Rebirth of the Nine-Three Era

Huo Buqiang thought that she was about 34 years old. Although her skin had dark spots, she had a good figure.

The young woman also knew that he had just heard the entire incident, and now the distance between them was a bit awkward.

Huo Buqiang smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, that principal is at least in his 40s. You look only in your 30s. How did you get together with him?"

The woman said: "Do you think it is easy to find a suitable man in our rural areas? There are not many men in the village, and this kind of thing requires the willingness of both parties..."

She rolled onto her side and her arms couldn't help but touch.

Huo Buqiang pushed her away and said, "You can either leave or sit in the front passenger seat. I'm not a random person."

He felt hypocritical saying this. If it weren't for Alian, he would have acted without hesitation.

Although he is a few years older than me, he is mature and charming.

But he was still with Alian in the morning, and besides, Alian was young and beautiful, so he didn't want to do anything to disgrace her.

The woman reluctantly moved to the front passenger seat.

Huo Buqiang was glad that she didn't see the earthen jar containing the ancient coins.

Yin Yuan said that the jar might be a valuable antique.

The woman saw several bottles of mineral water in the car and asked him, "Handsome man, can I get you a bottle of water to drink? I'm a little thirsty."

Huo Buqiang said: "You drink it."

The woman took a bottle of water and drank most of it, as if she was very thirsty.

Huo Buqiang asked: "The principal gave you something very alkaline just now?"

The woman said shyly: "That old guy is very stingy. What good food does he have for me? Don't you know that women are made of water? They need to replenish water regularly..."

Huo Buqiang knew that if he continued to talk to this woman like this, he would make a mistake. After all, he was not determined enough.

When I was in Jiangming, I often went into alleys.

Now that I'm with Alian, I have a little bit of self-control.

He tried to steer the conversation elsewhere.

"You might as well go work with your husband, or maybe ask your husband to come back and find something to do around here. If the couple is here, this kind of thing won't happen..."

The woman said: "Actually, I am with my man, and he can't do it either. The son I have now is not his, and he has been ill and has been cured for many years. He knows that I steal food, but he pretends not to know. He asked Not being able to divorce means tacitly allowing me to find other men. So he would rather stay out all year round..."

Huo Buqiang said in surprise: "There are actually couples like you."

The woman asked him: "Handsome man, are you going to take back the wood from these old houses and sell the wood again, or are you going to use the wood to build houses again?"

Huo Buqiang said: "To build the Confucius Temple Cultural Center in Jiangming City, we need a lot of this kind of old wood. Of course, in addition to building these antique building materials, our boss also specializes in wholesale wood. He asked me to look for this kind of ancient houses in Haikou. , the building beams are made of huanghuali, and as long as the homeowner is willing to sell them, we will take them."

The woman said: "The home I stayed at before was in Tangxia Village, 50 kilometers away. Hu Xisheng's house in the village was like this. He also made a fortune opening a restaurant in Haikou in the past few years. I met him last time in Haikou and listened to his advice. I thought of demolishing the old house and building a reinforced concrete house."

Huo Buqiang suddenly became interested when he heard what she said.

"Do you have his phone number? If so, I'll ask him. Or you can ask him. Okay, if the negotiation for this building goes through, I'll give you 1000 yuan as an introduction fee. What do you think?"

He never dreamed that in such an embarrassing situation, there would be such a business.

The woman said: "Is it true? If it is true, I will take you to Haikou to find him tomorrow."

Huo Buqiang said: "Of course it's true. Let's do this. You take me to meet him tomorrow. As long as it is confirmed that this is the case, I will give you 500 yuan. After confirming the house demolition agreement with him, I will pay 500 yuan for you.”

The woman happily said yes.

In this day and age, men may not get 500 yuan for a month's work.

She told Huo Buqiang that her name was Zhang Xiaoying.

She thought to herself: Maybe she could make some money by finding this kind of old house for him in the future.

She knew that many villages had old houses like this.

Huo Buqiang made an appointment with her at around nine o'clock tomorrow morning at the secondary substation at the entrance of the village. She would wait there and take his car to HK City.

If I don't have time to take her back to the village, I will give her money to take a taxi back.

After almost an hour, Zhang Xiaoying got out of the pickup truck.

She walked home high and low.

Passing by the principal's house, it was as quiet as death, and quietly returned to his home not far away.

Huo Buqiang got up early and went to the grocery store at the village entrance to buy some bread and fill his stomach randomly.

The two brothers Wang Youxiang soon brought workers to start work.

He also deliberately asked the tall man: "Old Li, can you remove all the wood today?"

