A misty rain painting the hometown

At the beginning of April, Guji, Bagui County, found a native osmanthus forest in a valley near Guandao. The trees are short, just like shrubs.

In Qianya County, Guji of Zhaobei Village saw the peach forest under the identification of the village boy. The peach meat was sour. Guji discussed again. Come and fetch.

In Fuyi County, I found a plum tree by the Qushui River.Guji called the village boy to discuss the matter of taking the nuclear test.The young man got a deposit of five coins, and told him about a kind of wild fruit. He just tried it. Gu Ji looked at it for a long time, squeezed it for a while, and then realized that it was a cherry.It was green in color and showed no signs of maturity. After trying one, it was shocking for a while, and the young man laughed out loud.

"Regardless of the color, the core will be collected at the end of next month. The medicine is always bad."

After adding five words, the young man immediately made an oath.

In Quyou County, in the mountain behind Danda Village, we got pomegranates and jujubes, and we decided to collect the seeds by the end of September.

It's early June.It was very hot.

Next to the official road, bunches of green bananas could be seen, climbing up the big tree next to the bananas, Gu Ji cut a bunch of them with a dagger, and cut off three big banana leaves, and then returned to the carriage to wrap the bananas before stopping.After another [-] days, I passed through Chengping County and Rizi County, saw wild mango groves, and agreed with the village boy of Quehu Village to collect the checks.When he left the village, he remembered bananas. Gu Ji stopped the carriage, pulled out the package of banana leaves, and peeled off the banana leaves. The skin of the banana was already golden.Pulling off one, peeling it, Guji took a bite, his eyes were bright, the fragrance was ripe, tender and sweet, this wild banana could be sold directly in the market.

In Xiniu Village, Laiming County, there is a bull sculpture at the head of the village. After careful questioning, it is found that this sculpture is a wild animal in the nearby Niumang Mountains.Gu Ji patted his head, he always felt that there was something wrong with the north and south coming and going, it turned out that there were no cattle in Shangming, and the north and south were also crossing, there were no cattle at the head of the field and in front of the cart!At this time, the cattle of Shangming Kingdom are still the horned cattle on the African prairie!

After spending the night in the west of the village, Gu Ji planned to live in the village for a month.I heard from the village boy that foreigners want to see the bison, and everyone from the village must also go, because they have just harvested the grain fields and are idle, and the bison can still be eaten.Three years ago, they combined the strength of one village to catch one.

At the hour of the next day, nearly a hundred villagers took sticks, hoes, kitchen knives, and sickles to Niu Mang Mountain five miles behind the village.The road to Niumang Mountain in Xiniu Village divides the continuous Niumang Mountain into left and right.

After walking for a quarter of an hour on the Wuli Mountain Road, when we reached the foot of Niumang Mountain, the sun had already shone into the forest, and the smell of ripe grass, soil and mud covered the entire mountain area.

"Going forward, this grass has been eaten up."

Shi Ligang, a 30-year-old villager, looked at the scattered and gnawed grass nests under his feet.On the edge of the residual leaves, the grass juice is not yet dry, and on the grassland, there are dense footprints of cattle. Half a quarter of an hour ago, at least five bison were looking for food here. They probably saw a large group of ferocious villagers carrying their belongings, and these bison left early.

The villagers yelled and moved on.Falling behind them, Guji looked back and said nothing.The villagers were doomed to fail in the opposite direction. Except for a road of cow dung, there was not a single cow hair.Seeing that the sky was getting dark and the twilight was rising in the mountains, the villagers brought a dozen hares, three pheasants, and a big wild boar, talking and laughing all the way back to the village from the west of the village.

After resting for two days, he borrowed the sickle from the lodger Liu Yang under the pretext of gathering medicine. After Gu Ji went up the mountain alone, he walked two hills to the right.

On the way, seeing a wild animal like a ox sculpture, Gu Ji left quietly, and mowed the grass on the second hill, piled the grass into a mountain, and mowed it for three full days, and the green grass also piled into a mountain.In the early morning of this day, two strong wild cows and two wild bulls were eating greedily around the haystack, and four young wild bulls were jumping around, very happy.

After returning to the village, Gu Ji went to the market in the nearby Falcon County to buy four hemp ropes, two hoes, and two sickles.

Hungry refugees were standing or sitting on both sides of the market entrance, shouting "good luck" and wanting to sell themselves cheaply.A month ago, I heard that the Falcon West River was flooded, flooding three large villages and killing more than 200 people.Over the past 20 days, nearly 16 refugees have been taken away, leaving only the [-] people with their families.

Gu Ji stopped the carriage and went to buy three rolls of linoleum cloth, a hoe, a sickle, a hatchet, an axe, a stove, two pots, charcoal, bowls, buckets, wooden basins, a tael of silver, rice noodles, oil-seed vegetables, pastries for the evening, and steamed buns. .He looked at the refugees beside the carriage, bought forty pancakes for nearly a hundred Wen, and distributed two pancakes to each of them.More than a dozen people kowtowed again with sesame seed cakes, but Gu Ji turned a blind eye, he was thinking about it.

Right now he needs someone to help, but he can't digest all of them, and now he has less than 500 taels of silver.At present, he only needs three people for the labor required for random calculations.

Judging from their standing posture, these 16 people are obviously a family of four.Because I don't want to grow up, but also don't want to be young, after a while, the elders and children are starved out of human form, and the parents panic, and the nearby can buy people to command the rich, and they have already bought enough people.Now I can only have a full meal from the alms given by the vendors in this market and starve for a day.

This group of people was shining with hope, and Gu Ji was in a dilemma. Finally, he made a compromise before opening his mouth.

