Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Gu Siwei asked curiously: "They have a family full of children and grandchildren, which kind of son-in-law do they recruit?"

Guo Xiangping was waiting for him to ask, so he leaned back slightly and smiled at Gu Siwei, but said nothing.

Gu Siwei was confused by the old man: "This is, can't you say it?"

Guo Xiangping said: "I'm talking about the fourth dimension. The sixth child of the Yang family last night...".

As soon as he said this, Gu Siwei understood immediately and smiled at Guo Xiangping: "So that's what happened. I forgot about it. How could you not have your share? It's not just you." There are also a bunch of old uncles who help me make it!"

When someone mentioned it, Gu Siwei suddenly remembered about the cigarettes. He quickly turned around and entered the back room, where he took the unpacked nine packs of cigarettes and patted them on the table.

"You can judge by yourself, there are still nine packs anyway."

Guo Xiangping was not polite to Gu Siwei either. He and Gu Siwei realized that now, Guo Xiangping and other old people don't understand Gu Siwei's temperament. They are always generous. If you help him with three hundred, he has to hold on to it. I'll give you four hundred as a gift in return. Such people are very particular. Being honest with each other is the best way to get along with each other. They don't like it if they make many calculations.

He opened it and took out a pack, tore off the tin foil of the cigarette pack, held the cigarette pack in his hand and knocked it gently until a cigarette was exposed. Guo Xiangping took out the exposed cigarette. .

I took it out and didn't light it, but put it under my nose and inhaled the smell of the cigarette.

"Good smoke, good smoke, much better than the last time I smoked. It tastes good. It is a good smoke produced in a big city." Guo Xiangping said with an intoxicated look on his face.

Seeing the old man like this, Gu Siwei was a little speechless and thought to himself: Isn't it the big front door? I still have Huazi in my hand. I don't know if you will explode it when I take it out.

It definitely can't be taken out, and there aren't many huazi. There is only one. This is probably the facade of the entire store. I don't know how long it has been on display. The factory director and secretary probably can't afford the current huazi.

If you give this to Guo Xiangping, you are not hiding something, but because you are afraid that others will not know that you are dirty because of the theft from the store last night.

"That's wrong"

Gu Siwei came to his senses and asked: "Zhao Fangming has become the son-in-law, and he still needs to give a woolen gift as a gift?"

Guo Xiangping lit up the cigarette and took a nice puff. When he heard what Gu Siwei said, he said, "Didn't I make it clear?"

"You didn't say anything," Gu Siwei said happily.

Guo Xiangping said: "I said that Zhao Fangming was recruited by Qiu Mei. I didn't say that he was going to be the son-in-law. It was you who said he was the son-in-law."

Well!

Gu Siwei now wanted to pull the cigarette out of the old man's mouth and throw it into the toilet at the back door.

"I've been having trouble for a long time, isn't this my son-in-law here?" Gu Siwei said.

"It was Zhao Fangming who came to live in our village, not his son-in-law," Guo Xiangping said.

"What the hell".

Gu Siwei felt that there was nothing to talk about. But then I thought: "How will these two people live in our village? The Sun family can't give their land to the young couple. Even if the old Sun is happy, his two sons won't be happy either, right?"

"So," Guo Xiangping said.

"The Sun family is also willing?" Gu Siwei became interested again.

Just when Guo Xiangping was about to answer, someone came to the door again.

Sun Shikun and Yang Xingjia entered the door together with several old shipbuilders.

"Hey, old man Guo, you are so useless, how can you hide and smoke alone when you have a good thing?" Sun Shikun complained to Guo Xiangping, taking three steps at a time to pack the cigarette. He grabbed it in his hand, flicked it a few times with his fingers, popped out a few cigarettes, and scattered them towards the old friend who came with him.

After waiting for a while, he put the remaining cigarettes back on the table carefully.

A group of old smokers all lit up their cigarettes, and Gu Siwei had no choice but to move his bench to the door, so that he could breathe less second-hand smoke.

"Siwei, why don't you smoke?"

Yang Xingjia looked at Gu Siwei curiously while swallowing his cigarette, as if Gu Siwei, who didn't smoke, was some kind of monster.

"I don't smoke. I advise you to smoke less. It's not good for your health," Gu Siwei said.

Guo Xiangping couldn't help being happy when he heard this: "What's not good for your health is just a bunch of people talking nonsense. The old man Qian from the third team will be almost a hundred years old soon. He smoked from the moment he opened his eyes until he went to sleep, and he didn't stop for a moment. Now he's still nine Teenagers? People who are decades younger than him and non-smokers are already ahead of him. What does smoking have to do with being healthy?"

"That's right! What you say makes sense. How many years this person can live is not up to God. God wants you to be a hundred years old. Even if you want to be ninety-nine, even if you are less than twenty, when the time comes, he will still send a kid to capture your soul. , be more open-minded.”

"We are all this old and are we still afraid of this?"

"Fourth dimension, a man who doesn't smoke is as ugly as a woman with a beard. He has no masculinity at all. You have to learn to smoke. Smoking is not just about smoking, it is about communication and human relations."

