Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

After another day of hard work, Gu Siwei once again collapsed into a boneless noodle. After the sun set, he sat on the ground and couldn't think of getting up. Even eating could hardly attract him.

But the moment he picked up the bowl, he immediately waved his hands like a windmill, and swirled large chunks of meat into his mouth. A few bites of meat and a bite of steamed buns. It tasted delicious.

After eating, he found a place to fall asleep. At this time, Gu Siwei didn't care about a bed, as long as it was a flat ground.

Within two minutes of lying down, he was snoring like everyone else. When he opened his eyes again, it was already the early morning of the next day.

As soon as the sky lights up, as long as it is visible, everyone continues to work and waits for breakfast to be ready. After breakfast, they continue to work until lunch. After lunch, they rest for half an hour and wait for the sun to set. Continue until dark.

The work in the fields was done very quickly. In addition to the credit of the villagers, there was also the credit of Pony and a group of monkeys. These monkeys were good at transplanting the rice. I can’t say it was good or bad. Anyway, Gu Siwei’s requirement was that the rice would not die. .

But having said that, in the field of Gu Siwei's family, it seems that it is not easy for the seedlings to die. Once water is poured in space, it seems difficult to kill the seedlings unless you hang the roots in mid-air.

It is impossible to plant all the land with rice. Even if you want to plant all the rice, there are not so many seedlings. At about five o'clock on the third afternoon, almost all the rice seedlings were consumed. Most of the folks who came to help will not be needed tomorrow. Come over again.

The only ones left were Liu Fulin, his grandson, and Guo Shengshou's family, plus Wen Laodao Tao Yisheng, who was accidentally rescued by Gu Siwei. There was also an unexpected person left behind, that person was Sun Qiumei.

Gu Siwei felt that it was quite awkward, but Wu Meiling asked Sun Qiumei to stay. Fortunately, Sun Qiumei was a hard-working person, and Gu Siwei knew that a divorced woman would always be looked down upon by her brothers and wives when she returned to her parents' home. , so he asked her to stay and help Wu Meiling take care of everyone's food and drink.

After the rice was planted, the remaining land could not be left uncultivated. At Liu Fulin's suggestion, the remaining land was divided into two plots, one plot was planted with potatoes and the other plot was planted with sweet potatoes.

As for why I plant these two, it’s very simple and convenient.

These two crops are easier to take care of than other crops. If you let Gu Siwei plant wheat here, no matter when it is harvested, the Gu Siwei brothers and sisters will have to work to death.

Compared with rice, planting potatoes and sweet potatoes is more convenient. At least the seedlings are not as dense as rice. If they are looser, wouldn't it save effort?

Naturally, those who stayed could not plant immediately. The remaining land needed to be plowed, ridged, etc., and the most important thing was to raise seedlings, sweet potato seedlings and potato seedlings.

Sweet potato seedlings are a bit simpler. The folks all have them at home. Just take the seedlings grown from the unused sweet potato vines and plant them into the ground. If everyone in a village puts them together, the number will be about the same. .

Potato seedlings are not too difficult. Just pick the potatoes and cut them into pieces, put them on the ground to dry for a few days, wait for the cut surfaces to grow corks, then put them in a cool place to wait for germination. Once they sprout, they can be planted in the ground. Went there.

The problem now is that there are not enough potatoes. Although potatoes are also grown in the village, they are food. They were almost eaten by the villagers last winter. Many people have changed to growing sweet potatoes this year. Where can the potatoes come from? Gu Siwei Nursery.

If the sweet potato vines that had been saved from seed were not so delicious and were still stored in cellars, even the sweet potato vines might have been eaten by the folks.

Therefore, you have to buy potatoes, which are definitely not available in the town. You can only go to the factory, and only there can you buy good potatoes, because the factory is the food supplied by the state. After a few decades, the variety will not be enough, but in Now that's quite abundant. Besides, even if it's a little, it's impossible to miss it. High-yielding potatoes, right?

You have to find the right person when you go to the factory. This time I can find someone who is my own cheap apprentice, but that would be overkill, and you can’t keep looking for someone, so what Gu Siwei is looking for this time, It's his cheap cousin, Wu Daorong.

Only half of the remaining land had been cleared away, and Liu Fulin took advantage of a short rest to stop Gu Siwei.

"Siwei, it's almost time. You should go to the factory to get the potatoes. Otherwise, the ridges here have been peeled off, and you wonder if the potatoes have arrived over there. Isn't it troublesome?"

Liu Fulin picked up the hoe in his hand and said loudly to Gu Siwei, who was also digging the ground a few meters away.

"Don't worry, the sweet potato seedlings over there haven't been picked up yet by the folks. I'll go here after they are done," Gu Siwei said.

Liu Fulin said: "No, it will be too late. You go earlier. When you go to the village, borrow the mule from the village and try to go back the same day. If there are no ready-made potatoes, let them know first and make an agreement. I’ll get it next time.”

Liu Fulin arranged everything properly, even thinking about the fact that there were not so many potatoes in the canteen over there.

Gu Siwei said with a smile: "It's impossible. Every time I go to the canteen over there, I see baskets of potatoes. They like to eat potatoes there. It's impossible not to have them."

