Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

He felt that he had clear rewards and punishments, and the monkeys did not show much resistance when they got the walnuts. Therefore, Gu Siwei felt very satisfied with this walnut planting activity. It was a victory activity, a unity activity, and a success. activity.

But even if you succeed, you still have to go home.

With the walnuts as a base, Gu Siwei did not plan to bring anything else back, but returned to the village directly with a bag of walnuts.

As Liu Fulin said before, Gu Siwei gave him over ten pounds of walnuts in the dining hall.

The next step is the key point. Those who are helpful to me, such as the Yang Chuanwu family and the Guo Xiangping family, have given me five or six kilograms, and the Liu Fulin family and Gu Siwei have given me an extra seven or eight kilograms.

The last one to deliver was to Liu Fulin's house, mainly because Liu Fulin's house was relatively close. Of course, it wasn't delivered in broad daylight. I took advantage of the darkness to deliver it door to door, so I had space to cover up, and everyone was ordering. With kerosene lamps, no one paid attention to these things.

Carrying a small bag, I came to the entrance of Liu Fulin's small courtyard.

The door was open, and Gu Siwei stood at the door and stretched out his hand to pat the door: "Is Father Liu at home?"

"My father is at home."

Liu Dezhu ran out immediately when he heard the noise.

Seeing Liu Dezhu's shadow, Gu Siwei didn't know why. Even though he couldn't see his face clearly, he seemed to think that this stupid boy thought he was a spy sent by the grasshopper gang.

Liu Fulin also came out at this time.

"The fourth dimension is coming, come inside the house."

Gu Siwei was not polite and followed him into the house carrying a small bag.

"what?"

Seeing Gu Siwei carrying a bag in his hand, Liu Fulin asked.

Gu Siwei put the bag in his hand on the small table in the main room, opened the mouth of the bag and said at the same time: "I picked up some walnuts from the mountains and came here to give you some."

"Can you pick up walnuts at this time?" Liu Fulin was a little curious.

The oil lamp was too dim to see clearly what the walnuts in his pocket looked like. Liu Fulin couldn't help but put his hand into the bag and grabbed it first. He felt that the walnuts were big and small, and finally grabbed four or five walnuts. .

"This is still oil walnut."

After reading it, Liu Fulin was overjoyed.

When Gu Siwei heard this, he opened his mouth and asked: "Walnuts are also divided into oil and dry ones?"

Liu Fulin laughed and said: "There are no dried ones, just ordinary walnuts and oil walnuts. These are oil walnuts. They have a higher oil content than ordinary walnuts and can be pressed for oil."

"Where to squeeze it?"

This question got to the point. Gu Siwei had plenty of walnuts, but where could he squeeze out the oil?

Liu Fulin said: "Go to town and squeeze."

"In town?" Gu Siwei asked.

Liu Fulin nodded and said, "You have to go to the town to squeeze the walnuts. There used to be an old oil mill in the village, but it's gone now. If you go to the town, you have to prepare some money. Of course, if you don't want the walnut residue, you don't have to pay, but Walnut residue is a good thing, so it’s more cost-effective to pay for it..."

Liu Fulin heard that he had gone to the town to extract oil.

How fresh it is. Nowadays, people eat oil. Except for lard, they can’t afford to buy anything else. They just grow rapeseed, peanuts, etc. and bring them to the town to be squeezed by machines.

Most of them are rapeseed oil and peanut oil. The cost of pressing other oil crops is a bit high, and ordinary people are really reluctant to spend the money.

"Then when will you go to town? Take me there, and I'll squeeze some oil along the way," Gu Siwei said.

Liu Fulin thought for a while and said: "Let me see, the day after tomorrow. If there is nothing big the day after tomorrow, let's write a letter of introduction and go to the town."

Seeing these seven or eight kilograms of walnuts, Liu Fulin wanted to go to the town to squeeze their oil.

After a few decades, who would be willing to squeeze out oil for only seven or eight kilograms of walnuts? But now that the conditions are here, he really wants to collect dozens of kilograms before going, but is this possible?

No, not at all!

Liu Fulin estimates that these seven or eight kilograms of walnuts can produce about one and a half kilograms of oil. With this oil, life will be slightly easier for a while.

"Does this still need to be proven?" Gu Siwei was a little puzzled.

Liu Fulin said: "If you go to the town to play, you don't have to, but to extract oil, you need to have something from the village."

Nowadays, the oil pressing workshops in the town are all state-owned. Even a small oil pressing workshop only has three or four machines and a few people. But each of these people is holding an iron rice bowl, and their life is much higher than that of farmers. Layers out.

They are workers holding an iron rice bowl. Although their work is to serve farmers, no one provides any services now.

Even if you have things from the village, people may still make trouble for you. Some of them are evil-minded and can make farmers who come to extract oil go back and forth four or five times.

So, in Liu Fulin’s words, if you want to squeeze out oil well, you must be able to ‘be a human being’.

Gu Siwei wouldn't understand how to be a human being. How could Lao Jianghu know this little thing?

