Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 199

Gu Siwei turned his head and said to Hu Yanqiu at this time: "Go and help prepare lunch, and I will do the work here."

Hu Yanqiu knew that Gu Siwei wanted her to go to rest earlier, and she felt a little sweet in her heart, but she was not a lazy person. Although she didn't do a good job, she didn't want others to underestimate her, as if she had a chance Just hide away.

Shaking his head, Hu Yanqiu said, "I don't like cooking, so let Si Cui and the others go."

Wu Meiling came over at this moment, and when she heard what Hu Yanqiu said, she smiled and said, "Why don't you come together and help, Qiumei and I are a bit busy."

Hu Yanqiu still smiled and said: "Just go to Sicui, I haven't finished the work on my side."

Gu Siwei saw that she was quite stubborn, so he smiled at Wu Meiling: "Sister-in-law Meiling, go and do your work, we'll finish the piercing here."

Wu Meiling had no choice but to turn around and walk towards the big house.

Wu Meiling and Sun Qiumei were in charge of making lunch, while Sicui took over the job of lighting the fire.

The dishes were all marinated yesterday, and what I have to do today is to cook a pot of porridge. It was originally stick noodle porridge. After thinking about it, Gu Siwei replaced it with rice porridge. Although it is the same thin, the taste of rice porridge is better than that of stick noodles. Porridge is naturally much better.

Not to mention the cooking over there, Gu Siwei and Hu Yanqiu tied the bundles of rice, stacked them together after they were tied, and continued to work mechanically.

They didn't think of it at first, but now they thought of rest. After a while, the two of them felt hot and hungry, and wanted to sit down and lie down on the ground, even if it was sunny.

But the body seems to have been separated from his own spirit. The person subconsciously looks for the rice that has been cut from the ground, and then takes out three or four of them and rolls them with his fingers, rolls them together, and then lays them horizontally in the middle of a pile of rice. After such a tie, the rice ears tied into ropes have to be as high as the tied ears, so that it will be convenient when threshing tomorrow.

These were all taught by Zhao Fangming just now, and Gu Siwei and Hu Yanqiu were not at all sloppy, even at this moment, they couldn't help but prick carefully.

Although the tying is slow, and the bundles may be big or small, as long as it can be done neatly, both of them can do it neatly.

Not to mention anything else, at least this attitude is really nothing to choose.

"Eat! Everyone, come and wash, wipe, and eat right away."

Sun Qiumei had already cooked the meal and yelled at the people who were busy in the field.

Hearing this voice, Gu Siwei felt as if he heard fairy music, sat down all of a sudden, turned his head and grinned at Hu Yanqiu next to him.

"I didn't think before, how could it be so beautiful to hear sister Qiu calling for dinner today."

Seeing Gu Siwei's appearance, Hu Yanqiu sat down regardless of her appearance, but she was more particular about it anyway, and sat on the freshly tied rice bundle.

"Where did you hear sister Qiu's voice, you heard the sound of dinner being served?" Hu Yanqiu laughed.

While the two were talking, Sun Laibao came over.

"Here, give you two something!"

As he said that, before Gu Siwei and Hu Yanqiu could understand, Sun Laibao stuffed something into their hands.

Gu Siwei looked down and found a bird's nest in his hand.

The bird's nest is not small, about [-] centimeters in length. The bird's nest is made of several kinds of grasses. Gu Siwei knows three or four types of grass leaves, rice leaves, etc., which are quite miscellaneous.

"what is this?"

Gu Siwei asked.

Hu Yanqiu said: "You are stupid, this is a bird's nest."

"Of course I know it's a bird's nest, but what kind of bird's nest is it?" Gu Siwei asked Sun Laibao who was rushing all the way to the shady place on the other side of the big house.

"Water chick!" Sun Laibao said.

As soon as Gu Siwei heard about water chicken stalks, Gu Siwei understood that this is a small bird, about the size of a quail, and lives on water, no wonder it can make its nest in the rice fields.

"What is this thing for me?" Gu Siwei asked again.

"Eat, what else?" Sun Laibao looked back at Gu Siwei with a questioning face.

Gu Siwei said: "Eat eggs, there are only four or five eggs, who can eat enough?"

Sun Laibao's expression collapsed when he heard it, and he said ironically with a wry smile: "Why don't I help you find a few more litters to make enough for a meal?"

Gu Siwei said: "Forget it!"

Looking at the nest in his hand, Gu Siwei didn't know what to do for a while, throw it away, it seems inappropriate, eat it, this is too little, just a few eggs, and all of them are almost like quail eggs , Gu Siwei felt that even the gap between his teeth was not enough.

Seeing Gu Siwei's expression, Hu Yanqiu said: "It's not easy, just put it in the chicken coop and let the chicken hatch. If it hatches, it's good luck. If it doesn't hatch, forget it."

"That's... a good idea."

Gu Siwei had no better idea. Hearing what Hu Yanqiu said, he held the chicken coop and wanted to stand up. Unfortunately, after working all morning, his legs were a bit weak, especially when he was holding a bird in his hand. Wo, three or four times, Gu Siwei didn't stand up.

