Reborn in 1977

As construction began over there, Master Wang from Team 4 came over to Chen Fan and said, "We received an order from the brigade headquarters to come and make furniture for you."

Chen Fan was immediately stunned. "Ah? The brigade headquarters is making furniture for me?"

Was there such a good thing? Secretary Yang and the others hadn't mentioned it.

Master Wang nodded, grinning, "Although the small water tower doesn't have our Team 4's share for the time being, we can all use another water pump. Besides, our brigade has started a sideline business, and making money is only a matter of time. It probably won't be long before all the teams have running water.

Secretary Yang said that the two diesel engines and hundreds of books are not enough to offset the two conditions you proposed, so he asked us to come over and make a set of furniture for the whole house, and your books should also be placed in bookshelves."

Hearing this, Chen Fan immediately beamed with joy, "Oh, I'm so embarrassed."

As he spoke, he took out cigarettes and distributed them, pointing to the big house and saying, "Look, how much furniture will it take to fill such a house?"

Jiang Lili and the other three stood not far away, their faces beaming with smiles, as if they were sharing in the glory.

Master Wang took the cigarette, lit it, looked up at the big house, and said with a smile, "We built this house, and I have a good idea of how to match the furniture. I'm here today mainly to ask if you have any ideas of your own, and also to measure the dimensions.

As for how much wood to use, don't worry, no matter how much wood is used, it won't be as expensive as your diesel engine!"

Chen Fan chuckled.

Putting aside everything else, 120 kilograms of bamboo a day is 43,800 kilograms a year. Even if bamboo isn't worth much, 40,000 kilograms of bamboo every year is not a small amount, more than enough to offset those two diesel engines.

This deal was not only not a loss for him, but could even be considered a big profit.

However, the leaders had good intentions and insisted on giving him furniture, so of course he had to accept it respectfully.

They were all family, why be so clear about it!

Chen Fan smiled and talked to Master Wang. After they finished smoking, he led them inside.

First, they went to the living room on the first floor. "Look, I plan to keep this as a living room. I'll put a set of sofas here…"

Master Wang was immediately stunned, his face clearly embarrassed. "Sofa? I don't know how to make that!"

He knew that sofas were comfortable to sit on, but he really hadn't learned how to make them. After all, he was just a carpenter in the commune, how could he make such high-end things?

He heard that springs or something had to be added inside? And whole cowhides had to be used?

Chen Fan quickly said, "I'm not talking about that kind of Western-style sofa, but a Chinese-style sofa similar to a Luohan bed."

Chinese-style sofas were very popular in later generations. They were beautiful, grand, and practical. Made with traditional craftsmanship, they wouldn't break for decades. He was also preparing to make a whole set of furniture little by little himself. Now that Master Wang and the others had been ordered to come, it saved him the effort.

Seeing that Master Wang seemed to understand a little, but not completely, he immediately said to Jiang Lili and the others who had come in, "Bring my drawing board over, and bring a few more sheets of paper."

Jiang Lili was about to turn around to get it, but Liu Dan had already run out with a whoosh.

It had to be said that although this girl's brain reacted a little slowly, her execution was really fast.

Soon, Liu Dan ran back with the drawing bag, panting, and handed it to Chen Fan, "Teacher Chen, here you are."

"Thank you."

Chen Fan took out the drawing board, fixed the white paper, and began to draw the renderings, while explaining to Master Wang, "The wooden sofa is a bit like a small Luohan bed. Here's a long one, and a single chair on each side, with a coffee table in the middle. Also, we need a few small square stools.

This living room is a bit big, and it's a bit empty to just put a set of sofas, so I want to put a tea table over there. A tea table is different from a coffee table, its internal structure is like this…"

As Chen Fan spoke and sketched, one rendering after another was handed to Master Wang.

Sofa, circle chair, low stool, coffee table, tea table, bonsai stool…

In addition to these regular furniture, Chen Fan also requested a set of long bench cabinets.

The so-called bench cabinet is a bench that can be used as a cabinet.

The bench cabinet is against the east wall, a long strip across, filling this side. If there are many people, it can be used as a bench to sit on, and when there is nothing to do, it can be used to store various tools.

Not agricultural tools, although he lived in the countryside, he didn't do farm work. He wouldn't even know how to use a set of farm tools.

What he wanted to store were mechanical and electronic tools.

He brought back so many electronic and mechanical parts from the Yunhu Waste Recycling Company. He couldn't just rub them together with his bare hands. When he bought screws, rubber pads, and wires in the store, he originally wanted to buy two sets of tools.

