Great Power Project

Chapter 7 The extravagant Yu Qingyang
"Auntie, there's no need! What I came to see Uncle Lu is, can you see if you can pull up the fence?"

"Pull up the fence?" The landlord and his wife looked at each other, "Boss Yu, to tell you the truth, if we had money, we would have pulled up the fence a long time ago. Isn't this..."

"That's it! Uncle Lu, do you think it's okay? I happen to have workers there. You buy materials, and I'll arrange for someone to help you build the fence!"

"That's a good relationship!" The landlord couple said happily.

It will cost a lot of money to erect the fence artificially!

Yu Qingyang is willing to send someone to help build the fence, which can save 200 yuan.

Mudan City looks like an impressive name, but it is actually the poorest prefecture-level city in Dongshan Province.

In the village where Yu Qingyang and the others live, the per capita annual income is estimated to be no more than 1000 yuan.

"One more thing is the toilet. I can do it. I plan to build a toilet and a bathroom in the yard. Uncle Lu, do you think it will work?"

What Yu Qingyang was most dissatisfied with about the house he rented was the toilet.

The so-called toilet is to dig a hole in the ground, then put two wooden boards on it, and surround it with three rotten asbestos tiles.

Yu Qingyang had to admit that this was his mistake.

In his last life, he hadn't worried about these trivial matters for a long time.

In addition to the standardized construction of the construction site, someone is responsible for these.

So when he rented a house, he only considered whether it was enough to live in, and it was closer to the construction site.

Forget about toilets and showers.

"Boss Yu, when you talk about the fence, we can scrape together enough money to buy materials, but we really can't afford to build toilets and bathrooms!"

"It's okay, I'll pay for the toilet and bathroom, as long as you agree!"

Yu Qingyang really can't stand the current toilet, and there is the problem of taking a bath. It is the hottest time of the day, and he will feel uncomfortable if he doesn't take a bath for a day, so these two problems must be solved.

Yu Qingyang is going to plan carefully and build the toilet and bathroom better.

"Agree, we agree!"

The landlord is not stupid, the toilet and bathroom are built, but Yu Qingyang is not there, so it is not theirs in the end?
The house is for my son to get married, and there is a bathroom in the countryside, which is a luxury.

"Boss Yu, help me figure out how many bricks, sand, and cement we need, so we can go buy them!"

Yu Qingyang did some calculations in his mind, and said, "Okay! Your yard is 10 meters wide from north to south, 14 meters wide from east to west, and the fence is 2.2 meters high. If you build a 24-meter brick wall and deduct the two-meter gate, you will need about 1 taels in total. More than a thousand, less than 3000 yuan bricks.

In addition, about seven square meters of sand and three tons of cement are needed. "

The landlord had just finished building the house, and knew the price of cement, sand, and red bricks. He calculated it according to the quantity reported by Yu Qingyang, and exclaimed, "It's so much?"

how?

Yu Qingyang didn't feel much, but in the eyes of the landlord, it was quite a lot.

Thirteen thousand bricks cost 500 yuan, Qifang sand also costs 300 yuan, and three tons of cement costs 300 yuan. In this way, the cost of materials alone will cost more than 2000 yuan.

They rented the house to Yu Qingyang for only 300 yuan a month, and Yu Qingyang paid a total of 900 yuan for three months' rent, which is not enough to pay all the rent.

After the calculation, the landlord began to retreat.

When Yu Qingyang saw the landlord hesitated, he knew what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "Uncle Lu, the price of building materials is constantly rising, and now the money, after a while, may not be able to build with 3000 yuan!

Think about it, this fence will be raised sooner or later, right?
Getting up early is worse than getting up late!Now I can help you save some labor costs. When we leave, you will have to pay the labor costs yourself. At that time, 3000 or [-] won’t be enough! "

"Boss Yu, to tell you the truth, it's not that I don't want to build, but I really can't afford the money. You said that I can only save a few hundred yuan a year by farming the land! I owe a lot of debt to build a house. For the wall, we still need to borrow money!" The landlord explained with a bitter face.

Now the old couple lives in an old house built of three rooms of adobe. The whole village knows about his family and has nothing to hide.

"Well, Uncle Lu, I can't lend you the money, but I can arrange a job for you on the construction site for 15 yuan a day! If you want, you can work at my place. No matter how you work overtime, you can earn 800 yuan, and you can earn it in two or three months."

"Boss Yu, why don't you advance the money for us and ask my old man to work for you to pay back the money?"

"Auntie, this is against the rules. I can arrange a job for you to make money, but I can't pay you in advance!" Yu Qingyang explained with a smile.

"And this rule?"

"Of course, you see that your son is also working outside. Has anyone paid him in advance?"

In fact, the so-called rules are that Yu Qingyang is worried about the landlord's character.

Although it is true that the countryside is poor, it cannot be blamed solely on the poverty of the countryside.

The landlord is in his early fifties, just at the working age, but he stays at home every day, manages the few acres of land, and then gets together to play cards, what does that mean?
It shows that people are lazy and poor can't blame the society.

After giving him money in advance, he dared to play a rogue for Yu Qingyang, or go to the construction site to be lazy and dawdle.

