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Chapter 787
Nia's pregnancy is definitely not a trivial matter for Jimmy, and it is the same for Kevin, even if it is just checked out, Kevin still asks Nia to take a few days off, and it just so happens that now Jimmy is also freer, so he simply goes to the office to show his face and skips work and goes home.
Going to buy ingredients and cook something, it is already a traditional art for Jimmy, and he used to occasionally make his own adjustments, but now that Nia is pregnant, in the most exciting days in the early stage, Jimmy basically gave up other activities, and stayed at home with Nia all day, and even went to Roland's side less.
Of course, Roland also knew that Nia was pregnant, and after coming to the door to say hello, he suspended the training of Nia and said it later.
Of course, Nia couldn't stay at home all day, and Jimmy, the house in Brooklyn, accompanied Nia to see it twice, and walked around by the way.
The house is indeed very dilapidated, but Jimmy has already told Nia that he will find a design company and a construction company to rebuild, so naturally there is no opinion, Nia likes the park next to it, because this house is next to the park, and you can enter the park directly from the side, strictly speaking, the park can be used as the garden of this house.
Next to the church, the surrounding residential area looks pretty good, at least not a dirty and messy area, as for the purchase of daily necessities and the surrounding safety-related issues, these can be slowly investigated later, at least from the results of Nia's on-site observation now, it must be very comfortable to build a small building here to live.
Jimmy is also relieved, as long as Nia has no opinion on this matter, many things can be handled normally, if she doesn't agree, she can't make their family discord for a door, Jimmy will definitely choose to love what's wrong, live a good life by herself, and the rest will be as fate as she goes.
Time will not stop, soon the design company came up with their design plan, Jimmy in order to protect the basement, asked the designer to continue to use the original foundation, of course, the original foundation reinforcement design must be, after all, it is not a few decades ago, in order to ensure the safety of the two-story building above, the original foundation must be poured reinforced concrete outside.
The area of the small building is not small, about 100 square meters, the size is about the same as Jimmy's current apartment, but the house to be built is double-storey, of course, the usable area is larger, the first floor is the living room, kitchen and bathroom, storage room and other rooms, there is a small activity room, the second floor is mainly the main and guest bedrooms and a separate baby room, in addition to the necessary rooms, there are cloakrooms and storage rooms, the biggest advantage of ample space is that each room will not be so cramped, and it will be more comfortable to live.
Jimmy and Nia went to the small building many times in a row, and of course they had some communication with the people in the church, and the news that Nia was pregnant was spread out like this, so when Jimmy was completely unprepared, Father White, who was the witness for their marriage, actually left St. Andrew's Church and came to Manhattan to invite Jimmy and Nia to meet.
Father White was their nobleman, after all, allowing Jimmy and Nia to use St. Andrew's Church for their wedding had brought too many hidden benefits to their family, so when Father White called, they had no idea of refusing at all, and happily went to Father Rodney's church.
Sure enough, as Jimmy thought, even if the child that Nia is pregnant with has not yet been revealed, the church still pays very much attention to this future child, and after seeing them, Father White chatted briefly for a while, and arranged a blessing ceremony for Nia and her future child, and even temporarily emptied the chapel during the ceremony in order to avoid interference, and even temporarily emptied the chapel during the ceremony.
After the ceremony, Father White also specially told Jimmy to take care of Nia, hey, the group of people in the church is really too realistic, I used to focus on Jimmy, but now after Nia is pregnant, Jimmy has become yesterday's yellow flower, facing an old man like Father White, Jimmy can only nod helplessly, and now he feels more and more that his status is low.
Roland originally hoped to rely on Nia to influence Jimmy, but now Nia's pregnancy directly disrupted his plan, allowing Jimmy to temporarily abandon his pregnant wife and go to the Dark Tower world with him, but he felt impossible when he thought about it, and in desperation, he could only choose to go back first, and come back after a while, and by the way, he also found the portal he had used before to open the two sides.
