When the carpenter Master Xu came, he brought an apprentice, and looked at the wooden windows, wooden doors, four beds, wardrobes, cupboards, bookshelves, Bogu shelves, eight immortal tables, long tables in the hall, square tables, and dining tables, chairs of various colors, low tables, screens, etc., Ziqing did not remember, in short, Zeng Ruixiang explained that he needed to look at the house with a full set of furniture, and make it exquisite, in fact, Ziqing wanted to ask if there was rosewood, think about it, forget it, and I don't know it.

Who knows that Master Xu looked at the wood after looking at the house, and said that these woods are okay to make doors and windows and cupboards, and it is a little rough to do anything else, and he still has a few good woods, and can use beech wood to add some camphor wood to make bookshelves and wardrobes, and the beech wood is mixed with the fragrance of camphor wood, and there will be no insects, but it can't be put too much, a total of one is enough. As for the Bogu frame, bed and other large furniture on beech wood, strong and durable and beautiful, a few screens on the use of nanmu, anyway, not much material.

Nanmu, Nanmu, Ziqing was excited, I really want to say, use Nanmu, it seems that my luck is simply too good. This was something that I would never have dreamed of in my previous life.

Zeng Ruixiang hesitated a little when he heard this, he didn't know if the money in the family was enough, so he asked: "How much silver will it cost to get all these down." ”

"The raw materials are about fifty taels, and the rest is wages. Master, I also see how well your house is built, so I plan to make you a full set, and a good horse must be equipped with a good saddle, don't you say? Rest assured, with the furniture I made in your house, there will be no second home in the whole village. To tell the truth, these good woods are found by me and my apprentices from the mountains in the past few years, this price is absolutely cheap for you, I also have itchy hands when I look at these good woods, but where can ordinary people afford to use them, I will take out all the family foundation I have been looking for over the years, and then use my housekeeping skills. Let's do it, let my apprentice bring someone over tomorrow, do the window frame or something first, I'll also go to Anzhou, see the latest furniture style in the city now, what about you, what are the requirements and then ponder, I will come again the day after tomorrow. ”

As soon as Master Xu said this, Zeng Ruixiang was a little tempted, and the rest of the family was a little tempted. Ziqing wanted to do it for a long time, this is still the origin of Nanmu, she has seen a lot of camphor trees, and the shop of her aunt's house over there is facing a big camphor tree when it opens the door, and it takes two or three people to surround it.

As soon as Master Xu and the others left, Zeng Ruixiang asked how much silver there was, and Ziqing said one hundred and forty-four taels and two dollars. The family sat together and discussed, and basically unanimously passed, especially the camphor wood, there were no insects, and it was better to have a little camphor wood at the head and end of the bed to be safer, but Zeng Ruixiang said that it would not sleep well, the smell was too big. "It seems that as soon as this family moves, our family is poor again, and we originally wanted to buy a few acres of paddy fields, but it seems that we will have to wait until next year." Shen said.

"Mother, our family can't do these fields, I think we still hire a short-term worker for the heavy work in the field, Daddy is very tired every time he comes home, Daddy didn't often do these manual work, and our family is not short of these dollars at present." If you see someone in the village who is more difficult and honest, just look for him. Ziqing said what she thought in her heart, to be honest, if she wasn't afraid of being scolded by her grandfather, she would have wanted to persuade her father and mother to go out.

When Shen heard this, he said: "Actually, I also thought about this, it was originally a difficult family situation, and your father was unwilling, so I didn't mention it again." Now everyone in the village knows that our family has built a new house, and there is no need to hide it. He also asked Zeng Ruixiang if he had a familiar candidate.

"When you say that, I think the third child of Sanniang's family is okay, both of them are honest and responsible, and there are three children in the family. Sanniang gave birth to five sons, and there was not much to distribute to each son. Ruixiang said.

"Not only three, but also the fourth. Then I'll discuss it with Sanniang first. Shen said.

