The Prosperous Years of Siheyuan

Chapter 164 New Home

Looking over the corridor under the building, the layout of the main room has also been changed. There are small doors on both sides of the main room, which are the entrance doors of the two bedrooms.

It is also a half lattice wooden door similar to the main entrance, the upper half is a lattice, and the lower half is a wooden board.

The front and back of the wooden door's grate are covered with glass, which transmits light and insulates sound. Lao Liu's modification is a good one.

Before entering the main room, Chen Jisheng pushed open the small door of the north room. Inside were two canopy beds. The beds were a bit large and the aisle in the middle seemed a bit narrow.

On top of the canopy bed are two large noodle cabinets, which are just right for storing clothes. The color is huanghuali.

In the northwest corner, there is also a slightly narrow huanghuali painting table, under which is a light huanghuali rose chair. This is the room of the two sisters.

I entered the room and looked at the canopy bed, which was also a simple huanghuali style. Lao Liu spent a lot of time decorating this boudoir for the sisters.

The future value of the furniture in this room will be in the millions at least.

"Yes, second sister, little sister, are you satisfied with the layout of this room?"

After another glance, I saw that the fluorescent tube I had replaced was installed in two places, one in the middle of the canopy bed and one on top of the picture table.

There is also a light bulb hanging in the middle of the room. Old Liu has a good ability to figure out people's hearts, and he can touch it up and down.

Looking back at the flower windows in the mansion, there are indeed dark red curtains hung in the corner, which seem to be old curtains, very low-key.

"pretty good……"

"I like……"

Listening to the sisters' answers, Chen Jisheng also smiled with satisfaction, and Old Liu joined hands.

Pushing open the door of the main room, it was pretty much what Chen Jisheng had imagined. There was a central hall, a table, an Eight Immortals table, and an official hat chair, except that a long painted table was added in the middle.

There are six simple mahogany official hat chairs on both sides. There are six or seventy centimeters of aisles on both sides, which are also arranged just right.

This can be used as a restaurant, a living room, and a tea room. The trinity is great.

It's just that the furniture is not as good as the sisters' boudoir, and is only made of redwood. Although it will be valuable in the future, it is not scarce enough.

Next to the main room is Chen Xiaobao's room, which is also full of mahogany furniture. It is still a simple canopy bed with a picture table that serves as a desk.

But opposite the canopy bed, there is an Arhat bed, which can be regarded as a small corner for entertaining guests.

Going further south, there is a newly built house. Next to Chen Xiaobao's room, there is an additional guest room, with the door opening in the middle.

There are also two canopy beds inside. There is no picture table or noodle cabinet. There are two Taishi chairs with coffee tables on both sides of the bed.

In this way, even if the father disappears for a moment, plus the mother comes back, there will be enough room to live in.

Next to the guest room is the bathroom. Lao Liu has good design skills. He used stone strips to raise the threshold so that he would not worry about the wooden door deforming.

The floor is also paved with gold bricks, and there is a square cast iron grille in the corner, which is the drain.

On the wall are brand new brass water pipes and shower heads, which have a golden luster. This is not very low-key.

There was no ready-made water basin, so Lao Liu also designed it himself. The cement-made water basin was one and a half meters long, with blue and white porcelain plates on the inside and outside.

I went over to take a look and found that the porcelain plates were obviously pieced together, but Liu also put a lot of thought into it. Flowers, birds and figures had their own places. This sink really suited his liking.

There is a wooden door next to the bathroom, which separates the main room from the kitchen to prevent oil smoke from coming in. The kitchen next to it occupies most of the room.

Just like outside, the stove has been repaired, and the stove is also a Liuyin pot. There is more than one and a half meters of space beside the stove, where a honeycomb briquette stove can be placed.

There are two huts next to the kitchen, one is used to store food and sundries, and the other is a small woodshed.

Next to the firewood house is the toilet, and the toilet is also divided into two rooms. The outer room has a cement sink and a squatting toilet built on a table.

