Chapter 612

The distance from YJ County to JY County is about 130 li, and the speed of the group was not very fast.

Mainly because when they set off from YJ County, the load on each horse had not decreased, but instead, because of the big purchase at the supply and marketing cooperative, it had increased quite a bit.

Although there was an extra carriage, the horses that Wang An, Seeing Mu Xueli, and Wang Li had been riding were also used to pull the carriage.

It was a configuration of one horse in the shafts and two horses pulling in a long harness.

The large horse-drawn carriages of this era had very large and heavy tires and hubs, because this thing was actually the two wheels behind a walking tractor.

For normal family use, it was generally two mules or horses pulling the carriage, a configuration of one in the shafts and the other pulling in the harness.

The worst case would be one mule or horse in the shafts and a donkey pulling in the harness.

Never underestimate this animal pulling in the harness. Although the donkey's body is small and its strength is not very great, it only needs to exert a little effort to let the mule or horse in the shafts take a breather.

Because even the most powerful mule or horse in the shafts has moments of exhaustion, that is, when the strength is just used up and the new strength has not yet been generated.

If you use the terminology in martial arts novels, it is the moment when "the old move is exhausted and the new move has not yet been released."

You have to know that this situation is the most dangerous time for a person. Even a person with high martial arts skills has the possibility of being injured or dying at this moment.

The mule or horse in the shafts is the same, especially when pulling a heavy load uphill.

If a single mule or horse is pulling a carriage uphill, experienced drivers will get off the carriage and walk while holding the carriage shafts, helping to pull when the mule or horse in the shafts is taking a breather.

The carriage shaft is the small wooden peg about 10 centimeters long that stands up at the very front of the carriage shaft.

The function of this thing is to hang the "belly band" and the "back strap."

For a heavy-load carriage, how much strength can a person have? But it is precisely this little bit of strength that can let the mule or horse in the shafts take a breather, so as not to cause very serious things like sliding down the slope.

The job of driving a carriage, although it looks very simple, is actually very easy to get started with, but wanting to drive a carriage well and precisely is really not an easy thing.

One horse or two horses pulling a carriage is fine; regardless of whether it is strenuous or not, most people can handle it.

But like the large long harness that Wang An was driving, it is really not something that an ordinary person can control. You have to know that many old farmers have driven horse-drawn carriages all their lives, but even until the day they die, they still cannot drive a large long harness!

This is a fact! Because mules and horses have their own thinking, and the driver must control the strength of three or even four horses well.

For example, when going downhill, the mule or horse in the shafts wants to withstand the strength of the carriage going downhill, which is already very difficult, but the horses in front are still pulling the carriage hard!

Can the strength of one horse withstand the strength of two horses? For another example, when going uphill, the horse in the shafts is about to be exhausted, but the two horses in front are not exerting strength, or they are just going through the motions. You say, isn't this annoying?

Mainly because people know what it means to be tired, and horses know it too.

And the reason why old horses are mostly used in the shafts, while young horses are used for pulling in the harness or long harness, is partly because old horses have enough experience, and partly because of this.

After all, the "old horse is slippery" in "people are old and cunning, horses are old and slippery" is not a complimentary term.

In order not to delay the journey, the group had their lunch on horseback or in the carriage, but even so, by the time evening came, the group had only traveled more than 40 li.

Dinner was leftover meat buns and biscuits. As for Seeing Mu Xueli and Wang Li, they ate biscuits soaked in boiling water. Simply put, they ate flour paste, or what is called "paste" in Northeast dialect.

There was no other way. Although these two were young and their bodies recovered relatively quickly, eating was still very difficult for the time being.

After eating, they couldn't sleep, so everyone took out the tree branches they had picked up during the day's journey and started making slingshots. Making slingshots is something that people of this era basically know how to do, but using valve wires to make slingshots, except for Wang An who was relatively proficient, others didn't quite understand it.

Wu Dong held the valve wire and said: "Xiao An, why don't you buy a tourniquet directly? We all use that thing to tie slingshots."

He Liang also asked suspiciously:

"Yeah, I also feel that thing is more powerful. This valve wire thing needs several strands, while that thing is enough with one strand."

At this time, Wang Li suddenly asked with unclear pronunciation:

"Brother Wu, what is a tourniquet?"

Perhaps because Mu Hua had been in poor health and had received intravenous drips before, Seeing Mu Xueli also said with unclear pronunciation:

"It's that rubber tube used to tie the arm before getting an IV."

Wang Li was stunned for a moment and then muttered: "No one in our family has ever had an IV."

Wang An thought for a moment; it seemed that no one in his own family had ever had an IV either.

In fact, in this era, intravenous drips were indeed a very rare thing. Let alone intravenous drips, even injections were rare. To put it bluntly, there wasn't much medicine to eat, and even if there was, it was mainly herbal medicine. There were only a few common Western medicines.

So it was very normal for Wang Li not to know what a tourniquet was.

After Seeing Mu Xueli finished speaking, Wang An smiled and said:

"Did you hear that? Even Old Five doesn't know what a tourniquet is. Do you think I have a place to get that thing?"

After Wang An finished speaking, Sun Nian stared with her cute big eyes and said with a face full of ignorance:

"Aren't there many tourniquets in the hospital?"

After Sun Nian finished speaking, although Seeing Mu Xueli and Wang Li's eyes were not very wide due to the bruising on their eyelids, the look they gave Sun Nian was still full of speechlessness.

And Wang An looked at Sun Nian with the look of an idiot and said:

"There are many in the hospital, but those belong to the hospital. So what? Just because you are good-looking, if you go to the hospital and ask for them, will they give them to you?"

To be honest, Wang An regretted saying this sentence. Because if it were before, it would be nothing; after all, it was just a casual joke.

But ever since the back of his head had very carefully felt Sun Nian's two "greats," Wang An discovered that this woman, Sun Nian, was very wrong.

Especially yesterday, when he blew those few people into cripples, and Sun Nian followed Wu Dong and Zhang Shuya over.

In Sun Nian's eyes, there was actually a kind of... worship? Admiration? Or dedication? Or self-sacrifice?

Of course, the word "self-sacrifice" is relatively exaggerated. Anyway, Wang An had a very strong feeling, which was:

"Sun Nian wants to get me!!!"

To be honest, although Sun Nian's buttocks were round and white, and her two "greats" were indeed substantial, the most important thing was that Sun Nian was perfect in both appearance and figure.

However, Wang An believed that Sun Nian was not his type! (End of chapter)