My village can't be like this

Chapter 79 Building a House
When it was late in the evening, the phone at home rang "beep~beep~beep~".

When the phone rang at first, Zhang An's family was not used to it. After the phone in Zhang An's room rang for a long time, Zhang An realized that his family had installed a phone.

The main reason is that they didn't have a telephone in their homes before, and they didn't have one in later generations. They didn't buy a PHS until mobile phones became popular.

Zhang An picked up the phone and asked. It turned out that Deng Kuan, who had just installed the phone, called. The main purpose was to tell Zhang An that the phone was connected and can be used normally. He also reported Zhang An's home number to Zhang An again. It can be said that it is not thoughtful.

It happened that the newly installed phone at home was available, so Zhang An took out the number book and called Chen Ze.

Originally, he wanted to make a call earlier, but thinking about calling in broad daylight, Chen Ze might not be at home, so Zhang An didn't go to the canteen to make a call.

After a few beeps, the phone was answered by someone on the other side.

"Old Chen, it's me, Zhang An."

"Oh, is the phone installed at home?"

On the other end of the phone, Chen Ze asked, he knew someone at the telecommunications bureau, so when he went, he asked his help to arrange it as soon as possible, otherwise Zhang An would go by himself, and it would take several days to arrange the number after paying the money.

The penetration rate of telephone installation in coastal areas is already very high, so the relative business there will be more mature.

But in this mountain area, especially in such small counties and villages, this business has just started not long ago, so there are more people who install it.

"Someone came to install it at noon. The line was just opened, so I called you right now. By the way, didn't I say that if I go to the county to find time these days, I will find someone to install it. What do you do?" Just help me get it done."

"I'm not afraid that you will have to wait for a number, so I helped you to do it in advance. It just so happens that I have a friend at the telecom office, so I need to make a phone call."

For Chen Ze, it might just be a phone call, but for ordinary people like Zhang An, just wait honestly.

"Then I have to thank you. I will give you the money when you come next time."

For Zhang An, this money has to be given, because it is the money to help advance. Chen Ze is really generous, but every time Zhang An finds it in other places to make up for it, the two are not the same thing.

"Next time, don't worry about it. It's inconvenient for you to run around. I'll go to your place after a while."

Chen Ze also didn't say anything like don't need to give it, this is not in line with the way of getting along with friends.

He knew Zhang An, although he always wanted to take care of this little brother's house when he went by himself, but every time he ended up going to his house to eat and get food by himself.

I really complied with that sentence, I couldn't eat and walked around.

The crops at home have been planted recently, and I originally wanted to take advantage of this time to fertilize and weed the crops in the field.

But Zhang An has been instilling the concept of green food in his parents recently.

The reason why chemical fertilizers are used is to make the crops in the field grow better and more productive.

The seeds planted by Zhang An's family this year were all brought to the space by Zhang An and treated with spring water. Although they are not too abnormal, they still help a lot.

Originally, Zhang Jianguo wanted to go to the town to buy compound fertilizer, but Zhang An persuaded his father not to spend the money.

"Xiao An, if this crop is not fertilized, can it grow well?"

Zhang Jianguo and his wife were somewhat skeptical about what Zhang An said.

"Dad, among other things, didn't we just remove the weeds yesterday? It's not like you haven't seen what the crops in our field look like now. Don't look at people who have sprinkled a lot of fertilizer, they are not as good as ours. Looks good."

Zhang An didn't force his parents to accept it now, but he could compare it with the facts.

"We also know that it is growing well now, but we are afraid that if we don't spread fertilizer, it will grow out of empty shells."

"Dad, when we were in the big group, there was no fertilizer, and the crops were not the same length. Besides, how much fertilizer our family put on the fields today, you just carried manure for several days, which is enough. That's right, the chemical compound fertilizer is not fairy water, so it doesn't have that much effect."

In the end, Zhang Jianguo also accepted it. He had seen it in the big group before. At that time, the group had no money to buy chemical fertilizers, and it was all up to everyone to use the manure and retting farmyard manure in the pen.

In the end, the grain also grew very well, and besides, he personally carried the farmyard manure at home this year, so he felt relieved.

Seeing that the crops are growing so well, the old couple are also very happy. The fertilizer costs several hundred dollars. It is definitely best to save this money if you don’t worry about the crops not growing well.

