The price of perfection Zhang Baotong 2016.12.27

After two months of intense busyness, the new house for my son to marry is finally completed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info this is a house that my wife and I spent our lives taking out 400,000 yuan and borrowing 200,000 yuan from the bank to buy. The house is next to the second ring road, the location is good, and it is a high-rise, three bedrooms and two living rooms, with 100 square meters. Because it is a new house for marriage, the decoration is more exquisite, so the decoration cost more than 100,000 yuan, and then buy furniture, electrical appliances and various supplies, we had to borrow another 200,000 yuan from relatives and friends. It's really good to see where the money is spent. Looking at the neat and beautiful new house, I feel that everything is perfect, and I am finally relieved. Now I am waiting for my son to get married, and then I will find a way to repay the bank and others.

When installing curtains in the new house that day, my wife called and said that there was a wire on the ceiling of the new house that was not lighted, so it didn't look like the wire was exposed. As soon as I heard it, I asked which thread it was, because I had never seen any extra thread on the ceiling in the living room. The wife said that there was a thread, and the lamp was originally to be installed, but the electrician said that the electric light in the living room was enough, and there was no need to install it, so she plugged the hole of the thread with toilet paper.

At this time, I remembered that when people put wallpaper on the walls that day, I always felt that there was a part of the ceiling that had not been smoothed, and if I didn't look closely, I couldn't see it, but if I looked closely, I could see it. But I didn't know it was the orifice of a wire plugged with toilet paper. When people are old, their eyes are really bad. Because it was only three or five days before I got married, I told my wife to forget it, and the orifice should continue to be plugged with toilet paper, anyway, ordinary people don't look there, and even if they do, they may not be able to see it. But my wife lost her temper and said that we spent so much money to buy a house and decorate the house, isn't it just to be perfect? We have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we still care about this little money?

I said I didn't care about spending money, but that it wasn't worth it to run for this little thing. Because our family is in the southern suburbs, and my son's new house is in the northern suburbs, it takes an hour to take a car back and forth. I really don't want to be busy with this little thing. No, I've been busy these days, I'm really tired and annoyed, and I don't want to move at all. And I'm writing a story for a newspaper.

My wife didn't allow me to explain, and said you should come over right away and find a way to fix the hole. I had no choice but to put down what I was doing, turn off my computer, and go out. It's already raining outside. I didn't bring an umbrella, but luckily it didn't rain much. From the neighborhood to the bus stop on the street, there happened to be a bus just leaving. Because my son's new house is in the newly built Furong community, although it is not far from the North Second Ring Road, there is no direct bus, so the traffic is still very inconvenient. And there are not many buses to the North Second Ring Road, sometimes waiting for half an hour or even an hour can not wait for a bus. Seeing that the bus had just left, I decided to block the bus because it was close to noon at this time, and I wanted to get to the Seremban community as soon as possible.

It took me about 10 minutes to get a taxi and drive north along the South 2nd Ring Road. The car was stuck in traffic under the South Second Ring Road overpass for a while, so I asked the driver if the taxi price had increased. He told me that it didn't go up much, that it used to start at seven yuan, and now it starts at nine yuan. But the price per kilometer and the waiting time for parking have gone up a bit. I said it was still quite a bit higher. So, I began to estimate that in the past, I used to take a taxi for about 30 yuan, but now it is at least 40 yuan. Sure enough, when I arrived in front of the Furong community, I looked at the taximeter, and it was really 40 yuan and 5 jiao. The driver only asked me for 40 yuan.

In her son's new house, the wife was making the bed with her two good sisters. I looked up to the ceiling of the living room for a few moments, and it became clear that one spot was indeed a little uneven, like a mark on wounded skin. But if you don't look closely, it's hard to see, because it's not in the middle of the ceiling in the living room, but close to the wall. If it weren't for my wife's request, I really didn't want to bother with it. But now that my wife has already said it, I can't turn a blind eye any longer.

I said I could do this little thing myself. However, my wife wouldn't let me do it, saying that if I didn't do it well, it would make me look like a dog gnawing at it, and it would be even more ugly. So, I took out my phone and called the guy who used to renovate us, so he could come and help fix it. However, the man answered the phone and said that he was busy in a newly built community on Fengcheng 10th Road in the northern suburbs. I said that no matter how busy you are, you have to come, because my son is going to get married in two days, and there is no delay. He hesitated for a long time, saying that he would ask for 50 yuan for a trip. I said I wouldn't let you work in vain, I'll pay you.

