Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 131 Site Survey
The approval of homesteads is generally done by the village first, then the town, and then the county. Sometimes it may require the cooperation of several departments for approval, involving land administration, agriculture and rural areas, natural resources, etc. It is quite cumbersome. Li Xiang did not expect that it would be approved so quickly.

Li Jinyu explained to him that it might be because he had just been elected as the village chief and village party secretary, and he was also an internet celebrity, and the leaders in the town all knew him, so it was done so quickly.

As for the village, needless to say, it was approved immediately.

The county leaders may not know him, but they should have heard of him to some extent. Then the village and town have approved it, and generally there will be no problem in the county.

When the villagers heard about it, they were happy for Li Xiang, but they also felt that it would be better for this man to have some fame.

For example, a family in the village went through the homestead approval procedures for building a new house two years ago. They ran back and forth for more than half a month, but were eventually rejected. A family in Wangjiaba has not been approved for ten years. Sometimes this was not approved, sometimes that was not approved. They revised the information, re-selected the site, and submitted it countless times, but still could not find out what was wrong.

Li Xiang was approved for a residential plot of 200 square meters.

Generally speaking, in most areas, the area of houses built on vacant land, barren hills and slopes within the village shall not exceed 180 square meters. In some places, there are even regulations on the number of people, such as for a farmer household with three or fewer people, the area of the homestead is usually within 75 square meters.

The policies and regulations in each place are slightly different, but it is rare for a family like Li Xiang to be approved for 200 square meters, even though there are only two people in the family. Maybe it is because there are more land and fewer people in Lijia Village?
Moreover, Li Xiang is at the right age to get married, so perhaps his desire to get married and have children has also been taken into consideration. If he has three children, then there will be six people in the family. If it is approved as two now, how will they live in the future?
These reasons are noted in the application materials.

No matter what, now that it has been approved and we have the formal procedures and documents, we can just get started.

The housing plot was approved, but the application for the "Dark Holy Land" project had not yet been completed, so Li Xiang decided to build his own house first. While building his own house, he also worked on the tourism development company's project, and it was estimated that it would be completed soon.

However, after all, it is not yet the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so he found the construction team that built the kitchen last year and made an appointment.

When Li Xiang contacted the other party, he also told them about the big project he was applying for, "Holy Land Garden", which cost much more than his own house. The construction team was actually quite strong and was affiliated with a construction company. They were more interested in this big project.

The economy is in recession now, and the civil engineering industry is even more sluggish. This construction company has already laid off many employees, and last year it even had to take over Li Xiang's "small kitchen" out of reluctance.

When the benefits are not good, this mosquito leg is still meat, right?
However, what makes the construction team happy is that the kitchen project last year was not taken in vain. They put in a lot of effort and worked hard at that time, and now Li Xiang came to them and gave them this "big project".

Although not as good as it used to be, it is pretty good.

Li Xiang also painted a rosy picture for them, saying that there would be many more issues in the future.

The two parties agreed to meet at 9 a.m. on the 16th day of the first lunar month after the Lantern Festival.

The construction company will send people to conduct on-site measurements. At that time, Li Xiang will show them a simple design drawing, tell them the specific needs and how to do it, and then the other party will issue a detailed design plan and quotation.

The price will be cheaper if the two projects are bundled together.

"Don't worry, Brother Xiang. We are old acquaintances. The construction quality of our engineering team is top-notch. I guarantee you will be satisfied, and the price will be reasonable." The other party vowed.

However, this kind of words is just for show. Li Xiang will not completely believe them. He will definitely conduct on-site inspection and supervision when the time comes.

After the last lively "Village Evening", some local official media reposted it, and many people in the county did know him. Especially when it comes to making iron flowers, no one can match him.

As the Lantern Festival was approaching, Li Xiang received an invitation from the county TV station, saying that they wanted to record a Lantern Festival evening show at an outdoor venue, and they invited him to perform iron flower making.

We had originally booked another master, but after the TV station leader looked at the program list, he suddenly remembered that the internet celebrity in our county was really good at making iron flowers, so we decided to find him!

