Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 148
Hearing what Shi Guozheng said, the workers still didn't move, and they planned to let go only when their wages were raised.

"I mean what I say, you just wait here, and Dali will come back within two or three hours to pay you." Shi Guozheng said.

After saying this, Shi Guozheng turned around and left. As soon as he reached the gate of the big iron gate, he saw Cao Baolu coming back on a bicycle. There were two big pieces of fat tied to the back seat of the bicycle, which seemed to weigh sixty or seventy catties.

"The food is good." Shi Guozheng said with a gloomy face and walked outside.

Wang Weidong walked into the kitchen and saw Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law was cutting meat. The two big boards of meat he bought were almost all fatty meat, which was easy to cut. After a while, there were a lot of white fat slices on the cutting board.

"Cut a little more, and it will be calculated as one catty per person." Wang Weidong said.

"With so many cuts, how much will they have to eat for a meal!" said Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law.

"From now on, we will eat meat every day until they get tired of it." Wang Weidong replied.

"You and Brother Cao are here, how much does Shi Guozheng give you a month?" Wang Weidong asked.

"I cook and manage the charging room for [-] a month, and our old Cao burns boilers and manages the warehouse for [-] a month." Cao Baolu's wife replied.

In rural areas, a husband and wife can earn 2000 yuan a year together, which is also a very considerable income.

Food and vegetables don’t cost money, and more than half of the money can be saved.

"In the future, we will cook three meals a day, and let Brother Cao come over to help. The two of you will make one hundred a month." Wang Weidong said.

"Then thank you big brother!" Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law said happily.

Both Cao Baolu and his daughter-in-law were worried that Wang Weidong would take this opportunity to drive him away. Even if he didn’t drive away, Cao Baolu would not pay as much money as before if he didn’t manage the warehouse now. Unexpectedly, Wang Weidong gave her an increase of 20 yuan.

Shi Guozheng returned home, sitting on the kang without saying a word.Qu Wenfu and the others all stared at him with big eyes.

He lost thousands of dollars today, at least he thought it was a loss.What's more serious is that his majesty has been challenged. In the eyes of so many people, will no one listen to what he said in the future?
"I'm responsible for this matter. I shouldn't have told you about Wang Weidong at the beginning. I didn't expect this kid to be so old-fashioned and full of bad water!" Qu Wenfu said.

"What responsibility do you have, why did you let that kid do there?" Shi Guozheng said.

Anyway, the 7 yuan has already been paid, and the coal in the mine has basically been exhausted. When Wang Weidong found out, he was crying and snot!

But this matter can't just pass like this, we must find an opportunity to trample that kid Wang Weidong on the ground, let him kneel on the ground in front of everyone in the village and call him father!
Shi Guozheng raised his head and said to his daughter-in-law standing beside him, "Take your bag and go to the warehouse to pack a dozen catties of melon seeds."

Shi Guozheng's daughter-in-law went in without knowing it, but at this time she didn't dare to ask, turned around and went out, and after a while came in with a half-bulged pocket.

"That's the problem with you - stinginess! Pretend a little more, fill it up!" Shi Guozheng said angrily.

Seeing that Shi Guozheng was angry, Shi Guozheng's daughter-in-law went out quickly and came back with a bag full of melon seeds.

"Guiqin, take the melon seeds back and fry them, and then take the melon seeds to the coal mine to see Wang Weidong at night. You see, we are all half-old men. You are the only one here who has a common language when we are together. Let's chat with him carefully, let's see what kind of way he is." Shi Guozheng said.

The corners of the mouths of the people in the room all showed smiles at the same time, Shi Guozheng, the old fox, seemed to be using beauty tricks.

Only Shi Guozheng's wife despised Chohan Guiqin and rolled her eyes.

Shi Guozheng didn't pay attention to other people's expressions, and he didn't need to look at them, he didn't care at all.

Before fighting, of course, we must do a good investigation, and we must know ourselves and the enemy.

"How could Wang Weidong tell me the truth? It's not that he doesn't know my identity." Han Guiqin said in a difficult way.

"Take your time. You are a freshman at the first time and acquainted with you at the second time. You are a real junior high school graduate in our village with culture. You can chat with Wang Weidong. You don't need to be able to get something out of it once. Go there a few times and chat. What kind of business does he do in Harbin, what kind of friends does he have, it's no problem, right?" Shi Guozheng said.

At noon, Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law brought two large pots of pork stewed with cabbage to the table.Thirty or so workers who were waiting with big bowls grabbed spoons to fill their own bowls.

The workers who were guarding the coal pile outside served their dishes and ran outside again to stand beside the coal pile and eat.

The last person to serve the dish, the person who served the dish first has finished the first bowl and starts to serve the second bowl.

"Don't rush to eat slowly, you will still eat this at night!" Wang Weidong shouted.

But no one heard his words, and everyone's attention was on the fat.

By the end of the last two big pots of soup, there was still a lot of rice.Many people walked out of the cafeteria with their heads held high and their necks straight, like a goose that had eaten its neck.

Back in the bunk room where everyone was sleeping, everyone was lying down, unable to bend their bodies.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Shi Dali finally returned to the coal mine with two people in a leather bag.

After receiving the news, the workers who were working in the mine went to the mine again to wait for their wages.

Shi Dali sat in the outer room of the office with an ugly expression on his face. He took out the work ledger and checked with the workers one by one before paying.After nearly an hour, all the workers' wages were paid, and Shi Dali's leather pocket was already deflated.

He went outside and saw that the trucks that had been waiting for several hours had already started to load coal. The noise was so loud today that there was not much coal coming out of the mine during the day shift, so how much is that.

And the workers who have already received the money are not willing to go back to work underground at all.

However, Shi Dali returned to the office and smiled at Wang Weidong and said, "Weidong, there are four or five more carts to be pulled to that coal pile, and it will take until midnight. Don't let the workers close the gate."

"No problem, those coals are all yours, you can pull them tomorrow!" Wang Weidong said briskly.

After five o'clock in the evening, the second meal was ready, and the six workers who worked underground during the day shift sat in the cafeteria early and smelled the stewed meat from the cauldron.

The seven or eight-year-old kid picking up coal at the gangue hill was also waiting here. He only grabbed a bowl at noon, and he didn't have enough to eat.

"Go and call those people to eat! I'll save a bowl for you first." Wang Weidong said to the child.

Hearing that it was time to eat again, the thirty or so people lying in the room struggled to get up. The big fat slices of meat they ate at noon had not been completely digested in their stomachs, but even so, they still had to eat!

The workers had finished eating, and Wang Weidong and Zhou Maocai also sat down to eat.

"On this day, they made dozens of catties of meat!" said Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law.

"It's not all eaten, isn't there still half a pot left?" Wang Weidong said.

The six out-of-town workers who went down to the mine during the day shift didn’t eat at noon, and they ate like wolves and tigers at night. Adding in the original [-] or so people, there were more people eating than at noon, but compared with noon, there was only half a bowl left.

"Tomorrow morning, I'll give them the half pot of vegetables stewed with cabbage, and I'll give Brother Cao money to buy meat for the workers to eat!" Wang Weidong said.

(End of this chapter)