Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Crackling!

A burst of firecrackers exploded in the air.

Gu Siwei, who lit the firecrackers, was originally standing next to the firecrackers, but found that it was no good. The thing was so loud that it hurt his ears, so he took a few steps back.

As soon as the firecrackers sounded, a group of children became even more excited. They shouted and screamed one by one. Obviously, they rushed to the firecrackers before the firecrackers were set off.

What do these kids do? They weren't going to be bombed by cannons. They weren't that stupid. They were waiting to pick up the dumb cannons that didn't explode.

This action is quite dangerous, but at this time, as long as the older children can walk normally, the parents will usually not stop them. That is, if they are wearing crotchless pants and want to step forward, the adults will pick them up and stroke their buttocks. Clap twice.

After a few clicks, the little guy became honest.

Everyone continued to smile and chat with the folks next to them.

As for the big ones, life and death are probably left to their fate, and wealth and honor are in the sky.

At this time, if your child is bombed, no one will say that you should pay compensation. They all think that their child picked up other people's things and was bombed. How can you blame others for blaming the child?

Of course, this little firecracker can blow up the child, but it is just a swollen hand. If it is swollen this time, you will naturally know to be careful next time.

"Spread the treasure!"

Lu Yan yelled loudly from above. Not to mention the children who were trying to grab the squib, even the adults came to the outside level in high spirits, waiting for Lu Yan to sprinkle things down.

Lu Yan was standing on the scaffolding, with a bucket of things next to him.

Seeing that everyone was coming under the roof beam, Lu Yan bent down and took a handful and poured it directly below.

The crowd immediately became enthusiastic, and everyone began to reach out to pick it up. If they couldn't catch it, they bent down to pick it up from the ground.

Lu Yan was happy throwing it up, and the crowd picking it up below was also happy.

From time to time, a child would loudly show off to his parents: "Mom, I picked up a pack of cigarettes!"

"Dad, I found fifty cents!"

"Mom, I picked up a toffee!"

…

For a time, the whole house was bustling under the beam, like a vegetable market.

Gu Siwei looked at everything in front of him with a smile. He really liked this scene so much. He felt that life was so vivid. The smiles on the faces of these villagers were all from the bottom of their hearts, although everyone was still quite poor now. , but the laughter at this time is real, and the sound of laughter is also real, the kind that can move people.

"Again?"

Hu Yanqiu came to Gu Siwei's side and saw her husband's eyes blurred, so he asked.

After taking back the emotions that had just dispersed, Gu Siwei smiled: "Remember the past?"

"Remember your parents?" Hu Yanqiu asked.

After hearing this, Gu Siwei said happily: "No one wants their parents to follow them. It's a lot of trouble to serve the elderly. You are still waiting for the good news."

"As I said, you were raised by your parents. Without your parents, you could have grown up like this? As children, we naturally have to treat our elders well. By the way, have you remembered?" Hu Yanqiu is still very curious about Gu Siwei's family. of.

Because she really couldn't think of what kind of family could raise a child like Gu Siwei. Not to mention anything else, in terms of mechanical knowledge, even Mr. Xu Congwen gave a thumbs up when he mentioned it. This is not less than twenty. What young people should have.

"It's good if you can't remember it for the rest of your life," Gu Siwei said.

As he spoke, Gu Siwei's tone was naturally a little sad, because he knew that he might never see the parents who raised him again in this life.

Hu Yanqiu thought he was sad, so he comforted him: "It's okay, we are still young. Maybe after a while, you will suddenly remember what the two elders do and where they live."

hehe!

Gu Siwei smiled.

"What nonsense are you two talking about?"

At this time, a head came over. It was Gu Siwei's brother-in-law, Hu Yanping.

"Aren't you going to grab it?"

Gu Siwei was a little surprised. How could his brother-in-law, who loved to join in the fun, stay here honestly now.

Hu Yanping said: "It's something children play with."

"How old are you?" Hu Yanqiu reached out and tapped his brother's head.

"Sister, when will you send me home? I miss my parents a little bit," Hu Yanping said.

Who doesn't know that this kid is missing his parents, but actually he wants to go home and be free. When he gets home, no one will care about him. Not only is his sister watching here, but there is also Sicui, the God who urges death. He is He couldn't beat him, so he tried to win by his intelligence, but was pressed into the mud and rubbed by Sicui. Naturally, he was looking forward to the stars and the moon, hoping to return to the happy days of the past.

"Stay there, you think so. Why don't you go back and cause trouble for your parents?" Hu Yanqiu glared at his younger brother.

"Hu Yanping, come here, where are the people? Where have they gone?"

Sicui's voice came from not far away. Sicui is now responsible for leading a group of little girls, all four or five years old. They are energetic but annoying, but Sicui is very patient.

"I'm coming!"

The answer was quite straightforward, but Hu Yanping had a deathly expression on his face, and he went to Sicui with an obvious reluctance all over his body.

Halfway through, the boy suddenly seemed to come to life and looked very energetic.

Gu Siwei was overjoyed and said to Hu Yanqiu: "Yanping will be able to become a big cadre in the future. Look at his appearance. He is really first-rate in adapting to the environment."

