Guo Xuehua had long known what the eldest daughter was thinking. She felt sorry for the daughters, especially the eldest daughter, who had suffered the most. With red eyes, she thanked Zhou Xiang, "Thank you, Miss Zhou."

Zhou Xiang waved his hand and said, "Don't be so polite, Jiajia. Go to the kitchen and see what food to pack back. Your uncle Dagang has quite the appetite."

Guo Jia grinned, "Miss Zhou, my uncle Dagang has already prepared a lot of New Year's goods for my family, and asked me to teach him how to do the processing. He doesn't allow me and my mother to help. However, I want some dried fish."

Zhou Xiang was surprised. "Has your Uncle Dagang become cunning?"

"No way! Manager Lu and the others taught him that. He's a complete idiot. He just works every day and doesn't even dare to stay overnight."

"Jia Jia!"

Guo Xuehua's face flushed red. This girl was too outspoken.

Zhou Xiang pointed to the kitchen and said to Guo Jia, "You know where the dried fish is. Go get it!"

"OK!"

Guo Jia took away a bunch of followers. Zhou Xiang looked at Guo Xuehua, "Sister Guo, Jia Jia is just saying this to express her satisfaction with Brother Dagang and her hope for a happy family. You and Brother Dagang are almost there, right?"

Guo Xuehua felt very embarrassed, "If he doesn't urge me, I won't bring it up!"

Oh my god, she's already a mother of four, and she's still waiting for others to speak? "With Dagang's personality, if you don't say anything, he'll probably wait until he's old."

Miss Zhou's words reminded Guo Xuehua of when she asked Liu Dagang what he would do when they were old. At that time, Liu Dagang simply replied that he would be his partner. This fool, he didn't really plan to be his partner, did he?

Seeing Guo Xuehua stunned, Zhou Xiang said to Guo Jia, who was carrying him out, "Your Uncle Dagang is shy. At dinner tonight, you can accompany him for a few drinks and take the opportunity to let him stay overnight. It's freezing cold, and there's no air conditioning in the single dormitory."

Guo Jia looked at his mother who didn't react, and immediately understood, nodding repeatedly, "Yes, yes, my uncle Dagang is shy, if we ask him, he will definitely stay. Uncle Dagang doesn't drink, he's afraid of damaging his brain, and he's also afraid that someone will dislike the smell of alcohol."

"Jia Jia!"

Guo Xuehua came to his senses and quickly stopped his eldest daughter from speaking.

Guo Jia carried the bag and led the youngest and oldest child by the hand, "Sisters, let's go home quickly. Uncle Dagang should be ready for dinner."

Guo Yao and Guo Mei hurried to catch up, "Yes, yes, Uncle Dagang always prepares the meal, but he can't wait for us to come home, so he just makes something for himself."

Guo Laoxiao added, "Uncle Dagang has lost weight. When can I call him Dagang Dad? I want to have a father."

Zhou Xiang said to the embarrassed Guo Xuehua: "Look, your children are all dissatisfied with you, don't bully honest people!"

"I, I'm going back." Guo Xuehua ran a few steps to catch up with his daughters.

The maids were all given a holiday by her sister, and Zhou Yu was dragged into the kitchen by her husband to work.

Professor Chu waved to Xiao Qian behind him, and Xiao Qian immediately went to the kitchen to help.

Zhou wanted to look at the teacher's smiling face, and then look at Xiao Qian, who was quiet but hardworking.

"Teacher, are you very satisfied?"

Professor Chu nodded and said, "Very satisfied. He has better eyesight than Erniu who is beside Mr. Ling."

Speaking of Erniu, Zhou Xiang thought of how Grandpa Ling had to give Erniu a New Year's holiday, "What kind of New Year is this? It's meaningless. I still have to go to my son's house for dinner. It's such a small place. I feel so depressed.

Erniu, you have to come back earlier! Oh! Forget it, come back on the sixth day of the New Year! You haven't had a holiday for several months, and it's me, the old man, who is holding you back.

Then his parents-in-law suggested that they just go to his warehouse building to celebrate the New Year. The old man immediately glared at them and said, "Why? That's my territory. You are not allowed to invade."

Thinking about the old and small house of his parents-in-law, Zhou wanted to push Ling Ran who was in a daze beside him.

"Shouldn't you rebuild your parents' house? Didn't you already buy it?"

Ling Ran raised his head and said, "My parents don't agree. The neighbors on both sides don't want to build houses. If we build our own, the walls alone will take up too much space, and water will seep through during the rainy season."

"You can't always ask Mom and Dad to live in that house, right? People will gossip about them behind our backs."

Professor Chu also agreed, "Ling Ran, you can't ignore your parents. You say you're married, but even a married woman will still take care of her parents' family!"

Ling Ran then became serious. "My dad is reluctant to leave the post office. It's full of his old colleagues. He also thinks that keeping things the same and being in a similar environment with everyone else won't create distance. Having such a capable daughter-in-law has made others a little wary of him."

Zhou Xiang paused and said, "Let's put it this way! The construction of East and West Streets has been put on track, but the construction of the town can't just end like this. That would be the real treasure trove!

Next, I originally planned to start with the construction of Dawangzhuang and Xiaoxiezhuang, but I think we should start with the construction of each household behind the street and radiate eastward and westward! "

Professor Chu and Ling Ran immediately became interested. "Tell me about it in detail."

Zhou Xiang said casually: "Is there anything I need to elaborate on? Just follow the planning of the county town! The county town has high-rise buildings, so we can just have four to six floors, and there must be green space, of course.

Like my aunt's house, you can pay in installments. If your family is well-off, you can pay it all in one lump sum."

“What if everyone doesn’t like buildings and prefers their own yard with plenty of space?”

Ling Ran expressed a different opinion. The people in the town are very independent and want to have complete say in everything. The construction of the first and second streets does not conflict much with their own interests.

Occupy the sky and the earth?

Zhou Xiang fell into deep thought. Of the two streets, except for the east side of the second street which was the land of Dawangzhuang, most of the rest were family quarters owned by the units. If they all occupied the land, there would be no room for greening and roads.

Not to mention the private houses in the south end, where the houses are right next to each other, without even a small courtyard, except for a muddy road in front and back, but that road is public. Looking from the provincial road to the north bank of the river, the only words that can describe it are dirty, messy and poor.

"It seems we need to discuss this matter with the town government. However, what do you think? If we build four-story villas, with two families living in each, one occupying the main floor and the other the lower floor. The family occupying the main floor would have a separate staircase leading out of the courtyard, and each family would own half of the land. Is that feasible?"

Professor Chu nodded.

Ling Ran shook his head. "Even brothers can't necessarily live in harmony. We're just neighbors. It's difficult. However, if we make some changes according to your idea, it might be feasible."

"you say."

"The floor slabs on the second and third floors are made thick and wide, like a bridge separating the two upper and lower houses, so that the family that occupies the sky also has the land, while the family that occupies the land does not have the sky."

Zhou thought about it for a moment and shook his head, "No, the company below will definitely have many opinions."

Professor Chu spoke up, "How about moving part of the house back? The upper house should be moved back a bit, like a staircase. At least the part that Ling Ran mentioned about occupying land won't block the sunlight for the lower house. The part that's moved back will only block the road or the green space mid-air, so it shouldn't have much of an impact."