Chapter 34 The Carpenter's Attitude [Please read on]
"Dad, has the orientation of the house been determined?"
Seeing his father and the Feng Shui master enter the room together, Lin Heng asked curiously.
Caiyun poured tea for the two of them. Father Lin sat down and took a sip of water before saying, "It has been determined. It will be located northwest and face southeast. The stakes have been nailed in. When the time comes, we will just build it according to this orientation."
"This orientation is already the best, but it still has some bad luck. You can hang a mirror on the door and everything will be fine."
The uncle in yellow clothes said something.
"I understand." Lin Heng nodded, still having some aspirations for building a new house.
After drinking some water and about to eat, another middle-aged man in his fifties came to the door, carrying a lot of stuff.
When Father Lin saw him, he hurried over to greet him with a smile on his face: "Carpenter Liang, you are here. Come in and have some water. The meal will be ready soon."
"Hello, Uncle Liang!" Lin Heng and his elder brother Lin Yue greeted him with a smile and came up to help get things.
"Well, your place is really remote. It took me a long time to find it." Liang Gui said in a flat tone and voice, with a hint of arrogance.
Nowadays, carpenters are all skilled people, and they are superior to others wherever they go. If you pay them to do it, you still have to consider their mood.
"Of course it's not as convenient as Baima Village." Father Lin didn't get angry and responded with a smile.
Baima Village is closer to Huangtan Town than their Fengshu Village, but the place is not that good either, not as good as Fengshu Village. However, they would naturally not say that.
Liang Gui sat down and drank a sip of water. He glanced at the old man in yellow clothes sitting next to him and greeted him: "You are Lu Fuping, Mr. Lu, right?"
"Haha, yes. I didn't expect you still knew me." The old man said with a laugh.
"Of course, Uncle Lu, you are a famous Feng Shui master in this area, everyone knows you." Liang Gui smiled and started chatting with the old man, acting very close.
This is completely different from the attitude he has towards Lin Heng and others. Since Lin Heng's uncle is a capable man, Liang Gui's attitude is naturally different.
Father Lin continued talking intermittently at the side, and Liang Gui was also indifferent to him.
After chatting for a while, Liang Gui said, "I only agreed to pay you one dollar a day because you found someone familiar with me. You are not allowed to withhold wages after the work is done. You must pay me on the spot."
"Of course, Carpenter Liang, don't worry, I promise to pay you on time." Father Lin said with a smile.
In this era, carpenters are indispensable for building houses, processing wood, and making furniture. It is not like later generations when industry is developed and everything can be bought.
Next, Liang Gui will stay at Lin Heng's house for at least ten days, helping to make furniture and trim wood.
"It's fine as long as it can be settled." Liang Gui nodded and said lightly.
In fact, the main reason was that the Lin family had no money, so they hired a carpenter at a low price and asked someone to say something nice for them.
If you just give them two dollars a day, all the carpenters in Huangtan Town will rush to do the work, and their attitude will not be like this.
Lin Heng understood the basics, so he didn't say anything and quietly increased his desire to make money.
"The meal is ready, wipe the table and eat!"
After Lin's mother called out, Lin Heng got up to wipe the table and prepare the wine jug.
Soon, Xiulan and others came over with the food. Since there were guests today, children were not allowed to eat at the table, so Caiyun ate with the children in the kitchen.
Only adults can sit at the table in the main room.
Liang Gui had no hope for the Lin family’s food. After all, even hiring a carpenter required someone to negotiate the price, so how good could the food be?
Lin Heng's uncle Lu Fuping had the same idea.
However, when the food was served, the two of them couldn't help but open their eyes wide. There was not only meat, but also two plates.
There was a plate of shredded pickled radish and fried bacon, and another plate of meat that the two of them couldn't recognize at first.
"Uncle, Carpenter Liang, this is the rabbit that Lin Heng shot yesterday. You must try it. We don't have any good food to treat you at home."
