Ge Laosi is an honest and authentic rural man.

After the land rights were confirmed in 97, 30 acres of cotton were contracted from the village.

In the past few years, the scene was not good, the price of cotton was low, and there was not much money.

However, this year, the state adjusted its tone, and the price of cotton rebounded, but a lot of surplus money was saved.

Now that the farm work in the cotton fields is done, and the eldest son is getting married at the end of the year, he wants to build a new house.

Had dinner.

After moving the things in the old house, the whole family sat under the eaves and chatted while taking off the corn cob.

"Dad, I called people in the village today, Dachun and several of their masters have returned to the Northeast, Xizi and Da Mao are at home, Uncle (Ge Feng) can come, Xiaotian was in trouble yesterday, and I don't know where to go. The eldest son, Ge Lei, said in a muffled voice.

Ge Lao lit a cigarette and frowned, "What about your second master?"

"A few days ago, I cut my corn stalk and cut off my leg, and I was lying at home. ”

"Then you buy five catties of eggs tomorrow and take a look!"

"Well, good!"

"In this case, you, me, your eldest uncle, second uncle, second uncle, third uncle, Da Mao, if Xiaotian can come, it will be eight gray workers, which is enough. But the master of building the wall is only your uncle and Xizi, and the two of them are afraid that they will have to cover it for two months, not to mention that your uncle has to go back to the construction site after planting wheat, which is not good!" Ge Laosi took a cigarette and looked sad.

"My dad will also build a wall, I'll call him tomorrow?"

"My husband is seventy years old, don't toss around!"

"Why don't you go to another village and ask?" Ge Lei suggested.

"It's not a parent, it's enough to choke someone! The time is not right, if you wait until the end of the year to build it!"

"Xiao Lei Lala got married at the beginning of the month, why is it too late at the end of the year?!" the fourth aunt was a little anxious.

"It should have been built last year!"

"You had money last year?"

Ge Laosi was annoyed and angry, and glared and said, "You mother-in-law••••••"

Bang bang......

"Fourth uncle, open the door!"

"It's coming!" Ge Lei got up and opened the door: "It's Xiaotian!"

"What is he doing here, he eats and drinks all day long, and he shouldn't be called when he builds a house!" muttered Ge's fourth daughter-in-law.

"Hey, you mother-in-law, I'll whip your big mouth•••••• Xiaotian, why do you still bring things?

"Haha, it's a hot day, drink it as a drink!" Ge Xiaotian finished distributing the beer, and handed the cigarettes one by one, "Fourth uncle, I heard that our family built a house?"

"Yes, I asked Xiao Lei to invite you in the afternoon, did you go out to play?"

"Alas, I have some work outside, how can I have time to go home after being busy!"

After Ge Xiaotian finished speaking, the three members of Ge Laosi's family glanced at each other, full of suspicion and contempt, but they didn't dare to show it.

Who to bluff, if you are able to do the right thing, your old sow can go up the tree!

However, Ge Laosi understood that this was to shirk and help build the house, and squeezed out a smile:

"Little God, if you're busy, forget it, we don't have a shortage of people. ”

"Hey, what are you talking about, Fourth Uncle! Your house is my family's house, how can you not come!" Ge Xiaotian took out his notepad and picked up a pencil: "Fourth Uncle, how are people looking for it?"

Ge Laosi was a little suspicious, and he didn't understand what the little overlord in the village was going to do, but after all, he was his eldest nephew, and said truthfully:

"There are only two masters, and your father will return to the construction site in a few days. ”

"That's it!" Ge Xiaotian looked around the courtyard.

Cement, sand, white ash, red bricks••••••

The materials are almost ready.

Combined with the two rows of brick stacks in the alley, there should be 70,000 or 80,000 red bricks, and about six houses will be built.

At this time, pouring roofs was not popular, and they were all prefabricated cement slabs.

Demolishing houses, laying foundations, building walls, putting cement slabs, capping, plastering, etc•••••••

If there are only two mason masters, work overtime, the construction period will be two months less!

