Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Gu Siwei stood on the roadside, slightly raising his head and looking at the building in front of him.

The three-story building looks straight up and down, and there is no design at all. It is just like the Mao Zifeng style in old movies, rough, silly and chunky.

In the middle of the roof is a red five-pointed star, with five red flags on both sides of the star.

For Gu Siwei, this building really has a sense of age.

It's just that what he saw was reality, and it didn't look like some of the red scenic spots had been restored decades later.

"Brother Siwei, come in. What are you looking at outside? There is a store inside."

Liu Dezhu didn't understand when he saw Gu Siwei standing with his head up in a daze outside. He came here to imitate Gu Siwei and stretched his neck to take a look. He thought he didn't see anything, just the house and the blue sky.

Gu Siwei came back to his senses and smiled at Liu Dezhu: "It's nothing, I just think the five stars on the top are pretty good-looking."

"It's a very exciting party! I think so too" Liu Dezhu was a little happy.

Gu Siwei nodded and walked into the room.

The store was big, unexpectedly big. He was quite disappointed with the small stores in the town. From now on, this thing can be regarded as a medium-sized community supermarket at most. Of course, it is still a bit far away from a supermarket. Across the counter, If the salesperson doesn't bring it to you, you won't be able to see anything.

But the store here is really not small, and the entrance area is also large. The counters alone are divided into several groups, and the business area on the first floor alone is almost a thousand square meters.

The store has a wide range of items, ranging from food to hardware.

There are also a lot of salespeople. When I walked in, I saw four or five of them. They were all pretty women, ranging in age from forty to twenty-something.

There were quite a few customers, and at a glance there were two or three people picking out products at every counter, but most of them were middle-aged women, and it was rare to see gentlemen, who all went to work around this time.

"What do you want?"

As soon as he stood in front of the counter, Gu Siwei heard a crisp sound reaching his ears.

He looked up and saw a young girl standing in front of him across the counter.

The girl is very good-looking, and there are no artificial beauties at this time. Women at this time look like what they are, and there are very few heavily dressed ones, and generally there are only two or three kinds of cosmetics.

It's truly natural and natural, and clear water brings out hibiscus.

The girl does not have an oval face, but a round face. Although she has a round face, her big eyes are bright and lively. She smiles before anyone speaks. She has two arched eyebrows like willows and smoke. Her nose is normal and her mouth is standard. The mold peach mouth, a little, completely healthy rosy color.

"I want to take a look casually." Gu Siwei smiled.

He had just walked in and hadn't looked at anything yet, so he didn't know what to buy.

At this time, Liu Dezhu rushed to Gu Siwei's side. When he heard the salesperson asking what he wanted, he immediately said with a naive smile: "Comrade salesperson, my brother Siwei wants to buy a pot and a knife...".

Poof!

The salesperson covered his mouth and became happy after hearing this.

After having fun, he reached out and pointed inside: "Hardware, electrical appliances, household kitchen knives, etc. are all over there. We sell food here."

Gu Siwei smiled and walked in the direction of the girl's finger.

Seeing Gu Siwei leaving, Liu Dezhu smiled silly at the salesperson and followed Gu Siwei.

"Brother Siwei, the salesperson is so good-looking!"

Gu Siwei instantly had a black line on his forehead because the idiot Liu Dezhu spoke too loudly. The two of them were not even ten meters away from the salesperson's counter. It would be weird if they couldn't hear him.

Sure enough, there was a burst of laughter from behind.

Gu Siwei turned around and saw that the salesperson and her colleagues were laughing together.

"I'm sorry, my brother is more upright, but he is telling the truth. You are indeed beautiful." Gu Siwei had no choice but to bite the bullet and smooth things over for Liu Dezhu.

Liu Dezhu also said to himself: "She is beautiful. Among women, you are the most beautiful I have ever seen, and among men, Brother Siwei is the most beautiful."

" # ——!"

Now Gu Siwei really didn't know what to say. He could only look at Liu Dezhu who was standing next to him and smiled naively, wishing he could sew this kid's mouth shut.

"How about introducing our Xiao Hu to your Siwei brother? Our Xiao Hu doesn't have a partner yet."

The salesperson in his thirties next to him started to boo.

"Okay!" Liu Dezhu nodded immediately.

"Young man, which factory are you from?" the thirty-year-old salesman who spoke asked Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei smiled and said: "I'm not from the factory here, I'm from Shimo Village, the same village as him, a real farmer."

As soon as they heard that Gu Siwei claimed to be a farmer, the smiling salesmen over there suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Gu Siwei was fine. He didn't think there was anything wrong with farmers. In the era when he came, there was not much difference between farmers and workers. Many city people wanted to live the life of farmers, but they couldn't get it.

You must know that when Gu Siwei came back, the rural household registration was valuable, while the urban household registration had dropped in value.

Therefore, when Gu Siwei calls himself a farmer, he does not have the feeling of inferiority that many farmers in this era have when they say they are farmers.

This is the actual situation. No matter how you whitewash it, farmers in this era are really not as strong as workers, nor do they have a high social status.

