The four villages of Yongan, Yongsheng, Yongfu and Yongli are backed by Yongan Forest Farm.

It is said to be a village, but in fact there is a more Western term for it, called a family area. Most of the people living in the four villages are current or former forest farm employees and their families.

The land in this village also belongs to the forest farm. Anyone who wants to occupy the land to build a house must first tell the village chief. After the village chief approves, he can then go to the forest farm to apply.

Wait until the forestry farm agrees again.

At this time, Zhao Jun is already a formal employee of the forest farm, and he has many connections with Zhao Youcai, Zhou Jianjun, etc. I believe that the forest farm is just a matter of words.

Therefore, now it is up to Zhao Guofeng to issue the approval letter. However, considering the relationship between Zhao Youcai and Zhao Guofeng, this is not a difficult task.

However, every household in the village must have a yard.

There must be a yard in front of and behind the house, and one of the yards is used for growing vegetables.

As for the land of each family near the village, it is used for growing grain.

Moreover, these days, mountainous areas are vast and sparsely populated, and most people’s yards are larger than their houses.

Here comes the problem. What Wang Meilan wants to build is five large tile-roofed houses, and the house also needs to have front and back yards, with dogs in the front yard and vegetables in the back yard.

Her five large tile-roofed houses are big enough. How big is the supporting yard? How big is the land?

Adding together the front and back of this house, Zhao Jun's family is as big as the other two. Add in the five large tile-roofed houses, and those who didn't know better would have thought it was a landlord's compound.

If Zhao Guofeng approved such a large piece of land for Zhao Jun today, what should he do if someone else comes to him for approval tomorrow?

If Zhao Guofeng wants to approve this land, other people in the village will inevitably make irresponsible remarks.

Of course, Zhao Guofeng is also the village chief and security director, and he has the final say over the entire Yongan Village. This actually has little impact on him, but for the Zhao family, this is a favor, not just some wild boar meat, black meat, etc.

You can get by with blind meat.

And what Wang Meilan just said was also in general terms, not just to take two bottles of wine.

Customs vary from place to place. Here we pay attention to four boxes of gifts. When asking for help, you must have all four boxes of gifts.

What is unusual is that when Zhao Youcai was asked to build a house for Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai immediately agreed without saying a word. He immediately turned around and put his feet into the ground, saying: "Give me the money, I will do it now."

Go."

Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun looked at each other and felt a little surprised. Although they might lose a little money when they go shopping, they are not so enthusiastic.

After Wang Meilan was stunned for a moment, she took out ten yuan from her pocket and handed it to Zhao Youcai.

"That's all?" Zhao Youcai took the money and looked at Wang Meilan with dissatisfaction.

"That's a lot!" Wang Meilan stretched out her hand and clicked it, then said: "You go buy two bottles of good wine, buy a cigarette, and with the remaining money, just buy two bottles of cans. When things are done, we'll do it again

Invite him to a meal."

When Zhao Youcai heard this, he didn't say anything. He just folded the big unity in the middle, stuffed it into his pocket and walked out.

Zhao Youcai was gone all afternoon. But neither Zhao Jun nor Wang Meilan was in a hurry, because they knew that in this situation, Zhao Youcai must have been left to eat by Zhao Guofeng.

Zhao Jun’s family had a simple meal tonight, shredded radish stewed with potato strips soup. This was made by cutting large carrots into shreds, cutting potatoes into thin strips, and stewing them into soup.

After it comes out of the pot, pour some vinegar into the soup and it will taste amazing. Zhao Hong and Zhao Na add some sesame oil to it, while Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan add some chili oil to the soup.

By the time the family finished eating, it was already half past five, almost six o'clock.

At this time, the potatoes in the big pot were ripe. Wang Meilan used Yanli to take out the potatoes one by one and put them in a big basin to let out the heat.

These dozen or so potatoes are intended to be fed to the dog at night. I have to say that since Big Fat and Three Fatty came here, the potatoes at home have been consumed faster than before.

