Escape from the Famine

Chapter 47 48. Making Furniture

Qi Lanting also followed her into the tent.

I saw an old man teaching his two apprentices how to make furniture.

"Old man Sheng, there are guests." Qi Lanting yelled as soon as he entered.

Sheng Laosan was smoking a big cigarette pipe, and there was no tobacco leaves in the pot of the pipe.

Looking up, he saw Qi Lanting, with a pair of cloudy old eyes smiling.

"Your kid yelled when he came in."

Looking at Chi Yu behind him again, he smiled and said, "Is this girl going to make any kind of furniture?"

Chi Yu doesn't know how to comb the women's hair here, so he simply tied a ponytail with cloth strips.

In the eyes of the people here, she is an unmarried girl without a woman's hair bun, and it is not wrong to call her a girl.

Chi Yu didn't care about these things, she was quite happy when they called her a girl, she just nodded lightly, "The furniture made by my husband is very fine."

Chi Yu looked at the pitifully small amount of furniture in the tent, each piece was made very finely, and the patterns carved on it were also exquisite, but there were not many varieties.

Sheng Laosan said with a smile: "I made the girl laugh. Those who can afford the furniture are rich households. The few they made are just as samples."

"What kind of furniture does the girl want? You can also make it to order."

Sheng Laosan identified Chi Yu as those rich families.

The clothes he was wearing were all unpatched, and they were made of muslin. They must have been rich.

"Old man, my current house hasn't been built yet! I don't know what kind of furniture I should make. Anyway, I make a lot of furniture, but I don't even like the wood you have here."

Chi Yu took a look, and the wood for furniture placed outside was all ordinary wood. She wanted to use the golden nanmu in her back mountain to make furniture.

"Then I don't know what kind of wood the girl wants to use for furniture? I have some ordinary wood here. If someone wants to make good wood furniture, he needs to bring his own wood."

Sheng Laosan was a little embarrassed. He had been making furniture all his life, and he had seen all kinds of good wood. Since he came to this Spring Valley, he saw less good wood.

He came here to live, as long as he had something to eat, he seldom made furniture himself here, he was teaching apprentices and so on.

If there is good wood for him to make furniture, he is still very happy.

"Then I will find someone to deliver the wood in a few days. The fresh wood still needs to be processed, right?"

Chi Yu didn't want to use it and knew that fresh wood could not be used for furniture.

Sheng Laosan fully agreed, and didn't have much hope for the good wood that Chi Yu said, "It needs to be processed, and it takes a long time to process fresh wood! Can the girl afford it?"

Wood is different from wood, and it is troublesome to handle. It will not be possible to make furniture for a while.

Chi Yu smiled and said: "It's okay! There is still plenty of time, and my house hasn't been built yet!"

According to Qi Lanting, it would be troublesome to build her house, at least a year.

Sheng Laosan looked at Chi Yu with strange eyes, the house hasn't been built yet?

"That's fine! I'll just wait for the girl to bring the wood, and I'll deal with it for the girl when the time comes."

Third Sheng took a look at Qi Lanting, it seemed that he was looking for him to build a house.

It is right for this girl to ask him to build a house. If she finds the people of the Yan family to build a house, the slaughtered people will lose all their property and cannot afford their wages, and no one will dare to live in the house they built!
"Okay! Then it's settled! Let's take our leave first."

Chi Yu followed Qi Lanting to the tent where they built the house, and as soon as he entered, he saw a dozen people in a mess, with bruised noses and swollen faces, howling.

Qi Lanting froze for a moment, didn't say anything, then picked up the ointment on the side to help them apply the medicine.

Chi Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, it seemed that they were used to such things.

"Brother, are you back? We haven't received a job again!"

Zhou Zheng suffered the most serious injury, and Qi Lanting gritted his teeth in pain as soon as Qi Lanting applied the medicine on him.

Qi Lanting had no expression on his face, but his heart was already burning with anger.

He was trying his best to suppress the urge to kill.

He said lightly, "I got the job. It's that girl. We will help her build a house within a year."

"Really!" More than a dozen people said in unison.

All the pain in the body is forgotten.

Turning his head to look at Chi Yu, his eyes gleamed brightly, wishing he could stare out a hole in someone.

God of Wealth!This is simply their God of Wealth!
They can't wait to go up and hug their thighs!

In the blink of an eye, he seemed to think of something again, and the light in his eyes slowly disappeared.

"Brother, so what if you can get the job? In the end, it's not because of their deterrence that they robbed all the jobs in hand?"

Zhou Zhengqi's fist hit the ground, and he grinned again in pain.

Qi Lanting helped Zhou Zheng apply the medicine, "Do it first."

She spoke casually, but still gave Chi Yu a worried look. If she was like those people before, and was threatened by them to hand over the work to others, they would never even think about making money this year.

Chi Yu was very curious about what happened to them, "What's wrong with you? Did you fight with someone?"

I get excited when I see the fighting pond fish.

Zhou Zheng was taken aback, did this girl not be frightened by their injuries?

Qi Lanting handed the medicine to Zhou Zheng to let him take it himself, and then said: "Boss, to tell you the truth, we people are deadly enemies with the Yan family building house team, as long as we have a job, we will be snatched away by them. With the deterrent power of those people, the owner has no choice but to let the Yan family do the work at hand. No matter how good our craftsmanship is, no one dares to hire us. If the owner also wants to hand over the house to the Yan family, we understand."

The dozen or so people waiting to apply the medicine looked at Chi Yu together, their eyes full of longing.

If they miss this deal again this time, they really can only drink the Northwest Wind, or find another way out.

More than a dozen of them were covered in injuries, because they had clashed with those people.

Chi Yu was more satisfied with Qi Lanting's character, "Why should I change? It's just you, but are there too few of you? I don't want to wait for a year for my house."

The last thing she fears is fighting!If anyone came to make trouble when she built the house, he would definitely be courting death!
Chi Yu glanced at the tent, there were only a dozen people in total, and it took too much effort to build such a big house.

Is it a little less crowded?

Qi Lanting breathed a sigh of relief and smiled lightly, "Just don't worry, my boss, we will find some more trustworthy friends to work together, and we will definitely build the house for you as soon as possible."

Chi Yu nodded, "That's good!"

"I also tell you the ugly words. Since you are working for me, then work hard. I will not treat you badly. During the period when you are working for me, you are not allowed to take other jobs. This is also my responsibility. Bottom line, if someone threatens you during this period, I will not stand by."

"Of course, since I promised you to hand over the work of building the house to you, I will not be threatened by others to hand over the work to others."

Chi Yu still wanted to live in a new house as soon as possible, so as not to make trouble.

She can trust the character of these people, so she will not find someone else to build a house, which is also a reassurance for both parties.

(End of this chapter)