Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Suddenly there is a craze for flour milling in the village. Everyone likes to bring a bag of grain to the mill to grind flour. Even if there is no grain, they can just watch it.

Gu Siwei didn't know what was so interesting about it, but the villagers who gradually became leisurely just liked to watch it, either because they were no longer busy with farm work, or because they regarded the newly built mill as a place for chatting and gossiping.

The days are gradually passing, and the weather is gradually getting colder. The two or three acres of wheat planted by Gu Siwei's family have grown as high as the feet, fat and strong, and growing well.

Song Rui also arrived in the village. According to Gu Siwei's estimation, he should arrive two or three days after installing the machine, but he did not expect the efficiency of the unit. Song Rui was dragging his feet for nearly an hour. Only then did Yue arrive to report to the Sixth Team.

These are all small things. The biggest and most important thing is that the lumberyard near the village has started construction. Tall trees that have grown for more than a hundred years are chopped off with a single stroke of the ax and pushed into the river. Straight trees stand tall. The main pole goes straight downstream along the direction of the water flow.

There are no large machines in the lumberyard now. The lumberjacks only rely on an ax in their hands, which is completely manual work. However, even with only an axe, most of these workers who have just transformed from barefoot farmers into the working class can do quite a good job. Working hard, not only working hard, the lumberyard was also divided into groups, held inter-group competitions, and carried out the activity of "I donate wood to the country," which was in full swing.

Gu Siwei's little life has become leisurely. His daily tasks are to eat, sleep, and think about how to build a house.

The same goes for several old comrades who came to Gu Siwei to be transformed by Gu Siwei, a farmer. They all thought about how to build this house, and how to build such a heavy wood with multiple pieces and save money.

tool!

This is an inevitable option, anyone with a brain can think of it, but now even if he has money, he doesn't have the money to buy it. Gu Siwei's maximum limit is to get a diesel engine or a chain saw.

It's not that you can't get it, but if you bring a forklift over, how can you explain it? This thing is not available in the county now. Building a river channel, digging a river, etc. are all done by people picking up soil. If you bring such a guy, it's because you are dissatisfied. Don’t others know that you have cheats on your life?

Therefore, everyone has to solve the problem of tools themselves.

After breakfast, Gu Siwei followed Hu Yanqiu's work arrangement and took out the persimmons at home to dry.

To dry the persimmons, you must first unfold the reed curtains. As mentioned above, they are made of reed poles. Each curtain is the size of a large bed mat, and some are even larger.

When not in use, they are rolled together and don't take up much space. When you need to dry something, unfold it and place it directly or put it on something.

Like today, Gu Siwei first built a shelf with a few benches and laid the reed curtain on the shelf. Then he took out the dried persimmons that were 50% to 60% dry and placed them one by one on the reed curtain. above.

There were a lot of persimmons. Even Gu Siwei didn’t expect that two persimmon trees would actually bear so many persimmons. The persimmons shrank greatly. A pound of persimmons must be dried to make persimmons, and at least 60 to 70% of the water content must be lost. Even so, Gu The persimmons that Siweijia dried this year were estimated to weigh about two hundred kilograms in the end, which is really a lot.

Look no further, not all the persimmon trees have been harvested, there are still some fruits left on the trees, which are said to be used to feed birds and wild animals, but Gu Siwei estimates that most of them will end up in the bellies of Xiaoma and the monkeys.

Slowly and leisurely, he worked, placing half-dried persimmons on the curtain one by one. Gu Siwei did not find this work boring, because this is life, slow work, slow-paced life, Decades later, I don’t know how many people will covet such a day.

After placing the last persimmon cake, Gu Siwei raised his eyes and breathed a sigh of satisfaction.

"Good!"

"What's so good about this early in the morning?"

Gu Siwei's appearance happened to be seen by Lu Yan who came back to pour water. He heard Gu Siwei say it was good and couldn't help but follow him.

Gu Siwei turned around and saw that it was Lu Yan. He was holding a kettle in his hand, and he knew that he was back to fetch water.

"How long did it take for the pot of water to reach the bottom?" Gu Siwei was just looking for trouble and had nothing to say.

Lu Yan said: "The weather is getting cold now. Drink more hot water. You won't be a little reluctant to even do this, right?"

Lu Yan has now fully adapted to life here. He already knows the situation of Gu Siwei's family and the Sixth Team very well. He knows that the folks here are not bad people, but they are a little poorer and better than the few he has stayed with before. The village is much better.

After adapting to the life here, there is no shortage of food and clothing. Lu Yan has become a little whiter these days than when he first came here. He is not fat at all, because everyone's labor intensity is not small.

If there is anyone who is not adaptable to the life of Gu Siwei's family now, it has to be Old Man Zhou. The old man is still the same as he was when he came here. He has a half-dead face all day long, and there are not many people in the day. In short, even with Old Man Li and others, they can't get along.

