Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 610 Not My Type
YJ County is about 130 miles away from JY County, and the group is not traveling very fast.

Mainly because when we set out from YJ County, the weight on each horse did not decrease, but instead increased significantly due to the large purchases from the supply and marketing cooperatives.

Although there was an additional horse-drawn carriage, the horses that Wang An, Mu Xueli and Wang Li had been riding before were also used to pull the carriage.

It is a shape where one horse is pulling a shaft, and two horses are pulling a long harness.

The tires and wheels of the horse-drawn carriages of this era were very large and heavy, because these things were actually the two wheels at the back of a walk-behind tractor.

If used by normal individuals, the cart is usually pulled by two mules, with one pulling the shaft and the other pulling the harness.

The worst case scenario is that a mule or horse will be used to pull the shaft, and then a donkey will be used to pull the harness.

But don't underestimate this animal that pulls the harness. Although the donkey is small and not very strong, it only needs to exert a little effort to give the mules and horses pulling the cart a break.

Because even if it is a powerful mule or horse that can pull a cart at lightning speed, it will also have a time when its strength is exhausted, that is, when the current strength has just been used up and new strength has not yet been generated.

To use the words from martial arts novels, it is the moment when "all old moves have been used up and new moves have not yet been used."

You have to know that this situation is the most dangerous time for a person. Even a person with high martial arts skills may be injured or die at this moment.

The same is true for the mules and horses that pull the carts, especially when pulling heavy loads uphill.

If a single mule is pulling a cart uphill, an experienced driver will get off the cart and hold the shaft, and help pull it up when the mule or horse slows down.

The shaft post is the small wooden peg about 10 cm long that stands upright at the front of the shaft.

The function of this thing is to hang "Dadu" and "Dayou".

How much strength does a person have to pull a heavy load? But it is precisely this little strength that can help the mules and horses pulling the carts slow down and avoid serious problems such as slipping down the slope.

Although the job of driving a carriage seems simple and is actually very easy to get started, it is not easy to drive the carriage well and accurately.

It was all right to pull a cart with one or two horses, and most people could do it, no matter how much effort it took.

But a long carriage like the one Wang An drove is really not something that ordinary people can control. You know, many old farmers have driven horse-drawn carriages all their lives, but even until the day they die, they still can't drive a long carriage!

This is a fact!
Because mules and horses have their own thoughts, the driver has to control the power of three or even four horses.

For example, when going downhill, it is already very difficult for the mules and horses pulling the cart to withstand the force of the cart going downhill, but the horse in front is still pulling the cart with all its strength!

Can the strength of one horse withstand the strength of two horses?
For example, when going uphill, the pulling horse is almost exhausted, but the two horses in the front are not working hard, or are not working hard at all. Don’t you think this is infuriating?

The main thing is that humans know what it means to be tired, and horses know it too.

The reason why most of the horses used for pulling the shafts are old horses, but young horses are used for pulling the side harnesses or long harnesses is, on the one hand, because old horses have enough experience in pulling the shafts, and on the other hand, it is because of this.

After all, the "马老滑" in "人老邪其老邪，马老滑" is not a compliment.

In order not to delay their journey, everyone had lunch on horseback or in the carriage, but even so, by the time evening came, they had only walked more than 40 miles.

For dinner, they had leftover meat buns and biscuits. As for Mu Xueli and Wang Li, they ate biscuits soaked in boiling water. To put it simply, they ate batter, which is called "zongzi" in Northeastern dialect.

There is no way. Although these two people are young and their bodies recover quickly, it is still very difficult for them to eat for the time being.

After dinner, they couldn't sleep again, so they took out the branches they picked up during the day and started making slingshots. Most people of this generation know how to make slingshots, but Wang An was good at making slingshots with valve lines, and others didn't quite understand it.

Wu Dong held the valve line and said:
"Xiao An, why don't you just buy a cuff? We use that to tie our slingshots."

He Liang also said doubtfully:

"Yeah, I think that thing is more powerful. You need several valve cables, but only one is enough."

At this time, Wang Li suddenly asked in a unclear voice:

"Brother Wu, what is a cuff?"

Maybe because Mu Hua was in poor health and had received an IV before, Mu Xueli spoke unclearly:

"It's the rubber tube that was tied around your arm before the drip."

Wang Li was stunned for a moment, then murmured:
"No one in our family has ever used drip irrigation."

Wang An thought about it and it seemed that no one in his family had ever received an IV drip.

In fact, in this era, infusion is indeed a serious and rare thing. Not to mention infusion, injections are rare. To put it bluntly, people don’t take many medicines. Even if they do, they are mainly herbal medicines, and there are only a few common Western medicines.

So it is very normal that Wang Li doesn’t know what a cuff is.

After Mu Xueli finished speaking, Wang An smiled and said:

"Did you hear that? Old Five doesn't even know what a cuff is. Do you think I have the wherewithal to get that thing?"

After Wang An finished speaking, Sun Nian stared at him with his big cute eyes and said with an idiotic look on his face:

"Aren't there too many cuffs in the hospital?"

After Sun Nian finished speaking, although the gaps between Mu Xueli and Wang Li's eyes were not big due to their swollen eyelids, the two of them still looked at Sun Nian with speechless eyes.

Wang An looked at Sun Nian as if he was an idiot and said:

"The hospital has a lot of them, so what? Just because you are pretty, they will give it to you when you ask for it?"

To be honest, Wang An regretted it right after he said this, because if it were his previous words, it wouldn't have been a big deal, after all, it was just a joke.

But after carefully feeling Sun Nian's two greatnesses with the back of his head, Wang An discovered that there was something wrong with this woman, Sun Nian.

Especially when he crippled those people yesterday and Sun Nian rushed over with Wu Dong and Zhang Shuya.

There was a kind of worship in Sun Nian's eyes? Admiration? Or devotion? Or dedication?

Of course, the word "dedication" is a bit exaggerated. Anyway, Wang An has a very strong feeling, that is:

"Sun Nian wants to get me!!!"

To be honest, although Sun Nian's butt is very round and white, and the two greats are indeed significant, the most important thing is that Sun Nian is perfect in both appearance and figure.

However, Wang An thinks Sun Nian is not his type!
(End of this chapter)