Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Gu Siwei had never seen such a saw before. The saw body was almost thirty centimeters wide, and the width in the middle was narrower on both sides. Even if it was narrow, it would be more than ten centimeters. There was a wooden handle at each end. The saw blade was soft and could be directly cut by the saw. It was rolled into a roll, and after straightening, the saw was almost two meters long.

"Have you never used a saw like this before?"

Seeing Gu Siwei's eyes, Guo Xiangping understood that Gu Siwei had no use for this thing.

"I've never seen it before," Gu Siwei nodded.

"It works the same, practice makes perfect," Guo Xiangping said with a smile.

Gu Siwei said: "I will use it for a while, maybe a few months. If you want to use it, just tell me."

"This thing won't be used for a while. Our family used to use it when we cut down big pine trees. Now the trees are owned by the state. Even if they are cut down, there is no place to sell them. You can't burn firewood. Don't worry about using them. It doesn’t matter if you don’t pay it back.” Guo Xiangping waved his hand.

"Do you have an ink fountain here? If you have an ink fountain, lend it to me, and I won't bother you." Gu Siwei asked.

Guo Xiangping said: "I don't have it here, but my fourth brother's house has it next door. I'll get it for you."

Guo Xiangping didn't ask any questions. Seeing that Gu Siwei wanted to use an ink fountain, he went to his cousin's house next door to get an ink fountain for Gu Siwei.

After gathering all the things he thought of, Gu Siwei put the saw on his shoulder, carried the ax in his hand, and took the ink fountain refilled with ink. He left Ping's house in Guo Xiang and turned west towards his Yinsong Cliff.

When he arrived at Yinsong Cliff, Gu Siwei started picking trees. He didn't know much about wood, and he didn't know what kind of wood was the best for building a house, but he also felt that the harder the wood, the better.

Based on this principle, Gu Siwei began to select hardwoods to plant in the space.

He simply tried it with an axe, and he had good luck. He found a very hard wood directly on the mountain behind Silver Pine Cliff, and there was a metallic sound when the ax was struck.

However, although he found the hardwood, greater difficulties appeared in front of him.

He has no ability to process this kind of hardwood. Whether it is an ax or a saw, he has nothing to do with the hardwood.

It's not that there's no way around it. If you push the ax down, there'll be only a small groove in the wood. If you want to process this thing into material, Gu Siwei thinks it will take at least a month.

Thinking about when the house will be built, you can't build it now and live in it decades later. Lao Gu doesn't have the patience.

Finally, I had to go back to pine wood, which is relatively easy to process compared to hardwood.

Wood is naturally not a problem for Gu Siwei. He just needs to find a branch, water it in the space and insert it into the ground. Almost all the planted pines are about the same thickness and height, as if they are produced with standardized roots.

The wood is there, but it can’t be further processed yet. Gu Siwei is a machine tool player and knows a little about materials. Although he can’t recognize a lot of wood, he also knows that the wood needs to be aged for a period of time before being used. It is best to let it dry naturally. , in this case it will not be easy to change in future use.

After getting a batch of tree trunks, peeling off the bark and throwing them in the space to dry, Gu Siwei found time to deal with other things.

What's going on?

One is to go to the factory. His family owes Hu Yanqiu a favor.

I said that I would send some pheasants and ducks to your family. You can't break your promise. I've been such a big help.

The second is that I still want to go there to sell some things. Of course, I have to take out the wheat in the space and go to the town to machine it into flour.

All in all, there's a lot on hand.

It is not difficult to get pheasants and other game now. After catching them a few times, I have gained some experience and know where these things are found, so it saves much time and effort to find them than at the beginning.

We won’t bring wild boars this time, but we will bring more pheasants and wild ducks. These things are easier to sell than wild boars.

Even though workers now receive a salary of around 30 yuan, I feel that their lives are pitiful. But I don’t know that workers now have nothing to spend their money on. First, they need votes, and they need votes for everything.

Second, they really didn’t have anything to buy. They received grain, oil and other things according to the book. It was not easy for them to buy more.

You can buy candies and daily necessities with meal stamps at any store, but if you want to buy grain, you can’t buy it. Unless you buy finished products in the cafeteria store, pure grains are not sold. If you want to buy them, you still have to use food stamps. .

But after all, the supply of factories there is better than that in ordinary cities, so the living conditions of workers in mountain factories are generally better than those in urban factories, and their pockets are better.

This is easy to understand. Factories that move to the mountains are very popular, and it is normal for them to be well treated.

After returning to the village, he first went to the machine to get the interview and wrote a letter of introduction to the village. Gu Siwei took the letter of introduction and used the space to jump around and give the interview to the machine.

When I came back, I saw a group of men, women, and children from the village gathered at the door, and it was as lively as the Chinese New Year.

Someone from afar saw Gu Siwei coming and immediately said hello.

"Brothers Si-D, are you going to watch a movie?"

Gu Siwei was wondering what these guys were going to do. He really didn't expect that these people were making such a big fuss to watch a movie.

"Watching a movie?" Gu Siwei was dumbfounded.

"Yeah, let's go watch a movie. Isn't there a movie in the factory over there? Let's set off now, and we'll be there when the movie starts at seven or eight o'clock in the evening..."

The speaker was frothing as he spoke, as if watching a movie was a big deal.

"I'm not going now. You guys should go first. Oh, by the way, Sicui is here."

