Chapter 309 The new room cabinets are finished
"Dad, please slow down. Doctor Jiang said that this cabinet isn't in such a hurry; it doesn't have to be ready in the next few days!"
At the village entrance, Uncle Zhang, the carpenter, was covered in sawdust. He didn't even bother to wipe it from his eyes, but just wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Why aren't we in a hurry? Doctor Jiang gave us more than sixty taels of silver, enough for us to earn for several years. You young men don't even care. Hurry up! Move faster."
It was midday when Uncle Zhang, with his four sons, arrived at Jiang Nuan's house in one go. Just as they were about to enter the courtyard, he shook off the sawdust from his clothes.
"Oh my, what's that smell? It smells so good!" The youngest son of the Zhang family behind him sniffed and immediately looked into the yard.
"Yes, it smells so good, Dad."
"What smells so good!" Uncle Zhang glared at his sons, "Don't look like starving ghosts, you're making people feel disgusted."
After saying that, she touched her stomach and asked, "Dr. Jiang, Dr. Jiang, are you home?"
Hearing the noise, Jiang Nuanzhi, who was holding a bowl of wontons inside the house, quickly put down her bowl and came out to greet the person.
"Uncle Zhang, what brings you here? Come in quickly."
Uncle Zhang smiled broadly, but only entered the yard without going into the house. He said, "Dr. Jiang, most of the cabinets we made for you are finished. When would you like to move them into your new home? The sooner they are installed, the better, so we can see if there are any discrepancies in size and make corrections as soon as possible. There are still some cabinets that need to be installed after they are brought in."
"So fast!" Jiang Nuanzhi exclaimed in surprise. "That's wonderful! I've been waiting for this cabinet from you."
Uncle Zhang is also a criminal. He was originally from the capital, and people say he once built a royal palace there. However, due to a conflict within the palace, he and his entire family were implicated and ended up in this desolate place. Most people in the village look down on him, not only because he has two missing fingers, but also because when his parents came desperately to the desolate place to find him, he directly drove them back. For the past ten years, he has lived a life of being talked about behind his back.
Jiang Nuanzhi had looked for several carpenters that day, but in the end, Uncle Zhang's craftsmanship was just too good. Jiang Nuanzhi really felt that she would be stupid not to hire him.
He's not just good at custom-made cabinets; his greatest skill is his wood carving, which is incredibly lifelike. He can also make all sorts of mechanisms out of wood.
Jiang Nuanzhi visited his home once. There were wooden, moving birds, lifelike dragons, Luban locks, and cabinets with hidden compartments and mechanisms. It was a dazzling array of items.
I didn't expect him to act so quickly. It's only been three months since the order was placed, and it's already finished?
The thought of her walk-in closet and the clean, tidy wardrobe filled her with excitement.
"Uncle Zhang, have you eaten yet? Why don't you come and have something to eat with us? After you've eaten, I'll bring my family along."
"No, no, no!" Uncle Zhang hurriedly waved his hands, "Dr. Jiang, please do as you please. I'll take them back to pack their things right away."
Before he could finish speaking, he heard a rumbling sound from the stomach next to him.
When the group turned around, they saw that his youngest son had instantly covered his face, his ears turning bright red.
Jiang Nuan was taken aback, then immediately said, "Let's eat some together. I still have some wontons left."
Uncle Zhang was still making excuses, even slapping his son on the head. He seemed determined to leave with his men.
"No way!" Jiang Nuanzhi went straight in, ladled out several bowls of wontons, and placed them on the table outside.
"Hurry, hurry, it'll get cold in a bit." With that, she handed out chopsticks to them.
Uncle Zhang felt embarrassed, but under Jiang Nuanzhi's warm hospitality, he finally sat down. His sons, on the other hand, were more at ease, thanking her before picking up their bowls and eating heartily.
"Old Master Yue, Uncle Xin, would you please wait a moment and come help us out?"
"I told you, no meal of wontons is ever free," the old man said, taking a sip of soup from his wonton bowl.
