Reborn in the 70s: I Was a Youth Educated in the Forest Farm

Returning to forty years ago after being reborn, what can one do?

Should one go with the flow of the times and ride the wave, or use the advantages of rebirth to avoid misfortune and seek goo...

Chapter 397: Tiger Infested

There's nothing a tractor can't break down, only things you can't imagine.

The four tractor drivers who used to work at the forest farm have been doing it for years without any problems.

As for the two that Sheng Xiping and Chen Weiguo were working with, they were simply terrible. Their tractors broke down every few days, and in less than a month of operation, they had replaced countless parts.

The warehouse keeper was full of complaints and grumbled all the time.

The tractors kept breaking down, which definitely delayed production. The Fifth Work Team hadn't done much work since they started, which made the newly promoted team leader very anxious; he was practically ready to burn incense and pray to Buddha.

Of course, the inability to complete the work is not solely due to the tractor; the sawing of the hands also accounts for a large part of the problem.

One tractor corresponds to one chainsaw, and the chainsaw operators assigned to the tractors of the fifth and sixth work teams in the field were Li Dazhuang and Li Erzhuang.

These two brothers were notorious for slacking off at Qianchuan Forest Farm; anyone who had worked with them knew it.

It was during his time in the educated youth team that Li Dazhuang was thoroughly influenced by Sheng Xiping, and he became a bit more diligent in his work.

The rest of the time, I just let things drag on and get by.

Li Erzhuang can't even keep up with his brother's work.

In the past, the work team would assign two assistants to the saw cutter, urging him to work.

Nowadays, with only six work teams, there aren't enough people or enough assistants. If only one person is working, the work will be even slower.

After a month of work, the progress of the fifth and sixth work teams was half that of the other work teams.

Of course, the other work teams weren't working very fast either.

The main problem is that there are too many work teams and the manpower is scattered. Many steps require the cooperation of multiple people, but there are not enough people, so we can only proceed slowly.

The timber production was so low that Feng Baosheng was extremely anxious. He had no choice but to move up the mountain to supervise the work team.

They thought that if he personally went up the mountain to supervise, the workers wouldn't dare to slack off and would work faster.

But no one expected that on the third day of Feng Baosheng's supervision on the mountain, another incident would occur.

Each work team was equipped with two chainsaw operators, one on the upper rope and the other on the lower rope. One end was used by a tractor to collect timber, while the other end was used by oxen and horses to collect timber.

That evening, the workers of the Third Construction Team were hauling logs down the mountain in horse-drawn sleds when suddenly a gust of wind blew by, and a tiger's roar came from not far away.

The horse was startled by the tiger's roar and bolted away.

Luckily, the sled driver was young and quick; seeing the situation was not right, he dodged to the side and was not hit by the logs on the sled.

He was so frightened that his face turned pale, his legs trembled, and he almost wet his pants.

The horse was startled and ran off course, veering off the sled track. The sled lurched, and the ropes binding the logs came loose.

Just then, the horse tripped over some bushes and its front legs suddenly buckled to the ground.

The horse's kneeling caused the sled to overturn due to its weight.

The log, weighing over a thousand pounds, flew off with a whoosh due to the inertia of going downhill, skimming quite a distance past the horse's left hind leg.

It crashed into countless trees, making a huge noise, before finally coming to a stop.

The third work team has a total of four horses and one ox working. One of the horses is dragging logs down to the log yard at the foot of the mountain and is unloading the logs.

The other two horses and one cow are lining up on the mountain to load the sleds.

The workers from the third work team had just lifted the logs onto the sled, and hadn't even tied them with ropes yet.

The tiger's roar startled the horse, which leaped forward and carried the sled ahead, leaving the log behind.

The other sled hadn't been loaded with wood yet. The driver was gripping the reins tightly, and the horse reared up, neighing in alarm.

Fortunately, the sled drivers were all strong young men, and they managed to hold the horse in place.

The old ox was also frightened and mooed softly. The people next to it turned pale and desperately held onto the ox.

At that moment, a second tiger roar came, and the cattle and horses instantly went berserk, completely out of control.

The person driving the sled quickly let go and rolled to the side, managing to escape a fall.

Otherwise, they would either be trampled by a horse or run over by a sled.

"Damn, how can there be tigers here? Let's get down the mountain quickly, we can't stay on this mountain anymore."

The workers were all so frightened that their bodies went numb and their legs trembled. After a while, someone turned around and said in a trembling voice.

The loggers, pruners, timber carriers, and forest clearers didn't care about anything else. They didn't even take their tools, nor did they care about the oxen and horses. They stumbled and ran down the mountain.

At that moment, I really wished I had two more legs so I could run faster.

A dozen or so people scrambled and stumbled their way down the mountain to the outpost, where they were still in shock, shouting that there was a tiger.

There was a temporary dispatch room at the outpost. Zheng Xianyong, Feng Baosheng, Zhao Limin and others were in the dispatch room. They were also startled when they learned that there was a tiger on the mountain.

"No way! There are so many people in the logging area, and all those machines are roaring around. They would scare away all the wild animals. How could there be a tiger?"

Zheng Xianyong was stunned when he heard this. He had worked at Qianchuan Forest Farm for so many years and had never encountered anything like this before.

"Manager, we can hear it really clearly, it's a tiger, and it's not too far away."

"The cattle and horses we rented all ran away in fright. We don't know where they've gone. I'm afraid they've been eaten by tigers," the workers from the third production team said, still shaken.

"Where are the security personnel? Hurry up, take your guns and go up the mountain to check." Upon hearing these words, Feng Baosheng's heart sank.

This year's work is already progressing slowly, and it's very likely that we won't be able to complete the production target. If a tiger comes along and causes trouble, how will we be able to go up the mountain to work?

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