Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

"Master, why don't you grow a piece of watermelon at home? I think you have a lot of land here."

Qiao Yitong came out of the cave soon and raised his opinion when he saw Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei smiled and said: "You still want to eat watermelon, why don't you come over and plant it? If you can't come over to plant it, forget it. You haven't seen so many things in my field. Which one is not more important than watermelon?"

Gu Siwei doesn't like eating watermelon very much. In fact, it's not that he doesn't like it very much. He always finds it troublesome to spit out the seeds. If it is seedless, he also feels that the yellow seed embryo that has not grown will affect his desire to eat the melon. .

Anyway, this won’t work, that won’t work either, so I just won’t eat it, which saves trouble and money. I just don’t know if a good variety like 8424 has been researched now. It’s probably not available, and I don’t know what time it is now.

"What are you thinking about again?"

Hu Yanqiu saw that Gu Siwei's eyes were blurred again, so he said with a smile.

Gu Siwei smiled and said: "Nothing, I'm just thinking about a seedless watermelon."

"Seedless watermelon? Are you crazy? There are watermelons without seeds. How will you plant seedless watermelons next year?" When Hu Yanqiu heard what Gu Siwei said, he couldn't help but laugh at him.

"I can't tell you." Gu Siwei smiled and said nothing.

Tao Yisheng said at this time: "What to do next? Go back or continue to make honey here?"

"Go back, this is enough for now," Hu Yanqiu said.

Gu Siwei glanced at Qiao Yitong, who said: "Let's go then, we still have a long way to go."

So everyone went home together.

After tidying up a little, we had breakfast at Gu Siwei's house. The breakfast was quite simple, with a pot full of noodles served directly.

Although the noodles are simple, Gu Siwei's noodles are very delicious. They are almost all meat. In addition to the meat, there are some peas. There are salt, oil and a few seasonings. Not to mention cooking the noodles, even mixing them The belts are all delicious.

After dinner, Gu Siwei drove the three of them to the old house by boat. Hu Yanqiu and the other three took their bicycles. Gu Siwei and Sicui accompanied them to the entrance of the village, and then turned back and returned home.

Tao Yisheng did not leave. When he saw Gu Siwei coming back, he said, "How is it?"

Gu Siwei asked: "How about what?"

"I mean, what about Hu Yanqiu?" Tao Yisheng said with a smile.

"Very good" Gu Siwei replied.

Sicui listened in confusion, looking like a curious baby.

"Go back and write your words." Gu Siwei saw Sicui's appearance and said to her.

Sicui stuck out her tongue and quickly went into the small study room to the north to write.

Gu Siwei was about to say something when he saw Tao Yisheng tossing a lot of things on the table, so he asked, "What are you doing?"

"Bake medicine for Sicui, what else?" Tao Yisheng said.

Gu Siwei didn't understand this either, so he hummed when he heard what he said.

Just as he was about to leave, Tao Yisheng asked: "What are you going to do with the tank Hu Yanqiu mentioned?"

What Tao Yisheng was talking about was that before Hu Yanqiu left, he asked Gu Siwei to find a vat for her, saying that she would come over in a few days to learn how to pickle pickles from Tao Yisheng.

Gu Siwei originally thought he was just casually mentioning it in the cave, but who knew that Hu Yanqiu took it seriously and really planned to make pickles in the cave. Gu Siwei didn't know what to say.

"What should I do? Buy it. Otherwise, if I go to town this time, go to the town to the west to buy a vat, and then buy some jars. After the crops are planted, I can clear some land to plant garlic and so on. , pickle some sugared garlic, and pickle some salted duck eggs, in short, make more, and you won’t have to eat so monotonously in winter..."

Tao Yisheng looked at Gu Siwei and shook his head: "You are the one who eats rice and white noodles all day long and says that the food is monotonous. If you are heard by people outside, you may be dragged out and shot. Who knows? Like your family, three meals a day?"

"This is my ability, why can't I eat it?" Gu Siwei said with a smile.

After hearing this, Tao Yisheng said directly: "You are not the only one who has the ability. Fortunately, you live here. The mountainous area is also closed, and the news cannot be spread. What if you try it outside? You don't know how you died. . When you go out, you should be careful and don’t mention how much good things are here. Even if you are poor, it is best to only eat one meal a day, and it is potato and corn porridge. Let me tell you, nowadays it is more and more popular. "Poverty is more glorious\

,"Gu Siwei knew that Tao Yisheng was doing this for his own good, so he smiled and nodded: "I understand, it's okay. Why should I say this?"

"Also, don't wear these nice clothes when you go to town. As for your original clothes, get a few rags to patch them up first, and then rub them in the dirt. They will be as dirty as possible when you go out. It's better to be dirty, and this will show your identity as a poor peasant. Don't be impatient, no matter how capable you are, you are still a human being, and you cannot resist the trend of history," Tao Yisheng said kindly.

"I know, Uncle Tao, I know all this. I'll take the clothes I'm going to use as soles later and ask sister-in-law Meiling to mend them for me," Gu Siwei said.

Tao Yisheng said: "Don't bother her. You can find it later and I will fix it for you."

