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"Dad, our family is much better off now. Don't sell eggs all the time. Why don't you keep them for your family? We have many children at home."

Not daring to recall the story of the original owner Er Gouzi and Ji Dan, Lu Yao changed her mind and started chatting with her father.

"I have saved quite a few. My family often eats eggs now. We live a very good life." Uncle Lu said confidently.

Ever since Lu Yao killed the tiger, the Xie family sent a lot of very practical thank-you gifts. The Lu family's life has become much more comfortable, and they have saved a lot of money that they would have needed to buy food and other supplies.

The Lu family loves raising chickens, so Uncle Lu used the money he saved to buy many half-grown chickens.

Including the six chickens given by the Xie family and the ones they already had, the Lu family now has more than fifty chickens!

Most of them are egg-laying roosters, and our family can collect more than 30 eggs every day.

After saving up for a few days, you can achieve egg freedom.

But how could Daddy bear to let everyone eat as much as they wanted!

Lu Yao curled her lips, thinking that it was only this time when she returned home that she could eat an egg every morning because of her great contribution to the family.

The rest of the family also ate it once, but each person got one slice after cutting the egg into four.

This is what Uncle Lu means by his family eating eggs frequently.

"An egg costs two cents. If I sell thirty eggs a day, that's sixty cents. That's almost two taels of silver a month. How can I eat them all?" Father Lu calculated the bill carefully.

"I still have to keep it to exchange for money. There are many things in my family that need money. Now we have to build a house, so we have to spend more money."

As Uncle Lu spoke, he tightened the bag in his arms.

Lu Yao knew that the most valuable ginseng was in the bag in her father's arms.

"You have good stuff in there, and this cart of goods can be exchanged for a lot of silver. How come it's not enough to spend!" Lu Yao estimated that after this trip, she would be able to exchange for about 150 taels of silver.

It should be more than enough to build six large brick and tile houses.

"Building a brick and tile house is not cheap." Mother Lu said quietly.

At this moment, Lu Yao still didn't quite believe it.

But when she returned to the city and went to the construction site of her own house, and took over the various material purchase invoices and expense invoices handed over by the ink master, Lu Yao took a deep breath!

“It cost so much!”

This is based on the huge discount given by the Song family.

The ink master smiled and said, "Miss, you are building a small building, and you ordered good materials at that time. These materials alone are more expensive than building an ordinary house."

The same bricks for building a house can be bought at three coins for one penny or one for three coins. There are cheap rough tiles and fine tiles of high quality.

As for the materials used for foundation, piling, beam raising, cement and so on, there are good and bad, expensive and cheap ones.

At first, Lu Yao thought that since it was a house to live in, the quality couldn’t be bad, otherwise if it had problems in the future, wouldn’t she be the one suffering?

Besides, because of the relationship with the Song family, the price of the materials was much cheaper than buying them at other stores, so Lu Yao simply ordered better materials.

So the price went up directly.

"Also, because this is a small building, some crafts must be done by specialized masters. The masters have good skills and their prices are high!" the ink master added.

This is the difference in labor costs.

Moreover, in order to build the house faster, Lu Yao specially hired a few more people, hoping to finish it as soon as possible and move in. She wanted to have her own home as soon as possible.

As a result, the speed of building houses increased and the cost also increased.

"There are also some special structures that you ordered before. Because they need to be pre-installed, the ordinary structure of the house has been changed, so more materials and labor are used." The ink master continued to help Lu Yao calculate the accounts.

Lu Yao felt a little guilty.

That was her obsession as a time traveler.

Having been used to living in a modern civilized society in her previous life, she was really not used to the fact that the toilet was far away in the yard and there was only one pit.

On windy and rainy nights, I had to wear a straw hat and a raincoat and hold a candle to go to the toilet.

I didn't want to go to the kitchen, so I had to run to another room in the yard and busy myself in front of a very large pot for a long time before I could light the fire and boil water to cook.

I don’t want it to get cold anymore, as there isn’t even any heating facilities in the house.

There are many more. When she was at the Lu family, she already felt very uncomfortable.

So, now she has the final say over her house.

Although she is not like those academic time travelers who know everything, she can even build a biogas stove when building a house.

But she told the ink master her requirements and drew some less-than-standard sketches. After the ink master understood and improved them, he combined the ancient and the modern and used traditional manufacturing techniques to perfectly reproduce some modern designs.

Lu Yao took a tour around the construction site and was very satisfied. She praised the master painter and the other workers for being amazing!

Everything is fine, except that I am a little short of money.

He originally received sixty taels, and spent thirty-eight taels to buy the yard. When he went to the government office to transfer the ownership, he paid another two taels in various handling fees, so forty taels were gone.

I thought the remaining twenty taels should be enough, but it turned out to be far over the budget.

After all, Lu Yao was not an expert in this area. At first, she only roughly calculated the cost of materials and labor, thinking that twenty taels should be about the right amount.

I never expected that after it was actually built, there would be such a big difference.

For example, various expenses begin to arise from the very beginning of clearing out the collapsed old house.

Every day after that, the masters on the construction site were paid, plus various purchases and construction expenses, as well as the wages of Zhang Sanniang and Li Siya, Lu Yao's bill had reached thirty-eight taels of silver.

It will take another ten days to build the house.

After the construction is completed, the carpentry work begins.

Since it is a combined commercial and residential area, decoration is inevitable and furniture is also essential.

It’s all money!

Lu Yao suddenly realized that it would cost her at least seventy taels to finish building this small building!

“My goodness, no wonder the common people here, even if they have many families and live in such crowded places, still rarely build small buildings!

There is a huge difference between building a brick and tile building and building a mud house!" Lu Yao was secretly surprised.

Suddenly I remembered the house that was about to be renovated.

Although it is not a small building, it has many rooms and a large area, so I guess the amount of money should not be too different.

No wonder Dad and Mom sold all the ginseng and many gifts after they decided to renovate the house. We really need to prepare more money.

Lu Yao held the bill for thirty-eight taels of silver and smiled slightly, looking calm and composed.

Don’t be afraid, I not only have ginseng, but also deer antlers!

Tomorrow I'll go sell gifts too!

After checking the construction site, Lu Yao first paid the bill of twenty taels, and left some snacks as a reward for the two young sisters who helped to look after the site.

Then he went to his aunt's house and gave her four pounds of snacks from Jixiangzhai and a large piece of fine cotton cloth.

The uncle was so happy that he even invited Lu Yao to have a meal.

Then Lu Yao went to the Song Mansion.

She had agreed with Song Yanyi before that she would temporarily live in a small courtyard in the Song Mansion before the new house was built.

She did not walk through the grand gate of the Song Mansion, but entered the Song Mansion through a side door and returned to the small courtyard where she lived.

A maid in the yard saw her come back and immediately ran to report to Song Yanyi.