He burned the page.
Jiang Xubai is a mural restorer and the daughter of a carpenter in Yuncheng, Shanxi. She can count thirteen processes in a one-millimeter-thick section, and recognize which year, which company, and which hand made the layer of ash five hundred years ago.
She took forty-seven samples from the east wall of the main hall of Yunyan Temple. Forty-six are modern putties.
There is only one real thing left - 0.15 Square meters, hidden behind a pillar, as if someone left it on purpose.
The general contracting unit to which this report is sent is Suzhou Pei's Ancient Building.
Pei Yu is the auditor. He has a habit of reading files: look at money first, then people, and finally time. The "traditional craft consulting fee" of 3.86 Million was paid to a company that was established 22 days ago; the purchase amount of four traditional materials was less than 20% of the quota.
He filed for recusal. The reason is "long-term social relationship"——
Cui Xiuzhen, the sole shareholder of that company, had worked in the Pei family for twenty-three years. On the night his grandfather was buried, she was the vigil in the mourning hall.
Same wall, two truths. What she cultivated was gold, what he checked was the price difference of gold, and what his family earned was also the price difference of gold.
Eight years ago, they separated at the Nanjing train station. Both of them said, "You go first," but neither of them left. Eight years later, we met again in the construction floor room. One called "Pei Chu" and the other "Jiang Gong", but neither one called the other by name first.
On December 22, the beam was lifted. The Pei family wants to announce two things: he will join the "Zuopu" and become the seventh generation successor; he will join the board of directors.
His mother once said something to Jiang Xubai eight years ago and to himself eight years later:
"Everything our family gives you, you have to pay back."
