In ordinary rural areas at the foot of Changbai Mountain in Northeast China at that time, there were several types of houses that villagers lived in.

One is the most common adobe house, with three or three and a half rooms. The main material is yellow mud, with wood that is everywhere as beams, and the roof is made of tarpaulin, straw stalks and other materials as the main materials.

For such adobe houses, those that are a little more sophisticated would use red bricks, bluestones, etc. to build a 50-centimeter-high foundation, and then use adobe as the main material, stacking it up little by little, and then putting up beams and adding a roof.

The other type is wooden houses that some ethnic minority residents like to build.

The main body of the house is mostly made of wood, which is sourced locally and processed simply. The roof is also mostly made of wood and reeds. If you are a little more particular, you can just cover it with tarpaulin.

Whether it was a mud house or a wooden house, it was not within Yue Feng’s plan.

Now that I have money, I am building a new house to get married, and the natural first choice is a regular brick house.

Before the Chinese New Year, the father-in-law Wang Jianguo had already chosen the location for the house plot for his son-in-law.

There are five large tiled houses with a very spacious area, located close to the main road of the village. There is a vegetable garden behind the house. Including the space for the five houses and the yard, the total area is more than three acres.

In rural Northeast China, there is actually no shortage of space, let alone building houses.

In the past, Yue Feng’s old house was located closer to the center of the village. There was an old house outside the gate and a not very spacious alley. The location of the new house was chosen so that there was a street right outside the gate, which was very spacious.

With less than a month left before the thaw, Yue Feng started making preparations in advance.

There are five tiled houses with a width of four meters and a depth of six meters. Yue Feng asked a skilled worker in the village who was familiar with building houses to do a simple calculation. He only counted the main house, which was a little more spacious, and 50,000 red bricks would be enough.

Other things like cement, lime, sand, etc. also need to be prepared.

In that era, there were few brick kilns and red bricks were a rare commodity. If you wanted to get red bricks, you could only buy them from a brick factory more than a hundred miles away. Because of the low output and high demand, you had to find connections and go through the back door to buy red bricks.

However, these things and supplies are difficult to obtain for ordinary people, but they are not a big problem for Yue Feng.

Because of production and construction reasons, Hongqi Coal Mine has a good relationship with all the related industries. Yue Feng asked Zou Zhaoguo for help. The other party just said hello and the materials for building the house were found.

All construction materials have been put in place, and we can start work as soon as the weather gradually warms up and thaws.

Half a month has passed unknowingly. The temperature has been rising for many days in a row, and the snow on the mountains has gradually melted.

After Yue Feng found someone who knew how to choose a suitable day to start construction, the major life event of building a new house was officially put on the agenda.

In the rural areas of Northeast China at that time, there was no concept of professional contractors or construction teams. When ordinary people built a house, they would usually take advantage of the slack season during the farming season, call all the relatives, hire two knowledgeable workers in the village, and then start work.

When most families build houses, apart from providing meals, not many people pay wages, and friends and relatives who help out usually don’t ask for money.

But when Yue Feng was building the house, he did not make a big fanfare to recruit people.

One is that his family is an outsider and he doesn’t have many relatives in the local village. If he wants to ask for help, he can only ask his friends and relatives who he is on good terms with.

Secondly, labor costs were low in this era, and Yue Feng was not short of that little bit of wages. Rather than arranging the work out of a favor, he might as well pay the young and strong people in the village who were willing to help build the house.

Under the help of village secretary Wang Jianguo, more than a dozen strong laborers and several members of the hunting team who worked as laborers started to work in a mighty force.

Leveling the land, laying out the plan, digging the foundation, and bringing in building materials… With Yue Feng’s abundant money, a spacious and imposing five-room tiled house rose from the ground in less than half a month.

With the memories and knowledge from his previous life, Yue Feng upgraded many parts of the new house. He divided the kitchen into functional areas, arranged a dedicated living room, and modernized the bedroom.

Of course, even if the planning is upgraded, the earthen kang is still the main source of heating in winter. Yue Feng built three kangs, one large and two small, in the main room in the north house. Even if friends and relatives come to stay overnight at home on weekdays, there is plenty of accommodation.

After the main construction of all the main houses was completed, Yue Feng got some rare plaster. After the main structure was completely dry, he could paint the entire house snow-white.

Don’t underestimate this thing. These days, ordinary people build houses with either newspapers pasted on the walls or just straw and mud walls.

Building a brick and tile house is already very excessive, and finally applying plaster, the texture of the whole house is even more scratched.

In early April, Yue Feng’s new house was built with the overtime work of many strong laborers.

After a rough calculation, the actual amount of red bricks used was over 70,000. The walls around the yard, the east and west warehouses, and the wooden doors were all in place, and even the yard was paved with red bricks.

According to the current luxury standards, he hastily built a house, and when he finally checked the accounts, he spent less than 4,000 yuan. This investment, in the eyes of ordinary villagers, is already an unattainable luxury, but for Yue Feng’s current wealth, the big money was not touched at all, and it did not hurt at all.

