bookcurios Chapter 116 You Know How to Live
Chapter 116 You Know How to Live
"A small courtyard with two entrances?"
Chen An took a deep breath. He had worked as a laborer for a construction team before and knew what a courtyard with two entrances looked like.
He originally thought that Cheng Yue was planning to build five or six brick houses, but it turned out that he was planning to build a small courtyard with two entrances. It seemed that he was too conservative.
Cheng Yue nodded and told her plan for the house, "We have a big family, so a bigger house would be more livable.
In the future, when Xiaolin gets married and has children, the population will increase, and it will be difficult for the two sisters to deal with it, so they have to keep the house.
Besides, once this house is built, it will be our ancestral home. Even if we are gone, it can be passed down."
As he spoke, he gestured on the ground with a fire poker, "Here's what I thought, there are two courtyards, and at the gate there is a row of back houses, and this side is the outer courtyard.
Entering through the second gate is the inner courtyard, opposite which is the main hall and the main house, with two side rooms on both sides of the main house.
There are at least three side rooms on each side of the inner courtyard. The kitchen is located on one side of the side rooms. As for the toilet, we will see later.
The cowshed, pigpen, chicken coop and vegetable patch will be located behind the main house, that is, the backyard, and can be fenced off when the time comes."
As a modern person, she has seen a lot of architectural drawings.
Even without a blueprint, I have visited many celebrities' former residences and watched a lot of TV, so I am pretty familiar with what a two-story courtyard looks like.
But after all, we live in the countryside, so we still need to make some slight modifications on this basis according to our own living habits to find the one that suits us best.
Not to mention other things, just the vegetable fields and livestock have to be taken into consideration, but that definitely can't be done in the inner courtyard. Not only is it dirty, but it also doesn't smell good.
Finally, there is the issue of the toilet, which needs to be carefully considered.
Chen Lin was confused, "How big is this..."
He said he didn't understand what was being said about the outer courtyard, inner courtyard, and back houses. He knew that after all Cheng Yue had been talking about it for a long time, there must be quite a lot of houses.
Chen Tong and Chen Ning also had question marks on their faces. They didn’t understand. They really didn’t understand…
Only Chen An had seen the two courtyards and could follow Cheng Yue's thoughts. After Cheng Yue finished speaking, Chen An said:
"I have helped build this kind of house before, but I don't know much about it. I just heard them say that if it was such a big house, it would probably cost 80 to 90 taels of silver just to buy bricks and tiles, not including labor."
In fact, everyone in the village helps each other build houses, but all they can help build are a few ordinary adobe houses.
A small courtyard with two entrances like this would be a large, time-consuming and complicated project, so I'm afraid the villagers would not be able to help.
Not to mention that it takes too long, no one knows how to build a house. It’s good enough if you can do odd jobs like digging the foundation and moving bricks. If you really want to build a house, you have to find a professional house-building team.
Chen Lin and his sister widened their eyes in shock. "Eighty or ninety taels?! Not counting the labor cost? How much silver will it cost to build it?"
Building a house is not an easy task. In addition to buying bricks and tiles and labor costs, you also have to make furniture after the house is built. The more you calculate, the more frightened you become.
Cheng Yue was not particularly clear about how much money it would cost. After all, she had never built a house before. But after hearing what Chen An said, she had some idea.
“I estimate it will cost more than one hundred taels. I still need to find someone to inquire about it. But this house cannot be built just like that. It has to be after the busy farming season.
There are still several months left, and we are not spending without earning, so we will definitely have enough money."
The current income from stewed food is 6 taels a day, which means 180 taels a month. In two days, Dashunzhai will also start to deliver goods, which will add up to about 450 taels.
Even if we deduct Mrs. Chen's two-part dividend, we would still have three hundred and sixty taels a month.
Cheng Yue had thought about the issue of dividends repeatedly. Mrs. Chen invested in a shop, so all the income generated by the shop had to be included.
Even if Mrs. Chen said no, she couldn't really not give it to her. It was their business whether they were short of money or not, and she didn't want to take advantage of them for nothing.
The most important thing is not to let others look down on you just because of a little benefit, as this will only make your path narrower and narrower.
By this calculation, one month's income is more than enough to build a small courtyard with two entrances.
Cheng Yue laid out her ideas, and the three children instantly felt confident. They also helped in the shop and knew how much income they earned.
The shock just now was just the fear of being poor. When he heard about dozens of taels of silver, he uncontrollably felt that it was too expensive and didn't even bother to calculate it carefully.
The three siblings instantly lowered their shoulders in relief. Chen An also smiled and said:
"Don't worry about the furniture. My leg will be well by then. I can just do it. It will save a lot of money."
With so many rooms, the doors and windows alone would be a huge expense, and there are also tables, chairs, beds, cabinets and so on. If I really hire someone to do it, it would cost at least thirty taels.
If you can save the money, then do so. You can do it yourself anyway. It's your own business, so why would anyone care as much as he does?
Cheng Yue smiled and joked, "You do know how to live, but with so many things, it will take you forever to get them done."
After hearing what Cheng Yue said, Chen An also smiled embarrassedly, "I didn't think it through. I'll just give away some of it when the time comes."
"You don't have to divide it up. You can find two people to form a carpentry team. Not only can we do our own work, but we can also take on other people's work in the future."
Cheng Yue knew that Chen An liked carpentry, so she directly expressed her thoughts.
Chen An's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he said in a tangled way: "Ayue, you have so many things to do in business, I should help you share the burden. If I do other things, it will be too hard for you."
Cheng Yue felt warm in her heart, and she looked at Chen An and the three children and said, "Although we are a family, we don't have to be tied together in everything.
I have my things to do, and you should also have your things to do. Even if they, the three brothers and sisters, want to do something in the future, they have to do it according to their own wishes.
As long as our family works together, it doesn't matter what we do.
And only by doing what you like and are good at can you do better, and then our family will get better and better."
Chen An was indescribably moved when he heard this. He really liked the carpenter, but he always had many concerns.
He originally thought that Cheng Yue didn't understand him, but he didn't expect that she would think and say this, and encourage him so sincerely to do what he likes.
Chen Lin grinned and said, "I don't know what I like to do, as long as I follow my mother, that's all.
Dad, I will help mom with the store business from now on, so you don’t have to worry about it.”
Chen An patted Chen Lin's shoulder with satisfaction, looked at Cheng Yue and said with emotion: "Ayue, I will listen to you."
Even if you are a carpenter, you have to make a name for yourself, so as not to let A Yue down, stand better with A Yue, and better take responsibility for this family.
Cheng Yue smiled and nodded. Chen An was capable, and if she helped him when the time came, the result would definitely be that one plus one would be greater than two.
Chen Lin is down-to-earth and steady. If you can't think of what you like, doing business with her is a better choice for the time being.
We are two sisters. What do you like?