The tall man said, "It should be fine."

The workers began to work.

Huo Buqiang said to Wang Youfu: "If we can dismantle them all today, you can follow me to Jiangming for the last few trucks of wood, and I will ask the finance department to pay you 50 for the goods?"

Wang Youfu also said: "After demolishing this, we will go to other villages to look at it."

Huo Buqiang said: "As long as there is, you can contact me."

He said: "I went to Haikou to see my girlfriend. I came over after lunch."

Wang Youfu also laughed at him: "I demolished a few houses here and found a girlfriend for you. You are pretty good at picking up girls. You didn't seduce the women in our village, right?"

Huo Buqiang thought about what Zhang Xiaoying had with the principal of the village primary school last night. Others might not know.

Of course, he has nothing to do with Zhang Xiaoying.

"What did Uncle Wang say? I have a girlfriend, how can I still mess around?"

When he saw that the time was almost up, he drove towards the village entrance.

He saw Zhang Xiaoying waiting for him at the secondary hydropower station. Seeing that there was no one around, he opened the passenger door and let her get in the car.

Looking at her during the day, she has long flowing hair, a good figure, and full of charm.

Zhang Xiaoying noticed that he was peeking at her, deliberately flipped her hair, smiled and said: "Handsome guy, I'm not bad at all. Seeing how you disliked me last night made me very sad."

Huo Buqiang said: "Sister Zhang, I have a girlfriend, and I won't mess around. My girlfriend works at the front desk of a hotel in Haikou, and she's also a good-looking person."

Zhang Xiaoying said: "No wonder, I said there is no cat that doesn't eat meat. It turns out that handsome men have girlfriends. I thought you didn't understand last night. Haha..."

Huo Buqiang felt that this woman was really bold and bold.

He felt that only by talking to her about other aspects could she calm down.

"Sister Zhang, your mother's family is from Tangxia Village?"

"No, I once married a man from Tangxia Village and stayed in that village for two years. Later, the man became disabled and I ran away."

Huo Buqiang thought to himself: This little girl is really extraordinary. She has been married several times, no wonder she is so bold and unrestrained.

Seeing his expression, Zhang Xiaoying curled her lips and said, "I've stayed in many places, including Shang, Zhong and Xia Sanbao Village, Xianxia Village, and Lingbei Village. I've stayed in all those villages. When I have time, I'll go for a walk and help you." Ask if there are any old houses like this that can be demolished.”

Huo Buqiang could only say to himself that shit.

Soon after arriving in HK city, he followed the direction pointed by Zhang Xiaoying and found Hu Xisheng's hotel.

Zhang Xiaoying said: "If I don't follow you into the hotel to find him, don't tell him that I brought you to him. Or should I sit in your car and wait for you to come out?"

Naturally, Huo Buqiang would not let her sit in his car, because there were more than 200 ancient coins and an earthen jar on it. If he was not in the car, he would look around and he would be in trouble if he found out.

This woman is not a trouble-maker at all.

He pointed to a grocery store opposite and said, "I'll give you ten yuan. You go to that store to buy a bag of melon seeds and a bottle of soda. I don't know how long I'll be chatting with him in there. I'll come find you as soon as I come out."

Zhang Xiaoying thought for a while and said, "That's fine. You seem to be afraid that I will take your car away secretly."

Huo Buqiang gave her ten yuan and locked the car door.

Then he walked into the hotel.

A woman in her 30s was sitting behind the counter. He walked up to her and asked her, "Is boss Hu Xisheng here?"

The woman glanced at him and asked, "What do you want from him?"

Huo Buqiang said: "I specialize in purchasing old timber. I heard that there is an old house in your hometown that you want to demolish. I can take people to demolish it and pay you for the old timber, beams and columns."

The woman shouted inside: "Lao Hu, come out."

A short, stocky man in his 30s walked out of it.

Huo Buqiang explained the intention of demolishing the house just now.

Hu Xisheng said: "Who told you that I have an old house to be demolished?"

Huo Buqiang said: "I demolished two buildings in Wangzhuang. The lumber for the last one can be cleared today. I also purchased the lumber that was demolished by a family in Zhangzhuang. If you have an old house to demolish, I can give it to you. You give me a suitable price and take people to demolish the house. You don’t have to put in any effort or worry. As long as the wood in your old house is Huanghuali, I will give you the highest price."

Hu Xisheng asked him: "How much would you pay for an old house?"

Naturally, Huo Buqiang would not tell him the price of two buildings for Wang Youxiang brothers, nor would he tell him the price of two buildings for an old house, because hiring someone to demolish it might cost several thousand more.

