Chapter 163 A Few Things in the Village
The rumbling sound echoed in my ears and among the mountains.
Today, the entire Qingzhu Mountain is in a busy construction stage, with excavators and bulldozers everywhere.
Long Jingshan has been very busy recently.
To be precise, he didn't rest for even a single day during the entire National Day holiday.
Because of the tight deadline, he stayed in Qingzhu Mountain for 24 hours out of almost 16 hours a day.
The construction team works in two shifts.
Qingzhu Mountain is in the wild, so there is no possibility of disturbing others.
Zhang Chi was not short of money, so the construction team had one group of workers during the day and another group of workers at night. Except for meal time, the construction team never stopped working.
Fang Hua has been very tired during this period.
Not only does she have to look after the construction progress here, but she also has to be busy bidding for the resort plan in Duntou Village.
She thought about asking Zhang Chi for help.
However, there were many people with connections in Haisha City, and many of them even went directly to Ye Hongguang and Wang Hu.
Fang Hua knew that the plan would win in the end, and he was so busy during this period that his hair was falling out.
"Mr. Fang, Mr. Fang, please wait a moment. I have a place here that I need your confirmation."
Fang Hua was just about to get in the car to return to Haisha City when he saw Long Jingshan running towards him with the blueprints.
Facing the contractor he had worked with in the past, Fang Hua did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.
Because she had heard from the villagers of Xiasha Village who were in the construction team that Zhang Chi was dating Long Jingshan's daughter.
"Long Gong, is there a problem with the drawings?"
Fang Hua closed the car door and took the initiative to greet him.
Long Jingshan waved his hand and said with a smile, "It's not that there's a problem with the drawing, but the material used for this piece seems to be marked as solid wood. You see, the dew here is so serious, isn't it a bit too wasteful to use solid wood? No matter how good the wood is, it will definitely need to be replaced after a few years."
Fang Hua took the drawing and looked at it, nodded slightly, and said: "Long Gong reminded me that the previous design idea was mainly to improve the texture. I neglected it."
"No, no, then what material do you think is better?"
Long Jingshan chuckled.
Fang Hua thought about it and suggested using a cement sculpture instead. After polishing the exterior, apply a layer of paint. The effect would be similar, and there would be no need to replace the beams and columns in the future. It would only cost a little money to repaint them.
The two chatted about some other construction details.
Fang Huacai finally got away and drove back to Haisha City.
Long Jingshan looked at the car going away somewhat embarrassedly and gave two dry laughs.
He knew he was being a bit picky, but Zhang Chi was his future son-in-law after all.
Zhang Chi is not a professional and has no time to come and supervise the work, so he has to help Zhang Chi take care of this and not let Zhang Chi spend too much money in vain.
If we really follow Fang Hua's plan and use solid wood for construction, not only will it cost money now, but replacing it in the future will not only be troublesome, but will also cost a lot of money.
"Hey, Dashan, you don't know, your son-in-law gave bonuses to the workers."
Long Jingshan was explaining the contents of the drawings to several workers when he heard a villager who had come to take over his shift talking with envy about Zhang Chi giving red envelopes to the workers.
Even though it's just a red envelope of 200 yuan, you have to know that this is in the countryside, and 200 yuan is enough for an ordinary family's food expenses for several days.
Especially for those who have vegetable gardens at home, they may not spend 200 yuan in half a month.
However, the red envelope given by Zhang Chi was at least 200 yuan.
This news spread like wildfire and soon became a hot topic in the entire Xiasha Village.
In the past, during festivals, some wealthy businessmen would go to the countryside to give rice and oil to the old men and women in the village, but those were only things worth a few dozen yuan.
Zhang Chi gave him 200 yuan without saying a word.
It is said that he also invited the elderly people in the village to have a meal.
Of course, this happened a few days ago when I invited the older generation of uncles and aunts in the village to dinner. I didn’t expect that it would be brought up and talked about.
"I heard that Ah Hui, who just started working, earned several thousand yuan in just a few days. The red envelope he received was thicker than everyone else's. I estimate it was at least 1000 yuan."
"Oh, I know Ah Hui. He said today that he would take the kids to the city to buy clothes. This kid must have made a lot of money."
Some people are envious and some are jealous. The person who spoke later was the neighbor next door to Chen Hui's grandmother's house. He didn't have a proper job, otherwise he wouldn't have been asked by Long Jingshan to come over to do odd jobs.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Dashan, how much money do you think your son-in-law has made these days? A big red envelope for each person, that must be a lot of money, right?"
Long Jingshan raised his eyebrows, looked at the middle-aged man who was speaking, and said in a deep voice: "Why, are you envious? Then you should also apply for the job and see if Chizi wants you?"
The middle-aged man laughed dryly upon hearing this.
