Entertaining Children

  Chapter 18 Broken House

  In terms of location, only the broken house No. 5 is located on the edge of the entire village, while the other 4 houses are located close to the center of the village. So after receiving lunch from the ancestral hall, Xiao Siqi and his son parted ways with several other families.

  Along the way, Xiao Yao's interest is not bad. Although it’s a bit hard to walk through the dirt road across the fields, it’s a lot easier to walk than the pure mountain road that Li Hao used to hike and camp in the mountains many times, and his grandmother Li Hao lived in the countryside. When I was young, I spent a lot of time in the countryside, and I was happy with this environment. On the other hand, Xiao Siqi is a bit worse. Growing up in a big city like Yanjing, Xiao Siqi, who has never been to the countryside before, walked slowly on the dirt road with a deep and shallow foot, and Xiao Yao stopped and waited for him several times.

   Ten minutes later, the father and son finally came to their residence. The other four houses are borrowed from a room in the residence of the local villager, and they can be regarded as living with the local villager. Only the No. 5 house of Xiao Siqi and his son is unoccupied and looks like an abandoned house.

  Although it is an abandoned house, there is no doubt about its sturdiness. Even if there are holes on all four walls for ventilation, it seems that there is absolutely no danger of collapse. Of course, the dangerous house program group will certainly not let them live.

  The two looked around first. The situation in the bedroom is a little better, and it seems that the program crew has cleaned up in advance. The sheets and bedding on a large double wooden bed are new. Although the wooden bed looks very old, it looks solid. Two fist-sized holes were exposed on the wooden wall on the outer side of the bedroom due to the decay of the wood. One of the two opposite windows on the only window was half dropped and hung on the window frame of the wall. The glass is intact. The top is not bad, there are no holes, so don’t worry about leaking when it rains.

  It's a bit miserable in the hall. There are holes on the top, a lot of debris is scattered on the ground, and the ground is also uneven.

  The kitchen is more distinctive. There is no stove or stove, but a pit was dug on the ground. There is some extinguished charcoal ash in the pit. There is a circle of thicker logs around, and the inner part is blackened. On the side is a large rectangular table nailed up with wood, on which kitchen supplies such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, chopping boards and knives prepared by the program group are placed. In the corner is a large water tank filled with clean water. Looking at it this way, it should be enough for their father and son for two days and there is still plenty of surplus.

  The most worrying thing for Xiao Siqi is the toilet. That is, two wooden boards were laid on a large soil pit, leaving a gap in the middle. The four sides are then surrounded by wooden boards, one of which is movable as a door, and there is nothing above the head, all in the open air.

  After watching a circle, Xiao Siqi's face turned green, and he asked Xiao Yao in a low voice, "Can we go back? Can we go and change the house back?"

   Xiao Yao rolled his eyes and simply said: “Eating. After eating, you can clean up quickly, and you can still live. It’s not just two days, just stick to it and it’s over.”

   After finishing talking about it, Xiao Yao seemed a little unwilling to think about it. He slowly walked over to the photographer who was carrying the camera all the way to shoot, pointed at the camera and said: "Wu Zhankui, you are too much! Can you find this kind of place?"

  The entire film crew was amused by Xiao Yao's rigorous accusation. In the first two seasons of the show, it was not that there were no guests complaining about the poor conditions, but most of them were the fathers complaining, or the father directed the children to scold Wu Zhankui. Of course, it was mostly a joke, and the program group did not mind it. Wu Zhankui also has the image of a demon in everyone's mind. This time I didn't expect that not long after the beginning, Xiao Yao would directly fire at Wu Zhankui. The film crew didn't have any burden, and they recorded all of them faithfully. Anyway, there are people who are in charge of post-editing. They don't need to worry about whether they can broadcast it, they just shoot.

  At this time, Xiao Siqi, with a corn on the cob in his mouth, also stuck his head abruptly into the lens, nodding his head repeatedly, and said: "That is, I also strongly condemn Wu Zhankui!"

  Xiao Siqi and his son stood at the gate of the house after having lunch, which seemed to express their dissatisfaction with the dilapidation of the house arranged by Wu Zhankui.

