Chapter 13: Settling In
After turning around the courtyard house, Gu Siwei turned to the back of the house again, wanting to see what the situation was like on the wall.
As soon as he went out, he met Liu Fulin who came over, and his grandson Liu Dezhu was still following him.
"Daddy Liu" Gu Siwei and Liu Fulin said hello.
Liu Fusen raised his hand with a smile and pointed sideways at his grandson, at this time Gu Siwei was thinking that Liu Dezhu was carrying a basket in his hand.
"What are you?"
Gu Siwei was a little incomprehensible.
Liu Fulin smiled: "Don't you want to live here, how can you not have a lamp, I will send you a lamp, and you don't dislike it if you do it yourself."
Seeing the lamp in Liu Dezhu's basket, Gu Siwei understood.
To say that Gu Siwei has really seen the current kerosene lamp, this thing is a long time, and this thing will be quite expensive in the future, and the kerosene lamp produced in a new era will be at least a few hundred yuan.
There are no electric lights in the village, let alone any electrical appliances, and it is estimated that it would be good if electricity could be connected to this Zhuangzi 2,000 years ago, and the main force of lighting will still be this kerosene lamp in a few decades.
It is estimated that the vast majority of children in the next few decades have never seen it, and Gu Siwei has not seen it before, he was born in the nineties, and the country has no shortage of food or clothing, compared to the life of the post-70s and 80s, it is the same as being in a honey pot.
Under the kerosene lamp is a glass bottle, the transparent lamp holder has a big belly and a big bottom, and there is a double happiness word on the big belly, the thread of the mouth of the small bottle, and the lamp head is usually made of white iron sheet, which is connected to the glass lamp holder through the thread.
There is an iron opening in the middle of the lamphead, and the inside of the mouth is a braided cotton leather strip, and there is a twist next to it to control the length of the cloth strip sticking out.
The bottom of the cloth tape is immersed in the kerosene in the belly of the lamp, and immersed in the entire wick, so that the wick is adjusted to the appropriate size of the fire head, and then covered with a transparent glass cover with a large belly, so that the windproof kerosene lamp is lit.
This Dingxi is not available in every family now, many families still use old-fashioned oil lamps, that is, flat-bottomed bowls, pour kerosene into the bowl, put a cotton thread, and light the cotton thread is a lamp.
This thing has the same principle as a glass-covered kerosene lamp, except that it can't help the wind, and the fire head is very small, and it lights like a ghost fire.
The kerosene lamp sent by Liu Fulin is different from the above two.
The kerosene storage below is a glass bottle, at a glance you know that it is a pill, a hole is drilled in the lid, an iron mat on it, there is an iron pipe in the middle of the mat, the mouth of the pipe is about the size of a soybean, the pipe is soaked in cotton thread twist, and it lights up when you light this thing.
In Gu Siwei's opinion, this kind of lamp is almost like a ghost fire, and when it is dark, it will illuminate a range of one or two meters at most, and it is impossible to think more.
It's not very good, but it's dark at night, or you'll have to light a torch.
Therefore, Liu Fulin sent the lamp over, which is still a great help to Gu Siwei's life.
"This ...... Then I'm welcome, thank you Daddy Liu."
Gu Siwei thought that now is not the time to be polite, and his belongings are now nothing but this broken yard and the clothes on his body.
The space is magical, but it can't conjure up a kerosene lamp for Gu Siwei for no reason.
"Thank you, Dezhu" Gu Siwei said to Liu Dezhu again.
Liu Dezhu said with a smile: "I also prepared a box of foreign fire for you."
A foreign fire is a match.
Gu Siwei smiled, just wanted to say something more, when he saw that someone came over there again, this time it was a man in his early thirties, who walked in a hurry, and at a glance he knew that he was an acute person and a real person.
The man Gu Siwei knows, and everyone can be his grandson.
The five surnames of Shimo Village: Liu, Yang, Sun, Guo, and Luanzhong, this man is the Sun family.
"Fifth Brother Sun"
Gu Siwei said hello to the people.
"Fifth uncle" Liu Dezhu also shouted.
"Limai" Liu Fulin also said hello.
"Uncle Fulin, Brother Siwei" Sun Limai greeted everyone.
After speaking, he said to Gu Siwei: "I heard the captain say that you stayed in the village, since everyone is a family, my sister-in-law asked me to come over to see what you lack here, our Zhuang family has nothing valuable, like ordinary households, if my family has more to send it to you."
"Thank you, Fifth Brother!"
Gu Siwei doesn't care what others want to help him, but this thank you has to be presented first.
Liu Fulin smiled when he heard this: "Let's not talk about anything else, go into the house to see how this house is, it's been empty for so many years, and I don't know if it can still be inhabited."
"Yes, yes! Let's take a look at the room first," Sun Limai said with a smile.
In this way, Gu Siwei entered the courtyard with Liu Fulin and Sun Limai.
"But the house has to be built in the spring, this livestock house is not in a hurry, it is estimated that the Siwei brothers who will be in a hurry will not have livestock," Sun Limai looked at the yard and said.
Liu Fulin nodded after hearing this: "Then go into the hall and have a look, it would be best if there was nothing wrong with the hall."
Everyone entered the hall, Liu Fulin and Sun Limai knocked here and there, and almost slapped the entire wall.
Gu Siwei saw the serious appearance of the two, and felt a little moved in his heart, feeling that people at this time really had a kind of simplicity that would not be simple after decades, and obviously had nothing to do with them, but after they came over, they almost regarded it as their own business.
"I really didn't expect it, this wall is not bad," Sun Limai said.
