Chapter 39: Human Favors
Gu Siwei walked into the store again.
Hu Yanqiu also happened to come out of the counter, about to go to the toilet, when she saw Gu Siwei, she asked with a smile, "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's not much money, so 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 for a meal ticket of more than two yuan.
"How much money do you have?" Hu Yanqiu asked.
"A meal ticket of 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 here, and you can't buy good cloth, do you wear it yourself or are you going to give it away?" ”
"Wear it yourself," Gu Siwei said.
Hearing Gu Siwei say that he was wearing it, Hu Yanqiu thought for a while and said, "You wait, I'll wash my hands first, and I'll take you to ask later."
Gu Siwei nodded, and Hu Yanqiu trotted away.
After waiting for about three or four minutes, Hu Yanqiu came back and beckoned to Gu Siwei, who followed Hu Yanqiu out of the store through a small side door.
Behind the shop is a small courtyard with several rows of bungalows to the west, and on the wall it is written that the warehouse is heavy and fireworks are strictly prohibited.
No need to ask, this is the store's warehouse.
followed Hu Yanqiu to the door of a warehouse, and heard Hu Yanqiu shouting at the library: "Fourth aunt! ”
shouted a few times in a row, and then I heard a woman's voice inside: "Here, what are you shouting at this girl, why are you coming here to work if you don't go to work well?" ”
Waiting to see people, Gu Siwei found that this woman has a very good temperament, and at a glance he knows that she is the kind of cultured, whether she is walking or talking, she has a beautiful temperament.
"What is this?"
"My friend I just met, Fourth Aunt, are the damp cloths from last time still there?" Hu Yanqiu asked.
"Probably, why are you asking this?"
Hu Yanqiu said: "My friend wants to buy a little cloth, but he doesn't have the money in his hand, and he doesn't have many requirements for cloth, so he picks out some better cloth, and it's a meal ticket of two yuan in total."
"You girl!"
The woman glanced at Gu Siwei and then at her niece, her face full of pampering.
"I'll find it for you".
The woman turned around and re-entered the warehouse.
Hu Yanqiu said to Gu Siwei at this time: "There is a batch of cloth that has been damp and is not easy to sell, but if you wear it yourself, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is that it is cheap ......."
"Thank you, thank you, you've really helped a lot, I'll bring you something next time" Gu Siwei felt that this girl was really enthusiastic.
Suddenly meeting such an enthusiastic girl made Gu Siwei feel a little unreal. But since he has helped, he is not a person who has been favored by others in vain, and this favor must be returned.
It's very simple, wait for the next time you come, bring some game to the girl, four or five pheasants and ducks, it's not a difficult thing for Gu Siwei.
Gu Siwei didn't take this matter to heart, his heart is still the previous sling mentality, and now he has not changed into a handsome guy mentality.
If you are handsome from a little handsome to a big one, you must understand at this moment that the beautiful girl in front of you will be a little bit interesting to yourself.
Love at first sight, what is Zhong?
What else can there be besides looks?
In the past, Lao Gu couldn't meet the love of other girls, let alone see each other, and he couldn't see it three times.
But now Lao Gu, Zhu Shimao, who has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and Tang Guoqiang, who is in his twenties, is not unimaginable that Hu Yanqiu is attracted.
While the two were talking, the woman came out with a piece of cloth in her arms.
The cloth is a blue old homespun cloth, obviously with a water-soaked fading pattern, which looks very unsightly, but at this time, Gu Siwei still has the qualifications to pick, and the two dollars in his hand can't buy a few feet at all, even if he buys it, it is estimated that it is enough to make a single gown for Sicui.
"How about this piece, if you want it, this piece."
"I'll just have two dollars" Gu Siwei was a little embarrassed.
Lao Gu was never embarrassed when he took other people's things, but now he felt a little embarrassed, because he wanted to take advantage of others for no reason.
The woman smiled and said, "It's okay, this thing has to be disposed of if it is not sold, if you think it is okay, I will wrap it up for you."
"Thank you, thank you, you have helped me a lot" Gu Siwei hurriedly took out the two-yuan meal ticket in his pocket, and then handed it to the woman with both hands.
The woman was slightly stunned when she saw Gu Siwei's appearance, but she quickly smiled and took the meal ticket, put it in the drawer next to her, and then began to arrange the cloth for Gu Siwei.
Taking advantage of a wooden plank, Brie pulled the cloth off the wooden shaft, folded it and said while folding: "Your body, no five or six feet can't make a blouse, and your pants have to be one or two feet more than others, this cloth is enough for you to make two sets of clothes, but it is damp, the color is a little uneven, and it doesn't look good......."
Unconsciously, the woman had already found out Gu Siwei's situation between small talk.
"Aunt, it's already good, I won't pick it."
