The Prestigious Family’s Young Lady and the Farmer - Chapter 81

Time gradually passed while he was busy, and in a blink of an eye, Lin Qingwan had been pregnant for more than 7 months and almost 8 months.

The house is almost completed, and only the corners need to be repaired. The woodworker invited by Yang Tiezhu has already begun to make furniture in it.

The carpenter hired was Carpenter Cui, who had done things for Lin Qingwan several times. Carpenter Cui had an honest mouth. Before he came, he told him that he would only work and don’t talk about it. He didn’t even tell other people in his family. Bringing his son and apprentice to the house to immerse himself in work.

Lin Qingwan asked several times to come and see how the house was going, but Yang Tiezhu refused to let her go. Said that it is messy, she has a big belly, it’s not good to knock it. In addition, pregnant women generally cannot move the ground at home, for fear of shocking the fetal god, but Luoxia Village does not pay much attention to this, but it is always good to avoid seeing it.

Until now the house was completed, Yang Tiezhu accompanied Lin Qingwan to take a look.

The overall structure of the house is roughly the same as Lin Qingwan thought.

The front yard is very large, the front face is a row of three main houses, and to the left are three large tiled houses, which are built with Kangs for people to live in. There are also three tiled houses on the right, which are the stove room, the utility room, and one room for bathing. In the yard there are sheds and mule carts, and a well.

The ground of the yard is paved with bluestone slabs, which was suggested by Uncle Lu when building the house. He thought that the walls of the courtyard were expensive, and the houses inside were not badly built. He couldn’t always believe that the ground in the courtyard was still soil, so he suggested that Yang Tiezhu buy some bluestone slabs to cover the courtyard.

It happened that Lin Qingwan was worrying that there was no concrete floor here, and everything that was wet in the rain would be muddy in the yard at home. After hearing Yang Tiezhu’s message that bluestone slabs are not expensive, he spread the yard with bluestone slabs.

Enter the main room, the middle one is the main hall. The main hall is not designed like a kang like in Luoxia Village, but is designed like a serious person. The middle is a very simple Taishi wall. The wall can be hung on the wall. There are also couplets in the painting, and you can also put the ancestral tablet, but they are not there yet. I didn’t even buy the nave paintings, so I waited to buy them together.

Below the nave painting is a table, and in front of the table is a large square table of the Eight Immortals, slightly lower than the long table, with armchairs on each side. There are four armchairs on each side of the lower head. These furniture are all driven out by Carpenter Cui these days. I heard Yang Tiezhu say that the carpentry can be finished soon.

The west room on the right is a Ming room design. There is no partition in the middle. It is completely open. Inside is a large round table with eight immortals. There is a table next to the window. Later, there will be some decorations on the wall. There are also some decorative paintings, but they are still empty.

The east side is the usual style of Luoxia Village. There is a kang along the wall. Next to the wall are two armchairs and a small table. Below the window is a high table with nothing on it.

There are kang cabinets and kang tables on the kang, and Lin Qingwan touched the furniture while watching. Carpenter Cui’s craftsmanship is really good, and some auspicious patterns are carved on the furniture.

The furniture was all in natural wood color. Carpenter Cui wanted to paint. Lin Qingwan didn’t let it. Yang Tiezhu told him to keep the original color of the wood. So Carpenter Cui only painted a few coats of varnish on the furniture. It looks simple and elegant, anyway, Lin Qingwan thinks it looks better than red paint.

The wood is tight and tight, and Lin Qingwan doesn’t know what material it is, and the color naturally presents an indescribable reddish brown.

There is also a simple hall at the far end of the Xijian, which can lead to the back from there. There is a door in the hall. If you close it from the outside, you can’t see that it can pass by.

At the back, you see a small courtyard. It is said that the courtyard is actually very simple, just a small courtyard paved with bluestone slabs. The east wing is on the left, the west wing is on the right, and the east and west wing are two houses each. One of the West Wing is a small stove room, which is smaller than the previous one, but the stove and cabinets inside are quite complete. The other three rooms are all occupant houses, which are built with Kang, Kang cabinets and wardrobes.

The three rooms facing the front face are the main rooms. There are a few sheets under the middle wall, and the walls are still ready to hang decorative paintings or embroidery. Lin Qingwan wanted to embroider a large embroidered picture and hang it on it, but it is estimated that she will not be free now, and it is estimated that she will not be free in the next year, so she can only expect to buy a picture and put it on top.

There is a round table of Eight Immortals in the middle of the main hall, which can be used for eating. The east room is the sleeping room. Inside there is a cabinet specially made to put clothes on the kang. Next to the window is Lin Qingwan’s dressing table. Next to the dressing table is a tall table on which vases will be prepared.

In the west room, Lin Qingwan prepared to use it as a living room. A kang was built next to the window, and a armchair two or two high was placed next to the wall. Lin Qingwan was going to put her embroidery frame in the empty space.

In order to make it easier to take a bath in the future, Lin Qingwan separated a small room from the front and rear east rooms to use it as a bath room. There was a stove and a bathtub in it.

The conditions here are just like this, and it is extremely rare to be able to do this.

The windows in the house have not been made yet. In ancient times, unlike modern windows, they were made of stainless steel or aluminum alloy. Just buy them and install them directly. You need a carpenter to make them a little bit.