Liu Fulin also nodded: "It's really good, if there are stones in it, it's different, if it's all grass tendons, it is estimated that it would have fallen early at this time."
Gu Siwei interjected at this time and asked: "If I want to renovate the house, where can I buy bricks and glass?" ”
Liu Fulin and Sun Limai were all stunned when they heard this, as if they had seen something new.
"What's wrong?"
Gu Siwei didn't understand what he was wrong, and looked at the two of them with puzzled faces.
Sun Limai said with a smile: "Now it's so easy for you to buy bricks, even if you buy bricks, can you buy ash (cement), even if you have ash, glass is not easy to buy, even if you get everything, how to transport it in?" There are only a few animals in the whole village, and if you bring these things in, you must not exhaust one or two ......."
Sun Limai's words directly confused Gu Siwei.
He really didn't expect that it would be so complicated to build a house on his own.
Unconsciously, Gu Siwei brought his thoughts decades later, he felt that to build a house, he had to use bricks and cement, but now these things are really not good, the whole country is a planned economy, and a brick is needed to plan to produce a piece, even if Gu Siwei is now waving dollars to buy bricks in the brickyard, the brick and tile factory will not bring him a bird.
After hearing Sun Limai finish speaking, Gu Siwei understood, and he didn't have to think about building a house with bricks and tiles at this time, honestly using mud, or wood.
Suddenly thought of wood in his mind, Gu Siwei immediately perked up, and said in his heart: Yes, bricks are not good, let's use wood, anyway, wood doesn't need money now, as long as you cut it down and put it down along the river, isn't it a building material.
Thinking of this, Gu Siwei felt that it was still necessary to make sure with everyone, and it would be a crime not to cut wood at that time.
"Can you build a house out of wood?" Gu Siwei asked.
Sun Limai wanted to refute after hearing this, but he remembered the raft that Gu Siwei put down twice, so he smiled and said: "This work is not good for others, but you may really be able to do it, but it is difficult to find a master with good craftsmanship now."
Gu Siwei was stunned again when he heard this, and he thought: What am I looking for a master for?
At this point, Gu Siwei and Sun Limai thought about it again, Gu Siwei was going to build a wooden house, thinking about Mu Ke who was a bit similar to Lao Maozi, but Sun Limai was thinking that Gu Siwei was going to build an old Chinese-style building.
As for whether the genus belongs to the four olds, whether it is broken or not, the people in the village don't care.
Gu Siwei didn't explain, and Sun Limai didn't ask much.
Continue to talk about the house.
Sun Limai said: "I still have a small bed at home, it is a little old, if you don't dislike it, I will carry it for you later."
"That's great, I'm missing this now" Gu Siwei thanked repeatedly.
"I'll get you two more benches, why did these guys vacate this room so quietly that they didn't even have a stool left."
Originally, there must have been furniture in this house, but now it is empty, and it must have been taken away, which is not strange in the countryside, and it is normal for everyone to look at such a bad thing as eating out of households, let alone this situation.
After discussing for a while, Gu Siwei followed Sun Limai to his house to carry the bed, while Liu Fulin and Liu Dezhu went home to move some stools for Gu Siwei, and later got a small table for Gu Siwei.
In addition to these two, there is also Yang Chuanwu's family who sent a new quilt, the quilt is a little thin, at most two or three catties of quilt, but at this time, it is quite interesting to be able to send this thing to Gu Siwei.
Most of the villagers gave a little something, some of which were not worth much, but they meant something.
However, not everyone in Zhuangzi likes Gu Siwei to settle in the village, if it weren't for Gu Siwei's big wild boar as the foundation, maybe someone would complain and say strange things or something.
Even now that they are gagged, some people can't help but say a few words when they return home at night.
There are such people in this world, even if others do not infringe on his interests, he has to say two strange words, as if he can't show him if he doesn't have such a yin and yang weirdness.
Gu Siwei can't take care of these people now, he only remembers that he has helped a few of his families, waiting for an opportunity to return this feeling.
Although he can't repay the grace of a drop of water, Gu Siwei is still willing to repay others to the greatest extent within his ability.
Lao Gu's personality is a bit two hundred and five, but Ji En!
After a busy day, Gu Siwei lay on his bed.
The bed is a simple wooden plank bed, and as soon as you turn over when you sleep, it will immediately squeak.
However, now is not the time for Gu Siwei to pick, and Sun Limai's ability to give a bed is support for Gu Siwei, which Gu Siwei admits to this.
No matter how broken the bed is, it's better than sleeping on the floor.
Sleeping on the bed, there is a straw curtain made of wheat straw under his body, in order to protect himself from the cold, the straw curtain is still spread in two layers, and a broken sheet is on the two layers of straw curtain, which is given by Guo Xiangping and the old man Guo.
This thing was thrown away as garbage after dozens of years, but now this thing is support, do you want to buy cloth? Then you have to have a cloth ticket, this thing doesn't have a two-foot cloth ticket in the whole village now.
Originally, I ate relief, and these tickets were given every year, and the cloth I bought was to make clothes for the children, or it was directly a new cloth as a patch, how could there be ready-made sheets for Gu Siwei.
The cover is a bit of a look, a thin quilt given by Yang Chuanwu and his family, and the quilt is covered with Gu Siwei's own old-fashioned cotton army coat.
The thing of the pillow is naturally his own Leifeng hat.
Although none of these things are worth much, the only good thing is that they are clean and free of lice and fleas or anything.
Let's put it this way, today's sleep is the most beautiful sleep Gu Siwei has slept in here.