After dinner, the adults continued chatting, and Fu Ying was forced to join the crowd watching TV.
The aunts-in-law tried to persuade Mom Fu and the others to stay at their house, saying they had plenty of rooms and everything they needed. It was true: with so many uncles around, each family made the most efficient use of their house-building methods, and by now they were already capable of building three-story homes.
Having many rooms had its major uses, such as renting them out. Zhaojiatun had no high school—only an elementary and a middle school. The middle school was quite large, but it lacked dormitories. Consequently, students from farther away would rent rooms to live in. Because the eldest uncle's house was close to the middle school and had many rooms, a lot of them were rented out. Just like Second Aunt Fu's place in Gumang, bunk beds were set up so several people could share a room; the students could eat at school, outside, or right here as long as they paid for their meals.
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