Lao Zhoutou is still telling the tenant farmers about raising cattle. These cattle must be numbered and sold. Although they work for them, they must be raised well.
When he turned around after giving instructions, he also saw the young men working in the open space not far away. He had a good memory, and after thinking about it, he said to Li Chang: "I remember that it was a wasteland before, and there are many people on it. Loose stones, not even a few trees, all weeds, the foundation has been laid up in just a few days?"
The head of the village also smiled and said: "If you have more people, you can do it faster. In addition to the craftsmen invited from the city, the young and strong in our village are also called to help. It is also because your family is generous, with twenty yuan a day's wages. Woolen cloth."
Old Zhou nodded subconsciously. Halfway through the nod, he suddenly felt something was wrong, and asked suspiciously, "My family?"
"Yes, your house," the head of the village hesitated seeing his puzzled face, and asked hesitantly after looking at his face: "Master Zhou bought this place with me early in the morning, and the next day we will buy it for you." Someone came to plot the land, and on the third day, a group of people came to start planning to build a house, and invited a lot of people from the village to help pick up stones and dig stones and foundations, why, Master Zhou didn’t know?”
Of course, old Zhou Tou didn’t know. He was just thinking about some idiot who came here to build a house. Not to mention that it’s a certain distance from the village, and the land is not good. There is no benefit if the left and right places are large and on the side of the road.
But what do you need such a big place to build a house
The kind of land in the yard can't grow vegetables, how useless it is, and it turns out that it belongs to his family
Old Zhou took a look at so many people on the land, and automatically converted them into piles of money, a pile of twenty coins...
Old Zhou covered his heart and asked, "It's been a few days, and you've just dug the foundation?"
Rider: "... It's only been a few days, isn't today twenty-one, it's only the fourth day."
"In our place, so many people can build a house in four days."
The head of the village choked, and laughed after a while: "Master Zhou was joking, if this is a thatched cottage, we can build it in a day, but the Zhuangzi you want to build is not ordinary, and I'm afraid it won't be built in a month or two." .”
He continued: "What's more, we people can only work hard, how to build this depends on what the craftsmen invited by the mansion have to say."
Old Zhou shouted, "What, they hired craftsmen to build a house?"
Zhou Zhoulang and the others also heard the shout, turned their heads to look over, and immediately said: "It's over, so you don't know?"
Mrs. Qian had already realized it, and quietly cast a glance at Old Zhou and said, "What are you yelling about?"
She said: "I haven't heard Li Jun talk about this matter. Obviously, the Zhuangzi was built not for money from the family."
Old Zhou Tou said: "Manbao's money is also money, isn't it the family's money?"
He muttered: "You can't just spend it casually. Dalang and I live together. If you want me to say that you and the old man don't use it, why build such a good house? Just build a thatched cottage."
Qian thought, how did the old Zhou head become what he is now
Mingming was lazy when he was young, and he liked to mess with himself, and he was lazy and wanted to enjoy himself, but at that time the family had no money, and it was difficult to even eat.
As a result, now that the family has money, he thinks of thrift and hardship again.
Qian was not very sincere and said perfunctorily: "Okay, the land has been bought, the money has been spent, this is half built, can you still drive people away?"
She said: "This is also Manbao's filial piety to you. The reason why I didn't tell you is to give you a surprise. And it's not bad to have a Zhuangzi here. It's not far from the capital. Manbao and the others rode fast. It took more than an hour It's here, every time Xiumu comes here to play and have a look at us, how good is it?"
Old Zhou Tou stopped nagging.
Zhou Zhou Lang took the opportunity to step forward and said: "Father, Man Bao is not all paying for this Zhuangzi, Bai Shan and Bai Er Young Master are also paying for it."
Old Zhou was puzzled, "What are they paying for?"
"It is said that they will reserve a room for them, and the brothers will settle accounts or something."
Old Zhou felt much more comfortable, but he said: "What is the relationship between our family, isn't it just two rooms, how can Tete pay for it? It seems that our family is too stingy."
Zhou Zhoulang said: "Then I will go back tomorrow and ask Man Bao to return the money to them?"
Old Zhou Tou patted him on the head, and said angrily: "It's hurtful to push back and forth, and do they look like people who are short of money? Your sister knows this kind of thing, so don't follow along and."
Well, you are the one who said you were stingy, and you are the one who is unwilling to refund the money.
Zhou Zhou Lang touched his head and backed away, but old Zhou Tou's mood was indeed much better.
It was also because it was much better that he and others walked over to see the house under construction. When he got closer, he realized that the circled land was quite large, extending directly from the big piece on the side of the road to the edge of the woods over there. superior.
There is a mountain on top of the woods. Of course, Lao Zhoutou, who was born in a mountain nest in Qili Village and has to go over mountains and mountains, does not think it is a mountain. He firmly believes that it is a dirt slope, but the dirt slope is quite It is large and the trees are very dense. Their family's occupation field directly surrounds the slope in the middle, and then stretches away.
But the village chiefs who looked at Pingchuan insisted that it was a mountain. Seeing the old Zhou looking at the mountain, he said: "This mountain also belongs to the village. The village collects firewood in this mountain. Every spring, it has to be replanted. What about the saplings cut down last year?"
Old Zhou curled his lips in disgust. They didn't have many things in Qili Village, except that there were many mountains.
He pointed to the land extending all the way to the bottom of the woods and asked, "Did you buy such a big piece of treasure?"
"Yes," Li Chang said with a smile, "this piece of wasteland has a lot of rocks, nothing grows, and it's useless, so Mr. Zhou bought them all."
Old Zhou frowned, "Using such a large piece of land to build a house? How big is she planning to build?"
The chief didn't know, so he didn't answer.
Old Zhou turned around and shouted to Zhou Lijun over there, "Erya, come quickly."
Zhou Lijun ran over, and didn't mind her grandpa calling her by her nickname at all. Now the whole family has changed her name, even grandma calls her Lijun. Only grandpa, no matter how well he responds in person, can just turn around. Forgot, I still called her "Er Ya".
Even Zhou Lizhong is like this, they will always only have nicknames.
So they don't want to correct it anymore, so grandpa can yell if he wants to.
Old Zhou pointed to this large area and asked, "Do you want to build a house?"
"No," Zhou Lijun said: "We have seen this place. The Zhuangzi was built on one side, and the soil on the other side is looser and less rocky. From there to there, ponds will be dug. When the time comes, water will be brought from the ditches on the other side. My sister and the others said that if there is still a drought next year, the water in this big pond can at least irrigate dozens of acres of land here."