Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 291 The Truth About the Mill

After getting to the place in the dark and seeing a few machines, the big guy became even more interested.

From the time the village was built to the present, no production team has ever owned machines. These machines are very popular now. Not to mention anything else, who doesn’t know that the jobs in the machine noodle shop and oil press workshop in the town are all fat jobs?

Not to mention anything else, someone will give something every now and then, otherwise, if someone else's [-] catties of wheat can produce [-] catties of noodles, your family can only produce [-] catties or even less.

It's not that no one in Shimo Village has suffered this kind of loss, but knowing that you have suffered a loss, there is nothing you can do, so everyone can only sneak a bag of peanuts or a few Pancakes and such.

Yang Chuanwu saw someone pick and fumble, so he immediately said: "Don't f*ck, what should I do if the black lamp is messed up, work quickly, and you will hold it and watch it when tomorrow dawns."

The boys started to work when they heard it.

Although they were laughing and playing, these young people were really unambiguous in their work, and soon everyone carried the three machines to the boat together.

Once the machine was on board, new problems arose.

"It's all right now, there's no room for so many people on the boat," Yang Chuanwu said with a smile.

The three machines are too heavy because Gu Siwei's boat is too small. Even Gu Siwei never thought that his boat would have to transport three machines one day. If he thought about it, he really wouldn't mind making the boat bigger. doubled.

"The machine goes first, Siwei, you take the machine, take these two boys and go first, and let these two boys come to pick us up by boat later, you can go home early and rest."

Yang Chuanwu quickly arranged the matter. As an old captain, this small matter can't trouble him.

Gu Siwei had no objection, because he was indeed homesick, so he jumped on the boat without saying a word.

This time the boat is not as comfortable as it was when it came here, because when it came, it was going downstream, and it was enough to let the boat slide all the way down. To use a pole.

Fortunately, the flow of the river from here to the village is not fast, and the river surface is relatively wide, so it's hard work, but it's not the kind of exhaustion.

Two young men were rowing, and Gu Siwei stood at the bow of the boat and used a pole to bring some strength.

When the boat arrived at the village and hadn't entered the village, it saw a mass of light at the entrance of the village.

Gu Siwei also said that something major happened in the village, but when the boat got closer, it turned out that the villagers got up in the middle of the night to watch the excitement.

"Machine? What kind of machine, what does it look like?"

Before the boat approached the cliff, they heard someone yelling on the shore.

Gu Siwei was overjoyed, and shouted to the folks on the shore: "The big guy is really energetic. You don't sleep in the middle of the night and come to see the machine. This machine can disappear overnight. Do you have to take it with you to watch it late?"

Almost everyone in the village came out, except for Gu Siwei's own family, Liu Fulin and Guo Shengshou who lived a little further inside, and now the rest are all here.

Oh, forgot, let’s get rid of Yang Chuanwu over there.

What made Gu Siwei the most funny was that a few half-grown babies who hadn't lost their milky smell were watching the fun while yawning.

The boat docked.

"Wait until the machine is on the shore and see if it works. There are so many people coming up that the boat must be overturned. Everyone gives way. A few young people come here and bring some poles to lift the machine to the shore..." .

A young man who came with the boat seemed to be full of energy when he spoke at the moment, as if he had done something.

Soon, someone on the shore brought tools, and it was easier to get from the boat to the shore. There were only seven or eight people there, but now there are seventy or eighty here, and even women can carry them. Some people worked together, and these small machines landed on the shore lightly.

"Is this a flour mill?"

Yang Wuwu's old man, Yang Xingjia, moved closer to the machine, almost afraid of putting his face on the machine.

"That's not a flour mill, that's for husking rice or wheat."

There are also people who know the goods in the village.

"These ones look smaller than the ones in the town, and the ones in the town are all bigger." Someone asked such a question.

"What do you know, this town looks big, look at the size of the bucket over there, if you add a bucket here, it will not be much smaller than the one in the town...".

Someone immediately refuted it.

"So that's how it is." Someone suddenly felt that they had learned a lot.

Gu Siwei listened to it and wanted to laugh. He had seen the machines in the town before, and they must be bigger than the current ones, and they served different people.

In the past, the shops in the port city were small businesses, and they were powered by single-cylinder diesel engines, unlike the electric motors powered by generators in towns.

Gu Siwei didn't want to listen to the folks' nonsense anymore, he wanted to go home now.

He was about to open his mouth to say he was going home, but he heard something that made him very unhappy.

"Okay, now we have our own machine, and we don't have to look at the faces of the grandchildren in the town anymore." Guo Xiangping's voice sounded.

