When the Spring Festival was approaching that year, it was still very cold, I was playing with my mobile phone in the bed, and my wife went to the door, and sometimes, she could go out all day.
When it was dark, she came back, sat down in front of the bed, and said to me, I plan to apply for a homestead and build a house.
I shuddered, and my phone slipped, but fortunately it fell on the quilt.
She said that today at the eldest sister's house, the two of them carefully calculated, our small production team still has an idle homestead. The area is five out of five. There are a total of twenty trees on it, which belong to five families.
As she spoke, she asked me to write it down with pen and paper.
Now in the production team, there are four qualified to apply for homesteads, each with its own specific situation, and some have already lived in the city and will not come back at all. Some have inherited the property of their own family without descendants, and they should no longer ask for the homestead of gods and ghosts,,, some sons are not old enough, and they can only apply for ,,, in the next year, etc., and so on.
And now, the homestead will be in hand before the Spring Festival.
Time leaves a window of half a month.
I asked, can we get it?
The wife said categorically, it must be ours, now only our family meets the conditions, and now there is only this homestead in the small production team, we have to finish, others will not go up for decades, unless it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy, but no one sells it at all, so it must be obtained, and it must be built next year. A building must be built, because according to the rules of the village, a building must be built, and an old-fashioned bungalow will certainly not work.
Looking at my wife's gritted teeth and talking, I asked myself in a trilled voice the first worry, can we cover it up in the coming year? Do we have money?
My wife spoke carefully to me again.
How much will you earn in the field next year, how much you have in your hands now, how much people from outside owe us, and how much you can get back.
Who can lend us money, and about how much they can lend.
How much is sand, how much is red brick, how much is cement, how much is rebar, how much is labor, in case the money is not enough, the money on that side can be owed, and how long can it be owed.
I wrote three pages of paper long and densely, and after all the calculations, I concluded that the building could be built, and in the end I would owe 30,000 yuan to others.
The wife gritted her teeth and said, Cover!
I asked, how much money do we have now, and she asked me, how much do you have now, and I said four thousand, the salary that has just been sent to the card. 、
She said, don't worry about it, I must cover it. The salary money on your card is not spent first, as a mobile fee!
The next day, we wrote an application and handed it in, and on the third day, the eldest sister went to my house and said that there was a person in the village committee who did not agree. The application was rejected on the grounds that the age difference on the son's ID card was a few months less than 18 years old, and he should apply again until the next year.
The eldest sister also said the reason, a long time ago, his wife had no money to see a doctor, so she came to me to borrow money, but I didn't lend it, and his wife fell ill, and she is not well until now. So I hated my family for so many years.
The wife said, it's easy to do, turned her face and said to me, you go buy gifts, high-end, let's go to his house in the evening.
Seeing that I hesitated, I scolded, is your face worth or the house worth it! Come on!
When I went to the cadre's house at night, my wife became closer and considerate than her daughter.
I said a lot of things that weren't worth it.
Rural people are like this, sometimes they will tie the knot because of a sentence, and they will not get along with each other for the rest of their lives, and sometimes, as long as it is not something that touches their vital interests, the face given is reached, and the steps are given, and people are very good at talking.
The next night, the eldest sister took her wife to the homes of various cadres to give heavy gifts.
The application was approved on the 7th day.
On that homestead, there are a total of 20 trees, which belong to 5 families.
One of the families has 5 trees, that family is a very good person, and the wife only runs away from that house once, and the people say that he will find someone to cut down the tree and pull it away, and he will not miss your business. The tree was disposed of the next day.
In the past few years, no matter what happens to his family, we will do our best to help if we can.
Because, everyone treats each other sincerely, and the more they help, the smoother they become.
The second family is an old military family, and the child is not around. And he said, Sell yourselves for my stead. It doesn't matter how much it is.
The person who bought the tree and I found a close relative of the old military family and sent the money.
The most difficult thing to do is the one on Front Street, a total of 8 trees, the original estimate of buying a tree is 1600, and the family opens its mouth to 9500
And one of them, they say, is their family's feng shui tree, which can only be cut down when Sun Da grows up and gets married.
It's cut early, and it's unlucky for their family.
His family has a large population and great power, and usually the well water does not interfere with the river water.
And people are not bad for money.
I, my wife, and my eldest sister have begged many times, but I can't tell how much money to give.
I was discouraged, and in those few days, I was like a nervous nerve, thinking, what to do, what to do.
In the end, his wife found the way, and an uncle on his mother's side was a comrade-in-arms with a person from that family.
The uncle came forward and drank wine with that comrade-in-arms for a day, and finally he patted his chest on behalf of the family and said, we have a relationship here, I asked someone to cut down that tree, what 89,000, feng shui tree, nonsense.
Unexpectedly, the great difficulty was solved so easily.
To this day, I still feel like a dream, unreal.
The house has finally been built. My wife went to the new house to see when she didn't know it, and she was still there after dark for a long time, she said that she was not at ease, and she was always worried that something would happen.
For several months, she slept only four hours a day, but she was always full of energy during the day.
And I smirked and said stupid things all day as if I hadn't woken up, and the people who worked made fun of me, and I couldn't hear it, I heard it, and I didn't care.
