After the rebirth, the cannon fodder left the plot

Chapter 13: Doing Things With Your Brain

Back at the residence, after Gu Changping took away the cattle and farm tools, Gu Jin spoke to Shen Jingcheng.

"What if those people refuse to help us?" Thinking of the situation in Shisanhu Village, Gu Jin was a little worried.

Both of them are too young to support a plow. If no one is willing to work, how will they open up wasteland next year?Don't they have to plow the land with shovel after shovel when they have cattle?
"We hire people." Knowing what she was worried about, Shen Jingcheng said with a smile: "There are also villages around the county seat. Every spring, those who have no land and no farm tools will look for work everywhere. We can just hire people. Money or food will do.”

"Huh?" Gu Jin was at a loss.

The people who came with me refused to do it. Where are they going to hire someone?

"When we were buying seeds at the grain shop, didn't there be a few people there? They were discussing where to work next year, and I listened to it at that time." Shen Jingcheng patiently explained her doubts.

Gu Jin thought about it seriously, there were indeed several people in the grain store at that time, but did they say this at that time?

Seeing that she was still frowning, Shen Jingcheng stretched out his hand to flatten the small pimple between her brows, and said softly: "Don't worry, we won't find people to work next year, if it doesn't work, we'll just open up less wasteland and plant If you have less food, you won’t be hungry after all.”

Gu Jin thinks so, the two of them are small, and they don't eat much, even if they only cultivate an acre of land a year, they won't have nothing to eat, things have to be taken slowly, the two of them will grow up one day, and there will always be A day when you can open up wasteland and cultivate land by yourself without relying on anyone.

After the matter was figured out, Gu Jin was no longer so entangled. He turned around and started cooking. It was already past noon and he was already hungry.

Seeing that she finally stopped frowning, Shen Jingcheng raised his eyes towards the direction of the shore with mockery in his eyes.

I originally thought that those people had nothing and wanted to cooperate, but they didn't want them to just take advantage of him, so don't blame him for not giving the opportunity.

Gu Jin began to be busy, and Shen Jingcheng was not idle either. He took the shovel from the unloaded bullock cart and started digging holes on the spot.

He wanted to build a hut, and it was already so cold before December, if it was really cold or rainy and snowy, the grass house would not be very useful.Besides, he bought so many grain seeds, if they get wet, it will not be easy to germinate.

At the Gu family's side, the children saw the calf they had just bought, and they kept circling around happily, while the Wang family looked at Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin's side with somewhat obscure eyes.

She really didn't expect that the kid surnamed Shen still had so much money. If she knew that she should have asked for more when she sold Erni, then the one with the ox cart should be hers.

But this matter is not without remedies, as long as he coaxes Erni back again, isn't that kid's ox cart the same as her family's?

Thinking of this, Wang raised her foot and walked in the direction of Gu Jin and the two, but was stopped by Gu Changping just a few steps away.

"What are you going to do?"

"I'll go see if Erni needs help." Shi Wang pointed to Gu Jin.

"No need." Gu Changping said flatly, "Even if you want to help, I don't need you. Don't approach them."

"But..." Mrs. Wang still wanted to argue, but was interrupted by Gu Changping's deep voice.

"return……"

Wang looked at Gu Changping's gray eyes, opened and closed his lips, and finally bowed his head unwillingly and walked back.

When Mrs. Wang came back, Gu Changping closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and said to his two sons: "You two remember, our cattle and farm tools were bought with the money from Erni, and our family owes her. Please help Erni if ​​you have something to do, don’t make trouble if you have nothing to do, and take care of your mother, don’t let her go to Erni’s side, Erni is afraid of her, don’t let your mother go there to scare people.”

"Ah."

"it is good."

Gu Dajiang and Gu Erhe agreed one after the other, looking at the newly bought cattle and farm tools, they are not as happy as they were at first.

Especially Gu Dajiang, at this moment he understood why his father was not happy even if he bought a cow.

Who can be happy when selling what his daughter bought?

Gu Changping's voice was neither high nor low, but it just happened to be heard by everyone. Wang's heart sank when he heard it, and his whole body was in a bad mood.

What does this man want to do?Speaking of these words, what will the children think of her in the future?
As soon as Gu Dani saw her expression, she immediately moved aside quietly, trying to stay as far away from her as possible.

After Gu Changping finished speaking, he greeted his two sons and started digging pits. As for what Wang thinks, who cares?

