He was almost amused, and was overjoyed. "Little girl, go back quickly and stop making trouble here. This is not your place to play, and I won't bother with you anymore."
Seeing that he didn't take her words seriously, Su Qingyun didn't get angry, but just smiled softly and said, "Director Xu, we will see each other again."
"Hurry up, hurry up." Xu Wenjie waved his hands impatiently, feeling that he was wasting time.
Su Qingyun walked out of the brick factory gate calmly, and the security guard at the door called her.
"Leaving so soon?"
"Yeah." Su Qingyun rolled his eyes. "Hey, brother, you just said that all the people coming to the meeting today are county leaders. Who are they?"
"I'm not sure about that," the young security guard said, scratching his head. "I think there's a deputy county magistrate, but I don't know the details."
"Okay, thanks."
Su Qingyun recalled that there were three deputy county heads in Luoshui County. The deputy county head she knew, Chen, was in charge of the agriculture and public security departments. The brick factory belonged to the production department and should not be under the jurisdiction of Deputy County Head Chen.
But the officialdom is all connected, and Deputy County Chief Chen knew that this matter was not beyond his control, but Su Qingyun was a little hesitant about whether to trouble him for this matter.
She stood there hesitating. Seeing her like this, the young security guard casually asked, "What on earth are you doing in the brick factory?"
He was smart and could see that the girl was asking him for information in a roundabout way and was not there to buy bricks at all.
Su Qingyun looked at him, and suddenly an idea came to her. She looked at the security guard who was looking over at the other side and whispered, "I just want to see our brick factory's production line and the bricks produced."
"What's so good about it?" The young security guard looked puzzled.
"Well, I can tell the difference between good bricks and bad bricks. I felt that the bricks used to build our village school were not quite right, so I wanted to compare them."
Su Qingyun took out a pack of cigarettes from her pocket and handed it to the young security guard. She had specially prepared these cigarettes just in case of emergency. These cigarettes were not cheap as they were imported cigarettes that her father had brought back before.
The young security guard's eyes moved, he put his cigarette in his pocket, and the smile on his face became more obvious.
"Why is it wrong?"
Su Qingyun: "The bricks for our village were brought here by Zhang Meng, as I mentioned earlier. I suspect he sold the defective bricks that failed quality inspection at the brick factory to our village at the price of normal bricks."
"What? There's such a thing?" The young security guard's eyes widened. "This is against the brick factory's regulations. How dare he do this?"
"No, that's not right. With Director Xu backing him up, that's why Zhang Meng would do such a thing." The young security guard said angrily, "No, we can't just let this go. I have to tell my uncle."
Su Qingyun's eyes lit up even more. Wasn't his uncle the deputy director of the brick factory? It would be more useful to find a deputy director in the brick factory than to find a deputy county magistrate.
"You just want to compare whether the bricks are the same, right?" the young security guard thought for a moment and asked.
"Yes." Su Qingyun's voice was even lower. "Just now, your Director Xu took me to a remote warehouse, and it was filled with those defective bricks."
The young security guard frowned, "So Director Xu deliberately let Zhang Meng take away those bricks?"
"I don't know about that." Su Qingyun certainly wouldn't say it so firmly.
The young security guard thought for a moment and said, "I'll take you to see it."
"real?"
"Yeah." The young security guard nodded with a serious face, "The brick factory selling defective products is a serious matter and must be investigated thoroughly." If this gets out, the reputation of the brick factory will be affected, not to mention how serious the safety hazards of buildings built with defective products are.
"I'll take you to see it first, and then I'll go find my uncle and explain everything to him."
"Okay." Su Qingyun said gratefully, "Thank you so much."
"Let's go."
The other security guard watched the two men whispering to each other for a long time, and then walked back into the brick factory. He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but finally closed it.
Zhu Xing is the deputy factory director's nephew, and he cannot offend him.
Zhu Xing took Su Qingyun directly to the production plant, where there were piles of raw materials. It was also equipped with various large-scale production equipment such as coal blending machines, crushers, brick-making machines, etc. This was the first time that Su Qingyun had seen a modern production chain in this era.
The production process of red bricks is: making blanks, drying blanks, loading kilns, firing kilns, and unloading kilns. The process is complicated, and countless workers are busy in an orderly manner. Each link is closely connected. Everyone has red faces and red hair, and even their ears and nostrils are filled with red brick powder. From a distance, it looks like a funny terracotta warrior.
Zhu Xing took Su Qingyun directly to the last place where the kiln was opened. There were neatly stacked red bricks with a relatively smooth surface, uniform texture, and light red color. There was almost no white residue. Su Qingyun walked forward and knocked on it, and there was a crisp metallic sound.
These were red bricks of good quality, in stark contrast to the red bricks she had seen in the warehouse and in the village.
Su Qingyun saw that there were workers sorting the red bricks out of the kiln. The red bricks that looked unqualified to the naked eye would be thrown directly into a large basket. Some were broken, while some were still intact.
She asked Zhu Xing, "What do you usually do with these substandard red bricks? Do you keep them?"
"Of course not. These are unsuccessful firings and will be sent to the crusher to become raw materials for re-firing," Zhu Xing explained.
Su Qingyun's eyes darkened. It seemed that those unqualified red bricks in the warehouse were secretly left behind. Director Xu was really resourceful. Someone on the production side secretly left the bricks behind, and then someone else was responsible for selling them. This was a complete reselling chain.
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