Chapter 6: The Bends of the Road (8) (6)

For this reason, on Sunday, when the whole family gathered, Maosheng held an unprecedented family meeting. There is a division of labor for everyone in the family, even the xylophone. Shigeru and Kyo are in charge of cleaning up the Westinghouse and building the furniture. Xylophone is responsible for daily necessities such as pots and pans, clothes, and bedding. Zhong'er and Xingzi can't be idle, in addition to going home on Sunday to help Maosheng, they often go to the hospital to help Ye'er do some work. Take Maosheng's words, Ye'er is already your sister-in-law. In addition to his own mother, he is the closest to Ye'er. No matter what time it is, you must have this number in your heart.

Regarding many etiquettes before and after the marriage, such as proposing, housekeeping, passing on the date, sending big meals, etc., Maosheng has always been meticulous in accordance with the inherent customs of the village. There can be no mess of the program at all, no details can be missed, and no clever places are allowed. Therefore, Jing'er's marriage is the most in line with the folk customs and customs of Xinghua Village for decades.

In the tidying up of the new house, Maosheng relied on his dexterous and diligent hands to move the urban life he saw back then to Xinghua Village as much as possible. Therefore, Jing'er's Xifang combines the style characteristics of urban knowledge and rural norms to promote both local and foreign, and is displayed in front of the villagers.

The west courtyard was cleaned up neatly. The original low wall was re-raised and reinforced, and a spacious and tall gatehouse was built. Yellow clay was also added with white ash and a thick layer was finely smeared to completely enclose the gravel of the forked wall. From a distance, it looks like a palace wall that rises abruptly. The pot house was rebuilt, and even the pigsty was rebuilt with stone bars. Next to the pigsty against the south wall, he ingeniously built a latrine. There is a door face, a thatched pit, and a frame basket for hand paper. When the people saw it, they exclaimed, no wonder they had lived in a big city, and their knowledge was different from that of the countrymen.

All the doors and windows in the courtyard were replaced with new ones and rebuilt. The gate was painted with black paint, and the doors and windows in the courtyard were all painted in oily blue. The doors and windows are no longer finely broken lattices of flowers and trees, but large square lattices, inlaid with clear and translucent glass. The ceiling of the house is no longer pasted with fancy newspapers, but is made of new pure white snakeskin bags. The walls of the house were carefully painted three times with white lime water. The whole room was covered with snow, dazzling in the sunlight shining through the windows and doors. The sour apricot woman came to see it several times, but she was pierced by the white light in the room and couldn't open her eyes. She muttered vigorously, how can people live in such a white house, I'm afraid there is no need to light the lamp at night.

The floor of the two rooms outside the hall was rammed three times with pure triple soil before stopping, and it was as smooth as a mirror. The inner bedroom is made of pure wood and painted with red paint to resemble a red carpet. Walking on it, it is so flexible and comfortable that people dare not move.

Maosheng has already built half of the various styles of furniture that he has envisioned, such as the red jujube wood bed, the Eight Immortals table, the kitchen and so on. When he was about to continue to build according to the style he designed, Dr. Yao in the city asked someone to say that he had bought Ye'er a cabinet, a wardrobe and some other household items, as well as Ye'er's clothes for the four seasons. In addition, he also bought a bicycle, which was counted as Ye'er's dowry. Mao Sheng stopped and was busy painting the furniture paint he had built. [End of Chapter]