The next day.

When Gu Bei woke up, Xiaohua had already woken up.

This little girl nested in the quilt, holding her chin with both hands and flipping through the "Pipiru Adventure" that Nuo Nuo bought for her, Gu Bei yawned and pinched her red face, and was about to wake her up, Xiaohua raised her finger to her mouth to signal Gu Bei not to speak, and then pointed to Nuo Nuo, who was sleeping lazy.

Gu Bei laughed, got up and changed his clothes, and hugged Xiaohua out of bed, Xiaohua kissed him on the face, he helped Xiaohua get dressed, took out toiletries from his travel bag and took Xiaohua's hand out to wash his face and rinse his mouth.

The morning tour is to climb the West Rim Mountain.

Shen Cheng led the team, Gu Bei walked at the back of the team with Xiaohua and Nuo Nuo on his back, the west side of the mountain is picturesque, but Gu Bei has no interest in appreciating it, Nuo Nuo and Xiaohua are quite happy, so Gu Bei is also very happy, the three of them took countless photos along the way, and when they arrived at the top of the mountain, Gu Bei asked Li Yusheng to take a photo of him and Nuo Nuo alone.

Li Yusheng was particularly interested in this matter, and asked his minister and Nuo Nuo to sit on the green lawn, the two of them side by side, with the green grass under their feet, and the endless sea of clouds behind them, and the golden sun slanted down on the dome, enveloping the young girl and refracting a fine warm light.

Li Yusheng took the camera and said, "Are you ready? I'll shoot as soon as I'll count one, two, three." ”

"One. ”

"II. ”

"Three. ”

Gu Bei turned his head to kiss Nuonuo's face.

Click!

Freeze frame.

The onlookers applauded, saying that there must be another one!

How dare Gu Bei, you can say it, you old bachelors will go to your wife by yourself.

Li Yusheng used a Polaroid film camera, a well-known fast-forming camera brand in those years, and the photo jumped out after it was taken, Li Yusheng took the photo and looked at it, pursed his lips and smiled and handed it to Nuo Nuo.

Gu Bei said that he would see.

Nuno put it in his pocket and said no, let's talk about it another day.

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After climbing the mountain, Gu Bei and Shen Cheng returned to the stockade ahead of schedule.

At the invitation of the head of the village, visit their warehouse and workshop where they store vinegar.

The vinegar of Xinghuazhai is a small workshop + cooperative model, that is to say, the cooperatives led by the village cadres assign tasks to a small workshop in Xinghuazhai, unified technology, unified standards, unified packaging and sales, all processes from production to packaging are manual, quality is guaranteed, but time-consuming and laborious cost is high, in addition, this mode of distributing tasks is difficult to improve the subjective initiative of the labor force, and the efficiency is relatively poor.

Gu Bei wants 1000 tons of vinegar in 550 tons of white vinegar and 350 tons of aged vinegar, the total cost of more than 4 million, a bottle of 500ml of white vinegar ex-factory price in about 1 piece, and aged vinegar needs 2 pieces of more than 5 cents, in 2002, this cost price is very high, of course, the quality and taste of apricot vinegar is indeed better than the vinegar sold in the outside world, white vinegar color is translucent, sour and mellow; aged vinegar taste delicate, aromatic, long aftertaste.

Xinghuazhai vinegar has a history of hundreds of years, the villagers rely on the craftsmanship handed down by their predecessors, use pure grain to make vinegar, the process is very complicated, from crushing grain, melting, steaming, alcohol fermentation, acetic acid fermentation, drunkenness, vinegar, vinegar, sterilization to canning to 21 days, no adulteration at all. On the way, Village Chief Xue introduced to Gu Bei and Shen Cheng: "There is another saying here, if you take apart the word 'vinegar', it will be brewed during the '21st unitary'!"

To be honest, Gu Bei doesn't care about the taste of vinegar, as long as the quality is passed, he is not sold as a seasoning, but as a "miracle medicine" for disaster refuge, but SARS is in December this year, there are still seven months, Gu Bei has to consider the expiration issue: "Village Chief Xue, how long is the shelf life of your vinegar?"

