Chapter 84: Measuring the Land and Building a House
"yes, let's build a new house!" Cui'er's excited eyes sparkled, and she looked at Lian Qingshan and nodded in response.
Cui'er saw that Lian Qingshan reacted, and continued in a good mood, "We are in this yard now, I think it's very good, but the east-west direction is a little narrow, if the big girl and the little tiger grow up in the future, or if we have children again, this house will not be enough to live in." ”
Cui'er pointed in the direction of the east, "Look over there, under the toon tree, the place over there is as smooth as this side, if you can build a big yard and build a row of main houses, and when our family has a large population in the future, we can build two rows of side houses, which are spacious and comfortable, wouldn't it be good?" ”
"Over there?" Lian Qingshan looked in the direction pointed by Cui'er, and remembered that the terrain of the open space in the east was very good, very flat, and the sun was very good, if he could build a house there, it would be good.
Cui'er's crisp voice continued to ring softly in Lian Qingshan's ears, and Lian Qingshan's mind involuntarily appeared the picture described by Cui'er, the big girl and the little tiger, as well as the children born to herself and Cui'er, the family sat happily in the yard, eating and laughing, and she and Cui'er were slowly growing old by snuggling up to each other, and it was so beautiful to think about it.
Thinking about it, even Qingshan's face brought a smile, "Well, build a yard over there, it's feasible!" ”
"Qingshan, then it's all up to you, it's going to be very hard to build a yard or a house!" Seeing that Lian Qingshan agreed with her intentions, Cui'er happily snuggled on Lian Qingshan's shoulder, and said with a gentle smile.
"What's the hard work, I have to thank you for earning so much silver." Even Qingshan looked at Cui'er's supple appearance, and his heart was as gentle as a pool of spring water, and he unconsciously said the words hidden in his heart.
When he said this, Lian Qingshan was stunned for a moment, and then quickly relieved, he was not without some awkwardness about Cui'er's ability to make money. A big man doesn't earn as much as a woman, which makes Lian Qingshan's heart very awkward for a while.
It's just that now that I can say this, I don't care too much about it in my heart, and now Cui'er earns a lot of money. In the future, I will work harder, and when I followed the general at the border pass, I also helped the general and his wife take care of the border industry or something, and I have done all these things.
Even Qingshan thought of this, smiled with relief, and hugged Cui'er's arm tighter by two points, Cui'er is such a beautiful and powerful woman, but she is dead set on herself, even when she was paralyzed on the kang at the beginning, she was so good to herself. Loved by such an excellent woman. Lian Qingshan had to say that he was very satisfied and proud in his heart.
When the two of them decided to build a house, they felt as if grass had grown in their hearts, and they were full of thoughts about the house. The two of them combined, anyway, they just picked tea. There are still some days before I can pick it again, so it's better to take advantage of the fact that I am building a house now.
Because there is only one family on this hillside, there is no need to make a lot of effort in the place, and you can build a house by picking a good place and leveling the ground a little, and you don't even need to talk to anyone.
In addition to the land, the wood, bricks and tiles used to build the house are major things. It's also a big part of the money, and there are manpower or something, whether you want to hire a bricklayer or carpenter or something, Cui'er doesn't know, and how many people will be invited to help, Cui'er doesn't know, these two eyes are black. What should I do?
Cui'er was worried that she was not good, so she deliberately took Lian Qingshan to run to Aunt Lu's house, and with Aunt Lu's experience in the village for so long, she recommended a sincere bricklayer to Cui'er, and talked to Cui'er and Lian Qingshan about who was good at craftsmanship and who was hard-working. It really gave Cui'er a lot of good advice, saving a lot of things.
Returning from Aunt Lu's house, Cui'er was budgeting while packing up the family's silver. Cui'er specially inquired with Aunt Lu about the price of bricks and tiles, bricks are generally two big bucks, two big bucks and three tiles, and if you want to build a three-room big tile house, you must have at least more than 10,000 green bricks, plus thousands of tiles, which is not counting the part of the wall, if you count the wall, the green bricks have to add at least five or six thousand.
In this way, 10,000 bricks are 5,000 yuan, 1,000 yuan is one tael of silver, and the green bricks of the house alone need five taels of silver, and if you count the wall, you have to add three taels of silver. In the case of tiles, even if it is 3,000 tiles, it will cost two taels of silver, and nothing else is counted in this house, just the blue brick tiles add up to ten taels of silver.
If you add wood, labor, and furniture decoration after the house is built, Cui'er thought about it and made a budget of thirty taels of silver. After returning with the silver of tea, in addition to the two hundred taels of silver from Lian Qingshan, there is about fifty taels in his hand, even if these thirty taels are spent, it is enough to last for a while, and when the next batch of tea comes out, the silver will be earned back.
"Qingshan, you said about building a house, do you want to tell the village chief?" After Cui'er counted the money, she began to think about other things.
"It's okay to talk to the village chief, so that someone can find trouble when you get it." Lian Qingshan thought about it and said.