So, someone changed people!
The final price agreed upon was 20,000 yuan, which Li Xiang thought was pretty good. He could earn 20,000 yuan just by going there to "play", so why not?

You can also shoot some videos and do some live broadcasts. Since it’s on TV, people all over the county can see it. It’s also a good opportunity to expand your popularity.

So gladly agreed.

After hearing this, Yao Yao and Zhao Xueqing also wanted to join in the fun. They were also from Yongye Media, and how could they stay at home and play when the boss was out doing business?
When the time comes, you can cheer and shout, cheer for your boss, and take photos.

Li Xiang agreed, but it was inconvenient without a car, so everyone went on their own and gathered at the West Lake mentioned by the TV station, because Li Xiang and Jiang Jianguo would use a tractor to transport the materials for making iron flowers.

Bellows, stove, coal, iron blocks, steel spoons, large fire tongs, beating boards, beating sticks, etc. As for fire extinguishers, they were not brought, as the TV station had prepared them. Moreover, they were firing fire into the lake from the lakeside, so safety was guaranteed.

This West Lake is not that West Lake. Many cities in the south have place names such as East Lake, West Lake, South Lake and North Lake.

When we arrived at the destination and met up with the TV station crew, everyone was very surprised. Which iron flower craftsman would have two such beautiful secretaries?
The iron flowers that night naturally amazed the audience, they were tall and cool.

Yao Yao and Zhao Xueqing helped shoot a lot of videos and behind-the-scenes footage, which were all posted on Li Xiang and their respective accounts.

Many fans commented and liked the post.

One post in particular received a lot of likes: "Xiang Ge'er is getting better now. He can even get invitations from TV stations to attend such evening parties."

Someone responded: "It's just a Lantern Festival Gala in a small county, and it's recorded. What is there to be proud of?"

The fan said, "You don't know, I was one of the first to follow Brother Xiang. It was last September, when he just quit his job in the big city and returned to his hometown. He rode a three-wheeled motorcycle, was very poor, and had less than a hundred fans. I watched him quietly repair his backyard, cut bamboo, and cut large vats to make cascading waterfalls. It's only been a few months, and he already has more than 2.6 million fans."

The reason for such a huge increase is that the number of fans increased by 400,000 to 500,000 due to a wave of traffic during the village evening party.

Many people sighed, "It's really amazing. How can ordinary people rise so fast? There is a marginal anchor, who is very beautiful and has the title of world champion, but after half a year, she is only a small number of people. She also signed a company to operate, but she just can't get up."

Miraculously, one of his juniors scolded him later, and the two of them exchanged insults in the comment section for two or three rounds, and he immediately became an celebrity!

It can be seen that this kind of thing really requires opportunity and the support of noble people.

It doesn't mean that you can become famous as long as you show off your body, are pretty, can dance and twist your waist.

Yao Yao saw it and agreed with it. She was very sympathetic to the champion anchor.

Not only people are like this, but objects are the same.

A certain tomb guardian beast artifact was displayed in a museum for many years after it was unearthed and no one paid attention to it. As a result, it suddenly became popular because "there are always two similar flowers in the world"!
Coincidentally, this tomb guardian beast not only looks similar, but its feet are also "injured".

The other live streamer is good at appreciating cultural relics and antiques, especially "tomb objects". He can tell the authenticity of something through the camera, and likes to shout "Open the door! Open the door!" every day.

Legend has it that there are a pair of tomb guardian beasts, one responsible for closing the door and the other responsible for opening the door. The one that opened the door ran away and transformed into a human to become a broadcaster...

It was late at night and the bus had stopped. After the four of them had a midnight snack together, Li Xiang asked Jiang Jianguo to drive the tractor back by himself while he took a taxi to take the two girls home.

The main reason was that it was too late, and I was a little worried about letting two such beautiful girls take a taxi alone.

Li Xiang asked them to learn how to drive as well, because he was going to buy a car soon. When he needed to go out to do business or purchase something, he could lend them his car.

Yao Yao: "Brother, take us with you when you buy a car, we can help you with reference and bargaining."

"no problem!"

"Brother, what car are you going to buy?"