Chief Xue said: "You can rest assured that the shelf life of vinegar is determined according to the process and acidity, and generally the acidity above 4.5 degrees is called old vinegar, and most of it is brewed." Apricot blossom vinegar is like this, even if it does not add any preservatives, it can be put for a long time without spoiling, this vinegar can be put for a few years according to the national regulations can be marked without marking the expiration date. And our apricot blossom white vinegar has a shelf life of 2 years, and it was canned in March this year, which is very long. ”

Gu Beizi was relieved, and followed Village Chief Xue to visit the small workshop of Xinghua Vinegar, looking at the dilapidated factory building and the ancient and primitive vinegar-making equipment, he suggested: "Village Chief Xue, vinegar, as a daily must-have fast-selling food, pays attention to speed and efficiency, but your cooperative model cannot give full play to people's subjective initiative, so I think you should change your thinking and turn small workshops + cooperatives into small workshops +." The company's model, break the big pot of rice, don't engage in egalitarianism, and let capable people be the masters, so as to lead Xinghuazhai to make a fortune. ”

Village Chief Xue sighed: "Mr. Gu, you are young, but you are a capable person, but our village is a little bitter haha, so far there is not even a college student, but there are a lot of illiterate people, all of them are illiterate, and there are people who can bring big guys to make a fortune." ”

Gu Bei laughed and glanced at Shen Cheng beside him.

Shen Cheng chuckled in his heart, what kind of idea was this Gu Bei's mind.

Gu Bei turned his head to Village Chief Xue and said: "I see, no matter whether a vinegar company is established or not, the top priority of Xinghuazhai is to build roads, as long as the roads are repaired, not only the vinegar industry, tourism development, and agricultural planting can be carried out." ”

Village Chief Xue spread his hands: "We don't have any money!"

Gu Bei had expected that Village Chief Xue would say this, so he pulled Village Chief Xue to the bottom of an apricot blossom tree, took out the acacia bird and handed it to Village Chief Xue and Shen Cheng, then picked up a branch from the ground, drew a circle on the damp and soft land, cut it from the edge of the circle, and raised his head and said to Village Chief Xue, who was swallowing clouds and spitting fog: "I will repair the road of Xinghua Village, but Xinghua Village will divide the area south of the Qingpu River to the west and give me 2,000 acres of farms for 30 years." ”

Shen Cheng frowned.

Village Chief Xue was stunned, and only after a while did he say, "Mr. Gu, are you serious?"

Gu Bei threw the branch: "Just kidding." ”

He stretched out his hand to look at the time and said, "It's not early, let's go back to dinner." ”

On the way back, Shen Cheng kept staring at Gu Bei's back, his eyes were deep.

When he walked to the gate of Xinghua Village, Gu Bei saw Nuo Nuo and the big white dog Howling Dog, the Howling Dog lying on the root of the old tree, Nuo Nuo sitting cross-legged under the Apricot Blossom Tree, drawing with a drawing board and colored pen in his hand. At that time, the weather was clear, the sky was blue, and the apricot blossoms above the girl's head were blooming, with white petals, red stamens, and a warm breeze blowing, and the apricot blossoms were blown into the sky, slowly scattered.

Gu Bei asked Village Chief Xue and Shen Cheng to go back first, and walked to Nuo Nuo's side alone, without disturbing, and when Nuo Nuo finished painting, he handed over a bottle of Huiyuan juice and asked Xiaohua?

Nuno got up and said that Xiaohua had taken Yusheng out to play.

This little girl is especially popular with girls, and they all pull her to take pictures at the scenic spots.

Gu Bei took the sketchpad from Nuo Nuo's hand: "It's not too early, let's go back, and we will prepare ingredients for a dinner later." ”

"Yo has a big meal. Nuno smiled: "You did it, right?"

"Of course. Gu Bei smiled and took Nuo Nuo's hand to Village Chief Xue's house.

Village Chief Xue provided them with a large venue for a tourist dinner for the first class of the Chinese Department.

