The most important materials for building a house are three basic raw materials: bricks, tiles, and girders and purlins.

Jiao Tiezhu's budget items are very clear. The three-in, three-out mansion he designed for Chu Xintian has a total of twenty-seven rooms.

Next to the main room are three main rooms, two left and right transepts, seven back-roofed rooms, east and west wings, six inverted gatehouses, and other messy rooms, as well as a verandah connected in front of each room.

These require a lot of material.

Roughly calculated, bricks, tiles, beams, purlins, and other timber, these basic materials are worth 200 taels of silver.

Of course, in order to build these houses, it is necessary to pay not only for materials, but also for workers.

An ordinary craftsman needs at least seventy or eighty yuan a day, and the house that Chu Xintian's family wants to build cannot be less than 20 handicraftsmen working at the same time, so the worker's salary also needs a lot of silver, in addition, there are many other expenses, such as food expenses.

This is only the budget for the civil part of the foundation.

After the exterior has been built, it is also necessary to make furniture and decorate the interior, which is another expense.

Jiao Tiezhu added all the scattered budgets to Chu Xintian.

According to Jiao Tiezhu's budget, the entire house was to be built with four hundred and thirty taels of silver.

Chu Xintian felt that even if there were other houses that suddenly had to be built, five hundred taels of silver would be enough.

This price did not exceed Chu Xintian's budget.

Chu Xintian thinks so. Now she had nearly two thousand taels of silver in her hand. and set forth five hundred taels of silver to build a house, so that there may be a surplus.

Moreover, Chu Xintian felt that although the house he built was more expensive than an ordinary house, after the house was built, he did not need to increase other major expenses, and he could live for many years.

Chu Xintian thinks the price is okay. She led Jiao Tiezhu to the front and back of the house to survey the terrain, and asked Jiao Tiezhu to point out the direction of her new home.

Building a house is about feng shui. Jiao Tiezhu looked around, behind Chu Xintian's old house, about fifty meters away, they drew the east and west boundaries respectively, and the feng shui built by the mountain was the most suitable for building a house.

Jiao Tiezhu's thoughts were also in line with Chu Xintian's meaning, just in front of that North Mountain. The house was built right there, which made it easy for Mother Wolf and Little Ash to get in and out on weekdays.

After talking to Jiao Tiezhu, Chu Xintian felt that she could accept all the conditions, so she proposed to sign a contract with Jiao Tiezhu.

This is like signing a contract with Jiao Tiezhu, Chu Xintian built a house to find Jiao Tiezhu, not to build a house for someone else, of course Jiao Tiezhu was very happy.

They took out pen and paper, drafted a contract with the start time and details, and then asked the village head, Wang Dalu, to testify, and they signed the contract and took their fingerprints.

The three most important raw materials for building a house, such as bricks, tiles, beams, purlins, etc., are usually bought by craftsmen on their behalf, namely coke iron columns, who help to buy these materials.

Chu Xintian first gave Jiao Tiezhu one hundred and fifty taels of silver as a deposit for building a house, and asked him to buy materials.

"Master Jiao, I have a relative who can help me make wood for building a house, I will prepare it myself, you can help me buy bricks and tiles."

Chu Xintian has his own views on beams, purlins and other wood.

Chu Xintian felt that now her family was in Beishan, and Beishan had dense forests, where there were ready-made high-quality wood, so she didn't need to go out to buy it again.

Before Chu Xintian went up the mountain to collect medicine, she found many tall and straight spruce, pine and other trees, which were most suitable for building houses, beams and purlins.

Although Chu Xintian is not short of money now, since she can save money, why spend it

Now that the contract has been signed, Chu Xintian is now Jiao Tiezhu's boss. What she said, Jiao Tiezhu naturally wanted to agree. So he took the money, issued a receipt for Chu Xintian, and then went to the market to buy materials and find someone.

On the day of starting work, you must choose an auspicious day of the zodiac to please a good fortune, Wang Dalu helped Chu Xintian check the yellow calendar, and selected the eighth day of the next month.

Since there is still half a month to go, there should still be enough time, and at that time, Jiao Tiezhu can almost buy basic materials and find workers.

Chu Xintian is a person who does things vigorously and does not like to procrastinate.

In the past two days, Chu Xintian was very satisfied with the fact that he could talk to Jiao Tiezhu about building the building so smoothly.