Chapter 338 The cannon fodder sister-in-law in the group favorite article (36)
The second-hand tractor was bought by the village next door for 2,000 yuan in 1973. After being used for nearly seven years, many parts were broken. There was no one in the village who knew how to repair it. Over time, it was parked at the entrance of the village and rarely used.
Jiang Lai brought the money and went directly to talk to the person in charge of the village. At first he asked for one thousand yuan, but after a while, Jiang Lai took the price of five hundred yuan.
"No matter how low it is, he won't be willing to sell it. Five hundred is already the lowest price."
Jiang Lai was gifted at bargaining, and Xie Jian took 900 and ended up with a big pile left.
Jiang Lai bought a tractor and asked someone to drive it back. With the sound of the tractor "chugging", it slowly drove into the village. People sitting at the entrance of the village stretched their necks and looked curiously, and then they saw a tractor. The tractor came in.
The person driving the tractor was an unfamiliar face, but the person sitting in the cloak behind was a familiar face.
"Thank you Lao San and his wife! Why did you come back on the tractor?"
There are two of them on this tractor!
If you can use a tractor, it must be towing big things, either for autumn harvest or to carry large items. How can you drag two people here?
"Why do you bring some rare things back every day? A few days ago it was a bicycle, and today it's a tractor. What's wrong? Is there anything that Mr. Xie's family needs to move?"
"You'll know if you go and see. Walk around and see."
A group of people followed the tractor to the door of Xie Jian's house. They watched the man driving the tractor jump off and leave, leaving a tractor parked in front of Xie Jian's house, surrounded by people watching the excitement.
"Xie Laosan, which village's tractor is here?"
"From the next village."
"Why do you need such a big tractor to help?"
Someone else was shouting from the side.
"Why don't you use the tractor in your village? It's not busy now anyway."
Usually I just run back and forth between villages and towns, dragging people who go to the market in the village. It costs 20 cents per trip, which is not cheap.
Renting for self-use costs five or six yuan a time, which also includes a meal for the person who drives the tractor.
People around him were curious about what Xie Jian was planning to do, but they just thought the tractor was for rent.
Xie Jian didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble. Just saying that he bought it would definitely arouse jealousy and suspicion, so he replied directly.
"Borrow and use."
"Which village is so rich that it just lends it to you?"
Xie Jian nodded and stopped talking. The people in the village were still standing and watching, and several children had already climbed up like monkeys.
Jiang didn't rush him when he came, he just let them watch and talk.
The next day, Xie Jian began to study the tractor. When he bought it, the people in the village gave him a drawing. No one could understand it. Only the technician from the machinery factory came to teach him once when he bought it, and then he threw it in the corner for production. It became dusty and was never taken out again.
Xie Jian went to school and had no problem recognizing real characters in pictures. If he didn't know some uncommon characters, he asked Jiang Lai, who patiently explained them.
Although he only went to the first grade of junior high school, his grades have always been very good. The principal of the school he attended still remembers his name and laments that such a good young man did not choose to continue studying.
Xie Jian never said that Jiang Lai also knew that no matter how good his grades were, he would never continue to study. With such a strong body, he was the strongest labor force in the family. In addition, there was Xie Yumian who was in elementary school. Lu Cuiping did not need to say , Xie Jian took the initiative to drop out of school.
Until now, I have been soaking in the ground and become even more taciturn due to the weather and sun.
Xie Jian still retains his good brain, and he always has a lot of enthusiasm for doing things. His stubbornness of not giving up until he achieves his goals allows him to be completely immersed in the things he focuses on.
Tonight, Xie Jian rarely took a shower and got on the kang immediately. Instead, he lit a kerosene lamp and sat at the table to study the thick maintenance drawings. It was not until Jiang Lai woke up from his sleep that he sat up and found the bright light not far away. The faint yellow that had risen was still trembling.
Under the lamp, Xie Jian was still turning the pages of the book carefully. There was a thick stack of straw paper on the other side, which was covered with dense handwriting.
The pen in his hand was still the hero pen given to him by Jiang Lai. It looked good when he held it. The way he bent over to record with his back straight looked like a college student.
It wasn't until late in the night that Xie Jian went to bed quietly, leaned next to Jiang Lai and tucked her into bed, then gently put her head on his shoulder.
Jiang Lai murmured, and Xie Jian quickly reached out and patted her back, holding her in his arms like coaxing a child. The hazy Jiang Lai just leaned his head on the man's shoulder, and the smell on his body was dry. It's warm, with a faint grassy scent, and some rust that can't be washed away. It's not as good as those expensive perfumes, but it smells reassuring.
Jiang Lai closed his eyes and admitted frankly that he liked the feeling of getting along with Xie Jian.
Strong, loyal, smart, rational.
She is enjoying it now, and even thinks it would be good to live like this.
Jiang Lai slept particularly well while here, without the noise of busy traffic and omnipresent information bombardment. What woke him up every morning was the crowing of chickens and dogs outside the door, and the smell of earth that hit his face when he got up.
A taste unique to the countryside.
Clean and peaceful.
Xie Jian is keen on studying tractors. The first thing he did after dinner was to study the tractor with his shirtless hands under the hot sun according to the drawings.
People who had free time outside would come in to take a look from time to time. Seeing Xie Jian directly remove the tractor's head, they asked with great curiosity and concern.
"Does the village know that you dismantle the tractor?"
"Can I put it back after it's been dismantled?"
"How much money will I have to pay if I can't go back home!"
Xie Jian was just studying his tractor quietly, his strong muscles shining with a healthy luster in the sun.
The next day, Xie Jian drove the tractor in the yard. That afternoon, the tractor drove out of the village with a "chugging" sound.
Jiang Lai sat in the back, wearing a straw hat and humming a tune, and then went further to collect a bunch of second-hand goods, such as second-hand radios, sewing machines, watches and other expensive items commonly used for weddings.
Jiang Lai was in charge of bargaining, and Xie Jian was in charge of giving money and loading it to the car. In one afternoon, he visited five villages in the entire brigade next door and collected half a cart full of second-hand items. There was even an extremely rare second-hand TV set in it. .
Xie Jian wanted to keep the TV.
"When you make money, you will buy new ones. Why do you need the old ones?"
It's not easy to buy a TV these days. You have the ticket, money, but no goods. This second-hand one cost nearly 900 yuan. If you bought it at the original price, it would cost at least 2,000 yuan.
These days, two thousand yuan is enough to buy a tractor.
No wonder Xie Jian wanted to keep the TV set.
In one afternoon, I spent all the thousands of dollars I had saved. Rourou is not feeling well today. I will write a chapter for now. I will resume normal updates tomorrow. Thank you all~
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