavy rainy day, I lowered my head and no one noticed it. I made up my mind to be worthy of our squad leader, the third squad leader, and the love that our comrades in the class have for me, and to be an excellent farmer.

Soon all the seedlings were pulled out. We followed the third squad leader to the rice fields and returned to each squad to participate in the transplanting of rice.

When I came to the squad leader with one foot, I saluted and said, "Report to the squad leader, the soldier Huang Aimin returned from completing the task of pulling seedlings and sending seedlings. I asked to participate in the transplanting of seedlings."

After the squad leader replied, he greeted me. He handed me a small handful of seedlings, and then he held a handful of seedlings with his left hand and said, "Look, the big thumb of the left hand gently pushes the seedlings outward one by one. Take it with his right hand and pinch the roots of the seedlings into the soil with his thumb, index finger and middle finger. Remember, you must insert them to the bottom of the soil and take them out gently. If the seedlings are inserted shallowly, they will easily float out, and they must be re-plugged."

I learned the method taught by the class monitor and tried to plant rice for the first time in my life. After getting up, I looked back at the class monitor. I saw that the class monitor smiled with satisfaction and buried my head forward to plant rice.

After being inspired, I continued to plant the rice seedlings with confidence. After the group planted, I stood up and looked at the seedlings planted by the squad leader. The seedlings were neatly arranged, with the front, back, left and back, and each one was straight and straight. Then I looked back at the seedlings I planted, and they were all tilted, as if they were frost-beaten eggplant.

I sighed a long time, pulled it out and inserted it again, this time it was much better than the front, and it looked straighter, and I was happy. But I didn't know that the squad leader in the front row and the platoon leader on the side both showed a smile, which was a gratifying smile.

After inserting a few lines, I felt a little pain in my fingers. I took them out of the water and saw that they were broken, revealing some bright red blood. I put my hand in my mouth and sucked it hard, and started planting rice again. This time I specially grabbed a handful of mud at the bottom of the mud, and I was stunned when I saw it. The bottom of the mud was covered with small stones, no wonder they were so hard.

Just as I was staring at the mud, Deputy Squad Leader Xie came over and said to me: "There was a quarry here, so the ground was covered with gravel. Later, when we established the farm, we specially transported soil from other places to cover it. However, due to long-term heavy machinery crushing such as mining, automobile transportation, etc., the land was very geologically hard, and it took several years of recovery to improve the land quality. The Squad Leader said, you mainly experience the feeling of transplanting rice. Go up and find a sanitary staff to bandage it and go to the tent to rest. Everyone is very satisfied with your performance. Go, no one blames you, let alone laugh at you."

I shook my head stubbornly and said, "I don't! I won't hurt after the calluses on my fingers come out." After that, I gritted my teeth and insisted on planting rice seedlings. Every time I planted rice seedlings, my fingers hurt my heart, and my bent waist also hurts violently. I kept reminding myself: Comrade Aimin, you are no worse than others, you have to hold on, you can do it!
Chapter completed!