1979: My fiancée is a goddess

Chapter 388 Big Purchase!
"Don't worry, it's okay! The styles are all popular now, so I'll take you to the warehouse to have a look. If you're not satisfied, we can look at the catalog and make it custom for you."

Master Liu's eyes lit up. This is a big customer!

"to make!"

After a brief exchange, it turned out that the old master's surname was indeed Liu. His ancestors had been carpenters in the palace and his craftsmanship was amazing.

After the founding of New China, I went to work in a furniture factory as a master craftsman. Now I have handed over the business to my son and am working on my own, training apprentices. This has been going on for several years.

"It's right here. You can take a look. Tell me if you have any needs. By the way, is this for your wedding, or a replacement for your home?"

Because it was a big customer, Master Liu was extra patient.

"It's for the engagement party when we move to a new house. It's almost the same as a wedding. It's a complete set of furniture anyway."

Cheng Kaiyan gave a simple explanation.

"Buying a wedding room! This is a big job, you two comrades, right? You look so well matched, congratulations."

Master Liu is also a warm-hearted person. When he heard this, he immediately congratulated.

"Haha, thank you very much. Have a cigarette."

Cheng Kaiyan took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed over two.

"Oh! You are still China? You are a rare thing!"

Master Liu was startled, and took it and pinned it on his ear like a treasure.

We chatted while looking at the furniture in the warehouse.

Cheng Kaiyan, Liu Xiaoli and Jiang Ting all had some understanding of the furniture in the warehouse.

The quality is good, but the style and design are not quite what I want.

"How about it?"

Cheng Kaiyan asked.

"It's a bit old-fashioned and not very pretty. I want a better-looking bed."

Liu Xiaoli shook her head. The most important thing in a wedding room is the wedding bed. Women will inevitably have beautiful expectations of lying down on the wedding bed to rest with their lovers and share the joy of the boudoir.

"Master Liu, let's make it custom. My wife said it doesn't look good. Everything is based on my wife's opinion. Is there anything better? Money is not a problem."

Cheng Kaiyan thought about it, pulled Master Liu, and stuffed all the cigarettes in his hand into his hand.

"..."

Master Liu held the cigarette in his hand and pondered for a while. After a while, he nodded seriously and said:
"To be honest, my ancestors specialized in arranging weddings, and they passed down a set of drawings.

I see that you three are all respectable people, otherwise you wouldn't take it out so easily.

Let me show it to you guys. If it's suitable, we'll make it according to the drawing, okay?"

"Xiao Li, what do you think, Auntie?"

Cheng Kaiyan looked at the two women.

"sure."

"Take a look, the ancient styles are still beautiful."

Jiang Ting and Liu Xiaoli nodded without comment.

"follow me."

Master Liu took them to a storage room and took out a large stack of drawings wrapped in black cloth from a pear wood box.

Spread them out on the big table one by one, and exquisite and complex furniture drawings appear before your eyes.

Master Liu introduced them one by one: "First of all, this thousand-crafts step-out bed is an independent space with columns, fences, and footrests. The lintel of the bed is carved with "Hundred Children Playing in Spring", and the bed surround is engraved with a unicorn delivering a child..."

"And this dragon-and-phoenix-topped chest..."

Master Liu introduced them one by one. There were twelve items in total, including bedside tables, desks, dressing tables, wooden boxes and the like.

"What do you think?"

Cheng Kaiyan looked at Liu Xiaoli and her aunt.

"It looks good, but some things don't fit the style. If you put these old-style furniture in your home, people will think you've gone back to before the founding of the People's Republic of China. We are not antiques."

Liu Xiaoli frowned and shook her head, not quite satisfied.

"How about you, Master Liu, follow the current popular furniture style and combine it with the above drawings to try to simplify and improve it. Forget about this step-out bed and make it simpler."

Jiang Ting nodded in agreement with Liu Xiaoli's opinion and discussed it.

"That's fine. This simplicity is nothing more than fewer steps, fewer structures, and fewer engraved patterns."

Master Liu nodded and asked, "What kind of wood do you plan to use? We have common composite wood, elm, pine, mahogany, and wenge in stock."

"If it really follows the old craftsmanship, I'm afraid it would have to use sandalwood or huanghuali, right?"

Cheng Kaiyan asked with a smile.

"That's right. The palace uses golden sandalwood, but we don't have any here. We only have some huanghuali, sandalwood and mahogany. I suggest you mix these three. The material is good, not easy to rot, solid and durable. You can use it for decades or even hundreds of years."

Master Liu patted his chest, his tone full of confidence in his craftsmanship.

"Then do as you say. Money is not a problem."

Cheng Kaiyan noticed that Liu Xiaoli and Jiang Ting looked quite satisfied, so she agreed.

"Okay! I'll calculate the price for you, and the deposit."

Master Liu took a pencil, looked at the drawing and started to calculate. A set of furniture has twelve pieces, which almost includes all the furniture that would be used.

"The total is 878 yuan, and there are some receipts, but I'll waive them for you."

Master Liu did a quick calculation and the total was almost a thousand yuan.

"Can you make some kitchen cabinets and the like? Can you give me some small stools, cutting boards, and shelves? I spent so much money on so many things for your family, it would be unreasonable not to give me something, right?"

