After asking, Cen Jiahua realized that the exam was over now, and Chen Yang, who was going home to rest, happened to catch bananas and had one and a half laborers.

"Brother Jiahua, I heard from my dad that there are many migratory birds coming from the reservoir. Take me over to see it in the afternoon?" Chen Yang walked beside Cen Jiahua and asked with great interest.

"This is no problem. Just follow me to the reservoir." Cen Jiahua patted Chen Yang on the shoulder and said, "How is it? Have you felt okay at school recently?"

"Fortunately, the new lesson is basically over now, and the next thing is the review." Chen Yang scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "It's just that he hasn't fully adapted for the moment, and it's a bit boring."

"It doesn't matter. Stay calm down and review. Don't be nervous or think too much!" Cen Jiahua smiled and comforted Chen Yang, saying: "You must believe in yourself, combine work and rest, and don't work too hard!"

"Well, I understand." Chen Yang nodded obediently and said, "I will call you if there is any problem in the future."

Although Chen Yang has not been in contact with Cen Jiahua for a long time, he still trusts Cen Jiahua very much and is willing to talk to Cen Jiahua for many things.

The Banana Garden of Old Chen’s family is located in the north of the village, not in the same direction as the road to the reservoir, and is not far away. The group only walked for more than 10 minutes. The old Chen and his wife, along with their daughter and son-in-law, youngest son Chen Yang, and Cen Jiahua, who joined in the fun, are the labor force dispatched today.

Cen Jiahua was riding a bicycle and Chen Yang was behind. As for Doudou, he kept tossing on the roadside, which was very happy.

When he got there, two people were already waiting at the door of the Banana Garden. Chen Yang whispered that he was a guide from the village and a merchant from another place.

When merchants from other places come to the countryside to purchase agricultural products, they are not very familiar with the place and do not know where the agricultural products are planted in large areas and do not understand the specific time of the product maturity, so it is easy to lose business opportunities.

Therefore, merchants will have some agents in each village, who will specifically help merchants find out whose agricultural products are about to be launched. After completing statistics, they can notify merchants to come and purchase. The combination in front of them is such a pair of local and foreign combinations. The agents will bring merchants to Lao Chen’s banana garden to see the goods.

After a polite greeting, everyone entered the banana garden together. Cen Jiahua could hear that the accent of the merchant was from Hebei. It seemed that the bananas in Rongshu Village were really good and were sold to the north of the motherland.

As soon as he entered the garden, the burly merchant took out a stack of red labels from the bag he carried with him, walked to the bottom of the banana tree, and put the label on a bunch of bananas.

"What is he doing?" Cen Jiahua, who was a little puzzled, quickly pulled Chen Yang and asked in a low voice.

"He is ordering, and he will only collect the bananas that have been labeled. There are numbers on the label and they must be checked when weighing them." Chen Yang knew the trick very clearly and explained the matter clearly in a few words.

Listening to Chen Yang's explanation, Cen Jiahua realized that there were many ways to acquire bananas, and people who are not familiar with the inside story really couldn't understand it clearly.

In order to receive the banana they agree with, merchants naturally have to go to the banana garden to choose a large and plump banana, which will be their first choice. For farmers, they also welcome this on-site ordering and sales method, because in this way, many losses can be avoided.

Because bananas are different from other agricultural products and cannot be stored for a long time. Once cut, they must be sold in a short time, otherwise they will only be kept and rotted. The capacity of the local market is too small to digest too many bananas, so local bananas are mainly sold to other places.

Only when the merchants negotiate the price on site and then confirm the banana, farmers can safely cut it down and send it to the designated location for pounds.

Old Chen led the merchants to choose bananas, and the others started cutting bananas behind. Cen Jiahua and Chen Yang formed a group and prepared to cut down the banana bunches hanging on the banana tree.

It is not difficult to cut bananas. Even though Cen Jiahua has never done it, he can understand when he watches Chen Yang's sister and brother-in-law cut a bunch of them. He stood under the banana tree and reached out to hug the banana bun hanging in the air. Chen Yang stood behind the tree opposite Cen Jiahua, stretched out a long-handled sickle and put it on the shank of the banana bunch.

The sharp edge of the sickle was sharpened into snow-white, shining with a terrifying edge. Chen Yang just pulled it gently, and the banana shank broke down in response to the sound, and the banana bun fell into Cen Jiahua's arms.

Cen Jiahua clasped the banana bun with both hands and steadily. He weighed it secretly and found that it was about 30 kilograms, which was really heavy. More than a dozen huge bananas were arranged neatly around the middle fruit shank, each handful of about 20 bananas, and each handful could be about 2 kilograms.

According to the price agreed by Lao Chen and the Hebei merchant just now, the price of this large bunch of bananas is close to 100 yuan. However, among the more than 200 banana trees per acre, not all banana trees grow such large bunches, usually around 25 kilograms.

According to Chen Yang, bananas are usually transplanted in June every year, and they cannot mature and harvest until around October of the following year. During this long year, not only do you have to invest a lot of fertilizer to fatten, but you also have to spend a lot of energy to manage the field. During this period, you have to worry about the occurrence of various natural disasters, hail, strong winds, etc., which will pose a great threat to the banana harvest.

