Hearing Xu Zhixin's words, everyone in the Cheng family looked surprised and puzzled.
"Your father has a job, why don't you take over his job?" The Cheng family members asked in unison, none of them could figure it out.
"If you take over your father's job, you won't have to go to the countryside anymore. It's so good to be a worker in the city. It's a stable job and you can earn dozens of yuan a month. It's much better than going to the countryside to be a farmer and earning ten or a few yuan a month." Liu Cuihua said.
Cheng Guozhong and Cheng Zhaohong both nodded vigorously, puzzled.
"I signed up to go to the countryside before my father died, so after my father died, I had no way to take over his job. I had to go to the countryside, and I had no choice but to sell my father's job." Xu Zhixin replied.
"So that's how it is!" The Cheng family suddenly realized.
"You are such an unlucky kid. If you had signed up to go to the countryside later, you could have taken over your father's job." Cheng Guozhong sighed.
"It's pretty good now. Going to the countryside is a good way to train people and help them grow. The members of our Lu'an Brigade are all warm and hospitable, and captain uncle and your family take good care of me." Xu Zhixin smiled.
Hearing this, everyone in the Cheng family laughed, thinking that what she said was really pleasant and likable.
"Now that you know I have money, you can rest assured. Just let me build a small courtyard as I want. Captain, please agree to help us build the house, and we will give you ten dollars as a reward." Xu Zhixin showed a pleading expression to Cheng Guozhong again.
Cheng Guozhong thought about it, nodded, and finally agreed.
If you don't make money when you have the chance, you're a fool. Besides, ten dollars is not a small amount of money.
Besides, he has always liked Cheng Zhixin, and Lu Pinjie is also a good girl. If they need his help, he should help them.
Anyway, I just supervise the construction of a house. I am familiar with house construction and it is relatively simple for me.
"Thank you, Captain uncle, thank you." Xu Zhixin's lips curled up happily and she hurriedly thanked him.
"Tell me how you want to build this house, how high it should be, how big the main room should be, how big the bedrooms should be, how big the kitchen should be, and how big the toilet should be, so I can calculate the specific materials I need." Cheng Guozhong said.
"Okay, I drew a picture with the specific sizes marked on it, like how many meters high, how many meters wide, and how many meters long. Whether it's the main house, or the rooms, kitchen, toilet, or yard, they're all clearly marked." Xu Zhixin immediately took out the drawing she had drawn from her trouser pocket.
Her paintings were simple and easy to understand, and she believed that Cheng Guozhong could understand them.
After Cheng Guozhong took the blueprint and looked at it, he smiled and said, "It's well drawn, easy to understand, and quite detailed. It's no problem for you to build something like this. Later, I will list the materials needed to build the house, as well as the prices of the materials, the labor required, and the wages of the workers. How much do you pay?"
"Can you please, Captain, calculate right now what materials are needed to build the house, how much the materials will cost in total, how many workers will be needed, and how much they will be paid? I will give you the money now, and also the ten dollars for your hard work." Xu Zhixin said.
Cheng Guozhong nodded again, agreed, and began to calculate, "According to the method you described, I estimate that it will take about 3,600 earth bricks, and earth bricks are three cents each, which is 108 yuan.
I estimate that ten bags of yellow sand are needed to lay earth bricks, which costs ten yuan.
Three bags of cement are needed, which cost twelve yuan. There are also wood and glass. Since you have money, you can paint the wall white. It looks good and brighter. This requires lime. Two bags should be enough. Wood, glass, and lime together cost seventeen yuan.
The total cost of all the materials is one hundred and forty-seven dollars. As for the work, it will take two masons, each paid one dollar a day. I estimate that your house can be built and the walls painted in six days, so the total cost is twelve dollars.
I need a carpenter, and I pay him one dollar a day to make windows and other carpentry work. I estimate it will only take three days, so he would earn three dollars.
The total cost of the workers is fifteen dollars, and the total cost of materials is one hundred and sixty-two dollars."
"Okay, captain uncle, I'll give you 170 yuan. You can use it as you like. If there's any left, you can give it to me. If it's not enough, tell me and I'll give it to you." Xu Zhixin said, taking out 180 yuan from her bag, actually from the space, and handed it to Cheng Guozhong.
"Uncle Captain, this is one hundred and eighty yuan. One hundred and seventy yuan is for building the house, and ten yuan is the agreed fee for your hard work."
Cheng Guozhong took the money and said, "Okay. Don't worry, I promise to supervise the construction and build your house beautifully and with excellent quality. You can live in it for fifty years without any problems."
"Thank you, Captain." Xu Zhixin thanked him, but in her heart she was thinking, why would she live here for fifty years? She would only live here until 1977, when she returned to the city for the college entrance examination.
Only lived there for a few years.
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