Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 39
Gu Siwei walked into the store again.

Hu Yanqiu also happened to come out of the counter, ready to go to the bathroom, when she saw Gu Siwei, she smiled and asked, "Why are you back again, what else do you want to buy?"

"I forgot to buy some cloth," Gu Siwei replied.

Hu Yanqiu asked, "What kind of cloth to buy?"

"It's cheaper, and it doesn't have much money. I'm going to make a dress," Gu Siwei said.

Gu Siwei now has a little understanding of the current prices, and he also knows that he can't buy a few feet of cloth with a meal ticket worth more than two yuan.

"How much money do you have?" Hu Yanqiu asked.

"A meal ticket worth more than two yuan." Gu Siwei smiled and took out the meal ticket from his pocket.

Hu Yanqiu said: "How much cloth can you buy, and you can't buy good cloth. Are you going to wear it yourself or give it away?"

"Wear it yourself," Gu Siwei said.

Hearing that Gu Siwei said he would wear it, Hu Yanqiu thought for a while and said, "Wait a minute, I'll wash your hands first, and I'll take you to ask later."

Gu Siwei nodded, and Hu Yanqiu took Xiao Bao away.

After waiting for about three or four minutes, Hu Yanqiu came back and waved at Gu Siwei, and Gu Siwei followed Hu Yanqiu out of the store through a small side door.

There is a small yard behind the store, and there are several rows of bungalows on the west side of the yard. On the wall, there is a sign that the warehouse is an important place, and fireworks are strictly prohibited.

No need to ask, this is the warehouse of the store.

Following Hu Yanqiu to the door of a warehouse, he heard Hu Yanqiu shouting at Curry: "Fourth aunt!"

After shouting a few times, I heard a woman's voice inside: "Come on, why are you shouting, what are you doing here if you don't go to work?"

Waiting to meet someone, Gu Siwei discovered that this woman has a very good temperament, and she can be seen at a glance as the kind of cultured person. Whether she is walking or talking, she has a ladylike temperament.

"This is?"

"My friend I just met, fourth aunt, are the damp cloths from last time still there?" Hu Yanqiu asked.

"Maybe, why ask this?"

Hu Yanqiu said: "My friend wants to buy some cloth, but he doesn't have the money in hand, and he doesn't have much demand for cloth. You can pick some better cloth, and the total is only two yuan for meal tickets."

"You girl!"

The woman glanced at Gu Siwei, then at her niece, her face was full of doting.

"I'll find it for you."

After the woman finished speaking, she turned around and walked into the warehouse again.

At this time, Hu Yanqiu said to Gu Siwei: "A batch of cloth has suffered from a little damp, so it is not easy to sell, but if you wear it yourself, it doesn't matter if you don't care, the most important thing is that it is cheap...".

"Thank you, thank you, you are really helpful, I will bring you something when I come next time." Gu Siwei felt that this girl was so enthusiastic.

Meeting such a passionate girl all of a sudden made Gu Siwei feel a little unreal.But since he has helped, he is not a person who receives favors in vain, and the favor must always be returned.

It's very simple to return this kindness. When I come next time, I will bring some game to the girl, four or five pheasants and wild ducks. It is not difficult for Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei didn't take this matter to heart either. His heart was still the mentality of hanging wires before, and he hadn't changed into the mentality of a handsome guy hanging on the sky.

If you have been handsome since you were young, you must understand at this moment that the pretty girl in front of you is not so meaningful to you.

Love at first sight, what is it?
What else is there besides looks?

The old Gu in the past was not enough to fall in love with other girls, let alone the first time he saw him, he couldn't fall in love the third time.

But it is not unimaginable that Hu Yanqiu is attracted to the old Gu, Zhu Shimao with bushy eyebrows and big eyes who is approaching the pinnacle of appearance, and Tang Guoqiang who is in his twenties.

The two were chatting here when the woman came out holding a piece of cloth.

The cloth is blue old homemade cloth, which obviously has water-soaked and faded lines. Buying it is probably enough to make a single gown for Sicui.

"How about this one, if you want it, this one."

"It's only two yuan for me." Gu Siwei was a little embarrassed.

Lao Gu was never embarrassed when he took other people's things, but now he feels a little embarrassed because he wants to take advantage of others for no reason.

The woman smiled and said: "It's okay, this thing has to be disposed of even if it's not for sale. If you think it's okay, I'll wrap it up for you."

"Thank you, thank you, you have helped me a lot." Gu Siwei quickly took out the two yuan meal ticket in his pocket, and handed it to the woman with both hands.

Seeing Gu Siwei's appearance, the woman was taken aback for a moment, but quickly smiled and took the meal ticket, put it in the drawer beside her, and then began to arrange the cloth for Gu Siwei.

Taking advantage of a wooden board, Bree unloaded the cloth from the wooden shaft, folded it and said, "Your figure, no one five or six feet tall can't make a coat, and you have to wear a little more trousers than others." Two feet, this cloth is enough for you to make two sets of clothes, but it is damp, the color is a bit uneven, and it doesn't look good... ".

Unknowingly, the woman had revealed Gu Siwei's situation while chatting.