"I only need four people, each of whom sells for 20 taels of silver, you add up."

Hearing this, a group of people stared round.The four older children quickly stood in front of Guji, and the fourth mother hugged the younger one, crying loudly at the same time, but the fourth father kowtowed to Guji again.Gu Ji helped them up one by one and sighed.

"My name is Gu Ji, and there is nothing I can do right now, but I will keep their real names. In the future, whichever side is better for you, you can find each other. I live in Guzhong Village, Jianan County, on the eastern outskirts of the capital."

The four mothers only caressed about the child beside them, and the little girl kowtowed to Gu Ji.

"Get up and continue to live a good life. I will take you away."

Gu Ji looked at him and stood up, his hands and face were dirty, and his skin color could no longer be distinguished from the four of them.The oldest one, with a round face and peach blossom eyes, is 15 years old, named Zhao Shu.The youngest, 13-year-old Zhang Zhixuan, had both phoenix eyes and a big nose. Yao Yexiao is 14 years old, has a melon-shaped face, does not show a smile, and can reveal a pair of dimples just by pursing his lips. 14 years old, with a wax gourd face and impeccable facial features, his name is Gong Fan.The four teenagers should all be from wealthy households.

"From now on, you will all call me Mr. Gu, and my name is Gu Ji. Now go and bid farewell to your family."

After dawdling for an hour, he bought a bunch of ingredients, added bowls and chopsticks, and carried them into the carriage with two large buckets. Gu Ji saw that the four of them also got into the carriage one after another, so he asked a question.

"Blame your parents?"

Zhao Shu shook his head, fortunately he met this kind young master today, otherwise he would starve to death in front of his parents.Zhang Zhixuan grunted for a while, then lowered his head.Knowing that the four left the two sesame cakes distributed earlier to their family members, Gu Ji took out the remaining sesame cakes and distributed another one.Only then did I drive the carriage to a street tailor shop and spent four taels of silver to buy a change of laundry for four people in autumn, all made of fine linen.

It was Shen Shi when we returned to Xiniu Village, and let the four of them eat the remaining four sesame cakes. To arrange a good thing, Gu Ji went to Lizheng Hu Yizhi, and wanted to spend 80 taels of silver to buy the abandoned yard of Zhuohan's house in the east of the village. The yard was 850 square meters , ruined walls, not a single tile.Two days ago, Gu Ji set his sights on this deserted courtyard.Because the bid was too high, Zhuo Han was afraid that Gu Ji would go back on his word. After the discussion, he immediately asked Li Zheng to notify the villagers to witness the transfer of the house.This courtyard is two miles away from Xiniu Village, and it is the easternmost single household.

Before returning to the deserted courtyard, Gu Ji went to the house of Liu Yang, a villager who was staying overnight, and thanked him with five hundred Wen.According to Gu Ji's instructions, Zhao Shu and the others went to the wild forest of Houcun and chopped ten long wooden pillars as thick as arms. I entered the ancient well in the yard until the water was clear and sweet, and then took a bath one after another.When Guji came back, it happened to be his turn to wash.

There are tung oil lamps hanging on the two corners of the carriage, and the stove and charcoal are removed from the carriage.Guji lit the fire, and the four of them took pots, bowls, wooden basins, chopsticks, kitchen knives, cutting boards, and ingredients to the well to clean and cut.

Using the stove, the pot mixes and cooks the meat dishes in a cauldron below.Guji only eats steamed buns and pastries.After eating at the end of the year, the five of them fell asleep on the sides of the carriage.

The next day, after eating stuffed rice and scrambled eggs with chives, Gu Ji took four people into the mountain and gave him the important task of mowing the grass.Then I went to Xiangji to rent a carriage and went to the county seat. I bought two new carriages, two horses for 25 taels of silver, and two carriages for 80 taels of silver.The 38-year-old merchant, Gu Ke, personally drove another car to the deserted courtyard of Xiniu Village.

Gu Ji abducted to the township market, bought new ingredients, hired a cart to drag back a new table, stool, steam bucket, steamer and long panel, and it was time for him to return to the hospital.No one was cooking lunch, and the master was not around, so the four of Zhao Shu were hungry and had a midday meal.Seeing that the leftover bacon and vegetables had not been touched, Gu Ji immediately lit a fire to cook.After the meal was ready, I went to the mountain to call people back to the hospital.

The four of them were so hungry that they were top-heavy. They ate food first when they returned to the hospital, and rested for a while to recover before going to take a bath and do laundry.Tonight, Guji slept alone in the earlier carriage, and the other two carriages slept two people each.

After a day's rest, Zhang Zhixuan took a small bag of pastries to the foot of the mountain and let the three horses go.Gu Ji led Zhao Shu, Yao Yexiao, and Gong Fan to build a stove and chop firewood inside the linoleum against the wall.

After the two stoves were built, Gu Ji let Gong Fan look after the house, while he carried a hoe and took Zhao Shu and Yao Yexiao to the west of Niumang Mountain to set up hunting traps.

The next day, Zhang Zhixuan guarded the yard and the carriage, and Gu Ji went to Niumang Mountain with the four of them. The grassy mountain piled up the day before yesterday was gone. Following the imprints, they saw the original eight big and small bison on the mountainside.Perhaps because they recognized Gu Ji and Zhao Shu, Eight Wild Bulls were not afraid of the four of them, and just gnawed grass beside them.

The four quickly cut apart.The sky was getting dark, and the eight cows were lying beside the haystack, taking a mouthful of grass from time to time.The four went to three traps and picked up two hares and one pheasant.While the sky was still bright, the four of them took turns to hoe again, expanding and deepening two of the traps, and after rearranging them, Fang returned to the village with the rabbits and chickens.