Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 88 Preparing to Build a House
When the village chief came out and saw that they were still there, he waved his hand and said, "Why are you still stuck here? If you have nothing to do, go home quickly."

Everyone laughed, but they didn't leave.

There is not much work in the fields in winter, and new residents finally came to the village, so we must watch the excitement along with it.

The Jiang family pulled an ox cart and followed the village head towards the inside of the village.

As they walked, there were fewer and fewer houses, and finally they stopped outside a large brick house.

On the way, Jiang Zhiyue had already told the Jiang family that this was their temporary place to live.

The village chief took out a key and opened the door. A lot of weeds grew in the yard and a lot of dust fell in the house.

But the house is very tidy, tidy up and people can live there.

There are five or six houses in the yard, and the kitchen and hut are all complete.

The spectators outside were shocked when they saw the Jiang family and the village chief enter the house.

They all belong to the same village, of course they know whose house it is.

But the important thing is, this house costs [-] yuan a day, and these people who escaped from the famine live in it like this?

Jiang Zhiyue and the village head agreed to pay the rent every five days, and the village head will transfer the money to the family.

Jiang Zhiyue took five hundred Wen and handed it to the village head in front of everyone, and the money and the goods were paid.

The villagers outside were silent, feeling a little sour in their hearts.

It seems that those people are not fleeing famine, they are the talents.

But after all, this is other people's money, they have no right to say anything, they can only look at it sourly.

After handing over the money, Mrs. Jiang and the others stayed at home to clean up the yard and house.

The rest followed the village chief to see the house.

The village head took them from the beginning to the end of the village to look at the houses built by each person, and let them choose the place by themselves.

Mr. Wang Fugui, Mr. Jiang, Jiang Yuchao and Jiang Zhiyue discussed together for a while, and finally decided to want the house on the open lot behind the village.

The land in the front of the village where no one built a house was taken by the villagers.

If they choose the house there, the villagers will have to pull out all their vegetables.

Although they didn't exclude new outsiders like them from settling in the village now, they might not be able to take over those houses where vegetables were planted.

Moreover, Jiang Zhiyue felt that it was inconvenient to live in the middle of the village.

Although it's only been here for a while, everyone can see that the life of the people in the village is not very easy.

Now they don't have much money in their hands. Wouldn't it be greedy if they eat meat every two days!

Besides, there are no two houses close to each other in the front and middle of the village, or the place is not big enough.

So they simply decided to choose the house at the back of the village, which is a little further back than the yard they are renting now.

After they discussed it, they followed the village chief to choose the house.

The government originally gave two houses, and the Wang family wanted one, and the Jiang family bought two more pieces of land next to that house, and directly merged them into one big house.

The Jiang family only needs to go to the county government with the village chief to file a case and get the title deed.

The onlookers were already numb. They spent dozens of taels of silver, no matter how bitter they were.

However, someone still said sourly: "Hey, you are so rich, just buy a house in the town and move to the town, what are you showing off here?"

It was a woman who spoke, and all the people who came out with the village chief Gu to pick out the house were men except Jiang Zhiyue, so it's hard to argue with the quickness of the tongue, so let's just pretend that I didn't hear it.

Just when everyone thought they wouldn't have an argument with the villagers on the first day of their arrival.

Jiang Zhiyue glanced at the woman and suddenly said, "It's really easy to worry about eating carrots."

The woman stared at Jiang Zhiyue and said, "You girl... what do you mean!"

Jiang Zhiyue glanced at her and said, "I said, let you mind your own business."

As soon as the woman opened her mouth in anger, she wanted to scold: "You stinky girl..."

But Jiang Zhiyue directly interrupted her and said: "Uncles, we have chosen a house and are going to build a house, and then we have to trouble all uncles, if anyone is willing to come to build a house, come to us to sign up tomorrow, and the salary will be [-]%." According to twenty cents a day, lunch is not included."

Everyone looked at Jiang Zhiyue in surprise, and then at Mr. Jiang and the others.

They haven't discussed this matter yet, but Mr. Jiang still reacted quickly.

He smiled and said, "What my granddaughter said is true. If there are any big guys who are willing to help build a house, they can sign up tomorrow."

There were smiles on everyone's faces, who still remembered the unpleasant idea just now, and began to ask the authenticity of this matter repeatedly.

You must know that after winter, they don't have much work when they stay at home, and their hair is almost idle.

If I could earn some money by building a house a few years ago, this year will be easier.

And the woman couldn't speak the words stuck in her throat, and it can be said that she didn't dare to speak.

There is also a man in her family, and she also wants her family to help earn some copper coins.

So the woman kept her mouth shut, and planned to let her man and children go when she signed up tomorrow.

There was nothing else to do after that, and the surrounding villagers all left with smiles on their faces.

They must hurry back and tell their family the good news.