More than ten days later, various approvals for the breeding farms on the mountain were received.

Our brother Jun in society was extremely supportive. With his strong support, we directly contracted the nearly 20 acres of forest in Area for Yue Feng.

The contract period is fifty years, and relevant title certificates can be processed. The contract fee is extremely low, just a symbolic fee of a thousand yuan. On average, the cost of one acre of forest land is only a few yuan.

The formalities for the site were settled. Over the next month, Yue Feng organized the original team that built the house at home and sent them to Forest Area No. 20 to start a new round of construction.

In the core residential area designated by the forest farm on the mountain, Yue Feng directly arranged for people to use chainsaws to clear all the miscellaneous wood in the first phase of the farm planning area. Then, according to the long-term housing construction standards, three brick houses of slightly smaller size were built.

Next are the planned breeding areas for different species. Walls were built where necessary, and partitions were made where necessary. The outermost wall was not built with red bricks, but with local materials. Miscellaneous wood was tied into a fence and then buried in the outer area of ​​the designated breeding farm.

During the more than one month before and after the thawing, Yue Feng and his friends in the hunting team spent most of their time on infrastructure construction, in addition to maintaining the minimum supply of food for the second canteen.

Personnel and materials need to be deployed, different links need to be coordinated, and problems discovered during the actual construction process need to be adjusted. Basically, Yue Feng is busy running back and forth between the village, city, and mountains every day.

During this process, Yue Feng’s mother and father-in-law gave him great help, and almost all logistical issues were taken care of by his mother Meng Yulan and his girlfriend Wang Xiaona.

As the saying goes, a general has no shortage of hungry soldiers. In terms of the treatment and food of the construction workers, Yue Feng once again let these people see the arrogance of the Yue family.

Ordinary families built houses to serve the workers, and it was considered good if they could provide them with a steamed bun made of two grams of flour and a few side dishes every day.

Working for Yue Feng’s family, they had meat and vegetables for every meal, as well as plenty of white flour buns. They also had wine for dinner. Wild boar meat, roe deer, bear meat, etc., which they would not eat during the New Year, were cooked in almost every way for the workers.

The workers could naturally feel the kindness of the host, and soon the news that Yue Feng’s family served high-standard meals to the workers spread among the surrounding families and villagers.

If we say that Yue Feng in the autumn and winter of last year slowly emerged around his village, after two impressive performances of infrastructure construction after the spring thaw, all the villages within a dozen miles knew that a wealthy man who went up the mountain to hunt hawks had emerged from Xing’an Village.

The Yue family can finally hold their heads high on this small piece of land at their doorstep.

Time was still moving forward slowly, and less than a week after the construction of the farm was completed, the red-headed document was delivered to the individual on the land contract.

The rumors of land distribution that started last year became a reality when the document was issued.

Yue Feng had already discussed the matter of farming at home with his parents and father-in-law. There were plenty of opportunities to make money at hand, so who would bother with just a little bit of land?

Of course, he didn’t plan to cultivate the land himself, but when the village collective property was distributed by lottery, there were still things worthy of Yue Feng’s attention.

This thing was none other than the tractor of the village brigade.

The Dongfanghong-28 tractor produced by the Changchun Tractor Factory is also called the -wheel rubber tractor.

This thing was distributed according to the village’s share and used to be the team’s most valuable collective property.

At this critical juncture, apart from opportunities such as the distribution of village collective property, individuals are unable to obtain quotas to purchase on their own.

Yue Feng had no interest in other collective properties, such as large livestock such as cattle, horses, mules, etc., until the tractor he had been longing for came on the scene, then Yue Feng began to fight vigorously for it.

Any wealthy household with a little knowledge in the village knows that a large production material like a tractor is a good thing. The village’s collective land has been distributed to the villagers, and the farmers are very enthusiastic and motivated to farm. If this tractor is bought, even if it is just used by the villagers to farm, it will be a sure-win business.

There are many smart people who have this idea. Several major families in the village, including the Zhou, Zhang, and Zhu families, are all planning to buy this tractor.

There was only one tractor, but many people wanted it. To be fair, they had to agree on a price of 2,800 yuan in advance and then draw lots to determine purchasing eligibility.

At this time, the benefits of Yue Feng’s daily good deeds by his neighbors came to light.

All the villagers present who had an idea could participate in the lottery. None of the wealthy and interested people got the lottery, but Grandma Li, the neighbor behind Yue Feng, got the lottery.

On weekdays, Grandma Li was taken care of a lot by Yue Feng’s family. Now that she had drawn the lottery, she gave the purchasing qualification to Yue Feng without hesitation.

Yue Feng paid 2,800 yuan to the village office on the same day.

In addition to the motorcycle tricycle, another limited edition high-end vehicle also legitimately fell into Yue Feng’s hands. (End of this chapter)