At this time, at the villa construction site, all the workers gathered together, pointing to the villa in front of them and talking about it.
The foundation of the villa has been laid, and the four main walls are being built. However, when the workers were building the walls just now, they accidentally knocked down three or four layers of bricks.
"How many times have I told you, you must be careful when building a newly built wall, it's too rough!" A middle-aged man scolded a young man.
The young man lowered his head and remained silent.
The middle-aged man walked up to Uncle Quan and said with a guilty look on his face: "Brother Quan, I brought him to our construction site to move bricks just to exercise him, but I didn't expect...sigh."
"That wall was built yesterday, and I didn't expect it to fall down..." the young man said aggrievedly.
The middle-aged man glared: "How dare you speak so harshly?!"
Uncle Quan quickly waved his hand: "Forget it, Xiaoyu didn't do it on purpose. As a recent graduate, take your time."
"Brother Quan, I'll take him to clean it up." The middle-aged man said with a smile, and then took the young man to clean up the scene.
Jiang Xiaofan walked over quickly, smiled and asked Uncle Quan, "What happened, Uncle Quan?"
"Xiaofan, you're here."
Uncle Quan glanced at the middle-aged man and his son, and explained in a low voice: "It's like this. They are from my wife's natal village. The child has not seen his mother since he was a child. The family is relatively poor. The child wanted to move bricks to exercise during the summer vacation. He accidentally happened just now.
The wall built yesterday knocked down two or three floors..."
"Oh, what did I think it was?"
Jiang Xiaofan said with a smile.
"Hello, Boss Jiang, I just went to supervise the cutting of materials and was about to find you." A middle-aged man trotted over.
Jiang Xiaofan turned around and saw that the person coming was Yue Wenyi, the leader of the masonry team. He smiled and said loudly: "Hello, Captain Yue, what do you want from me?"
Jiang Xiaofan was not very familiar with Yue Wenyi. He only knew that Uncle Quan found him from the town.
It is said that he has a lot of experience in construction. He has even contracted for buildings in the county seat. Anyone who wants to build a house from all over the country will come to him.
"Boss Jiang, the foundation of the villa has been laid, and the walls are almost finished now. Come and take a look at the progress. I am used to asking the owner to inspect and accept every stage of progress. If there are any problems, I will correct them. If there are no problems, I will continue.
Do it." Yue Wenyi handed Jiang Xiaofan a cigarette and said with a smile.
"That's good." Jiang Xiaofan smiled and nodded.
The structure of the villa was decided by Su Yunhe and the others, and Uncle Quan and Yue Wenyi just followed the drawings. If there were any deviations during the construction process, or if there were any changes that they wanted to make, it would be good for Jiang Xiaofan to point them out.
"Basically there's no problem... huh?"
Jiang Xiaofan came to the villa, reached out and touched the dry wall, and suddenly felt something was wrong.
Jiang Xiaofan checked the position of the window sill. The plaster on the brick joints on the top of the wall had dried. He reached out and pushed it gently and found that the bricks on the top of the wall were loose.
He twisted the cement in the cracks of the bricks, and the seemingly solid cement suddenly shattered.
If you don't say it, no one will believe that it is cement plaster.
"Captain Yue, what's going on?"
Jiang Xiaofan turned to look at Yue Wenyi. He had heard about substandard building materials and earned the price difference, but he didn't expect that he would encounter it today.
"It's impossible. This window sill was installed two days ago."
Yue Wenyi looked in disbelief. He looked at the cement plaster in the cracks of the bricks, and his face suddenly turned ugly.
Uncle Quan quickly asked: "What's wrong with Captain Yue?"
Yue Wenyi said with a dark face: "There is something wrong with the cement plaster in this wall. It basically has no coagulation ability."
"Why is this happening?"
Jiang Xiaofan said with some displeasure. If the young man hadn't knocked down the wall, he happened to come over again to check on the progress of the construction. I'm afraid he wouldn't have discovered the problem until now.
Yue Wenyi wiped his sweat and said: "Cement plaster is cement, lime, and sand, mixed in a certain proportion. This kind of failure to solidify may be because the proportion of cement and lime is too low..."
Having said this, Yue Wenyi stood up and said angrily to the workers beside him: "Go and prepare the cement plaster immediately, and do it under my nose."
When Jiang Xiaofan saw that Yue Wenyi didn't act like he was acting, the anger in his heart temporarily dissipated.
When word spread about this kind of cutting corners, his construction team basically no longer had to work. Building a house is different from child's play. If you don't do it right, someone will die. I believe Yue Wenyi will not know it.
"Boss Jiang, wait a moment, I will give you an explanation." Yue Wenyi said bravely.
The workers immediately started busy, mixing cement, sand and lime according to the proportion, and soon the cement plaster was ready.
Yue Wenyi rolled up his sleeves and laid seven or eight bricks with his own hands. After half an hour, none of the bricks showed signs of condensation.
"this……"
Big beads of sweat appeared on Yue Wenyi's forehead. He stammered: "Jiang, Boss Jiang, let me check again. There must be something wrong with some part of this."
Jiang Xiaofan stared at Yue Wenyi and said calmly: "Are you sure there is no problem with the building materials?"
"Wait a moment, Boss Jiang, let me check."
Yue Wenyi was stunned for a moment, and immediately directed the workers to move the cement, lime and sand. He checked the cement and lime one by one and found no problems. When he grabbed a handful of sand, Yue Wenyi's eyes suddenly widened.
"This is... sea sand?" Yue Wenyi stared at the sand in his hand and exclaimed.
"Sea sand?" Jiang Xiaofan walked to the pile of sand, grabbed a handful and put it under his nose, smelling a faint salty smell.
Jiang Xiaofan threw away the sand in his hand and said, "As far as I know, sea sand cannot be used to build houses, right?"
"We learned in high school that sea sand cannot be used to build houses. Because sea sand contains relatively high salt content and has strong corrosive properties, if used in construction, it will not only damage the performance of the concrete itself, but also corrode the structure.
steel bars, so not only houses, but also roads, bridges and other buildings are not allowed to use sea sand." The young man who knocked down the wall said sternly.
"Every student knows this. Team Yue has been building houses for many years. Doesn't he know this common sense?" Jiang Xiaofan said calmly.
Yue Wenyi's face turned green and white, and he turned around and said angrily: "Where did this batch of sand come from?"
The worker next to him whispered: "I bought it from Shiwa Town. The store we often went to said that the county water bureau was investigating the excavation of river sand, so we went to another store to buy it."
"Boss Jiang, please accompany me to Shiwa Town. If I don't figure this out today, my reputation of more than 20 years will be ruined." Yue Wenyi looked at Jiang Xiaofan with a bitter face.
Although most people present did not say anything about using sea sand instead of river sand, they definitely wondered in their hearts whether it was him.
If nothing comes to light today, who will dare to ask him to build a house in the future?
"Okay." Jiang Xiaofan nodded.
Half an hour later, Jiang Xiaofan and Yue Wenyi arrived at Shiwa Town. On the side of the road in the southeast corner of the town, there was a house with a sign selling sand at the door.
As soon as Jiang Xiaofan and the others approached, two ferocious wolf dogs rushed out.