Ge Xiaotian knew it in his heart.

"Fourth uncle, how about I settle accounts for you?"

"Huh?" Ge Laosi was a little puzzled, "What's the account?"

"Let's build a house, the ash worker and the mason master, why do we need ten people, right?"

"Yes!"

"Ten people, one less cigarette a day, building a house is a festive event, you can't buy a bad one, right?"

Ge Laosi nodded.

"Forget about the big chicken Hademen harvest, let's use the red general, the name is festive and domineering, four pieces of five, and one is forty-five!"

"If you drink wine, drink Lanling Daqu, it's not good, six pieces in a bottle, why do you need five bottles a day, right?"

"Three pieces of chicken, five pieces of pork, bean sprouts, cucumber•••••• fresh lotus root•••••• celery••••••"

"The construction period is counted as two months••••••"

"You must also bring your own mud trowels, clay boards, brick knives, ••••••."

"Rent steel shelves, pumps, ••••••"

"Tamping machine •••••• 80 in one hour"

Ge Xiaotian has prepared his homework today.

In this era, there was no contractor to build a house in the village.

One is that building a house without inviting people seems impersonal.

The second is that the salary is too expensive!

Twenty small workers a day, forty masonry masters a day, overtime is counted, grinding foreign workers are lazy, whether it is the quality or the speed of building a house, it is not as good as their own people.

Therefore, if you want to win the work of the fourth uncle's family, you must use a roundabout strategy.

"Just these miscellaneous things add up, not counting the materials, how can you build this house for seven or eight thousand!"

Ge Laosi took a sullen puff of cigarette and said abruptly, "Seven or eight thousand is not enough, I expect ten thousand!"

Ge Xiaotian nodded and didn't speak, but turned the notepad to the last page, revealing several hand-painted house types.

Generally speaking, it is popular in rural areas to have three large rooms, that is, the hall is connected with the bedroom, with a side room on the side, or three rooms are connected together.

If the fourth uncle builds six new houses, not considering the kitchen and toilet, it will definitely be two sets of big three rooms.

He has one set with the fourth aunt, and Ge Lei uses one set for marriage.

Spacious, bright, guests can see the bed.

There's no privacy, there's nothing special.

"Fourth uncle, look at this, how is the design of the two halls and four rooms?"

"Oh, I'll take a look!" Ge Laosi took the notepad and carefully compared: "Oh, this house is beautiful! But this building method is a bit brick-consuming!"

"How much is the brick? This house is no different from the city, fashionable, exquisite, atmospheric, and faced!"

"Besides, the big three rooms are fifty square meters, and the two sets are one hundred square meters!

Ge Xiaotian said, picked up a pencil and described: "This is the four or eight load-bearing walls, this is the three seven side walls, and the others are separated by two or four walls, or one or eight walls, one or two walls••••••

"Red bricks will be added to 10,000 yuan at most, one dime and six yuan per piece, counting cement, sand and steel bars, and the total material budget will be 3,000 yuan more!"

"This is equivalent to 3,000 yuan to buy a 30-square-meter house, how suitable!"

"And the garden is so big••••••

The fourth aunt frowned, "If you occupy the yard, how will you dry the grain in the future?"

"We don't grow grain at home!" Ge Xiaotian kicked the corn cob, "It's all contracted cotton, what kind of corn do you plant? When the wheat is ripe, it is put in the wheat field, and when the cotton is ripe, it is also used in the wheat field!"

Ge Laosi nodded, "That's the truth!"

Ge Xiaotian closed the notepad, "Fourth uncle and fourth aunt Lei, if you say, if you don't have to contract labor for 8,000 yuan, don't worry about the rest, and help you build this apartment in a month, what do you think?"

"Surely!" the fourth aunt was the first to speak.

Ge Laosi took a deep puff of cigarette and nodded, "Make sure you don't lose money!"

Ge Xiaotian rubbed his hands and said with a smile on his face: "I've got this job!"

"Huh??" the family of three was stunned.