Chapter 151 Repair the roof
The next morning, after eating Aunt Molly's beef burritos and egg bacon with avocado and tomato salsa, the crowd set out in groups, with Hannah in the front in an F150 and Walker in a pickup truck full of building materials.
Half an hour later, the group arrived at Hannah's small farm, where an old white-haired Mexican couple was already dressed in formal national costumes and were looking forward to it at the farm's gate.
The elder Tiago wears a large cloak like a 'chamando' and a large wide-brimmed straw hat that is classic of the Mexicans, while the old woman wears a traditional 'chinaburana' skirt with gold trim on a black background and embroidered with red, white and green.
"Welcome home, dear."
The wrinkled old woman held Hannah's hand in her palm and looked at her with tears in her eyes.
Old Thiago stood aside, silently smoking a corn pipe without saying a word, but his eyes were slightly red.
Both of them were Stephens' ranch workers, and for so many years, they had faithfully guarded the small farm for Hannah, and they had also made it their home.
A Lexus SUV sped in from a distance, stopped on the side, and a handsome guy who looked a little like Walker, but was younger, jumped out and shouted, "Hey, guys, I'm not late." ”
"I thought you weren't coming today, come over and help unload things."
When the old father Bonham saw his youngest son, he unceremoniously threw him a pair of gloves.
"Liam, how long has it been since you've been home, stinky boy?" Walker stepped forward and hugged his brother tightly.
Completely opposite to his brother's image, Liam's cheeks are cleaner than Jack's, and although he also wears working overalls, he looks more like a professional elite than a cowboy.
"Why do you have the face to speak out here, and I don't know which guy it is, the last time I went to the border on a mission, I didn't come back for three months, I just recently got promoted and was a little busy."
Liam also hugged his brother hard and began to push hard.
"Yes, yes, it looks like we have one of the best assistant prosecutors ever, but I'm still my brother."
Then everyone laughed and watched the two brothers scuffle together.
"Hey, if you two still want to go home for dinner, stop me and get to work."
Aunt Molly roared, the two sons suddenly turned off the flames, and some unwilling gestures to each other, Walker obediently climbed into the truck and began to move things.
"Howdy, Hannah, long time no see, is this handsome guy your boyfriend?" Liam and Hannah hugged and asked jokingly.
"I'm sorry, I don't think you're his cup of tea."
Hannah looked more familiar with Liam and unceremoniously punched him twice in the shoulder.
Jack is very friendly and takes the initiative to reach out, in the original play, Liam is set as a J guy, although he is not very interested in J guy, but excluding sexual orientation, this is not much different from normal people in terms of feelings, and even more conservative than most of the old beauties, and it is even better for his family.
In the original play, Walker chose to escape from his wife's death, or leave his family to seek revenge, but it was his younger brother Liam who stood up in time and moved back to his parents' house to help the old Walker couple take care of their two children who lost their mothers and their fathers were almost missing.
Maybe in this part of Texas, even a minority group like J is unique and different from other places.
Hannah's original house was of good quality, and like Walker's villas, it was a brick and concrete bungalow-style building, which was strong enough to withstand natural disasters such as tornadoes and hailstorms, which are very different from the wooden houses that are everywhere in California.
Huge glass windows allow for good lighting, and the low-sloping roof extends to provide plenty of open space, i.e. a long porch.
Setting up a few rocking chairs under the porch, looking at the cattle on their own pastures in the distance, and enjoying food and beer is the best leisure time for these Texas cowboys.
It can be seen that the old Thiago and his wife have been very careful to maintain the house, although the wooden columns and guardrails at the porch have been dyed with mottled colors by the years, but they are very clean, and the wooden floor is well protected, and after all these years, it is still as bright as new.
The tiles on one of the roofs had to be repaired, because of the damage to the internal structure, which caused a lot of cement tiles to fall off and leak some rain, which was not a job that two old Mexicans could do.
Three strong laborers, one old and one young, a total of five men, unloaded the building materials of the whole car in less than half an hour, and Bonham began to arrange the division of labor among the people.
The women were tasked with repainting the wooden doors, windows, and parapet posts, while the men gathered and began to study how to repair the damage.
"The roof on this side needs to be re-reinforced before it can be re-tiled, Walker, you and your brother go up and measure the dimensions to see how much we need to tear down." Bonham said to his son.
Jack walked into the house, opened the ceiling to look inside the roof, and then took the initiative to ask.
"The broken wooden structure is about seven or eight square meters, I'll deal with the wood first, and after you remove the broken parts, tell me the specific size."
Tools such as circular saws, planers, sanders, and air nail guns were all available on site, and Jack felt able to handle them with ease.
"Are you sure one person can do it?" Uncle Bonham gave him a look of surprise, he had been prepared to let only the young man do it.
"If you can ask Augie to help, my home in LA is my own kitchen and bathroom."
As he spoke, Jack pulled up the photo on his phone, which showed his closed kitchen and the super luxurious bathtub.
Uncle Bonham shrugged his shoulders and teased with a smile, "Then let's get started, I thought you people in the city were braggart, Augie, come and help." ”
Because it was to deal with the test of the 'mother's family', Jack used twelve points of strength, if it weren't for the lack of gold coins in the system, he would have the heart to upgrade his carpentry skills to a master in one go, and amaze these Texas cowboys.
However, although the previous ogre incident allowed him to harvest a lot of gold, and the system gold coins also fished 2, but with the previous 3 coins, it was only enough to upgrade a skillful skill to mastery.
So he is also YY in his heart, where is he willing to waste, although now the carpentry skill (skilled) progress bar is close to full, but the pit dad system will not reduce the cost of gold coins, that is, if you want to upgrade, you still have to spend 5 system gold coins.
Fortunately, Jack is now in good shape, just a simple collection of wood for roof repair, and after the Walker brothers climbed onto the roof and removed all the damaged parts, he had already completed the preliminary processing work quickly.
"This kid is a good worker!"
Uncle Bonham lifted a piece of the beam, looked at the flatness, rubbed it with his fingers, felt smooth and burr-free, patted Jack on the shoulder, and spoke in the direction of the busy ladies on the other side.
There was giggling laughter from the lady's side, and I wonder if it was Aunt Molly or Emily who was joking with Hannah.
(End of chapter)