Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Liu Fulin looked at Gu Siwei and said, "You are too honest kid. From time to time, other families secretly cook something to eat at night...".

I am!

Everyone who heard this was dumbfounded by Gu Siwei, and he cursed in his heart: Damn, I just praised the people in Zhuangzi these days for being honest, but now it seems that every one of them is so smart that they don’t want anything. This is like putting hair on them and turning them into monkeys.

Although Liu Fulin said it was just roasting a potato or boiling beans or something, he had been working hard for almost a week.

He had two meals a day, both of which were watery. During those few days, Gu Siwei was woken up by hunger almost every night. He only had some fun in the woods and got some persimmons, and then he fell asleep at night.

I originally thought that everyone was like this, carrying it every night just like him.

But now he realized that these guys secretly cook and eat after midnight every night.

People’s hearts are not ancient!

People's hearts are not ancient!

In fact, Gu Siwei was wrong again. He might not be able to eat most of the food that villagers eat. Roasted potatoes are roasted sweet potatoes. When children decades from now hear this, their reaction will definitely be: Damn, this stuff. How delicious it is.

But if you are asked to eat it every day, you will feel uncomfortable, let alone dried potato.

There are also some beans, which are not easy to eat in large quantities, but you don’t want to eat them. The most important snack in the evening is stick noodles or boiled dried potatoes.

Even if you want to eat these things, you won’t be able to eat enough. If you eat enough today, the whole family will be hungry tomorrow and the day after.

"Uncle, you cook too? Where did you get the pot?" Gu Siwei asked.

Liu Fulin waved his hand and said: "I don't cook at home. I really don't have a pot at home. I go to my brother Fuping's house to eat, but it's not good food. Sometimes it's roasted potato slices, sometimes it's walnuts picked up from the mountains."

"...".

Gu Siwei was speechless and thought to himself: If there is nothing delicious, just eat walnuts!

This is not because Liu Fulin wants to show off, but the wild walnuts in the mountains that Liu Fulin said are not real walnuts. They are not very tasty. They are not only a bit bitter but also a bit astringent. They are not as good as fried and fragrant as Gu Siwei thought. Fragrant walnuts that can be pressed for oil.

The wild walnuts here don't have much oil, and they are small, about the same size as a quail egg. As long as they have a piece of food, even a piece of cornmeal pancake, the people in the village are not willing to eat it.

Just like the above, this is still not enough to eat, but it's just a cushion to trick the stomach into sleeping more solidly.

"In other words, almost all dealers have pots?" Gu Siwei asked.

Liu Fulin nodded: "Almost half of them are available. A few years ago, a batch was sent to me during the steelmaking process, but there are still quite a few left. It's almost like one for two families. They are all small pots."

After hearing what Liu Fulin said, Gu Siwei felt that he had to re-examine these bankers. Originally, Gu Siwei had a lot of psychological advantages over them, but now it seems that these bankers are not uneducated, but they are A master who is at the mercy of others.

In Gu Siwei's view, most people in this era are ordinary people. They cannot distinguish between right and wrong. When the slogan is shouted, they all follow it.

But now these farmers gave him a lot of shock.

In fact, Gu Siwei took it for granted. The deeper into the mountain, the harder it was for outside things to affect them, and it was extremely difficult for outside things to affect them.

Here, there has been only one struggle from ancient times to the present: how to survive.

The harsh living conditions are not just a problem faced by their generation. This problem has always existed since their ancestors first set foot here.

"You can't tell others about this. We won't admit it if you do. Not only will we not admit it, we will also say that you are a bad element and that you are a spy sent over there..." Liu Fulin looked at Gu Siwei. smiled.

Gu Siwei understood that Uncle Liu was threatening him, telling him not to go out and talk nonsense.

"Are you also afraid?" Gu Siwei smiled.

Liu Fulin said calmly: "We are not afraid, we are just afraid of trouble. The worst we can do is to go into the old forest. It's not that I underestimate the group of young men outside. They are like them. As long as we are half full, we can kill as many as we want." How many".

The mountain people have their own toughness. Under the current conditions, there is really not much that can be done against these mountain people.

"So, do you regret staying?" Liu Fulin smiled.

After hearing this, Gu Siwei laughed and said, "To be honest, I really like this place."

Liu Fulin was stunned by these words. He turned around and said with a smile: "As long as you like it. If you have another prey, I would like to exchange it for Dezhu to take you there."

"He always thought I was an enemy agent."

Thinking of Liu Dezhu, Gu Siwei said with a smile.

Liu Fulin listened and sighed: "If I go there one day, please protect me for my sake."

"Don't you have a younger brother?" Gu Siwei didn't understand.

You have a biological brother and a biological nephew, why are you asking me for this?

Liu Fulin looked at Gu Siwei for a while and then sighed. He didn't know how to tell Gu Siwei about this.

