Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 161 A lot

"Master, why don't you grow a slice of watermelon at home, I think you have a lot of land here."

Qiao Yitong came out of the cave soon, and raised his opinion when he saw Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei smiled and said: "You still want to eat watermelon, or you come to plant it, if you don't come to plant it, then don't even think about it, haven't you seen so many things in my field, which one is not more important than watermelon?"

Gu Siwei doesn’t like eating watermelon very much, in fact, he doesn’t like it too much. He always finds it more troublesome to spit out the seeds. If it is seedless, he also feels that the ungrown yellow seed embryos affect his desire to eat melons. .

Anyway, it doesn’t work like this, and it doesn’t work like that, so I just don’t eat it, which saves trouble and money, but I don’t know if a good variety like 8424 has been researched, probably not, and I don’t know what time it is.

"What are you thinking about?"

Hu Yanqiu saw that Gu Siwei's eyes began to blur again, so he said with a smile.

Gu Siwei smiled and said, "It's nothing, I'm just thinking of a seedless watermelon."

"Seedless watermelons? Are you thinking crazy? There are still watermelons without seeds. How can we grow seedless watermelons next year?" Hu Yanqiu couldn't help but open his mouth to make fun of him when he heard what Gu Siwei said.

"I can't tell you." Gu Siwei smiled and didn't care.

Tao Yisheng said at this time: "What should I do next? Should I go back, or continue to make honey here?"

"Go back, this is enough for now," Hu Yanqiu said.

Gu Siwei glanced at Qiao Yitong, and Qiao Yitong said: "Then let's go, we still have a long way to go."

So we all went home together.

After tidying up a bit, I had a breakfast at Gu Siwei's house. The breakfast was quite simple, and there was a whole pot of dried noodles served directly.

Dried noodles are simple, but Gu Siwei’s scorpion is very powerful. Almost all of them are meat. In addition to meat, there are some peas. There are salt, oil and several seasonings. Let’s not talk about cooking noodles, even if they are mixed Belts are delicious.

After dinner, Gu Siwei drove the three of them to the old house by boat. Hu Yanqiu and the three picked up their bicycles. Gu Siwei and Sicui accompanied them to the entrance of the village, and then turned back to go home.

Tao Yisheng didn't leave, but when he saw Gu Siwei coming back, he said, "How is it?"

Gu Siweiqi said, "How about what?"

"I mean, how about Hu Yanqiu?" Tao Yisheng laughed.

"Very good," Gu Siwei replied.

Sicui listened in the cloud, looking like a curious baby.

"Go back and write your handwriting." Seeing Si Cui's appearance, Gu Siwei said to her.

Sicui stuck out her tongue, and went to the small study in the north to write.

Just as Gu Siwei was about to say something, he saw Tao Yisheng tossing a lot of things on the table, so he asked, "What are you doing?"

"Prepare medicine for Si Cui, what else?" Tao Yisheng said.

Gu Siwei didn't understand this either, so he hummed when he heard what he said.

Just as he was about to leave, Tao Yisheng asked, "What are you going to do with what Hu Yanqiu said?"

What Tao Yisheng was talking about was that when Hu Yanqiu was leaving, he asked Gu Siwei to find a vat for her, saying that she would wait a few days to come and learn how to pickle pickles with Tao Yisheng.

Gu Siwei originally thought that he just mentioned it casually in the cave, but who knew that Hu Yanqiu took it seriously, and was really planning to pickle pickles in that cave.Gu Siwei didn't know what to say.

"What to do, buy it, or else, just go to the town this time, go to the town to the west to buy tanks, and then buy some jars, and when the crops are finished, we can spare some land to plant garlic or something , pickle some sugar and garlic, and then pickle some salted duck eggs, in short, make more, so that you don’t have to eat so monotonously in winter... ".

Tao Yisheng looked at Gu Siwei and shook his head: "It's you now, who eats rice and white noodles all day long and says that eating is monotonous. If someone outside hears your words, you may be pulled out and shot. Whose family Three refined grains a day like yours?"

"This is my skill, I can't eat it yet?" Gu Siwei laughed.

After hearing this, Tao Yisheng said directly: "You are not the only one who is capable, but thanks to the fact that you live here, the mountainous area is also closed, and the letter cannot be passed on. What if you try it outside? You don't know how to die. You should pay attention when you go out to the family. Don’t mention how good your place is. If you are poor, you’d better eat only one meal a day, and it’s better to eat polenta with potatoes. Let me tell you, it’s getting worse now. Poor is more glorious",
Gu Siwei knew that Tao Yisheng was doing it for his own good, so he nodded with a smile: "I see, it's okay, why do I say this."

"Also, you don't want to wear this good clothes when you go to the town. What about your original clothes? Get a few rags to mend it first, and then rub it in the dirt. It will be as dirty as it is when you go out. Dirty is the best way to show your identity as a poor peasant. Don't be impatient, no matter how capable you are, you are still alone, and you cannot resist the trend of history," Tao Yisheng said kindly.

"I see, Uncle Tao, I know all of this. I'll take the clothes I'm going to use to make the soles of my shoes and ask sister-in-law Meiling to mend them for me," Gu Siwei said.

