Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 276 Flying Back
Hu Yanqiu looked at Sicui who looked unhappy.

"What's the matter?" Hu Yanqiu asked Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei replied: "It has nothing to do with me, she is sad that the geese and ducks at home have flown."

Hu Yanqiu couldn't help being amused when he heard it, and opened his mouth to tease Gu Siwei: "If you kill it, kill it, Huan Fei said that Fei left, and Si Cui has already seen that you lied to her."

"Where is this going?" Gu Siwei immediately made a bitter face.

"Where did I kill so many geese at once, and now there are only a few in the poultry house, even the geese and ducks, all with their cubs, and the ones without cubs flew together," Gu Siwei said.

Seeing that Gu Siwei seemed to be joking, Hu Yanqiu asked, "Really?"

"Really, the poultry pen is empty," Si Cui said.

Hu Yanqiu asked: "Have you seen it in other places? For example, there is a small pond over there at the head of the stream, where geese like to plunge into water...".

"Oh, how did I forget this one."

After hearing this, Sicui let go of her feet and ran up the mountain.

At that point, he ran into two old men, Li and Yu, who were coming down from the mountain to eat.

"Ouch, little girl, what's the rush today?"

Old man Li supported Sicui, and asked with a smile.

Sicui said: "The goose at home has run away, let me see if it is over there in the pond."

Old man Li asked, "What goose?"

"The goose raised at home" Si Cui said.

Old man Li thought for a while and said: "Maybe not over there, we just came over there."

"What are you doing there?" Si Cui couldn't figure out what he was going there for.

Old man Li said: "Sharpen the knife, how can you sharpen it without water?"

Old man Li and old man Yu really went to the small pond to sharpen their knives. After working for so many days, the knives were naturally a bit damaged, so the two of them took advantage of finishing work early today, and went to the side of the pond to sharpen the flat ends they are using now to make it easier to insert into the bark.

"I'd better go see it"

Si Cui really wanted to believe the two of them, but she would not be at ease unless she saw it with her own eyes.

So Sicui continued to run to see if there were any geese in the pond, and the two old men went down the mountain.

"I just met Si Cui, she said to go find the goose, what happened to the goose?"

When the two old men arrived in front of the big house, they squatted next to the canal and began to wash their hands and arms without saying a word. From time to time, they even picked up a handful of water and rubbed their necks.

Hu Yanqiu then said the matter again.

"Can the domestic geese fly away? If other people's domestic geese can still say it, can the geese and ducks raised here fly?"

When old man Yu heard Hu Yanqiu talking about this, he felt a little strange.

After living here for these days, the two old men finally understood that all the land on this hillside was developed by Gu Siwei. Even if it was to be divided, no one would dare to divide it, because everyone knew that you would not be able to come up if it was divided.
So even if someone has the heart, they don't have the ability.

More than ten acres of land, and the land looks pretty good, at least the things growing on it are pretty good, who has such a big land, the family will be short of food and drink?

And there is no food payment here, let alone a family of three in these places, even a dozen or so people can support them for nothing.

If there is food, drink, and food, then it is natural to think about eating some meat, so chickens, ducks, geese, etc. are naturally fed. The same thing is fed, people with a family of wealth, and poor people who can hardly take off the lid, it must be different.

Usually, the two old men can also see that the life of Gu Siwei's family is not a well-off one that can be explained clearly.

Can the geese and ducks fed by this family fly away?
Old man Yu knew that what Hu Yanqiu said was true, but there was a voice in his heart that kept telling him that it was impossible, that this matter was completely impossible.

"Who knows, I used to fly for a while, and I didn't fly very far, so I didn't take it seriously. Now I really flew away this time, and the loss is a bit big," Hu Yanqiu said.

Gu Siwei said at this time: "It's nothing, the world's affairs are just like this. After a while, I will go to Lao Xu's place to get some eggs. Let's continue, but this time I cut the feathers once a month. I'll see where they can fly!"

Hu Yanqiu has no other choice now, except for humming, she can't conjure geese and ducks.

"Let's eat, you have to eat," Hu Yanqiu said to Li Yu and the two old men.

Everyone is ready to eat.

As soon as the meal was put on the table, Sicui came back with an unhappy expression on her face.

You don't even need to ask, just look at the expression on the girl's face, you can tell that the geese and ducks are not at the small pond.

At the dinner table, everyone tried their best to talk about some happy things, Li Yu and the two old men also tried to make Si Cui happy, but unfortunately, the stingy little girl kept thinking about the geese and ducks that ran away, so she couldn't be happy no matter what.

After eating, Si Cui pulled Gu Siwei: "Brother, let's go find it, shall we?"

"Looking for it? Where can I find it here?" Gu Siwei really didn't know what to say about his own girl.

Si Cui didn't speak, just pulled the corner of Gu Siwei's clothes and remained silent.

Gu Siwei really had no choice but to say: "Then let's look for it, along the river, and find the shoal over there?"

