Chapter 78： house

Chapter 78 The House

After the foundation was drawn, the village chief pointed to the foundation of the house and said to everyone: "There is no front or rear of the house in this row. If you have brothers, sisters, relatives and friends, if you want to live next door, just cast a lot, what do you think? "

"Okay, the village chief has a good idea. If you want to live next door, go and catch them!"

Li Mei looked at Li Yu and Zhou Jia and said with a smile: "Yu'er, Mr. Zhou, let's build a few of us next door!" The two nodded happily, "Okay."

"Sister Li, I'll live next door to you!" Qian said that he would also rely on Li Yu and the others to build the house.

"Okay, just next door!" Li Mei replied with a smile.

The village chief smiled and looked at Li Qing, "Aqing, you are the youngest head of the household, so I will let you draw the first lot."

Li Qing looked at Li Yu, Li Yu smiled and pushed him, "If you want to go, just go!"

After Li Qing walked to the village chief and bowed, he took out a bamboo piece from the village chief's holding and handed it to the village chief. Take out the foundations of the three adjacent houses and then continue to draw." After the foundations of the three adjacent houses were removed, they began to cast lots again.

Li Yu looked at Li Qing and Zhou Jia with a smile, "What do you want to build your new house like?"

Li Qing looked at Li Yu happily, "Sister, you can cultivate whatever you want."

Li Yu tapped Li Qing with a smile, "Little brat, what you said is the same as what you didn't say."

"It's not right to say that," Li Qing rubbed his head and looked at Zhou Jia aggrievedly, "Sir, what kind of cultivation do you want to be?"

Zhou Jia looked at Li Qing and smiled, then turned to look at Li Yu, "Whatever you want to repair, I will repair it."

Everyone laughed after hearing this, and Chen Yaohui said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, you can't do this, the society will be weak."

Zhou Jia smiled and waved, "It's fine, as long as Xiaoyu likes it." Everyone laughed louder.

Li Yu pinched him quietly, and the village chief looked at Li Yu with a smile on his face, "Xiaoyu, tell me what kind of house you want to build?"

Li Yu looked at everyone and thought for a while, "I want to build a two-story house, the bottom floor will be built with stones, and the top floor will be made of wood, so that even if it rains, the grain can be collected and dried on the wooden floor. Don't be afraid of getting moldy."

After listening, everyone asked Carpenter Chen, "Old Chen, you are a carpenter, can you say that this wooden building that Xiaoyu said can be repaired?"

Carpenter Chen nodded, "Why can't it be repaired? It can be repaired."

The village chief thought it was good, "Xiaoyu, you and Mr. Zhou draw a blueprint. After dinner, we will go to the town to find craftsmen to buy materials."

After everyone dispersed, the brothers Chen Gui and several other families found Li Yu's shed, Chen Gui blushed and looked at Li Yu, hesitatingly said, "Xiaoyu, uncles are cheeky to ask you for a favor. Humanity."

"Uncle Chen Gui, let me hear what you have to say." Li Yu said with a smile.

Brother Chen Gui bowed at Li Yu, "Our brothers have only a couple of taels, and I want to talk to you and Mr. Zhou that we want to borrow some money from him to repair the house. After we get the land deed tomorrow, we will Mortgage the land deed to him, do you think that?"

Li Yu felt that these brothers were honest people, nodded with a smile, "Yes, I'll tell him how much money you want to borrow."

"We don't know how much money it will cost to repair the house. We'll tell you the exact number after the craftsman arrives to estimate, will it work?"

"That's fine. I'll talk to him later. Then you can tell him how much you can borrow and how to borrow it. Can you see it?"

"Okay, thank you Xiaoyu, thank you!" Chen Gui kept bowing to Li Yu gratefully.

sent Brother Chen Gui away, Li Yu told Zhou Jia that Brother Chen Gui wanted to borrow money from Zhou Jia to repair the house, Zhou Jia nodded with a smile, "Just let them come to me then."

