Good mountains, good water, good people

A group of people dispersed from Zhou Gui's house, and Liu Jinlan sent Village Chief Gu and the others out.

Originally, Gu Changning wanted Liu Jinlan to bring the three children to stay at their house for one night, but Liu Jinlan said that he didn't want to cause them any trouble, so she politely rejected his offer and took the three children to stay at home.

It's just that when they left, they heard Zhou's mother cursing in the house.

It was already very late at this time. If it weren’t for what happened to the Zhou family, the people in the village would have closed their doors to sleep. The lights are still on.

Gu Changning asked his father and mother to go home first, and he took Brother Qin to his greenhouse on the back mountain.There are many people here during the day, but at night, except for their own people, generally no outsiders come to them, so at this moment it is only the two of them here.

Two puppies heard their footsteps and ran towards them wagging their tails.

The weather in the first lunar month was still a bit cold, and the two of them sat around the fire, under which sweet potatoes were buried for roasting, and the burning firewood occasionally crackled.

Gu Changning was holding a wooden stick in his hand and was stirring the firewood in the fire to make the fire more intense. He glanced at the man sitting across from him and said, "When I was guarding the shed by myself, I would I was wondering if there would be a day when someone would stay with me, but I didn't expect that after a while, someone would actually sit here with me."

"You are here alone, are you afraid of the dark?" Qin You saw that there was no one around, and there was no one around.

"It's okay. I've never been afraid of the dark since I was a child. It's just that I've been here for a long time and I'm a little bored." Gu Changning was right about this. He was a person who didn't know how to be afraid of the dark since he was a child. He didn't dare to walk in the dark because he was afraid of ghosts or something, but he didn't know what it was to be afraid of the dark and ghosts as long as he could remember.

Two puppies lay at their feet. Gu Changning touched the puppy's head with his hands, stroking it down along the head, and then stroking it up from the bottom. The puppy even turned his belly over for him to stroke. .

I have to say that petting a dog is very healing, no wonder so many people like to keep cats and dogs.

Gu Changning looked at the man sitting opposite, and asked, "Is it not good for you to say that I take care of Liu Jinlan's family affairs?"

"Why do you ask that?" Qin You asked.

"When we came out of the hospital tonight, didn't I call Liu Jinlan to go to the side to have a conversation? I asked her if she wanted to continue to live this life of being beaten and scolded by her husband, or if she wanted to take the child to another life." , I said that if she wants to divorce and take the children to live separately, I will help her, the condition is that she will work for me for 20 years." Gu Changning told this man what he said to Liu Jinlan tonight.

It is said that it is difficult for an upright official to break up housework, let alone an outsider like him, who can meddle in the affairs of other people's husbands and wives.It would be fine if he didn't know Liu Jinlan today, but he did, and she was an employee under his command. He couldn't do it if he wanted to watch a woman suffer domestic violence while he remained indifferent.

"Are you still trying to repay your kindness?" Qin You asked half jokingly.

The time the two of them have been together is not too long, but Qin You also knows the character of the young man, and it is not surprising that he would say such words.

"How can I say it's a repayment of kindness? At best, I'm giving her an olive branch, so that she has the courage to choose the life she wants to live, and doesn't have to bow to fate." Gu Changning didn't quite agree with Brother Qin's attitude. Speaking of which, he didn't mean to repay his kindness, he was obviously saving people from the fire pit.

"Well, yes, you did a good job." However, if it was based on his own personality, Qin You knew that he would not be such an old-fashioned and enthusiastic person who would take care of other people's affairs, but it may also be because he did not meet Been to such a thing.

The two talked about this matter for a few words, but they both knew that there was only so much they could do outsiders, and the final decision was still made by the person concerned.

Smelling the aroma of sweet potatoes being roasted, "Our sweet potatoes should be cooked, I'll get them out." As he spoke, Gu Changning moved the firewood on top, pulled out the sweet potatoes buried underneath, and accidentally touched them with his fingers , It was so hot that he retracted his hand, "Oh, it's so hot."

"Be careful not to get it, let me do it." Qin You felt worried for a while.

"It's okay, I'll do it, I'm experienced, I won't get it." The sweet potatoes were wrapped in two layers of tinfoil, Gu Changning found two small sticks, and pulled the tinfoil away to expose the inside and bake it. of sweet potatoes.

The outer skin of the baked sweet potatoes was slightly browned. He took out a few sweet potatoes and put them in the basket, found two paper towels to wrap one end, and handed it to Qin You, "Here, take it, the baked sweet potatoes should be baked while they are still hot." It’s delicious, but it won’t taste good when it cools down. Take the side wrapped in paper, don’t burn your hands.”