It's nice to say it in the village, what the rural people are comparing, and whose crops are better.

Now when Zhang Jianguo goes out, he asks Zhang Jianguo what kind of fertilizer he bought and why his crops grow so well when he meets people. Zhang Jianguo is very proud at this time.

He triumphantly told people that he didn't use any fertilizers, and now everyone didn't believe him anymore. They all said that Zhang Jianguo refused to tell the truth, and he must tell people about useful fertilizers so that everyone can use them together.

In the end, even the old village chief came to ask why, because the rice seedlings in Zhang An's field were so outstanding.

After several days of explanations, everyone believed that Zhang An's family did not spread manure, and used manure retting in the livestock pen.

Now everyone is thinking in their hearts that when they are plowing the fields tomorrow, they must not be lazy, and they must add more farmyard manure to the fields.

The crops are growing well, the fertilizer money is saved, and people don't have to go to the fields to work, and life suddenly becomes easier.

So the family decided to build a new house while they had time and some money at home, otherwise it would be impossible to wait until the money at hand was used up elsewhere.

Because building a new house is a top priority, especially seeing that people come to the house frequently and there is no place for them to stay, Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang are more determined to build it.

There are only three major things in the hearts of the villagers: finding a good wife, building a new house, and having a few children.

He did what he said and did it right away, and the next day Zhang Jianguo found a well-known Feng Shui master nearby to come over to see the land.

In rural areas, building a new house is a very prudent thing. When the ground is broken and which direction the house faces are all very important, so the old people in the family usually find someone to look at it.

Although Zhang An was a little skeptical, he let his parents do it, and it didn't cost much anyway.

I have already returned to this era, so I am not qualified to doubt this or that, I would rather believe it than believe it, the end of science is unexplainable metaphysics.

In this way, Mr. Feng Shui took a compass and other tools and walked around the gravel field by the river all morning, then wrote a deed and handed it to Zhang Jianguo.

Zhang An glanced at it, and found that this gentleman's handwriting is still very good, which seems to be more credible than those who cheated and abducted in later generations. With this good handwriting alone, he is qualified to eat.

In the end, the husband left with a big red envelope of 36 yuan from Wang Fang and a big rooster.

Of course, the big rooster has already been killed, and it is used to worship the gods when looking at the ground.

When the day that the husband is optimistic about, Zhang An's family invited many people from the village, because breaking the ground requires everyone to join in the fun, which means they are popular.

And Zhang An also talked to Chen Ze, but he didn't expect him to come today.

Li Hongbin is indispensable. After the ground breaking ceremony is over, it will be the turn of the construction team he brought to work.

Because Zhang An wanted to build a three-story courtyard in the village, Li Hongbin happened to be engaged in this aspect, so he paid the whole package to him.

Professionals do professional things. Although Uncle Zhang An is also a stonemason, they can only build three large tile houses in the countryside now, so Zhang An didn't ask people from the village to build them.

It happened that Li Hongbin had already taken over many such rural projects, so he was very proficient in this set, and he still had a lot of blueprints in hand.

Now he took them all out to let Zhang An see which one he likes, and cover them according to which one.

In the end, Zhang An chose a small three-story building with two large yards at the front and back. The rural and clean style fits the temperament of a small mountain village.

Soon, it was time to break the ground. Zhang Jianguo invited the oldest elder of the Zhang family in the village to preside over the blessing ceremony before breaking the ground.

Finally, amidst crackling firecrackers, the ground breaking ceremony was carried out.

Generally, at such times, relatives in the family are required to buy firecrackers to set off the firecrackers. The more relatives there are, the longer the firecrackers will be set off.

The family of Zhang An's uncles would definitely not come, and Zhang An's family didn't expect them to come, so it would be best if they didn't come.

They are the uncles of the second grandfather's family, the fourth grandfather's family, and Zhang An's two uncles' family.

They bought a small pile of firecrackers, and that was more than that. Li Hongbin and Chen Ze directly brought a small cart of firecrackers and fireworks over.

I have never seen fireworks in the village. Fireworks are very expensive now, and no one in the village buys them during the Chinese New Year.

