Migrant workers of all generations are very kind. Lin Mai said that her house's wiring was aging and she wanted to find a plumber.
Immediately, an enthusiastic and cheerful migrant worker said to a loyal man in his forties: "Master Zhang, this girl said that her wiring is old. Go and check it out."
Master Zhang said hello and said to Lin Mai: "Wait a moment, I'll get the tool kit."
Lin Madao: "It's best to bring the materials. I'm afraid the water and electricity lines are aging and need to be replaced."
These electricians working on the construction site have all kinds of brand-new scraps of hydropower materials in their hands.
Although it is not much, it is more than enough to replace the wiring of a residential house.
Save yourself the trouble of going to the black market to buy it, as you may not be able to buy it.
Seeing Master Zhang's hesitation, Lin Mai quickly added: "I won't use your materials in vain, and I won't ask you to work in vain. The wages for labor and materials will be calculated for you."
Master Zhang then went to the shack where the migrant workers lived, took the tool kit and materials, and followed her to the front house she rented.
Checked the water pipes first.
The water pipes will last for decades without any problem.
Although the faucets are very old, they are of good quality and can be used again, so none of the water pipe lines have been replaced.
Master Zhang began to check the circuit.
After the inspection, he said to Lin Mai: "Although the line is old, it will be fine for another four or five years. Do you want to replace it?"
This uncle is really simple.
If it were a paranoid uncle, he wouldn't tell her the truth.
The degree of aging of the wiring will definitely be exaggerated and she will be asked to replace it.
In this way, he can earn more wages and sell the materials he intercepted at the construction site to her in a logical way.
Lin Mai thought, he didn't know how long the rented house would last, so he should try not to change it if he could, so he shook his head: "Then don't change it."
In the end, Master Zhang only replaced a few broken switches and bulbs that didn't work for Lin Mai, and he only charged her a total of two yuan including labor and materials.
Lin Mai gave him three yuan.
Although it is not easy for her to make money, this uncle is simple and she is willing to give him an extra dollar.
Master Zhang got the money and wanted to leave happily.
Lin Mai hurriedly said: "Uncle, can you introduce me to a painter? I want to paint the house again."
Master Zhang readily agreed, returned to the construction site, and soon brought her a wall-painting master.
The painter doesn't come empty-handed, he comes with paint.
Lin Mai and the painter worked together to whitewash the walls of the entire house.
Painting a wall in this era is simply a matter of applying a coat of white paint.
Unlike future decoration, wall painting is no longer a simple matter of painting the wall, it requires many processes.
After painting the house, Lin Mai rode a tricycle back to his home in Sanyang Village. It was only around four o'clock in the afternoon.
It was still early, so she changed the tractor and took Zhou Caiyun and Doudou to see the house she had just rented.
Doudou picked up Ah Huang, who was already half grown, and asked in a sweet voice: "Mom, can you take Ah Huang with you?"
Lin Mai touched her little head lovingly: "Of course, it is also a member of our family."
Doudou was so happy that she picked up Ah Huang and climbed onto the tractor.
When they arrived at the front room, Doudou happily ran upstairs and downstairs, making the wooden stairs creak. Ah Huang followed her and ran happily.
Zhou Caiyun stood in the room and looked at the small facade and said, "This store is too small."
Lin Mai patted her arm: "You don't understand this, the waiter can only set up a few tables.
But if these tables are always full of customers, it will look like the business is very good.
More people will be attracted to come in and eat.
Besides, we are a steamed bun shop, we only sell steamed buns and braised eggs, customers don’t need to sit in the store to eat, and the storefront doesn’t need to be too big.”
Zhou Caiyun nodded: "Then... let's move here to live in the future, where is the house in Sanyang Village."
"Rent it out."
Zhou Caiyun was startled: "People in the city have their own houses to live in, who would rent them?"
