Chapter 222: Phone Call

Can making the floor wider prevent house leaks? The construction foreman immediately understood why it can be prevented!

Now in the town and the city, many buildings that have been built for more than five years have leaks on their roofs, especially those that are more than seven or eight years old. Some are so serious that the rooftop floor is cracked. On rainy days, it rains heavily outside and lightly inside.

However, this was because many workers at the time were inexperienced and did not dig the foundation sufficiently, resulting in the foundation sinking.

But the wall cracks under the top floor slabs are leaking, and almost every household living on the top floor has leaks! In the past two years, he often heard that many people asked him to fix the leaks, but he couldn't find a good way.

He saw that the walls in their house were moldy and they didn't dare to put the wardrobe against the wall.

The top floor is prone to leaks, and not only the construction foreman knows it, but Wen Wan also knows it! In modern times, the stairwells of houses in old urban areas are covered with plasters, all of which are telephone advertisements for unclogging toilets and repairing leaks.

Before her rebirth, she rented the top floor of an old residential complex for a period of time after her divorce. The walls near the ceiling were covered with moss because of water seepage during rainy days!

The rooftop is leaking and water seepage is indeed a big problem! The construction foreman laughed and said, "This is a good idea! Why didn't I think of it before? Haha, next time someone builds a building, I have to remind them."

Father Zhou said with a smile: "Not only the floor, but also the window sill of my house, which is also the window eyebrow, has also floated out more than 30 centimeters. I poured a cement board so that I can open the window a little when it rains lightly, so it won't be stuffy. It was all my daughter-in-law's idea."

The foreman heard this and praised: "Your daughter-in-law must be very educated!"

"Of course! She knows a lot. She helps the publishing house translate English and French every day..." So Zhou's father started his performance again, but this time he was not showing off himself, but Jiang Xia's abilities.

Wen Wan pursed her lips, with disdain flashing in her eyes. Father Zhou probably didn't know that his daughter-in-law could make money by translating in a publishing house because she had a good father, not because she really knew a lot of foreign languages! Not wanting to listen to Father Zhou praising Jiang Xia, she called her construction foreman aside and whispered, "I want the floor slab of my house to float out of the outer wall."

The construction foreman said as soon as he heard it, "You have to add a new board on the outside that is wider. And since you have already nailed it all, if you want to add more now, you have to remove the boards on the edge before you can nail it, which is very time-consuming. You don't have enough wood left here, so you need to find more wood for support. It won't be done in one day. If you want to widen it, then we can't pour the floor today. We have to postpone it for a day or two."

Wen Wan frowned after hearing this, and she couldn't help but say, "Why didn't you learn from the neighbors and float out a little when you did it before!"

Construction foreman: “…”

I have built so many houses, but this is the first time I have seen a host who is so unreasonable as her.

He said patiently, "Although floating the floor slab out a little does sound like it can prevent water seepage, isn't your house going to be two and a half stories? Generally, water leaks and seepage occur on the top floor. Since your house is going to be two stories, I don't think it's necessary to add a first floor. You can just float the second floor out when the time comes."

Wen Wan just wanted to finish building the new house quickly and didn't want to live with her two sisters-in-law. She thought that the water leakage on the top floor was indeed serious. She was not going to build only one floor. She would also build two floors. It would be ok to float out the second floor. So she said, "Then let's leave this floor as it is! No changes! Remember to float out the next floor."

"Okay, let's start laying the floor."

Jiangxia's construction team had already mixed a lot of concrete, and began to pass buckets of concrete up with ropes.

Jiang Xia has returned to the ground to avoid interfering with the workers' work.

Zhou Chenglei stood on it and helped pull bucket after bucket of concrete up from the ground, then handed it to the workers behind him.

The worker behind him took it and passed it to another person, and one worker after another took it and passed it to the other side, until the last worker took it and poured the bucket of concrete onto the floor.

Everyone worked very quickly and it took less than a minute to pass a bucket of concrete.

There are also a few people below who are responsible for filling barrels and mixing concrete.

There are two floors to be poured today.

The bricks in the kitchen and the tool room next to the house have also been laid, and the floor slabs on that level also need to be collapsed.

So prepare a lot of concrete.

Jiang Xia looked at it for a while and then stopped. Jiang Dong and Zhang Fuyan will arrive in Beijing on the train today, so Jiang Dong should be able to return to school in the afternoon.

Last time, she asked Jiang Dong for Ye Xian’s phone number and decided to call Ye Xian and ask her to take good care of Jiang Dong.

So she went home, pushed a bicycle, told Zhou Chenglei that she was going to call Jiang Dong, and rode her bicycle to the production team.

Wen Wan stood on the side of the road, watching Zhou Chenglei's strong arms pull up bucket after bucket of concrete.

Everyone was wearing a white vest, but he was wearing a shirt with his sleeves rolled up, revealing the veins on his forearms. His lines were graceful and full of strength. He pulled up bucket after bucket of concrete quickly and swiftly, as if he would never get tired! She couldn't help but stare at him in a trance.

Zhou Chenglei was a perceptive person and he noticed a pair of eyes fixed on him. He took a quick glance, stopped, pulled his sleeves down, and then continued to pull up bucket after bucket of concrete.

In this era, there are actually very few men like Zhou Chenglei who wear white shirts all day long, especially in the village. In the hot summer, everyone walks around the village in a vest, and some people even work in the fields and at the docks with their upper bodies bare.

But he forgot when the attention on Zhou Chenglei started to soar, and he got used to wearing long-sleeved shirts.

Even so, there were still many eyes on him.

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Jiang Xia rode his bicycle to the production team, parked his bicycle, walked into the office, and found that the person sitting in front of the phone was different, no longer Zhou Li.

She was replaced by a woman who was about the same age as Zhou Li. Jiang Xia only knew that she was from the next village and everyone called her Aunt Hong.

Jiang Xia smiled and called out, "Auntie Hong, why are you sitting here today?"

Aunt Hong smiled and said, "I will sit here from now on."

After she finished speaking, she looked around and then whispered to Jiang Xia, "Zhou Li was punished. Now she has taken my place and is now the logistics worker in our office."

Aunt Hong was so happy! She finally made it and got a desk! She was said to be a logistics worker before, but in fact, she was just a cleaner, a handyman, and she had to do all kinds of work! Jiang Xia raised her eyebrows. She didn't expect Zhou Li to be a logistics worker. Isn't that handyman? She must be so upset that she wants to fight with Wen Wan again.

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Congratulations to Aunt Hong on your promotion. I'll make a call."

Aunt Hong immediately said, "You hit me, I'll go get a glass of water."

So she walked away holding a brand new enamel serving cup.

Zhou Li was punished for listening to a phone call she shouldn't have listened to and doing something she shouldn't have done. She couldn't make the same mistake again! Jiang Xia dialed a number.

This was the number of the dormitory management office of Ye Xian's school. After the call was connected, she told the other party Ye Xian's dormitory number and name, and asked the other party to call Ye Xian to answer the phone.

The other party asked her to call back in five minutes and then hung up.

Just after five minutes, Jiang Xia called again and heard Ye Xian's voice: "Hello, hello, this is Ye Xian."

Jiang Xia said in a slightly heavy tone: "Xiao Xian, I'm Sister Jiang Xia. Has Jiang Dong returned to school?"

(End of this chapter)