Nongmen ruffian concubine: ploughing the fields, planting buns

Chapter 162 Additional Construction
"I just bought the complete set of "Four Books and Five Classics" from the city today, as well as "San Zi Jing", "Hundred Character Surnames", "Thousand Family Poems", "Thousand Character Essays", and "Nv Commandments", "Internal Training", "Nv Analects."

The front ones were normal, but the latter ones made Liu Xuegui look surprised.

"My younger sisters are grown up. Although they have followed me to read some words, they still have to learn some rules and understand some principles. Otherwise, how can they be worthy of my dead lady."

Ding Shitou pursed his lips to explain, Liu Xuegui suddenly bowed to Ding Shitou with a solemn expression.

"Brother Ding is a model of brotherhood in my generation, Xiaosheng admires him!"

"You're being polite!" Ding Shitou hurriedly returned the salute without any flaws.

When the village head and elders walked out of the main room, they saw Ding Shitou and Liu Xuegui saluting each other in the yard, and they were very pleased to hear their conversation.

As the managers of a village, they not only hope that the villagers will be safe and successful, and get rich, but of course they also hope that the younger generation will be filial, respectful, and moral.

Family tradition and family education have always been the most important issue for the common people.

Seeing such sensible and polite children, they are of course happy, and they are more determined to run the village school.

Because Ding Shitou and Liu Xuegui are both educated people.

Ding Shitou walked outside the fenced yard and saluted everyone and said goodbye before striding home.

The village head and the elders split up and went to the houses with children who needed to be enlightened to go to school, and made an appointment with those families early so that it would be convenient for Ding Shitou to arrange.

When Ding Shitou returned home, Chen Liu and the others were still working, the lights were brightly lit, and the craftsmen were very busy.

But Chen Liu stood on the ground and didn't go up to the roof beam.

"I'm back." Chen Liu turned his head when he heard the movement, smiled immediately, and walked over to talk to Ding Shitou about the additional cost.

It turned out that they had a meal just now, and immediately after the meal, they brought someone to measure the area of ​​the yard to be paved with floor tiles.

The place to dig the well was also selected, but now there are piles of materials, it is inconvenient to measure the specific area.

"Just paving granite floor tiles, the cost is similar to that of bluestone tiles, but the size of the sanding is larger, and the cost is a little cheaper if the workmanship is simpler."

"The Chen family doesn't have a quarry. I'll help you find a quarry to buy this. Do all the houses have to be paved?" Chen Liu introduced the situation and asked Ding Shitou.

"Well, each house includes a kitchen, a latrine, a yard on this side, and an open room. The other side is not used, and it is reserved for growing vegetables." Ding Shitou gestured.

"Okay, I just calculated based on the largest area. Let's say five taels for the floor tiles, plus shipping costs, two days of labor, and another two taels. There is also an extra tael for building the stove and repairing the kang in the kitchen."

"Adding two taels of open house, digging a well is troublesome, including building the mouth of the well, you can get ten taels of silver." Chen Liu reported the number one by one.

Ding Shitou quickly counted the money in his mind, almost startled.It was almost comparable to her new house.

"Digging wells takes up the bulk of the business. This is still an additional business. Generally, wells are dug alone. If you don't dig wells, every family will have wells." Seeing Ding Shitou's expression, Chen Liu explained with a smile.

In addition, the cost of floor tiles is also high. If everyone can afford it, will the villagers still need to live in the black mud and thatched houses with uneven holes?
Ding Shitou's new house is an ordinary small courtyard in the city, and it can be sold for at least a hundred taels of silver. If it has gardens and pavilions, it will be even more affordable.

"It's not a lot of money, but right now... I'm a bit embarrassed to write a proof of arrears." Ding Shitou explained shyly.

Naturally, I would not say that it cost 30 taels to buy an old house, 25 taels to build a new house, and now it costs 20 taels for additional construction, which adds up to 75 taels.

There are also furniture utensils, daily necessities, and various human consumption...

(End of this chapter)