The trench was dug and the foundation was laid on the first day.
However, this cement takes time to dry. Even if the weather has been warm in the past two days, it will take at least three days before it can continue to dry.
However, the masons were not idle either.
The inside of the house needs to be scraped with a layer of whitewash and a fireplace needs to be built. They have never done this work before, and it is a bit slow to do it.
After this is completed, wooden floors will be laid in the two houses. The wooden floors now are all real wood floors, with a layer of polishing and waxing on the surface. I didn't start any work in the past ten days because I was waiting for this.
There are also flower beds on both sides of the courtyard after entering the door, and the amount of work is not small.
In the evening of the next day, Yi Chuanzong's work also came. He needed to make simple carvings on a pile of white marble slabs. On the one hand, they needed to be drained, but the main thing was to be beautiful.
This is a big job. It needs to be applied on the floor of the yard, and a layer of it needs to be applied to the surface of the flower bed. He also needs to grind the corners into arcs, and even needs to apply it to the fireplace.
He even bought two more stones that are not too small, one is used as a toilet. Lou Xiao'e can still jump now. In a few months, she will start to show her pregnancy. When she gets there, squatting down to go to the toilet will be too uncomfortable and a bit dangerous. .
The remaining piece was used to make a stone table. He planned to plant two locust trees on both sides of the main house in the yard, and put a stone table under the tree. In the summer, the couple would sit under the tree and drink. Tea or a meal are very interesting.
The idea was great, but time was tight to complete it. He only took two days off, and he couldn't work on the stone when it came the next day.
Hurrying slowly, it took more than four hours starting in the evening to make the stone carvings for the fireplace.
On the third day, he went to work. It was still the device that could bind explosives. This was a difficult job. It took several days just to design it. He only started working on it on the day he went to work.
With such a workload, he couldn't go back early. He could only go home after get off work and work overtime at night to work hard for his little nest.
Another week passed and the house was finally decorated.
As for the two huge white marble stones at the door, there were no changes from before. Yi Chuanzong never had time to deal with these things.
Now, Yi Chuanzong is pulling Lou Xiao'e into the courtyard.
"Oh, why are you in such a hurry? It's not like I've never been there before."
"Come on, I'll show you around. Clean it up now. It will definitely make a difference for you."
Lou Xiao'e was reluctantly carried forward by Yi Chuanzong. She still had the scene of ruins in her mind.
She turned her head and said fiercely: "You have torn down all the previous doors and windows, how can you decorate them like you?" When she looked up and saw the two high-erected stones, she became even more angry, "And this Two pieces of stuff, it’s scary to see them so high.”
Yi Chuanzong opened his mouth and explained: "Have I not found time to carve yet? You should have seen the fireplace I carved, right? Isn't it beautiful?"
Lou Xiao'e curled her lips, "Is this the reason why you chatted with the two little girls from the Soviet Union in Lao Mo for more than 20 minutes? Those things can't be cooked, they just look good."
Yi Chuanzong couldn't argue. He was really just asking about the important points to pay attention to in the fireplace.
Moreover, although this fireplace has the word "furnace", its main function is heating, not cooking.
"You can't say that. I'll build a rack and put it inside to roast sweet potatoes and barbecue. It's very useful. After I light it, you'll know how beautiful it is."
"Now let me take you to see your new home first. The last few times you came here, it was under construction, and the floor tiles were not laid. It doesn't look very beautiful at all. Now that the masters have cleaned it when they left, it definitely looks different!
"
After saying that, Yi Chuanzong happily opened the door, and Lou Xiao'e also cheered up and looked inside. She was still looking forward to her new home.
The door opens.
At a glance, the yard is no longer blue-gray like before, nor does it look like the yellow-black soil that turned out during the renovation.
At this time, the courtyard was completely white with snow, and there was a huge lotus printed in the center. There were also clusters of large and small snow-white lotuses around it. It didn't look like a courtyard, but like a pond.
