Small advertisements are also powerful. To Mu Yi and Jin Lily's surprise, there were quite a lot of people renting houses. And the rent was quite high. In the end, the two chose a beautiful woman who opened a clothing store in the county.

The tenant rented out the house on the commercial street with a rent of 8,000 yuan per year. The agreed handover date was January 20, 2009.

Why did we agree on this time? The main reason is that the tenant’s previous lease expired on January 20th. And Muyi’s preliminary estimate that the house would be renovated would not exceed one month.

In his estimation, it only takes half a month to renovate the store and house, and then open the windows and blow the air for half a month. Basically, you can move in. You should be able to move on New Year's Day. But since the tenant's arrival date is the 20th

It's for the convenience of the tenants.

Moreover, it is better to have more time for yourself, which is better than being stuck in a rigid schedule at all times. In addition, judging from the rental of housing in the commercial street, Mu Yi and Jin Lily are even more convinced that housing prices in Xigui will definitely rise.

Because in their estimation, renting a house for six to seven thousand was the limit. They didn't expect that the beauty would give her a rent of eight thousand as soon as she opened her mouth, which really made it difficult for the two of them to refuse.

Because when they bought the house, the rolling shutter doors and stair gates of the store had not been installed yet, so they did not get the keys at that time. When Mu Yi and Jin Lily got the keys to the new market store and house, they were so happy.

Even Jin Chongming is interested. He wants to take a closer look at the house and shop that his daughter and son-in-law are trying their best to buy.

Mu Yi and Jin Lily waited for more than half an hour holding onto the empty house. Jin Chongming finally arrived at the new market. Mu Yi and Jin Lily quickly led him up and down to take a good look at the house and the store.

The layout of the house is very simple, with two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom. It is really small and compact. The two bedrooms correspond to the store downstairs of the house. However, the area is slightly larger by a few square meters. This is because

The exterior wall of the house extends almost more than one meter towards the New Market Road. The living room, kitchen and bathroom correspond to the store next to my store, which is also a few square meters larger.

Jin Chongming looked at the house and was still satisfied. He thought it was enough for Muyi and his family to live in. Everyone went downstairs to look at the store. Jin Chongming asked Muyi what kind of business they planned to renovate the store.

Both Mu Yi and Jin Lily said they had not thought about it yet. Jin Chongming suggested that the foundation of the store must be laid more firmly. Mu Yi and Jin Baihe were confused about the meaning. Jin Chongming explained to them. Because based on experience

, this will be the new market in Longzhong from now on. And Mu's store is just at the entrance of the new market. The port is very good. It can be rented to others to open a clothing store or a snack shop.

However, you still have to consider what happens if someone rents it to do bulky business in the future, such as selling grain, oil, feed, agricultural inputs, fertilizers, cement, steel, etc. If the foundation of the store is not solid, it may be possible to move up in the future.

Stacking dozens or even hundreds of tons of stuff will crush the store floor.

Mu Yi couldn't help but admire his father-in-law for having more experience than him and thinking more far-term than himself. According to his father-in-law's advice, Mu Yi would not have to worry about renting the store in the future.

So I quickly asked my father-in-law how to make the floor of the store firmer. My father-in-law told Muyi and the others what another relative knew about the situation.

It turned out that when Yun Ankang was developing a new market, he had to expropriate the fields of an uncle's family of Jin Baihe's family. The fields of this uncle's family happened to be in the center of the new market.

No matter how Yun Ankang tried to coerce and induce him, his uncle's family refused to agree to the expropriation. But if his uncle's family did not agree to the expropriation, the road to the new market would not be opened. Due to the conflict of interest, Yun Ankang and his uncle had quarreled countless times, and even

I've gotten into fights several times.

In the end, both parties took a step back and reached a final compromise. That is, the construction of the new market road occupied the land of the uncle's family for free. This occupation took up more than two acres and nearly three acres of land. However, the remaining land of the uncle's family was left to the uncle's family.

When the government builds it by itself, whether it is for the uncle's family to live in or rent out for sale, Yun Ankang is not only not allowed to interfere, but also assists in handling various procedures such as real estate certificates and land use certificates. Of course, the cost of applying for the certificates must be borne by the uncle himself.

Jin Chongming called Zhang Xuefen's uncle and told him that Jin Baihe's family had also bought a house and a store in the new market. His uncle asked Jin Chongming where he bought it. Jin Chongming told him. His uncle told Jin Chongming that Mu

There was something wrong with the house they bought during construction.

During the construction of the house, one or eight walls were missing. For this reason, Yun Ankang even scolded the house builders. It turned out that the house builders felt that the living room was not really big, so there was no need to add any more walls.

One wall and eight walls.

Mu Yi didn't notice it unless Jin Chongming said it. As soon as he said it, Mu Yi and Jin Baihe quickly called Jin Chongming, and the three of them went back upstairs to take a look. They still didn't notice it at first.

