Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

"Sicui, are you still leaving?"

Gu Siwei stood on the field road and asked Sicui loudly.

"I'm coming!"

Sicui led him to a trot, and Year One followed up with a clanging sound.

Gu Siwei was amused by her sister's appearance: "What are you doing? Selling cans and bottles?"

Now there are about ten cans hanging on the girl's body, each one is washed clean, each one has a lid, and a cotton rope is tied to the neck of the can bottle, and then strung together.

Now these cans and bottles are hanging neatly around the little girl's neck, as if performing acrobatics.

Sicui saw her brother laughing at her, so she stretched out her hand and lit it and said: "This is for Sanya, this is for Meihua, this is for Master Meihua, this is for Brother Yong...".

"Okay, okay, it's a good thing you thought of so many people, so you just gave them cans and bottles, wouldn't they say you were stingy?" Gu Siwei said jokingly.

Sicui said: "They can't find it even if they look for it."

After saying that, Sicui asked Gu Siwei: "Brother, where did you find so many bottles?"

Gu Siwei walked in front of him with a smile. As he walked, he teased his sister: "Why, these are not enough. Are you going to follow me to pick up cans and bottles?"

"Well, if it's easy to pick up, I'd like to pick it up." Sicui really took it seriously.

Gu Siwei could only say: "It's not that easy. People don't eat canned food every day. I let them keep these."

"Is he your fake cousin?"

Sicui was so smart that she immediately guessed the person Gu Siwei wanted to pretend to be.

"Who else besides him, that is, he will have cans and bottles there," Gu Siwei said.

Sicui nodded: "They can afford it, but ordinary people can't afford it."

Nowadays, canned food is really not something that ordinary people can afford. Even canned fruits, which were almost ignored in supermarkets a few decades later, are now willing to be bought by a few people. Firstly, they are expensive and secondly, they require tickets. Let’s put it this way, as long as it is After processing, there is nothing cheap or free of charge.

Cans are deeply processed and require money and tickets. At this time, when you go to the hospital to see patients, it is a shame to carry two cans. If you carry two cans of lunch meat, it may be asking for help. It's a matter of slipping away, it doesn't even matter for small things.

"You want to eat?" Gu Siwei felt a little regretful. He would have known better not to feed all the canned food to the livestock at home.

But after thinking about it, there is nothing to regret. Such high sugar content is not good for the development of children. Besides, with Sicui by his side, are you worried about insufficient nutrition? If you have enough nutrition and then consume so much sugar, you will either damage your teeth or give way to diabetes. There is nothing to regret.

Sicui shook his head.

Gu Siwei knew that the child wanted to eat, but he didn't say anything because he was afraid of buying it himself or spending money.

"These are not good things. Wait two days. When I come back from the factory in two days, I will bring you some lunch meat cans and a half. That stuff... well, it is still edible. If there are canned hairtail fish, I will give it to you. Bring some canned hairtail fish, it’s nothing to eat, and canned braised pork would also be good.”

Listening to Gu Siwei talking about so many kinds of cans, Sicui opened her eyes wide in surprise: "Brother, have you seen so many kinds of cans?"

"What's weird? I tell you to study hard. If you have the ability in seven or eight years, I will let you go to college comfortably," Gu Siwei said.

Sicui thought for a moment: "Is college so fun?"

"College is not fun, college is my resentment. I really want to go, but unfortunately I can't go when I want to. You must study hard to go to college, you know that?" Gu Siwei said with a smile.

When he was in school, he didn't like to study. After being beaten countless times in society, Gu Siwei realized how much time he had wasted in the past. Fortunately, he finally learned from the painful experience, made up his mind to push himself, and learned the skills he is good at. , and those who screwed screws in the factory with him were still in their thirties, still on the factory assembly line, or at the construction site.

"Then I will definitely study hard and go to university!" Sicui nodded.

"good!"

Gu Siwei praised the girl.

The brother and sister just dragged each other to the pier, got on the boat and dropped them all the way to Liu Guo Gorge. The idlers in the village gave them a name. The day before yesterday, Gu Siwei started calling him that. It was just a name anyway, and everyone knew that the place was the biggest. role.

At the pier where the boat was parked, Gu Siwei saw Liu Dezhu, a boy by the river, pushing chopped moso bamboo into the river with his bare feet. This was a bamboo weaving process that seemed not to be used in other bamboo weavings, but Zheng Youcai was Bian Shi attaches great importance to this process. As an apprentice, Liu Dezhu must do this kind of work.

"De Zhu"

Gu Siwei stood on the pier and said hello to Liu Dezhu.

Straightening up, Liu Dezhu shouted: "Brother Siwei, sister Sicui".

"Will your father go to the village today?" Gu Siwei asked.

"Don't go, I haven't heard about it. You can go out and ask. They are weeding in the fields," Liu Dezhu replied.

"Sister Sicui, what are you hanging around your neck?"

