Madam Qu immediately turned her head and looked towards the store ahead.
Fourth Brother Hai glanced at the carpenter inquiringly, and the carpenter shook his head in horror.
Xianjin asked loudly, "What happened?"
As he spoke, he lifted up his coat and ran quickly towards the front store. He had no time to open an umbrella and let the heavy rain wet his hair, which was tied into several strands and stuck to his temples. When he reached the door of the front store, he stood there in a daze.
Madam Qu had difficulty walking, but she followed closely with her cane. After seeing clearly, her nostrils flared, and she was very shocked.
The front store was a mess.
The beam collapsed.
A round wooden strip about ten meters long, which had been burned with fire to prevent corrosion and insects and then coated with a layer of varnish, was hung on a beam at one end and smashed hard on the square brick floor at the other end.
A large raised hole was smashed into the ground, with yellow sand filling the air like flying dust in the spacious shop!
Aunt Qu coughed violently a few times because of the choking. After seeing the situation clearly, she felt so lucky. She turned back and forth and patted her chest, "Fortunately, fortunately! There was no one here just now! If someone stood here, I'm afraid they would have lost their lives!" While feeling lucky, Fang remembered to exclaim, "It was just repaired, how could it collapse!"
Xianjin used his hand to sweep away the dust, stepped over the horizontal bar, squatted down, and carefully studied the two ends of the wooden strip in the light of the patio. He raised his eyes and said in a deep voice, "The crossbeam structure is mostly based on mortise and tenon joints. This wood has a raised surface, also known as a mortise. The carpenter is not good enough, and the tenon surface is not chiseled balanced enough. In addition, the varnish has just been applied and has not been completely drained. The wooden strip itself is smooth and has just been shaken by thunder and lightning. Naturally, it is not solid!"
Fourth Brother Hai hurriedly looked at the carpenter.
The carpenter lowered his head in guilt: How dare you give this kind of beam-building work to an apprentice like him? He only gets ten cents a day, isn't this a practical action to prove to the boss that "you get what you pay for"...
Fourth Brother Hai took a few deep breaths and forced a smile, "Let's rebuild it! Build it again!"
Xianjin turned his palm outward, signaling Fourth Brother Hai not to speak, and handed a piece of sawdust to Old Madam Qu, "...This is the fir tree that Master Hai offered 27 taels of silver for."
Aunt Qu gasped, "Why don't you go and rob it! It's more expensive than my coffin!"
Madam Qu's expression showed no clues. She took the sawdust and sniffed it with a calm expression. "If it is fragrant fir, one meter is one tael of silver, of course it is worth the price..."
Fourth Brother Hai's heart skipped a beat and he subconsciously looked for Chen Laowu, but to no avail. Suddenly he remembered that Chen Laowu did not come with him today!
Madam Qu threw the sawdust on the ground and said, "This is just an ordinary fir tree. One and a half taels of silver is too much. How dare you ask the Chen family to pay a sky-high price of twenty-seven taels?"
Fourth Brother Hai opened his mouth and said, "No, no, no, old lady, please listen to my excuse. Oh no, explain!" Fourth Brother Hai looked around and finally locked the bull's eye of the pot on the temporary carpenter Xiao Li. "It was him! I asked him to buy fragrant fir wood, but he sold inferior wood as good quality and made a profit from the difference!"
Temporary worker Xiao Li opened his eyes wide with innocence, feeling that he was being blamed for no reason. The intern was fearless in rectifying the workplace and shouted loudly, "I don't trust you! I've only been in this business for twelve days, and I can't even find where to buy wood!"
Madam Qu leaned her hand on her cane, her expression gloomy, "...The wages are nine hundred and fifty taels, the warehouse is flooded, the beams are collapsed, the wood is stolen, and the workers are not veterans...Mr. Hai, you do business like this, do you not want to continue working in Xuancheng?"
Xianjin sneered, squatted down and grabbed a handful of sand and bricks from the pit, "You bought the worst bricks, right? So thin, as crisp as puff pastry! And the sand! Three parts white lime and seven parts black clay, this is the 30-70 rule you created, right? Look at it yourself, what is this yellow sand?"
"The soil layer without black clay is like an unequal marriage, which will fall apart at the slightest breeze!"
Xianjin looked at Hai Sige indignantly, "The raw materials are fake! The workmanship is shoddy! The money is deducted! I won't pay you such an unlucky compensation for the beam that hit you! Just for your work, I will only pay you fifty silver coins! Now I have given you six hundred taels, if you give me five hundred and fifty taels, I will not sue you in the government office, nor will I publicize your good deeds to the neighbors!"
What? !
Spit out five hundred taels? !
He gave Chen Laowu nearly three hundred taels of silver as a bribe! Before the deal was done, he called several prostitutes to the Cuiyu Tower to accompany him to drink and sing songs, which cost another thirty taels! After the deal was done, he invited Chen Laowu to drink wine to express his gratitude. In total, he spent more than three hundred taels of silver - just for this bill!
Shouldn't he make some money?!
Yes, he was cruel and shameless in this business. He wanted to make a profit of 300 taels with 600 taels... Even if he did a bad job, he still lost 200 to 300 taels!
Now he is asked to spit out five hundred and fifty taels! ?
What? He worked for free, gave for free, and even invited Chen's fifth son to eat for free! ?
How can this be true in this world!
etc.
Aren’t they from the Chen family a group of people?
Cheating him of his capital!
Damn it! The Chen family is really bullying! They rely on their wealth and power to play with little leeches here?
Is he easy to bully?!
Fourth Brother Hai was stunned by Xianjin's shameless "five hundred and fifty taels" and immediately looked up and said, "Then first ask your Fifth Grandfather to spit out the money I gave him as a gift! Spit out the wine he drank! Chop off the hands that were holding Caiyun and Zhuiyue while singing a little song! I will return the money!"
Fourth Brother Hai was so angry that he vomited everything out.
Silence, silence is the heavy rain tonight.
Embarrassment, embarrassment is the sequelae of Brother Hai's quick speech.
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