"Aunt, no need! The reason I came to Uncle Lu is to see if you can pull up the wall?"
"Pull up a fence?" The landlord and his wife looked at each other, "Boss Yu, to tell you the truth, if we had money, we would have built a fence long ago. Isn't this..."
"That's it! Uncle Lu, do you think this will work? I happen to have workers there. Buy the materials and I'll arrange for people to help you build the wall!"
"That's a great relationship!" the landlord and his wife said happily.
It also costs a lot of money to build a fence manually!
Yu Qingyang is willing to send someone to help build the wall, which can save one or two hundred yuan.
Mudan City may have a grand name, but it is actually the poorest prefecture-level city in Dongshan Province.
The average annual income per capita in the village where Yu Qingyang and the others live is estimated to be no more than 1,000 yuan.
"One more thing is the toilet. I can do this. I plan to build a toilet and shower room in the yard. Uncle Lu, do you think it's okay?"
What Yu Qingyang is most dissatisfied with about the house he rents is the toilet.
The so-called toilet is to dig a hole in the ground, put two wooden boards on it, and surround it with three pieces of rotten asbestos tiles.
Yu Qingyang had to admit that this was his mistake.
In his last life, he hadn't worried about these trivial matters for a long time.
In addition to the standardized construction of the construction site, someone is responsible for these.
So when he rented a house, he only considered whether it was enough to live in and whether it was close to the construction site.
Forgot to consider the toilet and shower room.
"Boss Yu, when you talk about the fence, we can scrape together enough money to buy materials, but we really can't get the money to build toilets and shower rooms!"
"It's okay. I'll pay for the construction of toilets and shower rooms, as long as you agree!"
Yu Qingyang really can't stand the current toilet anymore, and there is also the problem of bathing. It is the hottest time now, and he will feel uncomfortable if he doesn't take a bath for a day, so these two problems must be solved.
Yu Qingyang is going to plan carefully and build better toilets and shower rooms.
"Agree, we agree!"
The landlord is not stupid either. After the toilet and shower room were built, Yu Qingyang was not there to take care of them. In the end, they still didn’t belong to them?
The house is for my son to get married, and there is a bathroom in the countryside, which is a very luxury thing.
"Boss Yu, please help me calculate how many bricks, sand and cement are needed so that we can buy them!"
Yu Qingyang calculated in his mind and said: "Okay! Your yard will be 10 meters wide from north to south and 14 meters wide from east to west. The fence will be 2.2 meters high. It will cost about 10,000 taels if you build a 24-meter brick wall and remove the two-meter gate.
More than a thousand, less than thirteen thousand bricks.
In addition, about seven cubic meters of sand and three tons of cement are needed."
The landlord had just finished building the house and knew the price of cement, sand and red bricks. He calculated the quantity according to Yu Qingyang's report and exclaimed: "How much does it cost?"
how?
Yu Qingyang felt that it was not much, but in the eyes of the landlord, it was really a lot.
Thirteen thousand bricks cost 1,500 yuan, seven square meters of sand cost 300 yuan, and three tons of cement cost another 300 yuan. After all, the material cost alone costs more than 2,000 yuan.
They rented a house to Yu Qingyang for only 300 yuan a month. Yu Qingyang paid a total of 900 yuan for three months' rent. It was not enough to pay all the rent.
After finishing the calculation, the landlord began to back down.
As soon as Yu Qingyang saw the landlord's hesitation, he knew what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "Uncle Lu, the price of building materials is constantly rising. Now with these money, after a while, it may not even cost 3,000 yuan to build!"
Think about it, this wall will be built sooner or later, right?
It's better to get up early than to get up late! Now I can help you save some labor costs. When we leave, you will have to pay for the labor costs yourself. At that time, you can't afford to pay for it with three thousand or two thousand!"
"Boss Yu, to tell you the truth, it's not that I don't want to build, but I really can't afford the money. You said that I only have a few hundred yuan left after farming for a year! I owe a lot of debt to build a house. This time
We need to borrow money to build the wall!" the landlord explained with a grimace.
Now the old couple live in an old adobe house with three rooms. The whole village knows the situation of their family and there is nothing to hide.
"Well, Uncle Lu, I can't lend you the money, but I can arrange a job for you on the construction site for fifteen yuan a day! If you are willing, you can work at my place. After a month, you can even
You can earn seven to eight hundred yuan just by working overtime, and you can make it in two to three months."
"Boss Yu, how about you advance the money for us and let my old man work for you to pay back the money?"
"Aunt, this is against the rules. I can arrange a job for you to make money, but I can't pay you in advance!" Yu Qingyang explained with a smile.
"Is there still such a rule?"
"Of course, you see your son is also working outside, are you paying him in advance?"
In fact, the so-called rule is that Yu Qingyang is not confident about the landlord's character.
Although it is true that rural areas are poor, the fact that they are like this cannot be blamed solely on rural poverty.
The landlord is in his early fifties, the right age for working, but he stays at home every day, tending the few acres of land, and then gets together to play cards. What does it mean?
It shows that people cannot blame society for being lazy and poor.
After giving him money in advance, he dared to play rogue for Yu Qingyang, or go to the construction site to goof off and goof off.
Or just don't even go to the construction site. Anyway, the money is in my hands, what can you do to me?
