NOVEL NEXT 45: Finding Good Craftsmen
After selling the wild prey, Gu Yu held the silver in his hand, feeling truly amazed.
His previous belief that earning money was difficult must have been an illusion!
He had just wandered around the mountain for a while, and after bringing his catch to the restaurant in town, he could earn six taels of silver.
Men in the village couldn’t earn this much even working hard in town for an entire year.
However, he could only make money selling small prey. Gu Mengyao’s wild boar catch was truly an exceptional event. In the future, even if Gu Yu caught wild boars or other large animals in the mountains, he wouldn’t dare easily bring them to town to sell.
There was no way around it—in this ancient world, Gu Yu had no background. His cheap father had died by crashing into a wall, and now he had transformed from the Yang family’s pitiful child into the Gu family’s son-in-law who married in.
If he brought large prey to the restaurant, putting aside whatever schemes Spring Arrival Restaurant might have for him, just the knowledge of Gu Yu’s existence among the restaurant’s competitors would bring him no shortage of trouble.
Although there were many villages under Lianchen Town, Gu Yu was handsome and not the kind of person one would forget after a single glance. If someone really wanted to find him, it wouldn’t be difficult.
If it were just Gu Yu alone, it wouldn’t matter much, but involving Gu Mengyao and her brother would be problematic.
Gu Yu thought this way also because Gu Mengyao herself was quite special. If news of him selling wild prey in town leaked out, people wouldn’t think the prey was caught by Gu Yu, but would instead focus their attention on Gu Mengyao.
With so many people watching, the little secret Gu Mengyao wanted to hide might be exposed at any time.
Therefore, Gu Yu felt it was better to develop steadily, to avoid implicating Gu Mengyao.
Although Gu Yu didn’t understand why Gu Mengyao needed to conceal just having great strength… but if his little wife was happy, he would pretend not to know!
Thinking about these things, after saying goodbye to the Fat Chef, Gu Yu headed toward the market, planning to hire a team of craftsmen and ask them to find a few women who could cook, and pay them all together.
Generally speaking, when building houses in the village, it was the villagers who helped each other, reciprocating favors and deepening relationships in the process.
But Gu Yu was afraid that with such relationships, things would become more troublesome later. So it was better to pay people, which at least kept things clear and allowed him to feel at ease.
After all, he had money now, so hiring people to build a house wasn’t a big deal.
Gu Yu thought about this with a sense of affluence. After finding craftsmen and negotiating prices, he finally settled on paying fifty copper coins a day to the foreman in charge, twenty copper coins a day to the workers, and ten copper coins a day to the cook.
Afterward, the craftsman foreman proactively offered to buy all the building materials directly at market prices, saying it would be convenient and efficient.
In response, Gu Yu looked at the craftsman foreman with a smile that didn’t reach his eyes. When he saw the foreman becoming uneasy, thinking that his practice of taking kickbacks was already widely known, Gu Yu finally nodded in agreement and incidentally informed him of his family’s location in Yang Village.
Because he was eager to build the house quickly, construction would begin tomorrow. If Gu Yu were to buy all the building materials himself, it would be not only troublesome but also difficult to know the market prices. It was better to let the craftsman foreman handle everything, since he would only take some kickbacks, but could save Gu Yu a lot of time.
Tomorrow when the craftsman foreman brought people and materials to the Gu family, Gu Yu would take them to the land, lay the foundation, and then start building the house.
As for the style of the house, since Gu Yu wasn’t completely a person from ancient times, he had no specific requirements. Gu Mengyao and her brother were the same. So Gu Yu only specifically mentioned building two rooms for living and a surrounding wall, leaving everything else to the craftsmen’s creativity.
Perhaps having never seen such a casual customer before, after confirming that Gu Yu wanted to build a house with gray brick tiles, the craftsman foreman was momentarily stunned, not knowing what background this child who wanted to build a house actually had.
If Gu Yu hadn’t directly given twenty taels of silver as a deposit, the craftsman foreman would definitely have thought he was there to cause trouble.