When they arrived at Xingfei Textile, the young shop assistant greeted them warmly. He had seen the two of them come by just yesterday, and he was sure that the woman hadn't lied, as someone had come to their door today.

When Liang Qi mentioned buying scraps of fabric, the shopkeeper still treated him warmly. The scraps were small pieces of cloth less than a meter long, in various colors, and cost five coins per pound. Liang Qi bought ten pounds, and the shopkeeper packed them into a cloth bag. Eight pounds of cotton cost eighty coins, wrapped in paper and tied with hemp twine. The thick white wallpaper cost forty coins, calculated based on the area of ​​the room, twenty coins per room.

While Liang Qi was busy in town, Li Lei went to the front yard early in the morning. After heating it overnight, the plaster on the wall had dried, so Li Lei, along with Chun Yue, Shui Yue, Xiao Dou Ding, and Yang Xu, started pasting wallpaper.

Li Lei placed the stool sideways on the kang (a heated brick bed), and after testing it, he could just reach the ceiling with his hand. Chun Yue handed it to Li Lei from below. Li Lei picked up the wallpaper with paste on it, aligned the edges, and stuck it to the ceiling.

Yangxu and Xiaodouding were applying paste to the kang table, and Shuiyue handed the wallpaper that had been pasted to Chunyue.

The children worked all morning, and basically covered the walls on both sides of the kang (a heated brick bed) and the ceiling with white and slightly yellow wallpaper. Li Lei then put the stool on the ground and covered half of the wall opposite the kang with wallpaper, leaving no wallpaper.

The wallpaper was left untouched around the base of the wall and on the kang (heated brick bed). The group went to the main room, while the children played on the kang in the east room. Chunyue brewed medicine for Lu Xiaomei, and Xiaoyue cooked for Li Lei.

Just as the meal was ready, Liang Qi returned, and Xiaoyue dumped all the things he brought back onto Li Lei's single bed.

After dinner, Xiaoyue handed Li Lei a stack of newly bought wallpaper, asking him to also wallpaper the kang (heated brick bed). The fire had been burning in the front room, and the wallpaper was already mostly dry.

Li Lei added another layer of stickers to the kang (a heated brick bed), and also pasted stickers on the exposed wall from the edge of the kang to the ground, as well as on the part of the exposed wall opposite the kang.

When Xiaoyue came over, she saw that the wallpaper was done quite well, so she brought some more and said to Li Lei, "I won't lay out mats for you, just put up two more layers of wallpaper."

After the wallpaper on the kang (a heated brick bed) dried, Li Lei pasted another layer on top.

Let's talk about Lu Xiaomei. After lunch and taking her medicine, she took a short nap. When she woke up, she felt a bit more energetic, so she sat against the wall for a while.

At this moment, Xiaoyue is teaching Chunyue how to use a loom in the west room.

Lu Xiaomei sat up against the pile of quilts and called the little boy next to her to call Xiaoyue in.

Xiaoyue came in and asked to see the piece of cloth Liang Qi had brought back. Xiaoyue picked up the bag containing the cloth from Li Lei's bed and placed it on the kang (a heated brick bed). Then, eager to see Chunyue, she went to the west room.

Lu Xiaomei called Xiaodouding over and asked her to go to the west room to get the sewing basket. Then, she picked and chose from the bag containing the corner pieces of cloth, picked up the needle and thread, and started sewing.

Xiaoyue told Chunyue twice and found that the child worked very quickly. After watching him work for a while and finding that there were no problems, she went into the east room. She was still worried about Lu Xiaomei's condition. As soon as she entered the room, she saw Lu Xiaomei working. She took the work from Lu Xiaomei's hands and said, "You are so weak, you need to rest."

Lu Xiaomei smiled at the angry Xiaoyue: "It's okay. When you're in a good mood, you'll be more energetic." Seeing that Xiaoyue still wouldn't give her the thing she had snatched from her, she added: "Help me get off the bed for a while. I'll walk around on the kang (heated brick bed) while holding onto the support."