"I'll talk to you later when I have time."

Liu Fulin didn't want to mention this matter.

Gu Siwei had no interest in asking even if they didn't tell him. He didn't want to get involved in this matter at all. He was going to mess with other people's affairs by himself. Did he think his life was too long?

After chatting with Liu Fulin for almost an hour, Gu Siwei asked about the current social situation. Although he knew that he was in this era, his understanding of this era was almost nothing. He only knew that after surviving this movement , as long as you are a little ambitious, you will have nothing to worry about in this life, including your grandson's life.

But what it was like in this era, it can be said that he has no idea at all now. He only knows about it in general and very general terms.

The only thing that shocked Gu Siwei was the price. Now pork costs sixty cents per pound, eggs cost two cents a pound, and Chinese cabbage costs one cent per pound...

Agricultural products are cheap, but industrial products are expensive. For example, a sewing machine costs about 100 yuan, which is a worker's salary for several years.

But these have little to do with Gu Siwei now. What he wants now is to get some seeds to plant things.

"Uncle, where can I get seeds, or where can I exchange seeds?" Gu Siwei asked.

Hearing Gu Siwei's question, Liu Fulin asked a little puzzled: "Why are you asking this? You want to farm, and Chuanwu promised to allocate land to you?"

Liu Fulin thought that Yang Chuanwu would allocate land to Gu Siwei in the future.

Gu Siwei shook his head: "No, I want to open a piece of land for planting. I can't just plant nothing."

Liu Fulin said: "It's better to wait. If you want to open land nearby, how can it be so easy?"

Liu Fulin did not elaborate. His idea was that if you wait and see, maybe Gu Siwei on both sides of the river will also have a chance.

Gu Siwei didn't think so. He had no interest in the land in the village at all. What he lacked now was seeds. As long as there were seeds, he could eat rice and flour every day until he was full. If there was space, he would like a piece of land.

What Lao Gu said about opening up wasteland was just a cover-up. He told others that he had land, so it was natural for him to use it for food.

Seeing what Liu Fulin said, Gu Siwei naturally didn't say much. He thought that when he found the land and pretended to drive it out, it wouldn't be too late to talk.

After talking for a while, Liu Fulin left, leaving Gu Siwei alone in the room thinking about it.

After chatting with Liu Fulin for so long, Gu Siwei felt that he needed to adjust what he had thought about before. Originally, he had not thought of the bartering project. Now that he knows, there are many things that he had thought about before but never had the chance to mention. It's on the agenda.

But before that, he had to understand how the exchange was carried out and the approximate exchange price.

After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't figure out anything. You have to go and see this thing live to know it. You can't figure it out.

Then he ate and slept honestly. On the next morning, Gu Siwei didn't eat in the dining hall. He went out of the yard and started walking around.

Not just hanging out, but Gu Siwei preparing to find a place suitable for him to open up wasteland.

Originally, Gu Siwei planned to get this place closer to the village, but not too close. It was best to be near a water source.

It was a good idea, but after he looked around, he realized that it didn't work at all. The reason was very simple. If it could work, the people in Zhuangzi would be fools for generations. They didn't know how to put such a place into practice. Open it and plant food?

Don’t forget, our ability to open up wasteland and cultivate land is innate. More than ten years later, when we went to the United States, these people could still find an open space and plant it, let alone now.

After walking around, Gu Siwei realized that except for the two sides of the river, other places were really not suitable for growing crops, because almost all the mountains in this area were stone mountains.

There are also trees growing on the mountain, but the trees are mostly low and their roots are stuck in the cracks of the rocks. The bigger the trees are, the bigger the cracks in the rocks are.

It looks like the ground is covered with dirt. In fact, if you carry it down dozens of centimeters or even 20 centimeters, you can see the stones inside. Isn't it fanciful that you can grow food on this land?

In the entire naturally formed valley, except for some fields formed on both sides of the river due to the sediment brought down by the river all year round, other places are not suitable for cultivation at all.

If it doesn’t work here, then go further afield and have a look.

So Gu Siwei went away again.

I walked around with a group of monkeys all day long and felt at ease.

After wandering around like this for almost a week, Gu Siwei finally found a place.

Standing on the edge of the cliff with his arms crossed, Gu Siwei looked at the small valley in front of him and felt that this place was not bad.

Zhizhi!

The monkey next to him saw Gu Siwei with his hands on his hips. After barking twice, he gave Gu Siwei some food.

Gu Siwei took it and didn't think much about it. He just held it in his hand. At this moment, he didn't even realize that the monkey gave him something to eat.

It's like a person making a phone call. He answers whatever you give him. Gu Siwei is in such a state at the moment.

Those who give things to Gu Siwei are naturally flatterers. Except for flatterers, other monkeys are not qualified to show courtesy to Gu Siwei now.