In the distance, the original dark and gray doors and windows have been replaced by a complete set of mahogany doors and windows, giving it a bright look.
The two Chinese Sophora japonica trees growing on the left and right sides of the main house are inside the circular tree stand. The green Sophora japonica trees and the bright red doors and windows are full of life.
Yi Chuanzong said proudly: "How about it? The lotus in the middle is beautiful, isn't it? Not only does it look good now, but there is also a clear light and shadow of the lotus under the moonlight. It can also store a little water when it rains, and then it will have a layered effect.
It will be stronger.”
Lou Xiao'e walked briskly into the yard, and when she turned around, there was no longer a stone platform with exposed red bricks. The original stone platform was covered with a layer of smooth white marble, and on the side were stone carvings with countless flowers.
The edges are surrounded by weird patterns.
The shape of the pattern is a square surrounded by four "巳" characters with different orientations, which looks a bit rotated.
"It's so beautiful, it's really completely different."
Turning her head, Lou Xiao'e's eyes looked a little strange. The door on the southernmost building in the west was clearly the door of their previous home, and it was placed here. She pointed with her hand and asked: "That should be the toilet, right?"
Yi Chuanzong nodded and said: "Yes, I strictly followed the previous design. At most, I took into account the opinions of several masters and made slight adjustments to the area."
The smile on Lou Xiao'e's face continued to grow. The yard looked extremely neat after the floor tiles were replaced. The carvings were also exceptionally beautiful. Even the original house looked brand new. The decoration effect was completely in line with her expectations.
"When are you going to start working on the two big stones at the outer door?" Lou Xiao'e said with some anticipation.
Yi Chuanzong smiled bitterly, "This is a big job. If I do it seriously, it will take more than a month to finish it. But I usually have to go to work and have to go to the hospital three days a week. It takes four or five months.
I guess I won't be able to finish it. Let's wait until the work in the factory stops being busy. If I can skip work, I should be able to finish it in two months."
Lou Xiao'e comforted her: "Why are you in such a hurry? You will be so tired. These days you are so busy that you don't go home until twelve o'clock to go to bed. As long as we can make it today, it will be fine. If not, we will hire someone to do it.
"
Yi Chuanzong quickly refused: "That's not possible. This is my job. How can I let others do it? I don't even want to touch it."
Lou Xiao'e pursed her lips and snickered, stretched out her hand and slapped his chest, "Just give the old man a stone and let him play with it. You protected him so tightly, which made him depressed for many days."
Yi Chuanzong raised his eyebrows slightly and relaxed slightly, "Okay, in two days I will use fertilizer to grind two beads for him and let him play with them when he is free. After all, he is over forty-five years old, so he is so old.
"
Lou Xiao'e snickered and asked, "When will we move here?"
Yi Chuanzong thought for a while and said: "Next month, I'll live there for another week, and then choose a day to move."
Lou Xiao'e nodded in agreement. Suddenly, she thought of the six people working here. They not only had to take care of a meal at noon, but also had to pay others.
"Have you paid for their wages and the money for bricks and tiles and cement?"
Yi Chuanzong replied directly: "Okay, when I came back this afternoon, they just finished cleaning, so I tied it directly for them. Master Hong's salary is one yuan and a half a day, the rest of the masons are seven cents a day, and the chief engineer of Jiutian is
Forty-five. The total of bricks, tiles, cement and the like is two hundred and ninety-seven yuan."
Lou Xiao'e frowned and asked suspiciously: "I didn't give you any money, and you didn't take any money from me. You didn't touch the little yellow croaker at home. Where did you get the money?"
Yi Chuanzong glanced outside the yard, then ran over and closed the door before returning. He leaned into Lou Xiao'e's ear and whispered: "Isn't that book that my father gave me a map with gold hidden in it? I
A few days ago I dug one and buried it at home, and then I sold two of them."
In fact, he took the time to dig out things in those places during the two days when Father Lou was away. He was also afraid that the map was not accurate enough, and it would be fun if he didn't find it.
