Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 134 Digging Wild Vegetables

No matter what, the folks are in a very good mood now, so naturally they pick up nice things to say, otherwise wouldn't it be annoying to say something ugly at this time.

But I can't say too much, the folks want to hear it, but Lao Gu feels sick, so here are two sentences to make sense.

"Well, I still have something to do, I have to go back first," Gu Siwei said.

"Stay a little longer?"

Clearly some people just don't listen enough.

"Don't stay, there are still many things to clean up at home." Gu Siwei prepared to escape by taking advantage of the incident, and didn't want to get involved with these people anymore. He didn't know what kind of brains the two old men had. .

Nodding with everyone, Gu Siwei walked towards the boat on the shore, arrived at the bow, and was about to board the boat, only to realize that Si Cui had not followed.

Looking back, she found that Sicui was chatting with two little girls there, and they seemed to be having a very happy chat.

"Sicui, why don't you follow everyone here to dig wild vegetables? I'll come pick you up at lunch time." Gu Siwei saw that Sicui was very happy, so he thought about letting the girl play here for a while, so as to save time I just work at home, as if I hired a child laborer.

Hearing Gu Siwei's voice, Sicui looked up, and then looked around, only to realize that the adults had dispersed, looking at their own fields in twos and threes, and everyone changed their minds. After two days of mourning, there were smiles on every face, the only thing missing was that we were so happy.

"I'm leaving, I'll tell you later."

Sicui and his friends waved their hands, stood up and ran towards the boat.

When he got to the side of the boat, he jumped with his legs together and jumped on the bow of the boat and waved his hands at the two little sisters.

"Let's go! Let's go home" Sicui said with a flick of her braid.

Gu Siwei lifted the anchor up, put it on the bow of the boat, pushed the boat away from the shore two steps, and then jumped into the boat and picked up the oars to row to the gorge.

"Why don't you play here for a while, don't you mean to follow everyone to dig wild vegetables?" Gu Siwei asked his sister.

Si Cui, who was sitting on the side of the ship and playing in the water with her little feet outstretched, said after hearing this: "I don't dig wild vegetables now. I didn't eat wild vegetables in the past. Now these crops are more precious than wild vegetables in every family's fields." There are too many, adults have to take care of the ground from today, and we are not allowed to go into the mountains to dig wild vegetables."

Speaking of this, Sicui felt a little pity.

Seeing Sicui's appearance, Gu Siwei said, "Why don't we go dig wild vegetables today, shall we?"

"today?"

Si Cui was refreshed after hearing this: "Can you take Meihua and Sanyatou with them? As long as you tell their parents, they will definitely let them go with us."

"Do you want to be with them?" Gu Siwei asked, stopping the gun in his hand.

Seeing Sicui nodded, Gu Siwei turned the boat around and returned to the shore, and started looking for Meihua and Sanyatou's parents, and after talking to them, the two families agreed that their girls would follow Sicui and Gu Siwei Went into the mountains to pick wild vegetables.

Just like that, there were two more girls on the boat going back, and after crossing the river and returning to the old house, Gu Siwei threw the three girls down, and rushed back to Yinsong Cliff to get things. It's not in the old house, and you can borrow it. It's mainly food. Gu Siwei took three children to dig wild vegetables, and they had to bring snacks or something.

There are indeed in the space, but it is not easy to take them out directly, so I used the excuse to go home and take them, along with a small sickle for picking wild vegetables.

It took almost an hour to go back and forth. After waiting for the sun to rise, Gu Siwei set off with three maids. Before leaving the village, there were a few more little tails behind him. It should be smaller, they are not picking wild vegetables.

Most of the boys at this time had only one thing to do when they couldn’t work in the fields, and that was to play, such as picking wild vegetables. Generally speaking, mothers took their sisters and sisters to go. Do something for boys, girls only have to hunt pigweed and pick wild vegetables.

Naturally, the three little boys didn't follow Gu Siwei to pick up wild vegetables. The three little guys were all greedy for the things in Gu Siwei's basket.

The place to pick wild vegetables is quite far away, but for the mountain people, a few miles of mountain roads are nothing. From the entrance of the canyon to the north, walk more than two miles, and the mountains will ease up. You can walk up the slope, and there are all kinds of plants on the slope, including the wild vegetables that the villagers want.

Gu Siwei doesn't know many wild vegetables, such as dandelion, purslane, and a shepherd's purse at most, and other old Gu doesn't know, so the wild vegetables he picks are these three, and many of them are too old to eat.

Si Cui and the other two girls were having a good time, the small sickle in everyone's hand was flying up and down without stopping.

Gu Siwei finally became the king of children, taking a few boys to sit and rest under the shade of a tree.

The actual situation is that a few boys are looking for something to play with, and at this moment, anything will become their toy, such as toads, small insects and so on, as long as they see them, they will not escape their poisonous hands.

