Volume 1: The Golden Years Chapter 050 Construction Site Conflict
At Songjiang Boutique Hotel, a dark-black BMW 7 Series stopped. Yuan Xudong and Jiang Nansun got out of the BMW and entered a construction site, surrounded by busy construction workers.
Jiang Nansun walked in front, and Yuan Xudong followed closely behind. After a while, Jiang Nansun stopped, turned around and looked at Yuan Xudong who had been following her closely, and said helplessly:
"Why are you following me?"
Yuan Xudong was slightly stunned, then said embarrassedly:
"I'm sorry, this is my first time at a construction site, and I don't know what to do. Please feel free to do whatever you want. I'll just watch and not talk, and learn how a construction site supervisor works."
I didn't expect Yuan Xudong to say this. Jiang Nansun said in astonishment:
"Aren't you my direct supervisor? If you don't know how to do anything, why are you here at the construction site?"
Upon hearing this, Yuan Xudong said confidently:
"Why would I come to the construction site if I knew everything? I'm your direct superior. I just tell you to do what I want. The credit is mine and the blame is yours. The division of labor is clear. Is there anything else you don't understand?"
Jiang Nansun rolled her eyes at Yuan Xudong, knowing that he was just here to make a cameo appearance and was of no use. She turned and walked towards the boutique hotel that was being renovated, while introducing it:
"The person in charge of the construction site is Wang Yongzheng. I am responsible for supervising the attendance records and raw material procurement of the hotel construction party. I will take you to meet Wang Yongzheng first, and we will talk about other things later!"
Yuan Xudong nodded slightly, and as he followed Jiang Nansun into the boutique hotel, he looked around at the bustling construction site and said:
"No problem, I'll do as you say, Supervisor Jiang!"
Hearing Yuan Xudong calling her Supervisor Jiang, Jiang Nansun paused for a moment. After thinking about it, she decided not to argue too much with someone whose thinking was different from others. She walked into the boutique hotel and stopped a construction worker and asked:
"Master, may I ask, have you seen Wang Yongzheng, the person in charge of the construction site?"
"Inside. Go in and look for him. He was just measuring the square there."
"Thank you, Master!"
"You're welcome!"
Following the direction pointed by the construction engineer, Jiang Nansun led Yuan Xudong over and took two safety helmets from the stretcher next to her. She handed one to Yuan Xudong and said,
"You must wear a hard hat when entering the construction site. Safety first!"
Taking the orange helmet and taking another look at the white helmet in Jiang Nansun's hand, Yuan Xudong directly replaced it with a white helmet from the stretcher and said:
“I like the white hard hat.”
After saying that, seeing that Jiang Nansun had already put on her helmet, he turned his eyes and said:
"I don't know how to wear a helmet. Can you help me put it on?"
Ignoring Yuan Xudong, Jiang Nansun walked directly into the depths of the hotel, looking around for Wang Yongzheng while speaking to the air:
“Only a fool wouldn’t wear a helmet.”
Hearing Jiang Nansun say this, Yuan Xudong put on his helmet and chased after her, looking at the expressionless Jiang Nansun and said:
"You are wrong. I think you are discriminating. People should respect each other. You can't disrespect others just because they are stupid. When I was in kindergarten, my teacher taught me to respect others."
Unexpectedly, Yuan Xudong would say this. Jiang Nansun rolled her eyes and said:
"Did your teacher teach you to be a good person who respects others when you grow up?"
"Of course I have. I will remember it all my life. It was a sunny morning, the first math class in the morning. The teacher was writing in front of the blackboard. A classmate behind me snapped his fingers , which was extremely loud in the quiet classroom.
The teacher seemed not to hear me and was still writing math problems quickly. At this time, the classmate behind me asked me if I could snap my fingers. I said I couldn't and that they wouldn't make any sound. He told me to try. I would give it a try. Anyway, I couldn't snap my fingers and it wouldn't affect others.
I stretched out my right hand and got ready. At this moment, the mighty math teacher turned around, his eyes were like lightning, and I, a small person, was stunned.
He walked over to me and asked me to stand up. I had just moved from the countryside to the city to go to school and lived with my mother in a rented attic, so I didn't dare to cause trouble.
The teacher misunderstood that I snapped my fingers, so it didn’t matter that I was punished by standing. I would just have to stand for one class at most. Thinking this in my mind, I stood up obediently, and then the teacher slapped me.
The sound was earth-shaking, a hundred times more powerful than the previous snap of fingers, and the students were all stunned.
