Outside the duty field of Team 18, Xue Ming met his mother's rumored boyfriend, Xue Dingshan. He looked to be less than forty years old, with a popular face and a pair of black-rimmed glasses.

"What should I do, Technician Xue? What should I do with such severe jaundice?" Liu Yue'e stood in the wheat field and was at a loss for words.

"What should we do?" Zhao Tian and Sun Yuhou's faces became uglier than the other, and Sun Yuhou cursed in anxiety.

Technician Ma Wenhua looked at the wheat leaves in a daze. He didn't know what to do. The air was filled with anxiety.

Normal wheat fields are green, but now the wheat fields are yellow-green. Xue Ming turned over the wheat leaves and saw countless small yellow dots. This is wheat rust, and the common people call it jaundice.

Rust is a type of plant disease caused by rust fungi, which harms the leaves, stems and fruits of plants. It spreads through airflow and can infect other wheat fields.

When wheat is infected with rust, the leaves will become necrotic, causing the wheat grains to be underfull or even the whole plant to die, affecting the yield or even ending the harvest. The seriousness of the rust can be seen from the expressions on the faces of the people.

Xue Ming wanted to go back to space to see if his wheat seedlings were rusty. At the same time, he couldn't understand why they called him over. He was not a technician.

"Secretary Zhao, Captain Sun, let's carry out the plan as planned." Xue Dingshan said with a determined look on his face. His voice was magnetic and comfortable to listen to.

Everyone stared at Xue Ming at the same time. Ma Wenhua frowned again, "I suggest not to do useless work. Ginkgo leaves can kill red spider mites but may not cure jaundice. We cannot seek medical treatment in a hurry."

"Is there a better way now?" Xue Dingshan suddenly became excited, "The commune wants to open up a model wheat field here, and we must complete the tasks assigned by the organization."

"But ginkgo leaves cannot cure jaundice. Instead of doing useless work, it is better to seek help from experts from the Provincial Agricultural Technology Station." Ma Wenhua argued.

The two technicians quarreled, and the brigade cadres quickly broke up the fight. Liu Yue'e was also anxious and at a loss. Rust broke out in her wheat field just after she became the team leader.

Ginkgo is a ginkgo, ginkgo leaves are ginkgo leaves, and ginkgo is a unique plant in China.Xue Ming didn't know that ginkgo leaves could kill red spider mites, but he knew their purpose.

"Proceed according to the established plan. A dead horse is treated as a living horse." Zhao Tian raised his voice and made the final decision, "Comrade Xue Ming, the brigade has decided to send you to find ginkgo trees in the forest."

As expected, Xue Ming knew something was wrong, "It seems that there are no ginkgo trees in our woods. I have never seen a ginkgo tree in the mountains so many times."

"That's why I asked you to look for it." Sun Yuhou put his hand on Xue Ming's shoulder, "The brigade won't let you run away in vain. If you find a ginkgo tree, you will be given 10 work points."

Xue Ming doesn't care about work points. If he has the strength, he might as well sleep at home. "Uncle Sun, you may not understand the forest. There are things that can kill people. Looking for a ginkgo tree in the forest is like finding a needle in a haystack."

"Comrade Xue Ming, combating rust is related to the people's food rations. As a commune member, we must carry forward the revolutionary spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice. How can you retreat despite the difficulties?" Xue Dingshan lectured people righteously.

"Why don't you go if you say it so nicely?" Xue Ming laughed angrily. You have mastered the skill of criticizing others. Who do you think you dare to teach me?

"Comrade Xue Dingshan!" Liu Yue'e walked up to her son and faced Xue Dingshan directly. "My Xue Ming is just a child. Don't label him randomly."

"I...I didn't. It was Party Secretary Zhao and Captain Sun who arranged for him to go into the mountains to find the ginkgo tree. As a commune member, of course he must obey the organization's arrangements and of course he must put the collective interests first." Xue Dingshan retorted.

"Everyone, please stop saying a few words and say it properly if you have anything to say." Sun Yuhou hurriedly calmed down the matter.

Xue Ming thinks they are quite funny. Since they don’t have the ability to treat wheat rust, they go to the provincial capital to recruit reinforcements. Why are they using a dead horse as a live doctor? Why do they have to cover it up?

"Others who go into the mountains are destined to die, I only believe in you." Zhao Tian played the emotional card, "You help me, if you find the Ginkgo Tree Brigade, you will be rewarded, and if you can't find it, there will be no penalty."

Xue Mingxin said that this is still a human saying, "Only 10 work points for finding a tree is a bit low. Can you give me more?"

Ten work points in the Zhaocun brigade can only be exchanged for one pound of sweet potatoes. People may not be able to find ginkgo trees after walking in the forest for ten days. The effort and reward are not proportional.

"You idiot, don't bargain with the collective." Sun Yuhou rolled his eyes and said, "But Lao Zhao, Xue Ming is not unreasonable. Do you think we can increase the reward appropriately?"

"If you find three ginkgo trees, I will arrange for your sister to participate in labor. You little bastard, stop bargaining with me." Zhao Tian couldn't help laughing.

Liu Yue'e was instantly excited. To put it bluntly, work points are farmers' wages. If one more person in the family earns work points, they can get an extra share of food rations. Food is extremely precious these days.

Therefore, the commune stipulates that minors cannot participate in collective labor and can only do temporary labor such as collecting manure and wheat ears.

Xue Ling is only 13 years old. Xue Ming doesn't want her to earn work points, but his mother is so excited and he doesn't want to refuse. "Okay, I'll do my best to find the tree. I'll leave first."

After saying this, Xue Ming left directly. At the same time, he also sentenced technician Xue Dingshan to death in his heart and decided to resolutely prevent his mother from starting a family with him.

Originally, a son should not interfere with his mother's love life, but a man who talks about political correctness will definitely make trouble in the near future, so it is better to be less than indiscriminate.

The cadres continued to inspect the farmland, and Xue Dingshan found an opportunity to get close to Liu Yuee. "I didn't blame Xue Ming. What he said will indeed make everyone think that his ideological consciousness is not high."

"My child doesn't need to be taught by you." Liu Yue'e quickened her pace and moved away from him, feeling disgusted with this man for the first time.

Xue Ming walked into the forest and entered the space. He walked around the wheat field and found no yellow spots. He returned to the bamboo house and lay on the bed to sleep. He was not in the mood to look for any ginkgo trees.

When I woke up, I found it was dark. I lit a kerosene lamp and went to the kitchen to cook two bowls of rice porridge. After filling my stomach, I went back to sleep. I slept until about three o'clock in the morning before getting up lazily.

When I walked out of the bamboo house, I found two sika deer and two young wild donkeys lying in the yard. The young male donkeys walked to their owner with grass in their mouths.

"Thank you, I don't eat grass." Xue Ming touched its mane, and in the next second he suddenly snatched the alfalfa from its mouth as if struck by lightning.

The green grass leaves were actually covered with yellow spots. It turned out that they wanted to tell the owner that the pasture had rust.

"Damn it!" Xue Ming cursed. The originally green pasture turned yellow.

I ran to the wheat field to pull out the wheat seedlings, and soon found millet-sized yellow spots on the wheat leaves. Both the pasture and the wheat field were infected with rust.

His eyes went dark and he almost fainted, "How could this happen? Why is it infected with rust in the isolation of space?"

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