The air seemed to freeze for a moment, with only the rustling sound of wheat being harvested remaining...
This time, it wasn't just Chen Fengshan and Chen Zhangmin who were affected.
Production team leader Chen Defu and team leader Li Fengshou, who had been looking on with skepticism and ready to laugh at the situation, felt as if they had been punched in the chest, their hearts pounding with discomfort.
The group of people stood there blankly, staring at Yan Yu in a daze.
undergrad!
It's still Tsinghua University!
He's an engineer at a major factory in Beijing!
Good heavens!
What's wrong with this educated youth Yan? Why would he give up being a proper mechanical engineer and insist on coming to their rural village?
If they had known earlier that this young man was so capable, they wouldn't have said those nonsensical things.
The expressions on the faces of those people who were sarcastic just a moment ago suddenly changed completely, becoming filled with almost obsequious respect and deep-seated regret.
"Oh my goodness! Engineer Yan... Engineer Yan! Look at my eyes, I... I was blind to your greatness!"
Chen Defu wished he could slap himself twice on the spot. His dark face was filled with regret and fear, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead like broken beads.
"Yes, yes, Engineer Yan, you are a magnanimous person, you can forgive us, please don't hold it against us ignorant bumpkins!" Li Fengshou was also embarrassed. He scratched his head awkwardly, not knowing how to express his current feelings, and was completely at a loss.
Yan Yu's expression remained unchanged throughout.
He took his ID back from the old Party Secretary's rough, almost unsteady hands.
Under the guise of putting the book back in his pocket, he casually tossed the two "amulet" books, which were enough to shake the entire commune, back into his spatial storage.
It was as if those weren't some earth-shattering identity document, but merely two insignificant pieces of paper.
After doing all this, he spoke slowly and deliberately, his voice still cold, but it already carried an invisible sense of pressure.
"Does the village have any tractors or diesel engines?" He had come to the village by tractor the day he arrived, so he asked this question to confirm whether the tractor belonged to the village or was borrowed from someone else.
"Yes! Yes! Absolutely!" Chen Fengshan replied hastily, as if he had been given a shot of adrenaline, his voice cracking with excitement. "The team has a Dongfanghong tractor, and we still have some diesel fuel in stock!"
"good."
Yan Yu nodded and continued speaking in a flat tone.
"I can use the tractor engine to modify a simple hot air drying device to dry the wheat with the lowest fuel consumption and the highest efficiency."
At this point, Yan Yu keenly noticed the hesitation of the village officials and offered another solution.
"If you think this is too damaging to the tractor, you can find me a few iron buckets and some unused ironware. As for diesel, you can use firewood instead to make a simple device, but this will be less efficient."
He paused, his deep gaze sweeping over the crowd and landing in the direction of the threshing ground not far away.
There was a hint of gentleness in that cold voice that no one else could detect.
"I need an assistant."
"Ruan Tang".
"It will take the two of us about two hours to finish."
Upon hearing this, Chen Fengshan rubbed his hands together excitedly, without the slightest hesitation!
"Using a tractor would be difficult, but as for the iron buckets, are they the same iron buckets we use to fetch water? If so, we can all share them! There are some in the scrap metal yard's warehouse! I'll have someone go and get them right away!!"
"Yes, yes, I have a metal bucket at home!"
"Engineer Yan, I have one at home too, I'll go get it right away!"
Several cadres rushed to express their opinions, afraid of falling behind and missing this opportunity to show their abilities in front of this "great Buddha." (This chapter has been read. Please click to continue reading the next chapter!)
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