From the ground to the one-meter-high skirting board, it is painted in the popular light blue, and the rest is painted white.
While waiting for the paint to dry, Chen Shanhe was busy installing the ceiling.
Suspended ceilings were not popular in 1978, and no one in the Chen family had ever heard of what a suspended ceiling was.
Jiang Shiyue, the only one who had seen it, gestured and explained.
Chen Jiadong clapped his hands. "I understand! I've seen it in the commune. Their ceilings are made of woven gold and silver plastic paper."
Jiang Shiyue: “…”
What the hell is this woven plastic paper?
Finally, Chen Shanhe found a piece of plaid cloth and nailed it to the roof to serve as a suspended ceiling.
Jiang Shiyue couldn't agree with it but had no better solution. This was already the most advanced and luxurious "decoration" in the production team.
Finally, there is the balcony section.
People who live in brick and tile houses will have such a balcony, but here it is not called a balcony, it is called a front protrusion.
People who have a building with a front porch will not be so extravagant as to enclose the balcony with glass.
Glass is relatively expensive, especially when such a large piece of glass is used.
In the end, it was Chen Shanhe who got it through his comrades.
The money was paid by Jiang Shiyue.
**
The day we moved into our new house was cloudy and very hot.
In the Chen family courtyard, there are still two people working and three people supervising.
Jiang Shiyue sat at the small table that Wu Xiu'e moved out and made ice porridge for Chen Dingguo.
She pushed the ice bowl filled with condiments in front of Chen Dingguo and said, "Old man, can you eat it cold? Try it."
Chen Dingguo nodded. He was just paralyzed and didn't have any dietary restrictions.
But his family seemed to think that he couldn't eat anything since he was in poor health, and they didn't allow him to eat this or that.
Crushed ice cubes are not that cold, but when paired with various sweet and sour condiments, it feels cool in the mouth and sweet in the heart.
Chen Dingguo smiled and nodded, "It's delicious! You young people really know how to enjoy it."
Wu Xiu'e took the bowl and called Yangyang first, "Yangyang, come here and have some ice cream!"
Yangyang's first reaction was to look at Jiang Shiyue. Jiang Shiyue raised her hand to indicate that the freshly made ice porridge was freshly prepared. Yangyang let go and threw the small piece of wood on the ground, then trotted over.
Only Chen Shanhe was left planeing wood.
Jiang Shiyue was responsible for providing ideas and renderings, while Chen Shanhe understood carpentry and could draw designs. The couple planned to make a set of sofas and coffee tables by themselves.
Chen Shanhe looked up at Jiang Shiyue, then lowered his head to work.
Jiang Shiyue felt inexplicably guilty and distressed. The whole family was eating ice cream here, but Chen Shanhe was the only one working alone.
In fact, this is a normal phenomenon in the production team.
Working is usually a job for strong laborers, and similarly, they don't do housework at home.
It’s not really bullying; it would be more appropriate to describe it as everyone doing their own job.
That's why Chen Dingguo and Wu Xiu'e didn't speak.
Jiang Shiyue couldn't bear it, so she called out to Chen Shanhe, "Why don't you do it after we finish eating?"
Chen Shanhe nodded and walked over after he finished planing the wood in his hand.
Just as I picked up the bowl, the gate of the courtyard was pushed open from the outside.
Zhao Caifeng rushed in, rolling up her sleeves and cursing, "Chen Shanhe, Jiang Shiyue, get out here!"
Jiang Shiyue turned a deaf ear to him, and Chen Shanhe just raised his eyelids without moving.
However, Wu Xiu'e had lived under Zhao Caifeng's oppression for many years. When she heard her voice, she shuddered with fear and dropped the spoon in her hand to the ground.
Chen Dingguo sighed lightly, put down the bowl as he lost his appetite.
As she spoke, Zhao Caifeng came up to her and reached out to push Jiang Shiyue, "You little bitch, you actually left me behind..."
"Sister-in-law!" Chen Shanhe blocked Zhao Caifeng's hand mid-air and warned in a deep voice, "If we really wanted to abandon you, you wouldn't be able to come back now."
