20 years of teaching

Chapter 80 Just Do What You Say
"Principal Shi is a very good person." Seeing that Lin Youde was silent, Dong Qiulian said aside.

"You knew Master Lin before?" Shi Yuming asked.

"Oh, I don't know. Master Lin is going to renovate the house where my mother and the others live. If I don't help, I won't be human." Dong Qiulian said with a smile.

Shi Yuming said: "You two can't do this for nothing, the school will give you the wages."

"How can you ask for wages?" Lin Youde waved his hands repeatedly.

Dong Qiulian said: "Principal Shi, if I want wages, then I really am not human!"

"That's fine, if you don't pay, just treat the two of you as contributing to our school." Shi Yuming said happily.

Lin Youde took out a small stone from the dustpan, and said, "Principal Shi, there are many stones on the roof, not only on these two houses, but also on the roofs of other houses. It is estimated that every house is leaking." rainwater."

Principal Shi said angrily: "It's no wonder that no matter how much you leak it, you can't stop it. It turns out that the tile was broken by a stone. It must be those idle bastards who did it when there was no one in the school. Wait for someday to catch it!" One, I will ask their parents to compensate us for the loss."

Lin Youde said: "The tiles are broken, and new tiles need to be rebuilt to ensure that there is no leakage. From above, the wall between the two houses is a little crooked, and there is something wrong with the foot of the wall. It can't be seen from the surface, but the bottom is too damp. Seriously, the pressure resistance is very poor, and the wall is wet, it is best to replace all the walls with fire bricks."

"Won't this house collapse?" Dong Qiulian looked very nervous.

Lin Youde said: "Probably not, unless there is a particularly bad weather, then there is a possibility of collapse."

Principal Shi was silent for a while, silently calculating the expenses for this semester, and said: "The cost of replacing all the fire bricks is not small, and the school's funds can't keep up. We can discuss this matter. There are thirty or forty tile-roofed houses in the school. You Free? Renovate all the houses and add as many tiles as needed."

"..." Lin Youde twitched his face, smiled awkwardly, and remained silent for a long time.

It takes many days to renovate [-] or [-] houses. Does this make a greater contribution to the school?
"Is Master Lin free?" Principal Shi asked.

"Oh, when I'm free, from now on, I'll be renovating one by one." Lin Youde gritted his teeth and agreed, thinking that this is the school where his son works, and it's worth a little more help.

Shi Yuming said: "Then let's talk about the price first, whether it's contract work or part-time work?"

"Return the money? Forget it, anyway, I'm free." Lin Youde said with a silly smile.

"There are so many houses, how can you let you do it for nothing? How about it, how much is it per day?" Shi Yuming said.

Lin Youde thought for a while, and said, "Twelve rooms a day, the two rooms renovated today are not considered wages."

Shi Yuming said: "We are public and you are private. If you don't take advantage of us, we can't let you suffer. Now the mason's labor is 15 yuan a day, so it is calculated according to this price. You can calculate how many watts you need, and then turn around I asked the Director of General Affairs to go buy it."

Suddenly there was something to do, and the wages were not bad. Lin Youde was very happy in his heart, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Principal Shi, don't worry, I promise to complete the renovation task as quickly as possible, and try to save the school. It will cost about [-] young people. watt."

Shi Yuming asked: "Master Lin, do you know the old stonemason who used to help others steal the foot of the wall in Lingnan Old Street?"

"Surname Wu?" Lin Youde asked.

Shi Yuming said: "Yes, yes, his surname is Wu. I want to ask him if he still does the thing of stealing."

Lin Youde said with a smile: "He is my father-in-law, and now he is too old to take up work."

"Dad, grandpa will steal the wall?" Lin Feifei asked in surprise.

Lin Youde said proudly: "Your grandfather was the first to propose and do the job of stealing the walls, and he was also the first to do it. The technology is also the best. When he was young, the walls of every house on the old street in Lingnan Town were ruined." , are looking for your grandfather. Now few people will steal the foot of the wall, most people dare not take this job, if not done well, the wall will collapse."

Shi Yuming sighed and said, "Last year, I wanted to replace the walls of the three rooms in the student dormitory. I asked several stonemasons, but they all said they couldn't do it."

Lin Youde said: "Not all walls can be stolen from the bottom of the wall. If you can't steal it, you can steal it. It will really collapse."

"Is there such a thing?" Shi Yuming was shocked and anxious.

He wholeheartedly wanted to make the dormitory safe to use again by stealing the corners. If he could not steal the corners, he would have no money to build a house, and some children would have no place to live.

"Come on, I'll go and have a look." Lin Youde said.

The three came to the student dormitory, and Lin Youde observed the same wall repeatedly from different directions.

"Dad, what's the point? How can you tell if you can steal the wall?" Lin Feifan asked.

Lin Youde said eloquently: "There must be something special. If the wall is straight and not skewed, you can boldly change the foot of the wall. This is the best way to deal with it; if the wall is skewed, it depends on the degree and direction of the skew. When plugging fire bricks, you need to do some hands and feet to straighten the wall; if the skew is serious, you need to replace the entire wall, so you can’t steal the wall.”

"Stealing the foot of the wall can also straighten the crooked wall?" Shi Yuming said with wide-eyed eyes.

Lin Youde laughed and said, "If you don't straighten it, what's the use of stealing the foot of the wall? The wall after the successful stealing is stronger than the new one."

"Then can these three houses be stolen?" Shi Yuming asked.

Lin Youde said: "The two walls are straight and not skewed, so it's easy to deal with; the two walls are a little skewed, but it's not a big problem, and they can steal the foot of the wall."

"Master Lin, do you know how to do this?" Shi Yuming asked hopefully.

Lin Youde chuckled, and said: "I learned this stonemasonry skill from my father-in-law, and several of his apprentices have all learned the skill of stealing walls."

Shi Yuming clapped his palms and said happily: "I'll leave this to you. The students are eager to live in this house. You put aside the roof renovation and fix the walls of these houses first."

Lin Youde rubbed his hands and said, "Then I will start stealing the corners tomorrow. I have a request. By the way, I will also steal the corners of the house where my son lives."

Shi Yuming said: "Okay, since the foot of the wall is broken, let's fix it together, but the student dormitory must be fixed first, and then the other side. This work is also calculated at 15 yuan a day, and you will be paid for as many days as you do. "

Lin Youde frowned slightly, then relaxed again. He touched his forehead with his hand, hesitated for a while, and said: "All right, I will do what you say. It will take about 6000 pieces of fire bricks and two carts of sand. In addition, if you need to buy six packs of cement, you’d better arrange for someone to prepare the materials today, and I’ll do it tomorrow.”

"I'm going to ask the director of general affairs to purchase materials as soon as possible, and try to get the materials to the site today." Principal Shi said cheerfully.

Lin Feifan noticed his father's expression and wondered if his father thought the wages were too low.

It shouldn't be possible, right?Earlier, my father said that he didn't need wages.

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(End of this chapter)