He understands what Jimmy is worried about, but if he can ensure that the portals on both sides are unobstructed and he can return at any time, it should not be a particularly difficult choice for Jimmy to accept, after all, it is regarded as a distraction, and it is also a small gain to go around in the past few days and see different scenery.
Roland's plan was good, but everything had to wait until the house was finished.
The homeless man in the house has been kicked out, of course, Jimmy didn't do it, the others are forgotten, the two children that Father Koch knows still need to be cared for, Jimmy gave them a sum of money to temporarily improve their food, and asked someone to find a cheap single room next to them for them to live temporarily, as for the follow-up arrangements, Father Koch will solve it, this does not need Jimmy to worry about anymore.
Before rebuilding this house, Jimmy and Roland still had some things to do, they prepared some materials in advance, the walls of the basement were covered with wooden boards, the position of the door and the position of the controller were hidden behind the wooden boards, so that even if those workers strayed into the basement during the construction of the house, it would not be exposed, and they wondered at most why the basement of this house was not rebuilt, without worrying about them running to the dark tower world or other worlds.
Of course, someone deliberately sabotaged it is another matter, this can only be counted on the construction workers not to be so boring, Jimmy can't be staring at the scene all the time, he still needs to go to work, and Roland left New York when the wound on his leg does not affect his activities.
He said that he wanted to go back to Texas to see the old house, and Jimmy didn't stop him, but for safety and to prevent further problems, he still used some tricks to register Roland's two revolvers, so that Roland could take the flight normally, and only need to go through the check-in process to check in the two guns to solve the problem of carrying.
Time passed day by day, Nia's original toned figure began to be out of shape, and it was still inconvenient for her to be pregnant, after all, the police uniform was not a maternity uniform, but there was a father who was the director of the NYPD bureau was tough, so even if he was transferred to the management post, he still didn't have much work, and he didn't change his police uniform according to the normal requirements at work, often wearing daily civilian clothes in the office, and even often skipping work to rest at home.
That's right, Nia has been transferred from the Detective Bureau to a management position, and the security level of sitting in the office is definitely much higher than going out to investigate the case, so that both Jimmy and Kevin will feel at ease, don't worry so much, as for small things like her occupying someone else's position, it is actually not difficult to solve, Kevin's side must have made arrangements, whether it is to provide some benefits privately or make some transaction adjustments with some people, in the end, this matter has been successfully resolved.
Perhaps because the church was also paying attention, the construction company did not delay the progress of the project at all, the main structure was completed in about a month, and the rest of the interior decoration and electrical appliances and furniture installation and commissioning were also completed quickly, and three months later, Jimmy and Nia finally ushered in the moment of moving into their new home.
Unlike reinforced concrete buildings, wooden houses can be moved in directly after they are built, and Jimmy chooses NAF grade for decoration and furniture, in order to ensure the health of Nia and the child, Jimmy has spent a lot of money, but this has the advantage that this new home does not need them to wait at all.
The history of the underground pipe network in New York is too long, so it is also necessary to install household appliances such as water purifiers at home, but fortunately, the pure water used for cooking and drinking water is usually used, and the water in the water pipe is mainly used cleanly, which is not a big problem.
Moving is actually very simple, Nia only needs to organize her own things, and the rest is Jimmy's business, and everything is ready on the new side, except for a few personal belongings and clothes, nothing else needs to be brought over.
Jimmy has a lot of things, and those things in the study need to be packed and brought over, including the safe and their gun racks, so these still have to be handled by a special moving company, and it is not a big problem, as long as it costs money, it can be easily done.
As for this apartment, of course, it is impossible to sell it casually, so it can only be kept for the time being, and maybe it will be useful later.
After coming to the new home and settling Nia, Jimmy immediately came to the corner storage room, where the corner was a specially set secret door, and when it was opened, it revealed the stairs in the basement, and when he turned on the power switch next to the stairs, the large basement was completely displayed in front of him.
