41 Thatched Martial Arts School
In the same city, the Jian family's old house in the northern district was bathed in sunshine, and Chu Xiao was sweating profusely in the thatched martial arts hall.
After Chu Xiao transmigrated, he wore a custom-made silk pajama set with gold thread embroidery, featuring the giant logo of the Jianbing Group, and diamond-encrusted gold flip-flops, the same style worn by Jianbing Group's head, Jian's father. He climbed to the spacious crystal rooftop on the 50th floor of the main building, swirling a glass of red wine under the bright full moon, openly observing the entire Jian family.
The Jian family's old house occupies the entire hilltop and includes a main building, garden, swimming pool, artificial lake, helipad, and ground-level parking garage.
Chu Xiao glanced at it and felt that the layout was similar to that of the Chu family in reality.
Generally speaking, humans are naturally resistant to chaos and uncertainty, and tend to feel more relaxed in familiar environments.
Chu Xiao was no exception.
Because the key plot points in the original novel, such as the female lead and the male lead having "I love you, I love him, I love him again, I've fallen in love with him again," "He suffers amnesia after a car accident, she acquires a company, he has a deep and abusive relationship, she forcibly takes him away," etc., do not take place in the Jian family's old house.
Therefore, although Chu Xiao was the creator of this novel's world, he did not actually describe the layout of the Jian family's old house in detail, and he had no impression of the Jian family's old house.
Therefore, she was pleasantly surprised to find that the Jian family's old house in the novel was so similar to the Chu family's old house where she had lived for a long time in reality.
The familiar surroundings made Chu Xiao feel very comfortable, and the annoyance of being forcibly recruited by the Pancake Counterattack System dissipated considerably.
She took a sip of the 1982 Lafite, a drink that was so common in the novel that it was almost extinct because all the main characters had drunk it, and looked down at the entire Jian family with a deep expression, feeling the desolation of being at the top.
But I always feel like something's missing.
What exactly is it?
She lowered her head in thought.
Just then, a clumsy bird crashed headfirst into the magnificent golden wall behind Chu Xiao, saw stars, wobbled twice, its wings tilted, and it fell to the ground.
Chu Xiao squatted down and poked the bird's eyes a couple of times. The silly bird's eyeballs moved, and its chest and abdomen rose and fell with its breath.
Chu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief; at least he wasn't dead.
The sight of the dumb bird lying sprawled on the ground, unconscious, reminded Chu Xiao of his childhood.
When she was a child, she practiced Iron Head Kung Fu. At first, she didn't apply the right amount of force, and she would often get dizzy from a single impact.
Iron Head Kung Fu... Practice!
Chu Xiao's eyes lit up.
She remembered!
In reality, the Chu family's old residence has a "thatched martial arts school". In the novel's world, the Jian family's old residence has a similar layout and environment to the Chu family's, except that it lacks a "thatched martial arts school".
To make the living environment more similar, Chu Xiao immediately had the construction team demolish half of the garden to build a "thatched martial arts school".
Chu Xiao hired twenty construction teams at great expense, working in two shifts, and promised each person an extra 200,000 yuan bonus for completing the roof within one month!
On the day construction began, the foreman of each construction team took turns going up to the stage to give a motivational speech.
The first speaker was Wang Li, a contractor from Liwang Construction. He carried ten bags of cement up to the stage.
This contractor is a retired weightlifter, and all his subordinates are also retired weightlifters.
This is the unique feature of Liwang Construction: from contractors to skilled workers and laborers, all workers, regardless of gender, are retired weightlifters.
This contractor, a former weightlifter, has muscles as hard as stone, which are very well-developed from both afar and up close. It's easy for people to have the stereotype that he's simple-minded.
But he was not only muscular, but also quite intelligent, which is why he became the foreman of Liwang Construction.
There must be a reason why this shrewd contractor would take the stage by carrying ten bags of cement by himself.
If this were just a regular commencement speech, he certainly wouldn't have carried cement onto the stage.
So what's different about this opening speech?
The biggest difference is that the biggest, biggest, biggest benefactor this time, the second young lady of the prestigious Jian family, a pancake group with assets exceeding 100 billion yuan, personally attended the groundbreaking ceremony.
Faced with such a big spender, every contractor would undoubtedly want to establish a connection.
So how can one stand out among twenty construction teams, leave a deep impression on Miss Jane, and have more opportunities to cooperate in the future?
