Chapter 170 I Want to Take Advantage

Chapter 170 I Want to Take Advantage

Chapter 170 I Want to Take Advantage

Both of them felt that even if they sold a few silver dollars and a pair of earrings, they would only be able to borrow less. After the house was built, they would not be able to afford furniture, children's beds, cabinets and tables.

"Don't think about selling things yet. Wait for my brother-in-law to come and estimate how much money is still needed. Then I will go to Lucheng to sell things."

Li Changle paused, looked around, and whispered, "Uncle Kun still needs Buddha's hand snails. Go to the cave and carve out all the ones you can and send them to the restaurant to sell for money."

After hearing this, Brother Li and Brother Li No. 2 just nodded gratefully, and the two sisters-in-law also thanked Zhou Ruonan gratefully.

If it weren't for Ale's help this time, they would have to wait at least a few years to build a new house and buy their own boat. The only one who could help them so wholeheartedly was their own brother.

Grandma Chen looked at the three brothers who lived in harmony with envy, and felt happy that Chen Yongwei could make a friend like Li Changle.

He felt that even if he died a hundred years later, he would not suffer any loss in the village as long as Ale and his brothers would help his grandchildren.

"Anan, sister-in-law, brother-in-law will come here after work. Go back and make some delicious dishes. In the evening, call Uncle Dong and Qing to come over for a drink."

Zhou Ruonan nodded and said, "I left two blue crabs, blood clams, mantis shrimp, sea fish, and sand shrimp for lunch. We also have bacon at home, so we can make bacon glutinous rice."

After hearing this, Grandma Chen said hurriedly, "Ah Le, I can't let you spend all the money. I'll go back and catch an old duck to make soup."

Li Changle said with a smile: "Grandma, we are almost done eating the old ducks you raised."

"As long as you like them, when we move here, I'll buy two or three hundred of them and release them in the ditch in front. The ducks raised by the sea will be delicious when braised or stewed."

Mother Li smiled and nodded. "I'll buy some too. The ducks raised by the sea have better eggs than those raised at home. The duck eggs from the production team were always rated first class when they were sent to the cooperative."

The ducks raised on the seashore eat small fish, shrimps, and crabs. The eggs they lay appear small, but the yolks are firmer.

Pickled salted duck eggs are oily and have sandy yolks, and taste better than ordinary duck eggs.

A few of them chatted and laughed as they carried the grass onto the tricycle and stacked it, then went back to prepare meals and waited for their daughter and son-in-law to come home.

Li Changle and three other people cut down the bushes on the ground, tied them up, loaded them onto a cart, and sent them back to the old house to dry and use as firewood.

When most of the tree stumps in the field were cleared, Zhang Dejin and Li Changxi came to Nanshan. Looking at the spacious house site, they both thought the location was good. What's the big deal about being far away from the village? Living in a spacious house is better than anything else.

Li Changle took Zhang Dejin to look at the row of dilapidated houses, "Brother-in-law, look at the walls of the houses in the back row, are they still usable?"

"Let me take a look." Zhang Dejin looked around the ten or so rooms, "The walls are still usable, so if we keep them, we need to repair them.

The doors and windows are too small and need to be modified. The stone slabs in the house are all good. The cement pool can be kept if you want to use it, but the two stoves need to be dismantled and rebuilt."

"Ah Jin, if we keep this place, repair it, build a wall, connect the front and back yards and build a two-story building, how much money will it cost in total?"

Several people were happy but also worried. They were happy that they could get a few rooms for free after some renovations, but they were worried because they had too little money in their pockets.

Zhang Dejin walked from the stone house to the new homestead, took out a pen and paper and wrote and drew, "Three two-story buildings, plus the renovation of the backyard, the labor, bricks, steel bars, cement, oyster lime, tiles and wood will cost more than 5,000 yuan."

He looked at the people and said, "In addition, the two households with houses on the east and west hills will have an extra gable wall, which will cost more, close to 6,000 yuan. The two households connected in the middle will have one less main wall, which will cost a few hundred yuan less."

Brother Li Da Ge and Brother Li Er heard that the amount was nearly one thousand yuan more than the originally estimated four thousand five hundred. If the two rooms at the east and west ends were seized, the gap in money would be even bigger.

Li Changxi saw that his two brothers looked bitter, "Brother, have you drawn lots? Who owns the house on East Hill and West Hill?"

Brother Li shook his head, "We haven't drawn lots yet! We were supposed to draw lots in the brigade, but Uncle Dong asked us to do it ourselves."

Li Changle looked at Brother Li and the other two, "How about we let Brother-in-law write the lots now, and then we can draw the lots here?"

People here like the house sites in Dongshan. The west sunlight is short in summer, so the house is cool. The daylight is long in winter, so the house is warm. But the disadvantage is that when a typhoon hits, the house is more humid than the west one.

Brother Li looked at Brother Li and said, "Ah Le, if we capture the house on the top of the mountain, there will be a gap of two thousand dollars in our family's money, which is much less than expected.

How about my brother and I take the two buildings in the middle? You and Awei take the two buildings in East Hill and West Hill, what do you think? "

Big Brother Li nodded and said, "Yes, that's what I wanted to say. The money that the second brother and I have is not enough, so we will build two buildings on the hill for you two. What do you think?"

Li Changle nodded readily, "Okay, then Awei and I will take advantage." He looked at Chen Yongwei and said, "There's no need to arrest the two of us. The building at the east end is yours."

Chen Yongwei got anxious after hearing this, "Brother, the east end is for you..."

Li Changle smiled and waved his hand, pointing to the dilapidated house at the back, "I want the one at the west end, thinking of getting an extra room. I am taking advantage."

