Chapter 74 Pay more money to guarantee the project
The weather had started to get hot. After returning to the Gege Mansion, Lin Sanqi let his nephews and nieces play at home while he went to check out the construction site in the back garden.
As soon as I walked to the back garden, I saw Ji Niaohou and Ma Dazhuang leaning on the wall, peeking and pointing at the water pavilion.
Lin Sanqi knew that this was the "scout" in the courtyard, so he quietly came up behind the two of them and suddenly shouted:
"What are you doing?"
Hou Daya was so scared that she sat down on the ground, and Bao Yansheng hit his chin on the brick and covered his mouth in pain.
"Lin Sanqi, don't you know that scaring others can kill them? If you break something, I want you to pay for it!"
"Exactly. Check my jaw to see if it's bleeding. Ouch, it hurts so much. Is the bone broken?"
Lin Sanqi didn't care about these two neighbors, and just asked with a smile:
"What are you two doing? What can you see by digging around in someone's corner? Let me tell you, this is a key warehouse of our Chinese Medicine Hospital. If anything is missing, you will be the biggest suspects."
"Bah, you haven't even started work yet, why are you making such a fuss?"
Hou Daya suffered a loss and walked away cursing at Bao Yansheng.
Lin Sanqi watched the two people walk away, and stood outside the wall to watch for a while. He found that the appearance of the water pavilion was still the same, tattered, and even the rotten wood had not been repaired.
Now Lin Sanqi was satisfied.
As soon as he reached the door, Old Xu came out and saw Lin Sanqi with a smile on his face:
"Comrade Lin, you're here."
"I just happened to have something free to do and came to take a look. Wow, you guys are really quick."
In less than two days, thick brick walls had been built inside the house, and the workers had already begun preparing to hang the ceiling.
Old Xu is not greedy for credit.
"The main reason is that the cement you brought is good. We used to use clay, and the production process was very complicated. Now we use cement. When we want to use it, we just need to mix it with water and sand, and it can be used immediately. This greatly shortens the construction period.
Right now, some of us are reinforcing the roof, filling in the areas that need cement blocking, while the rest of us are working with me on the carpentry. Look, this is the window frame. With such a thick wall, we can definitely install two glass windows inside and outside, which will keep the room warmer in the winter."
Lin Sanqi gave a thumbs up:
"Master Xu, you're really thoughtful. Don't worry. What I demand is quality. If you finish the work in five days, I'll still pay you for seven days. Thank you for your hard work."
Old Xu and the workers were relieved when they heard this. It was just a small house, and these seven people could actually finish the job in three or four days.
Seeing that they were working hard and not being lazy, Lin Sanqi also put an oil paper bag on the woodworking table:
"Okay, I won't disturb you from working any more. This is a roast chicken, share it among you. But keep it a secret and don't let anyone in the yard see it. Someone was peeking through the gap in the wall just now."
When the workers heard it was roast chicken, they immediately felt their mouths watering.
Old Xu was about to cry when he heard this:
"How can this be possible? We're all hungry now. We've only done a small amount of work. How can we have the nerve to ask for a roast chicken? It's so precious."
Lin Sanqi patted his shoulder:
"You work for me, and I feed you. It's only natural. Don't overthink it. I'm leaving now."
When Lin Sanqi walked out of the yard, several workers surrounded him. Old Xu quickly opened the oil paper bag, and the smell of Orleans roast chicken wafted out.
"Oh my god, it smells so good~~~"
"It's so fat, this chicken must be three or four pounds, right?~~~"
"Comrade Lin is so righteous~~~"
Old Xu was the foreman. At this moment, he tightened the oil-paper bag and said nervously:
"My wife and children at home are hungry. Let's be patient. After work, we'll divide the food among ourselves and take it home to feed our families. Do you understand?"
Several construction workers nodded repeatedly. They all had families, so they naturally knew that Old Xu meant well.
"Also, Comrade Lin is a man of integrity. He provides both white flour buns and roasted chicken. You won't find a boss like him anywhere else in the city. Therefore, the quality of this project must be top-notch. We must not be careless, otherwise, are we still human beings?"
Several construction workers nodded again: "Yes, we will definitely make Comrade Lin satisfied!"
“Get to work!”
Everyone is prepared to treat every detail of the project with the same meticulousness as embroidery, and absolutely ensure that not a single gust of wind leaks in during the winter.
Lin Sanqi returned home and spread out the food coupons on the table, feeling a little worried.
I want to invite Pan Ye to Fengze Garden tomorrow. I have less than 3 kilograms of food coupons and I wonder if they are enough?
If you get in but get kicked out because you don't have enough meal tickets, you will be completely embarrassed, especially in front of girls.
Don't doubt the quality of sales clerks in this era. They will scold when they should and laugh at when they should, without any ambiguity, no matter if you are God or the Jade Emperor.
At this time, Lin Jiageng and Lin Zhenzhen next door were playing house. As children, they started quarreling while playing:
"The money you gave me is fake, I can't accept it..."
"How can it be fake? I drew this myself. If you don't accept it, you're looking down on us working people..."
"If you don't accept it, I'll beat you..."
"Wuwuwu, uncle, my sister hit me..."
Lin Sanqi knew that he had to act as a "judge" to coax the child again. Just as he was about to stand up, his eyes suddenly lit up. He picked up the food coupons and started to act with evil intent!
"Okay, okay, stop arguing. Uncle has two small cakes here. You two should be good and sit down to eat. No one should leave the house, okay? Uncle will be back soon."
When the two children heard that there was cake to eat, they were so stunned that they had no time to argue. They just sat down quietly and listened to the fruit being divided.
After Lin Sanqi coaxed the two little kids into submission, he opened the door and traveled back to 2013.
Wang Wenjuan had just prepared dinner when she saw her son rushing out of the house and called out to him:
"Hey, Qizi, it's time for dinner. Why are you still running out?"
"Mom, I have something to ask Brother Ming. You guys eat first and don't worry about me!"
Wang Wenjuan saw that her son was nowhere to be seen and complained, "Has this child been acting strangely lately? He's so impulsive that he's nowhere to be seen."
Lin Musen sat down and helped to cover up, saying:
"The child has grown up and has his own things to do. Look, he can even get ginseng now. It's better than the decadent life before. Don't bother him. If you control him too much, he might move out."
Lin Bingqiao also came running down at this time:
"My brother has been much more cheerful recently. He was even playing around with a female classmate and flirting with her during the dragon boat race that day."
"Hey, where did this female classmate come from? Isn't she pretty?"
"From Pingle Village on the other side."
"Pingle Village? Oh, Pingle Village is not okay!"
Lin Sanqi, wearing slippers, ran towards several small workshop-style factories on the edge of the village.
(End of this chapter)
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