Mo Yan nodded, smiling, "A mud-brick house is indeed much better than a thatch-roofed one. It seems Aunt Wang's days are going well; to be able to build a mud-brick house so quickly is much better than the other families in the village."
But in her heart, she was well aware that due to the debts accumulated from growing greenhouse vegetables in the summer, the Wang Family wasn't able to pay off their debts and certainly lacked the ability to build a mud-brick house.
Sister-in-law Wang also remembered that there were only about one hundred copper coins in the money jar. She laughed awkwardly, and with a forced smile, she said, "It doesn't matter if adults suffer a bit and get tired, as long as the elderly and children don't have to endure hardship, right?"
"That is true!" Mo Yan agreed. However, she wondered, after all the roundabout talk, what did it have to do with cutting down trees and repairing houses?