Greedy and cheap, more trouble will follow. ...

Late autumn night, it's already a little cold.

The weather is really nice. The dark blue night sky is inlaid with jewel-like stars, and they blink like a group of naughty children. The small night wind blew gently, blowing up a few dead leaves in the corner, spinning and falling unsteadily.

The village was quiet, with neither chickens nor dogs nor children's laughter. Today's small villages are becoming more and more desolate.

The sultry summer has finally passed, and the crisp and windy autumn always feels that it has entered the late autumn in a few days.

After dinner, my wife said that she heard that there was something wrong with the rotary tiller in Tian Yu, and the sun was high in the afternoon, so she drove back from the field. Let me have a look and count. It's time to plow the stubble.

Today, my wife and I have two homes. A home in the country, dayangzhuang, three miles west of the city; The other home is in Xinglong community in the county. When spring planting and autumn harvest, we rushed to our hometown to reclaim those acres of land. Fortunately, farming is easy now, and it is not a burden. It's also interesting to adjust your daily life.

Not long ago, the ears of the stick were harvested and the straw was crushed, so the yellow land could finally catch its breath. Because the temperature is still high, there are at least ten days before the formal sowing of wheat. During this period, everyone was waiting for the "cold dew" solar term to pass before they began to get busy: contacting machines (rotary cultivators), spreading fertilizers, mixing wheat, sowing seeds and so on.

In Tian Yu's house, a farm helper who has been abandoned for more than ten days, there is a lively scene of you coming and going again. The registered person, this one just left, and that one came again. Tian registered his name and telephone number one by one on a first-come-first-served basis. People always say the same thing: "The sooner the better." Or: "Don't forget to call me." Tian Yu smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't forget it." Didn't show much anxiety.

My wife and I only went back to our hometown for a few days except spring planting and autumn harvest, so there was no TV set in our hometown. Fortunately, I never forget to bring a few books to kill the boredom at night. I read a book for a while and looked at my mobile phone. It's past ten o'clock in the evening, and my wife hasn't come back yet.

I put down my book and went across the village to Tian Yu's house to find my wife.

The street is quiet. I went out of the door and walked north. I saw several strong beams in front of me pointing directly at the night sky, reflecting people, trees and the ground nearby. At the same time, there was laughter.

I find it strange that this is a rare phenomenon in rural areas. When I was getting closer and closer to the lights and figures, I found many people around an abandoned old homestead. The lights came from the crowd.

This homestead, which has been idle for many years, is a natural parking lot where all farm tools are parked. It's just outside the gate of Tian, on the south side of an east-west road.

When I came outside the crowd, I realized that people were watching Tian Yu, a farm worker, repair the rotary tiller (actually, repair the tractor, and the rotary tiller was dragged behind). The assistant is his 68-year-old father.

Two people squatted on the ground, wearing black cotton-padded jackets, which were all greasy. His hands were covered with black mud. I can't let my father "pants" play with a nameless iron knot, knocking, smashing and twisting.

Not far away, a bulb with at least 100 watt hung on a jujube tree with a crooked neck, which made Tian Yu and his father in the circle take in everything in a glance and made every bystander's face see very clearly.

Tian got up from time to time to look for tools nearby. He is 34 or 5 years old. He is neither tall nor fat. He looks thin, with a round face, double eyelids and kind eyes. You can't judge a book by its cover. Although Tian Yu is usually taciturn, it's the dumb-kind-hearted person (rust) who drinks the sharpening water.

He has never studied art with his teacher, but he knows all kinds of common agricultural machinery and tools from the outside to the inside. With a pair of ears, he can tell what is wrong with the machine. In addition to replacing parts, he also needs to go to a single county to buy. Under normal circumstances, he can take the machine apart, clean and repair it, and then assemble it.

Culturally, he just graduated from primary school. In the eyes of many people, he is really a great man, because many people can't even repair bicycles.

Most of the onlookers here are women. I am looking for my wife. Let her go back to rest. Because I don't usually go home, I can't finish talking when I meet many villagers, which will affect people's rest.

I just looked across and left and right, but I didn't expect that I was standing behind my wife. Hearing her voice, I realized that she was standing in front of me.

I gave her a nudge in the back. She turned around and found it was me. She asked, "Why are you here?"

