Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 204 Building a new house

During the two months that Qu Shaoyang was at the Jiang family, he had a profound understanding of one thing.

If you want your subordinates to follow you wholeheartedly and work hard for you, in addition to being good to your family members, you also have to put yourself in their shoes and solve their problems.

These guys came here from their hometown in Shandong over mountains and across seas. Isn't it because their families are so poor that they can't make ends meet and they want to come here to live a good life?
What is the definition of a good life? It may not only mean having enough food and drink, but also wanting to have a home of your own.

Having surplus food at home, extra money in hand, a wife and children, and a warm bed to sleep in, this should be the life that most people dream of.

People like Jiang Chunfu have no worries about food and drink in the Qu family. It can even be said that they eat better than most other families.

Now they have some land in their hands, and they can rent it to grow crops, work for the Qu family, and get paid at the end of the year.

As long as you manage your business slowly for a few years and save some money, it will be easy to go back to your hometown and find a wife.

Qu Shaoyang built a house, and whoever gets married can get one or two rooms to live in. Isn't that settling down?
The land belongs to the Qu family, the house belongs to the Qu family, where else can these people go?

Even if others offer several times the salary, they still can’t poach them.

In the future, if the Qu family encounters any trouble, these people will fight for their family.

Sure enough, upon hearing what Qu Shaoyang said, Jiang Chunfu and the brothers Xingjia Xingye were all excited.

"Boss, are you telling the truth? You are not trying to fool us, are you?"

Qu Shaoyang laughed, "Why would I fool you?
You work sincerely for me and always consider me. As your employer, I also have to consider you.

It's settled. Chunfu will lead the people to prepare, and we will start building the house after the rainy season is over."

“Thank you, Boss. Thank you, Boss.

Don't worry, boss. I will follow you for the rest of my life and won't go anywhere.

I will do whatever my boss tells me to do, and I will never go west if my boss tells me to go east. "The three of them were so excited that they immediately expressed their determination.

Liu Dongshan and Doctor Chen were standing nearby. Neither of them said anything, but the smiles on their faces showed their attitudes.

The two of them absolutely agreed with Qu Shaoyang's approach.

It's not easy for anyone to go through Guandong, so we should help each other and stick together.

Don't worry about the Dong guys, just live your life first, it's better than anything else.

Everyone finished the meal chatting and laughing, and then Jiang Chunfu and his friends couldn't wait to go back and tell everyone the good news.

When the guys at home heard this, they were very happy. Life had a purpose, and who wouldn't want to live a good life?

During the days when Qu Shaoyang was not at home, Li was the one who stayed here to accompany Chen Xiuyun.

Now that Qu Shaoyang is back, it's just right for Li to go back home and give the young couple some space to talk to each other.

But before leaving, Doctor Chen and his wife called the young couple aside and gave them some instructions for a long time.

After Doctor Chen and his wife left, Qu Shaoyang also helped his wife back to the west courtyard.

Chen Xiuyun prepared some footbath water for Qu Shaoyang and asked him to soak his feet.

After he finished washing his feet and the bed was warm, the couple crawled into the bed and chatted for a long time.

Qu Shaoyang wants to build a house, so this time he must plan it out. He needs to figure out where the single farmhands will live and where the married couples will live.

Doctor Chen suggested that since they were only building a house, they might as well build it bigger.

Qu Shaoyang has already started a family, and the two small rooms will definitely not be enough for him to live in in the future, so he simply built a courtyard house like the Chen family did.

Then the outer courtyard was left to the farmhands, and Qu Shaoyang lived in the inner courtyard.

There will definitely be more and more people in the family in the future, so building a bigger house will save us from all the trouble in the future.

We chose to build a house here because we thought it was open and there were not many people around. But with the development of Maoershan, the population is increasing. In a few years, I am afraid that all the houses around here will be occupied by people.

If that time really comes, it will be troublesome for Qu Shaoyang to expand the yard.

"Shaoyang, your father is right. We have money anyway, so let's build a bigger one.

You build it this year, and I will rebuild it next year.

Xiaozhi is already eleven years old. In seven or eight years, he will have to get married. And there is also Shuanzhu in our family. We can prepare together.

When my side is built, our two yards will be next to each other, and we can open a door in the middle, which will make it convenient for daily travel."

Liu Dongshan felt that what Doctor Chen said made sense. It would be best to occupy this territory as soon as possible.

There are no other houses around here. When they have the ability in the future, they can just build a fence to enclose the Liu, Chen, and Qu families.

I'm afraid the world will become more and more chaotic in the future, so we should really prepare in advance.

Qu Shaoyang thought about it and felt that what his father-in-law and master said made sense.

So he asked Doctor Chen to draw a blueprint. According to the blueprint, he found someone to measure the land and went to the government office to handle the formalities.

After that, the house became busy.

The first thing to do to build a house is to prepare materials, such as stones, sand, bricks, tiles, wood, etc.

Wood is easy to come by. In the past two winters, Jiang Chunfu and his colleagues have gone into the mountains to cut wood many times. The good ones are kept for backup, and the bad ones are sawed up and used as firewood.

We have saved up a lot of wood at home, so if there is not enough, we can just buy some more.

In recent years, more and more people have come to Maoer Mountain, and more and more people are building houses, so there are special places to supply stones, sand, bricks and tiles, etc.

Of course, there are not so many on hand, so Qu Shaoyang made an order with the other party and asked them to prepare them and use them after a while.

The Qu family is preparing to build a house in full swing.

When people around heard the news, they couldn't help but sigh that Qu Shaoyang was a really capable young man.

In just a few years, they have acquired a large piece of land, and now they are starting to build houses.

Some people are also very curious about how much money Qu Shaoyang has to dare to do such a thing?
The key point is that we haven't seen any way for him to make money. We only know that his family has a lot of wasteland, but how much can the grain be worth?

Yes, in winter Qu Shaoyang always took people into the mountains to hunt, but even that was not enough to save up such a huge fortune.

Where does his family's money come from?
Some people remembered that they hadn't seen Qu Shaoyang in the early spring.

One can't help but secretly wonder if this kid is doing something shameful outside.
He must have made a lot of money outside and came back to buy land and build a house.

For a moment, everyone was talking about it, saying all kinds of things.

But they only talked about it behind each other's back; no one dared to talk nonsense in front of them.

As June came, the rainy season finally passed, and on June 16, the construction of the Qu family's new house began.

The Qu family already had forty or fifty long-term workers, and they hired about a hundred carpenters, bricklayers, and laborers from the local area. They began to build the house according to the drawings drawn by Doctor Chen.

For outsourced workers, they are provided with one meal at noon every day.

There were few women in the family and Chen Xiuyun was pregnant, so they hired seven or eight wives from nearby to cook.

Every day at noon, there were four dishes, two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, plus a soup, two large pancakes made of flour, and plenty of sorghum rice.

The quality of this food is definitely much better than that of ordinary people.

Since the workers are well fed, they will naturally work harder, so the house is built quickly.

(End of this chapter)