Chapter Four
THE HOUSEThey would not have long to wait for the land, although building a house on the plot was a different matter altogether.
When the woman across the road remarried, she moved to the outskirts of Uttaradit, to her husband’s property, but his house was old and rotten, so she had her teak house taken down plank by plank and reconstructed there. This was not unusual, although the tradition was becoming less and less common as bricks and blocks were becoming cheaper than timber, which was now illegal to log without a license. The lady had lived in the area all her life and was happy to sell her plot of land to the newly-wed couple to give them a better start in life.
However, the third of rai plot took all the their family’s savings and a bit more that the bank was willing
