Siheyuan: My wife is Xu Huizhen

Chapter 77 The dilapidated shop

He Yuzhu didn't want to live in his master's house. After all, their family didn't have any extra room. If he lived in it, he would occupy the space of his master's family.

It's okay to stay for a day occasionally, but you can't stay at Master's house all year round.

Tian Zao thought about it and said, "Your policy doesn't allow it. After all, my family owns a house."

"Then you can't rent a house. How about I rent a private one?"

Tian Zao said: "There are not many houses available for rent now."

Think about it and say, "Unless you rent a store."

"Shop?"

He Yuzhu was a little surprised. Although he had a plan to open a store, he had not yet discussed it with Xu Huizhen.

I don’t know if she wants to leave Tai Feng Tower and work alone.

"Yes, I know there is a shop for rent on Yandai Xiejie."

Tian Zao then talked about the shop, which was originally a clothing store on Yandai Xiejie.

It's just that the shop owner is an enemy agent and a peripheral agent. There is a tunnel under the shop to provide cover for the bad guys. The trick was later discovered.

The shop owner was arrested and sentenced, and the store was confiscated and became the property of the street.

Tian Zao introduced the shop and then said: "His case has been ended. The street is trying to rent out the house. If you want to rent it, I can keep it for you."

He Yuzhu asked: "What do you think about me opening a bun shop there? And how much is the rent?"

Tian Zao said: "Okay, that location is very good. You can open any store. As for the rent, I'll ask you later. It's not expensive."

Although He Yuzhu has money, he has repaired a house and bought a bicycle. He does not plan to buy this store in the short term.

Let's focus on renting and get the business done. It will be a public-private partnership for five to five years. Then we will decide how to proceed. Anyway, the house is rented.

Xu Huizhen can just work in this bun shop and get paid.

But I still have to ask her if she is willing to do business.

He Yuzhu sent her to work after asking about the house, and then came to Tai Feng Building.

It was a week after two days. I got up early and bought some daily necessities to deliver to Qian Datong.

After returning, He Yuzhu had nothing to do, playing with Qian Datong's old furniture.

In the past, I would recognize a master and let the master teach me his skills, so that I could incorporate the skills into my hair by washing my hair.

I have nothing to do today, so He Yuzhu wanted to practice with this pile of old furniture.

It would be nice to have the professional skill of carpenter. After all, just washing clothes activated the washing skill, sweeping the floor activated the housekeeping skill, and even applying a patch with needle and thread also activated the tailoring skill.

It's just that He Yuzhu has always resisted practicing and upgrading these skills.

Once you get promoted to a very high level, after getting married, all these housework will become your own.

The bench at He Yuzhu's house was a little loose, so he found a wooden stick and used an ax to cut a few wooden wedges.

I plan to use wooden wedges to smash it in so that the bench and chairs will not come loose.

Just after he cut two of them, Yi Zhonghai came out of the house. After a quick glance, he hurried over and asked, "Zhuzhu, where did you get this wood?"

He Yuzhu thought he was looking for trouble, raised his head and said, "Are you in charge? I didn't take any information from you."

"No, I don't mean anything else. Do you know what this material is?" Yi Zhonghai asked.

"I don't know. This is Qian Datong's old home. I took apart a bench leg."

Yi Zhonghai suppressed his urge to curse and said, "If you don't recognize it, just tear it apart at will. This chicken wing wood is very valuable."

"Wenge wood? That's it?"

Speaking of chicken wing wood, He Yuzhu certainly knows that it is known as one of the 10 most expensive woods in the world. It is also the best wood for furniture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, along with rosewood, huanghuali, and iron wood.

He Yuzhu picked up the bench leg in his hand, looked at it carefully, and asked: "Is this chicken wing wood? Let me tell you, it's more difficult to chop it with an axe."

Yi Zhonghai couldn't help but said: "You prodigal son, this wood is very expensive and much better than ordinary wood, so you just use it to chop wood wedges."

He Yuzhu also felt that it was a bit of a waste, but he said, "I don't know these woods either."

"Open that door, and I'll tell you what red sandalwood is and what huanghuali is. These furnitures are made of the best wood. Unfortunately, the workmanship is not very good, and it's a waste of materials."

He Yuzhu opened the door, and Yi Zhonghai pointed to a coffee table and said, "This is a mahogany rectangular table."

"This is the Huanghuali bookshelf."

Then he opened a dismantled bench and said, "You dismantled this, right? The board and legs are made of wenge wood."

"None of his furniture is a set, so the materials used are also varied. This table is made of cypress, and that chair is made of ironwood."

