Chapter 96 Reconstruction
The house purchase contract for rural residents is relatively simple. The house and land boundaries are clearly written out, and then signed and sealed by the buyer and seller, the village head, the secretary, and respected elders in triplicate.
One share for Wang Lianghai, one share for Tao Nanfeng, and one share for the villagers.
Xiangbei registered the house in the name of Tao Nanfeng. Tao Shouxin was touched but also felt bad: "You found this house and bought it as a wedding house, why did you put Nanfeng's name on it?"
Xiangbei said nonchalantly: "When we get married in the future, won't mine be hers?"
Perhaps because she had never suffered from financial difficulties since childhood, Tao Nanfeng did not care about these details. She was now concentrating on thinking about how to build this house.
I used to build houses for my company, but now I’m building one for myself for the first time. It feels really new.
A little excitement, a little happiness, a little eager to try.
After finally suppressing his excitement, Tao Nanfeng picked up a branch, squatted in the deserted yard and began to paint.
"The original floor plan is actually quite good. The interior walls made of earthen bricks are well preserved and just need to be painted. They are still usable. However, the wooden components are damaged to varying degrees and need to be replaced. The roof base also needs to be replaced, and the tiles on top need to be repaired..."
Tao Shouxin found it interesting to hear her talking and drawing, so he came closer, and the father and daughter discussed the matter head to head.
"It seems that you still want to repair or expand it? It's not impossible. First, it can save building materials by recycling waste, and second, it can shorten the time. The old house has many rooms, the main hall, four bedrooms, and the kitchen and toilet are relatively independent. In order to make it transparent from north to south, we can simply add a porch in front of the house to avoid interference between the rooms."
"Well, that's good. Then I'll increase the overhang of the south side of the roof. Add a circle of railings to the eaves, and add support to the door opening on the south wall..."
Xiangbei didn't understand, but that didn't stop him from appreciating it.
He smiled and took off his coat, revealing his strong arms and shoulders. He picked up the hoe borrowed from the village chief's house and began to clear the weeds and vines in the yard.
This is——
"Calculate the length of the eaves and consider safety."
"If we're just remodeling, we'll start with the roof. Where will we find the construction team? Nanfeng, you have to keep an eye on the site."
"I'll ask my college classmates. They should know a lot of construction teams in Jiangcheng."
Over there is——
“Swish…”
“Rub, rub, rub!”
After the preliminary architectural design drawings come out, Xiangbei should pull down the vines on the two loquat trees, three orange trees, a jujube tree, and a camphor tree in the yard, and clear the weeds around the big trees.
In the evening, when the family returned to the professor's building, they still couldn't contain their excitement.
Even Tao Shouxin, who had previously not wanted Tao Nanfeng to move out, now began to imagine the good days after the new house was completed.
"You two can live in the east end, and leave me a room in the west end. Put a big desk under the north window, with bamboo shadows swaying. It would be beautiful to read books and appreciate the bamboos, isn't it?"
Tao Nanfeng took Xiangbei's hand and said softly, "Leave a bedroom for your parents to live in, we..."
The words, "We'll room in one room," were on the tip of my tongue but I never uttered them. Tao Nanfeng's cheeks turned slightly red and she felt sweet in her heart.
Xiangbei held her hand with his backhand, his heart beating faster and faster.
Tao Shouxin said, "One master bedroom, one children's room, one for my parents to stay in Xiangbei, and one for me. The four rooms are very well allocated. This house is a good buy! If I hadn't wandered around Xiangbei, I wouldn't have known that there was such a paradise in Yuanhou Village."
Xiangbei and Tao Nanfeng smiled at each other, with infinite tenderness in their eyes.
The next day, Tao Nanfeng found Qi Mingxue and told him about it. Qi Mingxue immediately patted his chest and promised to do it.
"Junior sister wants to renovate the wedding room, and as the squad leader, I have no choice but to work with her. Not to mention one construction team, two or three will be no problem."
Two days later, construction of the new house began.