Besides ensuring quality, safety, and meeting deadlines in the project, this groundbreaking ceremony is also a great opportunity to make our presence felt in front of Miss Jian!
Therefore, Wang Li, the foreman of Liwang Construction, cleverly carried ten bags of cement onto the stage, determined to make a deep impression on this big spender about Liwang Construction.
Wang Li was wearing a tight-fitting work vest with the "Li Wang Construction" logo printed on it, his muscles gleaming in the sunlight.
He carried five bags of cement on his left shoulder and five bags on his right shoulder, then strode confidently onto the podium without changing his expression.
This unique way of making an entrance indeed caught Chu Xiao's attention.
She rubbed her eyes in disbelief and secretly counted the cement bags.
On the left are bags one, two, three, four, and five.
The bags on the right are: bag one, bag two, bag three, bag four, and bag five.
In China, a standard package of cement is usually a 50-kilogram bag, or 100 jin (50 catties) per bag.
So ten bags of cement would be 1050 kg, 500 kg, or 1000 jin.
Many people have no concept of what a thousand kilograms is.
This is equivalent to the weight of an adult polar bear or two South China tigers.
Chu Xiao gasped as she silently calculated the numbers in her mind.
The idea that an ordinary person without genetic enhancement could carry two South China tigers steadily is theoretically very unscientific.
But in this fictional world, a contractor who never appeared in the original work is such an anti-scientific existence that she feels this world is too dangerous!
This further strengthened Chu Xiao's belief in building a martial arts school to revive the Chu family's martial arts tradition.
The project's head, Assistant Xia, was earnestly introducing Chu Xiao to him: "This is Wang Li, the foreman of Liwang Construction. Liwang Construction is the only special construction team in the entire country composed entirely of retired weightlifters."
Wang Li stood on the platform and with a "thud," threw down the ten heavy cement bags from his shoulder, raising a cloud of dust.
He grabbed the microphone, took a deep breath, and shouted in a booming voice: "Brothers and sisters! Remember these three ironclad rules: cement is a barbell, and the construction site is a competition arena! If the wall is even a millimeter crooked, everyone has to squat until dawn! Finish in thirty days, or I'll swallow bricks!"
"Can we secure this project?!"
The workers from Liwang Construction in the audience, their eyes blazing with fighting spirit, shouted: "We can do it!!!"
Wang Li, brimming with enthusiasm: "Alright! Now everyone, listen up: Shoulder your cement bags! Grab your shovels! Shout out our Liwang Construction slogan—"
All the employees of Liwang Construction, their veins bulging, roared in unison: "When Liwang goes to war, not a blade of grass will survive!"
The inspiring slogans echoed for a long time on the hilltop of the Jian family's old house, and with Chu Xiao leading the applause, enthusiastic applause rang out at the scene.
Chu Xiao smiled and nodded at Wang Li.
She and her assistant, Xia, spoke highly of Liwang Construction: "This Liwang Construction is very good."
Assistant Xia silently drew a five-pointed star in the column for Liwang Construction on the form in her hand.
Motivated by Chu Xiao's financial prowess, the construction team worked with great efficiency. The foreman led the inexperienced workers to work tirelessly, and in just one month, they built a professional martial arts training hall of 888 square meters next to the Jian family garden.
The martial arts school was topped out in one month and renovated in two months.
In order to release the formaldehyde as quickly as possible, Chu Xiao spent a lot of money to have thousands of renovation workers take turns holding industrial fans to blow on the surface. For some reason, a tornado effect suddenly formed, and several workers were blown to the roof and suffered minor injuries. Chu Xiao had to pay extra medical expenses as a result.
But it was precisely this powerful ventilation that allowed the formaldehyde levels in the newly renovated martial arts gym to drop to a safe level within just one week.
Chu Xiao leaned against the crystal terrace on the top floor of the main building, overlooking the private martial arts school that covered an area of 1.33 acres.
The martial arts school is designed like a thatched hut.
Under the setting sun, the golden waves of grass undulate with the wind, and the thick, fluffy thatch on the roof of the house is several meters thick, resembling a giant hedgehog with its bristles standing on end from a distance.
It's exactly the same as the martial arts school in the Chu family's old house.
Chu Xiao patted the head of the clumsy bird that had settled on her shoulder after being knocked unconscious on the rooftop last time.
After admiring the exterior of the martial arts school, she couldn't wait to go inside and practice.
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