Chapter 9 Moving to a New Home
After the new house was built, there was no moisture in the house for two days, and the family was ready to move into the new house, and the old furniture was put in the old house for the servants to use for a while. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
After eating in the morning, the family began to move, moved the newly made quilts and clothes into the new home, put the rice grain into the kitchen, and the rest was to go to the carpenter's house to buy furniture, and the carpenter's home has ready-made furniture, which can be customized if you need it in particular. Ding Yiyi specially instructed her father to buy a few wooden beds, but she was still used to sleeping on wooden beds and burning the clay kang in winter, after all, in this era when there were no electric blankets, the clay kang was still very warm.
In this era, people are sleeping on the earthen kang, the earthen kang can be built by itself, it does not cost much silver, it is economical, it is warm to burn and sleep on it in winter, and the winter in the north is still quite cold.
Ding Dashan told Ding Chen that he was going to buy furniture, so he went to Carpenter Li's house with the silver. Carpenter Li is the son of Li Laohan, who is a good carpenter, honest and honest, and people from ten miles and eight villages love to go to his house to buy furniture.
When he arrived at the door of Carpenter Li's house, Ding Dashan shouted: "Is Brother Li at home?" Carpenter Li was making furniture, and when he heard someone shouting, he said, "At home, come in." Carpenter Li said as he stood up and patted the sawdust on his body.
Ding Dashan walked into the courtyard and said, "Brother Li, there are ready-made tables, chairs, benches, cabinets and wooden beds at home, I want to buy some." "Yes, Brother Ding, please follow me to the house to see what style you like." As he spoke, Carpenter Li enthusiastically asked Ding Dashan to go to the house to look at the furniture.
Ding Dashan chose two paulownia tables and a dozen locust stools, two carved wardrobes and two pear wood boxes, and finally three vermilion carved beds. Carpenter Li saw that he bought a lot of things and said, "Brother Ding, I will ask my father to send it to you in an ox cart in a while, you wait, I will ask my father to take the ox cart and pull things back with you." ”
After the furniture was loaded into the car, Ding Dashan paid the silver and went home with Li Laohan. Ding Dashan unloaded the furniture and put it in the house, looking at the new house and new furniture, he felt a lot of emotion, if it weren't for his daughter, they would have to save another three or five years of silver to live in the new house, which was like a dream.
Because he moved into a new home, Ding Chen was going to take Ding Yiyi to buy some cloth in the town, and Ding Chen was going to take advantage of the warm weather to make the cotton jacket and cotton pants to be worn in winter. In the afternoon, Ding Chen took Xiao Chen to the town with him, Ding Yiyi told her mother that she wanted to go to school, and said that after the servants and maids bought it, she would hand over the workshop to her cousins, and she would go to school by herself.
"If you want to go to school, just go to the house, and you and your father are here, don't worry. "I slept in the early morning and felt that my family's business was getting bigger and bigger, and I should also let my daughter go to the school to learn more knowledge, after all, I need to be literate in business in the future.
"Mother, then let's go to the servants after we move our things into the new house, prepare the quilt and clothes, and go to buy a servant!" Ding Yiyi was a little excited, she could finally go to school, and she would no longer have to worry about others knowing that she could read and write.
The ox cart soon arrived in town, "Grandpa Li, you wait for us here, we will come back after buying good things." Ding Yiyi leaned off the carriage and said to Li Laohan. "Okay, you guys, I'll wait for you here!"
Ding Chen and Ding Yiyi walked into the cloth village, the largest cloth village on the cloth village, and there was a plaque hanging on the gatehouse of the cloth village, and three big characters with gold paint on a black background: Jinsefang. There are various colors of cloth in the brocade workshop, including coarse cloth worn by ordinary people, muslin cloth, silk and brocade worn by large households, and silk worn by rich and noble families. Coarse cloth has gray, blue, white, black, etc., muslin cloth on the background color and added flower and grass patterns, there are daisies, impatiens, moon season, peony and other patterns, silk brocade patterns are even more numerous, in addition to various patterns and light lines and dark lines, silk is brighter than brocade, smooth and soft feel.
Ding Chen bought three horses of coarse cloth and five pieces of muslin, and cut two sets of satin clothes for each of his family, and each of them also had two sets of jackets and cotton jackets. After buying a servant, you can use coarse cloth and muslin to make clothes, and then ask a good woman in the village to cut it, the salary is cheap, this cloth village will cost 50 wen to make a dress, and the village woman can give 15 wen a day.
Ding Chen saw that the fabrics had been bought, and he bought dozens of catties of elastic cotton in the store, and waited to use them to make cotton clothes.
After buying the fabric and cotton, the shopkeeper sent a few feet of cloth, Ding Yiyi felt that the shopkeeper was really good at doing business, and the shopkeeper said a polite word, asking Xiao Er to send the two out, and by the way, he found two people to help send the cloth to the ox cart.
When they arrived at the intersection of the town, the two put the cloth and cotton on the ox cart and said goodbye and went back, and Ding Chen and Ding Yiyi got on the ox cart and went home. On the way, Ding Chen and Ding Yiyi chatted: "Recently, our family's business has been very good, and the neighboring counties have come to our house to buy oil. The little girl's family still goes to school to learn poetry and painting, the embroidery girl is good, the family used to be poor, now you just do what you want to do, don't be too tired yourself. ”
"Mother, I'll just wait for my cousins to take the lead, and when Xiao Chen grows up, I'll hand over the business to him, how about I be a hands-off shopkeeper?" Ding Yiyi said to Ding Chen with a mischievous smile on her face.
The mother and the two talked and laughed along the way to pass the time, and soon arrived at the entrance of the village, Li Laohan saw that they bought a lot of things, and took the initiative to send them to the door. Ding Dashan was holding Xiao Chen in a circle in the courtyard, "You guys are back, I've been to the entrance of the village three times, Xiao Chen has been crying, is he hungry?" ”
Ding Chen took his son, saw that his son was full of tears, hugged him into his arms and breastfed the little baby, Xiao Chen stopped crying as soon as he had something to eat, looked at his mother with big eyes and blinked, and complained silently while breastfeeding.
Li Laohan helped Ding Dashan move things into the house, Ding Dashan paid Li Laohan an extra two cents, Li Laohan insisted that he didn't want it, "Neighbors, how can I ask you for more money? No, no, no, you take it back quickly." Ding Dashan handed it to Li Laohan again, "Please also trouble you to help us with things in the house, you must accept this money." ”
The two pushed back and forth, and in the end, Ding Yiyi said to Li Laohan because of his young age: "Grandpa Li, if you don't accept it, we won't take your car in the future." ”
Li Laohan reluctantly accepted it: "You ghost girl, just your sweet mouth, okay, grandpa accept it, and you will go to the town to find grandpa." ”
The family talked and laughed and entered the house: "We will buy a servant tomorrow, it is best to find a nurse for Xiao Chen, it will be much more convenient." Ding Chen said.