Chapter 802: Catching Feet

Seeing Mu Xueli is a person with a very good personality, and most importantly, he listens very well to Wang An, so upon hearing Wang An say this, Seeing Mu Xueli said with a face full of smiles:

"A walking tractor is fine, a walking tractor is just perfect, hehehehe, by the way, brother-in-law, I heard from my sister that you use rice transplanters for planting rice seedlings?"

Before Wang An could speak, Wang Li preempted him:

"That's a must, the rice seedlings for our three families are all planted using rice transplanters, that thing is truly fast, really efficient."

Seeing Mu Xueli ignored Wang Li's words and said to Wang An with a face full of flattery:

"Brother-in-law, I heard from my sister that you bought two rice transplanters back then?"

Wang An's heart stirred upon hearing this, and he said casually with a smile:

"That's for sure, my family has one four-wheeled vehicle and one walking tractor, so I definitely had to buy two, to use them interchangeably."

In fact, the reason Wang An bought two rice transplanters back then was, on one hand, because rice transplanters were at scrap metal prices, which was truly cheap, and not buying them would be a bit of a waste.

On the other hand, it was considering the relatives in the family; if any family bought a four-wheeled vehicle or a walking tractor, this rice transplanter would come in handy.

As for using them interchangeably, Wang An really hadn't thought about it that way.

The main thing is that there are only so many rice fields, and two rice transplanters are simply not needed, it's purely redundant.

Hearing Wang An say this, Seeing Mu Xueli said with a face full of cheeky smiles:

"I've seen it at your house these past few days, there's one rice transplanter that hasn't even been in the fields at all, there isn't even any mud on the wheels of the rice transplanter."

Wang An rolled his eyes at Seeing Mu Xueli and said with a face full of annoyance:

"If you have something to say, say it, if you have a fart, let it out, don't give me this useless talk. It's my machine, why do you care whether I let it go into the fields or not?"

Seeing Mu Xueli first gave a series of cheeky laughs, "Hehehehe," before saying:

"Why don't you let me have that rice transplanter once I buy the walking tractor, brother-in-law? We have to realize its value, right? It's such a waste just leaving it there."

Wang An slanted a look at Seeing Mu Xueli upon hearing this, then took a bite of meat and chewed a few times before saying:

"How can I let you have it? You just open your mouth, and you want to take the rice transplanter I spent an afternoon tinkering with?"

Wang An didn't care about the 30 yuan, but things couldn't be done this way; the main thing is that Seeing Mu Xueli isn't short of those 30 yuan either!

Only then did Seeing Mu Xueli say with a face full of smiles:

"My sister said, if it's sold to someone else, it's at least 50 yuan, selling it to me for 40 yuan is fine."

Wang An suddenly realized that this wife of his is truly good!

She's beautiful, has a good figure, is efficient at work, and is also very good at managing the household. Most importantly, she never messes around with things for her maiden family.

And now, Mu Xueqing even wants to earn 10 yuan from her own younger brother!

She truly can distinguish what is her maiden family and what is her own home.

One has to admit, a wife like Mu Xueqing is absolutely one in ten million.

Even Wang Li, who heard Seeing Mu Xueli's words, was instantly stunned for a moment.

Because Wang Li knew that those rice transplanters cost a total of 87 yuan, including 80 yuan for the transplanters and 7 yuan for the cigarettes given as a gift.

On average, each rice transplanter was bought for 29 yuan.

It was just that after adding some grease to the machines and adding some parts, the cost of each machine was considered to be 30 yuan.

But, Wang Li's fourth sister-in-law, Comrade Mu Xueqing, actually wanted to sell it to her own younger brother for 40 yuan.

It's just that after hearing this, Wang Li only blinked his eyes very quickly, then buried his head and began to focus on eating meat; the main point is that eating meat can block one's mouth. Besides, when it involves money, and it's his fourth brother's business, the smartest thing to do is to shut up directly.

Wang An isn't short of 10 yuan, and besides, earning 10 yuan from his own brother-in-law is really not worth it, so Wang An said with a smile:

"Since your sister has already set the price at 40 for you, I, as your brother-in-law, can't be lacking either. Forget it, I'll give you a discount of 10 yuan, I'll charge you 30 yuan, hehehehe."

Upon hearing this, Seeing Mu Xueli didn't stand on ceremony with Wang An, very readily took out 3 large ten-yuan bills from his pocket, handed them to Wang An, and said at the same time:

"Then brother-in-law, that idle rice transplanter at your house belongs to me now, hehehehe."

Wang An took the money, nodded, and smiled:

"Mm, it's yours, you can pull it home when you have time."

Just like that, in the process of the three of them chatting and discussing things, they finished their lunch, moved the meat back onto the horses' backs, and the three of them rode down the mountain.

On the way back, Wang An suddenly asked Seeing Mu Xueli:

"Xueli, does Old Xiao Pao know how to catch deer? Has Old Xiao Pao ever taught you the 'catching feet' trap they use to catch deer?"

The "catching feet" trap that Wang An mentioned, in terms of principle, can be considered something that combines a trap and a rabbit snare.

It's just that the trigger for this thing is the trigger principle of a trap, but what really plays a role in catching the prey is the rope snare.

As for the principle, it's also very simple.

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That is, to bend a small tree with very good elasticity and tie one end of the rope snare to the top of the tree.

At the same time, another rope must also be tied to the top of the tree, and the other end of this rope must be tied to a wooden stick; as for this wooden stick, it is actually the trigger mechanism.

Of course, this small wooden stick must also be wedged between two wooden stakes driven into the ground beforehand.

Finally, the rope snare is placed around the inner circle of these two stakes, and this "catching feet" trap is fully set up.

As long as this wooden stick is triggered, so that any end of the wooden stick is no longer wedged on the wooden stake, then this small tree that was bent will immediately lose its force and spring back rapidly.

As the small tree springs back, it will naturally tighten the rope snare, and then the animal's foot inside the rope snare will inevitably be bound by the rope snare, thereby achieving the purpose of catching live prey.

The reason Wang An wanted to study this, the simplest purpose, was actually to catch deer.

Although basically everyone understands the working principle of this "catching feet" trap, finding a suitable place to set it up is a very difficult task.

The main thing is that in these big mountains, to catch a live deer, it must be on the path that the deer herd must pass through, but in this season, who knows where the deer herd will walk every day?

But even if one finds it, ordinary people wouldn't dare to easily set up a "catching feet" trap, because animals like deer have very high vigilance in these big mountains; any disturbance or strange smell will make them change their path.

So wanting to catch deer is absolutely a job with very high technical content.

Seeing Mu Xueli thought for a moment upon hearing this and said:

"I'll go find him when I go back tonight, what do you want to catch, brother-in-law?"

Wang An said without thinking:

"Catch deer, other things can just be killed directly."

Just as Wang An was researching catching deer, in the room far away in the county seat where Shang Tianbao was locked up, something hair-raising was happening.

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