One set for mechanical disassembly and assembly, including various models of wrenches, pliers, scissors, screwdrivers,…, and one set for electrical appliance maintenance and disassembly, such as small screwdrivers, soldering irons, multimeters….

But in the end, he didn't buy them.

Because they were too expensive. A wrench would cost several yuan, not to mention professional tools such as hydraulic jacks. With this whole set of things, he wouldn't be pretending to be bankrupt, but truly bankrupt!

Based on the principle of "saving as much as possible and using what's available," he sought help from Yan Liyuan and asked him where he could buy cheap second-hand tools.

Then Yan Liyuan went to the logistics section of the health department and found two sets of tools to give him, one mechanical and one electronic.

He euphemistically called them old goods that had been eliminated, and then Chen Fan brought them back, and even had an intact electric drill.

This row of tool cabinets was for storing these tools.

If they were just small tools, of course such a large cabinet wouldn't be needed. Any large wooden box could hold them, but since he was making bench cabinets, he would make them a little bigger, so he could put other things in them.

Soon, the living room furniture design was completed, and Chen Fan took them to other rooms.

The west side of the first floor was the large living room, and the east side, separated by the doorway and the stairwell, was a three-bedroom, one-living room layout. The small living room of only twenty or thirty square meters didn't need too many things, just two circle chairs and a coffee table, plus two bonsai stools and a storage cabinet.

One of the three rooms was the master bedroom and two were guest bedrooms.

The guest bedrooms were very simple, with a bed, two bedside tables, a wardrobe, two chairs and a coffee table, and a clothes rack.

Because the room was big enough, Chen Fan didn't choose the most common vertical clothes rack of this era, but a horizontal bar style similar to a clothes drying rack, and he also thoughtfully drew a rendering.

With Master Wang and the others' craftsmanship, they could replicate it just by looking at the appearance.

The furnishings of the two guest bedrooms were the same. Then they went to the master bedroom, and Chen Fan pointed to the area where the ceramic tiles had not been laid and said, "I want to build a kang here, and make a set of kang cabinets. The rest is about the same as other homes, such as a wardrobe, a five-drawer cabinet, a clothes rack, and two chairs, that's enough."

Master Wang looked at the renderings drawn by Chen Fan, nodding his head slightly, "Simple, it's not difficult to make these things."

Then he looked up and said, "We've finished looking at the first floor, let's go upstairs."

Chen Fan led the way, "Please."

Arriving on the second floor, they first went to the hall on the west side.

In the hall of eighty or ninety square meters, only a few wooden pillars supported the roof beams. Looking around, there was no obstruction at all. Through the glass windows, you could clearly see the scenery in the distance.

To the south were the educated youth spot and the village, to the north was a small forest gradually sloping downwards, and the river embankment in the distance. To the west were the fields where the commune members worked, with a 270-degree panoramic view, and the scenery was infinitely good.

It's just that the sun is a bit dazzling and curtains need to be installed.

Chen Fan walked in, gesticulating and saying, "I plan to make this a study, and those books will also be placed here. I want a large desk against the wall on the east side, and bookshelves in other places."

After a while, he turned to look at Master Wang, handed over the sketch renderings in his hand, "I don't want too high bookshelves, I just want this kind of low cabinet of one meter two, the bottom is a cabinet with doors, and the top is layers of bookshelves. There is no need to install doors on the bookshelves, so it is convenient to take them at any time."

Master Wang looked at the style of the bookshelf on the paper, then turned to look around, turned back and smiled, "You don't want the high cabinets to block the view?!"

Chen Fan laughed, "Master Wang is insightful."

Master Wang shook his head with a smile, "It's not that I'm insightful, it's that you have ideas."

Saying that, he looked around, "Only this kind of hall is suitable for low cabinets."

Normally, which family's bookshelves are not taller than people? It's just to save space. Only this kind of place is big enough for him to be so extravagant and waste space.

After looking at the study, go to see the rooms on the second floor.

Chen Fan walked along and said, "The living room is the same as downstairs. The master bedroom needs a big bed, a wardrobe, a chest of five drawers, anyway, it is the normal configuration. This guest bedroom is similar."

Finally, arriving at the only remaining room, Chen Fan gestured for a moment, and smiled, "Just put a Luohan bed here, nothing else."

Master Wang looked at him in confusion, "Just a Luohan bed?"