I felt my face burning. The students behind me stood up and confessed their mistakes. The teacher criticized and educated them, then walked back to the podium to continue teaching, completely ignoring me.
The teacher's words and deeds made me realize that people are different and that face is different. From then on, I decided to be a good person ."
After saying that, seeing Jiang Nansun's disbelief, Yuan Xudong immediately added:
"Last night, at the Park Hyatt Hotel, I saved a woman named April. You don't know how dangerous society is. If she hadn't met me, she would have been bullied by a turtle owner named Wang Wugui.
It was the kind of situation where a man bullies a woman, a bit like what happened between us this morning, the difference is that Wang the Turtle was chased away by me, while I was the kind of person who pulled back from the brink of death, and a prodigal son who returns is more valuable than gold!"
While listening to Yuan Xudong's nonsense, Jiang Nansun looked around for Wang Yongzheng, with an expression of disbelief on her face.
"Can you be a little more serious? You don't tell the truth. Your family is so rich, but you live in a rented attic with your mother? And you were slapped by a teacher in the city?
I don't believe a word of it, but I didn't expect that you are quite good at making up stories, with childhood experiences and a hero saving a beautiful girl. I recommend you to go to Qidian to write a novel, maybe you can become a great writer! "
Not expecting Jiang Nansun to believe him, Yuan Xudong said jokingly with a smile:
"I just resigned from Biquge. I am not considering the novel industry, including Qidian, for now. A large real estate company like Jingyan Group is my goal!"
After rolling her eyes at Yuan Xudong, who was grinning and not doing anything serious, Jiang Nansun finally found Wang Yongzheng, who was arguing with a group of construction workers. She quickly shouted:
"Wang Yongzheng, come here!"
Hearing Jiang Nansun's voice, Wang Yongzheng spoke to the construction worker opposite him, then walked over and said jokingly while looking at Yuan Xudong and Jiang Nansun standing side by side:
"Jiang Nansun, is this your new boyfriend?"
Without waiting for Jiang Nansun to respond, he glanced at Yuan Xudong and said:
"You have a good eye, much better than that Zhang Anren. Let me tell you, your Zhang Anren is good in every way, but his biggest problem is that he is too fake. He is hypocritical in his behavior. I despise people like him the most!"
Hearing Wang Yongzheng belittling her boyfriend Zhang Anren like this, Jiang Nansun couldn't help but retort:
"That's called being polite and modest, unlike you who are so arrogant all day long and look down on everyone!"
Hearing this, Wang Yongzheng shrugged his shoulders and did not continue to refute Jiang Nansun. He looked at Yuan Xudong, stretched out his right hand and smiled:
"Hello, my name is Wang Yongzheng, I'm the person in charge of the construction site, nice to meet you!"
Yuan Xudong also extended his right hand and shook hands with Wang Yongzheng, and said with a smile:
"Hello, my name is Yuan Xudong, and I'm the supervisor sent by Jingyan Group. We're all young people, so you can just call me Yuan Xudong. I'll call you Wang Yongzheng. Nice to meet you!"
Wang Yongzheng nodded slightly and said:
"I have received a notice from the hotel. You should work with Nansun. If you have any questions, please ask her. If she can't solve it, please come and discuss it with me. Do you have any other questions?"
Yuan Xudong was naturally happy to work with Jiang Nansun.
"I have no problem with this, it makes perfect sense!"
Wang Yongzheng nodded slightly, then looked at the construction workers not far away and shouted:
"Old Wei, come here and take a look. The clips you made are unevenly distributed, with three here and two there. And the length of these suspension rods cannot exceed that of angle irons according to regulations, so please redo them!"
"Who can see clearly? We have been doing this for so many years!"
"I can see it clearly, please do it again!"
"It's almost finished. It's impossible to redo such a large area!"
"Why not?"
"Xiao Wang, I know you are more educated than me, but you have to learn to be flexible when doing things. I worked on a construction site when I was 18 years old, in 1988. You were not born at that time, right?"
"That proves that experience is unreliable. If you can't see it with your own eyes, please use professional tools to do it!"
"Xiao Wang, don't find fault with me!"
"If you're a little off here and a little off there, the whole project will be a million miles off, do you understand?"
“I don’t know, I don’t understand, I just know that now it is perfect in terms of usage and appearance, if you take a photo you won’t see anything!
I have to change all the designs for such a large area. Will you pay me for the overtime? If you can pay me for the overtime, I will bring my brothers to redo it. If you don’t have the budget, I will take everyone out for dinner!”