After hearing this, Hu Yanqiu said happily: "Stop talking nonsense!"

The couple chatted for a while, but Lu Yan had already replaced the second badou over there.

This time, Lu Yan didn't hold it with his hands, but directly scooped up the water with a gourd and sprinkled it down. The crowd below was still enthusiastic, grabbing what was sprinkled.

Everyone is outside, reaching out to pick up something. Only the children are in the middle, grabbing whatever falls on the ground. After grabbing it, they send it to their parents one after another, and then eagerly wait for the next time something drops.

No matter how many things Gu Siwei prepared, there would still be a time when he finished sprinkling them. In a total of five or six minutes, several buckets of things were sprinkled down, and the activity of sprinkling Liang was officially over.

There was nothing to say, and it was not a meeting, and there was still a summary or something. After the party was over, everyone went back to their homes to find their mothers.

Gu Siwei and Guo Shengshou sent the villagers back.

When the two of them turned back again, they were preparing lunch.

There were no outsiders at lunch today. Apart from a few members of the family, there were also Zheng Youcai, Tao Yisheng, Song Rui who was currently stationed in the village, and Wu Meiling's family.

Anyway, there are two tables full of people.

The snow was still falling, Gu Siwei and others were busy having lunch, while the remaining people lifted other beams to the roof.

After all the beams are raised to the roof, purlin strips must be laid, that is, a series of wooden strips must be nailed to the beams. The purlin strips on Gu Siwei's side are wider, almost a bar long, and then iron nails are used to fix them. People at this time called this foreign nails, and used nails to nail the purlin strips to the beams.

After nailing the purlin strips, there is also felt cloth, which most people don’t have. This was obtained by Gu Siwei, not from the factory, but from the Hong Kong city. It is waterproof and moisture-proof, and it is still It’s a fact that Hong Kong City is better.

There were seven or eight people on the roof, and the original wooden pin holes were all done, and the purlin strips were also numbered, so the purlin strips were nailed to the beams in about an hour and a half.

The next step of laying the felt cloth is even simpler. Just nail a whole piece of cloth from beginning to end, starting from the cornice, and lay one layer on top, the upper layer on the lower layer, so that even if rainwater seeps through the felt, When it falls on the felt cloth, gravity will allow the rainwater to slide down smoothly along the felt cloth.

"Everyone take a rest and come down to eat."

Gu Siwei had come over and shouted several times at this time, but no one above him stopped.

This time too.

"Why are you in such a hurry about eating? Let me tell you, after all the work is done, everyone can have a good drink and fall asleep until tomorrow morning. Then we will be happy."

Lu Yan said cheerfully.

Gu Siwei knew that everyone wanted to do all these tasks while the snow was not heavy yet. If they were finished early, there would be less moisture in the house.

Now even if this house is built, no one can live in it for a while because it is too damp. It would be strange if people lived in it without developing arthritis.

The usual method is to light a fire pot and wait until the inside and outside are baked before it can be occupied.

But you have to cover it with grass. If you don’t cover it with grass, isn’t it nonsense?

Fortunately, the house is now just finished, and the workload behind it is not big. The grass on the roof has already been prepared, and it is all placed on the innermost side.

Because of this, a group of old men also made a wooden frame, a kind of elevated one, so that the grass on the roof could not withstand the ground. They also covered it with several layers of other grass. Not to mention this kind of snow, no matter how heavy it is, Snow also has no effect on the roof grass in the middle.

"If this work is finished, it will be dark that day, and people will be hungry if they don't eat for a meal. Can everyone come down and put their feet on the ground and continue working?"

If you don't want to eat, Tao Yisheng has come a long way and is already hungry," Gu Siwei said.

Tao Yisheng laughed after hearing this and said: "Don't take it personally. When I went into the mountains, it was not a problem if I didn't eat for two days. Now that I have just one meal, it has nothing to do with me."

"Hey, the people here are so enlightened that they don't even eat." Gu Siwei had no choice now.

Hu Yanqiu also heard it at this time, so she thought for a moment and said, "How about this? Let's wait until evening and have a good meal. These dishes are not bad anyway."

Seeing that everyone was really scrambling for time to work, Hu Yanqiu had no choice but to make this decision.

Before Gu Siwei could answer, the people above all shouted "Hello".

"Yanqiu is still smart, but you have a stupid head like Siwei," Song Rui said with a smile.

"He is not stupid for a day or two."

Others also came to join in the fun.

Gu Siwei had no choice but to see that everyone agreed, so he asked Hu Yanqiu to go downstairs, while he went up to the roof and started working with the others.

After almost half an hour, everyone had a large bowl of noodles, but everyone did not take a break, but continued to work. Hu Yanqiu prepared hot soup for everyone to ward off the cold.

When it got dark, the work was still not finished, so everyone started burning the midnight oil again.

At this time, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, but everyone's work was finished, and when the last straw was stuck on the roof.

"Done!"

"But it's over!"

Everyone suddenly felt relaxed, including Gu Siwei.

"Have a meal!"

Gu Siwei rested for a while, then jumped up and yelled: "Let's have hot pot and old wine today, and we'll stop after we get drunk!"

"That's what I've been waiting for." Song Rui also laughed.