The money hidden on the ridge of the roof was in his hands without him knowing, but the money at the foot of the wall was not so easy.

He had to find a plausible reason.

When he returned to the ground, he saw Lin Quansheng taking a motorcycle to the construction site.

The motorcycle rider asked him fifteen dollars.

"Not just thirty kilometers, at least thirty-five kilometers or more, you have to give an extra five dollars, a total of fifteen dollars."

Lin Quansheng took out ten yuan and said, "Just ten yuan, do you want to love it?"

The hitchhiker grabbed him: "Are you unreasonable? I said that I would pay ten yuan for 30 kilometers, but now it is an extra five kilometers, and it is all country roads, so how much more can you pay for five yuan?"

Several of the demolition workers shook their heads.

"You're the boss, it's only five dollars, are you still so good?"

They were muttering to themselves in their hearts: This man is so stingy, he can't believe it at all, if the house is demolished and he is asked to pay his salary, he will also come to play lazy like this, won't everyone work for so many days in vain.

Several workers stopped their movements at the same time.

Huang Fupei is still watching Lin Quansheng's jokes.

The passenger boy has already rolled up his sleeves and said that he is going to fight with Lin Quansheng, and Lin Quansheng does not show weakness.

Huang Fupei hopes to beat Lin Quansheng with a guest.

Huo Buqiang reminded her: "You quickly dissociate yourself from this rotten person, and promise a few workers that they will definitely give them money, otherwise they will quit."

Huang Fupei only reacted at this time, and she hurriedly said to a few workers: "I asked you to demolish the house, and I promise that the promised labor fee will not be less, so you can rest assured."

And the worker said, "Aren't you with him?"

Huang Fupei said: "He is him, I am me, and now I am the one who signed the contract, paid the deposit, and asked you to demolish the house, and I am also the one who paid you the manual fee after the house was demolished."

Huo Buqiang said, "You're worried about a fart, don't you pay half of your manual fee when you dismantle it halfway? The other half of the wood was removed and not transported, and if she didn't pay you to move a few pieces of wood, wouldn't it cover your labor costs?"

Several demolition workers felt he had a point.

He turned around and went up to the top of the house and began to work.

Lin Quansheng reluctantly paid an extra five yuan in the end.

Huo Buqiang passed in front of him and said to him with contempt: "What kind of business do people like you come out to do, stay at home and eat old rice, don't come out and be embarrassed."

Lin Quansheng glanced at him and said, "It's your business."

Of course, Huo Buqiang didn't want to care about their bad things.

He said to Huang Fupei, "Okay, there's nothing else to do, you can get the money by removing the wood and pulling it to Jiang Ming." Li Huadong and I will go to Lichang County to have a look."

Huang Fupei said worriedly, "Brother Huo is still reliable, and I don't know if this guy will produce a demon moth."

Huo Buqiang said: "He won't when he demolishes the house, but he will definitely when he divides the money."

He thought that people like Lin Quansheng were definitely not business materials, because this kind of person took money too seriously.

He said, "If you don't understand something, call me again and ask me."

He thought: I'm also here to make money.

When he arrived at the boundary of Lichang, he asked Li Huadong, "Which villages do you remember that there are old houses?"

Li Huadong said: "Let's go to Dongdou Town first, two kilometers ahead is Dongdou Town, I remember that there is a comrade-in-arms who works in the town's agricultural machinery company."

After a few minutes, I noticed that there were more and more people on the road, and many villagers came to the market carrying agricultural products.

Huo Buqiang is particularly familiar with this kind of scene, isn't this just a rural market.

He knew that the agricultural machinery company in the town was usually in the center of the town, and today it was a market, and there must be a lot of people, and the pickup truck would definitely not be able to drive in, so it could only be placed on the side of the road.

It will take at least ten minutes to walk in, and besides, if he catches the market today, his comrades-in-arms will definitely not have time to greet him.

I'm afraid it will be a waste of more than an hour back and forth like this, and it will be wasted today.

He said to Li Huadong, "It looks like Dongdou is going to be fighting today

The town is a market, your comrades-in-arms work in an agricultural machinery company, today is a busy day, and there may not be time to greet us. Why don't we drive to a few nearby villages by ourselves, and when we see an old house, we will talk about it ourselves. When I come back to the bazaar in the evening, I can talk to him again."

Li Huadong nodded in agreement.

He said, "I remember there were three or four villages on the side of this road, and we could follow the road all the way down and turn left into Fenglin Village."

A mountain road turns into the left, and there are mountains on both sides of the road, and many villagers come out of it carrying things.

The road must be crowded.

