Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Liu Fulin stood up and looked around.

"Have all the vermicelli noodles come out?"

Now, in front of Gu Siwei's house, all the places where something can be hung are hung with vermicelli, ranging from quick-drying ones to those that have just been made.

Let’s put it this way, it’s not an exaggeration to say that everything you look at is filled with vermicelli.

What can be compared with vermicelli are noodles, sweet potato starch and potato starch, which range from dry powder to still-precipitating powder soup.

At this time, Zhao Fangming walked out of the room, holding a washbasin in his hand, which was half full of water and half full of powder.

"Uncle, you are here."

Zhao Fangming greeted Liu Fulin.

Liu Fulin saw it and said with a smile: "How about it, let's finish the work soon."

"It will take about ten days to finish." Zhao Fangming smiled and put down the basin in his hand, wiping the sweat on his forehead.

For Zhao Fangming, it is good if the work is not finished, because as long as the work is not finished, the couple does not have to worry about food and drink.

Now Zhao Fangming and Sun Qiumei are like the workers of Gu Siwei's family. They have to come over as soon as they open their eyes during the day and wait until dark before going home to sleep.

The hard work is really hard, but the reward given by Gu Siwei is also real. As for how much he gave, you can tell by looking at the expressions on the couple's faces. Anyway, it is enough for the couple to live.

It is precisely because of this that the couple hopes that the work on Gu Siwei's farm will never be finished.

"Ten more days?"

Liu Fulin couldn't help but gasped and said: "Why are there still more than ten days? When I came last time, there wasn't much left, only half of the houses over there."

Zhao Fangming laughed and said, "That's because you haven't seen the cellar in the mountain. There are quite a few of them over there. We haven't done all of them yet. If we do, it will take a few months."

Liu Fulin said to Gu Siwei: "Why don't you find a time to gather the villagers again and do your work?"

Gu Siwei waved his hands repeatedly: "No need, we and Brother Fang Ming's family will do the rest slowly. The two of them have nothing to do, and I am not in a hurry, so I don't need to trouble the folks."

Liu Fulin thought about it and thought it was right. If everyone helped with this work, wouldn't Zhao Fangming and his wife be free? Now they can make some money if they have something to do, but if they were free, they would have nothing to do.

What? Work at the factory.

Looking at this now, it is just a saying. The way Guo Shengshui came out is given to you for no reason. Not to mention that he is not a biological brother, even if he is a biological brother, he will not do this.

It's not that Guo Shengshui doesn't want to help, but Guo Shengshui's family also relies on this method to support their own lives. It's impossible for their own family to live a good life, so leaving the way to make money to others is not a fool's errand.

So this matter has been put off like this, and I usually don't earn much. If the two families are divided, no one will be happy.

When he thought of this, Liu Fulin thought of Zhao Fangming's request to work again, and his mood suddenly became bad again.

"Then you guys are chatting, I have something else to do here." Zhao Fangming had no intention of continuing the conversation with the two of them.

He was a man of few words, and now he had no habit of getting together unless necessary. Moreover, if he didn't do the job, no one would do it, so after chatting with Liu Fulin for a few words, he turned around and went back to work.

Watching Zhao Fangming enter the house, Liu Fulin kept looking at his back, and then sighed: "A good boy is a good boy, but he is too honest. He has been bullied all the time, even his own father bullied him... What is this thing?"

Gu Siwei smiled after hearing this and did not respond. He was not interested in commenting on this matter.

Although he looked down on Zhao Fangming's father and Sun Qiumei's mother, he couldn't say that the old couple didn't pay anything. After all, Sun Qiumei got married and the old couple also paid for it.

In short, how they live in this family and whether they are allowed to work or not are all private matters. He, an outsider, is judging him, so he still feels awkward, right?

"You, are you still in the mood to care about this? Think about how to find a wife for Dezhu," Gu Siwei said with a smile.

After hearing this, Liu Fulin couldn't help but smile bitterly on his face: "I have been worrying about my life all my life. Forget it, I have to endure it as long as I want. I'm going back now and will pass on the method you mentioned. I'll let you know when the letter comes back. you".

Gu Siwei nodded.

"Don't give it away! Why don't you give me something as a gift after seeing you eight times a day? You are busy with your business, I'm leaving."

Liu Fulin was about to leave, and when he saw Gu Siwei standing up, he immediately said something.

After waving his hands and putting them behind his back, the old man hurried away.

What is Gu Siwei doing? Naturally, he pushed his Xiaomo.

"I'm like a donkey!"

At this moment, Gu Siwei really regretted it. He regretted why he had to buy such a large piece of land, two or three acres, just like Liu Fulin's family now. He had to look good!

Now comes the problem. If the land is not planted, it will not work. If it is planted, there will be so much work and exhaustion that there will be no joy in life at all.

Why!

He sighed and said that life is miserable, and continued to turn the small grinding plate with one hand. With the other hand, he took out a cut sweet potato piece from the small basin next to it and put it in the grinding hole.

The small mill rustled in Gu Siwei's hand, and the white potato starch foam flowed out of the millstone, along the pulp trough, and fell into the small wooden basin placed below.

