The Dog King of Siheyuan Tears and Rebirth

At noon two days later, the subdistrict office officially issued a notice to lift the alarm and asked everyone to get involved in post-disaster reconstruction work as soon as possible. Fortunately, the city was not greatly affected, so everyone returned to normal life.

In the morning, Xu Damao went to the factory for a meeting and then came back. A colleague brought him a piece of news. Since some of the factory buildings were affected and needed to be repaired, the steel rolling mill decided to give a three-day holiday and asked everyone to go back to work in the factory three days later. This was just enough time for everyone to repair their own houses.

Since He Yuzhu's houses were all main rooms and of acceptable quality, he was basically not affected at all. He just cleaned it up and moved back in. As for Xu Damao, there were only some minor problems with the kitchen in his house, but it could be fixed with a little repair.

Just as He Yuzhu and Xu Damao were discussing something, Ma Hua walked in and said, "Master, my house has been badly damaged, the door is almost falling off, so I plan to find someone to come and fix it. My uncle happens to be a technician, so I came to ask if your house needs it?"

"My family doesn't need it, but Xu Damao's family does. However, it seems there isn't much work, so you can just ask someone to fill in the gap when the time comes." He Yuzhu said.

"Yes, Ma Hua, my family needs it. When the time comes, you can just ask someone to get it, and you can ask me for the money." Xu Damao said with a smile.

"Haha, Director Xu, no need, it's just a little work, why would you want money?" Ma Hua said with a smile, "Master, I'll go find my uncle. It would be bad if someone else calls me away if I'm late."

"Go ahead, ask Yu Li and her two mothers to go to my house in the middle courtyard to cook. There is everything in there," said He Yuzhu.

"Okay, Master." After saying that, Ma Hua left the backyard.

On the other side, at the Yan family, three people were wolfing down steamed corn bread. When they heard that the grain store was open in the morning, the first thing the Yan family did was to buy grain. This meal was the most sumptuous one prepared by the Yan family, and it used up two days' worth of grain. During these two days, they had been drinking water from the tap.

"Oh, I almost starved to death, Dad. Please prepare more food in the future. The price of food will not change much anyway." Yan Jiecheng said while eating.

"Well, as the saying goes, every failure makes you wiser. I've remembered this time. This is the first time in my life that I've encountered an earthquake! It's a pity about my TV. I don't even dare to plug it in now." Yan Fugui said with concern.

“Haha, it’s okay. Just leave it out for a few days and it will be fine in the sun.” Yan Jiecheng said.

"Okay, I think so too."

"By the way, Old Yan, I saw that people in the yard have started to call bricklayers to repair the house. When will our kitchen be built?" Yang Ruihua said.

"Whose family? Whose family started to move?" Yan Fugui asked immediately.

"Several companies have hired someone to do it, and some are doing it themselves. How do you plan to do it? Do you hire someone or do it yourself?"

"Ask others to do it. I'm not just repairing the house. Um, have you seen anyone adding to their house?" Yan Fugui asked.

"What do you mean by building a house?" Yang Ruihua asked puzzledly.

"It means moving the damaged parts outwards, or directly building a house on the vacant land in the yard," Yan Fugui explained.

“I haven’t seen it. It’s all built according to the original appearance.”

"Hehe, that's good, that's good." Yan Fugui said with a smile.

"What do you mean, Old Yan?" Yang Ruihua asked, but she understood as soon as the words came out, "You mean to take advantage of the opportunity to build a few more houses?"

"Haha, you're smart. I had already thought about it on the day of the earthquake. You know how nice it would be to have a few more houses to store miscellaneous items. If possible, we could rent them out!" Yan Fugui said shrewdly.

"Dad, aren't you afraid of being called a capitalist-roader?" Yan Jiecheng said.

"Bullshit, that's a thing of the past. Many capitalists have been rehabilitated! What do you know? Just pick up your waste and don't meddle in other people's business." Yan Fugui said. After hearing what Yan Fugui said, Yan Jiecheng could only shut up and eat.

"Old Yan, when will it start?" Yang Ruihua asked excitedly, "Also, aren't you afraid of objections?"

"Hey, there is no old man in the yard now, so who will take care of it? By the time they react, I have already built it. Who dares to tear it down? I will go buy bricks and cement in the afternoon." Yan Fugui said.

"Well, you are smart." Yang Ruihua said.

"That's right, what do I do? When it comes to calculating, no one in the whole hospital is as smart as me. Come with me after dinner. The solution is, you can sort out those broken bricks in the corner of our house, which can save a lot of money!" Yan Fugui said.

In the afternoon, when everyone was busy cleaning up their own houses, Yan Fugui bought a large amount of bricks and cement, brought a few bricklayers, and then pointed and fenced off the land in the yard.

When other people in the courtyard saw all this, they didn't know what Yan Fugui was going to do, but they didn't care about this matter. They just looked at it and continued to busy themselves with their own things.

At this time, He Yuzhu was chatting with his three daughters at home, because He Ying pestered him to tell her about his dream and asked him why he had such a dream?

"Dad, this is so magical. How come you dreamed that mom reminded you that there was an earthquake? This is really magical. Can you tell me what your sleeping position was at that time? And what time did you fall asleep?" He Ying asked while pulling He Yuzhu. He Qing, who was standing next to him, also wanted to know and looked at him with expectant eyes.

"Haha, the dad didn't have any special posture at that time. He just slept on the quilt. I thought the quilt was your mother. As for the time of sleeping, I can't remember whether it was eleven or twelve o'clock." He Yuzhu said nonsense.

"Is that so?" He Ying said, "I want to sleep on top of the quilt tonight. Dad, lend me your watch. I want to watch the time as well."

As he spoke, He Ying took He Yuzhu's hand and took off his watch.

"Hey, here you go, will you look at it?"

"Good morning. Do you think I'm a child?" He Ying said.

"Okay, have a good dream about when your mother will come back, and then tell me." He Yuzhu said with a smile.

"Well, I'll try it first. If it doesn't work, you can try again. You must give me time to dream about my mother coming back." He Ying said.

Just as the father and his two daughters were chatting, Xu Damao walked in.

"Hey, you're back? How are you? Are your parents okay?" He Yuzhu asked.

"It's OK, it's fine! My old house is in good condition, so it's basically not affected."

"That's good."

"By the way, when I first came in, I saw Koubi Yan bringing back a lot of bricks, and he was pointing at the door, as if he was going to repair his house?" Xu Damao said, "But in my opinion, the broken parts of his house wouldn't require many bricks, right?"