A bunch of old men kept saying things to each other, which made Gu Siwei have no choice but to keep silent.

After a while, several old men probably saw that their persuasion had no effect, so they changed the topic.

"What were you two talking about just now? It looked quite lively," Yang Xingjia asked.

Guo Xiangping said: "We are talking about Sun Gouzi's family. Qiu Mei is recruiting people to come to our door."

"Oh, about that, I don't know what Sun Gouzi thinks. How long can a few dozen yuan be used? They agreed to it after giving the money. There will be noisy things in their family in the future, and they really fall in the eyes of money. "Besides, the Zhao family is not a toy. If you didn't know better, you would have thought that Zhao Fangming picked it up," Yang Xingjia said.

"Who says it's not the case? The family can't tolerate the second son? Are you trying to get rid of the son? Are you determined to let the elders take care of him in the future? Don't you want the second son?"

Sun Shikun knew more than others, because Sun Qiumei was his grandniece, and the two families did not have a fifth server, and they got along well.

"This matter must be Zhao Lide's fault. If a man like me can't even carry a bowl of water, his future blessings will be limited. Don't look at his current life like a human being," Sun Shikun said.

Gu Siwei was listening beside him and had no intention of interrupting. He quickly figured out that Zhao Lide didn't know which muscle was wrong and wanted to push Zhao Fangming out. The current home and everything else were all his favorites. The eldest son came to inherit, which is equivalent to giving the family business to the eldest son, and the second son gave dozens of yuan and sent him away.

This Gu Siwei just can't figure it out. Not to mention Gu Siwei, the few old men sitting here can't figure it out. How can a father fool his son like this?

"This is not a strange thing. When a slap is extended, the fingers are still long and short. Maybe Zhao Lide likes the eldest son and dislikes the younger son."

"They are all my own sons. If they are born a year early, it will be fine. If they are born a year late, they will have nothing?"

"Don't argue with me about this matter. I can't control their family's affairs. If you let me do it, I will give everything to Zhao Fangming and let him take the money to live in your Sun family."

A group of old men started to fight.

"I got the gas lamp back, my dear, it's really new." Sun Shikun saw the gas lamp on the table.

Guo Xiangping said: "What does it mean to be really new? It's a brand new thing. It's just an old guy. Why is his eyes still not good? There's no burn mark on the light bulb?"

"Isn't this thing expensive?" Sun Shikun asked.

Guo Xiangping put in the price, and Sun Shikun took a breath: "Our village is only willing to give up in the fourth dimension, other families... forget it, this thing is good, but it is too expensive."

Nowadays, people can hardly do any work at night because they cannot see. Moreover, many people suffer from night blindness due to malnutrition, which means they cannot see clearly when going out at night.

It is naturally much better to have a gas lamp, but the price is too expensive. For farmers, buying a gas lamp now is equivalent to an ordinary family buying a five-series BMW a few decades later - you can afford it with grit and teeth, but it is not necessary. .

"Let's talk about the ship. Siwei is concerned about this."

"What's there to say about the boat? It's basically all done now. All that's left is caulking and oiling. By the way, Siwei, do you want to make a boat canopy so that you can take shelter from the rain when it rains? I don’t recommend the Fulin family’s, because boat canopies are quite expensive, so if you have extra money, you might as well make a canopy.”

Sun Shikun reminded Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei thought for a moment and asked, "How much does the boat canopy cost?"

"If nothing else, the main thing is cloth, white cloth will do, and then oiling and then making the braces," Sun Shikun said.

Guo Xiangping said: "Why is it so complicated? What are you talking about? There is no need for a canopy made by the ancient method. He does not rely on sailing to make a living. He can just braid one with reeds. Then sweep it with tung oil and use a canopy. There is no problem in 1978.

When seven or eight years have passed, I don’t even know if the boat needs to be replaced. How can I care about the hood? "

"That was my misunderstanding. This method is actually quite good. It saves money." Sun Shikun smiled.

After hearing this, Gu Siwei asked: "Is the tarpaulin durable?"

"It's durable and time-consuming. We can't do this kind of work here. Without this skill, if you want to use a tarpaulin, you have to go to the town. Not to the town here, but to the town to the west, which sells tanks. There is a family over there in town that can do it.”

"The old man doesn't even know if he's dead or not. What's his origin? He was originally a bandit..."

"It's true, even if he doesn't die, he would be worse off than dead outside. Sometimes I think about it, although our place is a little off, there is an advantage that no one comes, that is, there are not so many things. , and now the one outside is... alas!" Guo Xiangping said.

Gu Siwei, who was sitting at the door, looked outside and happened to see Liu Fulin driving the boat quickly to the door of his house, and he felt happy.

You can go back to your own nest!

Liu Fulin also saw Gu Siwei and greeted Siwei loudly: "Siwei, I'll go to Dongtou first and come to pick you up later."

Then he pointed downstream, meaning I had something to do.

Gu Siwei nodded, and Liu Fulin went to do his business first.