69novels Chapter 114 The Notebook
Chapter 114 The Notebook
Gift beads!
Gu Mingdong suspected that this pocket notebook was left by the Du family, and he was overjoyed when he saw these two words, and quickly flipped to the corresponding date.
But to Gu Mingdong's surprise, there was no corresponding record on September 9th in the records behind the pocket notebook.
Gu Mingdong frowned, the pocket notebook is very thin, and from the occasional recognizable few words, it can be seen that the owner of this notebook only picked out important parts of the records.
Soon, Gu Mingdong realized something was wrong.
In the records of the notebook in September, the rest of the days are still there, but they disappeared on September 9th.
Gu Mingdong quickly flipped through the entire calendar. In addition to September 9th, there are 15 other days that were circled, namely: ancestor worship, birthday, search, visit, and bead gift. Among them, there were three visits. , There are also three times of giving beads.
Although the corresponding times are different, Gu Mingdong doubts that there is a connection between them.
With a thought, Gu Mingdong turned to the record corresponding to the first visit. Because of the age, the text on it was somewhat blurred.
Gu Mingdong frowned, thought for a while, quickly took out a pencil from the drawer, and carefully filled the paper with lead color.
Soon, the originally blurred pen writing became clearly visible.
Gu Mingdong took a closer look: "The Gu family is visiting, the master seems to be moved."
The owner of this book is very vigilant, even writing very briefly in the notebook.
Gu Mingdong frowned, turned to the other two pages of the visit, and after drawing a gourd like that, the two words were also displayed.
"The Wei family came to visit, but the master avoided seeing him."
"The Xie family came to visit, the three families came to visit, and the master agreed."
Judging from the tone recorded on the pages, the person who wrote these messages regarded the treasure hunter as his master and regarded himself as a domestic servant.
And those three pages of visits, without exception, were all before the beads were given, and shortly after their visit, the records of giving beads appeared.
Although the page for presenting the beads has been missing, Gu Mingdong secretly guessed in his heart that the Gu family, Wei family, and Xie family recorded in the notebook may be the recipients selected by the owner of the Buddha bone.
So who took those three papers?
Could it be the Du family?Or did someone learn about the Du family's information and took the most important information away while the Du family was living in a foreign country?
The person who took the three pieces of paper was looking for the whereabouts of the remaining relics just like himself.
Gu Mingdong thought about it, and felt in his heart that there was a problem within the Du family. It is extremely possible that someone among them deliberately took away the three sheets of paper, because if it was an outsider, they could take the entire book away, so why keep a part of it?
Perhaps during the war, the Du family was also in chaos.
It's a pity that all of this is Gu Mingdong's guess. If you want to know the truth, you can't find someone in the Du family who knows the inside story.
Gu Mingdong sighed, he knew more after reading the notebook, but he seemed to get nothing.
The three surnames Gu, Wei, and Xie bring too little information, and it is extremely difficult to find the corresponding ones from these three surnames.
Just like the old Gu's family is also surnamed Gu, and they live in Shanghe Village, but both the original owner and Gu Mingdong himself know that the old Gu's family has nothing to do with the mysterious family in the mountains.
Sure enough, he still had to find the Du family first, other than that, he could only passively wait for Qian Zhiyi to find the relic, or he could travel all over the world, relying on his ability to sense the relic to try his luck.
The latter two methods of waiting passively are not in Gu Mingdong's character.
Suddenly, Gu Mingdong thought of a strange thing.
In the world line where Sun Shumei married Liu Dazhu, Qian Zhiyi never came back after leaving Shanghe Village, which is not surprising, because Qian Zhiyi probably got what he wanted, and Shanghe Village did not let him come back value.
But what about the Du family?Why didn't the Du family come back?
Could it be that after the situation stabilized, the Du family didn't want the hidden treasures in the mountains at all?
But the Du family did not return to Shanghe Village from the beginning to the end, so there is only one possibility. They know that the things hidden in the mountains have already fallen into the hands of others, and it is meaningless for them to come back.
