A foreign city, dear you

Cao Xueqin brought his group to the house they were renovating.

The door was open and the decorator was still there.

The wall between the master bedroom and the living room has been demolished, and a big hole has also been smashed on the wall between the master bedroom and the corridor, which will be used to open a door.

The broken walls and bricks that were removed were still piled up in the house.

Everyone stepped on the bricks, one foot low and one foot high, to look at the structure of the house, the beams of the house, and where the load-bearing areas were.

"Do you know what a load-bearing wall is?" a policeman suddenly asked the fat man.

"I don't know." The fat man answered without thinking.

The policeman chuckled and asked, "You don't know? You don't know that you said they were hitting a load-bearing wall?"

The fat man remained silent.

Cao Xueqin pointed out to the police which were the load-bearing walls and which were not.

He pointed to the wall that had been demolished and told the police that before he started demolishing the wall, he checked again and again to make sure that this place was not a load-bearing wall before he dared to do so. Who would take the risk of demolishing a load-bearing wall? That would hurt both others and yourself.

The decoration master also said that it was not a load-bearing wall at all.

The two policemen looked up and examined it repeatedly, and agreed with Cao Xueqin's statement, and concluded that it was not a load-bearing wall and there was no possibility of affecting the entire building.

The police felt that since there was no longer any point of contention, the dispute was resolved, so they withdrew.

*

The police left.

Ye Lian breathed a sigh of relief.

Ye Lian was also worried at first, afraid that the police would also say that they were demolishing a load-bearing wall.

Regardless of whether the wall is truly a load-bearing wall or not, as long as the police say it is a load-bearing wall, then it is a load-bearing wall, and their situation will become very passive.

Fortunately, the two policemen also determined that it was not a load-bearing wall. This makes the problem easier. Now Uncle Lu and the fat couple have nothing to say, right?

"Uncle Lu, look, can you give us water and electricity now?" Ye Lian wanted to say that their (the fat couple's) complaint was unreasonable, but she swallowed her words. Since the problem can be solved, there is no need to further deteriorate the relationship.

Uncle Lu hesitated and did not answer immediately.

The fat man spoke up: "No, even if you are not demolishing a load-bearing wall, you cannot modify it."

"Why?" Ye Lian was not surprised.

The fat man pointed at the hole and said, "You can't open the door here. It doesn't meet the requirements."

"why?"

"There's a corridor outside. What you're doing doesn't meet fire protection requirements."

"Why? You didn't stop anyone."

The fat woman was upset and dissatisfied when she saw the policeman determine that the wall was not a load-bearing wall. Now she seemed to have seen the opportunity to turn things around. She pointed at Ye Lian and asked loudly, "Is it enough that you said you didn't block anyone? Who told you to open the door to the corridor like this?"

How annoying.

This is really a case of just suppressing one problem when another one arises.

Ye Lian was so angry that she argued loudly, "You are just being unreasonable and deliberately making things difficult for me!"

The fat woman approached Ye Lian step by step, using her fat and tall body to intimidate Ye Lian, and her thick lips threatened: "Who are you saying is making things difficult for me? Who are you saying is making things difficult for me?"

*

Cao Xueqian looked at it, furious! His whole body was burning with invisible anger!

He took a few steps over and pulled Ye Lian away.

His gaze was like a sharp blade, piercing at the fat man, the fat woman, Uncle Lu, and Uncle Lu's son. He gritted his teeth and said hatefully:

"You're not done yet, are you? You won't renovate my house? You won't give me water and electricity? Fine! If you don't let me live well, I won't let you live well either! I'm not begging you anymore! I won't renovate this house, I'll tear it all down! Let's see who comes to beg who!"

With anger, Cao Xueqin stepped onto the pile of waste bricks, grabbed the sledgehammer on the waste bricks, and rushed to the kitchen!

Uncle Lu didn't take it seriously, he just said slowly, don't say angry words, don't be impulsive.

The fat woman and the fat man sneered, and said as if they were watching a trick, "Who are you trying to scare? Go ahead and smash it! Smash it for us to see!"

Cao Xueqian walked to the kitchen in a few steps, knocked on the floor with a sledgehammer, pointed at the kitchen floor, and shouted with anger in his eyes and red face:

"You said I was wrong here and there, right? Today I really made a mistake! I smashed the whole floor! What am I afraid of?! I have several houses, and if I smash one, I still have several more! I don't want this one anymore!"

Cao Xueqin said this, and without saying anything, he swung the ten-pound hammer with both hands, and swung it higher and higher! He was so fearless and brave that it seemed as if he was going to smash a big bunker!