Seeing Si Cui nodded, Gu Siwei had no choice but to say to Hu Yanqiu: "Let's go find the geese and ducks."

"be careful"

Hu Yanqiu also knew that if she didn't look for it, the girl Sicui might be sad for a long time, so just look for it, it's just a waste of time.

Gu Siwei took Sicui to look around, and it took almost two or three hours before he turned back.

When he came back, Hu Yanqiu was preparing noodles for dinner.Because she lost something, Sicui was unhappy, so Hu Yanqiu specially made hand-rolled noodles, preparing to make mixed sauce noodles for Sicui.

Sicui likes to eat this, of course, Hu Yanqiu can't make sauce, so Gu Siwei needs to show his skills, Hu Yanqiu can help, and of course he can learn while doing it.

Seeing Gu Siwei come back, Hu Yanqiu raised his chin.

The meaning is very clear, ask Gu Siwei if there is any gain.

Gu Siwei shook his head, looked at Sicui who went straight to the poultry house and said, "Where is it so easy to find, let alone these few geese, even if you lose a hundred sheep, where can you find them in the mountains?"

"That's right, it's just that Sicui is a little bit hard to get through," Hu Yanqiu said.

"I don't know who this girl learned from, she's just a miser." Gu Siwei looked at Si Cui who was walking towards the poultry house, really angry and funny.

Hu Yanqiu listened to Gu Siwei's words: "Anyway, you didn't learn from me. Well, don't talk about it, go and show off your sauce-making skills. Let's eat miscellaneous sauce noodles tonight."

"Not bad, is there anything to do?"

When Gu Siwei heard about eating noodles at night, he didn't resist as much as he did a few days ago. After eating rice for a few days, Gu Siwei's resistance to noodles has dropped to zero.

"Aren't the noodles dry?" Hu Yanqiu said angrily.

This is so annoying to ask, I already talked about mixed sauce noodles, which are originally dry mixed noodles, and I asked if there are any dry ones, why do you want to eat mixed sauce noodles, but dumplings are not available.

"I can't get enough to eat noodles at night," Gu Siwei said with a smile.

Hu Yanqiu said: "Then when you are hungry, I will fry an egg for you, or I will cook you a meal or something."

This is not an irony from Hu Yanqiu, Hu Yanqiu is sincere, and he is talking about the arrangements for Gu Siwei at night.

Gu Siwei thought for a while and said, "Okay, let's talk about it when I'm hungry at night."

After finishing speaking, the young couple got together and got busy.

After a while, when the pot was put together, the aroma followed.

The miscellaneous sauce noodles made by Gu Siwei are not the style of the old capital, nor the style of central Sichuan. Three fat and seven thin Ding'er are fried, added with sauce, and then put in potatoes.

Gu Siwei doesn't like to eat peanuts in it, but Hu Yanqiu and Sicui both like it, so Gu Siwei added some roasted peanuts before serving to add a sauce aroma.

The sauce here is fried well, and Hu Yanqiu’s noodles are rolled out there, and the water in the cauldron is well matched and boiled immediately.

Put the noodles into the water, cover them for a few minutes, then take them out and put them in cold water. They can’t be completely soaked in cold water, but they have to be warmed up. After taking them out of the cold water, put them in a large basin, and use chopsticks to stir up the noodles to prevent them from sticking together.

One pot of noodles is definitely not enough to eat, not counting the big-bellied bear like Da Mao, the current pot can't even fill the stomachs of Old Man Li and Old Man Yu, so this side has to continue.

As soon as the second pot of noodles was served, the two old men came back after finishing their work.

After a simple wash in the ditch, the two brought their own basins and put them together with everyone's basins, waiting for the noodles to be divided.

Seeing this, Hu Yanqiu said: "Don't make it look like a cafeteria. You are still waiting for someone to beat you. Today's noodles are full, so let's eat."

At this moment, Si Cui's voice suddenly came over.

"elder brother!"

After hearing this, Gu Siwei turned his head and looked towards Sicui.

Not only Gu Siwei, but everyone here looked in the direction of Sicui.

The geese at home flew back, not only the geese, but also the ducks.

These guys are sticking to the tip of the treetops, and they are slowly falling with their wings spread.

quack quack!
quack quack!
The calls of the geese and ducks are intertwined, which usually sounds a bit harsh, but today I don't know what happened, it sounds so good.

"Brother, they are back, our geese and ducks are back, I said they won't leave, and they are reluctant to part with our house...".

Sicui jumped up and down happily, and the big goose that fell came to Sicui's side, flapping its wings, as if dancing around Sicui.

Both the geese and the ducks came back, and Hu Yanqiu was in a very good mood. When he heard Si Cui say that the geese and ducks were reluctant to leave, he made a joke of Gu Siwei.

"Well, I can't bear your brother, one goose in three days, one duck in five days!"

Hearing Hu Yanqiu teasing Gu Siwei, Li Yu and the old man next to him couldn't help laughing.

(End of this chapter)