Chapter 90: Closing the Accounts
Since the house has been beamed, the house is really a day, the roof has been set up in less than two days, and another day, the tiles have been paved, and then the windows and the kang stove have been built, and in less than ten days, the new house of Cui'er's family has been built openly and brightly.
The house was built quickly, and the silver was also spent on the price of running water, Cui'er looked at the house almost built, so she sorted out the accounts of the money spent on building a house at home, and she didn't know if she didn't know it, she was really shocked when she saw it, she didn't expect that her house had just been built, and even the furniture hadn't been beaten, so she had spent so much silver.
Cui'er sat cross-legged on the kang, with the small oil lamp on the kang table, and began to count the silver one by one. The big girl took the little tiger to play next to the table, and Zhaocai didn't know where to get a pine tower, hugged it with two front paws, squatted on the windowsill, and played with pine nuts while looking at the situation in the house.
This house is almost finished, and it will be done in two or three days if it requires bricklayers and labor, and the money must be taken care of first, and then it will be better to give it one by one.
Cui'er's family built a house, and the land was ready-made and did not cost money, which saved a lot of expenses, you know, whether it is ancient or modern, the homestead used to build a house is a large amount of expenditure.
In addition to the land, there are still a lot of places that need to spend money, the bricks and tiles for building the house, the labor that comes is a lot of money, plus the meat is seen every day for eating, the dry rice steamed buns are enough, and the wine and meat are when the beams are treated.
Let's say that the bricks and tiles used to build the house, two green bricks for one penny, Cui'er's family used nearly 20,000 pieces, and Cui'er's family also used more than 3,000 pieces of tiles for two pennies, but fortunately, Cui'er's family used a large amount. The old man who sold bricks and tiles wiped the change for Cui'er's house, but this expenditure alone was enough for ten taels of silver.
Cui'er sighed and made a heavy note on the account book with a charcoal stick. The cost of bricks and tiles, ten taels. The cost of this brick and tile, because it is to be knotted every time the bricks are pulled, there is no balance to be paid for one knot at a time, and you only need to remember the money each time.
In addition to bricks and tiles, buying wood is also a big expense, Cui'er wrote the word wood in the account book, and then wrote five taels of silver behind the wood.
The five taels of silver were spent mainly on the beams of the three houses. Cui'er and LoveMountain are planning to build the house better. It is made of green bricks and tiles, which is strong and decent, but there are more places to pay attention to than thatched houses.
Just like this big beam, the roof of the thatched house is not heavy because it is all mud and grass. Therefore, it is okay to use the big beam wood with the thickness of the arm, but it is really not good, and it is possible to cut down a similar tree from the mountain, and it can be used with a little toss, the reason is that the thatched house is not strong, and it will not take long. Without waiting for the girders to rot, the walls of the house were already gone.
But Cui'er's house is built as a brick house, thousands of tiles are not light, if you only get an arm-thick beam, you don't have to wait for a long time for the wood to rot or something, just those thousands of green tiles. It's enough to crush such a girder.
It is precisely because of this that this beam wood is very important, and the bricklayer Master Yang has spent a lot of effort to take care of this root for several years from the hands of another family who wants to start a house but has an accident and has no silver. I bought the girder wood that was well dried and painted.
Because the family is short of silver, although the beam wood is sold for five taels of silver, although it is more expensive, there are a lot of things that are included, in addition to the girder of the thin beam, purlins, etc., all of the price is folded into the girder, and the wood used for the kang edge and the window is also included.
This girder wood is also a silver goods, and there is no need to spend any more money, Cui'er will continue to keep the manual account after the wood account is recorded.
Thinking of artificiality, Cui'er's heart was a little hesitant, she said to Lian Qingshan, who was sitting on the kang weaving wicker baskets, "Qingshan, let's build a house, how can this labor be counted?" ”
"How do you calculate labor? Didn't you say before, Master Yang plus three apprentices, a total of four taels of silver? Lian Qingshan was a little confused when he heard Cui'er ask.
"Yes, when I told Master Yang at that time, we were three main houses, and later added three upside-down seats and courtyard walls, and Master Yang didn't ask us for much money, I totaled, Master Yang built this house well, should we give more money to express it?" Cui'er put down the pen and paper in her hand, leaned over to Lian Qingshan and said.
"Give a little more money to sign?" Lian Qingshan chewed Cui'er's words carefully, and after a while, he nodded seriously, "That's exactly how it should be, when I was outside, if I did a good job, the general would reward me with some silver, and I was rewarded with silver, and I was happy in my heart." ”
"Yes, Master Yang, they have done a good job, our house is built strongly, and we can live for many more years in the future, so let's still make money." Cui'er was very happy when she saw that even Qingshan had reacted so quickly to the idea that she wanted to give Master Yang more money.
Lian Qingshan is the man in charge of his own family, although he has so many modern experiences to learn from, but he can't do too out-of-the-ordinary things in this world of male superiority and inferiority, but if Lian Qingshan is in front of him, it will be different.
"That's how I totaled, we don't give much, tomorrow when Master Yang and his apprentices come, let's give each of them a small amount of money, which is also like this." Cui'er said to Lian Qingshan, her eyes shining brightly, with the sharpness and confidence that she carefully concealed on weekdays.
