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White Swans Make A Record

White swans make a record

By Ruban SaundersPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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Her youth is still a dusty memory.

At that time, she was studying in the county middle school, a rural woman, an ugly, poor family, in the beautiful many classes, she appears to be so different, clearly the ugly duckling in the white swan. The girls gave her the cold shoulder and looked down on her, but she was so absorbed in her studies that, apart from the occasional feeling of indifference, she was mostly unaware of it.

But she is a little dull, the teacher, she tried to listen, but often still does not understand.

She was so clumsy and studious that she was teased by her classmates. In the laughter, she felt even more stupid. She thought sadly that she was an ugly and stupid duckling.

In high school three years, her grades were always lower wandering, finally re-read a year, she just passed an agricultural college in another province.

In the university, the campus stage is so big, especially since her agronomy major is a sea of knowledge. She was a village daughter with a passion for the land, and she dreamed that one day she would use what she had learned to benefit those who worked in the countryside. Because of this beautiful dream, she gave her spare time to the library, the time is long, and her classmates think she is a character who is withdrawn and not easy to approach the girl. She studied hard, but her grades were often worse than those of her classmates. For this reason, she became a joke in private.

Because of her ugly appearance, the class activities, no matter how to select people, the last remaining must be her. The only time my entire class participated in the school's chorus competition was during my senior year. She was so excited that she couldn't sleep at night. She was so happy and nervous for the first time. After practicing singing with her classmates, she also quietly went to the school grove to practice hard.

But the day before the match, she was dropped because the formation would look better.

On the day of the competition, listening to the students in the square under the flowers and trees loudly singing songs filled with youth, she was sad to cry, the ugly duckling in the fairy tale became a white swan in the spring, but it is a fairy tale, after all, she such an ugly duckling and which will have spring?

After graduation, many students gave up their major, and would rather stay in the big city as small white-collar workers rather than deal with dirt. And she is happy to go to the hometown of the agricultural institute report and became a technician.

After work, she, along with the master, was responsible for the corn seed experiment in the institute. She is rarely in the office, and she is busy in the experimental fields at every stage from corn sowing, seedling observation, heading, pollination, seed selection, and harvest. A few years passed, but she has not been satisfied with the results, but she came with the few college students, some promoted to her direct leadership, some transferred to the higher units, but she, like a tree, rooted here, the wind and rain do not move.

Her husband, who worked with her, signed up for the hard work when the institute set up a winter maize breeding base in Hainan that year. From then on, the two were like migratory birds, going south after autumn and returning in late spring. In Hainan, two people in the village edge rented a cabin, the wild country, poor food, she did not feel bitter, her heart filled with corn.

In the spring of the third year, she brought a new variety, after trial planting, this variety of corn yielded a large increase, and for a time, unknown to the eyes of farmers she became a capable person.

Every year, she goes to Hainan for breeding. After ten years, she finally welcomes the fruits of life. In recent years, she has selected corn varieties, approved by provincial departments, with high yield, saline-alkali resistance, and lodging resistance, and promoted planting millions of mu, becoming the first choice of corn planting for the surrounding people. She has also won a prize for scientific and technological progress.

A person who has never been on the stage, now, finally feels the taste of standing on the stage. She quietly wiped away the tears of joy, after experiencing so much ridicule, ridicule, loneliness, and inferiority, she finally knew that on the road of life, with dreams, do not abandon, do not give up, life will eventually harvest abundant flowers, the ugly duckling will eventually have their spring.

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