Lin Momo had not been standing idly by on the side.

Among the pile of scraps, Lin Momo also found an empty metal paint bucket.

“Dad! We can take this bucket back and use it as a trash can!” Lin Momo said to Lin Cheng excitedly.

Looking at the somewhat deformed metal bucket in Lin Momo’s hand, Lin Cheng didn’t dislike it. He nodded and replied, “Okay.”

“The size is just right,” Lin Momo looked at the metal bucket again with satisfaction.

However, the next second, Lin Momo changed her mind.

Lin Momo weighed the metal bucket and whispered to herself, “It’s better to sell it…”

She picked up the metal bucket and began searching around again.

After some searching, the father and daughter found quite a lot.

The two carried the things they found back to the front of the house they were living in.

Seeing the things Lin Cheng brought back, the repairman who lived next door was stunned for a moment, then kindly reminded him, “It’s useless for you to pick up these things. The inside is full of foam, and the outer layer is all synthetic. There isn’t much metal in it, so even though it looks like its much, it won’t make much money. “

“I know, I picked these up to strengthen the house a little bit,” Lin Cheng explained.

Hearing Lin Cheng’s words, the repairman was a little surprised.

The people who live here were either blind migrants who couldn’t find a place to live, or they worked jobs that forced them to be outside all day long. As long as the house didn’t collapse on top of them, and there was a place to shelter from the wind and rain, generally, few people would waste time and energy to reinforce houses that were intended to just be temporary residences.

Besides, he heard that this father and daughter would not live here for long.

… …

Lin Cheng wasted no time and borrowed a ladder and tools from his repairman neighbor. With the help of the repairman, using the boards and wooden planks he had picked up earlier, Lin Cheng began to strengthen the roof section of the house.

Lin Cheng first removed the advertising fabrics and tarpaulins that had been placed on top of the roof to somewhat withstand the rain; then he spread the colored striped tarpaulin he bought over the wooden frame. He then placed some of the thin colored steel plates he picked up on top of it, and nailed them to the wooden planks.

“Give me those advertising canvass,” Lin Cheng said to Lin Momo, pointing to the torn tarpaulins that had been dismantled earlier.

“Do you want these?” Lin Momo picked up the torn tarp on the ground and handed it to Lin Cheng overhead, a confused look on her face.

“Putting these on the outside can reduce the noise when it rains,” Lin Cheng explained patiently.

… …

[God, Lin Cheng must have thought about this very carefully.]

The audience in the livestream channel couldn’t help but sigh.

[Lin Cheng’s behavior makes me feel that they will live here for a long time.]

[Haha, they still have to stay for a week anyway. They are responsible for their own safety. The only thing I didn’t expect was that Lin Cheng could even do this!]

[Indeed, Lin Cheng surprised me so much.]

[Previously, the show has been hyping Gao Yuankai’s all-around handyman daddy character. Now I find that everyone has misunderstood. Lin Cheng is the real all-around handyman dad!]

[I am now curious about what Lin Cheng went through before entering the entertainment industry.]

[Same. Super curious.]

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

While everyone in the livestream channel was talking incessantly, Lin Cheng has completed reinforcing the roof with the help of his neighbors.

Outside the house, Lin Cheng used the small planks of wood he picked up to strengthen the connection between the cabinets that acted as walls of the house. He drove styrofoam between the cabinets filling the gaps. 

Finally, he tackled the walls inside the house. The newspapers, magazines, and cartons that blocked light and wind were torn off one by one and replaced with lightweight synthetic foam boards picked up from the ruins.

Although these boards offered no structural support, they provided some warmth as well as sound insulation.

As for the glass panels on the old wooden door frames, Lin Cheng covered it with a semi-transparent film he bought from the building materials market; this would block the view of inside the house from the outside without affecting the lighting.

Finally, Lin Cheng installed the two door bolts he bought on the wooden door: one inside and one outside. However, Lin Cheng deliberately installed the bolt on the inside a little lower.

It was almost noon by the time he finished doing all this.

The paper and cardboard pulled from the wall, the springs removed from the mattress in the morning, and the things picked up from the debris pile had all been packed up by Lin Momo and separated into appropriate categories. It was a pretty hefty bundle.

“Didn’t you want this as trash can?” Lin Cheng asked. Looking at the three bundles of recyclable materials, he pointed to the metal bucket that Lin Momo had picked up earlier.

“No more.” If they sell this, they could get at least 1.5 yuan for it.

“Let’s go then,” Lin Cheng picked up the scrap materials.

But before they could even go out, Lin Momo regretted it and changed her mind again, “Well, it’s better to keep this bucket.”

After throwing away most of the things in the morning, their house could really be called ‘bare’. This metal bucket could also be considered a piece of ‘furniture’.

“Look, this bucket can usually hold trash. But if you turn it over, it can also be used as a small stool. When I squat down before it, it becomes a small table.” 

Lin Momo demonstrated it to Lin Cheng, as if she was trying her best to let her dad see how useful it could be.

Seeing this, Lin Cheng suppressed a smile and nodded, “Okay, it can stay.”

The metal bucket was left behind. The other items were carried to a nearby scrap recycling station by the Lin father and daughter.

… …

The scenes in the livestream channel reminded many viewers of the first week of the show when Lin Momo went to sell scraps alone.

[No, I’m recalling the time when Momo went to sell scraps and now I want to cry.]

[Me too, at first I thought it was just the script from the show, I never expected it to be true.]

[I reasonably suspect that during the years when Lin Cheng lost his popularity, their family’s life may not be as good as even that of ordinary families.]

[I think so, too.]

Lin Cheng and Lin Momo were so ‘handy’ at doing these things that it was hard not to wonder whether they had experienced similarly difficult predicaments before.

[It would be too tragic if this were the case…]

[This is so distressing…]

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

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Chapter 83.3 — Learning Things
Chapter 83.4 — Learning Things