Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 100

Gu Siwei was not interested, but Zheng Youcai was very interested in it. When everyone finished talking about tomorrow's business and were working separately, he took advantage of Tao Yisheng to rest and drink water.

"Old Taotou!"

Zheng Youcai took a bowl of water for himself. Sugar was added to the water and it was quite sweet. After taking a sip, Zheng Youcai wiped his mouth.

"I have a grandnephew who has a good personality and is not very old, about 14 years old...".

Before he finished speaking, Tao Yisheng replied directly: "No!"

"You see me, if it's not enough, forget it." Zheng Youcai was a little bit unwilling to give up.

Tao Yisheng didn't have that heart at all. Originally, he was waiting for Gu Siwei to fall down and worship with full confidence. Who knew that Gu Siwei had no interest at all. He has always been proud of his own ability. If he hadn't been kicked out of the temple, in a different day, in the past, the Qipin county magistrate would not have the right to put on airs when he saw him.

Now he wants to accept someone as an apprentice to pass on the mantle, but he is being bullied by someone.

He was already in a bad mood, now that Zheng Youcai came to him, wouldn't it be a pleasure? If it was any other time, Tao Yisheng would go to see the child if he was in a good mood, but now he is not in the mood to see him at all, so he directly refuted the matter .

"I won't accept anyone with parents."

After saying this, Zheng Youcai was speechless, he couldn't kill his old lady right now just because his nephew and grandson wanted to learn from him.

Therefore, Zheng Youcai drank the sugar water resentfully, and continued to do his work.

Tao Yisheng rested for about 5 minutes, then picked up the hoe again, returned to the field and began to gather up the soil, and piled up the ridges for planting sweet potatoes.

Guo Shengshou saw this scene in his eyes, came to Gu Siwei's side and said with a smile: "Old man Zheng suffered from being dumb."

Gu Siwei looked up, a little confused.

After Guo Shengshou said it, Gu Siwei understood.

"Hey, it's true, my craft is good, why do I still learn some craft from others, isn't it begging for food with a golden bowl?" Gu Siwei was a little puzzled.

Guo Shengshou laughed out loud, "Siwei, do you really not know or are you talking sarcasticly?"

"I didn't say anything sarcastic. What I said was the truth. Mr. Zheng's craftsmanship can be eaten as a serious meal in the future," Gu Siwei said.

It is not easy to mix up ordinary bamboo weaving skills, but for a craft like Zheng Youcai, it is not a matter of making a living. When he came, he was called a bamboo weaving master, and he charged money according to the size of a thing. A chair It can cost tens of thousands of dollars. You wouldn't think that the master edited this thing himself, and the master drew a draft because of the sweat and effort of his apprentices.

Which master has a little bit of brains, doesn't earn millions a year, should he use it to learn other skills?

"Craftsman can be considered a good craft to make a living? Craftsmanship is also expensive. No matter how good a craftsman is, he can't compare with a doctor at random. A prescription in his hand can keep you from getting sick, which is much better than craftsman," Guo Shengshou said. .

Gu Siwei smiled wryly. How did he explain this? He said that in a few decades, if old man Zheng lived to that age, he would be able to make up for the income of an ordinary worker with something?

Even if Gu Siwei dared to say it, Guo Shengshou had to believe it.

What else to say, nothing to say, this matter is not clear.

"Then... am I still looking for bad things for Uncle Fulin?" Gu Siwei was a little bit late.

"Is that true? It's a good thing for Dezhu to learn a craft. You here are willing to help Uncle Fulin. You can only feel grateful and have no other ideas. Our two families are close. Whenever you mention that you come to Uncle Fulin, you will praise and say It's his fate to meet you like this... Our family is also lucky, otherwise, it's hard to say whether we will be full or not."

Guo Shengshou was embarrassed to praise Gu Siwei directly.

"It's nothing, don't mention it in the future." Gu Siwei didn't want Guo Shengshou to mention it again.

Guo Shengshou smiled.

The two rested for a while and went to work separately.

When the sun went down, everyone returned to the old camphor tree in front of the house with their hoes on their shoulders. The old people took out the smoke pots, or rolled up cigarettes with paper directly and smoked them. People who don’t smoke like Gu Siwei, then He was holding a bowl of herbal tea and sipping it in small sips.

Now the work in the field is easier than transplanting rice seedlings. The main reason is that the body is always bowed when planting rice seedlings. Now at least the waist is not bent at [-] degrees, and the feeling is much better.

During the rare and relaxing time, everyone began to talk about gossip, but they still talked about the ground.

"If these fields have a good harvest this year, it will be terrible. Siwei, your family has to build a special house to store these grains."

Zheng Youcai took out a piece of paper from his pocket, folded it, and tore it about five or six centimeters wide and ten centimeters long. Then he took out a small cloth bag containing tobacco leaves from his pocket, and squeezed out a piece of paper with his fingers. A small portion of shredded tobacco is evenly sprinkled on the paper, and rolled, almost put it in the mouth and dip it with saliva.

Rub and bite at both ends, put it in your mouth, take out a match and light it.

"How can we ask for so much? The villagers all came to work and sweated. It is impossible for me to treat all the food produced as my own. When the time comes, it will depend on how much is harvested. Every family that comes to help will give some appropriately. , it is worth everyone's hard work," Gu Siwei said.

Gu Siwei is not stupid. If so much food in his family is left with worms at home, and the villagers in the village over there are hungry, it’s okay once or twice, but it will be terrible if it keeps like this.

