This matchmaking job was impossible. Sanni's words had directly destroyed her popularity as a matchmaker in the cotton fields.
But she just likes to have some peace and quiet, and all these things are disturbing her studies day after day!
The next morning, Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing took the money to the village committee to sign for the land. The land, which was 15 meters long and 19 meters wide, was allocated to them. They could build houses and enclose yards as they pleased.
Lin Guoqing didn't go to work today. He just picked up a hoe and wanted to dig the foundation, which made Chen Chunhua embarrassed.
"Didn't you say we had to build this house properly? Why are you making it look just like the mud house we built before? Why don't you call a few people to go with us? No, call the mason first! What can you dig?"
This is the truth. Lin Guoqing was a little too excited. He dropped his hoe and wanted to run out to call for help. However, Chen Chunhua held him back and asked her to go out with her tricycle.
Today's eggs haven't been delivered yet, and I still need to go to the county to order new bricks and tiles. I also want to ask how long it will take to order reinforced concrete. Most houses nowadays are still made of mud, but reinforced concrete has gradually developed in recent years.
Dani and her room have already used it, and it does look more solid.
She first dropped Lin Guoqing off in the village, then delivered the eggs and found the brick kiln according to the address he had just given her.
The blue bricks and black tiles look really nice after they are built, but the production process is also really dirty and tiring.
The brick kiln is located on the outskirts of the county. As soon as you enter the factory, you'll see neatly arranged rows of bricks drying on the ground. It's cold now, so the bricks need to dry longer, and the piles are even higher.
In the dead of winter, several shirtless, muscular men were carrying bricks up and down the side. A little further to the side, there was a tall pile of clay. Some were using racks to make clay molds, while others were carrying the finished clay molds into the kiln one by one to burn...
Chen Chunhua found the master and said that a man named Lin Guoqing came to order bricks yesterday. She was his wife and wanted to add some more.
How much should I add?
Chen Chunhua took out the ghostly talisman she had drawn yesterday. The master frowned and looked at it for a long time, and he really understood it clearly.
That's what she is! This kind of thing should be left to the professionals!
But when ordering bricks and tiles, we also need to consider the size of the area. The master asked about the length, width and height again, took another piece of paper, and re-drew it based on Chen Chunhua's ghost paintings, and also marked numbers on the house painting.
Finally, use an abacus to calculate.
It would cost just under 30,000 bricks and 1,600 tiles. Tiles were 20 cents each, and blue bricks were more expensive than red bricks. Red bricks were only 3 cents each, while blue bricks were supposedly 6 cents. However, blue bricks are larger and longer than red bricks. This totaled 2,000 yuan.
There were definitely not enough bricks and tiles for a tricycle or tractor. The master asked for the address and was told it was in Sihe Village. He frowned and scratched his head for a long time.
"Can you pay for the fare when the time comes? I'll borrow a truck to deliver it to you. This truck will have to make several trips."
Chen Chunhua nodded readily, "Of course! Just ask the master to tell me when the time comes!"
Then I went to the next store. Cement was 25 yuan per ton, sand and gravel were 10 yuan per cubic meter, and the most expensive thing was steel bars, which were about 700 yuan per ton.
If her family wanted to build a small two-story house with a single-story area of about 120 square meters, as well as a bungalow and a wall around the yard, they would have to order at least 10 tons of cement, and basically seven or eight tons of steel bars.
The key is that to get such a large quantity in a short period of time, I have to ask Lao Shi to open a back door, otherwise public use will definitely be given priority.
This expense alone cost over 5,000 yuan. If we had used the most popular prefabricated panels instead of steel bars, we could have saved half the money.
But Chen Chunhua didn't want to save the money because it was really not safe and easy to crack.
Wang Yong and his brothers picked all the sand and gravel for Dani's house, and they used red bricks, saving a lot of money. However, Chen Chunhua didn't plan to save money, as there was no one in his family who could do such heavy labor.
Isn’t the purpose of making money to be able to enjoy it at times like this?
She gritted her teeth and stamped her feet, and decided everything! As for the glass windows, let's talk about it later. She spent too much money today and she had a heartache.
When she returned to the village, she saw the children doing their homework seriously, while Lin Guoqing was sitting listlessly beside them watching them do their homework.
"Eh? Didn't you go ask the master to do some work? Why are you sitting here in a daze again?"
Lin Guoqing raised his head and said gloomily,
"The bricklayer said that breaking ground is a big deal and can't be done so casually. We have to choose an auspicious day."
"Oh, so what's an auspicious day?"
"yesterday."
Chen Chunhua: ...
"Is there nothing more to come?"
"Of course there is, but we have to wait until the ninth day of next month."
Today is the 29th day of the tenth lunar month, the last day of the tenth lunar month. Tomorrow is the first day of the winter month, and the wait until the ninth day feels so long to Lin Guoqing...
Chen Chunhua curled her lips and said, "It's only a matter of nine or ten days. We can just wait and see. We can't move in before the New Year anyway. It's just right for you to go to the village and call for help these two days."
"You don't understand... In this kind of weather, the ground will become much harder in about ten days, and it will be much more troublesome to drive the piles." Lin Guoqing shook his head, still feeling sorry for the ten days.
"What can we do? If you insist on doing it today, I don't have any objections. I'm just afraid that if something unlucky happens next time, people will say it's all because we didn't pick the right day. Then, for the next ten or twenty years, we'll be used as a negative example."
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