  But after expressing dissatisfaction, he still has to face the broken house.

   "How do you do it?" Xiao Siqi asked Xiao Yao.

"Move out the things in the hall first, and clear out the hall. I can't move those big things. You can clear them to the open space at the door first. Let's see what can be used." Xiao Yao commanded Xiao Siqi said.

  Xiao Siqi went into the hall to move things. Xiao Yao went to the open space behind the house and found a broken bamboo basket from the pile of debris. After dragging the bamboo basket to the door of the house, put the cobs of corn and some other garbage that were thrown on the open space after lunch and put them into the basket. Looking up at the camera, another sentence came: "It is not a good habit to litter, you have to clean up after eating."

  Chen Min and others of the film crew are speechless, and the sense of variety is simply overwhelming.

   Xiao Yao ignored these, dragged the bamboo basket with garbage to the corner of the open space in front of the door, turned around and went into the house.

  The camera crew immediately followed up. As a result, Xiao Yao didn't help Xiao Siqi move things in the hall after entering the house, but instead entered the nearby utility room. Now the father and son are separated, but the camera crew only has one camera. The cameraman immediately asked Chen Min, "Sister Chen, who did you shoot?" Chen Min glanced at Xiao Siqi, who was moving the debris out of the hall one by one, and said decisively: "Follow Bayi."

  Just a moment ago, Xiao Yao had a spectrum in his heart. Most of the debris piled in the hall are broken furniture and large pieces of wood, and most of the real debris such as tools are in his current room. The house has been cut off long ago. For filming needs, the program team temporarily installed an electric light in the bedroom, kitchen and hall. However, the program crew did not expect Xiao Yao to get into this small room full of things, so there is no light in this room. Fortunately, although there is no window in this room, there are several holes on the ceiling. The sun shines through the holes on the ceiling, and you can barely see the situation in the room. This room should be the original owner's tool room, with hoes, shovels, pickaxes and other tools piled in it. But these farm tools are not what Xiao Yao needs. Xiao Yao rummaged through a pile of wooden boards and brought up a toolbox made of wooden nails. Inside it was a mess of hammers, pliers, wrenches, screwdrivers and a pile of iron nails.

   Xiao Yao put the toolbox aside, and picked out a few thinner wooden boards from the wood pile scattered beside him, took them out with the toolbox, and went straight to the bedroom.

  Go to the wooden wall with several holes on the other side of the bedroom, put the wooden board and toolbox on the ground, and picked up the nail and hammer.

  Chen Min saw Xiao Yao picking up the hammer and was shocked, and shouted: "August Yi, what are you doing, put it down quickly, you can't play with the hammer casually."

   "Playing?" Xiao Yao looked up at Chen Min strangely, "I didn't play."

   Xiao Siqi, who heard Chen Min's cry, also ran in, and saw Xiao Yao holding a hammer, and asked in confusion: "August Yi, what are you doing?"

   "Put up these holes in the wall, otherwise, what should I do if there are mice running in at night?" Xiao Yao replied.

   "Fix the wall? Will you?" Xiao Siqi asked.

   Xiao Yao nodded, and said, “It’s not difficult to nail a wooden board on this hole to plug it up.”

   "Oh," Xiao Siqi nodded and turned to go out.

  Chen Min was anxious, and grabbed Xiao Siqi and said, "You let such a child nail a plank? What should I do if I hit it? Has he done it before?"

Xiao Siqi spread his hands indifferently, saying: "I don't know if he has done it before, but Bayi is more reliable than me. Under normal circumstances, he thinks he can basically do everything he can, such as the mess in the hall. Things, he thinks that if he can’t move, he won’t move, but he told me to move. I have never done anything like nailing a wooden board. We both do this. I can guarantee the chances of me hitting it. It's definitely much higher than Bayi's chance of hitting his hand." After that, Xiao Siqi went out and continued to work.

  What kind of strange father and son is this? Chen Min sighed, then pointed to Liu Shanxing and said to Xiao Yao: "August 1st, let Uncle Liu help you nail it?" It is said that their film crew can't interfere and help the guests so obviously, but she is really scared. What accident happened to Xiao Yao smashing his hands.