"He has demolished the building in Zhangzhuang himself, and I gave him 57."

Hu Xisheng rolled his eyes at him and said: "58, you are not honest at all. The boss Zhang who owns an electrical appliance store is my friend, and his electrical appliance store is not far from here. He told me that the lumber of his old house was sold for 58. , wanted to find you, but didn’t leave your number.”

Huo Buqiang said sheepishly: "He demolished his building himself. If I ask someone to demolish yours, it will definitely cost several thousand yuan in labor costs."

Hu Xisheng said: "No matter what, it is impossible to ask for 1 yuan in labor costs. It is 57.5 yuan. I will sell it to you for 5 yuan less."

Huo Buqiang said, "Okay, I'm going to visit your old house."

Hu Xisheng said: "I will give you the key to the house. There is nothing in the old house. You can come to me after looking at it. Anyway, there is only one ancient Ming and Qing building like mine in our village, and no one else has it. By the way, you have a mobile phone. No?"

Huo Buqiang said: "I have a BB machine. I will tell you about the BB machine."

He thought: It's time to buy a mobile phone. Using a BB machine is no longer very convenient.

He copied the BB phone number to him.

Got the key to his old house.

He came out to find Zhang Xiaoying and said to her: "I am going to Tangxia Village now to verify whether the wood in his old house is Huanghuali. If it is confirmed, I can sign a house demolition agreement with him. Are you free? If so, come with me. , as long as you confirm the wood I want, I will pay you 1000 yuan, otherwise I can pay you [-] yuan now. After confirmation, I will sign an agreement with Boss Hu and pay you another [-] yuan in the afternoon."

Zhang Xiaoying said: "I won't go to Tangxia Village with you. Someone there will recognize me. And I have to go back to cook for my son at noon. You give me 500 yuan first, and I will look for you at the demolition site next time. By the way, Give me another 20 yuan and I'll take a taxi back."

Huo Buqiang gave her 520 yuan and asked her to go back first.

He drove in another direction according to the navigation and arrived at Tangxia Village in more than 40 minutes.

The road into the village was relatively flat, so I asked a villager at the intersection where Hu Xisheng's old house was.

The villager pointed to a big banyan tree in the distance and said, "It's right under that big banyan tree."

Huo Buqiang drove to the foot of the big banyan tree, and there was a pond next to it.

The old house was built under the big banyan tree, and the banyan branches even extended to the edge of the roof of the old house.

Huo Buqiang stopped the car and took the key to open the courtyard door.

A woman next to her stuck her head out and asked, "What are you doing?"

She saw that Huo Buqiang looked generous and had the key in his hand, otherwise, she would have shouted to catch the thief.

You must be too brave to open someone's courtyard door in broad daylight.

Huo Buqiang quickly explained: "I am the one Hu Xisheng asked me to come and see his old house. He gave me this key. He hired me to demolish this building, so I want to come and see the site first."

The woman said: "My brother said that he planned to demolish this old house. Okay, you can open the door and go in to take a look."

The woman said that Hu Xisheng was her cousin.

Huo Buqiang also used a knife to scrape open the windows and doors, revealing the columns in the front yard, the columns in the backyard, and the beams and floor slabs on the second floor, including the roof beams. After careful identification, all the wood was made of local huanghuali.

He locked the door and went to say hello to the young woman who was making pickled vegetables in the small courtyard in front.

The woman also asked him: "When will you come over to demolish the house?"

Huo Buqiang said: "As soon as I find the right manpower, I'll come over and start dismantling it."

The woman said: "If there is no manpower, our village has ready manpower. Just agree with them on the price and they can dismantle it. You have to hire someone to dismantle it anyway."

Huo Buqiang said: "Your suggestion is good. I will come over after lunch tomorrow. Can you help me call a few people and negotiate with me on the price?"

The woman said, "Okay, let me greet them for you first."

Huo Buqiang drove back to Haikou and found Hu Xisheng.

We signed a house demolition agreement with him, which stipulated that the entire house should be demolished, including the removal of all construction debris.

It stipulated that the payment should be paid in two installments and a deposit of [-] should be paid when signing the agreement.

On the first day, I loaded two trucks of old wood to Jiangming and paid 20 yuan. On the second day, I loaded two trucks of old wood and went to Jiangming and paid all the money.

Huo Buqiang paid him a deposit of [-] yuan on the spot.

He always carries thousands of dollars with him in case of emergencies.

Hu Xisheng told him that the woman he was talking to today was his cousin, and if anything happened during the house demolition process, he could go to her father to resolve it.

"My cousin is the village chief."