Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 201

The boat docked.

"Siwei, Siwei, you come together, why is your family an exception?"

Yang Chuanwu happened to be passing by here, and saw Gu Siwei standing on the boat with no intention of disembarking, so he greeted him aloud: "I know you don't care, but as a member of the village, you have to participate if you are qualified. Same!"

As soon as Gu Siwei heard it, he knew that Yang Chuanwu's memory was wrong, so he said with a smile: "I'm still one year old!"

"Are you one year younger?"

Yang Chuanwu scratched his head, and asked Gu Siwei, "When is your birthday?"

"I'm the seventh day of November, so I'm early," Gu Siwei replied.

After hearing this, Yang Chuanwu suddenly realized: "It's true that I didn't come! That's okay, you don't have to participate. I thought you would not participate when you are old. This time, everyone who is old has to participate. I have special reasons for not coming. Family members can also participate on their behalf. Everyone draws lots based on their ability. If you get the lottery, you are lucky. If you can’t get it, don’t blame others. It’s fair to everyone!"

When Gu Siwei heard this, he couldn't help but think about it. He could guess what the effect would be if the news spread in the village. It is estimated that the threshold of Yang Chuanwu's family would be broken in this day.

"Isn't it a busy day?" Gu Siwei asked.

Commander Yang Chuan sighed: "Who says it's not? You don't know. Since I had breakfast at my house, there have been constant people. I drank half a tank of water alone. I didn't even eat well at noon. You said I can Who is allowed to go, and who can not be allowed to go? Which piece of palm and back of the hand is not meat? Just draw lots, the cleanest and cleanest! Go to Te Niang's.

Yang Chuanwu swears directly, which shows how irritable he is after a day because of this matter.

There is no suitable person in Yang Chuanwu's family. His son is still young and his grandson has no shadow, but he is qualified to have a nephew. It is a pity that he dares to favoritism in such a matter, with so many eyes on him.

"By the way, are you going back?"

Gu Siwei said: "Well, go back right away, wait for Brother Chuanjin and the others to help lift the rice beds and rice rollers, and take them back."

Harvesting the rice is not considered complete, there is still threshing, and then drying, and finally it is considered a real harvest. If it is outside, you have to pay public grain or something, but the villages in the mountains such as Shimo Village are exempted from paying. public food.

The rice bed that Gu Siwei mentioned is a kind of machine for threshing. It is handmade and has a long history. Anyway, no one can tell how long this thing has been used. It has a very simple structure, that is, a row of wooden sticks are fixed on an arc-shaped shelf. , Throw the rice up, and use this force to knock the rice particles off the rice.

The basic principle is the same as the flail and so on.

There are several ways to remove rice grains, rice bed and flail are two of them, besides these two, there is also a roller, which may be seen by many people, a stone roller is enough, Gu Siwei is useless The roller is too heavy to take home.

Of course, it's okay to do it, but Gu Siwei is afraid of explaining to others, and it's troublesome if nothing else.

There is also a thresher, which is not an electric machine, but a human-powered machine with a simple structure. It is mainly a large roller, and iron bars are used to bend out triangular pointed hooks on the roller. In the sharp punch, in this way, a hook array like a mace is formed on the wooden roller.

There is a mechanism connected to the big roller, which turns when you step on the big roller. At this time, stick the eared end of the rice to the big roller, so that the iron hook hits the rice ear. This force knocks the rice grains off the stalks.

This time, there are only two kinds of Gu Siwei's household, one is a rice bed, and the other is a human thresher.

These two things belong to the village and belong to the public property. Gu Siwei can only borrow them. He really wants to do it, but he has never had this concept. Regarding farming, he counts what he has and what he can’t use. He didn't even know what to do.

That's it for the first time this year, after a while, Gu Siwei is going to buy the necessary guys.

This is all for later, the most important thing now is to recycle the rice in the warehouse.

"Then you wait here. I'll go and see them and see how they do the lottery. Oh, yes, Siwei, why don't you go with me? Isn't your handwriting good? You To write a word, it seems a little ugly to make a circle at this time."

Hearing what Yang Chuanwu said, Gu Siwei felt that this person was really interesting. He used to draw circles. Why did he think that drawing circles was ugly after he came here?

Gu Siwei didn't say much, stood up and got off the boat, followed Yang Chuanwu and walked towards the cowshed in the village.

There is a drying yard in front of the cowshed, and all important matters are generally decided here.

When Gu Siwei and Yang Chuanwu arrived at the cowshed, they found that many people were already sitting on the drying ground with benches in their hands. The men were smoking and talking about the mountains, and the women were also gathered together, talking about the short stories of their parents, and at the same time holding hands. Made by hand.

Usually it is to put a shoe sole, or to sew and mend it for the family.

"Siwei, are you coming too?"

An aunt saw Gu Siwei following Yang Chuanwu, and thought he was also here to run for the election.

