A low clapping even broke out in the carriage.
After finishing his work, the person in charge returned to his seat and closed his eyes to rest.
If he could, he really wanted to plug his eyes and ears and ignore the mess that these educated youth were making.
After he delivered the educated youth to the commune, he immediately returned, not wanting to stay with them for even a moment longer.
Fang Zhiyuan's face was still burning with pain. He moved away from Lin Shanshan and went to the other side.
He subconsciously glanced in Luo Jingyan's direction. Luo Jingyan was even prettier than Lin Shanshan. If he could take advantage of her, it would be worth getting slapped twice.
Emboldened by his previous success in taking advantage of Lin Shanshan, he became quite emboldened.
Two hours later, the bus arrived in the county town, and the educated youth, each carrying their own luggage, prepared to get off the bus.
Because the bus only had one door at the front, Fang Zhiyuan wanted to take advantage of Luo Jingyan while she was getting off the bus. However, Luo Jingyan was sitting at the front, and Luo Changtian and Xue Yanchen were following behind her when she got off the bus, so Fang Zhiyuan had no chance at all.
Outside the county town's bus station, the commune's tractor had been waiting for them for half an hour.
The person in charge handed the educated youth over to the people in the commune, and that was considered the task completed. They then prepared to return to Beijing. How the educated youth would live there afterward was up to them.
Having experienced the previous incident of scrambling for seats on buses, the educated youth were afraid of not having a seat on the tractor, so they desperately rushed to get on.
Luo Jingyan planned to throw her luggage into the car first, and then get in.
Perhaps because Xue Yanchen saw that she wasn't tall enough, he took her luggage with one hand and easily tossed it into the tractor's cargo bed, then threw his own luggage in as well.
Luo Jingyan thanked him and climbed onto the tractor herself, using both her hands and feet. She and Xue Yanchen helped Luo Changtian up, pulling and dragging him along. Xue Yanchen was the last to get on, and the three of them sat side by side on their luggage. The last educated youth to get on had to squeeze in with others, which was very uncomfortable.
The tractor chugged along, and once outside the county town, you could see vast fields of red sorghum, ripe soybeans, wheat, and corn, as well as small patches of other grains along the roadside.
After walking a long way, Luo Jingyan still couldn't see any rice paddies, so rice probably wasn't grown here.
The educated youth on the bus saw the farmland and it was as if they were seeing a beautiful landscape. They began to appreciate it seriously, and some even praised the beautiful pastoral scene and recited poems.
When the male educated youth recited the poems with great emotion and gestures, Luo Jingyan suddenly felt as if she had stumbled into a freshman interview at the Beijing Film Academy.
The country roads are full of potholes, which is very hard on machinery. The tractors make a deafening roar as they drive by.
Halfway there, the tractor suddenly stalled.
The tractor driver and commune officials went down to check the situation, and the educated youth asked one after another what was wrong with the tractor.
The commune official said, "The tractor has a minor problem. You can wait on the vehicle for a while. You can leave as soon as it's fixed."
The tractor driver took out the toolbox from the vehicle, crawled under it, and had the commune cadre hand him the tools.
However, almost half an hour passed, and the tractor was still not fixed.
Some of the educated youth started urging, "When will it be fixed?"
The commune cadre was sweating profusely and waved to the educated youth, saying, "Wait a moment, wait a moment, don't rush."
Some of the educated youth couldn't wait and got off the bus to stretch their legs because they were uncomfortable sitting on it.
Another ten minutes or so later, the tractor driver crawled out from under the vehicle and said to the commune official, "I can't fix it. I'm afraid I'll have to go to the county town to call a mechanic from the agricultural machinery station to fix it."
The commune official said, "It's several miles from here to the county town, and it takes a lot of time to go back and forth."
Seeing that the tractor driver and the commune cadre were very anxious, Xue Yanchen jumped off the vehicle and walked up to them: "I also know a little about machinery. If you allow me to take a look, you can let me see it."
The commune official was both surprised and delighted: "You, you can even repair tractors?"
He thought these city kids only knew how to read and write.
“I’ve dealt with machines before, so I can give it a try.”
"Okay, okay, give it a try." It's better than going to the agricultural machinery station again and having to pay for repairs.
Xue Yanchen first checked the car from above, and then crawled under the car to check why it had stalled.
Luo Jingyan didn't expect that Xue Yanchen could repair machines; in fact, she could too.
In her past life, she not only frequently operated agricultural machinery on the farm, but also learned how to repair it because of her strong hands-on skills.
She especially loves a retro tractor. With her improvements, the tractor's deafening noise has been eliminated, and its other performance aspects have also been greatly improved.
The farm workers said she was an engineer whose talents were wasted on cooking.
If she really became an engineer, she would definitely be a chef whose talent was wasted on machines.
She even thought driving a tractor was cooler than driving a luxury sports car.
After a while, Xue Yanchen came out from under the car and said to the commune cadre, "Two parts are broken, which may cause some trouble and take a while."
"Go ahead and fix it. Just tell me what you need and I'll hand it to you."
He then conveyed the same message to the educated youth and told them not to wander around.
After another ten minutes or so, Luo Jingyan got bored and decided to help Xue Yanchen fix the car so they could finish quickly and leave as soon as possible.
She asked Xue Yanchen about the specific cause and location of the tractor malfunction, saying that she also knew how to repair tractors.
The commune cadre saw that she was fair-skinned and delicate, and was the most beautiful among these educated youths. He couldn't associate her with repairing tractors at all.
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