Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 17 Life is Too Troublesome
I feel that I have clear rewards and punishments, and the monkeys did not show much resistance when they got walnuts, so Gu Siwei felt very satisfied with this walnut planting activity. It was a victory activity, a unity activity, and a success activity.

But no matter how successful you are, you have to go home.

With walnuts as a base, Gu Siwei didn't plan to bring anything else back, and went directly back to the village with a bag of walnuts.

According to Liu Fulin's words earlier, Gu Siwei gave walnuts in the early [-] catties to the canteen.

The next thing is the key point, which is helpful to me. For example, Yang Chuanwu's family and Guo Xiangping's family gave five or six catties, and Liu Fulin's Gu Siwei gave some more, which was about seven or eight catties.

The last one was delivered to Liu Fulin's house, mainly because Liu Fulin's house was relatively close. Of course, it was not so naked in broad daylight. They were sent from house to house during the night, so they had space to cover, and everyone was on point. No one pays attention to kerosene lamps and black lamps.

Carrying a small bag, he came to the gate of Liu Fulin's small courtyard.

The door was open, and Gu Siwei stood at the door and reached out to pat the door: "Is Father Liu at home?"

"My grandfather is at home".

Liu Dezhu ran out immediately when he heard the movement.

Seeing Liu Dezhu's shadow, Gu Siwei didn't know what to say, he couldn't see his face clearly, he seemed to think that this silly boy still thought he was a spy sent by the grassroots.

Liu Fulin also came out at this time.

"Siwei is here, come inside the house."

Gu Siwei was also polite, and followed into the house with a small bag.

"what?"

Seeing Gu Siwei carrying a bag in his hand, Liu Fulin asked.

Gu Siwei put the bag in his hand on the small table in the main room, opened the bag and said at the same time: "I picked some walnuts from the mountains, and I will give you some here."

"Can we pick up walnuts at this time?" Liu Fulin was a little curious.

The oil lamp was too dark to see what the walnuts in the pocket looked like. Liu Fulin couldn't help reaching into the bag, first scratched in the bag, felt the size of the walnuts, and finally grabbed four or five. .

"This is still a walnut".

After reading it, Liu Fulin was overjoyed.

Upon hearing this, Gu Siwei opened his mouth and asked, "Walnuts are divided into oil and dry?"

Liu Fulin laughed and said: "The ones that are not dried are ordinary walnuts and oil walnuts. You are oil walnuts, which have higher oil content than ordinary walnuts and can be squeezed."

"Where to squeeze it?"

As soon as I asked this question, I got to the point. Gu Siwei has plenty of walnuts, but where is the oil extracted?

Liu Fulin said: "Go to the town to squeeze."

"In the town?" Gu Siwei asked.

Liu Fulin nodded and said, "You can squeeze it only when you go to the town. There used to be an old oil mill in the village, but it's long gone now. You need to prepare some money to go to the town. Of course, you don't have to pay if you don't want walnut residue, but Walnut dregs are a good thing, it is more cost-effective to give money..."

As soon as Liu Fulin heard it, he went to the town to extract oil.

How fresh it is. Now the common people eat oil. Except for lard, where else are they willing to buy it? They are home-grown rapeseed and peanuts and so on. They are carried to the town and squeezed by machines.

Most of them are rapeseed oil and peanut oil. The cost of pressing other oil crops is a bit high, and ordinary people are really reluctant to part with this money.

"Then when are you going to town? Take me there, and I'll squeeze some oil along the way," Gu Siwei said.

Liu Fulin thought for a while and said, "Let's see, the day after tomorrow, if nothing serious happens the day after tomorrow, let's write a letter of introduction and go to town."

Seeing these seven or eight catties of walnuts, Liu Fulin wanted to go to the town to squeeze them for oil.

Decades later, who would squeeze oil alone for seven or eight catties of walnuts, but now that the conditions are here, he really wants to collect dozens of catties before going, but is this possible?

No, not at all!
Liu Fulin estimated that these seven or eight catties of walnuts could produce about one and a half catties of oil. With this oil, life would be a little easier for a while.

"Does this need to be proved?" Gu Siwei was a little puzzled.

Liu Fulin said: "If you go to the town to play, you don't need it, but you have to have something from the village to extract oil."

Now all the oil mills in the town are state-owned. Don’t look at a small oil mill, there are only three or four machines and a few people, but all of these people are holding iron rice bowls, and I don’t know how much higher than the life of farmers. Layer out.

He is a worker holding an iron rice bowl. Although the job is to serve the farmers, no one provides any service now.

Even if you have things from the village, people might still make trouble for you. Some bad-hearted people will make the farmers who come to squeeze the oil go back and forth four or five times.

So, in Liu Fulin's words, if you want to extract oil well, you have to know how to be a human being.

Gu Siwei won't be ignorant of how to be a human being. How can he not know this shitty thing when he's old?