Gu Siwei was a little puzzled, and opened his mouth to ask: "Uncle Guo, how did the people from the mill in the town offend you?"

"No offence? If you don't give them something when you go to grind the noodles, they will kill you," Guo Xiangping said.

Gu Siwei was a little confused, because Gu Siwei had never given anything.

"Anything else to give?" Gu Siwei asked.

"That's not true! You didn't give anything when you were grinding the rice noodles?" A young man standing next to Gu Siwei asked curiously at Gu Siwei.

"No," Gu Siwei said.

Guo Xiangping said: "Then you must have given him the bran, right?"

"No, our family has to feed these things to pigs and sheep. How can I give them to him. Every time I line up and just pour the rice in," Gu Siwei said.

After hearing this, Guo Xiangping asked cheerfully, "How much rice can you produce per catty of rice?"

"One hundred catties of rice produced 62 catties of rice last time," Gu Siwei said.

Gu Siwei remembers this very clearly. It was because he sent the bag of rice to the old man’s family. I bought 62 catties of rice and 38 catties of bran.

Guo Xiangping asked, "What kind of rice?"

"It's the rice we planted ourselves."

Gu Siwei thought: Why does it seem that there are many kinds of rice in our village, so we only have one kind of rice from beginning to end, okay?Moreover, my family's rice has large grains and thin skin, which is much better than yours.

Guo Xiangping said: "Look! Our rice should yield about 72 to 78 catties per 75 catties, and your rice is bigger, so it must be at least 62 catties of rice. You are only [-] catties, and they took it for you. They walked at least ten catties, and you said that you didn’t give them anything, but in fact it was more than what we gave.”

"Brother Siwei, those people exchanged ten catties of bran for you ten catties of rice." A young man next to him directly told the story of Gu Siwei being tricked.

Gu Siwei was stunned, he really hadn't thought about it.

Gu Siwei is not careful about such small things, plus how much rice there is in the space, it is naturally impossible for him to care about how much rice can be produced from a bag of rice.

So someone took advantage of it.

He had never been a farmer before, so he didn't know the twists and turns. He thought it would be so easy for him to steal his own rice because he watched the rice go in.

As a result, his face was slapped.

The ability of these people to steal rice and face is beyond Gu Siwei's imagination.

"That side is not...".

Gu Siwei remembered that he was not only machine rice but also milled noodles.

"Then don't even think about it. As long as you don't give it away, you won't run away. Just steal it directly like you. If he thinks you are smart, he will play tricks on you. It can only be done after three times of grinding. He only Give you two times, in this case, you will have more wheat bran, but less flour.

Now you know why these grandchildren are not a thing."

Guo Xiangping looked at Gu Siwei with a smile on his face.

"You don't know?" Luan Jianming asked when he saw Gu Siwei scratching his head.

"I……".

Gu Siwei wanted to say 屮, but he didn't say it in the end, mainly because all the children in the village, big and small, were there.

"I'll know next time, how can a person not be cheated in this life?" Guo Xiangping began to comfort Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei wants to settle accounts with those people now, but after thinking about it, let's forget it.

"Okay, since we have machines in our village, we don't need to look at them. Oh, by the way, what does this machine feed on? Gasoline or diesel?"

"Diesel, didn't you find that it has small wheels? This is a diesel engine."

The one who spoke was one of the two new workers in the village, Sun Qiumei's nephew, the one Zhao Fangming gave up.

"Being a worker is different after all, and my horizons are broadened."

As soon as this remark came out, and it came from Sun Qiumei's brother, it made others look down on him, and his own family praised his own family, which is really shameless.

Gu Siwei said: "Then I'll go back first, I haven't been home for a long time."

"What have you been doing?"

"Didn't you say that you went to help others collect medicine?"

Gu Siwei heard everyone talking about this again, so he smiled and said: "Well, I went to collect the medicine, and I will go home first."

With that said, he jumped into the boat and rowed towards the mouth of the canyon.

"Siwei, have you picked the medicine yet?"

Some people are still curious about this.

"I got it, if I don't get it, can I come back?"

“I heard it was bought in the village”

"There is an egg in the village to buy this!"

In the end, there is still a discerning person, and he guessed it right away.

"Just now Uncle Wu told me that it was bought in the village."

This guy is still a bit weak, admits to death, and fights with the person who guessed the truth.

This person simply ignored him, thinking that this brain should not be broken with him, because he couldn't understand.

When the boat arrived at the canyon, Gu Siwei called out grass flowers and cubes. I haven't seen Gu Siwei for almost a month. The two guys were so happy that they almost broke up the boat today, and the wooden boat almost turned into a speedboat.

(End of this chapter)