After that, Lao Wei looked at the construction workers who were busy around him and shouted:
"Everyone, let's go eat. Let's go out for noodles, take a break at noon, and come back in the afternoon to finish the work. The sooner we finish, the sooner we can call it a day!"
Seeing that Lao Wei did not listen to his orders and wanted to take the surrounding workers to eat, Wang Yongzheng pointed at Yuan Xudong and threatened Lao Wei:
"Old Wei, let me introduce you. This is Yuan Xudong, the supervisor sent by Jingyan Group. He is in charge of attendance records. Those who leave will be counted as absent for one day!"
Hearing this, Old Wei glanced at Yuan Xudong and Wang Yongzheng, then turned around and left, obviously not taking Wang Yongzheng's threat seriously.
Seeing Lao Wei taking all the construction workers away, Wang Yongzheng shrugged his shoulders, looked at Yuan Xudong and Jiang Nansun standing aside, and spread his hands and said:
"There's no other way. It's just the three of us. Do you have any opinions?"
"You can't be serious?"
Jiang Nansun opened her eyes slightly and said in disbelief:
"It's such a large area, there are only three of us, and one of us is a layman who knows nothing. How long will it take us to do it all over again?"
"Today, plus one night, should be enough!"
Wang Yongzheng shrugged indifferently, looked at Yuan Xudong and asked:
"Yuan Xudong, do you have any questions?"
Seeing Wang Yongzheng asking him, Yuan Xudong directly refused:
"Of course there are problems. From a business perspective, I am a supervisor sent by Jingyan Group, not a construction worker. It is not my turn to do these jobs.
From a personal point of view, it would be better to pay the construction workers to come back and do it again than to let me spend a day and a night standing on the scaffolding to work.
There is strength in numbers. I just counted and there are more than 400 lines here. If each line takes three minutes to calculate, it will take more than 20 hours of work. If 30 construction workers are hired, it will only take one hour to complete. Each person will be paid 100 yuan, which is 3,000 yuan. Why not do it?"
"Wow!"
Wang Yongzheng exaggerated, looked at Yuan Xudong and applauded:
"Yuan Xudong, you are good at math, but unfortunately, rules are rules. If they make a mistake, they should do it again. Those who leave will be counted as absent for one day. If I still give them overtime pay, how can I manage the construction site in the future?"
"You are right!"
Yuan Xudong nodded slightly in agreement, and then changed the subject:
"Your head follows your butt. You are right to consider the issue from your own perspective, but if threats were effective, Old Wei would not have left with his men. You deducted a day's salary from them and stayed to speed up the project. Both sides will suffer!"
Hearing Yuan Xudong say this, Wang Yongzheng frowned slightly and said:
"What can you do?"
After taking a look at Wang Yongzheng, Yuan Xudong suggested:
"You spend a few hundred dollars to treat them to a lunch, or spend a few thousand dollars to ask them to work overtime for an hour. Otherwise, you stay and work overtime for a whole day and night, and Nansun and I go home to sleep."
After listening to Yuan Xudong's suggestion, Wang Yongzheng blurted out:
"Isn't this just giving in to them? I'm not wrong, they are the ones who are wrong, why should I give in?"
Yuan Xudong shrugged his shoulders and said directly:
"You are too young. You are not in the same group as Lao Wei and the others. They don't respect you in the first place. What's more, you don't know how to behave. Just like Nansun said, you don't take anyone seriously. Lao Wei leads so many people to work, he must have his own pride. If neither of you respects the other, then both of you will suffer!
If you want others to listen to you, you have to persuade them with reason, appeal to their emotions, lure them with benefits, and threaten them with force. You have already tried reasoning and threats, but Lao Wei doesn't care.
Then the only thing left is to treat us to a meal and talk about feelings, or to pay for overtime and discuss benefits. You decide for yourself, it is better than asking Nansun and I to work overtime. The most important thing is that I am afraid of heights and cannot climb up the scaffolding!"
After hearing Yuan Xudong's sixteen-character management motto, Wang Yongzheng directly refused:
"It's fine if you and Nansun don't want to work overtime, I'll do it all by myself. There's no way I'll give in to Lao Wei and the others!"
Seeing Wang Yongzheng being stubborn, Jiang Nansun turned around and left. Yuan Xudong quickly followed. Seeing that the two were really about to leave the boutique hotel, Wang Yongzheng couldn't help but shout:
"It's working hours now. If you leave, it will be counted as a day off!"