Simply, I dug it out after exploring the place. Anyway, it was just a matter of digging a hole after passing by. It was always in front of the tree, and the depth was only one and a half meters. It was very simple as long as I found the right place.
.
A ton of gold is not much. If it were solid, it would only be one square meter at most, with a height of about five centimeters and a thickness of about five centimeters.
Because Lou’s father originally packed it in wooden boxes, it seemed more numerous. Ten long wooden boxes with a height of 20 cm were stacked on top of each other.
Now these things are placed in the portable space, occupying one cubic meter of space.
Lou Xiao'e asked carefully: "Where did you put it after you dug it?"
Yi Chuanzong replied in a low voice: "It's next to the tree in the northwest."
Lou Xiao'e nodded slightly, but she was still a little nervous.
Seeing her like this, Yi Chuanzong comforted her softly: "Don't think too much. I won't keep the rest at home, otherwise you will always feel uneasy. I will also find a chance to bury the ones under the tree in another place."
"
"Actually, in those six months, Lou San and the others took away a lot of things here and there. These are all things that cannot be taken away. If my dad starts doing business, it will only take a few years.
It’s earned.”
Lou Xiao'e turned around and gave him a big look. This man had no idea about money and had no greed for money. Otherwise, Lou's father would not be able to hand over the money to him with such confidence.
Lou Xiao'e pouted and said dissatisfiedly: "You are hiding your private money again."
Yi Chuanzong couldn't help but smile bitterly. In fact, all he spent was the money he received from the system, as well as the small yellow croaker that Sister Hua gave him.
He had about 1,500 left after buying a watch before the Chinese New Year. He spent more than 1,500 on New Year's fireworks, food, drinks, dates, and gifts.
Two months have passed since I bought pigs for the villagers. I received about 260 yuan in relief money. In two months, I spent more than 100 yuan on snacks, listening to music, drinking tea, etc. This is still
One thousand and fifteen, and after buying the piglets, there are nearly one thousand and one left.
Now April 27th is almost another month, but during this time his relief fund has increased, to about ten yuan a day.
It's three hundred a month, almost one thousand fourteen. He didn't spend much this month. Sister Hua didn't have to worry about food and clothing. She didn't have to buy many things. Qin Huairu only gave her a total of forty or fifty yuan, which is what's left
One thousand and three.
This renovation cost a lot of money. The two big stones at the door cost 390 yuan, and building a long room on the west side cost 342 yuan.
The white marble floor in the back is also very expensive. It looks like a paved floor, but it cannot stand the size of the area.
Trees can be planted in his yard. The total area is about 200 square meters. Now three rooms are more than 80 square meters. There is also a 120 square meter yard. Ten meters by ten meters is one square meter.
Hundred.
A floor tile is nearly four centimeters thick, which is nearly five cubic meters in simple calculation. One cubic meter of marble weighs 2.7 tons, which is twelve and a half tons.
Because it is not a big stone, the price is much cheaper. But if the stone is square, the surface is smooth, and the thickness is uniform, he can carve it directly after taking it, so the price goes up.
The asking price per ton was thirteen yuan, a total of one hundred and sixty-two, plus a convoy of forty people set off in the dark of night, pushing the cart for more than twelve hours and covering more than seventy miles, and they still had to
go back.
This is another two days of work, almost the same as last time. Seventy cents per person is fifty-six yuan. Master Zheng's salary is higher, a total of two hundred and twenty yuan.
The floor in the house is made of black walnut. The wood is fine and it requires fine work. The slots between the two boards fit perfectly. There was no electric saw processing. It took ninety-three days to get it out. The two doors and four windows were made in
Another company made it, and it cost 135 because it was made of mahogany, which is more expensive.
The two small Sophora japonica trees didn't cost much. He had someone choose them for him in the suburbs and then dug them out himself. They only cost two boxes of cigarettes, so they were negligible.
