Only one household in the entire village owns a hand-operated tractor, which can help villagers haul things, so it's always fully booked, and you have to go early if you want to make a reservation.
The tractor owner was Liu Xiangrui, who was not in the same production team as Wang Tianxiao, but they were elementary school classmates.
The reason Liu Xiangrui was able to maintain this exclusive "business" was because his father happened to be the village party secretary. Being close to the village secretary gave him an advantage. When villagers asked Liu Xiangrui to transport things, he could also get to know the party secretary.
Village Party secretaries in this era wielded considerable power.
It directly relates to a lot of power, such as land allocation, work points, farmland, and referrals. If you offend him, the village party secretary has a thousand ways to use legal means to bully you without you having a chance to complain.
Fortunately, the village party secretary was a decent person; at least Wang Tianxiao hadn't heard of anything too outrageous.
Liu Xiangrui and Wang Tianxiao had a decent relationship. Students who didn't do well in school seemed to have a natural connection with each other, which helped them get closer.
The Liu family lived in another production team more than three kilometers away from the Wang family. When Wang Tianxiao arrived on his motorcycle, Liu Xiangrui was pulling pig manure out of the yard.
Upon seeing Wang Tianxiao riding a cool motorcycle, Liu Xiangrui was first surprised, then filled with envy, and insisted on taking a ride.
Wang Tianxiao was not stingy either.
After returning from his rounds, Liu Xiangrui was still full of energy, but when he heard that Wang Tianxiao wanted him to haul coal, he stopped what he was doing, changed into clean clothes, filled up the tractor with gas, and set off with Wang Tianxiao.
The tractor rattled along, bumping and clattering, until it reached the place where coal was sold. Wang Tianxiao bought two thousand catties of large charcoal and one thousand catties of fine coal.
It cost a total of over three hundred yuan.
He originally wanted to buy more, but the tractor could only carry a little over a ton, so he gave up.
When loading the coal, I deliberately divided it into one or two small bags to send to my mother.
The rest were all taken up the mountain.
If nothing unexpected happens, he will gradually shift the focus of his life to the mountains.
Of course, the tractor couldn't be taken directly up the mountain; it had to be taken down to the foot of the mountain first, and then the remaining one or two hundred meters would need to be carried up by donkeys or mules.
There are no main roads leading up the mountains now, only narrow and steep mountain paths worn by people, making them very difficult to walk on.
Wang Tianxiao plans to gradually find a way to repair the mountain road once his conditions improve, so that at least vehicles can get up and down.
To get rich, build roads first; this is a basic principle.
They followed the tractor back, unloaded some of the produce in the pit courtyard, and then took the rest to the foot of the mountain to stack it up. For the time being, they could only ask Wang Tiancheng to look after it.
He also needed to go to town to collect seeds of artemisia and dandelion. Since no one else needed them for the time being, he had to rely on his easy-going younger brother.
When Wang Tianxiao arrived at the town's herb supply and marketing center, Mi Qingsong had already arranged for people to load the truck.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
