Reborn Aristocrat: Return of the Vicious Heiress (Part II)

Chapter 306: Seventh In Running For The Queen Of Lan Feng

Indeed, Wen Xinya won the top spot for the Four Belles of the freshmen at the Lan Feng Institute. Although it was just a superficial title, it greatly boosted Wen Xinya's reputation in the Lan Feng Institute.

As for the voting for the Queen of Lan Feng, Wen Xinya was just placed at the seventh position. However, for a freshman to stand out among almost a thousand female students in the whole Institute within slightly a month of entering the Institute, it was a big deal. It was worth noting that the senior students occupied the first four placings, followed by two sophomores, and she was the highest-ranked freshman.

And Xia Ruya was just placed beyond the first hundred positions.

Of course, these were all told to her by Zhou Tianyu and Xu Tongxuan. She did not care for these superficial titles at all.

Today, she had an appointment with Li Mengjie and Yan Shaoqing to check on the progress of the renovations of the shop front. After getting out of the Institute, Wen Xinya flagged down a cab by the roadside and went to the shop front.

Once Wen Xinya alighted from the cab, she was totally astonished by the brilliant architecture before her eyes!

The entrance sloped up leading to a nine sapphire steps. Mounting the steps, nine wooden pillars engraved with dragons paired with phoenixes stood tall. Green glazed tiles, red pillars, golden roof, and white railings—the vintage imperial palace styled architectural design could already be seen.

Wen Xinya entered the inner hall. Yan Shaoqing and Li Mengjie were already there!

Li Mengjie brought Wen Xinya around the inner hall and said, "At the moment, the external renovations are already complete. As refinements are needed for the internal renovations, the progress has slowed down. However, everything is expected to be completed within two months."

"Not bad. Seems richer than the designs on paper." Wen Xinya couldn't help but nod in approval after seeing the rough renovations inside. The renovation company recommended by Gu Junling was indeed extraordinary.

Li Mengjie nodded and said, "The renovation staff that you brought over is very experienced. The senior workers were able to tell the imperfections on paper right away and raise better suggestions. Not only did it hasten the renovation progress, but it has also saved quite a bit of resources, which resulted in massive savings for us."

"These are the financial statements for the renovation budget at the moment." Yan Shaoqing handed the financial statements over to Wen Xinya in a timely manner.

Wen Xinya looked through it carefully. There were two financial statements—a set of forecasted expenditure previously and a set of actual renovation spendings. Indeed, a huge sum was saved.

"Just nice, I have something to discuss with you. The renovation senior worker suggests that we use fired golden bricks for the flooring of our grand hall. Not only are they compact in terms of quality, but they're also thick and grand, and can be fired with all sorts of prints according to our requirements. Most importantly, they're relatively more cost-effective. The senior worker has given me a set of price list and samples of the golden bricks—see what you think!" Li Mengjie passed the prepared materials to Wen Xinya.

Wen Xinya knew that golden bricks were not gold. Instead, they were a special kind of stone material fired to be densely knitted and compact bricks, reputed to be golden rocks and thus, known as golden bricks. The flooring of ancient imperial palaces was mostly made of golden bricks, but that technique had already been lost. Currently, golden bricks in use were mostly imitation.

She examined the golden bricks closely. All sorts of prints like clouds, flowers, and birds were fired on them. Also, they were compact in terms of quality and did not pale in comparison to marble—indeed a qualified choice. She then looked at the price list again—indeed, they were a few times cheaper than marble. "Okay, we'll use golden bricks."