Chapter 73 Our family must have a real estate industry
The five children who had prepared for the work put on new summer clothes together.
The new clothes made of fine cotton were only worn when they went to Niutou Town to visit Hu's mother last time. When they came back to do farm work, they changed into worn-out clothes. Now they are still as good as new after wearing them for the second time.
Shuiqing was afraid that they would be cold on the ox cart, so she put a thin cotton buttoned vest on each of her two daughters, but did not wear it on her three sons.
The sons are very active and have hot bodies. Even if the weather is a little cold, they still sweat a lot every day. If they put on new clothes, they are afraid that they will get too hot in the city and then take them off and get cold in the wind.
Shuiqing also put on new clothes. It must be said that Aunt Li, who is recognized as a good craftsman in the village, makes really good clothes.
The stitches are fine and the tailoring is appropriate. Wearing them makes people feel a lot taller.
Fan Jin made winter clothes, but did not make new clothes for summer. He stood beside the ox cart with a gentle smile in his old crescent-shaped white gown. He was happier to see his wife and children put on new clothes than he was to wear them himself.
The family got on the ox cart happily. The ox cart first left the bumpy mountain road, then got on the official dirt road, and swayed towards Guangning Prefecture.
It takes more than an hour to get from Shanshui Village to Guangning Prefecture, which is three hours after conversion, and the time spent on the road back and forth is six hours.
It is mainly because Shanshui Village is too remote.
Shuiqing, who was about to vomit from the shaking, suddenly heard the excited cheers of the children.
"Mother, look! It's the city wall!"
"It's so high, much higher than our house!"
"There are soldiers guarding it, sister, do you think the weapons in the soldiers' hands are real?"
"Brother, you are stupid, of course it is real, what if it's not real and someone is making trouble?"
"I didn't ask you! By the way, that city hole is dark, we will go in from there later?"
Shuiqing was shocked, sat up, and turned to look in the direction of the ox head.
As they walked along, most of the houses along the way were thatched houses and adobe houses. It was not until they were about to reach Guangning Prefecture that brick houses appeared on both sides of the official road.
In the past, when they were in China, there were dozens of high-rise buildings next to the city wall, and they could not feel the height of the city wall at all. Now there are bungalows on both sides, and Shuiqing only felt that the city wall was ridiculously high!
Sure enough, it still needs to be set off.
"It's so high." She sighed sincerely.
The five children not only did not laugh at her, but also echoed: "Mom thinks it's high too, this is the first time I have seen something taller than a brick house."
"Aren't you afraid to stand on it? I see there are people on it."
"What are you afraid of? If I can go up there, I won't be afraid."
"I also want to go up and take a look."
Shuiqing smiled faintly at the mentality of several children who were curious about everything and wanted to try everything.
"After entering the city, you will think more."
"No!" Fan Jiang replied stubbornly.
Fan Jin paid the entrance fee, and the five children saw that the fourteen copper coins were gone, and they were very distressed.
Then, when they entered the hole in the city gate, everyone let out a low cry of surprise.
It was not until the back that the view suddenly opened up. The bustling pedestrians hawking, the dazzling array of novelties, and the various shops one after another made the five people regret that they only had a pair of eyes.
"I originally thought that there were already a lot of things in the market, so much that there could not be more than it, but I didn't expect that the city was like a market every day."
"It would be great if I could live there every day."
Shui Qing ruthlessly interrupted: "It's better to live there if you have money. If you don't have money, you can only look at it every day but can't buy it. What does it have to do with you?"
"A Niang is right!"
"And you can see that the city is full of houses, and there is no land to grow vegetables and raise chickens. If you don't make money, living here is more miserable than living in the village."
The other sisters and brothers agreed.
Several people reached a consensus: You must make money to live in the city, otherwise you can only look at it but can't buy anything, which is probably not a good feeling.
Make money... How can I make money...
Fan Jin used to be in the city almost every day, and was very familiar with the roads. He drove the ox cart to a fixed parking place, watched his wife and children get off the ox cart one by one, and then carried the basket on the cart behind him.
They will buy some small things later, and it will be convenient to put them in a basket.
Let's do the business first, that is, find a craftsman.
There is a special brokerage company here. I went there and asked for the address. I first found the carpenter's house, agreed on the date, place and money, and paid the deposit and then went to the craftsman who designed the garden.
Shuiqing waited at the door with five children, and Fan Jin went in to talk.
After a while, Fan Jin came out with a rolled-up paper in his hand, and opened the drawing to Shuiqing and explained: "The gardener heard me say that our land is high, and said this is the simplest. He has a previous drawing and asked me to pick one to take away. He only charged 300 yuan. Do you think it's okay?"
Shuiqing looked at the drawing in Fan Jin's hand.
One of them depicted the size of the house and yard in detail, and even the approximate number of bricks and tiles used was marked;
Another one showed how to lay the tiles to make the water flow faster, how to drain the water quickly, and which channels to build in the yard to prevent water accumulation;
The last one showed the location of the kitchen, toilet, stable, etc., and even the auspicious pattern of pebbles and gravel on the path in the yard.
After reading it, I have to say that the planning is extremely reasonable!
"Okay, let's build our house according to this."
Fan Jin smiled slowly and asked, "So are we going to eat or go to the grocery store now?"
They didn't come out early, and the speed of the ox cart was slightly faster than that of people walking, but after walking in the city for so long, they must have been hungry.
Shuiqing was a little hungry. She looked at the children and asked, "Do you want to eat first or go to the grocery store?"
I thought the children were hungrier and would eat first without hesitation. After all, they would run back before dinner time and look as hungry as if they could eat a cow.
Unexpectedly, the five children answered in a surprising unanimous manner that they would go to the grocery store first, with their eyes shining.
We all grew up as children, so how could we not understand?
This was for what we wanted, so we didn't even have time to eat.
They went to a large grocery store nearby, and Jiang Hehu rushed to the counter with a slingshot;
Yan Qiuxinghui looked at the hair string and pearl flowers;
Shuiqing went in the direction of the brown sugar.
In the store, Fan Jin didn't have to worry about the safety of the children, so he raised his feet and followed Shuiqing.
He asked in a low voice: "Do you want to buy brown sugar for your mother-in-law?"
Shui Qing shook her head and said in a low voice: "The two kilograms of brown sugar I sent last time, I'm afraid she can drink it for a year and still have some left;
I want to see the quality and price of brown sugar, and then grow sugarcane and make sugar myself."
Fan Jin blinked slightly in surprise. Do they grow sugarcane and make sugar themselves?
Shui Qing hadn't said that before.
"It's very convenient to make money in the mall, but it's not a long-term solution. Our family must have a real industry, especially what happened this morning has deepened my determination."
It won't work in the name of others.
Now that we have savings, we have a workshop after building a house, and with the confidence of the mall, we have the conditions to do real industry.