Chapter 164 Look at the foundation
Li Changle pedaled on the third wheel and looked at the tide. Although the wind had calmed down, the waves were still very strong. It looked like it would take two or three hours to subside.
"Abba, when we get home, let's go to Uncle A Dong's house together, pay the money for the foundation, and then go to Nanshan to select the foundation."
"Okay!" Father Li happily agreed, feeling that nothing could be more satisfying than building a new house with his sons.
Several children were also chattering, clamoring to follow them to Nanshan to see the foundation. Father Li quickly told them to stop arguing, for fear that others would find out and take away the good spot.
When the large group of troops walked around the corner, Li Xiaomei pulled Father Li's sleeve and pointed at the canteen, "Grandpa, Mei wants to eat sour plum powder."
Before Li's father could speak, Li Changle waved his hand, "Uncle San will buy it for you!" He proudly took out a handful of cents and handed it to Li Xiaoyang without looking at it, "Bring your younger siblings and pick out what you like.
Buy food."
Li Xiaoyang looked at the money in his hand with shining eyes, "Third uncle, did you give it all to us?"
"It's all for you."
"Oh! There's some sour plum powder to eat!" Several children jumped eight feet high with joy, and Li Xiaomei also clapped her little hands and shouted.
"Brother, I want a big bag!" Li Xiaotao hurriedly chased after him.
"I don't want sour plum powder, I like shredded figs."
Li Xiaoyang looked at the cents in his hand and saw that they totaled 4.5 cents. Sour plum powder was the same as shredded figs, 3 cents for a small pack and 5 cents for a large pack. "We buy the big pack and the same three packs. Let's switch."
eat."
Li Xiaoqing and others thought this was good, as they could eat two flavors at a time, and they all nodded in agreement. Li Xiaotao pointed to the money in his hand, "What should I do if there is still a dime and a half left?"
"Give it back to Third Uncle! I bought it all. If my mother knows about it, the scolding will be light."
The brothers and sisters nodded repeatedly and spent three cents in one trip. Auntie would definitely scold her: "Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat. One dime can buy two boxes of matches."
Several children made an agreement and swarmed into the canteen. Soon everyone ran over with a bag of snacks in hand and handed the remaining dime 15 to Li Changle.
Li Changle happily masturbated and said, "Save it up and buy some ice water at school when school starts!"
"Oh, third uncle is still generous."
Father Li thought that the little guys must have spent all their money before they came back, and he praised them happily. He watched his grandsons pour the powder from the small bags into their hands and lick them deliciously, without feeling any distress.
How many cents is it?
As soon as the tricycle entered the alley, Li Xiaoyang and others rushed home to report the good news to the adults. Zhou Ruonan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were all happy when they learned that the rice fish had been sold for 618.
Sister-in-law Li was particularly happy. She felt that her decision was quite wise. She had only worked with the third child for a few days, and she had earned back the money for the joint stock purchase of the ship, and there was still some leftover.
After Li Changle arrived home and showed the money to several people, he told his two sisters-in-law that he would go to Accountant Chen to hand over the money for the foundation, which was more than 600 yuan. The two of them only took 20%, which was still more than 80%. The sisters-in-law hurriedly returned
The family gave him the money to make up for the shortfall.
The two men rode a tricycle to Chen's house, called Chen Yongwei, and went to accountant Chen's house together.
Li's father walked into the canteen with a cane and happily said, "A Dong, we have decided to build the foundation in Nanshan."
Accountant Chen was also happy for him, "I heard someone say when I woke up this morning that your Ah Le caught another rice fish. I guessed that you guys are coming to pay today. None of the people who wanted to go to town to buy goods went."
"It's good luck, we just happened to meet each other." Father Li looked at Fa Xiao happily and said, "Look at your eldest son, the second eldest brother has already moved into the new building, and only a few of my family are still crowded into one room.
It’s my fault!”
Xiaohua often said that he was the only one who was very smart when he was young. A Dong's family ran a canteen, and the other carpenters, masons, and cart pullers were all better than him, an old fisherman.
"Atang, don't call yourself poor. Each of your four sons can do something. They are better than anything else."
"How can I compare with you? The boss is a junior high school teacher and the principal of a central school. The rest of my family are just fishermen looking for food in the sea."
"Only a small amount of salary for one month. If your Ale sells fish once, they will have to work for a year to get it." Accountant Chen said, taking out the receipt, "Have you guys gone to Nanshan to see if they plan to lay the foundation there?"
Which location?"
Father Li smiled and said: "After a brief look, the second son said that the land around the corner from Wang Daobiao's house should be facing north and south. We will go and take a look later. If we decide where to choose, just leave the mark first.
Bring someone with you to help draw the lines."
"Well!" Accountant Chen looked at Ah Wei, "Are you also approved in Nanshan?"
"Yes, fourth uncle, my grandma agreed." Chen Yongwei and he are uncles, and Accountant Chen takes good care of his family.
"After the homestead site is approved, the house is built, and then we find a partner to get married with."
Chen Yongwei blushed and nodded, and after Accountant Chen had issued the receipt and handed over the money for the homestead, he took him with him to Nanshan to decide on a location.
