Chapter Forty-Five: Finding a Good Craftsman
After selling the wild game, Gu Yu felt infinitely moved by the silver he received.
He thought making money was difficult before, but it was all an illusion!
He just wandered up the mountain for a tour, and when he sold it at the town’s restaurant, he got six taels of silver.
Men in the village worked hard in town for a whole year and couldn’t get this much.
However, he could only make money selling small wild game. The wild boar caught by Mengyao Gu was truly an accident. Even if Gu Yu caught large animals like wild boars on the mountain in the future, he wouldn’t dare to sell them in town easily.
There was no choice. In ancient times, Gu Yu had no background, and his cheap dad had also died, hitting a wall. Now, he had transformed from a pitiful Yang family member into a son-in-law who lived with the Gu family.
If he took large prey to the restaurant, let alone what little tricks Chunlai Restaurant would play on him, just the other competitors in the restaurant knowing about Gu Yu would cause no small amount of trouble.
Although there were many villages under Lian Town, Gu Yu was good-looking and not someone easily forgotten at first glance. If someone really wanted to find him, it wouldn’t be difficult.
If it were just Gu Yu alone, it would be fine, but it would be bad to implicate Mengyao Gu and her brother.
Gu Yu thought this way because Mengyao Gu herself was quite special. If the news of him selling wild game in town leaked out, others wouldn’t think those prey were caught by Gu Yu, but would focus their attention on Mengyao Gu.
With so many people staring at Mengyao Gu’s little secrets she wanted to hide, who knew when they would be exposed?
Therefore, Gu Yu felt it was better to develop steadily, so as not to implicate Mengyao Gu.
Although Gu Yu didn’t understand why Mengyao Gu had to hide it just because he was strong, as long as his little wife was happy, he would pretend not to know!
Thinking about these things, Gu Yu, after bidding farewell to the chubby chef, stepped towards the market, preparing to hire a team of craftsmen, find a few women who could cook, and then pay them together.
Generally, when building houses in the village, villagers would help each other, and by helping each other, their relationships would deepen.
But Gu Yu was afraid that having relationships would lead to more trouble in the future, so it was better to hire people with money. At least it was clear-cut and reassuring.
Anyway, he had money in his hands now, so hiring people to build houses was not a problem at all.
Gu Yu thought proudly, then after finding the craftsmen and negotiating, he finally settled on… the foreman craftsman would get fifty copper coins per day, the helpers twenty copper coins per day, and the cooks who would prepare meals received ten copper coins per day.
After that, the foreman craftsman voluntarily proposed that he could buy all the building materials directly, calculated at market price, which would be absolutely convenient and hassle-free.
In response, Gu Yu looked at the foreman craftsman with a forced smile. When he made the foreman craftsman feel guilty, thinking that his scheme of taking kickbacks had been widely known, Gu Yu finally nodded in agreement and, by the way, informed them of his location in Yang Family Village.
Because he was eager to build the house as soon as possible, they were prepared to start work tomorrow. If Gu Yu went to buy the building materials himself, not only would it be troublesome, but he also wouldn’t know the market price. It was better to let the foreman craftsman handle it entirely. Anyway, he was just taking some kickbacks, but it saved Gu Yu a lot of time.
When the foreman craftsman brought people and materials to the Gu family tomorrow, Gu Yu would then take them to the place to lay the foundation and start building the house.
As for the style of the house, because Gu Yu was not a complete ancient person and had no requirements for it, and Mengyao Gu and her brother were also the same, Gu Yu specifically instructed them to build two rooms for living and a perimeter wall, and let the craftsmen have free rein otherwise.
Perhaps it was because he had never seen such a casual customer, but after confirming that Gu Yu wanted to build a blue brick and tile house, the foreman craftsman was stunned and didn’t know the background of this child who said he wanted to build a house.
If Gu Yu hadn’t directly paid a deposit of twenty taels of silver, the foreman craftsman would have definitely thought that this person had come to cause trouble.
