Rebirth of the Nine-Three Era

He was able to get the money hidden on the roof without anyone noticing, but the money at the foot of the wall was not so easy to find.

He needs to find a justifiable reason.

Returning to the ground, I saw Lin Quansheng riding a motorcycle to the construction site.

The motorcycle rider asked him for 15 yuan.

"For more than 35 kilometers, at least 15 kilometers, you have to pay five yuan more, for a total of [-] yuan."

Lin Quansheng took out ten dollars and said, "It's just ten dollars. Do you want it?"

The passenger grabbed him and said, "Are you being unreasonable? We agreed to pay ten yuan for [-] kilometers, but now it's an extra five kilometers, and it's all on a country road. How much more can you pay for five yuan more?"

Several demolition workers shook their heads.

"As a boss, you only have five dollars, how can you be so smart?"

They secretly muttered in their hearts: This man is so stingy and cannot be trusted at all. If the house is demolished and he is asked to pay wages, he will act like this, and everyone's hard work will be in vain.

Several workers stopped what they were doing at the same time.

Huang Fupei was still watching Lin Quansheng's jokes.

The passenger boy had already rolled up his sleeves and said he was going to fight Lin Quansheng, but Lin Quansheng didn't show any weakness.

Huang Fupei hoped that the passenger boy would beat up Lin Quansheng.

Huo Buqiang reminded her: "Hurry up and get rid of this bad guy and promise a few workers that you will definitely give them money, otherwise they will stop working."

Only then did Huang Fupei react. She quickly said to several workers: "I asked you to demolish the house. I promise that the labor cost promised will not be less. You can rest assured."

The worker also said: "Aren't you and him together?"

Huang Fupei said: "He is him, and I am me. I am the one who signs the contract, pays the deposit, and asks you to demolish the house. I am also the one who pays you for the workmanship after the house is demolished."

Huo Buqiang said: "What are you worried about? Didn't I pay you half of the labor fee when half of the wood was dismantled? The other half of the wood was dismantled and not transported away. If she doesn't pay, you move a few pieces of wood and it won't be able to offset your labor fee. ?”

Several demolition workers thought he had a point.

Turn around and go up to the top of the roof and start working.

In the end, Lin Quansheng reluctantly paid an extra five yuan.

Huo Buqiang passed by him and said to him disdainfully: "When people like you go out to do business, just stay at home and eat old rice. Don't go out and embarrass yourself."

Lin Quansheng rolled his eyes at him and said, "It's none of your business."

Of course Huo Buqiang didn't want to get involved in their bad affairs.

He said to Huang Fupei: "Okay, there's nothing else to do. Just dismantle the wood and haul it to Jiangming and you can get the money. Li Huadong and I will go to Lichang County to have a look."

Huang Fupei said worriedly: "Brother Huo is still reliable. I don't know if this guy will be a demon again."

Huo Buqiang said: "He doesn't know how to do it when demolishing a house, but he definitely knows when it comes to dividing money."

He thought that people like Lin Quansheng were definitely not good at doing business because they took money too seriously.

He said: "If you don't understand something, please call me and ask me."

He thought: I also want to make money.

When he arrived at the border of Li Chang, he asked Li Huadong: "Which villages do you remember having old houses?"

Li Huadong said: "Let's go to Dongdou Town first. Dongdou Town is two kilometers ahead. I remember a comrade working in the agricultural machinery company in the town."

A few minutes later, I found that there were more and more people on the road. There were many villagers carrying agricultural products to the market.

Huo Buqiang is very familiar with this kind of scene. Isn't this just going to the country market?

He knew that the agricultural machinery companies in the town were usually in the center of the town. Today was the market, so there would be a lot of people, and the pickup truck would definitely not be able to drive in, so it would have to be parked on the side of the road.

It would take at least ten minutes to walk in, and since we were at the market today, his comrades would definitely not have time to greet him.

I'm afraid I wasted more than an hour going back and forth like this, and today was wasted.

He said to Li Huadong: "It seems that today is the market in Dongdou Town, and your comrades work at the agricultural machinery company. Today is a relatively busy day, and you may not have time to greet us. Why don't we drive to a few nearby villages ourselves? When we see an old house, we can talk about it ourselves. When we come back to the market in the evening, we can talk to him again."

Li Huadong nodded in agreement.

He said: "I remember there are three or four villages along this road. We can keep looking along the road and turn left into Fenglin Village to have a look."

A mountain road turned to the left. There were mountains on both sides of the road, and many villagers came out carrying things.

The roads must be crowded.

Huo Buqiang parked the car on the side of the road and said, "We don't have to run. Just be sweet and ask a villager."

