"It's okay. If I chop more now, I may not have time in the next few days."
Gu Zhaocheng replied while chopping firewood without stopping the ax in his hand.
Work like chopping firewood is quite relaxing.
It's just for some household use, the demand is not big, it can be regarded as entertainment.
People who do this kind of work every day may find it boring. For Gu Zhaocheng, this kind of work is still new.
And after chopping more firewood, I completed my responsibilities at home.
Gu Zhaocheng is also more free and can arrange his own time as he pleases.
I just don’t want to have a free time and want to reduce the pressure on my family.
You can't just fish and chop wood all day long, it's still a bit too inefficient.
What the Gu family lacks is not just these fish, but mainly money.
"If you have any personal matters, just go and do your own thing. Don't worry about family matters. I can do all of that."
After Na Cunhua gave Gu Zhaocheng instructions.
So I took the fish into the house and prepared to clean it up. It was already past four in the afternoon, it would be dark soon, and it was time to cook.
The fish had been frozen outside for a short time and was already frozen solid.
It's better to put it in the house and defrost it for better cleaning.
"Don't worry, this little work won't delay my affairs."
After Gu Zhaocheng shouted something into the room, he continued to chop wood in silence.
Gu Zhaocheng originally had a boring temperament, so he didn't need to say too many words. Just these few polite words to the survivor, it was already a day when Gu Zhaocheng talked a lot.
"Zhaocheng, it's time to eat. Go find Zhaoxi and ask him to go home for dinner."
After waiting for half an hour, Na Cunhua shouted to Gu Zhaocheng outside the room.
Although the quality of life of the Gu family is average, it will soon turn into a new millennium after all.
In this era, children will not go hungry, and children will not have the concept of going home when it is time to eat, unlike children in previous eras.
"Okay, I'll go look for Zhaoxi."
The amount of firewood that took half an hour to chop can be used for three to five days. After the chopped wood is put away.
Gu Zhaocheng went out and started looking for his little brother.
Take a look at Sandaogou Forest Farm and the family area of the 923 Work Team.
There are only a hundred or so households in total, each with two or three rooms.
There are only four or five rows of houses in total, so there is no need to worry about getting lost in this place.
The houses here are also relatively simple, all one-story tile-roofed houses. The houses built earlier are adobe houses, and the houses built later are brick houses.
There is a small warehouse in the yard that is standard in Northeastern homes.
The yard separated by various fences is not very big, only a few dozen square meters.
Compared with many rural areas in the Northeast, where you can grow vegetables in large yards, the yards here are much smaller.
At first glance, the houses here are somewhat neat.
There is no excessive poverty, and there are no rich families.
There are no ordinary villagers in this family area. They are all family members of the forestry factory. Each family has at least one forestry farm employee.
The heads of the families all work in the forestry, so there is not much income gap between the families.
Even if there are some dual-income families, forest farm wages mainly depend on performance.
If a woman does some logistics work, the salary is not much, and the quality gap between each family cannot be widened.
After leaving the family area, we are surrounded by mountains on all sides. Sandaogou was originally a forest farm opened in the mountains.
There was no residential area originally, and it was only after the first batch of forestry workers arrived that houses were built.
I looked in the direction of the mountain and there were no children gathering there.
Gu Zhaocheng looked for someone in the direction leading outside the family area.
When we arrived near the small train station, we saw a group of children under the age of ten gathering together and having fun.
Because forest farms need to transport wood, these forest farms all have forest trains.
Although Sandaogou is located in a remote location, the transportation is relatively convenient and is still better than ordinary rural transportation.
Children get together to skate, play in the snow, and brag, even though it's minus 20 degrees Celsius, it can't stop these children from having fun and making noises.
"Zhaoxi, it's time to go home for dinner!"
After seeing the person, Gu Zhaocheng shouted from a distance.
Gu Zhaoxi is naughty and mischievous all day long. He is considered the king of children. When he is not in school, he gathers a group of children to play around all day long.
Far more suitable than Gu Zhaocheng, he is the son of the captain of the forestry team.
The children of the "leader"'s family don't have many followers, so how can they look like the leader's family?
"Brother, why are you here?"
When Gu Zhaocheng shouted, Gu Zhaoxi ran over, looking lively and energetic.
This child is eight years old. Although he is naughty, he is not sensible and is just playful.
"It's time to eat. If you don't go back, I won't come to call you. And you kids have all gone home. It's almost dark. Why are you running around outside?"