But if you look carefully, you can see that this wall is actually the dividing wall between the living room, the kitchen and the bathroom. It is true that there is no need for an eighty-year-old wall. Just one brick? One or two walls are enough. Mu Yihe

Jin Lily breathed a sigh of relief and felt that this was not a problem at all. Jin Chongming also felt that it was not a problem.

Mu Yi thought to himself, what are you afraid of? After all, this house is a brick-concrete cast-in-place structure, and it is not very high. It has two floors and one bottom, and the 5.12 earthquake did not shake it. There is no problem. My father-in-law owns it.

The house is still made of prefabricated panels, and the bays are larger than here? He is not afraid. What should I be afraid of?

The three of them came downstairs again. There was indeed something wrong with the store. The fill on the floor of the store was just some soil clods and rotten bricks. Then a layer of concrete was hastily poured on top. It was estimated that the amount of cement was not enough. They smashed it with a stone.

I heard an "empty sound" coming from inside.

This is the problem that my uncle and the others discovered. If you just do a light business? For example, open a clothing store or a small restaurant. It is perfectly fine to lay a layer of concrete on the floor and then lay floor tiles. But

If you want to consider doing heavy business such as steel, cement, fertilizer, rice, etc., this floor will not meet the requirements.

So? Everyone called Boss Yun and pointed out that there was a quality problem with the floor of his store. Of course, Boss Yun knew what was going on with the house he was repairing. Although he did not admit that there was a quality problem, he did.

The excuse is that everyone cultivates in this way.

However, he still agreed to make some rectifications as requested by the Mu family. Thinking that Boss Yun was still kind to him, Mu Yi did not make too many demands. He just hoped that Boss Yun would find someone to dig out the previous floor and then be responsible for half of it.

of cement, and help Mu Yi find vibrators and vibrating plates? Just help Mu Yi lay the concrete on the store floor firmly. Mu Yi himself can find someone to pull pebbles to pave the floor, and then lay a layer of sand.

Stone concrete? The last step is to add fine sand concrete to pave the floor.

Yun Ankang heard what Mu Yi said and considered that he still had a lot of cement left in building his house. Should he put it there until spring comes? When the rainy season comes, it might be distributed, so he readily took on all the cement.

In this way, Yun Ankang hired some workers to dig out the crispy floor and haul away the construction debris in just one day.

After everything was done, he called Mu Yi. As soon as Mu Yi got the call, he called his father-in-law. His father-in-law found some people in the village, and they all went to pick up pebbles in the Xianhe River. Mu Yi dragged two tractors with these pebbles.

The pebbles are each about the size of a slightly flattened football and are hand-selected, so they are very uniform.

Everyone first laid the cobblestones directly at the door of the store, and then stacked them one by one. It was such a coincidence. Not too much, not too little at all. Just two tractors were able to cover it.

Then they went to pull two tractors to bring sand and rocks. Yun Ankang also led everyone to drag the cement, vibrating rods and vibrating plates.

Just when everyone was preparing to lay concrete, Mu Yi suddenly thought of a question. After this, how to drain the water if a restaurant is opened in the future? So he hurriedly ran to Longzhong Market to buy Φ80mm PVC pipes and elbows.

It was buried against the wall. It was deliberately tilted a few degrees to ensure smooth drainage. Then, empty cement bags were used to block the drainage inlet that extended half a foot from the floor to prevent debris from falling in and clogging it.

Everyone helped mix the cement into the sand and rocks at a high standard. Then as soon as the glue pipe was connected and the faucet was turned on, the mixing started manually. The work was in full swing. After mixing, it was put in the trolley and poured onto the paved road.

On top of the cobblestones, then beat them with a vibrator.

After the sand and stone concrete layer was completely covered, the vibrating plate was replaced. Everyone joked with Mu Yi, "I have never seen anything done like this. It is completely a national defense project."

The floor of the store was solidified. Mu Yi and Jin Lily said they would treat everyone to a meal. Everyone said they would not eat now but wait until Jin Lily and the others moved to prepare the nine bowls. Then Jin Chongming and the others went back.

Mu Yi and Jin Lily did not leave. They continued to stay in the house. Jin Lily helped Mu Yi pull the tape measure, and the two worked together to carefully measure every dimension of the house, such as the floor, doors, windows, and floor heights. They

This is to plan how to decorate the house. You also need to calculate the number of floor tiles required, the total area for hanging putty, etc.

After the two of them took the measurements, it was already dark. Tired and hungry, they went back to the commercial street in disgrace.

Back at home on the commercial street, the two of them were really hungry. They didn't have time to take a shower, so they simply washed their hands and faces. They boiled the food that their mother had left for them together and ate it. They quickly went to take a shower.