He has already warned Wang not to provoke Gu Jin, but she insists on looking for trouble, who is to blame?
Still going to help?
I didn't see her helping along the way, and I didn't see her helping when I settled here. Today, as soon as I bought the cart back there, she would go to help. Who would believe it?
Everyone in the family has their own thoughts, only Gu Sanni, who doesn't understand anything, still stands not far from the calf, staring at it quietly.

Niu looked at the little man in front of him for a long time, and suddenly he swung his tail and opened his mouth to 'moo'. Gu Sanni was startled, and then others followed suit with a small 'moo' sound.

The current land is only frozen with a shallow layer of ground, so it is not difficult to dig. When it was dark, the prototype of Shen Jingcheng's nest was basically completed. He even dug out a stove at the door, and the chimney directly led to the outside. On the ground, now only the roof is left.

After breakfast the next day, Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin led the calf with an ax and went to chop down the few small trees they saw when they first arrived.

Bang bang in the middle of the afternoon, the two cut down the small trees and let the calf drag them back. They took two small trees and laid them on the ground as beams, and spread thick straw bales on them, which was regarded as a roof. .

Seeing the sealed roof, Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin let out a sigh of relief, finally they don't have to suffer from the cold anymore, one must know that waking up from the cold in the middle of the night is not a good feeling.

After the nest was completed, the two of them pushed and pulled the bought grain and various farm tools into it, and then they started digging the nest for the cow beside them. There was no way, the cow would be cold. They froze to death all winter, and the two of them had no money to buy another one.

After the two men finished all the nests, they mowed the grass. Of course, they didn't mow randomly.Now the Gu family is in the east, and they are in the west. They started cutting from the middle area between their own family and the Gu family.Cut a row from south to north, then cut another row from both ends to the west, and finally cut another row from north to south at the westernmost end. The whole thing is like a rectangular passage, wide enough to accommodate two or three people walking.As for the cut grass, the two of them transported all the grass to the north of Diwozi, piled it up in a semicircle, and half surrounded Diwozi.

Gu Changping watched the two of them work as if they were children playing house. After all, who mows the grass like them?Who would chop grass into a semicircle?
Until more than ten days later, on a windless and rainless morning, a small spark ignited quietly from a corner.

As soon as Gu Changping came out of his own nest, he saw an overwhelming fire burning not far from the next neighbor's nest and heading west, and not far away, his daughter and the boy surnamed Shen were holding Spade looked at the fire and smiled.

Gu Changping was so frightened that he lost his soul and ran over with a roar.

"What are you two doing?"

Gu Jin and Shen Jingcheng rolled their eyes in unison when they saw him.

What can I do?Can not you see?

"From here to the west is ours, you can't come here to open up wasteland."

Gu Jin pointed to the dark land left by the fire, and made a plausible statement to Gu Changping.

Gu Changping was so angry that he was speechless.

She can just ask for this piece of land if she wants it, is it possible that she can still grab it from her?As for taking up space like this?

But looking at it, Gu Changping suddenly stopped talking.

Because the fire seemed to be huge, but it was not burning blindly. Basically, it stopped at the passage where the two of them had mowed the grass, until the flames gradually went out, and the land left behind was actually within the area where the two of them had mowed the grass. Inside.

"You mowed this... for fire prevention?" Gu Changping pointed to the place where the two had mowed the grass, and asked in confusion.

"Yes." Both of them nodded at the same time.

If you don't make a firebreak, then you can't set fire to the company?
Gu Changping was dumbfounded, Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin didn't pay much attention to him, they turned around to check the land without weeds.

This piece of soil is very good, without weeds, it will be easy to open up wasteland next year. From this place to the west, it is fully half the size of this piece of soil slope. After plowing in the spring of next year, this piece of land will belong to the two of them.

Gu Changping stared blankly at the large piece of vacant land, then at the two squatting on the ground muttering, and remained silent for a long time.

Originally, he thought that these two children would not be able to support him because they were young, and that he would have to give them some of the food grown next year to keep them alive.

But now it seems that although these two children are young, they have brains and can do things with their brains. I'm afraid they can live well next year without his help!
After vacating this land, Gu Jin and Shen Jingcheng used more than ten days to find another land. It was already the twelfth lunar month of winter, and a thick layer of ice had formed in the river, so the two began to move to the river bank.

There are a lot of reeds on the embankment and the bank, and the two of them want to cut some reeds and go back to make grass felt for building a house next year.
Gu Changping saw that the two of them were so busy every day that they did everything in an orderly manner, and he couldn't help but start to wonder, are these two children really children?

(End of this chapter)