seven relics

Lian Jiangyue slept at Bao Zhimei's house overnight, and was woken up by thirst the next morning. When she got up, she found that she had slept on a sofa last night, and there were no traces of Qian Baisui and Bao Zhimei around.He went to the kitchen, found the water valve, and found that the valve had been opened. He opened the stove and looked under it. Baojia used canned gas, and there was still a lot of gas left in it.He found a kettle, took a pot of water, and turned on the fire to boil the water.

The toilet was next to the kitchen, the door was wide open.On the washstand was a bar of soap and a large pile of toiletry sets with the names of various cities and hotels printed on them.There was already a torn wrapper in the trash can.Lian Jiangyue also unpacked a bag, washed up, and poured a glass of water when the water boiled.He found the switch again.The switch was also in the kitchen, next to a cupboard, and he pushed it on, tried the kitchen light, and it came on.There was also an electric water heater in the kitchen, and he fiddled with it for a while, and when the electric water heater boiled water, the glass of boiling water he had chilled before could be swallowed.Lian Jiangyue poured it with her head up, which seemed to quench her thirst. Looking out the kitchen window, she saw Qian Baisui coming in through the front door with two wooden barrels on her shoulders.

Lian Jiangyue went out, and when Qian Baisui saw him, he smiled and said to him: "The riddle is solved, solved, solved, the well in this courtyard is a well without water. I am going to Jixiang Lake to dig it." of water."

Lian Jiangyue said: "Didn't you open the water valve?"

Qian Baisui walked to the front of the house, put down the pole, and said, "I opened it, but how can we use tap water for this brewing?"

Lian Jiangyue smiled: "That's right." She bent down and took a cup of water, took a sip, the lake water was sweet and tasted quite good.He nodded repeatedly and said, "This water can be used to make wine."

Qian Baisui also tried the water, and praised it repeatedly.Poor Jiang Yue pondered again: "It's just a wooden barrel..."

Qian Baisui said: "Why don't you go to the city and find a carpenter?"

Lian Jiangyue waved her hands and said with a smile: "Here are the ready-made ones. I have made chairs, cabinets, saddle molds, and I know how to chop and look at trees. This is the wine barrel... He pondered again, and after a while, he took out his mobile phone and said, "I haven't eaten pork, and I haven't seen a pig run."

He searched for wine-making barrels on the Internet, and Qian Baisui came over to look at them together: "There is also a production tutorial, let's take a look."

The two were watching the video when they heard a knock on the courtyard door.Lian Jiangyue was going to answer the door, Qian Baisui held him back, and winked at the room: "This is Xiaobao's house, why don't we ask her to answer?"

Before the negotiation came to a conclusion, the iron door was pushed open, and a short-haired young man in a jacket and jeans stepped into the yard and asked, "Who is the owner?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "Do you have anything to do with the owner?"

The young man shrunk his neck and shoulders, looked at the yard while talking, his eyes drifted: "You are the owner? It's nothing, it's just that the house has been quiet for a while, and I thought no one came back to live."

"You live next door, right? To the east?" Lian Jiangyue said.

The young man nodded and backed out with a smile.After he left, Qianbaisui stroked the silver stubble on his chin and said, "The lock on the door at the east end doesn't seem to be inhabited, and the one at the west end is the same. Water, many houses on the road do not seem to be inhabited."

After Lian Jiangyue heard the words, she chased him out and saw that the young man had disappeared, and the gates on the left and right sides of Bao's house were all wrapped in chains and locked with locks.He found a row of car tire marks on a small road, and he wanted to continue to track it. At this moment, a series of sudden sounds of motors came from far to near, breaking the morning silence of Guobaojia Village.Lian Jiangyue looked up, and it turned out that a woman with a pink wool cap on her head and a red cotton coat was driving a small tricycle carrying goods into the village.The dirt road was bumpy, the woman was jolting, the cargo behind the car was jolting too, and the child sitting on a pile of bedding with his head down, as if he was dozing off, also jolted up and down.

The woman saw Lian Jiangyue, and waved at him, as if she knew him, the speed of the car also accelerated, and it drove up to him in a blink of an eye.Lian Jiangyue stared at the small eyes, willow-leaf eyebrows, oval face, plain-faced woman recognized it, until the boy in the car raised his head - it was the little ball, Lian Jiangyue tentatively called out to the woman: "Sister Qiu?"

