Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Gu Siwei followed Xu Congwen all the way down the alley. He originally thought that the place where Xu Congwen lived was no different from Qiao Yitong and Hu Yanqiu's family. The only difference was the size of the house, a bungalow and a tube building.

But what Gu Siwei didn't expect was that Xu Congwen did not live in such a place. He seemed to live in a separate small courtyard, which was somewhat similar to a courtyard house, but it was not a courtyard house. Instead, there was an inverted room in front, but there were no rooms on the east and west sides. The wing room and the main room are also divided into two parts, with a wall in the middle, which looks as weird as possible.

Xu Congwen saw curiosity in Gu Siwei's eyes, so he asked with a smile: "What's the matter, have you never seen a house like this?"

"I've never seen it before. It looks a bit like a courtyard house, but it's different. I can't describe the feeling." Gu Siwei smiled and shook his head.

The courtyard wall is not high, only half of the pond, and a large part of it is open. Standing outside, you can see a corner of the small courtyard, so although he did not enter the courtyard, Gu Siwei still took a good look at the small courtyard. Eighty-eight.

Xu Congwen took out the key from his pocket, grabbed the lock on the door with one hand, raised the keyhole toward himself, and put the key in with the other hand.

With a click, the lock opened. Take off the lock, take the door nose off the knocker, and hang the lock on the door knocker.

After that, Xu Congwen pushed the door gently, and the wooden door slowly opened with a slender creak.

"If you are curious, go in and take a look. There are no outsiders in my house." Xu Congwen opened the door and motioned for Gu Siwei to come forward.

Gu Siwei declined, then pulled Xu Congwen and walked in first. He followed Zhu Shiming and entered the yard half a step slower than Zhu Shiming.

Entering the yard, I found that the yard was very beautiful. There were no trees in the yard, but flower pots were placed in every corner. Now the flowers in most of the flower pots were blooming, which can be said to be a beautiful decoration for a small yard. It is a riot of purple, red and colorful.

Most of the yard is covered with slate floors, and some of the slates have patterns printed on them. The slates look a bit old, and they don't look like they were built in recent decades. As for the ones that were built after liberation, that's even less likely. A factory was built here. , it is not a sanatorium, the bricks on the floor are still carved, this is not a big house built by wealthy people in a few decades.

"How about it?"

"It's very beautiful. It looks interesting from the outside, but when you come in, you find that Mr. Xu knows a lot about life," Gu Siwei said with a smile.

The courtyard is really beautiful, and it exudes an elegant atmosphere. Gu Siwei also wants to make his courtyard like this. Unfortunately, he has no clue yet, and it looks tacky no matter how he looks at it.

Xu Congwen laughed loudly after hearing this and said: "I know nothing about life. These are not done by me. They were done by my lover when he was busy. I am just a hands-off shopkeeper."

"Then your wife is not here today? I really want to see her. I also have a small courtyard of my own, and I have always wanted to dress it up, but I can't get it to look so elegant."

Gu Siwei looked at it, and then thought that if there was someone in the house, why would the door be locked?

Xu Congwen said: "She went to her son's place to help take care of her grandson. I can't leave here either. If you want to ask her about these flowers and plants, then you have to wait for at least a month and not take care of the child until the full moon. My lover will never come back.

Let’s not talk about this today, let’s talk about drinking today, and we’ll have a rest tonight after getting drunk, Xiao Gu, you really helped us a lot.”

After hearing this, Zhu Shiming said with disdain: "It sounds like you are a good drinker. Xiao Gu, don't believe him. This person can only drink three taels at most. If he drinks more, he will be crawling on the ground."

Xu Congwen laughed and said: "Whether you can crawl or not is another matter, meeting Xiao Gu today is really worth a good drink. Humanity is happy to meet a person who knows a good friend and has a lot of love!"

