Chapter 2 You look like a spy to me

Author: aldehyde stone

Chapter 2 You look like a spy to me

Waiting in line to eat?

Well, there’s a queue for dinner.

To eat at this time, even if you eat in the village, you have to queue up. The whole village eats a big pot of rice together and works together. The reason is that this is the time when people's communes are becoming popular.

There is a canteen in the village. It is more like a small courtyard than a canteen. I don’t know whose courtyard was used as the village canteen when no one lived in it.

The small courtyard is quite formal, with a front room and a main hall, a kitchen to the east, and a livestock shed to the west. However, now the main hall, the front room and the livestock shed have become a dining hall, filled with tables and chairs from each family.

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 quite thick. Although it is not thick enough to insert chopsticks, it still shows a little stickiness.

Dried potato is added to the porridge (yam is the so-called sweet potato. The sweet potato is harvested and cut into three to four millimeter thick slices, and dried in the sun to become dried potato).

This thing is perfect when paired with cornmeal porridge. As for whether it tastes good or not, it's all nonsense.

Originally, Gu Siwei liked eating whole grains in the past, and whole grains were expensive at the time he came here. But after eating real whole grains here, Gu Siwei never wanted to eat a second meal.

Apart from anything else, stick noodles can make your throat irritate, and eating a bowl of porridge will make your throat feel a little uncomfortable.

But the food we have now is quite good. This is because this is a mountain village with inconvenient access and little land. There is no need to pay various taxes (the thalassemia here cannot produce a few grains of grain in a year. If you pay taxes here

All the people in the village ran away because the grain harvested in a year was not enough to pay taxes and had to be paid in. Who would farm the land? What would they do if they didn’t run away?)

In some villages outside the mountains, they may not even be able to drink thick cornmeal porridge. They can only survive the winter with silhouette porridge and dried potato. This is the diet of normal farmers in the era of alternating vegetables. They want to eat white rice and white noodles.

?Only a few times a year. It will take more than ten or twenty years for real farmers to have white rice and flour on their tables.

Taking a large 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 its main feature is one word: rough.

The white glaze is not white at all, it is grey, the green material is not bright and dull, and the glaze surface is full of pits and trachoma.

It can be seen that there is a reason why this thing will never be seen again - it is too rough.

After receiving a bowl of porridge, Gu Siwei carried the porridge outside and found a random place to squat down.

Suck the porridge and observe the people around you.

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

Yes, such a poor village still has dogs. Although there are not many, only seven or eight, this phenomenon still makes Gu Siwei feel a bit incredible.

Just as Gu Siwei was thinking about it, out of the corner of his eye he spotted a shadow sitting down next to him. He turned around and saw that it was Liu Fulin's grandson Liu Dezhu.

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

These words stunned Gu Siwei, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer this half-year-old child who was several years younger than him.

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

Without thinking, Liu Dezhu said: "I think you look like a spy, and the spies must be different from us."

These words 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's the purpose of a spy coming to your village?"

"Lie down. When you receive orders from Chiang Kai-shek, you will jump out and cause destruction," Liu Dezhu said seriously.

Gu Siwei was speechless now. He was really impressed by this kid's imagination.

Look!

I thought he was a stupid boy, but his imagination was so powerful that 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 yard take a mouthful or two of gruel from their own bowls, and then poured it directly on the ground to feed their dogs.

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

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

People are feeding dogs when they almost have nothing to eat? This makes Gu Siwei, who came from decades later, confused.

"Why not feed the dogs? These dogs 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 thought there was something strange about this, so he told Gu Siwei why dogs were still kept in the village.

Only then did Gu Siwei realize that these dogs were hounds, semi-free range hounds. They would go to the wild to find food, and from time to time they would bring back some game to reward their owners.

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

"Eating dogs? We don't eat dogs here. As the old saying goes: if a family is scattered, they will kill the cats, and if they are destitute, they will eat dogs. If the cats and dogs are not good enough, who will kill them for meat?" Liu Dezhu became a little anxious when he heard this.

"Kill the cat when the family is scattered, and eat the dog when the family is exhausted?"

Gu Siwei was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and thought to himself: This scolding is too harsh.

But after listening to Liu Dezhu's explanation, he realized that these two sentences were really not curses, but that cats and dogs were too important to the people in this village. If the family was not separated, no one would eat their own cats.

In such a desperate situation, no one would eat a guard dog.

