Seventy Buddha Cannon Fodder

The new green brick and tile house was located within ten meters of the old house, because the homestead was approved in the name of Gu Erdi. Gu Jianguo felt that the two brothers lived close to each other so they could take care of each other, so he chose this location specially.

Compared with the old Gu's house, the new house is farther away from the bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain, but closer to the intersection from the production team to the town. It can be seen that Gu Sanshu also put his thought into it.

Gu Mingdong pulled Gu Liangchen and looked up at the brand new house.

The so-called blue bricks in the countryside are actually not blue, but a kind of brick that is grayish black when dry and greenish black when wet.

Xiyuan Town didn't have a kiln dedicated to firing green bricks. Gu Laoer found a relationship and transported these bricks back from Lingxiang next door, so he borrowed money to borrow the transport team's car.

Although it took a lot of thought for these bricks, it is worth seeing now. The green bricks are cleaner and tidy than the mud bricks, with a natural and simple beauty, and they are resistant to heat and humidity, and have excellent air permeability and water absorption. , people live in it warm in winter and cool in summer.

The roof tiles are not red tiles, but black tiles that are common here. The craftsmanship of building the house is rough, but the final result is good, and it looks seamless.

After a few more years, red bricks, which are more convenient to fire, become popular, and the brightly colored red bricks will quickly take over the green bricks, until they are completely replaced by reinforced concrete many years later.

At that time, if you want to build such an antique blue brick house, you will have to spend a lot of money.

The new house has just been completed, and now it is empty when I walk into the house, but the temperature is much warmer than outside.

Gu Mingdong turned around, the only pity is that there is no second-story building now, and the masons in the country can only build a single-story, so the blue brick and tile house of the old Gu's house is also three rooms larger, followed by a kitchen, and the ceiling is not high.

"Do you like it?" Gu Mingdong asked while touching his son's little head.

Gu Liangchen nodded, but then asked again: "Dad, there are also three rooms here, and after separating them, there are six rooms, so will I not be able to sleep with you in the future?"

Since they moved out of the two aunts' houses, the twins always slept with Gu Mingdong unless Gu's second child was not at home.

Gu Mingdong laughed: "It's not easy for you to sleep with Dad, just come here."

"Let the eldest brother sleep by himself, he sleeps badly, he keeps kicking me." Gu Liangchen snickered.

Gu Mingdong rubbed his chin and smiled: "After the furniture is finished, let the second son bring Ah Xing over to live in and help everyone warm the house."

Said Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, and a person's head poked in from outside: "Are you two talking about me?"

Gu Mingdong greeted with a smile: "I'm talking about when you can live in."

Second Brother Gu also liked the new house very much, and walked around happily: "If we are willing to use the old bed and the old cabinet, we can move in before that year."

Gu Mingdong actually still had money in his hand, but just after the new house was built, he immediately spent a large sum of money to buy furniture, which attracted much attention, so he said, "It's okay, and I will replace it later."

Hearing this, Second Brother Gu became even happier: "Brother, when the time comes, you will still live in the middle room, let the youngest and the others live in the room on the east side, and I live on the west side. Anyway, I like to sleep late, and it happens that I can't get the sun in the morning."

Gu Mingdong deliberately raised his eyebrows and asked, "This homestead is yours, so what if I move here?"

The second brother Gu gave up when he heard this: "Brother, you have separated from me, right? Our family finally built a new house. If I live in the new house and let you live in the old one, then who am I?"

Gu Liangchen raised his head and said, "Second Uncle, but you are going to marry a wife soon, my father can't live with my sister-in-law."

The second brother Gu's face collapsed: "Xiaoru really likes you, she must be very happy to live together."

"Besides, haven't I married a wife yet?"

Gu Mingdong doesn't think it's a good thing to live with his brother and sister-in-law at all, but looking at Gu's second son's posture, if he says no, the new house would rather be empty.

Thinking about it again, although the homestead belongs to the younger brother, the whole family has a share of the money to build the house, and what's more, Gu Mingnan will have to wait another two years to get married.

