"Then what do you plan to do, prepare the land first or build the house first?"

The old branch secretary looked at Wang Zhong and asked.

Under the candlelight, the old branch secretary's ravaged face stood out particularly clearly, and another puff of smoke spewed out from his mouth and nose.

Not to be outdone, the horse shouting water next to him took a smoking pot that was only half the length of the cigarette rod in the old party secretary's hand, stuffed it with tobacco, lit it with a candle, and started puffing away the smoke.

But he also looked at Wang Zhong curiously.

"Of course we should build the house first!" Wang Zhong replied directly without thinking.

At this time, there was another strong wind outside, which blew up the dust and made a whistling sound. The old party secretary and the horse shouted for water in a more serious mood.

After arriving and experiencing the timing and conditions here, the two of them had a better understanding of Li Dayou's behavior of running back to Yongquan Village.

When the wind blows and you open your mouth, there is a mouth full of sand.

I slept in the ground all night, and when I woke up the next morning, half of my body was buried in the sand.

Wang Zhong continued, "I have thought about it. I will buy bricks from the nearby brick kilns first, build a house, and then take over the water. As for the brick kiln, I will wait until Director Zhang gets news from me before making plans."

"Adobe houses are easy to live in! If you have to build a brick house, it will cost you money!" the old party secretary reminded.

Wang Zhongdao said, "Since we are going to build a house, we must do it in one step. Even if we need to change it in the future, we will only change it on the original basis, without the hassle of tearing it down and rebuilding."

“Besides, if money can solve a problem, it’s not a problem!”

As soon as these words came out, both the old party secretary and Ma Huanshui choked up.

"You coward, don't dare say this outside, or you may get beaten!" the old party secretary said angrily.

Wang Zhong chuckled, "Uncle, when the time comes, call Uncle Dayou and Shui Wang over. Call Uncle Shui to bring Debao. Call all the folks from our village who are coming to Diaozhuang this time. Everyone, please give me a try first."

Help and build the house."

"As for wages, a worker on the market now earns about **10 yuan for a month's work, which works out to almost 3 yuan a day. I will give you an extra yuan, and it will be calculated as 4 yuan a day, but it is only limited to helping me build a house.

period of time."

"Four yuan a day?" The old branch secretary shook his head after hearing this, "In one month, it won't be 120. It's too high, too high!"

Xihaigu is a well-known backward and poor area in the country. The people usually don't even have enough to eat, let alone money.

In the original plot, Debao and Gawa were preparing to run out of the mountains. When they were escaping outside, Gawa's mother saved ten yuan, but Gawa took away five yuan.

The deposit is only ten yuan. It can be imagined that the current labor and commodity prices in the entire Xihaigu area are not much higher.

"Now the villagers have just arrived, and the situation here is like this. If the wages are higher, the villagers will be more motivated. At least, let them see a little hope! If there is a leader, they are willing to stay."

The old party secretary said nothing and took two more puffs of his cigarette in silence.

Although Ma Huanshui also felt that he was high, Wang Zhong's words left him unable to refute.

He himself also wanted to earn more money, prepare the land and pick up the house as soon as possible.

Ma Huashui thought for a while and asked, "Over at the brick kiln, if Director Zhang fails to report, what are you going to do?"

"If Director Zhang can't do it, then I'll do it myself! It's just a smaller scale!" Wang Zhong said calmly.

Wang Zhong has already thought about this matter. Director Zhang's side is just a casual move. It can be the best, but it doesn't matter.

"Anyway, I can resell it to the villagers at the cost price first, and let the villagers build the houses first. Let's not talk about the people from other villages. Just the villagers who came from Yongquan Village, I can give them to you first.

Put the bricks of money in advance, we will set a time limit and pay it back slowly."

"no!"

As soon as Wang Zhong finished speaking, the old party secretary immediately objected, "How can I let you advance money! No, no, no!"

Ma Huashui also said with deep approval, "The old party secretary is right! We accept your kindness, but this matter cannot be done like this. Your money did not come from the strong wind. Building houses, preparing land, etc. are everywhere."

Where you spend money, if you open this hole, everyone will come to you to borrow money from now on. What will you do then? Borrow or not?"

"Shui Shui is right, we can't let you come up with this money! We can't open this hole!"

Seeing the determined expressions on their faces, Wang Zhong smiled, feeling quite relieved and did not insist anymore.

The three of them discussed it for a long time under the candlelight before leaving.

Early the next morning, Wang Zhong went to the brick kiln in the town, agreed on the price, and bought 30,000 bricks.

I went to Xingqing City and ordered a batch of reinforced concrete, sand, and various types of wood.

On the third day, reinforced concrete, sand and wood were all delivered to the town.

There is no road to the immigration village yet, and the trucks carry too much weight, so no one dares to leave. Wang Zhong did not force anyone to unload everything in the town.

At the same time, news came from Director Zhang, but unfortunately it was not ideal. The leaders recognized the method proposed by Wang Zhong, and they were willing to provide convenience to a certain extent, but this convenience had certain limits.

The general meaning is that the government is now vigorously developing the immigrant diaozhuang area in Yuquanying, and most of the human, material and financial resources have been invested in it, and there is no extra capital investment.

