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

Chapter 715: The trend of the times
Being stared at by so many eyes, even Wang An, who was thick-skinned, could not stand it to some extent.

Wang An scratched his head, then blinked and said:

"Well, why are you looking at me like that? Let me tell you, this thing doesn't cost much, thirty or fifty is enough, and you don't even have to go out to buy it, just sit there and watch."

As soon as Wang An finished speaking, Wang Dazhu stared at him with wide eyes and said:

"You are just talking nonsense. Why hire someone? The work can be done in a few days. Why hire someone?"

Wang Daliang also advised:
"Yes, Xiao An. Your family has only 20 mu of rice fields in total. Our family and Shen Wei's family have 20 mu together. You see, if you add them together, it's not much. If you and our fifth child also go to the fields, and each person plants one mu of land per day, then we can plant more than 7 mu of land per day. It will be done in six or seven days without hiring anyone."

When Wang Daliang said, "You and our fifth child should go to the fields too," Yao Ping secretly tugged at Wang Daliang's clothes, and then glared at him, obviously complaining that Wang Daliang was talking too much.

Wang Daliang also realized that he had said too much, and immediately made amends by saying:

"Xiao An, you should just focus on your own business. We will just do this little bit of work."

In fact, Wang An didn’t think much about it, because his second uncle Wang Daliang was more honest than Wang Dazhui and didn’t have so many cunning thoughts.

Besides, as an uncle, there is nothing wrong in Wang Daliang asking his nephew to help with work in the fields for a few days.

So Wang An nodded, followed the words of the two old brothers, and said with a smile:

"Yeah, if that's the case, it's a bit unreasonable to hire someone, hehe."

After Wang An finished speaking, Wang Dazhu's face was indeed full of smiles, while Wang Daliang seemed to still feel a little guilty for talking too much and just laughed dryly a few times.

Looking at his father and second uncle, who were determined not to hire anyone to do the work, Wang An sucked his teeth helplessly, but kept thinking of a solution in his head.

In this era, the word "hiring people" usually appears in various factories or collectives. Anyway, when it comes to farming, especially farming for one's own family, the idea of ​​"hiring people" rarely happens.

I have to admit that what Wang Dazhui and Wang Daliang said is very reasonable. If the work can be completed in six or seven days, it is really not worth hiring someone to do it.

But truth is truth, and facts are facts. In Wang An's view, the two cannot be confused at all.

Because deep down, Wang An didn't want to go to the fields to plant rice seedlings and was also resisting going to the fields to plant rice seedlings.

Mainly because Wang An felt pain all over his body when he thought about the experience of planting rice seedlings in spring for many years when he was squatting on the fence in his previous life. It hurt so much.

If I feel pain all over my body while planting rice seedlings, I'm sure it will be painful for others to do the same.

Of course, Wang An doesn’t care at all about whether other people feel pain or not, and he doesn’t pay any attention to it at all, because it doesn’t matter whether other people feel pain or not, or how they feel pain, what does it have to do with Wang An?

The only thing Wang An cares about is the health of his parents, Wang Dazhu and his wife.

Because Wang An knew that in Wang An's previous life, Wang Dazhu and his wife were in very poor health in their later years.

Especially their legs, they all suffer from chronic cold legs, which are very painful in winter, even walking is painful. After thinking for a long time, Wang An suddenly thought of the "rice transplanter".

In fact, in 67, China already had machines specifically for transplanting rice seedlings.

But to be frank, the rice transplanter at that time was not very easy to use. It either dropped the seedlings or missed them.

Besides, there was very little mechanical power in that era. The only motive power was horses or cows, or people pulling the carts. This resulted in the speed of transplanting rice seedlings using a rice transplanter being basically the same as the speed of transplanting rice seedlings by manpower.

Therefore, there have never been many people using rice transplanters, or to be more precise, very few.

Of course, using a rice transplanter is not without its benefits, and the only benefit is that people don't have to bend over and stick out their buttocks all day long when transplanting rice seedlings. Simply put, it saves money on the waist and the tendons behind the knees don't hurt anymore.

But no matter whether the rice transplanter at this time is good or bad, Wang An must get it!
On the one hand, using rice transplanters to plant rice seedlings is an inevitable trend, because in later generations, there is basically no such thing as manpower to plant rice seedlings.

On the other hand, and the most important aspect, is that Wang An can modify and debug this thing.

In Wang An's previous life, if it weren't for the low efficiency of manual rice transplanting, a large number of rice transplanters had been introduced into the fence area, Wang An's suffering would have continued for many more years.

In order to save manpower, or more precisely, in order for the inmates to work less.

Let's talk about it, one by one, they all really put a lot of thought into studying this thing.

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How to make it save effort, how to reduce malfunctions, how to increase its speed, etc., basically, we have figured out everything about the rice transplanter.

Some people even won merit for it and had to spend two years less in prison.

As a man who has been working as a fence-keeper for half his life, Wang An must be quite proficient in this thing.

Therefore, the most important thing for Wang An now is to buy a rice transplanter first and then modify it himself.

In this way, not only does he not have to go to the fields to plant rice seedlings, but it can also save his parents, his second uncle and his wife, and Shen Wei and others both worry and effort.

You should know that a rice transplanter powered by a hand tractor can transplant at least 20 to 30 acres of land a day. For the more than 40 acres of land of these three families, it will take only two or three days at most to finish the job.

Thinking of this, Wang An said to the people who were chatting:
"Tomorrow I will go to the county and buy a rice transplanter so that we don't have to bend over and stick our butts out to transplant rice seedlings."

After Wang An finished speaking, Wang Dazhu said:
"Xiao An, it's useless to buy that thing. If you don't plant it properly, the seedlings will die. Besides, that thing isn't that fast. It's not much different from the speed of a human."

At this time, even Second Mother Yao Ping couldn't help but interrupt:

"Yes, Xiao An, we had that thing in the early years, but no one used it later. Maybe it was because of that thing that sometimes we couldn't plant the seedlings into the mud, and the whole rice field looked like it had been gnawed by dogs. There was a serious shortage of seedlings."

Second uncle Wang Daliang thought for a moment and said:
"As for the lack of seedlings in the fields a few days ago, you can't say it's all because of the poor performance of the rice transplanters. People don't care much about it at all. Xiao An, if you want to buy a rice transplanter, you don't have to go to the county. There are several in the township. They were all issued by the superiors two years ago, but no one has used them."

(End of this chapter)