Born into a farm family, I became rich by pressuring my parents.

Chapter 17 Laying the Foundation

Early the next morning, Village Chief Li led several people to find Jiang Mingshun.

Jiang Jinyu quickly set up the stools and went to the thatched cottage that was temporarily used as a kitchen to bring out a few bowls of water.

It's not that she is stingy, in fact, in Huangtian Village, except for the village chief's family who has enough money to buy tea, most of the others treat guests with boiled water.

Farmers have little fat and water in their stomachs, so they don’t want to drink the tea because it’s oily.

There were one or two people among those people who looked familiar. They must be members of the Jiang clan, and they had seen each other a few times every year during ancestor worship.

Seeing that everyone was sitting down, Village Chief Li said: "Mingshun, these people all heard that you were going to build a house and came to me to tell me that they wanted to help. I think they are all pretty good." If you are honest and willing to work, I will bring them all to you."

Jiang Mingshun glanced at a few people and thought of their reputation in the village. He thought to himself that the village chief is worthy of being the village chief, and he really thinks well.

He knew all the five people who came today. Except for the two brothers from the same family, the other three had all worked as part-time workers in the city with him. They were indeed people who could work hard.

Among the two Jiang clan members, except for Jiang Mingrong, whom they had just met on the boat a few days ago, there was another named Jiang Minglei. Although they were not familiar with him, he was also a well-known hard-working young man in the clan.

Although Jiang Mingrong and Jiang Minglei are both of the same generation as Jiang Mingshun, they are only in their early twenties, an age where they can work hard.

Jiang Mingshun knew that the village chief would definitely make it clear to them in advance, but he still repeated it again: "My family is small and I don't have time to cook for everyone, so I offered a salary of [-] cents a day. Can you accept it?" "

Jiang Mingrong smiled heartily: "We went to the city to work as part-time workers, which cost more than ten or twenty cents a day. Now we are working in the village, and we can go home to eat every day. Why don't we want to?"

"Yeah, it's cheaper than in the city."

"It's close to home."

The others also expressed their attitudes after hearing this.

Seeing this, Village Chief Li said to everyone: "Since you agreed, you should do your job well. I am trying to pull this string for you because I believe in you. Don't embarrass me."

After saying that, he stood up and said to Jiang Ming, "Then I'll leave first."

Everyone sent Village Chief Li out together.

The first step in building a house is to dig the foundation. Since there are not enough hoes at home, Jiang Ming arranged for several people to take turns digging the ground, while the others cleaned up the weeds and stones on the ground.

Jiang Jinyu followed and watched for a while. She thought about the news in her previous life that the house collapsed because the foundation was not laid properly, and she couldn't help but worry about the most primitive way of building a house in front of her.

Unfortunately, there is no point in worrying, this is the method used to build houses in the village.

Fortunately, her house is only going to be built on one floor, so it shouldn't collapse, right?
Soon it was noon, and several people working outside consciously rushed home before dinner.

Jiang Jinyu watched from the side and nodded secretly. Village Chief Li's vision was indeed good. The people he called not only worked hard, but also had good eyesight.

Jiang Mingshun wanted to keep the two tribesmen for a meal.

But first of all, since he said that everyone is treated the same, it is not good to treat the same people differently.In addition, if he just asked the two of them to stay, it would be difficult for them and several other people to get along with each other.

Therefore, today at noon, Jiang Jinyu and his family were still the only ones eating alone.

Several people who worked in the afternoon came on time with their own hoes.

This is also the convenience of hiring people from the village to do work. There is no need to buy tools such as sickles and hoes that are available in every household, which can also save a lot of costs.After Jiang Mingshun arranged for a few people, he went directly to the dock. He made an appointment with the brick and tile factory to deliver a boatload of bricks this afternoon.

The person who pressed the boat also arranged for door-to-door delivery. Fortunately, it was only a few dozen meters away, and it took only a few trips back and forth to deliver them all.

Jiang Jinyu is full of curiosity about the bricks in this world. She doesn't know the difference between the brick-making process now and that of later generations, but as far as she knows, the people who have built brick houses in the village are full of praise for the quality of the bricks. Rumor has it that It is said that a house built for decades still looks like new.

However, she has always been skeptical about this. Take the newly built house in her great-grandfather's house a few years ago as an example. Although the quality seems to be quite good now, it is definitely not as smooth as the new one.

Now it was her turn to build her own house, so she had to take a good look at it.

The location where the new house is planned to be built is still a mess, with mounds of soil, weeds, gravel, and everything else.

Fortunately, this homestead is large enough. Jiang Mingshun directed the guys who pressed the boat to unload all the bricks on another open space, planning to lay the foundation there before picking them over.

Jiang Jinyu looked at the pile of bricks and thought, if nothing else, it at least gave her a sense of reality about living in a new house.

With people digging the foundation, Jiang Mingshun and Bai were finally able to devote themselves to making money. After going to the city twice to deliver goods, the money box at home was quite full.

Most of the bricks and tiles were also delivered one after another.

Finally, the people who laid the foundation also finished this morning.

Seeing that the wall was about to be built, Jiang Jinyu couldn't help but said to her father: "Dad, let's go to the city and hire a house builder to come back."

Jiang Mingshun asked in surprise: "Why? How can anyone hire someone to build a house in the village?"

"But the houses in the village are not good-looking," Jiang Jinyu brainwashed her father: "Dad, think about it, what do the houses in the city look like? What do the houses in our village look like? Even Village Chief Li and our patriarch's house can't compare. The houses of ordinary people in the upper city are nice-looking.”

"Nonsense." Jiang Mingshun retorted subconsciously.

Jiang Jinyu saw that her father was relieved and continued to increase her intensity: "Dad, houses in the city are so expensive, but now we only need to spend an extra portion of the money paid to the house builder, and we can live in the same place as the people in the city. It’s the same house!”

Perhaps the villagers naturally yearned for life in the city. In short, Jiang Mingshun was finally deceived or persuaded by his daughter.

He entered the city early the next morning. Compared with the unskilled laborers who were mostly concentrated at the dock waiting for work, the skilled masters were much more comfortable.

They leave their information to the middleman, who then leads the way and introduces them to work.

Jiang Mingshun has worked part-time in the city for many years, so he naturally knows this rule.

So that day I brought back a master with more than [-] years of experience in building houses.

The master's salary was fifty cents a day. Because it was inconvenient to go back and forth, Jiang Mingshun also promised to provide food and accommodation during the construction of the house.

The old master from the city was really different. After he arrived, he put down his baggage and went to the completed foundation.

While watching, I wrote and drew on the muddy ground.

Half an hour later, he raised his hand to greet Jiang Mingshun: "Come here and take a look. I'll change it for you. Come over and see if there's any discord."

(End of this chapter)