Chapter 50: Expanding the House
Got Wen Tingzhan's consent, Ye Shaoguang naturally couldn't wait for a moment, she immediately went to see Lizheng Du Houlin with gifts in person, Du Houlin is in his early forties, in good health, and his family can be regarded as a middle peasant, he is generous and sincere, and he has no less care for Wen Tingzhan and Ye Shaoguang, and Ye Shaoguang is also very respectful to him.
"Why do you give gifts again, take them back quickly, just say something about it." Du Houlin watched Wang Mu put down the gift and said hurriedly.
"Uncle Du, these are all gifts from others, aren't you allowed me and Brother Zhan to have some good things to honor you?" Ye Shaoguang said, "If I come today, I will have to trouble Uncle Du." β
"Uncle knows that you are a capable person, but you and Brother Zhan are still children, your days are still long, Brother Zhan looks like a good seedling of reading, this reading, scientific examination, that is not a small amount of money, you have to have success in your own heart." Du Houlin said earnestly.
Ye Shaoguang listened carefully and nodded: "Uncle, don't worry, I have a plan in my heart, I came today to buy the land outside the yard, and Brother Zhan and I plan to expand the house." β
"Your house is going to be expanded?" Du Houlin was surprised.
"Actually, I had this idea for a long time, but I didn't make a move, and my uncle also knew my family history, so he wanted to set up a health array in the house, but the current house can't be used." Seeing Du Houlin's somewhat disapproving expression, he turned to say, "Uncle also said that Brother Zhan is bound to take the imperial examination, if the family doesn't have that spare money, I won't fight for this face, since the family is rich, it is natural to decorate the faΓ§ade." It just so happens that now all the families are idle, in the first few years, Brother Zhan and I relied on the villagers to take care of it, and now I want to return one or two, but I can't find a reason, just take advantage of this to ask the villagers to help build a house, which can be regarded as a review of the villagers. β
The words behind the night shake light completely moved Du Houlin, Dujia Village has always been a rich village, but this year's year is really not good, everyone's harvest is barely enough to make ends meet, many families turn over the land and plant winter wheat and plan to go out to work for a short time, but those who are tired not to mention, and can't earn a few dollars, he is grateful to Wen Tingzhan and Ye Shaoguang have never forgotten the people in the village.
"In that case, the uncle will bring the people of the village to deal with this matter." Du Houlin smiled kindly, "How much land are you going to buy, and how many people are you going to invite?" β
"We plan to buy all the vacant land outside the yard to Uncle Lin and Aunt Lin's house, and the other side will do the same." Night Shake Light said.
"That's a lot of land, it should be no less than five acres!" Du Houlin was shocked again, "How big of a house do you want to see?" β
"Build a four-entry house with a few gardens." Ye Shaoguang can understand Du Houlin's surprise, one acre of land is about 666 square meters, although there is no shortage of land in the village, it is generally possible to buy an acre of land at most to build a house, but everyone is a big family crammed together.
Du Houlin wanted to persuade, but looking at the appearance of Ye Shaoguang who seemed to have no room for negotiation, he swallowed his words: "Uncle will immediately go to find someone to measure the land, now the base is eight taels of silver per acre, you build a house at this time, you must hope to build it before the year, so it will take a lot of manpower, but the most important thing in our village is manpower, Uncle will look at you and please, give each person ten yuan a day, and then take care of a meal, what do you think?" β
Ye Shaoguang was really a little moved, so he said: "Brother Zhan and I have already discussed, each person will be given twenty wen a day, take care of one meal, uncle look at the please, as many as you want, we want to build the house as soon as possible." By the way, I will trouble the eldest aunt to find a few diligent daughters-in-law to help cook, and each person will give fifteen wen a day and take care of one meal. β
Twenty wen a day, six hundred wen a month, it is a good job that you can't find anywhere to do a short job, Du Houlin persuaded Ye Shaoguang a few words, and finally did not change Ye Shaoguang's decision. Therefore, Du Houlin was more attentive, and immediately found someone to measure the land, measured out six acres of land, and finally counted it as six acres, and gave fifty taels of silver to Du Houlin happily, and the extra was for Du Houlin to go to the government to make a point, this move immediately attracted the attention of the people in the village, and the people who were close to the night shaking light came to ask, such as Mo and Aunt Lin.
In the afternoon of the same day, Du Houlin also named a hundred people to build a house for Ye Shaoguang, almost one or two people in a family, impartial, some families could not produce labor, Du Houlin's wife Zhao immediately invited a diligent and down-to-earth woman from their home to help cook, and no one in the whole village complained, and after hearing the conditions offered by Ye Shaoguang and Wen Tingzhan, he was even more energetic.
Wen Tingzhan wants to go to school, and the things that build the house are basically all done by Ye Shaoguang, but Wang Dong is almost fine, most of the time Wang Dong and Wang Mu are busy before and after. After finding a capable person who built a house, and after explaining his requirements in detail, he basically made a shopkeeper, but because of Ye Shaoguang's generosity, and every meal was very good, and Wang Dong and Du Houlin personally supervised, there were almost no problems.
The power of a hundred people should not be underestimated, the daily workload is not large, a month will also be built in the house of the four entrances, the night shake light himself picked a good day on the beam, the day is almost a feast of the whole village, everyone is eating lively, looking at the mansion of the night shake light.
Since Wen Tingzhan and Ye Shaoguang still live in the innermost original house, there is no room to dry, after the completion, the wages are settled, and no one stays, seeing that it is the New Year in a few days, they naturally have to buy New Year's goods when they have enough money.
And Ye Shaoguang took advantage of this time and Wang Dong and the two of them planted forty-five plum trees, here I have to praise Wang Dong, otherwise Ye Shaoguang really doesn't know how to protect these plum trees this month.
Ye Shaoguang first used a compass to determine the eight directions of Zhen (East), Dui (West), Li (South), Kan (North), Gen (Northeast), Qian (Northwest), Kun (Southwest), and Xun (Southeast), and then found the location of the angry Ji in each direction, and planted five plum trees there.
It took three days to plant all the trees, and the last one was planted and no one saw it except for the night light, and the whole house had an air flow that swirled and then formed a transparent air flow barrier over the house, which quickly disappeared.
"Hey, there seems to be a heat just now." Wang Nier looked at her brother with wide eyes, to make sure she didn't feel wrong.