The widow sighed: "I am also a daughter who needs money to give birth to a child."
She added: "Well, I'm in a hurry to leave. There's nothing valuable at home anyway. Give me a hundred yuan and I'll give you the key right away. You can use the things in the courtyard as you wish."
The other party was so straightforward that Xu Erlong no longer struggled.
Although the rent of one hundred yuan was indeed expensive in the eyes of outsiders, he didn't care yet.
After happily counting 100 yuan to the widow, the widow also happily handed over the key.
Xu Erlong was worried and asked Sun Houhou to help find an old man with some reputation in the neighborhood. They all helped to bear witness, signed and pledged, and rented the house.
The widow happily signed and postmarked the document, carried her baggage, and rushed to catch the train.
This is really a storm.
Only then did Xu Erlong look at the house carefully.
It is an ordinary rural house in the countryside, with three rooms side by side and a small side room built on the side, which is the kitchen room.
The house has been tidied up long ago and everything that can be taken away, such as clothes, quilts, sheets, etc., has been packed and taken away by the widow.
Some things that cannot be taken away, such as large iron pots, wooden boxes, old-fashioned canopy beds, etc., are of course still placed in the house.
There is also a cart sitting in the corner of the yard.
Xu Erlong looked at the cart and was quite satisfied.
He can pay readily because of this truck.
Now that there is a pallet truck, Xu Chunsheng really wants to make furniture. It will be convenient to use the pallet truck to sell it.
This house was just vacated by others. It is clean, neat, and well organized. There is no need to do any cleaning.
Xu Erlong took Xu Chunsheng and Wen Laowu back to the city and bought some sheets, quilts and some necessary daily necessities.
For dinner, we met at Sun Houhou’s house next door.
Everyone had a happy meal. Xu Erlong thanked Monkey Sun repeatedly for his help and invited Monkey Sun to come to their place for lunch tomorrow as a way of thanking Monkey Sun for his help.
Now that we have become neighbors, of course we need a lot of help from these local people, and it is necessary to build good relationships.
Sun Houhou declined a few times and then agreed to come to their place for dinner tomorrow.
Wen Laowu was drunk and was helped back by Xu Chunsheng and Xu Erlong.
Among the three rooms in this wing, Xu Erlong chose the best one to serve as his and Wen Ye's bedroom. The other room was for Xu Chunsheng and Wen Laowu to live together.
Wen Laowu was lying on the bed, fast asleep.
Xu Chunsheng could not sleep.
Over the past year, he has been wandering around, sleeping under bridges and docks. Now, he finally has such a bed that allows him to sleep peacefully without worrying about being troubled in the middle of the night.
After dawn the next day, Xu Chunsheng took his toolbox and began to repair the few pieces of furniture in the house. He repaired the broken bed legs and repaired the worn-out door.
Okay, even the windows have been repaired.
After finishing this, half a day's work has passed.
Xu Erlong and Wen Laowu were responsible for going out to buy groceries.
We are going to invite Monkey Sun over for dinner this noon, so of course we have to buy vegetables and cook them.
Xu Erlong is not very good at other cuisines, but as long as he thinks carefully about it, if he does not add chili peppers to his cooking, it should be able to adapt to the tastes of the public.
Although this kind of food tastes a bit nondescript, Sichuan food is not like Sichuan food, and Shandong food is not like Shandong food, everyone still had a good time eating it.
Sun Houhou introduced the situation in this area to several people in detail. As long as he didn't cause trouble, others really didn't come to make trouble.
After lunch, Xu Erlong arranged for Wen Laowu to wash the dishes and tidy up the house, and he took Xu Chunsheng to the lumber company to select wood to make furniture.
I walked around the lumber company twice and learned about the market situation of polywood boards.
This Polywood board is an artificial board with plywood as the base layer, decorative paper on the surface, and then a layer of polyester resin as a protective layer.
Most of the patterns are in the form of diamonds or honeycombs, and the entire board looks shiny and brightly colored. At the same time, it is moisture-proof and anti-corrosion, with a flat and smooth surface. It was particularly popular in the 1980s and became a decoration for furniture and building materials.
sexual material.
Anyone who makes new furniture will choose materials like this.
Of course, the thickness of the boards is different, and the prices are also different.
If it can be used to make a tabletop, of course it must be thick enough to have load-bearing capacity.
"Our polyplates are imported from abroad. Look at the brightness and glossiness of the ones with lasers. Look at them against the light. They can emit seven colors of light. If you use them to make furniture, they are guaranteed to be gorgeous.
It's majestic, radiant, and extremely high-end." The polyplate seller kept boasting.
He thought that Xu Erlong was a young man who was getting married, and that he had brought a carpenter like Xu Chunsheng here to pick out the planks.
Xu Erlong knew it well.
This thing is indeed imported from abroad, but its quality is far inferior to that of domestic solid wood.
The main thing is an industrial production, which is obviously a kind of artificial board, but in these days, artificial ones are more expensive than natural ones.
It will take another twenty or thirty years before everyone will realize that natural is really good.
"Just tell me, can this price be lower?" Xu Erlong took aim at the goods and began to bargain: "To be honest, we are planning to open our own furniture factory. In the future, there will definitely be more opportunities to ask for goods. You
The price is right, we will always get goods from you from now on."
"How much can you take?" the other party asked.
"In the beginning, I didn't make any big claims. I would take at most ten boards back, make them, try the market, and then see how it goes," Xu Erlong said.
"Here, you have to give me at least this number." The other party gestured with his open palms: "It's still thirty-five."
Xu Erlong smiled and said: "I have inquired about everything along the way, and the retail prices are the same. We run our own furniture factory, you can't just make a one-time deal, right?"
"That board will cost you one less dollar," the other party said.
Xu Erlong still refused to agree: "This price is definitely not good, it is still too high."
He quoted his base price: "Thirty yuan a piece, do you think that's okay?"
"How can this work?" The other party immediately said: "I imported it from abroad. The price is so expensive."
"Whether you import it or not, this stuff is essentially made from waste sawdust and strong adhesive. If you smell this chemical stuff too much, it will make you dizzy, and it's not good for the human body." Xu Erlong said.
The other party was stunned.
How can people these days talk about environmental protection?
But he felt that he had been staying in this store too much these days, especially at night when the door was closed and the air was not circulating. When he woke up in the morning, he felt really dizzy. He thought it was because he didn't sleep well at night.