"Auntie, it's already very good, I don't want to pick anything."

Now Gu Siwei is only wearing a suit of clothes, and there is a little girl in the family who is full of holes, not to mention that she has lost her color due to the damp, even if it falls into white cloth, it is still cloth.

The woman arranged the cloth and folded it into a pile, then wrapped it in horse manure paper, pulled out a twine, cut the twine with small scissors, and handed it to Gu Siwei.

Thanks again, Gu Siwei was ready to leave.

"Yanqiu, I have something to say if you stay here."

Hearing what the woman said, the winking Gu Siwei thanked the woman and Hu Yanqiu again, and then walked out directly from the gate of the yard.

Seeing Gu Siwei walking away, the woman said to her niece: "This little Gu looks good."

"It's not bad, he's handsome and interesting." Hu Yanqiu didn't think about anything else, she just instinctively thought that Gu Siwei was a pretty good person, and she liked talking to him.

"Good boy, but you two are not suitable".

"Ah, fourth aunt, what are you talking about, we just met" Hu Yanqiu's anxious face turned red.

The woman came here, but she didn't know that her niece might have fallen in love with this young man surnamed Gu, but she couldn't agree, let alone her, even her sister-in-law would not agree to her daughter marrying a farmer.

It is not an exaggeration to say that there is almost a gap between farmers and workers in this era.

"It's nothing you said, I just found him very interesting, and I just wanted to help you," Hu Yanqiu said.

"It's fine if you don't have one."

It's not easy for a woman to push her niece. Seeing her denial, she no longer struggles: "It's okay to be friends, but don't cross the line."

"I see, Fourth Aunt, you really think a lot, that's enough, I won't tell you anymore, I'm going to work." Hu Yanqiu flicked his big braids, and walked away in a skip.

Looking at the back of the niece, the woman sighed and said in a low voice: "It's really a big girl who doesn't want to stay."

Back to the woods.

The roll of cloth that Gu Siwei brought back stunned several people again.

"Is this for two dollars?"

Guo Shengshui felt that his brains were not enough, two yuan for such a big piece of cloth?How come I haven't encountered such a good thing in my life at such an old age.

"Well, isn't it damp? If it wasn't damp, I wouldn't have bought it for two dollars." Gu Siwei still hasn't figured out the twists and turns.

"Even if it's wet, it can't be two yuan. The cloth is so thick." The other touched the cloth and said enviously.

"I think there is no money to spend."

Gu Siwei thinks that these guys are mentally ill, why don't they buy it for two yuan, how much more can they spend?
Guo Shengshui looked at Bu, then looked at Gu Siwei, then heaved a long sigh, and said very melancholy: "It turns out that it looks good, and it can really be used as an envoy."

Gu Siwei was taken aback for a moment, said something about being mentally ill, and took the cloth back into his hands.

It's almost noon now, and all the things that should be sold have been sold, and there are still some scattered ones left, which can be taken back, and those that are not worth taking back, Guo Shengshui took them and gave them to a nearby household My family, this family gets along well with Guo Shengshui, sometimes I can't go back at night, and even stay with him when encountering bad situations, so the remaining things are given to him as a favor.

After finishing these, at about twelve noon, the team began to walk back.

The speed is still slow, the speed of the old cow is almost the same as that of the old cow, not much faster, not much slower, not to mention that the old cow has to stop from time to time to eat something or something.

grind!
It feels like a grind along the way.

In the evening, when we arrived at the third team, there were relatives of Guo Shengshui on the third team, serious relatives, uncles who were familiar with Shengshui, and relatives whose bones were broken.

In the third team, I had a hot porridge in the big cafeteria, rested for a few hours, got up early in the morning, and continued to walk back with the lantern around five o'clock.

When the sun was in the middle of the sky, a group of people came to the entrance of the village.

When I came back, it was natural to divide things, but this matter had nothing to do with Gu Siwei, and Guo Shengshui's job was naturally up to Guo Shengshui to connect with every household.

Gu Siwei returned to the small courtyard with his things.

"elder brother!"

Seeing Gu Siwei's return, Sicui's happy little face almost bloomed.

"Well, I'm back, we have a pot, oh, forgot, look what this is".

As Gu Siwei said, he pretended to touch it from his arms, and a sugar bun appeared in his hand.

"Steamed buns, big steamed buns with white noodles" Si Cui was not stupid, she knew it was steamed buns with white noodles at a glance.

Gu Siwei smiled and said, "It's sugar buns. It's cold, and you can eat it when it's hot."

"Have you eaten, brother? Have you eaten?" Sicui said.

Gu Siwei said: "I've eaten it, and this is yours. Each of you shared two, I ate one, and left the other for you."

Sicui took the steamed bun, divided it into two pieces, one big and one small, and handed the big one to Gu Siwei.

"Brother worked hard, brother eats this big one, this is enough for me," Sicui said.

Looking at Si Cui, Gu Siwei was happy: "You can eat, we will never have to go hungry again."

But the little girl was quite stubborn, there was no other way, Gu Siwei had to resort to shouting about Dafa again, and only then did the little girl honestly take the steamed buns.

(End of this chapter)