Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Gu Siwei then turned to Hu Yanqiu and said, "You go and help prepare lunch, and I will do the work here."

Hu Yanqiu knew that Gu Siwei wanted her to go to rest early, and she felt a little sweet in her heart. However, she was not a lazy person. Although she did not do well at work, she did not want others to look down on her and show that she had a chance. Just stay away.

Shaking his head, Hu Yanqiu said: "I'm not good at cooking, so I'd better let Sicui and the others do it."

Wu Meiling came over at this time. When she heard what Hu Yanqiu said, she smiled and said, "Why don't you guys come together and help me? Qiu Mei and I are a little busy."

Hu Yanqiu still smiled and said: "Just go to Sicui, I haven't finished the work here yet."

Gu Siwei saw that she was quite stubborn, so he smiled at Wu Meiling: "Sister-in-law Meiling, go and do your work. Let's finish these things here."

Wu Meiling had no choice but to turn around and walk towards the big house.

Wu Meiling and Sun Qiumei were responsible for making lunch, while Sicui took over the task of lighting the fire.

The vegetables had been pickled yesterday. What we have to do today is to cook a pot of porridge. Originally it was stick noodle porridge. Gu Siwei thought about it and changed it to rice porridge. Although it is the same thin, the rice porridge tastes better than stick noodles. Porridge is naturally much stronger.

Not to mention cooking over there, Gu Siwei and Hu Yanqiu were tying rice bundles. After tying them, they were stacked together and continued to work mechanically.

They didn't feel it at first, but now they thought of rest. After a while, the two of them felt hot and hungry, and wanted to sit down and lie down directly on the ground, even in the sun.

But the body seems to have been separated from the spirit. The person subconsciously looks for the rice cut from the ground, then takes out three or four rice stalks and rolls them with his fingers. Roll a few rice stalks together, and then lay them horizontally in the middle of the pile of rice. In this way, the rice ears tied into a rope must be as high as the ears being tied. This will be convenient for threshing tomorrow.

These were all taught by Zhao Fangming just now. Gu Siwei and Hu Yanqiu were not careless at all. Even at this moment, they couldn't help but dig carefully.

Although the binding is slow and the bundles may be large or small, as long as they can be done neatly, both of them can do it neatly.

If nothing else, at least this attitude is really unbeatable.

"It's time to eat! Everyone, come over and wash and wipe yourself. It's time to eat."

Sun Qiumei had already prepared the meal and yelled at everyone working in the field.

When Gu Siwei heard this voice, he felt as if he was hearing fairy music. He sat down and turned to grin at Hu Yanqiu next to him.

"I never thought before that when I heard Sister Qiu calling for dinner today, it sounded so sweet."

When Hu Yanqiu saw Gu Siwei's appearance, he sat down regardless of her appearance. However, she was more particular and sat on the newly tied rice bundle.

"How could you hear Sister Qiu's voice? You heard the sound of dinner being served?" Hu Yanqiu said with a smile.

While the two were talking, Sun Laibao came over.

"Here, give you two a toy!"

With that said, before Gu Siwei and Hu Yanqiu could understand, Sun Laibao stuffed something into their hands.

Gu Siwei looked down and found a bird's nest in his hand.

This bird's nest is not small, almost twenty centimeters long. The bird's nest is made of several types of grasses. The ones Gu Siwei knows include cattail leaves, rice leaves and so on. It is quite mixed.

"What's this?"

Gu Siwei asked.

Hu Yanqiu said: "You are stupid, this is a bird's nest."

"Of course I know it's a bird's nest, but what kind of bird's nest is it?" Gu Siwei asked Sun Laibao, who was rushing towards the shady area on the other side of the big house.

"Water Chicken Yangzi!" Sun Laibao said.

When Gu Siwei heard about the water chicken, he understood that it was a small bird, about the same size as a quail. It lived on water, so it was no wonder that it could make its nest in the rice fields.

"What is this thing for me?" Gu Siwei asked again.

"Eat, what else?" Sun Laibao turned around and looked at Gu Siwei with a questioning face.

Gu Siwei said: "Eat eggs, these are only four or five eggs, who can eat them?"

When Sun Laibao heard this, his face suddenly collapsed, and he smiled bitterly and said ironically: "How about I help you find a few more nests to make enough for a meal?"

Gu Siwei said: "Forget it!"

Looking at the nest in his hand, Gu Siwei didn't know what to do for a while. Throw it away. It doesn't seem suitable. Eat it. It's too little, just a few eggs, and they all look like quail eggs. , Gu Siwei felt that even filling the gap between his teeth was not enough.

Seeing Gu Siwei's expression, Hu Yanqiu said: "This is not easy. Just put it in a chicken coop and let the chicken hatch. If it hatches, you are lucky. If it doesn't, forget it."

"This... is a good idea."

Gu Siwei didn't have any better ideas. When he heard what Hu Yanqiu said, he held the chicken coop and tried to stand up. Unfortunately, after working all morning, his legs were a little weak, especially when he was holding a bird in his hand. He tried hard three or four times, but Gu Siwei didn't stand up.

"Oh, I don't believe it!"

Gu Siwei was ready to confront this matter, and he had to stand up with only the strength of his legs.