Gu Siwei originally wanted to be polite, but he thought it would be superfluous to be polite to Old Man Tao, so he nodded casually.

The two were busy with their own work, and Gu Siwei was preparing to make a wooden door, which should be very strong.

Where's the door? Of course it is the door of the cave. He is now going to confiscate the cave. No monkeys, including Da Mao and Xiao Ma, can enter, because Lao Gu has taken a fancy to this cave and plans to put something in it, or just to make some space for himself. cover.

The materials are readily available. Gu Siwei doesn't have much here, but there is a lot of materials. He had saved a lot of materials when building the house. If he randomly found one or two, he would have materials for the rough and primitive door.

Choose a tree trunk as thick as a bowl, cut it to a size suitable for the entrance of the cave, and then run horizontal bars through it and fix it back and forth several times. Not even a human being can open this thing.

As for how to install the door, Gu Siwei is not worried at all. He has many options. He can just push the wooden door to the entrance of the hole and press it directly with a huge stone in the door.

Except for humans, it is not easy for animals to open it, because Da Mao doesn't seem to understand what the lever looks like. It's possible to let it eat honey, but it's impossible to let it gain leverage.

As for the monkeys, it's possible, but even with their strength, they can't push the stone that Gu Siwei prepared for the cave.

The whole thing was almost done, Gu Siwei returned to the big house.

As soon as he arrived at the door of the big house, he saw Sicui holding a big bowl with a sad face, sipping the contents of the bowl one mouthful at a time. His expression was no different from that of beheading in the execution ground. He was begging for help from God. Ying, asking for the ground, the expression of the ground not helping.

"Why are you making such an expression? Is that stuff so bad to drink?"

Gu Siwei thought it was just a traditional Chinese medicine. He pinched his nose and raised his head and asked.

"Brother, why don't you take a sip?"

Sicui really didn't want to drink, but Tao Yisheng was watching her from the side, making her unable to do any tricks.

"I……".

In fact, Gu Siwei was still a little curious and wanted to know what this thing smelled like. When he came next to Sicui, Gu Siwei smelled it as soon as he opened his mouth.

Good guy!

This made Gu Siwei take a step back subconsciously.

"I said, old guy, what are you cooking? Why does it smell like this?" Gu Siwei covered his nose and walked away, almost three meters away from Sicui before he stopped.

Tao Yisheng said: "Have you never heard that good medicine tastes bitter and is good for diseases?"

"Bitterness is bitterness, but your taste is not bitter," Gu Siwei said.

"It's not good to smell it at first, but it will get better once you get used to it. Sicui, don't look at your brother, drink this stuff, don't let it cool down, the medicinal properties will be less good when it gets cold. I won't harm you, You are also lucky. Without the medicine Zizhi, there would be no trace," Tao Yisheng said sternly.

Gu Siwei said to Sicui: "Drink, drink, you can't escape anyway."

Sicui looked at the remaining third of the medicine, frowned and continued to drink it one sip after another.

After a while, the medicine reached the bottom. Sicui was afraid of wasting it and even put the medicine residue at the bottom of the bowl into his mouth.

"alright!"

Tao Yisheng took out a small bowl at this time, and in the bowl was the honey nest picked in the morning.

"Come, have something sweet," Tao Yisheng said.

Sicui took the bowl, raised her head and drank a bowl of honey water.

Gu Siwei looked at Sicui and asked with a smile: "What's in your belly? Is it a bottomless pit? I just drank a big bowl of medicine, and I can still drink a bowl of sweet water."

"Water doesn't take up space!" Sicui said, patting her belly like a small drum.

Tao Yisheng had no choice but to sigh: "I didn't let you drink it all in one go."

"You can't do it without drinking. The taste of the medicine is too strong," Sicui said.

Gu Siwei's attention turned to the old man, and he found that the old man was mending his own torn clothes.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it. At one glance, Gu Siwei wants to die.

"I said, old man, just mess with me. Who would mend a man's clothes with bright red? It's because of face, you are really good at it." Gu Siwei felt that he would never wear this clothes again even if he killed himself.

This is not a patch, this is simply patching one's own clothes. For fear that others will not know that one is poor, the patching is like an ancient official, who would make birds and animals appear on his body and use himself as a beast in clothing.

"Now you see it is like this, you will know later" Tao Yisheng was full of confidence.

"Even after two sessions, I can't hide your poor craftsmanship. The wiring is long and short. You don't have half the craftsmanship of sister-in-law Meiling? Fortunately, I thought your craftsmanship was good just now, but the result is not as good as mine."

Gu Siwei said.

Tao Yisheng ignored him and continued to do what he was doing. After mending the clothes, he got some grass, vine, grass ash or something, put it in the wash basin, added water and threw the clothes in to soak.

After only three or four minutes, when he took the clothes out again, Gu Siwei was stunned because the original dye on the clothes was smeared, and it actually had the effect of an ink painting.

In the words of Gu Siwei at that time, it was top-notch Chinese style.

"Hey, do you still have this skill?" Gu Siwei suddenly became arrogant and gave a thumbs up: "Old man, you know a lot of things."