Gu Mingdong narrowed his eyes. The Du family, the Qian family, and the Bai family may have reached a deal before everything happened.
He was not worried but happy in his heart. The more the Du family knew, the more information he could get from the Du family after opening up in the future.
The disappointment in his heart didn't last long, Gu Mingdong rolled up the pocket notebook, wrapped it in a gray film and hid it in the hole in the wall, and never cared about it again.
Gu Sanmei went out to the production team for a run, and when she returned home she was dry-mouthed, and she finally got things done.
In the early morning of the next day, quite a few commune members came to find Gu Mingxi to go to the town together.
Because of the need to move furniture and wood, the members all pushed carts, and even Liu Aihua borrowed one.
After being separated for a while, Liu Aihua's complexion is better than when she was at home, and even Liu Xiaozhu's face is smiling a little more. Now helping his sister push the cart, the siblings look very energetic.
When Gu Mingnan and Gu Mingxi went to work in the town together, the old Gu's house suddenly became much quieter.
Gu Mingdong had nothing to do, so he simply moved a stool to teach the twins and Gu Yun how to read.
After this teaching, Gu Mingdong realized that he was not made to be a teacher.
In the past, he thought that his two sons were very smart, and Gu Yun was also very well-behaved and sensible, but he was stumped by this first class.
The whole process can only be described as flying like a dog, completely beyond Gu Mingdong's expectations.
Gu Liangxing just couldn't sit still, he looked like he had a needle in his buttocks. He studied for an hour, and spent 59 minutes of it rolling over. He could appear in any twisted posture, but he couldn't sit properly.
That pitiful minute was because Gu Mingdong was so angry that he dumped him a chestnut.
Gu Yun is good-looking, sitting upright and not talking, staring at Gu Mingdong with big flickering eyes, it looks like a good student who studies hard.
As a result, the operation was as fierce as a tiger, and the actual operation score was 0.5. I couldn't write a word with a pen in a daze.
In comparison, Gu Liangchen is like a little angel, sitting when he should be sitting, and writing when he should be writing. Although the writing is a bit ugly, at least it is not as ghostly as Gu Yun.
Gu Mingdong encountered the biggest Waterloo in his life, and for an hour, he only got setbacks.
Soon, Gu Mingdong got up and said, "Okay, I'll stop here today, you go and play."
After saying these words, Gu Mingdong only felt relieved, secretly thinking that he should have ended this wrong start long ago.
Gu Liangxing cheered, pulled Gu Yun up and ran away without any hesitation, Gu Yun was pulled up quickly.
Gu Liangchen said obediently: "Dad, you teach very well, but I am too stupid to learn slowly."
Compared with his elder brother, Gu Liangchen is more attached to his father, and is more willing to stay with Gu Mingdong. Compared to running around with his elder brother and Gu Yun, Gu Liangchen thinks it is not difficult to sit and study.
Gu Mingdong patted his little head amiably: "Ah Chen is good at studying, but Dad hasn't studied for many years, and his teaching is not accurate enough. I am afraid that I will make mistakes, so I'd better go to school after school starts to study."
At this moment, Gu Mingdong felt that he was a fool, how could he come up with the idea of teaching children to read as entertainment to pass the time.
This is not entertainment, this is a terrible job.
Sure enough, professional things have to be left to professional people. Gu Mingdong felt that he could not afford the heavy responsibility of education and learning, so he quickly threw the blame back to the teachers and the school.
It just so happens that the school has not yet been restructured, and the primary school starts in the spring instead of in the autumn as it was later. In another year, we will not be able to catch up with such a good thing.
He had to find a relationship quickly, and find an opportunity to cram all the children into the school before the school started, so as to save worry and trouble.
Gu Liangchen didn't know his father's sinister intentions, so he smiled embarrassedly: "I think my father taught me very well."
It's a pity that Gu Mingdong has made up his mind to stay away from education.
He smiled and pinched his son's cheek: "Dad shouldn't let you study for the Chinese New Year. Come on, let's go out for a stroll."