Slowly, I fell in love with this state, with a box of cigarettes in my pocket and no smoke myself.
With your hands behind your back, watch everyone work, and ask someone to work carefully from time to time.
Seeing that someone was doing a good job and working hard, I walked over and patted him on the shoulder, took out a cigarette and gave him one. Praise him for his good work and careful work, and the man will take the cigarette with both hands, and then hurriedly light the fire himself, and let me smoke it first.
While smoking, he was smiling, praising the shopkeeper for his eyes, he was an expert, and then he bragged about how many years he had been working, and he never dared to be careless in his work. Then I said, drink more for lunch.
Actually, my wife and I are also in the construction team and plasterers, and we work in other people's houses, and we talk like this and flatter the shopkeeper like this.
When I see the people of the employer's family, they only say good things, and they are closer than their own grandchildren.
If you make a mistake when you are working, and you are singled out by the master, you can't wait to kneel down to make amends.
Now I experience this kind of identity transformation on the territory of my own home, and I really enjoy the feeling of being condescending and full of superiority.
The wife also likes to wander around the scene, but she is more of a prestige, picking bones in eggs, and deliberately making things difficult for this person who suffers. These part-time workers also lost their smiling faces, endured it, and didn't dare to say a hard word after being scolded, because they were afraid of being deducted money, and it was not good to ask for money when they asked for it.
Once, my wife and I worked in other villages, she was not less angry, often the main man was fine, the hostess had a strange temper, they were all big, and the wife could speak well, and she didn't dare to return a word when she was scolded by the hostess.
My wife and I hate and hate such women the most.
I really can't stand it anymore, and I persuaded my wife behind my back, you said at the beginning that if you build a house by yourself one day and become a female shopkeeper, you will definitely be good to the people who work. Now can you lose your temper less, talk less about deducting people's money, obviously there is nothing wrong with your family, you are deliberately looking for trouble.
My wife said that she was fed up with gas before, but now she can finally vent her anger, enjoy it, and there will be no chance after building a house, and now she still fantasizes that she can continue to build like this, she can continue to be majestic.
Alas, she seized the opportunity and lived as she hated the most.
And I'm addicted to it.
The two-story building was actually built very quickly and smoothly, and when we got to the doors and windows, we couldn't keep up with the money in our hands.
There must be 30,000 yuan of holes, and there is no money to make up for them.
I felt hopeless again, because I had begged for all the places I could borrow. I really can't squeeze it out.
It's the same with my wife.
I consulted with her to worry about the doors and windows first.
The wife lay in bed and thought about it for a day, gritted her teeth and had to be safe, uneasy and uneasy, and said that someone was gossiping.
And he said, "You don't have to worry about the money."
Then she really ran for the money.
She looked for a few girlfriends she hadn't seen for many years, and even borrowed money with coaxing.
Finally, from the outside, this is a completed, safe little building, whether it is inhabited or not.
The floor tiles in the room were not paved, but I didn't talk to her, because I really didn't have the money, and I didn't have the strength and patience to do it anymore.
Building a house in the countryside is really the most painstaking and painful chore.
The two of us spent a week cleaning up the clutter around us, bundling and selling hundreds of dirty cement bags.
After all this, I lay in bed with her for a week, and I didn't rest, and those days were like a serious illness, and I was in a mess.
In those months, our daughter and son-in-law were abroad, and our two sons were studying in the provincial capital, and there was really no one to help us work.
At the end of the year, my son came back, and according to the rules of the countryside, we pasted flower doors and couplets on each room of the building at night. At that time, the power was not installed. We lit candles.
When we were done, we looked around, and I said that we were finally done, and it was the New Year.
My wife asked her son to take a picture and send it to my sister and brother-in-law who was far away, and asked me to take a pen and paper to calculate all the expenses of building a house.
I said, go back to the old yard where you live, there are electric lights over there, and there are only candles here, so I can't see clearly.
The wife said that looking at every brick and tile here, every square aspect, she can clearly remember every penny spent, especially feeling, in the old courtyard anyway, I can't think clearly.
She said that I remembered, and then the three of them calculated the total ledger, and the result was that they spent a total of 210,000 yuan, and they currently owe 30,000 to others
My wife said that she really didn't know how it was difficult, she couldn't squeeze out a penny, and she didn't know how she came up with a way out in the first place, found someone who could lend money, and how she persuaded people to take out the money for me.
The son said, Dad, you can write articles, you say, how to praise my mother?
I said that in the past, Songtsen Gampo married Princess Wencheng and was very happy, so he took great pains to build a palace for Princess Wencheng. It is now the Potala Palace, and Songtsen Gampo said that he would build a city to glorify future generations.
The wife didn't understand everything, so she asked her son, what did your father mean?
The son said, "Dad means that you built him a Buckingham Palace." He was happy.
My wife said, what palace is not a palace, we are farmers, we can build a building with our own strength, and we can be proud for a lifetime.
My son asked me, "Dad, what are you doing?"
I said, I'll sit back and enjoy it.
My wife said, "Your father has always been by my side, and he has done his best."
It doesn't matter how much sweat you sweat.