There are still two or three days to finish the work in her own house, but she will give out the reward money tomorrow, Cui'er actually has a small calculation in her heart, give the reward money first, and in the remaining two days, Master Yang will also collect it with all her heart. This is the truth in the little story that Cui'er saw before, if the service staff expects a tip or something, then when they serve, they will be more thoughtful than those without a tip.
"Okay, listen to you!" Lian Qingshan looked at Cui'er under the light, with a radiant spirit. was soft in his heart, reluctant to brush Cui'er's intentions, and felt that four coins of silver was not much, so he readily agreed.
It was recognized by Lian Qingshan. Cui'er took out the money box and took out two ingots and two taels of silver from it, which was to be paid to Master Yang, and it was given to Master Yang after everything was completed. In addition to these four taels of silver, there are also four small strings of money, which Cui'er is going to give out tomorrow.
On the artificial side, except for the three apprentices of the bricklayer and the bricklayer, a total of four taels of silver was paid, plus Cui'er was satisfied with the house. One of them also rewarded a small amount of money, a total of four taels and four pieces of silver, and the people who helped in the work in the village also had to pay for their wages.
"We've been building this house for more than 20 days, and with the time to finish it later, we'll be okay for 30 days. For such a long time, it was twenty big dollars per person a day, and six hundred big dollars per person. Cui'er put aside the silver slip she had prepared for Master Yang, and then counted the money to be paid to the laborers who helped.
There are a total of five strong laborers in the village to help, namely Yinhuan's husband Fengshou, Aunt Lu's eldest son Shuzi, Aunt Chunzhu's eldest son Yam, Yin Sheng of the village chief's family and Lian Qingshan's younger brother Lian Qinghe, plus Dong and Yinhuan, who help cook and take care of the children, a total of seven people.
"In the strength of the labor, you can prepare the harvest, the trees, the yams, and the money for the birth of Yin. Qinghe told me that he was here to help our family, and he didn't need money. ”
"What did Qinghe tell you? Brother and sister, did you say anything? When Cui'er heard Lian Qingshan say this, her impression of Lian Qinghe was better. Cui'er's heart is like a mirror, even if Qinghe says that he doesn't want money, he will give the money himself. Even if you don't look at the face of Lian Qinghe and Dong, and look at the two well-behaved children Da Mao and Er Mao, Cui'er has to give them the money.
Cui'er had always felt that even Qinghe and his wife were the masters who wanted money to die, and her own brother was injured in order to save him. You have to give money to eat and drink, and now that my brother's family is building a house, if they still lick their faces and ask for money, that's what they can do.
"He didn't tell his siblings." Lian Qingshan was silent for a moment, and then continued, obviously realizing that what he just said was difficult to achieve, Lian Qingshan said this, and the smile on his face was a little sneering.
Cui'er looked at the expression on Lian Qingshan's face a little stiff, and continued as if she didn't see it, "Qingshan, our family's conditions are okay now, but Qinghe doesn't have any livelihood, since we all give money to the people next to us, can we still give your own brother?" Although I don't like the Dong family a little, but this code is one yard, and it should be regarded as if this money is for Da Mao and Er Mao. ”
"Well, okay, just do as you say!" When Lian Qingshan heard Cui'er's words, he looked up at Cui'er suddenly, and saw that there was no displeasure on her face, so he relieved his heart and smiled at Cui'er innocently.
"Don't worry!" Cui'er said that when she invited someone before, the price she agreed was 20 yuan per person per day, and she worked for a total of 30 days, which added up to 42 yuan of silver.
Because two of these people were husband and wife, Cui'er simply took two silver ingots of one tael, and then two small strings of money, and the remaining three people were six small strings of copper coins each.
The labor cost is calculated to this point, it is almost the same, Cui'er put out a large pile of silver and copper coins that flashed brightly, only to feel a pain in her heart, this money is really spent!
After the labor expenses were put together and the money was put away, Cui'er wrote down the miscellaneous expenses on paper, and it was clear that less than a month had passed, and after the accounts were calculated, a full page of the account book had not been written.
Bricks, tiles, wood, labor, plus the food expenses of one or two and a half dollars of silver on the day of the beam, and the cost of meat meals every day also cost one or two silver, which adds up to more than twenty-six taels of silver, which does not count the silver such as buying firecrackers and candy at home.
"God, we've spent more than twenty-six taels of silver now!" Cui'er looked at the numbers on the ledger and was stunned, and then looked back at the remaining silver in the money box, if the artificial money was settled again, there would only be a few silver ingots left in the money box.
"We built a house, originally only planned to spend thirty taels of silver, this house has just been built, the furniture has not yet been beaten, it has already cost twenty-six taels, if you count the kang mat of almost one tael of silver, as well as kang cabinets, board cabinets, kitchen pots and pans, etc., these thirty taels of silver really can't be beaten." Cui'er sighed and said, her flesh hurting a lot.
"It's okay, when the house is built, I'll go up the mountain a few times to earn more money and come back to supplement the family." Lian Qingshan held Cui'er's hand and comforted softly, miraculously making Cui'er's heart much better.
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