Father Lin smiled and introduced them to each other.
"Lin Heng can hunt?" Old man Lu Fuping was shocked. Didn't he remember that Lin Heng was a famous second-rate person? Liang Gui also found it a little unbelievable. He had never heard of the Lin family, but he had heard of Lin Heng's reputation as a lazy person in the next village.
How come he suddenly started hunting?
"He learned archery from someone in the city, and recently came back to the mountains to hunt. He has acquired some skills."
Father Lin smiled and said that he wanted Lin Heng to get rid of the reputation of being a second-rate person, so he introduced him to everyone he met.
"Yes, my brother has caught a lot of prey these days. He has caught a pheasant, a grouse, and a hare."
Lin Yue also smiled and said that he felt the same as his father and he didn't want his brother to always bear the reputation of a second-rate person.
"I see. That's a good thing. Hunting can also support the family. Do a good job."
Lin Heng's uncle Lu Fuping was very happy and patted Lin Heng on the shoulder.
"Yes, you are capable."
Liang Gui also agreed with a smile, but he disagreed in his heart. He thought that Lin Heng was probably lucky enough to catch some prey.
There's no way I can compare to those old hunters. I'm far behind.
Lin Heng was touched by the efforts of his father and elder brother, and he really wanted to lead his family to become wealthy immediately so that they would no longer have to live such a tight life.
It's very difficult to spend twice as much as you can. Even a carpenter will look down on you if you hire one.
Everyone was talking and laughing at the dinner table, but Lin Heng was concentrating on eating, and he almost finished all the cold gray vegetables by himself.
After dinner, Uncle Lin Heng wanted to go back, but after some attempts to persuade him to stay, he finally left.
In fact, it was just a courtesy. There was no place to live in the house, and with the arrival of a carpenter, it was impossible to allow one more person to live there. Everyone understood this.
Although Carpenter Liang was a little arrogant, his work attitude was still good. After dinner, he went to peel the bark and prepare to saw the boards.
Father Lin assisted him.
Lin Hengze and his elder brother Lin Yue continued to repair the well. They brought stones from the mountain behind and piled them in a circle along the inner wall of the well.
This is mainly done to prevent the soil on the inner wall of the well from falling off continuously, which will eventually cause the well to become shallower and shallower.
Lin Heng's stone-laying skills were very poor, so he could only carry stones from everywhere and give them to his elder brother Lin Yue, who would then lay the stones.
"Phew, luckily the well is not too deep or too big, so I finished it in one afternoon."
It was past five o'clock, Lin Yue breathed a sigh of relief and said.
"Brother, you go and have a rest. I will take care of the rest." Lin Heng said with a smile. This job was indeed not an easy one.
Now the well has been repaired, and the ground part has been surrounded by several large stone slabs, thirty centimeters above the ground.
However, because the spring is constantly discharging water, an outlet must be made to allow the water to flow out, otherwise it will overflow.
This is quite different from the groundwater well.
But it was not a difficult task for Lin Heng. He just found a bamboo tube with a diameter of ten centimeters and made it into a water outlet.
The well is located at the innermost part close to the mountain. The terrain is more than 30 centimeters higher than the outside, so it is very easy to make an outlet.
After finishing, a stream of water as thick as a baby's arm kept flowing out, and soon the water in the well became clear.
Looking at the clear water in the well, Lin Heng nodded with satisfaction, thinking it was very good.
Wait until the eighth day after tomorrow to dig the fish pond here and raise the grass carp fry first.
He was just about to go back to the yard to rest for a while, but unexpectedly his sister-in-law Liu Juan came over.
Looking at Lin Heng, she seemed to want to say something but hesitated, unable to save face.
"Sister-in-law, what's the matter?" Lin Heng was too lazy to pull her and asked directly.
"Lin Heng, I was too talkative this morning. Don't take it personally. I'll apologize to you. Just tell me how to catch the cicada monkey."
Sister-in-law Liu Juan forced a smile.
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