"Son." Wang Meilan called Zhao Jun and said, "Bring over the leftover food and pour it into the dog. Your father can't come back to eat it either."

When dogs eat food, it needs to be a little salty. Merely sprinkled with salt and noodles are definitely not as delicious as mixed with some vegetable soup.

When Zhao Jun, who was picking up the table, heard this, he took the basin of radish soup to the outhouse, poured it into the large basin of potatoes, and then mashed the potatoes with a spoon designed for dog food, so that it would cool faster.

The mashed potatoes and vegetable soup were mixed together, and when the heat dissipated, Zhao Jun went out with the dog food bowl and distributed it to the five big dogs.

Zhao Jun had just finished feeding the dogs and was about to go back to the house when he saw the fat man next to him raised his head and looked outside the courtyard.

Zhao Jun turned around and saw Zhao Youcai staggering towards the entrance of the courtyard.

"Dad!" Zhao Jun rushed to the door to greet him and helped Zhao Youcai walk into the courtyard.

Zhao Jun reached out to help him, but Zhao Youcai raised his arm and shook off Zhao Jun's hand. He pointed at Zhao Jun and said, "You little brat!"

Zhao Jun: "..."

When Zhao Jun got angry, he stopped helping him and listened to Zhao Youcai saying: "I have done something for you today. I will approve the land in the next two days and build a house for you after the completion. Once the house is built, you can give it to me as soon as possible."

Take a wife and get out."

After saying that, Zhao Youcai held the courtyard door and walked in. Zhao Jun stood behind him, gritted his teeth and said, "Do you think I will pay you back in the future?"

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After a night of silence, Zhao Jun was still on vacation at home the next day. Zhao Youcai, who had sobered up, took the note approved by Zhao Guofeng to the forest farm and stamped it on the same day.

In the evening, Zhao Youcai went home early for the rare occasion, had dinner with his family, and took out the note at the dinner table and handed it to Wang Meilan.

"Is it done so quickly?" Wang Meilan clapped her hands happily and carefully put it away. At this time, there was no house deed in the forest area, and the land deed was mentioned, but the approval note from the forest farm was the proof.

Wang Meilan put the note into a small account book, used chopsticks to open a large piece of egg, put it into Zhao Youcai's bowl, and praised him with a smile: "You did this so quickly!"

"That's it!" Zhao Youcai picked up the egg, took a bite, caught the rest with chopsticks and put it back into the bowl, chewed a few mouthfuls, picked up the wine glass and drank the egg, then glanced at Zhao Jun next to him and raised his head

Tiaoyin said to Zhao Jun: "Pour some wine for your dad!"

"Okay!" Zhao Jun smiled, quickly took the bottle and poured wine into Zhao Youcai's cup.

"Ha!" Zhao Youcai smiled coldly and said, "When the house is built, you will get married and start a family. By then, you won't be able to honor me even if you want to."

When Zhao Jun heard this, he ignored him, only turned his eyes to Wang Meilan, and asked: "Mom, didn't you say that our family will move there together?"

"Ah." Wang Meilan said: "Your father said that if the house is empty, it will be finished. We will let your sister live here. When your sister gets married in the future, we will...

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"Mom, don't listen to my dad." Zhao Jun ignored Zhao Youcai's gloomy expression and only said to Wang Meilan: "I will have children after I marry my wife. You don't care about your grandson?!"

"Oh!" Wang Meilan was startled. When she looked at Zhao Youcai, she reached out and patted him on the arm and said, "That's not good. Why did you forget about this!"

These days, there are no defensive measures between men and women. As long as there is nothing wrong with your health, you should have children within a year and a half of marriage.

Wang Meilan had not heard Zhao Youcai's slander before and had the idea of ​​temporarily separating the family, but now, when Zhao Jun heard the word "grandson", she instantly forgot everything.

The old son, the eldest grandson, and the old lady’s lifeblood.