Now Gu Siwei has a set of clothes on his body, and there is a little girl at home who has holes all over her body, not to mention the dampness that has fallen off, even if it falls into a white cloth, it is also a cloth.
The woman arranged the cloth and folded it into a stack, then wrapped it in horse dung paper, pulled a twine and tied it like this, took a small scissor to cut the twine, and handed it to Gu Siwei's hand.
After thanking him again, Gu Siwei was ready to leave.
"Yanqiu, I have something to say if you stay."
Hearing the woman say this, the eye-catching Gu Siwei thanked the woman and Hu Yanqiu again, and then walked out directly from the gate of the courtyard.
When the woman saw Gu Siwei walking away, she said to her niece, "This little Gu is good."
"It's good, he's very handsome and interesting" Hu Yanqiu didn't think about anything else, she just instinctively felt that Gu Siwei was very good, and she liked to talk to him.
"The lad is good, but you two are not suitable".
"Ah, Fourth Aunt, what did you say, we just met" Hu Yanqiu's face turned red with a sigh.
The woman came over, and she didn't know that her niece was afraid that she fell in love with this young man surnamed Gu, but she couldn't agree, let alone her, and even her own sister-in-law wouldn't agree to her daughter marrying a peasant.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the gap between peasants and workers in this era is almost equal to that of a chasm.
"I didn't say anything, I just watched him as interesting, just to do me a favor," Hu Yanqiu said.
"It's good if you don't have it".
The woman was not easy to push her niece, and when she saw that her niece denied it, she no longer bothered: "It's okay to be a friend, but don't cross the line."
"I know, Fourth Aunt, you think so much, okay, I won't tell you, I'm going to work" Hu Yanqiu shook his big braid and jumped away.
Looking at the back of her niece, the woman sighed and whispered: What a big woman.
Back in the grove.
The roll of cloth that Gu Siwei brought back stopped several people again.
"This is two bucks?"
Guo Shengshui felt that his brain was a little insufficient, two yuan for such a big piece of cloth? Why hasn't Lao Tzu encountered such a good thing when he lives so old.
"Well, isn't it damp, if it weren't for the 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 damp, it can't be two dollars, how thick this cloth is," the other touched the cloth and said with envy.
"I don't have any money to spend."
Gu Siwei thinks that these guys are sick in the brain, how can they drop, not two yuan to buy, how much can it cost?
Guo Shengshui looked at the cloth, then looked at Gu Siwei, then sighed, and said very melancholy: "It turns out that he looks good, and he can really be a moneymaker."
Gu Siwei was stunned for a moment, said that he was mentally ill, and took the cloth back into his hands.
At this moment, it is almost noon, everything that should be sold has been sold, and there are still some scattered ones, those that can be brought back are brought back, and those that are not worth bringing back are taken by Guo Shengshui and given to a nearby family, this family and Guo Shengshui get along well, sometimes they can't go back at night, and they still stay overnight in bad situations, so the rest of these things are given to people and do a favor.
With that in order, around twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the team began to walk back.
The speed is still slow, the speed of the old cow carrying things and not carrying things is almost the same, 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 grinding word along the way.
In the evening, when I arrived at the third team, there were Guo Shengshui's relatives on the third team, the relatives of Zheng'er Bajing, the uncle who was familiar with Shengshui, and the relatives who broke the bones and tendons.
On the side of the third team, I mixed a hot porridge with the big canteen, rested for a few hours, got up early in the morning, and continued to walk back at about five o'clock.
When the sun reached the center of the sky, the group came to the entrance of the village.
came back, naturally it was a matter of dividing things, but this matter had nothing to do with Gu Siwei, and Guo Shengshui's work was naturally connected by Guo Shengshui and every household.
Gu Siwei returned to the small courtyard with his things.
"Brother!"
Seeing that Gu Siwei was back, Sicui's happy little face was about to bloom.
"Well, I'm back, we've got a pot, oh, forgot, look what this is".
Gu Siwei said and pretended to touch it from his arms, and a sugar steamed bun appeared in his hand.
"Steamed buns, big steamed buns with white noodles" Sicui is not stupid, and he knows at a glance that it is a steamed bun with white noodles.
Gu Siwei said with a smile: "It's a sugar steamed bun, it's cold, you can eat it when it gets hot."
"Has my brother eaten it? Brother eats," Si Cui said.
Gu Siwei said: "I have eaten, this is yours, each person has divided two, I have eaten one, and the remaining one is for you."
Sicui took the steamed bun, directly divided it into two petals, one large and one small, and handed the big one to Gu Siwei.
"My brother works hard, my brother eats this big one, it's enough for me to eat this," Si Cui said.
Looking at Sicui, Gu Siwei was happy: "You eat, we won't have to starve in the future."
However, the little girl was very strong, there was no way, Gu Siwei had to resort to the Dafa of drinking again, and then the little girl honestly took over the steamed buns.