Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

What is everyone’s favorite hobby in winter?

Most people would say that they like to sleep in, and the quilts in winter are especially comfortable.

However, it is impossible to sleep in in Hope New Village, especially for people aged 10 to 50. Everyone must get up early to exercise, even if you just want to pretend.

As a training instructor of Hope Village, Li Xiangdong's task every morning is to pull people out of their beds one by one. In winter, this job is not easy to do, and some people usually have to be called several times. Fortunately, there is a very self-conscious person in the village, that is Lao San, who will help him call people together.

Of course, Liu Guozheng was no exception and also practiced boxing with Li Xiangdong and others.

When you have nothing to do after a meal, you can still take a nap.

"Projectionist Xu, get up."

Early in the morning, Li Xiangdong came to wake Xu Damao up.

After drinking last night, Xu Damao slept very comfortably. He was having a sweet dream when he was woken up. When he wanted to lose his temper, he saw a rough man with a beard, about 1.8 meters tall, staring at him fiercely.

Xu Damao's temper comes quickly and goes away even faster.

He knew the person in front of him. He had just met him last night. Just looking at his appearance, he didn't seem like an easy person to get along with.

"Comrade Li, what's wrong?"

Rubbing his eyes, Xu Damao asked carefully.

"What's wrong? Get up and gather."

Li Xiangdong said coldly.

"Collect? Collect what?"

Xu Damao was confused. Isn't it good to sleep in early in the morning? What kind of gathering is this? Besides, I am just a guest, not a member of your village.

"Stop talking nonsense and get up honestly, or you will be in trouble."

Li Xiangdong doesn't spoil him. Liu Guozheng is amazing. He always gets up obediently and exercises.

"You...I won't talk to you. I'm going to find Comrade Liu Guozheng and file a complaint against you."

Seeing that Li Xiangdong's face was not right, Xu Damao did not dare to provoke him, and subconsciously brought up Liu Guozheng. He had seen clearly since yesterday that although Liu Guozheng was young, everyone in the village listened to Liu Guozheng.

"Complain against me? You think this is a hotel. Get up honestly, otherwise, you will bear the consequences."

Li Xiangdong was happy, this guy is also a "talent".

"Okay, Master Mao, I won't argue with you."

Fortunately, the temperature in the house was not low, so getting up was not that difficult. Sleeping in was just an instinct of the body.

Now the place where everyone exercises is no longer by the swimming pool, but on a piece of open space that has been cleared to the west of the fish pond, which is 600 square meters. The basketball court occupies 400 square meters. The remaining space has several ping-pong tables, some stone benches, and stone tables. There is a chessboard carved on the stone table. When the weather is good, Yang Youde and others play chess here.

The place where Li Xiangdong and his friends exercise is right in the middle of the basketball court.

There were not many people participating in the exercise, only Liu Guozheng, the third brother, Li Dabao, Erleng, and Liu Xiaolong (the only one who was 10 years old).

Of course, Erlang did not participate today. They had a wedding yesterday, and it was impossible to wake them up to exercise today.

Seeing that others had already started, Xu Damao consciously stood at the back. Since everyone was already up, he might as well follow suit and practice by copying others. No matter if he looked like them or not, he just started moving along.

Xu Damao didn’t exercise regularly, so after this exercise he realized how bad his health was.

There are a total of sixteen moves in this boxing routine, but I only managed to learn five of them. I already felt short of breath and a little dizzy.

Not caring whether the ground was cold or not, he just sat down and took a rest.

While resting, his eyes were not idle, rolling around and no one knew what he was thinking about.

"Da Mao, you can't do this. You've grown so big for nothing."

Xu Damao did not get up until Liu Guozheng and others finished their exercise. He just sat there, not caring about the cold ground.

"Comrade Liu Guozheng, I am a technician. I make a living by my brain, not by my physical strength."

Xu Damao is still quite stubborn.

"hehe."

"hehe."

"..."

What do you call this? To Xu Damao, this is called ridicule. Especially when Liu Xiaolong passed by, he curled his lips and looked up and down at Xu Damao with a look of disgust.

"You..little.."

It doesn't matter if you are an adult, but why do you, a little kid, look down on yourself? I am a projectionist in a steel mill, and I make a living by my skills, don't I?

"Projectionist Xu, get up quickly, it's time to eat."

In the end, it was the third brother who pulled Xu Damao up from the ground.

Breakfast in winter is also simple, basically soup and pancakes.

Beef soup, mutton soup, and stew soup were served alternately, and occasionally there would be millet porridge, pickles, and fried steamed bread slices.

This kind of life can be considered average even in the 21st century.

Not to mention the fifties and sixties when people were short of clothes.

This is also the reason why Li Xiangdong is willing to come here even though he doesn't want to be paid. Of course, this is only one of the reasons. The main reason is that he really can't find a job right now.

For the people in Hope Village, this kind of food has already become their habit.

Basically, a bowl of soup and one or two pancakes are enough to fill you up.

Xu Damao was different. He only drank the soup and drank three bowls in a row, still not satisfied. Fortunately, no one noticed him, otherwise he would have been embarrassed again.

After dinner, Xu Damao asked to leave.

Of course Liu Guozheng didn't want to do that, and he was thinking about showing the movie again in the evening.

I don't like it, but the third brother and the others like it, especially the children. After all, there are too few entertainment activities in this era.

If it were in the future, what would you do on a rest day in the morning? Of course, you would hold your phone and play King of Glory in bed.

"Da Mao, wait a moment, I'll talk to you about something later."

After hearing what Liu Guozheng said, Xu Damao was secretly delighted. Isn't this the same as in other villages? Before leaving, the village chief would call him and give him the prepared things. At the very least, he would get some fungus mushrooms, a few heads of garlic, etc. The best would be to catch two hens.

This Hope New Village is obviously richer than other mountain villages. Although there are not many people, there are really a lot of good things. The braised beef and sheep heads in the cafeteria look very tempting.

Thinking about good things in my mind, I unconsciously followed Liu Guozheng to the cave where I stayed yesterday.

Following behind him was Li Xiangdong.

As soon as he entered the cave, Li Xiangdong said directly: "Xu Damao, you are in trouble."