Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

After returning home, Gu Siwei conveyed the news to the old men that it would be done on time, and everyone started to prepare automatically. In fact, there is nothing to prepare. What should be prepared has been prepared a long time ago. The firecrackers and other things that will be set off at the time have been purchased. As for candies and other things, Gu Siwei also purchased them last time he went to the factory.

In a word, everything is ready, all it takes is the east wind to lift the beam upwards.

God didn't help, and when it came to the first day of the Liang Dynasty, the light snow showed no sign of stopping, but fortunately, it didn't mean to get worse.

Gu Siwei looked at the snow outside the window and comforted himself: "This is good news, right?!"

Hu Yanqiu had just come out of the house at this time. After hearing this sentence, he asked: "What did you say?"

Gu Siwei looked back at his wife and said with a smile: "I think the snow hasn't fallen much, so it's God giving me face."

"Hahaha, you have so much face, God will give it to you. Okay, don't worry about it at home, hurry up and go to the village to pick up the folks. Everyone is ready to go back after putting up the beams. Go home, don’t bother yourself for too long in this cold weather.”

Hu Yanqiu was worried that the weather today would freeze the children in the village.

"okay!"

Gu Siwei responded, but his steps did not move. At this time, he was still looking out the window in a daze.

Hu Yanqiu was about to say something to her husband when he saw Wu Meiling leading several of his little carrots through the window glass, so he immediately took a few steps out to greet him.

"Sister-in-law, where is Brother Guo?"

Hu Yanqiu and Wu Meiling greeted each other.

"He is under the cliff. Let me come over and tell Siwei to get down quickly," Wu Meiling said.

After hearing this, Hu Yanqiu shouted to Gu Siwei in the room: "Did you hear that? Hurry up, Brother Guo is already waiting for you at the foot of the cliff."

"Not up yet?" Wu Meiling thought Gu Siwei hadn't gotten up yet.

Hu Yanqiu said: "Where are you? I got up early in the morning, before it was bright, but I kept fussing in the room, not knowing what to do."

"I won't be happy to come out if I stay here. It's so cold outside." Wu Meiling was quite envious of the fireplace in Gu Siwei's house, but envy was useless. Their family didn't have the money to buy these things.

Hu Yanqiu said: "Then hurry up and go inside to warm up."

"Mom, Mom, I'm going to play with Sister Sicui."

The little carrot heads who followed Wu Meiling shook Wu Meiling's hand and said.

"Go, go, don't make trouble with your sister's studies, do you hear me?" Wu Meiling said.

As soon as they got their mother's permission, the little ones ran away and responded while running. However, they got happy too early and fell down.

Wu Meiling didn't care. She saw the child fall and turned around to continue chatting with Hu Yanqiu while walking into the house.

How could Gu Siwei hide in the house at this time? He gritted his teeth and opened the door and walked out.

"sister in law!"

He raised his head and said hello to Wu Meiling who was coming towards him.

Wu Meiling said with a smile: "Hurry up, the folks in the village must have been looking forward to it for a long time."

"Let's go now!" Gu Siwei tightened his cotton-padded clothes, then wrapped himself tightly in the green army coat, and walked towards the edge of the cliff.

As they passed each other, Wu Meiling asked Hu Yanqiu: "What is Siwei wearing under this coat? Is this a new coat made by you?"

"Well, I made it, a cotton waistcoat, but the sleeves failed." Hu Yanqiu was a little embarrassed.

Making clothes for the family is a standard skill for women nowadays. Hu Yanqiu is also learning, and the teacher is Wu Meiling in front of him. Unfortunately, Hu Yanqiu is a bit unqualified as a student and is a bit clumsy in learning this.

"It's impossible to do this well from the beginning. Just do it a few more times." Wu Meiling herself also experienced setbacks when she first started learning.

Why don't you take some detours when doing something? If you make a lot of mistakes, you will naturally do well if you remember them.

Hu Yanqiu nodded and opened the door to let Wu Meiling enter the room.

As soon as the door opened, a wave of heat hit her face. Wu Meiling felt that all the pores in her body were stretched, and she couldn't help but said: "You have to get one at home next year, otherwise in winter, the house will be like a lump of ice."

Hu Yanqiu said with a smile: "I have to get one. I can't sleep well without this thing. I asked Siwei to send one to my parents. They used it and said it was good. The main thing is that it doesn't smell like a coal stove." .

Even though this thing was copied from Gu Siwei, this design is a reflection of his professional knowledge. Among other things, the heat of the fire must be retained in the furnace as much as possible, and all the smoke generated must be sucked outside through the chimney. , don’t underestimate this technical point. This is the biggest difference between modern home fireplaces and stoves. One costs one or two thousand yuan, and the other costs dozens of yuan. This is where the price difference lies.

As soon as Wu Meiling entered the room, she sat next to the fireplace.

Hu Yanqiu took a plate of small persimmon cookies and made Wu Meiling a pot of tea.