There is a flush toilet in the back room, and it has a low-key design. Now, Chen Jisheng is becoming more and more satisfied with Lao Liu.

Further south from the toilet is the small screen-door courtyard of the inverted house. New houses have also been built in this area.

This side is divided into two small rooms, which can store bicycles and some sundries. The toilet is separated from the living room, which is also particular.

You can also enter the upside-down room from the corridor, leaving a small door, but the main entrance of the upside-down room is in the small courtyard behind the screen door.

Because of the construction of a new house, part of the small courtyard was taken up and almost became a square.

Entering the back-seat room from the main entrance of the small courtyard, Chen Jisheng's eyes lit up with the layout inside.

In the southwest corner of the back room, there is a canopy bed with an outer screen. The small door in the corridor just now is inside the outer screen, making it convenient to go to the toilet at night.

The exterior screen is obviously not simple. Although the carvings are a bit complicated, they are in the shape of plants and there are no exaggerated carvings of dragons or phoenixes.

This canopy bed with an external screen is like a small bedroom separated from a large room of more than 60 square meters, which can hide the wind and gather energy.

Glancing inside the outer screen, I saw that there was a set of official wardrobes blocking the canopy bed and the small door, so that the bed would not be directly visible when entering from the corridor.

To the east of the outer screen, against the south wall, is a set of official wardrobes, with an Arhat bed in the middle, which is slightly larger in size.

There are four Taishi chairs and two coffee tables opposite. Although the Arhat bed is a little shorter than the Taishi chairs, the official wardrobes on both sides are at least three meters high.

When one falls on the Arhat's bed, even if someone is sitting opposite him, his imposing manner will be suppressed by the tall official wardrobe.

The eastern end is also a large painting table, about the size of two Eight Immortals tables, surrounded by a circle of official hat chairs, which are also multi-purpose.

The floor of the inverted room has not been changed. It is still the original stone. After years of refinement, the roundness of the stone is not much worse than that of gold bricks.Old Liu put his hands together and dug a round hole in the top of the Luohan bed and blocked it with a wooden board with a handle. The size was reserved for the chimney.

"Sister, how is our new house?"

After asking, I followed the eldest sister all the way, ignoring the second sister and the younger sister. Although the design of the reverse room is good, it is still damp and not suitable for a boudoir.

"It's very good. The design of the bathrooms and toilets is better than the small buildings in the compound. The flush toilets are rare!"

The eldest sister Gu Yizhou is used to living in a Western-style small building. Compared with the small building in the compound, she feels that the Chen family's house is average.

But the most important bathroom and toilet are indeed better than those in the small building. However, there is no small boiler in the bathroom, so you can't take a hot bath in winter.

From the eldest sister's words, Chen Jisheng also heard that this person didn't think much of the courtyard house, and his world view was somewhat different.

Without replying to the eldest sister, Chen Jisheng walked to the east wall and saw where Lao Liu's hands joined.

The door here leads directly to the outer courtyard. The lattice door outside is inlaid with two layers of glass, inside and outside. There is also an iron door inside, which is open and leaning against the wall.

The iron door is larger than the original doorway, and a layer of the inner wall of the inverted house has been gnawed away, and iron buckles for the door bolts have been added to the wall.

If there is something to do, once the iron gate is closed and the bolt is pushed in, the gate is not easy to open without a sledgehammer or a sledgehammer. It is very difficult to enter directly from the outer courtyard!
Such small details can prevent people from peeking and thieves from breaking in. It is also a very good design.

Judging from the appearance of the iron gate, it should be the iron gate on the bank's small vault earlier. Every aspect has been taken care of.

Thinking of this, Chen Jisheng entered the small courtyard through the main entrance of the reverse seat room, scratched the corner of the wall, went up and took a look, and sure enough, the iron teeth were installed.

If you pick up the top of the wall from the outside, you will be hung on the wall, and your hands will at least be pierced. There are also iron buckles behind the screen door of the inverted house, which are also used for door bolts.

