After eating the delicious "spicy and sour fish", an "urgent" event was placed in front of me: Baogu Guzi was about to enter the house. If the leaky roof was not repaired, I was afraid that the food collected would be lost.

The leaked rainwater has caused harm. Therefore, the roof must be renovated as soon as possible. The sooner the better.

Silently and quickly calculating in my heart.

To replace the dozens of broken tiles visually observed on the roof, it would take almost three hundred tiles. This number is only an estimate of the condition of the "groove tiles" seen from the inside.

The real number also needs to be estimated based on the "covered tiles" and those that have not been discovered yet, but were discovered during the renovation process and the "loss". This calculation is almost a thousand horses.

In addition, if I find that the neighbor's tiles on the "common wall" side are broken when I go to the house, I will quietly replace them with new tiles. Firstly, it is to protect the "common wall", and secondly, it is also a kind of "common wall".

"Watch and help" right? This requires at least a budget of two to three hundred horses.

The distance from the tile factory to your home is not very close, so you have to find a horse-drawn carriage to haul the tiles. Since it is a horse-drawn carriage, its stability is naturally a little less stable. So you also need to calculate the loss of one or two hundred horses. This makes it almost fifteen hundred

Horses, just enough to fill a carriage. Anyway, I will use the rest and leave them, after all, they will be used in the future.

There was no one driving a carriage in this village, so we had to go to Shangtang to find the horse-drawn carriage driver. Considering that it was not too late, we hurried out to Shangtang.

Go to Suona's house and explain your purpose of coming.

He said: "I go to the county town to buy an empty truck from here, and when I buy it, I come back with a heavy truck. It counts as two trips. When the farming is slack, it costs 20 yuan for a trip, but now it costs 30 yuan when the farming is busy. You can also go by horse

Counting, it’s three cents per horse for less than one thousand, and five cents for every horse above one thousand.”

I thought about it and realized that a tile only costs 1.2 cents, so the shipping fee is a bit high.

Then I discussed it with him. I said: "Don't tell me you charge me sixty if you go to thirty or thirty. You and I will go out early in the morning. I will ride a bicycle instead of your carriage. When I go there, the carriage will be empty."

It doesn’t take much effort, so you’ll charge half the price of ten yuan, and you’ll charge twenty yuan to reload the car when it comes back, so the total is thirty yuan.”

When he heard this, he quickly said: "This can't be done."

I said: "It's done. Although it is said that 'it is twenty during the busy farming period and thirty during the busy farming period', it is not "busy" after all. In addition, the truck was empty when you went there in the morning. You can help others pull something by the way, or pick up some things on the way.

I don't care if you hire someone else, the money you earn is your increased income. Also, it's time to break up the bag of rice, and I'll ask you to help me with the bag. Maybe I can give you more by then.

How many can you recommend?"

After hearing what I said, he thought about it and thought it made some sense, so he said, "Okay, I'll do as you say. I'll treat it as helping you. However, you have to buy me a pack of good cigarettes."

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I said, "Okay. Then I'll go down early tomorrow. You can estimate the time yourself and come to the tile factory around ten o'clock to find me to install the tiles."

The carriage was negotiated. I went home happily.

When I got home, my brothers all wanted to go to bed. But I felt that there was something I hadn't thought carefully about. But I couldn't think of it for a while. So I said to my brothers: "Go to bed. I will go to buy tiles early tomorrow morning. You guys should go early."

Get up and tidy up the house. Remember to scoop (buy) some bean sprouts, cook some more dishes, make some wine, and cook more rice. It’s almost noon when Vala comes back, and everyone is hungry. We want to invite

Just eat something if you are a fool."

The younger brothers said: "Okay, brother, don't worry."

They went to bed.

I didn't want to sleep yet. I was sitting quietly on the big bench thinking about things. Suddenly it occurred to me that I would ride a bicycle tomorrow. Let's just say, I always felt that there was something I hadn't considered. I quickly went to find the bicycle and take a look.

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At first glance, this "28 big bar" was covered with dust, and both wheels were flat.

I quickly carried it to the courtyard, opened the door of the hall, fetched some water and poured it over the car body to wash away most of the dust. Then I used the light in the room to wipe it with a wet handkerchief. I felt that it was almost clean.

Then he carried it back to the main room and wiped it dry with a dry handkerchief.

Then pick up the "air gun" to inflate the wheel. Press the mouth of the air gun with your right hand, align its air needle with the valve core of the tire, and then clamp it. Step on the base of the air gun with your right foot, hold the handle of the air gun with both hands and make piston movements up and down.

I could only hear the sound of "chi...chi..." the air flowing into the tire. After twenty or thirty blows, the front wheel swelled. Put down the air gun, hold the tire with both hands, and press it with your thumbs. It felt very inflated.

In place. Remove the muzzle of the gun, clamp the rear wheel and fire again.
Chapter completed!