【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

Chapter 132 The Impoverished Mother-in-Law in the Period Literature 12

Fortunately, the company's technicians and engineering team worked together to study the issue, and soon the heating in the two houses was successfully installed. If there are any problems, just contact after-sales service.

After connecting the electrical and water pipes, we started laying the floor tiles. The interior of the house was painted white, and tiles were laid below the windows, as well as around the windows, to make cleaning easier. The walls of the bathroom were all covered with white tiles with green leaf patterns.

Light brown wooden floors, the latest thickened soundproof windows, each room is equipped with a thick red door. The main door is the latest model, divided into two layers, one mesh iron door and one thick wooden door, ensuring safety.

I asked a few villagers to clean the house thoroughly, which is similar to modern housecleaning.

The dust spots on the floor and the putty spots on the windows all need to be cleaned, and then the floor needs to be mopped a few times. This job is mainly time-consuming and labor-intensive, so Yun Xi pays high wages.

Next, I bought the furniture and it was basically done. There is actually not much formaldehyde in building materials. The artificial boards, paints and glues in the building materials contain formaldehyde, but these are not used in my own house. I used stones, bricks, steel bars, cement, lime and large tiles, and the floor was also made of mahogany.

The main source of formaldehyde in houses in later generations comes from glue. The furniture is not made of solid wood, but some wooden boards are glued together with glue, and some wall coverings are also glued together with glue, so there is a lot of formaldehyde. Now you don’t have to worry too much about this problem. Just buy solid wood furniture, and the price is not as expensive as in later generations.

The only drawback is that there is no water heater. Water heaters are not available for sale and it will probably take a few years for them to become popular. Fortunately, there is heating at home, so I won’t catch a cold if I heat the water for a shower in winter.

Yun Xi held up a small notebook and wrote down the things she wanted to buy very clearly. Zhou Guanxue and Wang Lili followed behind her. Zhou Guanxue was the driver. He borrowed a four-wheeled agricultural machinery vehicle from the village to help transport goods to the county. He would deliver large items, but there was no such service for small items.

It is now mid-March 1990, and the eldest wife is busy with business and cannot come.

"Let's go and look at the furniture and the snow first. You'll need to make a few more trips."

Zhou Guanxue nodded quietly and remained silent.

Wang Lili agreed with a smile.

The first thing they looked at was the bed. Yun Xi liked big beds, the kind that were two meters by two meters, so she could roll around on them freely. The house needed a total of sixteen beds.

"Before buying furniture, I did some research. According to our family's financial situation, we can choose beech and elm furniture. They are moderately priced and of good quality." Yun Xi whispered, "Don't consider high-end furniture such as rosewood and oak."

Wang Lili nodded. "Cherry and ash wood are also good. We can buy them for the children."

“Yes, as long as it stays within the budget.”

Yun Xi let them take their time to choose. She chose seven large white beds with Simmons mattresses, and also four pink and four blue large beds with the same configuration.

The cabinets chosen were simple and elegant white wardrobes, the same modern type with two doors for hanging clothes, and we also ordered sixteen of them.

There are seventeen white desks, four sets of large brown sofas, one set upstairs and one set downstairs in each house, four white coffee tables, two long dining tables, and twelve armchairs. There is a bathtub in each room, four Swan automatic washing machines upstairs and four downstairs, eight for two rooms, water tanks for showers, sinks in the kitchen cabinets, and so on.

There are also electric fans, refrigerators, freezers, and black and white TVs, and buying just one is not enough.

The salesperson showed them the latest model of range hood, which was much more convenient than an exhaust fan. Yun Xi nodded and agreed to buy the range hood, otherwise the kitchen would be smoky and difficult to clean. They would buy a new model when one became available, and they would use the current one for now.

After buying the furniture, which cost him nearly 20,000 yuan, Zhou Guanxue drove back home with the people from the furniture store. He returned again more than two hours later. The big items had been sold out, and the next step was the small items.

The gas stove in the kitchen needs to be the largest and best, equipped with a water tank that can be connected to the bathroom. If you want hot water, there is also hot water, but it will not be as much as the water heater. But it is still more convenient than boiling water in a pot.

Pots, pans, kitchen utensils, and tea sets all need to be prepared. A bicycle is needed. When the bicycle is almost full, the cargo box is almost full again. Yun Xi doesn't like to put herself in a difficult position, so she buys whatever is convenient. For example, she buys all kinds of pots and pans, big iron pots, small iron pots, frying pans, pressure cookers, rice cookers, casseroles, hot water kettles, thermoses, etc., enough for everyone in the family. In this way, the cargo box is full.

"Mom, do I need to go back again?"

"Yes, go back again and see if you can get a meal. If not, find a restaurant to eat at and make up for the missed meal in the afternoon." Yun Xi was still not satisfied. "I'll take Lili to eat beef soup. Oh, remember to fill up the gas tank for her car."

Zhou Guanxue's mouth twitched. He had spent 25,000 yuan in the morning, but he still hadn't finished shopping. Wow~

Building the house and renovating it cost tens of thousands of dollars, and the furniture will cost more than 20,000 yuan...

I can't imagine why they bought so many things. For example, every bedroom should be equipped with a kettle and a thermos. I don't understand but I respect it. Zhou Guanxue started the farm machine and went back to the village.

"Mom, are you still buying?"

Yun Xi said, "Buy some clothes and shoes. You won't have to do it anymore. The family will have to go out to sea in the future. There's no time to waste on such trivial matters."

"Let's go to the clothing street."

Over the past ten years of reform and opening up, many industries in the county have developed rapidly, especially the clothing industry. A street has gradually developed, competition is fierce, and clothes are sold cheaply.

Yun Xi walked around twice and chose two stores, a large clothing store and a large shoe store. The clothes and shoes sold there were of good quality, which could be seen from the stitching. The fabric was also comfortable to touch and there were many styles. They also sold brand-name shoes, including genuine leather shoes.

"Let's just buy from these two stores. Let's go eat first. Eating will give us the energy to go shopping."

Wang Lili looked up and saw Meilili and Piaoliang. Wow, they were the two most expensive stores on the street. Her sisters-in-law also loved to come to these two stores to buy clothes and shoes.

Yun Xi looked up and saw that there were quite a lot of restaurants. There was even a car shop next to one of the restaurants.

"Mom, that's a car shop. It's said that the supply is in short supply and it sells very well. One car costs 600,000 or 700,000 yuan." Wang Lili was so envious that she would go to see it every time her family members passed by, but she was reluctant to buy one. Of course, she couldn't buy it even if she wanted to.

"It's so expensive."

Yun Xi muttered, thinking that it would be better not to buy a car for the time being. It cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, so it would be better to hoard it as gold to preserve its value. And the most important thing is that the roads nowadays are not very good, which would cause great damage to the car.

Yun Xi gave countless reasons to comfort herself and walked towards the beef soup restaurant reluctantly.

"Boss, I want two bowls of mutton soup and four flatbreads."

"Comrade, please take a seat. I have some braised food here. Would you like some?"

Yun Xi took a closer look and found that the taste seemed to be the homemade braised food. Is the boss's business so big?