Chen Fan had seen that saddle a long time ago, and Secretary Yang said that there was a saddle in the treasury a month ago, so let Chen Fan see if it could be repaired.

It's just that there was a lack of materials for restoration at that time, so it was not moved, and it remained in the warehouse until today, and it was turned out again.

Lin Yuanxiang took the saddle and looked through it, "The leather is useless, it has to be stripped off, fortunately, the saddle bone is not broken, but it is slightly deformed, but it doesn't have much impact." ”

Chen Fan looked at the saddle bone, frowned and said, "It's already like this, it's better to make a new one." ”

The saddle bone is made of wood, and he is a qualified carpenter, so of course he can see that the wood chips of this saddle have been somewhat decayed, but because the wood is of good material, it doesn't look like a big problem.

There are no major problems, but there are many small problems, and if you use it like this, at most a year, this saddle will fall apart.

From 45 years to now, there have been 32 years.

Lin Yuanxiang looked at him in surprise, "You can make a saddle?" ”

Xiao Liewen also said to Chen Fan, "The saddle bone is different from ordinary carpentry skills, if you want to make the wood chips look like two ends, can you do it?" ”

Chen Fan smiled, "Try it, it is best to succeed, if it doesn't work, just use this to change it." ”

After seeing the structure of this saddle, he also had some ideas in his heart, the main structure of the saddle is not complicated, that is, to make a skeleton, cover the surface of the skeleton with a layer of leather, to ensure that it will not hurt the horse's skin, and at the same time stuff a soft padding between the skeleton and the leather, which is more comfortable to ride.

This saddle is stuffed with animal hair, but unfortunately it is difficult to buy a sponge now, otherwise it is easiest to get a sponge. It was not until the early 80s that there were factories in China that began to produce artificial sponges on a large scale, and now they are basically natural sponges, and they are mainly used for military products.

People want to make diapers of this material and send astronauts to the sky, but we are still using palm fiber and cotton wool mats, and the gap is indeed a bit big.

Lin Yuanxiang saw that Chen Fan seemed to be quite confident, so he followed him and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll see how your craftsmanship is." ”

After a pause, he joked again, "Don't do it for half a year, I can't wait that long." ”

Xiao Liewen also said with a smile on the side, "Or like the people in the transport team, get a saddle with a wooden frame, that thing is used to pull the cart, but it is not convenient to ride for a long time, and it is not good for the horse." ”

Chen Fan laughed and said, "I'm not so confused, it's better to get a wooden shelf, it's better to get a few pieces of leather to make a padded saddle." ”

The upholstered saddle has no skeleton, that is, a few pieces of leather are fixed on the horse's back, and before Yang Zhijun and Li Zhengqun made a piece of felt tied to the horse's back, which is the most primitive padded saddle.

Seeing that Chen Fan was so confident, the two asked him to take the saddle away and come out as a new saddle.

……

Chen Fan carried the saddle to the radio room, and at this time Zhang Cui'e had already begun to broadcast the broadcast, and she herself was holding the book and reading hard.

Hearing the movement, Zhang Cui'e first turned around and looked, and when she saw that it was Chen Fan, she immediately got up and shouted "teacher", and went to make tea at the same time.

Chen Fan put the saddle on the table, pulled over the chair and sat aside, looked at her books, and asked, "Did you have any difficulties in studying yesterday?" ”

pulled Zhang Cui'e over to give him a post, but he didn't forget to train her to continue studying. Chen Fan's study plan for her is to learn radio courses in the morning, mainly listening, speaking, reading and writing and reading comprehension, and in the afternoon, she will continue to study middle school textbooks, and in the evening, she will arrange it by herself.

Hearing Chen Fan's words, Zhang Cui'e put the water cup on the table next to him, and said with a smile, "Not yet, I remember all the knowledge you told me once, so there is no difficulty at all when reviewing." ”

When she said this, her eyes were shining, "Teacher, you are really amazing, I have consulted others before, but you are not as thorough as you, it takes several times to understand them, but I can understand if you only speak once." ”

Chen Fan snorted, "Oh, don't say that, I'm just talking about it casually, in the final analysis, it's still your foundation that is solid." ”

Zhang Cui'e smiled, "You also helped me lay the foundation." ”

She is not flattering when she says this, her knowledge basically comes from self-study, after learning the primary school curriculum, when she studied junior high school by herself, she never got the essentials, since she followed Chen Fan this year, first under his guidance, she re-learned the primary school knowledge, and then went to learn the middle school knowledge, there was a feeling of doing it in one go, and it was not difficult to learn at all.

In the face of this kind of praise, Mr. Chen has long been accustomed to it, he laughed twice, and said, "From today onwards, each team will plant seedlings, just Secretary Yang and Captain Zhang gave me the task to write a few reports on rice planting, the opportunity is rare, why don't you try to write it." ”

When Zhang Cui'e heard this, she suddenly became a little numb, and her eyes flashed and said, "Me? I can't, I've been ...... before."