At this moment, Gu Siwei felt that many things were troublesome now, and he didn't understand how these things could be obtained at this time. To eat food, you need food stamps, to eat oil, you need oil stamps, and to eat a piece of pork, you also need meat stamps.

Moreover, pork has pork tickets, mutton has mutton tickets, and beef has beef tickets. In short, you can’t do anything without a ticket. Even if you have money, you can’t buy anything with just it. Classic stuff.

"Then let me know when you are going," Gu Siwei said.

Liu Fulin said: "It's about the day after tomorrow. I'll go to the village to write a letter tomorrow. Let's leave at 5:30 the day after tomorrow."

"So early?"

Gu Siwei was a little surprised. It was half past five, and it was still dark at this time.

"You left late and can't make it back?" Gu Siwei asked after thinking for a while.

Liu Fulin was very surprised when he heard this and said: "No, no matter what, it will take a day to go. I will go back after pressing the oil in the morning the day after tomorrow. It will be more than two o'clock at night when I get home."

Gu Siwei was instantly petrified.

He had always heard people in the village say that it would take some effort to go to town. He thought that it would only take two or three hours to walk on two legs. Who the hell would have thought that it would take a day to walk some distance.

"It's such a long way to the town?" Gu Siwei couldn't help but ask.

Liu Fulin said: "It takes at least two days to go back and forth, and it has to be a frequent walker like us. It's hard to say whether you can survive it. Generally, it is the first time you come in from outside, and you have to walk this way for a whole day and a morning. ".

"...".

Gu Siwei suddenly missed his rough house decades later even more, and also began to miss buses. Even if he didn't have these, it would be nice to have a three-bouncer.

But given the current situation, if I think about it, the road we should take will not be less than one meter.

After chatting with Mr. Liu Fulin for a while, Gu Siwei went home.

When he got to the house, he lit a kerosene lamp, and under the bright light, Gu Siwei began to think carefully about what was going on.

He has now found the land to be cultivated, but he is still confused about what he needs next. Oh, the most urgent thing is seeds.

Everyone in Zhuangzi has a lot of seeds, and his own family may not have enough. The extra ones will be given to Gu Siwei wherever they come from. Gu Siwei knows this without asking.

So Gu Siwei had to find a way to deal with the seeds.

Gu Siwei knew that he had to think of a way, but he couldn't think of anything for a while.

Then I thought about it. To have seeds, you need animals, such as plows and crawlers. You can't let Gu Siwei water the spring of space one seed at a time.

"Oops, my brain is about to explode."

Gu Siwei's head hurt from thinking about it, so he simply prepared to blow out the lamp and go back to the space to lie down for a while, or go to bed directly.

At this time, when it gets dark, there is almost nothing you can do.

In the past, when watching old movies, there were old people sewing and mending under kerosene lamps when it got dark. But when they called Zhuangzi, Gu Siwei realized that when it got dark, almost no old people were willing to light kerosene lamps and do needlework. Yes, how much kerosene will be burned, and now kerosene has to be purchased with tickets.

I was about to turn on the lamp when I suddenly saw a shadow next to the table.

Turning around, Gu Siwei found a black mouse standing in the light.

Gu Siwei looked at Black Mouse, and Black Mouse looked at Gu Siwei. They looked at each other without saying anything for a long time.

"Let me go, Mouse, what are you doing at my house?"

Gu Siwei was a little strange. Gu Siwei's things were all placed in the space. There was nothing for the mouse to drag.

And it seems that this rat is not very healthy. It is not fat anyway. It is not as fat as the rats that Gu Siwei saw in the sewers of the community decades later. The rats can be as big as a kitten.

The rat in front of me could hold up to the sky and weigh no more than four ounces. Although he had a big frame, he had no flesh on his body.

The mouse was not afraid of people at all. Looking at Gu Siwei, he actually started to rub his hands together.

“It’s too much.”

Gu Siwei said to the mouse.

But Mo Zi obviously didn't care about Gu Siwei's feelings and continued to rub his hands under the light.

Gu Siwei's bad temper could not stand the provocation of a mouse. With a thought, the mouse was sent into the space. When he was thrown out again, the mouse was tied up.

Squeak!

The mouse was anxious.

Gu Siwei wanted to reach out and catch the mouse, but he retracted his hand before he touched the mouse.

"Do you have the plague on you?"

Gu Siwei asked the mouse carefully.

Squeak!

"Have you ever...forget it, I won't ask you anymore."

Gu Siwei found a bamboo clip here. There are many of these in the village, and it is easy to make. It is just a piece of bamboo roasted in the middle with fire and folded. In this way, a clip is ready.

After picking up the mouse, Gu Siwei went directly outside, where there was light at the door, and threw the mouse to the ground.

The mouse squeaked for the first few times, but after two hits, the mouse belched. Gu Siwei threw the mouse directly in front of the door. He didn't know how far it was thrown, and then returned to the house. I closed the main room door and went to bed.