I said, "What is there to see? It's really rare and strange. Go back to rest. "

The wife said, "It's a long night, so don't go to bed so early. It is rare for so many people to get together, talking and laughing, and it is very lively. " He added: "All these people came to Tian Yu to register, but they didn't leave immediately after registering. When I saw Tian Yu repairing the machine, I began to talk here. "

I see.

I swept the crowd and found that many women from the west of the village also came. He asked his wife in a low voice, "Isn't there a rotary tiller in the spring in the west?"

The wife said, "I don't like the land he plowed."

Just then, a woman outside the crowd shouted, "I said, Tian, have you finished repairing the machine?" Just like the old sow tired the child (mating), it is worrying to be slow!

The crowd burst into laughter.

The bearer is Zhang from Chengxi Village. I saw her desperate to squeeze into the crowd and come to the innermost part. Just like an actor on the stage, the whole person is exposed to strong light. This one is in his forties, of medium build, with short hair and handsome appearance, but with dark skin. Wearing a thin cotton-padded jacket with red background and white flowers on the top and a pair of dark blue trousers on the bottom.

Zhang looked around and said, "My God, so many people are waiting here. Tian Yu, soon? "

Tian didn't look up and buried himself in repairing the machine. It's easy to say "soon"

"You don't cure, have no disease dawdle, everyone is waiting for you to farmland. What a good business, how many tickets you earn without working overtime in one night. "

"That can't. The machine does not live up to expectations! " Others ask, Tian answers, not much to say.

At this time, a woman next to Zhang asked Zhang, "Your uncle also has a rotary tiller. You didn't want him to plow, but you came all the way to Tian Yu. Are you being mean? "

Zhang said, "Don't protect my brother-in-law, I just want him to plow. You don't have to feel bad, you won't be tired. "

Talking to Zhang is his wife Ganoderma lucidum. She is also chatting with people in the crowd.

"Seriously, let your uncle know how ugly his face is." Ganoderma lucidum said.

"I don't care about these, who plows the ground well, who am I looking for. My uncle, I'm afraid I have to sell the machine. "

"What's the matter?"

"Why, there is no work to do, and the machine is always idle."

This ganoderma lucidum has long been known. After listening to Zhang's words, she sighed lightly and said, "At such a high price, the machine is idle and has no work to do, so I can't bear to sell it. It's really annoying to keep it. Worthless guy! "

"It's all his own fault. And his family's bite has also helped men a lot. If that woman was as smart as you, I wouldn't have come all the way to make friends with Hotan! " Zhang said to Ganoderma lucidum.

A middle-aged man replied, "This is called betrayal!"

Everyone present knows about the waiting circle, and everyone is talking about it.

Just then, Zhang's cell phone rang, and people nearby could hear it clearly.

"Hey, it's midnight. Does it take so long to register?" It's her husband "Ersaohu".

"What's your hurry? When you are breastfeeding, you have to wait to untie your mind. " As soon as the words stopped, the crowd burst into laughter again

"Ask Tian Yu when the machine will land so that we can spread fertilizer in advance." Second sister-in-law is nonsense.

"What are you panic, somebody else's field is more urgent than me, face is dripping with water. Many people are waiting here. "

"Then why don't you come back to sleep and wave outside?"

"If I call again, I won't go. I'm going to sleep with Tian Yu tonight and let him plow our land first. "

People laughed their heads off, and some Lian Xiao clapped.

Some said, "Ganoderma lucidum is broken. You can't go to Tian Yu's bed tonight. "

Ganoderma lucidum blushed and said with a smile, "I don't care about these things." He sleeps with Tian Yu and I have Lele as my partner. "

After a pause, Ganoderma lucidum added, "This is your second coquettish tiger. When a woman arrives, he screams, just like eight generations have never held a woman. "

Tian listened to Zhang and smiled "hey hey". Machines are already low-headed. At the moment, his head is lower.

He is honest and never plays jokes on others. Zhang of his sister-in-law's generation, regardless of his nonsense, made him feel embarrassed. His face was flushed and his heart was pounding, and he dared not look up for a moment.

In fact, Zhang has been away from home for a long time. Her husband asked her to register with Tian Yu because she went to her mother's house in the afternoon and didn't know that Tian Yu was repairing the machine at home.

After listening to her husband's words, she rushed into the wild with a flashlight. She knows that at this time of year, Tian drives the machine around the shaft almost day and night.