When Master Xu came again, his two apprentices had already done the preliminary preparations, the work place was in the south of the east wing, basically busy in the yard during the day, the two apprentices were responsible for the doors and windows, Master Xu made the bed first, because Zeng Ruixiang said that he wanted to move in early, the salary was 60 yuan a day for the master, 30 yuan for the apprentice, two meals a day, and an apprentice to do chores after finishing the doors and windows.

Ziqing said that she was afraid of mosquitoes, so she asked Master Xu to match each bed with camphor wood, who knew that Master Xu said: "When I plane camphor wood, you put away all the crumbs and shavings, which is very useful." Not only the head of the bed, but you put a little bit in the cupboard in the stove room, and you don't even come to the shell. ”

Ziqing was really surprised when she heard it, and Master Xu made a secret grid at the head and end of the bed so that the camphor sawdust could be put in. Master Xu was not embarrassed, and happily agreed. After Zeng Ruixiang and Master Xu discussed, they returned to the county seat in the afternoon.

As soon as Zeng Ruixiang left, the Shen family still invited the old man Zeng, and it was more convenient for the old man to help with some trivial chores. The Shen family didn't have time to go to the fields, so they had to go grocery shopping on the days of the market, and they had to prepare meals for four more big men every day, and they had to prepare some thin wine and good dishes for dinner.

Shen took the time to go to the third mother-in-law's house, originally the third mother-in-law didn't want money, and only said that she would let her son help.

Shen Shi hurriedly said: "It's not a day or two, it's a long time, if Sanniang doesn't collect money, I can only go to someone else." It's just that I don't have to see that my brother doesn't help but cheapen the outsider's reason. Only then did he persuade the third mother-in-law and Zeng Ruiyu.

Shen asked Zeng Ruiyu to re-plough and level the paddy fields and dry land, Zeng Ruiyu finished it in two days, Shen gave him 80 yuan, Zeng Ruiyu had to return 20 yuan, saying that the wages for working outside were 30 yuan a day.

Shen had no choice but to give up, and told Ziqing to keep accounts, Ziqing thought that the daily bookkeeping was too wordy, so he still put five strings of copper plates in the small wooden box, and then checked how much was left in five days, so that he knew how much Shen spent on buying vegetables, and if there were other expenses, they would be recorded separately, so that there was no need to keep accounts every day. Ziqing also asked Zifu to find some red ink, and when there is a profit in the future, he will use a red pen, and it will be clear at a glance. In fact, if it weren't for the fear of others looking at it, Ziqing would have wanted to use Arabic numerals, how simple it was.

Since Zeng Ruiyu worked in the field, Shen had time to turn over the vegetable field every day, Ziqing asked Shen to only plant all kinds of vegetables that his own family could eat, one bunch of each, and the rest of the land was planted with garlic and parsley, Ziqing remembered that in the previous life, before the Chinese New Year, every family had to prepare a lot of spices for cooking, because every family had to come to the guests, and there was basically no vegetable sales before the eighth day of the new year, so the garlic and parsley were still very expensive. Ziqing felt that it should be about the same here.

Shen also felt that this was the case when he heard it, but not in the New Year, the guests at home had to go to the field to pull green garlic parsley or something to fry meat or bacon, and they were usually not willing to eat, and they couldn't help but eat when they entertained guests during the New Year, especially in the city. After thinking about this, Shen hugged Ziqing and kissed him several times before going to work happily.

Ten days later, Master Xu finished making the first bed, Ziqing saw that it was not much different from Shen's bed, they were all four pillars, the difference was the details, the carving, the shape of the head of the bed and the end of the bed, not to mention, Master Xu really had two brushes, the work was very detailed, and the patterns were also very exquisite. This bed is intended for Ziqing's father and mother, the head of the bed is a lotus flower, and the edge of the bed is a picture of a baby, and the demeanor is realistic.

Ziqing really liked it, and Shen was also very happy,