The basement does not cover the full range of the land, but at least it is more than 60 square meters, and the height is about two meters, although it is not particularly high, at least Jimmy and Roland will not touch their heads, which is enough, the kind of basement that is too low is too aggrieved, and Jimmy does not like it.
Several concrete pillars stand in the middle of the basement to support the structure of the house above, and the floor has been leveled and poured with cement, which looks clean.
There are a lot of shelves along the basement perimeter, which are still empty for the time being, and you can put some things that you don't use often here when you have time later.
The walls around the perimeter were waterproofed by the construction company as designed, and dehumidifiers and exhaust fans were installed in the basement to ensure that the interior of the basement was not too humid and that the air could be properly circulated.
The basement is a must for many people in the United States, these treatments are also basic operations, there is no need to worry about the effect, Jimmy's requirement for them is that the walls that are closed by him in advance do not make any changes, and the other parts are carried out according to their normal treatment plan, of course, the wires are also necessary to connect to the basement, which will become a small studio for Jimmy when necessary, used to deal with some things that are inconvenient to deal with in the study above.
A backup generator is installed in the corner of the basement to supply electricity to the whole house in case of emergency, and there is a reinforced oil drum next to it, which can basically ensure the safety of the place as long as it is not a serious accident such as a major earthquake.
Jimmy carefully examined the walls he had closed before, and there was no damage to the corners, and the marks he left were not touched, which was a good sign.
He didn't know how to activate this portal, so in order to avoid his own misoperation, he didn't remove the wooden planks on the wall for the time being, just make sure that there was no problem here, and the next thing was to wait for Roland to return.
After Roland left New York, he returned to his wooden house in Texas, although he left for a few years, but he did not sell it when he left, but when he returned this time, he found that the wooden house was seriously corrupted, after all, it was built by the lake, and water vapor infection was unavoidable.
After carefully cleaning it up, he will no longer toss after leaving himself a living space, and it is estimated that it will continue to be abandoned in the future, if it really wants to live for a long time, it is better to directly dismantle and rebuild it to come faster.
He doesn't lack the experience of living here, the biggest problem in New York before is not that he is uncomfortable, but that there are too many people around, too many rules are too restrictive, although he doesn't have to worry about the money, Jimmy provides him with cash, and the hotel room is also paid by Jimmy, but daily life still makes him incompatible with the people around him, so after the injury does not affect the action, Roland chose to leave.
Returning here, even if there are many inconveniences, Roland still feels that it is more relaxed and safer here, and when he comes back from purchasing some daily necessities, Roland once again incarnates as a hunter and enters the woods next to him, hunting is not a problem for him at all, whether it is here or in the Dark Tower world.
After waiting for Jimmy's side to inform him that they had moved into the house, Roland packed his bags again and flew back to New York, only this time he didn't need to stay in a hotel, Jimmy's previous house was empty, just enough for him to move in.
In the basement, Jimmy turned on the light and took Roland down, Nia had already gone to work early in the morning, and now there were only the two of them left, and she was a little freer to speak.
Jimmy: "It's cleaned up, can we remove the planks from the wall?" ”
Roland nodded, the two of them took a crowbar and axe from the shelf next to them, and carefully removed the planks and frames that had been installed on the wall little by little, revealing a wall that didn't look special, Jimmy knocked on the wall and said to Roland: "I wanted to ask you before, I didn't see the door here." ”
Roland: "That's because the door hasn't been opened yet, let's tear down the other side." ”
The wall on the other side was different, and after the demolition was in front of them, they were greeted by a very strange machine, which looked very old, with a boxy display on it, and it looked out of place with the machine itself.
I didn't finish last night.,I was going to fish in the morning.,It turned out to be a two-hour meeting.,It's too tragic.。 It's finally done at noon. Sorry, still late.
(End of chapter)