Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 247 Huayingzhuang

It was also about 50% new, with three small entrances and a small garden. However, Hualei did not buy it because she felt that the location was too remote. It was not far from the house in Qingyun Lane, just three lanes away from the north of Qingyun Lane, and it only took about 35 minutes to walk there.

The main problem was that the surrounding environment was very noisy and disorderly, and the people coming and going were of varying kinds. Hua Lei felt that even if she had reached the age of 15, she was only fifteen years old, and living in such a noisy and disorderly environment, with people around her of all kinds, it was not very safe.

She wanted to find a house in a better location to be the official Hua family house in the future. It would be more decent to entertain guests, after all, Xiaoyuan might get married and start a family here in the future.

Hua Lei didn't want to be careless, so she rejected Manager Chen's recommendation and asked him to help her choose a house with a better location and a quieter environment, and preferably one with friendly neighbors. Manager Chen nodded in agreement.

Fortunately, Manager Chen recommended another farm to Hua Lei, which actually had 500 acres of land. It was located near the southeastern urban area, belonging to the East City District, between Baihua Manor and Yuanying Manor, not very far away.

Hualei and Uncle Fu went to take a look. The fields were quite standard, and the houses on the farm were also standard. However, there were many empty residential plots around the houses. In the end, Hualei spent 4,250 taels of silver to buy the farm of about 500 acres, plus four households.

The farm was originally named after the owner's surname, "Lin's Farm." Now that Hualei bought it, she had to change the name. So, Hualei changed the name of Lin's Farm to "Huaying Farm," hoping to make a profit.

Because it is already mid-October, the planting of winter wheat should have been almost completed normally. However, because the owner wants to sell, the fields are still empty, and the flower buds are reluctant to miss a season.

Uncle Zheng and his family from Baihua Manor were immediately transferred to Huaying Manor, and Brother Kong was asked to gather the original tenants to sign a new three-year contract. Then they began to plow the land in preparation for planting, and went to Yuanying Manor to get fertilizer for chickens, ducks and geese, and put it all in the fields.

Because time was tight, Hualei pulled all the oxen from Baihua and Yuanying to Huaying and began to work diligently. After turning the land, she used an iron rake to break up the soil and make it smooth, then dug a ditch every half a meter or so for drainage and irrigation.

Then he went to the Agricultural Science Department under the Ministry of Household Affairs to buy the best winter wheat seeds, and took the tenants to seize the time and start planting winter wheat. Fortunately, these tenants were very cooperative, turning the soil, applying fertilizer, and sowing wheat seeds, and none of them was lazy.

More than twenty days later, the 500 acres of land were all planted with winter wheat, and Hualei finally felt relieved.

They began to organize things on the farm, and directly distributed two sets of winter clothing fabrics, including cotton, to each farmer, allowing them to sew their own clothes. They asked Aunt Fu to take care of their personal hygiene, and invited doctors from Xinglin Hall to examine their bodies, treat them, and buy some necessary daily necessities.

After repairing the house, counting the inventory and farm tools, clearing some hidden drains in the corners, and adding some chickens, ducks and geese to Huaying Manor, Hualei saw that the former head of the manor, Uncle Miao, was very hardworking and kind. He was only in his forties and in the prime of life, so she let him take care of everything in Huaying Manor.

After all the arrangements were made, the farmers who had been in a state of panic calmed down and began to actively cooperate with Hua Lei's work. The entire Huaying Manor showed a good momentum.

Because the surroundings of Huayingzhuang are quite spacious, with many residential plots, and the existing houses are also regular warehouses, Hualei drew blueprints based on the original terrain, found professional masons and carpenters, measured the dimensions of the manor, and ordered a batch of blue bricks from the brick kiln, preparing to build some workshops in Huayingzhuang.

The houses in Baihua Village are already very full because of the production of chili sauce, toothbrushes and other products, but there is no residential land around for expansion.

If you want to build a house on a arable field, you have to go to the government's special department for approval, which is very troublesome and may not be approved. Therefore, it is impossible to build a house in Baihua Village.

There are indeed many houses in Yuanying Village, but now projects are being launched or expanded one by one, and the chickens, ducks, geese and pigs are being raised in batches, and are gradually increasing, so there are no empty houses now.

Because there are many chickens, ducks, geese and pigs, the environment is not very good. Hualei doesn't want to put all the workshops in Yuanying Village. So if she wants to diversify her investment, she can only build a workshop in Huaying Village, and then slowly move out the various handicraft workshops in Yuanying Village.

Since the down jacket team hired a group of temporary female workers, the house I had originally prepared has become a bit cramped. And now that there are more people, the down jacket team is no longer suitable to be placed in Yuanying Manor.

So when Hua Lei came to Huaying Village for the first time, she took a special look at the terrain of Huaying Village and found that there were still many residential plots next to the original house where she could build a house directly. This was one of the reasons why Hua Lei bought Huaying Village on the premise that the fields and houses in this village were all standard but the price was not low.

Now, Hualei has designed the floor plan of the house. The original house will remain unchanged. Hualei plans to build five rows of houses with seven rooms each on the east and west sides. They will be separated from the original houses on the farm along the fence. Each row of houses will also have partitions, but there will be small doors on the fence so that they can be connected under special circumstances. The main gate will also face another direction for independent entry and exit. The remaining residential land will be decided based on the situation.

In addition to the five rows of houses with seven rooms, Hua Lei also planned several bathrooms in the northeast corner behind the houses, divided into men's and women's bathrooms. Each bathroom was equipped with a private squat toilet, imitating the squat toilets in the previous life.

A row of wing rooms were built on both sides of the house facing south and north. People in each row of workshops could enter through the small door to eat. However, in order to save cost and land, many houses facing north and south were built, and the number of kitchens planned was not large, only four. If there were many people, they would probably have to eat in batches.

I'll wait and see when the bud is ready. If it's not enough, I can convert it into a kitchen then. It's relatively easy to convert the kitchen after the house is built.

The newly built houses are similar to the current houses, but they have many wooden windows. There is no glass now. All the windows installed are wooden and covered with window paper, which is far inferior to the glass windows in the previous life.