"I'm not here to choose workers, I'm here to help, to help write the lottery," Gu Siwei replied with a smile.

Hearing what Gu Siwei said, my aunt breathed a sigh of relief. This expression was undisguised, and she just followed up: that's good, that's good!
"Look what you said!"

The aunt and mother-in-law were a little unhappy after hearing this, and said to Gu Siwei after saying something to her daughter-in-law: "Siwei, don't worry, Sumei didn't mean that."

"It's okay, I'm not interested in being a worker either," Gu Siwei said with a smile.

Yang Chuanwu couldn't stand it anymore, and shouted at everyone: "Put your thoughts on Siwei, if he wanted to be a worker, he would have done it long ago. They have mentioned it a few times at the factory, but Siwei Nod, I will be a technician immediately, but Siwei will not do it!"

Gu Siwei shook his head with a wry smile. He knew that Yang Chuanwu was giving him a face, so he couldn't say anything.

Upon hearing this, everyone started discussing again, but it was obvious that everyone looked at Gu Siwei's eyes, and there seemed to be something wrong. I guess in my heart I thought that Gu Siwei was a stupid guy. If he didn't work as a worker, It's the first time I've lived for decades to be a farmer.

"Write what?"

In order to divert his attention, Gu Siwei asked Yang Chuanwu.

Yang Chuanwu said: "Go inside and talk."

"Chuanwu, don't go inside, just go outside, write and make it clear in front of the big guys outside."

Seeing that his son was going to take Gu Siwei to the cowshed, Yang Xingjia stopped him immediately and explained the matter to his son.

Yang Chuanwu slapped his head: "Hey! You see, I was going to do this, but I got confused at the end."

Immediately, Yang Chuanwu understood what his father meant: since we want to be fair, just and open, then let's go straight to the end.

So Yang Chuanwu yelled into the yard.

"Get the table out!"

Not long after the words fell, Gu Siwei saw two young men from the Yang family come out carrying a broken Eight Immortals table.

The Eight Immortals Table was old and gray, and the paint on the table was peeled off. As for the appearance, it was an ordinary Eight Immortals Table with four legs, without carvings or engravings, so there was nothing to say.

There is a bucket on the table, covered with a red cloth.

Seeing this posture, everyone, including Gu Siwei, understood: when the lottery is drawn, the red cloth covers the bucket, and when the time comes, just reach in and grab a paper ball and come out.

"Has the paper been cut?"

Yang Chuanwu asked.

"Uncle, it's done!"

"Take it and show it to the folks!"

One of the two guys took a stack of papers and showed it to the folks below.

At this time, Yang Chuanwu began to talk: "In the past, people said that drawing a circle or something is easy to fake, saying that we hide the circle thrown into the bucket, and when we wait to catch it, we pull it out of the sleeve and use it as a catch. Arrived...".

Gu Siwei was a little dazed listening to it, and didn't realize how it was done for a while, but only after listening did he realize the original ordinary trick of stealing.

Yang Chuanwu continued: "It's easy today. When you want to catch it later, Brother Siwei will write on the spot. Just writing is not enough, and a fellow villager will ask Brother Siwei to draw another mark. This will not only have the words, but also make a mark." With the mark drawn on the spot, even if someone wants to fake it, there is no time.

First, Brother Siwei is standing here, not going anywhere. There are not many writers in our village council, and none of them have good writing from Brother Siwei, so this method is the safest.

It's all like this, whoever catches and who doesn't catch it is up to fate, don't complain or say it's unfair... ".

Yang Chuanwu talked directly for 5 minutes.

Gu Siwei was stunned when he heard this, and thought to himself: No wonder he can be a captain. Ganqing Yang Chuanwu's speech is of a good level. Although he is uneducated, the order of things is still very clear.

"Who the hell, call out the big guys, at least one person from each family! Let's start when everyone is here! Damn it, I haven't eaten yet..." Yang Chuanwu said.

Hearing this, the middle-aged man sitting below immediately let go of his feet and called for someone to go.

If it were normal, it would be impossible for someone to come here within half an hour, and the meeting would have to be an hour later at the earliest, but today is different, there is a yell here, and the master slapped over there.

In less than 10 minutes, the whole drying area was full, no matter whether there was a suitable candidate at home or there was no qualified candidate at home, they all came.

Those who are qualified are Baba who want to be in, and those who are not qualified are to move a small bench to watch the fun. In short, it is rare that there are so many people here in the drying yard.

He even hugged a nursing baby, you said that this person is not equal!
Oh, it's probably worse than Si Cui.

"Is everyone here? Let's take a roll call!"

Saying that Yang Chuanwu didn't want a roster, he started shouting from the east to the west, one by one.

Thanks to his good memory, he actually ordered every one of them one by one.

"Oh, I forgot, the last one is Gu Siwei's! Have you ordered anything? If not, it will officially start."

Yang Chuanwu announced the start of the lottery.

(End of this chapter)