Brother Li smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Okay, this 'cheap deal' will be given to Ah Le."

Brother Li and Chen Yongwei also smiled and nodded.

They knew that he was not taking advantage of the situation. If he occupied one more room, he would have to pay more for renovations. If he wanted to be included in the red book, he would have to pay the village. Li Changle wanted to make the house more spacious when selling dried mullets in the future, so that it would be more convenient to dry them.

There are also foundations for two or three houses at the west end, which are a bit close to the mountain and the lighting is not good. Perhaps no one will choose to build a house there in the next few years.

He thought that when he had enough money, he would buy the place and build a freezer. This place was close to the dock, so he could sell ice and collect some seafood, freeze it and sell it in the city.

Zhang Dejin thought of the situation when his family split up, smiled and patted several people on the shoulders, "This is the most peaceful and joyful foundation I have ever seen. Harmony brings wealth. This will definitely be one of the most prosperous houses in the village in the future."

Li Changxi was also very happy that her husband could talk, and she took over and said, "Brother, Ale, Awei, you will make a lot of money in the future."

"Thank you, Master Chef, for the honor!" Li Changle and the others expressed their gratitude happily after hearing this.

Zhang Dejin smiled and said, "For bricks, tiles, oyster ash, etc., I can ask my friends who work in brick kilns to give me a preferential price. I will guarantee the difference. I will give you half of the money for bricks and tiles first, and the rest in half a year."

"It will take several months to build four houses at the same time. There are also two fishing seasons in the fall and winter in the second half of the year. If you are lucky, you can earn one or two thousand yuan in one season."

A Le, the unruly guy, has now become a successful person. A Wei seems to be an honest man. His two elder brothers-in-law and sister-in-law have all been through hardships. With his father-in-law and mother-in-law around as a family, he is not afraid that they will default on their debts.

Big Brother Li and Second Brother Li thought that the boat had been modified at the pier, so they could earn some money by going out to sea during this period, plus the money they would get from selling the Buddha's hand snails in the cave. There would still be a buffer period of half a year after completion, and if they were lucky, one or two thousand yuan should be no problem.

"Okay, thank you for your help then." The four of them thanked him gratefully.

Zhang Dejin smiled and said, "We are one family and we should not have different opinions."

Li Changxi was delighted to see her husband willing to help her brother, "Brother, Jin is your brother-in-law, why are you so polite?"

"That's right. We're family, so we shouldn't have different opinions. When you make a lot of money, I want to buy a share to earn some dividends!"

"Don't worry, I'll let you know as soon as possible."

Zhang Dejin smiled and nodded, then thought about it and said, "Have you ever considered the stairs and the layout of the house?"

Brother Li: "You are the master chef, you can arrange it as you like."

Li Changle thought that he would have to live in this house for another thirty or forty years, and did not want the current suite without a bathroom.

"Brother-in-law, I want to build a house with a toilet and a bathroom. What do you think?"

After hearing this, Brother Li hurriedly said, "Ah Le, don't Secretary Wang's family also use a pit toilet outside? How smelly would it be if you built a pit toilet in the yard?"

"It's not the kind of pit toilet outside. It's a manure pit dug below and covered with stone slabs." Li Changle thought for a while, "It's almost the same as the toilet in the hospital."

After hearing this, Brother Li and Chen Yongwei both thought it was a good idea. Now that they had a toilet at home, they would no longer have to clean the toilet bowl or empty the bath water.

After hearing this, Brother Li looked at Zhang Dejin and said, "This will cost a lot of money, right?"

"If you build a room with a bathroom downstairs, it won't cost much. If you build upstairs, you need to buy pipes and do waterproofing, which will cost more."

Zhang Dejin felt that his brother-in-law did not look like a country boy at all, and was full of new ideas every day.

When Brother Li heard that it wouldn't cost much to build a toilet downstairs, he said hurriedly, "Then build a toilet downstairs, and don't build one upstairs."

Chen Yongwei and Li Erge also thought that one downstairs was enough. "We will do the same, and build one downstairs."

"I want both upstairs and downstairs!" Li Changle ignored them, picked up a pen and paper, and drew a floor plan of the toilet and bathroom suite in the future, "Brother-in-law, look, is it okay for me to build this kind of thing?"

There are three bedrooms, a living room, a toilet, a bathroom and a balcony upstairs, and a kitchen, dining room, guest room, a room for storing miscellaneous items and a toilet downstairs.

Zhang Dejin looked at the floor plan he drew for a long time with a curious look on his face, "Ah Le, what you drew is a bit like the layout of the house I built for my company in town two years ago.

Your layout is more reasonable and practical than that one, and it will definitely be more comfortable to live in than a suite, but in this case, more bricks will be used."

Li Changle smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, the house is built to be lived in for a lifetime, and living comfortably is the most important thing. Besides, the extra money has been spent, and the difference is just owing one thousand or fifteen hundred, so it doesn't matter."

Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "Brother, I want to build the same thing as you."

Brother Li and Brother Li didn't dare to compete with them, "Ah Jin, we can't make the decision. We have to go back and ask your sister-in-law before deciding."

"Okay, I still have five or six days to finish the work over there. I need to find a few more craftsmen to work on the four houses here, and I also need to figure out how to lay out Ale's blueprint. It's still not too late for you to tell me when you've figured it out."

　The price of the house was based on the price when Mao Gongpo built the house. It was also a two-story building, not Cantou’s house. It cost less than four thousand yuan, but it was not as good as A Le’s. The stairs were made of wood, and the second floor had all wooden floors.

　　Later, when I built my own house, I drew lots and got Dongcan. If the waterproofing is not good, the walls will leak, especially where there are doors and windows. During typhoons, rainwater will pour into the house.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)