Tian must be out of town these days. This picture was blown into the wild by a "whirring" wind, and it was dark all around. I can't hear the roar of the rotary tiller, and I can't see the bright lights, so I know that Tian Yu is not in the field. This just returned to the village and came to the field.

No wonder the man said she ran out and didn't come home for a long time. In fact, even if Zhang doesn't do this, she won't go back when she finishes.

This guy is quick-footed, and he is usually a restless person. Often carrying a rice bowl, eating by the way, this door goes in, that door comes out, a bowl of rice is finished, and the whole dayangzhuang also lets her string it again.

This man is outspoken and has nothing on his mind. As the saying goes, there is no room for hot fart in your pocket. All day, where there is laughter, there is her shadow, but then again, she has never heard a little bit of "peach news"

Talk to Tian later.

The rotary tiller in the waiting circle in the west of the village almost stopped, which did not arouse the joy of Tian. He is willing to wait for the normal operation of the machines in the circle, so that before the first frost, he can quickly plow hundreds of acres of land in dayangzhuang and sow the wheat in the field.

At the moment, people's topics are focused on Tian Yu.

Zhang said: "The rotary cultivator waiting in the circle fell down, and no one robbed the business. This time, I will make a fortune. "

Ganoderma lucidum said, "Jade is not what you said. I can't wait for the machines in the circle to move. With these two machines deployed together, we will soon be able to plant hundreds of acres of land in dayangzhuang. It is not difficult to rely on Tian Yu alone. It must be planted before the first frost. "

Zhang said, "Aren't you a driver who can drive?"

Speaking of waiting circle, he is a few years older than Tian Yu, with white skin, high head and a pair of clever little eyes. The rotary cultivator he bought was several years later than that in Tian Yu.

Waiting circle has been cooperating with a group of villagers in eight surrounding villages (mostly men who can't leave-there are elderly people at home). They drive two or three-wheeled trams, leaving early and returning late, which is very convenient to travel back and forth. You can earn money and take care of your family. Don't miss the spring harvest. Most of the farm work is planing yam, digging asparagus, or doing odd jobs with some small construction teams in rural areas.

On one occasion, Hou Huan took a group of people from the village to work in a farmer's house in Liu Zhuang who planted yam.

Digging yam is paid by meter, and digging one meter is paid by X yuan. Everyone spread out the word "one" on the field and dug at the same time, with quick hands and feet. After a while, they dug to the front; People who are slow will fall behind.

Seeing many people "wheezing" in this waiting circle, I quickly dug up to the front, panicked, sweaty on my head and burning on my face. Especially the salary will be much less than others.

That night, I was anxious and tired, tossing and turning in bed, and didn't sleep well in the middle of the night. The next day, when Houquan was digging yam, he changed his way: everyone started digging underground, but Houquan didn't. He ran to the other side of the yam field and walked in the opposite direction with everyone, much faster than his friends.

The owner of the yam field was surprised by this unsociable man when he saw this situation.

At dusk, the yam digger went home from work.

The owner of the yam field didn't leave. He is carefully examining the yam fields planted by everyone. Did not miss the yam, rarely broken.

However, when he looked at the ground of yams that had been planed in the waiting circle, he used a shovel to open the floating soil on it and found that many yams that had not been planed were buried.

Look at the yam dug out of the ground, which is more broken than others. The snow-white stubble is dazzling and distressing. Moreover, the waiting circle only digs out the upper part, and the lower part is abandoned and grows in deep soil. ...

The master was surprised and annoyed. These migrant workers are all from dayangzhuang, and some of them are from Zhanglou. He knows almost all of them, and some of them are relatives and friends. I just can't name them.

Don't belong to that group of middle-aged people who started from the other side of the yam field, with small eyes and dark skin. People call him "wait a circle", and the owner of the yam field remembers these details.

The next morning, yesterday, a group of primitive people came to the field. Spread out a word on the field and start digging yam.

Although it is winter, everyone takes off their cotton-padded clothes, puts on shirts or half-sleeved undershirts and rolls up their high trouser legs. Many people even take off their shirts and fight barefoot.

There is a biting northwest wind, and no one says it's cold. Although there are many people, few people are joking.

After a while, many people were steaming and sweating on their faces. The man in the coat, the clothes on his back are also soaked.

