Chapter 74 Photoshoot
During the autumn harvest, Lin Shu not only cooked for her family in various ways, but also helped Fang Dihua and Old Man Lu sew their cotton-padded jackets again. It’s time to wear cotton-padded jackets at
night in August.
August is like this. It’s very hot in the sun during the day, so you have to wear short sleeves. It’s chilly in the evening without the sun, and you have to wear cotton-padded jackets to work at night.
As the saying goes, you can’t dress in February or August.
The sunflowers at home are for viewing in the summer, but now it’s for viewing the big flower disks, which are densely packed with seeds, which are particularly pleasing.
This is Lin Shu’s own participation in pollination. Sunflowers are cross-pollinated. She was afraid that there were not enough flowers at home and that she couldn’t attract insects to help with pollination, so she participated in the pollination herself.
The fruits of one's own labor are quite satisfying.
In the fish pond over there... several fish died one after another, and there were still a few left, but they were still very small, so of course they couldn't be eaten.
However, this fish pond is a beautiful little attraction. There are stones, several reeds, calamus, polygonum, cress, etc. It is swaying in this season, which is really beautiful.
There was no fish to eat at home, so Lin Yue sent him a big silver carp early in the morning, weighing six kilograms.
There is a reservoir to the south of Linjiatun, which stores water all year round. There are wild aquatic products and large groups of stocked fish. During this season, fish are caught and sold to the members to improve their food, so that they can have a full autumn harvest.
This afternoon, Lin Shu stewed silver carp, cabbage, potatoes, spicy tofu, and big fish head...
It was delicious to the people around. Everyone had eaten fish before, so why wasn't it so delicious?
Why was Lin Shu's cooking so delicious? The delicious land shaocai was enough to make you drink a small bottle of wine with the taste - he asked for fish through the wall, but Lin Shu ignored him.
Lin Shu turned off the fire and was picking lentils when Panpan and Tiantian ran back from outside, "Mom, mom!"
These two children were not reckless, but they always felt impatient to go home.
"Mom, mom, we're back!"
Tiantian was clean and tidy, and Panpan had mud and grass marks on his body.
Tiantian brought back a handful of wild flowers such as daisy and dandelion for Lin Shu, and her pocket was filled with ramie cakes, which are the fruits of ramie and can be eaten when they are tender.
Panpan held his two little hands together and opened them towards Lin Shu, "Mom, I'll give you some meat!"
He opened his hands, and in his tender white palms was a big fat green worm that was almost longer than his little palm!
Lin Shu: "!!!"
Her scalp almost exploded!
This one is a soybean worm in the bean field. In autumn, it will turn into a big pupa. Children like to let them point south and north.
Lin Shu has eaten this thing in a barbecue restaurant, but eating it cooked and seeing it alive are two different things.
But the bean worm is okay, it is full of fat and tastes delicious, but the other one is not good.
Lin Shu used a fire stick to dig it to the ground, "Pan Pan, this is not a bean worm, this is an autumn tiger."
This kind of big insect can be found in sweet potato fields or other fields. Without pesticides, they have almost no natural enemies. They can grow to the length of fingers and the thickness of thumbs. The hens are afraid of them and dare not eat them.
This child is so brave!
Pan Pan's eyes widened, "Isn't it a bean worm?"
Tian Tian: "No! I said it's not, and you are still stubborn with me!"
After that, she slapped Pan Pan's butt, exercising the privilege of a sister to spank her brother.
She didn't feel any pain, and Pan Pan didn't cry. He just squatted down and curiously studied the differences between the two insects.
One is green all over, and the other is yellow-green with black patterns. Although they are the same size, they are indeed different.
Panpan nodded: "I understand."
He reached out and picked up the worm, ran out and threw it to the chicken pen.
Lin Shu: "Tiantian, tell him not to pick it up with his hands."
This boy sometimes doesn't listen to his mother's words, so it takes his sister's teaching to work.
Tiantian: "Okay." She ran out to educate her brother.
Lin Shu decorated the flowers brought back by Xiaomianzha with other flower arrangements. Wildness is beauty.
She put the bean worms under the pot and roasted them. After they were cooked, she picked them out and knocked off the ashes, and fed half to each of the two children.
It was crunchy and fragrant, all fat.
Autumn is the season of harvest. Although there are no cicadas to eat, the children can still find food to fill their mouths. Plants include black daylilies, raspberries, sour dates, trichosanthes, wild melons, wild hawthorns, etc. Insects include soybean worms, large pupae, grasshoppers, and even a kind of blind beetle.
Blind beetles are local dialects. Lin Shu doesn't know what their scientific name is. It is a kind of black beetle that grows in corn fields. At night, it is as accurate as a blind man.