Gu Mingdong said: "It's fine for us to move here, and then we can save up some money and push the old house down for reconstruction."

The second younger brother Gu became really happy when he heard this: "Brother, I will definitely make good money so that the whole family can live in a new house."

Seeing his younger brother's confident posture, Gu Mingdong pondered for a while, and thought to himself that he only found it troublesome even to give lectures, maybe he was too Buddhist, and it would not be good to just lie down.

After thinking about it, Gu Mingdong let it go cheerfully again. Since his younger siblings want to make money to support the family, he, the eldest brother, worked so hard to bring them up, so he should enjoy the blessings.

"In a few days, I will invite my third uncle's family to have a good meal. This time I am building a house and I don't have time to look at it. You have to go to work again. It can be seen that they have put a lot of thought into it."

The new house of Lao Gu's family was completed, and the members of the production team came to visit one after another. They reached out to touch the green bricks, and they all looked enviously.

The production team was able to have a blue-brick house, and it was the old Liu’s family before, and the rest were mostly mud bricks, and the poorer ones didn’t even need mud bricks, and straw could be pulled out of the walls.

Li Tiezhu was very envious, and asked Gu Mingdong in private: "Adong, how much did you spend on building the house?"

Gu Mingdong gestured.

Li Tiezhu took a deep breath and shook his head with a bitter face: "So much, my family may have to save for another two years."

"Just for this house, all the salaries saved by my second brother and third sister were spent. When the food was distributed after autumn, I didn't want a catty of food, and all my work points were exchanged for tickets. This barely made up for the emptiness. "

"The third uncle and my aunt still owe some money, so I can only wait for the second and third child to pay their wages and then pay it back slowly."

Thanks to the two crops of rice planted in the first year, the Shanghe Village production team can still distribute a wave of grain after the autumn harvest.

This time, Gu Jianguo stated in advance that he had made a statement in the post, and that next year the two harvests would all be over, and the grain would be distributed uniformly after the public grain was paid. There was no such thing as two harvests.

So even though most people hadn't finished eating the food they received for the first time, this time the work points were all replaced with food.

Everyone is hungry and scared, and they also want money in their hearts, but after all, food is not as important. There is food in the warehouse, and they feel safe in their hearts.

But Gu Mingdong was different. With a wave of his hand, he directly exchanged most of his work points for money.

At that time, the production team was discussing a lot, secretly thinking that Gu Mingdong got into the eyes of money, and their family would definitely not have enough food in the coming year, and they would not have to go hungry by then.

It wasn't that Gu Mingdong didn't want food, but that there were too many places to spend money when the news of the old Gu's house building was released.

Gu's second son's bicycle is too attractive, in order to deceive others, Gu Mingdong asked Uncle Gu and Gu Xiuxiu to borrow some. Others don't know about their family's situation, but Gu Xiuxiu knows.

If she didn't say this, Gu Mingdong was afraid that she would figure out that the old Gu's family only had a lot more money.

Li Tiezhu also knew this situation, sighed and said: "The suffering is temporary, and it is worth it to get such a big house."

The new house is usually three big rooms, but there is a small difference. After listening to Gu Mingdong’s opinion, each room has a larger area, with detachable blue bricks in the middle as a barrier, and the front and back are divided into two rooms. There are a total of six rooms available, not counting the warehouse and kitchen built later.

In this way, a single room is smaller than the common ones in rural areas, but there are many rooms and a strong sense of privacy.

There are only a few people in Lao Gu's family, which is enough to live in.

Li Tiezhu looked at it and praised: "Your method is good, there is no trouble in separating a wall in the middle, and the children can have a separate room. When the family is separated, this wall is demolished, and there is no delay in a big house. "

"When I save enough money, our family will do the same."

Aunt Gu is more envious than Li Tiezhu.

In the past two years, the old Gu's family had a miserable life, and they had to be pampered by their family. Who knows that they have risen in just a few years, and the new house has already been built.

Third Aunt Gu was also happy for them from the bottom of her heart, but occasionally she felt a little uncomfortable.