Liu Dezhu really didn’t want to notice it, but he couldn’t help but notice it. There were a series of glass bottles around his neck. If he couldn’t see it, it meant he had bad eyesight. How could Liu Dezhu, an illiterate half-year-old, have damaged his eyesight by reading? His eyesight was not only good. It's also a good kind.

"My brother brought the cans and bottles from the canteen and gave them to someone to fill with water. Brother Dezhu, do you want one?" Sicui asked loudly.

"I want one. If there are more, I want it. If it's not enough, I'll give it up."

"That's enough." Sicui happily went over, took off a can bottle from his neck and gave it to Liu Dezhu.

"It's really good." Liu Dezhu unscrewed the lid of the can, scooped up a can of river water and poured it into his mouth.

Gu Siwei kept shouting, this silly boy had already drank half of the can.

"You can't drink this water until it's boiled," Gu Siwei said.

"It's okay, I've been drinking like this and haven't seen anything happen." Liu Dezhu didn't care at all.

At this time, not only Liu Dezhu was like this, but no one else in the village except Gu Siwei's family cared about it. If it were an ordinary family doing this, the people in the village would definitely say trivial things behind their backs, such as poor people and so on, but when it comes to Gu Siwei , everyone no longer finds it strange.

Literate and educated people must have more problems, and everyone knows it.

Without telling him about it, Gu Siwei went straight into the valley.

Standing at the head of the field, I saw the two families and Zheng Youcai all busy in the field.

"Uncle, Brother Shengshou, Sister-in-law Meiling, have any of you gone to the village today?"

Everyone raised their heads when they heard Gu Siwei shouting.

"If I don't go, the grass in the ground hasn't been cleared yet," Liu Fulin said.

Guo Shengshou said: "We're not going either. We haven't finished the work here yet. What are we going to do in the village now?"

"Are you going to see the boat?"

Liu Fulin guessed it.

Gu Siwei nodded: "Well, I'll go take a look at the ship."

"Actually, there is no need to be in such a hurry. One ship is enough for everyone to use evenly. Isn't it great now? You don't have to rush to see it. It doesn't matter if it's two days early or two days late." Guo Shengshou said.

Gu Siwei smiled and nodded: "Well, that's true, but it's still a bit inconvenient. Okay, you guys chat while I go over."

"Oh, Siwei, I forgot to tell you something. Chuanwu asked you to come over if you have time. He said he wanted to tell you something." Liu Fulin remembered that the last time he met Yang Chuanwu, Yang Chuanwu asked him to tell him something. .

"I know, I'll go find him later." Gu Siwei nodded.

Back at the dock, Gu Siwei took Sicui to the village.

The stream reached the village smoothly. Gu Siwei dropped the anchor and pulled Sicui ashore.

As soon as they landed, Sicui went to find her friends and share her cans and bottles, while Gu Siwei went straight to his own boat.

Now the boat has been coated with some caulking agent, but not on the hull, but on the two compartments at the front and rear of the bow. When you stand to the side, you will immediately smell a strong smell of tung oil.

There was no one beside the boat. It was daytime, and people like Guo Xiangping must be busy in their fields.

Liu Fulin's family was busy weeding, and the rest of the village was busy preparing for the upcoming harvest. Gu Siwei's area was overwatered, and the seedlings were growing like crazy. It had been less than twenty days since the rain ended. , the normal crops have not been harvested yet, and the crops in the village have begun to turn yellow. Seeing that wheat, sorghum, corn, sweet potatoes and other things are about to grow, how can the villagers dare to slack off now.

Some families slept directly on the edge of the field stalks, and it was not just one or two families. Almost every family sent people to watch the fields, for fear that wild animals would destroy the crops at this time.

"Brother Siwei, come to see the boat again. You don't have to come to see it often. This thing won't be strong unless it's fully exposed to the sun. The more exposed it is, the longer it will last."

A person working on the other side saw Gu Siwei and immediately started chatting with Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei smiled and waved to him.

After a while, Gu Siwei thought about crossing the river to have a chat with Guo Xiangping and the others. Just as he was about to cross the river, he suddenly heard a villager shouting with his loud voice.

"Someone is here, Siwei, brother Siwei, your apprentice is here, and that girl...".

After hearing this, Gu Siwei looked towards the hill at the entrance of the village, and sure enough, two little things appeared on the hill, two bicycles. These were definitely not from the village. Apart from two legs and mules, the villagers did not have expensive bicycles.

The people who came were indeed Qiao Yitong and Hu Yanqiu, but not two people, but three. Hu Yanqiu also brought her younger brother Hu Yanping, but the little guy was sitting in Qiao Yitong's car, not his sister's.

"master!"

Qiao Yitong greeted Gu Siwei immediately when he saw him.

Gu Siwei asked: "Why are you here?"

Hu Yanqiu got off the bicycle with a smile, and there was a bag of peach cake hanging on the handlebar of her bicycle.

"Why can't we come?" Hu Yanqiu glanced at Gu Siwei gently.

"I didn't say I couldn't. I'm not surprised to see you." Gu Siwei laughed and said, "Let's go, let's go to the old house first."

With that said, he led the three of them towards the courtyard of the old house.