After a few seconds of silence, the villagers started talking:
"Which girl is this from? She's so capable!"
"I take back what I just said. She is not here to cause trouble. She is really here to help us steal seeds."
"Yes, according to this progress, my family will be able to fertilize the fields tomorrow."
"I'll be able to put water in my house and plant rice seedlings in two days."
Several other tractor veterans: "..."
Hey hey hey! Don't count our progress! We can't plow so fast!
After the old master asked Xu Yin's opinion, he cheerfully said to them:
"How about you discuss it with her and let her do the plowing. She doesn't want any money or votes. Just give her the quota of two kilograms of pork. After that, you can lend her the tractor for two days."
The veteran tractor owner thought about it and felt that this business could be done.
At Xu Yin's speed, it would take no more than the originally planned ten days or three or four days to complete the project.
If I lend her the tractor for two days, I can go back two or three days early, and my income will not decrease... No! If I go back early, I may be able to earn some extra money, and my income may increase!
And the price is just two pounds of pork quota, where can I find such a good thing?
"make a deal!"
…
In the dog days of summer, the cicadas are chirping, the sun is shining brightly, and the earth's surface is as hot as a steamer.
Xu's mother packed up and went to the fields to deliver water. On the way, she met a village woman who was also delivering water to her family.
"Aunt Jinhua, your family is on summer vacation, right? Why haven't you seen her?"
The person asking the question was Li Laogen's daughter-in-law. She and Li Qiaohong were neighbors. When chatting with each other, Li Qiaohong often talked about the little girl of Lao Xu's family. She was a 17 or 18-year-old girl who never cared about her family and didn't help her family with farm work.
Work.
How could Mother Xu not hear the sarcasm in her words? She picked up the basket and said, "Whether our family has summer vacation or not, it's none of your business whether you're at home or not? You'll have enough to eat!"
"You!" The little wife's cheeks turned red with anger.
"Okay, maybe I have to take the college entrance examination next year, so I'm studying in hiding!"
The village woman on the side saw this and hurriedly tried to smooth things over.
"Aunt Jinhua, how is your rice harvest going? My dad has been very worried these past two days. It was sunny a while ago, and it has been a bit windy and rainy these days. The millet hasn't even dried yet.
The ground hasn't been plowed yet. What will happen if it rains?"
"No!" Speaking of this, Xu's mother couldn't help but worry.
"My rice harvest is almost done. I can finish plowing it today. I don't know what day it will take to plow the fields. There are only a few oxen in the team. It will probably take three to five days for our family to finish plowing every day."
We still need to fertilize the fields and release water. I don’t know if it will be too late. I hope God will bless me and the rain will not fall until the water is released..."
Just as he was talking, the sound of a tractor's motor came from the entrance to the village.
Everyone turned around and looked.
"Is it the tractor from the brigade? Come to help us plow the fields?"
"No way, I heard from my family that the tractors from the brigade recently went to the county to transport bricks to earn extra money and they haven't returned yet."
"Then this is..."
While talking, the tractor drove closer.
Xu Yin stuck her head out and waved to Xu's mother: "Mom, can I do it? I borrowed a tractor for our family. After harvesting the rice, we can plow the land immediately."
"..."
Xu's mother was a little confused: "Did you borrow it?"
"No!" Xu Yin said with a stern expression, "I helped the master of the farm plow the land for three days. In return, they promised to lend me a plow for two days for free, but we have to pay for the diesel fuel ourselves. Mom.
Don’t think I’m a prodigal.”
"It's okay, it's okay!" Xu's mother was too happy. With the help of her daughter, she climbed into the passenger seat of the tractor, and her daughter drove towards her own field.
Xu Yin also gave Xu's mother the coupon for purchasing meat inside the farm that the masters had given her, which could buy eight kilograms of meat.
Xu's mother's eyebrows were so happy that she said, "My daughter is very capable!"
Then she didn't know what she thought of. She turned around and glared at Li Laogen's daughter-in-law, who was still standing there dumbly, and shouted:
"Aren't some people curious about what my daughter is doing during the holidays? Do you know now? Humph!"
Li Laogen's youngest daughter-in-law was annoyed and ashamed, stamping her feet: "What are you showing off by being stinky!"
The village women nearby had no time to pay attention to her. They were thinking about what Xu Yin had just said: The tractor on this farm would be borrowed from her house for two days. The little land in the old Xu family would not be used for two days. If...
They looked at each other and hurried to the end of the field.
"Hey, you guys..."
When Li Laogen's daughter-in-law saw them walking away without looking back, she kicked the pebbles in anger.
The field of Lao Xu's house was now crowded with people, all coming to see the tractor.
"Old Xu, your daughter is like this!"
The old man in the field next door gave Father Xu a thumbs up.
Father Xu was so happy that he almost couldn't find the answer. He rubbed his hands and laughed: "She made it herself."
Some people also gathered around Xu’s mother to inquire about the tractor’s origin. When they heard that the farm lent it to them, they became excited:
"Jinhua, it only takes half a day to plow your land. Can you lend it to my family later?"
"Use it? Does your family know how to use this thing?"
Xu's mother immediately got the idea.
"This... should Yinyin still come? Should we pay for it or provide food?"
The work of plowing is really tiring, and the tractor plows deeply, and the soil turned up is darker and more fertile. Therefore, most people would rather pay some money or food to hire a tractor to plow.
If the brigade didn't have a tractor and went out to earn extra money, they would have queued up long ago.
"Okay, I'll talk to Yinyin."
Xu's mother reluctantly agreed.
In fact, this is exactly what Xu Yin proposed.
She helped the farm master plow the land for three days. Not only did she unlock the [intermediate driving skill] and earn a bunch of energy points, but she also received a popular "little potato" civilian car in the early 1980s as a reward.
It's a pity that it burns gasoline.
But then she thought that after unlocking the riding skills, she was rewarded with an electric bicycle that converts solar energy into electricity. Then, no matter how hard she worked, she could still drive an electric car despite her imperfect driving skills.
Thinking of this, Xu Yin felt so hot that she wished she could plow the entire village's fields.
The next morning, she spent two hours plowing her field, rode a small electric donkey to the farm, and came back with three kilograms of meat.
Xu's mother was in a good mood and cooked everything, including two kilograms of braised pork and one kilogram of steamed pork with pickled vegetables. She asked the relatives who had helped in the previous two days to make a hearty meal, and also gave the family a large watermelon.
After that, Xu Yin began to plow the villagers' fields.
Xu’s mother repeatedly told her not to be too tired:
"Not to mention that your speed is much faster than that of an ox. Even if the tractors from the brigade are skilled, they can't plow you. Just take a break when you get tired in the middle. We are not arguing about anything, so we don't have to work so hard."
"Mom, don't worry, I'll take care of it."
Having said that, she still worked hard for "s", and even broke several records, and her energy points were doubled many times. She was so happy that she almost jumped on the tractor head to dance.