Gu Bei felt that since he came out to play, he had to take everyone to have a big meal and be happy, and there were a lot of deep mountain game that everyone rarely eats, such as quails, hares, pheasants, river mussels, wild boar, white eels, wild fish and wild mushrooms, etc., no need for Gu Bei to say, Village Chief Xue provided it to him, and it is estimated that such a meal will not be able to get rid of it for 10,000 yuan in the Qingchuan Star Hotel.

The cost of ingredients Gu Bei asked Shen Cheng to give to Village Chief Xue, but Village Chief Xue didn't want it, saying that Mr. Gu had helped the village so much, and this meal would be considered a treat for Xinghua Village.

Gu Bei insisted again and again, and the head of the village Xue accepted it, and originally provided part of the funds for the tourism school this time, and it was not spent in vain, and it was also regarded as poverty alleviation for Xinghuazhai.

Some students didn't come back from playing outside, so Gu Bei asked Shen Cheng to call the classmates who had returned to the village in advance to the courtyard for dinner, and assigned tasks to wash vegetables and cook, but unfortunately few of them could cook and cook, most of these guys were not the masters of fireworks in the world, and they had never touched a spoon since they were children, let alone make this kind of deep mountain game that requires a high level of cooking skills.

A handsome person has a difficult task, and Gu Bei personally went into battle. He instructed his classmates to wash onions and peel garlic and prepare ingredients, and the students all cooperated, pointing to where to fight, working hard, and complaining, he was simply a new generation of model worker Jiao Yulu.

Only Ma Rulong, this kid fished for three days and dried his nets all day long: "Ouch, my waist can't work, Gu Ye! I know that you are the contemporary Lei Feng, and you have done my work together, I will remember your old kindness and virtue, and I will give you a cow and a horse in the next life." ”

The performance of diligence also depends on when, the girls are playing outside, and there is no chance to be courteous to the girls, who is willing to eat fumes in the kitchen, let alone Ma Rulong, a lazy terminal cancer patient. Gu Bei didn't care, he took a knife and chopped it on the chopping board with a "bang": "You kid, don't give me nonsense, just say a word if you don't do it or not." ”

"Success! You hang big, you have a reason. Ma Rulong's words almost didn't kill Gu Bei, but he didn't dare to be lazy anymore, and washed vegetables and peeled garlic in a slippery manner.

After the ingredients for the party were ready, Gu Bei and a few classmates who could cook started to move, and at twelve o'clock, a dark cloud suddenly came from behind the mountain in the southwest, and it didn't take long for the black cloud to spread overhead, covering the sun, covering the entire sky, and in an instant, lightning and thunder roared, the wind blew fiercely, and a heavy rainstorm instantly toppled down.

Ma Rulong sat on the stove with Erlang's legs crossed, squinted at the sky and said: "What the hell is the weather, it's raining heavily, and we will suffer again when we go back to Qingchuan to cross the mountain road later." ”

Zhu Cong, who was washing vegetables, turned his head and said: "By the way, Li Yusheng and the others went to take pictures under the cliff of the dragon girl in the upper reaches of the Qingpu River and haven't come back yet.

Gu Bei, who was stir-frying, frowned.

Nuo Nuo next to him turned his head to stare at Gu Bei: "What's wrong?"

"Jingle Bell ......"

At this time, the mobile phone rang, Gu Bei walked to the window and looked at the heavy rain outside, pressed the answer button, and Li Yusheng's crying voice sounded: "Gu, Gu Bei, Xiaohua has an accident! You! Come to Longnu Cliff, Xiaohua ...... her."

Gu Bei clenched his fists with both hands.

It's like being bitten by a poisonous snake, and at that moment, his blood is coagulated!

"What's wrong?" Nono walked over.

"It's okay, it's raining heavily, Li Yusheng and they don't have an umbrella, so they asked me to pick her up. When he said this, Gu Bei didn't know how he laughed, he didn't dare to let Nuo Nuo know, he tried his best to suppress the shock in his heart, walked out of the kitchen with his weak knees as if nothing happened, took an umbrella from behind the door, opened it, and slowly walked out of the courtyard.

The moment he walked out of the courtyard, he threw his umbrella and ran wildly!

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