Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 556 Inviting Engineer Wang

The demolition team from the city construction bureau is just for show; they can't possibly demolish the entire building.

To be precise, these people should be called a sabotage team. They smashed parts of the doors, windows, and interior walls until they were unusable, and that was it. The actual demolition work still had to be done by Engineer Wang and his team.

After smashing things for a while, Uncle Wang checked the time and said to Xiao Wei, "It seems everything's alright here, so I'll take my men back. You can make your own arrangements here." Xiao Wei nodded, and Uncle Wang shook hands with Deputy Chief Liu before getting into the car and leaving.

Deputy Director Liu had completed his task and took his leave to return to his office.

Chen Hui looked left and right, then asked Xiao Wei, "What are we doing? Are we going back too?"

Xiao Wei checked the time and said, "Go back and pick up Xiao Xiao, Xiao Hong, and Geng Hui. We bought stationery, so go to the school and distribute it now."

Chen Hui nodded, got into the car, and went to pick up the person.

Geng Hui originally only bought pencils, pens, and notebooks. In those days, elementary school students' notebooks were divided into four types: grid-lined arithmetic notebooks, composition notebooks, and regular notebooks. Students from the third grade onwards used pencils, while students in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades used pens. The school had fewer than 300 students, and Geng Hui bought two sets of notebooks, three pencils, and one pen for each student. She also bought a ruler and an eraser, which cost her only a little over 600 yuan in total.

Xiaowei then asked Xiaohong and Genghui to go buy schoolbags today. Each schoolbag costs a dozen yuan wholesale, so three hundred of them wouldn't cost more than three thousand yuan. Adding a covered notebook for each teacher, they raised a total of four thousand yuan.

When we went to investigate the number of students, we found that the students in this school were quite diverse. One-third of them were family members of air force personnel, more than one-third were local farmers, and the rest were children from nearby towns. In other words, the children here were either too poor to afford a notebook or too well-off to be able to take off.

After discussing it, Xiao Hong, Geng Hui, and Chen Xiao decided to treat everyone equally.

Wang Gong walked over with a smile. Behind him, several workers started pulling cables over. They needed to use a pneumatic hammer to demolish the building; they couldn't afford to use people to do it.

"Not bad. You looked like you had a couple of good physiques yesterday, but it's not so noticeable today. You're quite resilient, aren't you?" Engineer Wang said with a smile as he looked at Xiao Wei's face.

Xiao Wei touched his face and said, "I've always recovered quickly since I was little, I guess I have a good constitution. When do we start laying the foundation?"

Engineer Wang said, "We're digging now. I'm thinking of digging it deeper for you, there's a basement underneath. We'll make the piles thicker, don't worry, I guarantee you can move in by the end of October. Who will build this elevator building over here? We can't do it, we don't have enough manpower. Give me this row of three-story buildings over here, that'll do."

Xiao Wei said, "Okay, let's talk this over. Actually, if you can handle this high-rise building, I'd still be willing to give it to you; I trust you."

Engineer Wang shook his head and said with a smile, "Alright, it's all government business, I won't take on this kind of delicate work."

Xiao Wei said, "Engineer Wang, we've started a real estate development company. Why don't you come work for me as an engineer? You can be the client and the chief engineer."

Engineer Wang lit a cigarette, exhaled smoke, thought for a moment, and said, "Okay, what kind of benefits?"

Xiao Wei asked, "What kind of treatment are you getting in Jian'an now?"

Wang said, "Aren't all government jobs pretty much the same? You get four or five hundred yuan a month, but the benefits are minimal, like free medical care."

Xiao Wei said, "We have everything you need for the holidays here. I can set your salary at 800 yuan right now, with a company car and project bonuses, etc. But for the hospital, there's really nothing I can do for now."

Xia Maosheng said, "Engineer Wang can apply for retirement. He won't lose his benefits there, and then he can come over."

Engineer Wang said, "That's fine too. Anyway, the government doesn't really care much these days. You have to wait until this building is finished before you can get started, right? If you do that, it'll be next year already."

Xiao Wei said, "No, we have to start now. There are only a few projects in Fengtian and Xingcheng, and there will be more next year. We can put the others aside, but you, the engineer, have to come over first. I'll only feel at ease when you're here."

Engineer Wang laughed and said, "So you're planning to start your own construction team?"

Xiao Wei shook his head and said, "No, I don't plan to get involved in the construction. It's just project initiation and development; the construction will be outsourced. If you come, you'll be reviewing project data and drawings, giving suggestions and opinions, handling budgets, reviewing payments, and mainly supervising the project. That part will mainly be handled by you; I don't have enough time."

Engineer Wang said, "Okay, that's much easier. I'll think about it and come over to do it for you."

Xia Maosheng pointed to the construction site ahead and said, "So what do we do? Who's supposed to do the work?"

Wang said, "It won't affect anything. Even if I come over, he still has to listen to me. For small jobs, I can just bring some people and handle them, which will save me some money."

"Beep beep." Chen Hui's car stopped, brushing past a few people. Xiao Hong and Geng Hui jumped out, and Chen Xiao, with her pregnant belly, slowly got out of the car and stretched. Xiao Wei laughed and said, "You're really something, stretching at a time like this. Aren't you afraid of squeezing the baby out?" Chen Xiao's stretching was interrupted by laughter, and she spat at Xiao Wei.

Chen Hui said, "Let's go to the main gate. That guy had three hundred backpacks, and they had to hire a small deliveryman to haul them over."

Engineer Wang asked, "Backpacks? What are you planning to do with that now?"

Xiao Wei said, "I'm giving this to the students at this school. I see that many of the kids don't seem to be in good circumstances. I'm just hoping for good luck for their two children."

Engineer Wang nodded and said, "This is a good thing; it's a good deed. You kids are all quite good."

Everyone went into the school through the now-empty school-run factory. The small truck carrying schoolbags stopped at the main gate. Chen Hui went straight to the principal's office, while Xiao Wei and the others came over to unload things. They weren't heavy, but there were a lot of them, and they hauled up a huge pile.

The boys' bags were blue, and the girls' bags were pink. Notebooks, pens, and other supplies were all neatly packed in their backpacks.

At 3:20, the school bell rang, and the quiet campus immediately erupted in activity. Students rushed to the middle of the playground in the blink of an eye. The school loudspeaker blared: "Class teachers, organize your students to line up on the playground for morning exercises. Class teachers, organize your students to line up on the playground for morning exercises. Attention students, line up on the playground!"

Several boys, who were clearly in sixth grade, had already run to the school gate. Then, they suddenly stopped and turned around to look into the school in confusion.

"What are you looking at? Come back and line up. You few are always the fastest runners." Principal Sun stood at the entrance of the principal's office with a microphone, gesturing for a few boys to come over. The boys looked at each other, dejectedly turned back, and the students already in line laughed.

Managing elementary school students is actually quite tiring. Although they are relatively obedient, they are still young and don't understand many things.

(End of this chapter)