It is also meat. It grows on crops and is not dirty, so many members go to catch it at night. They catch half a bucket a night. If they have the conditions, they will fry it with some oil. If they don't want to use oil, they will burn it. It tastes crispy.
Lin Shu was just feeling lucky that Fang Dihua and Lu Dasao didn't catch these things to eat, when Lin Aidi came with the little cuties.
She brought a big bowl of fish to Lin Shu, "Sister, we caught a bucket. I heard from Auntie that you didn't have time to catch them, so I sent you some to try."
Lin Shu: "..."
It's not that we don't have time to catch them, we just don't eat them. My mother-in-law was just euphemistic.
Looking at those black beetles with wings and thorny legs, Lin Shu felt that the fish in the pot was not fragrant.
Tiantian didn't dare to eat it either, but Panpan was brave. He picked up one and threw it into his mouth. He chewed it, "Crunch", and the little kid squinted and nodded, imitating his uncle and said intoxicatedly: "Hmm, it smells good!"
Lin Aidi asked Lin Shu and Tiantian to eat it too.
Lin Shu winked at Panpan.
Panpan: "I'll go eat with Huzi and Huahua."
He took the big bowl and went out with Tiantian.
Lin Shu saw that Lin Aidi had some bruises on her face and asked concernedly: "Sister Aidi, did you bump your face?"
Lin Aidi lowered her head and touched it, "It's okay."
Lin Shu glanced at her, afraid that she was beaten. This person is also interesting. Every time he was beaten, he would come to chat with her, but he didn't tell her what happened.
Lin Aidi told her about tractor drivers such as Lu's sister-in-law, Lin's father, and Lin Yue. "Xu Guangmao from our Houtun also drives a tractor. He is in a team with your sister-in-law. They drive a tractor together all day long and work together."
Lin Shu: "My sister-in-law is a tractor driver. She can't do the work alone just because she is a woman, right? Tractor drivers have to cooperate."
Lin Aidi: "Yes, they are amazing, If you get enough work points, you will get paid. "
Lin Shu: "It's very tiring. They have to harvest and pull crops before dawn. When the fields are empty, they have to plow, harrow, and sow. It's all their work."
Now there are only four tractors in the commune. There are more than ten brigades and dozens of production teams in a commune. With so many fields, whether it's tractors, livestock, or strong laborers, they basically work day and night.
People and livestock can rest, but tractors don't.
Tractor operators have to take shifts and work at night.
It's said to make money, but it's also very hard.
Fortunately, there are many tractor operators, and my sister-in-law works the day shift.
In addition, in order to give the tractor operators the strength and energy to endure the more than three months of autumn harvest, they are given two kilograms of oil and two kilograms of meat as a monthly subsidy.
The two were chatting casually, and Lin Aidi was still thinking, you are not going to have any good things today, right?
At this time, Tiantian and Panpan ran back and put the big bowls in their arms on the table, "Mom, my aunt is back with the big tractor, calling you!"
Lin Shu: "What do you want me to do?"
The two children urged her to go to the street to see what was going on.
Lin Shu went out with them to see what was going on.
Before she got to the street, she saw Lu Dasao, Wei Ling and another man coming back from outside. Dasao was wearing straw sandals, rolled up her trouser legs, and a hat on her head. The spot that was slightly covered by training was tanned again.
The man looked to be about 27 or 28 years old, with his hair parted in the middle, black-framed glasses, a four-pocket shirt with a pen in the left breast pocket, a front cap, and a camera hanging around his neck.
Lin Shu greeted Wei Ling warmly.
Wei Ling introduced them to each other.
The man's name was Yao Naiwen, and he was from the publicity department of the tractor factory. He also worked as a graphic editor at the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Municipal Magazine, mainly responsible for taking photos.
Lin Shu didn't know how difficult it was for ordinary people to find a job, so how could this man work in several units? She was so impressive and warmly entertained him.
Wei Ling had interviewed Lin Shu and Lu Dasao before, and it was the autumn harvest time now, so she wanted to add the interview manuscripts and photos of the autumn harvest in the farmland.
Yao Naiwen was commissioned by the tractor factory to take some promotional photos on site. He also happened to have a photography mission, so he thought it was a two-pronged approach, as he could achieve both the promotion and the mission.
He had already selected candidates when Lu Dasao and his team were training, and decided to take photos of Lu Dasao as a tractor driver in the promotional photos.
Although there are still more male tractor drivers and fewer female drivers, the country is promoting that women hold up half the sky, so in order to comply with political correctness, of course, female tractor drivers must be photographed.