In case he didn't suppress his violent temper, he would just shave the child, especially Gu Liangxing, who is a monkey. It took Gu Mingdong all his life to recuperate just now to not tie him to a chair, so that he would not jump up and down.
Compared with reading and writing, it is much easier to take my son for a walk in the production team. Even if you go up the mountain to catch birds or go down to the river to catch fish, it is easier than teaching them to read awkward enlightenment textbooks.
Gu Mingdong dragged Gu Liangchen around for a walk, and suddenly his liver pain and lungs stopped exploding, and he even felt better.
Inside the room, Gu Simei, who had gone to school, could see that something was wrong, so she kept holding back her laughter just now.
When the eldest brother took Ah Chen away, Gu Simei finally couldn't help laughing, she didn't expect their eldest brother to be so helpless.
After laughing, Gu Simei couldn't help but feel a little worried again. If the three children's grades are too poor in the future, will his elder brother be mad.
Thinking about it again, the second brother was counting backwards in every exam before, and the eldest brother didn't seem to say much.
If Gu Mingdong knew Gu Simei's worries, he would definitely laugh it off. How could he be irritable because of his child's poor grades in school? As long as the person who teaches is not him, the child loves to learn, and if he doesn't learn, he will go to farm.
When it was close to noon, Gu Mingdong saw the people who went to the recycling station to pull wood back, and they were all beaming.
Li Tiezhu's family's cart was pressed high, and he pulled a cart full of wood back. When he saw Gu Mingdong, he greeted him: "Ah Dong, you see so much firewood is enough to burn for a long time. Do you want more?"
Gu Mingdong shook his head: "Last year, I chopped too much, and I haven't finished burning it."
In fact, some of these woods are indeed good woods, which can be valuable in the future after being carefully cleaned up, but this process is too labor-intensive, and the wood is bulky, difficult to hide, and easy to be found.
If Gu Mingdong is short of money, he can just move the treasures in the mountains directly. Whether it is gold, silver or jewelry, nothing saves worry and effort compared to clearing wood, so he proposed this way, and naturally he will not want it now.
Li Tiezhu didn't refuse, just said: "Thanks to Xiaoxi thinking about us, I saved a lot of effort."
After finishing speaking, he took out a lame chair from the bottom: "Look at this, it can still be used after repairing it, what a good thing, the people in the town are just too wasteful."
The other members also boasted one after another, and took free things. Although they were not worth much, they were all very happy.
The happiest ones were Liu Aihua and his brother. Gu Mingxi took good care of them. Not to mention the bed boards, the rest of the wood was good.
When the time comes, it will be placed in the house, and it can barely make it look like home.
Although it is a bit shabby, but for that empty house, it is really a timely help.
Some people are happy, and naturally some are not.
The shriveled old Liu was very unhappy. Ever since he was not selected as the team leader, he had been drooping all day long, and he stopped wandering around in the production team, just squatting at the door.
Seeing the neighbor coming back happily, the old Liu hummed: "I thought it was something good, but it turned out that these broken tables and broken chairs are good looking at the wood. They can't be old things."
Unexpectedly, the neighbor next door didn't give face, and said directly: "It's the stuff that breaks the four olds, so we have to bring it back and burn it, so that the former feudal remnants will be burned for the poor and lower-middle peasants."
This is why there are very few garbage in the countryside that cannot be thrown away. If you really don’t need it, just stuff it into the stove, I’m afraid it’s not enough to burn.
"Why, do you have any objections to their contributions to the poor and lower-middle peasants?"
The shriveled old Liu was choked up, and said with a cold face, "Gu Jianguo doesn't want to think about spring plowing, and just plays these little tricks."
"Old Liu, you misunderstood this. The team leader went to the town early in the morning and said that he would apply for fertilizer for the production team." The man moved the wood down, "These woods are from the Xiaoxi Recycling Station. It takes up space and let her deal with it, which is cheap for us."
The crumpled old Liu frowned, and said with a sneer, "Fertilizer? He really dared to think, isn't this an idiot talking in his sleep."
