The captain's surname is Zhang, and his first name is Changgui. He is the second child of the Zhang family. Everyone in the village calls him captain, but seldom by his real name. Only when we intellectuals have something to find him, do we call him Captain Zhang to show our respect.

If you want to be a cadre in the countryside, you must have power and strength. Power is the great cause of the family, where there is labor and people's support. Strength is that individuals must be strong, tolerant, basically fair and convincing, flexible in thinking, and can seek benefits for villagers. To be fair, the captain is still very capable and everyone obeys him. In summer, he handed in public grain, and the grain pile with a height of one meter was carried sideways, dangling on the springboard of the grain depot, holding the mouth of the bag in one hand and the bottom of the bag in the other. 170 kg of grain was slowly poured into the store. Few people in the village can make such efforts. Also, when farming, you should carry a basket full of manure around your neck and pour it into the furrow steadily. How many meters of furrow should a basket of manure be watered? The scores are exactly the same, and manure won't pour into your neck.

Speaking of the captain's shrewdness, the villagers are even more relished. Our team has no sideline business, and most of its cash income depends on selling vegetables. The captain can cry and play dumb when the resident cadres and brigade cadres leave the team before the summer harvest, and do everything possible to set the output below the reasonable level. After harvesting the wheat, first distribute the purple wheat and good wheat in the alfalfa field to everyone, and hand in some chromatic aberration when handing in the grain. The team leader has a plan for any pre-and post-inspection in several pockets, and there are few mistakes. Due to less food, less cash income and less work value. Most of the work points are only 123 at the end of the year, which drags the team back every year. We don't think it is cost-effective, but the villagers think it is very good. As long as we can keep food and not starve, it is the greatest victory. It was a felony to divide property privately at that time. If the captain dares to do so, he will take a great risk. Everyone knows this and tries to maintain it. Fortunately, nothing happened before we left.

Many village teams are very resistant to accepting young intellectuals. With limited land and limited harvest, they give more rations when they open their mouths and are extremely reluctant to let outsiders join the team. The captain doesn't think so. He wants our allowance. At that time, each of us went to the countryside to settle down in 270 yuan, and we had 30 kilograms of commodity grain every month. There are five educated youths in our team, and the family allowance 1000 yuan is a huge sum at that time. Building a house in the countryside costs almost nothing except hard work. Wood rafters and purlins are all cut on the mountain with indicators. Bricks and tiles are made by bricklayers around the kiln. The walls are made of adobe in Ji Hu. There are plenty of yellow mud and wheat straw in the village. As long as you work hard, all the money is the income of the team. In addition, these children are eating commercial food, and may leave for a change. People can't leave home, and they will eventually fall behind in the team. Later, as the captain wished, more than three years later, the recruiters merged into the team, and the old grievances and enmities were gone forever.

However, even the best monkey sometimes falls from the tree, even if he is as smart as a captain, it can't be counted.

One year, the county wanted to run a sugar factory, and the local area didn't produce sugar cane, so it sent a task to ask each team to grow sweet radishes, and the country unified the purchase. The captain was a little tempted and felt uncertain, so he took the task and planted some on the unformed land in Pokan Valley. You can't water the mountain, and it's only as thick as your fingers when harvesting. Everyone has never seen a sweet radish, but after tasting it, they felt a little sweet, so they dug it up and tidied it up, and one day they set up two animals to carry it to the county seat. I didn't know what beet was like until I got to the sugar factory, and the technology of making radish sugar in the sugar factory was not enough at that time and was being tested. The captain tried his best to defend himself, but people refused to accept him and laughed at him, saying that even if there was one, you had to look at others. You should try the purchasing station, where they collect ginseng. Maybe you can get away with it. Angry with the captain, when he got out of Nanhe Bridge, he threw his cigarette packet into the river and cursed while smoking: "It's really April Fool's Day. I took great pains to plant it. I brought two cattle workers and two manual workers today. I can't do this anymore. " Still unwilling to think much, I put the sweet radish as thin as ginseng on my back and went back to the captain to set up a pot in the yard, ready to refine sugar by indigenous methods. Two bundles of hardwood were burned, and a pot of radish soup was boiled into a little dark brown liquid. It tasted bitter and could not be eaten. This just died and was thrown into the ditch. That man was lazy and didn't walk in the ditch. After a long time, you can smell a rotten smell when you pass by.

Another time, it was also related to the blind command of superior leaders. The county was preparing to expand the output of the winery and assigned the task of planting sorghum. At that time, a variety commonly known as three feet three was being promoted. The whole plant is only one meter high, no soil is used, but the yield is very high. Our team also planted a lot. At harvest time, the output is really good. Later, the winery said that the sorghum was not up to standard and could not make wine, and only a small part was collected. At first, nobody cared. They think that this is simply food, and every family has shared a lot. When they eat, they find the problem. Sorghum tastes too rough to defecate, which hurts. It's not the same as the soybean sorghum sung in the song. It is ground into feed for pigs, and pigs don't eat it. We also shared a lot, there is no other way. We crustily skin of head and ate for several months. We are more unfortunate than farmers because we don't have the grain stocks accumulated in previous years. We divide wheat and eat corn every day. When we divide sorghum, we can only eat sorghum, and we can't play tricks. We can only steam sorghum noodles, cook sorghum noodles in soup and cook sorghum noodles in soup. There was a classmate on the team who couldn't cook. When we go home, he can only boil pimples. When he came back, he told us that pimples are a spoonful and a bowl. Without food, I won't starve to death and my stomach will swell to death. That taste will never be forgotten. It is popular to eat coarse grains for health now. I'd rather eat corn flour and buckwheat noodles than sorghum noodles.