Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 2 I See You Like a Spy
Line up for dinner?

Well, queue for dinner.

At this time, even if you eat in the village, you have to queue up. The whole Zhuangzi eats together and works together. The reason is that this is the time when the people's communes are popular.

There is a canteen in the village, which is more like a small yard than a canteen. I don’t know whose yard was unoccupied, so it was used as the canteen in the village.

The small yard is quite formal, with the front room and the main hall, the stove room to the east, and the barn to the west, but now the main hall and the front room including the barn have become dining halls, filled with tables and chairs from the original houses.

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 still thick, although it is not enough to insert chopsticks, but it is still a little sticky.

Dried yams are served in the porridge (sweet potatoes are so-called sweet potatoes, cut into slices three to four millimeters thick and dried in the sun to become dried yams).

This thing is served with cornmeal porridge, and it will run the gamut. As for whether it is delicious or not, it is all nonsense.

In the past, Gu Siwei still liked to eat coarse grains, and coarse grains were expensive in the era when he came, but after eating real coarse grains here, Gu Siwei never wanted to eat a second meal.

Among other things, stick noodle can make your throat ache, and even a bowl of porridge can make your throat a little uncomfortable.

But it is quite good to have this meal at the moment. This is because this is a mountain village, it is extremely inconvenient to get in and out, and there is little land, so there is no need to pay various taxes (the thalassemia here can’t produce a few grains of grain a year. If you pay taxes here All the villagers ran away, because the grain harvested a year was not enough to pay taxes and had to be subsidized. Who would go to farm, and why not run away)

In some villages outside the mountains, they may not even be able to drink thick cornmeal porridge. They can only eat porridge with silhouettes and dried yams to survive the winter. This is the diet of normal farmers in the era of melon vegetables. ?There are only a few times a year, and it will take more than 20 to [-] years for real farmers to put white rice and white noodles on the table.

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

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

The white glaze is not white at all, but gray, and the green material is not bright and dull, and the glaze is full of pits and holes.

It can be seen that there is a reason why this thing will not be seen in the future-it is too crude.

After receiving a bowl of porridge, Gu Siwei came outside with the porridge, and squatted down at random.

Sucking porridge while observing the people around.

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

That's right, such a poor village still has dogs, although there are not many, only seven or eight, this phenomenon still makes Gu Siwei feel a little incredible.

While Gu Siwei was pondering, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a shadow sitting down next to him, and turned his head to see that it was Liu Dezhu, Liu Fulin's grandson.

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

Gu Siwei was taken aback by these words, and for a while, he didn't know how to answer this half-old child who was a few years younger than himself.

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

Without even thinking about it, Liu Dezhu opened his mouth and said, "I think you look like a spy. The spies must be different from us."

This 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 are the spies doing in your village?"

"Hidden, when you receive Lao Jiang's order, you will jump out and sabotage," Liu Dezhu said seriously.

Now Gu Siwei was really speechless, he really convinced this kid's imagination.

Check it out!

I thought this was a silly boy, but who knew that his imagination was too strong, so 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 courtyard take out a mouthful or two of gruel from their own bowls, and poured it on the ground to feed the dog.

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

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

People are almost out of food and still feeding dogs?This made Gu Siwei, who came from decades later, feel puzzled.

"Why don't you feed the dogs? These dogs can 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 felt that there was something strange about this, so he told Gu Siwei about why the village still kept dogs.

It was only then that Gu Siwei realized that these dogs were hounds, half-scattered hounds. They would go to the wild to find food, and they would bring some game back from time to time to reward their owners.

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

"Eat dogs? We don't eat dogs here. There is an old saying: Scattered families kill cats, and extinct households eat dogs. The cats and dogs will be killed and eaten if they don't." Liu Dezhu was a little anxious when he heard that.

"Scattered families kill cats, and extinct families eat dogs?"

Gu Siwei was taken aback for a moment, and thought: This scolding is too harsh.

But after listening to Liu Dezhu's explanation, he realized that these two sentences were really not insults, but that cats and dogs are too important to the people in this village. If the family stays together, no one will eat their cats. There are so few households that no one eats house dogs.

It's not a casual family who eats cats, or an extinct family who eats dogs, as Gu Siwei thought, this is considered a curse.

