The painting of the ladies on the bridge was like a new window that opened for Ye Qing.
The reliefs on Caiyi Bridge originated from the calligraphy of a great painter in the Ming Dynasty.
This person was called Qiu Ying, and he was a complete painting maniac. He was best at painting women.
The antique building under Caiyi Bridge was a famous red-light district in ancient times.
The red-light district naturally needed a fire avoidance painting. Qiu Ying was an expert in this field, and his fire avoidance paintings were naturally sought after by countless red-light district masters.
In 2007, Caiyi Street was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level. When Zhongyun City spent a huge amount of money to renovate Caiyi Street, it was unknown from which corner a few well-preserved fire avoidance scrolls were found.
This caused a huge sensation. Zhongyun City Government was ecstatic. They picked out a few paintings of ladies and asked a stone carving master to carve them into reliefs. They then stuck them on Caiyi Bridge for all the citizens to enjoy.
Now there were 24 paintings of ladies on the bridge. Four of them were original works by Zhongyun City, and the rest were public works by Qiu Ying.
The Caiyi Bridge that Ye Qing was at was naturally one of Zhongyun City's main roads. Otherwise, why would it be so congested after a night shift?
Caiyi Street was a cultural street in Zhongyun City. It was well known throughout the country. There was no way the city inspection team wouldn't come here to inspect the environment.
What if … …
What if the entire road, the entire road's curbstones, were all engraved with pictures of beautiful ladies, or other patterns?
If this idea was told to others, they would definitely be smacked in the face.
Stone carvings naturally had to be done with a carving machine. For a complicated carving process like a lady's painting, it required the smallest carving knife. It would take at least an hour to complete.
Carving words on a stone tablet would cost a few hundred dollars. How much would it cost to carve a ten times more complicated picture of a lady's painting on marble?
30 minutes later, Ye Qing arrived at the industrial park.
The park was huge. One of the top 500 companies in the country, as well as Zhongyun City's leading manufacturing company, [Huaxing Heavy Industry], was located here.
Ye Qing remembered that Huaxing Heavy Industry was expanding the third phase of the factory. There was a lot of marble at the construction site.
The main body of the third phase of the factory had already been built. Looking around, there were densely packed cranes erected inside.
Ye Qing drove the van to the front of a complex building that was under renovation and found a man who looked like a foreman. While toasting the cigarette, he asked if there were any marble scraps that had been cut.
The foreman lit a cigarette and took a deep puff. He pointed to a pile of marble nearby and told Ye Qing to move as he pleased.
Ye Qing picked seven pieces of leftover materials that were about the same size as the curbstones. After returning to his shop, he closed the door and summoned Hulk One, Hulk Two, and the rare quality rapid metal engraver.
There were a lot of CAD character relief drawings online, but it was really hard to find one that fit Ye Qing's requirements.
Because after the installation of the curbstone, it was rectangular and laid horizontally on the ground. Most of the beautiful maids were standing.
Since the proportions of the figures were not right, the carving on the stone slab naturally could not be considered beautiful.
The good thing was that China did not have many things. It was just that there were a lot of people and a long history. There were a lot of ancient scrolls, and the number of scrolls that were spread out horizontally was as vast as the sea.
A painting that looked like a fairy from Dunhuang, where the maids were half lying down and dancing with their sleeves rolled up horizontally was found by Ye Qing.
This CAD drawing was very detailed and large. If he wanted to copy it onto the stone slab, he naturally had to change the size parameters. This was not a problem for Ye Qing.
Half an hour later, the 50 kg piece of marble was single-handedly caught by Hulk One and placed on the rapid metal engraver like a chicken. He pressed the start button on the control panel. Suddenly, the engraver began to rotate at an unimaginable speed. Even the air was being cut with a 'wu wu' sound.
After the dust of the stone flew, a lifelike classical beauty with her sleeves rolled up.
Perfect!
Ye Qing excitedly slapped his thigh. Fully automatic fixing, fully automatic sharpening. This speed, this cutting skill, a normal metal engraver would never be able to catch up.
To engrave the stone for a long period of time, he needed to spray water on the blade to cool it down. Ye Qing connected the water pump to the machine and took out his phone to time it. Ye Qing gave the control of the engraver to Hulk One and had Hulk Two move the marble to the workbench.
When the remaining six pieces of marble were finished, Ye Qing found that with the help of Hulk One and Hulk Two's attributes, the total time taken was only a little over two minutes.
Ye Qing quickly used a calculator to calculate. If he worked 24 hours a day, he could carve more than 120,000 pieces of granite in a month.
… … …
The next morning at 8 AM, Ye Qing brought soup dumplings and porridge to the hospital.
Ye Jiangning was lying on the bed with an IV drip. Xu Lan was sitting on the nurse's chair yawning.
After Ye Qing put away the breakfast, he took out 12 bundles of cash from his bag.
"The CNC mill sold for 180,000, I'll leave 60,000 for the factory's working capital." Ye Qing opened the lunchbox, lightly blew on it and handed it to his mother: "120,000 should be enough for Lu Xiaozhen and Qian Dongdong's medical expenses. I'll think of something during this time, can we take on a few more orders?"
