eurekapd Chapter 405: Work starts on the same day
Chapter 405: Work starts on the same day
Li looked at the children in the house. Zhou Xing and Zhou Gu were both grown up, and it was time for them to get married. A house like this would allow for better marriages. Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi both went to school.
The room is dark, and it is not easy to read even during the day. Books and other things will easily get wet when it rains.
As for Zhou Guo, unless it was winter, he would rather stay in the yard all day than stay in the house.
Since the youngest son was lost, he has no longer cared about anything, but he will definitely go to school like his two older brothers in the future.
Eighty taels?
She still had the gold bar that Zhou Dacang gave her.
Thinking of this, he slapped the table and said, "Okay, let's build a house like this, but we need to find a professional bricklayer to build such a house. I'm afraid that only our villagers can do it."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Leave it to me. I know where to find a bricklayer."
The old man was also very happy about building a new house, "For such a big event, we have to choose a good day."
The whole family nodded, this is a big deal.
The next day, Zhou Gu asked someone to calculate the date.
After this calculation, the other companies said happily: "Then we will choose to start construction on the same day. We don't need to look at the date. That day is the best. When it's built, everyone's work will be done."
Wang Fugui waved his hand and said, "You guys build first. My wife is pregnant, so it's not appropriate to start construction. Wait until the baby is born, then we can build. It just so happens that I want to see which one of you has built the best, so I'll follow that one and pick up a ready-made one."
Everyone laughed at Wang Fugui for being calculating and thinking of taking advantage of something like this.
The news that each family was going to build a house quickly spread throughout the village.
When I heard that they were going to build a brick and tile house, I knew that such a house would certainly be different from a thatched house. It would only take three or two days to build, and the slowest one would take a month. Who could afford to change workers for so long?
I can only pay someone to do it.
As a result, the villagers could no longer sit still. No matter how rich these people were, they should be paid for this job!
If a family like theirs wanted to find a job outside, they could only wait for a few nearby landlords to hire temporary workers. In the county town, people like them who had no connections could rarely find work.
Even if you can find a job, it is far from home and you have to eat and live outside, which is very inconvenient.
The work at the doorstep of this family is during the slack season, so naturally I would go and fight for it if I could make some money.
The Zhou Guo family is the one that gets asked the most questions. Because of what happened last winter, the villagers have the best relationship with the Zhou Guo family. Of course, if they want to work, they have to come here first. Besides, the food they cook is delicious, and they are given a free lunch when they work outside.
Li was thinking about the small courtyard he wanted to build, but he couldn't decide how many people he would need, so he could only agree to work as each one came. In less than half a day, twelve people had come.
She asked Zhou Guo who was standing beside her, "Guo Guo, you said I promised twelve people, will I still agree to more people coming later?"
Zhou Guo said, "Mom, why can't I agree to this? If there are more people, the house will be built faster, and if there are fewer people, it will take longer. After all, the wages are about the same. It's just that cooking will be a bit harder. You have to prepare a lot of food for so many people."
Li said, "I'm not worried about the number of people. What if all those people come to our house? What will happen to the other families?"
Zhou Guo laughed, "Mom, are you still worried that the other families can't recruit people? Forget it, they are all hiring people with wages, and the wages are the same. Who doesn't work? It's not easy to find a job these days. These people don't have only one laborer in their families, they have many fathers, sons and brothers. Don't worry about this."
Now that the date has been set, the next step is to buy bricks, tiles and wood.
Several families came together to drag cartloads of bricks, tiles and timber back to the village. At first glance, the scene was quite spectacular. If you didn’t know, you would have thought it was some big project somewhere.
When the house was built this time, the Qian family next door did not build one.
Their house was considered good in the beginning. When it was being renovated, everyone felt sorry for them, an orphan and a widow, and everyone did their best. Now it is sturdier than the average house in the village.
There are only three of them in the family, mother and two children. Two thatched huts are definitely enough for them to live in. There is no need to build a new house in the short term. It is best to keep the money in hand.
Mrs. Li nodded after hearing what she said and said, "You are right. Our two families are different. Your house is still habitable, but ours is not. We only have a few rooms, and they are crooked. Several older ones are about to get married, but they still have no place to live. Girls don't want to marry into our family when they see the situation."
Qian said, "Our two children are still young. It won't be too late to talk about this when they grow up, so I won't build it for now. Let's talk about it later."
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It rained a few days ago, so the wheat fields don’t need to be watered for the time being, and the seedlings don’t need to be taken care of for the time being.
Other families have already hired workers to carry wood from the mountains.
The dozen or so logs they cut down in the mountains when they first came here last year are now almost dried, and it's time to move them out.
Because each family had only one or two sticks, they could be carried out in a day by hiring two people.
Zhou Guo cut the most at that time, five!
She deliberately waited until they had all moved before going into the mountains with the old man.
The first thing the two men did when they entered the mountains was not to carry wood, but to return to the pond and plan to catch a few fish to eat.
She hasn't been in since the mountain was closed due to heavy snow last year. This year, she went to other mountains.
This time I found that the scene was very different from what I saw last year.
It was already autumn by then, and everything began to wither. Except for the evergreen trees, everything was yellow.
It was different now. Everywhere she looked, there was green. Some of the weeds in the valley were taller than her, and the shortest was only as high as her thighs. She walked while looking at her feet, "I wonder if there are any snakes hiding in there?"
The old man said, "Why don't you just take a stick and beat them along the way?"
Zhou Guo said: "Master, this snake and chicken stew is delicious, the fragrance spreads ten miles away."
The old man didn't say anything. How could he not know that snake meat was delicious? But how could it be so easy to come across that thing?
The two came to the edge of the pond. In the autumn, the water level of the pond had shrunk a lot. After a few rains in the spring, the water level rose again.
The waterfall on the cliff is also big.
Zhou Guo looked at the somewhat turbid water and waved his hand, saying, "Master, I think we should come back next time. We can't even see it, so how can we catch it? It's like a blind man touching an elephant. I don't know what we can get out of the water."
There were no fish, so the two could only wander around in the woods to see if they could catch something else. They had come to the mountains with great difficulty, so they had to bring something back.
The old man hasn't been here for a long time.
Zhou Guo wandered around in this familiar forest and soon caught a pheasant and a rabbit. She looked at the two prey with a smile, as if she hadn't hunted for a long time. It was quite good to catch them this time, and she was sweating.