You mean?
Li Dafu frowned.
The village chief's wife, engrossed in mending the clothes in her hands, didn't even look up and said, "What other ideas do you have? These days, who knows when the technicians will be sent down? If there are difficulties, we have to find ways to overcome them. Judging from Xiao Fan's manner of speaking, he seems like someone who has been to school. Maybe he can help."
Li Dafu thought for a moment and said, "Alright, I'll give it a shot."
The village chief's house is not far from the small thatched hut where Fan Xiaofan now lives; it's just a few steps away.
Inside the house, Fan Xiaofan was also thinking about what skills she could use. The village chief regarded that tractor as a treasure, so she had to come up with something to convince him.
Fan Xiaofan was lying on the simple table, doodling on scrap paper with a pencil.
The village chief called out a couple of times at the door, asking Fan Xiaofan to come to his house to discuss something, and Fan Xiaofan responded twice.
Fan Xiaofan picked up the blueprints from the table, quickly tidied herself up, and headed towards the village chief's house. When she arrived, Li Dafu noticed what she was holding and asked curiously, "What's this?"
She handed it over.
Li Dafu saw that it was all crisscrossed and turned upside down, and he couldn't figure out what it was...
Fan Xiaofan couldn't help but say, "You've taken it upside down..."
In a panic, Li Dafu spun around in a circle, but ended up with the table upside down.
In the end, Fan Xiaofan reluctantly placed the blueprints on the table for Li Dafu to see.
"This is a simple diagram of a small tractor; I don't know which type is used in our village..."
Before Fan Xiaofan could continue, Li Dafu's eyes widened as he looked at the piece of paper on the table with obvious delight. He exclaimed, "Oh dear, did I break this thing just now?"
Li Dafu wasn't exaggerating; he had heard people say that their country would spend a fortune to buy such a good blueprint from abroad...
This blueprint was a simplified version of a tractor design drawn by Fan Xiaofan using the most basic ideas in her mind, trying to conform to the technological progress possible in this era. However, she didn't know that even so, her blueprint was still ahead of its time.
The tractors widely used today are still "single-cylinder diesel tractors," which are imported from abroad. They make a loud, booming noise, and they are also prone to breaking down.
Looking at the blueprint he couldn't understand, Li Dafu was already convinced that Fan Xiaofan might actually have the ability to fix it.
Ignoring everything else, he couldn't wait to get Fan Xiaofan to fix it quickly so as not to delay the work in the fields.
When Fan Xiaofan saw the tractor that Li Dafu had mentioned, she was instantly stunned. This tractor was really different from the tractor she had imagined. Her drawings were ahead of their time.
This was inevitable, as agricultural robots were already used for precise farming in her time, so there was no need for such a large machine.
Li Dafu rubbed his hands together, looked at Fan Xiaofan, and asked, "Can it be repaired?"
This is equivalent to having someone studying advanced molecular cosmology correct single-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. For Fan Xiaofan, figuring out the components is just a matter of reaching out.
She nodded.
Li Dafu's eyes lit up instantly, and he immediately said, "If you fix it, I'll try to get some grain from the villagers."
This was the most generous offer Li Dafu could think of to express his gratitude to Fan Xiaofan.
He felt a little smug; good deeds are rewarded. He had kindly taken in Fan Xiaofan, and now he had found a treasure.
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