Chapter 134 Building
There is also the embroidery shop run by the female owner of Jinxiufang, which has not brought much profit to Cui Qingyi so far.
This is not unknown. After careful consideration, Cui Qingyi found that she was just like what people often say: the harder you work, the more sad you feel. She even began to doubt her investment vision.
Fortunately, she has figured out a good business idea recently. She plans to open a teahouse of her own in Dongping County!
Of course, Cui Qingyi’s teahouse is more than just a teahouse. Although Dongping County is a good place and life is comfortable, there is just too little fun, especially in winter.
Last winter, Cui Qingyi and Konjac were huddled on the kang, spending their days either thinking about embroidery or what to eat.
If you want to go out for a walk, there is almost nowhere to go except the bookstore. The teahouses here are just for drinking tea and chatting, which Cui Qingyi thinks is very boring.
Cui Qingyi planned that if her teahouse opened successfully, it might add a lot of color to the winter for the people of Dongping County.
Konjac sat on the other side of the kang table reading a storybook. Embroidery hurt her eyes, so after the girls' school was on vacation, Cui Qingyi didn't allow her to hold the embroidery needle all day long.
Konjac was originally a very hardworking girl. Now, Cui Qingyi took her to lean on the big pillow to read storybooks. When she was in high spirits, she liked to discuss a few words with Cui Qingyi.
When I got tired of waiting, I just leaned back on the pillow and took a nap in any posture, and the whole day passed quickly.
Cui Qingyi was planning things about the teahouse in her mind when she fell asleep. People are so strange that things that seem completely illogical in dreams become exceptionally clear in her mind after she wakes up.
Since it is to be the only teahouse in Dongping County, it must have characteristics from the inside out. Cui Qingyi does not know how to build a house and does not have the ability to draw floor plans, but she believes in the wisdom of the ancient people.
This time, Cui Qingyi brought Konjac to visit Uncle Fan in person, and Fan Hui also accompanied Cui Qingyi back to her parents' home.
There is not much farm work to do in Dongping County in winter. Except for a few extremely careful farmers who go back and forth in the fields all day long, most people are busy at home.
The Fan family was no exception, but Uncle Fan's family had prepared the five acres of land they rented long before winter, waiting for the winter snow water to moisten it so that they could plant rice in the spring.
Seeing Fan Hui and her friends coming to the door, Uncle Fan knew that his daughter was introducing business to his family again. At this time, everyone in the Fan family was there, and Aunt Fan and her daughter-in-law warmly invited Cui Qingyi and Konjac to come in and sit down.
Thinking about her things, which she couldn't finish talking about for a while, Cui Qingyi didn't refuse and walked in with Konjac. Although the Fan family had many people and many children, the whole yard was very clean and warm.
It can be seen that everyone in the Fan family is efficient and capable, and this can actually be seen from Fan Hui.
Uncle Fan and Cui Qingyi were no strangers, so he asked directly, "Why are you here, Miss Cui?"
Cui Qingyi: "I came here this time to ask Uncle Fan to help me build a building. Uncle Fan, take a look at this."
Although Cui Qingyi doesn't know how to build a house, she has seen pigs run even if she has never eaten pork. Among the famous ancient buildings in the history of the Flower-Growing Family, any one of them is a masterpiece.
Cui Qingyi drew a sketch based on the appearance of the teahouse in her memory. This sketch was really just a sketch, with only a rough outline of the building.
But Cui Qingyi believed that Uncle Fan would definitely be able to understand what she meant.
As expected, Uncle Fan appeared extremely confident in his field of expertise. Although it was just a rough sketch, he carefully examined it before slowly saying, "This building will probably take a long time to build. It's beyond the ability of me and my two kids to do it alone."
Cui Qingyi had considered this a long time ago. The teahouse she wanted had three floors in total. Not to mention the land it would occupy, building the floors would be a considerable project.
"Uncle Fan, see if you can find someone to work with you. I'll treat this job as a full contract to you. You can arrange the workers you find yourself. I only care about the final results."
Uncle Fan was a little hesitant. To be honest, he wanted to take this job, not only to make money, but also because it was the first time in his life that he had built a teahouse, especially such a unique one.
If this building is completed, his two sons will be able to work as house builders in the future, and craftsmen will be able to make a living no matter when.
But then again, this job seemed difficult to him.
Fan Hui was a little anxious watching her father hesitate. She knew a little about how wealthy Cui Qingyi's family was. The reason Cui Qingyi was willing to ask her father first for this job was because of the relationship between the two families.
God knows how shocked she was when she heard that Cui Qingyi was going to build a teahouse, but after the shock she felt more excited. If this teahouse was really built, her family would be able to save a lot of money, and at least her nephews would go to school and the pressure on her family would be much less.
But she didn't dare to urge him, after all, her father was the craftsman, and he must have his reasons for hesitating.
Uncle Fan called his two sons in. Because Cui Qingyi and Konjac were female guests, they had not come in just now. However, knowing that the Cui family must have come to discuss business, the two sons were waiting outside. When they heard their father calling them, they quickly came in.
The two men briefly greeted the guests and then lowered their heads to look at the drawings in their father's hand. The three of them huddled together and gestured.
Fan Hui poured more tea for Cui Qingyi and Konjac and said with a smile, "My father has always been like this. When it comes to building a house, he doesn't care about anything else, even my two younger brothers."
Cui Qingyi smiled and took a sip of tea to indicate that it was totally okay. This teahouse would belong to her completely from now on. She was not afraid of the craftsman being too serious but afraid of the craftsman taking advantage of the fact that the craftsman didn't know much and fooled her. There were so many people coming and going in the teahouse that if one of them didn't do it right, even the slightest problem would be a huge sin.
The three of them followed the blueprint for a while, and finally Uncle Fan looked at Cui Qingyi and said, "Miss Cui, we, the Fan family, will take this job. But your previous words count. We will make the final decision on all matters concerning the construction of the house."
Uncle Fan had no concept of contracting, but that didn't stop him from figuring out what Cui Qingyi said. As craftsmen, they went to other people's homes to build houses, and after receiving wages from the owners, they would be more or less under their control.
Sometimes they think a house should be built in one way, but the owner thinks it is better in another way. It is okay if some are easy to talk to, but those who are not easy to talk to will not only force the craftsmen to do it according to their ideas, but will even deliberately make things difficult when it comes to settling the wages.
If there were someone pretending to know everything and pointing out problems in such a large building with such complicated procedures, Uncle Fan would feel that it was unfair to make such a small fortune. But if they were left to make all the decisions, things would go much more smoothly.
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