Looking back now, she has almost forgotten what Gu Mingdong was like before. She only knows that this eldest nephew is capable, no matter what happens, he is as stable as Mount Tai, and he can also go on tour instead of her own man, and is named and praised by the big leaders above.

Comparing with her two sons with sticks, Third Aunt Gu felt even worse in her heart.

After seeing the new house, Third Aunt Gu held her son's ear and taught her a lesson when she returned home: "You said that you are so tall but not brainy, and you are so much older than A Dong, and your son has grown up just by watching it. Why don’t you know how to save some money to build a new house?”

Gu Baojia was very aggrieved: "Can you blame me for this? Ah Dong has the first two workers. I don't even have a worker who is willing to fill in for my siblings."

Gu Baojia looked at his eldest brother speechlessly: "Brother, how can I feel sorry for you?"

Seeing that the two brothers were about to quarrel, Gu Jianguo coughed and said, "Okay, don't you count the sons you gave birth to yourself? They have been pig-headed and stupid since they were young. What are you scolding them for now?"

Third Aunt Gu fell on her back in anger, and glared at her two sons fiercely.

Turning around, he asked again: "Our family has also saved some money, how about repairing the old house?"

The house they live in now is about the same age as Lao Gu's old house, and it's okay to live in usually, but it's easy to leak when it's windy and rainy, and the house is not big enough.

"Why waste this skill, not to mention the cost of repairing it, it will save face."

After Gu Jianguo taught his wife a lesson, he looked at his two sons again: "You think it's all thanks to Anan Xiaoxi that Adong can build a new house?"

This time, Gu Baojia also agreed with his brother's point of view: "That's for sure, one of them is in the transportation team and the other is in the recycling station, and they are both regular workers. Their monthly salary is dozens of dollars, and they can save a lot in a year." Not a few hundred."

Because Gu Mingdong had to give lectures, when the house was being built, the two of them helped to watch it most of the time, and the two brothers naturally knew the details.

What's even more rare is that Gu Mingnan and Gu Mingxi are promising, and they know how to subsidize their family when they make money. Usually, when they see Gu Mingnan carrying meat home from time to time, I'm afraid all the wages they earn will be given to the family.

In the past, he secretly thought that these younger brothers and sisters were too promising, and they might look down on the eldest brother who was farming in the countryside. Who knew that the old Gu's family never showed up.

I don't know how Gu Mingdong raised his younger siblings, even if he was his own son and daughter, he didn't help his parents like this.

Gu Baojia's heart is also sour, but who made him not have such siblings?

Gu Jianguo was disappointed from the bottom of his heart. He felt that the two sons were stupid. They would be jealous when they saw that their brothers were prosperous. They only focused on their benefits and did not see their efforts.

He said with a sullen face: "A worker's monthly salary is only more than 20, and it is at most [-] a year. The salary of the recycling station is notoriously low, and they have to pay for everything in the town." Food and drink, don’t they all cost money, how much do you think they can save in a year?”

"Well, that's two hundred." Gu Baojia was still quite unconvinced.

Gu Jianguo snorted coldly: "The new clothes on their bodies, the new shoes on their feet, the lunch boxes and flashlights they usually use, do they cost money, the bicycles they both use to go to work, and even the bicycle tickets are bought by others. A ticket costs one hundred, and buying a car costs two hundred and fifty, where did the money come from?"

"You two are only thinking about Anan Xiaoxi's ability to make money, but you forget that the two of them are also good at spending money. Let's say that this bicycle, Adong has been in the production team. What kind of bicycle does he want? Isn't it because he feels sorry for his younger siblings who go to work early in the dark, shoes Several pairs were worn out, and the soles of my feet were covered with calluses, so I bought them."

The brothers of the Gu family calculated with their fingers. After such a piecemeal calculation, the Gu Mingnan brothers and sisters are indeed big moneymakers, but they also have a lot of places to spend their money.

Gu Jianguo glanced at them, and continued: "You two only think about Anan Xiaoxi's filial piety, and don't think about how Adong treats them."

"When everyone was too hungry to eat, Ah Dong gritted his teeth and helped his younger siblings to study. He let the two children graduate from junior high school, and then thought of a way to send them to the city to work as workers."

