Old Xu came over from a distance.
"General Manager Guo, you're here."
"I came to take a look. The scale is truly grand. What's the situation now?" Guo Xuyang said.
"Currently, the main tasks are excavating earth for the construction of sewers, gas pipelines, and cable conduits, as well as laying foundations. It's only been a few days since construction began, so it's mainly earth excavation."
"I just came to see if there's anything else I need to do."
"Manager Cheng specifically instructed that we build a project according to your specifications and erect a monument. Not a single detail can be overlooked."
"What about meals at the construction site?"
"Each of the managers is responsible for arranging that themselves. We've directly hired a restaurant, with a standard of twenty yuan per person per meal, offering one meat and one vegetable dish, with unlimited steamed buns and congee," Old Xu said.
"That's good. It's even more convenient than doing it ourselves."
"Yes. We only have one requirement for the restaurant owner: to guarantee the quality of the food. With two to three hundred people eating every day, where else would they find such good business?"
"As long as the workers are full, they'll have the energy to work. Have they given a completion date?"
"Manager Cheng requires everything to be completed before New Year's Day."
"Can the quality be guaranteed in four months?"
"That's not a problem. We are using high-tech materials. The cement grades are quite high, and all buildings are designed to withstand artillery fire and a magnitude twenty earthquake."
"Mm. Good. If anything comes up, you can find Manager Cheng or me. You've all worked hard."
"This is what we should do."
Guo Xuyang and a few others took a walk around the site, accompanied by Old Xu. Later, Li Minyu and Jiang Wuxi stopped following. Both their stomachs were big, and they couldn't walk much further after covering half the distance.
"Let them go. We're not going anymore. I'm exhausted," Li Minyu said.
"Why is it so far? How big is this estate?" Jiang Wuxi looked ahead, feeling like there was no end in sight.
"I don't know how big it is. I heard they were building twenty villas and thirty apartment buildings. But it seems they changed the plans, though I'm not sure how."
"Who is this being built for?"
"Who do you think? For us, of course."
"This is too big, isn't it? Would we need to drive to visit each other inside?"
"Pretty much. The facilities inside are quite comprehensive, including a maternity center, childcare center, kindergarten, elementary school, and middle school. I also heard there's a nursing home, basketball courts, football fields, tennis courts, badminton courts, and a gym, among other facilities."
"How much did this cost?"
"Your husband has a lot of money," Li Minyu said with a smile.
"And a lot of women," Jiang Wuxi also smiled.
"Don't you think this guy is building himself a palace?"
"Pretty much. Parents are getting old, and this will be his women and children's domain from now on."
"Look, how many children has Elena had since giving birth? And that's not counting the ones we don't know about."
"I heard he wants to form the Guo family football team and basketball team. These children are far from enough."
"I don't want to have any more children. I have to take a year off from school because of this," Jiang Wuxi said.
"How old are you now? You're in the prime age for having children, unlike me. After giving birth to this one, I'm already past my prime."
"Women have an age limit for having children, but men don't. As long as his sperm is viable, he can have children now or even when he's eighty."
"Given his nature, he'll end up harming plenty of girls in the future," Li Minyu said.
"If you put it that way, I feel this estate is a bit too small."
"It's not small, not really. Besides, not everyone can live in this place. Not to mention overseas, he's already bought several properties in Beijing and Shanghai. Not to mention he's a shareholder in an oil company. He must have assets abroad. I don't believe otherwise."
"Rich people are willful. There's nothing we can do. I'm with him precisely because he's rich."
"I'm not with him because he's rich, but because I'm carrying his child. He's a complete scumbag."
"I've come to terms with it now. It's a lifetime with any man. At least he can give me money, and I can buy what I want. He brought me out here to pick me up after hearing I was coming, which shows he still cares about me."
"Let's go. It's getting dark. We don't want to be unable to get back later. It's so dark here. If it weren't for the workers, I wouldn't dare come here."
"It seems the construction site is operating twenty-four hours a day. The construction cost must be several times higher."
"Didn't I say? Your husband has a lot of money. He can spend it and earn it. We don't need to worry about these things. It would be great if we could move in after the baby is born."
"Didn't you say it would be around October? It's unlikely we'll be able to move in by then. They've only just started excavating the foundation, and it will take at least two to three months to complete the main structure."
"It's okay. He's already started finding people from the Maternal and Child Health Hospital. Didn't you see?"
"I met a few, but they were just for nursing. I haven't seen their specific professional skills."
"Two of them are with Xiao Xi. They're staying in the Royal Villa."
"I haven't met those two."
The two women chatted as they walked back. When they reached the car, Guo Xuyang and the others hadn't returned yet.