Chapter 59 Measuring the Road Surface
The two returned to the restaurant.
Everyone looked on in disbelief as to why Su Jingge had brought another person back.
Su Jingge introduced him to everyone: "This is Lu Er, Lu Huai's younger brother. From now on, he will be a member of our restaurant."
Qingyue looked at the man; he was a decent-looking, handsome young man. How could he have fallen into such a vice?
They didn't give this a friendly look.
Feijian crossed his arms and looked at him with a flippant expression.
Seeing the somewhat tense atmosphere, Ying Xiaohu coughed and said, "Hello, my name is Ying Xiaohu. I'm a junior manager at the restaurant, in charge of some matters in the front of house."
Wei Shuang grinned at everyone she saw: "Hello, my name is Wei Shuang, and I manage logistics."
Su Jingge looked at Xiao Linyuan.
The man, expressionless, used sign language to say: 【Xiao Linyuan.】
Lu Huai greeted each of them with clasped hands.
Qingyue glanced at him: "What can this kind of person do? If we recruit him, who knows if he'll steal all the money from the restaurant to gamble."
Lu Er pursed his lips: "I won't... I promised Sister Su."
"Everyone makes mistakes. Let bygones be bygones. Just do your job well from now on," Su Jingge said.
"Alright, everyone get back to what you're doing."
Su Jingge patted Lu Er on the shoulder and smiled: "They just have a sharp tongue, but once you get to know them, you'll find they're actually very nice."
"You can stay on the third floor for now. I'll have someone bring you your medicine later."
Upon hearing this, Fei Jian scoffed, "This is the treatment you get as soon as you arrive? Our young master is even staying in the backyard."
Su Jingge crossed her arms and looked at him coldly: "He's injured. Your young master is injured?"
Lu Er frowned slightly, her eyes glistening with tears: "Sister Su, please don't make me live in the backyard just to set a precedent..."
Su Jingge looked at him and said, "You need to recover first. I'll need you to measure the road surface in a few days."
Lu Er nodded obediently: "Then I'll listen to Sister Su."
The group dispersed.
Fei Jian leaned against the front desk with his arms crossed and said to Xiao Linyuan, "Look at his puppy-like appearance. He just arrived and he's already trying to curry favor with someone. If he weren't so good at pretending to be obedient and innocent, how could he have swindled so much land deeds and silver? I've seen plenty of people like him."
Xiao Linyuan remained silent, looking at the account book from the side.
Two days later.
Xu Yuan sent someone to say that after five days of firing the kiln, the bricks were all ready.
The main road surface can be laid now.
So Su Jingge asked Lu Er and Fei Jian to go together to measure the road.
As they stepped outside, Su Jingge handed the toolbox to Fei Jian.
Feijian's mouth dropped open: "No, why should I give it to him?"
"He's injured, so please take good care of him. Okay, let's go."
Fei Jian glanced at the toolbox, and Lu Er winked at him before brushing past him.
He bit his lip: "Little white lotus, trying to act weak and helpless, huh?"
He thought to himself, "So it's because he's healthy and has the strength of an ox, huh?"
We started taking measurements at the Xiaodongmentou entrance on the main road.
The people saw that the man was carrying tools and recognized him as Assistant Manager Su. They all gathered around him.
"What are you doing?"
"It looks like they're measuring the road surface..."
"Measuring the road surface? Does that mean they're really going to build new roads?"
Someone asked, "Is Assistant Su really going to repair the ground in our county?"
Su Jingge nodded: "That's right, let's start from the main road, from the east gate. Please bring all your belongings inside, so it will be more convenient for us."
Everyone was overjoyed to hear this; it was good news!
Someone shouted, "Then everyone hurry up and pack it up!"
The road surface became clean in no time.
Flying Sword stood under the eaves, watching Lu Er take out his measuring tools.
"Pretending to be knowledgeable, they probably haven't even forgotten what they know. What can they possibly measure?"
He simply didn't believe in this innocent little white lotus.
Su Jingge was also taking notes.
Based on the width of roads in various ancient regions, Su Jingge concluded that the road surface would need to be widened to at least three and a half to four meters.
Now it's only two and a half meters tall.
The longitudinal section is approximately 700 meters.
That means it needs to be expanded by at least 1.5 to 2 meters.
Based on the available bricks, at least 8-9 bricks are needed to lay one meter horizontally.
So three meters multiplied by seven hundred equals two thousand one hundred square meters.
So in total, it would take 80,000 bricks, including damage during transportation and defects after firing.
The cost of a brick is two coins.
Eighty thousand yuan is 160,000.
That's 160 strings of cash.
That's 160 taels of silver.
In today's terms, that's equivalent to 58,518 RMB.
If Yuxiang County has roads like this, at least to the south, north, and west.
There are still three sides that need repair.
That's less than 240,000.
This does not include the cost of manpower or food.
After doing the math, she felt that the history of transporting lychees was much better than that of the previous dynasty.
That lychee costs seventeen strings and five hundred coins.
In modern times, that would be 31,500 yuan.
She only paid 2 coins for this brick.
So the people benefit, that's what she meant by doing so.
After the rough estimate was completed, Lu Er also finished measuring.
He gave the data to Su Jingge.
She glanced at it and said with a slight smile, "That's right, it's the same number I calculated in my head."
Upon hearing this, Lu Er smiled shyly: "Sister Su is so intelligent, her mental calculations are so accurate. I will have to learn more from her in the future."
"You're amazing too."
Fei Jian curled her lip as she watched. "Sister, she calls me so affectionately. She even spoke to Xiao Linyuan so gently before."
"Flying Sword, let's go."
Su Jingge shouted.
The next second, Fei Jian ran up happily: "Alright, Manager Su."
After taking the measurements, Su Jingge gave Feijian a copy of the data: "Quickly deliver the data to the Xie residence and have people prepare to begin construction."
"Yes, Manager Su." Before leaving, he glared at the smiling Lu Er one last time.
"Sister Su, where are we going next? Are you thirsty? I'll go buy some water."
"good."
Lu Er ran away.
She stood there, resting her chin on her hand. The worker Xu Yuan was probably unable to leave because he was firing the kiln.
Yan Shu's side is able to free up some resources, but they probably still don't have enough manpower.
Where can we find manpower...?
While she was pondering, she heard someone ask if she needed to hire.
I suddenly remembered the list of workers that the restaurant had recorded when they offered those coupons a while ago.
It's time to call in reinforcements.
Just as he was about to go back to the restaurant to count the number of people, he turned around and saw Zhao Liu.
The man, swinging his neck and carrying a pig's head, walked towards her.
The people around them, some of whom were timid, all stepped back.
She looked left and right, then right, she saw Lu Er buying water, and then she saw a flying sword delivering a message.
There was no one beside me.
Zhao Liu chuckled sarcastically: "Oh, what a coincidence, Assistant Manager Su, what a coincidence to run into you here. How have you been lately?"
Su Jingge couldn't be bothered with them.
He turned to leave, but was stopped by his underlings behind him.
"Oh—you don't look well, but I feel like you're doing really well. I heard you went to our Tianbao Pavilion a couple of days ago and, for a little puppy, you didn't hesitate to take out the land deed to redeem the stake. And that's not all, you also took more than two thousand taels of silver from us!"
"My precious darling, it hurts so much."
The man grinned; "It's not for those mere few thousand taels, but because you did it for a man, and it's for a man! My heart aches so much!"
Su Jingge felt like laughing when she heard it.
She said coldly, "Get out of my way!"
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