Gu Siwei then remembered that Sicui at home didn't know whether he wanted to go to the movies, so he said something.

"Sicui is at home. You didn't tell her where to go." Wu Meiling was already preparing to set off with her children at this time. When she heard what Gu Siwei said, she replied.

Gu Siwei patted his forehead after hearing this: "Look, I forgot about this. Just wait."

After saying that, he led Xiaopao back to his small courtyard. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw Sicui with his head stretched out, standing on tiptoe behind the wall and looking at the team in the village who were preparing to go to watch a movie.

"Go if you want."

Seeing Sicui's appearance, Gu Siwei said with a smile.

Sicui shook her head: "I don't want to go."

Gu Siwei didn't know what this girl was thinking about. He felt that there was a generation gap between him and this little girl, and he couldn't explain many things.

He didn't understand, and he didn't want to understand, so he said directly: "Go if you are told, don't be coy, go watch a movie, broaden your horizons, I will go there in the afternoon."

"Then I'll go with my brother," Sicui said immediately.

How dare Gu Siwei let her come with him, so he said: "You and sister-in-law Meiling come together. I have to bring things with me and there are many things to do. Besides, I can walk faster by myself. It will take time to take you with me." , you follow them slowly.”

Hearing what Gu Siwei said, Sicui didn't dare to say anything. She now understood that sometimes this cheap brother was very domineering and was not allowed to go against his will.

Sicui is still happy to be able to go to the movies, because she is only a ten-year-old child after all, and it is her nature to like fun, not to mention that movies are now extremely attractive to everyone.

It's a bit like when later generations of fans see their idols, their minds go a little crazy.

After tidying up, I brought some food to Sicui. Pancakes couldn't be made in time today, so Gu Siwei prepared some homemade persimmon cakes for Sicui. Sicui also brought some sweet potatoes and other things. The dry food for the day has been gathered.

After handing Sicui to Wu Meiling, Gu Siwei gave a few instructions and returned to his small courtyard.

There was no way to take out the food, and he was not going to take it out. He took it out and said that the weather might get warmer in a few days, and insects would grow there. Even if the space was good, it would not rot for ten thousand years, and at most it would be dehydrated.

At around nine o'clock, the movie-watching crowd set out, and the village suddenly became empty. Not to mention people, there were not even a few dogs left, and there were only a few old people who really didn't have the energy to go to the movie. Basking in the sun under the wall of my house.

Gu Siwei waited for a while, and at about three o'clock in the afternoon, he used the space to start jumping again. The speed was like a car driving 70 yards, and he didn't know how much faster than walking.

So Gu Siwei arrived first and stood on the hill outside the factory before the sun set.

Hide, take out the things in the space, put six pheasants and wild ducks in a sack, Gu Siwei directly throws it over his shoulder and walks down the mountain.

"Young man, what's in this sack of yours?"

As soon as he stood on the cement road, a sharp-eyed aunt saw the sack carried by Gu Siwei. The movement in it was obviously that it contained live animals, and from the sounds, she knew it was either a duck or a chicken.

The aunt didn't care whether the things Gu Siwei brought were for sale, so she directly asked.

When Gu Siwei heard this, he originally wanted to sell it, so he asked: "Do you want the pheasants and wild ducks that I caught?"

"Let me see!"

Auntie originally had this in mind, so she asked Gu Siwei to open the sack for her to see.

Naturally, Gu Siwei did what Auntie wanted and opened the sack for Auntie to see. Who knew, as soon as Auntie stretched her head, for some reason, seven or eight Aunties squeezed in from the side in an instant, as if Auntie could teleport.

"How to sell it!"

Seeing so many people, the first aunt immediately reached out and held down the fattest pheasant.

"It's 40 cents per pound, but you have to add some stamps, any cloth stamp or industrial product stamp will do. If you buy it with meal stamps, you don't need stamps, just give 50 cents meal stamps..."

Meal tickets were a bit discounted compared to industrial product tickets and cloth tickets, so Gu Siwei asked for more.

However, here Gu Siwei has experienced the function of meal tickets, and prefers convenient meal tickets. This thing is like money for future generations here (you can buy everything except food).

Meal stamps can buy a lot of things, which is also a benefit provided to workers by this factory. In a sense, the small piece of leather meal stamp here is more useful and useful than money.

"Young man, you are so dishonest, the price is too expensive!"

The aunt was a little unhappy when she heard this. She felt that Gu Siwei's things were too expensive.

The aunts next to me all shouted "Gui" at all.

Gu Siwei put on a sad face and looked like he was helpless: "There is no way. We have to risk our lives to catch these things now. I don't want to, but catching these things is time-consuming and laborious. Four or five of us went into the mountain. It took me several days of freezing and snowing to earn this kind of income. Besides, this thing doesn’t need to be weighed. Each one only weighs one or two pounds. Even if they are all sold, the distribution will only cost less than one yuan per person. Take a look. Even those who are paid have to make a few bucks a day. It’s not easy for us to earn just one buck in these three or four days..."

When selling things, you have to learn how to complain and sell hard. This trick is not familiar to Siwei, but it is not bad. After a few decades, you will have to sell badly even if you participate in a singing competition, let alone sell badly on short video media. I have seen it a lot. Naturally, I have some experience, not to mention that Gu Siwei has done live broadcasts.

After Gu Siwei said this, all the aunts felt a little bit unbearable, and they all felt that this child was too difficult.