"Ask yourselves, if you two have such a good connection, will you think of giving it to the younger siblings instead of taking it for yourself first?"

It's not that Gu Jianguo looked down on his own son, but that the same thing happened to the two of them. They might be able to feed their younger siblings and grow them up, but they definitely couldn't do it with such dedication as Gu Mingdong.

If Gu Mingdong knew that Gu Sanshu was so optimistic about himself and exaggerated his "selfless dedication" to the family, he would definitely laugh that he thought too much.

He is not a selfless person at all. The reason why he does this is that he thinks that it is better for the future of his younger siblings. Since younger siblings have a good future, he will be more at ease in the future.

Facts have proved that his strategy is also correct. If he only pulls people up and then throws them out, his siblings will have a bad life. How can he be alone?

Now that this is the case, Gu Mingdong is the real peace of mind.

The Gu family brothers turned pale and lowered their heads in shame.

If they could go to the city to work as workers, the two brothers would fight for their heads, so how could they give it up to others.

Gu Jianguo snorted coldly, and continued: "At the end of the year when the work points are calculated, Ah Dong can get twelve work points a day, and there is also a work point subsidy for raising pigs. After a year, the money is nearly a hundred, and he can support him alone. A big family, how about you two, how much did you get, is it enough to support your wife and children?"

"Don't stare at other people's things all day long, it's serious to work hard."

"Adong is able to be what he is today because of his own efforts. You two should envy this blessing. Don't mention anything else. Take good care of your sons and daughters below. If you raise your children well, isn't that more filial than younger siblings?"

After a series of beatings and beatings, the two sons settled down obediently.

Gu Jianguo sighed in his heart. After all, the two brats in his family couldn't compare with Anan. Even Anan, who usually looked out of tune, had a much more flexible mind than them.

The son is his own, what else can he do?

Gu Jianguo sighed, and slapped Tianzi: "However, what you said makes sense. Now that the children are getting older, it's not convenient to live in the same room with you all the time."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and looked at Aunt Gu: "How about this, take out the money you saved at home and see how much you have, the two children share one share, it is not enough to build a blue-brick house, a mud-brick house will always be Is it enough?"

"I know that you two also have private house money. When I approve the homestead, I don't care how big or what kind of house can be built. It's all up to you."

Aunt Gu's complexion changed slightly, and she said with some displeasure: "Our parents are not separated, and we are still living well. What is it like for them to move out?"

However, Gu Jianguo has already made up his mind: "Move the tree, move the dead, move the living, and there are more and more children, so we can't keep fooling around like this."

Added another sentence: "Separate households do not separate households. Choose a homestead that is closer. If there is anything to do, we can call them and they can hear it."

Third Aunt Gu was still very unhappy. After the son and daughter-in-law live separately, can they still listen to their elders?

The brothers of the Gu family were thinking about each other, Gu Baojia frowned and said, "Dad, I am the eldest son, and I should be the one who will support you until the end of life. You can give the money to the second brother to build a house, and I won't leave."

Gu Baojia glanced at his elder brother and said in a muffled voice, "Dad, if you're not here, I won't feel at ease."

Gu Jianguo was amused by them: "I'm still alive, but I'm not dead. I want you to build a new house. When we get old in the future, if you dare not provide pensions, see if I don't directly beat you to death."

The two brothers, who grew up next to each other, flinched at the same time.

Third Aunt Gu still didn't want to agree, but Gu Jianguo got up and said, "Okay, that's the deal."

Third Aunt Gu couldn't refute what Gu Jianguo had already decided, so she had to stumble into the house to figure out whether she had spent the money she had accumulated over the years.

Compared to her mother-in-law's reluctance, Uncle Gu's two daughters-in-law were elated.

In all fairness, Third Aunt Gu is not a bad mother-in-law, at least compared to those in the production team who don't treat their daughter-in-law as a human being, she can treat her daughter-in-law fairly well, and she can always eat eggs when she is pregnant and confinement.