At this time, Carpenter Cui and his son were making windows. The windows were wooden lattice windows. Lin Qingwan took a closer look, the pattern was very beautiful. She really sighed that the craftsmanship of the ancient craftsmen was so exquisite, and one window could be so beautiful.

After reading it, Lin Qingwan went to the backyard again. The backyard was divided into two parts, one part connected to the front, and passed through a small door beside the East Chamber. There are vegetable gardens, wells, chicken pens and pig pens for raising pigs. Well, these are not enough for the time being, I will talk about them later.

There are also two jujube trees. According to Yang Tiezhu, he moved these trees from elsewhere. However, there is no need to think about jujube production this year. It is estimated that it will take another year or two.

The other part is the small workshop planned by her and Yang Tiezhu. The small workshop occupies a large area, and there is a large open space outside to dry the fresh wax. There are three rooms next to it, two of which are used for hanging the fresh wax, and the other is a processing room. There is a well in the yard, and there is a barn for mule carts. From here, there is also a small door to the front room. In order to facilitate the delivery of goods, Yang Tiezhu opened an extra door on the wall of the courtyard. Going out is a small path, and you can go around the village directly from the path.

The two parts of the backyard are separated by a wall as high as one person, but there are small interconnecting doors in the middle.

Lin Qingwan also went to see the latrine specially. As she designed, the entire latrine is made of blue bricks, with a small pool in the middle, which is slope-shaped and leads directly to the cesspool behind. The top of the manure tank is covered with bluestone slabs, which can be opened when digging out the manure tank. There is not only one latrine in the backyard, but also one in the small workshop. The same is the same as the manure tank, which is also convenient when going to the toilet.

After the tour, Lin Qingwan’s smile increased a lot. Generally speaking, the house was built to her liking. Although there are some differences, it is a very beautiful small farmyard for her own needs.

After shopping for so long, she was also tired. Yang Tiezhu confessed a few words with Carpenter Cui and helped her go back.

On the way home, Lin Qingwan enthusiastically discussed with Yang Tiezhu what to add to the house. Yang Tiezhu responded with a smile, and then took to heart what the wife said.

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The clay tile team first built a house for Yang Tiezhu and the others, and when the second room was almost completed, they went to the third room.

However, Sanfang was simple and not as complicated as Lin Qingwan asked, so it was built quickly. After Lin Qingwan’s carpentry work was done, the house on their side was also built.

The furniture requested by Sanfang was not as meticulous as Lin Qingwan requested, but it was also made by Carpenter Cui, who came here to see it. He also said Carpenter Cui is good at craftsmanship.

After the masonry team and the master carpenter had finished their work, Yang Tiezhu checked around and paid all the money. A total of more than one hundred taels of silver was spent on adding furniture to the house. There was still no money for adding the courtyard wall, which was almost one hundred and sixty taels of silver.

More than half of the silver in his hand was gone, Yang Tiezhu and Lin Qingwan felt painful. But the furniture of the house is very satisfied with them, so there is no pain.

Among them, for the furniture, tables, chairs and cabinets in the house, as well as doors and windows, more than 30 taels were paid to Carpenter Cui. However, Yang Tiezhu also knows wood. How could he not understand wood when he often travels in the mountains? He knew that Carpenter Cui gave them good wood for their homes, and he didn’t think the money was worthless.

Carpenter Cui and his son made the money they had earned in the past year or two without saying a word. Both felt that this time was worth the hard work. But they didn’t tell their family members, but secretly laughed. It’s not because of anything else, it’s just because Yang Tiezhu and the others specifically explained these things not to talk outside.

Because when Carpenter Cui made furniture, he waited for it to dry and ventilate while doing it, and he painted it with varnish. Therefore, after the completion of the construction, the whole can be allowed to live for another month. In addition, Lin Qingwan did not have long to give birth, and she discussed with Yang Tiezhu to move in before she gave birth.

During this more than one month, everyone was full of excitement. The third room was also completed a long time ago, and it is ready to move with the second room.

Before he was ready to move in, Yang Tiezhu burned all the kangs in the house a few days in advance, once a day, one for drying, and the other for removing moisture.

Yang Tiezhu also bought a lot of furnishings in the house. He didn’t understand this either, so he picked up some good-looking, pleasing and inexpensive calligraphy and paintings from his wife’s mouth and bought some. Although he is now literate, he doesn’t have any taste or taste. It just feels pleasing to the eye in the room.

The bedding on the bed and the curtains required needlework. Lin Qingwan had a big belly and couldn’t do it, so she could only go to town to buy ready-made ones. I was looking for shopkeeper Su from Jinxiufang. Shopkeeper Su also counted on Lin Qingwan to sell a few double-sided embroidery here. Not only did they choose materials with good quality and inexpensive, but they also asked for them. Xiuniang helped make bedding curtains and the like.

When checking out, only the material money was settled, but the craftsman Fei Su didn’t ask for it, saying it was Hexi Lin Qingwan’s joy in entering the house. Entering a house means moving, housewarming, and migration.

The pots and pans at home were made by Yang Tiezhu, and he bought a whole set. This set is used in the large kitchen room in the front yard, while the ones used at home are placed in the small kitchen room in the back.