Twenty Wen a day, and the contractors in the town only paid fifteen Wen a day.

Just now they didn't ask how many workers they needed, so they had to go to the new company to sign up early tomorrow, otherwise this good job would be taken away by others.

Jiang Zhiyue and the others also stopped by to return to the house they are renting now.

Jiang Yuchao wanted to send the village head back, but the village head waved his hand and refused, and then left humming an unknown song.

When Jiang Zhiyue and the others went back, Mu Ran had already eaten and left.

Those who stayed in the yard pulled out all the weeds in the yard and cleaned up the dust in the house.

As soon as Mrs. Jiang saw Jiang Zhiyue coming back, she pulled her over and asked anxiously, "Zhiyue, why did someone come to ask about our recruitment just now?"

It turned out that just before Jiang Zhiyue and the others came back, those who got the news all came to ask for the news.

I want Mrs. Jiang and the others to reserve two places for their family members for the sake of their friendship just outside the village chief's gate.

But Mrs. Jiang and the others didn't know about it, so they could only hew and haw to expose it.

This will see Jiang Zhiyue and the others come back, why don't they just drag and ask.

Jiang Zhiyue then told about hiring someone to build the house.

Mrs. Jiang was a little bit distressed about Yinzi. How much money would it cost to build a house for a person who is twenty yuan a day!
Jiang Yuqing also came over and said, "Zhiyue, we can build this house ourselves, and we have a lot of family members, so we can build it in a short time."

Jiang Yulai sent Xiao Wang into the house and said casually: "Your second uncle is right, just build a house, our family can do it ourselves, there is no need to find someone else."

"Let's build my uncle's house together first, and then build our house together."

"Our previous house was built by ourselves, it doesn't take much trouble."

Everyone agreed with the two brothers' proposal.

Jiang Zhiyue saw that what they said was sound, but she didn't directly agree to it.

Since she bought two more houses, the houses must be quite large.

There are many people in their family, but most of them are elderly women and children, and few can really contribute.

If they wait until they build a house, they can live in it, and they don't know that the Year of the Monkey will be around the corner.

She said: "The year will be closed in less than two months, and our own construction speed is too slow, and we may not be able to catch up."

When Jiang Zhiyue said this, everyone hesitated again.

Because the village head said when he left that this family would come back to live for a period of time every Chinese New Year, so they would definitely not be able to continue renting a house.

Mr. Jiang didn't speak for a long time, and finally made a decision: "Zhiyue is right. In our first year here, the house is the first root we put in. We can't even have a house during the New Year."

"Zhiyue bought two more vacant lots next to that house, which together are much larger than our previous house. Let's discuss how to build this house later, and then we'll get ready."

Now that the matter was decided, they didn't bother with it anymore.

There are only six houses, and everyone just let Jiang Yulai and Xiao Wang live in the smallest one.

The remaining five houses still have to be squeezed together to live in.

After a busy day and haven't eaten yet, Mrs. Zhang and the others hurried into the kitchen to cook.

The rest of the people gathered around Jiang Zhiyue to discuss about building a house.

Jiang Zhiyue took out a blueprint of a new house, which she started preparing a few days ago, and it just came in handy now.

Mr. Jiang and Jiang Yuqing all gathered around to watch.

Jiang Yuqing looked at the drawings and asked in surprise: "Yue girl, did you draw the drawings of this house?"

Jiang Zhiyue nodded and replied, "Well, I drew it during my rest on the road these two days, is there any problem?"

Jiang Yuqing scratched his head and laughed twice: "No problem, I just think your painting is quite novel, what did you use to paint it?"

Jiang Zhiyue was taken aback by the question, and suddenly remembered that people here still draw with brushes, but her drawing was drawn with bamboo charcoal casually.

"It was drawn with the firewood and bamboo charcoal we burned on the road."

Jiang Yuchao took the blueprint in his hand, and said with admiration: "The drawing is not bad. Looking at it this way, it is more three-dimensional than the drawing drawn with a brush."

Jiang Zhiyue smiled modestly. Can she say that she only uses bamboo charcoal because she is not used to painting with a brush?
She changed the subject and said, "Then let's see if there is anything that needs to be changed in this blueprint."

The people gathered together to discuss for a long time, and decided on the rough outline of the house, planning to start working on it after buying bricks and tiles.

There are only four of them in the Wang family, and they don't need many houses at the moment. After a brief discussion, the house type is finalized.

Then you need to go to the town to buy bricks and tiles.

Jiang Zhiyue found that the worst way for farmers to build houses here is to use soil and straw as materials.

The slightly better ones use wood, and there are blue bricks and terracotta tiles.

They can go up the mountain to find some wood, but they have to buy bricks and tiles.

There are also glutinous rice mortar and rammed earth that need to go to the town to buy materials.

(End of this chapter)