Chapter 858

One has to admit that Wang An's carpentry skills were indeed much, much stronger than the carpentry skills of Niu Yichen and his son Niu Dalong.

To be precise, they shouldn't be on the same level.

Therefore, after one furniture blueprint after another was drawn from Wang An's hands, as long as the corresponding furniture was made, this blueprint would be carefully preserved by this pair of carpenter father and son.

In Niu Yichen's words:

"These are all skills for making a living; learning them is all work, and besides, they can be used in the future."

It could be seen that for Wang An's carpentry skills, this father and son were sincerely impressed.

But in fact, it was indeed the case; the furniture designed by Wang An basically achieved simplicity and elegance without losing beauty, and the most important thing was that it didn't look stupid.

In terms of making furniture, according to Wang An's idea, Wang An didn't make the kind of big wooden chest commonly used in this era, but made a vertical big wardrobe.

This kind of vertical wardrobe was definitely much better to use than that kind of big wooden chest; at the very least, it was more convenient to find clothes.

The dining table wasn't the square eight-immortal table commonly used in the countryside, but a round kang table and a round floor table.

The reason for this was that Wang An's family had many people; Wang An discovered that the square table was more crowded and not as comfortable as the round one.

Wang An also made a desk and a matching chair for his younger brother Wang Yi and his two younger sisters.

Of course, the desk was only used by Wang Yi now; by the time Wang Xiaomei and Wang Xiaoli used this stuff, it was estimated that it would be in two years.

As for the kang cabinet that Northeasterners must use in this era, Wang An didn't follow the old style either.

Instead, he made an extra detachable vertical cabinet on the very top of the kang cabinet, which was where the bedding was usually placed.

Because this way, during the day, the bedding could be put into this vertical cabinet, so it wouldn't be exposed outside and look unsightly.

Of course, to save trouble, whether it was the vertical cabinet, kang cabinet, or kang table and floor table, including the desk, the things in the two houses were all the same.

To be precise, it was actually just a slight modification of a blueprint, and a new one was made directly.

One has to say, the five words "lazy people have lazy ways" applied to Wang An, and there was absolutely no problem at all.

This evening, after sending away the group of hired workers, when Wang An's family was enjoying the cool outside, Second Aunt Yao Ping suddenly came to Wang An's house in a hurry.

After simple pleasantries, Second Aunt Yao Ping told Wang An's family a piece of news with a somewhat ugly expression.

And the content of the news was about this Li Xiuyu.

To be precise, it was about Li Xiuyu's family.

During these days, for Wang Li's marriage, Wang Daliang and his wife had entrusted many people to inquire about Li Xiuyu's family.

They did inquire about quite a lot of things, but these things were useless, just some family gossip.

Today, Wang Daliang and his wife finally heard a very important piece of news.

That was how the debt with interest that Li Xiuyu's family owed was incurred.

It is said that Li Xiuyu's father is called Li Guangcun; usually, as long as he is free, he likes to play a few hands—simply put, he likes to gamble.

But he never played big, so no one took it seriously.

A few days ago, he was playing mahjong with others in the township; I don't know why he suddenly got carried away, and then he played bigger and bigger, and finally, in a daze, he borrowed high-interest usury in the casino.

It is said that he only borrowed 300 at first, but usury is calculated by the day, and the most important thing is that it rolls with interest. This led to Li Guangcun, although he had borrowed from all his relatives and friends, still not being able to plug this big hole.

And the reason Yao Ping's expression was ugly wasn't because of this matter; to be precise, it was just related to this matter.

Because now, if they want to marry Li Xiuyu, the bride price is no longer 500 yuan, but has become 600 yuan.

Which is to say, in a few days, the bride price damn increased.

And the reason for the price increase was that the usury had already rolled with interest to 600 yuan.

Fortunately, Wang Li didn't care about 600 yuan, and Yao Ping and her husband didn't care about 600 yuan either.

So Yao Ping and her husband entrusted a matchmaker, intending to meet and decide.

Alas, things can always have some unexpected changes.

And this change was that when the person who lent the usury went to Li Guangcun's house to collect the debt, he also damn took a fancy to Li Xiuyu, saying that either pay back the money or use Li Xiuyu to pay off the debt.

The matter had reached this point, making the matchmaker not even dare to open his mouth.

The main thing was that as ordinary commoners, who would dare to offend people who lend usury for no reason?

Because it is well known that no matter when it is, people who lend usury are all black-and-white eating.

The situation now was that Yao Ping and her husband were in a difficult position, and Wang Li was worried.

To tell the truth, after Wang An heard these things, he was damn stunned.

This is truly damn strange things happening in the world! Such strange things can also happen!

After Second Aunt Yao Ping finished speaking, Liu Guilan frowned and said very surprisingly:

"This matter, this matter is useless to find us, right?"

After Liu Guilan finished speaking, Mu Xueqing and Wang Dashu also looked at Yao Ping with doubtful eyes.

Clearly, these two also didn't know what Yao Ping's purpose was in saying these things.

It's no wonder these three wouldn't understand; normal people might not understand either. This kind of other people's business, and other settlements' business, as people from outside the settlement, they had no good way, and the main thing was they couldn't intervene!

However, in Wang An's heart, he had vaguely guessed it.

Second Aunt Yao Ping's purpose was nothing more than wanting him and his family to help persuade Wang Li to give up, or wanting him to solve those people who lend usury.

Of course, the former possibility was greater.

As for the latter, with Second Aunt Yao Ping's intelligence, she shouldn't have such a stupid idea.

Sure enough, Yao Ping looked at Wang Dashu and the others, and finally looked at Wang An and said:

"Xiao An, why don't you go to my house and persuade Xiao Li, let him not hang himself on that one tree. You say Xiao Li, this child, I don't know why he is so stubborn, he must like this one called Li Xiuyu."

After Second Aunt Yao Ping finished speaking, a sentence suddenly came to Wang An's mind, a very popular sentence at that:

"Ask what love is in the world, that it teaches life and death to be promised."

It's just that it's very embarrassing that this sentence can only be used on Wang Li, because that one called Li Xiuyu doesn't seem to like Wang Li!

Wang An quickly blinked his eyes, looked at Second Aunt Yao Ping, and then said helplessly:

"Second Aunt, it's not that I don't want to go; the main thing is, how can you ask me to persuade this kind of thing? How about I go over and beat him up?"

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(End of chapter)