Tao Nanfeng inspected the old house and found that the main problem was the damage to the wooden structure. There were no problems with the walls and foundation, so all that needed to be done was to replace all the wood.
There are six people in the construction team. According to Tao Nanfeng's arrangement, they will start with repairing the roof.
The roof adopts gable purlins. The horizontal walls of each room are load-bearing walls that support the roof purlins. They are built with a slope and purlins are nailed on it.
This job is hard for others, but it is easy for Tao Nanfeng.
She lifted the purlin that required two strong laborers to carry with one hand, walked up the ladder steadily to the roof, placed it in the appropriate position, and signaled the workers to adjust the level and nail it firmly.
The workers were all amazed: Wow, the boss is so strong!
The construction work here is in full swing and the villagers all come to watch the fun.
The previous scene of Tao Nanfeng and Xiang Bei rescuing people was so heroic that it left a very deep impression on the villagers.
"This family is good. They saved Uncle Hai and Shizhu."
"That girl was very strong. She lifted a fir tree with both hands at the same time and supported the house in just a few moves."
"The village chief said that his relatives wanted to settle down in Jiangcheng, so they bought Haizi's house."
"From now on, we will belong to the same village. Once they are installed, please visit more often."
The village chief Wang Liangsheng had a good personal relationship with Xiangbei. He not only helped with the house-purchasing procedures, but also set up an earthen stove in the yard for the construction team to cook, and arranged for the six workers to live in the village.
The villagers helped to weed and clean the yard every day, and occasionally brought over some vegetables or two eggs, and everyone gradually became familiar with each other.
"The professor is going to settle down in our village!"
"If we build a house in the future, you can come and ask for advice if you have any questions."
"I heard that this is Xiangbei's wedding room. There will be a wedding in our village."
However, there are also discordant voices.
Wang Lianghai's eldest son, Wang Gongsong, worked as a worker in a towel factory. After waiting for the company to allocate housing to him in vain, he had no choice but to buy an old dormitory for retired employees.
It's on the first floor, with one bedroom and one living room, and it's shabby, but it's still priced at two hundred yuan.
If his family wasn't planning on getting him married, why would they be willing to sell the old house? The old house was built by his grandfather. Wang Gongsong spent his childhood there and has deep feelings for it.
After Wang Lianghai was discharged from the hospital, he handed over the 200 yuan he had saved for buying a house and lumber to his eldest son and finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Songzi, Dad has done his best. You get married and live a good life in the city. Our house is still here and will be left to Zhuzi in the future."
Almost all Chinese parents are like this, devoting themselves to their children.
Wang Gongsong didn't expect that his parents would sell their old house for his marriage, and he was very unhappy at the time.
"Why didn't you discuss this with me? It was agreed that the old house was left to me, so I could live there in the future. It's such a big yard, and those two loquat trees bear fruit every year. How could you bear to sell it to someone else?"
Wang Lianghai was so angry that he started yelling.
"Then what do you want me to do? Your father also wants to keep the family business, and also wants to leave a house for you and Zhuzi. But now you are employed in the factory and eat the city's state-owned grain. What are you still doing in this broken village?
You want to get married, but your company refuses to allocate a house to you, and you need to spend money to buy a house. You ask me for money, what should I do? If I can get two hundred dollars from selling your parents, I won’t sell the house! But our old bones are worthless. If the buyer wasn't kind, he wouldn't be able to come up with the two hundred dollars. ”
Xiangbei was unwilling to take advantage of others. Although the Wang family's old house was seriously damaged, the yard was large and quiet, which was rare. Both Tao Nanfeng and Tao Shouxin were satisfied with it. In addition, the other party spent dozens of dollars on building materials to renovate the old house, so he directly offered a high price of two hundred yuan.
After all, neither he nor Nanfeng’s household registration is in the village, so buying a house in the village would require some trouble.