Yi Zhonghai searched carefully, pointed to an inconspicuous box and said, "Look, there are some ebony inlaid on it. The entire material is made of mahogany."

He Yuzhu was surprised. He didn't expect that these were all precious woods. He said, "Why did he piece everything together?"

"It's a long story. Qian Datong didn't have any money before. Later he became a traitor and defected to the Japanese. I don't know how he got some money to buy some second-hand furniture."

Then he told old stories, nothing more than how he forced others and destroyed their families.

Fortunately, Qian Datong had no blood debt, otherwise he would have been shot directly.

When he does bad things, he is not the leader, he is a lackadaisical person.

So he was sentenced to more than ten years.

Although Yi Zhonghai knew that these woods were valuable, it was difficult for ordinary people to eat now. He never imagined that these woods would be worth a lot of money in future generations. Besides, he would not live until that time.

He Yuzhu couldn't help but feel ecstatic. Now he knew the wood. He could carefully identify the texture and structure of the wood with his mental power.

Although I could recognize it before, I didn't know what this kind of wood was. I was in contact with chefs every day, and I never talked about these woods.

It seems that Yi Zhonghai has not lived in vain for so many years, and he actually knows wood.

Yi Zhonghai turned around and took a piece of wood from his home and said, "This is elm wood. You can use this to make wooden wedges."

He Yuzhu thanked him, then took an ax and cut out a few wooden wedges, and then embedded the wooden wedges in the moving parts of the chair.

After smashing it in, cut off the excess part so that the chair is strong.

After repairing the second chair, a system message popped up in front of He Yuzhu:
[You have learned a new profession - carpentry, level lv1]

He Yuzhu was overjoyed. Sure enough, his guess was good. As long as he worked for a period of time, he could trigger the system to include related occupations.

He Yuzhu went to chop wood wedges again, and every time he completed one, he would be prompted to increase his experience value by one. It seemed that this carpenter's experience could be easily improved.

He Yuzhu was very happy and chopped all the wooden sticks into wooden wedges.

Suddenly, I heard a commotion in front of me. Someone shouted in surprise and heard something about a sewing machine.

He Yuzhu put down the ax in his hand, raised his legs and walked towards the front yard.

I saw a brand new sewing machine in the middle of the yard, and Jia Dongxu was proudly introducing it to the neighbors.

When he saw He Yuzhu, he specifically said: "Zhuzhu, come and see how the sewing machine my brother bought is good?" Seeing the smile on Jia Dongxu's face, He Yuzhu wanted to step forward and punch him. This was because he wanted to hold the sewing machine in front of him. Show off.

He bought the first bicycle in the courtyard. If Jia Dongxu bought another bicycle, he would only be ranked second and not show his prestige.

So I found a new way to buy the first sewing machine in Siheyuan.

Think about it, the most valuable thing in the Jia family is a sewing machine. No matter how difficult it was for the family, they were never willing to sell it.

If you can afford big things, you must be buying them for your wedding at this time.

He Yuzhu laughed twice, and then asked: "This is a good thing. Can I lend it to everyone?"

Mrs. Zhang jumped out and said, "What good things are you thinking of? This is a sewing machine bought by our family. Why should I lend it to you?"

He Yuzhu said: "Are you saying this out of regret? Why do you have to borrow it when I buy a bicycle? You bought a sewing machine, so we can't borrow it?"

"What can I borrow? What are you dreaming about?"

Mrs. Zhang said angrily: "I asked you to lend me a bicycle but you didn't lend it to me. Why should I lend you my sewing machine?"

He Yuzhu said it deliberately, knowing that Mrs. Zhang would not lend the sewing machine to others.

Now the people watching the excitement looked at Granny Zhang with resentment, thinking they could borrow it for a while, but it seemed they were overthinking it.

Mrs. Zhang asked her son to put the sewing machine in front of him just to show off. Now that he had achieved his goal, it was time to call it a day.

"Son, take the sewing machine back. How can you lend it to others after spending so much money to buy a sewing machine?"

Jia Dongxu directly picked up the sewing machine, passed He Yuzhu proudly, and entered his home.

He Yuzhu ignored the discussion in the front yard and pushed his bicycle out of the courtyard.

There are many hardware stores on the inner street of Dongzhimen. He Yuzhu found a relatively large one and bought some carpentry tools.

Two planes, one hand saw, one large saw, one bar saw, heavy chisel and flat chisel, wood file, wooden hammer, iron hammer, glue hammer, woodworking drill and other tools were also bought at the boss's suggestion. one.

After spending a full 30 yuan, He Yuzhu asked where he could buy some wood or old furniture.

The boss enthusiastically pointed out the place. There was a wood shop on the cross slope street outside Dongzhimen.

