Chapter 422 News like a bombshell
In early spring, the tractor's body, oil and water are cold, and it is usually difficult to start. The technology at this time, or the technology of the tractor at this time It’s not as good as the next generation.
The middle-aged man came over with a bucket of hot water and poured it in from the water tank on the tractor. He smiled and said:
“It’s cold today, so you have to use hot water to be with people. You need to drink hot water when it's cold. Come on, young man, let's start it together."
"I'll give it a try first," Li Long said with a smile, "Just shake it a few more times. , just enough to stir the oil.”
"Okay, then you try it first. If it doesn't work, let's go together." The middle-aged man didn't refuse. In front of young girls, young men usually want to show their male strength. He thought Li Long was like this too. Of course, he also laid the groundwork, because it is really not easy for one person to start the tractor at this time, and there are often two of them. One person presses the left hand to reduce pressure and puts his right hand on the handle of the rocker. The other person or one hand puts one hand on the shoulder of the person on the left and the other hand is also holding on the handle of the rocker. The two people shake together. The person behind can also do it. Both hands hold the handle, and three hands work together to shake it.
Li Long also saw a teenage child whose arms were not long enough, so when starting the engine, he raised his feet and stepped on them to relieve pressure. He held the handle with both hands and shook it. It felt like it was spinning. It's almost done. Release your foot and give it another half-turn, and the tractor will start.
The crank handle is equivalent to the car key at this time, but it is universal. At this time, let alone tractors, even cars use rocking handles. However, the car's rocking handle is long, and it does not need to be turned many times like a tractor. When the car is rocking to start, it may only need to turn half a turn, while a small car may only need to turn half a turn. Four-wheel tractors usually make at least three turns.
Li Long took the crank handle from the space under the small four-wheel clutch and inserted it into the crank hole, then put his left hand on it to relieve pressure and pressed it, and his right hand began to exert force - Huh?
Lighter than expected.
It seems that my strength has really increased a lot, and there should be hope for it to be activated.
Although it is pressed to reduce pressure, it is early spring, the ice and snow have not completely melted away, and it is still below freezing at night, so the tractor's rotor is still quite heavy to rotate.
But it was easy for Li Long.
He began to exert force, and the rotation speed became faster and faster. When he felt that it was almost done, he released his left hand to reduce the pressure, and at the same time exerted force on his arm. When he felt his hand sinking, he lifted it up and turned again. After half a turn, the "chugging" sound of the engine was heard, and the rotor began to spin.
"Is it started?" The girl opened her mouth wide.
The middle-aged people were also a little unbelievable. They sell tractors here, and they often ask someone to start the vehicle. There are many young and strong young men in the workshop, but none of them can start the tractor by themselves in this season.
Of course it’s possible in summer, but it’s not summer now!
"Then let me try it first?" Li Long put the crank handle into the empty space under the clutch and asked with a smile: "I believe I can drive it, right?"
"Okay , Can you drive it and put it into gear?"
"Yes, watch." Li Long turned down the accelerator, pulled the steering wheel and stepped on the floor to get on the tractor.
This will soon be my own tractor.
Li Long still cherished it. He had wiped the mud off his shoes before coming over. After getting on the tractor, that familiar feeling came over.
Look ahead, step on the clutch with your left foot, hold the steering wheel with your left hand, shift the gear with your right hand, apply some gas with your right foot and slowly release the clutch with your left foot, and the tractor will leave its original position and drive forward.
The whole body of the tractor vibrated quite strongly. Li Long felt his body shaking slightly along with the tractor, but this did not affect his excitement - after riding a carriage for more than a year, he Finally I can ride on the tractor!
Although there is still a long way to go compared to the car I rode in before the end of my last life, this step is at least taken!
When Li Long drove the tractor in front of Li Anguo and Chen Xingbang, their eyes widened even more!
Li Long just drove the tractor over?
The middle-aged man and the girl quickly followed behind. When Li Long stopped the car and applied the brakes, the middle-aged man gave a thumbs up:
"Young man, you have good skills. Ah. Where are you from? "
"Hongqi Township, Ma County." Li Long said and took out the certificate issued by the village. Now he has to bring all the procedures to buy a tractor.