By the way, if you don’t mind, let me ask, Xiao Gu, from whom did you learn your mechanical knowledge? "

Gu Siwei has thought about this question many times in his mind, just to prevent others from asking it.

"I actually don't know about this. I was rescued by the folks from Shimo Village. Maybe my brain was injured. Some of the things in the past can be remembered, but some can't be remembered. I don't know how to fight." Where you come from, where you want to go, but there are some things that seem to be imprinted in your mind, including this knowledge and playing with machines," Gu Siwei said.

"Is there still this matter?"

Zhu Shiming and Xu Congwen looked at each other and thought this was too strange.

The two of them had no doubt that he was there. If Liu Dezhu was here, they would definitely put Gu Siwei into the ranks of spies. However, Zhu Shiming and Xu Congwen knew that with this level of knowledge in front of the young man, he could not be Chiang Kai-shek. The spies sent here, people of this level are sent to do spies, the people sent here must not have good brains.

Zhu Shiming and Xu Congwen asked a few questions, and Gu Siwei answered honestly.

"It's really hard to judge your accent. It sounds like Hebei, but there's a bit of Jianghuai's tone in it. It's all kinds of different," Zhu Shiming said.

Gu Siwei's current Mandarin is truly standard, and it is more standard than Xu Congwen and Zhu Shiming. Mandarin was introduced in 1955, but people as old as Zhu Shiming and Xu Congwen definitely cannot change their local accent. Therefore, it is easy to distinguish the regions based on the tone of their conversation.

"Speaking of the house, why did you mention Xiao Gu again?" Zhu Shiming said with a smile.

Zhu Shiming felt that Gu Siwei definitely didn't want to answer these questions now, so he considerately changed the topic to the house.

Gu Siwei really didn't care about others mentioning this. He felt that he had arranged it properly. Of course, if it was too difficult to answer, he wouldn't mind stroking his head and pretending to be in pain to show that he couldn't think about such questions.

This was a last resort that allowed Gu Siwei to use this move. Gu Siwei felt that it was unlikely that there was such a person. If someone asked him not to answer, he could not do anything to him.

Besides, Lao Gu was prepared to die in Yinsongya Hulu Valley, leaving nothing to do with the outside world.

Hearing that his old friend was so helpless, Xu Congwen also understood, so he said to Gu Siwei: "Actually, this place turned out to be a temple."

"temple?"

Gu Siwei really didn't expect this. Who would have thought that Xu Congwen's family lived in a temple.

"I heard that it used to be quite big, but when our factory moved here, there was only such a big place left, and no one lived in it. After tidying it up, others didn't dare to live there. I saw that no one else dared to live there. I volunteered and moved in. We people don't care about these old gods. We are people of faith. How can we be afraid of this?

If there really were, I wouldn't be afraid. They wouldn't be able to protect China. I'd rather be fooled by the gods. Xiao Gu, do you think this is true? "

Xu Congwen seemed a little proud of this matter, and he was very happy when he told Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei smiled and nodded. Gu Siwei didn't care about this. No matter which temple he went to, he had no interest in worshiping these mud-carved wooden bodies, so he naturally felt that the old man Xu Congwen was becoming more and more interested in him.

"Yes, that's quite right. I'm an atheist."

After saying the words, Gu Siwei thought of the space and suddenly felt a little guilty.

"Okay, let's go to the store to figure out what to eat tonight. Should we ask someone to come over to cook it or what? Also, is it just the three of us, or should we invite more people?"

Zhu Shiming asked.

Xu Congwen said: "What are you asking so many people to do? It's just the three of us having a good drink. The presence of others is a bit intrusive. As for cooking, I'm not good at it and neither are you. Let's ask the cooks in the factory to come over and help. How about cooking?" Well, it will be the same if you send it over."

"Is there any food? If there is any food, I will cook it?"

Gu Siwei asked.

Xu Congwen asked strangely: "Can you cook?"

Gu Siwei said: "There is no problem with ordinary home-cooked food."