Chen Fan nodded with a smile, "There are already 5 bedrooms up and down, there is no need to make another bed, and the Luohan bed can also be used as a bed."

In fact, he wanted a quiet room. After learning Lin Yuanxiang's trump card skills, it is estimated that the time for practicing boxing will become less and less in the future. Instead, he needs a quiet room to regulate his body and mind. This room is a reserved practice space.

Master Wang didn't understand what he was going to do, so he nodded and recorded it, and then said, "You have a lot of these things, especially the bookshelves, at least twenty or thirty cabinets. I will start work with a few masters. Even if there are other handymen to help, it will take at least a month to finish."

Chen Fan nodded, "Okay, anyway, I'm not in a hurry to live in. You can arrange it later, make the bookshelves first, and the furniture can be pushed back."

Master Wang smiled and said, "Okay, I understand. We will make the bookshelves as soon as possible and send them over."

After a pause, he asked again, "What color do you want these furniture to be?"

The most common furniture colors these days are brown, followed by red and yellow. Yellow has dark yellow and goose yellow.

However, if you want to paint other colors, you can, the colors are not monotonous.

If you are not afraid of outsiders laughing at you, no one will care if you paint it in colorful colors.

But Chen Fan shook his head, "Just brush with clear varnish, no color at all."

Master Wang looked at him in surprise, "Just brush with clear varnish again?"

The so-called clear varnish is transparent paint, the most common is tung oil. Brushing it on wood is like wrapping a layer of patina on the wood, presenting the original texture of the wood.

When building this house, all the pillars, door frames, and windows were only brushed with clear varnish, and now even the furniture is going to be brushed with clear varnish.

How plain is that?!

But Chen Fan likes it, so he won't say more.

The customer's requirements are the most important, not to mention that he is still a popular person in the team.

Eh, that's right.

Master Wang looked at Chen Fan, and a thought suddenly popped into his mind. Could it be that Teacher Chen is saving money for the team?!

Although the furniture he wants is a bit much, if it is all cut down in the team, he doesn't need to pay at all, and even the tung oil can be made by himself.

And the colored paint has to be bought with real money.

Apart from this reason, Master Wang really couldn't figure out why Teacher Chen refused to use paint.

Until he left, he still held Chen Fan's hand and sighed, "What a good person!"

Chen Fan looked at the backs of Master Wang and the others leaving, blinked his eyes and was a little dazed, why am I a good person?

At this time, Yang Ju walked over and asked him, "Teacher Chen, are we going to prepare two tables of banquets tonight?"

Since coming to the educated youth spot, banquets that were rare to eat twice a year in the past can now be eaten often.

Even when there is no banquet, there is endless fish to eat.

Living this life, she doesn't want to go home anymore.

As soon as she thinks of her family's daily diet of green vegetables with pickles, she doesn't want to go back.

Just as she was a little dazed, Huang Ying also walked over and said, "If we have a banquet, there is only meat and chicken at home, and rabbits. There is no fish."

In fact, the family ran out of fish long before Chen Fan went out. During that time, they were busy building houses, and all the twenty or thirty big fish they had saved were eaten up. These days, the few of them haven't eaten meat much. It wasn't until Chen Fan came back today that they started eating meat and fish again.

Chen Fan first said to Huang Ying, "It's okay, I'll go catch fish when I'm done with these two days."

With his current LV3 fishing and hunting skills, he can catch a lot of fish with a single cast of the net, which is nothing.

The main reason is that he just came back from the prefectural committee, and the brigade headquarters has set two major projects, so he has to sort things out before he can take care of his private affairs.

Anyway, it's not a matter of these few days. Besides, there are still cured meat, cured fish, and sausages in stock at home, so not eating fish for a few days won't have any impact.

After finishing speaking, he looked at Yang Ju again, "No need to prepare a banquet, no need to cook dinner today either. After they finish work later, they will all go to your house to eat."

Yang Ju was stunned, "Ah? Go to my house to eat?"

At this time, Liu Dan ran over quickly and said happily, "My uncle said just now that their work today is counted as the brigade's, so don't let me cook, just go to your house to eat tonight."

Not having to cook and still having something to eat, the three of them were of course happy.

Chen Fan asked them to go to the front yard to prepare, clean up everything that should be cleaned up, and wait to go to the front to eat together in the evening.

Seeing the three of them entering the back door, he beckoned to Jiang Lili, who was at the back, "Your sister brought you something, come with me to get it."