Tao Yisheng said: "Don't bother her, I'll make it up for you when you find out."

Gu Siwei originally wanted to be polite, but it would be redundant if he wanted to be polite with old man Tao, so he nodded casually.

The two are busy in their own way, and Gu Siwei is going to make a wooden door, which needs to be very strong.

Where is the door?Of course, it is the door of the cave. He is going to confiscate the cave now. No monkeys like Big Mao or Xiaoma can enter, because Lao Gu has taken a fancy to this cave and is going to put something in it, or just to save his own space. cover.

The materials are ready-made. Gu Siwei has nothing but materials. He had saved a lot of materials to build the house. If you find one or two at random, you will have materials for the rough and primitive gate.

Choose a tree trunk with a thick mouth, cut it to a size suitable for the entrance of the cave, and then use horizontal bars to pass through it, and fix it back and forth a few times. Let alone a human, even a big hair can't open this thing.

As for how to install the door, Gu Siwei is not worried at all. He has a lot of ways, just push the wooden door to the entrance of the hole, and just use a huge stone to press the door directly.

Except for humans, it is not easy for animals to open it, because Da Mao doesn't seem to understand the original appearance of the lever.It is possible to make it eat honey, but it is impossible to make it leverage.

As for the monkeys, it is possible, but their strength is even if they are tied together, they can't push the stone that Gu Siwei prepared for the cave.

It was almost done, and Gu Siwei returned to the big house.

As soon as I arrived at the door of the big house, I saw Si Cui holding a big bowl with a sad face, sipping the contents of the bowl one mouthful, her expression was no different from beheading at the execution ground, she was begging God, God would not The expression of answering, begging for land, and land not helping.

"Why this expression, is that thing so bad?"

Gu Siwei thought it was just a traditional Chinese medicine. He pinched his nose and raised his head to solve the problem.

"Brother, how about you have a drink?"

Sicui really didn't want to drink it, but Tao Yisheng was watching her from the side, so she couldn't do any tricks.

"I……".

Gu Siwei was actually a little curious, wanting to know what this thing smelled like, so when he came to Sicui's side, Gu Siwei could smell it as soon as he opened his mouth.

Good guy!
Gu Siwei took a step back subconsciously.

"I said old guy, what are you cooking? Why does it taste like this?" Gu Siwei covered his nose and walked away, and stopped about three meters away from Sicui.

Tao Yisheng said: "Haven't you heard the saying that good medicine tastes bitter and is good for the disease?"

"Bitter is bitter, but your taste is not bitter," Gu Siwei said.

"It smells bad at first, but you'll get used to it. Sicui, don't look at your brother, drink this thing, don't let it cool down, the medicine will be less effective when it's cold. I won't hurt you, You are also lucky, if there is no such medicine as Zizhi, there will be no shadow at all," Tao Yisheng said seriously.

Gu Siwei said to Si Cui: "Drink, drink, you can't escape anyway."

Seeing that there was still a third of the medicine left, Sicui frowned and continued to drink it one gulp at a time.

After a while, the medicine ran out, and Sicui was afraid of wasting the medicine, so he poured all the medicine dregs from the bottom of the bowl into his mouth.

"All right!"

At this time, Tao Yisheng took out a small bowl, in which were the honey nests picked in the morning.

"Come, drink something sweet," Tao Yisheng said.

Si Cui took the bowl, raised her head and drank a bowl of honey water.

Gu Siwei looked at Sicui and asked with a smile: "What is your stomach? Is it a bottomless pit? I just drank a big bowl of medicine, and I can still drink a bowl of sweet water."

"Water doesn't take up much space!" Sicui said, patting her belly like a snare drum.

Tao Yisheng had no choice but to sigh: "I didn't let you drink it up in one gulp."

"You can't drink it up, the taste of the medicine is too strong," Si Cui said.

Gu Siwei turned his attention to the old man, only to find that the old man was mending his clothes.

It doesn't matter if you don't watch it, at first glance, Gu Siwei wants to die.

"I said old man, you can mess with me. Who uses bright red mending clothes for the old men? It's still a shame, you can really do it." Gu Siwei felt that he would not wear this clothes again if he was killed.

It's not a patch, it's just a patch on one's own clothes, for fear that others will not know that he is poor, like an ancient official, making a beast on his body, and using himself as a beast in his clothes.

"You see it now, you will know later." Tao Yisheng was full of confidence.

"After the two sessions, you won't be able to cover up your poor craftsmanship. The wiring is long and short, not half of Meiling's sister-in-law's craftsmanship? Fortunately, I thought your craftsmanship was good just now, but the result is not as good as mine."

Gu Siwei said.

Tao Yisheng ignored him, and continued to work on his own work. After mending the clothes, he got some straw, rattan, grass ash or something, put them in the laundry tub, added water, and threw the clothes in to soak.

After three or four minutes, when he took out the clothes again, Gu Siwei was stunned, because some of the original dye on the clothes was glued together, and it was dyed like an ink painting.

In the words of Gu Siwei's era, it is the top Chinese style.

"I, do you still have this skill?" Gu Siwei suddenly came forward and gave a thumbs up: "Old man, you know a lot of things."

(End of this chapter)