Chapter 28 Blue Brick and Tile House
Wang Yuanchao smiled gently at the village cadres and did not refute them. Instead, he said:
"Secretary Zeng, team leader,
Since I have come to the Red Flag Brigade to work in the countryside, I must integrate into the brigade. In the future, I must visit the villagers more often. This is interpersonal communication, which requires you to come and I to visit. It can't be that only you come and I don't. It doesn't make sense.
Although my parents have passed away, the pension and monthly living allowance they left me are quite a lot, so I don't feel any pressure in treating everyone to a meal.
Tomorrow night, I will treat a few leaders to a simple meal and some drinks. Please give me some face. Let's make it a deal."
"Well, since Wang Zhiqing has said so, if we still refuse, it will show that we are not united with our comrades and are not integrated into the masses."
"Haha, yes, since Wang Zhiqing is so polite, if we just refuse, it will seem too unfamiliar and will not be conducive to our work.
Wang Zhiqing, then we will respectfully obey your orders.
OK, let's have a drink together tomorrow night."
"Okay, but Wang Zhiqing, can you drink enough? Our Party Secretary Zeng can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk. We can't get drunk after just a few drinks."
"Haha, no, no, tomorrow I will definitely risk my life to accompany you and make sure the leaders have a great time."
As they walked and talked, several village cadres entered the yard of the educated youth center and stood in the yard waiting.
Wang Yuanchao carried his two sacks and entered the male educated youth's room.
The room for the male educated youths at the educated youth center was a large room with a large kang running from north to south.
When Wang Yuanchao saw the big kang, he thought, "Oh my god!" This big kang must be able to accommodate fifteen or sixteen people.
Fortunately, I was smart and chose to build my own house and move out early. This would have to wait until the educated youth went to the countryside in large numbers next year.
With so many people from all over the world living in one room, there must be fights every day.
Fortunately, I was the first educated youth from the countryside to come to the Red Flag Brigade, and no educated youth here had ever ruined their reputation.
The villagers still looked upon the educated youth with curiosity, and no one had a bad impression of them.
This made Wang Yuanchao very happy, and enabled him to better integrate into the villagers of the Hongqi Brigade.
After putting the sack in the room, Wang Yuanchao was not in a hurry to pack it up. He went out with several village cadres and came to the village brigade headquarters. After paying the money for the homestead, he took the note issued by the accountant and
After going out, the captain continued to chat.
"Captain, I have secured the land for my homestead, but I am completely confused about how to build a house. I don't know anything.
I don’t know if there is anyone in our team who knows how to build a house. I just came to our team and I don’t have any acquaintances, so I thought I should just pay the money and ask everyone to help me build the house.
Can you help me find someone suitable?"
The captain took the cigarette handed over by Wang Yuanchao, lit it, and felt so happy. This Daqianmen is indeed a cadre cigarette. It tastes so good. After a puff, he said, "Wang Zhiqing, do you want to build a mud brick house or a blue brick and tile house?"
Wang Yuanchao took a puff of the cigarette, but before it went into his lungs, he exhaled and said:
"Captain, I plan to build a house with a living room, a kitchen, a woodshed, a bathroom, a toilet, a porch in front of the house, and a wall outside.
How much would it cost to build a mud brick house? How much would it cost to build a blue brick and tile house?"
"Your house is not big, which is just practical. If you build a mud brick house, the team has all the building materials, which are relatively cheap. You should be able to build it with 60 to 70 yuan.
If we build a blue brick house, it will be more expensive. Although our team has earth kilns to make blue bricks, the price is not cheap.
The main reason is that the wall you build is large and the requirements are high, so I estimate that if you build a blue brick and tile house, I estimate that it will cost 170-180 yuan to build it well. "
When Wang Yuanchao heard the price, he was shocked. After hesitating for a while, he said:
"Captain, I took the initiative to respond to the country's call and signed up to go to the countryside to build a new socialist countryside. Now that I'm here, I will definitely take root here peacefully. Since I'm ready to stay here for a long time,
I thought about it and decided to build the house more solidly to avoid the need to patch it up shortly after it was built.
So I plan to build a brick and tile house directly, and I would like to ask the team leader to help me make some connections. I will pay directly and hire someone to help me build the house."
The captain nodded and said:
"Okay, my brother is the one who specializes in building houses in the team. He has built a lot of houses in this area. If you believe me, I will bring him to the educated youth camp to find you later. You can discuss it yourselves. How about it?"
Wang Yuanchao looked at the captain with trust and said:
"Captain, you are a cadre appointed by the government and a leader who serves the people. How can I not trust you? Captain, I will go back to the educated youth camp to clean up the room and wait for you there."
"Don't worry. In your first year as an educated youth, the state will provide a food subsidy of 35 kilograms per month. I'll take you to collect your food rations. Do you plan to collect the whole year's rations at once, or do you plan to collect them every month?"
"It's very troublesome for the leaders to collect it once a month, so I'll just collect it all at once."
"Okay, I'll go get the key to the warehouse and call the accountant."
One year’s food ration, 420 kilograms of food, is quite a lot.
Among them, coarse grains accounted for the majority, and fine grains accounted for the minority. Sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn kernels accounted for 370 kilograms, and fine grains accounted for 50 kilograms. Wang Yuanchao had never made pasta in his past life, so he asked the team leader to replace all the white flour with rice.
It took three attempts to carry the food into the educated youth site.
Then he left a bag of sweet potatoes, a bag of corn kernels, and a bag of potatoes in the kitchen, and put the rest of the food into the space.
After preparing the food, Wang Yuanchao placed his luggage on the big kang.
He found an enamel basin from the space and fetched a basin of water from the well in the Youth League compound.
He found an old towel from his luggage to use as a rag, and then began to sweep the kang and mop the room.
The yard of the educated youth site was newly built by the brigade. There was only some scattered dust on the kang, which was cleaned up by Wang Yuanchao in no time.
Then he started cleaning the windows and kitchen in the house. After Wang Yuanchao cleaned the areas where he needed to move around,
He looked carefully again and thought the house he would live in for about ten days was okay. Although the house was simple and did not have any furniture, tableware or other supplies, Wang Yuanchao was just living there temporarily. After putting the enamel basin into the space, Wang Yuanchao walked out of the room and came to the yard.
(End of this chapter)
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