The biggest project now is the main house and the wall. Needless to say, the main house will take up the largest part, and the place where you live must be the best.
The courtyard wall does not require much technical skills. His plan is to surround the entire house with a high wall. If he has enough funds later, he will buy a mountain and then surround the mountain.
An orchard is built behind the house so that there is no need to worry about people with bad intentions climbing over the wall. More importantly, since it is next to the mountain at the back, there is no need to worry about attacks from wild beasts.
The two chatted for a while, and then there was a knock on the door. Shopkeeper Zhang answered, and the waiter led in four men of different heights and builds.
The four men were all smiles, and Shopkeeper Zhang quickly asked them to sit down. "This is Lin Mo from Qingshui Village. He's the one who's going to build the house this time. You two can discuss the specific details later."
"Boss Lin." The four people who had just sat down stood up immediately after hearing this, and saluted Lin Mo in unison. They knew that someone who could make the owner of Xinrui Restaurant treat him so carefully was someone they must not mess with.
Lin Mo's smile remained unchanged as he nodded to the four people one by one and asked, "Don't be polite, brothers. I'd like to know how many people are in your construction team?"
The four sturdy men all looked to be in their thirties, with bulging muscles on their bodies, and even their old torn shirts were stretched out, showing that they had been doing heavy labor for many years.
"My name is Zhong Jiajun. There are twelve people in our team who can work. Although there are not many of them, they are all experienced in building houses for many years." The shorter and stronger man said respectfully with his fists clasped.
As he finished speaking, another taller and stronger man joined in, "I'm Li Da. We don't have many people on our team, only fifteen at the moment. We're all veterans who've been working with me for seven or eight years. Boss Lin, just rest assured about our skills."
After the two of them finished speaking, they were still unsure. Before they came, Manager Zhang said that they would choose one from each of their two engineering teams, which meant that one of their teams would be eliminated.
It has not been easy to get work in recent years. Many large construction teams have appeared in his town one after another, and their construction teams have gradually reduced their size. The reason he was able to work with Manager Zhang was because he helped build the Xinrui Restaurant in his early years.
Lin Mo nodded, took out the blueprint he had drawn from his arms and spread it on the table, smiling and said: "Everyone's time is precious. It is our fate that you can come to Xinrui to see me. My house is not big, but the wall and pond are quite large.
If possible, both of your families can come over. I won’t waste any more words. This is the drawing I designed myself. You guys can take a look.
In addition to the traditional main house, side rooms and guest rooms, I want to build these corridors like this..."
On the drawing, a modern-style house combined with a traditional four-courtyard house appeared before his eyes. The materials and construction methods of each part were marked on it, as well as roads and ponds. He planned to build a three-story main house and a two-story annex and basement room.
Two of the four people were specifically responsible for looking at the drawings. When they saw Lin Mo's drawings, they found them very novel. The house did not cover a large area, but the design was luxurious and unique.
"Boss Lin, what is this in the middle?" Several people looked at the blueprint over and over again, pointing at the gap between the walls of the main house and asked in confusion. They have been building houses for many years and have never seen such a design.
Lin Mo lowered his eyes and said, "This is the way of keeping warm that I heard from my friends in the outer court in the capital city. The capital city has developed commerce and trade, and many people from other countries come and go.
I've also heard about this plan. They will build a hollow structure to connect each room, and then set up a movable chopping board so that the room that needs heating can be directly heated when the kang is heated.
If you don’t need it, just partition it off. It will keep you warm in the winter and cooler in the summer.”
Lin Mo began to make up stories seriously. This world didn't have a heating system yet, so just sitting on the kang wouldn't be that warm.
According to the original body's memory, this area would be extremely cold in winter. When it snowed heavily, everyone would rely on a small kang to keep warm, or stay in bed early.
Since we are building a new house, we might as well do it better. This winter, everyone must live comfortably. We also need to buy some charcoal.
There are abundant resources here, and we need to look for coal mines. Otherwise, we can't burn firewood, which is too troublesome and requires someone to guard it.
"So what is this drawing?"
"And this."
The other two pointed at the parts they didn't understand and asked for advice without hesitation. They were full of curiosity about the unknown and were eager to have Lin Mo answer them.
Lin Mo patiently explained: "This is the drainage system of the entire house. I want to set up an independent bathroom in each room. The rooms on the second floor do not need to be divided into six suites according to the conventional way.
The middle area is left empty as a hall, and each room is equipped with a squat toilet and a toilet. This is a simple drainage solution. Two pools are dug in the backyard, one for regular sewage water and the other for septic tanks, which makes it easier to deal with it later.
There was no concept of sewerage in this world. No matter how luxurious the houses of wealthy families were, they all had pit toilets.
The masters and ladies used the toilet directly using the toilet bucket, which was then brought out by the maids and servants and then dealt with by the person who poured the night incense.
Although Lin Mo wanted to be a local landlord and would definitely hire some people to work for his family in the future, he really couldn't accept having people empty his toilet, so he simply designed a simple drainage system from the beginning.
He continued, "We'll simply partition off a small portion of the top floor to make it a room, and leave some space outside to create a large balcony. I'll tell you the details when the time comes."
He planned to decorate the top floor into a leisure place for himself and Su Mu, and he still needed to finalize the specific decoration method.
This house is not big in Qingshui Town. Compared with the houses of merchants and landlords, it occupies a smaller area. However, the design of the house is relatively novel, and with the designs such as the pond wall and the corridor, the project workload is not small.
“This house project is quite large and novel, with many convenient designs that we have never done before.
If Boss Lin is trustworthy, he can arrange it for us. Construction is not a problem, but we will need Boss Lin's guidance on the novelties of these things."
Li Da saluted him and expressed his willingness to take on the job. Judging from the drawings, they could definitely do it.
Lin Mo’s design for the main house was very particular, and the furniture was decorated very carefully. They also wanted to see what the final result would look like.
Such a big house must be the most luxurious and novel one in Qingshui Town.
"My requirements are quite detailed. I want your two teams to each be responsible for a place. Some people will be assigned to the main house, and some people will be assigned to the servants' quarters, the corridors, the gardens, and the ponds.
As for the fence, it's not a technical job, so we'll leave it to some villagers in our village. To prevent people from climbing over, we'll also use rubble and tiles to cover the top of the fence."
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