Xiaoyue draped a coat over Lu Xiaomei's shoulders. The room wasn't cold. She gave Lu Xiaomei her own shoes, which she wasn't wearing, and helped her down from the bed. Seeing that Lu Xiaomei was standing steadily on the edge of the kang (heated brick bed), she went to the west room to check on the progress of the sewing.

Li was sewing faster; the dress was only missing one sleeve. Yang was a bit slower and hadn't even sewn both sleeves yet. Looking at Li Qianqian, her entire dress was already sewn, and she was shaking it out to check it. She was inspecting it very carefully, so much so that even when Xiaoyue came into the room, she didn't notice.

Upon seeing this, Xiaoyue went to Li Lei's room, took a piece of paper, and handed it to Li Qianqian, indicating that she should fold it.

After leaving the west room, thinking about where to put the finished clothes and the unfinished products, he called over Liang Qi, who was talking to Li Lei in the front room, and led Liang Qi to Li Lei's room.

He said to the house, "Go to the Gao family and order three cabinets. I'll draw up the blueprints for you."

From Li Lei's room, she pulled out a piece of paper that had been pasted on the wall, cut it into sixteen pieces with scissors, each piece the size of a thread-bound book. Xiaoyue used the unburnt charcoal to make a pen.

While gesturing to Liang Qi, he said, "According to the size of the hall, we made a whole row of cabinets facing south," standing near the kitchen and gesturing to Liang Qi.

He then used charcoal to draw a two-dimensional diagram, showing the size of the hall and the cabinets.

I drew a side view on the side, and marked the dimensions.

While drawing, he said to Liang Qi, "Two meters high is the distance from the ground to the machine frame, and eighty centimeters deep is the distance from the top of the cabinet to the edge. Two meters long, including the corner, is one and a half meters."

Xiaoyue walked 1.5 meters eastward from there, then turned to the kitchen and walked 2 meters to the middle doorway: "I see it, it's just around this corner."

He added, "The inner grid consists of individual squares, each sixty centimeters high and forty centimeters wide. At the corners, there are eighty-centimeter squares at the bottom, and forty-centimeter squares at the top. There is a symmetrical design on each side of the door. The two sides are the same, the only difference is the direction of the corners."

After looking at the living room, Xiaoyue pulled Liang Qi into the front yard. Li Lei wasn't there, and the fire was off. She guessed that Li Lei was afraid the fire would set the kang on fire. Xiaoyue touched the kang and found it was dry. She turned to Liang Qi and said, "We need to install a cabinet on this kang. The kang is too close to the wall, just enough to turn around, so we can't install a standing cabinet."

Liang Qi entered the room, touched the kang (a heated brick bed), and sat down on it. He looked around at the paper pasted on the wall and felt that the small room was quite nice.

Xiaoyue looked at Liang Qi, who was looking around, and said, "Also, make a kang cabinet in each of the two main rooms with kangs, and a standing cabinet in the east room. The blueprints for the standing cabinets should be based on the style that Gao Sheng's family usually makes."

Liang Qi took the blueprints from Xiaoyue's hands.

Xiaoyue glanced at Liang Qi cautiously and said, "You have a lot to do right now. Li Qianqian has finished making a dress. She'll hand it over to you after she's done."

You need to remember the sizes, styles, and who sewed them. After ordering the cabinets, find the specifications and categories, and put them in the cabinets. Before you have cabinets, just label them, putting each category in one place. Remember, don't be afraid of the extra work.

Liang Qi smiled helplessly at Xiao Yue. Xiao Yue felt she had been exploiting Liang Qi too much. She glanced at the front gate and saw that it was properly closed.

So she quickly kissed Liang Qi on the lips and said shyly, "I know this is troublesome for you. If you really don't want to, I can find someone else."

But you're the only one among us who can read, so we have no choice but to entrust this task to you.

Xiaoyue thought for a moment and said, "Also, I'm planning to use the living room as a storage room, and the west room isn't suitable for storing so many things anymore."