You cook and eat by yourself. Since there are only three people to drink, don't bother others. There are people busy beside you while you are eating, so the meal is always a bit boring.

Zhu Shiming laughed and said: "That's easy. Xiao Gu, please prepare the dishes you need and wait for them to be delivered. Then it will depend on your craftsmanship. Lao Xu and I are a little bit different anyway." No, the only way we can do it is to boil it in water, stuff it into our mouths when it’s cooked, and don’t even think about expecting it to taste tasteless.”

"Then try my craftsmanship?" Gu Siwei said with a smile.

"You have to try it. Judging from how confident you are, your skills must be good," Xu Congwen said.

In this way, Xu Congwen gave Gu Siwei a pen and paper, and Gu Siwei picked up the pen and asked again.

"What's in the cafeteria?"

"As long as it's not too biased, if you write about dragon meat or something, other ordinary people can eat almost everything you can think of, so you can just write about it," Xu Congwen said.

Gu Siwei thought for a while and then started to make a list. There were only three people in total. Gu Siwei prepared four cold dishes and four hot dishes. Because it took a long time to drink, Gu Siwei deliberately prepared more. We would drink and chat at the same time. It might take several hours. If it was just three or four dishes, that would definitely not work.

A very simple home-cooked dish, the cold dishes are peanuts, preserved egg tofu, and the now common sugar-coated tomatoes and cucumbers.

The hot dishes are a portion of braised fish, a portion of shredded pork and green pepper, a plate of leek and eggs and a portion of braised duck with bamboo shoots.

I didn’t ask for much meat, so as not to make others think I had never eaten meat.

Xu Congwen took the order and saw the portion and ingredients written on it by Gu Siwei. He opened his mouth and said, "I believe you can cook now. If you don't know how to cook, you will definitely not be able to make the list."

"I really know how to do it. I'm not bragging. I'm doing pretty well," Gu Siwei said with a smile.

Xu Congwen flicked the order and went back to the room to call the cafeteria and ask someone to deliver what Gu Siwei wanted. Gu Siwei and Zhu Shiming sat at the small stone table in the yard, and Zhu Shiming made tea while everyone chatted and waited for the tea.

The tea was good and very fragrant. It was the first time for Gu Siwei to drink such a fragrant tea. After one sip, he couldn't help but take a second sip.

"How is it?" Zhu Shiming asked.

"It smells really good," Gu Siwei said.

After hearing this, Zhu Shiming said: "I am blessed by you today. Normally, this old guy would be reluctant to take it out. He has been hiding this half a catty of tea for more than a year, and all the new tea has been hidden into finished tea."

At this time, Xu Congwen walked out of the house and asked, "What did you say about me again?"

"Tell me about your tea," Zhu Shiming said.

"Oh, that's up to you, Xiao Gu, how do you like this tea?"

Xu Congwen sat down as he spoke, took the big tea vat on the table, pinched a handful of tea leaves into the vat, and then poured almost half a pot of water into the tea vat.

"Hey, you peony-chewing guy, how can you drink this tea like this? Do you think you can buy ten pounds of tea for one dollar on the street...".

Xu Congwen was fine, but Zhu Shiming felt very distressed.

"This seems to be my family's tea, right?" Xu Congwen thought for a moment that he had remembered it wrong. Lao Zhu brought tea leaves.

Looking at these two old men, Gu Siwei was delighted: Old kid, old kid, these two really looked like two kids when they got along.

Thinking of this, Gu Siwei suddenly thought that when he reaches their age, will he have such a close friend by his side to play around with?

Gu Siwei thought it seemed a bit difficult!

The two quarreled for a while, and everyone sat down to drink tea, and chatted about the machine again, until a young man came over and knocked on Xu Congwen's door.

The young man came to deliver something, and his bicycle carried a large bag of things.

Gu Siwei opened the cloth bag and immediately saw the problem. Something was missing.