He saw the tractor photo of Lu Dasao and Lin Shu taken by Wei Ling before, and suddenly he was inspired, and strongly requested that Lu Dasao and Lin Shu take photos of the tractor factory's promotional photos together.
So he went to the countryside with Wei Ling.
Lin Shu felt a little guilty. How could she take pictures for a tractor pictorial when she was just a lazy person and didn't participate in agricultural labor?
She should not let anyone find fault with her.
Yao Naiwen said righteously, "Comrade Lin Shu, this involves realism and imagination, realism and idealism."
Lin Shu: "Okay, I will definitely cooperate as long as you need me."
Fang Dihua happened to bring back some mulberries and unripe corn from the fields, which could be cooked in the evening.
Lin Shu said to her, "Mom, the meal is ready. Let me cook the corn when I come back."
Fang Dihua was very happy. Anything that could make the third son's wife show up was a good thing, because she was sure that her son would like such a daughter-in-law.
"Go ahead, I'll cook the corn."
At this stage of the autumn harvest, corn is mainly picked by hand, and tractors are not very useful. Generally, tractors are busiest when the land is being cultivated and sown.
So the commune was happy to distribute a tractor for promotional videos.
The key was that Yao Naiwen patted his chest and said that he was willing to help apply to the superiors, and then let the commune buy another tractor.
It is very difficult to buy machinery these days. You have to apply to the superiors, and then the superiors will review and approve it layer by layer before you can give the approval.
Many brigades apply every year, wanting to buy a tractor of their own, but they can't apply no matter what.
The main reason is that there are not enough tractors in total, and there are many dependent households. It will take a long time to get a tractor if you queue up to buy one.
If every brigade has a tractor, farming will save a lot of effort.
When going to the fields, Lin Shu helped Sister Lu drive over.
Song Chunfang just came back from the fields with Widow Sun.
The two walked and whispered: "I don't know who is looking at me. Zhao Meifeng said that she would introduce a partner to her daughter, and she also introduced one to the young widow next door."
Widow Sun: "She is lucky. At least the cadres in the city like her. Alas..."
She is so lucky that she can only get along with a bald man.
Originally, it was said that she would marry into the family, but it turned out that it was the time to harvest the crops and earn work points. The bald man ran back to earn work points for his parents. He said that he would harvest for a few days and then come back to help her harvest for a few days.
Damn short-lived ghost, she ran away after sleeping.
She is also a widow, why is Lin Shu so lucky?
The parents-in-law don't mind, the sisters-in-law still protect her, and the children are so obedient, not naughty at all.
Her son Xiaoliang came back and said that he wanted to find Panpan and Tiantian to play behind the village, but the two refused to come.
Just as she was muttering, she heard the roar of a tractor, and soon saw a tall and imposing Oriental red tractor driving over.
The driver in the car... turned out to be Lin Shu!
Widow Sun and Song Chunfang widened their eyes, unable to believe it.
The young widow can drive a tractor?
Sister-in-law Lu sat with Lin Shu, and Wei Ling and Yao Naiwen sat on both sides of the driver's seat.
Lin Shu drove the tractor to the north of the field, and saw Song Chunfang standing there acting silly, and reminded her in a coquettish voice: "Get out of the way, there is a plowshare behind the tractor, it will hit you."
Song Chunfang gritted her teeth and stiffened her neck. Humph, I won't get out of the way. What can you do to me?
As a result, a tall tractor drove over, and the plowshare behind it was shining coldly, which scared her and Widow Sun so much that they quickly hid away.
Lin Shu helped Sister-in-law Lu drive the tractor to the field. There happened to be a bean field there that had just been harvested, and the bean pods had been combed by the children, so it was just right for plowing.
Sister-in-law Lu was afraid that Lin Shu couldn't use the plowshare, so she wanted to do it herself.
Lin Shu: "Sister-in-law, teach me how to plow."
Sister-in-law Lu told her, and then taught her how to operate it step by step.
Lin Shu learned it quickly.
Yao Naiwen and Wei Ling were stunned. This... the young daughter-in-law is too capable, right?
If you don't know, you would think she would have learned it a long time ago.
Lin Shu found ploughing the land very fun, the only downside was that she was not strong enough, and it was very hard to turn the steering wheel.
Fortunately, she was now cooking and grinding rice paste to exercise her arm strength, otherwise she really couldn't move the land.
Yao Naiwen took pictures and Wei Ling interviewed. During this period, Lin Shu and Lu Dasao had almost finished ploughing the land together.
When it got dark, Lin Shu suggested going home for dinner, and everyone was hungry.
Xu Guangmao and two other young people working the night shift came to take over.
Xu Guangmao gave Lu Dasao and his wife a big red pomegranate that opened their mouths.
