Chapter Ninety-Three: 'Rice Threshing Machine'
In the endless field, under a seven- or eight-meter-high rice stack, more than 20 men and women are busy preparing for threshing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info level the site, install the 'rice beater', and pack up the bags. The few people who were left unemployed sat on the sidelines chatting and chatting, waiting for the machine to start working for a while.
"Old Ma, have you finished harvesting your rice?" several men sat on the ridges of the fields, smoking and chatting, and one of them, a man in an old-fashioned green cottage military uniform, asked Ma Hongguo. This kind of military uniform, which was quite popular in the sixties and seventies, is a bit like the style of a tunic with four pockets in front, representing the traditional concept of 'etiquette, righteousness and shame' of the Chinese people.
Ma Hongguo took a puff of cigarette and nodded, "Well, it's been a few days, and I'll play tomorrow." ”
Liang Yongshen on the side smiled and said to the man in the green military uniform: "Lao Ma and his family have made a fortune this year, you see that this is a mobile phone and a motorcycle, I can't say that one day the car will drive back, the rice is hired to cut, and I didn't do it myself, hahaha." "The two families are neighbors, Liang Yongshen still knows a little about the situation of Ma Xiaodong's family, a few days ago, Yu Xiaoyu came to transport mushrooms, and he was among the people who helped.
Ma Xiaodong's money-making business, the whole village knows, the man on the side said with a smile: "Yes, old Ma, do you have to invite everyone to have a drink when you make money?"
"Yes, if you don't drink alcohol, you have to buy a good box of cigarettes for everyone to try. "Everyone followed suit.
"Tomorrow I will go to your house to play, you have to prepare some good wine and food, otherwise everyone will not be happy!"
Ma Hongguo listened to the ridicule of the villagers with a smile, although he knew that the big guy was not necessarily serious, but the rural people paid attention to face, so he waved his bold hand: "Okay, you all come tomorrow, and ensure good wine, good food and good smoke." ”
"Hahaha, big money is refreshing!" Now rich people are called big money, and later called local tyrants.
"That's right, we'll have a good tomorrow. "Big guy talking and laughing, most of the time is around Ma Hongguo boasting, after people have money, the aura will become different, will be more confident, the people next to you will naturally look at you differently, unconsciously will respect, these are inevitable, or there are always some rich people, saying that they have no true friends, the people around them will unconsciously be in awe of each other, and they will be estranged invisibly.
"Old horse, take out your phone and take a look, we haven't seen this thing. A man in a leather jacket said, saying that it was a leather jacket, but in fact, it was also a copycat, a piece of clothing, half of the outer layer of leather had fallen off, and it looked tattered, but the fight was a dirty job, and no one would put on good clothes.
When Ma Hongguo heard this, he hesitated, obviously a little reluctant, but he still took it out and handed it to the man who spoke, "Don't press it blindly, if you go abroad, the phone bill will be old money." "This mobile phone was brought back from the city when my son came back the day before yesterday. Although he has been coveting his son's mobile phone for a long time, when he saw his son buy 3 together, he still had the urge to beat the bear child's ass.
But before he could do it, his daughter-in-law did it, picked up a broom and pimples, and jumped at home. My stupid girl was happy to watch the excitement, and she got a mobile phone for nothing, but she never closed her mouth.
In the end, these 3 mobile phones were left, because even if they wanted to return, they couldn't return it, they didn't know where to buy it, in fact, Ma Xiaodong was also quite wronged, I wanted to surprise my family, how did I know that I was beaten, although I was beaten a few times, but this thing is embarrassing and embarrassing.
"Hey, this thing, it's the same as what it plays on TV, Lao Ma, how can I charge for calling this thing?" The rural man who saw the mobile phone for the first time carefully held it in his hand, a few thousand yuan of things, the thing was broken, not to mention that he couldn't afford to pay for it, but a year was in vain.
"It costs five cents a minute. For a month, even if you don't call, you have to pay 30 yuan, which is called monthly rent. Although he likes mobile phones very much, the monthly rent of 30 yuan a month is really distressing, with a total of 4 mobile phones, and the monthly rent is 120 yuan per month.
When the people next to him heard this, their eyes widened, and Liang Yongshen was even more dumbfounded: "You have 4 mobile phones, isn't that just doing nothing, and you have to take out 120 yuan a month?" 120 a month, 12 months a year is 1440 yuan, this is definitely not a small amount, enough for ordinary people to earn in two or three months, an absolute tyrant.
"It's not good, the bear child bought it behind our backs, if you know, you can't buy anything" For his son to buy a mobile phone, he is still entangled in his heart.
"Knock knock!" suddenly sounded next to the sound of the tractor starting, which immediately drowned out the voice of the big guy, and the deafening noise could be heard for several miles.
"Let's go, get ready to begin!" At this time, when he spoke again, he shouted loudly, otherwise he would not have heard it at all.
Several people came to the 'rice threshing machine', although the labor is helping, but this 'rice threshing machine' is hired, the owner of the machine is also from the village, after beating the rice, harvesting a few bags, are calculated according to the bag, generally two yuan per bag.
'The rice threshing machine is a very simple and cumbersome mechanical device that is driven by a tractor with a belt. The whole rice threshing machine is rectangular, a semi-circular lid on the top is half covered, and the inside is a big iron roller that seems to be a mace, after the machine is driven, the big iron roller will rotate rapidly, and when everyone stuffs the rice bundle inside, the rice grains will be knocked off by the big iron roller, and are caught by a dustpan like a swaying basket below, and after a layer of filtration, the rice grains will be dangled out from the front little by little.
Now that the tractor has been started, all that remains is to link the high-speed tractor with a belt between the 'rice threshing machine'. It's a very dangerous job, and if you're not careful, you'll get your hands into it. After all, it is very difficult to put a belt on the wheel in high-speed operation, the belt is tight, it can't be tightened, it can't be tightened, it can't be loosened, and the rice threshing machine can't be brought up.
In fact, according to the regular mode of operation, it should be put on the belt when the tractor is stationary, so that there is no danger, but now the tractors are all hand-cranked, put on the belt, connect to the rice threshing machine, no one can shake it at all, so it can only be lassoed 'rice threshing machine' in the high-speed running tractor.