"Wait a minute, take care of our own business first. The Red Army will be building houses right next to us, so you can go over there as soon as they start. Now go to the carpenter in Yutang Village and have him build us two shipping containers."
I've already told you about this. You should invite the people over first. Once you've bought the timber, it won't affect your ability to help the Red Army's family.
"Ah, more money to spend!" Upon hearing this, Li Chenyang realized that this was just another way of setting up conversations for others.
“What’s wrong with spending money? This is an investment. I’m telling you, why do you have no perseverance? Go! Go and invite him over. We’ll cook a meal this afternoon and ask him how much material he needs. Once you’ve arranged all this, it will be good to help the Red Army.”
When Li Chenyang saw that he was going to treat people to a meal, he immediately perked up. What's wrong with eating and drinking? He hopped on his bicycle and headed to Yutang Village.
We invited the person back around noon.
The carpenter's surname is Lin, and his given name is Lin Ping. He's quite young, with a receding hairline. He looks a lot like that movie star, Uncle Ge, when he was young.
After Lin Ping and Li Chenyang arrived, they sat down by the stove and started drinking water.
Ye Xiaoxiao handed the child to Li Chenyang to hold first, and then hurried off to cook for the other party.
[Task: Get Li Chenyang to obey Lin Ping's instructions and renovate the house accordingly.]
[Tongzi, do you mean Li Chenyang is going to cause trouble again?] Tongzi hasn't been showing up for the past few days.
Li Chenyang is inherently lazy and the type to make do with whatever's acceptable. You'll find out soon enough.
After preparing the meal, Ye Xiaoxiao sat down with them and discussed the matter of making shelves with Lin Ping.
"Sister-in-law, I heard you're making shelving."
Lin Ping and Li Chenyang only talked haphazardly for a while.
They discovered that Li Chenyang didn't seem very interested in the work at hand. That's when they started discussing it with Ye Xiaoxiao.
"Yes, I'm planning to open a small shop this year. I want to make a few shelves like those in wholesale markets, and finally a table and cabinet with glass on the outside so people can see the goods. Is that possible?"
Ye Xiaoxiao couldn't just ask them to make those beautiful all-glass shipping containers from later generations right away; she could only make the ones that existed now.
"That's definitely fine, no problem at all. But if it's made of wood, that's easy, we can just buy some wood. Glass ones are a bit more expensive."
"We don't necessarily need glass, a wooden frame will do as long as it can hold the goods," Li Chenyang suddenly blurted out.
Ye Xiaoxiao glared at him when she heard this. Sure enough, this lazybones always tries to make do with everything.
Li Chenyang was glared at by his wife, so he stopped talking and just kept eating.
"It's alright, just tell us the dimensions of the glass when you come, and we'll buy it ourselves."
This was only the first year since it opened up, so Lin Ping probably hadn't done these things for anyone before.
After dinner, they discussed with Lin Ping what style they wanted to create.
Lin Ping also realized that the eldest sister-in-law was the one who called the shots in the family, and Li Chenyang could only obediently listen to her.
He and Li Chenyang were classmates, but he never expected that Li Chenyang would be henpecked at home.
"Sister-in-law, what I'm suggesting is that we open a door in the outside wall, so everyone can see the shelves inside at a glance. That would make doing business much easier. If the door is on the inside, no one will know you run a small shop."
Lin Ping stood to the right of the gate, pointing to the earthen wall.
"We can open a store here, and people passing by will see that it sells goods inside. Wouldn't that be great?"
As Lin Ping spoke, he held up a ruler and gestured back and forth on the right wall.
Hearing Lin Ping causing trouble for him again, Li Chenyang really wanted to tell Lin Ping, "That's enough already!"
He was told to make the shelves, so he made the shelves; he had no right to offer any opinions. But with his wife here, he really didn't dare say anything.
"Yes, let's do it your way! We'll open a big gate here. Then you can install a door here as well." Ye Xiaoxiao made the decision.
Li Chenyang looked at the line Lin Ping had drawn. More work to do. Why was his wife so restless?
After Lin Ping returned, Li Chenyang began to nag:
"What's wrong with having the door on the inside? Isn't this just creating a huge window? Why do you have to put a door in this perfectly good wall?"
The thought of having to do this job again filled Li Chenyang with resentment and anger.
"Li Chenyang, I think you're living too comfortably. Just tell me, are you going to do this job or not?"
Ye Xiaoxiao glared at Li Chenyang with an unfriendly look, a look Li Chenyang was very familiar with. She looked just like that when he was beaten last time.
"Fine, whatever you say, we'll do it!"
Li Chenyang didn't want to get beaten up by his wife again. It was just too embarrassing.
It's good that no one knows about what happened last time, but if his wife gets angry and beats him up in front of outsiders, he'll be laughed at to death when he goes out in the future.
"Brother and sister-in-law, what are you discussing?" Ma Yanling came out of the house, carrying a bowl of noodles.
"Nothing? You've only just started eating?" Ye Xiaoxiao shoved the child into Li Chenyang's arms, telling him to take the child back to change his diaper. She was afraid he'd gossip to others again.
"Yes, it's just finished cooking. Sister-in-law, you should have some too. There's still some left in the pot," Ma Yanling said warmly.
"No, no, we just ate. Your older brother is so clumsy, I'll go back and check on him. I don't even know if he can change the baby's diaper." Ye Xiaoxiao said and quickly went back inside.
"Let me tell you, don't go around spreading rumors before our little shop opens."
Ye Xiaoxiao was worried that someone might open a shop before they did, which would make things awkward.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