Dean Yue nodded, a rare occurrence for him: "Indeed, it seems like something always happens whenever we eat wontons."
The old man immediately narrowed his eyes: "Then don't eat it."
Dean Yue glared angrily: "Hey, get this straight! You're the one who said you wouldn't eat for nothing, I was just agreeing with you."
The old man didn't even glance at him, turning directly to Jiang Nuanzhi: "Nuanzhi, look at him. He's eaten but doesn't want to work. Compared to me and Lao Xin, he's far inferior."
Dean Yue: "!!!"
Hey, that old bastard, he's playing dirty tricks!
Jiang Nuanzhi was already used to this, so she didn't pay any attention to the two of them. She just roughly counted the able-bodied men in her household and then stroked her chin, saying, "Uncle Zhang, how many more cabinets do we need to move? We probably don't have enough men."
Uncle Zhang ate the bright red wontons, his eyes filled with amazement, and he even drank the soup clean. Now, hearing Jiang Nuanzhi say this, he immediately said, "That's enough, that's enough. It's only about twenty sets. They are all strong enough to carry them."
"Pfft!" Zhang's youngest son spat out the last mouthful of soup, looked at his bowl with a pained expression, and then looked at his father in shock: "Dad, that's more than twenty sets, not two. If I carry them all, won't I be exhausted?"
The other sons of the Zhang family nodded vigorously. Yes, those cabinets were made of thick, high-quality wood, and they were incredibly heavy!
"What are you doing? You've all eaten wontons, what's wrong with doing a little more work?" Uncle Zhang said nonchalantly, "Young people should practice more."
Zhang's sons: "."
Jiang Nuanzhi found it amusing: "Uncle, we should have more people so we can get there faster."
Upon hearing Jiang Nuanzhi's words, Uncle Zhang immediately nodded: "Yes, Dr. Jiang, you are right."
The Zhang brothers: "."
"Then I'll trouble you. I'll cook something delicious for everyone later when I'm done with this."
Jiang Nuanzhi actually made quite a lot of wontons, but with so many people, each person only got one bowl before they were all gone.
In the blink of an eye, everyone had finished eating. The group then headed towards the new house in a grand procession.
Uncle Zhang's house and the new house are separated only by Aunt Liu's house, which is quite convenient.
As Jiang Nuanzhi walked past, she saw the four tall and burly guards from Liu Ma's house standing there, and said with a smile, "Liu Ma, can I discuss something with you?"
Aunt Liu had heard the commotion early on and was standing at the gate watching the excitement. Unexpectedly, when Jiang Nuanzhi arrived in front of her, she looked at her with suspicion: "What are you doing?"
Jiang Nuanzhi smiled and said, "How about I hire a few of your guards to help me move some things?"
There seemed to be quite a few people at Jiang Nuanzhi's place. Uncle Zhang, plus his four sons, made five people. Jiang Nuanzhi's family, including herself, Dean Yue, the old man Xin Bo, made four people. Fu Sheng and Ping'er counted as one, making a total of barely ten people.
When she ordered the cabinets, she literally made cabinets wherever possible. Not only were there wardrobes in every bedroom of the new house, but there were also several tatami mats for storage in the living room. There were also cabinets in the kitchen, the sink, and the bathroom. Not to mention, Jiang Nuanzhi also had wall-to-wall bookshelves, wall-to-wall medicine cabinets, her own walk-in closet, Baozhu's walk-in closet, and everyday wooden tables, chairs, a large shoe cabinet, and an entryway cabinet. Uncle Liu said twenty sets, and that was a generous amount.
In fact, after calculating, Jiang Nuanzhi felt that she had gotten incredibly lucky to have solved everything for just over sixty taels of silver.
With so much stuff, it would probably take them a whole day to move it all.
Jiang Nuanzhi couldn't help but think of the little princess from that morning. So many strong laborers were with her, yet they weren't used to move things—what a waste!
He just smiled and looked at Liu Ma and said, "Well, come with me to carry things for a day, and I can also borrow your donkey cart. I'll give you a hundred coins, how about it?"
(End of this chapter)
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