The Lin father and daughter went out to the main street.

It was the morning rush hour; there were many pedestrians and vehicles passing on the street, and the shops along the sidewalk were open for business.

“What do you want to eat?” Lin Cheng lowered his head and asked Lin Momo.

Lin Momo looked around in front of the surrounding restaurants. Seeing the prices listed outside the stores, Lin Momo looked around in confusion.

… It seemed they could barely afford to eat steamed buns this week.

“Let’s not eat here,” Lin Momo pulled Lin Cheng’s hand.

Lin Momo looked around, then seemed to have determined the direction, “Okay, let’s go over there.” She took Lin Cheng’s hand again and walked towards the opposite end of the road.

Soon, the father and daughter came to a nearby street, where there was a Huimin Supermarket¹.

“Dad, look, they also sell breakfast there,” Lin Momo pointed to the Huimin Supermarket across the road.

It was morning market time at this time, and the whole supermarket was crowded with people who came to buy food.

The carts at the entrance of the supermarket were piled with vegetables and meat products at special prices. There was also a cart selling mantou, steamed buns, and flower rolls on the cart next to it. Most of the people were gathered here.

“Breakfast here is cheaper than back over there!” Lin Momo said.

Here, a bag of five mantou only cost 4 yuan, flower rolls cost 1 yuan each, and steamed buns with meat or vegetable fillings only cost 1.5 yuan each. They were indeed cheaper than those in roadside shops.

When Lin Momo lived with her grandma, they would sometimes buy things at Huimin Supermarket like this.

It was just that the place they lived at that time was too far away from Huimin Supermarket, so they couldn’t go there often.

“How did you know where to find this place?” Lin Cheng asked Lin Momo.

“Yesterday, I saw it from the car window when the program crew drove us here.” 

On the way here yesterday, Lin Momo tried her best to note down the roads around where they were going to live and the places they would pass by. This supermarket was one of places she took note of.

… …

[I said yesterday that Momo was leaning on the car window mumbling something. It turned out that she was trying to figure out the way. ]

[So smart! ]

[I have never thought so much as an adult…]

[The main reason is that the life background of the father and daughter in the previous issues had been too miserable. It seems to have developed the child’s ‘sense of worry’ (dog head)]

… …

Lin Cheng smiled and rubbed Lin Momo’s head and said, “Let’s go.”

“Wait a minute,” Lin Momo grabbed Lin Cheng and said, “Let’s buy it later.”

The father and daughter stood outside the supermarket for a while, until the people in the morning market rush gradually dispersed. At this time, there were still some leftover vegetables and unsold steamed buns on the supermarket carts.

Supermarket staff soon gathered the remaining items together and slapped orange half-price tags on them.

“That’s it!”

“Now it’s only half the price!” Lin Momo said to Lin Cheng excitedly.

……

In the livestream channel, everyone was still wondering what the father and daughter were doing standing at the entrance of the supermarket without going in or buying anything. It was not until they saw the two buying 4 steamed buns and 2 cups of soy milk for only 4 yuan that they finally came to their senses. 

[Wut! Momo is really a good at saving money!]　　

[I have also bought half-price or buy-one-get-one-free discounted food in supermarkets like this before. There are quite a lot who do this, but I didn’t expect that Lin Cheng and Momo were waiting outside for so long just for this.]

[Haha, I really haven’t tried to do this, I feel like I learned something from Momo again.]

[Another day to learn survival skills in the livestream channel.]

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Holding the big half-priced steamed bun, Lin Momo looked very satisfied.

“It’s just a little flattened, but the taste is the same, and the temperature of the soy milk is just right at this time!”

Seeing Lin Momo’s ‘please praise me’ expression on her face, Lin Cheng smiled and rubbed her head again.

The father and daughter finished breakfast while sitting on a bench outside the supermarket. Lin Cheng then took Lin Momo to ask for directions and found the nearby hardware and building materials market.

Here, Lin Cheng bought some nails, iron door bolts and necessary materials.

… …

On the way back, Lin Momo held the envelope containing their money for the week and thought about it with a painful look on her face.

“It cost 15 yuan to buy all kinds of nails, 8 yuan for foam glue, 7 yuan for the door bolts, 11 yuan for striped plastic tarpaulin, and…”

“Dad, we only have 28 yuan and 60 cents left.” Lin Momo said to Lin Cheng.

“It’s okay, I can still earn more.”

“Okay,” Lin Momo nodded.

The two returned to their temporary home.

Lin Cheng put down the things he had bought and prepared to go out.

“I’ll go take a look around.” Because of the current state of their very limited funds, Lin Cheng wanted to strengthen the house, but he couldn’t buy everything he needed. Some things could only be found by looking at what’s nearby.

“I’ll go too,” Lin Momo said.

Faced with Lin Momo’s insistence, Lin Cheng considered for a moment and nodded, but he still warned, “Follow me closely, pay attention to safety, don’t run around.”

“Okay!”

The demolition of the houses originality built on this shantytown left a lot of construction waste that had not been cleared out in time. The original residents also left behind a lot of discarded furniture and items before moving out.

After several years, most of those things have been already been picked up and used by the later ‘residents’, but there were still a lot of materials left— some useful and some useless—all piled together in a heap around the shanty town.

The father and daughter searched this area.

Under a patch of grassy gravel and damaged bricks, Lin Cheng found some wooden planks that were not seriously damaged and could still be used.

After another round of observation, Lin Cheng finally locked onto an area and found some construction waste hidden behind a pile of debris—some thin, colored, corrugated steel plates that were damaged, faded and deformed, and several foam-sandwiched composite panels.

These must have been left behind after the original demolition construction team left.

Lin Cheng continued to search for things nearby that could be used.

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: Visual aids so we can all imagine the same things!

Striped plastic tarpaulin. It’s very thin and flimsy but it’s waterproof so it can keep out the rain.

Thin, colored, corrugated steel plates.

Foam-sandwiched composite panels.

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Chapter 83.2 — Learning Things
Chapter 83.3 — Learning Things
Chapter 83.4 — Learning Things

FOOTNOTE:

1. This seems to be a chain brand of supermarkets. ↩︎