The happy little days of the Ye family

The mezzanine above the wardrobe is very thin. Just add a few wooden boards to modify it, and it will be done quickly with a little more ingenuity.

The hidden grid of the beam must be cut open. After the beam is cut, how to hide it from others is also a problem.

The most important thing is that Wang Chunyu is so petite that he can't reach the beams even if he stands on the table. Even if he wants to go up and take a look, there is nothing he can do.

Wang Chunyu looked at the beams above and said with a depressed look:

"The beams are too high. I'm not tall enough and I can't reach them standing on the table."

"Hahaha!"

Ye Donglin looked at Wang Chunyu who only reached his shoulders and couldn't help laughing.

Wang Chunyu stepped on Ye Donglin's foot and glared at him, "You're still laughing."

It's amazing how tall she is, but it's not like she wanted to be so short.

"What's the problem? Just wait here." Ye Donglin kept laughing as he walked out.

Ye Donglin moved a large chair back from the hall.

After the chair was moved back, Ye Donglin stood up first and jumped twice on the chair. When he saw that the chair was stable, he nodded.

Ye Donglin first moved the table to the location designated by Wang Chunyu, and then placed the chair on the table.

Just as Wang Chunyu was about to climb up, he was stopped by Ye Donglin beside him.

"I'll go up first to see if it's stable."

As he said that, Ye Donglin crossed his long legs, got on the table and stepped on the chair. Wang Chunyu on the side quickly held the chair.

There is no feeling at all when you put the chair on the ground and stand on it, but when you put it on the table and stand on it, it feels a little frightening.

Especially when looking down, Ye Donglin felt a little flustered and his legs trembled unconsciously.

Ye Donglin quickly came down, "It's quite stable, but it's too high. It makes me a little dizzy when I look down."

"I'll go up and have a look." Wang Chunyu stood up and looked down, but felt nothing.

Wang Chunyu looked at Ye Donglin condescendingly, which felt quite good. He looked at Ye Donglin below happily and said:

"Ms. sir, it's quite strange to see you from this angle."

Seeing Ye Donglin's depressed look, Wang Chunyu said with a smile:

"I heard from my father that the junior brother who is doing carpentry work with him is like you and cannot stand in high places, otherwise he will get flustered and his legs will become weak."

"I also went to see the doctor, but the doctor said that there is nothing wrong with my health, as long as I don't stand in high places."

Seeing that his wife was not feeling unwell, Ye Donglin handed Wang Chunyu a small basket with various tools on the side.

Ye Donglin held the chair, and Wang Chunyu stood on the chair, using tools to dig in a hidden corner.

Fortunately, there was not much movement between the two of them, and Xiao Qi was sleeping soundly on the bed.

The two of them worked in the house until midnight before Wang Chunyu dug out the hidden compartment. The table was covered with sawdust.

The beams were not big, so Wang Chunyu could only make the hidden grid into long strips according to the shape of the wood.

The hidden compartment can fit 10 taels of silver ingots each, and Wang Chunyu visually estimated that it can fit 5 pieces of silver.

The inside has been dug, but Wang Chunyu still needs to think carefully about how to hide this secret compartment.

After digging the secret compartment, the two of them were tied up until they couldn't open their eyes. They quickly swept away the sawdust on the floor and table, then blew out the candles and took a rest.

Ye Donglin and Wang Chunyu both got up late the next day.

During breakfast, Ye Mu asked Wang Chunyu if there were any mice in the house. At night, she heard the sound of mice chewing on the beams in their house.

Wang Chunyu was stunned and didn't know how to explain it for a moment.

Ye Donglin on the side yawned and said, "It seems so. I heard some noise at night and couldn't sleep well at night."

At night, when people and livestock are asleep, the slightest movement is easily noticed.

Mrs. Ye remembered that the village chief had a fat yellow cat. Although the cat was fat, it was very good at catching mice.

"How about I go to the village chief's house and borrow their Dafu to catch mice."

The cat has been chubby since he was a child, and looks very lucky, so he just calls him Dafu.

Ye Donglin was a little nervous, but he still said with a relaxed face:

"I didn't pay attention last night when I was in a daze. I'll take a look at it tonight. If there is really a mouse, I'll borrow Dafu back."

Mrs. Ye nodded. Fortunately, everyone was busy working and didn't dwell on this matter.

After breakfast, Ye Donglin took a cart full of things to the grocery store.

As soon as the door opened, before things could be put away, a few women came to buy groceries.

Ye Donglin first moved down the fabrics Ye Qingqing bought and placed them in a conspicuous place in the shop.

As soon as the cloth was taken out, several women shopping for groceries gathered around him.

"The fabric looks quite thick, but it's stained."

"Boss Xiaoye, how much do these fabrics cost?"

Ye Donglin put the large basket full of vegetables on the ground.

"This is a fabric unique to Sichuan. It is thicker and more durable than the local fine linen fabric. Although it is stained, the fabric is dark in color and you can't tell it without looking carefully."

"Stop being too pretentious, how much does it cost?" An impatient aunt interrupted Ye Donglin's enthusiastic sales pitch.

"No matter the color, it's 106 yuan per piece, and they are not sold in bulk. If you think one piece is too much, you can buy one for several people, and then divide it up slowly when you go back."

Originally, the fabrics in the shop could be sold in bulk, but after the sale, there would always be many pieces of cloth of different sizes left.

Cloth ends cannot be sold at a high price, so Ye Donglin sells the fabrics on sale by the whole piece.

"Boss Xiaoye, you are not being kind. This fabric is stained, so it is not worth 106 cents."

"Yeah, 90 yuan is about the same."

"90 yuan a piece, I want this navy blue one."

These women no longer bothered to buy groceries and started haggling with Ye Donglin on the price.

Ye Donglin originally thought that the lowest price would be 100 Wen per piece, but in the end he was severely beaten by these aunts and ladies. In the end, he sold two pieces of fabric for 98 Wen.

The fabrics sold were bought by several aunts together, one piece of navy blue and one piece of gray.

Many women shopping for vegetables came to the shop one after another. A lot of the vegetables, grains and fabrics they brought were sold one after another.

Ye Donglin was busy in the grocery store, and Wang Chunyu was not idle either.

It was too quiet at night, so Wang Chunyu had to work during the day and secretly fixed the hidden compartments on the roof beams.

The Ye family raises a lot of chickens and pigs, and there are also two noisy guys like Snowball and Sweet Potato. They are very lively during the day, and no one notices this little movement.

Without Ye Donglin holding the chair, Wang Chunyu was trembling on the chair.

There was a small basket on the beam, which contained various carpentry tools and a few old pieces of wood.

Wang Chunyu held onto the beam with one hand while lowering his head and thinking about how to hide the secret compartment.

Although the secret compartment is in a hidden corner, you can still find it if you look carefully.

Wang Chunyu first covered the hidden grid with old wooden boards of the same color, and then polished it for a long time to make the newly added wooden boards and the beams look like one body.

Then, two wooden boards were placed on the beams to reinforce the beams, and they were crossed to cover each other.

Of course, just this one spot would be too conspicuous, so Wang Chunyu deliberately added a few more spots on the beams so that it would not be obtrusive.

When Ye Donglin came back in the evening, he had exchanged the 60 taels of silver for two 30 taels of silver notes, and also brought back some oil paper.

Wang Chunyu carefully folded the two banknotes, wrapped them carefully in oil paper, and placed a 30-tael banknote in each of the two secret compartments.

The remaining 40 taels of silver continued to be buried in the ground under the wardrobe.

After getting this done, the two finally breathed a sigh of relief.