Xiao Jun didn't know what bodybuilding was, but Wan Feng's constant calling him "old man" made him very unhappy.
"You're not even as old as me, but you keep calling me old man. Are you asking for a beating?"
"Focus on watching me lay the bricks, don't pay attention to the useless things. Can you beat me?"
Xiao Jun weighed it and shook his head: "That's tough."
"Then you have no right to ask me to do anything. You see, the bricks that aren't leaning against the car board are five-tenths. The closer the brick pile is to the car, the easier it is to load. The same applies when unloading. This ten-tenth brick pile is 200 bricks. We need to load a thousand bricks into the five-tenths. Before loading, confirm the number of bricks you want to load. You don't have to worry about counting. Just load it. Put the number you confirmed into the car and the number will be fine. Do you understand?"
Xiao Jun nodded.
If he still doesn't understand this, then his head can be sold as a brick.
"Now let's identify the five bricks closest to the car and load them. Once we load them onto the car, that's a thousand bricks. Do you understand?"
Xiao Jun nodded again.
Wan Feng stood sideways in the carriage, holding a brick clamp and began to load bricks. He started from the top layer of the brick pile, and placed four bricks with one clamp to the innermost part of the carriage.
"A 22" truck bed can hold five rows of bricks horizontally. Each row and layer contains 62 bricks. How high would it take to load 1,000 bricks?"
The number of heights means the number of floors.
Xiao Jun thought for a moment and said, "It should be five times taller."
Wan Feng nearly threw the brick clamp at Xiao Jun's face. "What does your math teacher do? Isn't he a physical education teacher?"
Xiao Jun scratched his head: "Isn't that right?"
"I've already told you, this truck can carry five rows of bricks. Each row is sixty-two bricks high. So, if each of these five rows is sixty-two bricks high, multiplied by five, that's three hundred and sixty bricks. So, tell me how many bricks five rows high are? Calculate that carefully."
"Three-five equals one thousand and five, five-six equals three hundred and five..." Xiao Jun muttered as he calculated.
"What? Five hundred and six hundred and five?" Wan Feng roared.
"Oh no, it's three hundred. That makes eighteen hundred bricks. Now I understand. Five bricks high makes eighteen hundred bricks."
"We want to install a thousand bricks, and you tell me to install five high? Recalculate!"
Xiao Jun calculated for about five minutes and finally cheered: "Three highs are one thousand and eighty yuan, which is not enough for three highs."
Finally figured it out.
By the time this guy finished the calculation, Wanfeng's row of bricks was already full.
"Yes, three high! See? I've already loaded three high on this train. There's no need to load any more on this one. Let's move on to the second one. If we load on the first one, the train will go off track. Ugh! Teaching you is more tiring than loading bricks. Come on up! We have the theory, now it's time to put it into practice."
Xiao Jun got on the car and took over the brick clamp to start the actual inspection. He was much slower than Wan Feng. It took less than five minutes to load a whole train, but this guy took seven or eight minutes to load a whole train.
There is no rush, just practice for a while and you will be fine. To get used to this job you need to have at least ten skills.
First, blisters appeared on the hands, then the waist, hands and legs ached. When the pain was gone, it was considered that the apprentice had completed his studies.
"When holding the brick clamp, you need to apply force evenly across all five fingers. This way, you won't get blisters easily. If you only use two fingers, you'll get blisters from a whole load of bricks. But it's no use; blisters will appear sooner or later anyway."
"It's useless, you still have so many." Xiao Jun complained.
Wan Feng loaded three trains of bricks on this truck, and Xiao Jun loaded two.
"After loading the bricks, close the compartment and make sure the hooks at both ends are properly hooked. Otherwise, if the compartment is opened while walking, bricks will fall and hit someone, which will be very troublesome. You must remember this and make it a habit."
While speaking, Wan Feng closed the carriage door.
After loading the car, both of them were sweating, so they ran to the stream to wash.
Xiao Jun looked at the clear stream and actually took a sip. He then said in surprise, "Hey! This water actually tastes sweet."
Is this guy probably passed out from all the work? Is he even hallucinating with his tongue?
"They're just a bunch of eggs. Is there sugar in this ditch?"
"Really, it's really sweet. If you don't believe me, take a sip."
Although there was no polluted water source for raising chickens and ducks at that time, Wan Feng did not think that the water in this stream was hygienic and he would not drink it.
"I need to find a bottle and fill it up so I can drink it when I'm thirsty while I'm working."
"Then go find Old Zhang, the night watchman at the brick and tile factory."
At noon, the members had not yet come to work, and there was only an old man named Zhang who was on night watch in the entire brick factory.
Xiao Jun quickly ran to the night watchman's house and came back with a wine bottle. He rinsed it vigorously in the stream for half a minute before filling the bottle with water. He plugged the bottle mouth with a cork made of paper, carried it back to the tractor and put it on the truck bed.
At this time, Pingshan's tractor came rumbling down the road and turned into the brick factory.
Yuan Wen rushed over from the village, said hello to Wan Feng, and went to load the truck.
Logically, Yang Hong should be here by now, so why is there still no sign of him?
Yang Hong didn't come, but Zhang Hai came to mop the floor and brought some unfortunate news.
Yang Hong was actually drugged after eating shrimp.
His son was suffering from vomiting and diarrhea and was about to die.
It would be strange to be poisoned by eating seafood at this time, but death is impossible. Every year, countless people are poisoned by eating seafood, but I have never seen anyone die.
Then Zhang Hai looked at Wan Feng.
"Why are you looking at me? Are you looking at me like I'm telling you to let me drive?"
Zhang Hai immediately laughed: "Smart!"
"Five bucks for one drive!"
Zhang Hai's smile immediately disappeared: "You want to rob me? Believe it or not, I'll beat you up!"
"Forget it, I won't waste my time on you. We're short of people, aren't we? This is my friend I told you about yesterday, from Gushan, he's here to haul bricks. He'll be following me to get used to it today, and from now on he'll be following Yang Hong's car. Bring your lunch for lunch, and find a place to heat it up. That shouldn't be a problem, right?"
"That's not a problem."
"Well, since Yang Hong isn't coming, we'll leave."
Xiao Jun seemed confused and followed Wan Feng to the tractor. How could the car move without a driver? Could this guy even drive a tractor?
"You're damn lucky today. You probably won't learn this much even if you follow Yang Hong for a month by following me for just one afternoon. Why would you pay attention to me if you follow me?"
Wan Feng checked the water tank, the oil dipstick and the amount of oil in the tank.
"You have to check these three things before driving: water, oil, and diesel... Never mind. I don't think you'd remember them even if I told you now. You'll understand once you understand how a tractor works."
Then he took out the crank handle and inserted it into the hole of the starter shaft. He pulled the accelerator and said to Xiao Jun, "Come and help me pull it."
Two people pulled the rope and the tractor made a rumbling sound.
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