Although Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang were worried about the accountant's pig, and even the accountant's seasoning, the work they should do was not sloppy at all.

The two got up early the next morning, and after eating with the accountant's family, they went to the warehouse to repair farm tools. Although Cao Guixiang does not know how to carpenter, she has a lot of strength, and her strength as a primary school cook is greater than that of ordinary rural women who need to go to the field. Zhang Chu is in charge of repairing, Cao Guixiang is in charge of helping to hand over tools, and occasionally helping to drag heavy objects, looking like a carpenter master with an apprentice.

Such a monotonous life of repairing farm tools at dawn and resting and sleeping at dark passed like this for three days.

In the past three days, Jiang Feng turned around the accountant, not only knowing where his family's cloth and brown sugar were placed, but also knowing where his family's money, eggs, and malt milk were placed, who the cabinet was locked on, what pigs ate, and although his son looked white and clean and looked different from other families, he still had to carry a bamboo basket to cut pigweed with his friends every day.

If it weren't for Cao Guixiang, who would help the accountant's daughter-in-law cook pig food together after work every day, and inquire about the news of pigs by the way, Jiang Feng would have felt that this memory was just a simple au pair and had nothing to do with pigs.

On the fifth day, all the farm tools were repaired.

In the past five days, Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang have basically concentrated on their work, and they haven't had much communication with other people, just like two normal people who come to the au pair, so that Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law only knows that Cao Guixiang and Zhang Chu are educated youths from Beiping, and occasionally asks Cao Guixiang what Tiananmen Square is like.

Cao Guixiang did not ask Accountant Liu when they would kill pigs, nor did he offer to help Accountant Liu's family repair furniture, and Zhang Chu did not make small wooden toys.

It was as if the conversation that night was just a conversation between the husband and wife.

In just five days, Zhang Chu finished the work that was originally scheduled for a week.

In Beiping, he was just a little apprentice of a gold carpenter, and he was not even qualified to participate in a thousand work beds, and he was not qualified to do it. But in this rural place where seven or eight villages share a carpenter, Zhang Chu is undoubtedly a skilled carpenter, which Jiang Feng can see from the eyes of the captain of the Longkou Production Brigade looking at the repaired threshing machine.

The reason why the Longkou Production Brigade is willing to propose such an eager exchange of one for two this time is mainly because the plough of the cultivated land is broken, so to speak, the plow is the focus, the hoe and the like are all incidental, and the threshing machine has no hope at all.

The captain himself didn't expect that the carpenter skills of the young educated youth invited by him to the doctor in a hurry were so high, and this skill could be completely used as a master for the Liao carpenter here, no, maybe the young man in front of him still looked down on the Liao carpenter.

The captain stared at the threshing machine, which was repaired and even more flexible than before, and his thoughts were completely written on his face because he was distracted.

Zhang Chu was sorting out farm tools and tools, while Cao Guixiang looked at the captain for a while and slowly spoke: "Captain Liu, we have finished this work, it is not convenient to go back in the afternoon, how about me and my lover go back tomorrow morning?"

Most of the people in the Longkou Production Brigade are surnamed Liu, and as long as they want to, they can always sort out some kinship and old relationships.

Captain Liu was a little anxious when he heard Cao Guixiang say this, thinking that this young educated youth was just unreliable, he still had private work after his official work, and he was in such a hurry to leave and the time had not come.

But he couldn't say that, the captain hesitated for a while, saw the accountant who was walking towards him, and immediately said to himself: "Don't be so anxious, the day after tomorrow, Accountant Liu and his son are going to kill pigs on his tenth birthday, and he was still working hard with me yesterday, so I want to keep you for a meal together." ”

Accountant Liu: ???

Accountant Liu gave the captain a puzzled look.

The captain motioned to Accountant Liu to stop talking.

Cao Guixiang saw that Zhang Chu had already sorted out his things, so he said: "As long as you don't dislike it, if there are any other things that need to be repaired in the village these days, just come to us, thank you." ”

After speaking, Cao Guixiang pulled Zhang Chu away, and the speed of walking to the door of the warehouse was very fast, and the speed of going out of the door was very slow.

Accountant Liu's face was full of question marks: "Captain, why don't you let them go back after the carpenter work is done, isn't it good that we are short of labor here and change it back as soon as possible?"

The captain was still fascinated by the threshing machine, and Jiang Feng didn't feel the air wall all the time, so he didn't want to hear what the captain and the accountant had to say.

"Look at the threshing machine, how good it is, how fast, it's better than before it broke. The captain touched the wooden threshing machine like a baby, "Carpenter Zhang is so good, we don't have anything to repair at home?"

Accountant Liu looked aggrieved: "But didn't we tell Carpenter Liao before, and when he is ready, let him repair it for us?" ”

"Can Carpenter Liao's craftsmanship be as good as Carpenter Zhang? Look at the threshing machine, look at this plow, can Carpenter Liao be cultivated like this? You haven't been able to ...... people who have lived in your house for so many days" The captain wanted to say something, but he took a breath and said nothing, "I knew that the two of them would live in my house." ”

"Do you have a vacant house?" accountant Liu complained.