It must be said that in mountainous villages in Northeast China, the situation of favoring boys over girls is still common.

Even though Wang Meilan was very kind to her daughter, the word "grandson" was too destructive to her. Wang Meilan slapped the table and said to Zhao Youcai: "Hurry up and see what materials are needed. Find someone to ask for. Hurry up.

Find someone to ask for; if you should spend money to buy it, we will spend money to buy it.

In a few days, you go and invite Ma Dafu over, you two have a drink and decide the date for me."

After saying that, Wang Meilan stood up and went to flip through the calendar.

"Mom. Mom." Zhao Jun hurriedly stopped Wang Meilan and said: "Eat first, then you can study slowly after eating."

"Okay!" Wang Meilan agreed, picked up the chopsticks and said, "Eat!"

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Two and a half months later, in the open space about 400 meters away from Zhao Jun's home in the southwest of Yong'an Village, a fence tent had been erected, and bricks and tiles were neatly placed in a corner.

The sand is piled up like a hill, and bags of cement are stacked together and covered with canvas.

This is because it rains a lot in summer and you are afraid of cement getting wet.

This is Zhao Jun's new home. At this time, the wall of the house has been raised by nearly one meter, and the house with a newly laid foundation in the yard next to it belongs to Li Baoyu.

Li Baoyu's family has two brothers. Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei discussed building a house for Li Baoyu to marry him, and then they would stay in the old house and live with Li Ruhai. In this way, the two brothers would have one apartment each, and they would be impartial.

From now on, Li Ruhai will provide for the couple in their old age. Then when they are a hundred years old, all the land and savings in the family will be given to Li Ruhai who will take care of them in their old age.

Because they didn't plan to live with Li Baoyu, they didn't build a house as big as Zhao Jun's for Li Baoyu, but even if they only built three rooms, it would still be top-notch in this village.

Moreover, the two houses’ new houses have red bricks, red tiles, and cement joints, making them even more luxurious houses nowadays.

At this time, the spring planting has ended, and there is no work in the fields. Moreover, it gets early in the summer, so people who come to help start coming from home one after another at three o'clock in the morning.

Because they came too early, the Zhao and Li families had to provide them with breakfast and lunch at noon. But after finishing their work in the afternoon, they went home.

After the house is completed, you have to give some money to these people who come to help. People with good connections or relatives may not want it.

But there are some people who just focus on making money by working hard. You cannot use your relationship with fellow villagers to kidnap others.

Zhao Junjia broke ground on July 19th, and nearly 20 people worked hard for five days. On the 24th, it started to rain.

It rained for three days in a row. The first day was okay, with a drizzle and it rained for half a day. On the second day, no one could stay outside anymore. It continued to rain until midnight and lasted until two o'clock in the afternoon on the 26th.

The rain just stopped.

In this case, the construction site must not be able to start work, and Zhao Jun, who skipped work, accompanied his two sisters at home to play Galaha.

But when he heard the sound of opening the door in the outer room, Zhao Jun just got off the kang and heard the voice of his old uncle Wang Qiang.

"Sister, where is Xiaojun at home?"

"Here you are." Wang Meilan glared at Wang Qiang and said angrily: "You haven't worked for two days, so you go out to make money!"

When Wang Qiang heard this, he smiled and did not answer.

In the past few days when Zhao Jun's family was building a house, the number of people who came to help every day was sometimes irregular. After all, most of the adult labor force in the village were forest farm workers.

Among them, the one who works the hardest is Wang Qiang.

My mother-in-law and uncle were the elders, so during the five days when they were building a house, Wang Qiang didn't even play cards, which made his daughter-in-law Zhao Ling wish that Zhao Jun's family was building a house every day.

Unexpectedly, when it rained, Wang Qiang went to the small shop to play with others.

"Uncle!" Zhao Jun came out of the house and said hello to Wang Qiang.

Wang Qiang raised his hand to Zhao Jun and said: "Xiaojun, give me your semi-automatic gun."
To be continued...