After replying to Gu Zhaoxi, Gu Zhaocheng shouted to the other seven or eight playful children.
This is considered as urging these children to go home on behalf of their parents.
The forest farms all have the same working hours, and each family’s schedule is similar.
Since the Gu family needs to eat, other families will also have to eat without too long of an interval.
Like a herd of sheep, the children were driven back to the family area. After arriving at the family area, the children dispersed and went back to their homes to find their mothers.
There are advantages to being isolated from the outside world. In this day and age, we don’t have to worry about traffickers.
You can let these children, four, five, five and six years old, run wild outside.
Parents at home don't have to worry about it at all, they can still let it go.
"Zhaoxi, it's almost time for your final exam. If you don't say read more, why are you still hanging out all day long?"
The child Gu Zhaocheng looks very happy now.
But the joy will not last long, and the days to come will be extremely painful.
It's a good start, but living like a little bitter melon is inseparable from the child's character.
"Brother, why are you talking like our mother now? You usually don't care about these things. Why do you think of talking about these things now?"
Gu Zhaoxi asked in surprise. Gu Zhaocheng originally just worked quietly at home and didn't care about these things, trying to reduce his presence as much as possible.
"After my brother left, you are the only child left in the family. You must grow up a little, study more, and help your parents with more work, so that they can worry less. You just want to play by yourself."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This change in Gu Zhaocheng can be attributed to the fact that he is about to leave home and his mentality has changed.
Although Gu Zhaocheng was no longer ready to leave, it was not a problem to use it as an excuse to leave home.
After all, it often only takes a moment for a man to mature.
I definitely can't be as silent as before, I need to make some of my own voice in the Gu family.
"Okay, I understand. After you leave, I will pay more attention to my parents."
Gu Zhaoxi agreed. The child had good intentions, but his character and luck were a bit poor.
There is the possibility of education and there is room for correction.
Although it is difficult to change a person's personality, as long as you are willing to spend time, you can definitely correct it.
"We've called the people back, let's start eating."
Gu Zhaocheng came back with his little brother. The little brother went straight back to the inner room to get warm. Gu Zhaocheng stopped in the outside kitchen, ready to help the flower store.
This body directly carries the habit of loving work.
"Okay, I'm going to set the table."
Gu Zhaocheng responded and then entered the back room.
The conditions of Lao Gu's family are relatively poor in the entire forest farm.
This is because Gu Changshan, as the captain, will not benefit his own family.
He also likes to help the poor and show mercy to the weak, and spreading wealth abroad has a lot to do with it.
From the old Gu family's house, it can be seen that the Gu family's house only has two small rooms, which is much worse than ordinary people's houses.
They are the worst group of people living in the entire forest area.
Apart from a kitchen outside, the Gu family has only one back room.
There is only one kang in the house, where four members of the Gu family sleep.
Since he sleeps on a kang table, the Gu family must have a kang table.
But because the Kang table is relatively small and the Gu family has a large population, it is necessary to clear away the things on the Kang table when eating.
Then put a round tabletop on the Kang table so that everyone in the family can eat on the table.
"Dad, Master, you are all back."
After Gu Zhaocheng entered, he greeted the two men first.
People who work have a better sense of time than Gu Zhaoxi. They go home when it's time to eat.
It can also be said that saving flowers means cooking when the man at home comes back.
There were two people sitting on the kang in the back room. One was Gu Zhaocheng's stepfather, Gu Changshan.
He is in his forties, has a weathered face, and sits upright. You can tell from a glance that he is a well-behaved person.
Another old man in his sixties, with half-white hair and wrinkles on his face, but in good spirits, is Gu Zhaocheng's "grandfather" Song Liuxi.
Gu Changshan is called father because Gu Zhaocheng's mother married Gu Changshan, so he should be called father.
Song Liuxi, the grandfather, actually doesn't have much to do with the Gu family.
It was Gu Changshan, an old man with a benevolent heart who took him in.
Song Liuxi was Gu Changshan's master, because the old man had never married a wife and was alone with no children.
Compared to Song Liuxi, because she worked as a forestry worker, her conditions were so poor that she never married a wife.
Gu Changshan was lucky enough to marry Na Cunhua through a blind date in his thirties.
Because of the relationship between master and apprentice, and unwilling to see the old man alone and miserable in his later years, Gu Changshan consciously took over the job of supporting the old man.
