Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

"What's wrong with that?"

Xu Guangying, who proposed the solution, asked Gu Siwei with a suspicious look on his face.

At this time, Gu Siwei was a little confused and couldn't help but think: Yes, why not?

After everyone chatted about this issue for a while, Gu Siwei decided to wait for the rain to stop, or go to the radar station tomorrow, tell Li Zhengda about this matter, and ask him to report it to the troops to see if he could help him. busy.

"It's raining..." an old man said, looking at the rain outside.

Gu Siwei looked back at the rain outside the shed and said, "It's probably going to rain for a while."

After saying that, he turned to everyone and said with a smile: "How have you been eating these past few days? Are you still used to living here?"

Xu Guangying said with a smile: "There is nothing we are not used to. The current conditions are really beyond our imagination. I didn't expect that the living standard in your village is so high. Three meals a day are white rice and one or two side dishes. It is better than what we used to have." When we built the factory, the conditions were pretty good.”

"Yes, Xiaogu, when Guangying asked us to come over, our family thought we were going to hold another activity to remember the bitterness and remember the sweetness. I didn't expect that the living standard here is quite high," an old man said with a smile.

"Why isn't it high? I think it would be great for our country if all rural areas in the country could live like this." Another old man also said with a smile.

After hearing this, Gu Siwei said: "No, you came here and I specially asked the villagers to improve the food standards for you. Most of the villagers are really reluctant to eat like this."

"Then we are too far away from the masses. Isn't this bad?" An old lady was very aware. After hearing this, she immediately asked the old classmates around her.

Without waiting for the old classmates to answer, the old lady said to Gu Siwei: "Xiao Gu, we can just eat the same food as the villagers."

Gu Siwei listened and smiled and said: "Auntie, this is not the same thing. Do you think the villagers can't afford it? They just have a little money in their hands and are reluctant to take it out to eat. Which family can't eat it for two or three days now?" I just couldn't bear to part with my last meal of meat. I was used to living a hard life.

I actually want them to eat a certain amount of meat every day, but some people have commented that this method is inappropriate, and it will be difficult for me to implement it. Take your time, it is still a bit difficult to let the big guys adapt to the development all at once. of".

Nowadays, the folks are still picky, but they are indeed a bit better than before. At least most families now can cook a pot of white rice porridge from time to time and have a family meal. After collecting the white rice and bringing it up, I had to exchange it with someone for other grains. It was either a whole grain pancake or a whole grain steamed bun or something like that.

The whole grains now are different from the whole grains a few decades from now. Gu Siwei can't stand this food if he can't eat it. Because it makes his throat so rough that it takes some effort even if he wants to swallow it. The whole grains a few decades from now will be different. , in fact, it has been highly processed. Everyone thinks that the texture of whole grains is not bad. That is because they have never eaten whole grains before. After eating it, you will know what it means to be hard to swallow.

"Ah, have you lived like this in Zhuangzi?" an old man asked in surprise.

Gu Siwei smiled and did not answer his question directly. It was not that Gu Siwei had any idea, but that the income of each household was actually a difficult thing to explain. Although everyone knew roughly what the income of each household was, but It's hard to tell outside. Anyway, everyone knows that the Sixth Team is rich now, but many people in the village have no idea how much money the entire team has.

Seeing that Gu Siwei didn't answer, these old men stopped asking questions. They have all lived for decades, so they still don't understand this little truth of life.

So the guys put aside the issue of income and started chatting again.

Gu Siwei squatted for almost ten minutes more. Seeing that the rain still showed no intention of stopping, he stood up and said, "You guys, rest. I have something to do here. Let's go first."

Just when Gu Siwei adjusted his raincoat and was about to walk into the rain, suddenly an old man's voice came from behind him.

"Xiao Gu, do you know what your Zhuangzi lacks most?"

Gu Siwei suddenly stopped. He turned his head and looked at the old man who was looking at him, and said, "I know, electricity!"

The old man couldn't help but choked when Gu Siwei said this, and blurted out: "So you have thought about this problem."

Gu Siwei smiled and thought to himself: As someone who came here decades later, if I want to say what is the most inconvenient thing, it must be electricity. Why do you need to mention this to me?

"Now that you've mentioned this, do you have any good suggestions?"

Gu Siwei looked at the old man.

The old man said: "I can't give you any suggestions. It's unrealistic to build any thermal power plant in the mountains here. If you want to have electricity in Zhuangzi, there are only two ways. The first is to build a small hydroelectric power plant yourself. Rely on this The water in the river generates its own electricity.

