A prose essay describing wheat harvest: Waiting in the wheat field

In the countryside, harvesting wheat is a very hard farm work. As the saying goes, three autumns are not as busy as one wheat. Under the scorching sun, facing the loess with your back to the sky, you have no time to harvest with your sickle. Everyone praises the steamed buns as sweet and fragrant, but who knows the sweat and white flour.

The wheat harvest in my memory was not only tiring but also full of fear. At that time, people lived in thatched houses and needed wheat straw to cover the roof, so they had to use combs and sickles to comb the wheat, cut wheat ears, and bundle wheat straw. And almost every year there are several thunderstorms during the wheat harvest. I will never forget the tense scene when dark clouds came over the village and everyone in the village went off to the battlefield to harvest wheat. Time is the ration. If there is a slight delay, it will rain heavily and the wheat will sprout, so we can only eat black noodle steamed buns without any sweetness.

Nowadays, the wheat field is much simpler. The cut wheat is transported out of the field and threshed directly with a thresher. For large plots, a combine harvester is simply used. An acre of land can be completed in less than an hour. Even so, many farmers no longer want to grow wheat. Many wheat fields were abandoned, and some were planted but not harvested, and their income was greatly reduced. Also, from planting to harvesting, starting from cutting stubble, plowing, harrowing, ridging, making borders, sowing, to thinning, irrigation, fertilizing, spraying, weeding, to harvesting, threshing, winnowing, drying, and then grinding flour. , making pasta takes too much time! The people are doing calculations. One acre of wheat is worth 800 kilograms per mu, and the market value is one thousand yuan. After excluding the cost, you can't make two to three hundred yuan, which is only worth the current one. Who would be willing to work in the mud and water to grow wheat for a few days when a strong laborer is worth a day's work?

But large tracts of land cannot be left idle, and the wheat grown by oneself can be ground to eat. That means you can rest assured that you don’t have to worry about adulterated and spoiled drug residues. Therefore, many farmers who go out to work rush back to their hometowns to plant wheat during the autumn harvest and autumn planting seasons; during the wheat harvest season, they still rush to harvest wheat despite the scorching sun above their heads. Those left-behind women and old people have naturally become the most stable guardians of the wheat fields, guarding their homes, guarding the land under their feet, and guarding the wheat that they pay more than they gain but cannot give up.

In fact, why doesn’t life need this kind of waiting? No one can predict the future, and no one is sure of the harvest, but everyone will wait for their own persistence and that with a firm heart. hope.

Author: Guo Baoxue

Public account: Linqu