Sister Qiu nodded vigorously, stopped the car, and looked at Bao's house: "Is Zhimei awake? Have you had breakfast? I brought you some food, some vegetables, and a small refrigerator. Turn around Connect water, electricity and gas to you, and you can cook hot food."

Lian Jiangyue looked at the car, besides what Sister Qiu said, she also brought two rolls of bedding, two computer monitors, a bulging luggage bag, a big steamer, a wooden steamer, and some shovels Agricultural implements such as rakes.

Lian Jiangyue said: "I found the water gate and electric gate, and there are still more than half of the gas tank."

Sister Qiu suddenly said loudly: "Oh, I forgot! It's very cold in this village at night and in the morning. I forgot to bring you some firewood. Does the stove in the house still work?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "In the bedroom, right? I slept in the living room last night."

Sister Qiu started the car again: "I'll go and have a look, go to the village and find a few more people to help me, the tank is dead, I found five people to move it into the car for me."

Lian Jiangyue followed Sister Qiu's car, supported the steamer with one hand, and said, "It's okay, there's the old man."

Sister Qiu said sharply: "That's all right, old man, don't flash it!"

The car drove into the small courtyard of the Bao family. Seeing the contents of the car, Qian Baisui first hugged Xiao Qiu, who was still yawning, then put on the earphones, and took out the phone. Sitting on a tree stump in the yard, he stopped moving.

Lian Jiangyue climbed into the car and went down to unload the goods.Sister Qiu urged him to find someone again, took out a big bag of breakfast wrapped in a quilt, stretched his neck and shouted into the room: "Chimei, Zhimei."

Taking advantage of her turning her back, Lian Jiangyue kicked the retort half an inch higher. Qian Baisui stretched out his hand beside the car, hugged the retort with one hand and unloaded the big retort.

There was no one answering in the room for a long time. When Sister Qiu turned her head and wanted to greet Lian Jiangyue and Qian Baisui for breakfast, she was startled when she saw the big steamer standing behind her.Lian Jiangyue pointed to other things on the car and asked her, "Where do you put these?"

Sister Qiu looked him and Qianbaisui back and forth, said softly, "Let's put the rake and shovel in the wine shop, and put the rest in the house. Zhimei asked me to bring them."

She muttered, "Why did this tank come down in the blink of an eye?" She touched the steamer and said, "It didn't break, did it? I didn't even hear a sound."

Qian Baisui interrupted, saying: "Eat breakfast, you will have the strength to work."

He took the soy milk, two big buns, and went to find the little ball.

Lian Jiangyue also took a big bun and bit into it. The mutton stuffing was oily and fragrant.He asked Sister Qiu: "Where can I buy this on Liuhuamu?"

Sister Qiu sat on the cart and ate a lard box. She wiped her mouth and said, "Six flower trees? They've been cut down a long time ago. Now if you have six flower trees, it's worth a lot of money."

Lian Jiangyue said: "No wonder the debt collector wanted to use the desk and cabinet in your office to pay off the debt." He thought thoughtfully, and asked, "Is there a lumber factory near here?"

Sister Qiu smiled: "Look at the barren mountains and wild mountains, just the loess mound in Jixiang Mountain, there is a fart, there is a large piece of Populus euphratica at the entrance of this village, it is useless, and there are some cypress trees in Baijin Mountain for a hundred miles For locust trees, how could there be a timber factory?"

At this time, Bao Zhimei came out of the room rubbing her eyes. She yawned, walked up to Sister Qiu, and asked, "What did you discuss?"

Sister Qiu took out a box of milk, put a straw in it, put it in Bao Zhimei's hand, and said, "I'm talking about Liuhuamu. I said that this wood has not been sold in the market for a long time."

Bao Zhimei took two sips of milk, pointed to the room and said, "Sister Qiu, show me how the water, electricity and gas in the room are connected." She looked at Lian Jiangyue, and said, "You can search online, Jingdong, Alibaba, there must be somewhere to buy it.”

Bao Zhimei's eyes were blood red, and she didn't sleep much when she saw it.Sister Qiu touched her back and asked, "Zhimei, were you tired yesterday?" She smiled, and said, "This Liuhuamu is only available in Mingshi."