Wang Gongsong took two hundred yuan and added it to his three years of savings, which was enough to buy a house, decorate it, and get married. But people are greedy, and Wang Gongsong was reluctant to leave the old house and wanted to go and argue with Xiangbei.
I went there twice, and both times I only met Tao Nanfeng and the construction workers, and then I went back north to the farm.
Wang Gongsong is a rural man. His family spent money and used their connections to send him to a factory as a worker. He was paid 32 yuan a month and was quite arrogant in the village. He looked down on women a little, so he retreated without seeing Xiangbei.
It was not until the third time Wang Gongsong went to the old house that he saw that the roof had been repaired and new tiles had been laid. From a distance, the dark roof was glowing. Only then did he become a little panicked.
He called Tao Nanfeng and said straight to the point: "I don't want to sell this house anymore."
The weather was a bit hot. Tao Nanfeng wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand and looked at Wang Gongsong: "Who are you?"
Wang Gongsong pointed to the old house and said, "This is my old house. I am the eldest son of the Wang family."
Tao Nanfeng nodded: "Oh, the seller of this house is Wang Lianghai, not you."
Wang Gongsong was unhappy when he heard this: "This house was built by my grandfather, and it was originally agreed to be left to me. If I don't agree, this deal will be cancelled."
Tao Nanfeng frowned and said, "Then give me the two hundred yuan and the three hundred and sixty yuan for the materials and labor for repairing the house, and we will go to the village to cancel the contract again."
Wang Gongsong didn't expect Tao Nanfeng to be so straightforward and was stunned for a moment. Originally, he just thought that the other party would definitely not want to check out, so he would take the opportunity to ask for a little more money to buy a watch for his wife.
"What...what? We only took two hundred. Can't I just return the two hundred to you?"
Tao Nanfeng doesn't like dealing with people like Wang Gongsong. He looks smart, but he is actually a fool.
"But we have already started to renovate the old house. I hired a construction team of six people. The daily food, lodging, wages, plus the tiles, bricks, and wood... all together I will only charge you 360, which is already a friendly price."
After saying this, Tao Nanfeng glanced at him coldly and said, "Give me 560 yuan now, and I will terminate the contract with you immediately. After one day, the wages will increase by 10 yuan. When I start to renovate the house, I will need more money. You can weigh it up and come back to me."
Wang Gongsong was speechless and didn't know how to respond.
The construction team came over, gave Wang Gongsong a cold look, and said sarcastically, "How dare you sell this dilapidated house for 200 yuan? If you don't want to sell it, just give me your money back! You might as well buy a good house in the city with this money."
Wang Gongsong gritted his teeth and said, "Houses in the village can only be bought and sold within the same village. This is an illegal transaction. I will report it!"
Tao Nanfeng curled his lips: "You want to report your own father, the village chief and the clan grandfather? You are really promising!"
Wang Gongsong was so angry that he gnashed his teeth when he saw that she was not panicking at all: "You are the buyer, you can't get away!"
Tao Nanfeng curved his eyebrows and said, "I never do anything illegal. If you want to report me, just do it. But... before you report me, I suggest you ask your father to take a good look at the contract, so as not to be a villain in vain."
Tao Nanfeng is not afraid of his reporting. Xiangbei was very thoughtful when signing the contract. Tao Nanfeng settled in the village in the name of Wang Liangsheng's distant relative, so he naturally became eligible to buy a house.
As for the settlement procedures, they are all handled by the village chief to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
Tao Nanfeng ignored Wang Gongsong, patted the dust off his hands, took two steps back and examined the old house in front of him.
After a while, he nodded, smiled brightly, and said to the workers: "Okay, the roof is done! Next we will demolish the wall and open the door."
After saying that, she bent down and picked up half of the cut log.
The log swept past Wang Gongsong's waist. He screamed and took several steps back: "Hey, woman, how can you be so rude!"
Tao Nanfeng laughed and swung the wood in a circle. The heavy wood was like a toy in her hand.
Tao Nanfeng now has a bright future and is about to get married to Xiang Bei. He is full of energy and finds everything interesting.
