Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 63 Veteran Craftsman
"Can you take me there?"

Si Cui looked at Gu Siwei with wide eyes, with expectation on his face.

Gu Siwei thought for a while and smiled: "Forget it this time, let's wait for the next time, and take you there when Qiao Yitong comes by bicycle next time. Now it's inconvenient to rely on two legs."

Sicui was a little disappointed, and hummed lightly.

Gu Siwei looked at this girl, his heart softened for no reason, and he opened his mouth and asked, "Do you really want to go?"

"Well, I want to go and see an old man on the way," Si Cui said.

Daddy is a local dialect, which means grandpa.

Gu Siwei was a little confused, and asked casually, "What are you looking at?"

"I want to check the electric lights, look at the tall buildings you mentioned, I heard that on the tallest buildings, if you stand below and look up, the hat on your head will fall off, and, I want to see that water will come out when you twist it what kind of water..."

Sicui snapped her fingers while talking, as if she was talking about something serious.

"I mean old daddy, which old daddy?" Gu Siwei was a little dazed.

Sicui said: "When my grandma was here, she often took me to visit relatives, and every time I went to stay at his house."

This girl remembers kindness, Gu Siwei likes this character very much, and feels like herself.

"Didn't you go there last time when you were watching a movie?" Gu Siwei remembered that this girl had been there.

Sicui said: "It was night when I arrived, and I came back overnight, and I didn't see anything except the movie."

"That's fine, but I have to go...forget it."

Gu Siwei originally thought about borrowing an animal or something, but when he thought about what time it is, it is the busy time of farming, borrowing an animal?Borrow a ghost, unless it is owned by Liu Fulin and Guo Shengshou.

Do you have these two?
There is an egg.

How many animals are there in the village, and how many families do they belong to? Now it’s spring plowing again. I borrowed the animals from you. Do people use human power to pull the plow?

"Then pack it up, let's go," Gu Siwei said.

"real!"

Si Cui's eyes lit up.

Gu Siwei stretched out his hand and tapped her little head lovingly: "Of course it's true, otherwise, hurry up."

Sicui let go of her feet and ran into the house, and when she was waiting to come out, she put on her large yellow military satchel on her back: "Let's go."

"What did you bring?" Gu Siwei asked with a smile.

Si Cui directly opened the bag and began to count: "The pancakes I haven't finished eating, and the meat sauce that Sister Meiling made...give some to Daddy when he sees him."

"Okay, okay, you can give him everything in your bag when the time comes," Gu Siwei said with a smile.

"There must be enough for us to eat." Sicui nodded.

Gu Siwei paused for a moment, went back to the house, went into the room and rummaged through it, and finally got a bag of things, so the two closed the door and set off for the factory.

With the little girl, the space is naturally useless, so the two of them rely on their legs.

But I don’t think the road is long, because the little girl always has endless questions to ask along the way, and there are endless wild vegetables and wild flowers to introduce. Most of Gu Siwei knows what they are called, but the little girl can introduce them clearly. .

Spring is also the day when all kinds of wild vegetables are served on the table, but it’s not enough to eat only wild vegetables. In any case, it has to be a bit rough, even if it’s stick noodles, who will suffer if they only eat wild vegetables.

After a few Zhuangzi, when they reached the third team, Sicui took Gu Siwei to the door of a family.

"Daddy Zheng, Daddy Zheng, I'm here to see you!" Sicui yelled into the yard.

No one answered in the yard, but there was a response from the yard next to her.

The man looked up and found a little girl standing at the gate of the yard. After looking at it for a long time, he still didn't dare to recognize her, but when he saw Gu Siwei, he guessed Si Cui.

"Are you Si Cui?"

The eyes of the woman who spoke were brightened a little: "acridine! The little girl is so long that I can hardly recognize her."

What did Si Cui look like in the past? Let’s put it this way, the difference between Si Cui and beggars is that she has a place to sleep at night, and beggars have no fixed residence. Si Cui used to be as thin as a bamboo pole, but now Si Cui is nutritious. It has come up, and the originally dark skin slowly turned a little rosy.

Not to mention, Sicui is wearing new clothes now, not to mention anything else but the red plastic hairband on her head, which makes girls of about the same age covetous.

"Fifth Aunt Liang!"

Sicui greeted the woman.

"Hey, you still know me. I hugged you when I was little," Fifth Aunt Liang said happily.

Gu Siwei smiled at Aunt Liang Wu as a greeting.

Aunt Liang Wu didn't care, and didn't think Gu Siwei was impolite.

There is no way, Aunt Liang Wu is usually a little aggressive, but when facing Gu Siwei, she has no courage.

There are two main reasons. One is that Gu Siwei's clothes are too good, his whole body is neat and tidy, and he looks like a "cadre". Two hundred and five, everyone's moral requirements are definitely not high.

Gu Siwei didn't know what Aunt Liang Wu was thinking, even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

"Is Father Zheng not at home?" Si Cui asked.

