Yu Jiajin said firmly: "Of course I can bear it! The houses on this street were built by wealthy people before liberation.
At that time, the wealthy people were very practical in building houses. When building a two-story house, they only had to dig a three-story foundation.
To tell you the truth, my house was passed down to me by the older generation, and my grandfather dug the three-story foundation to build this house."
Lin Mai was afraid that Yu Jiajin would deceive her about adding an extra layer, so she was silent for a moment and said, "Let me have a look with the master to make sure that there is no problem with adding extra layers."
Yu Jiajin nodded helplessly: "Then let me know after you confirm."
Lin Mai nodded in agreement, and then returned to his home.
Lin Mai took out all the clothes and hung them to dry in the backyard, locked the door, and went to the construction site to find Master Zhang.
The landlord has already gone to Hong Kong and informed her the day before yesterday.
She wanted to find Master Zhang to decorate the single room on Qianjin Road so that Li Mingcheng could move in.
In this era, except for high-end shopping malls and hotels, ordinary homes are not decorated.
Even decoration only involves simply painting the walls and painting the doors and windows, so there is no such thing as a decorator.
Lin Mai could only find masons like Master Zhang to serve as decoration workers.
Master Zhang likes Lin Mai to come to him the most. As long as she comes to him, he will make extra money.
Master Zhang followed Lin Mai to the single room on the front road.
A lean, middle-aged woman was walking in and out of Lin Mai's kitchen, which was only one square meter.
Lin Mai recognized the middle-aged woman. He met her once last time when he visited the house with the landlord, but he didn't speak to her.
The middle-aged woman was very surprised to see Lin Mai and froze on the spot for a moment.
Lin Mai looked at the wide open kitchen door of his home and asked the woman: "Did you open the kitchen door?"
The woman smiled reluctantly: "No, it was the old man who forgot to turn it off before he left."
The old man is the landlord.
Lin Mai looked at the running water in the kitchen and the vegetables in the sink basin, and asked with a smile: "So you came to my kitchen to wash vegetables?"
The middle-aged woman looked a little embarrassed: "Isn't it because our kitchen is small and we can't turn around, so I used your kitchen for a while."
After that, he turned around and turned off the faucet and took away the pot of vegetables to be washed.
Lin Mai saw this and said nothing more.
After all, this middle-aged woman will be Li Mingcheng's neighbor from now on, so don't make things too tense.
She opened the door and walked in with Master Zhang.
The landlord kept his word and kept all the furniture and an old radio.
Lin Mai tried it. Although the sound quality was a bit noisy, it did not affect listening.
Master Zhang checked all the water and electricity, and said to Lin Mai: "The lines are aging a bit seriously, and we need to re-route the water and electricity."
Lin Mai nodded, looked at the yellowed and even dirty walls and said, "The walls should also be repainted, and the windows and furniture should also be repainted."
When leaving, Lin Mai deliberately locked the door and kitchen to prevent anyone from entering or exiting again.
The lean middle-aged woman greeted her: "Let's go."
Lin Mai also smiled and hummed, and took Master Zhang to his front building.
Master Zhang asked in surprise: "You bought this too?"
Lin Mai nodded and told him in a low voice: "If you have money, be sure to buy a house in the city. You will definitely make a lot of money in the future."
She had interacted with Master Zhang more than once. She thought he had a good character, so she revealed some secrets to him.
Master Zhang looked at the big house in front of him with envy, and said with a smile: "Who doesn't know that the houses in the city are valuable, but how can you have money on your hands?"
Yu Jiajin was sitting in his house, fanning his cattail leaf fan, and he could see everything going on outside.
Seeing that Lin Mai had brought a master master over, she knew it was the master she had hired to look at the foundation, and hurriedly ran out of the house.
He smiled and asked Lin Mai: "Is this the master you hired to look at the foundation?"
Lin Mai nodded: "Yes."
Then he turned to Master Zhang and said, "Do you think we can add another layer to this foundation?"
Master Zhang began to inspect around the roots of the house.
Yu Jiajin, like most people in Jiangcheng, is very good at getting things done.
He took out a pack of Daqianmen cigarettes from his body and handed it to Master Zhang: "Here, let's smoke and check at the same time."
Master Zhang glanced at him, then at the cigarette in his hand, waved his hand and said, "I don't smoke."
Lin Mai curled his lips secretly in his heart.
Uncle, who would believe you when you say you don’t smoke? Who can’t smell the smell of cigarette smoke?
She knew that Master Zhang did not accept the cigarettes from the Yu family because he did not want to owe him a favor so that he could inspect the foundation of the house for her from her standpoint.
Yu Jiajin slapped his mouth helplessly.
Master Zhang has been working as a mason with his father since he was a child and has rich experience.
After checking it carefully, he straightened up and said to Lin Mai with certainty: "Yes!"
Yu Jiajin bought two bottles of frozen soda and came over. Hearing this, he immediately smiled.
He handed a bottle of soda to Master Zhang and the other bottle to Lin Mai: "I just said it's no problem."
Then he looked at Lin Mai eagerly, waiting for her to nod in agreement.
Master Zhang asked: "Do you want to add another layer?"
Yu Jiajin pointed to his nose: "I want to add layers."
He explained with a grimace: "The two children at home are old and there is no longer enough room for them."
The two-story small bungalow is big enough for a family of four.
Lin Mai guessed that he wanted to add another floor to free up the first floor, either to rent it out as a storefront in exchange for a few rents, or to start a small business of his own.
The houses facing the street all had businesses on the first floor. It was impossible for him not to see them, and it was impossible not to be jealous.
Master Zhang hesitated and said to Lin Mai: "Don't blame me for being nosy, why don't you and your neighbor add a floor together.
If their house has extra floors and your house doesn’t have extra floors, your luck will be bad.”
Rural people are very particular about the fact that the houses next door and to the left cannot be higher than their own house, otherwise their luck will be suppressed.
Master Zhang said that because he was thinking about Lin Mai.
Yu Jiajin wanted to add another floor, but was afraid that Lin Mai would not agree, so he quickly agreed: "Yes, let's add a floor together."
Lin Mai had this plan.
If she adds a floor to her three-room small western-style building, it will have an extra area of nearly 200 square meters.
If you wait for compensation ten years later, you can get an additional four to five million yuan, and adding floors now won't cost much, so why not add them!
He nodded immediately and said: "Okay."
The Yu family pointed to her neighbor on the left with her eyes: "Okay, you go say hello to Xiaohong's mother and say you want to add an extra floor."
Lin Mai said hello.
Yu Jiajin warned: "If Xiaohong Ma agrees, just tell me and we will finalize the time to start construction."
Lin Mai said hello again and immediately went to find Xiaohong's mother.
She came to the door of Xiaohong's house and looked around the house. Like the Yu family's house, it was also a small Western-style building with only one front.
There is a table, a circle of stools, a few chairs, and a cabinet in the facade. It seems that the facade is used as a dining room.
The dining room was empty.
Lin Mai stood at the door and shouted several times: "Is Xiaohong's mother at home?"
A young woman with high cheekbones walked out quickly: "Here!"
Seeing a stranger looking for her, she asked, "Who are you?"
Lin Mai introduced himself: "I am your new neighbor, Lin Mai."
"It turns out to be Xiao Lin!" Xiao Hong's mother smiled like a spring breeze, "Do you have a problem with me?"
Lin Mai explained his intention.
After hearing this, Xiaohong's mother thought for a moment: "Our family will also add floors."
She has three children, and the population is larger than the Yu family. Naturally, she does not want to miss the opportunity to expand the area of her house.
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