Li Jianguo had not expected even Team Leader Xu Chengjun to ride his bicycle over to the courtyard to see him.
The Front Courtyard had already been cleared out. There had not been much piled up there to begin with; when Li Jianguo went over to tidy it, he spent more time planning how to arrange the farm implements. After all, a full set meant the tractor would come with a seed drill, a five-bottom plow, a disc harrow, a harrow, a land leveler, and so on.
Together, they would take up a tremendous amount of space. And to make them convenient to use, he could not simply haul everything into the courtyard and leave it in a heap.
He thought that once they bought the tractor, he would have to build a large shed on the east side of this courtyard, partition it, and put the implements inside.
After all, if the tractor and other farm machinery were left out in the wind and rain, a thick layer of rust would soon form on them.
That was how the farm machinery Wang the Miser had bought from the team looked. Of course, it might also have been because those implements were already two or three years old. The rust would not come off even if you tried, and instead had formed a sort of protective shell.
A newly purchased tractor was naturally different. A Small Four-Wheel Tractor was one thing. It was small, after all, so you could put it anywhere, build a shelter or throw a canvas cover over it, and easily keep the wind and rain off.
But a Dongfanghong 75 Crawler Tractor was different. It was big, and its implements, especially the seed drill and five-bottom plow, took up plenty of space too. They would need