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Need help with the translation of this short dialogue, please


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Here's the dialogue I'm talking about; Line 1 and line 5 are from the same speaker, lines 2,3,4 are from a different speaker. If it might be useful (no clue) this is during a phone call. Thanks for your help!

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Would help to know relationships too but implication is they're all members of same family, appears to be child and mother. Going with that as an assumption:

 

What about dad?

Your dad is...

You want to know where is he/what's he at? [人 can be used as a shorthand question to query status/whereabouts of someone]

He's building a/fixing the pigsty.

Well then I'll wait a couple of days before I come back to get it [literally just come back after two days but linking it to the news that dad is busy]

 

ETA Just edited as saw I'd missed line three is from speaker of lines 2 and 4

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