Xie Linan straightened his clothes and said seriously, "What do you think?"
Ye Xiaozhen looked down at him and said, "You look a bit like a successful person. You are really different from before."
Xie Linan: "What was I like before?"
"Wearing a tank top, half-slippers on your feet, and washing your whole body with a bar of soap, what do you think?"
Xie Linan: “…”
I didn't realize it before, but when she reminded me of it, I realized how sloppy I was before.
He himself dislikes it.
"Hey, Xiaozhen, let's also renovate the house in our hometown."
Ye Xiaozhen: “What?”
"Everyone in the village is building new houses. Every household has a two-story building, but ours is still an old house. In addition, because no one has lived here in the past few years, the houses at the back have started to collapse. If we don't take care of it, in a few years, it will probably be just a pile of rotten wood."
People who leave the village still miss their hometown to some extent.
"No matter how shabby the house is, I still have a place to live when I go back home." He looked at the house and said, "We have lived here for a few years, but I still think that the shabby house in my hometown is my hometown. When we go to Haicheng in the future, we will probably have to come back for the New Year and other holidays. We can't live here all the time with our family, right? Coming back here doesn't count as going back home."
Ye Xiaozhen nodded in approval, "What you said makes sense, let's fix it, and fix my house as well, my broken house is half collapsed."
"Okay, then let the villagers do it, and then let 꺶坤 help us keep an eye on it, and we just need to pay for it."
"good."
The next day they went back to their hometown just to discuss the house issue.
After looking it over and over again, he pulled out the scales to measure it, and then went back to draw a blueprint himself.
Grandma Liu was a little curious and came over to ask, "Xiaozhen, aren't you going to move to Haicheng? Why are you still renovating this house in your hometown?"
Ye Xiaozhen said: "If we don't repair it, it will fall apart. The family has built a new house, so we should repair it too."
"Then you build it but don't live in it, what a waste."
"Stay, come back and stay during the Chinese New Year. We need to repair it a little bit, and the whole family can come back."
"real?"
"Of course it's true, Xie Linan said, returning to the house next to the school doesn't feel like returning to his hometown."
Grandma Liu smiled and said, "That's right. If we want to talk about hometown, this is the place to call it."
The old tradition here is that the mother and son do not separate the family, but unfortunately this old tradition has been out of date.
Now, there are only two sons left by Grandma Liu who are in average condition. The others have built new houses or bought houses outside and moved away.
It can be considered a disguised form of separation.
But it doesn't matter to her now. She is old, not much younger than Lin Xinghua, and how many years does she have left to live?
In the past two years, I felt full of energy, but when winter came this year, I felt more afraid of the cold.
He stayed in the house all day warming himself by the fire and was reluctant to go out.
Grandma Liu invited them to have lunch, and in the afternoon they went to measure Ye Xiaozhen's old house and only went back after getting all the data.
Xie Linan always does what he says and starts drawing in the evening.
"Do you think we should build three floors or four floors?"
Ye Xiaozhen said: "The house in my hometown is very tall, so we should build it higher. We don't want it to be too high, but flatter."
"What's the point?"
What are the requirements? In the future, when demolitions are carried out, some houses will occupy a larger area and there will be additional subsidies.
Besides, now is an era where you can repair it at will, but it will not be like that in the future. You have to apply according to your personal situation, and maybe your application will be approved.
"Although the house is registered in your name alone, don't forget that there are also your two younger brothers. In fact, it is a house for the three of them. They are not married now, so how can you guarantee that their wives will not be married after they get married in the future? Trees need branches and people need to separate. It is better to make plans early."
Only after she reminded him did Xie Linan react.
"You're wrong. If you put it that way, this house shouldn't be designed as a single building. Anyway, we can just include the land under the yard and build a one-and-two apartment."
“What is a one-and-two apartment?”
“You’ll know when I draw it.”
After two days of hard work, he finished the painting: three houses connected together, in the same yard, yet separated from each other.
At first glance, it is obviously the house of the three brothers.
The other two buildings are obviously smaller.
Xie Linan said that paying to help them repair their house was good enough, and it would definitely not be the same as his.
As a brother, he has done his best.
Xie Li has her own relocated house, and she has nothing to do with her mother's house, saying that it's her brother's house anyway, so it doesn't matter whose house she lives in the future.
땤And after her family moved down, they had an acre of land in addition to the house.눓
But she didn't grow them, so she gave them to the village chief's family for free.
After making the arrangements, Xie Linan went to talk to some experienced people in the village about repairing the house, and brought Wang Xiaokun along as well.
Their three houses, plus Ye Xiaozhen's four houses, were contracted out together, which was enough for them to work for half a year.
The deposit was paid directly before the New Year, so they could start construction after the New Year.
It was a rare snow this year. Although it wasn’t much, it was enough to make the little kids happy.
They came out early with shovels, carefully shoveled the white snow into a basin, and brought it into the room.
Unfortunately, it melted after not playing for long.
The snow outside melted quickly after the sun came out.
Lin Xinghua sat outside the door basking in the sun and said, "It's a good sign."
Xie Li bought him a soft scarf and said, "Grandpa, put it on quickly. See if it's warm enough."
I knew it was not cheap after just one look. Lin Xinghua said, "Why are you spending money on me again? I don't need anything. Don't buy anything for me."
He knew the condition of his body, and he felt worse when the weather got cold.
You won't live long, it's a waste of good things.
Xie Li disagreed and said, "How can it be called a waste? If it is given to you, just wear it. If you wear it, it is not a waste."
Knowing that he couldn't win against them, Lin Xinghua just let them do whatever they wanted.
Finally, on the Chinese New Year's Day, Xie Linan finally put aside his past grudges and invited Xie Zhiguo and Xie Zhili's families to come over.
The old man is in this condition, and we don’t know if there will be another year. We should just be patient for his sake.
Without him, the brothers would not have grown up.
Maybe this time, maybe there will be another time.
They had repeatedly excused Lin An's subordinates to suffer losses, and dared not say anything in front of him.
When thanking Lin An, he would choose nice words to say and show concern for the old man.
It was a rare occasion that the two aunties became diligent this year. They came over to help with cooking, and they didn’t refuse to wash bacon and slaughter chickens.
Hongxia bought some books for Xie Wen and asked him to go upstairs to read them.
Li Mei was acting weird before, but now she is quiet and says with a smile that her niece and uncle are similar and they can play together.
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