Everyone else had also seen Chen Shuning and Zhong Lingling's house, so when they heard the brigade leader introduce the house-building project, they all gathered around, only to find out that it would cost more than ninety yuan.

They gave up on the idea of ​​paying for future repairs themselves, since they were only there to visit the countryside and weren't planning to settle down there permanently. It wasn't worth spending so much money on a house they didn't even know how many years they'd live in.

The new educated youth didn't keep the brigade leader waiting long. They made a decision in no time. One of the girls, who had a round face, stepped forward and said, "Brigade leader, Tian Mi and I will share a room. I wonder if we can go and choose a room now?"

They had taken a train for seven or eight days to get here from Haishi, and they were exhausted. They just wanted to settle in quickly and get some rest.

On the male educated youth side, Gao Hongyuan and Wang Zhi also decided to rent a room together. Although the remaining two male educated youths were not very familiar with each other, they figured their families were not short of money, so they also decided to rent a room together.

Gu Xinyi still wanted to see Chen Shuning's house before deciding whether to rent or build it.

Three of the five newly built rooms were rented out immediately, bringing in thirty-six yuan. The brigade leader's old face beamed with joy.

While thinking about it, he wondered if he could build a few more rooms if new educated youth came during the Spring Festival.

He said to the group of educated youth who wanted to rent a room, "Except for the room on the west side which has already been rented out, you can choose the rest yourselves. Once you've chosen, just put your luggage in the room and then come with me to the brigade to pay the rent."

While you're at it, bring back all your food rations. You new educated youth can receive a month's worth of food rations, thirty catties of coarse grains. After that, you'll have to exchange work points for more grain, or you can buy it from the team.

If you have any other questions, you can ask the older educated youth, but they're all resting right now, so I'll tell you later.

Then he looked at Gu Xinyi and said, "Find a room and put your luggage in. When you come back, it will be time to start work. I will take you to see Chen Zhiqing's room then."

"Building your house will take a few days. In the meantime, you can decide whether to stay in the old house or this small house here. If you choose to stay in the small house temporarily, you'll only need to pay one cent per day for rent, and pay for each day you stay."

Gu Xinyi thought about how crowded the people on the kang in the main house she had just seen were, and decided to rent a new house for the time being. As for building a house, she would make a decision after seeing Chen Shuning's house.