Li Xiangdong had been thinking about the wheat harvest for a long time.

His father did things that the commune and county forbade, which brought no benefit to Li Jin or their family.

So what if this year brings another torrential downpour that lasts for more than ten days!

He currently has businesses selling rehmannia root and fish, as well as several top-grade wild pink pearls, several thousand yuan in cash (three thousand of which he hasn't received yet), and many receipts.

The Li family will not have a difficult life in this lifetime.

But what about the others?

This struggle constantly haunted Li Xiangdong's mind.

Sometimes, he thinks, whatever, if everyone looks out for themselves, they'll be doomed. As long as he and his family can live well, that's enough.

But sometimes, looking at the faces of my fellow villagers, working so hard, I wonder, even if some of them have their own little schemes, should we really just ignore them?

If God gave him a second chance, would he only care about himself?

What's there to be afraid of!

He knew that the wheels of history were rolling forward, and before long, the nation's focus would shift to economic development, and the production team model would become history.

So what's there to be afraid of!

To prevent more people from becoming homeless and forced to beg for food away from their homes, just like in their previous lives!

This risk was worth it!

Of course, it's best if there's no risk.

In previous years, the wheat harvest would last for one or two months because manual harvesting of wheat was too inefficient.

A strong laborer, working non-stop all day, can at most harvest one acre of land.

In my past life, it started raining heavily just six days after the wheat harvest began.

The heavy rain lasted for more than ten days, and even though people braved the rain to try to harvest the crops, they didn't manage to salvage much.

Most of the wheat that couldn't be harvested in time sprouted.

However, if we had harvesters from later generations, we could harvest 150 acres of flat land in 10 hours a day!

Of course, if the plots of land are scattered and the terrain is uneven, it is possible to acquire seventy or eighty acres of land!

If we get two harvesters and they work day and night, the 1,400 mu of wheat in Lijiapo can be harvested in three or four days!

Of course, the efficiency of today's harvesters cannot compare with the harvesters that have been improved many times later, but it is still dozens of times more efficient than manual labor!

But where can we get a harvester?

At this time, large harvesters were already in use on the Northeast Plain and in Xinjiang farms.

Farms in the suburbs of Dongfang City should also have them, but I haven't heard of any harvesters in Huichuan County.

Nowadays, even tractors are rare in many communes. For example, Wudahe Commune doesn't have a single tractor!

Li Xiangdong racked his brains for a long time before finally coming up with an idea!

To talk about this, we have to go back to Feng Yucai, the educated youth who grew up in the countryside!

Feng Yucai is not only a master in matters of the heart, possessing the extraordinary talent of "passing through a sea of ​​flowers without a single petal clinging to him," but he is also a true mechanical expert!

At that time, he cheated on his wife with the daughter of the head of the supply and marketing cooperative. How could the brigade leader of Lanshui Village agree to that?

You, Feng Yucai, dare to start a relationship with the brigade leader's sister-in-law and then abandon her. That is a blatant slap in the face to the brigade leader!

Of course, with the head of the supply and marketing cooperative present, the brigade leader of Lanshui Village dared not do anything to Feng Yucai.

Later, when the policy for educated youth to return to the city was relaxed, Feng Yucai wanted to break up with the daughter of the head of the supply and marketing cooperative. This offended both of the important figures on both sides. How did he manage to return to the city smoothly?

The key is that Feng Yucai repaired two harvesters that had been scrapped!

Harvesters were so expensive back then!

How could an ordinary brigade afford to buy one!

This is the highest level of achievement in the entire Huichuan County!

Thanks to this, Feng Yucai was sent back to Shanghai in a grand and glorious manner!

This story has become a popular topic of conversation.

He recalled that the two harvesters were transferred from the Northeast Production and Construction Corps to the Jishan Farm in Bincheng.

As a result, the car, which was originally on the road, broke down in Dongfang City!

It's been under repair for many days, but it's still not fixed.

Later, Bincheng Jishan Farm bought a new harvester.

These two harvesters will be useless.

However, whether it's towing it back to Northeast China or sending it to Bincheng again, the cost is too high!

After consulting with superiors, it was scrapped locally.

We need to go to the scrap yard in Dongfang City now!

Buy back these two scrapped harvesters!

Of course, we need to bring Feng Yucai along, fix it, and drive it back!

Li Xiangdong calculated the money in his hand. Apart from what he spent and what he left for Uncle Yan, he had less than a thousand yuan left!

This amount of money probably won't be enough to buy these two scrapped Dongfeng combine harvesters.

I need to make some money these next few days!

I don't know if Liu Dong has returned to Yanjing, and I don't know when he will transfer the three thousand yuan he owes me.

After lunch, Li Jin and Wang Zhenbo still couldn't come up with any good solutions.

The final conclusion is to take it one step at a time.

Li Xiangdong directly asked Li Jin and Wang Zhenbo whether they should use a whole harvester to harvest the wheat.

The two of them looked at him like he was an idiot. Did he think a harvester was like a hen at home, something you could just build whenever you wanted?

Li Xiangdong said he could get one, but the two told him to study hard, and when he got to university and became successful, he would get a harvester for the village.

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Li Xiangdong knew that this matter could only fall on him, so he pestered the two people to issue him a certificate.

They said they were going to Dongfang City to buy some books, but the Xinhua Bookstore in the county didn't have any.

Li Xiangdong folded the certificate, put it in his pants pocket, and then asked his mother to help him dig up some rehmannia root.

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