Liu Xiaoli suddenly remembered that she also needed cabinets in the kitchen, as well as some small items, so she put her hands on her hips and bargained. "This...cutting board, storage rack, and other small items..."

Master Liu frowned and thought about it, then gritted his teeth and agreed. He would just give it as a gift. This order could support them for most of half a year.

He added these things and finally came up with the total number: "The total is 988 yuan, and the deposit of 200 will be enough."

"That's fine."

Several people discussed the size details of the furniture in detail and finally paid the deposit.

"Please leave your address and we will come to measure and install the cabinets."

After dealing with the furniture, Cheng Kaiyan took Liu Xiaoli and Jiang Ting to Wangfujing Department Store.

"Comrade, please give me a color TV and an electric fan."

"Here we go, color TV, do you have a ticket?"

"No, do you have a refrigerator?"

"We don't have this. This month's stock has already been sold out."

"What about the laundry?"

"It's not sold out yet. If you have foreign exchange coupons, you can go to the Friendship Store and have a look. I'm sure they'll have some."

I bought a Watson brand fan and asked the store staff to return it.

Cheng Kaiyan and the others went to the Friendship Store again, and indeed saw washing machines, refrigerators, and color TVs.

Upon inquiry, it turned out that the refrigerator was a Toshiba imported from Japan. Liu Xiaoli chose a blue and white one with a capacity of 180 liters, which cost 1,000 foreign exchange coupons.

When the girl heard the price, she didn't want to buy it anymore. Fortunately, Cheng Kaiyan persuaded her, saying that it would be very useful in summer and could cool drinks, meals, watermelons and meat.

"Okay, can you show us a demo?"

Liu Xiaoli nodded sullenly and asked reluctantly.

"to make!"

After the clerk found a refrigerator that was plugged in for a demonstration, Liu Xiaoli and Jiang Ting reached in to touch the cold air and condensed ice, and they liked it more and more.

The two of them looked up at Cheng Kaiyan with their eyes shining brightly.

Most people don’t have a refrigerator at home!
For the washing machine, I chose a Panasonic washing machine imported from Japan, a twin-turbine pulsator washing machine that cost 1,200 foreign exchange coupons.

In fact, there is also Hitachi, which even has a high-tech control panel, which costs fifteen hundred yuan.

Cheng Kaiyan chose the first one, because it was cheap.

The color TV I bought is the Venus brand one that was featured in the newspaper this year, and it cost 1480 foreign exchange coupons.

Whether it is a washing machine, color TV, or refrigerator, the reason why they are not available for purchase is because the domestic production is small, and various purchase certificates and coupons are required.

Although imported products are expensive, they can still be bought at Friendship Stores, and the quality is better. All you have to do is pay for foreign exchange coupons.

"It's true that RMB can't buy anything good at this time. Foreign exchange is still useful."

Cheng Kaiyan thought about it and felt a little sorry for her four thousand dollars.

After a whole morning of shopping, I finally finished it.

Leave your address and ask the store staff to deliver it to your house on the Tuanjie Lake side.

Cheng Kaiyan and the other two rode their bikes straight to Tuanjie Lake, where their mother Xu Yuxiu and Aunt Wang Qiang were taking measurements in the house with the renovation construction team.

The decoration is much simpler, just laying the floor, scraping the whitewash, and making some simple renovations.

"Kaiyan, what kind of floor do we want?"

Xu Yuxiu asked.

"Let's just lay the cork floor, and then put down the carpet later so that Sister Xiaoli can dance in the living room."

Cheng Kaiyan answered without hesitation.

"Woo..."

When Liu Xiaoli, who was standing by, heard this, after everything she had experienced this morning, the emotions that had been pent up in her heart for a long time could no longer be suppressed and they overflowed.

The girl looked at Cheng Kaiyan with eyes filled with infinite joy and burning love.

"Comrade Xiao Cheng, you are so nice!"

Liu Xiaoli pursed her lips, hugged Cheng Kaiyan's waist face to face, and whispered in a soft voice.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after the store and department store staff delivered the home appliances, everyone left.

The problems with decoration, home appliances and furniture were finally solved, and everyone went out to a restaurant to eat hotpot.

When she got home, Liu Xiaoli couldn't wait to settle the bill. She felt really bad about spending the money today.

Today's big purchase included a refrigerator for 1,000 yuan, a washing machine for 1,200 yuan, and a color TV for 1,480 yuan, a total of 3,680 foreign exchange coupons.

It cost me one hundred and forty-eight yuan for a Watson brand electric fan with four adjustable wind speeds.

The deposit for the furniture is two hundred dollars, and the total price is nine hundred and eighty-eight.

The construction team's price is the cheapest, including labor and materials, and it costs 108 yuan.

The accounting is as follows:

Income: 4000X2.8=5600 (foreign exchange certificates) = 5600 (RMB)

Outgoing: Foreign exchange certificates: -3680; RMB: -1244
Balance: Foreign exchange certificates: 1920; RMB: 4356
After Liu Xiaoli finished recording the accounts, she felt both sad about spending money like water and satisfied after shopping.

The girl put down the pencil in her hand, leaned back against the cold, solid chair, relaxed completely, and let out a long sigh.

Looking at Cheng Kaiyan who was resting on the bed not far away, his eyes were gentle and calm:

"Huh... finally everything is done! Once the renovation is finished and we move into the new house in May, we will get engaged..."

(End of this chapter)