Volume 1 Yangcheng Shaojie Chapter 31 There is no such thing as a free lunch
"In any case, our plan to start construction of the industrial zone within a week must not be slowed down." Although Lan Wang's voice was immature, it was still categorical.
"As long as we can start farming earlier and save a little bit of family money earlier, our great cause of crossing will have an extra guarantee! We can't change our plans just because of unexpected circumstances that we can't control. Director Wen is right: We are not short of the 100,000 yuan now! The top priority is manpower and land, and I will solve these two problems today and tomorrow. β
"Since all three of us are on the same page, let's get moving! By the way, Lan Da Shao, the extra manual work may not be as easy to do as we thought at the beginning. Wen Tongxin frowned and analyzed, "The construction of the blast furnace is a big project, a brick and a touch of cement, and every detail cannot be sloppy." We may be able to shorten the construction period a little if we find more workers, but I have recalculated that even if we have twice the manpower we have now, the construction period of the blast furnace will be shortened by about two months at most, and paying twice the number of workers will be enough to cause our capital chain to break! β
"What do you mean?"
"Our construction period problem is far from being solved by recruiting more people, which is actually the efficiency bottleneck that we must face in the construction of large projects!" Director Wen folded his fingers and calculated, "A large number of people cannot solve the problem, we must fundamentally improve our construction efficiency, and in layman's terms, we must concentrate on the development of productive forces!" If it is simply a simple manual brick building, even if the manpower is abundant, the speed of the construction project must have an upper limit, and the marginal return of our manpower investment will gradually decrease with the recruitment of more and more people, and if there is construction machinery, we will complete more tasks per unit of time, and the labor cost will be cheaper! β
"Speaking of which, you just don't think the guys we use for civil engineering construction are good enough?" Lan Wang was completely numb to the daily bookbag dropping behavior of science and engineering nerds, and summarized straightforwardly, "So let me find a way to solve the problem of construction efficiency, just let me find a way to help you get a few machines?" But where can I conjure up a crane and a crane excavator for you?! β
"Don't worry, that's not what Director Wen meant." Li Changting hurriedly jumped out to play the round, he knew that Wang Sun and Young Master Lan were not good-tempered masters, and neither of them could be stimulated, "Director Wen is saying that can you find some materials for us that can be used to make heavy construction machinery, such as large size logs?" β
Young Master Lan scratched his head, and picked his nose carelessly: "This is no problem, I will do my best." As for the design and final manufacturing of industrial machinery, I'm afraid I still have to ask the director to worry about it! β
"That's nature! I'll start drawing on the drawings right away, but for the time being, I'll start with the squirrel cage crane that swept Europe in the mid-19th century and the birdcage crane I designed myself. Director Wen didn't know if he really didn't hear it or just pretended not to hear the sarcasm in Lan Wang's words, so he just responded lightly.
"It's still early, then I'll go to action now, I'll go to Shen Hanlin to see the situation of the wounded and sick first, and then find a way to go out of the city to solve the problem of the land. If I still have time, I can also go to the Huangjia Commercial Bank near the Shui Ferry to finalize the specific affairs of transporting building materials with them, but this last thing will most likely be postponed until tomorrow. β
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In the courtyard of the ancestral mansion, Lan Wang finished changing the medicine for Mrs. Shen. According to common sense, even if the female dependents of such a large family are sick and injured and need to change the dressing, it will definitely not be the turn of the male doctor to do it, but at the moment it is an exceptional situation--- the Shen family has no servants available, and there is only one young master Lan who knows a full set of nursing knowledge, and if it is entrusted to other female dependents or maids to do it, our Lan Xiao Divine Doctor is not at ease! But then again, Lan Wang's biological age is not yet twelve years old after all, and he is still in the stage of ignorance in the eyes of his own people, so occasionally let this stinky boy see something that should not be seen, and everyone can only turn a blind eye!
At this time, Jiang had already changed into the neck brace that Young Master Lan had made for her alone, her breathing and eating had been smoother, and her consciousness was also clear, but the whole person was still as muddy as if she had lost her soul, and she didn't answer when others asked her, she just shook her head and sighed vigorously; There was a maid who was arranged by Zu Shangshu to take care of Mrs. Shen, and also said that Mrs. Shen often secretly wiped her tears when she couldn't see, and when she turned around, she continued to stare at the ceiling in a daze as if nothing had happened.
"What a good thing that is!" The little maid arranged by Zu Shangshu also looked not much older than Lan Wang, and now she had the appearance of six gods without a master, "What if this lady of the Shen family takes advantage of the fact that the slaves and maids are not paying attention and looks for a short time?" We can't just keep an eye on her, can we? β
"Don't worry. The medicine I prescribed to Mrs. Shen has a calming effect, as long as you don't leave this room an inch, nothing will happen! Lan Wang comforted the little maid and gave her a reassuring pill.
