Chapter 219: The origin of the New Year atmosphere, how much furniture can be made?
"It's me."
"Liang, the carpenter."
Hearing the voice, Lin Heng looked suddenly enlightened.
Carpenter Liang smiled kindly and honestly and said, "I just finished the work in Shimen Village today. I thought I would rest here tonight so that I can work for your family tomorrow."
"Please come in. I'm cooking. Let's have a drink later."
Lin Heng looked at him and smiled.
Carpenter Liang grinned and said, "That's great. I've missed your family's food for a long time, Lin Heng."
Following Lin Heng into the yard, the first thing he saw was a three-wheeled motorcycle parked in the yard, and he froze where he was.
He took a deep breath and asked, "Lin Heng, did you buy this?"
"Haha, yes." Lin Heng smiled and nodded.
"Amazing, really amazing, young and promising." Carpenter Liang exclaimed.
For a moment, he felt that the disparity in this world was so huge. When he came here half a year ago, he looked down on this family, but now he was afraid that he could not reach their level.
The red tiles, white walls, bluestone floor tiles, the motorcycle whose price he dared not even ask, and the assets owned by Lin Heng were all beyond his imagination.
"No, it's just a means of transportation. I bought it second-hand."
Lin Heng smiled and waved his hand, inviting him into the house.
Hearing that it was second-hand, Carpenter Liang felt a little relieved and said casually, "It should cost at least one or two thousand yuan. I have never seen such a motorcycle before."
Lin Heng said casually: "About the same, this one is three thousand yuan."
"hiss!"
Carpenter Liang took a deep breath. A second-hand one costs three thousand yuan, which is really shocking.
He was a little curious. Was Lin Heng's purchasing station really so profitable, or did he find some treasure in the mountains? After entering the house and putting down his tools, Carpenter Liang was secretly surprised at the current layout of Lin Heng's house.
There were some simple calligraphy and paintings hung on the snow-white walls. The house was clean and tidy, and there were some decorations made of bones and horns. It did not look like a mud house at all. It looked even more beautiful and warmer than some brick houses.
There was a charcoal fire in front of the table, and a huge red-haired cat was lying on a chair with its paws tucked in. Xiaoxia would occasionally flip its ears over, and after a while the big red cat would shake its head and flip its ears back, and then Xiaoxia would laugh foolishly.
"Boil yourself by the fire."
Lin Heng poured a cup of tea for Carpenter Liang from the kettle and said with a smile.
"Thanks."
Carpenter Liang seemed a little reserved at this time, but fortunately Lin Heng did not have any domineering attitude, which made him feel a lot more at ease.
Lin Heng said a few words to Carpenter Liang and went to the kitchen to ask Xiulan to add two more dishes.
"You are not an ordinary cat or dog."
After warming up, Liang Carpenter looked at Xiongba and Jinbao curiously.
"This cat is a wild cat picked up from the mountains, and the dog is just a little bigger." Lin Heng explained with a smile.
“Ouch~”
Xiongba seemed to know that people were talking about him. He raised his head and barked, then lay down again.
"Oh, I see you have two puppies outside. Did you buy them?" Carpenter Liang asked again.
"Yes, I bought it in the city recently." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"I said it looked unusual." Carpenter Liang exclaimed, all those puppies were bought, he must be rich.
Then he talked about the wooden horse made by Lin Heng. He thought that although it was ugly, Lin Heng was still quite talented, and said that he could make a wooden car for Xiaoxia.
Soon, Xiulan's meal was ready and Lin Heng went to help bring it over.
There were six dishes and one soup, three of which were meat dishes. The soup was a milky white crucian carp, vegetable and mushroom soup. Carpenter Liang's appetite was aroused by the sight and he thought it would be great to work for the Lin family.
"Come, have a drink first!"
Lin Heng raised his glass with a smile and drank a few glasses with Carpenter Liang.
After the meal, Carpenter Liang was full and Lin Heng took him to the old house to settle down. He planned to make an extra bed this time so that there would be room for other people to stay.
Back in the house, Lin Heng saw Xiulan taking a wooden bathtub and boiling water in it. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Why, do you want to take a bath with me?"
Xiulan rolled her eyes at him and said, "You're overthinking me. I just want to take a bath."
Without waiting for Lin Heng to speak, Xiulan raised her hand and poked him again: "You should go and tell Xiaoxia a story to coax her to sleep."
Xiaoxia was fiddling with the educational toy Luban Lock on her little bed. Lin Heng played with her for a while, then pointed at a fairy tale book and taught her to read, without rushing her to sleep.
Xiaoxia was quite interested in it, and paid close attention to recognizing words and pictures. Caiyun would teach her how to draw from time to time.
Lin Heng and Xiaoxia played for half an hour. When Dengta fell asleep, Lin Heng started to tell her a story to put her to sleep.