Or don't even go to the construction site at all, anyway, the money is in my hands, what can you do to me?
At worst, if you rent a house, I won't charge you any money, and it will be offset.

It's not that Yu Qingyang has never encountered this kind of situation in his last life.

Under Yu Qingyang's repeated insistence, the landlord finally agreed to borrow money to buy materials.

After agreeing with the landlord, Yu Qingyang also began to contact materials such as red bricks, cement, sand and gravel.

Speaking of which, the construction period of this project is only half a year, and it seems a bit wasteful for Yu Qingyang to build toilets and bathrooms.

However, things cannot be considered that way.

What is making money for?
Three meals a day, no matter how much money you have, can you still eat five meals?Sleeping in two beds?

I remember that Yu Qingyang saw a very interesting story in the last life.

Say a farmer and several big bosses eat at a table, I ask them: You are so rich, what are your ideals and goals in life?
They said: After a few more years of hard work, go to the countryside, buy a farmyard, raise some chickens, ducks, geese, dogs and pigs, plant some flowers and plants, dig wild vegetables in spring, fish in summer, cook rice in autumn, and sweep snow in winter. It's time to invite some friends to fight landlords, drink some wine, and brag!What a wonderful life in the countryside!
After the meal, the farmers went home and pondered for a long time. Damn, the ideal of the local tyrant is my current life, and I still struggle!go to bed!
At first glance, it seems that such a reason, pursuing and striving for a lifetime, seems to be for the current life of farmers.

In fact, the bosses are talking about a kind of financial freedom.

I have money, and when I want to live a country life, I live a country life.

When I want to travel around the world, I travel.

In fact, even in the same pastoral life, the state of mind is different.

The boss's pastoral life will never worry about his son's gift money or the money for a new house.

Absolutely don't have to worry about looking down on the sick.

Yu Qingyang's goal in this life is definitely not to make money for the sake of making money.

Making money can only be a means, not an end.

Just like now, some people will consider whether it is worthwhile to build toilets and bathrooms.

And Yu Qingyang only thinks about whether I can live comfortably.

Earning money is to have better living conditions, not to put money in the bank.

Yu Qingyang felt that it was worth spending 2000 yuan to make his life more comfortable.

The landlord acted very quickly, and bought back the red bricks and cement sand the next day.

Yu Qingyang arranged for Brother Song to lead people to build a fence and build toilets and bathrooms.

The restroom, Yu Qingyang considered the large number of people in his house, so he built a relatively large one, divided into men's and women's toilets, with four squatting seats in the men's toilet and one squatting seat in the women's toilet.

I also negotiated with the landlord to build a large septic tank outside the courtyard wall.

In order to build toilets and bathrooms, Yu Qingyang also specially hand-painted construction drawings.

Yu Qingyang never expected that the first drawings he drew in his life were actually toilets and bathrooms.

Yu Qingyang lives more than 100 meters away from the project department, just across the street.

Of course, the news on Yu Qingyang's side cannot be hidden from the project department.

In this day and age, water conservancy projects, even the project department of a large state-owned enterprise like the Provincial Water Conservancy, are not so particular about the accommodation environment.

The house rented by the project department is not as good as the house rented by Yu Qingyang.

The house they rented was an old adobe house.

In the last life, Yu Qingyang lived in the project department for three months, and the experience of those three months can really make people recall for a lifetime.

Mice crawled on the face at night, and dozens of mosquitoes were kept in the mosquito net at any time.

It was too hot to sleep without the fan on, and the mosquito net couldn't be closed with the fan on.

Bathing can only be done in the yard with a pressurized well water.

Therefore, people from the project department ran over to watch the fun.

"Xiao Yu, your conditions are better than our project department, and there is a bathroom! Isn't this too extravagant for you?" Liu Gong shouted in surprise as he looked at the blueprint.

Yu Qingyang cursed in his heart, he really had never seen the world.

What is the bathroom? After a few years, the construction site will be complete with medical room, reading room, entertainment room, dining room, visiting room, laundry room, etc.

There is smart access control at the gate, and workers have to swipe their cards to enter and exit like white-collar workers.

There is even a fingerprint retina punch system.

That's when you know what luxury is.

"Brother Liu, Brother Li, you can come to my place to take a bath in the future!
I'm doing this for everyone's convenience! "

"Well, when you build it, you must come over to take a bath, in this weather, taking two baths a day is too little!
Every move is a sweat! " Li Gong said with a smile.

"Xiao Yu, do you want to warm up the pot for you later? Or hold a Liang banquet?"

"This is possible!"

"By the way, Xiao Yu, when will the excavator you mentioned arrive?"

"All contacted, there are a total of six excavators, and I am going to report to you!"

"Six? Good guy, you're really good!"

"Hey! So-so, third in the country!" Yu Qingyang smiled reservedly.

Li Gong patted Yu Qingyang on the shoulder, "Remember to treat me later!"

Yu Qingyang nodded briskly, "Don't worry, please, let's go to Mudan City to eat, drink and have fun!"

In 2000, the wages of state-owned enterprises were very low, and with construction site subsidies, they were only [-] yuan.

So when I had the chance, I wanted to eat and drink.

(End of this chapter)