After taking a bath, Jin Lily led Xiao Lele into the bedroom to sleep. Mu Yi picked up the data they had just measured, found a calculator, and went into the bedroom to hide under the quilt to calculate.

Because of his experience in decorating houses in commercial streets, Mu Yi easily calculated all the required materials. The two of them slept peacefully.

After getting off work the next afternoon, the two of them went home and had a quick meal. They picked up the power strip, flashlight, simple mobile lamp, etc. in their pockets and went out.

After going out, the two went to their uncle's house in Shunzhong Lane and borrowed tools such as cutting machines, chisels, and hand hammers. Then they caught fire and rushed to Longzhong to start the decoration work.

Their job is to cut out wire ducts in the wall, switch socket box slots, exhaust holes for range hoods and other basic work.

As the cutting machine moved against the wall, the sharp noise made them unbearable. What was even more unbearable was that as the cutting blade of the cutting machine rotated at high speed, dust from the cut cement sand bricks instantly filled the house.

It was all over the room. Their faces, hair, hands, and clothes were all covered in dust.

The dust was all over the place, and the two of them couldn't stand it. Mu Yi directed Jin Lily to buy some masks, hoping to block the dust. Then they found empty mineral water bottles and nailed the bottle caps with nails.

Make some small holes. Fill the mineral water bottle with water and close the cap.

In this way, you squeeze the mineral water bottle with your left hand, and water will spurt out from the hole in the bottle cap and pour onto the cut wall. Hold the cutting machine in your right hand and continue cutting. The dust has reduced a bit, but more of the dust has turned into mud.

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Soon, Mu Yi and Jin Lily completely turned into gray people. Except there was no gray in their eyes, there was gray everywhere...

I was able to work vigorously at the beginning. After working for a while, my hands became numb and painful. The hand holding the cutting machine was shaking a little. This is a dangerous signal. If you are not careful, you will cut your hands.

Jin Lily felt sorry for Mu Yi, so she let Mu Yi rest and let her do the cutting. But Mu Yi really didn't trust Jin Lily to cut, so he refused to let her cut. Mu Yi gritted his teeth and cut again. He couldn't do it anymore, so he

Stop and rest. Also let the cutting machine take a rest, because the cutting blades are too hot...

In fact, rest does not mean doing nothing. What Mu Yi and Jin Lily call rest is when Jin Lily shines a light on Mu Yi, holds a hammer in one hand and a chisel in the other. Hit the chisel with the hammer, and then

Cut out the cement skin and bricks with lines, and remove them bit by bit to expose the groove shape, so that in the next step, the wires can be passed through the pipe and buried in the trunking, and then smoothed with cement mortar.

Mu Yi really had no sense of time when he started working. Unconsciously, the two of them worked until after 10 o'clock at night. Considering that it was too late and they were afraid that they would not be able to catch the car back, they stopped the construction.

Come downstairs and walk to the highway. I don’t feel cold even when I’m working. But when I’m not working, when I’m on the highway in the cold winter, it gets really cold when the wind blows.

There was no car either. The two of them thought they could just wait here, so they might as well wait while walking. The two of them picked up their tools and walked toward the city gate. After walking seven or eight hundred meters, when they were about to reach the double stone bridge, a shot came from behind.

There was a very bright light. The two of them quickly stood on the roadside and waved.

The car stopped next to the two of them. It was a van. Seeing that the two of them were dirty, the van driver didn't want to take them. He said that if they wanted to take a ride, the fare would be ten yuan per person.

When Mu Yi and Jin Lily heard this, they actually wanted to pay twenty yuan. They were a little worried about the money, so they stopped taking the van. The master stepped on the accelerator and drove away. The two of them left quickly.

Unknowingly, I walked past the houses of Lingguan Township. If I go further, I will reach the boundary of Qingshan Township. On the left of the boundary of Qingshan Township is the sweet cherry tree base of Dongfang Company. If I go further on the right,

A little bit is Xiaogushan, which is also the Martyrs Cemetery.

Everyone is used to calling this place Qingshanba, which means a big dam. So this place is actually a very open place. When Mu Yi and Jin Lily walked here, the howling sound of the cold wind in the open space was really scary.

What is more realistic than scary is the cold! The biting cold made their faces, ears, and hands extremely cold. It was so cold that their noses flowed out...

When the two of them walked to the May Day Bridge, another car stopped beside them. The master said that he would charge them ten yuan and take them to the county seat. When they got here, they were only a few steps away from the county seat.

It was more than 1 kilometer, almost two kilometers away. The two of them thought that they were close to walking. Still reluctant to part with the ten yuan, they continued walking.

It was already early in the morning when the two of them walked to the house. They thought they were walking very fast, but in fact they walked for almost two hours. The two of them actually walked two hours for the seven or eight kilometers.
To be continued...