Chapter 266: With such little money, you want to build a mansion?

"So many people? Who are they?!"

Chen Hui and An Wenjing looked at each other.

Obviously, the other party thought the same as he did, and they all thought that Chen Guangyao was causing trouble.

"I don't know! I don't know any of them." Chen Xiaoming shook his head.

"Go and see!"

It is impossible that Chen Xiaoming doesn’t know anyone in the village.

Now Chen Hui was even more confused. He didn't bother to go to Chen Kaiming's house and went straight back to his own foundation.

He Juanjuan brought seven or eight people and looked around the open space of Chen Hui's house.

There was a man drawing circles on the ground and saying something.

Seeing who was coming, Chen Hui breathed a sigh of relief and shouted with a smile:

"Sister Juanjuan, didn't we agree to meet after lunch? Why are you here so early? Do you want to have lunch at my house?"

He Juanjuan laughed and said, "I was originally planning to come to your house for lunch, but I only remembered it when I got here. Now I can only eat dirt."

Then she turned around and called her man over.

He introduced them briefly: "This is Wang Kunhua, the head of our family. This is the Chen Hui I told you about, and his wife Wen Jing."

Wang Kunhua quickly looked at Chen Hui and said in surprise:
"This guy is quite handsome, he doesn't look like a fisherman."

"I heard from Juanjuan that you are very capable. The lobsters we have recently caught are all brought by you."

Wang Kunhua was surprised at Chen Hui's appearance.

Chen Hui was also quite surprised by his appearance.

It was not what I imagined, a fat and greasy middle-aged construction contractor.

She is tall and thin, and looks much older than He Juanjuan.

He doesn't look like a shrewd businessman, but more like an honest man.

The way he looks at people is very friendly, the kind that is really friendly.

"Xiao Ming, take Wen Yi to your house to play for a while, I'll pick her up later."

An Wenjing reacted quickly and immediately asked Chen Xiaoming to take An Wenyi away first.

He sent the two children away and went over to her with a smile on his face, calling out, "Sister Juanjuan, brother-in-law!"

"Hello!" Wang Kunhua nodded and smiled politely at An Wenjing.

"I'm not that great. You're just praising me! I'm just an ordinary fisherman." Chen Hui responded modestly.

Wang Kunhua seems to like Chen Hui's humble and low-key personality.

I followed up on his words with a few more polite remarks.

Then he started talking about business, looked around and said:
"Your home is quite large. If you were to build a house on it, how many children would you have to have and still be able to accommodate them all?"

"I think it's enough to build half of the house, and I can use the other half for something else."

Chen Hui nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

He took out the blueprint he had drawn earlier from An Wenjing, handed it to Wang Kunhua and said, "This is what we originally thought."

Wang Kunhua took the paper.

The more he looked, the more his brows, which already had obvious wrinkles, furrowed more tightly.

"Brother-in-law, is there any problem?" Chen Hui asked.

"Other things are fine. You want to build two floors and make a small balcony on the front of the second floor. I understand that."

"That's why you want to build two more rooms on the roof."

"What does it mean when it says 'hut for food'? Is this small room used for food?"

Wang Kunhua pointed at the letters "WC" on the small house and asked in confusion.

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Chen Hui tried to hold back his laughter again and again, and finally managed to suppress it.

Pointing to the draft, he explained to Wang Kunhua: "Brother-in-law, this is English, and it means toilet."

After listening to Chen Hui's explanation, He Juanjuan and the others who came with her laughed so hard that they covered their stomachs. They finally stopped laughing.

One of the workers who came with him added, "Ah Hua was right about putting food there, but it's not food that you want to eat, it's food that has already been eaten."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone who had just tried to hold back their laughter started laughing like crazy again.

This time, Chen Hui and Wang Kunhua, who had been in control, couldn't help laughing.

The situation got out of control for a while.

Everyone finally stopped, as long as one person showed that he wanted to laugh.

Everyone couldn't help laughing again.

After a long time, Chen Hui took the paper and continued to explain:
"This other room with 'Ji' written on it, I plan to use it to raise some chickens, ducks, rabbits, etc."

"These two houses are not built on the roof, but on the back of the house!"

"I want to build a house on the front half and a yard on the back half, and then build these two rooms next to the house."

"I don't know how to draw in three dimensions, so I drew it like this."

Wang Kunhua sighed helplessly.

He took out a notebook and a pen, wrote down Chen Hui's ideas, and asked him to add some details.

such as:

Are red bricks used throughout the house?
Or is it that only bricks are used for the exterior walls, and wood is used for the compartments and partitions in the house.

Do the walls inside and outside the house need to be smoothed with cement?

Should the floor be directly coated with coarse cement or fine cement? Does Chen Hui have any higher requirements? For example, tiling?

How should the stairs be built? Do they need guardrails?
The front of the window is made according to Chen Hui's drawing, and what about the back? How many windows should be made?

After recording everything in detail, Wang Kunhua took people to measure the total area that Chen Hui wanted to build and planned the number of piles needed.

I sat alone under a tree, writing and drawing for a long time.

He waved Chen Hui and An Wenjing over and said, "Tell me how much money you plan to spend on building the house!"

An Wenjing looked at Chen Hui.

Chen Hui rubbed his hands and smiled embarrassedly.

He squatted down opposite Wang Kunhua and said:
"Brother-in-law, I'm telling you the truth. I only have about 2,000 yuan in my hand, and I need to make a set of furniture. I've measured the dimensions, but I haven't been paid yet!"

Wang Kunhua was stunned after hearing this.

"About two thousand dollars, and it includes a set of furniture?"

"Even so, you still dare to ask that the exterior and interior walls be smoothed with fine cement?"

"You want to tile the entire floor and stairs? What else did you plan to tile the room with?"

Wang Kunhua glanced at the notebook in his hand and said:
"And we need to get some wood to lay on the floor of the room?"

"Why do we need a bathroom? We need to bury a water pipe all the way to the river, and then..."

Wang Kunhua waved his hands repeatedly, indicating that he could not take on this job at all.

"Brother-in-law, we don't really need these!"

"Didn't you ask me what I thought about the new house? Then I'll tell you everything I thought."

"What can you achieve with so much money?" Chen Hui asked with a smile.

He has thought about it carefully.

If He Juanjuan really did what he said, apart from paying the workers' wages, she would not make any extra money from the materials or the difference in price with the middlemen.

For a house like this, the price won't vary too much.

"Just tell me how much money you have!"

"Don't talk about two thousand yuan. Is it two thousand one hundred yuan or two thousand two hundred yuan? I want an exact number," Wang Kunhua asked.

"Two thousand three hundred and forty dollars!"

Chen Hui answered immediately and accurately.

This amount of money seemed very familiar to He Juanjuan. After thinking about it for a while, she exclaimed, "Apart from the money you made from selling lobsters that day, you don't have a penny left?"

(End of this chapter)