Chapter 032 Buying Building Materials
Footsteps were heard in the stairwell. Bai Chengxiang brought up a small table, followed by Bai Zhenzhu who was carrying a large enamel tea tray.
There were four bowls on the tea tray, one bowl of rice and three bowls of vegetables.
The small table was bought by Bai Zhenzhu at the grocery store when she came back. It was a small table with low legs, which could be placed on the sofa to serve as a dining table for Huo Zheng.
Huo Zheng was quite embarrassed:
"I can go down and eat."
Bai Chengxiang is quick to speak:
"That won't do. Comrade, you are seriously injured. You must take good care of yourself. Don't worry, our family is tight-lipped. You are safe here."
Bai Zhenzhu put the food on the table and asked him:
"Comrade Huo, do you need to call your family or workplace to let them know you're safe?"
Huo Zheng: "Thank you, no need to call."
He left clues at the train station last night. His comrades must have begun to deploy according to his instructions. Now he just needs to hide, recuperate and not go out to cause trouble.
Bai Zhenzhu and Bai Chengxiang knew that the military's actions had to be kept secret, so they didn't ask any further questions.
"Then you eat first." Bai Zhenzhu said, "There is a clinic outside the market. If you feel uncomfortable, just tell me and I will go and invite the doctor back."
Huo Zheng nodded and thanked him:
"Thank you, Comrade Bai."
Bai Zhenzhu took Shuo Shuo downstairs to eat.
Huo Zheng looked at the food on the small table, it was quite sumptuous.
A bowl of roast chicken with potatoes, a bowl of cold eggplant, and a bowl of fish soup.
This fish soup was specially made by Bai Zhenzhu for him to supplement his nutrition.
Bai Zhenzhu thought that Huo Zheng had lost so much blood and must need some tonic, so after lunch she wore a straw hat and went to the market, bought two pigeons, and cooked them in a casserole over low heat.
Then he rode a tricycle and went to the place where building materials were sold with Bai Chenglei and Bai Chengxiang.
This was the place she had asked Guo Yongliang about; it was a rather shabby-looking building materials yard on the outskirts of the city.
Bai Zhenzhu originally planned to lay floor tiles. In the millennium, she had seen restaurants in the city with terrazzo floor tiles, which looked clean and tidy.
This building materials factory also has floor tiles, but the colors and patterns are not as bright as the ones she saw, and the colors are darker.
When I asked about the price, I found out that one brick cost ten yuan, which means the restaurant would charge 140 yuan, which is 1,400 yuan.
Bai Chenglei smacked his lips and said, "This is too expensive."
The boss followed suit:
"It's not expensive. There are more expensive ones and cheaper ones. But if you run a restaurant, you can just lay cement. There's no need to lay these bricks. These are bought by rich people to lay bricks at home."
Bai Zhenzhu thought so too. Since it would be demolished in a few years anyway, she might as well lay a concrete floor, which would be non-slip and easy to clean.
So she bought one cubic meter of gravel and sand, 10 bags of cement, and 200 kilograms of lime, spending a total of 350 yuan.
I paid the money, left my address, and arranged for delivery tomorrow afternoon. I still have to clean up today.
The hotel was originally paved with red bricks, but because it has been a long time, the ground is uneven and not moisture-proof.
All these bricks need to be shoveled away, and Bai Chenglei said it would only take half a day.
After returning, Bai Chenglei and Bai Chengxiang started working. They moved all the tables and chairs to the backyard, and then began to lay bricks.
Most of the bricks used for paving the floor were still intact, so the owner of the grain, oil, tobacco and alcohol store next door came over and asked if they still wanted those bricks.
Bai Zhenzhu said she doesn't want it anymore, and whoever wants it can come and pick it up.
Then the owner of the grain and oil store came with his two half-grown sons to help with laying bricks. The land was not very big to begin with, but the three brothers of the Bai family, together with the father and son next door, laid all the bricks in a short while. They also helped to deliver the bricks to the next door, as his family was planning to build a bathroom in the backyard.
It was not yet dark when they finished their work, and Bai Zhenzhu and Zhang Minmin had already prepared dinner.