Without waiting for her to finish speaking, Chen Fan waved his hand and said, "How can you say no, if you haven't tried?" You forgot what I taught you, how to analyze a text, how to do reading comprehension? All essays have a fixed framework, what is the central idea, on this basis, and then look for his writing method, you can use it as a reading comprehension method, and use it in reverse, write an essay to try. ”

After a pause, he added, "No matter whether it is well written, whether it can be adopted by the commune, the county, or even the prefectural committee, don't think about these questions now, your only task is to write a good report." Don't think about flowery rhetoric at the beginning, get the meaning out first, and then slowly revise it. However, it is necessary to be fast, and the rice planting will only take a few days, and if it is delayed for too long, it will lose the timeliness of the communication report. ”

He pondered for two seconds and raised two fingers, "Just two days, by tomorrow afternoon, before you get off work, you give me the article." ”

Zhang Cui'e's face was full of confusion, but she didn't dare to say no, so she could only respond with a bitter face, "Oh." ”

Chen Fan stood up and said with a smile, "Take out your courage to not be afraid of heaven and earth, isn't it just an article, isn't it more difficult than repairing electrical appliances?" ”

Zhang Cui'e squeezed out a little smile, "Then I'm still willing to repair electrical appliances." ”

Chen Fan pointed at her angrily, "Breath." ”

After saying that, he picked up the saddle and went to the next reference room.

Remove the saddle first and carefully observe the structure of the saddle bone. This is the most typical saddle of war horses, with mud blocks, belly straps, front and rear saddle bridges, saddle wings, iron rings for hanging sabers, and so on.

The war horse saddle in later film and television works, whether ancient or modern dramas, is actually basically a light saddle for riding, with a lot of less functions, and only a very few high-quality movies will copy this complex war horse saddle.

However, Chen Fan is not going to fight, riding is the main purpose, not to mention that the purpose of the war horse saddle is to facilitate combat, and it is not very friendly to riders and war horses, so some structures can be removed, and a light saddle can be made again.

Comparing this saddle, combined with the impression of various saddles in his memory, Chen Fan decided to design a saddle himself.

At this moment, veterinarian, butcher, carpentry, tailoring, blacksmithing and other skills are all activated. The mare's body structure, physiological characteristics, wood material, shape, sewing and so on came to his mind.

After a while, I had a plan in my heart, so I took out a stack of blank paper to draw a design drawing.

The pencil rattled on the paper, and in a few moments, the patterns from the saddle bone to the whole appeared on the paper.

Next, he had to turn the drawings into real objects.

A pile of garbage was packed, and the drawings were stuffed into a cloth bag,...... Seeing the cloth bag, Chen Fan couldn't help but sigh again, he originally wanted to make a crocodile leather backpack, but now it is in the soup again.

When I went out with my things and passed by the broadcasting room, I found Zhang Cui'e biting the tip of her pen.

Poor child, write slowly, if you want to succeed, hard work is a necessary process, unless you have a good father.

Coming out of the backyard, only Xiao Liewen and Lin Yuanxiang were talking in front, Duoduo and Qiuqiu were training under Lin Yuanxiang's command, and when they saw Chen Fan coming, they immediately looked at him.

Chen Fan said a few times at them, "Train obediently, go home and give you food." ”

The two puppies' eyes lit up at once, and they jumped happily.

Lin Yuanxiang glanced at Chen Fan with a strange face, "Sometimes I really want to recommend you to train military dogs, but dogs are too obedient to you." ”

Xiao Liewen was taken aback, "Don't! ”

Lin Yuanxiang glanced at him, "I'll just tell you, I really want to recommend it, and I'm not going to train military dogs." ”

Without waiting for Xiao Liewen to speak, Chen Fan smiled and said, "I don't want to go if you recommend me, I raise a dog for fun, and I really have to deal with dogs all day long, I can't stand it." Besides, I don't know anything about dog taming, so it's better not to join in the fun. ”

Lin Yuanxiang nodded, "That's right." ”

Then he looked at Duoduo and Qiuqiu, and said thoughtfully, "But these two dogs have the potential to be military dogs." ”

Chen Fan's face was speechless, what kind of person is this?

Xiao Liewen doesn't care about the two dogs, in his opinion, as long as he doesn't get Chen Fan away now.

He looked at the pile of garbage in Chen Fan's hand, "What are you doing here?" ”

Chen Fan turned his head and said, "Oh, throw this away first, and then find some wood to make a saddle." ”

Xiao Liewen looked at him, "When will the article be written?" ”

Chen Fan said with a smile, "Don't worry, writing a few articles is not a matter of hand-to-hand capture, and it has not taken time to collect wind and paint." ”

Xiao Liewen was about to speak, when there was a bicycle bell outside, and then someone shouted, "Receive the letter." Is Mr. Chen writing articles again? ”

When the three of them heard the commotion, they immediately walked to the door.

The next second, the postman's car stopped firmly at the gate of the courtyard.

When he saw Chen Fan and the three of them coming, he laughed and said, "Mr. Chen, you have a letter from the magazine, and it looks like a sample issue, so it should be that your article has been adopted." ”

(End of chapter)