The total settlement is one thousand two hundred yuan, which means that the yard cannot be sold, otherwise it will be worth more than the yard.
To put it bluntly, he had a total of 1,300 yuan before, plus those miscellaneous things, the money he had on him did not exceed 50 yuan.
The price of gold has dropped now. He asked about it when he went for a walk last time. Now a gram of gold has dropped to less than 20 yuan. He can only sell it for 20 yuan a gram at most, and a small yellow croaker is 31.5 yuan.
Gram, two small yellow croakers weigh 62.5 grams, which is only 1,250 yuan in pure gold, but the small yellow croakers left by my father-in-law are all 993 yuan.
Even if he really sold two small yellow croakers, including his own pocket money, he wouldn't be able to pay the bill.
Yi Chuanzong looked at Lou Xiao'e's cute little hand stretched out, and he felt a little cold in his heart, so he could only say dryly: "I have no money."
"You have no money?"
Lou Xiao'e looked over with suspicious eyes, clearly not believing what he said.
Seeing her like this, Yi Chuanzong hurriedly dug into his arms. Fortunately, he had recorded how much money he spent, otherwise he would have to be blinded now.
"Daughter-in-law, you see, this costs so much... This costs so much... I have to spend all my pocket money to just have enough. I really have no money now!"
Lou Xiao'e took the paper and pen and calculated silently for a while. After some calculations, she looked up at Yi Chuanzong and vaguely saw the word "poor" on her face. It seemed like there were not many small yellow croakers for sale. It was really just selling.
Got two.
When she was packing her clothes these days, she didn't find any hidden small yellow croakers, so the possibility of hiding private money now was very slim.
But before...
Lou Xiao'e made calculations again, and then raised her head expressionlessly, "You told me last time that the price of gold was 20 yuan. You probably didn't get enough money from selling small yellow croakers. The difference was 20 yuan. Where did you come from before?
Hidden twenty yuan of personal money?"
Yi Chuanzong's expression is very wonderful. His daughter-in-law can settle accounts. Is this excellent?
But it was agreed that she would be pregnant for three years, so why wouldn't she be affected?
Yi Chuanzong also put his hand into his pocket expressionlessly, and then took out a thick wad of money, "Eleven dollars, eighty-six cents, this is all my belongings."
Lou Xiao'e took it without counting, then stretched a small hand into Yi Chuanzong's arms and started to rummage through his pockets.
Yi Chuanzong looked up at the blue sky and white clouds blankly. He still had thirty-three dollars and two-seven cents in his pocket. When had Yi, a person, ever been so poor?
He was obviously out of poverty within a month of coming here. During the Chinese New Year, no matter how poor he was, he still had more than 80 yuan.
After digging for a while, Lou Xiao'e slapped her over, holding twenty-five cents in her hand that had just come out of her pants pocket, "Don't tell the truth! Isn't there another one here?"
The corners of Yi Chuanzong's mouth twitched. This seemed to be the change from breakfast the day before yesterday, so he casually put it in his pocket.
"Now, take it, I'll keep track of your pocket money for you, tell me everything you bought."
Lou Xiao'e counted the money clearly and handed it over.
Yi Chuanzong naturally stretched out his hand to take it. Eleven yuan is money. He can buy a lot of snacks, and he can go there more than ten times to drink tea and listen to music. There is not much money now, and he feels a little nervous.
It would be nice to have an extra dollar.
"Don't touch the money for now. I feel uneasy having to dig it out all the time and put it away. Let's spend all the money at home first, and then withdraw it if there is no more money." Lou Xiao'e said worriedly.
Yi Chuanzong promised, "Okay, as long as you eat well and drink well, there will be nothing to spend money on in the future."
Lou Xiao'e rolled her eyes at him, with a slight smile on her lips. She was so understanding that she was embarrassed to hit him!
Snap!
After being slapped, Lou Xiao'e said angrily: "You know how to coax me."