He had applied for the job of parking lot keeper a long time ago, but the job was rejected. So Zhang Jianguo found two people in the village who had good relations with him to work in three shifts with him to watch the parking lot.
It is said that the salary has been raised to 3500 yuan, and there is a high temperature subsidy in summer, 500 yuan, which is not a small amount.
This National Day, I got another red envelope of 200 yuan. Damn, this kid from the Zhang family has so much money to burn, why didn’t he give us a big red envelope as well?
There are quite a few villagers who think this way, they are all lazy people who don’t have any proper jobs.
However, the first few villagers who worked with Long Jingshan kept silent about this matter because they knew the consequences.
They are considered workers of Longjingshan, but they just do Zhang Chi's work. Strictly speaking, they do not receive Zhang Chi's salary, so naturally they are not eligible for any red envelopes.
It would be normal for Zhang Chi not to give them red envelopes. If he did, he would really have a lot of money to burn.
Long Jingshan looked at the middle-aged man in the lead, his expression not looking very good.
If the old village chief hadn't asked him to recruit a few more villagers to do the work, he would rather go to the next village to find people than use these idiots.
"Long Jianhua, you're almost there. With your work ethic that's intermittent, which boss would be blind enough to give you a bonus?"
Long Jianhua is the middle-aged man who speaks in a sarcastic tone.
Hearing this, he looked at the villager who reprimanded him and sneered, "Oh, you are diligent, but why don't you see your boss giving you a bonus if you are diligent?"
The villager was stunned for a moment and looked at Long Jingshan with some guilt.
Long Jingshan was so angry. This was really an intentional attempt to stir up trouble and create conflicts between him and his brothers.
I've been working on construction sites for so many years, and I've never given any red envelopes or bonuses to the workers.
We should be thankful that the contractor can pay the workers on time, okay?
Long Jingshan looked at Long Jianhua with a sullen face and wanted to scold him.
But after thinking about it, I decided to forget it.
Now is the most critical time to meet the deadline. At worst, after I finish this part, I will fire Long Jianhua and those idiots.
Nothing this kind of person says will work, not even the old village chief can do anything.
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Xiasha Village at this time.
The issue of Zhang Chi giving bonuses and red envelopes to workers also caused a lot of controversy.
It was actually a good thing and there was nothing much to say.
But the bad thing is that the villagers love to compare with each other. This is the reason why they say that what is worrying is the lack of wealth and the inequality of wealth.
It would be great if we could all be poor and backward together.
I was still eating pickled cabbage with porridge, and you turned around and started eating fried hairtail and boiled eggs?
And as time goes by, the gap will get bigger and bigger. People who get jobs eat well, drink well and dress well every day. Even if adults don't compare, children will do the same, right?
Just like now.
Chen Hui, his wife and two children just returned from the county town.
I met some aunties and grandmas chatting and some children playing at the entrance of the village.
I saw Chen Hui’s two children suddenly wearing branded clothes, and Chen Hui’s wife was holding several branded shopping bags in her hands.
Some women in Chen Hui's family who had a good relationship with him frowned, while the children came over to see the curio.
Among them are Long Jianhua’s wife and children.
She had a good relationship with Chen Hui's wife. Since their two families lived close to each other, she would often visit them.
However, ever since Chen Hui started working at Zhang Chi's car rental company, she felt that something was wrong.
First, Chen Hui, who had always been "lazy", suddenly straightened up in his suit, and his spirit didn't seem like that of a village man.
The reason why Chen Hui is said to be lazy is mainly because Chen Hui has not made much money driving Didi in the past two years.
In the past, villagers who didn’t have cars would ask him to drive them there.
Now almost every household in the village has a car, so Chen Hui can only go to the county town to deliver orders.
But the county town has its own groups and organizations. If Chen Hui wants to go there, he will have to pump water for them. He doesn't make any money and still has to pay tribute. Of course Chen Hui refuses to do it.
Therefore, Chen Hui has given people a very "idle" feeling at home in the past two years, as if he has no work and stays at home every day.
That's why Long Jianhua's wife is close to Chen Hui's wife.
Because her man, Long Jianhua, is also a lazy guy, she feels that she has "common language" with Chen Hui's wife.
However, things have changed since Chen Hui started working for Zhang Chi.
Chen Hui is an honest, hardworking person and not lazy at all. Now that he has a job, he has become even more hardworking.
I get up before dawn every day to cook for my wife and children, and also send a portion for my grandparents.
Early in the morning, when her husband Long Jianhua was still sleeping soundly in bed, Chen Hui had already gone to work.
With such a comparison, the gap is obvious.
Later, Zhang Chi gave Chen Hui a red envelope, so Chen Hui took half a day off and took his wife and children to the county town to shop.