The neighbor smiled and asked, "Why, do you think the captain can't apply?"
The shriveled old Liu got up with his hands in his hands, and said, "If he has the ability, I will take his surname from now on."
The neighbor laughed: "Don't, the old Gu's family doesn't lack a son at your age."
The shriveled old Liu was ashamed, and entered the door cursing.
His daughter-in-law couldn't help but said: "Why are you arguing with others again? You are not the captain of the brigade now, so stop messing around."
The shriveled old Liu scolded angrily: "I'm not the team leader, so maybe I'm not even a member of the commune anymore. I can't say anything about the production team?"
His wife frowned: "What are you doing with such a loud voice, I'm not wrong."
"Then Xiaoxi kindly asked us to pull the wood. If you pull it back, it won't work, but at least it can be burned. Our son will save himself from going to the mountains to cut firewood. Why don't you agree? You feel ashamed."
The shriveled old Liu scolded angrily: "A little favor from someone, you forget all about the past? Why are your eyelids so shallow?"
"I haven't forgotten, but if you don't take anything you give away for free, you're a bastard tortoise."
"Who are you calling a turtle bastard!"
The shriveled old Liu couldn't bear her like this, and felt that his family had embarrassed him: "A few rotten pieces of wood are nothing, but I want to see what the old Gu family has. , he can pull it faster by himself, I want to see how he ends up then."
Thinking about it, old Liu simply went out and reported that Gu Jianguo was going to apply for fertilizer.
What the crumpled old Liu Wanwan didn't expect was that Gu Jianguo actually managed the fertilizer business.
At Chun Geng's mobilization meeting, the speaker changed from old Liu to Gu Jianguo.
The captain of the team was changing from old to new, especially when the two of them were still having an unpleasant fight. Now the shriveled old Liu was standing at the front desk with a dark complexion.
When Gu Jianguo mobilized, he didn't talk as much as old Liu. After a few words, he put forward his plan.
When the members at this end heard it, they immediately started talking.
"Is this new farming technology revolution reliable? We haven't tried intercropping and multiple cropping? What if it doesn't work?"
Gu Jianguo knew that the members would be worried, and he did enough homework to explain their problems one by one.
After several explanations, the members below feel slightly relieved.
Li Tiezhu even said: "The captain will never harm the production team. You can do whatever you say, and we will listen to you."
Seeing that they believed in him, Gu Jianguo was touched, but he still explained: "Everyone think about it carefully, and then we talked about replanting. Originally, we only planted rice, which was only ripe once a year. In the rest of the time, a lot of land can only be vacant."
"But now add winter wheat, sow the seeds immediately after the autumn harvest, and you can harvest the next day before the spring plowing. There are two harvests a year. That must be more than one harvest, don't you think?"
When the members heard it, they nodded one after another: "The captain is right, this will definitely increase the output."
At this moment, old Liu snorted coldly, and raised his voice and asked, "Jianguo, what you said sounds good, but the fertility in the field can't keep up, right?"
"If you plant it like you do, our land will be ruined in a few years. We can't live without food and don't care about the life and death of future generations."
As soon as these words were said, it really caused a commotion, and the members of the commune became worried.
"Yeah, I felt something was wrong just now, so it's here."
"We don't have enough fertilizer for a year. The land can't be used like this."
"Jianguo is a little young after all, and not thoughtful enough."
Gu Jianguo looked at Captain Ren in front of him, pressed his hand, and motioned the members to be quiet: "I have already thought of a solution to this problem."
The shriveled old Liu sneered: "You didn't say you were going to apply for fertilizer, did you?"
"The big guys know that our production team's position is not good, and the town doesn't value it. We apply for it every year and fail every year. Who doesn't know that fertilizer is good, but it's a pity that there is none."
At this time, his neighbor yelled: "Captain, old Liu said that if you can apply for fertilizer, he will be your old Gu family's son."
The shriveled old Liu's face darkened: "I never said that."
"You didn't say that yourself yesterday, why don't you admit it?"
