"Doctor Li, are you slapping me in the face? How can I possibly use the old demolition materials for you again? If you want them, I can bring them over to you first. If they are used, what are they?
I don’t get a penny of my carpentry wages this time.”
Oh,
Now that the talk has come to this point, how could Li Chu refuse? If it was really all about golden nan and red sandalwood, it would be really cool.
"Okay, you can bring it over when you find time and put it directly in the yard next to it. I will take a look at it then."
Li Chu understands this, and he is not afraid of being fooled.
Seeing that the rich second brother had agreed on the wood, the rich boss also followed up and said: "Doctor Li, I can get a batch of gold bricks over there, do you want it?"
"Ahem..." Li Chu, who had just picked up the cup and was about to drink water, was almost squirted by his words.
"Gold brick?"
The rich boss saw Li Chu's expression and knew that he had misunderstood. He put down the floor plan in his hand and shook his hands together: "Doctor Li, I blame me for not clarifying. You misunderstood. To be more precise, it should be Beijing Brick. Later, to make it sound better,
That’s why it’s called a gold brick.”
Only then did Li Chu react to his explanation.
The rich boss is talking about the kind of floor tiles used in the palace in the past. Because of their hard and fine texture,
It sounds like metal when struck, so it is called a gold brick. It is not made of gold.
It's still made of soil.
This kind of floor tiles are relatively large, basically two feet square.
That is, a square with a side length of more than sixty centimeters.
But as far as he knew, there seemed to be only a few thousand yuan in the palace. Where did this rich boss get it from?
Needless to say, these two brothers have quite a lot of good things in their hands. We really cannot underestimate these remnants.
"Boss Fu, can you get this? How many can you get?"
"Doctor Li, if you want to lay this kind of floor tiles for your entire yard, then I really don't have the ability, but if it's just for the main house, it can still be done. Of course, in terms of the price..."
"Okay, bring me here, as much as you want." Li Chu looked like he had a lot of money.
"Doctor Li, please don't worry. The things we brothers have brought for you are guaranteed to be genuine and good. However, cement and glass,
There are also drainage pipes and so on..."
"Don't worry about this, just give me a number later.
I’ll just find someone to buy it from.”
These are all planned supplies, and it is impossible to buy them without a stamp of approval.
It's okay for the rich boss and the others to get a little, but if there's too much, they won't be able to get it.
So Li Chu still had to get these things by himself.
"Then there's nothing else, Doctor Li. It's getting late, so we brothers will go over first. We'll start preparing the materials slowly now. We'll find the opportunity to get the things we just mentioned, and you can take a look at them in person.
"
"Okay, it's just next door anyway, so it's convenient no matter what."
After sending the two rich brothers away, Li Chu walked around the courtyard and thought about it carefully. He really didn't expect that the two brothers could still get such good things now.
If we make it stronger when the time comes, this yard won't need major repairs for a hundred years.
It really became an heirloom of his old Li family.
It's just that Lao Li's family is a bit sparse.
Li Chu scratched his hair. He also couldn't understand why his wife couldn't get pregnant anymore.
Did God only allow him to have a son and a daughter?
Thinking of this, he raised his head and looked at the sky. There were clouds tonight and not even a star could be seen.
Turn off the lights in the courtyard, turn around and enter the living room.
Taking off his coat, Li Chu quietly opened the bedroom door and walked in. It was dark inside, and his two children and his wife were already asleep.
He slowly withdrew again and went into the bathroom to take a shower.
When he lay on the bed, Ding Qiunan, who was already asleep, wrapped around him like a snake.
"What time is it and why did you just come in?"
"It's a little after ten o'clock. I just finished talking about the house over there."
"Have you all discussed it?"
"It's almost done. They are preparing the materials first and will start work after spring begins."
"Li Chu, when I was lying on the bed without falling asleep, I was thinking whether it would be too big for our family of four to live in such a big yard."
Ding Qiunan is right about this. It is indeed a bit too big, and a doorbell will have to be installed at the main door. Otherwise, if someone is in the middle courtyard, someone knocking on the door will not be heard.
"What about, find some more people to live with us?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Chu felt a pinch on his waist.
"What are you talking about? Are you looking for someone to live here? Who are you looking for?"
"Didn't you say you think our family is small?"
"Hey, are you pretending to be cool with me?" Ding Qiunan raised his upper body in the darkness.
Li Chu secretly smiled bitterly. How could he not understand the meaning of what his wife said? He wanted to make a joke and fool her, but it seemed that it would not work.
Come on, let's go to work. Don't make others angry all of a sudden. It's you who will suffer.
He immediately hugged her and sat up, moved to the bed, put on her slippers and walked out of the bedroom.
Just as he was about to walk to the study, Ding Qiunan whispered in his ear: "Just stay in the living room tonight, don't turn on the light."
Okay, the sky is big, the earth is big, and my wife is the biggest, but the four dogs are destined to be unlucky tonight.
He turned around and closed the bedroom door, and carefully walked to the sofa in the dark.
…
By the time the two of them lay on the bed again, it was already after midnight.
Ding Qiunan nestled in her husband's arms, said lazily good night, and fell asleep soon after.
Li Chu has always been impressed by his wife's sleeping speed. How could she fall asleep so quickly within a minute?
He closed his eyes and kept thinking wildly in his mind, sometimes thinking about the yard next door, and sometimes thinking about what the two children would do when they grow up.
Then I thought about what to do if my daughter meets a scumbag when she grows up.
By the time my daughter talks about marriage, it is the time when Eastern and Western ideas in China are colliding most fiercely.
For my two children, they should never even think about going abroad in the future.
Perhaps in the future, they may be allowed to travel abroad, but it is better to go to school, work, and live in China.
He is not worried about his son in this regard. He and Wang Jun have already agreed verbally on the marriage of their two children. As long as they grow up and don't cause any trouble, the marriage is certain.
No, the child is only five years old now. This is too far-fetched.
Realizing that he had made a mistake, he raised his hand and patted his forehead lightly.
Why bother with so much idleness? When they grow up, draw a bottom line. As long as it is within this range, let them fiddle with it themselves, and their children and grandchildren will have their own blessings.