"You bastard, Chen Shanhe! I haven't even settled accounts with you yet!" Zhao Caifeng raised her other arm and slapped Chen Shanhe. "You bastard! I provided you with food and water and raised you up, and this is how you repay kindness with enmity?"
"Alas!" Jiang Shiyue sighed, looking helpless. She quickly raised her foot and kicked Zhao Caifeng on the knee. "Zhao Caifeng, why do you always forget to eat and not to be beaten? Do you really think that just because you're home is your home turf? This family's surname is Chen, not Zhao."
Chen Shanhe withdrew his other hand the moment Jiang Shiyue moved her feet.
Zhao Caifeng fell to her knees in pain.
Jiang Shiyue pointed in the direction of Chen Dingguo and said, "You're kneeling in the wrong direction. The elders are over there."
Chen Dingguo: “…”
Lu Zheng and Li Chuntian, who were a few steps behind, also followed in.
Li Chuntian clapped her hands. "I was wondering why Sister Zhao was so impatient all the way here! So she wanted her parents-in-law to come back and wait on her?!"
Jiang Shiyue: “…”
No wonder Zhao Caifeng looked thinner after not seeing her for a few days.
I'm afraid life won't be easy following Li Chuntian.
Zhao Caifeng returned to her own territory and refused to swallow her anger. She climbed up from the ground, picked up a broom from the wall and rushed towards Jiang Shiyue, cursing, "Today I must deal with you, you little bitch! You will know why the Horse King has three eyes!"
When she returned to the production team, she let Jiang Shiyue ride on her neck. Then Zhao Caifeng felt that she had lived in vain for so many years.
Chen Shanhe stepped forward, stood in front of Jiang Shiyue, snatched the broom from Zhao Caifeng's hand with one hand, and pushed her lightly.
Zhao Caifeng took two steps back and stepped on a stone. She lost her balance and fell to the ground.
Li Chuntian jumped to the side exaggeratedly, fearing that Zhao Caifeng would implicate him.
Zhao Caifeng finally realized that no one in this yard would help her.
Her husband and son went to work in the team and haven't returned yet.
Zhao Caifeng rolled her eyes, sat on the ground without getting up, slapped her hands on her thighs and was about to start crying.
"There's no point in crying." Jiang Shiyue spoke first, "Your neighbors have to go to work too, and no one else will help you. Do you believe it?"
Zhao Caifeng, of course, didn't believe it and cried out at the top of her lungs, "Oh my God! Why are you so blind? Strike Chen Shanhe, the ungrateful bastard, and Jiang Shiyue, the vicious woman, to death with thunder!"
"Everyone, come and see! The Chen family is completely heartless! I've been married into the Chen family for thirty years and have been working like a slave, taking care of the elderly and raising the children. Now my uncle has grown up and brought a wife back to bully me!"
"God, please open your eyes and take this ungrateful bastard away!"
“…”
Chen Dingguo was so angry that his chest heaved up and down. He closed his eyes, thinking out of sight, out of mind.
Wu Xiu'e lowered her head tremblingly, fearing that Zhao Caifeng would vent her anger.
Jiang Shiyue handed Li Chuntian a bowl of ice porridge and patted the seat next to her, beckoning her, "Sit down and watch! You grew up in the city, so you've probably never seen a live version of a shrew scolding someone in the street, right?"
Li Chuntian readily accepted the advice and sat beside Jiang Shiyue, eating ice porridge while watching Zhao Caifeng cry without shedding tears. He nodded and said, "You have indeed opened your eyes."
This trip will definitely be lively and not in vain.
Chen Shanhe handed Lu Zheng a cigarette and moved to the shade by the wall.
This was Lu Zheng's first time seeing such a situation, and he was a little worried, "How will this end?"
Chen Shanhe shook his head, "I don't know."
"I didn't know you still dared to watch the fun here!" Lu Zheng looked incredulous.
Chen Shanhe said seriously, "My wife said, when women fight, men should get out of the way!"
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