   "It's okay, I can do it." Xiao Yao said in his mouth, but his hands didn't stop. Pick out a board, first lightly nail two iron nails to the two corners of the board, only let the nails stand on the board and stop, without nailing through. Then use the left hand to press the wooden board on the hole, and then use the hammer with the right hand to knock the two standing nails through the wooden board one by one and knock them into the wooden wall. When the board is left on the wall, pick out two more nails and nail the other two corners of the board.

Seeing Xiao Yao's proficient movements, Chen Minxuan's heart finally let go, but his curiosity came up again, and he asked Xiao Yao: "August 1st, you can even do this woodworking job? Who taught you? ?"

  "I learned from a prop master from the crew." Xiao Yao picked up the second board and replied casually, "I can use wood to make the bench out."

   "The crew? Have you ever acted in a play?" Chen Min asked strangely, is Xiao Yao still a child star? It's not mentioned in the information.

   "No, but my grandfather is an actor. He was filming, so I went to the crew to play. I saw the prop master making props quite fun, so I spent a while with the prop master to learn." Xiao Yao replied.

   "By the way, Xiao Siqi's father, Xiao Chengru, is a very famous old actor. It turned out to be like this." Chen Min was taken aback, but anyway, he was still a little surprised.

  Wait until Xiao Siqi cleared all the mess in the hall, and when he walked into the bedroom, Xiao Yao had already plugged up several holes in the wall. The hole in the wall is not high, and it is no problem for Xiao Yao, who is now close to 1.2 meters tall, but Xiao Yao can't reach the broken window that is drooping.

   "The hole is blocked, how do you make this window?" Xiao Siqi also knew that this window was not reachable by Xiao Yao's height, so he had to do it. However, it still depends on what Xiao Yao meant.

   Xiao Yao observed that half of the window fell because the hinge between the lower window and the window frame on the wall was gone. This house is unlikely to have such an accessory hinge on the window, even if it is estimated that he and Xiao Siqi's ability is still uneasy.

"This window can't be repaired. You hold up the fallen window and push it directly into the window frame. In order to prevent another window from being brought down when it is opened and closed, you take the wooden slats to damage the broken one. The window is nailed to the wall, just fix it to death." Xiao Yao said.

   "Okay." Xiao Siqi pushed up the window, picked up a wooden strip from the ground, and picked up a hammer.

   "Be careful!"

"what!"

   Before the words of Xiao Yao's command, Xiao Siqi let out a scream, and as expected, a hammer hit his finger holding the nail.

  Chen Min felt 10,000 alpacas rushing past his heart, Xiao Siqi, do you have to prove what you just said? The chance of you hitting your own hand is indeed higher than Xiao Yao.

  Fortunately, Xiao Siqi didn't have much strength, that is, it hurts for a while, and he didn't suffer any injuries. Finally, he nailed the window.

  In the bedroom, Xiao Yao carried the toolbox to the open space at the door of the house, and began to pick among the piles of broken furniture. Finally, a table and four small stools were selected to make up a set of tables and chairs. However, this table and chair either simply has fewer legs or one or a few legs are cut short. Fortunately, there were a lot of wood on the side. Xiao Yao picked a three-fingered log from the wood, sawed it into several sections with a saw, and nailed it to the selected table and stool with a length.

   "It's too ugly." Xiao Yao shook his head and looked at his work, muttering to himself: "But there is no way, it can only be done like this, let's make do with it."

  This set of tables and stools is indeed ugly. The shape and thickness of the table legs are different. The stool has several legs that are nailed together by two wooden sticks. It's not particularly level on the ground, but fortunately, although the table is a bit swaying, it won't fall, and the stool is a little swaying even if it sits on it, and it won't fall easily even if it's a little bit careful.

The bedroom and kitchen were cleaned in advance by the program team, and there was no need to clean the loess floor of the hall. The cobwebs on the hall walls were cleaned up, and the dust on the beams was simply removed, and then the processed set of tables and stools were moved. After they came in and wiped them, the Xiao family's father and son washed their heads and faces, changed into clean clothes, and fell on the bed exhausted.

  (End of this chapter)