Huo Buqiang parked the car on the side of the road and said, "We don't have to run, our mouths are sweet, just ask a villager."

He took out a cigarette from his pocket and asked a middle-aged man who was carrying a load of chickens in a chicken coop.

"Uncle, smoke a cigarette, I want to ask you something?"

The middle-aged man also felt struggling to carry the chicken, so he just put it down to rest.

He took the cigarette and Huo Buqiang lit it for him.

"What's the matter? Tell me, I'm still in a hurry to go to the market to sell chickens."

Huo Buqiang asked, "Uncle, is there any kind of old house in your village, that is, the kind of wood built by rich people in the past?"

The uncle said, "Our village is in a poor ravine, and our ancestors have not been able to produce rich people for ten generations. There are several villages inside this road, and Fenglin Village is the largest. There are no such old houses in other villages, but there is one in Fenglin Village, which can be seen at the entrance of the village. Next to that little village."

Huo Buqiang thanked him again and again, and the uncle smoked a cigarette and picked up the chicken and left.

It turns out that this road enters the mountain, and there are several mountain villages in it, since there are ancient houses in Fenglin Village, even if there are many people on the road, you must go to see it.

I had to drive the car slowly, but fortunately, I arrived at Fenglin Village not far away. The old house was on a high ground, and you could see it when you looked up at the entrance of the village.

There is a road leading directly to the village school, and the old house is not far from the next door, and there are two ponds in front of it.

Huo Buqiang parked the car at the entrance of the village and went to the vegetable field next to him to ask a middle-aged woman.

"Auntie, I want to ask you something, whose ancient house is in front of you? I wonder if they have any plans to tear it down? I specialize in collecting old timber, and the purchase price is relatively high."

He estimates that Lichang County is relatively mountainous, and it may be that buyers from other places have not yet penetrated here, and many villagers do not know that the purchase price of the ancient house has skyrocketed.

The woman was picking up water to water the vegetables, and she pouted her lips and said, "How much is an old house worth? This old house was left by my husband and grandfather, and now our family still lives in it."

Huo Buqiang said: "For an old house of this size, as long as the wood is local huanghuali, we generally give 550,000 yuan."

"How much do you say?" The woman was so shocked that she dropped the dung scoop on the ground.

Huo Buqiang opened five fingers and said, "550,000 yuan, we have demolished four or five buildings in the villages near HK City, and they are all given at this price."

It seems that the old house in front of him is much larger than the previous demolished buildings, with 278 cubic meters of wood.

The middle-aged woman didn't look like he was joking, she said, "I'll take you to my house to talk to my husband and his two brothers, and women can't do this kind of thing."

She quickly poured the manure on the vegetables and took Huo Buqiang and the others to the house.

When she arrived at the door of the house, she called out to a few children squatting in the corner and playing, "Shen Yuan, go and call your father back, I have something urgent to tell him."

The children, all twelve or thirteen years old, were playful, pretending to be deaf and dumb and pretending not to hear, and the woman took out a bamboo from behind the door.

"Dog, deliberately pretending not to hear, aren't you?"

The boy saw a cigarette and ran away, and he knew that his father was playing cards with a few people at Widow Yang's commissary.

He found the commissary, and sure enough, he saw his father arguing with others.

He squeezed in front of him: "Dad, my aunt brought two outsiders to her home, and she told you to go back and say that she had something urgent to tell you."

The man said, "Isn't your uncle at home, what did you tell me to go back to?"

The boy said, "Anyway, I told you, you won't go back to her

Don't rely on me when you scold you, I didn't come to you just now, and she still wants to whip me with a bamboo."

The little boy went back quickly.

The man threw the cards in his hand and said, "I'll go back and see what the hell is going on?"

When he got home, he saw his sister-in-law bringing some fruit to the two young men.

My brother stopped smoking the hookah and happily smoked the cigarette he was given.

When he saw him come home, his brother said, "This is my brother, and this old house is mine and him."

Huo Buqiang enthusiastically handed him cigarettes.

The man said, "You are guests, and I should give you cigarettes."

Huo Buqiang said, "There is no distinction between you and me who smoke. Master Xie, I told your brother just now, I will pay 550,000 yuan to buy all the wood of the old house, including the doors and windows, and those bricks and stones. Your brother said he wanted to ask for your opinion."

Er Xie reacted the same as his sister-in-law: "What, you said 550,000, no joke, right?"

Huo Buqiang said seriously: "You guys are a little biased here, you don't know very well about the current Huanghuali old timber market, we do business with conscience. We have already demolished four or five buildings in Hong Kong City, all at this price, if you want to demolish them, I will sign a contract with you, pay a deposit of several thousand after signing, remove the roof beams, follow me to Jiangming, and pay you half of the money, and finally pull the goods to Jiangming for the middle floor beams and columns, including doors and windows, and pay all the money."

