Chapter Twenty-Three: A Small Hope
Two days before the wedding, it was An Songyu's turn to rest.
She made a special trip to Jiangcun.
After a full month of hard work, the foundation construction of the four residential plots in Jiangcun has been completed.
I heard that the main construction will proceed much faster next time.
Basically, depending on the weather, manpower, and materials, we can complete one floor per week at the fastest.
It will take no more than ten days at the latest.
In addition, An Jianping has already begun looking for suitable renovation workers.
As for renovation materials, they went to Lin Village next door for advice.
After all, there are more than just one or two companies in Lin Village planning to start a rental business.
Although most people are limited by insufficient funds, they would rather choose to build an extra floor than spend the money on simple renovations.
However, some people who wanted to run a boutique rental business still spent some money on simple renovations.
An Jianping didn't have much money.
I don't plan to make it too fancy; I just want to negotiate the difference in compensation between the unrenovated and renovated rooms.
In addition, An Jianping also asked An Jian'an, the fourth son of the An family, who worked at Liangdi Moving Company, for help.
Please keep any usable furniture you find when you move.
He'll help collect the smaller items first, and he'll try to get the larger ones back after get off work.
Nowadays, the old furniture that was collected is piled up haphazardly next to Grandpa and Grandma An's old house.
Cover it properly with something.
Once the house is built, we'll see what's suitable for placement.
The people who built their house were all experienced.
I heard that he has been working mainly in Lin Village and Jiang Village for the past two years.
After taking a quick look around, An Songyu hurried over to the silkworm rearing room to help her grandparents.
Right now, it's the busiest time of year in the silkworm rearing room.
When An Songyu arrived, he saw that not only the two regular workers in the silkworm house, but also his grandparents were adding mulberry leaves to the silkworms on the shelves.
Basket after basket of freshly picked mulberry leaves were quickly emptied by the four people.
Fortunately, the silkworm trays in the silkworm room were already covered with plenty of mulberry leaves.
Shi Youqin rubbed her aching back and stood up, just in time to see An Songyu standing at the entrance of the silkworm house.
She waved her hand: "The silkworms here are just ready with mulberry leaves, so you don't need to worry about them. Go check on the other silkworm rearing rooms in the back!"
An Songyu nodded, hesitated slightly, and then said apologetically:
"Grandma, don't work too hard."
"You think I want to work hard?" Shi Youqin rolled her eyes at her granddaughter, annoyed.
"It's because your dad hasn't found a suitable person yet."
An Songyu was speechless for a moment.
Considering that the silkworms are now in their fourth instar, and they need to be fed mulberry leaves two or three times a day, it's no wonder that Grandma works so hard.
As for finding someone...
Her father really thought things through too much back then.
The entire mulberry orchard covers about 400 acres.
Fish ponds of various sizes occupy about 60% of the area.
Only the remaining forty percent is mulberry field.
Following the villagers' advice, An Jianping built four large silkworm houses next to four large fish ponds.
It was a large greenhouse that was 20 meters long, 10 meters wide, and 3 meters high.
The biggest expense wasn't the labor involved in construction, but the materials.
In addition, taking advantage of the location, medium-sized silkworm houses of about 100 square meters and small silkworm houses of several tens of square meters were built next to other smaller fish ponds.
Of course, initially, two people could manage so many silkworm rearing rooms.
It definitely won't work later.
In addition, we also need to hire some temporary workers to pick mulberry leaves.
The price is calculated based on the weight of the mulberry leaves picked.
They even sought out women from another direction of Jiangcun, or local women from Jiangcun who, when not on holiday, had little work at their own agritainment businesses but couldn't stay idle.
An Songyu first went to check on the other large silkworm houses, but didn't see anyone.
But the mulberry leaves in each silkworm tray were already laid out.
She wasn't very skilled at raising silkworms, nor was she able to observe them closely.
So she went to the small and medium-sized silkworm houses.
It was here that I finally found silkworm farmers.
They had seen An Songyu more than once, greeted each other, and then got busy together.
"The silkworms are getting older recently, are you managing to keep up?" An Songyu asked while she was busy.
The middle-aged woman, introduced by the two who had come initially, smiled sheepishly and said, "It's alright!"
Seeing that An Songyu didn't seem to quite understand, she explained it again in detail:
The bigger the silkworm, the more it can eat.
"But once the silkworms are bigger, feeding them becomes much easier."
“In the past, silkworms were small, so mulberry leaves had to be chopped up before they could be fed to them.”
"The silkworms are now in their fourth instar. If you take care when picking mulberry leaves, you can feed them directly."
"Moreover, the smaller the silkworm, the more times it needs to be fed."
"Now that the silkworms are bigger, we have to feed them less often."
After saying that, the woman seemed even more embarrassed. She moved her lips slightly before finally deciding to say, "These were all taught to us by my aunt."
"They were afraid we just couldn't understand, so they took us with them when they fed us yesterday."
“My uncle and aunt would inspect each silkworm rearing room one by one.”
"Uncle was the first to discover the diseased silkworms a few days ago."
After she finished speaking, she realized that telling the master about such a thing would only show her lack of strength.
But thinking about it, it seems that the fact that there are diseased silkworms couldn't be hidden from the owner.
The girl in this family is quite young, so she probably doesn't know much about it.
An Songyu felt even more ashamed, but she really couldn't find the time to help her grandparents.
But we'll wait until her three-month internship is over.
This time, An Songyu does not plan to participate in the campus recruitment event held by the school.
In her previous life, she worked at the Nanshi First Hotel for over twenty years, starting as a junior front desk employee.
She rose through the ranks to become a lobby manager, and later, a VIP room butler.
If I had to say what I gained, it would probably be nothing more than a salary and exhaustion!
Working in the service industry, especially the hotel industry.
Shift work is the norm.
While others might work overtime and stay up late, night shifts were an essential part of her career.
The shift work was only suspended a few years after I was promoted.
If her memory serves her correctly, the demolition of Jiangcun should have taken place before National Day.
As for the specific time, An Songyu, who was working in Nanshi at the time, was not particularly clear about it.
All she knew was that when she returned during the National Day holiday, everything had changed for her family and the entire Jiangcun village.
Therefore, An Songyu has made up her mind.
After her internship ends, she will go back to school to complete her graduation procedures and receive her diploma. Then she will return to the village first.
Before the demolition, she helped manage the village affairs.
As for the rest, we'll have to wait until after the demolition.
An Songyu didn't have many ideas about starting over.
But since she could go back to the time before the demolition, she felt... perhaps she could think a little more.
If she remembered correctly, after their village was demolished, only a very small number of people failed to make good use of the compensation money.
Most families used their compensation money for the demolition in good ways.
Two families in the Jiang family heard that one of their relatives had married into a neighboring city, and her family lived not far from the sea.
When their village was being demolished, it coincided with the development of the coastal area.
So, the two companies together, along with a few other companies, went there to buy land and build apartments.
Then it became an apartment hotel.
An Songyu wasn't greedy for anything else.
She hoped to have another chance, so that her years of hard work and study wouldn't be wasted.
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