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In order to let Xiaodong increase his knowledge and experience the farmer's ingenuity, He Yu asked Xiaodong how the farmer spread two wooden boards in the rice field to pull out the weeds in the rice field.

Xiaodong tried his best to think of it but couldn't figure it out.

He Yu said:"The teacher tells you that the work of pulling out weeds is all women's business.

When they go to the rice field, they first lay a long wooden board, and then sit on a small wooden stool to pull out.

After pulling out the weeds in front , and they laid a piece forward.

Then the people moved to the front plank, and sat down to pull out the weeds.

After pulling out the weeds in the front, they then lifted up the back plank and spread it in front. The people moved to the wooden board in front and continued to pull out weeds.

They did this over and over again, and in this way, the weeds in a rice field were all pulled out."

"Teacher He, if a person sits on a wooden board, he will still crush the seedlings!"

Xiaodong asked back

"Because the water in the rice field is deep, usually only one or two people can sit on the wooden board. The buoyancy of the water on the wooden board will bend the rice seedlings at most.

The next day the seedlings grew and stood upright again. Will not harm the seedlings

"Farmers are so smart, I never thought of that."Xiaodong said

"However, if you can think of rowing a boat to pull out weeds, you are considered smart.

Because you have lived in a government agency for a long time and have no contact with farmers and don’t know how they work."

"teacher! You are not a farmer, how come you know everything?"

"My family is a farmer and our family is in difficulty. Every Saturday and Sunday, I have to go to the production team to do farm work and earn work points, not to mention during holidays.

So I had to learn to do any farm work since I was a child.

Actually, farm work is a lot of fun.

Our Yiliang Bazi is large and flat, all of which are fertile paddy fields. It is known as the granary of central Yunnan.

The rice fields are connected together, just beside the river near the city. The river water flows down from Yang Zonghai.

When it’s time to pull out weeds in the rice fields, it’s very lively and the scene is spectacular!

There are wooden boards everywhere in the rice field, and women and sisters sitting on them pulling out weeds.

My mother and I sat on the wooden board in our rice field to pull out weeds."

"How fun it would be if I sat on the board with you and pulled weeds with you!"Xiaodong said

"At that time, your mother was still a girl and had not yet married your father. Where was you?"Xiao Zhang said

"That is, if you want to go, I will take you there when I have the chance.

Those sisters and aunts were not only pulling weeds, but also laughing and joking. They also sang beautiful folk songs with their sweet and crisp voices."He Yu said

"What is a folk song? How did they sing? Can you sing a few songs for me?"

"All right! Just listen carefully and I'll write it down in notes."

"good! Just sing!"

It's true: it's so spectacular to pull weeds in the rice fields, and the wooden planks on the water surface look like boats.

Everyone is laughing and joking while pulling weeds, and the aunts and sisters are so happy.