Gu Siwei didn't have to guess at the reaction of these salesmen. Seeing that they were embarrassed, he smiled at them, then turned and walked towards the place where the hardware was sold.

The place that sells hardware is no different from the place that sells candy. There is a display cabinet next to the pond, and between the salesperson and the customer is a long cabinet with items for sale inside.

Because there are only a few varieties, the cabinets are a bit empty, but there are all the commonly used pots, pans, and other items.

There are not as many products as there would be in later generations, but there are all the things that should be there, but the prices of some things are really scary.

"How much does that pot cost?"

The salesperson at the counter here was knitting a sweater. When he saw Gu Siwei and the others coming over, he just raised his eyelids and then continued to concentrate on knitting a sweater.

"Eighteen dollars!"

The salesperson looked up and saw the pot Gu Siwei pointed at and quoted the price.

"So high, made of 304 stainless steel?" Gu Siwei asked.

The salesperson was stunned by this question and replied to Gu Siwei: "What is 304 stainless steel? This is a steel pot."

"Steel pot?"

This statement stunned Gu Siwei again. He had never heard of such a thing as steel spirit in this world.

"What is steel?"

"Steel essence is steel essence. Do you want to buy it? If you don't buy it, don't ask."

The salesperson didn't know what a steel pot was, but everyone called it that. In her mind, it was called a steel pot.

"Can I take a look?" Gu Siwei was quite curious.

The salesperson muttered something, and he didn't know what he was talking about. Anyway, Gu Siwei didn't understand it at all.

Although he complained, the salesperson still brought the shiny and reflective pot from the shelf to Gu Siwei and placed it on the counter.

He put the pot down and said, "Don't break it. If you break it, you'll have to pay for it."

Picking up the pot and looking at it, Gu Siwei couldn't help but smile bitterly. He was originally engaged in mechanical processing, and he knew what material this thing was made of as soon as he got started.

Aluminum!

What kind of steel essence is this? Isn’t this nonsense?

Gu Siwei didn't know that at this time, many places called this kind of aluminum pot a steel pot.

"Thank you, are there any iron pots here?"

Knowing that it was an aluminum pot, where could Gu Siwei buy it? This thing is an aluminum product. No matter how good it is for cooking, it will not be as good as an iron pot. In a few decades, everyone will pay attention to health. Who will still use aluminum products?

"Yes, how big do you want it to be?"

The salesperson had just sat down and rolled his eyes at Gu Siwei when he heard this. Although his attitude was not good, he still stood up and put the aluminum pot back to its original place. Finally, he reached out and pointed at the pot on the top of the pond cabinet. .

The ones placed above are all iron pots, the old-fashioned double-eared iron pots. These are all cast. The price is much cheaper than the aluminum pot just now, which is a steel pot. It is a cast iron that is twice as big as the aluminum pot. The pot is only half the price of an aluminum pot.

"Give me the biggest cast iron pan you can get."

Gu Siwei simply asked for the largest size.

In fact, the diameter of the largest pot is only about 70 centimeters, which is still far from the big iron pot in rural areas that Gu Siwei had in mind.

But this is a factory, and they are usually sold to working-class families. Such large pots are rarely used, and they are usually normal pots, about thirty centimeters.

"Are you sure you want it?"

The salesperson was a little confused when he heard this, if not for any other reason than that this pot has been sitting here for several years. Today is the first time someone has asked about it, and it is the first time anyone has asked for it.

"Well, I want this." Gu Siwei nodded.

The salesperson brought the pot up and placed it in front of Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei took the pot and looked at it with both ears.

Seeing Gu Siwei's look, the salesperson said with a smile: "Young man, you can't tell by looking like this. You have to pick up the pot and hold it up to the light to see. But the things we sell here are Don’t worry, if it’s missing, bring it over within a week and we’ll replace it for you.”

Hearing what the salesperson said, Gu Siwei raised the pot and looked at it but saw no light.

"Okay, I want this."

"Okay, I'll give you the invoice, and you go to the cashier to pay."

After hearing this, the salesperson immediately took out a small book from underneath.

Gu Siwei said: "Wait a minute, I want to buy something else, a spatula, a spoon and so on."

Maybe it was because he sold something that the salesperson felt better. He put down the sweater in his hand and started introducing Gu Siwei.

After a while, Gu Siwei bought all the pots, shovels, spoons, etc. that he needed at home. He originally wanted to buy some bowls, but Liu Dezhu stopped him, saying that the ones here were too expensive.

After looking at the price, Gu Siwei thought it was really expensive, so he just bought a shovel.

While waiting for the salesperson to issue a ticket and take the ticket to pay, Gu Siwei took a fancy to the things on the labor protection supplies counter. There was an ax inside. This kind of ax was not the kind of ax used to chop firewood, but a logging ax. .

You can tell this thing by looking at the shape of the ax handle and body.

Thinking of building a house, Gu Siwei was instantly attracted to such an axe. He looked at the price. Although it was extremely expensive, Gu Siwei gritted his teeth and bought the axe.

After paying the money, Gu Siwei found that the meal tickets in his hand had been exhausted, and there were only more than six yuan left in the scattered tickets in his hand.