The mountain toad is relatively small, not as ugly as a toad, it looks a bit like a small frog, but it is not big, at most it is bigger than a finger, how long it can live Gu Siwei does not know, anyway, I know this thing It doesn't grow big.

"Uncle Siwei, Uncle Siwei".

Just met the mountain toad, Gu Siwei returned to the shade of the tree and hadn't settled his buttocks yet, when he heard another kid calling him, so he had to get up and move over.

"Found something interesting again?" Gu Siwei asked as he walked.

A boy with a snotty nose stretched out his little black hand and showed Gu Siwei his new toy.

"My pussy!"

Gu Siwei's soul was almost out of his body in shock, because the kid was holding a centipede about 20 centimeters long in his hand.

"What are you doing with this thing, let it go quickly," Gu Siwei said quickly.

Xiaowazi shrank his hand: "I can't put it away, this thing is so expensive, five of these are worth a penny after drying!"

As he said that, the little guy grabbed a grass stalk from the side, and just tied it back and forth in his hand to tie up the huge centipede. It seemed that he was going to take it home and sell it for money.

"Is this stuff taken?" Gu Siwei didn't get close, and he was really not interested in this thing. First, it was too ugly, and second, when he saw this thing crawling on the ground, Gu Siwei's fine hair seemed to stand up. .

"It's not harvested, but it can be sold, but one or two can't do it. If there are more, it has to be dried. Last summer, our family sold a catty of this..."

Wazi and Gu Siwei, who were slightly older than holding the centipede, began to talk about the feat of catching these things for money last summer with his elder brothers in the village.

Gu Siwei thought it was quite interesting. Hearing what the little guys were talking about, he left a small branch and moved small stones on the ground like the children.

There is really everything under this stone. Gu Siwei paid less than 20 yuan, and found several kinds of insects under the stone. The most common ones are crickets, as if they have picked up a cricket's nest, almost half of them are these. thing.

Of course, there are also some ugly things, such as toads and so on.

"elder brother!"

Just when Gu Siwei was enjoying himself, Sicui came back with her two little sisters.

As soon as they saw Sicui came back, the boys immediately threw away the things in their hands, including the tied big centipede. They couldn't run away, because the thing was already dead, and it could be destroyed in the children's hands. If they live for 1 minute, they are considered lucky.

Sicui's return means that he can eat snacks.

Now there are many families in the village. Well, to be honest, most of them are patriarchal. Generally, boys eat better at home. If there are any snacks, the boys will eat them closely.

But Gu Siwei doesn't have this point of view. Like now, when you want to eat snacks, everyone must come together to eat together, and it's the same for boys and girls when they get snacks.

This is Gu Siwei's rule. Maybe some boys are treated specially at home, but they all wait honestly in front of Gu Siwei.

This time Gu Siwei took out peanut candy. Under normal circumstances, Gu Siwei would not let Si Cui eat more. It was not that Gu Siwei was reluctant, but that it was not good for such a small girl to eat too much sugar.

Not good why buy it?The reason is simple, because Gu Siwei is sometimes greedy.

Before Gu Siwei arrived, all the children lined up in front of the basket, the active girls were in front, and only the boys who were playing were at the back of the line. After they lined up from childhood to adulthood, they waited Gu Siwei came over.

Gu Siwei came to the side of the basket, reached in and touched it, and took out the paper buns that contained the candies. At this time, these candies were bought in paper buns, and the plastic bags that I saw in the future were rare. It is loosely weighed, how much you want, the salesperson will weigh it for you, and then wrap it in paper and tie it with paper string, and carry it in your hand.

"Two yuan per person, you have to wait for the next time after eating."

Each of them shared two pieces of peanut candy, and all the children sat down and ate the candy happily, including Si Cui, who ate the candy in the same posture, as if someone had trained them.

Holding the uneaten candy in one hand, and the candy you are eating in the other hand, put it in your mouth instead of biting and eating it, but lick it with your tongue. Lick over the entire candied surface.

This licking method fully displayed the images of the little greedy cats in front of Gu Siwei's eyes.

Gu Siwei feels that watching these children eat candy, candy is happiness, because being eaten by these children is full of happiness.

Gu Siwei himself also got two pieces, but he couldn't lick it when he ate candy, so he threw one piece into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it in his stomach to count it as eating.

The two pieces of candy were in his hands for ten seconds, and he looked at the children after he finished eating.

Just when Gu Siwei was looking at the child with a smile, a kid found him, and meeting Gu Siwei's eyes, the little guy turned his hands behind his back in an instant, thought for a while, and finally put it on his chest, but put his whole body He turned around, as if he was afraid that Gu Siwei would eat up all of his own and come to grab the candy from him.

Gu Siwei was amused by this kid, and reached out to rub his little head: "Okay, you cheapskate."

(End of this chapter)