Chapter 6 A Busy Holiday

After coming back from Sister Ye'er's house, Ye'er's dream came true, and we planned not to go anywhere in the rest of the holiday days, tidy up the house at home, and buy some furniture to prepare for the National Day wedding. It seems that there is still a lot of time, but in fact, when Ye Er and I fold our fingers and count, there is actually not much time. Halfway through July, we started school in September, so we had to use this holiday to get everything we needed to prepare.

Ye'er and I are happily thinking about the furniture or other items that we should buy for marriage, and we are all happily looking forward to a better future life.

Not long after returning from Ye'er's eldest sister's house, Ye'er always had nausea and vomiting when eating, or her mother knew, and her mother excitedly told me that Ye'er might be pregnant, let's go to the hospital the next day to check it out, and if you are really pregnant, let the doctor set up a file.

Ye'er and I didn't understand either, so I took Ye'er to the hospital to see a doctor the next day. Really, Ye'er is pregnant, Ye'er's shy face, red, a little uncontrollable joy, I seem a little at a loss, fortunately, the obstetrician and gynecologist in the hospital is a parent of one of my students, she also smiled and said to me congratulations and the like, and helped us establish a maternity file, let us go to the hospital for regular check-ups, before leaving, repeatedly take care of Ye'er to let Ye'er pay attention to nutrition, pay attention to rest, pay attention to eat more fruits and so on.

When I got home and told my mother the news, my mother said to me happily, then you should hurry up and clean up the house in the future, if Ye'er's body changes badly by then, maybe you should be ready to get married before the National Day, don't delay everything in advance.

Parents discussed the two bungalows in the family as our marriage room, the outer room as a living room, the inside as a bedroom, for such an arrangement I and Ye'er have no opinion, after all, my family is also several brothers and sisters, it would be good to have a house to live in, I believe that in the near future, through our efforts, we will have our own house without the help of our parents, Ye'er and I are full of hope and high morale for the future.

At that time, there was no concept of decoration, and the so-called tidying up the wedding room was nothing more than repainting the doors and windows, buying some paint to repaint the walls. I asked Ye'er to stay at home, I went to the building materials store to buy paint and paint, I plan to do it myself, so that I can save a lot of money.

Ye'er always wanted to come over to help, but I was always pushed away by me on the grounds of paying attention to the baby in my belly, and there is no technical content in tidying up the house like this, I can do it. The doors, windows and the house were painted white inside and outside according to the agreement between me and Ye'er in advance, and the paint brushed several times to cover the dark red primer color of the original doors and windows; I bought two different paints for the interior and exterior walls of the house, both of which were white. In the process of painting, I would always accidentally put a few drops of hair on my face and body, or a few pieces of paint, whenever this time, Ye'er always handed me a towel to wipe it for me, and at the same time distressed to persuade me to be careful.

In about a week, the painting of doors and windows and the painting of the house were finally completed. It's like a palace in a fairy tale, with white doors and windows, white walls, even my father came over and praised while watching, because when Ye'er and I planned to paint all white, my father didn't agree with anything, he thought that the doors and windows were still dark red and beautiful, and he was more happy, and in the end his mother persuaded his father to reluctantly agree. The mother said to the father at that time: "When the child is older, he is going to get married, and you still take care of everything, can't you let the child make his own decisions?" When the paint is finished, whether it looks good or not when the time comes, they will be happy. ”

The doors, windows, and walls were taken care of, and the next step was to hire a carpenter to come to the house to make a few sets of furniture. At that time, people's furniture was almost all hired carpenters to go home to customize, and there were almost no furniture sold on the market, even if there were shopping malls selling furniture, its price was not affordable by ordinary people.

At that time, every household will save some wood, large and small, round and square, as long as they feel that these wood is useful, people will earn and save it, and when they earn enough to a certain amount, people will hire a carpenter master to make a square table, a few chairs, a writing desk, or a small bed for children to sleep in, a basin stand for washing basins and faces。。。。。。 These pieces of wood are usually accumulated, and they don't need money, and people only need to pay the carpenter master for the handwork. Some families will also agree in advance with the carpenter master to provide two meals a day at noon and in the evening, so the manual fee is also cheaper when collected.

Because there are more children in the family, my father has already accumulated enough wood, and he has already said hello to a familiar carpenter, who will come to my house to make furniture at any time as long as we need it.

Ye Er and I discussed for several nights what furniture to make and what the styles of the furniture were, and finally we decided to go to the Xinhua Bookstore together, not to buy books, of course, but to go through all kinds of books about furniture styles, and then draw them down and go home for the carpenter master to make them.

Ye Er and I came to Xinhua Bookstore early that day, we found books on furniture making and style design, and some magazines, there were more than 20 thick ones, we flipped through them one by one, compared and discussed them one by one, and then drew down the furniture styles we were optimistic about, because these books were disposable for us, we didn't need to buy them, of course, we also had to be careful about it, at that time, for us, every penny was good.

When he got home, he told his parents about hiring a carpenter to make furniture, and his father said that it was not enough to have a carpenter, but also to hire a painter to come to the house to paint the furniture. I said, I don't need to hire a painter, I do the painting of the furniture myself, and if I know how to carpenter, then I don't need to hire a carpenter. I really can't carpentry, even if I know carpentry, but there are not so many carpentry tools, there are really many tools of carpentry masters, planers, there are electric, there are manual; Saws, also available in electric and manual 。。。。。。 There are all kinds of tools, large and small, and some of them I don't even recognize. The work of the painter is much simpler, no tools, all by the craft to eat, when my fellow scholars make furniture, they hired the work of the painter I have seen a few times, the so-called craft is just a few more putty, a few more times of sandpaper, when the paint is thinned, a few more times of paint.

The next day, the carpenter came to my house with his tools and started working, but my father and I were not idle at all, my father was carefully selecting the wood, and my father was always so stubborn and carefully selecting the wood that was as good as possible for the right size, saying that if the material was too big and the material was not used, it would be a waste.

At the request of the carpenter, I kept going back and forth between my home and the building materials store, buying screws, nails, hinges, plywood or fiberboard。。。。。。 The carpenter always thinks of what you need to buy in time, and does not calculate everything you need in advance so that you can buy it all at once, so I always go to buy it in time, and I always complain about it.

About half a month, the carpenter master I need him to make the furniture are made in accordance with the drawing style that I and Ye Er drawn, the carpenter master said that we are very discerning, all the furniture style belongs to the modern minimalist school, it looks simple, but it is very exquisite, durable, applicable.

Time flies, it's already the middle of August, I have to hurry up and paint these furniture, otherwise I won't have so much time to paint when school starts immediately. I calculated the time, I had to scrape all the newly made furniture with putty powder in one day, and the next day I had to flatten them with sandpaper, so that there were three cycles in six days, and then three cycles of painting, but fortunately, it was summer, whether it was putty powder or paint, it always dried faster, and my work was completed step by step. Smoothing out these scraped putty with sandpaper is the most difficult and time-consuming process. Because it is my own furniture, so when mixing the proportion of putty powder and woodworking glue, I have significantly increased the proportion of woodworking glue, and when the putty powder is dry, it will become very hard and strong, and the quality is better, but when I use sandpaper to polish them, the difficulty is also very great, in order to complete my set tasks in a day, I often have to be busy until midnight。。。。。。

A few days before the start of school in September, all my wedding furniture was made and painted, two wardrobes, a bar cabinet, a writing desk, a dresser, a bookcase, several floor cabinets。。。。。。

Busy, hard, but the happiest holiday.