Qi Shufang wanted to build a house, but she didn't know the market, so she had to ask Zhang Cuihua.

Zhang Cuihua's eyes widened and said, "You want to build a house?"

Qi Shufang spread her hands and said: "Our house is worried about being crushed by snow in winter, worried about rain leakage in summer, and has to cut thatch and repair the roof every year, so that the thatched roof is rotten and can't help the rain and snow." I thought, I still have a bit of hunting ability, these two wild boars are handed in, at the end of the year, no matter what, I can get some money, Jianguo can also save some money, I plan to write to Jianguo in a few days, let him save the money, save for a year or two, buy some bricks and tiles to build the house. ”

She was not the one who picked the door in the original body, and when she looked through her memories and learned that the thatched house was overwhelmed, she immediately decided to build a new house.

Zhang Cuihua calculated the amount of money she paid for pork, and there were indeed several hundred, and nodded: "It's good, the house is the foundation of the family, didn't the eldest brother and sister-in-law also build a house first, and then buy a bicycle? ”

She suddenly remembered that Qi Shufang said that she wanted to buy bricks and tiles, and couldn't help but say, "You want to build a brick house?"

"Yes, if you want to build it, you can build it sturdy, but it depends on how much money you can save. Qi Shufang nodded, with a confident face, "I work hard with Jianguo to earn money, and live more frugally, it's not that I can't do it." I just don't know how many materials I have to prepare. ”

Zhang Cuihua said with admiration on her face: "It makes sense, Jianguo works outside, dozens a month, hundreds a year, your pork also has hundreds, and your expenses are small, if you do the math, it is enough for you to build a house." I tell you, if you build three brick houses, you have to prepare 10,000 bricks and 1,000 tiles, and 10,000 bricks and 1,000 bricks and tiles are talking about three brick houses. In addition, it is necessary to prepare stones for laying the foundation, wood for beams, and boards and rods for tiling, and it is possible to lay them on them without using thatch, straw and reeds, but they are not as effective as laying boards. Oh, and you have to prepare white ash, stone powder, and yellow mud for building walls. ”

"Isn't there cement there?"

"Cement? What is that? I haven't heard of it. Zhang Cuihua has never heard of it, "We use more yellow mud to build walls here, and mixing white ash with stone powder and yellow mud is already the best material." ”

Yes, Qi Shufang remembered that cement had not yet been popularized at this time, and things such as cement boards, cement rods, cement reinforced floor slabs, and cement roads were even more impossible, and it was probably more than 20 years before they were widely used.

Qi Shufang kept them in mind one by one and asked how much it would cost.

"If you buy bricks and tiles at this time, the price must be more expensive, because the weather is warm, and you can build a house. The best time to buy bricks and tiles is in winter, when it is cheaper. Red bricks are cheaper, about two cents and a half or two cents and six pieces, green bricks are a little more expensive, three cents a piece, green bricks are better than red bricks, and you have to prepare 300 yuan for 10,000 bricks. I don't remember the price of the tiles, but they used to be two or three cents. There are a limited number of boards, white limestone powder is also limited, and other stones and wood do not need to spend much money, go to the mountains to pick up stones, wood should have trees in our house, enough to make beams. The salary has to be in the dozens, and you have to save 400 yuan. ”

Qi Shufang felt that she had to prepare more than five hundred yuan, and now she had more than two hundred in her hand, and she could still divide a few hundred at the end of the year, and He Jianguo would send more money in a few months, which would be more than enough.

Just in case, it's better to make more money.

Qi Shufang borrowed a bicycle from Wang Chunling the next day, saying that it was too far to go to the mountains and wanted to speed up.

Qi Shufang didn't plan to take the prey home to clean up, this time she brought iron pots, knives, matches, etc., all in the back basket.

With bicycles, the speed of entering the mountain is more than doubled.

Qi Shufang first pushed the bicycle up the mountain along the mountain road, locked in the scope of his mental power, He Jian's family cherished the bicycle very much, polished it as bright as new, and brought a lock.

Qi Shufang specially chose the place where those people were chased by wild boars, just to hunt wild boars, a wild boar can be sold for one or two hundred, it is very cost-effective, and it is fast to save money, but unfortunately she has been wandering around the mountains for a long time, and she has not encountered any trace of wild boars, and her spiritual power is not so large that she can cover the entire mountain, so she can only push her bicycle to other mountains and hunt some pheasants, ducks and hares.