Cats and dogs are very important to the people in the village. It is a common use to guard the house and guard the house to catch mice, because in the mountains where the village lives, it is quite normal for snakes to crawl into the house. Sometimes people don’t notice it, but cats Dogs and dogs are very sensitive, and they can warn the owner when they find it, so as to prevent people from being harmed by these poisons.

The most important thing is that it doesn't take a lot of thought for the villagers to raise these things. Both cats and dogs can find food by themselves, and they don't need people to feed them, and there is no such thing as cat food and dog food.

Liu Dezhu was very curious about Gu Siwei. At this moment, he believed that Gu Siwei in front of him was a spy of Guo Ming, but his master said no, so it was not easy for him to report.

In fact, Liu Dezhu also has his own plans. Although he thinks that Gu Siwei is a spy, he feels that he has to catch a ready-made one before he can report it. Liu Dezhu can't do it now that there is no evidence to innocence.

Gu Siwei didn't know that the half-child next to him actually had such a scheming, but even if he knew he didn't care, because he was no longer the unreliable flat-headed boy before, and the mysterious space was his waist and gallbladder .

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

Gu Siwei thinks this kid has so much trouble?Ask yourself eight times a day what you are thinking, what do I think has anything to do with you?
If Gu Siwei regards himself as a spy, the problem will be understood naturally. Liu Dezhu's children's shoes, who are going to catch the spy, are now collecting evidence.

If you want to collect evidence, you must first understand the thoughts of the spies. At this moment, Liu Dezhu wants to understand Gu Siwei's thoughts. As for where he learned the trick, he naturally learned it from the movie.

Where did Liu Dezhu watch the movie?
This matter is simple. It takes almost a day to go east from the village and climb over a few hills. There is also a factory in the mountain, a large factory with thousands of people, and open-air movies will be played in it 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, even bathhouses, shops, and even a cotton spinning factory.

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

Now Gu Siwei only knows that the Zhuangzi he is in is the sixth group of Shimo Village, and he is talking about the sixth group of Shimo Village, Qushan Township, Guiling County, Gushan City, Jiang'an Province.

Although they are in the same village, it takes half a day to walk the closest of these six groups, and more than ten hours to walk the farthest. Each village is surrounded by mountains, and the roads are rugged and winding. As for the difficulty of the road to Shu.

But it's really hard to walk. Many places can only pass through one person and one large animal. There is an abyss beside you, and the hearts of those who look at it are trembling.

It is precisely because of this that the turbulent tide outside has not affected the village, which is one of the reasons why Gu Siwei wants to settle in this village.

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

Gu Siwei wants to stay, and the best place to show his value is naturally to solve the problem of food in the village. As long as this problem can be solved, even if Gu Siwei wants to leave, the village probably won't agree.

Of course, what Gu Siwei thinks is not that simple. As an adult who has been in the later generations for more than 30 years, he deeply understands that sometimes it is a good thing, and you have a clear conscience when you do it, but there will be no good results. .

Why is that?
human nature!
Sheng Mien, fight against Mien.

This is not to say that this kind of thing only exists in modern times, but that it is common in all societies, whether it is Chinese, modern, or foreign.

Once you become someone's reliance, and you no longer want others to depend on you, no matter how good you were to someone before, that person's hatred for you will be as deep.

Gu Siwei didn't want to go out hunting every day, fatten up the people in the village, and make him tired.

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

I don't even want to think that one day I don't want to work so hard, but in the end I become the sworn enemy of the whole village, making the villagers think that I stopped working and hunting, which made them hungry.

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

Gu Siwei is very shrewd. It is this shrewdness that allowed a young man in a small town to buy a house by himself at the age of 30.

"Hunting, will you still hunt?"

Hearing about hunting, Liu Dezhu's eyes widened instantly.

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

If it was in the past, Gu Siwei had no spectrum at all, and he didn’t know how to hunt, but now it’s different, Gu Siwei has the mysterious space to help, and his understanding of space in his mind is quite proficient, how to deal with prey Already have a spectrum.

Liu Dezhu looked down on Gu Siwei a little bit.

"Can you hunt?"

Asked again, obviously doubting more than trusting.

Hunting is not an easy job. If it is really easy, there are still some old hunters in the village. Why is the whole village so miserable?
To put it this way, the living conditions in the village are worse than before. Why?
Is it because the old hunters don't know how to hunt anymore?

Obviously not.

(End of this chapter)