Long Jianhua's wife, who was already quite different from him, suddenly became jealous.
At this time, Long Jianhua's son saw the new shoes on Chen Hui's two sons' feet, his eyes turned red with envy, and he shouted that he wanted to buy a pair of the same ones.
Chen Hui's son was very proud because his shoes had Ultraman on them and they could light up and flash, which was very cool.
"No, there's no point in crying, just ask your dad to buy it for you."
Long Jianhua’s wife glared at Chen Hui and his wife, as if they had done something unforgivable.
Chen Hui looked embarrassed. He was honest to begin with. But his wife frowned and said, "Ah Xia, why are you glaring at me? I thought I made your child cry."
A Xia is Long Jianhua's wife. Hearing this, she said angrily, "Why did I glare at you? Which eye did you use to see me glaring at you? You and your family should just go back home after shopping. Why did you have to let my child see it? Do you think he will stop crying?"
"I'm telling you, are you mentally ill? It's none of your business whether we go home or not. If your child saw them and wanted them, why don't you just buy him a pair of shoes that cost over 300 yuan?"
Chen Hui’s wife is not someone you can easily mess with. She came from another place and married to Xiasha Village. If she hadn’t been tough, she would have been bullied to death by the neighbors.
Even though the villagers are friendly to outsiders, if their interests are really affected, they will turn hostile and beat people to death.
Especially the neighbors, some of them would take hoes and push other people's houses just for a little land and light.
"What, more than three hundred yuan?"
Several middle-aged women were stunned, as if a pair of children's shoes costing more than 300 yuan was something extraordinary.
Of course, this is also reality.
Who would be willing to spend hundreds of dollars to buy shoes for their children? Seventy or eighty at most.
After all, children grow fast, and the new shoes you bought this month may not fit them in two months.
Seeing this, Chen Hui's wife proudly picked up her youngest son and boasted with a smile: "Yes, it's a brand name that specializes in children's shoes. My second son liked it and insisted on having it. His father loves him so much that he bought him a pair. You know what, these more expensive shoes are really good, haha."
Upon hearing this, several middle-aged women smiled awkwardly.
Why is there such a big gap between people?
Moreover, this Chen Hui has only been working for a few days, and he dares to spend so much money?
Could it be that Zhang Chi paid him more than 5000 yuan a month?
They actually misunderstood this point. 5000 yuan was just Zhang Chikai's basic salary, and Chen Hui also got a commission.
He calculated that the commission for the seven-day National Day holiday would be more than 4000!
Otherwise, I wouldn't dare buy such expensive shoes for my son, it's mainly for fun.
At this time, Chen Hui's eldest son saw that everyone was praising his younger brother instead of him, so he pulled a playmate to show off: "My clothes are expensive, Adidas, a whole set costs more than 700 yuan, and this pair of shoes is more expensive than my brother's shoes, it costs more than 400 yuan."
"what?"
The aunts were shocked again.
The playmate was also shocked and counted on his fingers: "Then this outfit of yours would cost more than 1000, right?"
Chen Hui's eldest son's vanity was greatly satisfied, and he laughed: "Not only that, my dad also bought me this."
Everyone looked down.
Chen Hui’s eldest son was seen wearing a children’s watch on his wrist.
"Not only can this phone make calls, it can also send text messages and WeChat messages, and it can also scan codes to pay. I have saved all my pocket money in it. The most important thing is that it can also take photos and record videos. If anyone of you wants to take photos, I will take them for you!"
When the children heard that they could take photos, they all gathered around.
Long Jianhua's son also came over and wanted to see what kind of magical watch it was.
See this scene.
Long Jianhua’s wife Axia felt that her self-esteem was greatly insulted.
He walked up to his son, grabbed him and slapped him on the butt.
How can a child understand the comparisons between adults? He is just simply curious and thinks it is fun.
Suddenly he was hit and the pain made him cry loudly on the spot.
Seeing this, several adults couldn't help but frown.
The aunt said, "Ah Xia, why are you beating the child for no reason? There are so many people watching. You, ah."
The auntie was an experienced person, so she knew that Axia was angry and embarrassed.
Seeing that Chen Hui's family lived better than hers, she was furious, but she couldn't slap herself in the face, so she could only vent her emotions on her son.
Upon hearing this, Axia snorted coldly.
Pulling his son, or more precisely, dragging him roughly, he walked straight towards the village.
Seeing this, everyone shook their heads and sighed again.
Chen Hui also had a helpless look on his face. Looking at his eldest son who was still showing off the children's watch to his playmates, he didn't know whether to scold him or talk to him.
Because his son did nothing wrong.
It's just sharing the toys you just got with your good friends, what's wrong with that?
(End of this chapter)
