Ye Beiping wandered around the town for a while, recalling what Tao Qiuyan had said.
Do you underestimate it?
Judging these people from the countryside by the assumption that they are from the city is indeed an underestimation of them.
But upon closer reflection, he realized he had never underestimated these people from the countryside.
You should know how many college students there were in the past, and how many people who studied hard eventually succeeded.
Many big bosses even come from rural backgrounds. Although they may not be on the wealth rankings, who knows that these people are hiding their talents?
After wandering around for more than an hour, Ye Beiping finally returned to Pingba Village.
As soon as he got off the bus, he saw Jiang Hai, Hou Baolin, and Wu Di waiting at the village entrance.
What are you doing here?
Jiang Hai stepped forward and said, "We went to your house and found the door locked, so we came to the village entrance to wait for you. How is it, Auntie, have you boarded the train?"
"Uh-huh."
Seeing Ye Beiping nod, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Hai then asked, "So what's next? Have you finished drawing the blueprint?"
"In a few days."
As Ye Beiping spoke, he walked towards Wu Di's house: "I asked Sister Zhou to find someone who specializes in architecture to draw up the plans. It probably won't be that quick, but we can go and apply for the land for the house."
"Let's go to Wu Di, first we'll go to Uncle Wu."
"Okay." Wu Di was naturally very happy to hear that he was going to his own home.
Five or six minutes.
We finally arrived at Wu Di's house in the village.
Although it's not a mud house, it's a brick house.
These brick houses are considered very good in Pingba Village, no... in the surrounding area.
Even people building houses in other villages would make a special trip to see what a brick house looked like.
After inquiring about the cost, they decided to give up.
It's just too expensive.
Don't underestimate mud houses these days; building them is no cheaper than buying an apartment in the city.
Compacting the soil takes time. Although we don't need to pay the villagers for their help, we do need to provide them with two meals.
There were also carpenters and such.
We eat two meals a day, and each meal must include either fish or meat. Based on the price of meat, which is one yuan per pound, everyone needs at least two pounds of meat a day.
That's two yuan.
Just providing meals costs about four yuan a day.
That adds up to 120 yuan a month.
The main problem is that these mud houses need to be dried before they can be built on top of each other. The construction period for a three-room mud house is at least six months.
That is, eight or nine hundred yuan.
Including materials and cigarette costs, it would cost at least three or four thousand, or even four or five thousand, to build a house like this.
Unless you build it with wood and surround it with straw, it should only cost a few dozen yuan.
Wu Di pointed to his house and laughed, "My dad owed a lot of money when he built this brick house. He borrowed from all his relatives and friends. It cost almost ten thousand yuan to build."
He then pointed to the addition next to it: "That's the new addition. It was originally meant for my wedding, but it was built after I paid off the famine debt the year before last and still owed a huge amount of famine debt. In total, it cost more than ten thousand."
Jiang Hai's eyes lit up, and he smiled and patted Wu Di on the shoulder.
"Then your family must be a household with ten thousand yuan."
The tone was somewhat sarcastic, making Wu Di scratch his head in embarrassment.
Hou Baolin proudly said, "Of course, only my family and Fatty's family in the whole village have brick and tile houses. There were so many people who came to help us back then. If we hadn't needed so many people, we probably would have gone broke just from feeding them."
That's true.
Ye Beiping was a teenager at the time and also wanted to help both families with their work.
In the end, Wu Guangfa and Hou Yongping, seeing that he was young, invited him and Ye Xiaoxin over every day to freeload, but they didn't really help much.
Ye Beiping still kept this in mind.
For nearly half a year, he ate oily food every day and gained a lot of weight.
Jiang Hai shook his head and chuckled, somewhat envious, "If my family had a house like this, I wouldn't need to do all those messy and troublesome things with Jiang He. Right now, my only wish is to build two brick and tile houses like this, and I'll be perfectly content."
Stepping into Wu Di's home.
Upon seeing the newcomer, Wu Guangfa immediately greeted him with a smile, saying, "Beiping, what brings you here? I heard your mother went to Hangzhou today. Has she left yet? If not, we'll see her off together."
These are just polite words.
If Ye Beiping takes this seriously, he'll really lose all his friends.
"Uncle Wu, my mother has already boarded the train and left. I came today to see how this homestead was divided."
"Oh, the homestead." Wu Guangfa nodded, led Ye Beiping to sit down in the hall, poured a few glasses of water, and then explained the situation of the homestead in detail.
“In our village, land is usually allocated according to population, with each person receiving about 0.3 mu. If calculated by family, each household cannot have more than one mu of land.”
One mu of land is equal to 666 square meters.
0.3 mu is approximately 333 square meters.
If calculated according to the previous life, it is indeed very large, because the kind of house that people buy is only a little over 100 square meters.
Ye Beiping thought for a moment and asked, "Uncle Wu, there are three people in my family now. Would it be possible to divide one mu of land among us?"
One mu (approximately 0.16 acres) is 666 square meters, which is not small.
Building a two- or three-story villa is enough. I don't need a garden or anything, and even if I did, I wouldn't have that much money to maintain it.
If it's made too big, it would be terrible if a hat were put on it.
“That’s certainly possible.” Wu Guangfa nodded, then frowned slightly and said, “But what about the aftermath? If you split up, that will be difficult to handle.”
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