Pastoral lucky girl's counterattack

Chapter 30 Other Plans
At this time, Zhong's father and son were not there. There was a pile of reconciled mud on the empty foundation, and there were tools such as hoe and shovel beside it. Qiu Laifu picked up the hoe and dug down vigorously at the place where the line was marked.Unsurprisingly, the soil layer was very shallow, about a foot or so. When the soil layer was dug open, there were rocks underneath, which were still very hard. Qiu Laifu was puzzled again, didn't he say that there were no rocks in this village?Then how to explain this shining stone in front of your eyes.

Qiu Laifu dug the stone vigorously with a hoe.The stone is very hard.Qiu Laifu went to another place to dig. The soil layer was also very thin, and there were also rocks underneath.Find another place to dig, and there are still rocks underneath. Qiu Laifu dug five places in a row and there are all such stones below, so she can rest assured. Since the bottom is directly stones, she can just dig out the soil layer and lay bricks on it. The house should not collapse when it is built.So Qiu Laifu happily made the decision to remove the foundation stone and lay bricks directly.

When Zhong Dazhu and his son came driving an ox cart.Qiu Laifu told them about this decision. Zhong Dazhu thinks this method is feasible?Qiu Laifu took a look at the ox cart they were driving, which was full of adobe bricks. "Is this truck of adobe worth 1000 yuan?" The father and son answered while unloading the truck. "Here is 1000 yuan." The father and son said in unison.After a pause, Zhong Dazhu went on to say, "We piled them together and put them neatly. You can count them."

Qiu Laifu felt a little embarrassed when he said this, as if he was doubting them, but he still explained, "It's not that I don't believe you, I just want to know about the quantity and the size of the pile. And then estimate it Approximately how many bricks will be used to repair these houses?"

When Zhong Dazhu saw Qiu Laifu, he explained to them that he didn't think it was necessary. He was an honest person, and thought that the amount he bought at home should be reported to Qiu Laifu. Unexpectedly, Qiu Laifu thought more deeply, as if he had misunderstood his point. mean.

So he said again, "You don't need to explain to me, I just tell you, there is no other meaning, if you want to know how many bricks are needed to build these houses, you can ask the people in our village who often build houses for others to help you Do the math, he can clearly figure out how many bricks are needed for a house with a certain area? In fact, Yang Qingshan, the son of our Village Chief Yang, can figure it out. He often helps others build houses. He has studied for several years. I often count materials for others.”

When Qiu Laifu heard this, he couldn't help sighing that it was such a coincidence that he happened to ask the village chief to help him recruit people, and it turned out that the village chief's son was a capable man who built a house.Since he knows how to calculate materials, it should be no problem to let him construct.

"That's good! At that time, Brother Yang will help me calculate the materials, and then Brother Zhong will help me to buy them. Maybe Brother Yang can also help me with the construction and supervision, so that I can just wait for the house to be built."

Zhong Dazhu paused after hearing these remarks.Want to say something?In the end, nothing was said.

However, Zhong Zibai spoke up. "Fu Geer, if you hire people to build a house, don't you provide them with food? If the workers go home to eat by themselves, it will delay a lot of time. Can't you rest? At least you have to provide a lunch. You can have lunch here, and you can rest for a while under the shade of a nearby tree, and you will be more energetic when you start work in the afternoon." Zhong Zibai felt that Qiu Laifu might not be able to think of these things because of his young age, so he suggested to him.

"But to cook for so many people, our family doesn't have enough staff. Can Brother Zhong introduce some good cooks for me?" Qiu Laifu thought about it and felt that what Zhong Zibai said was the same, and he only wanted to be lazy at first Lah, I didn't expect that my lazy way would delay the progress of the project.So he humbly asked Zhong Zibai for advice.

After Zhong Zibai heard this, he immediately thought that his mother's cooking was delicious, but he couldn't say it directly, so he said to Qiu Laifu, "You can ask the village chief, because he knows which family in the village cooks the best food." eat."

Zhong Dazhu, who was starting to build the stove, heard what his son said, and felt that the words were suspected of slandering the village chief, so he interrupted their discussion. "Fu Geer, you'd better hurry up and buy some iron utensils for building the stove. This needs to be done urgently. We can build the stove first today, and we need to buy time to build the roof of the kitchen first." A simple shed. At least it must be able to keep out the rain and prevent the new stove from being exposed to the rain."

Qiu Laifu saw that the preparations for building the stove were all done, and Zhong Dazhu had already started building, so he really should go and buy those pieces of ironware first.

Qiu Laifu went home and took the money, and explained to Liu Yuanyuan.So she rowed her bamboo raft to the town.When we got to the town, we went straight to the iron shop.Looking at all kinds of ironware, Qiu Laifu made a lot of purchases.Not only a few pieces of iron used to build the stove.I also bought the necessary hoes, shovels, and sickles for the farm.And the medicine hoe for digging medicine up the mountain.Originally, I wanted to buy a hook rope for mountaineering, but the shop didn't have any, so Qiu Laifu drew a sketch and asked the shopkeeper to make one for her.I also thought that my house was so close to the mountain, and I wanted to prevent wild animals from infesting, so I bought a few more traps.I also bought a pair of bows and arrows, and added ten feathered arrows. In her previous life, she had a bow and arrow given by her grandpa. She taught her how to archery since she was a child. Although her archery skills can’t reach every hundred shots, she still has a [-]% hit rate. .

The shopkeeper of the ironware shop saw that this ten-year-old child had chosen such a large pile of things, and he was a little suspicious, worried that the child was just playing around. After all, who bought so many ironware at one time? State control, so iron is more expensive.The large pile she chose, roughly counted, was about five taels of silver, and the custom-made iron hook was worth at least one tael.It's almost six taels. Seeing that the kid is wearing cotton clothes and doesn't have any valuable accessories on him, I don't know if he can afford so much money.

Adhering to the principle of doing business in harmony and making money, the shopkeeper did not show any displeasure, but packed Qiu Laifu one by one in sacks, while doing his calculations.After the things were installed, the result was calculated, "Five taels of silver. The price of the custom-made iron hook has not been calculated. Although the iron hook is simple, it consumes more iron and costs at least one tael of silver. This adds up to six taels of silver."

Qiu Laifu calculated it in his mind, and it was probably the same value, but she still wanted to bargain a bit more.These are all habits formed in previous lives. "Uncle shopkeeper, you see that I have bought so many things, don't you give me a little discount? I think you can wipe the 2 coins for me?" The shopkeeper looked at Qiu Laifu, and then looked at it again. The sack that held the ironware finally nodded. "You boy, you are so small, you can bargain so hard, it hurts me so much, but seeing how much you buy, I'll reluctantly give you a discount. Okay, you can pay me six taels Silver. Customized iron hook, you can pick it up in three days."

Qiu Laifu said happily at the moment, "Thank you, uncle shopkeeper, but can you give me a receipt? I am worried that the next time I come to pick it up, in case you are not here for something. Others don't know that I ordered it. He must not Give it to me. That's going to be troublesome."

The shopkeeper looked at Qiu Laifu again, and felt that this kid was quite narrow-minded. "Yes, you are more thoughtful than me."

(End of this chapter)