Chapter 171 City District
Liu Yinyin gave Gu Cheng a small bunch of grapes and asked him to eat them while watching Gu Yanyan.
This kind of grape has seeds inside, and we were afraid that Gu Yanyan would swallow the seeds, so we had to help him pick out the seeds.
It's time to make dinner.
Liu Yinyin took out the noodles hanging in the well and put the washed grapes in.
It's so hot that I can't stay in the kitchen.
Liu Yinyin is now accustomed to preparing noodles or steamed buns for the day in the morning and hanging them in the well.
When eating, you can make some cold dishes or steam some bacon and sausage and have the whole meal.
Tonight, Liu Yinyin is going to make some cold noodles.
Put the chilled noodles in the well, add salt, chicken essence, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, cucumber shreds, peanuts and prepared chili sauce and mix well.
It is appetizing and can relieve heat.
Gu Cheng alone can finish a large bowl of food.
Tomorrow Gu Cheng will take a rest, and the two of them will discuss going to the mountains.
Before, Gu Chengcheng had always wanted to take Liu Yinyin to the mountains to pick wild vegetables.
However, I have been delayed for one reason or another, and I haven't been able to go yet.
In the past two months, Gu Cheng took the villagers to the mountain six times. In the first few times, they were able to hunt some wild animals each time.
The village was able to obtain seven or eight thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes.
The next two times...I returned empty-handed.
The wild animals in the mountains are not stupid either. When they realize the danger, they all rush into the deep mountains.
Last winter, Liu Changquan also invited militiamen to come to the village for hunting.
After two major sweeps, no trace of the beast was found on the nearby hills.
In the next one or two years, unless you go deep into the mountains, there is a high probability that you will not encounter prey.
It's not all bad. A group of people often go up the mountain to hunt, which also eliminates danger for the villagers.
We can go to farther places to pick wild vegetables. As long as we don't go into the mountains, there is basically no danger.
Moreover, if villagers want to go to distant places to pick wild vegetables, they usually go in groups, which makes the danger even smaller.
There will finally be a whole day of free time tomorrow, and Gu Cheng is thinking about accompanying Liu Yinyin to the mountains to pick wild vegetables.
However, Liu Yinyin didn't really want to go.
In the past two months, she has gone up the mountain with the women in the village to dig wild vegetables, and she doesn't know how many sweet potatoes she has planted.
Therefore, she has little desire to go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables now.
Liu Yinyin said casually: "...It's boring to go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables every day."
She didn't want to go at first, and besides, Gu Cheng had been busy for so long, it was time for him to take a break.
Gu Cheng asked again: "How about going for a walk in the city?"
The weather was too hot and many people in the village suffered from heatstroke.
Even if people in the countryside get heatstroke, they still use traditional remedies to treat it, such as scraping, drinking light salt water, mung bean soup, or some heat-reducing tea, etc.
If it really doesn't work, send to the hospital.
During this period, Liu Yinyin mentioned to Gu Cheng several times that she wanted to go to the hospital in the city to buy some medicine for heatstroke.
Liu Yinyin: “…”
She told Gu Cheng that she wanted to go to the county town to buy medicine, but this was just an excuse Liu Yinyin made up.
Her purpose was to smuggle some useful medicine out of the system.
But Gu Cheng had already said it, so Liu Yinyin thought about it carefully.
It’s too hot to stay at home anyway, so I might as well find something to do.
Go to downtown...
Sounds good. Haven't been there for a while.
After a moment of silence, Liu Yinyin nodded and said, "Then go ahead. There's nothing to do at home."
It’s not too far from the village to the city. It takes about an hour and a half to get there by car from the county seat.
The weather is hot now, so if you want to travel far, you have to set off early.
The earliest bus from the county seat to the city leaves at seven o'clock.
Therefore, if we want to go to the city, we both need to leave at around six o'clock tomorrow.
Gu Cheng hesitated and asked, "Should we take Yanyan with us?"
Neither of them took Gu Yanyan out to play much, mainly because they thought the kid was still young and couldn't stand the hard work.
Liu Yinyin thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. The weather is too hot and it would be tiring to take him with me."
The main reason is that I’m afraid the kids will get heatstroke.
Gu Yanyan is still young, and it will be in time to take him out to play when he grows up.
After dinner, it was still quite early.
At this time of year in previous years, Gu Cheng would go to the river to take a bath and catch some small fish and shrimps.
The water in the river is almost dry now, and there are no small fish or shrimps left.
There are nothing but mosquitoes in the ditch.
At this time, the family had no interest in going out for a walk to digest the food.
So Gu Cheng moved two bamboo beds into the yard, and the whole family lay on them to keep cool.
A handful of mugwort was burned nearby to repel mosquitoes.
Liu Yinyin took out the grapes hanging in the well and placed them aside.
The family was quite comfortable lying on the bamboo bed, enjoying the cool air and eating cold grapes.
However, the night was still very hot and humid, and the air was filled with a hot and dry smell.
It is bound to make people feel upset and confused.
There was definitely no air conditioning at that time, and I don’t know if there are electric fans for sale now.
There is no electricity in the countryside, so even if there is a fan, it can't be used.
It's not easy to ask Gu Cheng about this matter.
County town...Liu Yinyin didn't even know a few people in the city.
There is no way of knowing whether there was an electric fan at that time.
She had never seen electric fans in department stores in the county.
But it is normal that there is no such thing in a small county town.
Liu Yinyin thought that she would have to go to the department store in the city tomorrow to see if they sold any electric fans.
The next day, around six o'clock.
The family of three finished their breakfast.
He pushed his bicycle out and sent Gu Yanyan to Liu's house first.
It was already bright at this time, and the people of the Liu family were just having breakfast.
Although there is not much work to do in the fields, the villagers will not sit idle at home.
Since they couldn't rely on the crops this year, they went to the mountains to find food. In short, they wouldn't sit at home and wait to go hungry.
The same went for the Liu family. After breakfast, they had to go to the mountains to find food.
As more and more people go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables, it is not easy to pick them now. You have to go further away, or...
Some people simply went to other villages to look for wild vegetables. Recently, they had several conflicts with people from nearby villages because of the issue of picking wild vegetables.
Liu Changquan also had a terrible headache.
Liu Yinyin left Gu Yanyan at the Liu family and went to the county town with Gu Cheng.
First put the bicycle in the house on the other side of the compound.
Then, the two went to take a car.
Because we arrived early, there was still empty space on the bus.
Liu Yinyin found a seat near the window and sat down, and Gu Cheng sat next to her.
The weather was hot and there was a strange smell in the car.
Liu Yinyin felt a little uncomfortable with the smell, but fortunately the car window was open, and the wind blew, making the smell in the car much lighter.
The road from the county seat to the urban area is relatively smooth. On ordinary days, there are not many people going to the urban area, so the bus is quite spacious.