Gu Jianguo didn't care what old Liu said, he rarely showed a little joy: "Old Liu is right, I have been running to the town for the past few days, just trying to find a way to apply for fertilizer."
"Finally, Secretary Wang agreed yesterday."
"Is it true, we also have chemical fertilizers?"
"Chemical fertilizers are very effective. I heard that if a piece of land uses enough chemical fertilizers, the yield can be doubled directly!"
"Then if we plant it twice a year, wouldn't we be able to eat up all the food in our family?"
The shriveled old Liu's complexion changed, and he said gloomyly, "Jianguo, don't you just apply for one or two bags, and call the folks with a hundred and eighty catties."
"Chemical fertilizers are good, but they are not enough to be useful. Sprinkling one hundred and eighty catties on so many fields is like pouring a bowl of water into the sea."
Gu Jianguo knew that this was because he had been elected as the captain, and the old Liu deliberately found fault, but he didn't get angry.
He said with a smile: "The applied fertilizer is enough for the entire production team, please don't worry about it. What we have to do is to work hard on spring plowing, work diligently to reclaim wasteland, and strive to increase production."
The shriveled old Liu sneered and said, "It's nice to say, but you should take out the fertilizer and have a look."
Gu Jianguo said loudly: "I don't have fertilizer now."
There was an uproar at the beginning, and the shriveled old Liu couldn't help showing a smug look, secretly thinking that Gu Jianguo might not be the captain of the team for long.
Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for him to be proud, and he heard Gu Jianguo continue to say: "But Secretary Wang in the town has already issued a fertilizer supply order to the production team of Shanghe Village. As long as the fertilizer arrives, we can go and get it back."
As he spoke, he took out the list and showed it to the members.
The shriveled old Liu was shocked, and wanted to refute the criticism, but looked at the red steel seal but was speechless.
Gu Jianguo ignored him, and began to arrange work in an orderly manner, and the spring plowing in Shanghe Village officially started.
Gu Mingdong was assigned to nursery as a matter of course.
Planting rice is more troublesome than wheat. The production team still uses the old method of saving seeds for grain, picking the plump ones from last year's harvest and drying them for use in the next year.
After Gu Mingdong moved out the grain seeds, he screened them again, and soaked them in yellow mud water.
In each large washbasin, the rice stored for a year is slowly moistened.
Gu Jianguo was still a little worried, so he deliberately came over to take a look: "Yes, it's just soaked like this. The temperature is high these two days, and I guess six or seven days will be enough."
"Be careful in the past two days, and come to see more at night, so as not to be eaten by mice."
Gu Mingdong naturally nodded in response.
Seeing that Gu Mingdong was very careful, Gu Jianguo was relieved.
The process of germination is complicated, and it will affect the germination rate and growth rate of the back, which is an extremely important link.
Gu Mingdong, who was doing this job for the first time, was not guilty at all. When the night was quiet, his abilities would come in handy.
There was no one around, and the abilities danced quickly. This time, Gu Mingdong could feel the pure energy being integrated into the seeds.
As a result, the first time, the power was too strong, and several seeds were directly pulled out of the seedlings.
By the time Gu Mingdong called to stop, rice flowers had already grown on the seedlings.
Gu Mingdong simply ripened it directly, pinched a piece of rice and chewed it. The strong rice fragrance was very good, so he simply scattered the rice back.
After trying several times, Gu Mingdong finally got the right amount. Although there are a lot of rice, it is an annual food crop after all, and it is not more expensive than fruit trees in the mountains.
Accurate grasping is more tiring than wanton dancing, but Gu Mingdong still feels a great sense of accomplishment seeing bits and pieces of energy integrated into the seeds and stimulating their maximum potential.
After working for a while and resting for a while, soon, the seeds soaked in muddy water experienced the first optimization in their lives.
They are not the preferred good breeds in the traditional sense, but they are better than good breeds.
The small blade of the supernatural power looked tired and lay down, and hung directly on his wrist and stopped moving. Gu Mingdong moved the water: "You all have to be strong, don't embarrass me."
Suddenly, his expression became serious: "Who is outside."
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