Lu Dasao gave it to Lin Shu and said to Xu Guangmao: "We have pomegranates at home, too, we will pick them for you later."
If it were in the past, when Fang Dihua was in charge of everything at home, Lu Dasao would never make a promise casually, but now she has a job and normal social interactions, so she has some power.
This was granted to her and Lin Shu by Fang Dihua and Lu Laodi. Lu Ersao and Lu Dage and others did not have this privilege.
It was already past dinner time when they got home.
Fang Dihua left them a pot of fish and fish soup, as well as side dishes. The staple food was cornmeal and millet flour pancakes.
In order to entertain the two guests from the city, Fang Dihua took out the children's thin noodle rolls.
Even though Yao Naiwen had never eaten pure cornmeal steamed buns in those three years, he took the initiative to eat pancakes today. He wanted to get along with the working people, and even had a feeling that he didn't want to be looked down upon.
Wei Ling was used to eating. She often interviewed downstairs and lived and ate with the members.
Yao Naiwen originally thought that this pancake would be bitter and astringent like wotou, but he found it very strong and not bitter at all. It even tasted sweet after chewing.
Delicious!
His eyes lit up.
Mrs. Lu praised Lin Shu's cooking skills, "This pancake soaked in fish soup is amazing!"
Yao Naiwen and Wei Ling also tried it, "It's really delicious!"
They ate up a pot of fish and vegetables, and even ate a pile of pancakes.
Yao Naiwen was very embarrassed and sneaked out to loosen his belt.
He took out five catties of grain coupons and two yuan.
Generally, if you eat a pie meal, you basically give a catty of grain coupons and three cents for three meals a day.
Lin Shu and Fang Dihua naturally refused to accept it, "Reporter Wei is our old friend, come to our house for a meal..."
Wei Ling smiled and said, "Old friends must also be given ration coupons and money. This is our rule. We don't take a single penny from the masses."
She took out two kilograms of ration coupons and fifty cents, "We have to have another meal tomorrow morning."
Yao Naiwen took it out and refused to take it back, "It's rare for me to come down for a meal, please don't refuse."
Fang Dihua left the two kilograms of ration coupons and fifty cents, "You two are the same, no one is partial."
After the meal, Yao Naiwen discussed with Lu Dasao and Lin Shu, "We need to go back to the tractor factory to take a few more sets of photos, so that we can have pictures of both the farmland and the tractor factory."
He who was in the farmland could directly participate in the photography competition, and the one in the tractor factory could print promotional posters.
Fang Dihua: "Okay, let's all go."
Even if the commune is busy, they only have four tractors, so it doesn't matter if they have one less tractor operator.
Shooting propaganda posters, this is a great opportunity to show off.
Since the mother-in-law agreed, Lu Dasao and Lin Shu naturally agreed.
Lin Shu went there for the travel expenses and labor fees.
Yao Naiwen said that he could give two people more than ten yuan in labor fees, and also give food allowances and so on.
So why not go?
An ordinary worker only makes thirty yuan a month.
She can earn more than ten yuan by taking a few propaganda photos for others.
Well, there is no concept of portrait rights these days. It is a great honor to be able to shoot propaganda posters. Who still mentions that?
Haven't you seen that actors are paid for filming in movies? No matter how popular a star is, they all receive salaries and allowances.
Rongcheng Military District Guesthouse.
Lu Shaotang and his friends had just come back from outside, and he took a basin to take a shower first.
When he finished taking a shower and changing clothes, he found Chen Yanming reading a newspaper with his bare chest.
Young people sweat a lot, so Lu Shaotang slapped him with a towel in disgust and told him to take a shower.
Chen Yanming looked up at Lu Shaotang and said mysteriously, "Old Lu, guess who I saw?"
Lu Shaotang took the newspaper and glanced down, and his sight fell on that face.
Although the portrait on the newspaper was blurry, he could tell at a glance that it was his wife.
Wow, they didn't dare to make a sound when they got married, but after he "died", she became as brave as a man.
He took the newspaper and read the report word by word silently. Not only this issue had her and the eldest sister-in-law, but the other issue had her and the old lady.
There were photos of her and the eldest sister-in-law, but not the old lady.
It was probably because the eldest sister-in-law's report was about working women, and the old lady's report was about military wives, so it was not appropriate for them to show their faces.
He pulled out a small saber from his leg, then cut out the two reports, folded them up and put them in the pocket next to his clothes. He
slept until the early morning, and the signalman came to deliver a message: "Captain, there have been unusual movements near the agricultural machinery factory."
Lu Shaotang immediately got up and dressed quickly, "Let's go."