Huang Yusheng took out the key, thought for a moment, and handed it to his father:

"Dad, you open it."

Huang Lizhu was silent for a few seconds, squeezing out a word from his tightly pressed lips:

"Okay."

Then he took the key, trembling a little as he inserted it into the keyhole.

Twenty-one years ago.

He rented a few acres of fields and used his life savings to build a thatched cottage.

Twelve years ago, a beast tide struck.

It was also the darkest time of his life.

He stood hopelessly on a high mountain, watching his fields and home being destroyed in an instant.

What followed was a long road of escape for the family.

Unexpectedly, twelve years later, he had another chance to touch the word 'home'.

Tick-tock——

A scalding tear dropped from his eye, filled with the bitterness of life, and landed heavily on Huang Lizhu's calloused hand.

The tear that burst forth flowed along the lines of his hand, finally reaching the intersection of the key and the keyhole.

Perhaps due to the moistening of tears, the key suddenly slid smoothly into the keyhole.

Then Huang Lizhu instinctively gave a gentle twist...

Click——

The door opened.

A bare room appeared before their eyes.

Huang Xiaoyuan couldn't hold back first, bouncing into the room while waving the teddy bear in her hand:

"Oh, we have a home, we have a home!!!"

Lin Guimei's eyes also welled up, her mouth trembling constantly.

Huang Xiaoyuan was born a year before the beast tide, so she had an extremely vague, almost zero memory of the word 'home'.

Watching her little daughter bouncing in the room.

Lin Guimei suddenly took her husband's hand with one hand, and her son's with the other.

The whole family stepped into the room together.

Inside and outside the door, it seemed like a transition between two worlds.

This employee housing currently only had a rough form, with limited facilities like a toilet and a showerhead, everything else was still unrenovated.

But that didn't stump Lin Guimei.

During the long escape.

This woman's ear had become deaf on one side, but her managing ability had improved by more than one level.

She just glanced quickly around the house and had a rough idea in her mind:

"A table can go here.....

This room is larger, so Yu Sheng and Xiaoyuan can live here, with a cloth partition in the middle....

A cabinet can be built here to hold stuff....

Compared to the mother planning the layout of the facilities, Huang Yusheng was more concerned with the decoration of the house.

After all, in the factory, he had seen ceramics and other decorations many times, naturally having higher standards:

"Mom, do you think when the time comes, we should find someone else for renovations, or directly contact the Huaxia people's renovation team through the unit?"

"Of course, we should find someone ourselves."

Before Lin Guimei could express her opinion, Huang Lizhu spoke up first:

"Seven or eight years ago, when I was in Dongtao City, I worked as a laborer, so I know a bit about it.

It's obviously cheaper to find private work for such things, isn't there a tiler in the tent next door?

And further away there's the one-eyed dragon, who's also good at patching up leaks."

However, Lin Guimei shook her head, placing her hands on her hips:

"A tiler is a tiler, but we don't need to tile this house, and the same goes for patching leaks, are you going to create a leak to patch it first?

And how can private work quality compare to machines? It's not like you haven't seen those machines.

This house is one we have to live in for a lifetime, we can't skimp on this."

"That's not necessarily true, we lived in a thatched cottage, why live so well now? It would be better to save some money for Xiaoyuan and Yu Sheng to plan for the future....

Looking at his parents with differing opinions, the corners of Huang Yusheng's mouth curved into a slight smile.

This truly is a blissful dilemma....

"Knock knock knock——"

Just then, the sound of knocking came from outside the house:

"Is anyone there?"

Lin Guimei couldn't help but exchange glances with her husband, and they all went to the door together:

"Who is it?"

At this moment, a few people dressed just as plainly stood outside the door.

The leader was a woman about Lin Guimei's age, and she smiled immediately upon hearing the inquiry:

"Hello, big sister, we are from room 405 next door. We heard noises here and came over to have a look, to get acquainted."

It then dawned on Lin Guimei, and she quickly put on a smile:

"Oh, oh, so you're our neighbors.

Come, let me introduce, I'm Lin Guimei, this is my husband....my daughter.....

This is my son, he's not married yet, currently works as an operator at a bicycle factory."

Upon hearing Lin Guimei's introduction, a strange gleam appeared in the neighboring woman's eyes.

She then pulled aside a girl about the same age as Huang Yusheng and said:

"Oh? An operator?

How fortunate, this is my daughter Liang Xiaolan, and she's an operator too....."

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