It's not like Gu Siwei thought, a scattered family who eats cats, or an extinct family who eats dogs. This is considered a curse.

Cats and dogs are very important to the people in the village. They are used to guard homes and catch mice. Because the village lives in the mountains, it is normal for snakes to crawl into the house. People sometimes don't notice it, but cats

Dogs are very responsive and can alert their owners when they discover it, so that people will not be harmed by these poisons.

The most important thing is that the people in the village don’t put much thought into raising these things. Both cats and dogs can find food by themselves, and they don’t need to be fed. There is no such thing as cat food or dog food.

Liu Dezhu was very curious about Gu Siwei. At this moment, he believed that the Gu Siwei in front of him was a spy of Guoming, but his father said not so, so it was not easy for him to report it.

In fact, Liu Dezhu also had his own plans. Although he thought Gu Siwei was a spy, he felt that he had to catch someone ready to report. Liu Dezhu couldn't do it now by trying to denounce someone's innocence without any evidence.

Gu Siwei didn't know that the young boy next to him actually had such a scheming idea, but even if he knew, he didn't take it seriously, because he was no longer the helpless boy with a flat head before, and the mysterious space was his waist.

.

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

Gu Siwei thinks why is this kid so troubled? Ask yourself eight times a day what you are thinking about, what do I think have anything to do with you?

If Gu Siwei regards himself as a spy, the problem will naturally become clear. Liu Dezhu, who is preparing to catch the spy, is currently collecting evidence.

If you want to collect evidence, you must first understand the thoughts of the agents. At this moment, Liu Dezhu wanted to understand Gu Siwei's thoughts. As for where he learned the tricks, he naturally learned them from movies.

Where did Liu Dezhu watch the movie?

This thing is simple. We walk eastward from the village for almost a day and climb a few mountains. There is also a factory in the mountains. It is a large factory with a population of several thousand people. Open-air movies will be shown inside 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, a bathhouse, shops, and even a cotton spinning factory.

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

Now Gu Siwei only knows that the Zhuangzi he is in is the Sixth Group of Shimo Village. To be precise, it is the Sixth Group of Shimo Village, Qushan Township, Guiling County, Gushan City, Jiang'an Province.

Although they are in the same village, the closest one among these six groups takes half a day to walk, and the farthest one takes almost ten hours. Each village is surrounded by mountains, and the road is rugged and winding.

As for how difficult the road to Shu is.

But it is really difficult to walk. Many places can only accommodate one person and one large animal. There is an abyss beside you, which makes people's hearts tremble.

It is precisely because of this that the turmoil outside has not affected the village. This is one of the reasons why Gu Siwei settled in this village.

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

If Gu Siwei wants to stay, the best place to show his value is naturally to solve the village's food problem. 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 thirty years, he deeply understands that sometimes it is obviously a good thing, and you have a clear conscience when doing it, but it will not cause any harm.

Good results.

why is that?

human nature!

To win the favor of rice is to win the hatred of rice.

This is not to say that this kind of thing only happens in modern times, but that this kind of thing is common in all societies, both at home and abroad.

Once you become someone else's reliance, and you no longer want others to rely on you, no matter how good you were to others before, that person will hate you as much as you did.

Gu Siwei didn't want to go out hunting every day in pain, fattening up the people in the village and making them comfortable, while he became a tired dog.

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

What's more, I don't want to think that one day I don't want to work so hard, but I end up becoming the mortal enemy of the whole village, making the villagers think that I don't work or hunt, which makes them hungry.

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

Gu Siwei is very shrewd. It is this shrewdness that allowed a young man from a small town to buy a house on his own at the age of thirty. This is a skill that was developed after being beaten and injured.

"Hunting, do you still know how to hunt?"

When Liu Dezhu heard about hunting, his eyes widened instantly.

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

In the past, Gu Siwei had no skills at all. He didn't even know how to hunt. But it's different now. Gu Siwei has the help of mysterious space, and his understanding of space in his mind is quite proficient. How to deal with prey?

I already have the spectrum.

Liu Dezhu looked down on Gu Siwei a little.

"Can you hunt?"

I asked again, obviously more suspicious than trusting.

Hunting is not an easy life. If it were really easy, there would still be some experienced hunters in the village. Why would the whole village be so miserable?

Let’s put it this way, the living conditions in the village are now more miserable than before. Why is this?

Is it because the old hunters don’t know how to hunt anymore?

Obviously not.
Chapter completed!