Generally speaking, bananas are a cash crop with large investment, slow results, high risks but high returns. For experienced growers, growing bananas is a very good choice, but if the technology is not up to standard, it is easy to lose money. Therefore, bananas are considered an extreme crop in the countryside. People who like them are extremely fond of them, but people who are not sure regard them as snakes and scorpions.

Cutting bananas is a relatively simple task. As long as the arm strength is enough, there is no big problem. Today, the 80 bananas selected by the merchant were all knocked down in less than half an hour and piled up on the edge of the field.

There is still a distance from the banana garden to the main road, so the ox carriage pulled by Lao Chen is still on the side of the road for the time being and is useless. The next task is to move the chopped banana bunches to the side of the road with manpower, then install them on the ox carriage, and then deliver them to the pound location for sale.

I saw Lao Chen tied two smaller bananas with a rope, and then carried them slowly with a bamboo shoulder pole. Lao Chen walked steadily on the ridge of the field, and the shoulder pole on his shoulder was trembling, but it gave people a feeling of ease.

Considering that Cen Jiahua had never carried things with a shoulder pole, Old Chen arranged for him and Chen Yang to work together to carry those overweight banana buns. These banana buns with at least 30 kilograms were close to Cen Jiahua's chest, which was really scary.

Chen Yang was in front and Cen Jiahua was behind. The two brothers began to lift a bunch of bananas hard. Only then did Cen Jiahua feel that holding hands and raising them with her shoulders were completely different.

When holding a person, the center of gravity is easy to grasp, as long as you use even force, it is enough, but the center of gravity of the banana bunch that swayed between the two is really not easy to find. Cen Jiahua had enough strength, but it was difficult to grasp the center of gravity and followed Chen Yang's footsteps forward.

After a few times, Cen Jiahua became familiar with the skills of carrying things and became more and more at ease. However, compared to Lao Chen and his team who were still walking vigorously while carrying two bunches of bananas, Cen Jiahua was really ashamed of himself. In the end, there were two smaller bunches of bananas left, Cen Jiahua asked Lao Chen to try it out if he could pick it.

Old Chen looked at the two bunches of bananas less than 20 kilograms, and then looked at Cen Jiahua's body. He didn't hesitate and asked him to give it a try.

After the rope was tied up, Cen Jiahua squatted under the shoulder pole as Lao Chen and the others. He grabbed the rope with both hands, carried the shoulder pole with his shoulder, and kicked his feet and stood up. For a moment, Cen Jiahua immediately felt that the bananas at both ends of the shoulder pole began to become restless and kept wandering in the air.

After Cen Jiahua stood firm, he slightly adjusted the proportion of the shoulder pole on both sides of his shoulders, and after the two sides were balanced, he began to walk forward. The first few steps were relatively smooth, but it was even more difficult to master the following walking on the ridge of the field.

Cen Jiahua not only needs to pay attention to the terrain under her feet, but also adjust the balance of her shoulders at any time so that the banana will not shake too much. It is perfect to describe Cen Jiahua's movements as if walking on thin ice.

With all his strength, Cen Jiahua finally safely moved the banana to the main road. When he put down the banana, he really let out a long breath. He was already sweating profusely. In his opinion, it was hard to carry more than 100 kilograms of corn without carrying dozens of kilograms of things.

In the past, I saw others walking steadily on TV or in reality, and I thought it was a very simple thing. Now, after I took action myself, I found that many things were only difficult after I really practiced. It is hard to imagine that many farmers could carry a burden of hundreds of pounds and walk in the fields like flat ground.

Only then did Cen Jiahua deeply feel the tenacious spirit of farmers. Only those who stand tall can carry out the past, present and future of a family, a nation with their shoulders.

He remembered the classic line in Zhao Benshan's sketch "Red Sorghum Model Team": "Without the hard work of farmers all over the world, what do you eat? What do you wear? No food and clothing left? Why are you still so pretty?"

It is said, "Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard to do," but the difficulty can only be felt after experiencing it personally. Just reading books and film and television materials can only be seen as a superficial phenomenon. No wonder I saw writers and singers before they had to go to the grassroots to experience life in order to produce high-quality works. Cen Jiahua originally thought it was just nonsense, but now he understands this truth.

The banana ox carriage was filled with a lot of power. Now Cen Jiahua, who had a huge body of force, had a place to use it. He pulled the shafts on both sides of the carriage with both hands, and as soon as he tried his best, the car slowly started. In this way, all the bananas were pulled to a yard, where the pounds were over.

Points, inspections, and overweights, everything was orderly. It took less than half an hour to get things done. Old Chen happily took over more than 6,000 yuan from the merchant, carefully ordered it over and over again, and finally put it into his pocket carefully.

Chen Yang reminded on the side that this is probably one-third of the income of a mu of banana land in the past year and a half, but the profit is only about 2,000 yuan, which does not include labor costs.

Finally, Lao Chen made an appointment to go home for dinner in the evening. The group parted ways. Lao Chen and the others went home, and Cen Jiahua broke into the dam nearby.

PS: I pushed hard, I pushed hard!!!

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