Back to 1980: Please Love Me Again

Chapter 19 Building a New Home

"Father, I still want to contract the barren hills south of the village."

"What do you want to do in such a huge barren mountain? There is nothing to grow there, but there are a lot of pheasants and hares."

Zhao Xuehai frowned and asked.

"That mountain is very useful. There will be a lot of mushrooms in the mountain in two months. Father, do you believe that I can sell mushrooms better than wild vegetables?"

Another point is that that mountain may be used for some farming in the future.

There are treasures buried under the mountain.

Under the mountain and the area further south, there is a large-scale and high-quality ilmenite mine underground. After more than 20 years, satellite remote sensing surveying and mapping found abnormalities, and these resources came to light.

Maybe you can earn a compensation payment in the future.

As for whether to apply for prospecting rights in the future, I will not consider it for the time being.

Ilmenite is not an area that private capital is capable of getting involved in. When the time is right, coal mining business can be done a little bit.

As soon as Zhao Wenmu said that mushrooms could be sold, Zhao Xuehai understood.

That mountain is indeed suitable for growing mushrooms, and the area is large. If it is contracted early, it will save trouble in the future.

"Father, do you think Second Uncle Xuelei will contract it to me?"

Zhao Xuelei, the production team leader of Shanqian Village, is a distant cousin of Zhao Xuehai's generation.

The surname Zhao accounted for more than [-]% of the entire Shanqian Village.

Zhao Xuehai understood what he meant. The production team had only contracted half of the arable land to households at the beginning of the year, and they were already under tremendous pressure. It would not be easy for the team to agree to contract out such a large barren hill.

"How much are you going to pay?"

"For 1000 yuan a year, you need to sign for at least three years. After three years, I will give priority to the contract."

"So much money!"

Shanqian Village is a small village with less than 400 households, about [-] people.

1000 yuan is not a small amount, it is enough for all the families in the village to spend a year.

"Well, 1000 yuan is definitely not a loss."

Zhao Wenmu is very confident about this, what a barren mountain!

"Okay, I'll tell you!"

"Father, tell me about the homestead by the way, and help me get more of that eight acres of wasteland. Anyway, that piece of wasteland is not small."

"You boy, no wonder you came here today. I don't think you have any good intentions!"

Zhao Wenmu chuckled.

"Isn't it a coincidence that something happened in a rush?"

"Oh, by the way, Dad, I don't have any money now, you tell Second Uncle Xuelei, I will pay the 3000 yuan within a month."

"roll roll roll!"

Zhao Xuehai and his father drank and ate slowly, Zhao Jing and Liu Sufang finished their meal early and sat on the kang to talk.

The little girl has been very quiet when she comes to her grandparents' house.

At this moment, I raised my two little hands by my head and slept soundly.

Liu Sufang patted Zhao Jing's hand with a smile in the corner of her eyes.

The family of three didn't go home until evening.

When they were leaving, Liu Sufang insisted that they take back the things they brought. How could the two old guys need so many good things.In the end, Zhao Wenmu ran away with the little daughter in his arms, leaving Zhao Jing and the old mother alone at the door for a long time.

The little guy's giggles reached Liu Sufang's ears after a long distance, making her feel that she had never been so happy in her life.

After eating at noon, Zhao Xuehai continued to work on hunting.

In the evening, he took two bottles of wine and went to Zhao Xuelei's house.

Although I don't know how they talked, the result was as Zhao Wenmu expected, the production team agreed to contract the barren hill to him.

In his previous life, his second uncle, Zhao Xuelei, was very courageous. In 1980, the household production contract had not been implemented nationwide, and Shanqian Village ate crabs. Later, he led the villagers to set up brick factories and food factories.

It's a bit like Lei Dongbao in the TV series Dajiang Dahe.

It can be regarded as a typical rural reformer of that era.

One step at a time, one step at a time!Under his leadership, Shanqian Village did not miss the best development opportunities, and quickly got rid of poverty and isolation. In the next few decades, it has always been the best-developed village in Pingyang County.

So Zhao Wenmu believes that as long as the rent is high enough, Zhao Xuelei is still willing to take a risk.

After all, Shanqian Village is really poor, and 1000 yuan can do a lot of things for the village.

As for the matter of the homestead, it is within the rules, so naturally there will be no obstacles.

After collecting so much money, Zhao Xuelei simply waved his hand and included that small piece of wasteland in the contract.In this way, he can use the whole wasteland as he pleases.

This is really an unexpected happy event.

Let's have a little fun.

After the homestead was approved, Zhao Wenmu decided to start construction immediately and build a house during the slack season.

Otherwise, when the wheat is ripe for more than a month, there will be no one to help.

At present, there are few professional engineering teams in rural areas. The villagers help each other build houses. Generally, they don’t need wages, and they only need to take care of two meals a day.

Zhao Wenmu is not good at these things.