Surrounding the fireplace, eating sweets and drinking tea, Wu Meiling suddenly remembered her childhood life, but she quickly pushed this thought out of her mind.

This idea is not allowed and cannot be known to others, otherwise it will be a big trouble.

"This persimmon cake is good," Wu Meiling praised.

Hu Yanqiu said: "It is better for everyone to help, otherwise it will be up to our family, which is estimated to be five pounds at most."

When thinking of Gu Siwei, Wu Meiling was happy: "You can't blame him. Young men don't have such patience. The guy in our family is the same."

"You said he was impatient, but that's not right. In the past two days, Master Youxugangyou and I could stay in front of the wood all day," Hu Yanqiu said with a smile.

"It's still the same. The one in our family is becoming more and more interested in making waterwheels. Last time he even borrowed a book and tinkered at home all day long," Wu Meiling said.

The two men, who had been ridiculed by their respective wives for not doing their jobs properly, were now sailing down the river talking and laughing.

"When spring is less busy, let the old men in the village help me build another boat."

Suddenly Guo Shengshou said this.

"What?"

Gu Siwei was neither close nor far away from Guo Shengshou's boat. It would not be fun to collide with the boat if it was too close, and the two of them couldn't talk to each other if it was too far away, so the distance of about ten meters is quite suitable and enough. Room for both of them to react.

Guo Shengshou raised his voice: "I said, our family will build another boat in spring."

"oh!"

There is no need for Gu Siwei to ask about the reason for this. Now Liu Dezhu and Zhou Lanbing are using boats every two days. Guo Shengshou wants to use boats most of the time and cannot use them. If he doesn't build new boats, then he is out of trouble. .

Gu Siwei said oh, and Guo Shengshou understood. Gu Siwei didn't want to mention Liu Dezhu and his wife, so he closed his mouth and suppressed his original resentment towards Liu Dezhu and his wife.

"What are you going to plant next year?" Gu Siwei changed the subject.

Guo Shengshou said: "What else can we plant? It's the same as the third child. But this year our family is planning to plant more rice and less wheat. We also need to arrange rapeseed and peanuts..."

Every farmer has an account of what to plant in the coming year, and Guo Shengshou naturally comes up with it casually.

"Where's your family?"

After returning home, Guo Shengshou subconsciously asked Siwei's question.

Gu Siwei scratched his head at this time: "I haven't thought about it yet. Anyway, let's see when the time comes."

Guo Shengshou was immediately happy after hearing this. He didn't make fun of Gu Siwei. If this matter were brought up to others, he would definitely be laughed at, but it would not work out to blame Gu Siwei.

It's not that Gu Siwei's grain cultivation is good, but everyone thinks that it doesn't matter whether people who pull some things from the mountains can sell them for money.

Do farmers like farming? That’s nonsense. Those who say farmers like farming can try it themselves. Once you try it, you will know how painful farming is at this time.

Farmers don’t farm because they like it. If they don’t farm, they will go hungry. The whole family will have nothing to eat. Otherwise, who would go to the fields to weed under the bright sun? After a day, the sweat on the body will become wet, and then wet again. , when I came home at night and took off my coat, my back was covered with salt and frost.

"I think your family should use more oil," Guo Shengshou said.

"We'll see then."

Gu Siwei still said the same thing.

The two of them were chatting like this, and the boat arrived at the entrance of the village by itself.

"I'm coming!"

As soon as they saw the two boats coming, a group of children standing on the shore started shouting.

Hearing the children's movements, the adults also walked out of the house with their hands in their hands.

There are not only two boats, Gu Siweijia and Guo Shengshou, but also several other old boats in the village. However, boats are of no use anymore. There are only two grass flowers and cubes. Otherwise, we have to do what we do now, with all the boats They all got together and transported the people to the two wharves of Liu and Guo's family, and then transported them to Gu Siwei's family in batches.

What can I say now? The method is stupid, but if it works well enough, then just go with it.

Everyone got on the boat one after another and transported everyone who could climb up the cliff to the Liu and Guo docks. Then Gu Siwei and Guo Shengshou drove the boat and divided them into two batches. They transported everyone to the bottom of the cliff and watched them one by one. They climbed up the cliff and then turned back to transport the second group of people.

When everyone was transported up the cliff and Gu Siwei also went up, he realized that his little place was really lively.

A bunch of monkeys were crazy with joy. They were either chasing the monkeys or chasing away Gu Siwei's clay. The ones who shouted looked more like monkeys than the monkeys in the trees.

Gu Siwei didn't say anything. He looked at the village monkeys with a smile and walked towards his house.

On the way, two little guys almost bumped into Gu Siwei, but Gu Siwei stopped him and patted him twice on the buttocks.

The little guy didn't scream. He chuckled and shouted: Uncle Siwei, put me down!

As soon as he put it down, he spread his legs and disappeared with a whoosh.