The rejuvenation of a great nation: from educated youth to national treasure scientist

Chapter 24 Urgent emergency

Xiao Lijuan was a little curious: "Could it be that you have been worried about something before?"

Wang Haoran said: "I'm worried that your parents will object to us being together."

Xiao Lijuan bit her lip, looked at Wang Haoran and asked softly, "Then, what will you do if my parents object?"

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "As long as you don't object, then I don't care."

"If they object, I firmly believe that I can change their attitude sooner or later."

Xiao Lijuan held his hand and put it against her face.

She said sweetly: "My parents are quite open-minded. They won't interfere in my life-long affairs."

"Well! It's useless even if they object!"

"Don't let anyone think of separating you and me! I'm committed to you for the rest of my life."

The two were hugging each other and talking when Li Jieshi hurried over.

"Hey! I didn't see anything."

Li Jieshi covered his eyes with one hand and said with a smile.

The two of them hurriedly separated. Wang Haoran coughed and said, "Uncle Jieshi, what's the matter?"

Li Jieshi took out his pipe and stuffed the pipe bowl into his tobacco pouch. He held back and said, "The higher-ups have notified us that there is a high probability of heavy rain the day after tomorrow."

"This is terrible! One third of the wheat in our village has not yet been harvested."

"Haoran, the wheat harvester you made yesterday is very useful. Can you get another one so we can speed up the harvesting?"

"The wheat is ripe. If it is cloudy for a long time, the wheat will sprout on the ears."

Wang Haoran said, "This is easy to do. I will go to the Mafang Machinery Factory right away and get another one for us."

Li Jieshi finally filled his pipe with tobacco, took two puffs, and said with a bitter face, "The tractor you borrowed from the agricultural machinery station yesterday has been taken back."

"Well, our team only has one tractor, and we are currently using the mounted harvester we used yesterday to operate it."

"What I mean is: can you get another tractor? You are a famous person now, and you have a lot of face..."

Wang Haoran laughed. It turned out that he not only wanted to borrow vinegar, but also crabs.

"Uncle, everyone is busy harvesting wheat. I guess the tractors at the agricultural machinery station are busy now."

"Let me give it a try."

Li Jieshi nodded repeatedly and said, "Thank you for your help. How about I ask our village's tractor driver Li Gang to go with you?"

Wang Haoran thought to himself, you're putting too much pressure on me.

But he couldn't refuse.

"That's fine, let Uncle Gang go with me. But first, let me make it clear that if you can't borrow a tractor, don't blame me."

Li Jieshi smiled and said, "Why would I blame you?"

"Haoran, you have helped us a lot."

"Yesterday, our village harvested more than 400 acres of wheat."

Li Gang rode the team's bicycle to the commune with Wang Haoran.

Because he was in a hurry, Li Gang pedaled his bicycle so hard that it almost flew up.

Wang Haoran was sitting in the back seat and his butt was almost broken into pieces by the shaking.

The road is very bad now.

Along the way, the fields were full of busy people.

During the wheat harvest season, members basically have to work more than ten hours a day.

Some people are responsible for harvesting the wheat, while others are responsible for pulling the wheat to the threshing ground.

Women were busy picking up wheat ears from the fields, while others were drying them in the drying yard.

The wheat that has been dried is threshed with stone rollers pulled by livestock.

Using animals to thresh the grain was too slow. It often took a whole afternoon to thresh it almost completely.

After threshing, the wheat straw needs to be picked out, and then the wheat grains need to be winnowed to separate the impurities.

In short, in this era, the degree of mechanization is low, and the busy farming season is really busy and tiring.

Because the weather forecast says there will be heavy rain tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the members are rushing to harvest frantically.

It's been a busy season, and we can't let God ruin it.

We soon arrived at the commune.

Wang Haoran first went to the commune’s agricultural machinery station to ask.

The people at the agricultural machinery station told him that a large-scale wheat harvest was underway and all the vehicles at the station had gone out to participate in the campaign.

Dong Fei, the person in charge of the agricultural machinery station, told Wang Haoran that the mounted wheat harvester Wang Haoran had developed two days ago was very easy to use and the Mafang Machinery Factory was now desperately producing this type of wheat harvester to supply the entire rural areas of Beijing.

The production of this machine has also been authorized to other machinery factories, and has begun to be promoted in wheat-producing areas outside Beijing.

Li Gang was anxious: "Since it is a big harvest battle, when will it be our village's turn?"

Dong Fei said: "Comrade Li Gang, don't worry, the wheat harvest rate in your village is very high, we will move forward quickly."

"Now, with more than ten harvesters working together, it only takes two or three hours to harvest all the wheat in a village."

Li Gang was a little disappointed, but there was nothing he could do.

At this time, Wang Haoran already had another idea: Can he produce a human-powered harvester?
He immediately had a design in his mind.

According to his idea, this human-powered harvester can harvest wheat three times at a time.

The cut wheat was quickly transferred to the right side and placed there waiting to be bundled and transported away.

With a machine like this, it only takes more than twenty minutes to harvest an acre of wheat.

Although it is much slower than a tractor-mounted harvester, it is much faster than harvesting wheat with a sickle alone.

Using a sickle to harvest wheat, even if a strong laborer worked eleven or twelve hours a day, he could probably only harvest a few acres of wheat at most.

After leaving the agricultural machinery station, Li Gang had a sad face and felt a little heavy.

"Haoran, then you go to the factory by yourself. I have to rush back to the team to harvest wheat." Li Gang said.

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "Uncle Gang, I have come up with a new design for a human-powered wheat harvester. I will go back to the factory to try it out and see if it works well. Do you want to wait and see?"

Li Gang's eyes widened: "Oh? A human-powered harvester?"

Wang Haoran nodded: "That's right! One person pushes the reaper to harvest the wheat. Three reapers can be harvested at a time. The harvested wheat is pushed to the right side and laid neatly on the ground for easy bundling."

"This machine can be operated by a strong laborer and can mow one acre of land in 20 minutes."

Li Gang immediately became interested: "It sounds good."

"Okay, I'll go to the machinery factory with you."

"Once the product is made, it must be shipped to our team for testing first, okay?"

Wang Haoran nodded and said, "No problem."

Li Gang drove Wang Haoran to Mafang Machinery Factory.

After two days of intensive production, the mounted harvester designed by Wang Haoran was almost saturated.

The production pressure in the factory is obviously not that great.

Wang Haoran went to see the factory manager Dai Hongtao and explained his design for the human-powered wheat harvester.

(End of this chapter)