Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

"Brothers from the fourth dimension, girls from Sicui eat sweets."

Zhao Fangming and his wife brought candies over at this time. Zhao Fangming greeted them and Sun Qiumei gave them candies.

Gu Siwei gestured to Sicui to take the candy. Sicui stretched out his hands, bent his body slightly, and after a half-bow, he said thank you: "Thank you, Brother Fang Ming, Sister Qiu Mei."

Zhao Fangming smiled and praised: "Sicui girl is so polite."

Zhao Fangming has seen so many children in the village today. Even those who are older than Sicui, or even one or two years older, don't know what to do when receiving people and things. They usually grab them with one hand and start to take them apart. Bag, but Sicui is completely different.

Zhao Fangming couldn't help but praise in his heart: After all, Gu Siwei was educated. Looking at the children taught by others, they are the same children but they are different.

Sicui smiled and said thank you, then looked at the candy in her hand.

The wedding candies were wrapped in red paper. Gu Siwei took one look at them and did not take a second look. It was obvious that the packaging of wedding candies at this time was far less sophisticated than a few decades later. Nowadays, most wedding candies given to young couples in families are red. A package of paper, a better one, with an elder who is good at writing writing a happy word on it, otherwise it will just be a red paper package and nothing will happen.

There isn't much candy in the paper bag. It looks like only five or six yuan, but don't dislike it. If you give five or six yuan to a child, it will add up to a lot.

You can't compare the living conditions in the village now with those in a few decades. At this time, everyone will be hungry for half the year. How can there be any spare money for these things?

Even after agricultural taxes are not paid, farmers' lives are just like that, not to mention that farmers are now burdened with such a heavy land tax.

This is definitely not a compliment. Shimo Village is deep in the mountains and the old forest products are not enough to eat. If you pay more land tax, people will starve to death. But it is hard to say how much food the farmers outside have to pay. As long as your family has grown food before. , just go back and ask the elders and you will know that the farmers at this time are not relaxed at all.

"Eat whatever you want."

Gu Siwei saw Sicui looking at him, smiled at her and said.

"Sicui, it's okay. You can eat whatever you want at my sister's house. Today is my sister's big day. If your brother tells you something, tell me." Sun Qiumei said with a smile when she saw Sicui's appearance.

After hearing her brother's words, Sicui opened the paper bun and took out a candy. Instead of eating it herself, she peeled one off and brought it to Gu Siwei's mouth.

Gu Siwei originally said he didn't want to eat it, but the little girl stood on tiptoes and finally he took it and put it in his mouth.

The candies are hard candies, the cheapest ones in the store. Gu Siwei usually doesn’t buy them. Gu Siwei usually buys toffee, the nationally famous White Rabbit, or brands produced locally.

Buying is buying, but if Sicui wants to eat more, it will definitely not work. Even if Gu Siwei doesn't care, he is still afraid that Sicui will damage his teeth. Therefore, Gu Siwei buys more candies, but Sicui doesn't eat much. Most of the rest was given to the children in the village, and the remaining bit was rewarded to the obedient monkeys.

"So sweet!"

Sicui said something.

Hearing this, Sun Qiumei became even happier.

Sun Qiumei was afraid that if Sicui took out the candy and said it was not good, she would lose face.

This thing really happened. At noon, Sun Qiumei's nephew came with her mother. Sun Qiumei greeted her nephew with candy, and the nephew said such words, which made Sun Qiumei feel unhappy.

Now everyone in the village is related to Gu Siwei, and everyone has lost their desire to compare. Why? If the difference is too big, there will be nothing to compare with. The folks go to the factory to buy some souvenirs. What does Gu Siwei sell? The skills at hand, the popular ones and the spicy ones, how can this make others think about why Gu Siwei can do this and I can't?

Isn't that why you can't find it yourself?

So if this matter were left to ordinary people, Sun Qiumei might have written down the unpleasantness. But when her nephew compared her family with Gu Siwei's family, even if she wanted to be angry, she didn't have the heart to do so.

I was originally afraid that Sicui would say something like this, but Sicui's words were so sweet that Sun Qiumei's heart immediately felt like a stone falling to the ground.

This sounds exaggerated, but everyone's sensitivity is different. Things you don't care about may break someone else's heart and make them hate you.

Otherwise, people's hearts are separated from each other.

Sicui followed Sun Qiumei to the side, and the rest of the group continued chatting. They stayed there for almost a quarter of an hour. During this period, some people came and some left.

Gu Siwei, Liu Fulin, and Guo Shengshou all stood up when they saw that the time was almost up.

"It's time for us to go."

Liu Fulin said to the busy young couple.

Zhao Fangming said: "Let's play for a while longer. Why are you going back so early?"

This is purely polite. It's still early now. If it weren't for the fact that it's already summer. Although it's not the dog days of summer, it's still dark outside. If it were any other season, it would already be the time to turn on the lanterns.

"It's getting late, go back early, there's still something to do at home," Guo Shengshou also said insincerely.

So the two sides exchanged a few polite words, and the three families left the yard, and the young couple were sent to the shore.

