Life is a Game

Although Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang were all thinking about the accountant's pig, and even the accountant's seasoning, they didn't care about the work they should do at all.

The two got up early the next morning and went to the warehouse to repair farm tools after having dinner with the accountant's family. Although Cao Guixiang doesn't know how to carpentry, she has great strength. She cooks from elementary school and her hands are stronger than ordinary rural women who need to go to the fields. Zhang Chu was in charge of repairs, and Cao Guixiang was in charge of handing over tools and occasionally helping to drag heavy objects. It looked like a master carpenter leading an apprentice.

Three days passed in such a monotonous life of repairing farm tools at dawn and resting and sleeping at night.

In the past three days, Jiang Feng went around the accountant, not only knew where his family's fabric brown sugar was kept, but also his family's money, eggs, malted milk, who locked the cabinet, and what the pigs ate , and although his son's white and clean looks are different from those of other families, he still has to carry a bamboo basket to cut pigweed with his friends every day.

If it wasn't for Cao Guixiang who would help the accountant's daughter-in-law cook pig food after work every day and inquire about the news of the pig, Jiang Feng would have thought that this memory was just a simple au pair on a business trip and had nothing to do with the pig.

On the fifth day of the au pair, all farm tools were repaired.

During these five days, Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang were basically concentrating on their work, and they didn't have too much communication with other people, just like two people who came to change jobs normally, so that accountant Liu's daughter-in-law only knew Cao Guixiang He and Zhang Chu are educated youths from Peking and don't know anything else, and occasionally ask Cao Guixiang what Tiananmen Square is like.

Cao Guixiang did not ask Accountant Liu when they would kill the pigs, nor offered to help Accountant Liu repair furniture, nor did Zhang Chu make small wooden toys.

The conversation that night seemed to be just a joke between the husband and wife, just talking.

In just five days, Zhang Chu finished the work scheduled for a week.

In Beiping, he was only a young apprentice of a gold and carpenter. He was not even qualified to participate in the Qiangong Bed, and he was not qualified to be a second hand. But in this rural area where seven or eight villages share one carpenter, Zhang Chu is undoubtedly a skilled carpenter, as Jiang Feng can tell from the eyes of the captain of the Longkou Production Brigade looking at the repaired threshing machine.

The reason why the Longkou production brigade is willing to propose such an urgent job exchange this time is mainly because one of the plows on the cultivated land is broken. It can be said that the plow is the key point, and hoes and the like are incidental. There is no hope.

The team leader himself didn't expect that the young educated youth he hired in a hurry to go to the doctor was so skilled in carpentry. This skill can be used as a master by their carpenter Liao. No, maybe this young man in front of him still looks down on him. Carpenter Liao.

The team leader stared at the repaired threshing machine, which was even more flexible than before, with a lot of thoughts, because when he was distracted, what he thought was completely written on his face.

Zhang Chu was arranging the farm tools and tools, while Cao Guixiang looked at the captain for a while and said slowly: "Captain Liu, we have finished this work, it is not convenient to go back in the afternoon, my wife and I will go back tomorrow morning you see How about it?"

Most of the people in the Longkou Production Brigade have the surname Liu, so if you think about it, you can always sort out some relationship.

When Captain Liu heard Cao Guixiang say this, he became a little anxious, thinking that this young educated youth is just unreliable, and there is still private work after public work, why is he in such a hurry to leave before the time comes.

But he couldn't say that. The team leader hesitated for a while, and when he saw the accountant walking towards him, he immediately said: "Don't be so anxious. The day after tomorrow, Accountant Liu's son will kill a pig on his tenth birthday. I and you have worked hard these days, so I want to invite you to have a meal together."

Accountant Liu:? ? ?

Accountant Liu gave the captain a puzzled look.

The team leader signaled Accountant Liu not to speak.

Cao Guixiang saw that Zhang Chu had sorted things out, and said, "As long as you don't dislike it, if there is anything else in the village that needs repairing, please come to us these days, thank you."

After finishing speaking, Cao Guixiang took Zhang Chu away, walking to the warehouse door very quickly, but leaving the door very slowly.

Accountant Liu was full of question marks: "Captain, why don't you let them go back after Zhang's carpentry work is done, we are also short of labor here, wouldn't it be good to come back sooner?"

The team leader was still spinning the threshing machine mesmerized. Jiang Feng didn't feel the air wall and stayed away, wanting to hear what the team leader and the accountant had to say and write.

"Look at the threshing machine, how well it was repaired, how fast it was repaired, and it's even better than it was before it broke." The team leader touched the wooden threshing machine like a treasure, "Zhang carpenter is so good at craftsmanship, we don't have any in our family." Want to repair something that needs to be hit? Do you seem to be spreading it?"

Accountant Liu looked aggrieved: "But didn't we agree with Carpenter Liao to let him repair it for us when his hands are ready? I still want him to make two chairs for me."

"Carpenter Liao's craftsmanship can be as good as carpenter Zhang? Look at the threshing machine, look at this plow, can carpenter Liao do this? He has lived in your house for so many days and you haven't..." The captain wanted to say What, he took a breath and stopped talking, "I knew I would let the couple live in my house."

