Chapter 117: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 117: Building a House (2)
In addition to the dozen or so young people from the Lin family, there were also several original residents of Liuyang Village recommended by Yang Bao, as well as a few members of the Mo family. They were the ones who had visited the Mo family on New Year's Day but hadn't pressured them into building a ancestral hall with money.
The master craftsmen for building the house had also been arranged in advance. Coincidentally, the master craftsman was named Lu, who happened to be the uncle of Liu Tinglan.
After Mo Yan and Liu Tinglan were rescued, they each returned to their own homes. Liu Tinglan spent a few days resting at home before coming with her parents to the Mo family to express gratitude.
Having gone through hardships together and having compatible personalities, they became good friends. When Liu Tinglan learned that the Mo family was planning to build a house, she immediately recommended her uncle, Master Lu, to Mo Yan.
Master Lu was well-known in the city, and many wealthy families would think of him first when they needed to build or renovate a house. Although he was originally a scholar, he was interested in construction. Despite strong opposition from his family, he abandoned his studies and formed his own construction team, building houses for people everywhere.
Master Lu was honest and never cut corners in his work. He was also skilled in drawing, so the houses he built were both sturdy and beautiful. Gradually, he made a name for himself in the capital. With his literary background and achievements, he was different from other craftsmen. He always treated his clients politely.
If it weren't for Liu Tinglan's request and Master Lu's gratitude for Mo Yan's help to his niece, the Mo family wouldn't have been able to engage such a "great god" to build their house.
On the sixth day of March, Master Lu arrived early in Liuyang Village with more than thirty workers. Following the drawings provided by Mo Yan, they quickly made plans and marked the foot lines with ink.
Seeing the vast expanse of black foot lines, both the workers and the curious villagers couldn't help but marvel: How many houses are they going to build in such a large area!
After all the foot lines were marked, more than eighty people grabbed their hoes and shovels and enthusiastically began working on the barren land.
The Mo family's foundation was close to Yuhua Mountain and much higher than Liuyang Village, with a very broad view. On the left was a mountain path, and on the right was a river flowing through the mountain. In terms of Feng Shui, this was definitely an excellent site.
The first step in building a house was to dig the foundation. The Mo family's construction area was not small, so digging the foundation alone was a huge project.
Fortunately, there were many helpers, and the Mo family provided generous wages. Everyone worked very hard. In just half a month, including the courtyard wall, all the foundations were dug.
During the foundation digging process, cartloads of stones, green bricks, and green tiles were continuously brought in from outside.
These building materials were purchased through Master Lu's connections from good quarries and brick kilns, and the prices were very affordable, saving the Mo family a lot of expenses.
Mo Yan knew that if it weren't for Master Lu's reputation, it would have been a problem whether they could buy these good materials at a cheap price or not.
The commotion caused by the Mo family's house construction was so great that some people couldn't help but gossip behind their backs: "They've only made a few bucks, and they're showing off like this."
"Yeah, with just a few people living in such a big house, won't it feel empty at night?"
"Tsk, they've got money burning holes in their pockets. We, who toil in the fields, can't even imagine it!"
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Mo Yan naturally didn't take these sour words to heart. It was just sour grapes. She couldn't stop them from talking. Even if they said more, she would continue with the construction.
Money could be earned again, but if the house didn't meet their expectations, they couldn't just tear it down and rebuild it!
If the Mo family's lavish use of green bricks and green tiles to build the house made the people of Liuyang Village envy and resentful, then when bag after bag of white glutinous rice was steamed and poured onto the ground, mixed with mud to make rice slurry, almost everyone present felt their hearts bleeding.
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