Old Liu from the manufacturing office must have done this for wealthy households before. Without a lot of experience, such a design would not be possible.

"Old Liu, come down."

After pondering for a while in the courtyard, Chen Jisheng also had an idea in his mind. Although the business that Old Liu did before was just a means of making a living.

But being grabbed by others in the wind and rain meant suffering. With his shrewdness, he would have to stick to the wall in the future.

This is the minimum basis for cooperation. Several houses have areas that need to be renovated. I was afraid that he would be exposed before, but now, it is almost the same.

"Master, please give your orders..."

As always, low-key and appropriate, looking at Lao Liu, Chen Jisheng also nodded silently, with old-fashioned craftsmanship, although a little oily.

But the rules cultivated by the elders are also engraved in the bones. This is what the so-called craftsmen are.

"A lot of effort has been put into the furniture in this room, and the structure is also good. How about working with me in the future?"

Without mentioning money or work, Chen Jisheng directly mentioned that he was a human being, which brought a smile to the corners of Lao Liu's mouth and eyebrows, and then the ecstasy from the outside to the inside.

After spending so much time, why? Isn’t it just rice?We build dry toilets and clean up some broken bricks and tiles throughout the year.

Not to mention that his family and neighbors look down on him, Lao Liu himself looks down on himself. After all, it is the inheritance of the manufacturing office!
This time, for the sake of his master's house, he didn't make any money himself and had many favors.

Although he made money on the furniture, it would be good if the house did not lose money. He didn't bother so much with it for his own home.

"Your Majesty, you have been promoted. You speak and I do things. I am mute when it comes to your affairs outside. From now on, I will be your servant."

There were a lot of emotions in his heart, but he only had one sentence on his lips. Although he still had some unfinished thoughts, Lao Liu felt that he couldn't be crafty with his words.

"Okay! There are a few houses behind. You let the guys repair them slowly, and you continue to dump old furniture for me. You can bring in whatever you want."

With the sixty-square-meter apartment in the opposite house, the second sister and Chen Xue no longer need to go to Zhima Hutong.

Compared with the Siheyuan, the security over Sesame Hutong is still lower, especially for the two sisters.

Chen Jisheng, who was satisfied after looking at the house, took the three girls for a stroll back to Sesame Hutong, and then it was time for them to communicate.

Lunch was cooked by Zhang Chong, the third eldest son of the Zhang family. It included meat, vegetables, fish and eggs. Although the craftsmanship was not as good as Shazhu's, it was still better than many home-cooked dishes.

At least it was much more delicious than Chen Jisheng’s own cooking. After dinner, the eldest sister and the others went to socialize among themselves.

Chen Jisheng found Lao San and began to ask about the recent situation of Nanluo Brigade.

Master Zhu, who has become a hit, is also very concerned about the Nanluo Brigade. He often leads people to patrol the site on the street at night after work.

He can be regarded as dealing with a group of gangsters on the street, but like Chen Jisheng, he still can't do it after catching them.

Ever since Chen Jisheng wiped out the three men who had written a gauntlet, no one dared to write a gauntlet in the past half month.

The outcome of those three goods has basically been decided. The family needs to send peanut money, and the value of the case is there!
Because of this incident, Cheng Suo and the others also carried out a raid. It was said that they arrested seven or eight Buddhas on the street.

With the tacit cooperation between Shazhu and Cheng Suo, the streets of Nanluo are much cleaner than before.

The third and fourth children also learned a lot of skills from Sha Zhu, not to mention wrestling, but their cooking skills were also different from what Sha Zhu usually taught his disciples.

Silhu came up and taught them how to make some home-cooked meat dishes, for no other reason than to prepare a good meal for the three sisters of the Chen family.

Thinking of the clever Silly Zhu, Chen Jisheng also smiled. He was back, and it was time for the Nanluo Brigade to move again.

Since the beginning was good, Zhu Yeer's name could not only be resounding on the streets of Nanluo.

(End of this chapter)