Gu Siwei was naturally not in a hurry. Liu Fulin wanted to have a lot of potatoes, at least five or six acres of potatoes. Even if a whole potato was divided into six pieces, it would still be a lot.

But what Liu Fulin didn't know was that Gu Siwei was going to get thirty or forty pounds of potatoes. When the time came, he would throw them into the space. If it couldn't be watered twice, how about the potatoes that were enough for seeding? What?

Wu Daorong's factory is so big, and dozens of kilograms of potatoes can't evenly come out.

Tao Yisheng also said at this time: "Siwei, your family is listening to your Uncle Fulin. Go early and come back with news so that we can be prepared. If it is not enough, I think we can plant some leftover. Cotton, it’s not useless anyway.”

"That's a good idea."

Gu Siwei thought it would be good to grow some cotton. In winter, he could make two more cotton-padded jackets for himself and Sicui.

"How much cotton can be planted? It can be more than half an acre at most. How about some day lilies?"

Guo Shengshou in the distance had a new proposal.

Liu Fulin listened and laughed and said: "What kind of coaxing are you two doing? You have already agreed to plant half of the sweet potatoes and half of the potatoes. Now you have changed it and planted something else? Okay, you two, please don't cause any trouble. Let's work quickly." ".

Guo Shengshou laughed happily after hearing this, and then said to Gu Siwei: "Brother Siwei, your place is really good, but there is something wrong with it."

Gu Siwei asked strangely: "What's wrong with it?"

Lao Gu felt that his place could be said to be a blessed land of gods. Why did Guo Shengshou still say something bad about it?

Guo Shengshou said with a smile: "It's just inconvenient to get up and down. Even if you have money in the future, it will be difficult to get the big animal up when you buy it. If you use something to lift it, how many people will it take to pull it up?"

Before Gu Siwei could speak, Liu Dezhu next to him chuckled: "Uncle Shengshou, aren't you stupid? If you can't make a big cow, just make a calf. If you feed him for a year and a half, you will become a big cow." ?”

Hahaha!

Gu Siwei, Liu Fulin and others immediately became happy after hearing this.

Guo Shengshou was blocked by Liu Dezhu's words. He laughed a few times and then said: "I really didn't expect this, but how small the cow is to pull it up."

"It's enough to wean the cow off. What are you still worrying about? Now isn't it time to worry about the money to buy the cow?" Liu Dezhu lost his usual naive expression at this time.

After Liu Fulin laughed for a while, he said to Gu Siwei: "Siwei, I'm just saying this for fun, but you have to prepare to buy a cow. I know you have many ways to get money, but you You still have to save some money. You can have less money, but the more food stamps you have, the better. When the time comes, you will be better off buying cows with these than with money. If you can get a bicycle ticket, or a sewing machine, Ticket, that thing is more solid...".

Tao Yisheng nodded when he heard Liu Fulin's words: "Siwei, what your uncle Fulin said is serious. Although you have many ways to make money, you can't spend it like this. If you spend it like this, you will have a golden mountain." There’s not enough money to spend.”

Although he had only been with Gu Siwei for a few days, Tao Yisheng understood Gu Siwei's character, which was generous and righteous. Although he was a bit petty at times, his flaws were not concealed. People will always have small flaws like this. If If not, then he is not a human being but a god.

He has a good personality, but this kind of personality is a bit like a prodigal. Just like this time when the villagers came to help with the work, it would be a first-class good thing to bring steamed buns to the house, and he would be full of meat. No one, including Tao Yisheng himself, could live like this for a few days a year.

"I know, I'll just keep it tight here," Gu Siwei said with a smile.

Seeing the expression on Gu Siwei's face, Tao Yisheng knew that what he said was in vain, so he kept silent. It was not that Tao Yisheng was angry that his suggestions were not listened to. How old has he been? Knowing that if young people can It is not easy to listen to the opinions of the elderly.

Most of the time, young people have to suffer a loss in this matter before they can appreciate the significance of the old man's persuasion.

When your untouched head is bruised and bleeding, even if you tell him ten thousand times, he won't take it seriously.

"We're talking about potatoes. Why did we go to another place? Siwei, you are leaving tomorrow. Didn't you say you want to find that Wu Daorong? Don't go empty-handed. When you leave tomorrow, you can go to my place. I still have it at home. Bring me a salted fish weighing more than three kilograms," Liu Fulin said.

"Salted fish? Uncle, you should keep it for yourself and Dezhu. I have something here." Gu Siwei is not really sixteen or seventeen years old. There is someone in his thirties living in his sixteen or seventeen years old. Soul, why don’t you bring something with you when you go to work for someone?

"It's okay. We are short of everything here except fish. If it weren't for the fact that salt is a bit rare, we can't pickle as much as we want. This stuff probably wouldn't be valuable at the factory, but it's just for fun," Liu Fulin said.

Tao Yisheng said: "Let's do this. I will grind out a pair of medicinal materials for you and bring it with you."

"I said, Old Man Tao, please stop fooling around. They go to find someone to do something for you, and you deliver the medicine. I don't need to beat you with a stick when you go out."

When Zheng Youcai heard about the gift of medicine, he couldn't help but talk about Tao Yisheng.

"Oh, Siwei, if you have enough money to buy two cans of malted milk, these monkeys might still be able to use it." Liu Fulin thought of the monkeys again.