Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start. N...
"Bah! This guy speaks so slowly, why do I feel like he's even more arrogant than last year?"
Tang Zhuang said as he looked at Wan Feng walking out of the toilet with a swagger.
"A person who dares to use a knife does have the capital to be arrogant." White Pants added.
"Last year, this guy scared us so much with a knife. But later on, we realized he was just trying to scare us. He wouldn't dare to attack us if he really asked him to."
Tang Zhuang's words were agreed by everyone.
"What do we do next?"
"Let Wang Yi find out the truth for us first."
When studying at Yongshi Middle School, students from each team bring their own lunch. Each class has a special iron cage for lunch boxes, which is made of a frame welded with iron bars and woven with iron wire. When students come in the morning, they put their lunch boxes in the iron cage, which is then carried to the kitchen by the student on duty.
There is a special thing in the kitchen that looks like a big steamer. All the iron cages are stacked in the steamer one by one, layer by layer. A special person will light the fire and heat the rice, which will be carried back by someone at noon.
Wan Feng didn't bring a lunch box, so when school was over at noon, he walked out of the school and went to the supply and marketing cooperative restaurant alone to eat.
A plate of spicy tofu and a bowl of rice cost just over ten cents.
This went on for three days.
He didn't prepare to bring lunch anymore. This had two advantages. First, his grandmother and aunt didn't have to cook for him. Second, the food in a restaurant was of course better than at home, and he didn't need to eat whole grains as the staple food.
Vegetarian dishes in restaurants generally cost a few cents to a little over ten cents, so it doesn’t cost much, only three or five dollars a month.
Finally, Wan Feng's information was gathered by those with ulterior motives, as follows: He rode a strange-looking bicycle to and from school, and aside from his classmates, he had no close relationships. He ate out every day, which was quite infuriating. He didn't talk much, and even his deskmate, Zhang Hongxing, didn't interact much with him.
These materials do represent Wan Feng’s current department, but Wan Feng is not completely ignorant of what is happening in the class.
There are a total of sixty-five students in the class, thirty-six boys and twenty-nine girls. The tallest students at the back of the class are almost always the most powerful ones in the class.
Students at that time were generally tall, which had little to do with nutrition or anything like that, but was mainly related to age.
Demotion is very common, so some students are still in the first grade when they are sixteen or seventeen years old.
Wang Yi in the second-to-last row is such a person. If he hadn't been held back, he would be in the third grade now, but he is still in the first grade. It is doubtful whether he can be promoted this year.
Today is Wan Feng’s fourth day at school. After the second get out of class, it is break time. As soon as the bell rings, the students rush out of the classroom like a flock of sheep with their fences opened.
Wan Feng stood up from his seat and just stepped into the aisle between the desks when someone suddenly pushed him from behind.
He was caught off guard and bumped into a girl in front of him with a bang, causing her to stagger.
If Wang Yi is the big brother of this class, then the girl that Wan Feng bumped into is the big sister of the school, Liang Hongying.
It is just one character different from the name of Liang Hongyu, a famous general in the Song Dynasty.
However, Liang Hongying's parents probably didn't know Liang Hongyu's background. If they knew, they would definitely not give their daughter such a name.
"Whoever hit me, must be blind!"
Liang Hongying turned around and roared, then looked into Wan Feng's eyes.
Wan Feng was originally preparing to say sorry, but when he heard this, he chose to shut up. He did not look at Liang Hongying but turned around to look behind him.
There were four or five students behind him, all of them were the tall ones at the back, including Wang Yi, but they all pretended to be calm.
Wan Feng didn't say anything. Even though he knew the person behind it did it on purpose, he knew the person denied it. What could he do?
When he was leaving school that day, Wan Feng unexpectedly discovered that the tires in his car had been deflated, and both wheels were deflated, and the valve cores were missing.
There is a place at the school gate that specifically repairs bicycles for students who ride bicycles. He had to carry his bicycle to the school gate to replace the valve core before returning home.
Wan Feng knew that someone was treating him but he didn't take it seriously. It was just replacing the valve core and it wouldn't cost much.
On the way home, Wan Feng saw horse-drawn carts carrying manure to the fields along the way.
It's time for spring plowing, and it will be time to sow in a month.
sowing!
When I thought about sowing seeds, an idea flashed through my mind.
Something was produced, a portable seed drill.
The handheld seeder appeared around 2012. There were many problems in the initial stage. Wan Feng had repaired various seeders. It was not until 2015 that this product was matured. It not only reduced various faults but also added some functions. Almost all crops in the north can be sown on demand.
This thing is extremely cheap and easy to make.
At that time, one product cost more than 100 yuan, but now the cost is probably only a few yuan.
When he got home, he immediately found paper and pen and started sketching.
First, I drew an overall appearance of the finished product, and then started drawing the components inside.
This product consists of more than 20 parts, including a handle, a vertical pole, a tie ring, a hand brake handle, a pull wire, a seed container, a seed wheel, a tension spring, a rotating shaft, a control fork, a seed delivery tube, a connecting rod, a seed placement rod, a seed placement nozzle, a distance rod, a nest skid, a nest distance rod, a connecting seat, a threaded plug, a key, and a seed delivery nozzle.
Although there are many parts, there is no large one. The largest part is the seed container, which is only about one foot long and as thick as a bowl. If you put all these things together and fill them with seeds, it only weighs about ten or eight kilograms.
Don't underestimate this little thing. It can broadcast five or six acres of land in a day, and it's not tiring at all.
The most technologically advanced part here is the seed wheel, but there is no technical difficulty involved, as they are all roughly made.
Xiao Dexiang and his team were able to manufacture it simply, but some of the plastic parts were a little more difficult to make. It wasn't that there was any difficulty, but it was hard to find a place to make them.
Fortunately, there is a plastic products factory on Blue Mountain Farm. I wonder if they can process it.
If they have their own injection molding machines, they can produce it themselves.
Wan Feng thought of He Yongli in his mind, wondering if this guy was still in the north.
After finishing the drawings, Wan Feng went straight to find Zhang Hai.
Zhang Hai has been extremely busy in the past ten days. He has to choose a date for erecting the blast furnace, apply for various business licenses from the commune, and visit the construction site from time to time to check on the progress of the building.
We also need to contact and arrange the resettlement of the people brought by Xiao Dexiang.
Xiao Dexiang brought almost all the workshop workers from Gushan Machinery Factory to repair the old machine tools.
The only thing that comforted Zhang Hai was that he no longer had to worry about the start-up of the brick factory, as Zhu Ping could already handle it on his own.
When Wan Feng found Zhang Hai, he was staying at home and looking sad for the first time.