His predecessor failed

Su Zhuzhu saw that the house was tidy and the clothes were folded and put in the bedroom. Since she had nothing to do, she planned to go into the study to continue thinking about the design.

He Qiaojin, who had just come out of the bedroom, saw his wife about to go into the study, and quickly pulled her back.

"Wife, we haven't had a good chat since we came back today!"

Su Zhuzhu looked puzzled. What were they chatting about? If there was something important, they would have said it long ago. Chatting would waste her time. However, looking at He Qiaojin's handsome face, she still planned to ask first.

"Well, tell me what's going on."

He Qiaojin looked at his wife with a righteous face, and felt frustrated.

"Wife, you see, we've just eaten our fill, why don't we go out for a walk or something, it'll be a good way to build some relationship!"

"I've already showered. I don't want to go out for a walk. I'm going to the study to do something. You should go take a shower as well. You smell like alcohol."

After saying that, he turned around and went to the study.

He Qiaojin swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue. Fine, it's a day since my wife has disliked me, so I should go take a shower first. Also, I should quit drinking and not give my wife the chance to dislike me.

Feeling aggrieved, He Qiaojin could only go and wash himself.

But after washing up, I washed the clothes that two people had taken off, cleaned the room again, and mopped the floor. I looked at the time and it was only a little after eight o'clock. I looked at the light coming from the study, and still took a book and leaned against the head of the bed to read. But I was absent-minded when reading the book, and the time passed like grinding a needle, which was very torturous.

Su Zhuzhu, immersed in her own world, did not feel the man's resentment. This was the moment when inspiration burst out.

The captain said that he wanted to renovate the houses for the entire brigade, so it was necessary to unify the architectural style, which would also be the most eye-catching business card of the Red Star Brigade.

At the beginning, Su Zhuzhu just started to draw the design of the farmhouse courtyard, basically referring to the architectural style of later generations. After all, she did not graduate from architectural design, so she could only use ready-made ones. If it weren't for He Qiaojin being at home, she would have wanted to go into the space to look up information.

It is definitely impossible to live in the tube-shaped buildings in the city in the countryside. Even the commercial housing of later generations is far less comfortable than a house with a yard.

So Su Zhuzhu planned to design a single-family house suitable for rural areas, because there is plenty of land in rural areas!

Considering that this is my first time designing these, I’ll start with the simple families in the team.

The smallest number of people in the Red Star Brigade's families are elderly widows and widowers, who are now provided for by the brigade. A nursing home can be designed for them later.

Then there are Ping'an and his grandchildren. There are no other people in the family, so the demand for a house is relatively small. Su Zhuzhu plans to design a small courtyard with three bedrooms and a loft. Ping'an's homestead is not very large, so it is just right.

It faces south, with the main hall in the middle and a south-facing room on the left for Grandma Ping'an to live in. It has a good orientation and plenty of light. To the north is the kitchen and dining room, which are simply separated and have a back door for transporting firewood. A shed is built in the backyard so that firewood can be stored outside. It is separated from Grandma Ping'an's room by a north-south corridor. There are also two rooms on the right. The south-facing one is for Ping'an to live in, and the north-facing one is temporarily used as a utility room.

Taking into account the living habits in the countryside, there were no septic tanks at that time, so Su Zhuzhu designed the toilet outside the utility room, and according to the layout of her own home, she also designed a bathroom, and it was close to the kitchen, so that it would be convenient to use water.

All rooms are connected by indoor corridors, so the elderly do not have to go outside when it rains or snows, and their safety is guaranteed. Older people have brittle bones and are most afraid of falling.

Su Zhuzhu designed large windows for the rooms, changing the tall and narrow wooden windows of the current Red Star Brigade, greatly increasing the light rate.

In addition to these, Su Zhuzhu also designed an attic for Ping'an's home. The stairs divide it into two rooms on the left and right. It will definitely not be used for the time being, but it can be put aside for now. It can also serve as an insulation layer in summer and can be rebuilt later if needed.

Then there is the front yard. Su Zhuzhu didn't make many arrangements on how to arrange the yard. Every family has their own preferences, whether it is planting flowers or vegetables, it is up to them. She just added a pavilion.

Although the team leader suggested unified reconstruction, the cost was not low, so Su Zhuzhu still thought of using wooden fences. The Red Star Team was backed by a mountain, and wood seemed to be inexhaustible in this era.

However, Su Zhuzhu designed a template for the wooden fence, and it will look good as long as the style is unified.

Finally, there is the backyard, which is usually used to grow vegetables in rural areas. Grandma Ping'an is very diligent. Although her eyesight is not good, she grows vegetables very well and keeps the vegetable garden at home tidy. When Su Zhuzhu and Liu Yuanyuan were in the Red Star Brigade, they often went to Grandma Ping'an to buy vegetables, so they knew her vegetable growing situation very well.

Su Zhuzhu designed the whole house with red bricks and white walls. The only available options were black tiles. In order to achieve overall harmony, Su Zhuzhu added some Chinese style, especially the eaves, which followed the traditional style, so that the overall look is both harmonious and beautiful.

The overall design drawing is very good. Although colored pencils cannot be used, it does not affect Su Zhuzhu's desired drawing. The design drawing even shows which places in the front and back are suitable for planting trees, and what kind of trees will look more beautiful. As for flowers and plants, forget it. There are too few of them planted in rural areas. In this era, most people have difficulty getting enough to eat, let alone planting flowers and plants that cannot be eaten or drunk. People might even report you for engaging in capitalist practices, and then you would not be able to eat mutton but would still be smelly.

Su Zhuzhu continued to work with great interest and had long forgotten the resentful man on the bed in the bedroom. She was so absorbed in painting that she didn't even notice that He Qiaojin came to look at her several times.

He Qiaojin once again lay down on the bed with his arms and legs spread, pulled the quilt to cover himself, and sighed deeply. Oh, what should I do if my wife works too hard and doesn't even remember that I have a man.

For Su Zhuzhu, time passed very quickly. She didn't even realize it. By the time she finished drawing the design of Ping An's house, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Unfortunately, Su Zhuzhu was so excited that she was not sleepy at all. She continued to modify the details, striving to complete the design tonight.

After drawing the design, Su Zhuzhu did a simple cost calculation. There was no need to consider the labor cost, as rural people have more strength, and the team could organize the young and middle-aged people to build the building together and just calculate the work points.

There is no need to consider wood. The most important things left are bricks, tiles, and materials for plastering the walls. Su Zhuzhu feels that if the entire brigade is rebuilt, these items will be a huge expense. She plans to call the brigade leader tomorrow to see if the brigade has the conditions to build a brick factory to produce bricks and tiles. Although it is for the needs of her own brigade, from the current point of view, it can at least continue to operate prosperously for another 20 years. The demand is huge, and the Red Star Brigade has good transportation advantages, which few other brick factories can compare with.