"An SUV, a seven-seater commercial vehicle, and a pickup truck!"

"Wow, buying three cars at once, you must be very rich!" Yao Yao was surprised.

Zhao Xueqing also blinked her beautiful eyes.

Li Xiang: “They are all registered under the company’s name.”

When doing business, what matters is the appearance. You can't just drive a three-wheeled motorcycle.

If you register it under the company name, you can deduct taxes, and you can also use invoices to get reimbursed for regular gas and maintenance.

Zhao Xueqing's home was close, so she got off first. When the girl got off the car, she looked at Li Xiang several times. Yao Yao couldn't help but feel happy. She knew what Zhao Xueqing was thinking, so she smiled and said to Li Xiang in the passenger seat: "Brother, come sit in the back, I want to tell you something."

Zhao Xueqing: “…”

……

On the Lantern Festival, Li Xiang also prepared a big meal, but it was just him and his grandmother, so it was much quieter than the New Year's Eve dinner. Li Xiang watched the Lantern Festival Gala with his grandmother for a while, and also talked about the house he was going to build next. It might mean that his grandmother would have to move to the utility room next to the kitchen for a few months.

Grandma was very happy and had been looking forward to building a new house for a long time. Of course, she was even more looking forward to having more people living in such a big house.

"I don't know if I can wait until then~" Grandma glared at him. There are so many girls, but he doesn't like any of them?
Since Li Xiang is too picky and there is no shortage of girls around him, no one introduces anyone to anyone.

Li Xiang smiled and said, "If you can wait, you will definitely wait."

Grandma usually goes to bed early, but she stayed up late tonight mainly to watch Li Xiang's iron flower show. Li Xiang said that they could watch the replay tomorrow, but grandma didn't want to. She insisted on watching Li Xiang on TV before going to bed.

Tomorrow? I have to chat with the villagers tomorrow and tell them that my grandson is on TV. How can I not watch it today?
……

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, the weather was fine and the construction company came to the site as scheduled to conduct a survey and discuss the plan.

There were eight people from the other side, including the manager I knew before, four men, and three girls. They were all professional technicians and brought many tools. It was obvious that they took the matter very seriously.

Li Xiang took everyone around and introduced his needs in detail.

The backyard, which was as large as a football field, will be divided into two parts. About two-fifths will become Li Xiang's real backyard, and the rest will be designated as the scenic area, separated by a wall to create a Jiangnan garden landscape. There will be a traditional Chinese style pub, teahouse, coffee shop, milk tea shop, etc.

The original wall was reused and slightly modified, such as adding some window views, repainting, removing graffiti in some places, and painting beautiful landscape paintings.

In addition to the layout, Li Xiang also talked about his ideas in detail, including which trees and flowers to plant, where the pavilions and lawns are, where the bridges, flowing water, fountains, etc.

The three girls were pretty good looking. I have to say there are many beautiful girls in Sichuan and Chongqing. They took their notebooks and cameras to record and take photos. They were very serious. Occasionally they would also offer their own opinions.

Li Xiang readily accepted good suggestions. After all, one person's shortcomings are worth three people's advantages, and he is a professional in construction.

The rest of the people communicated with Li Xiang while surveying and recording.

"Then there is a winding path with peach and cherry trees on both sides, leading to the back mountain..."

Li Xiang led the group to walk and talk. When they reached the back of the mountain, Li Xiang gestured and said, "Here, build a stone staircase and dig a cave ten meters up. The entrance to the cave is not big, with a diameter of only about three meters, but there is a different world inside. We will build a sci-fi mountain shelter. Is this project difficult enough for you to do?"

"Sure, no problem. But... I have a question." A technician from the other side asked after hesitating for a moment.

"You go ahead." Li Xiang gestured.

"Well, will anyone really come to a tourist attraction like yours? With such a huge investment, won't you lose money?"

"Haha, you don't have to worry about that. Just tell me if you can do it, right?"

The manager glared at the technician and said quickly, "We can do it! In fact, we are also very interested in this style of building. We will come up with a plan and Mr. Li will decide."