"Well, then I'll prepare something, let's take the time to go to the village chief's house and talk to the village chief." Cui'er thought about it, cut off a strip of meat bought from the town, and rummaged through a piece of ruler from the kang cabinet, and asked Lian Qingshan to take it to the village chief's house.
Gushantun is a poor place, usually each family's livelihood is to go to the mountains to hunt, go to the town to do odd jobs or something, as the village chief of a poor village, naturally there is no oil and water, but compared to the people next to him, the life of the village chief's family is still slightly better. Just look at the tall and neat tiled house, as well as the four big fat pigs in the pigsty in the yard, you can see it.
"Village chief, our house is very dilapidated, I plan to take advantage of the warm weather to build a new house, and talk to you all the time." Lian Qingshan entered the village chief's house, and when he saw the tall tiled house, he compared it with his own thatched adobe house, and the idea of building a tiled house became clearer in his heart. He handed the meat and ruler in his hand to the village chief's daughter-in-law, who is often called the ninth aunt in the village, and then said respectfully to the village chief.
"Up the house? Good thing, good thing! The village chief said with a smile on his face, he saw the piece of meat that Qingshan handed to his daughter-in-law just now, it was fat and oily, and it looked like it was three or four catties, and the ruler looked like it should be able to make one or two clothes, which was really a generous gift.
The village chief originally thought that there was something difficult to ask for himself, and he wanted to refuse to give up the meat and ruler. If you don't refuse, you're afraid that you won't be able to do it, and your heart is hanging in mid-air. Now when he hears that it is a house, his heart is relieved, and there is no harm to him in building a house. The village chief stroked his beard and said with a smile, "But what can I help with?" ”
"It's not a big deal, the vacant land next to my house that I used to get up from the house, I don't need to find another place, I just keep telling you, when the house is up, I have to help you when you get the deed!" Even Qingshan said with a smile, Ben didn't need the village chief to do anything, so he naturally told the truth.
"It turns out that this is my duty as a village chief. When do you get the house, and when the time comes, let our family Yinsheng also go to help you with a few jobs. When the village chief heard that he only needed to help with the deed, he completely let go of his heart, which was what he should have done, and he was familiar with it. Without any pressure, he waved his hand and said with a smile.
"Thank you very much!" Even Qingshan thanked him again and again, he told the village chief about this, and it can be regarded as crossing the bright road, and he can start to spread out boldly when he goes back.
Lian Qingshan chatted with the village chief for a few more words, and then came out of the village chief's house, according to the location of the bricklayer's house that Aunt Lu said. I went to the bricklayer.
When I arrived at the bricklayer's house, I saw the bricklayer in his forties, who looked a little thin. The bricklayer and his three apprentices happened to finish building other houses and resting at home, when Lian Qingshan said that they wanted to build a brick house. Then he happily agreed. The bricklayer was also an anxious man, and before he talked about the salary, he said that he would go back to the backer with Lian Qingshan first, ready to see the place first.
"When we get to the place later, let's measure whether the place is big enough. Tell me what kind of house you want to build, if I can build it, I will help you build it, if I don't have it, I can't fool you. The bricklayer said on the way, and his honesty made Lian Qingshan's trust in him two more points.
When Lian Qingshan brought the bricklayer to the house, Cui'er had already fed the chickens and pigs, and took the big girl and the little tiger to play in the yard.
"Our family thinks of a big yard, so we use this piece of land, and if we want to build a house, we will first build three main houses, and then set aside a place for the east and west wings, and if we want to use it in the future, we will build the house again." Lian Qingshan pointed to this piece of land and said.
"Well, if you build three main rooms, plus the east and west wings, this place is big enough that you don't need too many people. On my side, I and my three apprentices, all of whom have the skill of building houses, count as one share, and when the time comes, they will all go together to build houses, and you can find a few strong laborers to help with the work. The bricklayer rubbed his hands involuntarily, with some excitement in his eyes, he could build a brick house, and his hands were itching!
The bricklayer measured the place with the rope he was carrying, discussed with Lian Qingshan and his wife where to build the yard and how big the house should be, and marked the location of the house and the courtyard wall with stones or something, and felt that there was no problem, so he discussed the salary and went home.
The bricklayer's wages are not much, but there are also a lot of less, the bricklayer plus three apprentices, a total of four people, the whole yard is built, within two months, the food is not covered is four taels of silver, not the food is not covered is five taels of silver, Cui'er thought that she would ask someone to help with her own food, so she agreed with the bricklayer on the price of four taels of silver to eat or not.
Even Qingshan, if he got a bricklayer, knew that he needed to find a few more strong laborers to build a house together, so he went around the village again and invited familiar villagers to help build the house. Here, naturally, Lian Qingshan's good brother Fengfeng, and the yam of Aunt Chunzhu's family, the eldest son of Lu Damiang's family, and the village chief's Yinsheng, plus Lian Qingshan and Lian Qinghe, this manpower should be enough.
The people in the mountains don't have a big livelihood, they just rely on the mountains to eat and hunt or something, so even in the middle of summer, the men in the village don't have much work to do.
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Today's update is late, sorry sorry~
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