But fortunately, everyone is used to it, and Liu Xie

"I don't care about you!" Gu Siwei replied with a smile.

After saying that, he remembered something again and asked: "Is the hanging bar ready?"

Lu Yan said: "It's done, but there's still a problem. It requires more hands to lift a whole piece of wood. I'm thinking about how to increase the length of the lever."

oh!

After saying "Oh," Gu Siwei wanted to move the conversation away.

Lu Yan asked, "When will Taoist Master Tao come?"

"What are you doing with him?" Gu Siwei suddenly became curious.

Lu Yantou: "Ask where there is any stronger wood in this mountain."

"You want something strong? Isn't that simple? Isn't there any in the pile?" Gu Siwei was surprised.

Gu Siwei had encountered very strong hardwood before when he was making wood. It was much more difficult to chop with an ax than other woods, so in the end he just threw them outside without even wanting to use them to make a fire.

"Those look hard, but they are too brittle. What we want is not only hardness but also a certain degree of toughness. Otherwise, we cannot lift a whole piece of aniseed now, and the highest material must be lifted at least three times." About meters.

By the way, how did you build your house? How do you stack such a large piece of material so high? "

Lu Yan looked at Gu Siwei and asked.

Gu Siwei said: "I have told you several times. My method is very simple and practical. It just takes a little effort. Build a wall! Use wood materials to build a slope on the side of the wall to be built, and pull the aniseed materials up... …”.

Lu Yan said without thinking: "That's not as good as the boom."

Gu Siwei's method is really stupid. Lu Yan, Old Man Li and others tried it and it worked, but they found that the efficiency was too poor. Especially now, when everyone decided to build a big house, they couldn't adapt to it.

Sometimes the same method has different effects when applied to different scenes. For example, the method used by Gu Siwei when building a big house is not suitable for building the big house thought up by Lu Yan and others.

The method Gu Siwei said was to build a slope next to the wall to be built, and use big hair to pull the material from the slope to a maximum height of more than three meters.

But this method cannot be applied to a house that is three times larger than a large house. To build a wall in this way, it will take at least three times to build the slope. This is obviously not an efficient choice.

"Okay, I'm going back."

Lu Yan and Gu Siwei chatted for a while, but when they couldn't come up with anything, they exchanged a pot of water and carried it uphill to go back to work.

Gu Siwei was also preparing to go back to the house.

The two of them heard movement on the edge of the cliff at the same time. They looked around and found a group of monkeys standing on the persimmon trees, shouting at the bottom of the cliff.

He knew at first glance that someone was coming, and Gu Siwei walked towards the cliff.

When I reached the edge of the cliff, I stretched my head and saw that Song Rui was coming. The person who sent him over was Liu Dezhu, and there was a stranger, about forty years old, maybe not yet, but he looked a bit old. Wearing black-rimmed glasses, he has a handsome face.

Looking at what this man brought, Gu Siwei knew that Zhao Minglan had sent another comrade to undergo reform for him, but this time, he was a bit young.

"Don't look at it, drive the monkey away. Why do these guys jump when I come?"

Song Rui looked at Gu Siwei above the cliff and said with a smile.

The reason why the monkey group is making a fuss now is because Liu Dezhu and Song Rui brought a stranger over. The monkey group obviously doesn't want the stranger to come in. The reason why the monkey group is making a fuss now is to notify Gu Siwei and others about the outsider coming to their home.

"You're ugly!" Gu Siwei and Song Rui made a joke.

"Don't be stunned, put the ladder down for others."

After speaking to the monkeys again, Xiao Ma directed the monkeys to lower the rope ladder.

Taking advantage of the time to put down the rope ladder, Song Rui said: "I have to climb the ladder every day when I come here, so there can't be a simpler way. Also, when I come, I have to be delivered by Dezhu, and sometimes I don't have a good idea..." .

What Song Rui complained about is of course the truth. Without a boat, it would be impossible to reach Yinsong Cliff. Of course, if you have a helicopter now, then just pretend that Gu Siwei didn't say anything.

Even if you have a boat, you may not be able to come here. It depends on the mood of the flowers and cubes, because the water flow here is very fast. This section of Yinsong Cliff seems to be stuck on the narrow mouth of the river, so the water flow is fast, and because of the mountain The reason is that there are still some undercurrents in the water. In short, without high-tech water sections, it is still quite dangerous to come from the river.

As for why Tao Yisheng goes smoothly every time he comes here, that's because Tao Yisheng doesn't go to Yinsong Cliff. This old man is a rock climbing expert. He can come up from any side of the three-dimensional body. There is no need to go here. river course.

Lu Yan was also curious at this time. He was about a minute late. He struggled in his heart and came over with a pot to watch the excitement.

As soon as he stretched out his head, Lu Yan was stunned and shouted: "You Xugang! Xugang! Xugang!"

Gu Siwei turned around and saw the excited Lu Yan and asked, "Do you know each other?"