60s: I have a store

Chapter 155 Wild Boar Enters the Village
"Don't worry, when the village becomes rich, we will also buy tractors," Zhou Yimin told them.

The old Party secretary heard this but didn't pour cold water on the idea. He just complained in his heart: "No matter how rich you are, you don't need to buy a tractor, right? There are only a few of those in the commune."

Can they use it in Zhoujiazhuang?

Besides, that thing is probably very expensive! Even if you don’t have any money, you may not be able to buy it.

However, Zhou Yimin was not joking or making empty promises.

When Zhoujiazhuang's vegetables and poultry are sold for enough money, we will buy a tractor. Without a car in the village, it is inconvenient to do anything.

Building such a good road also paves the way for buying and driving a car.

He estimates that by next year at the latest, Zhoujiazhuang will be able to buy a tractor of its own.

"Who will open it then?" The young man did not question Zhou Yimin's words.

Others, even if it was the old branch secretary who said this, would just treat it as empty talk. After all, it was a tractor, not a bicycle!

But when these words came out of Zhou Yimin's mouth, their credibility was infinitely increased.

So far, it seems that what Zhou Yimin has said has never disappointed everyone.

In this case, if there really is a tractor belonging to Zhoujiazhuang, who will drive it? Everyone wants to be the driver!

"If you want to open it, just learn it! Whoever wants to learn it can open it. Besides, it's ok to take turns to open it. Everyone just wants to have fun." Zhou Yimin said casually.

As soon as these words were spoken, all the young people present were moved.

Zhou Yimin wanted to get a motorcycle, but riding a bicycle was too tiring. He didn't know if it was easy to get one, and he needed a legitimate reason to drive it. Otherwise, it would be too conspicuous and not a good thing.

The best would be if it was donated by an organization like a steel plant or an instant noodle factory.

Then, you don’t have to worry about others checking.

Although motorcycles from the 60s are rare, they do exist. At least Zhou Yimin has seen many of them since he traveled through time.

Of course, the most common are police motorcycles. Since they have a sidecar, people usually call such motorcycles "Pian San".

The Xingfu 250, which is later called the most classic Chinese motorcycle, was also produced this year and continued until 1995. Since its birth, the Xingfu 250 has been popular all over the country, and it was discontinued in 1995 because it could not keep up with the times.

As for some foreign brands of motorcycles, they are not unavailable, but their prices are unaffordable, starting at around 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.

Nowadays, people with a monthly income of 10,000 yuan are considered wealthy. Motorcycles are not for ordinary people.

In the middle of the night, Zhou Yimin was awakened by a loud noise.

Zhou Yimin realized that it was a big deal because it was the sound of a gong. Normally, the village would not ring a gong to warn people.

"Grandpa, grandma, please don't go out. I'll go see what's going on." After Zhou Yimin got up, he found that his grandparents were also awake.

Zhang Lu is a child and sleeps well, so the sound of the gong cannot wake her up.

"Well! Then you should be careful." Grandpa reminded.

He actually guessed what it was.

Usually in this situation, something has come down the mountain and into the village to destroy the crops.

You know, the wheat is about to be harvested, and there are people patrolling at night. We can't let the food that we have worked so hard to grow be stolen by "thieves".

Zhou Yimin went out with a flashlight and walked towards the place with the most torches.

When he walked in, he found that it was not the sound of a gong, but the sound of hitting a copper basin.

After listening to everyone's discussion, Zhou Yimin roughly understood the whole story.

The wild boars have come down the mountain and are destroying the corn they planted. Someone in the village has already gone there with a hunting rifle. The old party secretary and the team leader are directing the villagers to drive the wild boars away. Many people don't know that wild boars are nocturnal animals, and usually come out to move around and forage at night.

They usually do not come out during the day, hiding in bushes or grass. They are generally active in the morning and dusk to forage, and enter the dense forest at noon to avoid the sun. In disturbed areas, they become nocturnal, usually starting shortly before sunset and lasting throughout the night.

Of course, it's not absolute.

"Secretary, this is a bit troublesome! I counted them and there are 11 of them." Someone said to the old secretary.

Some wild boars may be small, but a single hit from a wild boar weighing around 100 jin can be fatal. As for wild boars weighing over 300 or 400 jin, even tigers cannot stand up to them when they get angry.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be the saying "one pig, two bears, and three tigers".

Zhou Yimin didn't have much contact with wild boars, but he had seen videos of wild boars ramming doors and glass in his previous life. They were so fierce! The glass in the high-speed railway station was not ordinary glass. It shattered as soon as it was hit. Those iron doors were like paper.

Although they knew it was dangerous, the old branch secretary and others had no choice but to drive them away.

That is the life-saving food of the village! If a dozen wild boars are allowed to cause trouble, what will their village eat in the next six months? We must fight the wild boars. We don’t want to hunt them, we just hope to drive them away.

"No firecrackers?" Zhou Yimin asked.

Someone answered: "There are three more hangings, all of them are here!"

We were prepared, but the three hooks were still not enough. It might be effective against one or two wild boars, but they were a group of wild boars and they were very brave.

Not only do people gain courage in numbers, but the same is true for many animals.

"Take it apart and use it?" someone suggested.

"It's not good to take it apart, right? It has no power."

"What should I do? These two or three hangs are of no use!"

Zhou Dafu has become a little bolder after hunting for a while. He suggested: "In my opinion, we should just catch them all in one fell swoop. We have five guns in our village. We can kill them. I'm afraid..."

Before he could finish his words, the guy was slapped in the face by his father.

"Go away, when is it your turn to speak?"

Everyone knows that it is meat, but it is not so easy to eat wild boar meat. 11 wild boars are running around, and the situation is hard to control. If things go wrong, people will die.

Whoever comes up with this idea and something goes wrong, people will blame you for the rest of your life.

Why are you the first to stick your head out?

Zhou Dafu's father wanted to kick this troublesome son a few more times.

Zhou Yimin's mind raced, and he had the same idea as Zhou Dafu. Since these wild boars had run into the village, they were meat that had been delivered to our doorsteps, and we couldn't let them get away so easily.

Recently, he has walked around the village many times and has a good understanding of the terrain.

To the west of the village, there is a cliff more than 20 meters high. If we can drive the wild boars over there and let them fall down, we won't have to take too much risk.

Thinking of this, he said, "Secretary, drive them over there."

Zhou Yimin pointed.

The old party secretary was experienced and quickly saw through Zhou Yimin's intentions.

"You mean..." The captain also reacted.

Zhou Yimin nodded: "We have to drive them away anyway, let's give it a try!"

"Okay, all of you follow me." The team leader took the lead and called on the villagers who had hunting rifles.

(End of this chapter)