60s: I have a store

Chapter 223 Procurement
Li Feng took Zhou Yimin and Zhang Yi with him, and they set off right away after they sat down.

It was Zhang Yi’s first time to ride in a truck and she was very curious. As soon as she got on the truck, she seemed to have an ADHD attack. She looked around and touched things from time to time.

Li Feng was no longer surprised by this kind of situation and couldn't help but feel proud in his heart.

He does have the qualifications to be proud, but becoming a driver is undoubtedly as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Being a driver is a very popular profession. There is an exaggerated saying: "A honking horn is worth a fortune; a turning wheel is better than being a county magistrate."

You have to know that the people who are controlling the steering wheel now are not ordinary people, so it is very difficult to drive.

Truck drivers are considered a professional profession. To obtain a driver's license, they must pass strict political review. After all, there are very few trucks now, and it would be troublesome if they were driven away by criminals. They also have to go through training.

Generally speaking, if you want to learn how to drive, you have to work as a porter in a large company's fleet for a few years first. Only if the master likes you will he let you learn from him. After learning how to repair cars with the master for two years, you can get a driver's license and then become a co-driver.

Learning to drive in this era is not like that of later generations. In the first three years, you need to learn how to wash, wipe, and repair a car, endure scolding, and test your stability. Then you can have a static experience. After you are stable, you can test drive on an unmanned road. After being guided by a master, you can drive independently, starting with short distances and gradually transitioning to long distances.

Zhou Yimin can drive a car himself, so he didn't make a fuss about it, as if he had never seen the world before.

Zhang Yi asked curiously, "Section Chief Zhou, why don't you seem to be curious about trucks at all? Do you ride them often?"

"It's okay! Because I also have one." Zhou Yimin said indifferently.

In the 21st century, he has driven cars that are many times better than this one.

Today's cars don't even have power steering, and are driven solely by the strength of one's arms. It can be said that every professional truck driver has trained his arms to be as strong as a unicorn.

Zhang Yi was stunned. It was the first time she heard that Zhou Yimin could drive.

"Really?" She couldn't believe it.

Li Feng knew that Zhou Yimin had driven the factory's truck recently. They were surprised to see Zhou Yimin looking like an experienced driver.

As drivers, they are well aware of the difficulties of being a driver, and they have also gone through many hardships before becoming truck drivers.

"There's no need to joke about this kind of thing. Driving doesn't seem too difficult, right?" Zhou Yimin said.

Li Feng and Zhang Yi: "..."

Not too difficult?
How embarrassing is this?
It seems that talented people are good at everything. Things that are difficult in the eyes of others are not a problem at all for him, it is that simple.

Zhang Yi exclaimed: "Section Chief Zhou, you are really amazing. I really don't know what you can't do."

How great it would be if such a perfect person could become my partner. I wonder how many people would envy me.

However, Zhang Yi is still self-aware. She knows that her appearance is not outstanding, just average. Zhou Yimin would definitely look down on someone like her.

"Don't say that. There are too many things I don't know. How can a person be omnipotent? I still need to learn more. Live and learn!" Zhou Yimin said modestly.

In this way, the three of them chatted intermittently and soon arrived at Shangshui Village.

Shangshui Village has done a good job of copying homework. Although the road leading into the village is not as good as that of Zhoujiazhuang, it is better than many villages.

When they entered the village, they saw the villagers of Shangshui Village picking beans.

There were still quite a few on the ground, and it looked like they had started picking them a long time ago, otherwise they wouldn't have picked so many. When the trucks came to the village, the whole village's attention was drawn to them.

You know, this was the first truck entering their Shangshui Village. Many people couldn't help but stop what they were doing. Some children were not afraid at all and came forward to watch.

Zhou Yimin saw this scene, and for the safety of the children, he said: "The car hasn't stopped yet, you all should disperse."

When Village Chief Wang heard what Zhou Yimin said, he hurried forward and drove the children away. It would be troublesome if he made Zhou Yimin unhappy and caused him to not take care of his village in the future.

When the children saw the village chief coming out, they could only walk away reluctantly, but they did not walk very far, only about four or five meters away.

It’s really not easy to become a driver nowadays.

The road in Shangshui Village is not as big as that in Zhoujiazhuang, it can only be said to be one lane, but Li Feng does not drive slowly at all, and he can park accurately at the right place.

Zhou Yimin praised: "Captain Li, you have great skills."

"After all, we rely on this skill to make a living, and we can't do it badly." Li Feng said.

Three people got out of the truck.

Village Chief Wang immediately stepped forward and said, "Thank you for your hard work. The three of you have come from afar. We are almost done with the picking work. Just give us another half an hour."

"Village Chief Wang, how early did you get up to pick the beans?" Zhou Yimin asked when he saw the beans all over the ground.

Village Chief Wang said cheerfully, "It's not that early, around four o'clock."

Although it is about two hours earlier than usual for farm work, it is nothing in that era.

Zhou Yimin couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Great! Since you've picked so many, let's arrange some people to come over to help weigh and load the fruits!"

After hearing this, Village Chief Wang quickly said, "Okay, I'll arrange it now."

Since weighing and loading the beans require a lot of strength, some adult men were called over to help. Picking the beans doesn't require much strength anyway, so it can be left to the women.

They also brought the largest beam scale in the village, so it would not be a problem to weigh a fat pig weighing one or two hundred kilograms.

A beam balance is a type of scale. It is a simple weighing instrument that uses the principle of leverage to measure mass. It consists of a wooden beam with a scale star, a metal weight, a lever, etc.

The craft of hand-made beam balance has a long history in China.

According to folklore, the wooden beam balance was invented by Lu Ban. He carved 13 stars on the beam balance according to the Big Dipper and the Southern Dipper, and set 13 taels as one catty. After Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he added three stars of "Fu Lu Shou", making it exactly 16 stars, changed one catty to taels, and issued an edict to unify weights and measures.

Another version is that it was made by Fan Li.

He was inspired by the difficulties faced by a fishmonger and invented the invention by using a bamboo pole, placing a water barrel on one side and fish on the other, using the principle of leverage.

Later, he made modifications and carved 13 stars on the beam balance based on the Big Dipper and the Southern Dipper, and set 13 taels as one catty. However, as some merchants shortchanged someone by a certain weight, he added the three stars of "Fu, Lu, and Shou" to indicate that if one tael was short, there would be less blessing, if two taels were short, there would be less wealth, and if three taels were short, there would be less longevity.

It was not until the 20s that the country implemented a reform of measurement units and unified the scale system to 50 taels per catty.

Zhang Yi from the finance department was holding a notebook and taking notes.

(End of this chapter)