Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Waiting in line to eat?

Well, there’s a queue to eat.

To eat at this time, even if you eat in the village, you have to queue up. The whole village eats a big pot of rice together and works together. The reason is that this is when people's communes are becoming popular.

There is a canteen in the village. It is more like a small courtyard than a canteen. I don’t know whose courtyard was used as the village canteen when no one lived in it.

The small courtyard is quite formal, with a front room and a main hall, a kitchen to the east, and a livestock shed to the west. However, now the main hall and the front room and the livestock shed have become a dining hall, filled with tables and chairs from each family.

There is a large pot and a small pot in the kitchen. Now, whether it is a large pot or a small pot, stick noodle porridge is cooked in it. The porridge is quite thick. Although it is not thick enough to insert chopsticks, it still shows a little stickiness.

Dried potato is added to the porridge (potato is the so-called sweet potato. The sweet potato is cut into 3-4 mm thick slices and dried in the sun to become dried potato).

This thing is perfect when paired with cornmeal porridge. As for whether it tastes good or not, it's all nonsense.

Originally, Gu Siwei liked eating whole grains in the past, and whole grains were expensive when he came here. But after eating real whole grains here, Gu Siwei never wanted to eat a second meal.

Apart from anything else, stick noodles make my throat irritate, and eating a bowl of porridge makes my throat feel a little uncomfortable.

However, the food at this moment is quite good. This is because this is a mountain village, with very inconvenient access and little land. There is no need to pay various taxes (the thalassemia here cannot produce a few grains of grain in a year. If taxes are paid here All the people in the village ran away because the grain harvested in a year was not enough to pay taxes and had to be paid in. Who would farm the land? What would they do if they didn’t run away?)

In some villages outside the mountains, they may not even be able to drink thick cornmeal porridge. They can only survive the winter with porridge that reflects people's figures and serve it with dried potato. This is the diet of normal farmers in the era of alternating vegetables. If you want to eat white rice and white noodles, ? Only a few times a year, it would take more than ten or twenty years for real farmers to have white rice and flour on their tables.

Taking a large porcelain bowl and a pair of chopsticks, Gu Siwei lined up honestly.

The rough porcelain bowl in your hand has a sense of age, and its main feature is one word: rough.

The white glaze is not white at all, it is grey, the green material is not bright and dull, and the glaze surface is full of pits and trachoma.

It can be seen that there is a reason why this thing will never be seen again - it is too rough.

After receiving a bowl of porridge, Gu Siwei came outside with the porridge and found a random place to squat down.

Suck the porridge while observing the people around you.

Now Gu Siwei had a question in his mind, because he found that people were almost out of food, but some people even gave some of the porridge in their bowls to the dogs in the courtyard.

Yes, such a poor village still has dogs. Although there are not many, only seven or eight, this phenomenon still makes Gu Siwei feel a bit incredible.

Just as Gu Siwei was thinking about it, out of the corner of his eye he saw a shadow sitting down next to him. He turned around and saw that it was Liu Fulin's grandson Liu Dezhu.

"Brother Gu, are you a spy?" Liu Dezhu asked curiously.

These words stunned Gu Siwei, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer this half-year-old child who was several years younger than him.

"Do you think I'm a spy?" Gu Siwei came back to his senses and asked with a smile.

Without thinking, Liu Dezhu said: "I think you look like a spy, and the spies must be different from us."

These words made Gu Siwei a little speechless.

After thinking for a while, Gu Siwei smiled and said: "I'm not a spy, and I can't be a spy like me. Besides, what's the purpose of a spy coming to your village?"

"Lie down. When you receive orders from Chiang Kai-shek, you will jump out and cause destruction," Liu Dezhu said seriously.

Gu Siwei was really speechless now. He was really impressed by this kid's imagination.

Look!

I thought he was a stupid boy, but his imagination was so powerful that he didn't look stupid at all at this time.

For a moment, I didn't know how to answer, so I had to say no, and then continued to watch some people in the yard take a mouthful or two of gruel from their own bowls, and then poured it directly on the ground to feed the dogs.

"What are you looking at?" Liu Dezhu asked curiously.

Gu Siwei said: "I'm wondering why your village still feeds dogs?"

People are almost out of food and why are they feeding the dogs? This made Gu Siwei, who came from decades later, confused.

"Why don't you feed the dogs? These dogs bring things back from outside every now and then. Sometimes they are rabbits, sometimes they are voles, and sometimes there are even one or two goats..."

Liu Dezhu thought there was something strange about this, so he told Gu Siwei why dogs were still kept in the village like a treasure trove.

Only then did Gu Siwei realize that these dogs were hounds, semi-free range hounds. They would go to the wild to find food, and from time to time they would bring back some game to reward their owners.

"No wonder no one eats dogs," Gu Siwei said.

"Eating dogs? We don't eat dogs here. As the old saying goes: if a family is scattered, they will kill the cats, and if the poor households are poor, they will eat dogs. If the cats and dogs are not good enough, who will kill them for meat?" Liu Dezhu became a little anxious when he heard this.

"Kill the cats if you are a scattered family, and eat the dogs if you are a poor family?"

Gu Siwei was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and thought to himself: This scolding is too harsh.

