From Runaway Bride to Global Queen

Chapter 153: Chapter 153: The Swapped Building Materials

Qiao Xin not only didn’t show up, she didn’t even answer the phone!

Qiao Yi helplessly shrugged her shoulders; she had been calling Qiao Xin since she received the message, but until now, Qiao Xin hadn’t answered even one call.

“Forget about her for now, delaying the schedule is a minor issue. The most important thing now is to quickly investigate where the problem lies!”

Due to the collapse, the entire construction site was awakened, and many workers gathered around.

The person in charge arrived late, and from his sweaty appearance, it was clear he rushed over. With an accident occurring on the site, he had to bear the primary responsibility!

“Miss Qiao, Miss Xiao…”

“First, organize people to inspect the cause of the collapse and recheck all the materials that have been stored. I want to know the main cause of this accident before noon!”

Qiao Yi issued the order without directly holding him accountable, allowing the person in charge to breathe a sigh of relief, and he hurriedly called the workers to get to it.

“I just went to take a look, and this level of collapse could be due to the quality of the materials, or another possibility could be a structural error in a certain part of the construction, which could cause a collapse after just two stories!”

Xiao Ting and Qiao Yi walked out of the construction site; they couldn’t help here, all they could do was wait for the workers to inspect and report the results.

“Qiao Xin still hasn’t answered the phone. This time I will definitely make her leave this project!”

As Lu Yanchuan’s chief assistant, Xiao Ting’s demeanor in some aspects is strikingly similar to Lu Yanchuan’s, especially when she is angry, indeed carrying some of Lu Yanchuan’s aura.

“Rest assured, I’ll personally go and speak to the old man; I won’t allow such an irresponsible person like Qiao Xin to continue with this project.”

If it was just a work mistake, that could still be forgivable, but since Qiao Xin joined this project, she’s been slacking.

Now the only part she handled has such a big flaw; if someone says it was an accident, Qiao Yi would never believe it!

Anxiously waiting for an entire morning, Qiao Yi and Xiao Ting finally received a reply from the construction site.

The main reason for this collapse was due to the workers’ operational errors; during the foundation pouring, the consolidation work wasn’t done properly, leading to a collapse after only two stories were built.

“We have already dealt with the workers who made the errors sternly, but while checking the construction materials, we discovered that aside from some of the top layer materials being okay, the materials below were all replaced with defective products!”

“What! Only the top ones are good? How is that possible!”

The first one to disbelieve it was Qiao Yi; she had personally overseen and checked these materials before they were registered into storage, she was confident that the materials entering the warehouse were good.

Now, the person in charge was stating there was a problem with the materials, Qiao Yi immediately went with the person in charge to reinspect the warehouse.

“These materials might look no different from standard construction materials, but their actual quality and lifespan is far inferior to professional construction materials. If these materials are used in construction, it wouldn’t be five, ten years before this building would collapse thunderously!”

These warnings aren’t an exaggeration; how many exposed residential buildings were only discovered to have shoddy materials by the owners after several years!

Qiao Yi checked these materials one by one and had to admit, as the person in charge said, only a very small part could be used.

“What about the warehouse surveillance?”

Qiao Yi suddenly turned around and asked, causing the person in charge to open his mouth and lower his head.

“Since this construction site has just started, the warehouse is temporary, and we haven’t had time to install a surveillance system yet…”

Qiao Yi was speechless; she couldn’t really blame the person in charge for being negligent in this regard, after all, she hadn’t anticipated such a scenario at the outset.

“Are you suspecting someone switched the materials?”

Qiao Yi nodded, “Exactly. I checked these materials when they were stored, and now if there’s an issue with the materials, aside from someone tampering, I can’t think of another possibility! Even if my suspicion is correct, we still don’t have evidence, nor can we catch the real culprit who switched the materials!”

Qiao Yi was disappointed and frustrated, sighing as she walked out, but she suddenly exclaimed as an idea struck her upon reaching the door.

“Although the warehouse doesn’t have surveillance, we can check the nearby road’s surveillance! So much material, the culprit definitely needed a truck to move it! Just by retrieving the past few days’ surveillance, we can find out who switched the materials!”

As the words fell, the person in charge was already hastily running out in response.

With a solution in mind, Xiao Ting also breathed a sigh of relief; after all, the project had just started, and if they let this incident delay the overall schedule, endless troubles would await them!

“You go back and rest, I’ll stay here waiting for the results.”

Xiao Ting originally didn’t plan to leave at this time, but she wasn’t only overseeing this project and couldn’t afford to waste all her energy on this matter alone, so she apologized and smiled at Qiao Yi.

“Then I’ll leave this in your hands. Inform me as soon as there are results, and I will come over as quickly as possible. As for Qiao Xin…”

“I’ll go find Qiao Xin myself, and I’ll also speak with the old man about it. No matter what, Qiao Xin was in charge of the materials, and with such an incident, she must take responsibility.”

Talking about Qiao Xin, Qiao Yi was filled with anger.

Even though she had suspected that Qiao Xin wouldn’t put much effort into the project, she never anticipated such a massive blunder!

After Xiao Ting left, Qiao Yi didn’t continue to wait at the construction site, but went directly to Qiao Xin’s residence.

After knocking on the door for five minutes, Qiao Xin finally, disheveled and disoriented, opened the door for Qiao Yi, apparently just woken up!

“Qiao Xin! With such a big incident at the construction site, you’re actually sleeping at home!”

“What happened? What are you yelling for! You woke me up from a great dream and I haven’t even settled that with you!”

Qiao Xin appeared impatient, blocking the doorway with no intention of letting Qiao Yi in.

Of course, Qiao Yi had no intention of going in either; she simply pulled out all the photos of the construction site she had taken and showed them to Qiao Xin.

“I can overlook you not answering the phone, and I can also overlook you not taking this project seriously, but you chose to be responsible for the materials procurement yourself. Take a good look, this is the result of your responsibility!”

Qiao Xin was very impatient at first, but as Qiao Yi flipped through each photo, Qiao Xin finally realized the seriousness of the situation.

“This… How is this possible!”

“How could it not be possible! You should feel lucky that these substandard materials were discovered because of this accident. If these materials had all been used in the building, it wouldn’t be me coming to find you, but the police!”