Chapter 125: Master of Architecture 5
Qi Qingyao sat down after was.h.i.+ng up. The three children served her like she was the Empress, pouring her water and serving her meal. Qi Qingyao was at a loss for words and did not know whether to laugh or cry at them.
Jiang Yeqian and Si Jin knocked on the door again. This time, they were finally let in.
The two of them sat across from her. Before Jiang Yeqian could ask Qi Qingyao what she was doing yesterday and why she had not opened the door, she posed them a question first.
She questioned them while drinking chicken soup.
“Did you two find all the workers and wood merchants for me yesterday?”
“I’ve found them,” Jiang Yeqian answered.
Si Jin immediately patted Jiang Yeqian’s shoulder and added on with a smile, “We looked together.”
Jiang Yeqian side-eyed the youth but did not expose him.
The little boy tagging along yesterday was more of a hindrance than a helping hand. He looked like an extremely curious child, exploring the world.
His rice obsession even extended to eating puffed rice candy!
Qi Qingyao casually stuffed the pile of completed blueprints into Jiang Yeqian’s hands. She was sure that although he had lost his memories, he was very capable of handling any matters given to him! It should not be a problem to leave the construction up to him.
At this time, Qi Qingyao had not realized how precious the architectural blueprints that she had casually drawn were.
After tossing it to Jiang Yeqian, she gave him some orders.
“I won’t be going to the construction site! I’ll give you this pile of blueprints and check in after a month’s time! As for the wood, just pick some common red pine wood and coat it over with black paint. The eaves of the tiles can be either green or black, I’ll leave it up to you. The Spliced Mortise-Tenon structure is needed between the logs. I’ve drawn everything put in the blueprint and you only need to ask the workers to follow it. By the way, you’re in charge of supervision. You’re fully responsible if the house isn’t built well.”
She threw all her work away, as though her hands were literally washed clean of them.
Jiang Yeqian gulped upon hearing this.
He was a dignified Head Grand Secretariat, but here with her, he was becoming a labor contractor.
Jiang Yeqian accepted the pile of blueprints. The first piece alone showed the exquisite architectural structure and delicate joints of the house. From a sweeping view that reached the final page, were the details and composition of each of the different parts.
Everything was noted in extreme detail from the length to the width, even the angle for each piece of wood.
If it were not for him noticing the messy study table, he would have a.s.sumed that all of the blueprints had been stolen from some random palace…
“You…” Surely it was not her who had drawn all these?
Jiang Yeqian’s brain turned to mush as he entertained this possibility.
“Is there something wrong with the blueprints?” Qi Qingyao asked lightheartedly.
Jiang Yeqian could stand it no longer. “Where did these blueprints come from?”
Qi Qingyao replied with a straight face, “I picked them up from somewhere. Is there something wrong?”
“It’s nothing,” Jiang Yeqian forced out, with some difficulty.
Jiang Yeqian lowered his head and looked at the blueprints again, his emotions a blur. He tamped down the suspicion in the bottom of his heart and ignored it.
“Zhang Tieyuan, what should we do about him?” he asked.
Qi Qingyao had started drinking tea after finis.h.i.+ng the chicken soup, to get rid of the oiliness on her palate. She was drinking the finest grade of Biluochun tea in Longmen Inn. After taking a sip, she replied, “I’ll be heading over tomorrow night to receive the land. Get me some of those thugs for hire. If they’re unwilling to leave, we’ll throw them into Jiuli River to wake them up, but don’t drown them .”
“I got it.” Jiang Yeqian felt like an underling of hers.
She was the one calling the shots.
Qi Qingyao sipped her tea, but then suddenly remembered something. She looked through her wrapped bundle and immediately gave all of her paper money to Jiang Yeqian. This action of hers rendered Jiang Yeqian stupefied.
Si Jin also looked at her in surprise.