But after listening to Liu Dezhu's explanation, he realized that these two sentences were really not curses, but that cats and dogs were too important to the people in this village. If the family was not separated, no one would eat their own cats. In such a desperate situation, no one eats guard dogs.

It's not like Gu Siwei thought, a scattered family who eats cats, or an extinct family who eats dogs. This is considered a curse.

Cats and dogs are very important to the people in the village. They are used to guard homes and catch mice. Because the village lives in the mountains, it is normal for snakes to crawl into the house. People sometimes don't notice it, but cats Dogs are very responsive and can alert their owners to prevent humans from being harmed by these poisons.

The most important thing is that the people in the village don't put much thought into raising these things. Both cats and dogs can find their own food and do not need to be fed. There is no such thing as cat food or dog food.

Liu Dezhu was very curious about Gu Siwei. At this moment, he believed that the Gu Siwei in front of him was a spy of Guoming, but his father said otherwise, so it was not easy for him to report it.

In fact, Liu Dezhu also had his own plans. Although he thought Gu Siwei was a spy, he felt that he had to catch someone ready to report. Liu Dezhu couldn't do it now by trying to denounce someone's innocence without any evidence.

Gu Siwei didn't know that the young boy next to him actually had such a scheme, but even if he knew, he didn't care, because he was no longer the helpless boy with a flat head before, and the mysterious space was his waist. .

"Brother Gu, what are you thinking about?" Liu Dezhu asked.

Gu Siwei thinks why is this kid so troubled? Ask yourself eight times a day what are you thinking about? What do I think about that has even a dime to do with you?

If Gu Siwei regards himself as a spy, the problem will naturally become clear. Liu Dezhu, who is preparing to catch the spy, is currently collecting evidence.

If you want to collect evidence, you must first understand the thoughts of the agents. At this moment, Liu Dezhu wanted to understand Gu Siwei's thoughts. As for where he learned the tricks, he naturally learned them from movies.

Where did Liu Dezhu watch the movie?

This matter is simple. We walk eastward from the village for almost a day and climb over several mountains. There is also a factory in the mountains. It is a large factory with a population of several thousand people. Open-air movies will be shown inside every once in a while. , Liu Dezhu watched the movie there.

The factory is actually not a factory, but a small town with complete living facilities, not to mention a movie theater, bathhouses, shops, and even a cotton spinning factory.

Of course, Gu Siwei didn't know this at this moment.

Now Gu Siwei only knows that the Zhuangzi he is in is the Sixth Group of Shimo Village. To be precise, it is the Sixth Group of Shimo Village, Qushan Township, Guiling County, Gushan City, Jiang'an Province.

Although they are in the same village, the closest one among these six groups takes half a day to walk, and the farthest one takes almost ten hours. Each village is surrounded by mountains, and the road is rugged and winding. As for how difficult it is to get to Shu.

But it's really difficult to walk. Many places can only accommodate one person and one large animal. There is an abyss beside you, which makes people's hearts tremble.

It is precisely because of this that the turmoil outside has not affected the village. This is one of the reasons why Gu Siwei settled in this village.

"I'm thinking about where to go hunting after dinner," Gu Siwei said casually.

If Gu Siwei wants to stay, the best place to show his value is naturally to solve the village's food problem. As long as this problem can be solved, even if Gu Siwei wants to leave, the village will probably not agree.

Of course, what Gu Siwei thinks is not that simple. As an adult who has been in the later generations for more than thirty years, he deeply understands that sometimes it is obviously a good thing, and you have a clear conscience for what you do, but there will be no consequences. Good results.

why is that?

human nature!

When rice is promoted, rice is favored, and rice is hated by enemies.

This is not to say that this kind of thing only happens in modern times, but that it is common in all societies, both in China and in the modern world.

Once you become someone else's support and you no longer want others to rely on you, no matter how good you were to others before, that person will hate you as deeply as you did.

Gu Siwei didn't want to go out hunting every day in pain, fattening up the people in the village and making them comfortable, while he became a tired dog.

He, Gu Siwei, is not a hunting dog in the village, he is only responsible for hunting.

What's more, I don't want to think that one day I don't want to work so hard, but in the end I become the mortal enemy of the whole village, making the villagers think that I don't work or hunt, which makes them hungry.

It's okay to hunt, and it's okay to show due value, but it's not okay to feed people, or even to have enough food and clothing, at least not now!

Gu Siwei was very shrewd. It was this shrewdness that allowed a young man from a small town to buy a house on his own at the age of thirty. This was a skill he had only developed after being beaten and injured.

"Hunting, do you still know how to hunt?"

When Liu Dezhu heard about hunting, his eyes widened instantly.

"Is it difficult?" Gu Siwei expressed his confidence.

In the past, Gu Siwei had no clue at all. He didn't even know how to hunt. But it's different now. Gu Siwei has the help of mysterious space, and his understanding of space in his mind is quite proficient. How to deal with prey? Already have the spectrum.

Liu Dezhu looked down on Gu Siwei a little.

"Can you hunt?"

He asked again, obviously more suspicious than trusting.

Hunting is not an easy life. If it were really easy, there would still be some old hunters in the village. Why would the whole village be so miserable?

Let’s put it this way, the living conditions in the village are now more miserable than before. Why is this?

Are the old hunters no longer good at hunting?

Obviously not.