"While everyone is here, Lizheng, can the bricklayer be found? Let's talk about wages and materials, and let's start building a house. ”

Do things while the iron is hot, the two elders of the Chen family are still there, and they can be a supervisor.

Mrs. Chen Qi nodded, "The Qin bricklayer's family has just added a grandson, and his son is guarding the baby, so he must be at home, so call the Qin family to ask about the situation." ”

Chen Lizheng couldn't raise his head in front of the clan elder because of his mother-in-law's swallowing of his nephew's silver, he was a little weak-hearted, so he wanted to handle the Mu family's house building a better place, and he stopped his tongue, so he said, "Yes, I'll call someone to call Qin bricklayers to come." ”

He walked to the backyard, "Sanya, go to Qin Bricklayer's house to find your second brother Qin, and say that someone wants to build a house, I will ask him about his salary." ”

A girl about ten years old put down the broom, answered with a crisp sound, and ran out of the backyard door.

Chen Li is returning to the main house to accompany the guests.

Everyone talked for a while, and after waiting for almost a moment, Chen Lizheng's third daughter, Sanya, led a middle-aged man in his forties and a young man to come.

The two looked very similar, both were tall men, with swarthy square faces, and wore the short clothes of ordinary peasant men.

"Brother Qin, are you here? There is a new couple who want to build a house in the village, and the salary is something, so you father and son tell them about it. Chen Lizheng pointed at Mu Jinyan and Su Qingqing.

Mu Jinyan stood up and arched his hand towards the father and son, "I want to build a house in the next family, and I am tired of the two of you." ”

Su Qingqing also stood up, "We chose the location of the house at the west end of the village, a main house, two side roofs to build a brick house, and two more wooden houses, a kitchen, a storehouse, and a livestock room are also covered with wood. Courtyard walls are made of wood or bamboo. ”

She said the request according to the standards of ordinary people in the village.

Although, building a solid brick house is done once and for all.

The price of wooden houses, bamboo houses, and earthen houses is also cheap, but three or five taels of silver can build more than a dozen rooms.

But it has to be repaired every year, and the earthen houses are more afraid of heavy rains, and they collapse when it rains heavily.

Early this morning, when she followed the old man to find Chen Lizheng, she had already inquired with the old man about the approximate cost of building a house.

All the houses like Lizheng's house are brick houses, and the cost is about 20 taels.

She had about ninety taels on hand, enough to build a large courtyard that was even more luxurious than Lizheng's house.

But she wasn't going to do that.

The family is from outside, and they have no relatives here.

They don't have any helpers.

She is a woman, the man is a weak scholar, there are many children in the family, and the house is too ornate, which is easy to attract thieves and jealousy.

The old man said that in this village of less than 100 households, there are no more than 10 houses with all the big brick houses.

Most people's homes are basically one or two brick houses, with a few wooden houses and bamboo houses.

There are also a few wooden houses or mud houses made of rammed earth with thatched roofs.

When the children are older, and their whole family has a status in the local area, it is not too late to build a brick house, and now, there is a place that can shelter from the wind and rain.

Mu Jinyan didn't care about anything, and no matter what Su Qingqing said, he agreed.

Qin Bricklayer's father and son frowned, "That place, ......"

As he spoke, he shook his head.

Su Qingqing hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with that place?" ”

"Oh, what my dad means is that the place is not flat enough, there are puddles and soil slopes, and the land must be leveled before the house can be built, and it will take about ten days to complete the land alone, plus the house and the preparation materials, it will be completed in a month and a half at the earliest, and it will have to be delayed in case of rain." The son of the Qin bricklayer replied.

In a mature village, it is impossible to find a flat location to build a house.

The good place has long been divided up by the villagers who came early.

She, a latecomer from outside, can only find a corner to build a house.

"Cheng, no problem, then the salary ......" She looked at the father and son, hoping not too much.

"We are doing hard work, and we have to work under the sun, naturally we can't compare with those who work part-time, one hundred and twenty a day, the price that my father and son ask for is the fairest in this neighborhood, besides, they are all from the village, we won't ask for a high price." Qin bricklayer said.

Su Qingqing looked at Chen Lizheng, "Lizheng, look, is this salary ......, a little expensive?" We have a lot of children, and this is another tiger......"

She didn't know anything about the wages of this period, and she didn't know how to bargain.

If you don't bargain, you will be slaughtered by the villagers as rich people in the future, or you will be bullied as fools.

Worried that Chen Li was too lazy to take care of things, she immediately brought up Huzi.

Huzi was looking at Chen Lizheng.

Chen Lizheng felt ashamed of Huzi in his heart, and wanted to solve the matter of the house quickly, he was busy with other things.

He said, "Why don't you pack it up for you father and son?" According to the requirements of the Mu family, ten taels of packs are done? ”

Su Qingqing thought in her heart, the father and son of the Qin family said that the house would be built in one and a half months at the earliest, and the father and son would work together, and she would get two hundred and forty wen a day, and one and a half months would be ten or two or eight hundred wen.

If there is anything else in the middle of the journey, the time will have to be extended, and the salary will have to be increased.

If it is ten taels down, no matter how long it takes, it should be cost-effective.

She asked the two Chen clan fathers, "What do you think of the second elder?" This house will also have a share of the tiger in the future. ”

As she spoke, she pushed Huzi in front of the two old men.

These two old men, when they saw Huzi, they had a kind face.

People who like Huzi will never harm Huzi's adoptive parents, right?

Sure enough, the two old men opened their mouths one after another.

Mrs. Chen Qi said: "It's just ten taels, it's not easy for their family to come, the family is full of children, and there are no relatives to help." ”

Uncle Chen Wu said: "A village, that's it, right? ”

The father and son of the Qin family frowned, a little hesitant.

Su Qingqing spoke to Chen Lizheng again, "Although we are not locals, we are the adoptive parents of Lizheng's nephew, and we are quite familiar with Lizheng's family." Your house is built well, built quickly, wages or something, we will be happy, pay two taels of silver in advance today, what do you think? Then, after a month, pay another two taels of wages, and after the house is accepted on the completion date, all the payments will be paid. If we are in arrears, you will let Li Zheng find the two of us. ”