Sister Feng has given birth to three daughters, all of whom are married. Her husband Chen, who suffers from hemiplegia, can't work in the fields. Sister Feng takes care of the whole family. One day, she went to the garden with a shovel, and suddenly she found a chicken entering the garden to eat vegetables. She quickly raised the shovel and gave it a pat. The chicken ran away, ran to the staff and didn't have time to come out. Mrs. Feng's shovel flew, the chicken was smashed, flapping her wings and kicking her legs, and she died. When the owner of the chicken heard about it, he quickly apologized to Feng Sao. Sister Feng cooled down and said, "That's more like it. If you recognize that death again, I will give it to you. " Since you know your mistake, it won't happen again. Take the chicken away! "
There is a sow who doesn't know what Mrs. Feng can do. She came to Mrs. Feng's garden to arch her stick and eat vegetables. Sister-in-law Feng is going to the garden to cut leeks with a sickle in her hand. She found that the sow was munching on vegetables, so she was so angry that she suddenly threw the sickle out, with a whoosh, right at the sow's back. The sow ran home with a bleeding wound and never dared to patronize Mrs. Feng's vegetable garden again.
Everyone in the village knows that Feng Sister-in-law's temper is generally not serious with her. Men abide by the law that "good men don't fight with women". Women all know that she is fierce and special, and she is in charge of everything.
Stick the sticks firmly in the garden, or pigs, sheep and puppies will arch their mouths and get into the garden, eating and planing, and the vegetables will suffer. Especially pigs, the arches are everywhere, wolves are wild, the vegetable garden is pitted and messy, and the owner is very angry. Although the puppy doesn't eat vegetables, it runs around and destroys its fur. Therefore, when clamping sticks, you should choose strong wooden sticks or locust tree sticks with needles, and some cut off the stems and vines of roses, which is called "harsh platform" in rural areas. It is covered with thorns and distributed on sticks, and even animals dare not provoke it.
Calves are free to move for hours. If their stick is too low or too weak, the calf will get hurt. So bigger animals should tie strong sticks. One year, the rural areas began to change customs, and all the scattered graves were moved to the cemetery. Most of the coffins of the deceased did not rot. Because of the smell of the dead, the old coffin was not wanted, but it was left in the ground without personality. In order to deal with calves, Uncle Ruizi picked up many old coffins, tied sticks around his garden, and tied a big bang in the middle, called "waist". All the staff became an organic whole, not only stopped the animals, but even people were unwilling to go to his garden. Therefore, Uncle Ruizi's staff has become the most powerful and sturdy staff in the village.
There are sticks in the garden of every family. Even neighbors should be separated by sticks to avoid mutual interference and influence. For a time, sticks became a special scenery in the countryside. Some use sticks and branches, some use sorghum stalks, the rich use bamboo (bamboo poles), and the poor use corn stalks with sticks in the middle, or use straw ropes as kidneys and then fix them. The clamp rod is required to be beautiful, gorgeous and strong, with a certain height, which really plays a protective role in preventing people and animals from entering. In fact, it is equivalent to the current railing, and the family economic situation can be seen from the appearance of the pole.
The most difficult staff to climb is Sir Zhong's "Gezhen" staff (thorns). Gezhen tree, also known as the prison hat tree, is covered with acupuncture. It's really harder to get through Sir Zhong's staff than to ascend to heaven. Not only animals but also adults are not allowed in. Sir Zhong's garden is an acre of land during the land reform. There is a well in the garden, which is a wheeled well pushed by hand. The well was cleaned and watered with vegetables, which grew well. All kinds of vegetables are planted and sold in the market to make a living. There are Toona sinensis, apricots, cherries, cucumbers and radishes in spring, and melons, watermelons, peppers, eggplants and beans in summer. Melon is called cantaloupe in our place. It is fragrant and attractive in the mature season, and even those habitual thieves will sigh when they look at the garden. Because his garden is surrounded by needles and the trunk is tall and thick, it is difficult for even a hedgehog to get in, let alone a person. However, thieves often miss Mr. Zhong. One day, Mr. Zhong went to the market, locked the door and left. Unexpectedly, he was followed by a thief. After he left, thieves entered the garden through the gate and stole many delicious things such as watermelons and cantaloupes, which really made Mr. Zhong sad for many days. In the future, he will not go out easily. When selling vegetables, he will find someone to sell them on his behalf. He said to everyone, "If you catch a thief, you have a plan. The only way to deal with them is to guard against thieves day and night. "
Sir Zhong's words became advice for educating villagers and his experience in managing vegetable gardens. Later, a production team was set up and the land was returned to the government. The brigade set up an orchard, and Sir Zhong became the orchard manager. In order to increase the benefit, he planted cotton locust strips around the orchard, which grew vigorously and produced many trees. Roses, rose thorns and cotton locust trees were planted outside, which became the natural barrier of the orchard.
One early spring, I had nothing to do at home on Sunday. My father asked me to hold the stick for him. Father cut down many jujube branches from the mountain in advance. Jujube trees are covered with many small thorns. Inadvertently, I was pricked with blood and numb. Spring is chilly and the north wind is whistling, which makes me shudder. After working for two days, my hands are bleeding, and it hurts to write in class.
In winter, the branches should be uprooted to prevent being stolen as firewood. Be careful when you pull it out, or you will easily get stabbed in the finger. Farm work is the crystallization of farmers' intelligence. People who can't work are clumsy and easy to suffer. The stick was buried in the soil. Pull it hard. You have to dig out the soil first, because you were young and thin at that time and could not pull it out at all. You can only do something to clean up this pile. If you don't do well, you will be disciplined. After pulling out the stick, I had a lot of jujube thorns in my hand, and I felt much better after pulling out. I had to use the ocean needle to pick out the acupuncture that I couldn't pull out, and tears flowed out. I knew it was hard to be a farmer since I was a child, and I realized the feeling that "everyone knows that food is difficult"!
In that era when sticks were popular, everyone with a vegetable garden had to hold sticks. For protection, although it is not an iron wall, it is a deterrent and barrier for people with crooked ideas, or it is "blocking the gentleman and not blocking the villain." For animals, this is an insurmountable obstacle. Rural people subconsciously have sticks and will never climb over them in broad daylight. If they pass the baton, they will violate the village rules and regulations and will be laughed at and condemned by people.
Even the pigs and dogs were not convinced that the prison staff set up by Sir Zhong ran to the front and arched their mouths, resulting in a broken mouth. There is a thief who often steals at night. His head easily passed through the stick, but his body couldn't. When he looked back, he never thought that his ear would be cut by a long needle and turned into an open ear. There was a thief who loved to drink and climbed over the staff while drinking. He didn't expect his crotch clothes to be cut by a tree needle, which almost caused serious injuries.
With the development of society, there are fewer and fewer sticks in rural vegetable gardens, but the memories left by sticks are profound and unforgettable. At present, some rural gardens are protected by barbed wire, some by fences, some by iron fences or fences, and the wooden poles are basically out of sight of the villagers. What is important is that the society is developed, the material is rich, the country is rich and the people are strong, the life of farmers is getting better and better, and petty theft is almost gone. This is the new atmosphere in rural areas brought about by the progress of social civilization!
Editor's note: The vegetable garden stick has gradually become a memory in people's minds. The characters vividly outline the images of pungent and hardworking Feng Sister-in-law and smart and hardworking Sir Zhong. The language is simple, the description is delicate, and the feelings are natural and true. The simple folk customs are described as a picture of a mountain village, which is memorable.