However, the government supports people to start their own businesses and provides more job opportunities for the folks who immigrated to Diaozhuang.

The meaning is already obvious.

Wang Zhong was not in a hurry to work on the brick kiln, but was busy building his own house first.

The homestead land is all planned with the approval of the government, and Wang Chong's family owns more than an acre and a half.

There are strong winds and sandstorms in the Gobi Desert. Even building tiles is difficult, let alone high-rise buildings. Strong winds can blow away tiles!

However, these are easy to deal with. Use cement mortar to cast the sloping roof on site, and fix it with cement like bricks when laying tiles, so you are not afraid of wind blowing.

So the key is to have money. As long as you have money, many difficulties are not difficulties.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It just so happens that what Wang Zhong lacks most now is money.

The 180,000 yuan earned from selling the bracelets was also given to Wang Zhong before he came here, and the royalties that have now increased to several thousand yuan per month are all Wang Zhong's confidence.

With the old party secretary and Ma Huanshui helping, it was not a problem to find people. After all the materials were transported to the town, on June 20, Wang Zhong led Ma Huanshui and Li Dayou, and several fellow villagers from Yongquan Village.

The villagers from an immigrant village had already pulled donkey carts, ox carts, flat carts, etc. to help Wang Chongyun with materials.

Dozens of people, more than thirty vehicles, and several strong laborers from nearby immigrant villages also called in. Everyone worked together, but it took three full days to get all the building materials Wang Zhong bought.

Transported back to the immigration village.

Over at the homestead, the old branch secretary also led people to dig Wang Zhong's foundation according to Wang Zhong's requirements.

Forty centimeters wide and sixty centimeters deep, criss-crossed vertically and horizontally, and the bottom was tamped several times with a wooden hammer.

With the experience he had in Yongquan Village, the old party secretary was already familiar with the world. The wages Wang Zhong paid was four yuan a day, which was higher than the wages working in the town and nearby farms. Naturally, the villagers also worked hard.

It took a lot of effort.

Although the preparation work has been done, it will still take a while for the construction to start. The most indispensable thing for concrete is water, but now in Diaozhuang Immigration Area, the most lacking thing is water.

The old party secretary led the people to dig two rectangular pools one and a half meters deep and three meters square. They smeared a layer of red mud on the bottom and sides without using cement. After they dried, there were two natural storage pools.

It took several days to buy and transport water.

On June 26, everything was ready, and the construction of Wang Chong's new home officially started. A circle of reinforced concrete was poured into the ground beam, and bricks were laid on the ground beam.

The villagers had never been exposed to reinforced concrete houses and didn't know what to do with them. Watching Wang Zhong spray water on the beams and columns for maintenance, and watching the excess water flow into the ground, they all felt distressed.

The speed is really fast when there are many people. It only took half a month to put up the roof.

On the day when the tiles were laid and the beams were laid, Wang Zhong went to the town and bought a sheep. He stewed the mutton and potatoes together. He invited all the villagers who came to help. He paid the wages to the villagers first, and then made white flour steamed buns with mutton.

, had a wonderful meal,

After the house was built, Wang Zhong returned to Yongquan Village, took Shuihua and rode a motorcycle across hundreds of miles to Jintan Village.

The resettlement village where Wang Zhong and others are located is called Jintan Village.

He looked at a lonely brick house in front of him, surrounded by a half-person-high wall. The courtyard door was made of wood, similar to the half-open door on a farm.

Is this our home? Shui Hua stared blankly at the house in front of her, unable to believe her eyes.

The key is this lonely courtyard in the endless Gobi Desert.

There are only three main rooms facing south, but they are all very large. The main room in the middle is the largest, and the two sides are slightly smaller. The roof is covered with tiles and fixed with cement.

Shui Hua pushed open the courtyard door and walked into the courtyard. The ground in the courtyard was also paved with a layer of red bricks, which was slightly higher than outside. The construction debris had also been cleaned away, and everything was cleaned inside and outside.

It was done with the help of the villagers.

"I deliberately left the roofs of the east and west houses without tiles. Later, when the surrounding trees are planted to block the sandstorms, we can set up ladders to go up to enjoy the coolness in the summer and the sun in the winter."

"The water cellar has also been completed. It is just outside the West House. It is surrounded by three layers of red bricks and the top is made of reinforced concrete. I also specially got a water press so that when I need to use water in the future, I don't have to use buckets.

It’s mentioned!”

Wang Zhong smiled and said to Shuihua calmly.

"It's still the same as at home. On the west side are the kitchen, warehouse, bathroom and toilet. On the east side, I built two side rooms. When we are completely settled here, I will bring my father-in-law over and we will have a baby.

, a family of four, it’s a good place to stay!”

There is an open space between the east side of the main house and the wall, which is about the same size as the water cellar. Wang Zhong surrounded it with red bricks to form a flower bed. The middle is backfilled soil, which is all sieved loess, and the middle is planted.

A sapling half as tall as a man grew up.

There is basically nothing on the Gobi Desert, except for one. It is vast and sparsely populated, and the terrain is flat. The homestead allocated to each household is much larger than it was far away in the mountains and valleys.
To be continued...