On the other side, Xiulan had already adjusted the water temperature, tied her hair up high with a hairpin, and stepped into the bathtub. The misty water vapor and her snow-white skin gave her a hazy feeling.
She was even more eye-catching when she turned around and leaned on the edge of the barrel. The huge white rabbit was squeezed into an extraordinary arc by the edge of the barrel.
"Wife, I'm coming."
Lin Heng coaxed Xiaoxia to sleep, then quickly took off his clothes and ran over. He felt that Xiulan was deliberately seducing him.
"Take a good shower and don't mess around."
Xiulan blinked and said.
"Then I can rub my wife's shoulders, right?"
Lin Heng laughed and leaned against Xiulan.
The skin was so smooth that he could not help but massage other parts of it. He replied seriously, "I was just checking if you were sick."
"Go~"
Xiulan said unhappily with a red face.
But she was quite happy in her heart, especially after Lin Heng's performance during the day.
Slowly the two of them merged together. Xiulan held onto the edge of the wooden barrel, not daring to make a sound and groaning from time to time, for fear of waking the child.
After taking a shower, we went to bed and had another in-depth conversation, checking each other’s physical condition and trying some different movements.
The next morning, Lin Heng woke up earlier than Xiulan and couldn't help but hug her in his arms to wake her up.
"Bad guy~"
Xiulan opened her eyes and whispered while biting her red lips.
"Hold my neck quickly, let's have a whisper, be good." Lin Heng said with a smile as he felt his wife's soft skin.
"What are you talking about?"
Xiulan was still a little naive and put her arms around his neck.
“Hmm…”
But she didn't expect that Lin Heng's whisper was actually the legendary tongue language. She was so fascinated that her heart was soaring into the sky.
"Is this your whisper?" Xiulan exhaled and stared at him.
Lin Heng laughed: "It sounds good, right?"
Xiulan blinked and bit his chest. The pain and strange feeling made Lin Heng hiss.
"I also whispered a little bit, it sounds good, right?"
Xiulan hummed softly, feeling very satisfied after seeing the teeth marks.
Lin Heng didn't know whether this was a punishment or a reward. He was just glad that she didn't have fangs, otherwise it would have hurt even more.
After looking at Lin Heng twice, she leaned her head over again.
Lin Heng looked at the time and continued to lie down for a while. It was a pleasant thing to experience these things with Xiulan, who had never seen the broad world of sex.
This made Lin Heng feel fortunate that he was born in this era, where only pure love warriors can survive.
If he lived in the promiscuous afterlife where second-hand cars were everywhere and had been vigorously developed, it would be really difficult for a pure love warrior like him.
When it was daybreak, Lin Heng watched his wife put on new underwear and got up from bed too.
After the exercise, he looked at Xiulan and said, "Don't move."
"What's the matter?" Xiulan was puzzled, but still did not move out of trust.
Lin Heng raised his hand to tidy up her messy hair. Xiulan blinked, pursed her lips slightly, and reached out to smooth his collar.
"I'm going to ask Carpenter Liang to come and do the work."
Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said something.
"Go ahead." Xiulan waved and smiled, then turned around to help Xiaoxia put clothes on.
When Lin Heng came to the old house, Carpenter Liang was already having breakfast. His parents had gotten up very early.
Father Lin looked at him and said, "Son, have a bite too. After you finish, we can go over and get some."
"Okay." Lin Heng didn't refuse and ate a bowl of sauerkraut noodles.
After dinner, the three of them went over together. Father Lin was holding a chainsaw. Carpenter Liang couldn't help but ask curiously, "This is a diesel saw. How much does it cost?"
"It's about a hundred yuan. Lin Heng gave it to me. It can open the board very quickly." Lin's father said with a smile.
Carpenter Liang was a little skeptical: "Can this thing open the board?"
"It's very useful." Father Lin said with a smile, and added that they cut a lot of wooden boards and built a small wooden house, which made Carpenter Liang jealous.
After entering the yard, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said, "Xiulan, I've had breakfast, you just do yours and Xiaoxia's."
"good."
Xiulan nodded and prepared to cook the leftover crucian carp soup and rice from yesterday into porridge. With the addition of some vegetables, it would be enough for the two of them to eat.
A few people moved the things in the main room and went upstairs.
"Dad, let's build a fixed staircase for the second floor later." Lin Heng said with a smile.
The walls on the second floor of his house were naturally painted with plaster, and the floor was made of three-centimeter-thick wooden boards. Except for the top, which was not treated, it was still very comfortable for people to live in.
However, there is not many people at Lin Heng's house now, so the second floor has not been renovated and is used to store sundries.
"Yes, that's not difficult."
Father Lin nodded.
After a few discussions, they moved all the dark wood to the yard. After Liang the carpenter had finished the work, Lin Heng and his father fixed the wood and started cutting it with an electric saw.