Because it would take him an hour to come from Fengcheng 10th Road at the earliest, I hurried downstairs and went out of the community to buy a pot of rice for everyone. After eating, I waited for a long time before the migrant worker came over in the rain. However, he said that he was smashing the ground for someone today, so he didn't bring any tools. He looked at the ceiling and told me to buy a large white powder and a small shovel. I don't know where to buy these things. He told me that there was a row of temporary houses in the east of Daming Palace, where small bags of white powder were bought, and small shovels were sold in general grocery stores.

There are usually some electric bouncing cars in front of the Furong community, but I don't know if it is because of the rain or the urban management or traffic police inspection, there is not a single car in front of the community today, and taxis generally rarely come from the second ring road. I couldn't help it, so I braved the rain and walked towards the second ring road. Halfway through, I blocked a taxi. The taxi pulled me directly in front of the temporary house on the east side of Daming Palace. However, there is a notice in front of the temporary house that the store has moved to a certain place due to the demolition of the house. Moreover, at this time, my wife called again and told me that I had to buy a ladder, because the ceiling was too high to do anything without a ladder.

I couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and I started a fire on my wife on the phone, saying that it was nothing about that little thing, but she was so poor and particular that I ran over from all the way to block the car, and as a result, I called people here, and they didn't have this or that, so I asked me to buy everything, and then I bought the ladder, and you said how much money should be spent on that little thing, and how much effort it took. My wife lost her temper when she heard me, and she also became angry, saying that you can do this if you like, and if you don't want to do it, you can leave it there. Then he hung up the phone.

Anger is anger, but things can't be delayed, so I'm going to find a place to buy something. Fortunately, in the grocery store in the West Rail Community, not far from the Daming Palace Home City, there are big white powder sellers. However, the big white powder is a whole big bag, and it costs 20 yuan. The holes in the ceiling are the size of pigeon's eggs, how can you ask for so much white powder. However, people's big white powder is all in whole bags, not sold in small quantities. I had to look somewhere else. In the place where you buy a small shovel, there happens to be a big white powder for sale, which is a small bag of five catties, a bag of five yuan, or a good one, and you can directly wipe it on the wall. So, I spent 10 yuan to buy a small shovel and a small bag of white powder. Then I went to find a place to buy a ladder. Places that sell ladders have also been found, and the cheapest ladder is 120 yuan. So, I went straight to the cheapest ladder.

With my things in my hands and a ladder on my shoulders, I'm going to take a minibus. However, I finally waited for the minibus, but there were a lot of people in the bus, and the driver didn't let me get on the bus. So, I started blocking the car. The rain is getting heavier and heavier. My clothes were soaking wet. However, after blocking several cars in a row, the driver refused to stop when he saw me carrying a ladder. But one of the masters may see me standing in the rain blocking the car, my clothes are soaked, and he is moved by compassion, so he stops the car. However, the ladder was too long to fit in the trunk, so the driver opened the front door of the car and put the ladder sideways through the front door. Luckily, the ladder was just enough to fit into the car, but you had to hold it on your hand or it would hit the window. When I arrived in the Furong community, I had to pay the driver more, but the driver only charged me ten yuan.

With shovels, ladders and white powder, the migrant worker who was engaged in the renovation smoothed the ceiling in two strokes. When I was paying, my wife said that he didn't bring any tools, and that she had spent a lot of money on things and ladders for us, and that I couldn't give him 50 yuan. But I thought I had promised someone, so I gave him 50 yuan. For this reason, my wife thought I was too stupid and easy to talk, and said a few complaining words. I was already pretending to be full of fire, so I replied that it is not that you have to be poor. For this, the two of us fought again, and we didn't speak for two or three days.

Afterwards, I calculated, in order to smooth out the line holes on the ceiling and look better, I spent 5 yuan to buy large white powder, 5 yuan to buy a small shovel, 120 yuan to buy a ladder, 72 yuan to block the car, and paid 50 yuan for wages. It cost a total of more than 250 yuan, delayed me for a day, and quarreled with my wife.

Originally, the thread hole was well stuffed with toilet paper, and if you didn't look closely, it wouldn't be noticeable, but for the sake of beauty and perfection, I had to pay that price. Whether it's worth it or not, no one can say, because exquisiteness and perfection itself are a matter of money and effort. (To be continued.) )