Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife

Chapter 1695: Thriving 1

No need to make adobe, once cement, sand and red bricks are in place, the foundation is laid and the house can be built as soon as it is said.

Because Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue have been away for many years and cannot come back in a short time, it would be too ostentatious to build two new houses at the same time, so Lu's father changed his mind temporarily and only built a house for Guan Cheng and his brother, and announced to the public that Guan Cheng was a mechanical manufacturing engineer in the capital, and his salary increased, so he wanted to build a house in his hometown to facilitate his return to his hometown in the future.

The Lu family has a large group of elderly people and children. The son of the fourth generation's oldest Lu Tianjun is about to turn two years old. Three mud-brick houses can't accommodate him even if they are squeezed to death. Everyone has discussed why the Lu family has married three wives but still hasn't built a new house.

The important thing is that they have a natural sense of awe for Guan Cheng, who has worked in the capital for many years. It means that they have face when they go out, right? When the elders and villagers have some spare money at home, in addition to troubling Feng Qingxue, they will also trouble Guan Yu to send letters and money to Guan Cheng, asking him to help get some rare materials they need. This is also the light they have received and the favor they should remember.

The Lu family has been building up good relationships for more than ten years.

So, when they heard that the Lu family was building a new house, and it was not very busy in the early spring, men, women, old and young came to help.

The format designed by Jin Ruochu for them was four main rooms, which was convenient for the later addition of the building, and three side rooms on the east and west.

The four main rooms required 30,000 bricks. The side rooms could not be higher than the main rooms, and it would not be beautiful if they were built as bungalows, so they were designed to be brick and tile houses, which required a total of 20,000 bricks and 2,000 tiles.

Ten thousand bricks and a thousand tiles refer to three brick and tile houses.

Considering the kitchen, toilet, courtyard wall and gatehouse, Lu's father ordered 60,000 bricks in one go. He originally wanted to buy blue bricks, which were dense and more expensive, but unfortunately they were not available, so he had to settle for the next best thing.

The best red bricks cost 2.8 cents each, so 60,000 bricks would cost 1,680 yuan.

The 1,500 yuan that Guancheng gave to Guanyu was not enough. Cement, sand, tiles, floor slabs, wooden beams, doors and windows all needed money. Even if the elders and villagers said they didn't want wages, they had to give it. In addition, they had already spent 200 yuan on the homestead. So before Lu's father paid, Zhou Zhou decisively sold a gold bar.

The Lu family was united, and no one cared about money.

Those who had money contributed money, and those who had strength contributed strength. For example, Lu Tianzhi couldn't contribute money because he had no money. Even Guanyu's salary was just enough for the couple and Grandma Zhou to live.

Excluding the cost of materials and homestead fees, there was little money spent on other aspects.

With more people, more strength, the roof was completed in less than half a month.

On the day of the roof, the floor slabs and roof beams were put on, and there was only one step left to completion.

The floor and the roof beams were wrapped with a little bit of inconspicuous red cloth. This was an old custom. They didn't dare to be blatant, so they could only reduce the red cloth to a smaller and thinner strip so that ordinary people couldn't find it.

Father Lu used the supply book of Cheng Baoguo and his wife to go to the city to buy a large package of hard candy wrapped in candy paper in advance. Worried that it was not enough, he asked Shen Feihong to borrow a few pounds of candy tickets from the neighbors. The hard candy was filled with two pounds of White Rabbit milk candy that did not require candy tickets and Miao Fengqin's fried peanuts in shells. When the floor and the roof beams were topped up, the candy peanuts were scattered from the roof and were snatched by women and children.

Although the men were embarrassed and stood still, their eyes were only on the floor and the roof beams, there were also strong laborers who stretched out their hands to grab a few pieces of candy from the air and stuffed them into their own children.

The happiest people when the house was topped up were the children.

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