The middle-aged man read it and asked with a smile:
"What do you think of this tractor?"
"Okay, it's pretty good. Of course, the 28 is even better, with a driver's cab." "Li Long joked, "It's a pity that I can't afford it now."
"I bought this. "You can afford that if you earn two years. Not many people can afford a tractor now," the middle-aged man said, "You are already in front of the 90%. As long as you seize the opportunity, you will only get better." Come and get richer."
Li Long took this as a sincere blessing.
Pay the money and go through the invoicing procedures, collect the accessories, and get a small refueling bucket, a lifting arm at the back, etc.
You can't negotiate the price, and there are no other gifts. When paying the money, Yang Yongqiang, Tao Daqiang and others closely guarded Li Long, which made Li Long feel a little embarrassed.
But that’s 4,500 yuan! Most of the people present have never seen so much money in their lives!
According to some people, the purchasing power of one dollar at this time is in some respects equivalent to dozens of dollars or even more in later generations. Let’s do the math... Of course, it may be a bit exaggerated. After all, different items come to The degree of price increase after forty years will be different.
When Li Long put those procedures into his satchel, the middle-aged man had completed the transaction. He finally reminded Li Long:
"Take the time to get your license plate as soon as possible, otherwise you may be inspected if you go on the road."
Not only the license plate, but also the agricultural machinery driving license. This is an easy test and the inspection is not strict, but it is also required Get it done.
Even thirty or forty years later, during the busy farming period, many agricultural machinery on the road will not be checked, because most people in the industry know very well that starting from the bicycles purchased in rural areas, there are some Cars are rarely on the road, including bicycles, tractors, motorcycles, agricultural tricycles and finally electric tricycles.
Some cars may have been used until they were scrapped without ever getting a license plate or leaving the country.
Until Li Long drove everyone out of the tractor factory on a tractor, Yang Yongqiang and Li Junshan still couldn’t believe it:
"This tractor belongs to Brother Long (Uncle Xiao Long) now?"
The spring is cold and the wind blowing in the face is cold. It hurts the face when the speed is high, but no one complains of pain.
When Li Long was driving the tractor, Yang Yongqiang and Li Junshan rushed to get on the page boards on both sides, and then let the middle-aged people from the tractor factory scold them, saying that it was unsafe.
But as soon as they left the factory door, the two of them immediately jumped from the back of the car to the front and sat on the board - it was boring to sit in the car, but it was better here!
Li Junshan is better, Yang Yongqiang is not so good, because the side he sits on is relatively higher - because there is a toolbox there. Fortunately, Yang Yongqiang reacted quickly. He took off his coat and spread it on the tool box, then sat on it. However, it was a bit cold when the tractor was running, so he had to look sideways at Li Long, which made Li Long a little embarrassed.
"Xiaolong, let's go back now?" Li Anguo yelled at the top of his voice from behind, and he was worried that Li Long wouldn't hear.
"If you don't reply, there are still important things to do." Li Long didn't look back, and said as he drove: "Let's go to eat first. After eating, we need to refuel, and we need to buy a big oil drum - buy Barrel of oil."
"Yes, yes, it's important to refuel." Li Anguo nodded in realization. This is true. Although I have never driven a tractor, I know that this thing drinks oil. Here Yang Yongqiang and Tao Daqiang even knew that Wang Caimi kept several large diesel barrels at home, and every time the tractor went out to plow the fields, he had to refuel, and he had to add a lot of it.
The oil at this time was cheap, only 50 or 60 cents per liter. Of course, it was expensive in the eyes of Yang Yongqiang and others, but Li Long didn't care. When he came here on this trip, he brought 5,000 yuan and more than 20 tickets for 10 kilograms of diesel. After excluding the 4,500 yuan for the tractor, the rest was for a 180-liter barrel of oil. Still enough.
Driving a tractor to the Shicheng State-owned Canteen, when Li Long and others got off the car, the sound of the tractor attracted many diners to come out of the canteen to take a look.
