Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 211
Liu Fulin stood up, looked up and looked around.

"All the vermicelli came out?"

Now at the door of Gu Siwei's house, wherever there is something to hang, there are vermicelli hanging on them, ranging from quick-drying ones to those just made.

Let's put it this way, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is full of vermicelli.

What can be juxtaposed with vermicelli is vermicelli, sweet potato flour and potato flour, both from dry powder to powder soup that is still settling.

At this time, Zhao Fangming came out of the house, holding a washbasin in his hand, which was half full of water and half full of powder.

"Uncle, you are here."

Zhao Fangming and Liu Fulin greeted each other.

Liu Fulin saw it and said with a smile: "How about it, the job is almost over."

"It will take about ten days to finish it." Zhao Fangming smiled and put down the basin in his hand, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

For Zhao Fangming, it's good if the work can't be finished, because as long as the work can't be finished, the two of them don't have to worry about eating and drinking.

Now Zhao Fangming and Sun Qiumei are like the workers of Gu Siwei's family. They have to come here as soon as they open their eyes during the day, and they don't go home to sleep until dark.

The hard work is really hard, but the reward Gu Siwei gave is real. As for how much he gave, just look at the expressions on the couple's faces. Anyway, it's enough for the couple to live.

It is precisely because of this that the couple hope that the work in Gu Siwei's family will never be finished.

"There are still ten days?"

Liu Fulin couldn't help but startled, and said: "Why are there still ten days left? When I came last time, there wasn't much left, and there were only half of the houses over there."

Zhao Fangming laughed and said, "That's because you didn't see the cellar in the mountain. There are still a lot of them over there. It's still not all done. If they are all done, it will take a month."

Liu Fulin said to Gu Siwei: "Why don't you find a time to gather the folks again and finish your work?"

Gu Siwei waved his hands again and again: "No need, we and Brother Fang Ming's family can do the rest of the work slowly. They are fine, and I am not in a hurry here, so I don't need to bother the folks."

Liu Fulin thought about it for a while and thought it was right. If everyone helped to finish this job, Zhao Fangming and his wife would be free. Now that they have something to do, they can make some money. If they are free, they can only sit and eat.

What?Run the job over there in the factory.

Looking at this matter now, it is just a saying that Guo Shengshui gave you the way out for no reason, let alone not being a real brother, even if he is a real brother, there is no such thing as playing.

It's not that Guo Shengshui doesn't want to help, but that Guo Shengshui also relies on this way to subsidize his own life.

So this matter has been dragged on like this, and the usual income is not much, and the two families are divided, and no one can be happy if they change.

Thinking of this, Liu Fulin thought about Zhao Fangming's job, and his mood suddenly became bad again.

"Then you guys are chatting, I still have something to do here." Zhao Fangming didn't intend to continue chatting with the two of them.

He is a man who doesn't talk much, and now he doesn't have the habit of getting together unless necessary, and if he doesn't do this job, no one will do it, so after chatting with Liu Fulin for a few words, he turned around and went back to work.

Watching Zhao Fangming enter the room, Liu Fulin kept looking at his back, and then heaved a long sigh: "A good boy is a good boy, but he is too honest. He has been bullied all the time, even his own father... What is this called?"

Gu Siwei smiled when he heard this and didn't respond. He was not interested in commenting on this matter.

Although he looked down on Zhao Fangming's father and Sun Qiumei's mother-in-law, you can't say that the old couple paid nothing. After all, Sun Qiumei got married, and the old couple also paid for it.

In short, how the family lives and whether the job is allowed or not are all private affairs of the family. He, an outsider, makes judgments, why doesn't he feel awkward?
"You, are you still in the mood to care about this now? Think about how to marry Dezhu a wife." Gu Siwei said with a smile.

Liu Fulin couldn't help showing a wry smile on his face when he heard this: "I've been worrying all my life. Forget it. I'm going to go back now and pass on the method you said. I'll let you know when I get a letter. you".

Gu Siwei nodded.

"Don't give it away! See you eight times a day, why don't you give it away? You are busy with your work, so I'm leaving."

Liu Fulin wanted to leave, but when he saw Gu Siwei standing up, he immediately said something.

After waving his hands and putting them behind his back, the old man hurried away.

What is Gu Siwei doing?Naturally, he pushed his little mill.

"I'm like a donkey!"

At this moment, Gu Siwei really regretted it. He regretted why he wanted to build such a large piece of land, two or three acres, just like Liu Fulin's house now.

Now the problem is coming, if you don’t plant the land, you can’t do it, if you plant it, so many people are exhausted and have no joy in life.

Hey!
He sighed, said his life was hard, and continued to turn the small grinding plate with one hand, and with the other hand, he took out a piece of cut sweet potato from the small basin next to it, and put it in the grinding wheel.

The small mill was rustling in Gu Siwei's hands, and the white potato powder froth flowed out of the millstone, along the slurry induction groove, and fell into the small wooden basin below.

Waiting for the small wooden basin to be almost full, Gu Siwei picked up the basin, came into the house, and poured the sweet potato pulp in the basin into the large vat next to it.

