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Five days later, with Father Zeng and his son Zeng Changsheng hurrying the work, the iron gate of Tian Yuqiao's home could be considered to have been breached.

This door was made of iron. It was made of the kind of door that was wrapped in wood. On the outside, it was all reinforced with rows and rows of copper nails. There were also two bronze door knobs on the outside. They looked pretty good.

After the black iron gate was installed, the Tian Yu Qiao family could be considered as finished.

During this period of time, she would occasionally move things around the house. This new house was already beginning to look good.

The brick bed of the new house had been burning continuously for several days. Even the moisture in the house had dissipated quite a bit. Now, it was ready for living.

On the sixth day, ox-carts arrived from the town. Carpenter Li had sent them furniture.

This time, Carpenter Li also took a fancy to Tian Yuqiao's furniture design blueprints, so he personally brought some people over.

The furniture had been painted with tung oil, some red, some bronze. There were two colorful phoenixes dancing on either side of the copper mirror, making it seem very grand.

After sending the furniture over, Tian Yuqiao had originally planned to settle the bill. However, Carpenter Li smiled and pulled Tian Yuqiao aside, beginning a secret conversation.

"Miss Qiao'er, I can only brazenly come look for you again." "As you know, in our line of work, people who see beautiful furniture blueprints can't help but want to learn them. I'd like to ask, can you sell me your blueprints like last time?"

Carpenter Li was somewhat embarrassed, because he knew the value of these furniture drawings. If he could make such a cabinet for the rich families in the county, the price would be much higher and he would also be able to get a big customer for himself.

However, these things were not of much value to Tian Yuqiao. She did not plan to rely on them to make money.

Tian Yuqiao said to Carpenter Li with a face full of smiles, "Sure, the price will be fine."

"Well, I like to talk to people who are happy. I'll pay fifty silver taels for these blueprints, what do you think? "Also, I won't charge you silver for the furniture. This is the deposit you made last time, I'll return it to you." Carpenter Li said with a smile.

Tian Yuqiao didn't think that Carpenter Li would care so much about those blueprints. These were all the drawings she had made with charcoal.

However, when he thought about the fact that he was lacking money, he naturally had to accept it.

Both sides signed a confidentiality agreement, which meant that in the future, when Tian Yuqiao built similar furniture, he could only go to Carpenter Li. In the future, she could no longer draw those blueprints for others.

Tian Yuqiao agreed straightforwardly and accepted the 5 taels of silver from Carpenter Li, 10 taels apiece, and the deposit of 5 taels of silver from her previously. As for the final payment, there was naturally no need to give it to him.

When Lady Wang saw the several ox-cart pieces of furniture brought over, she could not keep her composure. She thought to herself, "How much money will it cost?"

The ox-cart had walked from the village entrance all the way to the back of the village. Naturally, many villagers had seen it along the way. That was a piece of furniture made of fine wood. Everyone was curious to which house such a fine piece of furniture was going to be delivered to.

Some of the women were even more envious and tried to guess which family's kid was going to get married. Some people began to feel jealous, wondering which family's daughter would be able to marry into such a good family.

Everyone had all sorts of different thoughts as they followed from the village entrance to the end of the village. There were quite a lot of people gathered along the way. When they saw these things being pulled in through the black iron gate of the Tian Yu Qiao family, they were stunned.

"Oh my god, how come the Tian Family has so much money to buy such good furniture?"

"That's right, her family wall and those big green brick houses all cost a lot of money. Why would they have so much money to buy so much furniture now?"

"Yeah, I counted six big wagons worth of furniture."

"Tsk tsk, this is too extravagant."

The women were talking at the same time. Such gossip spread very quickly in the countryside. In this era where there were very few entertainment facilities, things like today could arouse the curiosity of people.

The Tian Residence knew of this as well. The Gao Clan and the Jiang Clan purposely blended into the crowd, craning their necks to look inside.

However, all of this was quickly blocked out by the two black iron gates. No matter how hard they tried to tiptoe, they couldn't see what was going on inside.

Now that Tian Yuqiao had more than 60 taels of silver in her possession, she felt as if this silver had fallen from the sky. She could not believe it.

When née Wang asked how much the furniture was worth, Tian Yuqiao finally smiled and said to née Wang, "Mother, this is the boss's gift, giving it to us for free."

"What?" You can't fool your mother. The wood for this piece of furniture isn't something that can be found everywhere on the mountain. It's all made from top quality wood, so it shouldn't be a problem to use it for decades. " Mrs Wang was in disbelief.

Right now, Carpenter Li was leading his disciples to assemble those cupboards for Tian Yuqiao's home. After assembling all these items, he would have to install those especially tall kang cabinets in all four rooms, so the workload here was a bit heavy.

Mrs Wang watched the old man as he busied himself in his new house. In her heart, she felt as if she were in a dream.

Such a big, good new house, was it really his own?

The two brothers, Tian Yutang and Yuan Yuan, curiously surrounded Carpentry Li and the others. The little monk was like a curious baby who was curious about everything and liked to ask all kinds of questions, which made Carpenter Li and the other disciples feel helpless.

Yutang, on the other hand, poured everyone a glass of water with white sugar in it, as if they knew what was going on.

The cabinets on the side had been assembled and the dresser was placed in Lady Wang's and Tian Yuqiao's room. In Yutang and Yuan Yuan's room, besides the kang cabinet and the wardrobe, there was only a relatively ordinary small square table, which could be used as a desk or as a coffee table.

There were three desks side by side in the study, as well as the big bookcase, but it was empty now. There was nothing in it.

When the boys heard that the things in the study room were all prepared for them, they immediately ran into the study room, cheering.

He felt the table, then opened the drawer and looked inside. Tian Yutang was even more amazing as they actually treated the bookshelves like climbing ladders. By the time Yuan Ji found them, the little guy had already gone up to the third floor …

After Carpenter Li and the others left, the jars and vats that Tian Yuqiao had ordered from the town also arrived.

"Mom, we can move in right now." Tian Yuqiao's face finally revealed a brilliant smile.