The brand-new tractor next to the canteen made many diners shine with envy in their eyes. Before Li Long could say anything, Yang Yongqiang had already stepped forward and walked into the house with the handle in hand.
Li Long went to order rice. As usual, he mixed noodles with oily pork and added noodles. Just like some southerners who feel unsatisfied when they eat noodles in the north, Li Long and others also feel unsatisfied when they eat rice while doing heavy work.
So it’s still a matter of fact.
Six people sat around a round table, Yang Yongqiang said excitedly:
"When we get to the team, we will definitely shock many people! This is our whole team... No, it should be It must be the first private tractor in the township!" Li Long smiled and said nothing.
What is the first tractor? After driving for only a short distance, he felt that his face was hurt by the wind. He had previously said at Tractor that it would be better to buy a 28-horsepower tractor. That idea was true. After all, that thing has a driver's cab, which I don't have, and there's no need for a 12-horsepower tractor to have one. Although some people did add it in the next few years, it's considered a modification, and you'll be arrested if you drive it to the urban-rural fringe. .
Be patient for now, tractors are only the first step, and three-wheeled motorcycles and cars are the real stage goals.
The tractor... just use it for now. There is no other way. This is the only way now.
After dinner, when Li Long and the others came out, they found that there were many people surrounding the tractor, pointing and pointing.
As soon as Li Long and others were about to get on the truck, a man came over and asked:
"Is this your tractor?"
Before Li Long could speak, Yang Yongqiang said loudly:
< br>"Yes, it belongs to my Brother Long."
As he said that, he looked at Li Long.
The middle-aged man in Chinese tunic suit also moved his eyes to Li Long.
“It’s good to be able to afford a tractor. I work in a paper mill in our city. Do you want to do a job? Pulling raw materials. It costs five yuan per cart. How about it? It’s twenty kilometers away. You can make more than ten trips a day, which is sixty or seventy yuan..."
As soon as he said this, before Li Long, Yang Yongqiang and the others spoke, other people nearby were shocked: How profitable is this? ?
"Really? Five yuan for a car?" Some people doubted.
"Of course, I'm in the transportation department of the factory." The middle-aged man said with some pride, "We don't have enough transportation vehicles in the factory now, and the carriages are too slow. Seeing that this brother has a tractor, naturally I want to introduce him to a good job. Of course, we are also lucky with the raw materials in our factory.”
"Do you want a cart?" Someone asked, "I have a cart at home."
"It's too slow, and there are not many people pulling it." The man shook his head, "I don't even want an animal-drawn cart, don't tell me. The truck is ready, the least we need is a tractor."
As he said this, he looked at Li Long.
"I'm sorry, my family is from Ma County, so I can't do it. Besides, it will be useful to buy this car back." Li Long waved his hand and said, "This will require you to find someone else. Okay, we have to go. I bought gas. The car I just bought doesn’t have much gas, so I may not be able to drive it back.”
"Smart!" Although Li Long did not agree to pull the raw materials, the middle-aged man was not disappointed. He gave a thumbs up, "Not many people can think like this. I heard that there are people who buy tractors. , I drove back excitedly, but I didn’t know how to add water and gas, so I ran out of gas..."
Li Long thought to himself, I was such a person in my last life, and I almost didn't drive home.
At this time, gasoline and diesel are sold at gas stations. If the quantity is small, Wujiao Chemical Company and some stores also sell them. Li Long went directly to the gas station in the eastern suburbs of Shicheng and bought a barrel of diesel there. They also gave him a section of oil extraction pipe.
Li Long originally wanted to buy a petrol pump, but Yang Yongqiang stopped him.
"Brother Long, why are you buying that? Just suck it with your mouth. I think Wang Caimi always sucks it with his mouth. He puts one end into the oil barrel and sucks the other end, and the oil will come out. Buy this Spend more money!”
Well, people were like this at this time. There were really few people who bought tractors in the 1980s who didn’t drink gasoline and diesel due to oil absorption.
Yang Yongqiang demonstrated it to Li Long on the spot, drew out a barrel of oil, and Li Long added it to the tank.
