Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 40
"Si Cui, I want to ask you something, who in our village makes better clothes?" Gu Siwei remembered the matter of Bu.

Sicui didn't even think about it after hearing this: "Of course it's Aunt Meiling. Her clothes are the best, and the soles of her shoes are also the most beautiful. Her needlework is no better than him. Even Grandma Six praises her." .

"I have a piece of cloth here, and I want to make cotton clothes for each of us for a year, but I don't know if I should bother them," Gu Siwei said.

Gu Siwei has no choice but to find someone to make clothes, because now there are no suitable ready-made clothes in the town or in the factory store. Siweiyizhuan is really expensive.

Can you imagine an ordinary piece of clothing that costs a worker a month's wages, and the style is still the ugly one that would hang you up.

"What troubles others?"

Just as she was talking, Wu Meiling walked into the yard.

Sicui opened his mouth and said, "Auntie Meiling, my brother said he wanted you to help us make a padded jacket, I'm afraid you are too busy to have time."

"Hey, what am I talking about? I have time. What can I do in the winter now? Brother Siwei, this matter is covered by me. I just heard that you brought back a piece of cloth, so I came to ask Ask if I can help, who knows, we also want to go together."

Wu Meiling's enthusiasm was really beyond Gu Siwei's expectation, and it also made him truly appreciate the unaffected simplicity in people at this time.

"Then I will trouble you."

Gu Siwei picked up the cloth in his hand.

Wu Meiling took the cloth, opened it to have a look and said, "Has it got damp?"

"If it's not trendy, people won't sell it so cheap." Gu Siwei explained the matter.

Wu Meiling smiled and said: "Even if it is damp, you can take advantage of this cloth by buying it. If you think the color is a bit dirty, you can re-dye it. This kind of old coarse cloth is easy to be colored. Such a large piece of cloth, you You can do two sets, if you do one set, Sicui can do two sets."

"That's it, I'm fine with one body, Si Cui, you can make two bodies," Gu Siwei said.

Now Gu Siwei has a whole body on his body, but Si Cui is still in tatters. Besides, gradually Gu Siwei has sorted things out, and if there is no shortage of food in the future, naturally he will not be short of clothes.

Now he understands that although everyone's life is not very good now, there are still some people who are doing well. For example, the workers in the factory in the mountains, their living standards are much better than ordinary people.

"Okay, wait a minute, I'll get a ruler when I get home and measure it for you."

Wu Meiling walked outside after speaking.

"Brother, one set is enough for me to wear."

When Si Cui heard that she was making clothes for herself, she was very happy, but when she heard that she would make two sets for herself, and Gu Siwei only had one set, she started thinking about it again.

"Listen to me, if you don't listen, don't stay with me."

Gu Siwei was lazy and said something to Si Cuiduo. He is now thinking about how to return Wu Meiling's favor. Helping to make clothes is not a favor.

What else is there to order? After thinking about it, Gu Siwei felt that it would be almost enough to give twenty or thirty catties of white noodles. Of course, it had to be given secretly, and Wu Meiling probably wouldn't go around talking nonsense after receiving it.

About ten minutes later, Wu Meiling came over with a tape measure and a smile.

As soon as he entered the room, he signaled Si Cui to stand up, and began to measure Si Cui's size.

Gu Siwei asked at this time: "Sister-in-law Meiling, who has cotton?"

"That's not true. Where is the cotton left at home? I have already sewed and mended it for the child. Are you going to make a jacket?"

"Well, of course it's a jacket," Gu Siwei said.

Wu Meiling thought for a while and said: "I see, don't make a jacket today. It's already July [-]th, and spring will start after a while. If you make a jacket, you won't be able to wear it for a few days. It's better to make unlined clothes and wait." It's spring, I'll find some cotton seeds for you to plant, and I'll think about making jackets in winter.

You listen to your sister-in-law, other sister-in-laws don’t have confidence, but with your skills, you will definitely be able to put together a few jackets next winter.”

After hearing this, Gu Siwei felt that what Wu Meiling said seemed to be correct.

"I don't care, it's just that Si Cui's clothes are too thin," Gu Siwei said.

After hearing this, Sicui immediately said: "Brother, I'm fine, I'm not cold at all."

Seeing that the transparent snot on the girl's face was about to fall, and she said that she was not cold, Gu Siwei felt a little funny.

"Okay, don't interrupt the children when adults talk," Gu Siwei said.

After thinking for a while, Gu Siwei said: "Sister-in-law, you can get me some cottonseed now, I will prepare it first, and I will prepare some things to sell at the factory in the next two days, maybe I can get a few catties in exchange for it." Cotton, when the time comes, you will make a cotton coat for Sicui."

Wu Meiling didn't think much about it, even if she thought about it, she couldn't think of such a heaven-defying thing as Gu Siwei having space.

