71．The next day，Huangjiawang became a large construction site.Trucks went in and out with the irons and cements and motor-motor tricycles ran from east to west with bricks and sands.Every family erected the banner or red flag.Firecrackers were heard，"Crash，crash，and crash" without end for the groundbreaking.Seeing that，Cai and Huang couldn’t slacken themselves and they ran door to door to make a careful investigation with the design drawing and documents.After all，Cai used to be a engineering soldier.Now he inspected all the constructions，uttering his points and assignments all the day.Then knowing some problems from the investigation，he made a brief report to all the family at night to instruct the construction.People digging pits，breaking grounds，and laying cornerstones，the construction went on smoothly as planned.One week later，Huang found that Cai’s construction was conducted with clear assignment，orderly organization and faster speed.Moreover，he also found Cai was surreptitious： his office was always veiled by curtains with people in and out and the lights went on deep in the night.Huang conjectured，"This is not good.I had to spy it.As the military tactics says，try to know your opponent other than yourself and you will never be defeated in hundreds of wars.So in that night，Huang followed Cai wherever his opponent went.Huang just kept watching in a distance and at 10 o’clock in the afternoon，he saw Cai coming from the construction site of the "five guarantees" family，followed by Xiuxiu and three engineering workers.They went toward the village office，talking about the construction without noticing him.In order to hear about what they were talking about clearly，he trotted to approach them and he vaguely caught something ——tomorrow，two beams，poles——electric pressure weld ．．." As he kept listening，shortly they came before the village office.The door was opened，and through the light of the room Huang recognized the white and fat，about 50- year- old talkative man was the brother of Xiuxiu’s mother，a project manager of Qin’an Construction Corporation who once had a drink with Huang and the thin and tall man was the captain of the concrete team，a relative on Xiuxiu’s parents’ side who had built the bridge over Bailong River two years before.But who was the rest of three men？Huang gathered his old memory but still had no ideas.Huang insulted inwardly，"You，crafty old egg.On the surface，tell the public that we stand on the same starting line but now you turn to so many building specialists.Alright，let me visit your office tonight to see the cat of your bag.So Huang speeded up his steps，came to the office door shortly and opened the door without any knocking or greeting.In fact，previously Huang just intended to probe into the situation but when he entered the room，he converted his firm conviction.Huang was gapped，seeing that the office has became an ocean of drawings： on the desks，on the benches and on the walls，there are effective drawings，engineering drawings，single building drawings，group building drawings as well as the drawings of the present and prospect situations.More exaggeratedly，behind Cai，an enormous bird’s-eye view picture of Huangjiawang was put up on the wall and there was a huge red headline with color print： Home Reconstruction battle picture between the red and yellow army in Huangjiawang.Precisely，the picture was noted the daily construction progress of each army，the targets that each family has completed，bimonthly and monthly construction quotas as well as the gap between two armies.What made Huang annoyed most was the slogan： Overall Attack，Focal Breakthrough ——Try to Overwhelm Huang Army by 20 Days Ahead．
72．Cai just came to the office and sat down when Xiuxiu were prepared to make tea for them.Seeing Huang rushed into the room，Xiuxiu greeted，"Hello，Mr.Huang，it’s too late tonight and here you come for what？" Cai also greeted，"please sit down，pal.Let me introduce you．" "Sit？Why sit？Sit for what？Cai Danain，an old egg，has given me a trap.How dare I sit with you？Sit ****！" said Huang angrily.Then with a "bang"，Huang bolted out of the door.Cai together with Xiuxiu rushed out at once，uttering，"Wait a minute，let me explain it．" But regardless of this，Huang didn’t turn his head back and went away．
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73．That night，Huang together with Caixia，his daughter-in-law，drove his motor-motor tricycle to his son，Huang Jiancheng in the city.Until the next evening，they were back to the village.But from then on，Huang made some amendment on the construction approach.The advanced technologies like electrical pressure weld were added so that the construction progress was speeded up apparently and gradually Huang shortened the gap.Two month later，there was only ten days of construction progress behind Cai.After the house roofs had been built，each team began to paste.Because of Huang’s using the mass pasting technology，Huang cut six days once again.Consequently，the contest situation drove Xiuxiu crazy and then at times she visited Caixia on the construction site of the disabled family to detect the secret.When seeing the anxious opponent，Caixia said to Xiuxiu in earnest，"We have no secret at all but were forced to catch up.We just learned from you．" What Caixia said only made Xiuxiu feel blind.Actually what made Cai team fear did come true.Finally the two drew before all the construction accomplishment because Huang cut 4 days again by installing aluminum alloy windows instead of wood ones．