"Do you have a vacant house?" Accountant Liu complained.

"Get out!" The team leader ignored him and continued to think about his precious threshing machine.

Jiang Feng almost couldn't hold back his laughter. These days, he also noticed that Accountant Liu was relatively dull, even a bit old-fashioned, and he was strict in doing things. Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang lived in his house for so many days, he was stunned because he didn't speak a few words with them except the first day, and the daily communication was not as much as his wife.

The captain didn't speak, Accountant Liu began to count and record the farm tools. Jiang Feng waited in the warehouse and found that the air wall hadn't come yet. Stand by and eavesdrop.

"It seems that there is no sound." Zhang Chu whispered.

"Let's go." Cao Guixiang pulled Zhang Chu, and the two began to walk towards the accountant.

"Guixiang, do you think we can do this? After all the work is done, let's not go and stay here to pick up private work, so we won't be reported?" Zhang Chu was still a little timid.

"Didn't you hear what Captain Liu said? It was Accountant Liu who asked me to stay and eat before leaving. We didn't say that we would take over private work. We are helping. Why do you report it? Report us and don't help? Or report that Accountant Liu wants to keep us Eat? At worst, these two days will not count as work points, so what are you afraid of?" Cao Guixiang said.

Zhang Chu swallowed his saliva: "That's right, it's worth the work points for two days, if you can exchange for pork."

Cao Guixiang smiled and said, "Look at your prospects, why do you do it for two bites of meat?"

Zhang Chu sighed: "It didn't happen before, but it's different now. We have been here for several years, and the number of times we eat meat can be counted on one hand. I heard people say that this country can be built as long as you rely on mountains." Wild game, you know it's all nonsense when you come here."

"How can there be any pheasants and hares? I haven't even seen their feathers. There are not many sparrows. Our wedding day is set according to the day when the hares are hunted. And the wild boars. Last year, two wild boars went down the mountain in the next door village. Yes, they were as happy as Chinese New Year, and we didn’t even see a pig hair when we went with our hoes.”

"You said that this wild boar is too much. You can go down the mountain as soon as you go down the mountain. Why don't you come to our village? Two or one will do." Zhang Chu looked regretful.

Cao Guixiang: ...

"You know what you're talking about? People can't get enough to eat, pigs don't grow meat, chickens don't lay eggs, and those in the mountains can eat enough? Not to mention wild boars going down the mountain, even a tiger would dare to go down the mountain with a hoe Knock to death, I heard accountant Liu and her daughter-in-law say that the past two years have been much better than before, and I am thinking that next year we can also raise a pig. Raise it for a year, and we can eat pork when Chi Yuan grows teeth."

Zhang Chu:? ? ?

When Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang returned to Accountant Liu's house, the pig butchers had arrived and were already preparing to kill the pig. A pig of two hundred catties was not considered big but it was not weak. The cry, Jiang Feng, felt that it was not inferior to a pig of three or four hundred catties.

There are quite a lot of onlookers. It is a new thing to kill pigs without festivals this year. In addition to Liu Accountant’s daughter-in-law who invited to help, there are also many uninvited women and children who are not working. See if you can take advantage of the crowd and get some cheap ones.

Accountant Liu's son was watching from the sidelines, the prime location, swallowing while watching.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law didn't expect Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang to come back so early, she squeezed out from the crowd, was stunned, and asked, "Why did you come back?"

"The work is done. I was planning to leave tomorrow. The team leader said that you would stay for two more days to eat the birthday meal of Sangen (Liu Accountant's son). Zhang Chu and I will leave in a few days." Cao Guixiang road.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law:?

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law looked at Cao Guixiang carefully, and felt that she was not lying, so she couldn't figure it out: "Ah, yes."

It wasn't until the pig's cry gradually subsided, and the pig butcher began to divide the meat, that accountant Liu's daughter-in-law came back to her senses: "Hey, didn't you repair the threshing machine today? It took a long time to repair it."

"It's fixed." Zhang Chu said.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law was shocked.

Cao Guixiang smiled and said, "Zhang Chu's master is the most famous carpenter in Beiping. He can make large carved tables and chairs, and strange wooden toys. He can repair threshing machines very quickly."

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law was even more shocked: "Can that chair be hit?"

Cao Guixiang nodded.

"I want the kind that is very strong, has a backrest, and better looks, just enough for my son to sit down and write."

Cao Guixiang then nodded.

"Then..." Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law felt that her mind was a little confused, and she even complained in her heart why Accountant Liu didn't tell her that the carpenter who came to change jobs was so good, and it was too late for her to say anything else, because there was a pig slaughter Carpenter was already dividing the meat, and she had to go over to watch in case someone secretly took the pork she had worked so hard to raise for a year, even if it was thrown into the water.

"Guixiang, go back to the house and rest first. It's a bit dirty outside and I'll come to you after I finish cleaning. I have something to tell you." After speaking, Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law squeezed into the crowd and shouted that everyone should not get so close.

"Can it be done?" Zhang Chu looked at Cao Guixiang.

Cao Guixiang looked at Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law and smiled triumphantly: "It's done."