Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 1014 Buying Materials to Make a Footprint

Seeing Wang An was about to leave, Mu Hua immediately tried to stop him, saying:
"Then let's eat first, it's almost time for dinner, why are you in such a hurry?"

Liu Ruxin also echoed:
"Yeah, well, we've finally come here, so let's just eat before we leave."

Wang An turned the car around and said:

"No, I have to go to the countryside."

After saying this, Wang An rode his sidecar again.

Wang An went to the village to buy hinges and nails.

The wooden footrest that Feng Chengmin used to connect the two doors and the door frame was not a hinge, but a piece of wire.

Not only does it look flimsy, it is also difficult to make, because to make a wooden board to catch the deer's feet, you have to drill two holes on the edge of the door, and you have to bend the wire to the right angle, otherwise the two doors will get stuck together and the deer's hooves won't be able to hold them.

Therefore, Wang An planned to use real hinges instead. Although this would require a large investment, Wang An was not short of money. Besides, as long as he could catch the sika deer, all the investment would be worth it.

Soon, Wang An arrived at the village supply and marketing cooperative.

This kind of small hinge is packed in a paper box, 100 pieces in a box, and Wang An directly bought 31 boxes.

31 boxes means 1550 feet.

The reason there was an extra box was that the village supply and marketing cooperative only had so many hinges, so Wang An bought them all.

After buying the hinges, Wang An originally planned to buy some rubber bands that were commonly used for tying hair in later generations. Unfortunately, the supply and marketing cooperative did not have them at that time. In desperation, Wang An bought a few bicycle inner tubes.

However, after taking the bicycle inner tube home, you still have to cut it into rubber rings.

After buying these, Wang An bought another 10 kilograms of 2-centimeter-long short nails, 5 Classic Ice City and 20 Changbai Mountain, and then rode his sidecar home.

Wang An bought the Classic Ice City for himself, and the Changbai Mountain for Wang Dazhu.

If Wang An smoked Classic Ice City himself but let Wang Dazhu smoke Changbai Mountain, it was not because Wang An was unfilial. It was mainly because Wang Dazhu was proud of Changbai Mountain, saying that Changbai Mountain was durable and strong.

When Wang An got home, Wang Li and Li Xiu Yu had already returned home.

Wang An hurriedly finished his lunch and without waiting for Feng Chengmin and the others to come over, he connected the circular saw and the walk-behind tractor together with a belt and started working on his own.

When Wang Dazhu heard the sound of the hand tractor, he took the initiative to come over and shouted:

"What do you want to do with all these wooden boards?"

In this situation, you have to shout, because the noise made by the walk-behind tractor when it is running is very loud, and the noise made by the circular saw when it breaks wood is also quite loud. Under this double noise, you can't hear what others are saying if you don't shout.

Wang An shouted loudly without even raising his head:
"I'm going to catch a sika deer and make some planks to catch its feet."

Wang Dazhu nodded and began to help silently.

I have to say that working with a circular saw is really fast. With the sound of "sizzling", suitable pieces of wood are sawed out.

Just when Wang Dazhu and Wang An were busy, Wang Li came over with Li Xiu Yu.

Immediately afterwards, Feng Chengmin and Mu Xueli also came over on horseback.

Wang An and Wang Dazhu were busy sawing wood boards and didn't bother to greet them, so the three of them started talking nearby.

Mu Xueli looked at Wang Dazhu and Wang An who were busy working, and asked Wang Li:

"Old Five, my brother-in-law sawed those small wooden boards. What is he going to do with them?"

Wang Li said in bewilderment: "My fourth brother didn't tell me. I heard the sound of the circular saw and came over to take a look. By the way, I asked my fourth brother what he wanted to do with the deer."

Mu Xueli blinked her eyes in doubt and said:
"Those deer? What kind of deer? Sika deer?"

Wang Li nodded and said:

"Yes, it's a herd of sika deer. Xiuyu's brother is watching them. Come over and tell us."

Feng Chengmin heard the conversation between the two and suddenly interrupted:
"Xiao An asked you two to come here to make wooden planks to catch feet. He said he wanted to catch those deer back."

Mu Xueli frowned and said:

"I know about foot catching, but what is wooden foot catching? I don't know how to make that thing. I have never even heard of it."

As soon as Mu Xueli finished speaking, Wang Li said:
“I haven’t heard of it either.”

After Feng Chengmin scanned the area, he found the wooden foot catcher that Wang An had brought back from his home next to the pile of wooden boards. He picked it up and said to Mu Xueli and Wang Li:
"That's it. You two should study it first."

After a while, Wang An handed the work to Wang Dazhu, then walked over to Feng Chengmin and said:
"It's a bit difficult for me to dig a round hole in the wood, so let's just nail the wood to make a frame."

As he spoke, Wang An took the nails, hammer and hinges and demonstrated it himself.

Because Wang An had already cut all the wooden boards, it took him less than 2 minutes to make a brand new wooden footrest.

After Feng Chengmin picked it up and studied it carefully, he praised Wang An with a smile on his face:

"You're good at this. This is much better than what they made."

Wang An said with a smile:

"Of course. A small hinge like this costs a little over a cent. If you add in the nails and the oil used in the tractor, it would cost at least three or four cents to make this one, hahahaha."

Feng Chengmin looked at the more than 30 boxes of hinges, then at the bag of nails, blinked and said:
"Then your cost is a bit high. Before you even catch the deer, you've already lost 60 or 70 yuan."

Wang An smacked his lips and said nonchalantly:

"Yeah, the cost is really not low. That's how it works. If you don't sacrifice the lamb, you can't catch the wolf. If you catch a few more deer, you can get everything back."

Feng Chengmin nodded and said:
"But that's what happened."

Wang An turned to Mu Xueli and Wang Li who were studying the wooden plank and said:

"Don't study that for now, just follow this. Be careful and try to finish it today so you can use it tomorrow."

After the two of them studied the foot-catching device made by Wang An, Wang An, Feng Chengmin, Mu Xueli and Wang Li started to make the wooden board foot-catching device.

As for Wang Dazhu, he was still sawing wooden boards with a circular saw.

An hour later, Wang An discovered that the four of them had only made about 1550 or wooden boards to catch their feet. This number was quite far from .

The main thing is that if we continue at this pace, we won’t be able to finish it in this afternoon.

So Wang An said to Wang Li:
"Old Five, go into the house and call out your old aunt and Xiuyu. Have them come out with hammers. Then go back home and call your father and mother as well."

Wang Li nodded in agreement, turned around and ran into the house.

Turning around, Wang An saw Zhao Cuiyun walking in from outside the yard.

(End of this chapter)