Chapter 23: Small Expectations
Two days before the wedding, it was An Songyu's turn to rest.
She took a special bus to Jiangcun.
After a full month of hard work, the foundation construction of the four residential buildings in Jiang Village has been completed.
Next, I heard that the speed of main construction will be much faster.
Basically, according to the weather, labor, materials, etc., the fastest we can complete is one floor a week.
The slowest will not exceed ten days.
In addition, An Jianping has already started looking for a suitable decoration master.
As for the decoration materials, they went to the neighboring Lam Tsuen for advice.
After all, there are more than just one or two companies in Lam Tsuen planning to start the rental housing business.
However, due to lack of funds, most people would rather build an extra floor than spend the money on simple decoration.
But some people who want to run a boutique rental business still spend some money on simple decoration.
An Jianping doesn't have much money.
I don't plan to make it too elaborate, I just want to fight for the difference in compensation between the undecorated and decorated house.
In addition, An Jianping also asked An Jianan, the fourth child of the An family who worked at Liangdi Moving Company, for help.
Whenever you come across usable furniture during the move, please help him keep it.
He would help collect the small items first, and would find a way to get the big items back after get off work.
Nowadays, the old furniture that has been collected is piled up in a mess next to Grandpa An and Grandma An’s old house.
Cover it well with something.
When the house is built, we will see which ones are suitable for placement.
The people who built the house for them were all experienced.
I heard that he has been working basically in Lincun and Jiangcun in the past two years.
After taking a quick look around, An Songyu hurried to the silkworm house to help his grandparents.
Now is the busiest time in the silkworm house.
When An Songyu arrived, he saw that not only the two regular workers in the silkworm room, but also the grandparents were adding mulberry leaves to the silkworms on the racks.
Basket after basket of mulberry leaves that had just been picked were quickly emptied by the four people.
Fortunately, the silkworm trays in the silkworm room were already covered with plenty of mulberry leaves.
Shi Youqin pounded her aching waist and stood up, just in time to see An Songyu standing at the door of the silkworm house.
She waved her hand and said, "The silkworms here are just added with mulberry leaves, so you don't have to worry about them. Go check out the other silkworm houses in the back!"
An Songyu nodded, hesitated for a moment, and then said embarrassedly:
"Don't work too hard, grandma."
"Do you think I want to work hard?" Shi Youqin rolled her eyes at her granddaughter in annoyance:
"It's because your father hasn't found a suitable person yet."
An Songyu was speechless for a moment.
Considering that the silkworms have just entered the fourth stage and need to be fed mulberry leaves two or three times a day, it is no wonder that grandma has to work so hard.
As for finding someone...
Her father really had the best intentions at the time.
The entire mulberry orchard is about 400 acres.
Among them, large and small fish ponds occupy about 60% of the area.
Only the remaining 40% is mulberry fields.
Following the advice of the villagers, An Jianping built four large silkworm houses next to four larger fish ponds.
It was a large shed that was 20 meters long, 10 meters wide and 3 meters high.
The biggest expense is not the labor involved in setting it up, but the materials.
In addition, based on the geographical advantages, medium-sized silkworm houses of about 100 square meters and small silkworm houses of dozens of square meters were built next to other smaller fish ponds.
Of course, so many silkworm houses can be managed by two people at the beginning.
It definitely won’t work later.
In addition, we have to recruit some temporary workers to pick mulberry leaves.
The money is calculated according to the weight of the picked mulberry leaves.
They even looked for women from other parts of Jiangcun, or women from Jiangcun who had little work to do in their own farmhouses during holidays and could not sit idle.
An Songyu first went to check on several other large silkworm houses, although he didn't see any people.
But the mulberry leaves in each silkworm plaque are laid out.
She was not very proficient in raising silkworms and had no way of observing carefully.
So she went to the small and medium-sized silkworm houses.
It is here that we see the figures of silkworm farmers.
They had seen An Songyu more than once, greeted each other, and then started to get busy together.
"The silkworms have grown a little older recently. Can you handle it?" An Songyu was busy while showing concern.
The middle-aged woman introduced by the first two people smiled shyly: "That's not bad!"
Seeing that An Songyu didn't seem to understand, she explained carefully:
“The bigger the silkworms get, the more they can eat.”
"But when the silkworms grow bigger, feeding them becomes much easier."
"In the past, the silkworms were small, so the mulberry leaves had to be chopped up before feeding them."
"The silkworms have now reached the fourth instar. If you pay attention when picking mulberry leaves, you can feed them directly."
"Also, the smaller the silkworms are, the more often they need to be fed."
"Now that the silkworms have grown bigger, the number of feedings has actually decreased a lot."
After saying this, the woman seemed to be even more embarrassed. She moved her lips slightly before she made up her mind and said, "These were all taught to us by my aunt."
"Because he was afraid we just didn't understand, he took us along when he was feeding us yesterday."
"Uncle and aunt will check every silkworm room one by one."
"Uncle was the first one to discover the sick silkworms a few days ago."
After she finished speaking, she finally realized that telling such things to the master, didn't that show the insufficiency of her own strength?
But think about it, the fact that there are sick silkworms cannot be hidden from the owner.
It’s just that the girl in this family is not very old, and she probably doesn’t understand much.
An Songyu felt even more ashamed, but she really couldn't spare the time to help her grandparents.
Instead, she waited until her three-month internship was over.
This time, An Songyu is not planning to participate in the campus recruitment held by the school.
In her previous life, she worked at the First Hotel in Nanshi for more than twenty years, starting out as a front desk clerk.
He became a lobby manager and later a VIP room manager.
If there is any gain, it's probably just being tired, apart from the salary!
Working in the service industry, especially the hotel industry.
Working shifts is the norm.
Others have to stay up late to work overtime, but in her career, night shifts are indispensable.
The only time I didn't work shifts was in the following few years after I got promoted.
If her memory is correct, the demolition of Jiangcun should have taken place before National Day.
As for the exact time, An Songyu, who was working in Nanshi at the time, was not particularly clear.
She only knew that when she came back from the National Day holiday, the sky in their home and the entire Jiang Village had changed.
So, An Songyu has made up his mind.
After her internship is over, she will go back to school to complete the graduation procedures, and then return to the village after getting her diploma.
Before the demolition, she helped to take care of village affairs.
As for the rest, we will have to wait until after the demolition.
If he were to start over again, An Songyu didn't have many ideas.
But since she could go back to the time before the demolition, she thought… maybe she could think about it a little more.
If she remembered correctly, after their village was demolished, only a very small number of people were unable to make good use of the demolition money.
Most families used the demolition compensation for good things.
It is said that one of the two families of the Jiang family had a relative who married into the next city, and her home was not far from the seaside.
When their village was demolished, the seaside development happened to take place there.
So, the two families came together and brought a few more families to buy land and build apartments there.
Then it became an apartment hotel.
An Songyu is not greedy for anything else.
She just hoped that it would happen again, and that all the hard work she had spent several years studying would not be in vain.
(End of this chapter)
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