bookcurios Chapter 130 Furniture Order
Chapter 130 Furniture Order
"what do you mean?"
Manager Chang looked at him and nodded.
Chang Wei folded his hands and nodded: "You are right. Since she is interested in me, I didn't ask a matchmaker to come to my house to propose marriage. I don't have any engagement promise with her. If I keep meeting her, it will tarnish her reputation. She is right to remind me like this. Then why don't we find a matchmaker to come to my house to propose marriage some other day?"
what?
"No, sir, that's not what I meant."
Chang Wei frowned and looked at him coldly: "What do you mean? Didn't you say that she did it for my own good, but you didn't want me to bother her?"
Manager Chang looked as if he had lost all hope in life. Forget it, the more you say, the more mistakes you make!
The master is just obsessed with that young widow. He always thinks that someone is interested in him. No matter how much he says, it will be useless. It would be better for him to send someone to propose marriage. If he is rejected once, he will know the truth.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Chang Wei just snorted and then asked, "Has the fortune teller been caught?"
"Not yet, but I have arranged for people to keep an eye on him in the town. As long as he shows up, he will be brought to me."
Chang Wei nodded: "Then take him to the Jiang family to find Jiang Ming and Jiang Dahe and confront them face to face. I will settle all old and new scores with them!"
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When we got home, it was not yet noon. Zhang Danniu and her friends were doing handicrafts in the yard. Zhang Chuan was rolling on a mat on the ground, wrapped in the jacket that Wang Qiuxia had made for him.
When Zeng Hua saw that she had bought pig offal, he immediately said happily: "We'll have a treat at noon, but this thing is not easy to clean up. I'll take it to the river." As he said that, he took a basin, scooped out some wood ash, and went to the river with her to wash the pig offal.
Jiang Xiaohe had nothing else to do, so she found the furniture drawings she had drawn before, combined them with the furniture of later generations, and drew some easy-to-make ones. During lunch, she asked Wang Qiuxia and Zhang Fu if they wanted to add anything else.
The two old people just need to do as she says.
So she made the decision. After lunch, she took the blueprint and went directly to Aunt Hua's house. She could also look at the furniture drawings of Aunt Hua's house. If there was anything she needed, she could add it in. Anyway, the newly built house was big and needed more furniture.
When they arrived at Aunt Hua's house, as soon as they heard her purpose, they quickly invited her into the house: "It's just right, they are both here."
After saying that, he shouted into the house: "Qiu Ming, Chun Ming, come to work."
As soon as they heard Aunt Hua's shout, two people ran out of the house. They were about the same height and looked similar. Since they didn't interact with each other often, Jiang Xiaohe couldn't tell who was who.
There were two women in the yard bundling firewood. They had brought back wet cypress branches from the mountains and tied them into bundles. They were still in the firewood room. They would dry in a month or so and could be used to start a fire in winter.
"Chun Tao, go get a bowl of water to drink."
One of the women clapped her hands and went to the kitchen.
Jiang Xiaohe originally wanted to say no, but since everyone had already gone, she naturally couldn't say anything.
Aunt Hua introduced Jiang Xiaohe, "Xiaohe, you may not know my two sons. They usually work in town. They are free these two days and happen to be at home."
Then he pointed to the taller one and said, "This is my oldest son, Zhang Qiuming." Then he pointed to another one and said, "This is my second son, Zhang Chunming."
Jiang Xiaohe nodded: "Hello, Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang, I came here today to ask you to help me make some furniture."
Aunt Hua smiled and led the person home: "Don't stand here, go sit inside. Chunming, go get the furniture album at home and show it to your sister Xiaohe."
Zhang Chunming went there immediately.
Jiang Xiaohe also took out the paper in his hand: "Brother Zhang, these are some patterns I drew myself, see if you can print them out."
“Can you draw your own patterns?”
Zhang Qiu Ming took the paper from her hand with some disbelief.
As soon as I saw it, I was stunned and looked at several pictures in a row.
Chuntao also brought some water over here: "Sister Jiang, drink some water."
"Thank you." Jiang Xiaohe took it.
Aunt Hua introduced them, "This is my youngest daughter, Zhang Chuntao, and the one outside just now is my eldest daughter-in-law."
Jiang Xiaohe nodded, Zhang Chuntao put down the bowl and went out to work again.
Zhang Chunming also took out the album and handed it to her. She started to look through it and wanted a set of everything in the album, such as the round table and dressing table.
Zhang Qiuming handed the blueprint to his brother again: "Big sister, did you really draw this picture?"
"Yes!" Jiang Xiaohe closed the album.
"Is it impossible to do it?"
Zhang Qiuming thought for a moment, pointed at himself and Zhang Chunming and said, "We can try, but I think some of them should be easy to do, but some may be difficult."
"It's okay! Just do what you can first. If some difficult ones are really impossible to do, then forget it." After all, some of her paintings were based on those of later generations, so it's normal that she couldn't do them.
Jiang Xiaohe pointed at the album in her hand and said, "I want to get another set of the dining table and dressing table in this album."
"can."
Jiang Xiaohe pointed at the drawings she had drawn and said, “I have only drawn simple ones. If possible, can you help me carve a few more patterns on these chairs and beds?”
Zhang Qiuming nodded: "Sure, no problem. Just tell us what style you want to carve."
The next step is to negotiate the price.
Zhang Qiu Ming said, "You need so many items in large quantities. If you want to save some money, you can buy the wood yourself and bring it to us. We two brothers will just earn the labor fee."
Jiang Xiaohe nodded: "It just so happens that my house is also going to put up the beams. When the time comes, I will ask the delivery of wood to send a batch more."
The two brothers nodded and discussed their work costs. Jiang Xiaohe wanted to make five beds, five wardrobes, an octagonal table, a dressing table, and some small items. The two brothers asked her for five taels of silver.
Aunt Hua said a few more words, and then reduced the amount a little, and finally agreed on four taels and five cents.
Jiang Xiaohe paid a deposit of two taels of silver and went home.
Aunt Hua was very happy. She took the silver and said to her two sons, "Work hard. When you get more work, we will buy a small shop in town and let you do business!"
The two of them were very happy to hear it.
During dinner in the evening, Jiang Xiaohe told Zhang Fu to ask the wood workshop to send some wood over so that Zhang Qiumin and the others could start working on it first.
Zhang Fu nodded and said he would have it delivered tomorrow.
The next half month went on like this, except that the villagers mentioned that making dolls was a trend in the town recently and they were much more valuable than embroidered handkerchiefs.
When the family heard this, they just smiled and said nothing else.
It was getting colder these days and winter was approaching. Wang Qiuxia made new clothes for their family. Zeng Hua saw that she had made new clothes and couldn't sit idle, so she went to the town to buy cloth and made them herself. After all, she had earned some money before, so she was willing to spend the money.
Zhang Danniu's leg healed, and she asked Jiang Xiaohe when they would make new styles of dolls.
"We'll do it when my aunt and the others get here!"
Zhang Daniu frowned when she heard this: "It's been half a month, why haven't my aunt and Xiaoya come yet?"
Jiang Xiaohe didn't say anything, perhaps she was delayed at home!