Chapter 78 Busy Sunday
Qiao Qinglu got up late again on Sunday.
Well, it’s a good thing that the weekend is only two days. If it were like this every day, how could I bear it?
Qiao Qinglu supported her waist and slowly stood up. She took her time to walk out of the room. In the yard, Xiao Qinyun was playing with the children.
She hurried to wash and eat. After cleaning up, she and Xiao Qinyun went to the second courtyard of Qiaoge's house.
Master Wang and his colleagues were busy, but when they saw Xiao Qinyun and his colleagues coming, they stopped what they were doing and went to greet them.
"You guys are here quite early. I'll have my apprentice go to Old Xu's house and call him over. It will take about ten minutes."
Qiao Qinglu handed the money to Master Wang. "Okay, no rush. Master Wang, I ordered the kang table last time, and I'd like you to make two more sets of bookshelves. Here's the money. After they're done, can you please engrave your name on them?"
"Yes, it only takes a few minutes to carve a name. Write it for me."
Qiao Qinglu took out the prepared note and handed it to Master Wang, "I wrote it this morning."
"No problem, just come pick it up next week."
Afterwards, Qiao Qinglu looked at the progress of Master Wang and his team and estimated that the yard would be repaired in another month, and then they could take on the work in their own yard.
Ten minutes later, Lao Xu, whom Master Wang mentioned, came over.
Master Wang introduced, "Old Xu used to build courtyard houses with basements for people. When I heard you talk about this yesterday, I thought of him. He's an expert in this field."
Xiao Qinyun greeted him politely, "Hello, Master Xu. There's a three-courtyard house nearby with a small cellar. I'd like to expand it. Shall we go take a look?"
Master Xu nodded and said that he had to see the job on site before making a decision.
Master Wang also came, and he hadn't seen the yard yet.
Qiao Qinglu's yard was not far from Brother Qiao's house. They just crossed an alley and arrived there.
The courtyard gate was not locked. Qiao Qinglu gently knocked on the door cymbal, and the door opened from the inside. Da Junzi looked at them with some surprise.
"Sister Qiao, why are you here? Come in and tell me."
Qiao Qinglu and the others rushed in.
"We happened to be passing by, and the builders were all here, so we took a look at the yard and discussed how to repair it. Are there any brothers inside?"
Da Junzi nodded and said, "It's a lot of stuff. One more move will be enough."
"It's okay, we'll just come over to take a look, and you can just deliver the keys in the afternoon."
The entrance to the cellar was in the first room on the west side of the back house. A few people went in and found an entrance of about 4 square meters leading directly to the cellar.
Xiao Qinyun turned on the flashlight and led the way down. The staircase was quite long, and in front of them was a wooden door on an open space. Pushing it open, he saw an open space of about two hundred square meters.
Master Xu and the others followed him down. Master Xu walked around inside, touching the walls here, the dirt on the ground there, and tinkering with some tools.
After he finished looking, several people returned to the back house from the cellar.
Master Xu took out a piece of paper and wrote and drew on it.
"Comrade Xiao, how much area do you plan to expand the basement to?"
Xiao Qinyun glanced at Qiao Qinglu.
Qiao Qinglu thought about the large items in the space, such as the canopy bed, large cabinet, and treasure cabinet. "Master Xu, this courtyard house is about 1,150 square meters. Can our basement be expanded to that size?"
Master Xu shook his head and said, "No, I can probably dig more than 600 square meters."
Qiao Qinglu thought about it and thought, it’s actually quite big, okay.
Xiao Qinyun asked: "Master Xu, can this cellar be expanded directly?"
Master Xu looked at him and said, "Normally, you need to report to the government, survey the soil, confirm the direction of underground waterways and pipelines, and obtain permission before construction. However, few people report nowadays; they just go ahead and build."
Xiao Qinyun thought about it and decided to ask Wu Jun about this matter.
"Master Xu, if you say that the report is fine, what should we do next? Do we need to dig deeper?"
"According to my preliminary measurements, your cellar is 7 meters above the ground, the basement floor is 3 meters high, and the soil is dry. As long as you waterproof it during construction, add some concrete pillars for support, and set up ventilation ducts and a skylight, you'll be fine."
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