"I haven't seen anyone who is more eager to eat than you." Qin You had no choice but to reach out to take it, and watched the young man pick up one by himself. It was obviously very hot, and he was blowing with his mouth without being afraid of being scalded. are peeling.

"That's because you know too few foodies. If you know a few more foodies, you'll know that anything hot is a paper tiger in front of foodies. Only eating is everything."

Their sweet potatoes were dug out from the ground the year before last, and after a month or so, they were so sweet that they turned into sugar.

As soon as the skin was peeled off, a stream of syrup flowed out of it, onto his fingers. Gu Changning lowered his head and sucked his own fingers, licking off the syrup on his fingers. When he looked up, he met the man's gaze, When his face became hot, he coughed a little embarrassedly, and reminded: "What are you looking at me for? Eat your own sweet potatoes. I baked them for you with my own hands. If you don't try it, will it be better than what you have eaten before?" Are all the sweet potatoes delicious?"

The corners of Qin You's mouth curled up a little, and he couldn't help laughing, "Yes, it's delicious." He peeled off a bit of the skin, took a bite, and it was indeed delicious and sweet.

The two were talking and eating roasted sweet potatoes. The two puppies, smelling the scent of sweet potatoes, barked at their feet unwillingly, and their tails flew up.

"You guys want to eat too, don't you?" Gu Changning looked at the two puppies yelling, and couldn't help but break off the sweet potatoes he ate and feed them to the two puppies. Roasted sweet potatoes with four big roots.

After eating the roasted sweet potatoes, the two went back home to take a bath. After that, Gu Changning went back to sleep in the hut on the back mountain by himself, while Qin You stayed in the Gu family's old house to sleep.

The next morning, Liu Jinlan brought her youngest son to work. The child's forehead was bumped, and he was not in good spirits after being frightened, so he was not sent to school.

Usually, the children in the village often come to play with them, so Gu Changning also knows the children in the village, and is also familiar with the children of Liu Jinlan's family.Seeing the child following behind his mother, with gauze wrapped around his forehead, his pale face, and a droopy look, he happened to have candy in his pocket, so he gave the child a lollipop, and asked their parents to Pang and Er Pang play with the children.

Seeing her son having fun with the two dogs, with a little smile on his face, Liu Jinlan was relieved.

Knowing that people around looked at their mother and son with pitiful eyes, Liu Jinlan was already a little used to it, her face was still scarred, and she didn't dare to raise her head when others looked at her, and kept her head down. Go do her work.Fortunately, the pigsty was relatively inside, and few people came here, so she didn't have to face the eyes of others.

The first day of every month is the day when the employees are paid their salaries. Gu Changning spent a little time in the morning to calculate the employees' salaries and bonuses.

The basic salary is fixed, and the bonus is calculated from this month. The new employees have worked for less than a month, and there is no bonus for the time being, only the old employees have.Bonuses range from 200 to [-] yuan, depending on individual performance. Those who have not asked for leave for a month can basically get [-] yuan. Those who work actively and often stay and work overtime can get it. It varies from four to five hundred.They don't have a time card machine here, so this bonus is given according to the performance of his boss to his employees.

Also, employees who have only come this month and have only worked for a few days, he also calculates their wages according to the number of days they work, so basically as long as they work with him, they can get paid for this day.

"Everyone will finish their work in a while, come to my place to collect wages." After typing out the salary slips, Gu Changning prepared the wages and asked people to notify everyone to come to him to receive wages when they are free.

Not long after the notice was sent out, some people came to him to collect his salary.

Everyone was very happy to get their wages. After the old employees were promoted to full-time employees, their salaries basically increased by several hundred. In addition to the bonuses they received this month, they got more than 2000 yuan.Although the new employees who came to work for a few days did not get much, they also got hundreds of dollars, so everyone was very happy.

Liu Jinlan was the last one to come to collect her salary.

"Sister Lan, you're here. I thought you didn't know how to get your salary, so I was thinking of calling you." Seeing Liu Jinlan's arrival, Gu Changning took out the last salary, handed it over, and said : "This is your salary last month. I will give you [-] yuan for your salary last month, and a bonus of [-] yuan. The total is [-] yuan. See if it's right."

"Did I pay too much?" Liu Jinlan didn't expect that she would get so much salary all of a sudden, so she reached out to pick it up a little hesitantly.

"Not much, it's what you should get. You've been working overtime recently, and the 500 yuan is your overtime pay and bonus." Gu Changning said with a smile.