Zhao Wenmu is good at the construction industry, after all, he was also a well-known developer in the industry in his previous life.

He is very familiar with land site selection, housing design concept, capital operation, and marketing, but he is not good at specific design and construction.

As a boss, you don't need to be proficient in everything, just knowing how to employ people is enough.

The second brother Zhao Wenguang is a carpenter and often helps others build houses. His own family just built a house last year, so Zhao Wenmu entrusted these things to him.

He himself replaced Zhao Wenguang to sell vegetables in the area of ​​the sugar factory.

What Zhao Wenmu wants to build is a brick house, which is rare in Shanqian Village.

Although he has made up his mind to live in the city in the future, he still plans to build a spacious and tall house, after all, he will always come back to live in it.

The master draftsman Zhao Wenguang found was very professional. Zhao Wenmu told his requirements in detail, describing the style of the house he wanted and the details of each place.

The master master quickly grasped his ideas, and the sketches of all parts of the house were very satisfactory to him.

Overall, the house is not too far ahead of the times, but some details have been optimized.

If you want to add various household appliances in the future, it is best to reserve the corresponding space now.

Especially the kitchen and bathroom.

And the circuit layout of the whole house.

Due to his limited vision, the old master couldn't imagine that things like refrigerators, range hoods, and washing machines would enter thousands of households, and he had never even heard of some things.

Naturally, these are not taken into account when designing a house.

This requires Zhao Wenguang to remind him that there will be a long, wide and high thing in this position, a switch needs to be reserved in this place, and there must be a water pipe in this place.
The furniture is all bought by Zhao Wenguang with the best materials and handed over to another master craftsman to make. Zhao Wenguang only deals with some simple small objects.

The toilet is not that kind of dry toilet. He plans to abandon the traditional squatting toilet and directly make it into a flush toilet. He will just go to the county to buy one.

Not only that, he also specially designed a shower room, otherwise it would be too painful to take a bath in winter.

In short, countless details need to be considered in all aspects.

Of course, we should ask Zhao Jing for his opinion on the new house.

Zhao Jing has never expressed any dissatisfaction with the adobe house she lives in now.

But when she heard that a new house was going to be built, she was still very excited, and she didn't say anything like that the current house is fine to live in, and there is no need to build a new house.

She studied it seriously for several days.

"Little brother, I want a room that can be used exclusively for reading books and sewing clothes. You can also keep accounts there, can you?"

She wants a study.

She raised her head and asked, the sun shining on her face, warm and genial.

"Sister, do you still want to study?"

Zhao Wenmu asked suddenly.

In order to save money for the family, Zhao Jing went to work after graduating from junior high school, and later learned some high school knowledge from Yao Wenjing, a female educated youth who went to the countryside in the village.

What she liked most at that time was to go to Yao Wenjing to study at night.

At the end of last year, when Yao Wenjing returned to the city, she burst into tears.

The former Zhao Wenmu turned a blind eye to these things.

Looking at Zhao Wenmu's sincere questioning eyes, Zhao Jing nodded.

"think."

"Okay, let's build a big study room and put a lot of books at home in the future. You can read books when you have nothing to do, okay?"

"it is good!"

Zhao Wenmu thought in his heart to inquire about the admissions of night schools in communes or county towns. Zhao Jing's academic performance is very good. If he can review well, it will not be very difficult to get into university.

Knowledge changes destiny, this sentence is never wrong.

Especially in this day and age.

The days that followed were even more hectic and busy.

The second elder brother, Zhao Wenguang, had to watch the building of the house all day. Zhao Wenmu went to the sugar factory after delivering the goods to the state-run restaurant in the morning, and went home to help build the house after selling the wild vegetables.

He is also responsible for the lunch and dinner meals for the big guys.

Zhao Jing also stayed at home to help cook and boil water.

The amount of wild vegetables picked obviously cannot keep up.

Zhao Wenmu had no choice but to find a group of young children from the village and hire child labor to dig wild vegetables.

When the Zhao family was building in full swing, some people finally couldn't sit still.

"Ergou, do you know where Zhao Wenmu sells wild vegetables?"

"Brother Daqing, I figured it out, all the wild vegetables have been sold to state-run restaurants!"

Li Ergou and the others didn't dare to get too close, and they were lazy by nature. They watched Zhao Wenmu drive into the back door of the state-run hotel from a distance, and they scattered to play separately.

I didn't see that Zhao Wenmu also went to the area of ​​the sugar factory.

"Brother Daqing, what should we do next?"

They have been jealous of Zhao Wenmu's business for a long time. Zhao Wenmu was so poor before that he was far behind them.

Now that they even have sewing machines, the jealousy and envy in the hearts of this group of people are like wildfire on the prairie. When the wind blows, it spreads quickly and can no longer be suppressed.

"Find a way to steal his business!"

(End of this chapter)