After fleeing famine, I have thousands of acres of fertile land

"Sir, please buy as much as you want. The more you buy, the cheaper it will be."

"Please help us calculate the usage. It will be enough for more than 30 rooms."

"That's a lot. One room uses about 600 tiles, and more than 30 rooms cost about 15 taels of silver. This is already a bargain for you. If you buy them individually, you can't buy them even if you spend 2 more taels of silver."

"Can it be cheaper?"

"We are a small business. It's not easy to make a little money to support our family. This is the best price we can get."

"Boss, let's go out and have a look. There are a few other shops outside that also sell tiles." Boss Ye pretended to go out. They had already inquired before coming here, and this shop was the cheapest.

The tile shop owner quickly stopped at the door and said, "Brother, let's discuss this. My family still sells slates. If you buy them, I'll give you a lower price. I'm not doing this for money, I just want to make friends."

Boss Ye retracted his foot from the door and turned to look at the stone slab. The stone slab had been cut into a rectangular shape and was well polished.

The people who came to look at the materials nodded with satisfaction and secretly signaled to Boss Ye that they could buy from this company.

In the end, the tiles and slates cost a total of thirty taels. Boss Ye bought some for his own family and paved the front and back yards with them so that he didn't have to step back and forth in the mud on rainy days.

"Boss, our village should need some more. Come and buy them tomorrow. You still have to give me this price." Boss Ye was worried that the villagers would see the slate and want them, so he made arrangements in advance.

The auspicious day chosen by the ancestral temple village is the day after tomorrow. Boss Ye is not so particular about paving the yard. He simply takes advantage of tomorrow when he has free time and finds a few people to finish paving the yard in one day.

"Brother, the stone slabs are laid very well. Even when it rains, our feet won't get muddy." Ye Lao Er came over to see the paved yard.

"Second brother, you lay one too. I've also reserved several drainage ditches, so we don't have to worry about any heavy rain."

"Is it expensive? If it's not expensive, I will also lay it out. I can put the furniture in the yard later. In the summer, I can work directly in the yard. It's cooler than sitting in the back room."

"We bought it together with the village. It's not very expensive. If you want to buy it, just go and get it. I told the shopkeeper that our village will buy it at wholesale price."

After hearing this, Ye Lao Er hurried to find Lao San, and the two families planned to buy it together and lay the floor quickly while the weather was good in the past two days.

The villagers saw this and those who made money in the winter were willing to buy some to pave their yards. Those who had less money bought less and only paved the walkway to make it easier to get in and out when it rained.

When the chosen day arrived, the head of the village invited someone to preside over the groundbreaking ceremony and perform rituals. During the entire process, no one dared to speak.

The whole ceremony lasted for half an hour. It ended when the village head led the Ye family in kowtow and pay their respects.

After the end, the Ye family was divided into three groups, one group dug the foundation, one group transported the soil out, and another group made earthen bricks.

The beaten mud bricks are hung out to dry in the sun, and a few fires are lit at night to dry the bricks quickly.

More than a hundred people were busy here, and the height of the house was rising rapidly. It took more than 20 days to complete the house.

This process would be even faster if we didn't have to wait for the mud bricks to dry.

Others in the village were also breaking mud bricks, as the private school and meeting place needed a lot of them. Doctor Lin also ordered that the village pay one penny for two mud bricks, and they would pay as many as they needed.

After the ancestral hall was completed and the mud bricks for the private school were dried, more people came to build their houses, and even the courtyard was built in just over ten days.

Next is the meeting hall. With strength in numbers, the houses are popping up like bamboo shoots after a rain, changing their appearance every day.

Doctor Lin chose a time to build the house and found twenty people to help build it, paying them thirty cents a day, with no meals provided.

Doctor Lin borrowed a few taels of silver from Boss Ye. He planned to build the yard and the house at the same time so that he wouldn't have to spend any more effort in the future.

Boss Ye doesn't worry about not being able to pay it back. Doctor Lin receives a monthly salary, and he also receives tips from wealthy families, so he can pay it back in a few months.

Doctor Lin came back with the village car the night before the appointed date. He stayed at Old Man Ye's house that night and brought back all the items needed for the work.

Boss Ye knew that Dr. Lin was going to build a house, so he didn't plant anything on the homestead this year and even helped clear the grass.

"Wen Ning, thank you for worrying about me." Doctor Lin was in the city with his children and couldn't take care of the village.

"Doctor Lin, you saved my father on the way to escape famine. I want to thank you."

"It was Qingya and Dalang who saved me first." Doctor Lin did not forget the miserable look of himself falling in the snow.

"Doctor Lin, we don't need to thank each other. With the relationship between our two families, this is nothing. Everyone is here, you can go and see how to build it."

Doctor Lin looked at Boss Ye with gratitude and went to discuss the work with the people who came to work.

The building that Doctor Lin described is not complicated, except that there are more rooms. The mud bricks are ready to dry, so it will be quick to build.

Doctor Lin personally burned incense and knelt down, then lit firecrackers, and everyone started to go in and work.

The village head heard the sound of firecrackers and walked over with his hands behind his back.

"Doctor Lin, how many days will you stay at home? Can you take some time off to come to the clinic?"

"The head of the village is here. I have a day off today and will be back in the afternoon. Please help me keep an eye on it. I will come back when the beams are put up."

"I'll keep an eye on it for you, don't worry. The quality of the work done by the villagers is absolutely guaranteed." The head of the village didn't think it was a big deal.

Doctor Lin was grateful to Kaoshan Village. If it weren't for the villagers' care along the way, they would not have been able to survive.

In the afternoon, Dr. Lin reluctantly returned to the city. When he comes back next time, he will be able to see the completed house.

Everyone in the village knew that Dr. Lin wanted to save money to find his son, so they came to work early in the morning and finished work after dark, just to help Dr. Lin save some money.

The day before Ye Chenjing and his companions went on holiday, the Lin family's house was completed, and only the beams were left to be put up.

Boss Ye went to the city to pick up the child, and brought the Lin family's grandfather and grandson back with him.

Doctor Lin bought a lot of candies and wedding cakes and scattered them when the beams were being raised. Half of the children in the village came, waiting to grab the wedding cakes.

Listening to the master builder saying auspicious words, I couldn't help but get teary-eyed. I finally have my own home.

~Good luck~

After the servants heard this, they began to scatter wedding cakes. Doctor Lin also put in twenty coins, saying that the more people scrambled for the cakes, the better off the host family would be.

Doctor Lin asked the women in the village to help with cooking, and after the beams were put up, he wanted to treat the workers to a meal.

After eating and drinking, everyone left. Doctor Lin decided to distribute the leftover food to the people who helped cook and gave each of them ten cents.

The women were a little embarrassed. They came to help, so how could they accept money? But Dr. Lin insisted, so they reluctantly accepted it.

After everyone in the yard had left, Doctor Lin walked the house inside and out. Although it was not completely healed yet, the roof had been completed and it would be almost done in another two days.

"Grandpa, this is our home. You can arrange things however you want and live wherever you want." Lin Wenxuan took his grandfather's hand to confirm. They rented a house in the city, and many of the landlord's things could not be moved.