The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

After the foundation was laid, the village chief pointed to the foundation of the house and said to everyone: "The houses are in this row and there is no front or back. If there are brothers, sisters, relatives and friends who are willing to live next to each other, I will draw a lot. What do you think?" "

"Okay, the village chief has a good idea. If you want to live next door, go and catch him!"

Li Mei looked at Li Yu and Zhou Jia and said with a smile: "Yu'er, Mr. Zhou and our family can build it next door!" The two nodded happily, "Okay."

"Sister Li, I will live next door to you!" Qian said that she would also rely on Li Yu and others to build the house.

"Okay, let's go next door!" Li Mei responded with a smile.

The village chief looked at Li Qing with a smile, "Ah Qing, you are the youngest head of the household, so I will let you draw the first lot."

Li Qing looked at Li Yu, who smiled and pushed him, "Go ahead if I tell you to!"

After Li Qing walked up to the village chief and bowed, he took out a piece of bamboo from the village chief and handed it to the village chief. The village chief took it and looked at it, "The one A Qing drew is the first one at the east end of the village. Let’s draw the foundations of the three houses next to each other, and then we can draw lots again.” After everyone drew the foundations of the three houses next to each other, they started drawing lots again.

Li Yu looked at Li Qing and Zhou Jia with a smile, "What do you two want to build your new house into?"

Li Qing looked at Li Yu happily and said, "Sister, you can practice whatever you want."

Li Yu smiled and knocked Li Qing, "Little brat, what you said is the same as what you didn't say."

"That's not right," Li Qing rubbed his head and looked at Zhou Jia aggrievedly, "Sir, what kind of cultivation do you want to achieve?"

Zhou Jia looked at Li Qing and smiled, then turned to look at Li Yu, "I will cultivate whatever you want."

Everyone laughed after hearing this, and Chen Yaohui said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, you can't do this, you will lose your strength as a husband."

Zhou Jia smiled and waved his hands, "It's okay, as long as Xiaoyu likes it." Everyone laughed louder.

Li Yu pinched him quietly, and the village chief looked at Li Yu with a smile on his face, "Xiaoyu, tell me what kind of house you want to build?"

Li Yu looked at everyone and thought for a moment, "I want to build a two-story house. The lower layer will be built with stones, and the upper layer will be made of wood. This way, even if it rains, the food can be collected and dried on the wooden floor. No need to worry about mold.”

After hearing this, everyone asked Carpenter Chen, "Old Chen, you are a carpenter. Can you tell me whether this wooden building that Xiaoyu mentioned can be repaired?"

Carpenter Chen nodded, "Why can't it be repaired? It can be repaired."

The village chief thought about it and thought it was a good idea, "Xiaoyu, you and Mr. Zhou draw a blueprint. After dinner, we will go to the town to find craftsmen to buy materials."

After everyone dispersed, the Chen Gui brothers and several other families found Li Yu's shed. Chen Gui looked at Li Yu with a blushing face, and said hesitantly: "Xiaoyu, these uncles are so shameless to ask you for a favor." Favor.”

"Uncle Chen Gui, if you have anything to say, come and let me hear it." Li Yu said with a smile.

Brother Chen Gui bowed to Li Yu, "Our brothers only have two taels of property in total. I want to talk to you and Mr. Zhou. We want to ask him to borrow some money to repair the house. After we get the land title tomorrow, we will Just mortgage the land deed to him, do you think so?"

Li Yu felt that these brothers were all honest people, so he smiled and nodded, "Sure, I'll tell him how much money you want to borrow."

"We don't know how much money it will cost to repair the house. We'll wait until the craftsmen come to get an estimate before we can tell you the exact amount. Is it possible?"

"That's fine. I'll talk to him first later. Then you can tell him how much you want to borrow. Do you think that's okay?"

"Okay, thank you Xiaoyu, thank you!" Chen Gui and others bowed gratefully to Li Yu.

After sending Brother Chen Gui away, Li Yu told Zhou Jia that Brother Chen Gui wanted to borrow money from Zhou Jia to repair their house. Zhou Jia smiled and nodded, "Just let them come to me then."

