Chapter 1125

Wang An originally didn't want to go down to the fields to harvest wheat; the main thing was that harvesting wheat was too damn painful!

But after Huang Baoguo and his son and Er Gangzi came, the wheat this group harvested in one morning couldn't be pulled back with just one four-wheeled tractor. So even if Wang An didn't harvest wheat, by noon, he would have to drive the walking tractor to the field.

Since he had to go anyway, Wang An might as well go harvest wheat with them. That way, the harvesting speed would be faster.

Arriving at the wheat field, the 8 of them each harvested two rows and began to move forward.

You have to say, although Huang Baoguo and Er Gangzi were a bit big eaters, they were truly nimble when it came to work.

Even while helping Huang Zhong, their wheat harvesting speed was still far ahead.

Even Wang Dazhu, an old hand who had done farm work for half his life, wasn't as fast as them.

The "helping" mentioned here actually means assisting—when Huang Zhong's speed couldn't keep up, Huang Baoguo and Er Gangzi would harvest some of the wheat in Huang Zhong's two rows in front of him.

After all, although Huang Zhong was 15, because of malnutrition, his figure was too thin and small, and he really couldn't keep up when it came to harvesting wheat.

Just like that, as time passed, the tiring morning finally passed—or to be precise, it wasn't noon yet, it was just time to load the cart.

This morning, the sickle in Wang An's hand was almost smoking, but he just couldn't keep up with Wang Dazhu, Huang Baoguo, and Er Gangzi. He was always a distance behind them, only slightly better than the female comrades.

To be honest, this made Wang An a bit hard to understand.

Clearly, everyone's frequency of swinging the sickle was about the same, and his own strength was even greater than theirs, yet his speed was always lagging behind. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't catch up. This was truly an unsolvable problem.

Fortunately, Wang An's ambition wasn't here, so he lost the desire to compete.

The main thing was that Wang An had long discovered a problem: wealth has absolutely nothing to do with the four words "diligent and hardworking."

If you don't believe it, look at Huang Baoguo and that Er Gangzi. Who dares to say they aren't diligent? Who dares to say they can be better than them at farm work?

But before they knew Wang An, Huang Baoguo's family couldn't even wear complete clothes, and they couldn't even solve the problem of food and clothing. Now, they could even say things like "just eating steamed buns without vegetables is fine."

From this, it can be seen that the four words "diligent and hardworking to get rich" are purely a lie.

And for people like Huang Baoguo, as long as they can endure hardship, they will have endless hardship.

This morning, 8 people only harvested 4 mu of land, which means that yesterday, Wang Dazhu and the other four only harvested 4 mu of land in a whole day.

At this rate, Wang An's 25 mu of wheat field would take three days to finish. However, after Wang An's was finished, Shen Wei's couldn't be left behind.

The crops of the two families had always been tended together, and the autumn harvest was naturally together as well.

Everyone worked together to load the harvested wheat onto the cart, and Wang Dazhu and Wang An, father and son, each drove a vehicle, swaying slowly toward home.

At noon, while the people in the village were eating, the village office's loudspeaker suddenly coughed a few times.

Immediately after, Sun Physician's somewhat excited voice rang out:

"Attention, villagers of Tongtun! Attention, villagers of Tongtun! I am Village Chief Sun Physician. Now, I announce something: the electricity in our Tongtun has been fully connected. Every household, check immediately if your light bulbs are bright. If they aren't, hurry to the village office. While the two electricians haven't left yet, they can still fix them for you. Be quick; if the light bulbs aren't bright later, no one will take care of you."

"Our Tong..."

After saying it twice, Sun Physician turned off the microphone.

At Wang An's house, Wang Xiaomei and Wang Xiaoli had long been unable to suppress their curiosity and went to pull the ropes hanging from the pull-switch boxes in the east and west rooms.

In Wang An's house, Wang An had installed two light bulbs in every room in the front.

The reason for installing two was, on one hand, to have a backup, and on the other hand, because the rooms were too big; sometimes only by lighting both could the room not look dim.

As the two little girls released the ropes, the two light bulbs in the living room lit up.

Wang Xiaoli immediately shouted with dissatisfaction:

"These light bulbs aren't bright at all. Didn't Big Brother say this thing is a hundred times brighter than a candle?"

You have to say, since starting school, Wang Xiaoli's speech was no longer slurred.

After Wang Xiaoli finished, her sister Wang Xiaomei also pouted and said:

"Yeah, Big Brother is a liar."

This scene made Wang An feel like laughing and crying, and the others also looked at Wang An with smiles.

So, Wang An laughed:

"How can you tell if the light bulbs are bright in broad daylight? Even if they're bright, can they be brighter than the sun? You two have wasted your schooling. Don't go to school this afternoon; come harvest wheat with us."

The two little sisters blinked their big eyes in confusion, and then Wang Xiaoli asked:

"Big Brother, why aren't light bulbs brighter than the sun?"

Wang An was startled upon hearing this, pondered for a long time, and explained:

"You two just remember, the sun is the brightest thing in this world; nothing can compare to the sun."

As soon as Wang An finished, Wang Xiaomei asked:

"Why is that, Big Brother?"

Wang An blinked, and suddenly didn't know how to explain it. The main thing was that Wang An hadn't really studied this.

After thinking for a long time, Wang An said:

"The place where we stay is called Earth. The sun is actually a very, very large fireball. It keeps emitting light and heat to illuminate our Earth. Our Earth revolves around the sun; one revolution is a year. But this Earth also rotates itself; one rotation is a day. When we can see the sun, it's daytime. When the Earth rotates to the other side, it's nighttime..."

Immediately after, Wang An said a description he had seen in a magazine in his previous life.

You have to say, what Wang An said was relatively vivid. Not to mention the two little girls, even Wang Dazhu and Huang Baoguo listened with great interest.

Because in this era, most people had never traveled far in their lives, had no experience, and still believed in the "heaven is round and the earth is square" theory.

Unfortunately, the two little girls couldn't understand it at all. Wang Xiaomei widened her eyes and asked:

"Can't the Earth rotate by itself? Why does it have to revolve around the sun?"

Wang Xiaoli asked in an even more innocent tone:

"Is this like a dung beetle rolling its ball?"

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