Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

The old lady took the photo from Gu Siwei's hand and wiped it carefully. It seemed that she was very affectionate for the person in the photo.

"This is my cousin. He was working in the countryside last year. He was injured and couldn't get over it." The old lady was a little sad.

After hearing this, Gu Siwei opened his mouth to persuade: "Please show my condolences. People cannot be resurrected after death. You have to be more open-minded."

The old lady smiled after hearing this, with an inexplicable bitterness in her smile. After a while, she put the photo on the table. The old lady continued to look at the photo and fell into deep thought.

"Although we are cousins, we just have a small relationship. Our two families are close to each other in the east and west, and the relationship between mother and father is also quite good... Our family was not poor before liberation. Not only was it not poor, but it was Quite wealthy, in today's terms not only a landowner but also a big landowner...

My cousin has been different from other children since he was a child. He has a more stubborn character and accepts death. Later, when the Japanese came, he secretly left home and joined the army... Waiting for liberation, things were better in the past few years, but Since the year before last, his life has been getting worse day by day. His health was not very good during the war years, but now he has been treated like this and died in a few days..."

At this point, the old lady started sobbing.

Gu Siwei quickly began to comfort the old lady again. The pain of her loved ones made the old lady a little unable to control herself. This was understandable to Gu Siwei. At this time, it was not surprising that any monsters would appear, and this year was just the beginning. There are still several years to come.

Gu Siwei came here after fighting for decades, so he naturally knows how long this thing will last, but Gu Siwei has no choice. Although he has space, he is not conceited enough to go against history. That is not stupid, that is ignorance of life and death. .

When the old lady felt sad, she felt a little uncomfortable and started to hold her head. When Gu Siwei saw this, he immediately helped the old lady lie down on the bed in the back room.

The old lady was very old, so as a junior, Gu Siwei had nothing to worry about and directly pulled up a stool and sat beside the old lady's bed.

"I'm sorry, Xiao Gu. I saw you thinking about my cousin, which was a bit rude."

The old lady was a little apologetic to Gu Siwei. He came here to look for his son. Who knew that now he would have to take care of the old lady when he came to the house for the first time. This was really rude to someone like the old lady.

"Hey, what's the matter? I just want to chat with you here, and I feel close to you when I see you," Gu Siwei said with a smile.

What he said was just sweet-talking. It was hard for Gu Siwei to tell whether it was true or false.

The old lady knew that what Gu Siwei said was polite, but she still liked him. It seemed that when she didn't see Gu Siwei, it was like seeing her deceased cousin.

Others may think this is a bit creepy, but Gu Siwei doesn't think so. He thinks that the old lady can remember her cousin so much, which proves that the old lady is a kind person. Generally, whoever has nothing to do will remember his cousin, let alone He is a cousin. Even if he is a biological brother, sometimes there are people in the world who do not take him seriously. Even if his relatives have not hurt him, to him, if he does not help him wholeheartedly, it means that there is no value in family affection.

Gu Siwei likes such kind and kind people and likes to get along with them, because Gu Siwei really doesn't know how to get along with people who can be ruthless to others, and he doesn't know what day he will be taken advantage of by this person. They are just talking about things, so just stay away from such people and things, stay far away, and don’t cause trouble for yourself.

Gu Siwei chatted with the old lady for a while, and the old lady became happy, because Gu Siwei told the old lady about his hunting, not only his own hunting, but also the hunting stories told by the villagers. A skewer of hunting stories.

"Will this sheep be scared out of his wits? Why do I sound so untrustworthy?"

The old lady was leaning sideways, holding a piece of persimmon in her hand, biting it gently and slowly eating it. After hearing Gu Siwei say that the yellow sheep in the mountains could be scared out of their wits, she cheerfully expressed that this was unlikely.

Gu Siwei smiled and replied: "I don't think it is possible, but based on my own experiments, at least 70% to 80% of sheep are timid and scared to death, rather than stubborn and stubborn." .

"Then you can do an autopsy and have a look. The sheep are dead anyway, so you can do an autopsy to prove your theory." The old lady continued to smile, looking at Gu Siwei with a loving look on his face.

Gu Siwei said: "I'm not very good at this. I have no problem skinning sheep. But if you talk about studying sheep's internal organs, I usually like to do mature research. If it's raw, forget it."

"Hahaha, you kid, why are you so unreasonable?" The old lady giggled happily.

Gu Siwei finally knew that this old lady really came from a wealthy family. Not to mention other ordinary women, she could not even say the word anatomy, let alone read and write.

While Gu Siwei and the old lady were chatting lively, a middle-aged female voice came from the yard.

"Mom, is there someone at home?"

"Gui, come inside, Daorong's friend is here." When the old lady heard that her daughter-in-law was back, she immediately stood up and prepared to get out of bed.

When Gu Siwei saw him, he immediately reached out to help.

Although the house had two rooms, they were not very big. When the woman arrived in the courtyard, she walked into the house before the old lady got out of bed.