Li's father was sitting in the carriage, while Li Changle and Accountant Chen were sitting on either side. Chen Yongwei took the three of them past the Master's Palace, turned around the foot of the mountain, and walked for another ten minutes before arriving at Nanshan Alcove.
There was not a single house along the way. The good thing is that it's not far from the pier. You can get there in ten minutes if you walk quickly.
It is only ten minutes away from the beach. Although it is desolate now, in a few decades, this will be the best sea view villa area.
Nanshanao is now home to five or six families, two buildings built by the roadside, and several stone houses. Like the Jin family, they are all villagers who immigrated from the island.
The wind on the roadside was so strong that the orange tree planted next to the house was blown here and there, and a lot of small oranges fell on the ground.
Besides bayberry, people here like tangerines the most. Whenever they eat oranges, they see yellow palms, yellow soles, and yellow complexions. It's not because they are sick, but because they eat too many oranges.
Where the stone house used to be at the foot of the mountain, there was a row of dilapidated stone houses overgrown with grass. It was this location that Brother Li was interested in.
The two buildings are the newly built two-story brick buildings of the Wang Daobiao brothers' house. There is a large dam in front of the house, and a low house is built behind the house. There is a chimney on the roof, which looks like a kitchen.
Fewer villagers come to Nanshan to build new houses, and the homesteads here are spacious. Villagers who come to build houses here will occupy some public land.
Some even quietly moved the foundation stone half a foot away from the designated area, got some stones to circle a yard behind the house, and built a few low rooms, either as kitchens or to raise pigs, chickens and ducks.
As long as you don't go too far, most village committees will turn a blind eye when they find out.
If you know the ropes, send some cigarettes and alcohol to the heads of the village committee, build friendships, go to the town's soil management office to pay the fine, and write the extra square footage into the homestead, and even if the superiors come to investigate, they won't order you to demolish it.
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People who don't understand this occupy public land, and it's okay now. But when tensions over homestead sites increase in the future, it will be troublesome when the soil management office inspects rural homestead sites.
Wang Daobiao's wife saw them coming and came out with a smile to say hello, "Ale, you brothers, do you really want to build the foundation here?"
Li Changle smiled and nodded, "My second brother said that your place has good feng shui, so I came here to be your neighbor."
"Welcome, welcome, you are here, we are more lively." Zhang Guifang smiled and said hello to Li's father and Accountant Chen, and then went into the room to do her own business.
The place where people live at the intersection is okay, but it is overgrown with weeds, and it has just rained so it is wet. After walking a few steps, my trouser legs are completely soaked.
Li Changle asked Father Li and Accountant Chen to wait on the tricycle. He and Chen Yongwei went in and took a look around. It was quite spacious and could accommodate twenty or thirty families.
"Awei, where do you think is better?"
"I think the land that my second brother is interested in is better. Even if there is a row of houses there, it will take a lot of time to demolish it. I don't know what the village's regulations are."
"It's ruined like that. What else can we do besides dismantling it? Go back and ask Uncle A Dong first." Seeing that he also thought it was a good place, Li Changle turned around and returned to where the tricycle was parked.
Father Li and Accountant Chen were chatting with two gray-haired old men there. When they saw them coming, they both looked over.
"Ale, do you like it?"
"Ah Wei also thinks that the place mentioned by the second brother is good. Let's go in and have a look." Li Changle pushed the tricycle and pulled the two of them in.
"A Dongbo, if we choose to stay here, we will definitely occupy the row of dilapidated houses. What will we do then?"
"Just demolish it." Accountant Chen said with a smile, "If you don't mind the quietness here, it's better to choose this place. There is still a piece of land at the foot of the mountain where the homestead is free, and you can grow some vegetables."
"Both the second child and Anan like to be quiet. The eldest brother thinks the house should be spacious." Father Li became more and more satisfied as he looked at it. "Adong, are the rock slabs that pave the ground in that row of houses still there?"
He remembered that only the roof was demolished, and the stone blocks for the wall and the stone strips for the foundation were still there. By removing these, he could save a lot of money.
The most important thing is that the houses in that row do not belong to any particular family. They were houses built when the village used to do side business. There is no need to worry that the homestead is not clean and the houses built there will not be comfortable to live in.
Accountant Chen nodded, "The tiles and purlins on the roof were removed at the beginning. The slates are still there. You can use them as soon as you remove them. I will give you the wages for demolishing the house."
"Okay, we'll demolish it ourselves." Father Li said gratefully, "Then please bring someone to dig out the foundation and plant the cornerstone. We'll take the time to cut the grass on the ground and find someone to demolish the wall."
Accountant Chen smiled and said, "I'm not an outsider, why are you being polite to me? I'll go back and say hello to Secretary Wang. I'll go to your house this afternoon and ask someone to come and measure the foundation."
"Okay, sorry to trouble you." Father Li turned to Li Changle and said, "When I sail to Zhangjia Port in the afternoon, I will stop by your sister's house and bring your brother-in-law to have a look."
Before starting the construction, we have to prepare steel bars, bricks, gravel and tiles. We have to call the masons to estimate how much materials we need to buy and how much they will cost? I don’t know if I have enough money!
Chen Yongwei said hurriedly: "Brother, I will go with you, and my house will be handed over to my brother-in-law."
Chapter completed!