When Hu Yanqiu saw it, he sighed and stood up first with his own hand. He came to Gu Siwei's side and supported his arm, allowing Gu Siwei to stand up easily.

"As stubborn as a cow!"

Hu Yanqiu looked at Gu Siwei and complained.

Gu Siwei didn't care. He held the bird's nest and walked towards his chicken coop.

Gu Siwei's chicken coop is still a little far away from the big house, almost half a field away. The main reason is that Gu Siwei doesn't want to smell the smell of chicken feces.

If this guy was close, when he opened the window in summer, the smell of chicken manure would hit his nostrils, and Gu Siwei would not want to wipe his neck, so the chicken coop and other things were a little far away from the big house.

As for whether there will be foxes coming to steal, Gu Siwei was worried before, but now he is not worried at all. First, there is Da Mao. Although this guy is extremely lazy, the fox doesn't know. Entering Da Mao's core territory, wild foxes I don't have the courage yet.

Second, there are geese raised together with the chickens. This guy's title of village bully is not for nothing. They have to be avoided in Wong Tai Sin and the like.

In short, up to now, Gu Siwei's family has had no shortage of chickens and ducks.

Gu Siwei had never counted before, but if it was less, Sicui, a miser-like little girl, would definitely tell her. She could count eight times a day. How could she know if it was less?

The two came to the chicken coop.

Hu Yanqiu looked at the chicken pen surrounded by iron mesh and asked in surprise: "So many?"

Gu Siwei hummed, and he also felt that there seemed to be a lot of chickens in front of him. He had not been here a few times, and he did not notice how many chickens there were now. However, at this time, there were indeed more chickens than when he first released them. few.

There were pheasants and domestic chickens, all mixed together.

"No wonder I've never seen you eating eggs. I didn't expect you to keep them to hatch chicks. It's okay. I can hold back my greed." Hu Yanqiu glanced at Gu Siwei and showed a very surprised expression.

Gu Siwei was a little embarrassed. It wasn't that he didn't want to eat eggs, but he hadn't really thought about it. In his imagination, the chickens he got were still small, and it would be a while before he could eat the meat.

With this thought and the fact that he didn't come to see it often, he didn't know that some of the pheasants he raised and the native chickens he brought from Xu Congwen's house had already laid eggs. Not only had they laid eggs, but some of them had already brought chicks with them. Gu Siwei was overjoyed when he came out and slipped away.

"Is not eating eggs considered a good character?"

Gu Siwei pretended not to care, but in fact he didn't think so at all. He really didn't think of it. Living here, there are fish and shrimps in the river, and the river shrimps at this time are all big. For a moment, he couldn't think of eating eggs.

After thinking for a while, I decided to ask Sicui when I had time to ask why the little girl didn't say that the chicken laid eggs.

He took out the eggs and stuffed them randomly under the belly of a hen that was incubating eggs. That would be the mission accomplished.

However, Gu Siwei had bad luck today. He encountered two bad-tempered hens in succession. Before Gu Siwei could reach out his hand, the hens pecked at her.

"How stupid! The hen is not stupid. If you reach under the hen's belly from the front, who are you going to peck if you don't peck it? When you pick up the eggs, you have to touch them from behind. Go over there and you're so stupid."

Hu Yanqiu said as he took the bird's nest from Gu Siwei's hand, grabbed all the eggs, and easily put the eggs into the hen's nest from behind.

"Okay, okay, very good and powerful." Gu Siwei praised Hu Yanqiu.

Hu Yanqiu said: "This is common sense. Have you never raised chickens before?"

"I have raised it in my belly, but nothing else." Gu Siwei patted his belly.

Hu Yanqiu smiled and said, "I knew that was the case."

"Hey, you two, what are you doing over there? Can you keep your stomach full by watching the chicks?"

Everyone washed briefly in the ditch, then each took a bowl and filled it with food to prepare for dinner. When they saw Gu Siwei and Hu Yanqiu standing over the chicken coop, someone shouted loudly.

"You're such a person, you make fun of people when they find time to stay for a while!" Someone next to him laughed.

"Yes, this man can't see anyone else marrying a wife even though he is single! Hahaha."

The guys were not busy now, so they were loose-mouthed. They immediately became energetic after finding Gu Siwei and Hu Yanqiu.

"Sicui!"

Someone saw Sicui coming and started to tease Sicui: "Are you happy to have Hu Yanqiu be your sister-in-law?"

"Sister Yanqiu is my sister-in-law. What do you mean by my sister-in-law?" Sicui said openly.

"..." When this man saw what Sicui said so dryly, he suddenly didn't know what to do next. He didn't think about this in his mind. What he thought was that Sicui had to distinguish it no matter what he said. Or say something else.

So he couldn't be punished all of a sudden.

"Brother, haven't you married the wives you mentioned yet? You're too careless." Sicui asked him.

You don’t have to ask who you learned the word “off chain” from, it’s easy to guess.

Now he was embarrassed. The person who asked the question was quite young. He was in his mid-twenties. He was considered an older man at this moment. It was time for him to get married. Unfortunately, his family was poor and ugly. How could he want to find a wife? Easy.