At worst, you won't be able to live in the house, I won't charge you any money, I'll pay it off.
Yu Qingyang had never encountered this kind of situation in his previous life.
After Yu Qingyang's repeated insistence, the landlord finally agreed to borrow money to buy materials.
After agreeing with the landlord, Yu Qingyang also started contacting red bricks, cement, sand, gravel and other materials.
Speaking of which, this project only has a construction period of half a year, and Yu Qingyang seems to be wasting money by building toilets and shower rooms.
However, things cannot be considered this way.
What is the purpose of making money?
If you have three meals a day, no matter how much money you have, can you still eat five meals and sleep on two beds?
I remember that Yu Qingyang saw a very interesting story in his previous life.
Let's say a farmer and several big bosses have dinner at the same table. I ask them: You are so rich, what are your ideals and life goals?
They said: After a few more years of hard work, they will go to the countryside, buy a farmhouse, raise some chickens, ducks, geese, dogs and pigs, plant some flowers and grass, dig wild vegetables in the spring, go fishing in the summer, cook rice in the autumn, and clear the snow in the winter. It will be fine.
Sometimes I invite some friends to fight landlords, drink some wine, and brag! How wonderful rural life is!
After dinner, the farmer went home and thought about it for a long time. Damn it, the ideal of the rich is my current life, and I still struggle like hell! Go to bed!
At first glance, it seems that this is the truth. Pursuing and striving for a lifetime seems to be for the current life of farmers.
In fact, this is not the case. What the bosses are talking about is financial freedom.
I have money, and when I want to live a pastoral life, I will live a pastoral life.
When I want to travel around the world, I go traveling.
In fact, even if they live the same pastoral life, their moods are different.
In his pastoral life, the boss would never worry about the money for his son’s gift or the money for a new house.
There is absolutely no need to worry about being able to afford medical treatment.
Yu Qingyang’s goal in this life is definitely not to make money for the sake of making money.
Making money can only be a means, not a goal.
Just like now, when building toilets and shower rooms, some people will consider whether it is worth it.
But Yu Qingyang only thinks about whether I can live comfortably.
Making money is to have better living conditions, not to deposit money in the bank.
Spending one to two thousand yuan to make his life more comfortable, Yu Qingyang felt it was worth it.
The landlord acted quickly and bought the red bricks and cement sand back the next day.
Yu Qingyang arranged for Brother Song to lead people to build a fence, build toilets and showers.
Yu Qingyang built a relatively large toilet considering the large number of people there. It is divided into men's and women's toilets, with four squatting stalls in the men's toilet and one squatting stall in the women's toilet.
We also coordinated with the landlord and built a large septic tank outside the courtyard wall.
In order to build toilets and shower rooms, Yu Qingyang also specially hand-drawn construction drawings.
Yu Qingyang never expected that the first drawing he drew in his life would actually be a toilet and shower room.
Yu Qingyang lives more than 100 meters away from the project department, just across the street.
Naturally, the news on Yu Qingyang's side could not be hidden from the project department.
In this era, water conservancy projects, even the project departments of large state-owned enterprises like the Provincial Water Resources Corporation, are not so particular about the accommodation environment.
The house rented by the project department is not as good as the house rented by Yu Qingyang.
The house they rent is still an old adobe house.
In his last life, Yu Qingyang lived in the project department for three months. The experience of those three months was truly a life-long recollection.
At night, mice crawled on my face, and there were dozens of mosquitoes in the mosquito net at any time.
It's so hot that I can't sleep without the fan on, but with the fan on, the mosquito net can't be closed.
You can only take a shower in the yard with some well water from a pressure well.
Therefore, people from the project department came over to watch the fun.
"Xiao Yu, your conditions are better than those of our project department. There is also a bathroom! Isn't this too luxurious for you?" Liu Gong looked at the drawings and shouted in surprise.
Yu Qingyang cursed in his heart, he really had never seen the world.
Bathrooms are nothing. After a few years, the construction site will have an infirmary, a reading room, a recreation room, a dining room, a visiting room, a laundry room, and everything else will be complete.
There is a smart access control at the gate, and workers have to swipe their cards like white-collar workers to enter and exit.
There's even a fingerprint retina punch-in system.
Only then did you know what luxury is.
"Brother Liu, Brother Li, you can come to my place to take a shower in the future!
I am doing this for everyone’s convenience!”
"Well, when you finish the construction, you will definitely come over to take a shower. In this weather, taking two showers a day is too little!
I'm sweating every time I move!" Li Gong laughed.
"Xiao Yu, do you want to warm up the pot for you later? Or have a serving banquet?"
"You can have this!"
"By the way, Xiao Yu, when will the excavator you mentioned arrive?"
"We've all been contacted. There are six excavators in total. I'm about to report to you!"
"Taiwan Liu? Good guy, you are really good at it!"
"Hehe! Just average, third in the country!" Yu Qingyang smiled reservedly.
Li Gong patted Yu Qingyang on the shoulder, "Remember to treat me later!"
Yu Qingyang nodded cheerfully, "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be invited. We'll also go to Mudan City to eat, drink and have fun!"
In 2000, wages in state-owned enterprises were very low, and the construction site subsidy was only a thousand dollars.
So whenever I have the chance, I want to have something to eat and drink.