After waiting for a circle, I still go to the other side of the yam field and move with everyone. Dig fast!

The owner of the yam field began to check. He looked at the yam fields that others had already planed and found nothing to cut corners.

Finally, he came to the other end of the plot, to the yam field waiting to be dug, and shoveled off the thick soil with a shovel. Once again, he found that many yams were deliberately omitted and buried with soil.

Still found that many yam strips are only the upper part. Needless to say, the lower body was abandoned under the deep soil.

The waiting circle was caught by the owner and stopped behind him. The waiting circle pretended to be puzzled and asked, "What's the matter?" The other party said, "Go back and have a look."

Waiting for the circle to blush and heartbeat, I had to turn around and dig the yam place. He saw the yam he had buried and had not dug, and he also saw the yam stick he had dug. The white stubble is very striking. Waiting for the circle is speechless.

The master held a shovel in one hand and pointed to the waiting circle: "You just dig yam for me? What are you worried about? How can you hurt people like this? Are you a farmer? Do you think my salary is low? "

Hearing how to shout, the migrant workers at the other end of the yam field stopped their work one by one, and a dozen pairs of eyes looked over here.

The host is still yelling: "We are all farmers, and we can't grow food without worrying. Who doesn't pay a drop of sweat?". At present, chemical fertilizers are expensive, pesticides are expensive, and there is little input in the field, so it is impossible to collect more; Too much investment, you can't even get it back. What a bitch! Is it easy to get up early and get greedy for rain all year round? Don't you farm your own land so opportunistically, and you still hide traitors to play tricks? "

The master held a shovel in one hand and pointed at the waiting circle's nose in the other. Hou Huan froze with his head down, and his face turned red and white.

These days, as long as there is a crack in the ground, he will "slip" in, but unfortunately not. In the face of the host's barrage of questions and scolding, he was speechless.

The people who dug yam came around and finally understood what was going on. They accused Hou Yi of coming out to work, which was shameful and conspicuous. It's not far from home, and I'm sorry to spread it around! Someone said, "Working for others is just like doing your own job."

In order to teach the waiting circle a lesson, the owner of Yam Land announced that he would call the police at 1 10. From this point of view, the waiting circle is really "straw (grain straw) wrapped in old people-lost adults!"

Everybody, you say something, I say something. That's an apology and a smile. The owner of the yam field did not insist on calling the police, so he had to let the waiting circle compensate for the loss. If not, you can't leave before calling the police.

Under the repeated entreaties of everyone, the compensation fee was reduced from 5,000 yuan to 3,000 yuan, and the other party refused to give in again. The other party said: "This is to let the waiting circle spend 3000 yuan to buy a lesson!"

Boy, this tuition is expensive enough!

Everyone went out to work, leaving early and returning late, and no one had much money in their pockets. They patched it all together and only changed 250 yuan, which was not enough. The owner of the yam field promised to wait for the circle to deliver the money tomorrow morning. He also said that he knew the waiting circle and his home was in dayangzhuang.

After work, everyone got on the tram and went home. Along the way, everyone said one sentence at a time, which was another criticism and accusation of the waiting circle. I waited around sadly without saying a word until I came to the village head.

From then on, the village partners worked here today and there tomorrow, and no one came to wait for the circle, a seven-foot man. For a long time, they were lonely and idle.

It is conceivable that this relaxed and leisurely taste is not comfortable, and I really don't sweat with my friends in the wild.

Waiting for the circle, the hero is useless from now on. In the dim light, the waiting circle saw that Tian Yu had set up a set of agricultural machinery, which could collect wheat, firewood, plant land and sow seeds, without asking others, and it was much better than working.

Every time the farm is busy, Tian Yu has become a hot potato for everyone. At the same time, he still holds a lot of "tickets for the elderly" in his arms, which is really eye-catching.

Therefore, the waiting circle also bought a set of agricultural machinery while enjoying the national purchase subsidy.

This reduces the pressure of harvesting and farming in Tian Yu, but it also brings challenges. Because the field used to be an exclusive operation, now there are competitors, and it is very likely that nearly half of the farm work will be taken away by the waiting circle.

At the beginning, the two families were equally divided and their income was equal.

In the third year, the farm work in the waiting circle began to decrease.

