PDLP Chapter 147 Leisurely in Nanshan
Chapter 147 Leisurely in Nanshan
After filtering the idea in my mind and deciding what the house would look like, I began to draw it with firewood sticks. After all, it is better to use a hard pen to draw the floor plan of a house, and in this era, only small firewood sticks are suitable.
Zhang Yunyue had originally planned to draw a part today and continue drawing during the day tomorrow, but she forgot the time while drawing. When she finished drawing the entire three-courtyard drawing, she stretched her body and looked at the sky outside. It was almost midnight.
There was no time to look at the drawings carefully to see if there was anything that needed improvement, so he went straight to bed.
The next day.
After Zhang Yunyue got up, she took the blueprint she had drawn last night to the yard to show everyone.
Zhang Yunyue drew a floor plan of the three courtyards, clearly drawing the doors, windows, and corridors. The third courtyard was drawn as a two-story building, so that the brothers and sisters could live in the third courtyard, and Grandpa Zhang and Father Zhang would live in the second courtyard.
If there are guests at home, they can stay in the back room at the entrance.
The kitchen is located next to the main house.
The outhouse was not painted in the third courtyard, but in the open space behind the third courtyard. The main reason was that Zhang Yunyue wanted to build a simple version of a modern bathroom for bathing and washing.
You can also boil water in the bathroom, so you don’t have to go to the kitchen to boil water in winter. You can take a shower directly and the room will be warm.
It would be better to think about how to make a squat toilet so that the toilet will not have any smell. However, you can think about this slowly. There is still a lot of time. As long as you can come up with a solution before the house is completed, it will be fine.
You can also plant some flowers, plants and trees around to make your home look better, and then build a pavilion. In the summer, you can eat hot pot or barbecue under the pavilion. It’s perfect just by thinking about it.
In addition, Zhang Yunyue thought of building corridors in the front and back of the second floor of the three courtyards, so that one can look at the house from the front and look at the mountains and the river from the back corridor.
Or you can put a lounge chair in the corridor on the second floor, with a pot of tea and a plate of snacks next to it, and you can feel Tao Yuanming's leisurely life in Nanshan.
Zhang Yunyue explained to the other family members the layout of each room, and pointed out where the kitchen was, where the toilet was, and where everyone lived.
Everyone else was shocked by Zhang Yunyue's drawing and fell in love with it instantly.
Zhang Yunxue looked at the blueprint and pointed to the second floor of the three-courtyard building on the blueprint and said, "Sister, I want to live on the second floor with you. I want to live next to you."
"Okay, then Xiaoxue and Sister, we'll live on the second floor."
"Mother, I will live with my sister then, hehe."
Zhu tapped her daughter's forehead with her finger and said with a smile, "You clever girl, okay, if you want to live next to your elder sister, then live next to your elder sister. As long as your elder sister is here, you can't see anyone else."
Zhang Yunxue said coquettishly: "Oh, mother, how can you say that? When my sister was not around, I was always next to you, hehe."
"Yes, you girl."
"Hahahahaha."
Zhang Yunyue: "Do you have any other ideas about this blueprint? Or do you think it needs to be modified? I will make some changes here."
Everyone shook their heads and indicated that no, if they were to think about the structure of the house themselves, they would definitely not think as much as Yueyue.
Zhang Cheng: "Yueyue, your idea is already very good, there is nothing to modify."
Zhang Xingyun said, "I also think that the blueprint you drew will look great when the house is built."
"Hmm."
Grandpa Zhang patted his knees with both hands, then stood up and said:
"Okay, since the blueprint has been drawn and everyone has no objections, I will go to the village chief to buy the land next door so that we can start construction as soon as possible and finish it in two months so that we can move in before winter comes."
After Zhang Yunyue put away the drawings, Grandpa Zhang stood up and prepared to go to the village chief's house, but then he remembered that he wanted to ask the village chief for help, so he went to the workshop first and asked the people in the workshop to help him cut two or three pounds of meat and carry it, and then he went back to the village chief's house.
"Village chief, I'm at home!" Grandpa Zhang said, standing at the door of Village Chief Zhang's house.
Village Chief Zhang looked at Grandpa Zhang standing at the door and responded with a smile, "It's Uncle Zhang, come in and sit down quickly. Uncle Zhang is free today to come out for a walk."
After saying that, he stepped aside and welcomed Grandpa Zhang into the yard.
Grandpa Zhang walked into the yard and said, "I came from the workshop and brought you a piece of meat."
"Uncle Zhang, what are you doing? Why are you bringing a piece of meat with you when you come to my house? Isn't this embarrassing for me?"
"I need your help with something, so hurry up and take it. I'll be embarrassed to ask you if you don't."
Village Chief Zhang had no choice but to take the pork from Grandpa Zhang and asked:
"Okay, thank you, Uncle Zhang. Uncle Zhang, please take a seat first. Is there anything you need to do? Just tell me. I will do my best to help you as long as I can."
Since the workshop opened and shops were opened in the town and the county, Grandpa Zhang has been busy in the workshop frequently and has reduced the number of times he walks around the village. Now he mostly sees people from the village at the door of the workshop when they come with things to sell.
Grandpa Zhang originally wanted to ask about the foundation of the house first, but after thinking about it, he decided to ask if there was anyone in the village selling land. It would only take a few words after all.
Grandpa Zhang sat in front of Village Chief Zhang and said, "It's like this. I want to ask the Village Chief if anyone in the village wants to sell land. My family wants to buy some more land to grow crops or peppers."
Village Chief Zhang shook his head: "Really not. This was the case in previous years, when maybe someone would sell land. But this year, because your family is building a workshop in the village, hiring workers, and harvesting all kinds of vegetables, peppers, and peanuts, every household in the village has bought a lot of things and saved a lot of money, so really no one has sold land."
Village chief Zhang felt happy when he thought about this. Among the surrounding villages, the situation in his village was much better. Almost all the families in the village had surplus food this year.
Even the poorest family, the Jiang family, has two people working in the Zhang family's food store. They now earn more than one or two taels of silver a month, and their lives have improved a lot.
Some time ago, when the villagers went to pay taxes, the mayor praised his village, saying that the taxes were collected on time this year and no one was delaying, and that he, as the village chief, had a lot of pride in front of other villages.
As the village chief, if someone in the village can't make ends meet, I will feel bad as the village chief. Many times I want to help but I am powerless.
However, this year, every household in the village has saved a lot of money by selling a lot of produce from the fields because there is a workshop in the village, so at least they can have a good New Year.
Grandpa Zhang nodded and said, "Well, I guessed that too. I just asked casually. The main reason I came here today is to ask you that my family is planning to rebuild the house and we want to buy the land next to our house. The land is about three or four acres."