Pork is the most expensive, wild boar meat and pork are about the same price, occasionally a little cheaper, chicken, duck and rabbit meat are much cheaper, because with bones, pheasants, ducks, and rabbits are the same, only half the price of pork.

Looking at a large amount of game, Qi Shufang expressed her dissatisfaction and caught a few more big carp.

Disemboweled, belly, hairy, and skinned, leaving forty or fifty catties of net meat, can be sold for more than ten or twenty yuan, is it worth a trip to the non-staple food purchase station? Qi Shufang completely forgot that her husband's monthly salary is only more than 50 yuan, and she earns more than 10 or 20 yuan a day.

Qi Shufang piled up a few stones as a stove, put an iron pot, cut the dry grass around and picked up dry branches to make a fire, and treated the game with hot water. She has quick hands and good eyesight, and in less than an hour, she has all the game processed. In addition to rabbit skin, which can be used after nitrate, chicken and duck feathers are thrown all over the ground, and they are wet when shedding, and they cannot be thrown into the fire.

After weighing the weight, about fifty catties, tied with hemp rope and hung on the branches to dry, Qi Shufang stewed a wild duck to satisfy her hunger.

When I was stewing wild ducks, I didn't forget to pack up four large carp.

When she had eaten and drunk enough, the water on the game was almost dry, and it was neatly put away in a basket with a few wild plantain leaves to prevent leakage.

Qi Shufang carried the basket on her back, walked to the bicycle, unlocked it, and was about to go down the mountain to the foot of the mountain to the back of the mountain, and went directly to the county seat from the road over there. The reason why she did this was that the supply and marketing cooperatives of the commune were too close to the Helou brigade, less than ten miles away, and she was worried that people would bump into her, so she wanted to go to the county seat to sell.

Even on a bicycle, it took Qi Shufang more than an hour to get to the county seat.

The county seat is very, very simple, the houses are short, but they are several times stronger than the Helou brigade, most of them are mud houses, there are some brick houses with blue bricks and tiles, and occasionally there are two-story small buildings, bricks, tiles, wood and stone structures, the ground is a gravel road, potholes, bumps, and finally found the non-staple food purchase station.

The non-staple food purchasing station in the county town is more high-end than the supply and marketing cooperatives of the commune, with several counters, divided into categories, one counter for eggs, one counter for duck eggs, pork, mutton, chicken, etc., each counter has someone specifically responsible for purchasing, as well as live chickens, ducks and geese in cages.

Qi Shufang locked the bicycle, and when she went in, there was a staff member who sent the purchased meat and eggs to the freezer.

Qi Shufang is beautiful, even if she is busy for most of the day, she is still grizzled, and it is still difficult to hide her appearance, and immediately someone came to ask her what she wanted to sell, and said that she would buy any non-staple food here.

"Our family caught a little pheasant, duck and hare in the mountains, and caught a few fish, I cleaned them up and sent them over, what kind of price did a few comrades see these?" Qi Shufang didn't say a word, put the back basket on the chicken counter, and took out a few game, which attracted the attention of many people, and the staff also quickly took the scales over, passed the scales one by one and recorded them.

"Pheasants are twenty-four pounds and two taels, four cents and one pound, a total of nine yuan, six cents and eight cents. Wild ducks are eighteen pounds and nine taels, two cents and eighty-one pounds, a total of five pieces, two cents and nine cents. The hare is 19 catties and 4 taels, 3 cents and 21 catties, a total of six pieces, 2 cents and 8 cents. The price of such a big carp is a little more expensive, two cents and eighty-one catties, and thirteen catties for a total of three yuan, six cents and four. A total of twenty-four pieces and eight cents. "The staff acted quickly, and the accounts were also fast, and the results were quickly obtained.

Qi Shufang left the non-staple food purchase station with the more than 20 yuan, first put the iron pots, spoons and other tools hanging on the bicycle into the back basket, and then pushed the bicycle to a two-story building.

This is the only department store in the county, and the original body and He Jianguo came to buy wedding supplies.

After storing the bicycle, Qi Shufang couldn't help but step in and take a look.