Xiao Xie's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he said to Da Xie, "Brother, what else is there to consider, demolish it and build a cement and steel house each."

Now there are only a handful of cement and steel houses built in the whole village, and there are few in the entire Dongdou Town.

Da Xie said, "If the old house is demolished, where will our two families move to?"

Xiao Xie said, "Don't worry about this, even if you go to the vegetable field in front of you to build a temporary shed, it doesn't matter."

Da Xie glared at him and said, "It doesn't matter to you, there are still old and young ones in the family?"

Xiao Xie said, "You go to the village chief and ask him to rent us the old granaries on the opposite side of the barn, which have been empty for many years anyway."

Da Xie said, "That's a good idea, I'll go to him now, and if he agrees, I can sign it with you right away."

He asked Huo Buqiang and the two to have lunch at home, and told the middle-aged girl to cook rice and stir-fry.

Huo Buqiang chatted with Xiao Xie, and he asked, "Do you know which village nearby has the same old house as yours?"

Xiao Xie said: "There are no three villages in the past, there is one in Xiashan Village 30 miles away, and the owner of the house is still a classmate with me, his ancestors have been carpenters for several generations, and no one can compare with the carpentry skills within a radius of 100 miles."

He also said to Huo Buqiang: "There is a certain pattern for finding this kind of old house, and it is generally necessary to use this kind of larger village, and they are all separated by 30 kilometers."

Huo Buqiang was surprised and said, "Is there still this kind of law?"

Xiao Xie said, "Thirty kilometers back, there seems to be an ancient house like this in Zishi Village."

Huo Buqiang asked him to remember if he remembered which village still had this kind of ancient house, and Xiao Xie couldn't remember that there were other villages for a while.

Huo Buqiang asked Li Huadong to count with him how many beams, beams and columns, and how many doors and windows.

He carefully identified the material and confirmed that it was avocado.

After counting, it was about the same as he had estimated, a total of twenty-eight cubic meters of wood.

Soon, Da Xie returned happily.

He said, "The village chief gave me all the keys and said that it would be okay to stay for as long as possible, but there was no electricity inside, so we asked an electrician to pick up the electricity ourselves."

Xiao Xie said, "If you want to move there, you have to build a stove, and the toilet in the back must be repaired, and the tiles on the rooms you live in must have rotted a lot, so you have to repair it before you can live." I'm afraid it will take a year to demolish the house and build it."

Huo Buqiang took the house demolition agreement from the car and signed it with the two brothers.

After signing, pay them a deposit of 2,000 yuan.

Xiao Xie also asked him, "How much do you pay people to demolish this house?"

Huo Buqiang said: "I asked someone to demolish the building in Tangxia Village, and even the garbage was cleaned up, and they asked for 2,000 yuan

money."

Da Xie said, "Just give us 2,000 yuan, my two brothers are also plasterers, and we are also skilled in demolishing the house, just call a few helpers."

Huo Buqiang said, "That's the best, the wood is removed, I pay you off, and I can run to another house."

Xiao Xie said: "It is estimated that it will take seven or eight days before it can be dismantled, because it will take a few days to repair the granary, install electricity, and move the house."

Huo Buqiang said: "If you can dismantle it, you can tell me two days in advance, and I can arrange for a truck to come and pull the goods."

Soon, Da Xie's family cooked the meal and beckoned Huo Buqiang and the two to eat.

Huo Buqiang left his phone number for them.

Leaving Fenglin Village, he reported the matter to Yin Yuan in time.

"In Fenglin Village, Dongdou Town, Lichang County, another old house was signed, and the number of timber squares was specifically calculated, and there were 28 cubic meters, all of which were avocado fields, which could be demolished next week."

Yin Yuan said, "Yes, I will try to demolish four or five more buildings before the New Year. Or will I price you according to the amount of wood."

He asked, "How has the building in Tangxia Village been demolished?"

Huo Buqiang told him: "The building in Tangxia Village is being demolished, and the second floor and those beams and pillars can be demolished in two days. I also talked about one in Zhongbao Village and one in Xiabao Village near Haikou, and the one in Xiabao Village was used as a classroom for the village elementary school, and the students had to wait for the holidays. The owner of the house in Zhongbao Village will come back tomorrow and sign an agreement with me."

Yin Yuan encouraged him: "Yes, it seems that it is very correct to ask you to do this, you can rest assured to find it, I will collect as much as I want."

He called Lin Manni and said, "Sort and stack the old timber that you brought back."