"Get out!" the captain didn't bother to pay attention to him, and continued to ponder his precious threshing machine.

Jiang Feng almost couldn't hold back his laughter, these days he can also see that Accountant Liu is more wooden, and even a little old-fashioned, doing things in a straightforward way. Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang have lived in his house for so many days, he was stunned that he didn't say a few words to the two except for the first day, and the daily communication was not as much as his daughter-in-law.

The captain didn't speak, Accountant Liu began to count the farm tools and record, Jiang Feng waited in the warehouse and found that the air wall had not yet come, so he felt strange and walked out through the wall, and found that Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang had not left at all, and had been standing on the side and eavesdropping.

"It seems to be silent. Zhang Chu whispered.

"Let's go. Cao Guixiang pulled Zhang Chu, and the two began to walk towards the accountant.

"Guixiang, do you think we can do this, the work is done, let's not leave and stay here to take on private work and won't be reported, right?" Zhang Chu was still a little cowardly.

"Didn't you hear what Captain Liu said? Accountant Liu wanted to ask me to stay and leave after dinner, and we didn't say that we would take on private work, what are we going to report? Report that we don't help? Or report that Accountant Liu wants to keep us for dinner? It's a big deal, these two days don't count as work, what are you afraid of. Cao Guixiang said.

Zhang Chu swallowed his saliva: "Yes, it's just two days' work, if you can change the pork value." ”

Cao Guixiang said with a smile: "Look at your little bit of talent, for the sake of two mouthfuls of meat." ”

Zhang Chu sighed: "It wasn't before, but now it's not the same." We've been here for several years, and the number of times we eat meat can be counted on one hand, and I've heard people say that as long as you rely on the mountains in this countryside, you can hunt game, and you know it's all. ”

"There are no pheasants or hares, I have never even seen a heel hair, there are few sparrows, and the days of our marriage are set according to the days of the hares. And the wild boar, last year there were two wild boars in the next village down the mountain, they were as happy as the New Year, we didn't even see a single pig hair when we went with a hoe. ”

"You said that this wild boar is too much, go down the mountain, why don't you come to our village, two to one. Zhang Chu looked regretful.

Cao Guixiang: ......

"Do you know what else to say? People can't eat, pigs don't grow meat, chickens don't lay eggs, and those in the mountains can be full? Not to mention wild boars coming down the mountain, even if a tiger goes down the mountain, they dare to kill each person with a hoe, I heard Accountant Liu and her daughter-in-law say that the past two years have been much better than before, and I think we can also raise a pig next year. Raise it for a year, and when Chiyuan has teeth, you can eat pork. ”

Zhang Chu: ???

When Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang returned to Accountant Liu's house, the pig killer had arrived, and he was already preparing to kill the pig, the two hundred catties of pigs were not big, but the strength was not small, and it took a few strong laborers to work together to get it, just listening to the screams, Jiang Feng felt that it was not inferior to the three or four hundred catties of pigs.

There are a lot of onlookers, this is a new thing to kill pigs, in addition to the daughter-in-law of Accountant Liu invited to help, there are many uninvited women and children who have not worked, and some of them are also thinking about whether they can take advantage of the crowd to get some cheap.

Accountant Liu's son was watching from the side, a prime location, and swallowed saliva while watching.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law didn't expect Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang to come back so early, squeezed out of the crowd, was stunned, and asked, "Why did you come back?"

"The work is done, and I was going to leave tomorrow, but the captain said that you want to stay with us for two more days to have Sangen (Accountant Liu's son) birthday dinner, and Zhang Chu and I will leave in a few days. Cao Guixiang said.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law: ?

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law looked at Cao Guixiang carefully, and felt that she didn't seem to be lying, so she couldn't figure it out: "Ah, yes." ”

It wasn't until the pig's cry gradually subsided that the pig killer began to divide the meat, and Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law came back to her senses: "Hey, aren't you repairing the threshing machine today? ”

"It's fixed. Zhang Chu said.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law was shocked.

Cao Guixiang said with a smile: "Zhang Chu's master is the most famous carpenter in Beiping, he can make large carved tables and chairs, rare wooden toys, and repair threshing machines very quickly." ”

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law was even more shocked: "Can the chair be hit?"

Cao Guixiang nodded.

"I want something that is sturdy, has a backrest, and preferably looks good, just enough for my son to sit down and write. ”

Cao Guixiang then nodded.

"Then ......" Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law felt that her brain was already a little confused, and she even complained a little bit in her heart about why Accountant Liu didn't tell her that the carpenter who came this time was so powerful, and she wanted to say something too late, because the pig killer over there was already dividing the meat, so she had to go over and watch lest someone secretly take the pork she had worked hard to raise for a year, even if it was in the water, she couldn't lose it.

"Guixiang, you go back to the house to rest first, it's a little dirty outside, I'll come to you when I'm done, I have something I want to tell you." After saying that, Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law squeezed into the crowd and shouted that everyone should not get so close.

"Can it be done?" Zhang Chu looked at Cao Guixiang.

Cao Guixiang looked at Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law and showed a triumphant smile: "It's done." ”