Some dug a few holes, stacked up a few bricks, and drove a few steel rods into their property to show they had begun work; others took land on which a skyscraper could be built and threw up a perfunctory little one or two story house, which they neither rented nor used.
有的將土地隨便挖幾個洞、疊一些磚、埋幾根鋼筋，表示已經動工；有的將可以蓋大樓的土地草草蓋上一、二層的小房子，不租不用… …。