After getting on the boat, there was another round of polite greetings, and finally Gu Siwei drove the boat upstream.

Passed the gorge.

Sicui shouted loudly toward the water: "Grass flowers, cubes! Come out and tug the boat!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two water patterns appeared on the water and moved quickly towards Gu Siwei's boat.

Seeing the water ripples, Sicui laughed, took off the two bicycle tire skins hanging on the penny rack on the side of the cabin head, and threw them into the water.

Each tire skin has a cotton rope tied to the boat.

Hu Yanqiu was very curious when he saw Sicui's movements. He was about to ask when he discovered the use of this thing.

I saw two big fish, Grass Flower and Cube, coming out of the water. One for each of them, they directly stuck half of their heads in the ring of the tire skin. In this case, the two fish were like two horses, and the two tires The skin became something like a horse bridle.

"You really think about it!"

Hu Yanqiu looked back at Gu Siwei with an "I really don't know what to say to you" expression on his face.

At this moment, Hu Yanqiu thought to himself: How is this man's heart so long that he can think of all kinds of messy things? This is so ridiculous, the fish pulls the boat?

Don't tell me, it's really much more stable than pushing a boat!

Thinking of this, Hu Yanqiu felt it, and suddenly felt that pulling the boat with grass flowers and squares was much more stable than pushing the boat, and it was also smoother.

Gu Siwei took the cake and said with a smile: "This was not my idea."

"This is what I remembered."

At this time, Sicui puffed up her chest and looked like I was great. She also reached out and patted it, specifically emphasizing that she came up with such a good idea.

“Sicui is awesome!”

If someone else changed, it would suddenly be different. It was Gu Siwei who came up with the evil idea, and Sicui who came up with it was Sicui's awesome idea.

Sicui can't stand praise from others, which is quite similar to her brother. She especially likes to be praised by others. When others say something bad about her, she immediately stops being embarrassed.

Caohua and Xiang Xiang pulled up the boat, and Liu Fulin could only follow behind and eat ashes.

"You go first, our manpower is no match for your fish power!"

When Liu Fulin saw Gu Siwei looking at him, he smiled bitterly and said to Gu Siwei.

Guo Shengshou is rowing the boat now, because he is young, and Liu Fulin is standing at the bow of the boat and holding the pole.

It's not that they don't have gadgets invented by Sicui on their ship, there are some, but whether they can be used or not is not decided by them, it is decided by the mood of Caohua and Cube.

And there is another rule, that is, as long as Gu Siwei's family's boat is there, Caohua and Cube will not drag or push Liu Fulin's family's boat even if they are playing in the water. I don't know what's going on, Gu Siwei said. No, the two guys just won’t do it.

After trying it a few times, everyone figured it out.

Liu Fulin could only comfort himself that he was not as good as the previous ones but more than the inferior ones. They did not even look at other boats. At least his family had enjoyed this kind of tug service.

"Then let's go first," Gu Siwei replied loudly.

As he spoke, the boat was almost twenty or thirty meters away from the Liu Fulin family's boat. Pulling was stronger than pushing, so Caohua and Cube were naturally faster when they towed the boat, but they weren't even using their full strength. , if you use all your strength, these two guys are just as powerful as the engines of two motorboats.

After turning the corner, the water surface became slightly narrower, but more straight, and the speed of Caohua and Cube pulling the boat was obviously faster.

Standing on the bow of the boat, Hu Yanqiu even felt the cool breeze on the water blowing against his face, which made him feel indescribably happy.

"not going to work today?"

Gu Siwei looked at Hu Yanqiu with his eyes half-closed and his chin slightly raised, as if he was enjoying the evening breeze, and asked aloud.

"I'm at work, but I asked for leave," Hu Yanqiu said.

"Take time off to come here to play with big hair?" Gu Siwei was very happy after hearing this.

After hearing this, Hu Yanqiu opened his eyes and turned around to give Gu Siwei a hard look: "You are so kind and ignorant of donkey's heart and lungs. I asked for leave to come over and play with bears? Do you think I am a three-year-old child?"

Gu Siwei thought to himself: "You think you are not? All the peach cakes I brought last time were fed to the bears, but I didn't get a bite. Anyway, I didn't get a bite."

hehe!

"I thought your family was about to harvest rice, so I asked for leave to come and help," Hu Yanqiu said.

Gu Siwei asked: "Have you ever harvested rice?"

Hu Yanqiu had never done this before, but she would not say that she couldn't do it. She opened her mouth and said: "You can't learn it if you don't know it. Besides, how difficult can this thing be? Isn't it just cutting with a sickle?"

Gu Siwei was very happy after listening to it for a while. Hu Yanqiu was so happy that he almost exploded, and then he raised his hand to her and said, "Master Hu, I'm counting on you for all the money in my family."

"You just have to take a good look at the big shrimps and big fishes. I can learn everything quickly." Hu Yanqiu was full of confidence.

Sicui also nodded and said: "Sister Yanqiu, I believe in you, you are the smartest."

Gu Siwei looked at his sister and said with a smile: "The little girl is getting better and better at flattering her. You don't have to worry about being in society in the future."