The morning of July 1st!

Lin Ting helped Shen Wanyi put on her clothes and cleaned up Shen Qingzhou's chamber pot and other things.

A medicine boy came downstairs in Wanhetang to call her.

"Mrs. Lin, there's a guy named Wu Weibo looking for you downstairs!"

Wu Weibo?

Lin Ting thought about the name in his mind and it took him a while to react.

Wu Weibo, Master Wu, isn’t that the Master Wu that Carpenter Huang introduced to her, the one with good skills in building houses?

"Tell Master Wu I'll be down right away."

Lin Ting went downstairs and washed his hands before going forward. When he arrived at the gate of Wanhetang, he saw a middle-aged man who was strong but tanned.

Lin Ting stepped forward and asked, "Excuse me, are you Wu Weibo, Master Wu?"

Wu Weibo saw that Lin Ting was such a young woman, could she accomplish such a big thing as building a house?

"I am! Are you Madam Lin?"

"Well! My husband is upstairs, Master Wu, why don't we go upstairs and talk."

"it is good!"

Wu Weibo has good craftsmanship, but the homeowners he meets always default on paying his wages.

As the foreman, he always paid the workers' wages in advance. If he was not really desperate, he would not be willing to look for work day and night.

"Master Wu, please take a seat!"

When Wu Weibo entered the ward, he saw Shen Qingzhou sitting in a wheelchair and a little girl who didn’t know anything?

One is disabled, one is young, and one is a woman. Can you afford to pay her wages?

Wu Weibo was really scared.

"Master Wu, this is my husband Shen Qingzhou and my daughter Shen Wanyi."

Wu Weibo nodded towards Shen Qingzhou: "Wu Weibo, Carpenter Huang introduced me here."

"Master Wu, I heard from Carpenter Huang about your craftsmanship. We want to build a house like this. Please take a look."

Shen Qingzhou showed Wu Weibo the blueprint he had drawn. This house was quite different from the traditional one.

This one looks more grand, with blue brick and tile houses, and there are many places that need wood carving.

It is beautiful and exquisite, giving the feeling of a wealthy family.

"Whose master craftsman designed this house? I've never seen a house with so many modifications. This is definitely a very trendy style ahead of its time."

Shen Qingzhou smiled with shame. It had been a long time since anyone had praised him so generously. He almost forgot that he was a normal person before.

"I'm not talented. I designed it."

Shen Qingzhou is not someone in the circle, but he can design such a house. Wu Weibo immediately looked at him differently.

"Master Wu, I'm going to give you this house to build. How much money do you think it will cost?"

Wu Weibo looked at the blueprint, calculating in his mind the area of ​​each place and the process, and said to Lin Ting.

"Let me make it clear first, if you want me to do it, you can buy the materials yourself. I can bring in the professional labor, but you will be the one paying them.

I will provide the labor and craftsmanship, and I will pay seventy taels of silver for a house like this until it is completed."

If the packaging materials were sold together, Wu Weibo could make more money from the price difference, but he was afraid that Lin Ting's company would be the same as his previous ones.

He couldn't pay the workers, and he didn't have the money to pay them. If there was a quarrel, it would be bad for no one.

It would be better to put this pressure on the homeowner himself.

"Sure, but I need the house built within two months. Can Master Wu build it?"

Wu Weibo smiled easily. As long as he didn't have to pay the wages, hiring more people for two months would certainly be possible.

"As long as there's money and people, two months is more than enough. Madam Lin, why don't you take me, Old Wu, to look at the foundation today?"

Lin Ting was thinking about this, and Wu Weibo went downstairs to wait for her.

Lin Ting took Shen Qingzhou's drawings and packed them up, fearing that he would forget something.

"Lin Ting, did you get the copper coins you exchanged for?"

Shen Qingzhou opened the cabinet and took out a large bag of copper coins. These were all exchanged by Lin Ting. Today was the first day of the new year.

She prepared all these yesterday and was going to take them to Wushan Village to pay the workers who were digging the slope.

"I almost forgot. When I get back and arrange everything, I'll give you rehabilitation training when I'm free in a couple of days."

"it is good!"

Shen Qingzhou always felt happy inside that Lin Ting cared about him.

"Xiaobao, you stay here and take care of daddy. Don't run around!"

Lin Ting gave Shen Wanyi all the instructions. Although she was young, she was very obedient.

"Xiaobao can take care of daddy. Xiaobao is amazing."

Lin Ting and Wu Weibo returned to Wushan Village together in an ox cart. When they arrived at the foundation, the small slope had been almost dug and would be completed today.

"Lin Ting, you're back. Breakfast is over, but there are still steamed buns in the shed."

When Aunt Jiang came back from fetching water, she was the first person to discover that Lin Ting had returned. She now admires Lin Ting very much. After he got better, he and Shen Dali's family also got better.

"Not yet. I'm hungry."

Lin Ting and Wu Weibo had not eaten breakfast. When they entered the shed, Yang Xiuxiu wanted to bring up all the edible things for Lin Ting.

Hearing that Lin Ting had returned, the village chief and Shen Dali also came to the cooking shed.

Shen Dali is a good farmer, but he is not as powerful as the village chief in managing workers and keeping accounts.

So when he came back halfway, Lin Ting discovered this problem and temporarily hired the village chief to supervise their work.

"Lin Ting, you've returned just in time. We're almost done digging this small slope. How are you going to build the foundation?"

Shen Dali brought a bench over and sat down with the village chief.

Lin Ting was eating buns while looking at Wu Weibo beside him.

"Father-in-law, village chief, let me introduce you. This is Wu Weibo, Master Wu, the master I hired to build the house.

I will take him to see our foundation in a moment and he will arrange the next steps one by one."

"My name is Wu Weibo. Please take care of me, Village Chief and Mr. Shen."

It was the first time Shen Dali was called that, and he felt extremely uncomfortable and awkward both physically and mentally.

"Master Wu arrived just in time. Now I don't have to worry about delaying the work."

After breakfast, Wu Weibo walked on the foundation to inspect it with the blueprint drawn by Shen Qingzhou in his hand.

Lin Ting, the village chief and Shen Dali followed behind him.

He would look at the soil on the foundation, then stretch out his arms to measure it. When he was working seriously, Master Wu always had a frown on his face.

Lin Ting felt that there was nothing good about their foundation.

"Master Wu, is there any problem?"

After almost finishing the inspection of the entire foundation, Wu Weibo went back and checked every problematic place.

"Mrs. Lin, your foundation is basically soft soil. If you want to build the blue brick and tile house shown in the blueprint, it will cause the foundation to sink.

But to improve this, we need to spread sand and gravel on the foundation and then manually pound it flat.”

This is easy. Shen Dali can take a few people to the river to dig sand and stones for paving. This kind of thing is just a matter of hiring a few more people.

"Father-in-law, regarding the sand issue, go to the village and get a few more people to dig it up."

"Okay!" Shen Dali nodded in agreement.

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