The Gold Rush Dream of "Modern McKee"

Liu Yongqi, reporter of □ Evening News

"take advantage of the rain in the past few days, seize the time to overhaul the harvester, and wait for the weather to clear up."

As a "modern wheat guest", over the past five years, Liang Qing has driven a combine harvester, taking no pains and fearing the scorching sun, from south to north, with the rhythm of wheat maturity, catching up with the pace of harvest, using hard work in exchange for rich income. Unlike most harvesters, Liang Qing doesn't like to be with others. He takes his family and drives the harvester. He says he likes this kind of life.

Liang Qing took out a slap-sized notebook, which densely recorded the phone numbers of local agricultural bureaus and major grain growers. Relying on this contact book, the Liang Qing family traveled north and south: harvesting wheat from Henan in May every year, all the way north to Hebei and Gansu. At the farthest point, their footprints reached Heilongjiang, the last stop of the whole "harvest season".

"harvesting wheat is very hard, and when the harvester works, it stirs up dust all over the sky. Because there is too much dust, the face can not be seen, only the eyes and teeth are white. " Liang Qing said that when he went out to harvest wheat, he began to be busy at dawn every morning, and in the evening, he found a random place in the field to make do with a night's rest, and only when he met a large grain grower could he "enjoy" the treatment of food and accommodation.

Liang Qing told reporters that "wheat harvesting is like putting out a fire." the mature period of wheat is short, the time for harvest is strong, and the weather changes frequently during the summer harvest season, and there will be one or two rains from time to time, so we must seize all favorable opportunities to rush harvesting and transportation. "once in Hebei, in order to grab time, my son and I switched on the harvester, worked for 30 hours in a row, and harvested more than 200 mu of wheat. Although I was very tired, I also made a lot of money. " Liang Qing is very proud to mention these.

"as long as you work hard, you can make a loose income of more than 100,000 yuan a year, but you are dirty and tired, and most people can't stand this crime." For Liang Qing, the happiness in the hard work is that the family can travel all the way: the 30-year-old son is the "robot driver", Liang Qing is in charge of contacting the business and repairing the machine, and his wife is in charge of logistics and finance. Liang Qing, who is in his 50s, said that he plans to "retire" after another two years of work, and then use the accumulated money to buy a harvester and rent it to others to earn more money.