After half an hour, Zhou Jiahe, the village chief, and a dozen other villagers went to the town to find craftsmen to hire workers and start building houses.

At the foot of Fengming Mountain, there are 20 families who want to build their houses. All the craftsmen from Fengming Town gather at the foot of Fengming Mountain. They sell stones, wood, and bricks and tiles. The foot of Fengming Mountain is like a building materials market. lively.

The craftsmen hired by Zhou Jia were two brothers with the surname of Xu. The elder brother was called Xu Chun and the younger brother was called Xu Dong.

Zhou Jia showed the blueprints he and Li Yu had drawn to the two of them, pointed to the drawings and said to them: "The house has two floors, the lower one is made of stone, the upper one is built with a wooden building, and there are five east and west wing rooms in the square and three rooms. The floor of the house should be covered with slate, and a row of livestock houses should be built in the backyard against the courtyard wall, two barns, two pig pens, and a chicken pen.

A water well should be drilled in the front and back yards. After the underground ditch for sewage drainage in the front and back yards is dug, it should be connected to the septic tank outside the backyard, and then in the yard, a place of three or four feet wide is left against the courtyard wall to make a flowerbed, and the rest are paved. On the slate. "

Xu Chun pointed to the room next to the wing after looking at it, "Mr. Zhou, what is this room for?"

Zhou Jia took a look and said, "These are two bathrooms and the other two are toilet pits. Underneath, an underditch for sewage should be dug, and the underditch should lead to the cesspool outside the backyard wall."

The Xu brothers understood as soon as they heard Zhou Jia, "We understand, then what kind of wood do you use for your wooden building? What kind of wood do you use for doors and windows?"

Zhou Jia looked at the two of them, "What kind of wood do you have, let me hear from you."

"Generally, we use yellow and white pine, cypress, and... well, rosewood..." Xu Chun reported a long list of wood names like the name of a dish.

Zhou Jia smiled and looked at Li Yu, "Xiaoyu, what kind of wood do you want to use." Li Yu smiled and shook his head, "I don't understand, you can decide."

Zhou Jia nodded and looked at Brother Xu Chun, "The wooden building uses ponderosa pine for doors and windows, but rosewood. Can you estimate the total cost of two identical houses? How long will the construction period take?"

"Mr. Zhou, please allow my brother and I to look at the drawings, and then make an estimate. We will reply to you." Xu Chun smiled.

"Alright, if you don't understand anything, ask me again."

The Xu brothers looked at the drawings for a long time and asked them twice. After a long time of writing and drawing, they said to Zhou Jia: "Mr. Zhou, the cost of repairing a house will cost about sixty taels, and the construction period will take two years. about a month."

Zhou Jia nodded after listening, "Let's make a contract, and I will hand over the house to you to build it. If there is any problem in the future, we will solve it according to the agreement in the contract. What do you think?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhou, no one has ever said anything bad about the house that my brothers built." Xu Chun patted his chest and assured.

Zhou Jia looked at the Xu brothers and said, "It's best to have a good reputation, but whether it's good or not, I can only evaluate how well you guys are doing after you have repaired my house."

"Yes, that's what it should be. In the end, it's up to you to be satisfied." Xu Chun replied with a smile.

Zhou Jia and the Xu brothers signed a contract and paid a little bit of wages in advance, and the brothers hurried back and called other craftsmen to go.

Li Mei's house was built with cheap materials and only needed about 30 taels. Qian's family only needed 20 taels to borrow 10 taels from Li Yu, and the two houses started construction the next day.

Chen Gui and several people each asked Zhou Jia to borrow twenty taels of silver, wrote the IOU and agreed to mortgage the land deed to Zhou Jia after the clerk came to complete the land deed.

After everything was arranged, Zhou Jia handed over the repair of the house to Uncle Zhou, and took Li Yu and Li Qing to the town to find a shop to do business.