Half an hour later, Zhou Jia, the village chief and a dozen villagers went to the town to find craftsmen and hire labor to start building houses.

At the foot of Fengming Mountain, there were twenty families who wanted to build houses. The craftsmen in Fengming Town all gathered at the foot of Fengming Mountain. Those who sold stone, wood, and bricks and tiles. The foot of Fengming Mountain was like a building materials market. lively.

The craftsmen hired by Zhou Jia were two brothers from a family named Xu. The elder brother was named Xu Chun and the younger brother was named Xu Dong.

Zhou Jia showed the two of them the drawings they had drawn together with Li Yu, pointed at the drawings and said to them: "The house has two floors, the lower one is made of stone, and a wooden floor is built above. It has five square rooms and three east and west rooms. The floor of the house must be paved with stone slabs, and a row of livestock houses, two livestock sheds, two pig pens, and a chicken pen must be built in the backyard against the courtyard wall. The pig pens must be paved with stone slabs to serve as sewage outlets.

A well must be dug in the front and back yards. After the underground ditch for sewage discharge in the front and back yards is dug, it must be connected to the cesspit outside the back yard. Then in the yard, a three or four-foot wide space should be left against the yard wall for a flower bed, and the rest should be paved. Go up to the stone slab. "

After looking at it, Xu Chun pointed to the room next to the wing, "Mr. Zhou, what is this room used for?"

Zhou Jia took a look and said, "These two rooms are bathrooms and these two are toilet pits. Underneath the ditches for sewage must be dug. The underground ditches must lead to the cesspit outside the backyard wall."

The Xu brothers understood it as soon as Zhou Jia said it, "We understand, so what kind of wood do you use for your wooden building? What kind of wood do you use for the doors and windows?"

Zhou Jia looked at the two of them and said, "What kind of wood do you have? Tell me what kind of wood you have."

"Generally, we use yellow and white pine, cypress, and... the good ones are rosewood..." Xu Chun reported a long list of wood names like the name of a dish.

Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu with a smile, "Xiaoyu, what kind of wood do you want to use?" Li Yu smiled and shook his head, "I don't understand, it's up to you to decide."

Zhou Jia nodded and looked at Brother Xu Chun, "The wooden building uses yellow pine doors and windows, and rosewood. Can you estimate how much money it will cost to build two identical houses? How long will the construction period take?"

"Mr. Zhou, please allow my brother and I to take a look at the drawings, make some estimates, and get back to you." Xu Chun said with a smile.

"That's fine. If you don't understand anything, ask me again."

The Xu brothers looked at the drawings for a long time and asked twice. After writing and calculating for a long time, they said to Zhou Jia: "Mr. Zhou, the cost of repairing a house is about sixty taels, and the construction period is two days." About a month.”

Zhou Jia nodded after hearing this, "Let's make a contract, and I will hand over the house to you to build. If there are any problems in the future, we will solve them according to the agreement in the contract. What do you think?"

"Mr. Zhou, don't worry. No one has ever said anything bad about the house built by my brothers." Xu Chun assured, patting his chest.

Zhou Jia looked at the Xu brothers and said, "Reputation is the best, but whether it is good or not can only be evaluated by you after you have finished repairing my house."

"Yes, that's what it should be. In the end, you have to be satisfied." Xu Chun responded with a smile.

Zhou Jia and the Xu brothers signed a contract and paid a little wages in advance, and the brothers hurried back to call other craftsmen.

The Li Mei family's house was built with cheap materials and only required about thirty taels. The Qian family only needed twenty taels and borrowed ten taels from Li Yu, and the two families started construction the next day.

Chen Gui and others each borrowed 20 taels of silver from Zhou Jia, wrote a loan note and agreed to mortgage the land deed to Zhou Jia when the scribe came to apply for it.

After everything was arranged, Zhou Jia handed over the matter of repairing the house to Uncle Zhou, and took Li Yu and Li Qing to the town to find a shop for business.