"Isn't there a mountain nearby? Let's go to the mountain and look for it. Don't all the trees grow on the mountain?" Bao Zhimei said while eating buns.

Lian Jiangyue wondered if she was a local, but she didn't have the nerve to ask, she just ate buns and drank soy milk.

Sister Qiu glanced at Lian Jiangyue, put her hands behind her back, and whispered to Bao Zhimei: "Chimei, this six-flower tree is long gone. This tree used to grow in the area of ​​the ancient city, and this auspicious mountain is just a high slope of loess... "

Bao Zhimei looked behind and frowned: "Why are you dragging me? Isn't there no water? I'm starving to death. Can't I brush my teeth after eating? Isn't anyone fetching water here? Isn't it like this for foreigners? "

Lian Jiangyue said: "The water valve is opened, and the electric gate is also pushed up. There is water and electricity."

Bao Zhimei looked at him and asked curiously, "Are you still a plumber?"

Lian Jiangyue didn't speak.Sister Qiu changed the subject and said, "I'll come back in the afternoon, and tell me if you have anything else to bring."

Bao Zhimei suddenly raised her right hand and said, "Don't we still have Liuhuamu's table and cabinet?"

She glared at Sister Qiu: "Stop dragging me!"

She looked around Qiu Jie and Lian Jiangyue happily: "Find a carpenter and chop them up to make wooden barrels!"

Sister Qiu's face turned green: "That's okay! Those are old things, but... Zhimei, think about it carefully, if you chop it up, it will be gone, and you will have nothing..."

Bao Zhimei flicked her hair chicly, and said, "What's this called? This is called breaking the boat and sinking the boat, and this is called how can you catch a tiger if you don't enter the tiger's den!"

At this time, Qian Baisui passed a sentence from Yaoyao: "Don't look for a carpenter, Brother Lian will."

Bao Zhimei squeezed her eyes and looked at Lian Jiangyue: "You really know it?"

Lian Jiangyue nodded.

Bao Zhimei made a decision: "Okay, then it's settled, sister Qiu, you can find a few people to pull me over, Lian Jiangyue, look at the desk and cabinet in my office, how many wooden barrels are enough?"

Lian Jiangyue gestured at her waist: "Two? I have to dismantle the things and measure the specific data."

Sister Qiu grabbed Lian Jiangyue's arm and said anxiously: "Don't make a fuss, this is not a joke. Let me ask you, do you really know carpentry? It's not just chopping firewood, just chopping a stake. Can carpentry."

It is true that Lian Jiangyue has never made wine-making barrels. Seeing Miss Qiu's anxious look, and thinking of the value of the six flower trees, she was a little uncertain, so she said: "Then why don't you dismantle a cabinet first and make a trial one first?" try?"

Bao Zhimei made a gesture of hugging the ball, and said: "How big can a cabinet be? I saw in the video that people use such big barrels for wine making. Don't get entangled. The wood is also for Hong Hong to sell It’s better to split the money.”

Sister Qiu was speechless, and sat in the car with her head down.Bao Zhimei said again: "What else do you all need, let's talk together, and let Sister Qiu buy it together."

Sister Qiu just responded, and listlessly pushed the front of the car towards the gate of the courtyard.Qian Baisui said: "I don't need anything."

Lian Jiangyue thought for a while, and said: "I want a big copper pot, ten quilts, the city is so dry... then I need three big steamers, some bricks for the stove, and three belts, the waist is the most The kind used by rough people, and a pot that can be used to burn fire, and a watering can for watering flowers.”

Sister Qiu wrote down one by one, Bao Zhimei was listening and was very satisfied. When Lian Jiangyue finished speaking, she applauded and clenched her fists: "Comrades, come on!"

She hummed a little song and went back to the house.

Sister Qiu looked back at her back several times, feeling very worried, Lian Jiangyue went up to help her push the cart, she beckoned Xiaoqiu to get on the cart, but Xiaoqiu didn't move.Qianbaisui patted the ball and made a gesture with Sister Qiu.Sister Qiu sighed: "Then I will trouble you."

When she arrived at the gate of the courtyard, she couldn't help but said to Lian Jiangyue: "I think you are a steady person, you can't mess around with Zhimei."

"We really want to make wine."

Sister Qiu nodded, her eyes were still full of worry: "But wine making can't be done seriously, do you understand?"

