Chapter 44 My Smart Group

Chen Hui doesn't have enough tools at home.

Chen Guogang pushed the bicycle back to the neighbor's house and moved a long ladder from his own home.

Climbed onto the roof of the house and checked the fallen tiles.

First, collect all the protruding ones and put them aside, and discard those that are obviously cracked and don’t look like they will last for a few more years.

Then I tidied up the tiles in the two rows of grooved gutters next to it.

Replace the missing tiles and re-lay them.

Since only a few tiles with grooves and ridges were confirmed, the main house was quickly resolved.

Chen Guogang carried the ladder to the small room that served as a toilet.

Compared with the main house, the toilet required a much larger construction effort.

A third of the roof had slid off.

After years of exposure to wind and sun, the wooden beams underneath have been severely corroded and look to be in danger of collapse.

A large section of the earth wall under the roof also collapsed.

"Chen Hui, Chen Hui, come here!"

Chen Guogang waved to Chen Hui, who was handling miscellaneous items nearby.

"I'm here, Uncle Guogang. Let's do this later." Chen Hui brushed the dust off his hands.

"What's wrong?" Chen Guogang asked puzzled.

"This is a cesspool. I'm worried you won't be able to eat your snacks later." Chen Hui said with a smile.

"Hey, that's nothing. Besides, your manure pit doesn't even have 2 taels of manure."

"Let me tell you something. It's about this roof. The wood here is rotten, see?"

"My idea is to tear down the entire roof, repair the wall first, and then build a new roof." Chen Guogang said, gesturing with his hands at the side of the small thatched house.

"Yes, that's good!"

Chen Hui took a careful look.

These woods are already rotten. You can lay tiles on them, but they will break down again in two years.

Chen Guogang is working very hard for himself.

"Uncle Guogang, let's replace the bottom board. Make it thicker and make the gap smaller to prevent it from falling in."

Chen Hui pointed to the blackened wooden board above the pit and said.

When this toilet was first built, the wooden boards used were not thick.

When Chen Hui was young, every time he went to the toilet, he would imagine himself falling into the pit and calling for help while defecating.

Now it looks even more dangerous.

It has been several days since he was reborn, but he has not dared to take a defecation in his own toilet.

"How could this fall? Look."

Chen Guogang strode in and jumped twice on the wood that Chen Hui was pointing at.

His expression changed slightly, and he strode back out the door, "Don't say it, it's a little shaky."

"Yeah, when you have kids in the future, they will be afraid too." Chen Hui nodded seriously.

"If you want to do this, I'll give you an idea. Go find Carpenter Jiang and ask him to do it for you," said Chen Guogang.

"Ah?!" Chen Hui was a little confused.

Looking for a carpenter in the toilet?
It doesn't sound very professional.

"I saw this when I went to someone's house last time. Carpenter Jiang used two pieces of wood to snap the board together like this."

Chen Guogang crossed his hands and continued:
"When it is laid like this, it looks like there are no gaps at all, which looks particularly beautiful."

"When you want to pick out the manure, you just need to unpack it according to the rules. It's very convenient."

"If you're more particular, you can ask Carpenter Jiang to make you a lid for the pit. That way it will look more presentable, and you won't have to worry about other people's dogs stealing food!"

"So, you understand, don't you?"

Chen Hui thought about it.

It's probably like laying wooden floors in the toilet.

Then add a wooden flap.

Isn't this just a wooden floor + giant toilet, but there is no sewer, so you need to pick up the feces yourself. "It sounds great!" Chen Hui nodded.

At least it looks clean and comfortable, and feels much safer than it does now.

I just happened to ask Jiang Houfa to make some furniture, and if I could get a few more pieces of wood, he would do it with me, whether it was convenient or not.

"Yeah, if you can't, go and have a look at Chen Wu's house, it's pretty good!"

After Chen Guogang finished speaking, he took off the steel ruler hanging from his waist.

After measuring the length and width of the wooden board, I found a piece of old tile and wrote the number on it with a stone.

He handed it to Chen Hui and said, "Tell Carpenter Jiang that this is the size of the wood for the toilet now, and he will know how to make it."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Chen Hui took the tile and walked into the house and shouted, "Goushun, I'm going to look for your master, are you coming?"

The round table in the living room has been polished.

Huang Miao pulled Wu Si into the room to polish the back of the bed.

Hearing Chen Hui's movement, he went out with a dusty face and said, "I'm almost done here. You must tell my master that I was really hardworking today."

"Well, Master Jiang should be able to tell from your appearance of a vagrant criminal without me saying anything."

Huang Miao raised his middle finger.

He blew the dust out of his nose and went back into the house to continue fighting.

hard to imagine.

A few days ago, Huang Miao was so angry that his family wanted to find him an ugly and fierce wife, hoping that she could cure his laziness.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, the power of fear of marriage."

Chen Hui sighed and went out with the tiles.

An Wenjing cooked a bucket of noodles and came over, and met Chen Hui on the road.

Chen Hui asked her to take the noodles back first and called Chen Guogang and the others to wash their hands and have some snacks.

Go arrange a surprise for her yourself and be back soon.

"Surprise? What kind of surprise is worth Brother Chen Hui being so happy about?" An Wenjing muttered in confusion.

"Brother-in-law! I want to go too!" An Wenyi let go of An Wenjing's hand and jumped after him on his short legs.

Chen Hui heard the noise and stopped to wait for her for a while.

Then he took An Wenyi to Jianghou to make a fortune.

An Wenjing brought the cooked noodles to Chen Hui's house and invited Chen Guogang who was dismantling the roof, and Huang Miao and Wu Si who were polishing the headboard to come out for a snack.

"Thank you, sister-in-law! Your cooking skills are really great!" Wu Si said with a flattering look on his face.

Huang Miao watched and knew that he was trying to cause trouble, so he prepared to cooperate.

"Why don't you take a bite first before you praise me?" An Wenjing said.

"Oh my! I'm so embarrassed that my sister-in-law is like this!"

Wu Si smiled innocently, took a mouthful of noodles and praised it again.

Holding the bowl in his hand, he asked with a smile, "Sister-in-law, how did you and Brother Hui get together? Did Brother Hui kneel at your door for seven days and seven nights?"

"No, it was me who took the initiative. Didn't I say that last time?"

An Wenjing said this as she filled two bowls and placed them on the stove.

One bowl was kept for Chen Hui, and the other bowl was given to An Wenyi, who was drooling over the food.

"Impossible! How could you take the initiative with sister-in-law's conditions like this?"

"Tell me, what did my brother Hui do to impress you? I really want to learn." Wu Si asked.

"Then why don't you ask Brother Chen Hui?"

"He didn't tell me!"

An Wenjing lowered her head and thought about it.

He shook a finger and said:
"Ha, I see."

"You speak nicely, calling me Brother Hui all the time, but your motives are actually very impure."

"You want to find out some embarrassing things from me, like kneeling outside my house for seven days and seven nights, so that you can use it to make fun of Brother Chen Hui, right?"

(End of this chapter)