Eye prose of farm tools

Farm tools are mostly a combination of iron and wood. The eyes of farm tools are on the wood.

The head is the big brother among farm tools. It can be used for digging, planing, raking and leveling. Especially for people in the mountains, their heads are always in their hands almost all year round. To live at home, it is essential to buy one or two good heads. It is best to have a head made by a blacksmith in the streets of Mazui Town. His family has three generations of blacksmiths. As long as it is " The quality of the goods produced by Gou Ji's blacksmith shop is absolutely high. Even if the head blade is sharpened and blunted, and the steel is smashed once in the blacksmith shop, and then used away, even if the head is sharpened until only the ring is left, I have never heard of anyone having the head blade broken. People's reputation is a golden sign.

Several of the heads in my house are made by blacksmiths. Whether they weigh seven kilograms or three or four kilograms, they are all time-tested and good things. Furniture for farm work in the mountains, not to mention the many stones hidden in the ground, just the tangled tree roots and the rhubarb that are as big as tree roots, usually twists into twists after three to five days. Only Gou blacksmith can make them. The head is hard yet flexible, and even the stubborn tree roots will be cut off. Even those hidden stones, the iron stones hit dazzling sparks, and there are only a few white seals on the head blade. To dig out deep-rooted rhubarb, as long as you have good strength and skills, you can dig out a rhubarb with seven branches and eight forks in five or six strokes. Of course, a good horse also needs a good saddle, and a good head also needs a good handle. The best one is Cotoneaster, followed by mountain tincture. Cotoneaster wood is made of solid porcelain, with a balance of hardness and softness. It becomes soft when it is hard and hard when it is soft. It is the best partner for the head. Although the mountain tincture is covered with scars, it has good toughness. The most important thing is that it can return to its original shape after being bent. My family's headbands are all made of Cotoneaster wood, which my father found in the forest while grazing cattle. No matter how good the stick is, it must pass the test of smoke and fire. Only in this way will the moisture and delicateness on the wood disappear and become straight, hard, radiant, and become the best combination for the head. Those handles soaked with the blood and sweat of my father and my two generations seemed to be coated with glaze, shining brightly, with clear wood grain, and each scar was an eye. Those eyes witnessed the hardships of my father's life, and also witnessed my cowardice and maturity. My father supported a family of nine people by relying on a handful of heads, until he was old and exhausted; I was holding the seven-pound handful? First, it took three years to train myself from an ignorant and angry youth to a qualified farmer.

The hoe is the backbone of agricultural tools. The grass in the crop fields will always grow faster than the crops. If there is no hoe to kill, the harvest of the crops will be just a soap bubble. Whether it’s the small hoe my mother uses to grow vegetables or the fan hoe my father and I use, the hoe handle is made of light and flexible red willow wood. Yanhongliu is a beautiful wood. Although it is difficult to become a pillar, it is a very popular farm tool stick. The outer skin of Yanhong Willow is bright red and dotted with white spots, which is dazzling and eye-catching especially in the bleak winter. When making a hoe handle, it is natural to use smoke and heat to remove the outer skin, otherwise it will become deformed and twisted. The hoe handle of Yanhongliu is smooth and delicate. Except for the scars that resemble a half-squinted human eye, there are veins on it that resemble human blood vessels. After decades of sweat soaking, those veins have become clearer. I have always suspected that my father’s blood and sweat passed through the hoe handle. The veins have been passed on to the crops. Otherwise, how could my family's medicinal herbs and potatoes be lush and plump every year, but my father is getting thinner year by year?

The sickle is essential for farmers. Harvesting crops, cutting weeds, and cutting moso bamboo in the forest. How can one do it without the sickle? The wheat is cut with an iron blade set on a wooden sickle. The blade is from Shaanxi's "Fengsheng Brand". It has good molten steel, is sharp, and is wear-resistant. The wooden sickle does not have high requirements for wood, but there must be a place for shaking hands. The curved arc allows the force of the hand to be better transferred to the blade. The wooden sickles used to cut wheat at my house have the orifices of the handles that fit well and are very powerful to use. What’s even more coincidental is that each sickle handle has an eye made of wood grain. Some are smiling but not smiling, and some are serious and solemn. . During the summer harvest every year, holding those sickle handles, I seem to feel a kind of encouragement from behind, not daring to slack off, grabbing the grain from the dragon's mouth and returning the grain to the warehouse. The handle of the iron sickle must be made of wood and solid porcelain because it has to withstand the force of prehistoric times. For example, cutting peas, cutting wormwood, and cutting moso bamboo are all laborious tasks. Those light and quick-growing wood will delay the work. Several iron sickles in my house are all made of pearl handles - a kind of beautiful and porcelain wood, so named because the flowers bloom like white pearls. The pearl rod handle is heavy in the hand, giving people a strong feeling. The wood grain on the pearl rods spreads in one direction, like ripples on the water, but there is a smiling eye on every cross section, making people smile knowingly after working.

It’s time to talk about the axe. The axe is the inseparable cooperation of people in the mountains! A heavy ax must have a strong handle, mountain tincture or chicken bone wood is ideal. Those slightly raised bumps rub the palm of your hand, making it slightly itchy and comfortable. The ax I have is about sixty years old, older than me anyway. The handle is made of mountain tincture wood. After sixty or seventy years of rubbing and soaking with sweat, it is rose red mixed with light yellow, and there is a streak of eye-catching cyan. There is also a bright eye in the cross section, coupled with the bright and cold axe, it is simply a lovely work of art. This ax is not only a tool for cutting firewood that is necessary for daily life, but also a magic weapon that my father has used for decades of grazing in the mountains for protection. In many encounters with leopards, he relied on the sharp light of the ax to scare away the ferocious leopards.

With the implementation of immigration and relocation, my hometown is just an empty name; as my father gets older, no one touches the farm tools anymore. Coupled with our betrayal of our hometown, those farm tools that accompanied us day and night, those farm tools with eyes, were sealed in the decadent warehouses of our hometown, losing their former luster and glory, and became a piece of intuitive history.

Last night, suddenly many eyes fell asleep - the eyes on the farm tools, they looked at me expectantly, as if to say: You haven't seen us for a long time!