Besides, to be honest, so much food is really useless to Gu Siwei, if he is not so happy and likes everything big, the whole three to five acres will be enough to eat with him and Sicui people, even if Even if you have a family and children, you can't go hungry.

Hearing Gu Siwei say this, everyone quieted down, and after thinking about it for a while, they felt that Gu Siwei's work was really beautiful.

I don't even talk about helping people, but just saying that it has paid off everyone's wages. Then the people who collect the grain like this will feel happy, and they will have a good face. Naturally, everyone can't say anything. Otherwise, if the twenty acres of land have a bumper harvest, how much will they get? People are jealous.

Even if I am afraid, I will inevitably have some thoughts.

This is the terrain, if it is around the village, it is really hard to say what will happen.

"Yeah, that's a good idea. If so many fields are harvested at once, plus the original fields, I'm afraid the whole village won't be hungry." Liu Fulin looked at the fields and said leisurely.

Hearing this, Gu Siwei moved slightly. Originally, he was thinking of adding some ingredients to the field to get a bumper harvest. Now that he heard what Liu Fulin said, he thought about it again, and suddenly felt that he should depend on the sky to eat. Just don’t add materials, as long as the output is not too bad at that time, it’s fine, don’t make trouble for yourself when the harvest is bumper.

At this time, Gu Siwei felt that what he had done seemed a bit too ostentatious, but when things got to this point, don’t say anything, what should we do? Anyway, he is not afraid of others doing it. Really can't come.

Old man Tao can do it, but there are a few people in these ten miles and eight villages who are as skilled as old man Tao.

If it is someone else, even if the boat can go down the cliff, how can it climb up, helicopter?You really dare to think that there are not many helicopters in the whole country now, and they are used to deal with Gu Siwei. Is it a bit too much to think of Lao Gu?

Thinking about something in his heart, Gu Siwei began to lose his mind again.

Until Guo Shengshou patted Gu Siwei on the shoulder: "Siwei, what are you thinking about?"

"Oh, I was thinking about how to fix the plow," Gu Siwei said casually.

Zheng Youcai said: "It's not easy to make a plow. If you have plow face, you can say anything. If you don't have it, you will be in trouble. You have to buy plow face."

The plow surface refers to the plow shovel and the plow wall. In some places, the plow wall is also called the plow mirror. Some plow parts are combined into one, and they are inclined at an angle to save cattle. Now the plows in Shimo Village are like this. Inclined plow.

"I really have this. Last time I asked someone to make one, but the wooden shelf was not made," Gu Siwei said.

The last time I bought a knife from someone, Gu Siwei had someone make a beveled plow mirror, but it was never used, so I didn't install it.

In fact, Gu Siwei didn't think about it. At that time, all his thoughts were on building the house. He didn't have time to think about how to plant the land. It was just a whim when he ordered the plow.

"Do you have it at home? Take it out and have a look."

When a group of old men heard that Gu Siwei's house had a plow mirror, they immediately regained their spirits.

Gu Siwei got up naturally, went into the house and touched it, and when he came out again, he was carrying a heavy plow in his hand.

Clang!

Throwing the plow mirror on the ground made these old guys feel so distressed.

"Be careful, be careful! Don't throw it away."

If you didn't know it, you would think it belonged to them.

"Don't worry, it won't break if you throw it away. If this place can be thrown away, then I don't want it," Gu Siwei said with a smile.

"Good stuff."

Everyone knew that the plow surface was made of fine steel when they saw it, and the plow surface in their village was made of cast iron, not to mention anything else, but in terms of durability and corrosion resistance, the plow surface in Gu Siwei's hand was top-notch .

Tao Yisheng reached out and knocked on the plow mirror, and heard a clear ding from the plow mirror, and there was a lingering sound when his fingers were moved away.

"It's really a good steel mouth. It's a pity to make a plow mirror. Before the steel knife was put aside, it was a precious knife." Tao Yisheng sighed a little.

"No matter how good the knife is, it's something else, and no matter how much the plow is wasted, it's your own," Liu Fulin said.

Tao Yisheng curled the corner of his mouth: "This is really reasonable."

"Okay, with this thing, the rest is not a problem, Siwei, don't worry tomorrow, in the evening, we will get you a plow," Zheng Youcai said lightly.

Tao Yisheng said: "You don't have to pay for it. It's okay to say anything else. It's not easy to find a suitable plow shaft. With the plow mirror, only [-]% of it is available, and the remaining [-]% is on the plow shaft."

"What's so difficult about this? There are many trees around here. Let's see which one to cut tomorrow. Also, there is a pile of materials behind the Siwei house. I think there are small ones. Let's find a suitable fire to stop and roast them. It's nothing more than It’s just a bit of work. But it’s okay, this plow is ready, and we can use it in the future. The plow of the two of them is as if a stake has been directly inserted, and it is not slippery in the field,” Zheng Youcai said. .

Now that Zheng Youcai has joined Liu Fulin's family, he is with his apprentice Liu Dezhu, so he naturally has to help with the work.The plow used for plowing the land is from the sub-villages of Liu Fulin's family and Guo Shengshou's family. It's not a good one, and it's not up to them, so the plow is naturally not so smooth when plowing the field.

Farm work is like this. If the tools are handy, the mood will follow. If the tools are not handy, the mood will be bad and tiring, and the senses will feel more tired.

(End of this chapter)