In the evening, Bai Zhenzhu cooked pumpkin and mung bean porridge. She bought a bunch of leeks, made some leek omelette, mixed some cold cowpea, and heated up the leftover chicken from lunch.
Huo Zheng's meal was for the wounded, a large bowl of pigeon stewed with white peony root, with both the meat and the soup, four pancakes, and a plate of cold dishes.
He ate a few meals here and found that Bai Zhenzhu's cooking skills were really good, no wonder she wanted to open a restaurant.
But he had been lying in bed all day, and his only activity was going downstairs to the bathroom. He was not hungry at all, and he was full after eating pigeon soup and cold dishes.
It was still early after dinner, so Bai Zhenzhu took some clean sheets and quilt covers and took Bai Chenglei and Bai Chengxiang to the staff building of the vermicelli factory.
The vermicelli factory is one of the main industries in Yuan County. There are four residential buildings in total, and the community is named Xingfu Community.
The house Bai Zhenzhu bought was Room 303.
Uncle Xia He's family had all moved out, and almost nothing in the house had been moved, except for the pots and pans in the kitchen.
Only the TV and washing machine were gone. After all, they were big items, so it was normal for them to deal with them.
The large items in the bedroom, such as the bed and wardrobe, are all still there, even the quilts and mattresses are kept, and there are some old clothes that the old couple no longer wear left in the wardrobe.
Xia He said that her eldest cousin made a lot of money doing business in Chengdu, and he bought a new house for the old couple in the community where they lived. He had prepared everything and was just waiting for someone to come over.
Bai Chengxiang's face was full of surprise:
"Pearl, do you want to give us this house to live in?"
Bai Zhenzhu changes the bed sheets and quilt covers skillfully:
"Yes, there are just two rooms. When the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law come over, you can live here and take care of each other."
Bai Chenglei said hurriedly: "I think the bed sheets and quilt covers are quite clean, no need to change them."
Bai Zhenzhu changed her bed sheets to new ones, which had big peony flowers printed on them, and looked particularly beautiful.
"You don't mind others using it, but you still have to wash it again."
Bai Chenglei laughed twice:
"I don't mind. These are all good. What's there to be disgusted with?"
Then he said to Bai Chengxiang:
"Second brother, you and your sister-in-law should live in the big bedroom. We will have a baby in the future, so it will be more spacious."
Bai Chengxiang didn't bother to be polite with his elder brother. He took the sheets and quilt covers and went to the big bedroom on the other side to change them himself.
The house is very clean and there is nothing to clean.
Bai Zhenzhu also explained to them how to use water, electricity and gas. The balcony was full of honeycomb coal, and there were two honeycomb coal stoves. There was also a gas tank in the kitchen. It was more convenient to boil water and cook with a gas stove in the summer.
Bai Chengxiang sighed again and again:
"This city is so convenient, and it has easy access to water. No wonder the people in the city are so clean and tidy."
Bai Zhenzhu said, "You can take your clothes to the restaurant to be washed. I bought a washing machine."
Bai Chengxiang waved his hand: "Just rub summer clothes casually, it's no trouble."
She reminded her brothers again of the precautions regarding the gas tank, changed the lock, and left two keys to her two brothers. Then Bai Zhenzhu returned to the restaurant with the changed sheets and quilt.
The next day, Bai Zhenzhu got up early in the morning and went to the market to buy a 15-pound pig's head, three chickens, and three ducks.
The restaurant will take a few days to set up, so she will start opening the braised meat shop today.
This first day was a trial run, and the weather was too hot to keep things going, so she didn’t dare do too much.
There is no braised meat shop in the market, but there are some selling it on tricycles.
In the morning, Bai Zhenzhu was making braised meat at home. Except for an old hen left for making soup, all the other ingredients were prepared and braised.
She was braising the meat at home while Bai Chenglei and Bai Chengxiang went to the store to sort it out. Bai Jingsi went to find the sign maker and had two signs made to order.
She had already found time to get the business license and health permit for the braised meat shop and restaurant, so she could just hang them up today.
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