Waiting for the small wooden basin to be almost full, Gu Siwei picked up the basin, came to the house, and poured the sweet potato pulp in the basin into the large vat next to it.

About one meter away from the tank, Sun Qiumei, Zhao Fangming, and Sicui, who was working as a handyman, were busy washing powder.

In front of Sun Qiumei, a rope was hung from the roof beam. The end of the rope was tied to a cross-shaped wooden shelf. The shelf was about as thick as a water bottle cap. From each corner of the shelf, there was a rope hanging down, with four The four corners of a large piece of gauze are connected with ropes.

In this way, the gauze is hung up, and this is the main tool for hanging the powder bag.

Just scoop up the powder paste that Gu Siwei has ground, pour it into the powder bag, and then hold the wooden frame with your hands and rock it back and forth, so that the powder paste rolls back and forth in the gauze bag. During the rolling process, The sweet potato powder flowed through the gaps between the gauze and flowed into the basin below, while the sweet potatoes and other things remained in the gauze.

Once is not enough, wait until it is almost done, and you have to add water to the gauze, so as to ensure that the largest amount of powder is washed away.

This is based on personal experience.

But for rural girls like Sun Qiumei, it is not a big deal. She has been doing this kind of work with her mother since she was a child, and she can operate it skillfully at such an early age.

Gu Siwei naturally does not have such ability, otherwise he would not be assigned to grind sweet potatoes.

Wow!

Gu Siwei poured the sweet potato pulp from the basin into the vat.

"Siwei, grinding two more pots is enough. Send us back to the village early today," Sun Qiumei said.

Gu Siwei nodded: "Okay!"

A few days ago, Sun Qiumei said what happened today. It was not the last time Zhao Fangming gave away the quota for being a worker after he was caught. Now Sun Qiumei's nephew passed the physical examination and officially became a worker, and he was going to the county for training.

Although the family is poor, this is a big deal, so Sun Qiumei's mother-in-law is planning to gather her family members and have a good meal as a farewell to his precious grandson. Of course, it is also meant to be fun.

As Sun Qiumei's mother, she wanted to save some face. She knew that her grandson's quota was a bit unfair, so she didn't call anyone else except for a few of her own family members.

Of course, it may also be that the family is too poor to afford guests.

"I see".

Gu Siwei nodded to show that he understood. He looked at the pulp in the basin and found that there was still some pulp hanging on the wall, so he reached out and put some of the remaining pulp in the basin into the tank, and then carried the basin back to the outside. Next to Xiao Mo, he continued to do his own donkey-like work.

After grinding, Gu Siwei did not rest immediately. Instead, he helped with some chores and waited for Sun Qiumei to move the dregs of the last sling into the dung pan next to him. Then Gu Siwei ended the day like everyone else. labor.

"Don't leave yet!"

When Gu Siwei saw that the two of them were about to go out, he called out to the couple.

"Sicui!"

Seeing that the two of them had stopped, Gu Siwei asked Sicui to get something.

Sicui ran into the big room with a bang, and when she was waiting to come out, she had a small basin in her hand. There were four pieces of sweet potato jelly in the basin.

Gu Siwei was also the one who ordered Sicui to work, and he also went to get some things himself.

A small portion of shredded pork wrapped in lotus leaves, all of which are very fat, six parts oily and four parts lean meat. This kind of meat is the best nowadays. If you buy it in the market, don’t give it to the meat sellers. Someone will definitely not cut it off for you.

Gu Siwei definitely doesn't like this kind of meat. He likes 28% meat, 20% fat and 80% thin, which suits his family background decades later.

"I won't give you anything else. You also have them in your vegetable garden. You can take these and stir-fry them when you go home," Gu Siwei said.

Zhao Fangming was a little confused and asked, "What is this for?"

Sun Qiumei finally figured it out, touched her husband with her arm, and then said to Gu Siwei: "Thank you, you are still thoughtful."

After speaking, he reached out and took the meat from Gu Siwei, and also took a few pieces of noodles from Sicui.

Zhao Fangming was stunned throughout the whole process. When he was about to go out, he made an expression of sudden realization.

When Gu Siwei saw him, he knew that he had figured it out.

It's quite simple. If you think about my mother-in-law, who has to fight for her job, how can she make good food even if she asks these two people to eat? Even if there is good food, how can these two people get it together?

No need to ask, you will definitely not be full if you eat there, so Gu Siwei prepared these. Stir-fry the meat in the pot to release the oil and water, add some green peppers, some green vegetables and so on, and finally add in If the noodles are fried like this, it must be very rich for the folks nowadays.

"thank you!"

Zhao Fangming said something. He felt that Gu Siwei had really thought a lot. He could have thought of this, but he had never thought of it. He had always thought that he was going to eat, and he had never thought about how he would eat this meal.

"It's nothing. Someone told me what you want to eat at night. I think it's better for you to take some back home so that you don't have enough to eat. Then come to work tomorrow. Wouldn't that affect efficiency?" Gu Siwei said with a smile.

Zhao Fangming and his wife also laughed together. As for whether they were laughing inwardly, I don't know. Anyway, if it were anyone else, they would definitely think: This family is not as good as an outsider who can think about themselves.