Chapter 708: Finally Have a Vehicle

From ancient times to the present, China has always valued human relationships and social etiquette. Simply put, before doing anything, as long as it doesn't involve human life, one must first chat for a while.

Anyway, if you don't engage in some hypocritical small talk, you can't express how good the relationship between us is.

Therefore, after everyone got off the car, they were directly invited into the office by several leaders of the Agricultural Machinery Company.

Then it was tea and cigarettes, saying a bunch of useless nonsense with smiles on their faces.

Of course, this kind of behavior is also called "exchanging pleasantries."

However, from the attitude shown by these leaders of the Agricultural Machinery Company when facing everyone, it wasn't hard to see that they were much more enthusiastic toward Zhang Shuya and Wu Dong than toward Wang Shuai, He Liang, and the others.

As for Wang An and Wang Li, they directly became invisible people, and no one even took a look at them.

Fortunately, after the pleasantries, Zhang Shuya and Wu Dong introduced Wang An and Wang Li to the leaders very grandly, and only then did these two enter the eyes of the leaders.

Immediately after, words like "talented," "in the prime of life," "young and promising," etc., were spoken from the mouths of the leaders and were all applied to Wang An and Wang Li.

It had to be admitted that although these words sounded very fake, after entering the ears, they indeed made people feel quite comfortable.

After saying a bunch more nonsense, Zhang Shuya finally couldn't help but bring up the matter of the four-wheeled vehicle and the walking tractor.

Zhang Shuya said: "Station Master He, should the money for that four-wheeled vehicle be given directly to the finance department here, or to the finance department in Bingcheng?"

Hearing this, Station Master He said with a smile: "That's easy to say; either side is fine, it's all the same, all the same, hehehe..."

It must be said that this Station Master He knew how to speak; he didn't ask for it himself, letting you take the initiative to give it.

Zhang Shuya smiled: "Then let's hand it over here; it saves me from making a special trip."

After hearing this, Station Master He immediately said to someone beside him:

"Immediately have Accountant Lin bring the official seal and receipt over, hurry up."

After Station Master He finished speaking, that person walked quickly toward the outside.

At this time, Wu Dong suddenly said with a smile:

"Station Master He, let's pay for the walking tractor together too, right?"

Station Master He smiled: "Yeah, that's fine."

After a while, when Accountant Lin came over, Wu Dong and Wang An took the initiative to step forward and paid the money separately.

Speaking of which, the purchase of these two vehicles was quite interesting; they were clearly bought through different connections, but after a big circle, they returned to the DJ County Agricultural Machinery Company.

After getting the receipts, everyone filed out and came to the four vehicles.

Sure enough, the four-wheeled vehicle was Wang An's, and as for the three walking tractors, Station Master He let Wang An choose one.

Wang An smiled and thanked Station Master He for his kindness, but he didn't look at them one by one, directly choosing the one next to the four-wheeled vehicle.

The main thing was that these things were all new and looked the same, so how could one choose? Besides, the machinery of this era was quite sturdy and durable; repairing and patching it for twenty or thirty years was not a problem at all.

Before leaving, Station Master He very kindly gave Wang An a barrel of diesel and also filled the fuel tank of each vehicle with diesel.

To be honest, the price of this barrel of diesel was not low at all.

Because at this time, diesel was calculated by jin, not by liter; one jin of diesel was 0.42 yuan.

This 50-liter oil barrel could hold about 82 jin of diesel, so this barrel of oil was worth about 35 yuan; including the iron oil barrel, it was about 40 yuan. However, this price was calculated based on having fuel coupons; if there were no coupons, it would only be higher.

So Wang An thought for a while and, without hesitation, took out 5 large bills and handed them to Accountant Lin, saying with a smile:

"Our Agricultural Machinery Station is just good; I was worrying about where to get fuel coupons, and you sold me a barrel of oil without coupons, hahaha..."

Accountant Lin was stunned and subconsciously looked at Station Master He. Seeing Station Master He nod slightly, he accepted the money and wrote another receipt.

Although for the Agricultural Machinery Company, a barrel of oil didn't count for much, a "normal loss" could make this barrel of oil disappear directly.

But just because of a barrel of oil, making Wu Dong and Zhang Shuya owe a favor, that kind of thing was very not worth it.

Besides, for Wu Dong and Zhang Shuya, wanting fuel coupons was a matter of minutes; it wasn't worth owing a favor at all.

Looking at the two vehicles that now completely belonged to him, Wang An's mood was still very excited.

No matter what, he finally had a vehicle!

After loading the matching plows for each vehicle onto the cargo beds, everyone left the Agricultural Machinery Company together.

However, the person driving the four-wheeled vehicle was Wang Shuai, and the people driving the walking tractors were Wang An and Wang Li.

The reason it took two people to drive a walking tractor was that Wang An was teaching Wang Li while driving.

The walking tractor was simple to death; as long as you could crank it to start, basically anyone could drive it.

So before the tractor even reached Wu Dong's house, Wang Li had already learned everything there was to learn.

Seeing this, Wang An shouted loudly: "How is it? Did you learn it? Isn't this thing super simple? Just remember, the brakes on this thing aren't very good. Before you want to stop, just release the throttle, and it will stall itself to a stop."

"But before it stops, when the sound starts to stutter, you must step on the clutch, otherwise the engine will die completely, and you'll have to crank it to start again."

The reason for shouting was that you couldn't hear normal speech; although the engine of the walking tractor wasn't big, the sound was quite loud.

Wang Li nodded while shouting:

"Fourth Brother, I've remembered it all, don't worry."

Then Wang An thought for a while and shouted to Wang Li:

"Alright, I'll keep an eye on you from the side; try to see if you can handle it?"

As he spoke, Wang An very boldly moved to the side and handed the handlebars of the tractor to Wang Li.

At first, Wang Li was very nervous, gripping the two handles tightly, fearing that the bumps would cause him to lose his grip and the vehicle would go out of control.

And Wang Li's eyes were also staring straight ahead, his whole body in a rigid state.

Seeing this, Wang An didn't pay attention; the main thing was that driving was like this at the beginning.

However, soon, Wang Li wasn't so nervous anymore, and his face was full of excitement and enthusiasm, as if driving a walking tractor was a very proud and glorious thing.

Of course, there was nothing wrong with thinking that, because being able to drive a four-wheeled vehicle and a walking tractor in this era was no less than driving a luxury car in later generations, and perhaps even more enviable and jealous than driving a luxury car in later generations.

One had to know that tractor drivers in this era, no matter where they went, were looked up to and treated as honored guests.

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