"Yo, I don't believe it!"

Gu Siwei was ready to fight this matter, and he had to stand up with only the strength of his legs.

When Hu Yanqiu saw it, he sighed, and stood up first with his own hand, and came to Gu Siwei's side to help his arm, so that Gu Siwei stood up easily with his strength.

"Stubborn like a cow!"

Hu Yanqiu looked at Gu Siwei and complained.

Gu Siwei didn't care, and walked towards his chicken coop holding the bird's nest.

The chicken coop of Gu Siwei's house is still a little distance from the big house, almost half a field away. The main reason is that Gu Siwei doesn't want to smell chicken excrement.

If this guy is close, when the window is opened in Xia Tian, ​​Gu Siwei will not want to wipe his neck with the smell of chicken feces, so the chicken coop and poultry coop are a little far away from the big house.

As for whether there will be foxes coming to steal, Gu Siwei was worried before, but now he is not worried at all. One is that there is Da Mao, although this guy is very lazy, but the fox does not know. I don't have the guts yet.

The second is that there are big geese that are raised with the chickens. This guy's title of village bully is not for nothing, and he has to avoid them, such as Huang Daxian.

In short, until now, Gu Siwei's family has not lacked chickens and ducks.

Gu Siwei has never counted, but if there are fewer, Sicui, a miser-like little girl, will definitely say that she can count eight times a day, and if there is a lot less, wouldn't she know?

The two came to the chicken coop.

Hu Yanqiu looked at the chicken pens surrounded by iron nets, and asked in surprise: "There are so many?"

Gu Siwei hummed, and he also felt that there seemed to be a lot of chickens in front of him. He hadn't been here a few times, and he didn't notice how many chickens there are now, but at this time, he saw that there were indeed more chickens than when he just put them in. few.

There were pheasants and chickens, all mixed together.

"No wonder I haven't seen you eat eggs. I didn't expect you to keep chickens to hatch. It's ok, hold back your greed." Hu Yanqiu glanced at Gu Siwei, showing a very surprised expression.

Gu Siwei was a little embarrassed. It's not that he didn't want to eat eggs, but he really didn't think about it. In his imagination, the chickens he got were still small, and there was still a while before they could eat meat.

Thinking about it this way and he didn't come to see it much, so he didn't know how many of the pheasants he raised at home and the native chickens brought from Xu Congwen's house had already laid eggs, not only laying eggs, but also some with chicks I came out for a stroll, and Gu Siwei was very happy at the moment.

"Is not eating eggs considered a good character?"

Gu Siwei pretended not to care, but he didn't think so at all in his heart. He really didn't remember that living here, there are fish and shrimps in the river, and at this time the river card shrimps are all big. For a moment, he couldn't think of eating eggs.

After thinking about it, she decided to ask Si Cui when she had time, why didn't this little girl say that the chicken had laid eggs.

Take the eggs out and stuff them casually under the belly of a brooding hen, and that's the job done.

However, Gu Siwei was unlucky today. He met two bad-tempered hens in a row. Before Gu Siwei reached out, the hens pecked at them.

"It's so stupid! The hen is not stupid. You reach out from the front to under the hen's belly. If you don't peck whoever you are, you have to touch it from the back when you get the egg. Go over, it's so stupid."

As Hu Yanqiu said, he took the bird's nest from Gu Siwei's hands, grabbed all the eggs, and easily put the eggs into the hen's nest from behind the hen.

"Yes, yes, very good and powerful," Gu Siwei praised Hu Yanqiu.

Hu Yanqiu said: "This is common sense, have you ever raised chickens before?"

"It was raised in the stomach, and nothing else, really." Gu Siwei patted his belly.

Hu Yanqiu smiled and said, "I knew it was like this."

"Hey, you two, what are you doing over there, watching the chicks fill your belly?"

The big guys washed briefly in the ditch, and then each took a bowl to fill something and prepared to eat. Seeing Gu Siwei and Hu Yanqiu standing over the chicken coop, someone yelled loudly.

"You man, you'll make a fuss when people find time to stay for a while!" Someone next to him laughed.

"That's right, this person is a bachelor, so he can't see others marrying a wife! Hahaha."

The big guy is not busy now, but his mouth is loose, and he immediately regained his energy after finding Gu Siwei and Hu Yanqiu.

"Si Cui!"

Someone saw Si Cui coming, and started to make fun of Si Cui: "Are you happy to have Hu Yanqiu as your sister-in-law?"

"Sister Yanqiu is my sister-in-law, what is my sister-in-law?" Sicui said generously.

"..." Seeing what Sicui said was so dry, this guy didn't know what to do next. He didn't think about it in his mind. What he thought was that Sicui had to tell the difference. Or say something else.

So I can't fix him all at once.

"Brother, haven't the daughter-in-laws you talked about become successful yet? You've lost the chain too much." Si Cui actually asked him.

Don't ask who you learned the word off the chain from, it's easy to guess.

This embarrasses him, the person who asked the question is not young, 25-[-] years old, he is considered an older young man now, he should get married, unfortunately, his family is poor and ugly, it is so easy to find a daughter-in-law .

(End of this chapter)