OBS Chapter 311 Tractor Driver (1)
Chapter 311 Tractor Driver (1)
On this day, whistles and gongs were heard in the village to call the villagers together.
After a few months, when Liu Jingxue heard this voice again, she even felt a little nostalgic.
Liu Jingxue muttered in her heart, "Captain, what are the villagers doing at this time? Are they preparing for spring ploughing?
But it shouldn’t be like that. Aunt Sufen said that construction wouldn’t start until mid-April, and it’s only early April now.”
"Hey, I'm really stupid. What am I thinking about here? If I go to the meeting, I'll know why the captain called everyone together."
After checking that there was no problem with her clothes, Liu Jingxue walked slowly towards the drying dam.
When she arrived at the drying dam, quite a few people had already gathered there.
Come to think of it, her home is at the end of the village, so she is usually the last one to be notified.
Although she was quick, she was no match for others who received the notice and set off before her.
Liu Jingxue did not deliberately squeeze in to find other educated youth, but stood outside waiting.
The villagers hadn't gathered together for a long time. Everyone was very excited and gathered together to chat about gossip.
Liu Jingxue used her spiritual sense to listen and found that they were basically talking about what happened at the educated youth point a few days ago.
Villagers would point at Wang Lihua from time to time and introduce the protagonist of the incident to others.
Not only Wang Lihua, but also the Liu family received a lot of attention.
The villagers were still looking for Jiang Yueyao among the Liu family, but Jiang Yueyao did not come to the meeting, so they had to give up.
Many villagers also gathered around the Liu family and asked them if they knew what Wang Lihua was doing with his young daughter-in-law, but they were told they didn't know.
Seeing that the villagers were almost there, the team leader took a loud speaker and started talking.
“I called everyone here today mainly for three things.
First, didn’t the commune promise us a quota for a tractor last year? I went to the commune yesterday and got the quota. We can buy it anytime.”
As soon as the captain finished speaking, the villagers below were in an uproar.
"Captain, can we really go buy a tractor?"
"The captain has said so, how can this be false?"
"That's great. No matter how other production teams laugh at us, we are now a team with tractors."
There was so much discussion below that the captain couldn't continue speaking.
He picked up the megaphone and shouted, "Everyone be quiet and listen to me."
The captain continued his speech only after the villagers quieted down.
“I went to the farm machinery station in town and inquired about buying a tractor.
The leader of the agricultural machinery station said that if we want to buy a tractor, our village must first send a few team members to the rural station to study for a few days.
The main thing is to learn how to drive a tractor, how to maintain and how to repair a tractor.
After learning, you have to take an assessment, and only after passing the assessment can you be issued a tractor driver's license.
We can only buy tractors if the production team has two members with tractor driving licenses.”
"The first purpose of this meeting is to tell everyone to nominate at least three team members and send them to the agricultural machinery station to study and obtain a tractor driver's license."
A villager below shouted first, "Captain, I sign up."
The captain glanced at him and said with disdain, "You idiot, forget it. You can't read a single word, why did you sign up?
You were just wasting the village's food."
After that, the captain added, "The leader of the agricultural machinery station said that if you want to get a tractor driver's license, the first thing you need to do is to be able to read.
Otherwise, I can’t understand the instruction manual and maintenance manual of the tractor.
If there is a problem in the future, we will go to the maintenance personnel at the agricultural machinery station, but they don’t have the time to go to the production teams every day.”
“So the person you nominate must at least graduate from elementary school, if not junior high school.
Don’t be too old and have a flexible mind.
Otherwise, the village would spend money to send him to study, but in the end he wouldn’t even pass the test and wouldn’t get a driver’s license, which would be a complete waste.”
The villagers below started talking about it, trying to figure out which young man in the production team met the requirements.
"Captain, according to these conditions, there are not many people in the village who meet the requirements.
Then the rest of us won't have a chance to learn how to drive a tractor?"
The captain said nothing, and Secretary Xu on the side added, "Don't worry, others will have the opportunity to learn to drive a tractor in the future.
At present, the most important thing for our production team is to get two smart people, who can study for a few days, pass the assessment at the agricultural machinery station, get tractor driving licenses, and buy tractors.
As for what to do in the future, that is still up to us.
There will be plenty of time by then, so let those who have learned it teach slowly.
I just don’t believe that the villagers in our village are so stupid that they can’t learn it in a few days, let alone a few months.”
When the villagers heard this, they realized it was true and stopped talking.
The villagers below began to talk about candidates, including the second son of the team leader, two other young men in the village, and Secretary Xu's youngest son.
Where the educated youth gathered together, the male educated youth also started discussing.
Tang Qiangjun suggested, "How about we sign up as well?
We are all educated youth from the city. When it comes to study and exam ability, we are not much better than the villagers.
If we can learn to drive a tractor, get a tractor driver's license, and be responsible for driving a tractor in the future, it will be much better than working in the fields."
"With such a good opportunity, the production team will definitely give priority to their own villagers. It won't be our turn." Zhang Pingan hesitated.
Fang Dong sneered, "If they don't let us sign up, I will report them to the higher-ups.
The organization has asked us to go to the countryside to build a new countryside, and learning to drive a tractor is exactly our strong point.
Why don’t they let us sign up?”
When the educated youth heard him say this, they all fell silent.
"Don't worry about it being a place to study at the agricultural machinery station. You don't have to do this," said Chen Guoqing.
Fang Dong still insisted, "If they don't allow me to sign up, do you think I will report it?"
Liu Jingxue had been covering the entire place with her spiritual sense, so she naturally heard what Fang Dong said.
She couldn't help but frown.
Fang Dong usually doesn't seem to talk much, but I didn't expect him to be this kind of person who reports people at every turn.
Suddenly I remembered that Fang Dong was the one who had hooked up with multiple young women in the village at the same time and was later discovered. It was normal for him to be hostile to the production team.
But it was clearly his own fault, but instead of looking for the cause in himself, he blamed others.
At this time, Fang Dong shouted from below, "Captain, you said before that you treat villagers and educated youth equally, so we educated youth should be able to sign up to learn how to drive a tractor, right?"
The team leader and Secretary Xu looked at each other, and some of the educated youth were actually moved.
Although they said that they treated the villagers and the educated youth equally, in their hearts they still wanted to put the blame on the villagers.
Everyone is selfish, and it is understandable that they favor the villagers of their own village.
But they also knew that they couldn't make their thoughts public.
However, since they had thought of this possibility before, they naturally had a way to deal with it.