But living with my mother-in-law, I have to listen to her in everything, and occasionally I have to be scolded for doing something wrong. Even if I don’t quarrel, I am comfortable.

Now that they have the opportunity to be the masters of the family, although they don't separate the family, they are also happy in their hearts, and even urge the man to hurry up.

So Gu Mingdong was surprised to find that, near the end of the year, his two cousins ​​were busy building a house.

The cousin came to ask about the way to buy tiles. Gu Mingdong naturally knew everything and tried to help.

Without even waiting for Third Aunt Gu to open her mouth, she hurriedly paid back the money she had borrowed before, lest their family's money would be in jeopardy.

The two brothers of the Gu family were so busy that other members of the commune were envious when they saw it.

The members of the commune looked at the old Gu's house of blue bricks and big tiles, and then at the mud brick house that the Gu brothers had just started to build, and their hearts became active.

I can't afford blue bricks, and the mud brick house is hard work. I can still make up the money by asking my natal in-laws to borrow some more.

Moreover, the mud brick house is simpler and faster to build. If the house is unbroken, it may be completed a few years ago.

Another one is that there are more people buying mud bricks, the price of mud bricks can be lowered, and the mud brick kiln can be delivered to your door!

For a while, the members of the commune took out their family assets to plan to build a new house. After all, as the child gets older, the couple cannot always live with the child.

Separation of families is not popular in the production team, and the sisters-in-law and brothers of a large family live together, which is really a lot of trouble.

Being able to live alone and be the master of the house is infinitely attractive to young couples.

This was originally a good thing, but the production team had fewer enlightened elders like Gu Jianguo, and more stubborn ones.

Third Aunt Gu's behavior was considered good. Although she was unhappy in her heart, she didn't stop her. Many parents don't want their children to be self-reliant and live comfortably, but just want to keep them by their side.

Seeing that other people's homes are starting to build new houses, but their own family has a large group of brothers and sisters living in the same house, and even half-grown children have to sleep in the same bed with their parents. These people are naturally unhappy.

While trying to build a house, but trying to stop it, the conflict between the two generations was aroused.

It's like the old Liu's family. He used to be the captain of a production team, and he didn't bother to care about his family's trivial matters.

Lost to Gu Jianguo last year, originally I was waiting to see Gu Jianguo make jokes, but who knew that Shanghe Village was getting better and better under his leadership, and all the members felt that the new captain was even better, so how could they remember him as the former captain.

The shriveled old Liu had nothing to do about it, so he had to leave his official accent at home.

He is used to talking all the time at home, and he can only listen to his own words up and down. How can old Liu be willing to let his son go out to live?

So when the two sons faltered and faltered, the old Liu refused.

Liu Dashan said flatteringly: "Dad, we don't want to separate the family. It's not because the children are all grown up. We can't talk about marriage in a few years. If we have a new house, we can find a good family by then."

The shriveled old Liu squinted his eyes, and lightly knocked on the cigarette stick: "I don't object if you want to build a house, but do you want money? I have raised you to such a big age, married you wives and had children, and the money has long been spent." used up."

The faces of Liu Dashan and the two brothers turned dark. No one else knew, so how could the two of them know whether the old Liu had money?

Besides, the last time their family had a wedding was when the younger sister got married, and the dowry they brought out at that time was all bought with dowry gifts, and it didn't cost much at all.

Now that the oldest child in the family is fifteen, how could he have no money.

But the old Liu didn't seem to see their faces, and continued: "If you can come up with the money yourself, then build a house. If you don't have the ability, quickly give up on me."

Putting these words aside, the flat old Liu got up and entered the house.

Liu Dashan and Liu Xiaoshan looked at each other, and squatted down in frustration and stopped talking, but dissatisfaction spread in their hearts.

Naturally, they are not the sons of every family. They are all afraid of their own father like the Liu family brothers, and they will make trouble if they don't pay them.

In the past few days of the New Year, Gu Jianguo has dealt with such trivial matters.

Here Gu Jianguo was so annoyed that his hair straightened out, while Gu Mingdong, the one who caused it, happily took the children to move to a new house.