Ye Lian stared blankly, she had never seen Cao Xueqin like this before!

Uncle Lu's son and the decorator were also stunned.

Uncle Lu was shocked and kept saying, "Calm down, no, no..." and walked towards the kitchen.

The fat man and the fat woman stood in the living room, watching Cao Xueqin's hammer getting higher and higher. They opened their mouths wide, gasped, and shouted in surprise: "Oh my God! You really can smash it!" While shouting, they rushed to the kitchen together, trying to snatch Cao Xueqin's sledgehammer.

But, it's too late!

Cao Xueqin had raised the sledgehammer high above his head and, using all his strength, smashed it hard on the kitchen floor!

"boom!"

A loud bang!

It's like a thunderbolt out of nowhere!

The floor was struck hard and trembled!

Everyone's heart suffered a violent blow and began beating rapidly!

Everyone was stunned, with their mouths open, and there was complete silence for a moment!

Everyone's eyes turned to the floor at the same time!

This is so scary!

The floor should crack! There should be holes!

but no!

No cracks, no holes.

Cao Xueqin was still furious, and he swung the sledgehammer high again!

The fat man, the fat woman, and Uncle Lu were all shocked again. They hurriedly grabbed Cao Xueqin's sledgehammer and begged: "Stop smashing it! Stop smashing it! If you have something to say, please talk it over nicely!"

*

Ye Lian and Cao Xueqin can finally have lunch.

They left Yuntao Building and drove to a random small restaurant on the side of the road.

It was already past two in the afternoon.

The two of us just ordered two dishes for a meal.

"Why don't you speak?" Cao Xueqin asked Ye Lian.

Ye Lian smiled and said hesitantly, "I, I'm afraid you're still angry."

Cao Xueqin was just taking a sip of water when he burst into laughter and almost couldn't swallow the water. He laughed at Ye Lian: "No wonder you didn't say anything in the car just now, were you scared by me?"

Ye Lian stuffed a mouthful of rice into her mouth, without saying a word, and just looked at Cao Xueqin with a smile, as if she knew him, but also as if she didn't know him.

Cao Xueqin stroked the back of Ye Lian's hand and said lovingly, "Silly girl, why are you afraid of me? I don't dare to lose my temper with you, and I don't lose my temper randomly."

"I'm not afraid of you. I'm afraid that you're still angry and haven't calmed down yet."

"No, I lose my temper to solve problems. Now that the problems have been solved, why am I still angry?"

"But it was really scary when you smashed the floor just now. What if you broke it?"

"No. The quality of the Yuntao Building is very good. Look at the walls on both sides of the corridor. They are very thick, and the floor is even stronger."

"But, your hammer has stunned everyone, and everything has become easier to talk about. It really has the effect of 'putting the hammer to the hammer'."

"So, I have no choice but to use brutal methods against rude people. Otherwise, they will make things difficult for us. They live in Yuntao Building and there are many of them. We have to go back and forth all the time so how can we have so much time to deal with them? And if you deal with them, you have to be humble. With this hammer from me, they will agree to anything and never dare to make things difficult for us again."

"That's right. If we beg them to agree, there will be a lot of things to do in the future, such as cleaning up the renovation waste, and they might be in trouble."

"Yes, they are from the same hometown, they have some power, and they think they can block anyone they want. So I have to let them know that I am not an easy person to deal with. My goal is not to break the floor, but to make them feel that we are not easy to mess with. Otherwise, they will think that we are soft persimmons and they can do whatever they want."

"But with such a heavy hammer, will the floor have no impact at all?"

"There may be, there may be some cracks that are not visible."

"Will it have any impact on the people downstairs?" Ye Lian still felt that no matter how much a conflict there was, once it was over, it would not affect others.

“It might leak.”

"What should I do?"

"I'll ask the decorator to do the waterproofing again."

"Oh, that's good. The couple downstairs must be so frightened today that they might even dream about the loud bang of the floor hitting the roof at night."

"Haha," Cao Xueqin was amused by Ye Lian's words, "Who told them to do that? They deserved it. Our renovations can be completed in three to five days, but they think they are superior and should not be disturbed by noise, not even for a day. Now the floor slabs may even crack."

"I saw that their faces turned pale with fear."

"It's not over yet. He might even beg us for help."

"What do you want us to do?" Ye Lian was puzzled.

"They are more worried about cracks in the floor and water leaks..."

"Oh oh, please ask us to waterproof it?"

"clever."

"See if they'll call."

……

As Ye Lian was chatting, she suddenly started laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" When Cao Xueqin saw Ye Lian laughing, he also laughed.