Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 42 Too Difficult

Gu Siwei has never seen such a saw before. The width of the saw body is about [-] centimeters, and the width in the middle is narrower on both sides. It was rolled into a roll, and after being straightened, the saw was about two meters long.

"Have you never used a saw like this before?"

Seeing Gu Siwei's eyes, Guo Xiangping understood that Gu Siwei was useless.

"I've never seen it before," Gu Siwei nodded.

"It's the same thing, practice makes perfect with this thing," Guo Xiangping said with a smile.

Gu Siwei said: "I will use it for a while, maybe a few months, if you want to use it, tell me."

"This thing won't be used for a while. Our family used it when cutting down big pine trees. Now the trees are all state-owned. Even if they are cut down, there is no place to sell them. You can't burn firewood. Don't worry about using them. It's not a problem if you don't return it." Guo Xiangping waved his hand.

"Do you have an ink fountain here? If you have an ink fountain, lend it to me, and I won't bother the second master." Gu Siwei asked.

Guo Xiangping said: "I don't have it here, but my fourth brother's house next door has it. I'll get it for you."

Guo Xiangping didn't ask much, seeing that Gu Siwei wanted to use an ink fountain, he went to his cousin's house next door to get an ink fountain for Gu Siwei.

After gathering everything he could think of, Gu Siwei put the saw on his shoulder, an ax in his hand, and a refilled ink fountain. He left Guo Xiangping's house, turned west and walked towards his own Yinsong Cliff.

When he arrived at Yinsong Cliff, Gu Siwei began to pick trees. He didn't know much about wood, and he didn't know what kind of wood was the best for building a house, but he also felt that the harder the wood, the better.

Based on this principle, Gu Siwei began to pick hardwoods to plant in the space.

He simply tried it with an axe, and he was lucky. He found a very hard wood directly on the mountain behind Yinpine Cliff, and there was a metallic sound when he chopped it with an axe.

But even though he found the hardwood, even greater difficulties appeared in front of him.

He has no ability to process this kind of hardwood. Whether it is an ax or a saw, he can't do anything with hardwood.

It's not impossible, just go down with an axe, and there is only a small groove on the wood. If this thing is to be processed into materials, Gu Siwei thinks it will take at least a month.

In this way, when the house will be built, it is impossible to build a house now and live in it decades later. Lao Gu has no patience.

In the end I had to go back to pine, which is relatively easy to work with compared to hardwoods.

Wood is naturally not a problem for Gu Siwei, just find a branch and water it in the space and insert it on the ground. Almost all the pine trees planted are about the same thickness and height, and they seem to be produced from standardized roots.

The wood is there, but it can’t be further processed now. Gu Siwei is a machine tool player, so he knows a little about materials. Although he can’t recognize a lot of wood, he also knows that the wood needs to be aged for a period of time before being used. It is best to dry it naturally. , so that it is not easy to change in the future.

After getting a batch of tree trunks, peeling off the bark and throwing them in the space to wait for them to dry, Gu Siwei took time to deal with other things.

What's the matter?

One is to go to the factory. His family owes Hu Yanqiu a favor.

He said that he would send some pheasants and ducks to your family, so you can't break your promise, he has helped you so much.

The second is that I still want to go there to sell some things. Of course, I have to take out the wheat in the space and go to the town to machine it into flour.

In short, there are all things at hand.

Pheasant and other wild game are not difficult now. After catching them a few times, I have gained some experience and know where these things can be found, so it saves a lot of time and effort to find them compared to the beginning.

Wild boars won't bring them this time, but pheasants and ducks are brought a little more. This stuff is better than wild boars.

Don't look at the current workers' wages of [-] yuan or so, and feel that their lives are pitiful, but they don't know that the current workers have nowhere to spend their money.

The second is that they really don’t have anything to buy. They get food and oil according to their skills, and it’s not easy for you to buy more.

You can buy candy and daily necessities with meal tickets, but if you want to buy food, there is no such thing, unless you buy finished products in cafeterias and stores. Pure food is not sold, and you still have to use money and food stamps if you want to buy it. .

But no matter what, the supply of factories there is better than that of ordinary cities, so the living conditions of workers in factories in the mountains are generally better than those of factories in cities, and their pockets are more generous.

This is also easy to understand. The factories that move to the mountains are all sweets, and it is normal for them to be treated well.

Back in the village, go to the machine first, and go to the village to open a letter of introduction. Gu Siwei took the letter of introduction and used the space to jump around and gave the noodles to the machine.

When I came back, I saw a group of men, women and children in the village gathered at the door, as lively as the New Year.

Someone from afar saw Gu Siwei coming, and immediately greeted him.

"Brother Siwei, are you going to watch a movie?"

Gu Siwei was wondering what these guys were going to do, but he really didn't expect these people to make such a big commotion to watch a movie.

"Watching a movie?" Gu Siwei was dumbfounded.

"That's right, let's go to the movies. Isn't there a movie in the factory over there? We're leaving now, and we'll be there when the movie starts at seven or eight o'clock in the evening..."

The one who spoke was spitting, as if watching a movie is such a big thing.

"I'm not going now, you go first, oh, by the way, where is Sicui."

Gu Siwei just remembered that Si Cui at home didn't know if he wanted to go to the movies, so he said something.