You can make furniture and buy and sell various types of wood and boards.

He Yuzhu thanked him and then walked out of Dongzhimen to Shizipo Street.

Soon I found a furniture store with a large front door that sold all kinds of new furniture and also dealt in some old furniture.

He Yuzhu first looked at the old furniture, and after walking among them, he realized that there were indeed many kinds of furniture, but only few of them were made of good materials.

The price is also relatively expensive, so it is not suitable to buy now.

He Yuzhu had no choice but to go to the lumber area and buy a few square logs that had been cut out and a wooden board.

If you want to practice carpentry, you first need to make some small benches. This is the simplest and easier to make.

Tie the wood to the sides of the bike and push it back.

When pushing into the yard, Yan Bugui asked in surprise: "Zhuzhu, why did you buy these? Why do you plan to change your career?"

He Yuzhu smiled and said: "I didn't do much, I just made a few benches when I was idle."

"Aren't you just fooling around? You quit being a good cook and started studying carpentry."

"You have nothing to do, I'm going in."

He Yuzhu is not idle and bored. In the collection circle of Beijing, the collection of solid wood furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties is a very large category.

Of course He Yuzhu wants to get involved in this collection in the future. He happens to be very talented and can learn everything extremely quickly.

It is also fun to learn a carpentry skill, acquire some second-hand furniture, and then repair it to make the old furniture shine again.

In fact, He Yuzhu didn't want to be a cook. It was too hot to work around the stove all day long, and the smell of oil fumes on his body was still strong.

However, in the days to come, chefs were still the most popular, which made He Yuzhu very confused.

But don’t delay your current exploration of other professions.

I don’t want to be a tailor, but it would be good to learn carpentry skills.

He Yuzhu got the wood, which surprised Yi Zhonghai, thinking why did this stupid Zhu become a prodigal again?
I didn’t know anything about wood in the morning, but in the afternoon I spent dozens of dollars to buy a lot of professional tools. This is not a waste of money.

But he didn't say much and just let him do whatever he wanted.

At work the next day, Yi Zhonghai talked about it casually while working, and then asked Jia Dongxu to learn it seriously so that he could not be such a spendthrift like Silly Zhu in the future.

Then when he talked about Jia Dongxu's blind date, he casually asked his coworkers to help and introduce suitable girls to Jia Dongxu.

A co-worker named Chen Changping suddenly said: "Master Yi, I know a very beautiful girl who is looking for her husband's family recently."

Yi Zhonghai asked: "Where are you from?"

Jia Dongxu then asked: "Is it beautiful?"

Chen Changping said: "That girl is as beautiful as a flower. If you see Dongxu, I'm sure you will be willing."

Yi Zhonghai said: "Okay, you can bring him over one day and let them see him."

"Okay, if it works out, you want to treat me to a drink."

"Don't worry, there will be no shortage of thank you gifts."

Now he has cast a wide net, and Jia Dongxu has met several matches. Either he is not suitable for them, or they are not suitable for him. Many matchmakers have complained about whether he is good or bad.

This matter was not mentioned in the workshop before and now it can only be publicized.
On Yandai Xiejie, He Yuzhu looked at the two-story building carefully.

The door is three rooms wide and has a wooden structure. It is similar to other doors and is in an old-fashioned style.

After opening the lock and removing two wooden boards, Tian Zao introduced: "This house is pretty good. If you hadn't told me, I would have given it to someone else."

"Thank you, Sister Zao." He Yuzhu quickly thanked her.

Yandai Xiejie has a strong commercial atmosphere. There are twenty or thirty shops on the entire street, and it is a very prosperous place along a large alley.

The key is that the location is very advantageous.

Walk west from Nanluogu Lane where He Yuzhu is located, and after passing Di'anmen Street is Yandai Xiejie.

Located between the Bell Tower, Drum Tower and Yinding Bridge, not far away is the barbecue season.

Not only is the location good, this house is also relatively new. It was originally a courtyard house, but the opposite house facing the street was completely built into a two-story building.

There is a moon door three or four meters behind that can lead directly to the house behind.

The courtyard at the back has three main rooms, two wing rooms, three east and west wing rooms, and a row of back rooms.

This was originally a three-entry courtyard.

He Yuzhu was a little confused. If he only sold steamed buns, could he earn enough rent?
Question: "Sister, how much is the rent per month?"

Tian Zao blinked and looked a little playful, but he still tried his best to say seriously:
"This house is dilapidated, and there have been deaths. It's very unlucky, so it can only be rented out at a low price. You only need to pay 15 yuan a month."

(End of this chapter)