He took out a cigarette from his pocket and asked a middle-aged man carrying a load of chickens in a chicken coop.

"Uncle, have a cigarette and want to ask you something?"

The middle-aged man found it difficult to carry the chicken, so he put it down to rest.

He took the cigarette and Huo Buqiang lit it for him.

"What's the matter? Tell me, I'm rushing to the market to sell chickens."

Huo Buqiang asked: "Uncle, do you have that kind of old house in your village, the kind that rich people built with lots of wood in the past?"

The uncle said: "Our village is in a poor ravine, and there have been no rich people for ten generations. There are several villages along this road, and Fenglin Village is the largest. Other villages do not have such old houses, but Fenglin Village has one You can see the building at the entrance of the village. It’s next to the small village.”

Huo Buqiang thanked him repeatedly, and the uncle smoked a cigarette and picked up the chicken and left.

It turns out that this road leads into the mountains, and there are several mountain villages in it. Since there are ancient houses in Fenglin Village, I must go and visit them even if there are many people on the road.

I had to drive slowly, but fortunately, I arrived at Fenglin Village not far away.The ancient house is on a higher ground and you can see it when you look up at the entrance of the village.

There is a road that leads directly to the village. The ancient house is not far next door, and there are two ponds in front of it.

Huo Buqiang parked his car at the entrance of the village and went to the vegetable field next to him to ask a middle-aged woman.

"Auntie, I want to ask you something, who owns the old house in front of you? I wonder if they have any plans to demolish it? I specialize in collecting old wood, and the purchase price I offered is relatively high."

He estimated that Lichang County is relatively mountainous, and buyers from other places may not have penetrated here yet. Many villagers do not know that the purchase price of ancient houses has soared.

The woman was carrying manure and water to water the vegetables. She curled her lips and said, "How much can an old house be worth? This old house was left by my husband's grandfather, and our family still lives in it."

Huo Buqiang said: "For an old house of this size, as long as the wood is made of local huanghuali, we usually pay 55."

"How much did you say?" The woman was so shocked that she dropped the feces spoon on the ground.

Huo Buqiang opened his five fingers and said: "5. We have demolished four or five buildings in villages near Hong Kong, and they were all paid for this price."

It seems that the old house in front of me is much larger than the previous ones that were demolished, with 27 cubic meters of wood.

The middle-aged woman didn't look like he was joking, so she said, "I'll take you to my husband's house to talk to my two brothers. Women can't make the decision on this kind of thing."

She quickly poured the excrement water over the vegetables and took Huo Buqiang and the two back home.

When she arrived at the door of her house, she called to a few children playing in the corner: "Shen Yuan, go and ask your dad to come back. Tell him if there is something urgent."

The children, all twelve or thirteen years old, were very playful and pretended not to hear. The woman found a piece of bamboo from behind the door.

"Gou Gu, are you pretending not to hear on purpose?"

The boy ran away when he saw the smoke. He knew that his father was playing cards with a few people at Widow Yang's canteen.

He found the canteen, and sure enough he saw his father arguing with others, blushing.

He squeezed in front of him: "Dad, my mother-in-law brought two strangers home. She asked you to go back and said that she had something urgent to tell you."

The man said: "Isn't your uncle at home? Why did you ask me to go back?"

The boy said: "Anyway, I told you, if you don't go back she will scold you and don't rely on me. Just now I didn't come to you, and she was beating me with a bamboo stick."

The little boy went back quickly.

The man threw away his card and said, "I'll go back and see what's going on?"

When he returned home, he saw his sister-in-law serving some fruits to the two young men.

My brother stopped smoking the hookah and happily smoked the cigarettes given to him.

When he saw him coming home, his brother introduced him: "This is my brother, and this old house belongs to him and me."

Huo Buqiang enthusiastically handed him a cigarette.

The man said: "You are guests, I should hand you cigarettes."

Huo Buqiang said: "Smokers don't distinguish between you and me. Master Xie, I told your brother just now that I will pay 55 for all the wood in your old house, including the doors and windows. I don't want the bricks and stones. You Brother said I want to ask your opinion."

Er Xie's reaction was the same as his sister-in-law's: "What, you said 55, were you kidding?"

Huo Buqiang said seriously: "Your place is a bit biased. I don't know the current market price of Huanghuali old timber. We do business conscientiously. In Hong Kong, we have demolished four or five buildings at the same price. If you want to demolish them, I I will sign a contract with you. After signing, I will pay a deposit of several thousand. I will dismantle the roof beams and follow me to Jiangming. I will pay you half of the price. Finally, I will bring the middle beams and columns, including doors and windows, to Jiangming. , pay all the money."