"Didn't the rest of the workers quit?" Xu Lan's eye bags were heavy, clearly tired: "If the rest of the orders don't work out, we can just subcontract them out. It's okay if we can't make money, but we can't lose our reputation. "
"The orders have already been canceled. The boss of Jiangshan masonry found out about the accident at our factory and all the workers quit, so he canceled the orders."
"Then … let's sell the rest of the machines and materials." Ye Jiangning's voice was very soft, but even so, it still affected his wound, causing him to frown in pain: "Lu Xiaozhen and Qian Dongdong's injuries aren't light. Once they're discharged from the hospital and we can do a work injury evaluation, we have to compensate them no matter what."
"Let's take it slow. The more we rush, the harder it'll be to sell them. There are so many factories in the park, I'll go take a look and maybe take on some processing jobs. "
After chatting for a while, Ye Qing asked his parents what they wanted to eat for lunch.
"Buy some pork ribs from the market to make soup. Don't try to save yourself the trouble of getting takeout from a restaurant. The food there isn't as nutritious as the ones at home." Xu Lan advised.
Ye Qing nodded, saying that he'll first go to a few factories in the park to look for outsourced jobs. Once he finds one, he'll hire a few temporary workers. "
After leaving the hospital, Ye Qing bought two fruit baskets from a fruit store and delivered them to Lu Xiaozhen and Qian Dongdong's room.
Lu Xiaozhen was in a normal room, but he was already awake. When he saw Ye Qing, he didn't feel any resentment. After all, the accident was caused by someone else, so there was no reason to blame Ye Qing.
"Just focus on recovering. The factory doesn't have any money, but we have a lot of machines. Don't try to save money for us. Use the best medicine you can. " Ye Qing took out a roll of money from his pocket and stuffed it under Lu Xiaozhen's pillow: "Here's ¥5,000. Use it to buy some tonics."
Qian Dongdong was in the ICU, so Ye Qing couldn't enter. So he gave the fruit basket and money to Qian Dongdong's family.
Right now, Ye Qing still had ¥50,000 on hand, but he couldn't use it for the time being. He still had something to do.
At 9 a.m., Ye Qing parked the van in front of Zhongyun City Construction Bureau.
Bringing along the documents that Han Youpeng left in the van yesterday, Ye Qing walked into the spacious office building. He casually found a staff with a badge and asked if they knew which floor Han Youpeng was working on.
"Third floor, Municipal Engineering Office."
Ye Qing thanked the staff and went up to the third floor. The Municipal Engineering Office's door was wide open, and a middle-aged man with thick glasses was educating Han Youpeng.
His father's old classmate also worked here, and he was a director. But Ye Qing didn't plan to look for him yet.
"Xiao Han, I am also thinking about your future. If you can negotiate the contract price, then the Bureau Chief will naturally look at you differently."
"Make a trip to Jiangshan masonry this afternoon and let Sang Qing know. Tell him that the Urban Construction Bureau is wavering and is negotiating with other masonry factories. Make him nervous!"
Han Youpeng was even more obedient than a good student. He nodded his head.
Ye Qing almost laughed out loud. This guy's acting skills were really on point. Yesterday's free ride attitude was completely gone.
After waiting for a cup of tea's time, Han Youpeng came out cursing. When he saw Ye Qing standing in the corridor, he was stunned: "What? You're not here to deliver the documents, right?"
"I have other things to do." When Ye Qing returned the documents he left behind, he also took a few pictures printed by the color printer: "Look at this."
Han Youpeng took the pictures doubtfully and then exclaimed in surprise.
Five pictures, five different shaped marble blocks.
There's no mistake. These past few days, he almost had a grudge with marble. How could he not recognize the type of stone in these color photos?
But … …
The same relief was carved on the five different shaped marble blocks.
Han Youpeng's eyes widened. The relief was exceptionally beautiful. It was a maid wearing a long dress. She seemed to be lying down and dancing with her sleeves rolled up like clouds.
But it gave Han Youpeng the illusion that the maid was dancing to the rhythm. The long dress and sleeves were gently swaying with the pipa.
"Beautiful, too beautiful." He excitedly slapped his thigh and shouted: "It's simply a work of art. I think it's even more beautiful than the 24 maids on Caiyi Bridge."
"Look, look, this girl's eyes are so bright. I feel like they're giving me electricity."
Han Youpeng held the pictures and couldn't put them down. He hated that he couldn't put them under a microscope.
After getting tired of shouting, Han Youpeng suddenly came back to his senses.
"That's not right. Why are you showing me these pictures?"
Han Youpeng was as confused as a baboon that had entered a maze. "Although I really want to take these stone sculptures for myself, it's obvious that I'm a loser. I don't have the spare money to buy them."
Ye Qing took the pictures and pointed at the shape of the marble blocks and said: "Look carefully. What do these marble blocks look like?"
"What do they look like?" Han Youpeng finally focused his attention on the marble blocks. After looking at them for a long time, he finally got a clue. These stones looked like curbstones.
"Curbstones?"
"Yes." Ye Qing heroically said: "What do you think would happen if the curbstones on the main roads in the city were all replaced with these curbstones?"
"Would … … would … …" Han Youpeng's mouth seemed to have been stuffed with a transmitter. After stammering for a long time, he finally blurted out a sentence.
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