When she saw the old lady getting off the bed, she was startled and quickly stepped forward to support the old lady: "Mom, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay. It's okay. I'm just a little dizzy. It's an old problem. Come on, this is Dao Rong's friend. His surname is also Gu. His ancestors came from the same place as me. Maybe they are distant cousins. brother……".

"Hello!"

The woman glanced at Gu Siwei with a strange expression, then smiled politely at Gu Siwei, and then her thoughts fell on the old lady.

The woman is Wu Daorong's daughter-in-law. She is not tall, almost less than 1.6 meters tall, not fat, her face is a bit long, her appearance is average, she can be considered average at most, her face is plump and thin, but her cheeks are quite thick. , with short ear-length hair, looks very capable, and you can tell at a glance that she is a woman with a cheerful personality.

"Hello, I'm under a lot of care from Director Wu," Gu Siwei said politely.

"Oh, sit down. I heard our family Dao Rong mentioned you and I know you are a good hunter." The woman said with a smile. After talking to Gu Siwei, she started to ask the old lady again, with a look of concern on her face.

"Mom, do you want to go to the infirmary and take a look?" Wu Daorong's wife asked.

The old lady said: "I went to the infirmary. I just felt a little uncomfortable all of a sudden. It's nothing serious. It's an old problem. It's gone now."

"Well, if you feel uncomfortable in any way, you must tell me. You can't carry it by yourself. What's the point of carrying this disease..." The woman was a little nagging, but this nagging was full of warmth.

The old lady stood up, and with her support, the three of them came to the courtyard again, sat down and chatted for a while, and then Gu Siwei stood up and left.

When preparing to leave, it’s natural to take out the gifts you brought.

Who knew that it would be better not to take it. As soon as they took it out, the expressions of the old lady and the woman changed.

The old lady said: "Xiao Gu, we are very happy that you can come, but we can't ask for these things. Who would we be if we wanted your things? You and Daorong are friends, and friends should be gentlemen. Friends, it’s not good to do these things!”

"Yes, you are welcome to come to our house to play, but if you want to bring these things, forget it. I don't dare to accept them. If you accept them and wait for our family Daorong to come back, you may not be able to show my face." The woman People also said.

Gu Siwei naturally wanted to keep the things, so he told Wu Daorong that he bought potatoes for himself with his own money.

"It's okay to help your friends, but it's not good if you do this." The old lady shook her head.

Gu Siwei had spent more than 30 years in society, but in the end he failed to persuade the two people to take the things. However, it was not in vain, because in the end the old lady agreed to keep a few kilograms of walnuts fried by Gu Siwei himself. There are also about a dozen persimmons that Gu Siwei baked himself.

As for the things Gu Siwei bought in the store, the old lady refused to accept them at all.

There was no other way, so Gu Siwei had no choice but to leave Wu Daorong's house with these things. After leaving the house, Gu Siwei thought about the incident of going to Wu Daorong's house and found it quite interesting.

He felt that this family was really interesting. He had not seen such a family decades later. It is estimated that there are not many such families in this era.

As soon as Gu Siwei left, the woman asked her mother-in-law: "Mom, what are you doing today...".

The woman didn't explain clearly, but her meaning was clear, that is, her mother-in-law never accepted anything from others. Who would have thought that today she would make an exception and accept Gu Siwei's local products. Although they were not much, they were of a different nature.

The old lady smiled and said, "I see this kid is so close."

The woman smiled and didn't care.

At this time, the woman glanced at the photo on the table. She picked it up and looked at it curiously, and then asked her mother-in-law: "Who is this? Who is this? He looks a bit like Xiao Gu just now." .

"Your cousin, forget it, give me the photo." The old lady reached out and took the photo from her daughter-in-law's hand.

"That cousin who used to be a high official?" the woman asked more.

The old lady hummed and said, "It's your cousin who had a miserable life. He didn't enjoy two years of peace and happiness, so he gave up and left your cousin and his two daughters... ugh."

The old lady sighed again.

"Didn't you say that my cousin had a son who was taken abroad by my old cousin when liberation was about to begin?" the woman said casually.

"Yes, not long after I brought him back to my hometown, someone informed me. If your old cousin hadn't tried his best to protect him and escaped overnight, he would have died at that time. Those people ended up going crazy. It's just that they suffered so much. The child is born. I don’t know if the child has been found after so many years. If the child lives to this day, he will probably be twenty years old. He is nineteen years old. He will soon reach the age of talking about a daughter-in-law..." the old lady said .

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law just started chatting.

Gu Siwei slowly left the family area. The matter was done, but he couldn't rush back now because the time was wrong. Even if he rode a mule, he would not be able to get home until after three o'clock in the afternoon. He had to do errands on the way back and forth. , how many hours?

So Gu Siwei continued to wander around the street in the factory, planning to go to a restaurant again at noon, eat and drink before going back to the village.