"I'm going to give Mrs. Shen and Shen Hanlin injections now, you can avoid it for the time being, I'm watching here, and I'm holding it up if something happens, you can rest assured!"
After sending away the maid who was still hesitant and worried, our Lan Young Master had to get down to business.
He first took out a small porcelain bottle from the medicine box. The medicine contained in it was improved and successfully formulated by him with an extremely special prescription in the jade slip, and the use was naturally shady - he had never wanted to take out this medicine and use it, even when he interrogated the Scorpion Tail Daoist.
However, the current situation leaves our travelers with no choice.
Out of some kind of intuition, Lan Wang always felt that what Madame Shen had been trying to hide was not trivial. Not only that, but he also had reason to suspect that the Shen family had something to do with the land that the crossing trio had taken a fancy to and was intended to be used to build a steel plant. At that time, in the Shen family's mansion, Lan Wang temporarily brought over a book to fix Mrs. Shen's neck, and he didn't look at the cover of the book carefully, let alone care about the specific content of the book. But just as he was changing Mrs. Shen's formal neck brace made of cork, the title of the cover of the book caught his attention: "List of Shen Clan Property"
As soon as he hastily flipped through a few pages, Lan Wang discovered an astonishing secret: the piece of land selected by Director Li and Director Wen happened to be the Shen family's property!
But the strange thing is that Lan Wang had already learned from Li Changting before that the land that the crossing trio wanted was occupied by a landlord surnamed Tian. These two pieces of information seem to be contradictory, but if you look at the situation of the Shen family in recent years, the truth is obvious.
Lan Wang already had his own guesses, but he still needed real evidenceβand this real evidence could only be obtained through very special means.
Originally, for this kind of patient who is likely to have experienced great mental trauma before and has irrepressible suicidal tendencies, Lan Wang, a doctor, should focus on warm and tonic conditioning, supplemented by psychological counseling, and cure her illness unhurriedly, and then open her heart. It's a pity that time is limited, and our Young Master Lan doesn't have that patience.
Lan Wang poured the medicine in the porcelain bottle into an empty bowl. In an instant, the whole room was filled with a strange fragrance that made people intoxicated with it. Our Lan Da Divine Doctor didn't dare to slack off, so he quickly took the jug next to him and mixed some water into the bowl to dilute the medicine.
Nonsense, the super "spitting out true medicine" improved by the secret method passed down by Master Fengyun, if you really don't look at the dosage and pour it into people, then you have to kill yourself!
The liquid medicine slowly flowed through the edge of the medicine spoon into Mrs. Shen's mouth. At first, nothing seemed to have happened, but it was just a stick of incense, and Jiang's consciousness blurred again, his cheeks flushed abnormally, and his mouth emitted a low, indistinct murmur.
"Mrs. Shen? Mrs. Shen? Can you hear me? Lan Wang asked softly in Jiang's ear, and while asking, he still felt silently guilty in his heart: "I also have no choice but to do it, I hope that even if Shen Hanlin finds out in the future, he will not bother with me!" β
Mrs. Shen nodded in confusion.
"What happened at home when your husband was asleep? Why do you say that you are so hard, you are young and want to find a short-sighted and desperate road! Hey, I'm a kid who doesn't even feel worthless for you! You might as well tell me what happened, maybe I can help my wife and the Shen family solve problems! Lan Wang's voice was still like a little devil, full of temptation and magic.
"It's over...... It's all over...... Mom and Dad are gone...... All gone! Even in a coma, Mrs. Shen's words were still crying, "The family is surrounded by walls...... The land is all sold, what...... Nothing left, nothing left...... There's nothing left...... There is no ...... left."
"Damn, I should have asked a guided question in the first place!" Listening to Mrs. Shen, who was in a state of chaos, babbling a lot of invalid information, Lan Wang secretly scolded herself in her heart.
He then asked.
"In this case, as long as your husband Shen Hanlin is still alive, you shouldn't look for a short-term view? What grievances do you have? What's so hard to say? Say it, say it! It's better to say it, right? Lan Wang continued to follow the good path.
"Bastard...... Beast...... Tian Jia ...... Tian Chengfu, he accounted for the ...... Occupy my family's land! Took away my family's property...... Hundreds of acres of riverside paddy fields are gone...... It's all gone! Even in a coma, the hatred in Mrs. Shen's voice was obvious.
Lan Wang knew that the key information was coming.
"He took the ...... My family's land ...... Lend it back to me...... The inexhaustible debt of Hades...... It's not enough...... I will pay my debts with my body......" Mrs. Shen's face had begun to distort a little, "Hateful...... It's right at home...... It's on the couch in the bedroom of the inner house...... The surname Tian is in front of my husband...... My husband was lying by...... The surname Tian turned out to be ...... He actually ...... Unexpectedly...... You gave me ...... Woowoowoooo......oo
Mrs. Shen sobbed bitterly in a hoarse voice that did not resemble a human voice.
Lan Wang realized that his conjecture was completely correct.