What's the big deal about Wang Gongsong coming here to cause trouble? He can't stir up any waves.
Wang Gongsong was so frightened by the girl's magical power that he broke out in a cold sweat. He dared not to pester her anymore and turned away. He couldn’t win the fight, he couldn’t win the argument, and he couldn’t get the money out. What could he do?
Moreover, the person who signed the contract was his own father. Could he really disregard human ethics and report it? well!
If I have to blame someone, I can only blame myself for being incompetent. I have worked for so many years, but I can't even take out 200 yuan.
Wang Gongsong did not cause any splash, and Tao Nanfeng did not take it seriously.
Carefully check the walls inside the house, repair the weathered holes in the walls, add wooden boards to the sloping roofs, and add a attic in each room to act as an insulation layer.
Then open the door on the south side of the bedroom.
This process is a bit complicated because rammed earth bricks become weathered over time and their load-bearing capacity decreases. If it weren't for Tao Nanfeng's great skills and courage, no one would dare to make holes in the earthen brick wall.
The workers were also very nervous: "We only dare to repair this wall, not dig it."
When it comes to digging holes, that's Tao Nanfeng's forte!
It had been a long time since she had tried this job, so Tao Nanfeng asked the workers to leave and she took the chisel and hammer and did the work herself.
Heat surged through his arms, the iron pick was pressed against the wall, and the hammer hit it hard.
"Bang! Boom! Boom!" After three hammer strikes, a doorway suddenly appeared in the wall. Then install the pre-made door frame and the door is ready.
Tao Shouxin came over after class to check on the progress of the construction and saw this scene.
When the smoke and dust cleared, Tao Nanfeng stood under the eaves, looking as graceful as a fairy.
Tao Shouxin personally witnessed the origin of his daughter's name "Tao Sanchui". He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. After a long while, he said, "Sanchui, you are really capable."
The construction workers were adjusting the door frame and marveling at it.
"Tao Nanfeng, your skills are better than the best bricklayer in our village!"
"I've never seen a worker who could break out a door with three hammers."
"If you come to our construction team, you will definitely be a master craftsman!"
After saying this, all six workers laughed. Tao Nanfeng is a student of Jiangcheng Architectural University. I heard that he is also the head of the Infrastructure Department. How could he be a chef in a construction team?
Tao Nanfeng removed the window frame on the south side and re-modified the wall hole to make it a door-and-window structure.
Tao Nanfeng became more and more enthusiastic about this job, humming a song while waving the hammer in his hand.
After listening for a long time, the workers could no longer hold back and shouted, "College student, please stop singing! You have lost the tune!"
The other one was patching the hole in the wall while shouting, "Lao Liu, come and perform a trick!"
The man called Lao Liu smiled shyly, coughed twice, and opened his throat.
"Look at the eagle flying in the blue sky
Look at the scaffolding bathed in golden sunlight.
We are glorious construction workers, loyal to the people
Working tirelessly to build socialism for the motherland
The singing became louder and louder, attracting the chorus of the crowd.
Tao Nanfeng's eyes sparkled and the corners of his mouth curled up when he heard this. Although she sang out of tune, she had an appreciative heart. She has seen the movie "Young Lu Ban" and she also wants to be like Li Sandai in the movie, work hard, keep innovating, and become the new generation of young Lu Ban.
Tao Shouxin was infected by the group of young people working happily on the construction site, and couldn't help but hum the tune along.
Tao Nanfeng widened his eyes: Huh? It turns out that I inherited my tone-deafness from my father!
Is that a song that Tao Shouxin sang? He just let his horse run free and didn't know where it had gone.
Meeting his daughter's incredulous gaze, Tao Shouxin stopped embarrassedly. Tao Nanfeng laughed and took his father's arm: "Dad, let's sing together!"
In the beautiful singing, there are two voices that rise and fall.
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The song in the article is the interlude "Song of Construction Workers" from the 1964 old movie "Young Lu Ban"
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