After dinner, everyone got busy again. Because the Lin family's food was good, everyone worked harder in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, Ye Chuqiu also tidied up his wooden house, put an oilcloth around the house, covered it with a layer of oilcloth, then covered it with wood bark, and put an oilcloth underneath, and then spread the blanket on it to use as a bed.
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After finishing this, Huang Tiesheng also invited his uncle over. His uncle was called Huang Yougui, and he was a bricklayer. He also had several tile kilns at home. Usually, if anyone wanted to build a house in the countryside, they would come to him to buy tiles.
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Of course, ordinary poor people cannot afford tiles, so they build their houses with veneer or straw.
Ye Chuqiu plans to live here for a long time. She naturally wants to build a better house. Her life has been so miserable, and now that she can finally live in peace, she will naturally not wrong herself in terms of living.
Huang Yougui is about fifty years old this year, with white hair on his temples, dark skin, and a slightly stooped waist.
Next to him stood a young man in his twenties, his son Huang Musheng.
The two parties introduced each other and drank a cup of tea. Ye Chuqiu showed her house design drawing to Huang Yougui and his son. While Huang Yougui looked at her drawing, he looked up at the construction site in front of him. Then, he frowned.
stand up.
"If you want to build this house, the foundation must be laid well. The homestead you chose is on a mountain. A layer of stone should be used to build a hillside in front of and behind the house to prevent mudslides when it rains." Huang Yougui said.
After reading the drawings, he spoke to Ye Chuqiu.
"You are a professional. You have the final say. This house must be beautiful, natural and safe." Ye Chuqiu nodded.
"You have to lay a solid foundation and lay stones in front and back of the house. I'm afraid it will cost more than other houses."
Huang Yougui said: "You and my nephew are friends in the world. I have to make it clear to you first, lest you say I lied to you later."
"I just hope that my house will be built solidly, and money is not a big deal." Ye Chuqiu said, "In order to build this house well, I am willing to spend all my money."
"Okay, if you look at other people's houses, they either use mud bricks to build the house, or they use blue bricks as a base, or they use adobe bricks. Which one do you want to use?" Huang Yougui asked again.
"Green bricks and wood are the best, right?" Ye Chuqiu said.
"Of course blue bricks and wood are good, but blue bricks can only be used by high-ranking officials. If you don't have an official in your family, you can't use blue bricks."
After hearing Huang Yougui's words, Ye Chuqiu was speechless, "Then don't tell me about the materials I can't use next time."
"I have to tell you too, lest you say why I didn't let you use it."
Huang Yougui said: "Usually when we in the countryside build a house, we lay the mud bricks ourselves in advance. You are new here and you have to find someone to buy it. I'm afraid it will cost you a lot of money. I will also ask you carefully who is the house."
For those who have laid bricks but have not yet built a house, let them be leveled for you."
"Okay, I'll trouble you to worry about these things when the time comes. Don't worry, as long as the house is built well, I won't miss you in money." Ye Chuqiu said.
"Well, my suggestion is that if you want to build a grand house, you can use stone bricks. The court does not control stone bricks, but cut stone bricks are more expensive than blue bricks." Huang Yougui added.
"Can you just tell me how much it costs?" Ye Chuqiu said, "Can I cover the hundred and eighty taels?"
"Listen to me and speak slowly."
Huang Yougui found a stone and sat down, and said calmly: "When we build a house, we use different materials, different craftsmanship, and the prices are different. As I just told you, a brick is as big as
If you use mud bricks to build such a big house, twenty taels of silver will be enough. If you use mud bricks, it will cost about thirty taels. If you use stone bricks, it will cost you fifty taels.
And these wooden beams, we have nanmu beams, fir beams, camphor beams, etc. Needless to say, nanmu beams, an ordinary nanmu beam costs several taels of silver, and the nanmu used as the main beam is even more expensive.
Also, beams also come in different sizes, straight and curved, the straighter and wider the more expensive they are, you should understand this?"
"Yeah, I understand."
Ye Chuqiu nodded.
She, she knows nothing!
If she understood, she wouldn't think about leaving all these things to others.
"Look at the houses in the city, all of which are decorated with beautiful decorations and beams. They all cost money, right? You are just a doorkeeper, but you also have to pay attention to so many things. For example, how high is the threshold? What kind of wood is used? How thick is the door, and what kind of wood is used?
Wood? Do you want to make brackets? And so on, these are all knowledge."
Hearing Huang Yougui talking eloquently on the side, Ye Chuqiu could only nod. Huang Tiesheng on the side also nodded with an awkward smile. He usually doesn't like to stay at this uncle's house because he can always talk to you if he finds a chance.
He piles up truths to show off his abilities and opinions.
"By the way, I heard that you also travel all over the country. You must have seen the houses in the city, right? On the roof of the house, there are Suan Ni, and on the corners of the beams, there are also Xie Zhi, fish and other mythical animals. Do you want to decorate them?
?If you want to decorate, what materials should you use?”
"I……"
Ye Chuqiu glanced at Huang Tiesheng aside. She just wanted to build a house that could be lived in. How could she build a house with so much knowledge?
"Mr. Huang, Suan Ni, Hae Zhi, these are all dragons. It's better for us country people to not want them." Ye Chuqiu thought for a while and said.
"Actually, it doesn't matter. It has become a folk mythical beast that protects the family. No one will care about you so much."
Huang Yougui said: "This is what I think. Your house is built on a mountain. If you decorate the corners of the house with mythical beasts, it will definitely be very majestic. When the corner of the house is raised high, the mythical beasts stand on it, and the corners of the house hang down.
Wind chimes, how majestic they are.”
"How much will it cost?"
She could understand what Huang Yougui said, and she also liked the house he described, but the question was, was this a house that she, an old lady in the countryside, could own?
The bottom is made of large stone bricks, and the top is made of wooden doors and windows, with carved dragons and painted phoenixes, double eaves and brackets, tall stone pillars at the door, wind chimes hanging in the corners of the house, and a mythical beast that protects the family standing on the ridge.
It's so grand.
The question is, is she worthy?
The house she wants to build is just a small farmhouse. At most, it has blue bricks and black tiles. At most, it has more furniture than other houses. At most, it has wooden floors in the bedrooms and stone tiles in the main room.
She really didn't dare think about anything else.
Suppressing the greed in her heart, she turned her attention to Huang Tiesheng for help.
Huang Tiesheng smiled helplessly at her and interrupted Huang Yougui's eloquent words, "Second uncle, just build Mrs. Lin a house similar to the house chief's house."
"Oh, oh, then I understand."
Huang Yougui said something, glanced at Ye Chuqiu, and immediately lost interest in the conversation. He just said: "Okay, just leave it to me to build your house. Just prepare the money."