He heard from later generations that a tractor comes with one liter of oil when it leaves the factory. It can run for several kilometers. You may not be able to run from Shicheng to Ma County. This bucket has five or six liters, so you can run home. is enough.
Yang Yongqiang didn’t have enough, so he smoked another bucket. Li Long added it to prevent him from smoking anymore. He closed the fuel tank cap, put the tractor cover in place, locked the buckle, and cranked the handle. Zi started the tractor and drove out.
The middle of the sun is in the west. The sun is just right at this time, and it shines warmly on Li Long's back. He shifted all the way to fifth gear, and the tractor emitted a puff of smoke and sped forward briskly.
At this time, the wind was no longer so cold. Li Long actually felt like he was driving with an open hood. Although the road was not that good, he didn’t pay much attention to sitting on the tractor. He ran all the way out of the suburbs and passed by Li Long didn't even stop at the Ma River Bridge when crossing Ma County. He passed by the countryside, Mohe Canal, passed nursing homes and primary and secondary schools, and drove all the way back to Li's house.
The sudden sound of tractors broke the tranquility of early spring and attracted the attention of many people along the way. Especially after arriving in the team, the villagers who were still outside opened their mouths when they saw that the tractor was driven by Li Long. Then they flew back home to report the news, and then many people walked quickly or even ran to the team. The Li family rushed over.
Many children screamed and ran with the tractor until they reached Li's house.
It was a sensation.
If Li Long’s purchase of a color TV caused a small sensation when the villagers found out, then buying the tractor this time definitely caused a big sensation.
After hearing the news, even Xu Chengjun rushed to Li's house to see what the new tractor looked like.
Wang Caimi also came.
To be precise, he should be the first person in the team to have a tractor, but he still owes money for the tractor in the team. Looking at this brand-new tractor, he said with some disgust:
"Oh, it looks good, but the horsepower is a bit small, only twelve horsepower..." He said this, but his eyes were filled with envy.
This tractor touches everyone's heart more than that color TV.
This is true for Li Long, and it is true for everyone.
For Li Long, color TV was more like an obsession. He bought it and watched a few episodes of Shooting Condor, but he didn't really want to watch it anymore. After being bombarded by short videos and various explanations from later generations, Li Long felt that the martial arts style written by Mr. Jin was too small, or not suitable for him who always pays attention to orthodoxy and unity. After all, although the protagonist is a Han, he received Wu Mu’s suicide note and did not pass it on to the Han people in order to regain the occupied land. The protagonist is a hero, but he did not even avenge the murder of his father. The book says, "The great hero serves the country." "people", but the protagonist has so many strategies to kill enemies for the country and the people that he doesn't use. Maybe his values are different.
According to a certain interpretation, all Mr. Jin wants to say in his novel is that it is best to be content with the status quo. Anyone who wants to change is either a villain or will die in the end. This was similar to the environment he was in - otherwise he wouldn't have said such shocking words.
Of course, achievement is achievement. Being able to write so many excellent martial arts novels is still worthy of everyone's praise, but Li Long didn't think it was necessary to read them. It's better to study "The King of Fire".
The people in the village also have different feelings about color TVs and tractors. A few days after Li Long bought the color TV, someone went to the county to inquire about it. A black and white TV only cost a few hundred yuan. It turned out that he could afford it!
Many people are thinking about this. If they can’t afford a color TV, can they also afford a black and white one? Aren't there just multiple colors?
But the tractor is different. This thing is as big as a lump of iron. It can't be bought with a few hundred dollars. The Li family bought a four-wheel tractor, which was like a bombshell to other people in the village!
As soon as the Li family’s tractor arrived, within half an hour, the yard was filled with people, all running over to see the tractor.
Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang looked at the tractor, also full of joy and curiosity. Li Jianguo was sitting on the driver's seat at this time, and Li Qiang climbed up next to him and sat on the page board, very proud and proud. .
The diesel barrel has been unloaded and placed next to the house. There are mud spots on the tractor. Liang Yuemei and Chen Lirong are currently wiping the dirty mud with rags.
This is a new car, don’t damage it, take good care of it!
(End of this chapter)