"But the housing conditions of most people in the city are not good. In many families, a large family squeezes into a room of 12 square meters, and the girl doesn't even have a place to change toilet paper at home. I can rent that house
For a family like this."
Lin Mai plans to rent each room for only three yuan, so it will definitely be easy to rent.
By then, if the kitchen is converted into a room, the rent for four rooms will be 12 yuan a month, and the amount will be a point-based income.
After checking out the room, the three of them went back.
On the way, Doudou sneezed several times in succession.
Zhou Caiyun scolded her and said: "It must be that I was sweating all over from running upstairs and downstairs just now, and now I have a cold due to the wind.
I told you not to run around like crazy but you didn’t listen. Last time I caught a cold while running around with my kids and you forgot all about it.”
Doudou lowered his little head knowing that he was wrong.
Ah Huang touched Zhou Caiyun with his front paws and whimpered twice, as if begging her to stop talking about little master.
Lin Mai glanced at Doudou in Zhou Caiyun's arms and asked, "Doudou had a cold during this time? Why didn't I know?"
"When she caught a cold, I boiled some ginger water for her to drink, and then gave her a hot bath. She was fine soon, and I didn't tell you anymore."
Lin Mai felt relieved after hearing this: "Then when we get back, let Doudou take a hot bath and make a bowl of ginger water to prevent colds."
Doudou drank ginger water and took a hot bath, and her cold symptoms improved a lot.
At night, the mother and daughter slept on the same bed. Lin Mai tested the little cute baby's temperature several times during the night and found that it was quite normal, so she felt relieved.
Early the next morning, Lin Mai and Zhou Caiyun got up as usual to make steamed buns and braised eggs.
At six o'clock, Lin Mai came out of the stall as usual.
But this time, instead of riding a tricycle, they drove Zhou Caiyun, Doudou and Ah Huang on a tractor and went straight to the front house on Jiefang Road.
Although there is nothing on the facade, you can still do business.
When he arrived at the front room, Lin Mai placed the only Eight Immortals table in the store at the entrance of the store, placed three wooden buckets containing steamed buns and braised eggs on the Eight Immortals table, and asked Zhou Caiyun to sell them.
Doudou stayed in the kitchen and played with Ah Huang, while she went to the state-owned furniture flea market to buy furniture.
She doesn't want the furniture in Sanyang Village anymore. It's too old and broken, and she's afraid it will fall apart if she keeps moving it around.
And if you rent it out with furniture in the future, the house will be better rented.
New furniture requires furniture tickets, but Linmai doesn't have any, so I went to the second-hand furniture market to buy furniture.
There is no furniture ticket when buying used furniture.
Although Zhou Caiyun is not good at doing business, she still dares to hawk in front of her own store.
She just doesn't know how to hawk on the street, and she won't run away as soon as the law enforcement team shows up.
Lin Mai thought that he would only see tattered old furniture in the state-owned second-hand furniture market, but he did not expect that there would be high-end Republican-style furniture made of precious woods such as mahogany and huanghuali, but there were very few.
Lin Mai made a fortune in her previous life. Both the Wu family and the Lin family used these precious woods to make furniture, so she recognized these expensive woods.
All furniture in the state-run second-hand market is clearly priced.
Lin Mai looked at all the prices. Ordinary second-hand furniture was cheap, but furniture made of precious wood was quite expensive.
A European-style huanghuali bed costs 300 yuan, a row of huanghuali large wardrobes costs 500, and a huanghuali wooden sofa set costs 400 yuan.
Once she buys these pieces of furniture, her savings will be reduced by more than half.
But it would be a pity not to buy it.
After a few decades, each of these pieces of furniture can be sold for hundreds of thousands.
If we buy all these pieces of Huanghuali furniture, there is no problem in selling them for millions in the future.
Several salesmen from the state-owned flea market gathered together to chat, but no one paid any attention to Lin Mai.
Such expensive furniture would definitely not be affordable for this shabbily dressed girl.