Tell me about the broad bean picker.

Broad beans, fragrant flowers and fresh wheat seedlings.

Text/Zhang Qiang (Jiangsu)

Spring fields are green fields, spring fields are golden fields, and spring fields are also fields of hope.

In spring, on the way to the well site after a sunny day in 1999, the spring breeze blows the red flag at the top of the earth, fields, mind and drilling rig, which makes people relaxed and forget all the insults.

On the way to the well site, a ridge of golden rape blossoms is extraordinary, hardworking bees are dancing, and beancurd flowers are quietly blooming next to your casual ridge. When the spring breeze blows over it, its unique fragrance is refreshing, and its smart and naughty big eyes seem to smile at the passing petrochemical red, as if begging you to lean down and talk to it.

Broad bean is the most common plant in front of the house and behind the ridge in He Lixia. When I read Lu Xun's article, I once saw his description of picking and cooking broad beans in the countryside. In fact, not only Lu Xun, but also the children in the town have few friends in the countryside. I was invited to visit my classmates in the country. The broad beans in his private plot are eaten raw, cooked and fried. Especially raw, take off the skin and eat it as a snack. Compared with other snacks, it has a different taste.

Spring is rich and colorful, and the wheat seedlings that have withstood the test of severe winter thrive and are full of vitality. The fresh and green appearance is really attractive.

When I was a child, I liked to run on the ridge and watch the "strange" behind the villagers who pressed the wheat seedlings with wooden rollers. When winter goes and spring comes, in order to prevent the wheat seedlings from getting cold and frostbite, the villagers will walk on the wheat seedlings with wooden rollers to suppress the growth momentum of the wheat seedlings, and this farming procedure has come into being. I didn't understand it then. If it wants to live forever, let it grow well.

Farming is also about science and experience, and it is not entirely up to crops to "plant as long as they want." This is what I learned after I went to middle school and took a course about agriculture.

Roadside scenery is full of spring, roadside rape flowers and broad beans bloom. As soon as we walked past and walked into the well site, we felt that we had entered another spring, the spring when Petrochemical Red rolled up its sleeves and came to work.

"Broad beans bloom and wheat seedlings are fresh", which will eventually usher in the joy of harvest; "Roll up your sleeves and work hard" is no exception, and there will be a bright harvest prospect.

Zhang Qiang was photographed at the bean flower on the shore of Shaobo Lake.