Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 162 Jumping More Joyfully

"Why would Uncle Chen think that?" Tao Qiuyi asked in surprise. Without waiting for Uncle Chen's answer, she continued, "I'll provide the wood and the money, and you guys will do the work to make the furniture for me."

"It's only natural for you to receive remuneration for your labor. We each take what we need, and no one owes anyone anything."

"No, no, no." Uncle Chen shook his head. He disagreed with Tao Qiuyi's statement, but he couldn't say anything to refute it. He was so anxious that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Uncle Chen, you've worked hard. Go sit next door and rest for a while." Wei Jingyuan also spoke.

Seeing that Wei Jingyuan had spoken, Uncle Chen felt that if he refused again, he would be ungrateful and inconsiderate. He could only nod and followed Wei Jingyuan and Tao Qiuyi to the next room.

In the next room.

Uncle Chen's son went home first, and the three of them came to the large square table.

"Uncle Chen, please sit down and talk." Tao Qiuyi raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation.

Uncle Chen had no choice but to sit down, and Wei Jingyuan picked up the thermos and poured a glass of water. Tao Qiuyi placed the bamboo cup in front of Uncle Chen and pulled out three Great Unity banknotes from his pocket.

"Here's the wages, Uncle Chen, take a look." He placed the three big unity bills in front of Uncle Chen.

Uncle Chen stood up suddenly, waved his hands and said, "It won't cost that much. You cut the wood yourself in the mountains. I'm just making a wardrobe and a table for you. It won't cost that much."

As he spoke, Uncle Chen grabbed the three big unity notes on the table, kept one for himself, and handed the other two back to Tao Qiuyi.

"Thirty yuan is not much. Uncle Chen, just keep it." Without taking the money, Tao Qiuyi slowly sat down.

Thirty yuan wasn't much; he'd earned less than that in the previous year. Uncle Chen stared blankly at the three big unity notes in his hand, then sat back down on the bench with stiff movements.

Wei Jingyuan poured another glass of water for Tao Qiuyi and placed it in front of her.

"Thank you." Tao Qiuyi looked up at Wei Jingyuan and thanked him in a soft voice.

The hand holding the thermos tightened unconsciously, and Wei Jingyuan smiled nonchalantly. He put the thermos back in its place and sat down next to Tao Qiuyi.

After drinking half of the water, Tao Qiuyi said, "Uncle Chen, I have some furniture for you to make. Let's calculate the approximate amount of wood needed while we drink tea."

"You...you still want to make furniture?" Uncle Chen glanced at the house, his expression a little hard to describe.

Tao Qiuyi couldn't understand what Uncle Chen meant, so she said frankly, "The furniture I want to make is not for these two rooms."

"Ah!" Uncle Chen was confused again.

"I will send the blueprint to Uncle Chen once I finish it. You just need to follow my blueprint. If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask someone to call me over." Tao Qiuyi said.

"As for the wood needed for furniture, it's more convenient for me to go to the mountains and chop it down. There's no rush for furniture. Uncle Chen calculated the time and it will take about a month to make it."

When Uncle Chen left the Wei family, he was still a little dazed. He tightly grasped the thirty yuan in his cotton coat pocket.

It felt like a dream. Tao Qiuyi paid him so much, trusted him so much, and let him continue making furniture.

After sending Uncle Chen out of the courtyard gate, Tao Qiuyi turned back to the house and said, "Lizi, Xiaohuai, it's time to make lunch. I'm hungry!"

"Okay," Lizi replied crisply, putting down her textbook and jumping off the stool. Xiaohuai also put away his books, stood up, and put them under the desk along with Lizi's stool.

After Li Zi and Xiao Huai went out, Tao Qiuyi turned around and was about to go out, but was stopped by Wei Jingyuan.

"What's up?" Tao Qiuyi looked at Wei Jingyuan. Wei Jingyuan waved at her, "Come and sit down and talk."

"I still have things to do." Tao Qiuyi complained, but she walked over honestly and stood in front of Wei Jingyuan. "Go ahead, say whatever you want to say."

"Who did you meet on the mountain today?" Wei Jingyuan asked.

He actually still remembered this. Tao Qiuyi was stunned and met Wei Jingyuan's deep eyes, which seemed to be able to see through people's thoughts. She could only tell the truth.

"I met your uncle, third uncle and third aunt." Tao Qiuyi recounted what happened at that time, including the fact that Li Yuegui wanted to trick her by asking her for help.

Wei Jingyuan frowned and warned her, "Next time you run into them, ignore them."

"You think too simply." Tao Qiuyi sighed, "You can ignore them just by saying so. They are your family, and you don't know their temper. If you ignore them, they will be even happier."

Wei Jingyuan's brows furrowed even tighter. Even though he didn't want to admit it, what Tao Qiuyi said was the truth.

Before he met her, he only wanted to fulfill his parents' last wish and raise his younger siblings. He had given up on himself and no longer cared about anything else, so naturally, he wouldn't care about anything else.

It’s different now. He met her, cared about her, and wanted to be with her forever.

Seeing his conflicted expression, Tao Qiuyi bent down slightly, looked him straight in the eyes, and asked softly, "Wei Jingyuan, what do you think about us moving out with Li Zi and Xiao Huai?"

"Move out?" Wei Jingyuan looked at her in surprise and asked, "Where are you going to live if you move out?"

"Let's build another courtyard to live in." Tao Qiuyi said directly: "Even if we can't completely get rid of your grandma and the others, at least we don't live in the same courtyard, so it's quieter."

After a moment of silence, Wei Jingyuan asked, "Have you chosen a place?"

He had never thought about moving out before, but now that he thought about it, it seemed like a good idea.

"Yeah." Tao Qiuyi admitted generously, "When I passed by the big bamboo forest today, I suddenly thought that the open space in front of the big bamboo forest would be a good place to build a yard."

"I went to the brigade office to ask the brigade leader and the old branch secretary. Unfortunately, the brigade leader was not there. But the old branch secretary was there, so I told him about my plan to build a yard."

The yard was built on the open space in front of the big bamboo forest. Did she really suddenly think it was a good place? Wei Jingyuan's deep eyes looked straight at Tao Qiuyi.

I wanted to see something from her face.

For example, a look of guilt or something like that, but unfortunately, there was none. She seemed to have really thought of it suddenly, but...

Forget it, she said it was a sudden thought, so it was a sudden thought.

From her words, Wei Jingyuan knew that the old branch secretary did not agree to her immediately. "The old branch secretary asked you to come back and wait for notification."

"Yeah." Tao Qiuyi nodded, and then expressed his guess, "The old branch secretary didn't give me a direct answer at the time, but I feel that this matter has potential."

"What did you say to the old branch secretary?" Wei Jingyuan asked with a raised eyebrow.

Tao Qiuyi smiled like a fox who had succeeded in his plot. "I told the old Party Secretary that we only have two rooms here. Li Zi and Xiao Huai have grown up, and there's not enough for them."

"Your reason is not sufficient. I will go to the brigade office this afternoon to talk to the brigade leader and the old branch secretary." She wanted to move out, so he found a way to help her make it happen.

"Can your legs walk that far?" Tao Qiuyi was a little worried.