I Got Rich in Period Fiction
Chapter 506: Build Your Own House

Chapter 506: Chapter 506: Build Your Own House

The family quarters at the base were divided according to rank, and in the northwest corner, the bungalows were divided equally, with ten households per building, each household having forty square meters.

Like the house where Zhao Guoqiang lived was just this size, one living room, one hall, one bedroom, with the entrance hall doubling as a kitchen.

A public toilet was constructed in the northwest corner, which was a dry toilet maintained by the logistics staff.

And it was Qian Guizhi, along with a few other family members, who did this cleaning work.

There were a total of fifty such buildings.

Only on the east side where He Xiuyu and others lived, the boundaries were defined by a crossroad, and along with Old Wei, Old Xie, Old Li, Director Lin, and several workshop directors, there were nearly a hundred households.

Qiao Qingyu also heard about that letter from He Xiuyu.

She thought for a moment. There were a total of five buildings on the east side, and her family lived in one of them. They were the household with the least members, and she couldn’t help thinking it must be He Xiuyu they were referring to.

Of course, this was an extremely rare occurrence. For someone like He Xiuyu who had contributed greatly and received national subsidies as a treasured scientist, it was just not possible to reside in the same type of building as others. Not to mention whether it would be spacious enough, there was also a safety issue.

Even if everyone was equal, sometimes based on contributions, it just wasn’t possible for him to be equal, and real equality would actually be true inequality.

But fair treatment was still necessary.

For this reason, the leadership of the base specifically held a staff meeting. Outside the family quarters of the base, there was a large waste area. The leadership planned to utilize this land.

The plan was that this land could be allotted to the employees of the research base based on the size of their family. Then, land titles would be granted, owned by the employees personally. Later, if you no longer worked there and transferred out, the housing wouldn’t be taken back by the institution like before; it could be directly sold or bought. However, the condition was that individuals had to pay a part of the money to buy the homestead land and bear the cost of building the house themselves, but such pieces of land were not abundant, only enough to build over five hundred households.

However, that wasn’t a small number; it instantly resolved over five hundred households. Considering dual-income households, that meant over a thousand employees, and if calculating by number of people, averaging five per family, that was over two thousand people.

It was already the eighties now, and in the Southern regions, people had already begun to enter into real estate, so there was tremendous enthusiasm now for self-built houses.

But enthusiasm aside, it also depended on the economic situation; digging foundations and then building a house, even temporarily erecting a simple single-room on your homestead would nowadays cost one thousand yuan.

Don’t underestimate this one thousand yuan, though. This would be your own house, with a small front yard and a backyard vegetable garden.

If your homestead land was over eighty square meters, plus the side rooms and the gatehouse, that was a living space of over one hundred square meters.

How many people couldn’t fit under such a roof?

Furthermore, in the old tube-shaped apartment buildings and dormitories, water and electricity were free, but the newly built Six Family Buildings would now charge fees for utilities, though it wasn’t much, five yuan per household per month.

Heating fees in winter were calculated separately.

This policy also applied to the residential housing of the family quarters.

All of these were discussed and enthusiastically approved at the general meeting with the employees.

Once there were fewer differing voices in the suggestion box, they began to execute these plans.

And Qiao Qingyu finally completed her postnatal confinement.

She had been terribly uncomfortable, spending over two hours washing from head to toe. During this period, He Xiuyu had boiled three pots of water for her using the large pot at home.

She was finally all washed up, feeling like she had come back to life.

After the confinement, the windows could finally be opened. Wearing a loose dress, Qiao Qingyu strolled back and forth in the yard.

The vegetable garden was doing quite well. This year Wu Qianyun was here, and Qiao Qingyu had hardly lifted a finger.

Seeing Qiao Qingyu dress so prettily in just a dress, Wu Qianyun chased out of the house, bringing a knitted shirt for her to wear, complaining, "It might be hot today, but you can’t wear so little just after stepping outside."

Qiao Qingyu didn’t argue back, only saying, "I almost suffocated; having a confinement during summer is really torturous."

It was indeed torturous, but besides the heat, her daughter was being pampered like a princess in a royal palace.

Of course, it wasn’t her doing the pampering, but her son-in-law He Xiuyu.

Up at dawn and restless until night, everything relating to the child was taken care of by him whenever he was home. Washing cloth diapers was also his duty, and unlike them, who just washed them until they were clean, he even boiled them, having a special iron pot for boiling cloth diapers with a small coal stove beneath it.

Working on this during the hot summer was certainly tough, but he enjoyed it.

Then, there were their daughter’s clothes, which were constantly being washed, several outfits a day, constantly being changed, each day his daughter was clean and fresh.

Not to mention the food, possibly even those living in Beijing couldn’t eat as well as she did.

Initially, they were a bit worried, but after observing over several months, the mother finally felt relieved. Even when they were gone, this young couple could lead a loving life together. Isn’t it what all parents want for their children in the long run?

Wu Qianyun said beside her, "Be satisfied, although it’s summer for your confinement, I’ve never seen anyone treated like this in my life."

Qiao Qingyu pinched her waist and felt her belly, her previously happy face turning less so, her waist had thickened, and her belly wasn’t as smooth as before.

In her mind, there were definitely quite a few stretch marks.

Qiao Qingyu then said to her mother, "Mom, I need to diet."

Wu Qianyun, glaring furiously with an urge to slap her daughter’s head, said, "Have you gone stupid from sitting through the confinement? Dieting—gaining weight isn’t that easy. Haven’t you seen how many skinny people are out there? Your round and plump figure is so rare, and to think of reducing the weight you finally gained, moreover, the baby is still breastfeeding..."

Just as she was about to continue, her son-in-law He Xiuyu pushed open the door and came in, carrying several fish, one glance was enough to know they were crucian carp, surely meant for making soup for his daughter.

As He Xiuyu rolled up his sleeves to start cleaning the fish, he said, "Yuan Hengzhi fetched these from the pond."

Qiao Qingyu squatted beside, asking, "Is Yuan Hengzhi not planning to return? Wasn’t he just temporarily assigned here? His official affiliation is still in Beijing, right?"

"It’s up to him. If he wants to stay, I plan to have him go to the Space Base."

And indeed, that was a good place, though quite remote compared to Beijing.

Behind Qiao Qingyu’s house, the vegetable garden still had cabbages and radishes.

Around the garden, Wu Qianyun had planted honey pumpkins.

At this time, lantern-like pumpkins hung on the boundary walls, some sprawled on the ground, quite a lot of them had grown.

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