Wu Lang Builds His Own Home

A real story about dreams coming true

Villagers would come irregularly to help during the building process of Wu Lang's house, especially his good friend Ah Liang. Last month, he came almost every day.

Wu Lang said, "We have been very good friends since we were very young, we are closer than with our wives. After primary school, we worked together driving trucks carrying vegetables to the market. We all have to drive fast as the price would drop if we arrived late. It is dangerous, and I have seen a friend who crashed his car in the highway. I was very much terrified and do not dare to speed-drive anymore. Later I return to the clan. It is unthinkable that we are building our own houses together. I try to work on the parts that I am able to do and so save money from hiring others."

After completing the framework of the house, before the ceremony of "fixing the top beam", Wu Lang went to invite friends for a meal, thanking them for their help.

He said, "After the earthquake, we let our neighbours use the yard of our temporary shelter to keep their building materials. I was full of mixed feelings to look at our temporary shelter and our piece of ancestral land which had no proper house yet. It was very hard for me to say in words that we had no proper house. My wife shared the same thought, but we could only think about the house in our heart. To be frank, at the beginning, I was very uncertain if we could build our own house. Even now, it is still incredible that the house has actually been built. It looks like a dream. My elder sister will come over tonight, and I will ask her to walk around our new house, for she did not believe that this house is actually built by me. "

Mrs. Wu Lang said, "After the roof was fixed, sometimes he would work alone at night, feeling delighted. He said that though he was not a skilled worker, his work was fine. I have been married to him for more than ten years, yet only now do I know that he can do welding work. "

At one time, the roof had just been fixed, the walls had not yet been put up, and at night Wu Lang made his bed in the house's shell. When asked, he told his neighbours, "This is my own house. Of course I should stay there first."