"Sicui is at home. You didn't say where to go to her." Wu Meiling had already taken her children and was ready to set off at this time. Hearing what Gu Siwei said, she replied.

Gu Siwei patted his forehead after hearing this: "Look, I forgot about this, wait a minute."

After finishing speaking, he took Xiao Pao back to his small courtyard. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw Sicui stretching his head, standing on tiptoe behind the fence and looking at the team in the village who was about to go to see a movie.

"Go if you want."

Seeing Si Cui's appearance, Gu Siwei said with a smile.

Si Cui shook her head, "I don't want to go."

Gu Siwei didn't know what this girl was thinking about. He felt that there was a generation gap between himself and this little girl, and he couldn't explain many things.

He didn't understand, and he didn't want to understand, so he said directly: "If you are told to go, go, don't be shy, go to see a movie, broaden your horizons, and I will go in the afternoon."

"Then I'll be with my brother," Sicui said immediately.

How dare Gu Siwei let her go together, so he said: "You can go with sister-in-law Meiling, I have to bring things here, and there are a lot of things, besides, I can walk faster by myself, and I will waste time with you." , you follow them slowly."

Hearing what Gu Siwei said, Si Cui didn't dare to say anything more, she now understands that sometimes this cheap brother is very domineering, and he is not allowed to go against his will.

Si Cui was still happy to be able to go to the movies, because she was only a ten-year-old child after all, and it was her nature to like to be lively, not to mention that movies are extremely attractive to everyone now.

It's a bit like the fans of later generations will feel a little abnormal when they see their idols.

After tidying up, I brought some food for Sicui. The pancakes couldn’t catch up today, so Gu Siwei prepared some broken persimmon cakes for Sicui, and Sicui brought some sweet potatoes for something. The dry food for this day was collected.

After handing Sicui to Wu Meiling, Gu Siwei returned to his small courtyard after a few instructions.

There is no way to take out the food, and he is not going to take it out. He said that if the weather is warmer in a few days, there will be insects. If the space is good, it will not rot for ten thousand years, and at most it will be dehydrated.

At around nine o'clock, the movie-watching crowd set off, and the village suddenly became empty. Not to mention people, there were not even a few dogs left. The sun is basking under the wall of my house.

Gu Siwei waited for a while, and when it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, he used the space to start jumping again. This speed was like driving a seventy-yard car, and I don't know how much faster than walking.

So Gu Siwei came late and came first, and stood on the hill outside the factory before the sun set.

Hide it and take out the things in the space. Six pheasants and ducks were packed in a sack. Gu Siwei threw it directly on his shoulder and walked down the mountain.

"Boy, what's in your sack?"

As soon as he stood on the cement road, a sharp-eyed aunt saw the sack on Gu Siwei's back. The moving things in it were obviously filled with live animals, and listening to the sound, he knew that it was either a duck or a chicken.

The aunt didn't care whether the things Gu Siwei brought were for sale, so she opened her mouth and asked.

When Gu Siwei heard it, he had the intention of selling it, so he said, "Do you want the pheasant and duck I caught?"

"Let me see!"

The aunt originally had such thoughts in mind, so she asked Gu Siwei to open the sack for her to see.

Gu Siwei naturally did as the aunt wished, and opened the sack for the aunt to see. Who knows, when the aunt stretched out her head, she didn't know how, and seven or eight aunts squeezed in from the side in an instant, as if the aunts could teleport.

"How did you sell it!"

Seeing so many people, the first aunt immediately reached out and held down the fattest pheasant.

"Forty cents a catty, but you have to add some tickets. Cloth tickets and industrial product tickets are fine. If you buy with meal tickets, you don't need tickets, just give [-] cents for meal tickets...".

Meal tickets are a bit discounted compared to industrial product tickets and cloth tickets, so Gu Siwei asked for more.

However, here, Gu Siwei has experienced the function of meal tickets, and prefers convenient meal tickets. This thing is like the money of later generations here (you can buy everything except food).

Meal tickets can buy a lot of things, which is also the benefit of this factory to the workers. In a sense, the small piece of leather meal tickets here is more useful and easier to use than money.

"Young man, you are too disingenuous, and the price is too expensive!"

The aunt was a little unhappy when she heard it, and felt that Gu Siwei's things were too expensive.

The aunts next to her also called Gui at all.

Gu Siwei put on a bitter face and put on a look of helplessness: "There is no way. Now I have to risk my life to catch this thing. I want to save it, but it takes time and effort to catch these things. Four or five of us went into the mountain. It only takes a few days in the world of ice and snow to earn this income. Besides, this thing is not weighed, and it only weighs one or two catties. Even if it is all sold, it will be less than one yuan per person. Take a look. Even people who are paid a salary can get a dollar a day, but we only earn one dollar in three or four days, which is not easy... ".

To sell things, you have to learn how to complain and sell miserably. This set of activities Gu Siwei is not familiar with but it is not bad. After decades, you will have to sell miserably if you participate in a singing competition, let alone sell miserably on short video media. I have seen a lot. Naturally, I have some experience, not to mention that Gu Siwei has done a live broadcast.

When Gu Siwei said this, all the aunts felt a little unbearable, and they all felt that this child was too difficult.

(End of this chapter)