Lian Jiangyue smiled, comforted Sister Qiu, and said: "If you are serious, you may not be able to make it, but if you are not serious, you will definitely not be able to do it."

Sister Qiu looked at him, worried and resolute, and said: "Shangguan Yuzhan has been kind to me. When she was still conscious, she asked me to take good care of Zhimei. If I promised her, I would never break my promise. Lian Jiangyue, I believe you are a kind person who sincerely wants to help Zhimei, but if you are not the person I think, if you hurt Zhimei, I, Qiu Chuchu, will never let you go. I will never let you go."

Lian Jiangyue suppressed her smile, and cautiously cupped her fists at Sister Qiu, bowing her head.

Sister Qiu laughed and stepped into the car: "Haha, I'm still a small quack, and quacks are the most ruthless and unjust! Just remember what I say!"

She drove away.

The yellow sand was flying, Lian Jiangyue closed the door, turned around, saw Qian Baisui was looking at him, the two looked at each other and smiled, one said: "Get water?"

One said: "Get water."

They took a shoulder pole and found two plastic buckets, one with a pole and the other with two hands, and went back and forth between Jixiang Lake and Bao's house to fetch water.Bao Zhimei nestled in the room and fiddled with the computer.

Lian Jiangyue and Qian Baisui are both good at lightness kung fu, and the village is sparsely populated, so it is very convenient for them to display their skills regardless of other people's eyes. After going back and forth three times like this, they filled a bathtub with water.Just about to run back and forth for the fourth time, I saw a man walking in from the courtyard. The man was almost middle-aged, with two mustaches on his lips, wearing a suit and a job number plate on his chest.Holding a bunch of keys in his hand, the man glanced at Lian Jiangyue and Qian Baisui in the yard, and then at the little ball sitting on the tree stump. He lowered his eyebrows, but raised his voice very high: "Bao Where's Chimi?"

There was a scream from inside the room, the curtains were drawn shut with a clatter, and the door slammed shut.Bao Zhimei's voice sounded muffled from behind the door:

"Bao Renhui! I also have a share in this house. You don't want to drive me away. This is the master I invited to help make wine! He is a professional!"

Bao Renhui let out a contemptuous laugh, pointed at Lian Jiangyue with the key in his hand and gestured up and down: "Are you a professional?"

Lian Jiangyue took off her shoes and rolled up her trouser legs for the convenience of fetching water in the lake, and her hair was coiled with a branch. This look is really embarrassing.He straightened his back, cleared his throat, and said, "It's a professional, a professional carpenter, and he majored in chemical engineering at university."

"Oh, chemical industry, how many years have you worked in the winery? Listen to your accent, Shaoxing? Huzhou? Have you put on the felt hat in the rice wine factory?"

Lian Jiangyue patted her trouser leg: "He's from Beijing."

Bao Renhui smiled again, and pointed at Qianbaisui even more contemptuously: "Old man, retired? What about you? What kind of business do you do? Carrying water? Life is not easy, and you still have to earn money at this age Hard money."

Qian Baisui scratched his cheek: "I retired early, I used to work in a temple."

"Still vulgar?"

"It's Fuxi Temple."

"Oh." Bao Renhui walked to the side of the little ball with a smile, kicked his calf, and looked down at him, "little stammer, what are you doing here? Cutting class again? What are you playing?" He took the little ball Ball's mobile phone, held up high and looked at: "Final Fantasy, fuck, it's enough fantasy."

The little ball jumped up and was going to grab the phone.Bao Renhui pressed his head, and forced him back on the tree stump. Lian Jiangyue wanted to go over, but Qian Baisui reached out to block him, but Bao Renhui didn't make any further movements, and threw the phone back to the tree stump. the ball.

He looked around the yard and played with the key in his hand with a smile: "Okay, I thought Bao Zhimei was hysterical and wanted to commit suicide in the old house, now..."

"A jobless vagrant, a retired old man, a teenager addicted to the Internet..." Bao Renhui lit a cigarette, looked straight at the room where Bao Zhimei was hiding, and smiled unabated: "A giant social-phobic baby, you can do it, I Let's see what you can come up with."

He smoked a cigarette, and waved his hands with Lian Jiangyue: "Brother, I advise you, if you want to cheat money, you might as well coax Bao Zhimei into marriage. If the house is sold later, you can still get some money. "

He turned away.