These scenes became even more lively, and the firecrackers and fireworks were set off for more than half an hour.

It can be regarded as the most lively time in Changqing Village. The sound of fireworks can be heard in several nearby villages. They all think that something important is happening in Changqing Village, and many people come to watch it.

Unexpectedly, it was the groundbreaking ceremony for Zhang An's family to build a new house, but there were always guests at the door. Wang Fang brought several aunts of Zhang An to serve tea and water for everyone, and the melon seeds, peanuts, and fruit candies did not fall.

Then other people in the village began to break the ground with hoes and shovels. Chen Ze was very interested and joined the construction team with a shovel.

After the ground breaking was completed, everyone stopped, and it was the turn of the excavator brought by Li Hongbin to start work.

The excavator quickly dug the foundation, which made everyone in the village sigh that this big thing is still powerful.

Because before this, no matter who built a new house, the foundation was dug by hand, and it took at least one day to dig bit by bit with a hoe and a dung dustpan.

Zhang An's house has a large area. It would take two days to dig the foundation manually, but this excavator quickly finished it.

Everyone envies in their hearts, it's nice to have money.

Because it was fully contracted for Li Hongbin, there was no need for everyone's help in the follow-up. After the foundation was dug, his construction team began to start construction.

There is no need for Zhang An's family to be responsible for anything, because the construction team has a lot of people, and there are people who specialize in cooking, so there is no need for Zhang An's family to be responsible for eating. Otherwise, with so many people, Wang Fang can't cook every day.

When negotiating the price, Li Hongbin originally only planned to charge the cost of materials and labor costs. He didn't plan to earn money from Zhang An's family.

But Zhang An roughly calculated, this is definitely not going to work, he did not do the work in the city, so he came to work for himself first, it is not justifiable not to make money for others.

Anyway, the two were arguing back and forth like this. It was normal to bargain at first, but I had never seen the owner fight for more money. In the end, Zhang An said that if he didn't accept it, he wouldn't buy it, so Li Hongbin had no choice but to accept it.

But he planned in his heart to wait until Zhang An's house was built, and then he would send a batch of furniture to Zhang An.

The construction team has a lot of people and the speed is very fast. The foundation has just been laid and the wall has been built. In a few days, the wall of this layer has been built, and everyone is preparing to build a shelf. It is necessary to tie the steel bars and start building the cover .

This amazed all the stonemasons in the village, and even the second uncle Zhang An went to learn from him every day.

The master of the construction team thought he was the master's supervisor, so he answered Uncle Zhang's questions one by one.

The masons in the village used to build walls with stones. The stones are irregular in shape. When building walls, they had to carve them slowly with stone knives and hand hammers.

As red bricks and cement bricks were used more and more in the future, stone walls were gradually abandoned.

Because it is faster to build a wall with bricks, it saves a lot of work of beating and carving, and the wall can be built faster.

Moreover, the masons in the village didn't just come to learn how to build walls. They wanted to see how the bungalows were built, because as everyone's conditions got better and better, more and more people would build bungalows in a few years.

For them, if they want to eat this bowl of rice, they must always follow the progress of society.

If everyone has money and wants to build bungalows, but I can only build rural tile houses, I will definitely lose my job in the future.

As for the cooking skills, everyone must attach great importance to it, so during this period of time, I just took advantage of my free time and hurried over to learn.

But I didn't ask too much, because others were rushing the progress of the project, so I just had to look at it myself, and I couldn't disturb them.

Especially during the period of building the frame and tying the steel bars, everyone basically came every day, and sometimes they even helped.

The master craftsmen of the construction team were frightened, thinking that these people were here to grab their jobs.

The second uncle of Zhang An in the later generations went to the city to work on the construction site for two years. When he came back, he bought a set of things by himself and took the people in the village to build houses for others.

They happened to meet the new rural construction project that the country was advancing at that time, and they took on a lot of jobs, basically working all year round. After the completion of this village, they changed to another village and made a lot of money.

At that time, every house in the village was a small two-story yard, painted with the same paint and covered with the same blue tiles, and the whole village looked pretty good.

Compared with the apartment buildings in the city, it is much better.

In the past, everyone envied those who bought a house in the city, but now, in reverse, people in the city are envious of those who build yards in the village.

(End of this chapter)