About one meter away from the vat, Sun Qiumei, Zhao Fangming, and Sicui, who was doing odd jobs, were busy washing powder.

In front of Sun Qiumei, a rope was hung from the roof beam. At the end of the rope was tied a cross-shaped wooden frame, which was about as thick as a water bottle cap. From each corner of the frame, a rope hung down. The cables are attached to the four corners of a large piece of gauze.

In this way, the gauze is hung up, which is the main tool for hanging powder.

Just scoop up the powder slurry that Gu Siwei has ground with a scoop, pour it into the powder bag, and then hold the wooden frame with your hand and shake it back and forth from side to side, so that the powder slurry will roll back and forth in the gauze bag. During the rolling process, The sweet potato powder flowed through the gaps between the gauze and into the basin below, while the sweet potato was left in the gauze.

One time is not enough, waiting is almost done, and water must be added to the gauze, so that the largest powder can be washed down.

This is based on personal experience.

But for rural girls like Sun Qiumei, it's not a big deal. They have followed their mother to do this kind of work since they were young, and they can handle it proficiently so early in the morning.

Gu Siwei naturally didn't have such a skill, otherwise he wouldn't have been assigned to grind sweet potatoes.

Whoa!
Gu Siwei poured the sweet potato pulp from the basin into the tank.

"Siwei, two more pots are enough, send us back to the village early today," Sun Qiumei said.

Gu Siwei nodded: "Okay!"

A few days ago, Sun Qiumei said what happened today. It wasn't the last time that Zhao Fangming gave up his job as a worker when he was caught. Now Sun Qiumei's nephew has passed the medical examination and has officially become a worker. He is going to the county for training.

Although the family is poor, this is a major event, so Sun Qiumei's old lady is going to gather the family together and have a good meal, which can be regarded as seeing off his precious grandson, and of course it also means having a good time.

The old lady who can be regarded as Sun Qiumei still needs to show face. She knows that her grandson's quota is a bit unreasonable, so she doesn't call anyone else except her own family.

Of course, it may also be that the family is too poor to invite guests.

"I see".

Gu Siwei nodded to show that he knew it. He looked at the pulp in the basin and found that there were still some hanging on the wall, so he reached out and put some pulp left in the basin into the tank, and then went back to the outside with the basin. Next to Xiao Mo, he continued to do his own work like a donkey.

After grinding, Gu Siwei didn't take a rest immediately, but helped with a little chore, waiting for Sun Qiumei to transfer the scum from the last sling to the dung dustpan next to him, and Gu Siwei ended today's event like everyone else. labor.

"Don't go yet!"

Seeing that the two of them were about to go out, Gu Siwei called out to them.

"Si Cui!"

Seeing that the two had stopped, Gu Siwei asked Si Cui to get things.

Si Cui ran into the big house with a thud, and when she was waiting to come out, she had a small basin in her hand, which contained four pieces of prepared sweet potato jelly.

Gu Siwei also ordered Si Cui to work, and he went to get some things himself.

A small portion of shredded pork wrapped in lotus leaves is all fatty shredded meat, six portions of oil and four portions of lean meat. This kind of meat is the best now. If you buy it in the market, it will not be sold to meat sellers. People will definitely not cut something for you.

Gu Siwei definitely doesn't like this kind of meat. He likes meat that is [-] to [-] percent, [-] percent fat and [-] percent thin, which suits his descendant's background decades later.

"I won't give you anything else. You also have it in your vegetable garden. You can take these, and you can fry them when you go back and fry them," Gu Siwei said.

Zhao Fangming was a little confused and asked, "What is this for?"

Sun Qiumei finally figured it out, put her arm against her husband, and then said to Gu Siwei: "Thank you, you are still thoughtful."

After speaking, he reached out and took the meat that Gu Siwei handed over, and also took a few pieces of noodles from Sicui.

Zhao Fangming was in a daze throughout the whole process, and when he was waiting to go out, he made an expression of sudden realization.

When Gu Siwei saw it, he knew he wanted to understand.

It's also quite simple. If you think about the mother who wants to grab her job, even if she asks the couple to eat, what good food can she cook? Even if there is good food, how can the two couple get together.

No need to ask, you will definitely not be full if you go there to eat, so Gu Siwei prepared these here, fry the meat in a pan, force out the oil and water, add some green peppers and some vegetables, and finally put them in After frying the noodles like this, it must be very rich for the folks now.

"thank you!"

Zhao Fangming said that he felt that Gu Siwei was thinking too much, and he could think of this, but he never thought of it. He always thought that he was going to eat, and he never thought about how this meal would be eaten.

"It's nothing, someone told me, what do you want to eat at night, I think you should take some back, so that you don't have enough to eat. When you come to work tomorrow, won't that affect efficiency?" Gu Siwei said with a smile.

Zhao Fangming and his wife also laughed. As for whether they were laughing in their hearts, I don't know. Anyway, someone else would have to think: This family is not as good as an outsider who will think for themselves.

(End of this chapter)