Chapter 717: The General Trend

Being watched by a large pile of eyes, even with Wang An's thick skin, he couldn't hold it anymore.

Wang An scratched his head and blinked:

"So, what are you guys looking at me for? I tell you, this thing doesn't cost much money, at most 30 or 50 is enough, and then you don't have to go to the field, just watch from the side."

As soon as Wang An finished speaking, Wang Dazhu stared with big eyes and said:

"You're talking nonsense, hiring people, that little work will be finished in a few days, hire what people?"

Wang Daliang also persuaded: "Yeah, Little An, your family has a total of 20-something mu of rice fields, our family and Shen Wei's family together have 20-something mu. Look, all together it's not much. If you and our Old Five also go to the field, calculating one person planting one mu of land a day, that's 7 mu of land a day, it will be finished in six or seven days, no need to hire people."

When Wang Daliang said "If you and our Old Five also go to the field...", Yao Ping secretly pulled Wang Daliang's clothes and glared at Wang Daliang, clearly complaining that Wang Daliang talked too much.

Wang Daliang also realized that he had said too much and immediately remedied:

"Little An, you should just be busy with your things; we'll just do this little work."

Actually, Wang An didn't think much, because Second Uncle Wang Daliang was quite honest, even more honest than Wang Dazhu, and didn't have so many tricks.

Besides, Wang Daliang as an uncle, saying a word to his nephew, letting his nephew go to the field to help for a few days, was not a problem at all.

So Wang An nodded, followed the old brothers' words, and said with a smile:

"Yeah, if you say so, hiring people is a bit not worth it, hehehe."

After Wang An finished speaking, Wang Dazhu was indeed full of smiles, while Wang Daliang seemed to be a bit self-blaming for talking too much, just laughed dryly a few times.

Looking at his father and second uncle, these old brothers, who wouldn't hire people to work to death, Wang An sucked his teeth helplessly, but his head was constantly thinking about countermeasures.

In this era, the two words "hiring people" generally appeared in various factories or collectives; anyway, farming, especially farming one's own population land, rarely had "hiring people" happen.

It must be admitted that what Wang Dazhu and Wang Daliang, these old brothers, said was also very reasonable; work that could be finished in six or seven days was indeed not worth hiring people to do.

But reason is reason, fact is fact; in Wang An's view, these two couldn't be confused at all.

Because from the bottom of his heart, Wang An didn't want to go to the field to plant rice seedlings, and he resisted going to the field to plant rice seedlings.

The main thing was that as soon as he thought of the experience of planting rice seedlings for many years in the spring when he was squatting in the fence in his previous life, Wang An felt his whole body ache, really painful.

Then if he himself planted rice seedlings and his whole body ached, others planting rice seedlings would definitely not feel good either.

Of course, Wang An didn't care at all about whether others were painful or not, and didn't care at all, because others loved to be painful or not, loved to be painful, what did it have to do with Wang An?

Wang An only cared about his parents, that is, the health of Wang Dazhu and his wife.

Because Wang An knew that in Wang An's previous life, Wang Dazhu and his wife's health in their later years was quite bad.

Especially their legs, they were old cold legs; they were extremely painful in winter, and it was painful to walk. Pondering for a long time, Wang An suddenly thought of the "rice transplanter."

Actually, in '67, China already had machines specifically for planting rice seedlings.

However, to tell the truth, the rice transplanters at this time were not very easy to use, either losing seedlings or leaking seedlings.

Besides, the mechanical power in this era was very rare, and it could only be used with horses or cattle as power, or pulled by people, which led to the speed of planting rice seedlings with a rice transplanter being basically the same as the speed of planting rice seedlings by manpower.

Therefore, there were never many people using rice transplanters, to be precise, very few.

Of course, using a rice transplanter was not without benefits, and the only benefit was that it made people not have to bend over and stick their butts to plant rice seedlings all day, simply put, it was relatively waist-saving, and the big tendons behind the knees didn't ache either.

However, no matter whether the rice transplanter at this time was good or bad, Wang An had to get it! On one hand, using a rice transplanter to plant rice seedlings was a general trend, because by later generations, there was basically no such thing as manpower planting rice seedlings.

And on the other hand, it was also the most important aspect, that Wang An could modify and debug this thing.

Wang An in his previous life, if it weren't for the poor efficiency of manpower planting rice seedlings, so the fence side introduced a large number of rice transplanters, then Wang An's pain would have to continue for many years.

In order to save manpower, to be precise, it was for the prison friends to do less work.

To tell the truth, everyone really racked their brains to study this thing.

How to make it labor-saving, how to make it have fewer failures, how to make it increase speed, etc., basically understood the rice transplanter.

Some people even made contributions because of this and squatted in the fence for two years less.

And Wang An, as a person who squatted in the fence for half a lifetime, was definitely quite proficient in this thing.

So, the most important thing for Wang An now was to buy a rice transplanter first, and then modify it himself.

In this way, not only did he not have to go to the field to plant rice seedlings, but he could also let his parents and Second Uncle and his wife, as well as Shen Wei and the others, be both worry-free and labor-saving.

One had to know that a rice transplanter powered by a walking tractor could plant 20 or 30 mu of land a day, and the 40-something mu of land of these three families would be finished in two or three days at most.

Thinking of this, Wang An said to the chatting crowd: "I'll go to the county town tomorrow to buy a rice transplanter, so we don't have to bend over and stick our butts to plant rice seedlings..."

After Wang An finished speaking, Wang Dazhu said: "Little An, buying that thing is useless; if that thing is not planted well, the seedlings will all die. Besides, that thing is not much faster, basically the same speed as people."

At this time, even Second Aunt Yao Ping couldn't help but interject:

"Yeah, Little An, our village had that thing years ago, and later no one used it, because that thing, sometimes it couldn't plant the seedlings into the mud, making the whole rice field look like it was bitten by a dog, missing seedlings very seriously."

Second Uncle Wang Daliang thought for a while and said: "To say that the field was missing seedlings, it couldn't be said that it was all the rice transplanter's fault; people didn't care at all. Little An, if you want to buy a rice transplanter, you don't need to go to the county town; there are several in the township, all issued by superiors two years ago, just that no one has used them."

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