In the fourth year, some neighbors who had been waiting for him to farm began to turn to Tian Yu and let Tian Yu serve.

But even if there are a few households, there is not much loss, which will not affect the overall income of the waiting circle, but in the fourth and fifth years, the situation is getting worse and worse.

Let's go to the field.

After the machine "boomed" on the ground, the straw was basically crushed (it was not completely crushed, and it had to be ploughed and sown after the second treatment), and the ear skin of the stick was peeled off. The owner stood on the ground and waited for the agricultural hand to send a car to send them home.

The harvest of bonzi ears returned to the warehouse, and the straw fell, filling the green gauze account between heaven and earth for several months, and it was gone in a blink of an eye. Once again, the vast landscape of "looking at twenty or thirty miles" has been restored.

The next step is to finely process the coarse broken straw and turn it into crumbs before farming the cultivated land.

When the waiting circle was collecting sticks, many of the original intact sticks were "chewed" off when they were received in the hangar.

It's not bad that the stick fell into the barn. Anyway, it will be specially threshed in the future. Only a lot of mutilated straws fell to the ground and were buried under the crushed straws. It's easy to say that the owner just wandered around and picked them up.

However, it's not that simple: when you pick up those sticks with broken ears, the sticks on them are crushed by the tires, and the sticks are cracked and scattered. You have to squat down and pick up the thick garbage.

If there are many and concentrated sticks, you can pick them up with garbage and bag them; If there are fewer sticks, you need to pick them up one by one ... take these broken sticks and sticks mixed with a lot of garbage home, dry them in the sun, and then remove the mixed garbage with a dustpan.

Despite people's efforts, there are still a lot of broken ears and fallen sticks hidden under the thick garbage. This can be proved by a large number of stick seedlings growing in the wheat seedling field in the future.

After waiting for a circle to break the straw, standing on the ground, you can see that the straw on the ground has turned into debris. However, when the rotary tiller is used to cultivate the land, half and whole straws will emerge at the edge of the ground and under the thick straw crumbs! It's all thrown out by a rotary cultivator, not a pulverizer. In this case, the owner can't stand by and watch. He must quickly pick up the exposed straw and clear the obstacles for the rotary tiller, otherwise, the rotary tiller will not work. Master was so busy that he was sweating all over.

The next sowing is even more ridiculous. When sowing, it seems that the rotary tiller has been plowed, but it is actually half-baked. Because the rotary tiller rotates back and forth during farming, it is crushed into a hill. It is more than ten meters long and rugged, so it is difficult for the seeder to sow seeds into the soil. The owner had to dig the field again and replant it manually.

In retrospect, I think all the land waiting to be processed by the circle has added a lot of effort to the villagers, both physically and in time!

On the other hand, this phenomenon has never happened in the field. From dayangzhuang to the surrounding Shiliba Village, no one gossips face to face or behind his back. Do you blame it?

As the saying goes, it is not special to invite foreigners if you have a good wife. The daughter-in-law to be married often says to the man, "Life is better now. There's nothing to make a fuss about throwing a few sticks. Everyone eats white flour three times a day. Who will eat that kind of stick flour? On the ground, the machine is not getting better, the ground is healthy, and the plane is fine and not tired. Now that the cultivators are lazy, they are reluctant to do more. "

She also said to the people in the waiting circle, "You just do your own work and don't learn from Tian Yu. Work is like embroidery. How can you work more and earn more money? "

As the saying goes, not a family, not entering a house, this waiting circle has the encouragement of my daughter-in-law, plus I am trying to concentrate on more work, and the quality of this farm work is getting worse and worse.

When sowing in autumn two years ago, the waiting circle did much more work than Tian Yu, accounting for more than half of the cultivated land in dayangzhuang.

But gradually, the proportion of waiting circle is getting less and less, so that almost no one cares about collecting straw, pressing straw or sowing in farmland today. He even flew the plane out of town so that he could be invited at any time.

However, many people turned a blind eye and bypassed his machine to contact Tian Yu. The waiting circle is like the same fish, hanging on the beach.

For example, tonight, while Tian Yu and his father were busy repairing the machine, the waiting circle with cigarettes in its pocket was begging from door to door for others to use his machine to do their homework. And promised that it would be five yuan cheaper per mu.

The host answered better than singing: "OK, don't worry, I will definitely say hello to you when I plow." This is a wrong greeting. From previous years, we know that in the days of plowing, the machines in the field are still grandly driving into the field!

