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Chapter 9 Decoration

"This is your cement!" The delivery master sweated on his forehead. It was hot in summer. It was really hard and tiring to run into the lumps of this mountain to send these dozen bags of cement.

"Come on, Master, eat a piece of watermelon first to relieve the heat." Grandma brought out the cut watermelon from the kitchen.

The delivery master, who was originally complaining, suddenly had a smile on his face. He was not humble after being polite. In this weather of more than 30 degrees, it would be like to have a piece of watermelon to eat. After eating the watermelon, he had to go to the next house to deliver the goods, but the journey was even longer.

Fang Wei is like an accounting accountant, holding a calculator and account book to review calculation materials. She is very sensitive to numbers. In addition, Fang Ning often teaches some superficial accounting things from time to time, which is enough for her to apply what she has learned now. Moreover, her grandmother at home doesn't know how to read, so she handed over the accounting things to her.

As for Fang Ning, he ran over to check whether the cement strength standard was qualified. There were no big requirements for other inverters. He was not really engaged in construction, so he could not ask for too many requirements.

"Come on step by step, there are too many things to do." Fang Ning stretched his shoulders and muscles and bones, and lived a very fulfilling life these days.

He likes such a leisurely life, and he doesn't have to worry about the expenses at home. His grandparents are spoiled enough to do what they want to do as they want. He doesn't need to suppress his nature. His life is so long and he is still young. He has enough confidence and his life will become better and better in the future.

Grandpa and second master have been busier these two days. They walked into the back mountain with hatchets and cut dozens of bamboos back, cut off the branches and leaves, and placed them in the corner of the shade and let the bamboo dry. Now this weather is suitable for drying bamboo.

The reason why they spent a lot of effort to get some bamboo back is that these bamboos can be used as roofs of pavilions. After the bamboo is dry, they can use woodworking to make a mat and paint it with waterproof paint.

As for the pavilion in the original yard, because Xiaoye and his family didn't take care of it at all, they were disrepaired, and only the pillars with four beams were slightly intact and were not eroded by termites. The shelves and beddings on the roof were washed away by rainwater and corroded.

Fang Ning also invited two carpenters in the village. Anyway, they were just in charge of the meal and gave some wages to do some carpentry work.

Finally, the young master invited a famous carpenter who could create old-fashioned furniture, such as the Eight Immortals table and the Grand Master's chair. As for the materials, the back room of the young master's house has ready-made fir trees and camphor trees, all of which are cut, shaving, nailing nails, carving railings, carved lattice windows, and finally painted red paint to dry in the corners. Anyway, the finished products are made according to Fang Ning's requirements, antique and quite Chinese.

The various construction materials to be used have basically been completed in more than a week, and the next step is to start construction.

The Fang family set up three tables of meals in the hall of Xiaoye's house and invited some carpenters and bricklayers to work. The meals were all home-cooked, but they were both meat and vegetables. These workers who worked had a great appetite. If you don't let them eat enough, you can't work, and even if you work, you will cut corners.

Originally, large furniture, old-fashioned refrigerators, color TVs, old chests of cabinets, camphor wood boxes, etc. had to be moved back to the inner room of Xiaoye's house. It was a bit troublesome to go there, but there was no way to do this. You can't let your home be placed in the woodshed.

The bed racks were lifted out and placed on the side while the weather was good, and cleaned the dust with an iron brush. Then, after the sun was exposed, all the psyllids inside the spring mattress were sunburned to death.

There are two inner houses, one main hall and a firewood stove. The first step in the renovation is to throw it away!

The whole family started to do something and threw away all the old things, and threw the decaying wood into the stove as matches. As for the items that were really impossible to use for waste, they could only be disposal as garbage.

"Grandpa, the tiles in the corner of the inner room are all kept. I will use it at that time, and the walls that are raised everywhere on the inner wall must be shoveled off in time. The white wall paint will fall off so it will be unsatisfactory. Then I will use it again."

"Brother is right. Many places in these walls are moldy, and there are moldy spots everywhere. It's better to shovel them all." Fang Wei agreed with Fang Ning's suggestion. She had a slight obsession with cleanliness and couldn't eat any moldy spots in the corner.

After hearing this, my grandfather and the young master continued to work hard. They put on rubber boots, tied up an apron, put on masks, took shovels, and shoveled up the raised wall skin inside and out.

This is not good for old houses. The masonry of the walls is solid red brick, and the beams are all made of wooden structures, not frame structures. It’s okay for a short time, but various problems will arise after living for a long time. Disrepair is a problem, and the quality itself is indeed not up to standard.

Fortunately, Fang Ning's family plans to take more than a year for the time being. By then, Fang Ning and his sisters are growing up and preparing to go to junior high school, so they should consider the issue of school selection. If they can be arranged to study in the county, it is best. Of course, they have to study in the county. Foreign households must first buy a good house and move their household registration. Otherwise, rural household registration will not be accepted for students who transfer to school, and then they will be involved in which school they will go to. Of course, this is not mentioned later.

Fang Ning and his family only lived in this house for one year, so they must not be too good to avoid wasting their time for me. But this is a place to live and the environment is too poor, so how to be economical and affordable, and also take care of beauty and enjoyment is also a problem that Fang Ning needs to consider.

Fang Ning pulled his grandfather to calculate the budget. Now that these few thousand are far from enough, it is obviously more than 10,000 yuan in the end. This is the most cost-effective solution. Many materials are available in rural areas, but if they really don’t work, they can also be found in the second-hand market. The key is that cement, sand, stones, and workers’ wages cannot be saved. So after spending over the budget, it will be a bit of a loss. Grandpa and Fang Ning discussed it carefully for an afternoon. The final result was to open a farmhouse. Anyway, after the decoration of their house was completed, it was similar to the villa.

Fang Ning also thought about it carefully and planned a lot. The back mountain belongs to their own home, with bamboo forest resources and overgrown weeds. It can be surrounded by barbed wire to raise poultry such as native chickens. The hillside on the right is a barren field with fertile soil. It was originally owned by Xiaoye's home.

Because he usually has to work in the institute, he basically has no time to farm, so his little grandmother cultivates some melons and beans, which are mostly deserted, so he can also repurpose it and build a larger vegetable garden to grow some farm vegetables and seasonal vegetables. However, the matter must be negotiated with my family. No matter how useless the desert is, it is still acre of land in my family.

After hearing this, my grandmother couldn't bear to leave this land. Anyway, she just used a piece of barren land. The little grandmother had no objection. Since the arrival of Master Fang Ning's family, this has changed every day. The eldest son and his family like to make trouble, so she couldn't control it.

However, grandma complained quite a bit and complained in private that the grandson's expense of getting this thing was too high, and more than 10,000 yuan was not a small amount.

Fang Jiefang patiently explained to her several times at first, but later it was not understandable. The woman only knew the immediate interests and did not understand the interests in the distance, so she simply stopped talking and let her grandmother sing in their ears.

“The floor needs to be replaced with wooden floors!”

“The wall is painted pure white!”

"Doors and windows should also be replaced with lattice windows!"

"This corner eaves can be hung with Chinese knots!"

"This cement pier was also knocked off and put on a tiles!"

Outside and in the inner room, Fang Ning took a bunch of people around, pointing at the fingertips everywhere, where they were going to be changed. At the same time, he also mentioned the idea of ​​the farmhouse and left a piece of land to continue the renovation.
Chapter completed!
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