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The silver they earned, after deducting the cost, was split fifty-fifty between the two households. Over a few months, the mother and daughter had saved nearly a hundred taels of silver with her. To build a simple three-room house using good bricks and tiles would cost no more than ten or twenty taels. Even if they wanted to build a few more rooms, it wouldn't exceed fifty taels. They had enough silver for that.
Seeing that Mo Yan understood her meaning, Mo Wu's smile deepened, "It should be like this, or how else would we have the saying, 'A gold nest and a silver nest are not as good as one's own dog nest'? When I have built a house, the Yan girl must help me think it through carefully to see how to make it comfortable!"
Mo Yan readily agreed, already having some preliminary ideas for the layout of the soon-to-be-built house.