Tian Yu's farm work is good. From near to far, when he was busy day and night in dayangzhuang, many people from other villages came to contact him. Tian Yu always said, "If you wait, you may miss the busy farming season. You'd better find another machine. " The man said, "I would rather plant wheat a few days later than wait for your machine." In this way, Tian Yu is busier, even his daughter-in-law Ganoderma lucidum.

At noon in autumn, the sun splashed on the earth without cover. Although it is no longer the hot summer sun, it is still hot, accompanied by a burst of south wind, which makes people sleepy. Tian Tian drives the roaring rotary tiller in the wild day and night, which makes him more tired.

In the dead of night, it is very cold in the wilderness, and the temperature difference between day and night is very large. Tian Yu and Ganoderma lucidum had to wear cotton-padded clothes to keep out the cold.

Daughter-in-law Ling Zhi cooks eggs every day, brings instant noodles, carries a big kettle (the boiling water in it can fill at least four thermos bottles) and takes it to the ground. When Tian Yu ate boiled eggs and instant noodles, Ganoderma lucidum boarded the driver's seat, replacing Tian Yu's homework.

Late autumn night, in the field, the machine flashed and roared back and forth in the field. If Tian was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, Ganoderma urged her husband to come down and climb into the driver's seat by himself. ......

Once in the middle of the night, the rotary tiller ran out of oil. Ganoderma lucidum drives an electric tricycle home to get oil. I felt a dull pain in my stomach all the way. I must have caught a cold. In rural areas, when people have a stomachache, they often lie in bed for a while to relieve it.

Who knows, Ganoderma lucidum went to bed and fell asleep immediately. In the wild, Tian fell asleep on the steering wheel. Later, the owner who got up early went to the field to see if the field had been plowed well, and was awakened.

The owner immediately went back to the village to call Ganoderma lucidum (because no one answered the phone), and then the diesel oil was sent to the ground.

The day after Tian Yu plowed several acres in my house, the northwest wind blew. It was sunny for more than ten days in a row, and in a blink of an eye, the sky was overcast, first with light rain, then with moderate rain, and it rained for two days.

Tian Yu and Ganoderma lucidum slept off and on for two days besides eating.

After the weather cleared up, the two men drove the machine into the field and continued to farm for the villagers.

Unexpectedly, the machine just drove from the village to the ground, and the first two tires of the rotary cultivator were flat at the same time!

The two men hurried to check and found that there was a long nail deeply stuck in each of the two flat tires. What a coincidence! Both tires have been punctured!

It seems that only people can make such thick tires, because they were fine when they came back from the fields before it rained. If the nail got stuck in the road just now, why did the two tires get stuck at the same time?

If it is man-made, so thick tires, only nails can be wedged in with bricks or hammers.

Tian Yu told Ganoderma that vacuum tires seemed not as good as tires with inner tubes. Once it is punctured by a sharp weapon, deflate it immediately. The driver will find it at any time and will not drive to the ground again. Just repair it at home. This kind of vacuum tire, punctured by sharp tools, will not run out of gas immediately, and it takes a long drive to slowly exhaust the gas in the inner tube.

At present, it is impossible to drive the machine home without going to the village in front and the shop in the back. Lingzhi, the daughter-in-law, stamped her feet in anger and scolded, "What a fucking coincidence! Both tires have been punctured, damn it! "

Tian Yu said, "Don't worry, don't scold, it's no use worrying any more. You stay, I'll go into town to repair it. "

This is an emergency!

Tian got on the electric tricycle and returned to the village in windy days. He took a jack and a big "cross" wrench and flew to the ground. Then, put a jack on it, let the two tires hang in the air, remove them quickly, and two people laboriously carry them on the tricycle. Then, Tian drove an electric tricycle straight to the county seat of 60 or 70 miles!

There is nothing Tian Yu can do to repair or replace tires. He has to go to the county specialized store, because he has no tools to unload and load tires, which is much more difficult than screwing the screws.

It seems that the good time of this day will be wasted! In rural areas, the most anxious and helpless thing for the agricultural machinery hand is that the machine suddenly "falls ill" and falls to the ground. The driver is in a hurry, and so are the villagers. ......

How strange it is that two tires were punctured at the same time this time!