Of course, Gu Changshan had to work to make money and had little time to serve the elderly.
Gu Changshan took over, and it was a normal thing to keep flowers in hand.
It should be said that Gu Changshan had already planned this matter. The Gu family's house was built together with the Song family's house, and the yards were directly connected.
When the master comes, there is no need to leave the hospital.
Gu Changshan respects Song Liuxi as his biological father, and the children of the Gu family, Gu Zhaocheng and Gu Zhaoxi, of course also treat Song Liuxi as their biological father.
Gu Zhaocheng set the round table and helped Na Cunhua put the steamed buns, steamed cakes, pickled cabbage vermicelli and fish soup, and then the family started to eat.
The standard of this dinner is actually pretty good. The fish caught by Gu Zhaocheng is still a bit meaty.
"Changshan, don't worry so much. You have to eat when you have to."
However, after the vegetables and rice were served, Gu Changshan obviously had no appetite. He moved his chopsticks a few times, but then stopped, and Song Liuxi began to persuade his apprentice.
Gu Changshan has encountered a lot of things recently, and the things are not all one and a bit complicated.
If all goes well, Gu Zhaocheng should now be the son of the forest farm director.
Now the captain's son may not be able to be considered stable, so you know how serious it is.
"Eat, everyone eats."
Cun Hua also urged her. Gu Changshan, the head of the family, had a sad face, which would somewhat affect the atmosphere of the family's meal.
Seeing that his aura was not right, even Zhaoxi, the most talkative person, did not dare to speak and just kept his head down while eating.
"I just went to Shang You's house to see Xingjie. The rice cooked by Xingjie was so salty that it was inedible. I want him to come to our house for dinner. Do you think that's okay?"
Gu Changshan asked the Cunhua carefully.
For a family like the Gu family, which is not well off, having one more person to eat is still a considerable expense.
In other words, Gu Changshan didn't have complete machismo, so he could still discuss it with Na Cunhua.
But this discussion was actually similar to a notice. Gu Changshan had a right idea, and no one else could change it after he made his decision.
"Since you said so, if you want him to come, just let him come."
Na Cunhua is a hard-spoken and soft-hearted person. He said he was cold-hearted, but he still agreed to Chen Xingjie's dinner at Gu's house.
Although Na Cunhua had some selfish motives for wanting to live a better life for his family, he also had compassion for the weak.
For Chen Xingjie, whose father had just died and whose mother had left, Na Cunhua couldn't turn a blind eye or ignore it at all.
"Then I'll tell Xingjie and let him come to our house for dinner in the future."
With a worry solved, Gu Changshan forced a smile on his face.
The family finally had some dinner in a peaceful atmosphere.
After dinner, the day is over.
Although this was already 1997, a large number of rural households were equipped with color TV sets.
But the Gu family's life is difficult, and they don't even have a black and white TV set.
It’s not that all workers in the forest area are poor, most families in the forest area also have TV sets.
Just because of Gu Changshan's charity, the Gu family is particularly poor.
Gu Zhaocheng couldn't say he disliked it, if it weren't for Gu Changshan who was kinder.
Gu Zhaocheng, the son of Gu Changshan's wife's ex-husband, may not grow up to be this big.
After all, although Na Cun Hua is a good housekeeper and good at housework, he is really not good at making money.
If she hadn't married Gu Changshan, she might not be able to support Gu Zhaocheng.
"System, sign in."
"Congratulations to the host for getting: five yuan in money and two kilograms of biscuits."
After harvesting another five yuan, Gu Zhaocheng had more than sixty yuan.
The money is still a bit small, and the biscuits are not expensive, costing 23 yuan per pound.
Although the Gu family is poor, they are not without food.
Gu Zhaocheng was not in a hurry to contribute the things, he would wait until he found a suitable excuse before taking them out.
"Zhaocheng, are you still going to the river to fish for fish today?"
After having breakfast, Na Cunhua asked.
"Yes, I still go to the river to fish."
When there are few fish, all I can do is improve the food for my family.
After there are more fish, a pound of fish costs only three or four yuan, so you can still make some money from selling them.
Of course, this fish is not easy to sell in forest areas.
After getting a little more, Gu Zhaocheng can go to the city to figure out the quantity and price.
After all, Gu Zhaocheng can cheat, transportation is not a problem.
If you have no direction at the moment, you can make do with it first.