At this moment, Gu Siwei feels that many things are very troublesome now, and he doesn't understand why these things come out at this time. You need food stamps to eat food, oil stamps for oil, and meat stamps for a piece of pork.

And pork has pork tickets, mutton has mutton tickets, beef has beef tickets, in short, you can't do anything without a ticket, even if you have money, you can't buy anything serious with it alone classic things.

"Then let me know when you're going," Gu Siwei said.

Liu Fulin said: "The day after tomorrow is almost the same. I will go to the village to open a letter tomorrow, and we will leave at 05:30 the morning of the day after tomorrow."

"So early?"

Gu Siwei was a little surprised, at 05:30, it was still dark at this time of day.

"Can't you come back too late?" Gu Siwei asked after thinking for a while.

Liu Fulin was very surprised when he heard this and said: "No, no matter how you go, it will take a day. You will return after the oil is squeezed the next morning, and it will be more than two o'clock at night when you get home."

Gu Siwei instantly petrified.

He had always heard people in the village say that going to the town would take a little effort, and he thought it would take two or three hours to swing his legs at most. Who the hell would have thought that it would take a day to walk a little way.

"It's such a long way to the town?" Gu Siwei couldn't help asking.

Liu Fulin said: "It takes at least two days to go back and forth, and it has to be a frequent walk like ours. It's really hard to say whether you can survive it. Usually, it's the first time you come in from the outside, and you have to walk for a day and a morning. ".

"...".

Gu Siwei suddenly missed his unfinished house decades later even more, and he also began to miss the bus, even if there were none of these, it would be nice to have a Sanbengzi.

But in this situation now, if I think about it, the road I should take will not be short of one meter.

After chatting with Mr. Liu Fulin for a while, Gu Siwei went home.

When he got to the house, he lit the kerosene lamp, and under the big light, Gu Siwei began to think carefully about the current situation.

Now that he has found the land to be reclaimed, he is still at a loss as to what he needs next, oh, the most urgent thing is the seeds.

There are many seeds in Zhuangzi, and they may not be enough for their own family. Gu Siwei knows this without asking.

So Gu Siwei had to figure out a way about the seed.

Gu Siwei knew that he had to find a way, but he couldn't think of any way in a while.

Then think about it, if you have seeds, you must have animals, such as plows and crawlers, you have to use animals. You can't let Gu Siwei pour the spring water in the space one by one.

"Oh, my brain is about to explode."

Gu Siwei's head hurt from thinking about it, so he simply prepared to turn on the lamp, go back to the space and lie down for a while, or go to bed directly.

When it's dark, there's almost nothing you can do.

I used to watch old movies, and when it was dark, there were old people sewing and mending with kerosene lamps, but when I called Zhuangzi, Gu Siwei knew that when it got dark, almost no old people were willing to do needlework with kerosene lamps Yes, how much kerosene would be burned, and now kerosene has to be bought by ticket.

Just as I was about to blow out the lamp, I suddenly saw a shadow beside the table.

Turning his head, Gu Siwei found a black mouse standing in the light.

Gu Siwei looked at the black mouse, and the black mouse also looked at Gu Siwei, one person and one mouse just looked at each other without saying a word for a long time.

"I'm going, mouse, what are you doing at my house?"

Gu Siwei is a little strange, Gu Siwei's things are all placed in the space, so there is nothing for the mouse to drag.

And it seems that the rat is not very healthy, it is not fat anyway, not as fat as the rat that Gu Siwei saw in the sewer of the community decades later, the rat can grow as big as a kitten.

The mouse in front of him is not four or two heavy even if it is stretched to death. Although it is not small, it has no flesh on its body.

The mouse is not afraid of people at all, looking at Gu Siwei, he actually started rubbing his hands together.

"Too much"

Gu Siwei said to the mouse.

But Mouse obviously didn't care about Gu Siwei's feelings, and continued rubbing his hands under the light.

How could Gu Siwei's irascible temper be provoked by a mouse? With a thought, the mouse was sent into the space, and when it was thrown out again, the mouse was already tied up.

Squeak!
The mouse is impatient.

Gu Siwei wanted to reach out to catch the mouse, but he retracted his hand before touching the mouse.

"Have you got the plague?"

Gu Siwei asked the mouse carefully.

Squeak!
"Whether there is... Forget it, I won't ask you anymore."

Gu Siwei found a bamboo clip here. There are many of these things in the village, and it is easy to make. It is a piece of bamboo that is baked in the middle with fire and folded. In this way, a clip is ready.

Picking up the mouse, Gu Siwei went directly outside, where the light was shining at the door, and threw the mouse to the ground.
The mouse squeaked a few times before, but after falling down twice, the mouse burped. Gu Siwei threw the mouse directly in front of the door, and he didn't know how far he threw it, so he returned to the house. Close the main room door and go to bed.

(End of this chapter)