Aunt Liang Wu said: "Where is he at home at this time, he is busy in the field, if you ask him to go behind the mountain beams in the south."

Aunt Liang Wu pointed to Shan Liangzi and said.

"That's a pity, I won't see you this time, my brother and I are going to the factory," Sicui said.

Aunt Liang Wu said: "Then you wait for him, I guess he will come back too soon, and it won't take long for his land."

Si Cui shook her head: "We have to walk at night tonight."

While talking, an old voice suddenly came: "Who, who is at my door?!"

Gu Siwei and Sicui turned their heads together and saw an old man walking towards this side with a hoe on the crooked dirt road at the foot of the hillside.

"Daddy Zheng, Daddy Zheng, I'm Sicui..." Sicui was jumping happily and waving her hands non-stop.

Seeing Sicui's appearance, Gu Siwei couldn't help being curious. To be honest, Gu Siwei has never seen Sicui so enthusiastic about anyone.

Oh, except Wu Meiling.

The old man seemed very happy to see Sicui, so he quickened his pace and trotted to Sicui's side.

"This girl is blessed."

After finishing speaking, the old man said to Gu Siwei: "You are Mr. Gu, you are such a good man."

Gu Siwei smiled: "Si Cui is my sister, and it's my job to take care of her. There's nothing wrong with her."

"Ha ha!"

The old man smiled, and reached out to stroke Sicui's head gently: "If your grandma sees the life you are living now, she must be smiling from ear to ear."

Si Cui grinned.

Gu Siwei didn't know the relationship between the old man and Sicui's grandma for a while, but he had heard of Sicui's grandma, a very resilient old lady, learned from the villagers that this old lady was more than Generally men live strong.

But it's a pity that the old lady left early. If the old lady didn't leave early, the Sicui family would probably not be able to leave.

Of course, this is all gossip, so don’t worry about it.

"Sit back in the house," Mr. Zheng said.

Gu Siwei took Sicui into the house.

The room was very dark. Even though it was daytime, the light had to be bright, and the room was still dark.

Houses like this are very common in the countryside. They are all old houses, some of which may have been lived in for decades. The windows of the old houses are small, so it is strange that they are not dark.

"Let's talk in the yard, it's too dark in here, Sicui, help move a small chair."

Gu Siwei didn't care about it yet, but when Gu Siwei saw the chair that was brought out, he couldn't help feeling a burst of joy in his heart.

The old man's house moved bamboo stools, the kind with a small backrest, which are very common in the countryside, but Gu Siwei has never seen one that can make this small chair very delicate.

Commonly seen small bamboo stools and chairs look very rough, but these are different, there are no big bamboo slivers at all, just thin bamboo slivers, and each slivers are about five or six times as thick as chopsticks.

If there is a place to be strengthened, there will be a twisted strand of bamboo strips.

This is no longer a stool, it is simply a work of art in Gu Siwei's eyes.

To be honest, the last time I saw such a good bamboo product, Gu Siwei was watching an old bamboo weaving artist's work introduction on TV decades later.

At that time, a simple bamboo chair owned by an old artist cost more than [-] yuan. Gu Siwei liked it, but he was really reluctant to pay for it.

Seeing such exquisite bamboo products now, Gu Siwei's memories were suddenly brought back.

At this time, Sicui said: "Don't go out yet, Mr. Zheng, I brought you something here."

As the little girl spoke, she took out her things.

"This...girl, you..."

The old man thought for a while, and then he understood that this thing must not belong to the little girl, but the tall Mr. Gu outside the door. Now who in Shimo Village doesn't know, there is a capable person in the sixth team.

I don't know about other things. I don't know who can have enough food now. If it weren't for Gu Siwei's side, he didn't look like a villager at all. It is estimated that the door panels of Gu Siwei's family who proposed marriage would be broken.

"I'm alone, so I don't need these anymore, girl, you can keep it and eat it, you will grow your body after eating it, so I won't waste it if I eat it..." Old man Zheng looked at the white flour pancakes that Sicui took out, which was full of emotion .

The old man is an old bachelor and has no relatives in his life. He used to make a good living by relying on bamboo weaving skills. Now where and to whom will he sell the things he makes?

But fortunately, a nephew, niece and daughter-in-law in the village are pretty good, and they help each other from time to time. Although the old man's life is sad, he can survive.

Gu Siwei didn't listen to the conversation between the old and the young inside, he was looking at the bamboo chair in his hand in a daze.

He wanted the old man to weave things for him, but judging by the old man's appearance, he might not be able to survive this winter. Even if the old man kept making things, how many things could he make?
Gu Siwei wanted a lot.

At this time, Gu Siwei thought of Liu Dezhu again. Liu Fulin always wanted Liu Dezhu, a silly boy, to learn a craft. Gu Siwei felt that this was a craft.

He had an idea in his mind, but Gu Siwei didn't say it out, he was going to take a breath from Sicui's mouth later.

(End of this chapter)