"Okay, I'll tell you the specific requirements. The space inside is divided into twelve areas: a large living room, three bedrooms with separate bathrooms, an e-sports area, a fitness area, a reading room, a storage room, a kitchen, a power room, an armory, and a master control room..."

"I will give you a detailed introduction to the size, decoration style, waterproofing and anti-seepage of each area..."

Li Xiang talked eloquently, leaving those people stunned.

In fact, some key supporting areas are still missing, such as public toilets, vegetable planting areas, animal breeding areas, aquaculture areas, biogas tanks, wind power equipment interfaces, energy storage areas, deep water wells, pharmacies, medical rooms, radar base stations, automatic turrets, nuclear power plants, etc.

After all, this is just a "model room" for tourists to visit and experience, not a real shelter.

In a real shelter, most of the bedrooms are dormitories, and there will be no such small storage rooms, but large warehouses with different categories. The power system and supporting facilities are also much more powerful than here.

If we have to say that this place is a refuge, it can only be the single-family area where Li Xiang and his partner will live alone in the future.

Many such underground shelters connected together form an underground city.

"In addition, these places must be equipped with floor heating, air conditioning, and fresh air systems. The exits must be hidden and rainproof, and isolation diamond nets must be installed in the passages. The escape route will be extended to the other side of the mountain."

The reason for installing floor heating is that it works better than air conditioning in the cold winter and the dark and cold nights.

"Then we need to rebuild the fence a little further away and put up barbed wire, mainly to prevent wild boars in winter."

The rapeseed flowers planted by Li Xiang were growing well before. It is estimated that this construction will damage a lot of them, but most of them should be preserved.

Li Xiang likes rapeseed flowers very much and plans to plant some more this autumn and winter.

The kind that takes large pictures, because he thinks that many tourists would also like to take photos and check in in the rapeseed fields.

How can a pastoral scenery be complete without the brilliant golden sea of rapeseed flowers?

Li Xiang said a lot. Today, it took nearly four hours just to conduct field surveys and explain the requirements, and it was almost finished at one o'clock in the afternoon.

However, the construction party was also very happy because the more detailed the requirements were, the easier it would be for them to come up with a plan.

What I fear most is the kind of person who has no ideas at all and yet is very picky.

Li Xiang's budget for his house is 80 yuan, including roughcast and hard decoration, two floors above ground, and Chinese courtyard style. The design drawings he found online are very beautiful, but of course the specifics need to be adjusted based on the specific plan and quotation from the construction party.

The plan will definitely not be finalized in one go, and will require multiple discussions, revisions and improvements in the future.

As for the basement, Li Xiang did not plan to build one because there would be a super flood in more than four years. The three small cellars in the kitchen were enough for the time being.

The budget for the "Holy Land Garden", including decoration, is eight million, including the first phase of the mountainside shelter attraction halfway up the mountain.

There will be a second and third phase later, which will be able to accommodate thousands of people when a major flood comes. It will serve as a tourist attraction in normal times and provide shelter in times of crisis.

But the decoration in the later phases may not be as good as that in the first phase, and will focus on practicality.

In fact, there are many mountains nearby, so even if a flood comes, there are plenty of places to hide in the surrounding area, but they are not as comfortable as his shelter.

We set up a temporary tent on the mountain, it was wet everywhere, there was a violent storm, thunder and lightning, there was a lack of medical care and medicine, and it was difficult to even drink hot soup. How could it be as comfortable as in a well-renovated base in the mountain?

Of course, Li Xiang did not reveal the specific budget. He certainly could not tell the other party. He had to wait until the other party's proposal and quotation came out before discussing the details.

On the way back, the technician was scolded.

"Xiao Lu, are those questions we should ask before?"

Xiao Lu quickly said, "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't ask, but I couldn't help it. Manager, do you think this project can really make money?"

"Whether we make money or not is none of your business. We just need to do our job well and satisfy the client. Talk less and do more. Do you understand? Don't cause trouble for me again!"

"I know, I know!" Xiao Lu felt very aggrieved. I was also kind-hearted and put myself in Party A's shoes. He really didn't think highly of this project.

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