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After dividing the land, Lin Guoqiang returned home with 300 yuan in his pocket.

That night, he discussed something with Zhao Sumei.

"Su Mei, I want to repair our house."

Zhao Sumei was picking up shoe soles under the lamp. After hearing these words, the needle in her hand paused.

"Repairing a house? It will cost a lot of money, right?"

“I’ve done the math. It costs about a hundred or ten yuan to renovate the roof, replace a few rafters, and apply a layer of mud.

Repair the cracks in the wall and replace the windows with glass ones. You don’t need more, just two windows are enough.

The total added up to one hundred and fifty."

Zhao Sumei frowned, feeling sorry for the money, but she didn't say anything.

This house really needs to be repaired.

Last winter, the northwest wind came in through the cracks in the wall. Lin Wei was still young at that time and cried from the cold.

She blocked the windows with quilts, and the room was as dark as a cellar.

"Then... where is the remaining money?" she asked cautiously.

“I have other uses for the rest.”

Lin Guoqiang did not elaborate.

Early the next morning, he went to the town to buy materials.

A cart full of rafters, linoleum, glass, lime, cement, etc. was borrowed from the production team to pull it back.

Zhao Sumei stood at the door, looking at the cart of materials, feeling heartbroken.

"Guoqiang, how much does this cost?"

"It's not expensive, a hundred or ten yuan."

"A hundred and ten yuan is not expensive? The total division of the family was only three hundred yuan..."

"Su Mei," Lin Guoqiang unloaded a bag of cement from the car and patted the dust on his hands, "Money is a bastard, you can still make money after spending it.

You and your children can live comfortably, which is better than anything else."

Zhao Sumei stopped talking, her eyes were red, turned around and went into the room to pour him a bowl of cold boiled water.

It took four days to repair the house.

Lin Guoqiang worked alone without hiring any help.

It’s not that I’m reluctant to ask, it’s that I don’t want to owe you a favor.

In the village, if you ask someone for help, you have to take care of the food. To take care of the food, you have to provide meat and wine. It costs more than hiring workers.

He first tore off all the tiles on the roof, took out the rotten rafters and replaced them with new ones, spread a layer of linoleum felt, and then covered them with tiles.

This process was the most tiring. As he climbed up and down, the old injuries on his knees ached, but he gritted his teeth and said nothing.

Then the cracks in the wall were filled with lime, and the inside and outside were painted with white plaster.

The house is small, so it can be painted quickly, and it can be done in half a day.

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