Chapter 197 Goosebumps all over the floor
After the Dragon Boat Festival, after two days of rest, Jiang Tian became busy again.
She had hired someone to build a house for Grandpa He and Grandma He. The main construction had been completed. After returning from the Dragon Boat Festival, she asked her uncle to help with the inspection and paid the balance of the project. The rest was decoration and furniture making.
Grandma He has been frugal all her life. She originally disagreed with making furniture and planned to move the furniture from her hometown over to continue using it.
Then can Jiang Tian agree to it?
It must not be possible!
She wanted to move her grandparents to live near the provincial road so that they could live more comfortably in their later years. If they lived in a new house but still used old furniture, wouldn't it be a waste of money to buy the new house?
So, Jiang Tian coaxed the two elders, saying that she would help Hu Qiongfang with the branch store matters recently, and would help them move after that.
At the same time, he secretly found the best carpenter in Shuangfeng Town, took a stack of "furniture drawings" that he had drawn by himself, and went to torture the master carpenter.
When the old master saw her stack of scribbles-like "furniture design drawings", he immediately felt unwell.
My scalp is tingling.
Restless.
Goosebumps all over the floor.
How can someone be so ordinary yet so confident?
Jiang Tian was completely unaware and was still holding her "design drawings" and explaining her "design concepts" one by one - in fact, these were all what she heard from the company's decoration designer when she was cooking in the construction site canteen in her previous life.
Including these "design drawings", they were all drawn by her based on her memories of her previous life.
Of course, it is impossible to expect that Jiang Tian, who has never learned to paint in her two lives, can draw a design that will make professional designers kneel down and sing "Conquer" after her rebirth.
Jiang Tian's "design drawings" were so rough that they looked like doodles drawn by a child of a few years old. She was very confident and explained to the master craftsman bit by bit what was good about this design and what was good about that design.
If Boss Xiao Jiang hadn’t given him so much money, the old master would have really wanted to burn these eyesore “design drawings”.
However, although the drawings were eye-catching, these furniture design concepts from thirty years later still made the master craftsman reluctantly take on this "big job".
That’s right!
What Jiang Tian gave him was indeed a "big job".
After all, in this era, no one would build a house and make "custom-made furniture for the whole house" at one go.
And the furniture can be customized according to the size of the house.
The old master calculated the price and couldn't help feeling envious and jealous of Grandpa He and Grandma He who were about to move into their new home.
How come such a filial, sensible and wealthy granddaughter doesn't belong to his family?
According to Jiang Tian's "custom-made furniture for the whole house" plan, the money spent on purchasing the furniture for the whole house is enough to build two more such houses.
The old master didn't know that Jiang Tian was planning to do it "all at once" and prepare a house for the He family's two elders to live in in their later years.
When she was building her own house last year, she took into account that all the houses along the provincial road would be demolished in a few years, so she just bought some ready-made furniture.
Because of this "lesson learned", when building a house for the He family's elders, Jiang Tian recalled the width of Provincial Highway 336 after it was widened in the previous life, and directly built the house for the He family's elders in the backyard.
In this way, the decoration inside the three front storefronts can be simpler, so there will be no regret if they are demolished later.
The three main rooms at the back, plus the kitchen and bathroom on the left and right sides, are all decorated in the style of thirty years later. This way, they will not easily become outdated and will be more comfortable to live in.
After handing all the furniture drawings to the master craftsman, giving him money to buy materials and prepaying one-third of the labor cost, Jiang Tian called his second uncle, rented a car to go to the provincial capital, and brought back four toilets.
At that time, sit-down toilets were not available in the county town, but fortunately they could be bought in the provincial capital.
Originally, Jiang Tian only planned to buy two, one for the He family's elders and one for Grandpa Hu's.
The elderly are getting old, and the urine buckets in the countryside are not safe to use. The squat toilets installed in the new houses make young people easily feel numb in the legs and dizzy when they stand up after squatting for a long time, let alone the elderly?
In her previous life, when Jiang Tian worked in a construction site canteen, she often heard designers say that many elderly people living alone had accidents at home, and nine out of ten times it was because the bathroom was not designed well.
Or there are no handrails on both sides of the toilet. The elderly are prone to constipation. After squatting for a long time, they cannot stand firmly when they stand up. Many elderly people fall down and never get up again.
Or the shower room is not designed properly, there is no bathing stool suitable for the elderly, and the elderly accidentally slip while bathing, and if they are not treated in time...
Thinking of this, Jiang Tian immediately decided not to worry about the demolition in a few years. She would go back and renovate the bathroom in her grandparents' house, installing a toilet with handrails and a bathing stool.
After hearing Jiang Tian's stories about "elderly people getting into trouble while taking a shower in the toilet", my second uncle was also scared so he simply bought two more toilets and decided to send one to his mother-in-law's family and to his eldest sister-in-law's parents.
Although there is no running water in the countryside and flushing the toilet is not very convenient, it is not impossible as long as the sewer pipe is connected to the cesspool and a plastic basin is used to collect water when flushing.
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More than a month later, the "whole house custom-made furniture" of the He family was finally completed. Picking a sunny day, Jiang Tian hired a truck to help the He family move.
Hu Qiongfang deliberately closed the business for a day and held a housewarming banquet for the He family's elders in his own restaurant. His eldest uncle and second uncle also came to help.
When she saw Grandma Hu, Grandma He felt a little embarrassed.
Before, she was just obsessed with something. After her son's death, she blamed this and that, and even blamed Hu Qiongfang, who had nothing to do with the matter.
What made her most ashamed was that the elder brother and sister-in-law of the Hu family not only did not blame her, but instead decided to adopt such a good daughter like Tiantian to their son.
What's funny is that some of the He family's relatives in their village initially laughed at them behind their backs, saying that Hu Qiongfang was reluctant to give her precious son to He Xiangjun, so she used Jiang Tian, a little girl, to make up the number.
What about now? Isn't he still slapped in the face?
When they heard that Tiantian had built them two large houses in two rows on the provincial road and that the houses were filled with new furniture, they were so jealous that their eyes turned red.
Humph~ Go ahead and be jealous! Last year, I don’t know who secretly disliked her daughter Tiantian as a money-loser.
What was the result? Not only did the so-called "losing goods" not lose money, but during festivals, all kinds of good things were sent to their home as if they were free. During the Dragon Boat Festival, other granddaughters just made a few dumplings to make up the number. But her Tiantian used a tricycle to pull back ten gift boxes of "reunion dumplings".
They said that if the old couple couldn’t finish it, they could give it to their relatives to try.
Today, I heard that Tiantian was going to help them move. The He family’s relatives said some sour words, but in the end, they still followed them with a shameless face, didn’t they?