The second thing is to pull a wire from the factory town over there! ".

Upon hearing this, Gu Siwei thought to himself: I thought you had some clever tricks up your sleeve!

Do you think we haven’t thought of these two methods? Of course I have thought about it. Gu Siwei specially found someone in Hong Kong to make a simple plan.

It's not that he doesn't want to do it, or that he can't do it. Is small hydropower still a thing for someone with Gu Siwei's financial resources? But the input and output are not directly proportional. This creates a small hydropower plant. It is estimated that for every kilowatt hour of electricity generated, it loses a few kilowatt hours of electricity, and the most important thing is to block the river.

If you build a dam on the river, it will definitely be inconvenient for boats to come and go.

Pull a line from the town factory? This method is quite feasible, but the biggest reason is the problem of money. If you want to bring electricity from the town, it cannot be as simple as hanging two wires on a telegraph pole. It must be like a high tower. The high-voltage power transmission method and each tower-shaped wire rack cost a lot of money.

Gu Siwei could afford it, but if the village had to repay the money, it would probably take ten years to sell the fruit. It wasn't that Gu Siwei couldn't afford it, but he couldn't do it.

For example, growing fruits, or even setting up a breeding farm, etc. Gu Siwei is willing to pay because he knows that this thing makes money, but if you let him do this, he is really not happy. He only loses money but does not make any money. Gu Siwei really didn't want to do something that had no prospect of making money.

"Lao Zhang, both are a matter of money!"

An old man said with a smile.

"That's for sure. It's not a matter of money. To put it bluntly, money can solve the problem of 80 to 90 years. The remaining 10 to 20 years require more money!"

The old man even got into some humor with Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei said with a smile: "That means there is nothing we can do for the time being!"

"If that doesn't work, just get a small diesel engine to generate electricity!" Xu Guangying said: "For the people in your village, a small diesel engine power generation room is almost enough."

Gu Siwei said: "It's a bit too early to talk about this matter now. The villagers won't be able to use it for the time being. There is no radio or TV signal here, so there is no rush to get this thing."

Gu Siwei originally thought he had some breakthrough suggestions, but who would have thought that he would still be stuck in the same old ways.

Gu Siwei actually thinks that the eddy current generators that will be used decades from now will be better, but they are not available on the market now. Even if they have power generation capacity, they are not enough. As for wind power, solar power, etc., forget it. Let’s experiment now. I don’t even know if it can be done in the room, so let’s not even think about applying it.

Gu Siwei's original plan was to wait until the village was built and everyone here needed it, so he would first build a medium-sized diesel generator set, and then build a power generation room in the village to meet everyone's daily electricity needs.

Waiting for the tunnel digging here to be completed and the chicken farm to be built over there, then the county or province will spend money to build a supporting power plant. I have invested so much here and there. , it would be a bit shameful for you not to pay some money.

As for whether it can be done, Gu Siwei didn't think much about it, because he knew that our country has never had a power outage for as long as he can remember. Where does the electricity come from? It's not even distributed. How many power plants can the country build? ?

These things are not important now. What is important is to renovate the village so that everyone can live comfortably. Then we will improve the health and environment of the village. Not only will the villagers live comfortably, Gu Siwei himself It's not a comfortable stay either.

Otherwise, if we see these dilapidated sheds every day, which are thick and dark, and we almost have to light up lights to see anything during the day, how can people feel better?

In short, Gu Siwei wanted to transform the Zhuangzi where he lived into a garden-like Zhuangzi.

This is Gu Siwei's idea. Not many people believe it now. Even Hu Yanqiu has difficulty understanding the garden-like environment.

In the eyes of today's people, the best house is probably the small revolutionary two-story building left behind by Big Brother in the past, which is called Jiangjun Building here.

What does this thing look like? It goes straight up and down. The roof is made of tiles or even cement. The stairs are all outside. This is the most fashionable building now, and it is also a house that countless people dare not live in in their dreams.

Do you think Lao Gu would like this?

Isn’t that nonsense? What kind of houses will Gu Siwei see on short videos every day for decades? You can say that Lao Gu, a teacher, has no money, but you can't doubt Lao Gu's aesthetics. Especially in the environment where short videos have a small goal per capita, what kind of house is good and what kind of house is not good, then he is still knew.

After chatting with a bunch of old men and women for a long time, Gu Siwei walked into the rain again, came to the river, jumped on the natural boat, took up the oar and rowed towards the other side of the river.