"Okay, we have it at home, but I can't give you all, I can only give you a little," Wu Meiling said.

Hearing that Wu Meiling's house had them, Gu Siwei said again: "Sister-in-law, do you have any rice seeds at home, and if you have any, give me some."

Wu Meiling said: "There are really no rice seeds, not even in the village, because the land in our village cannot grow rice."

"Isn't there water, why can't we grow rice?"

The fields in the village are right by the water, so how could it be impossible to grow rice? Gu Siwei was a little surprised.

Wu Meiling said: "How do I know that, anyway, the output of rice planted in the village is too low, so it is suitable for planting yams and potatoes, and the growth of wheat is average."

"Oh!"

Without rice seeds, Gu Siwei felt that he should stop entangled here, and just wait to get some when he went to town.

Wu Meiling measured the size for Sicui, and Gu Siwei measured it.

"Sister-in-law, I have to trouble you to take care of me these few days, and I have to go into the mountains to get something to sell." Gu Siwei was about to run away.

Wu Meiling said: "It's okay, you can go, I'm here with Sicui, nothing big will happen."

Gu Siwei nodded, and then left some dry goods, mainly some fruits. Of course, the most not-so-good persimmons were kept, not only enough for Si Cui to eat, but also to take care of the children of Wu Meiling's family .

The arrangement was almost done, Gu Siwei carried the ax he had just bought and prepared to go out.

After walking about ten meters, I heard Liu Fulin's voice behind me.

"Four-dimensional, four-dimensional, where are you going?"

Gu Siwei stopped and turned back and said: "I'm going into the mountains, I'm going to hunt some game, go to the factory to exchange some money, buy some cotton to make a padded jacket, and get some other things...".

"Don't go, come here, come here, there are still things to discuss in the village." Liu Fulin waved at Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei leaned on an axe and said with a smile: "You can decide what to do. I'm only too old to decide on any big things."

To be honest, Gu Siwei doesn't want to take care of the affairs of the village. First, when people are not in harmony, it is easy to say that it is easy to take the lead in getting rich, but if you really want to do it, especially when you are poor and white, that kind of hard work is really hard. It's not something ordinary people can do.

Everyone thinks it's easy to get rich and leaders, but if you really let you do it, I dare say that a hundred people can do it and destroy a hundred.

It's really not something that ordinary people can do with the patience to twist people's hearts.

Therefore, Gu Siwei has no interest in being the leader of getting rich, and he has no intention of disturbing the matter of entering the village. Now he is thinking about waiting for a while, and he will arrange it on Yinsongya and get rid of Sicui. Youping, I moved to Yinsongya by myself, and lived my life happily.

"You have to go. The backbone of each family in the village must be there. Our village is like this. Major issues have to be discussed. The minority obeys the majority," Liu Fulin said.

For these people in the sixth team, there must be some who are not convinced by Gu Siwei, not only there are, but they must not be a family or two, but those who can see far and see clearly know that strange people like Gu Siwei feel that they are from the village Help, not the resistance of the village.

At this time, if you don't tighten up Gu Siwei and treat him as a corner, how can it be done.

Don't think that farmers are naturally shallow-sighted. People like Yang Chuanwu can't understand the times, but they definitely have a way of judging people.

To put it bluntly, people like Yang Chuanwu are trying to manipulate the hearts of Gu Siwei's people.

In fact, things in the world are like that, you can only exchange your heart for the hearts of others, other than that, no matter how many tricks you have, they are nothing.

Of course, if you have money, you can do it, but people like Yang Chuanwu have no money, and their pockets are three points cleaner than their faces. Where can they get the money to win over Gu Siwei?

Besides, Gu Siwei can't live with money.

After a while, Liu Fulin was about to come to pull Gu Siwei. There was no way, Gu Siwei had no choice but to follow Liu Fulin with an axe.

It’s still Yang Chuanwu’s small courtyard, still a bunch of old faces, sitting casually with stools, smoking pipes, smoking roll-your-own cigarettes, their faces sinking like the bottom of a pond.

Gu Siwei understands that this must be a matter of talking about the land, or the last time. Everyone understands that if the land is still the same as it was a few years ago, it will definitely not work. Although the land is divided, it is still hungry, but At least it's much better than it is now.

Guan Jian is, everyone is afraid now, afraid of making trouble for themselves.

If no one else speaks, Gu Siwei pretends to be dumb and spends time with everyone.

So the whole yard was silent, and the birds on the trees were chirping, which was a bit annoying.

Gu Siwei looked carefully at the ax he was leaning on, as if there were flowers on it.

"cough!"

Yang Chuanwu coughed, and everyone knew that the number one official of Team Six was about to speak.

(End of this chapter)