Xiao Xie's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he said to Da Xie: "Brother, if you have anything else to consider, tear it down and let's build a concrete and steel house each."

Nowadays, there are only a handful of cement-reinforced steel houses built in the entire village, and there are only a few in the entire Dongdou Town.

Da Xie said: "If the old house is demolished, where will our two families move to?"

Xiao Xie said: "Don't worry about this, even if you go to the vegetable field in front to build a temporary work shed, it doesn't matter."

Da Xie glared at him and said, "It doesn't matter, are there still an old man and a young man at home?"

Xiao Xie said: "Go to the village chief and ask him to rent to us the old granaries on the grain drying farm opposite. Those rooms have been empty for many years anyway."

Da Xie said: "This is a good idea. I will go find him now. If he agrees, he can sign it with you right away."

He asked Huo Buqiang and the two to have lunch at home, and ordered the middle-aged woman to cook rice and stir-fry vegetables.

Huo Buqiang chatted with Xiao Xie, and he asked: "Do you know any nearby village that has an old house like yours?"

Xiao Xie said: "There are none in the past three villages. There is one in Xiashan Village 30 miles away. The owner of the house is a classmate of mine. His ancestors have been carpenters for several generations. No one in a hundred miles can match his carpentry skills." .”

He also told Huo Buqiang: "There is a certain pattern in finding old houses like this. Generally, you need a larger village like this, and they are all thirty kilometers away."

Huo Buqiang was surprised and said, "Is there such a pattern?"

Xiao Xie said: "Thirty kilometers away, there seems to be an ancient house like this in Zishi Village."

Huo Buqiang asked him to recall if he could remember which village had such an ancient house. Xiao Xie couldn't remember any other village that had such an ancient house.

Huo Buqiang asked Li Huadong to count with him how many beams, pillars, doors and windows there were.

He carefully identified the material and confirmed that it was oil pear wood.

After counting the number, it was similar to what he estimated. There were 28 cubic meters of wood in total.

Soon, Daxie came back happily.

He said: "The village chief gave me the keys and said that it would be no problem for us to stay there for as long as we wanted, but there was no electricity inside. He asked us to call the electrician to connect the electricity."

Xiao Xie said: "If I want to move there, I have to build a stove, and the toilet in the back also needs to be repaired. The tiles on the rooms where I live must be rotten, and they need to be repaired before I can move in. Demolish the house It will probably take a year until the house is built.”

Huo Buqiang took the house demolition agreement from the car and signed it with the two brothers.

After signing, pay them a deposit of 2000 yuan.

Xiao Xie also asked him: "If you ask people to demolish this house, how much will you pay them?"

Huo Buqiang said: "I asked people to demolish the building in Tangxia Village and clean up all the garbage. They asked for 2000 yuan."

Da Xie said: "Why don't you give us 2000 yuan? My two brothers are also plasterers, and we are also skilled in demolishing houses. We can just call a few helpers."

Huo Buqiang said: "That's the best. Remove the wood, I'll pay you, and then I can go to another company."

Xiao Xie said: "It is estimated that it will take seven or eight days before it can be demolished, because it will take several days to repair the granary, install electricity, and move again."

Huo Buqiang said: "If it can be dismantled, just tell me two days in advance so that I can arrange for a truck to come and pick up the goods."

Soon Da Xie's family cooked food and invited Huo Buqiang and the two to eat.

Huo Buqiang left his phone number for them.

After leaving Fenglin Village, he reported the matter to Yin Yuan in time.

"We signed a contract for another old house in Fenglin Village, Dongdou Town, Lichang County. We calculated the number of square meters of wood and found that there are 28 cubic meters. It is all avocado land. It can be demolished next week."

Yin Yuan said: "That's good. I'll try to demolish four or five more buildings before the Chinese New Year. I'll still calculate the price for you based on the amount of wood."

He asked: "How is the demolition of the building in Tangxia Village?"

Huo Buqiang told him: "The building in Tangxia Village is being demolished. The second floor and the beams and columns can be demolished in two days. I also negotiated for one building each in Zhongbao Village and Xiabao Village near Haikou. The building in Xiabao Village We will serve as a classroom for the village primary school, and we have to wait until the students are on vacation. The owner of the building in Zhongbao Village will come back and sign an agreement with me tomorrow."

Yin Yuan encouraged him: "Yes, it seems that it is very correct to ask you to do this. You can go find it without worry. I will take whatever you have."

He called Lin Manni and said: "The old wood that has been pulled back must be piled up in categories."