The four-meter-long sunken wood was cut in five minutes. The inside turned light yellow and looked much finer than ordinary wood.
"This is the best camphor wood. It smells fragrant."
Carpenter Liang said enviously that Lin Heng actually picked up such a good thing for free.
"This will be valuable if made into furniture." Father Lin understood the wood as soon as he saw it. It was so special.
“How many days will it take to make this?”
Lin Hengze was worried about this problem. The New Year was coming soon and it wouldn't do to wait too long.
Carpenter Liang shook his head and said, "With your diesel saw, it will be much faster to cut the boards and make furniture. It won't take a week."
After seeing the power of this diesel saw, he was extremely envious, but it was a pity that it was too expensive, otherwise he would have wanted to buy one.
There were only three camphor trees, and they were all blossomed very quickly. Then they began to blossom the red toon tree.
The sawdust produced when this wood was sawed was dark red, which made people doubt its internal performance.
"Hey, this red toon wood is really beautiful."
When it bloomed, everyone was shocked. It was not blood red, but it was deep red, and had very unique patterns. It looked extremely beautiful.
Carpenter Liang said with emotion: "It can be used as a tabletop after a little polishing. The quality of the dark wood you picked up is really good."
There are seven or eight pieces of red toon tree wood that are three or four meters long, and each one is about thirty centimeters in diameter.
The first three that opened were all good, but something unexpected happened with the fourth one. The core of the red toon tree was rotten.
"This is such a pity. It's so red, the core shouldn't have been rotten." Father Lin said with regret.
Lin Heng didn't care, and said with a smile: "It's okay, you can make a ruler or something, and if you cut it into smaller pieces, you can make some small toys."
He planned to pick out the reddest parts to make beads and make a few bracelets for himself to play with.
It took the three of them more than two hours to cut all the sunken wood into boards. Only two of them had internal problems, the rest were usable.
Lin Heng looked at the wooden boards in the yard and asked, "Carpenter Liang, how many furniture pieces can be made from these pieces of wood?"
Carpenter Liang looked at the wooden planks on the ground and said, "We can make the two-meter-long and one-meter-wide large table you mentioned, the one-meter-wide small square table, the small tea tray, and ten armchairs. I guess the remaining space can be used to make a bookshelf or something."
Lin Heng nodded and said with a smile, "Is that so? As long as it's enough, that's good. I don't want modern ones. Make me classical ones. They should be more refined. Even if you can't finish them, it doesn't matter. I'll ask you to go to Hongfeng Mountain to help make some things next year. There's plenty of time."
"Don't worry, I guarantee you'll like it when I make it." Carpenter Liang said, patting his chest.
His confidence comes from learning from his teachers. His family has been carpenters for generations, and his ancestors have worked for landlords and officials, so they know many types of carpentry.
Lin Heng smiled and nodded. He was still very confident in Carpenter Liang's skills.
Letting his father help here, Lin Heng went back to the house and served tea to the two of them.
"Honey, your maltose will be ready soon. Do you want to come over and take a look?"
Xiulan looked at him and shouted. After she finished her breakfast, she started to make maltose for Lin Heng. The water had already dried up and only about three or four pounds were left.
"good."
Lin Heng nodded. He went into the house first and took out the rice crackers he had bought on the street, raisins he had bought in the city, fried and peeled peanuts, chopped red dates from his own garden, a large plate, and two glass jars.
After all these are prepared, let's take a look at the maltose. At this time, the syrup has turned reddish brown, with dense bubbles, and you can feel the stickiness when stirring with chopsticks.
Xiulan turned down the heat a little, and Lin Heng kept stirring vigorously. After ten minutes, the big bubbles turned into dense small bubbles, which were basically sugar liquid.
Twenty kilograms of glutinous rice can make about four kilograms of malt sugar. Lin Heng first scooped up a portion and put it into glass jars. The two jars each held one kilogram and contained two kilograms of liquid malt sugar.
After the jars were filled, Lin Heng quickly scooped the remaining part into the oiled plate, poured in the rice flowers, peanuts, raisins and chopped red dates, and quickly stirred them evenly.
After mixing, spread it flat and it becomes the homemade version of Qiegao. This was one of the most anticipated foods during the Chinese New Year when I was a child, and my mother would make it every year.
Now that he has a family, Lin Heng also wants to cook for Xiaoxia. The flavor of the New Year is created little by little like this.
Xiaoxia had been watching from the side for a long time, but now her eyes were drawn to Xiulan. Xiulan used chopsticks to stir the remaining maltose in the pot, constantly pulling it up and stirring it to make white stirring candy.
“I want to do it too!”
Xiaoxia took the chopsticks, stirred it a few times like Xiulan did, and put it in her mouth to eat. The sweet malt sugar made her beautiful big eyes curved into little crescents.
(End of this chapter)
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